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BBC News", "Graham Linehan: Father Ted writer holds gig at Scottish Parliament - BBC News", "World Cup: Matildas score TV rating record in semi-final loss to England - BBC News", "British Museum worker sacked over missing treasures - BBC News", "Maui fire: First victims named as death toll reaches 111 - BBC News", "School staff to strike in 10 Scottish council areas - BBC News", "More than 60 migrants feared dead at sea off Cape Verde coast - BBC News", "Pregnant crash victim's family welcomes sentence review - BBC News", "Women's World Cup 2023: England v Australia watched by 7m on BBC TV - BBC Sport", "MP pledges to push for Crooked House law - BBC News", "Wildfire evacuees frustrated by Facebook news ban in Canada - BBC News", "Russian & Belarusian track and field athletes 'unlikely' to be at Paris Olympics - Lord Coe - BBC Sport", "Watch: Memorable moments from Parkinson's star-studded show - BBC News", "Hawaii wildfires: Here's what we know about the victims - BBC News", "Spain's Queen Letizia to attend World Cup final against England - 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BBC News", "Brixton: Couple injured in another homophobic attack in south London - BBC News", "Sepsis: Perforated bowel Barry mum told to drink tea - BBC News", "Rishi Sunak says pressure on the asylum system is unsustainable - BBC News", "Hundreds join huge search for Loch Ness Monster - BBC News", "Crooked House: Two released on bail in pub arson probe - BBC News", "Was Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin a dead man walking? - BBC News", "Gut problems may be early sign of Parkinson's disease - BBC News", "Energy price cap: Why are bills still so high? 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owners.", "Ticket sales for the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand exceeded all targets, says Fifa.", "The Spanish football team celebrate their win as they land at Madrid airport.", "Bus operators say passengers could face more cuts to services without further government funding.", "Tearful fans still adore this England side after Women's World Cup final heartbreak.", "Analysis from the High Pay Centre suggests the average pay of a FTSE 100 boss was £3.91m last year.", "Giving the nurse a whole-life sentence, the judge says there was \"a malevolence bordering on sadism\".", "Kelso Cochrane's daughter is at the centre of the family's efforts to get the police files opened.", "Olga Carmona, who scored Spain's winner in the Women's World Cup final, is told after the game against England that her father has died.", "Christopher Paul O'Kane was detained following a search in Dungiven, County Londonderry.", "Germany are knocked out of the Women's World Cup at the group stage thanks to a draw with South Korea.", "The sportswear giant is selling stockpiles of trainers after its high-profile split with rapper Kanye West.", "Giorgia Meloni is taking action against Brian Molko over comments at a concert in Turin last month.", "Hundreds of foreign nationals have already been evacuated from the country since a coup last week.", "Use our calculator to find out how much mortgage payments could go up for your household.", "Neighbours complain of an endless stream of drunk male visitors and one man being pursued by his wife.", "Harry Blake had been spared a prison sentence in 2020 after admitting several terror offences.", "The King of Queens star is taking legal action against the church for harassment and defamation.", "The government says 14 Britons were on the French flight, with \"a very small number\" remaining in Niger.", "Jacob Crouch suffered at least 39 rib fractures and died from a \"vicious assault\".", "Travis King dashed across the border to North Korea from the South in July.", "The former president says his latest indictment amounts to \"persecution of a political opponent\".", "The Saudi Pro League's \"remarkable\" spending spree on new players is set to continue, according to one of its leading executives.", "Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie split after 18 years, following \"meaningful and difficult conversations\".", "Jack Smith was a top war crimes prosecutor at The Hague before he began investigating Donald Trump.", "The UCI Cycling World Championships will see 13 different competitions in locations all over the country.", "These accusations are the gravest ones yet levelled at the former president, says our North America editor.", "Staff blocked police from entering, refused to give names and withheld CCTV, the BBC has been told.", "Juvenile killer whales in the Atlantic are learning a dangerous game by copying adults.", "A DMG Media statement confirms the column's absence as it considers \"serious\" but \"complex\" allegations.", "The former attorney general undermined Mr Trump's case ahead of his court appearance.", "The culprits are likely to have some knowledge about beekeeping and to have stolen them at night.", "They tell the BBC how these charges compare to previous cases and how this sets up the 2024 election.", "The chancellor says higher rate will be a worry for many, but the government is on track to meet inflation targets.", "Police have seized drugs and weapons following operations against drug gangs in three states.", "A jury has sentenced Robert Bowers for the 2018 attack - the deadliest antisemitic attack in the US.", "Oliver Dowden tells the BBC he is \"confident\" remaining issues with the Bibby Stockholm will be resolved.", "A shop worker says he saw a man take a bin bag out of his pocket, fill it up, and try to walk out.", "Police have shared footage of the arrest of Craig Crouch and Gemma Barton over their son's murder.", "An ancient, long-extinct whale could have tipped the scales at close to 200 tonnes, scientists say.", "Ken Bruce attracts three million listeners to his new mid-morning show on Greatest Hits Radio.", "Police Scotland's chief constable says it will be in the best interests of all concerned when the investigation concludes.", "Conservation charity says climate change means migratory species is increasingly staying in the UK.", "New York Police are investigating the death of O'Shae Sibley, a gay man, as a possible hate crime.", "The Parliamentary Ombudsman rules that the Foreign Office failed to protect Matthew Hedges.", "The hearing was not broadcast to the world, but our reporter watched from inside the courthouse.", "Young people living either side of a peace wall gate in Belfast lobby for it to remain open later.", "Greenpeace activists had climbed on to the roof of Rishi Sunak's North Yorkshire constituency home.", "The duchess reveals the nickname as her positive response to having a single mastectomy to treat cancer.", "Data shows a 66% drop in deforestation rates in July 2023 compared to the same month last year.", "Brazen shoplifting attempt caught on CCTV as John Lewis staff use bodycams to deter theft, violence.", "The former president spoke on the airport tarmac after pleading not guilty to all four new counts in court.", "Protesters condemn retaliatory sanctions and the threat of military force by West African leaders.", "A court hears 10-month-old Jacob Crouch, who sustained 39 rib fractures, suffered a \"living hell\".", "A Ukrainian family, who said a tearful goodbye at a crowded railway station, finally come together again.", "Heather Morgan and husband Ilya Lichtenstein plead guilty to money laundering and defrauding the US.", "The number of people heading out to the shops fell for the first July in 14 years, new data suggests.", "The FBI fear there are other victims after they say a woman was held in a concrete block cell in Oregon.", "Presenter Chris Hughes has been told by the BBC that a comment he made to Australian Maitlan Brown during The Hundred was \"not appropriate\".", "A new government register also warns of dangers posed by AI and disruption to energy supplies.", "Referrals for respiratory tests will also be allowed in bid to speed up diagnosis in England.", "The teen was going double the posted speed limit and the officer dialled up his father right away.", "Mohamed Bazoum warns that the region could fall to Russian influence via the Wagner group.", "43,000 people are participating in the event which took place as temperatures reached 35C.", "A sheriff says Nicholas Rossi is \"as dishonest and deceitful as he is evasive and manipulative\".", "Angela Ramsell says it is hard to find a buyer for her cottage in a market that is \"stagnant\".", "The watchdog's annual report also says older audiences are switching off at the fastest rate ever.", "The retailer, which employs 12,000 people, blames mounting cost pressures at its 400 UK stores.", "Six people accused of helping Mr Trump undermine the election have been described by prosecutors.", "The habit among health staff could contribute to virus spread in hospitals, researchers say.", "The lack of devolved government is \"weighing on market conditions\" and NI construction, RICS suggests.", "The successful applicant could get paid more than $17,000 for four weeks of work in New York.", "Concerns over impact on prices has led to another delay on checks for food coming in from the EU.", "England's chess body expects the government to back the national team financially for the first time.", "But performance by parent company AB/Inbev holds up better than expected.", "The former US president is once again headed to court, this time to face charges over January 6th.", "British Rowing says transgender women will not be able to compete in the women's category at its events.", "The Treasury says people should be able to get cash within three miles for rural areas, or one mile in towns.", "A man whose brother was among around 60 Senegalese feared drowned says he would take the same risk.", "Amazon admits error after voice assistant replied to semi-final query by saying there was no match.", "Chief executive Mark Bullingham says the Football Association wants England manager Sarina Wiegman to remain in charge \"for a very long time\".", "The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland describes policing as a \"noble profession\".", "Television presenter Rachel Riley says she will stop supporting Manchester United if forward Mason Greenwood stays at the club.", "Christopher Binns, who appeared on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, receives a suspended sentence.", "Two men were taken to hospital after being stabbed outside a nightclub in south London.", "The proportion of A or A* grades in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is 27.2% - down from a peak of 44.8% during the pandemic.", "Thousands of residents crowded roads and airports as a wildfire threatens the city's outskirts.", "More than 60 people are feared dead after a migrant boat, at sea for over a month, was found off Cape Verde in West Africa.", "Stoke Fruit Farm urges visitors to its sunflower fields to \"keep their clothes on\" after reports of nudity.", "A post-mortem concludes that the cause of the 10-year-old's death is \"still to be established\".", "Coleen Rooney speaks publicly about her libel case against Rebekah Vardy for the first time.", "Fans are getting ready to roar on England's history-making team ahead of the World Cup final on Sunday.", "Poppy wreaths and a number of flags were were placed on a bonfire in Londonderry.", "The ruling by the International Chess Federation is drawing criticism from some players.", "Public gatherings in the area are also banned for seven days after violence in the city of Jaranwala.", "Cheryl Hole speaks of social media abuse, saying people \"don't understand the art form of drag\".", "Manchester City win the Super Cup for the first time by beating Sevilla 5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw.", "He was one of British TV's biggest names, with a long-running, star-studded Saturday night chat show.", "More than 200 water voles are released in restored habitat in Cumbria, having previously been wiped out.", "People providing support to drug users speak out after three drug-related deaths in the north west.", "Stars who were interviewed by Sir Michael Parkinson over the years pay tribute to the \"TV legend\".", "The men \"committed appalling offences for their own sexual gratification\" against two teenage girls.", "The musician says he is not sure music made by artificial intelligence meets \"the definition of art\".", "Those working to supply Lahaina tell of devastation, looting and frustration after a deadly fire.", "Graham Linehan's Edinburgh show was cancelled over concerns about his views on transgender issues.", "Australia's semi-final against England drew the highest national TV audience in decades.", "The museum dismisses a member of staff and police are investigating after items go missing.", "More than 1,000 people are still feared to be missing as the death toll continues to climb.", "GMB Scotland said the two-day strike in September will cause disruption in schools after members rejected a pay offer.", "Almost all those on the boat, which was at sea for over a month, are thought to have been from Senegal.", "Adil Iqbal was jailed for 12 years after he hit Frankie Jules-Hough's car while speeding.", "England's Women's World Cup semi-final win over Australia is watched by more than seven million on BBC One.", "Marco Longhi wants to see better protection for heritage buildings after crooked pub's demolition.", "Canadians are using Facebook to share information on fire updates but Meta's news ban is a hurdle.", "Russian and Belarusian track and field athletes are \"unlikely\" to be able to compete at the 2024 Olympics, says World Athletics president Lord Coe.", "A look back at some stand-out interviews from Sir Michael's best-known show, Parkinson.", "Authorities have formally identified some of the wildfire victims. Here's what we know about them.", "FA President Prince William and other British royals will not be going to Sydney for the event.", "Martin Scorsese lends support to Saeed Roustaee, who has been sentenced to six months in jail.", "Surgeons successfully transplanted the donated organ into a patient who, a year on, is doing well.", "CCTV footage shows a bus in Argentina in flames while burning fuel spilled across the highway.", "World Aquatics will debut a new open category for transgender athletes at this year's Swimming World Cup event in Berlin.", "The review comes after the Court of Appeal quashed Andy Malkinson's conviction for rape last month.", "Sarah Meredith has waited for 640 days, while the average wait for an adult on the NHS is 65 days.", "The trailer for a new film attracts criticism from some who say it plays up to Jewish stereotypes.", "At least 227 migrants were saved on Thursday, Spain's officials say, a day after a deadly shipwreck.", "The 43-year-old allegedly uses a slur against Judge Chutkan and warns: \"You are in our sights.\"", "The image shows what the Scottish prince could have looked like during the Jacobite Rising.", "People with disabilities continue to face discrimination in the UK, says a report.", "An inflatable boat sank after those on board waited 10 hours for help last month in Gran Canaria.", "It started as a night full of optimism in Sydney, with thousands desperate to see Australia create Women's World Cup history - but England had other ideas.", "The award-winning broadcaster's star-studded chat shows became essential viewing for millions.", "The suspects have been charged with involuntary manslaughter after six people died last weekend.", "The German city was hit by severe thunderstorms and heavy rain causing travel disruption.", "Helicopters spraying water battle to contain fires that began at a nature reserve on Tuesday.", "Senior legal figures say an inquiry is needed into the case of Andrew Malkinson who spent 17 years in prison.", "Spanish police are investigating after a British woman, 18, was allegedly attacked at a hotel.", "Sir Michael interviewed the world's most famous celebrities over four decades. Here are some of them.", "Kerry Palin raised £34,000 for victims of the bushfires but spent it on clothes and luxury items.", "Pupils who have been sent an email by mistake are asked to delete it and \"disregard\" its contents.", "The operation was part of one of the city-state's biggest ever anti-money laundering investigations.", "Sir Michael passed away peacefully at home in the company of his family, a statement says.", "The trip, not yet confirmed, would be his first since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.", "Sam Asghari says on Instagram he and Ms Spears will \"hold onto the love\" they have even after divorcing.", "Overall top grades are nearly back to 2019 levels, but most university applicants get their first choice.", "Up to 100 shooting stars an hour were visible in one of the year's most anticipated astronomical events.", "Some 200 people have been affected by the theft of documents and a laptop from a car last month.", "Lynette “Pinky” Iverson drove \"at least a dozen\" people to safety in the back of her pickup truck.", "In January the prime minister said five priorities should be used to hold his government to account.", "Jose Adolfo Macias. or \"Fito\", is accused of threatening a murdered Ecuadorian presidential candidate.", "The Western Isles MP was suspended from the party's Westminster group last month.", "Russian shelling in Ukraine's southern Kherson region leaves seven civilians dead.", "A car crashed into a tent with a sleeping baby, who escaped serious injury.", "The items were all stolen from Italy in the late 1990s and some were worth millions of euros.", "Heavyweight Anthony Joshua spectacularly knocks out Robert Helenius with one punch in round seven, after boxing tentatively in the first half of the fight at London's O2 Arena.", "Play is halted briefly at the Women's Open in Surrey after protesters with flares make their way on to the 17th green.", "The health secretary says Scottish and Welsh patients could be treated in England to cut waiting times.", "One campaign group has claimed bilingualism is \"always a threat\" for a minority language.", "The BBC explores the many reasons why the central Mediterranean is among the deadliest migration routes.", "Landlords in England and Wales will be able to continue selling takeaway drinks through hatches under Covid-era rules.", "Chelsea and Liverpool play out a thrilling draw as both sides illustrate why they are doing battle over £110m Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo.", "UK and French coastguards rescued 59 people but two may still be missing, authorities said.", "The PM started the session - the last before three by-elections - with an apology to LGBT veterans affected by a pre-2000 ban.", "Doubt hangs over the billionaires' fight plans, but Musk suggests he is open to a bout on Monday.", "Some schools insist on sweatshirts, blazers and gym bags being embroidered with their emblem.", "Two random attacks have led to questions in a society otherwise known for its low level of violence.", "The Welsh secretary says patients in Wales should be able to ask for NHS treatment in England.", "Volunteers formed a human chain to pass aid off the boat as quickly as possible.", "Twenty-nine people died in August 1998 in the single biggest atrocity of the Northern Ireland Troubles.", "The case, with all the ingredients of an Agatha Christie novel, is investigated 100 years on.", "The police, coastguard, and mountain rescue teams had been searching for Isaac Johnson.", "The man's name was on a document mistakenly shared by the PSNI with details of about 10,000 employees.", "England captain Harry Kane makes his Bayern Munich debut only hours after completing an £86m move from Tottenham.", "A cot protected a baby from injuries after a car crashed into its tent, says the campsite's owner.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 4 and 11 August.", "Andrea Gonzalez replaces anti-corruption crusader shot in the head by suspected Colombian hitmen.", "Robert Halfon calls for new talks to stop the boycott continuing into the new academic year.", "The new bill imposes strict punishments on women who fail to wear a headscarf in Iran.", "A hotel plan for the renowned rock venue is dropped after legal action over its rundown condition.", "What sparked the fires is still a mystery, but a mix of wind and dry weather helped the flames spread.", "Charred trees, burnt out cars and collapsed buildings lie among the ashes left by the wildfires.", "MP David Davis criticises the Home Office after concerns about Legionella on the Bibby Stockholm.", "England captain Owen Farrell could miss their World Cup opener against Argentina after being sent off in their warm-up win over Wales at Twickenham.", "Chelsea agree a deal to sign Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo for a British record fee of £115m.", "Thousands of unexploded munitions were discovered buried in the grounds of a high school.", "Satellite images and before-and-after pictures show extent of damage to town of Lahaina on Maui.", "Contestants complained they were unexpectedly asked to strip for body checks for scars and cellulite.", "Labour says the \"small boats nightmare\" must end after six people died trying to cross the Channel.", "Police used a drone to find the man after he tried to steal a package and caused a minor traffic accident.", "At least 96 people have died and hundreds are unaccounted for days after fires broke out in Hawaii.", "The 18-year-old died after being driven along a road before falling and suffering fatal injuries.", "Former US President Trump says that his lawyers will ask for a recusal of the judge on his election fraud case.", "His Oscar-winning career spanned six decades and also included crime thriller The French Connection.", "Finding a buyer has been a lengthy saga for the owner of the publisher, Paramount Global.", "The showbiz star and actor is \"thrilled\" to join the show as he approaches his 70th birthday.", "Promoting a Covid conspiracy theory, the Irish Light's editor accuses the mum of \"massive fraud\".", "A couple whose son died in a mould-infested home want to know why their warnings were ignored.", "A deal to buy the failed battery firm now looks uncertain after the final payment was missed.", "MPs demand government action on the growing problem of 'tech-enabled' domestic violence.", "The Canadian rapper will spend 10 years in prison for shooting and injuring hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion.", "England midfielder Keira Walsh could be available for their Women's World Cup last-16 tie with Nigeria on Monday if she \"recovers well\", says manager Sarina Wiegman.", "UK Scouts chief executive says he feels let down by organisers of the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea.", "NHS system for seriously ill people requiring home care is struggling to provide sufficient support.", "The Crooked House pub, once known as \"Britain's wonkiest\", is demolished two days after a fire.", "England go agonisingly close to an early exit from the Women's World Cup but find a way to win as the Lionesses' title dream lives on.", "The bodies of two men and a woman were discovered after they failed to return from the Aonach Eagach.", "Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met Niger's military leaders for over two hours.", "The Ministry of Justice publishes its views on the services accidentally on a government website.", "Callum Rycroft, 12, from Leeds, was killed on the M62 in West Yorkshire on Saturday.", "England's wait for a first Netball World Cup title continues after Australia defeat the Roses to win the event for a 12th time.", "Director Euros Lyn said Heartstopper's success has come as \"a brilliant, lovely surprise\".", "Seren Price is the youngest climber to do the three peaks challenge in under 48 hours.", "The UCI world championship men's road race from Edinburgh to Glasgow is stopped for 50 minutes near the Carron Valley Reservoir.", "The tech billionaires have also been going head to head over their rival platforms, X and Threads.", "The walkout will affect routine services in England, but emergency care will be provided.", "Where might the match be won when England face Nigeria in the first knockout stage of the Women's World Cup in Brisbane?", "BBC Sport takes a look at the main things to come out of a thrilling group stage at the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.", "Wet weather stopped shoppers splashing out in July prompting shops to ramp up promotions.", "MPs are investigating the lack of boots designed for women and girls, amid concern about injuries.", "Companies who repeatedly employ illegal migrants face fines up to £60,000 per breach under new rules.", "Colombia set up a Women's World Cup quarter-final against England with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Jamaica thanks to Catalina Usme's goal.", "An investigation is under way into the deaths of two fire staff and a pilot in California.", "No 10 says it is not \"appropriate\" to engage with the group after a stunt at Rishi Sunak's house.", "Anastatia Mayers and Keisha Schahaff won a place on Virgin Galactic's second commercial flight in a prize draw.", "The USA hoped to become the first team to win three successive Women's World Cup titles but made history of a very different kind.", "Residents have been cut off for two years after a bridge was closed due to safety fears.", "Glacial floods in Juneau, the capital of Alaska, caused a house to collapse into the Mendenhall river.", "James Gallagher meets the scientists who work at one of the most secretive research bases in the UK.", "The disgraced musician was reportedly stabbed at HMP Wakefield, where he is serving a 29-year sentence.", "Unite members in 10 Scottish council areas will take industrial action when schools return after the summer break.", "The festival was cancelled after the band's singer launched an attack on Malaysia's LGBT laws.", "The Home Office says \"a small group\" of about 20 people refused to board the Bibby Stockholm.", "Two missiles hit the town of Pokrovsk, the second as rescuers were searching for victims of the first.", "Angus Cloud had a \"joyful\" final day and \"did not intend to end his life\", the actor's mother says.", "A new constitution scrapping term limits is backed by 95% of voters, the electoral authority says.", "The officer claimed she was looking for a banned driver, but was in fact taking her dog to the vet.", "The bank's head of public affairs criticised the British government for complying with US demands.", "Andrew Malkinson says Greater Manchester Police's actions caused his \"wrongful conviction nightmare\".", "British number two Dan Evans beats Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor in straight sets to claim the Citi Open title in Washington.", "England face Nigeria in the last 16 of the Women's World Cup with momentum on their side but must avoid complacency, says manager Sarina Wiegman.", "The immigration minister insists the barge at Portland is safe and will not be hit by more delays.", "Communist Party slogans were painted over popular wall art - but the creators' motive is unclear.", "The barge can house up to 500 people - critics call the plan inhumane, but the government says it's cheaper than using hotels.", "The attorney general orders a re-examination into the shootings of five Catholic men over 30 years ago.", "See how you rated the players out of 10 as England beat Nigeria on penalties in the last 16 of the Women's World Cup.", "Watch the winning moment as Chloe Kelly fires England into the Women's World Cup quarter-finals by scoring the winning penalty in the shootout against Nigeria.", "Shirley Ballas says she is scared of heights, but is \"more terrified of losing another person to suicide\".", "Giacomo Chiapparini was buried when a shelf broke in his warehouse in the Lombardy region on Sunday.", "The BBC's Ian Hamilton has had seven guide dogs who have all been good friends and a way of breaking down barriers.", "The company says staff living near offices should work in person at least twice a week.", "The cases, involving Donna Traynor and Lena Ferguson, were settled without admission of liability.", "Shows hosted by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Philip Davies, Esther McVey and Martin Daubney are examined.", "Andy Malkinson, who cleared his name after 17 years in jail, tells the BBC more still needs to be done.", "England survive Lauren James' sending-off and a gruelling Nigeria onslaught to reach the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup.", "Arsenal give their hopes of beating Manchester City to the Premier League title a psychological boost by winning the Community Shield on penalties.", "Nadine Dorries could be suspended if she does not attend Commons for six months, a senior Labour MP says.", "Greta Gerwig becomes the first woman as a solo director of a film to reach the milestone.", "The barge, docked in Dorset, will house up to 500 people in plans critics have called inhumane.", "As hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary, BBC News NI looks at how it permeated Irish music.", "Several coaches of the Hazara Express overturned near the Sahara station in the south of the country.", "Fears over Mali's future are growing - it relies on Wagner for security but the group's leader is now believed to be dead.", "UK's second-biggest vape company, Chinese-owned SKE, has since deleted some social media accounts.", "The SDLP was the only main party which recorded an income greater than its expenditure last year.", "Kimberly-Clark is pulling its consumer facial tissues from Canada, citing “unique complexities\".", "Police are investigating an assault on two men in Brixton who were punched at a bus stop.", "The health board that treated Farrah Moseley-Brown admits failings in her care.", "The cost of the asylum system has nearly doubled in a year to £4bn, government figures show.", "The volunteers have signed up for what has been described as the biggest Nessie hunt in decades.", "Two men arrested on suspicion of committing arson with intent to endanger life are released on bail.", "Ever since he led a mutinous march on Moscow in late June, some speculated Yevgeny Prigozhin's days were numbered.", "Constipation, difficulty swallowing and irritable bowel symptoms are possible markers, say researchers.", "Energy bills will fall slightly in the autumn to £1,923 a year for the typical household, Ofgem says.", "Officers are being deployed to look out for sexual predators outside nightclubs and bars.", "Who is Luis Rubiales, the Spanish FA chief who has been suspended after kissing Jenni Hermoso after the World Cup?", "The DUP, the UUP and TUV request Stormont funds after previously pledging to cover the full cost.", "Twenty years on, Olivia Graham tells how her dad helped return a stolen masterpiece - then got arrested.", "Two men are in police custody on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.", "The late presenter was also \"very insecure and wracked with self-doubt\", Mike Parkinson says.", "From Kanye West's former publicist to an ex-chief of staff - here's who else was charged in Georgia.", "The Spanish secretary of sport \"wants this to be Spanish football's MeToo moment\" as the government announces it will take Luis Rubiales to a tribunal.", "Ten bodies have also been recovered from the scene of the plane crash near Moscow, Russian authorities say.", "Visitors to the Reading and Leeds festivals and Notting Hill Carnival face disruption as rail workers walk out.", "A devastated family wants better awareness of the less well-known signs of a stroke.", "Within hours, his campaign website was selling mugshot-branded mugs, t-shirts and drink coolers.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 18 and 25 August.", "A minister denounces \"arsonist scum\" for fires that have ravaged forests and killed dozens.", "The wrestling star had taken time off due to illness, but had been expected to return to the ring.", "If Yevgeny Prigozhin's reported death is revenge, it sends a message to Russians, writes Steve Rosenberg.", "The death of Princess Diana will be recreated in the forthcoming final season of the Netflix drama.", "Fears over Mali's future are growing - it relies on Wagner for security but the group's leader is now believed to be dead.", "The 43-year-old woman was initially arrested on suspicion of child neglect.", "Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith claims a gutsy 400m World Championships silver, finishing just 0.09 seconds behind Antonio Watson.", "The One Direction star apologised to fans and said he had been in hospital over the past week.", "Menstrual blood tests could be used as a means of monitoring cardiovascular conditions or diabetes.", "They got in touch with officials hours after a list with 388 names of missing people being published.", "Though the Georgia election case is the fourth criminal case against him, this is his first mugshot.", "A new price cap by regulator Ofgem means a typical home will pay £1,923 a year from October for energy.", "A visit by almost 200 politicians from the US turns correspondents giddy with excitement.", "The number of asylum applications increased by almost a fifth in a year, the Home Office says.", "The former president turning himself in is unlike any of his previous cases.", "Hartwig Fischer says claims made by a former art dealer do not tell the whole story.", "A cocktail of problems has hit the wine industry, including demand falling as more people drink craft beer.", "Janet Atkins believes the cost of removing the waste will be about £10,000.", "Nineteen large platforms have to start complying with new rules as soon as Friday or risk big fines.", "Sarah Moulds also criticises the RSPCA, saying it was \"pressured\" to prosecute by \"online bullies\".", "Police are investigating the crash which closed the A20 near Farningham, Kent, for several hours.", "More than 150,000 signed a petition started by a teen urging Nike to sell goalie kit.", "Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and nine other people are presumed to have died in the crash.", "One health board admits that staff shortages are putting a strain on its services.", "The platform says it now hosts more than three million creators and almost 240 million users.", "Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.", "The museum announced last week that it had sacked a member of staff over items allegedly going missing.", "Amid overcrowding, lice and mysterious deaths, Fulton County's justice system can be slow and dangerous.", "Luis Rubiales refuses to step down as president of the Spanish football federation following his behaviour at the Women's World Cup final.", "American pole vaulter Katie Moon defends her decision to share gold with Australian Nina Kennedy following social media criticism.", "The US Department of Justice says rocket firm discriminated against refugees and asylum seekers.", "Donald Patience was found dead at a house by police responding to reports of a dog being stolen.", "Dealer and buyer Ittai Gradel reported stolen items to the museum two-and-a-half years ago, emails show.", "Relatives of residents who died with the virus are claiming damages for loss of life and distress caused.", "Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, has been charged with the murder of Ashley Dale in Liverpool last August.", "A booking photo shows the former president stony-faced after he was processed at an Atlanta jail.", "The lager-maker will take a huge loss on the division which, it said, had taken longer to jettison.", "The officer is in a critical condition in hospital after trying to save a man on the railway lines.", "Jenni Hermoso says she did not consent to be kissed by Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales - as 81 players say they will not play for Spain's women's team until he leaves.", "The Russian president offered \"sincere condolences\" to the family of those killed in the crash.", "Family of the former prime minister are accused of ignoring the case for reparations in Jamaica.", "Karl Porter's impression of a footballer's celebration has been shared widely on social media.", "Alim Beisembayev was drafted into the Proms with just 36 hours notice when another musician fell ill.", "Donald Trump's former lawyer faces 13 charges linked to efforts to overturn Mr Trump's 2020 election defeat.", "Kenneth Law is alleged to have run a number of websites selling equipment to assist suicide.", "The energy firm is accused of not turning off electric equipment in high winds and dry conditions.", "Former MPs will be paid for four rather than two months while they close down their offices.", "The former president surrendered at Fulton County jail and was released on $200,000 bond.", "When he turned himself in at Fulton County Jail, the process wasn't the same as his last three arrests.", "The former US president turned himself in at the notorious Fulton County Jail.", "The toddler died two days after being found injured and unresponsive at a house in Blackpool.", "Drink-driver Alexander McKellar knocked Tony Parsons off his bike and left him to die on a country road.", "Watch as Hana Burzalova and her team-mate Dominik Cerny get engaged as she crosses the finish line of the women's 35k race walk at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.", "Rodney was found on the street, hours away from death, but now lives in south Wales.", "The men were moved off the barge in Portland to a hotel in another county two weeks ago.", "Hartwig Fischer said the museum \"did not respond as comprehensively as it should have\" to the thefts.", "The Russian president says the Wagner group boss was a \"talented person\" who made \"serious mistakes\".", "Wagner chief Prigozhin's \"right hand man\" Dmitry Utkin, financier Valeriy Chekalov and fighters.", "MP Taiwo Owatemi MP says she is \"deeply concerned\" over the experiment on South Asian women in Coventry.", "Rocket Science, which also worked on Call of Duty, is setting up a European headquarters in Cardiff.", "Mason Greenwood will leave Manchester United following an internal investigation after police dropped charges of attempted rape and assault.", "The BBC Radio 5Live presenter describes a former Edinburgh Academy teacher as a \"prolific paedophile\".", "The woman was allegedly forced to have sex and was filmed by the suspected aggressors.", "Police can ask people to remove anything hiding their identity amid concern over balaclava wearers.", "Drug dealer Dwayde Stock recruited the boy in a phone call from prison, a court hears.", "Residents were trapped in their homes after Storm Hilary rolled across California.", "Police say they are investigating after being called to Weston Park in Shropshire on Saturday.", "Owen Farrell will miss England's first two pool games at the World Cup as World Rugby successfully appeals against the decision to overturn his red card.", "A team of scientists led by Cardiff University researchers say the pictures help a universe study.", "Initial reports suggest those who died in a national park in northern Greece may have been migrants.", "Ben Field befriended two elderly people for financial gain in a case recently dramatised for BBC TV.", "A senior Surrey Police officer says contact with the girl's family was \"some years ago\".", "There are striking parallels in the cases of Lucy Letby and Beverley Allitt, who killed four children.", "Can lessons be learned from Portugal, which relaxed its drugs laws more than 20 years ago?", "The dad of two murdered boys says \"it destroyed me\", and a mum says she relives an attack \"every day\".", "Anthony Stinson walked up to Charlotte Wilcock's home and stabbed her 50 times with a knife.", "Targeted annual PSA screening could spot early, treatable cancers in high-risk men, researchers say.", "Thai police seize thousands of small bowls carrying a message signed by ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and charge one of his supporters with sedition.", "The Auschwitz Museum reported the post but was initially told by X it did not break safety rules.", "A 23-year-old man is confirmed dead in Shrewsbury on Monday afternoon.", "The mother of Baby C says she is \"horrified that someone so evil exists\" as the serial killer is sentenced.", "For many who need to travel between mountains in Pakistan, makeshift chair-lifts are the only option.", "The mercenary boss appears in his first video address since the mutiny - allegedly in Africa.", "The prime minister accuses the company of putting profits over safety amid Canada's wildfire crisis.", "Spain's prime minister says there is \"a long way to go for equality\" after Luis Rubiales kissed Jenni Hermoso following the Women's World Cup final.", "All six children and two adults are safely brought out of the dangling vehicle by helicopter and zip line.", "New figures show 4,000 hours of PE have been lost from the curriculum in state schools in England.", "Many people in Furnace believe they have been kept in the dark over who will arrive and when.", "Authorities say two other drones were intercepted over Bryansk, near the Ukrainian border.", "Contractor tells 300 meeting attendees in Llanelli that only families will move into Stradey Park.", "King Charles is continuing his mother's royal tradition of taking a summer residence in Scotland.", "Antiques Roadshow expert Theo Burrell is calling for better funding for brain tumour research.", "The music mogul loses two of his main clients, with reports Justin Bieber is also looking to leave.", "Comedian Lorna Rose Treen's one-liner tops the public vote at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.", "The 34-year-old hopes to now become a mum as older sister donates her womb in pioneering transplant.", "Three people died when a train hit a landslide after heavy rain near Stonehaven in 2020.", "See the moment a passenger was rescued from a dangling cable car in Pakistan.", "Dozens of protesters, for and against the plans, gather outside a hotel set to house asylum seekers.", "Keith Warhurst spoke at a tribunal that found evidence of a sexist culture in Police Scotland's firearms unit.", "The president meets survivors after scrutiny of his response to the deadliest US wildfire in over a century.", "Further work will be carried out to remove hazardous waste, South Staffordshire Council says.", "Several people including children were trapped in a cable car over a ravine in Pakistan's north-west.", "Rachel Riley accuses Manchester United of \"gaslighting\" and \"green lighting\" abuse for their handling of the decision to part company with Mason Greenwood.", "Updated guidance spells out expected behaviour and how to raise concerns about colleagues, amid concerns of abuse.", "The man who won the general election is suspended as an MP and blocked from becoming prime minister.", "Firm makes fresh offer to acquire Activision after UK regulators rejected its first bid.", "Several websites are purporting to offer heavily discounted goods, the firm's administrators warn.", "The broadcaster describes the day he was told he had prostate cancer as among the worst of his life.", "The tech giant says it is working to add new features after many early users drifted away.", "Dealer and buyer Ittai Gradel reported stolen items to the museum two-and-a-half years ago, emails show.", "Early results show Move Forward exceeding predictions to win 151 of the 500 seats in the lower house.", "The body of Sara Sharif, aged 10, was found at her home in Woking, prompting a murder inquiry.", "Royal Victoria Hospital emergency department staff say the report's criticism did not go far enough.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says the current system for students is \"unfair and ineffective\".", "After being warned in a bail deal about social media use, he blasts \"a radical left district attorney\".", "One prostate cancer patient says he was forced to carry used \"nappies\" around in a backpack.", "Thaksin Shinawatra, one of Thailand's most divisive figures, is home after 15 years in exile.", "The UN-approved plan will proceed despite opposition from locals and neighbouring countries.", "The inquiry will investigate the circumstances around the deaths, as well as the handling of concerns.", "Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors, BBC investigation finds.", "The last two occupants of a cable car dangling over a ravine in northern Pakistan are rescued after nightfall.", "Many pubs had to wait until the second half of Sunday's match to serve alcohol, an industry body says.", "The nurse was questioned for nearly 60 hours - the BBC's Judith Moritz watched it all.", "They spent hours dangling above a ravine in high winds before being rescued by helicopter and zip line.", "New airline data indicates the number of lost, delayed or damaged bags is returning to pre-pandemic levels.", "Pakistan student brought to safety in zip line rescue", "Donald Trump's former lawyer faces 13 charges linked to efforts to overturn Mr Trump's 2020 election defeat.", "There are hopes that players will one day be taking part in the Olympics.", "The 33-year-old is convicted of killing babies at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked.", "Glasgow City Council has also been fined for breaching its own clean-air scheme, figures reveal.", "The 100-year-old wood structure was recently renovated but not fireproofed, say owners.", "The Spanish football team celebrate their win as they land at Madrid airport.", "Meanwhile a strike on the Danube river port of Izmail destroyed 13,000 tons of grain, a minister says.", "Analysis from the High Pay Centre suggests the average pay of a FTSE 100 boss was £3.91m last year.", "Giving the nurse a whole-life sentence, the judge says there was \"a malevolence bordering on sadism\".", "The lead consultant where Lucy Letby worked tells BBC there is \"no apparent accountability\" for hospital managers.", "For women aged 25 to 64 a smear test can detect HPV and prevent cervical cancer.", "Three-month-old Kyra King was killed in woods in Lincolnshire as her parents exercised 19 dogs.", "A car crashed into a tent with a sleeping baby, who escaped serious injury.", "Russian shelling in Ukraine's southern Kherson region leaves seven civilians dead.", "Some residents on the Hawaiian island of Maui are questioning why there is not more official aid.", "Erin Patterson tells police she is devastated and had no reason to harm her ex-husband's relatives.", "Whether world leaders should engage with the Taliban government is complicated, writes Lyse Doucet.", "Play is halted briefly at the Women's Open in Surrey after protesters with flares make their way on to the 17th green.", "Raphael Varane heads the winner as Manchester United gain a fortunate victory over Wolves in their first game of the Premier League season.", "The skincare chain has said its controlling shareholder is considering a potential deal to take it private.", "Paris St-Germain agree a deal to sell Neymar to Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal for a fee of about 90m euros (£77.6m) plus add-ons.", "Madagascan chief-of-staff and a French associate arrested in London after meeting with mine company.", "Farrah-Leigh Nichol was bitten on the face during a shopping trip with her father to buy some bread.", "Landlords in England and Wales will be able to continue selling takeaway drinks through hatches under Covid-era rules.", "Chelsea and Liverpool play out a thrilling draw as both sides illustrate why they are doing battle over £110m Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo.", "The University and College Union says its marking boycott will also continue at 145 universities.", "PSNI staff share their concerns with the BBC that a data breach could increase the threat they face.", "Doubt hangs over the billionaires' fight plans, but Musk suggests he is open to a bout on Monday.", "The NSPCC says 34,000 online sexual crimes have been recorded since it first called for tougher laws.", "The former home secretary criticises plans to house asylum seekers at an ex-RAF base in Essex.", "Two men are taken to hospital after being stabbed outside a nightclub in south London.", "Everton say they are \"heartbroken\" after the 26-year-old man's death at Bramley-Moore Dock.", "Volunteers formed a human chain to pass aid off the boat as quickly as possible.", "Scottish Brain Sciences has teamed up with Roche Diagnostics on a series of major projects.", "The presenter says Sunday's BBC Radio 5 Live show was her last, explaining that \"the juggle is real\".", "The police, coastguard, and mountain rescue teams had been searching for Isaac Johnson.", "The man's name was on a document mistakenly shared by the PSNI with details of about 10,000 employees.", "The Ulster Bank survey found the decrease was caused by weak demand and the impact of inflation.", "A cot protected a baby from injuries after a car crashed into its tent, says the campsite's owner.", "The chief constable says the information could be used to intimidate or target officers and staff.", "Thousands of police officers expressed fears for their security after the major data breach.", "More In Common says lessons need to be learned, on the two-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul.", "Police are investigating whether drugs played a role and whether the deaths are linked.", "The ex-president and others have been indicted for alleged attempts to overturn his election loss in the state.", "The pilot and passenger safely ejected just moments before the plane crashed in a plume of smoke.", "Coup leaders accuse the detained Mohamed Bazoum of undermining national security.", "The cash-strapped homewares chain has collapsed into administration and put 12,500 jobs at risk.", "The most active volcano in Europe, located on the island of Sicily, erupted on Sunday night.", "A poll suggests as many as one in three Israelis are considering leaving the country over the crisis.", "Mr Trump and others face charges under the Rico Act for alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.", "Detectives say the girl was alone in the house in Woking, Surrey, when she was found by officers.", "Police are working with international authorities to find the three people over the death in Woking.", "Known as the Godfather of Black Music, he worked with everyone from Bill Withers to Michael Jackson.", "What sparked the fires is still a mystery, but a mix of wind and dry weather helped the flames spread.", "Cadaver dogs comb ruined homes with the number of people missing now standing at around 1,300.", "Charred trees, burnt out cars and collapsed buildings lie among the ashes left by the wildfires.", "NHS England want to reduce nine targets to three in a bid to simplify \"outdated\" standards.", "Chelsea agree a deal to sign Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo for a British record fee of £115m.", "Thousands of unexploded munitions were discovered buried in the grounds of a high school.", "Lahaina residents tell the BBC they had no official warning before \"fire hurricane\" engulfed their town.", "Satellite images and before-and-after pictures show extent of damage to town of Lahaina on Maui.", "They would list the health and financial benefits of quitting and the support available in the UK.", "The Oscar-winning composer buys the historic complex with the producers of Love Actually and Cats.", "Fire engulfs an area of 600 sq m (6,460 sq ft) in Makhachkala, in the southern region of Dagestan.", "The Russian rouble has slumped in value after Western countries targeted Moscow with sanctions.", "Christian Atsu's partner Marie-Claire Rupio says she \"hopes his name will never go away\" in an exclusive interview with the BBC.", "Donna Creed feels like she has \"got her husband back\" after undergoing the procedure for Darren.", "At least 96 people have died and hundreds are unaccounted for days after fires broke out in Hawaii.", "Rotherham residents fear that someone will be badly injured or killed after a spate of crashes.", "The far-right party has been ordered to pay damages over a photo used in an anti-surrogacy campaign.", "Michael Hillier denies murdering Liam Smith, who was shot and covered in acid, but admits manslaughter.", "Specialist tradespeople are needed for the 500,000 buildings in Wales built before 1919.", "Police do not believe there are any suspicious circumstances around the man's death.", "Six people are dead and thousands are displaced as fires rage on Maui and the Big Island.", "The US government outlines new oversight over foreign dealings by private US firms.", "A small aircraft landed on the central reservation of the A40 Golden Valley just before 18:00 BST.", "Eyewitnesses filmed intense smoke clouds and fire rampaging through the Hawaiian island of Maui.", "The man, named only as Thomas H, worked for an office dealing with military equipment and IT.", "England forward Lauren James is given a two-match ban by Fifa for her red card in the Women's World Cup game with Nigeria.", "The showbiz star and actor is \"thrilled\" to join the show as he approaches his 70th birthday.", "Nearly one in seven of the population is waiting as NHS bosses cite impact of strikes by doctors.", "The kind of lawlessness seen in some US cities must not be allowed here, the home secretary says.", "Five million new 50 pence pieces bearing the King's head are going into circulation.", "He was convicted of the manslaughter of his ill wife in Cyprus but could be tried again for murder.", "The death toll has risen to 67, the county said, as residents are permitted to return.", "The details now have been removed from a Scottish genealogy website over safety and privacy fears.", "Thousands of people have evacuated their homes and a state of emergency has been declared.", "Located on a dormant volcano in Hawaii, the telescope takes pictures of deep space.", "Civilians in 37 settlements of the Kupiansk area are told to leave because of \"constant Russian shelling\".", "The 118-year-old collector's item will be auctioned and could fetch as much as £6,000.", "The PM took almost one flight a week, data shows, as he is accused of abandoning climate leadership.", "Severe cold a million years ago forced our ancestors from the continent, but they adapted and returned.", "Speaking at the Fringe, the former first minister says her predecessor is not someone she wants a relationship with.", "Ms Gutierrez-Reed pleads not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and evidence tampering charges.", "Tech Secretary insists technology is in development to access illegal content without breaking encryption.", "Staffordshire Police say the fire at the Crooked House was suspicious as investigations continue.", "The man had posted threats online hours before a planned visit by Joe Biden to his home state of Utah.", "A group of people have a \"lucky escape\" when a rockfall starts close to them in Dorset's West Bay.", "Prosecutor Jack Smith requested data and records linked to the ex-president, unsealed files reveal.", "It comes as the streaming giant tries to boost subscribers as its traditional TV business falters.", "People have jumped into the sea to escape flames from wildfires being fuelled by hurricane winds.", "Keisha Schahaff and Ana Mayers went to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic's first flight for tourists.", "The homeware retailer will continue to pay its 12,500 staff after falling into administration.", "Steve Wright will host Pick of the Pops, while its presenter Paul Gambaccinni moves to Sundays.", "Virgin Galactic aims to fly an 80-year-old former Olympian, a mother and her daughter into space.", "A pending election may be delayed till 2024, even as Imran Khan is in jail and barred from politics.", "Satellite images and before-and-after pictures show extent of damage to town of Lahaina on Maui.", "Mobile phone video taken near the waterfront reveals the devastation caused by a wildfire.", "Highly selective courses at elite universities will \"go quite quickly\", says the head of Ucas.", "Physicists believe that an unknown force could be acting on sub-atomic particles known as muons.", "Theresa Villiers apologises for not declaring a stake in the oil firm worth at least £70,000 before.", "Social Security Scotland staff were shown images of Moors Murderer Ian Brady and Soham killer Ian Huntley.", "BBC bosses pay tribute to the comedy writer who helped create the popular BBC One series.", "Geary Tolontino Fernandes, a McDonald's manager, sexually assaulted a trainee in December 2022.", "Keisha Schahaff and UK student Ana Mayers become the first mother-daughter duo to travel to the edge of space.", "Mantle is best known for playing Jean Warboys, the annoying friend of Victor Meldrew's wife, in the BBC comedy.", "Four survivors told rescuers the boat set off from Tunisia carrying 45 people, including three children.", "Raging blazes on the island of Maui have destroyed much of the historic town of Lahaina.", "The Band toured with Bob Dylan before becoming one of the most influential acts of the late 1960s.", "The two-time Oscar winner will star as the man dubbed the British Oskar Schindler.", "The names of police officers and staff have been published online, but how did it happen?", "Bayern Munich and Tottenham agree a deal in principle for England captain Harry Kane worth more than 100m euros (£86.4m).", "New court documents show the pupil confessed to the attack and outline how he took his mother's gun.", "Anthony Joshua says boxing \"clearly has a problem\" with doping after Dillian Whyte failed a voluntary drugs test and was pulled out of Saturday's all-British heavyweight contest.", "The blockbuster falls foul of authorities over its portrayal of social values.", "Jason Chambers thanked production crew for \"breaking the fourth wall and stepping in\" during filming.", "Figures show Ffos-y-Fran mine has produced 300,00 tonnes of coal since planning permission expired.", "PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne says police cannot verify claims that dissident republicans have officers’ data.", "Anti-corruption campaigner Fernando Villavicencio is assassinated after an event in the capital, Quito.", "A now-deleted post said the UK \"is home to twice as many AI companies as any other EU country\".", "A presidential candidate has been killed in the latest assassination in Ecuador as gang crime soars.", "A gunman kills the mayor of the port city of Manta, Agustín Intriago, as gang violence soars.", "Travel agents are reporting a rise in people booking overseas trips due to the drizzly UK weather.", "The BBC asked two junior doctors in England to show us their payslips and reveal their salaries.", "The image appears to show black people working on a tobacco plantation overseen by white men.", "This is the 11th instalment of the comedian's \"Born on a Rainy Day\" collection.", "Drone and helicopter footage shows Maui neighbourhoods burnt to the ground.", "Six people have been arrested over the killing of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.", "The girl was detained in Leeds for a \"homophobic public order offence\", officers say.", "Police are working with international authorities to find the three people over the death in Woking.", "After Covid lockdowns hit both demand and supply, production is at record levels, the UN says.", "Work begins to tackle a culture of misogyny and sexual harassment in the Welsh Ambulance Service.", "The letters vow retaliation against firms working with the Bibby Stockholm asylum seeker barge.", "Plea for \"better visitor experience\" after bus stops queues and road hold-ups at Eryri over Easter.", "The showbiz star and actor is \"thrilled\" to join the show as he approaches his 70th birthday.", "Police say influencer Kai Cenat could be charged with inciting a riot after chaos erupted at his event.", "Doctors' representatives will meet soon to decide whether to ballot for industrial action.", "Ministers in England want to unlock spare capacity, but Labour accuse them of dither and delay.", "The footage was shared with the BBC by a source at Ukraine's security service.", "The King will mark his mother's passing \"quietly and privately\" on 8 September, royal officials say.", "Police officer John Stringer denied five counts of sexually abusing of a girl under 13.", "He has been criminally indicted four times and will have a series of trials to attend in 2024.", "A Trump rival was booed for suggesting he is only campaigning to keep himself out of jail. But is he completely wrong?", "Ahead of Wrexham's first League Two match since 2008, how has the club's success helped the city?", "Harry Blake had been spared a prison sentence in 2020 after admitting several terror offences.", "The controversial influencer faces rape and human trafficking charges, which he denies.", "Mahek Bukhari and her mother were found guilty of murdering two men when their car was rammed off the road.", "The Women's World Cup has served up plenty of upsets, some shock early exits and a number of thrilling matches - but which 'bigger' nations have impressed so far?", "Chris Heaton-Harris says he received 350 pages of information on areas such as water charges.", "Ukraine intelligence sources say the Olenegorsky Gornyak was damaged during a strike at Novorossiysk.", "Toni Schiavone had refused to pay the parking fine because it was written in English.", "The former president says his latest indictment amounts to \"persecution of a political opponent\".", "The beloved discount retailer was founded in 1930 but now all 400 stores are set to close within weeks.", "Pilots from RAF Lossiemouth intercepted 50 Russian aircraft during a four-month mission in the Baltic.", "The UCI Cycling World Championships will see 13 different competitions in locations all over the country.", "Wales' lead police officer for schools writes to all headteachers encouraging them to report cases.", "The Russian opposition leader is found guilty of further offences in a trial held at a prison colony.", "Voyager 2 has restored its communication with Earth months earlier than expected.", "Activists climbed on to the roof of Rishi Sunak's North Yorkshire home and unfurled banners.", "A DMG Media statement confirms the column's absence as it considers \"serious\" but \"complex\" allegations.", "Andy Donaldson is the first person to cross the world's seven most dangerous straits within a year.", "The famous novel was last date-stamped at a library in Scunthorpe in 1969.", "The comedian wants to contest Brighton Pavilion, which is currently held by the Green Party.", "The police watchdog is investigating after a woman claimed she was stripped and assaulted in custody.", "Frankie Jules-Hough's partner tells the BBC a 12-year jail term will not stop others speeding.", "Ten-month-old Jacob Crouch suffered multiple injuries inflicted by \"fantasist\" Craig Crouch.", "They tell the BBC how these charges compare to previous cases and how this sets up the 2024 election.", "Surveys of the Tower recently found thin steel plates used for lighting strips are badly corroded.", "The US star enjoys a perfect week, while fellow rappers Dave and Central Cee set a new chart record.", "Over 4,000 UK Scouts are withdrawing from a World Jamboree over extreme heat and worries about facilities.", "Firms are using AI, drones and satellite tech to help detect and suppress wildfires.", "A new recording purports to reveal how Russian state agents poisoned Putin critic Alexei Navalny.", "Lump sums among ideas in a government-ordered review to speed up infrastructure projects.", "Scientists have found a strain of bacteria which they believe could prevent spread of the disease.", "The hearing was not broadcast to the world, but our reporter watched from inside the courthouse.", "Dramatic bodycam footage captures a Florida deputy's daring leap onto an out-of-control vessel.", "The duchess reveals the nickname as her positive response to having a single mastectomy to treat cancer.", "Suliman Altaf was stopped while crossing the English Channel after stabbing his ex-partner's son.", "US attorney general says the six officers tortured and inflicted unspeakable harm on their victims.", "Ukrainian and Russian electronic warfare units are trying to gain the upper hand on the battlefield.", "The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.", "Gwent Police officer John Stringer denies the abuse which allegedly took place over two years.", "Despite increased costs, performers tell the BBC why they'll do anything to bring their work to Edinburgh.", "Heather Morgan and husband Ilya Lichtenstein plead guilty to money laundering and defrauding the US.", "Bayern Munich are still waiting to hear from Tottenham Hotspur about whether they are prepared to sell England captain Harry Kane", "Mark Margolis once said he based his role of drug kingpin Hector Salamanca on his mother-in-law.", "Around 24,000 staff will get a pay increase and one-off payment of £1,000, the Unite union says.", "It comes weeks after the Australian state of Victoria pulled out of hosting the 2026 Games.", "The UK must invest in rail and road networks or accept more extreme weather disruption, a government advisor says.", "The rapper faces no charges after throwing a microphone into the audience at a recent gig.", "Mohamed Bazoum warns that the region could fall to Russian influence via the Wagner group.", "A TikTok influencer set a trap for a man who was blackmailing her mum with a sex tape, a jury hears.", "Some of last year's students say they lost university places when their results were delayed.", "The retailer, which employs 12,000 people, blames mounting cost pressures at its 400 UK stores.", "Adil Iqbal filmed himself hurtling down a motorway before he ploughed into a pregnant woman's car.", "Marjorie Perkins woke to find an intruder standing over her. Neither of them expected what happened next.", "Six people accused of helping Mr Trump undermine the election have been described by prosecutors.", "A court hears that John Stringer had an \"an immaculate record\" during his 14 years of policing.", "A series of records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice are \"unprecedented\", some scientists say.", "Craig Crouch was convicted of murder, and Jacob's mother Gemma Barton of causing or allowing the death.", "Adil Iqbal filmed himself speeding at 123mph before he ploughed into Frankie Jules-Hough's car.", "Rico Burton, 31, the cousin of the world heavyweight boxing champion, was killed last August.", "The lack of devolved government is \"weighing on market conditions\" and NI construction, RICS suggests.", "The climate activist says she cannot attend an event that is sponsored by a firm with links to fossil fuels.", "Mahek Bukhari and her mother were behind a crash in which the two victims were rammed off the road.", "Poor water quality warnings have been issued at Brompton, Ballyholme, Donaghadee and Crawfordsburn.", "Women in the Ukrainian military describe their battles against Russia and sexism within their ranks.", "But performance by parent company AB/Inbev holds up better than expected.", "RMT members walk out over pay and working conditions, disrupting many people's bank holiday travel plans.", "Jenni Hermoso says she did not consent to be kissed by Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales - as 81 players say they will not play for Spain's women's team until he leaves.", "UK's second-biggest vape company, Chinese-owned SKE, has since deleted some social media accounts.", "The Spanish FA's president kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips has sparked a national conversation.", "The event in Zandvoort aspires to be the most sustainable race on the F1 calendar.", "The 11 coaches say Rubiales \"offered a story that does not reflect in any way what was felt by Jenni Hermoso\".", "Hackers briefly disrupted some train services, amid suggestions that the attack came from Russia.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 18 and 25 August.", "The presidential decree is aimed at employees of Wagner and other private military contractors.", "A cocktail of problems has hit the wine industry, including demand falling as more people drink craft beer.", "Barker was the face of The Price Is Right, the longest-running game show in the US, for 35 years.", "Watch highlights as Great Britain's women win 4x100m relay bronze behind winners the United States at the World Athletics Championships.", "Family of the former prime minister are accused of ignoring the case for reparations in Jamaica.", "Andrii Pilshchykov won fame taking part in dogfights over Kyiv during the early phase of Russia's invasion.", "Briton Daniel Dubois felt \"cheated out of victory\" after losing his world-title challenge to Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk on a dramatic night in front of 40,000 boisterous fans in Poland.", "Luis Rubiales, president of Spain's football federation, is provisionally suspended by world governing body Fifa.", "Kimberly-Clark is pulling its consumer facial tissues from Canada, citing “unique complexities\".", "The Spanish football federation says it will take legal action over Jenni Hermoso's comments about its president Luis Rubiales.", "Sarah Moulds also criticises the RSPCA, saying it was \"pressured\" to prosecute by \"online bullies\".", "The volunteers have signed up for what has been described as the biggest Nessie hunt in decades.", "The Tory MP published the eviscerating letter she wrote to Rishi Sunak.", "Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and nine other people are presumed to have died in the crash.", "The Unison industrial action will affect schools and early learning centres across the country.", "The US star performs her latest celluloid hit while becoming the festival's youngest solo headliner.", "Steve Westover waited more than two months for biopsy results despite being \"high priority\".", "How a London barrister became the owner of a Highland home dubbed the Castle of Spite.", "The One Direction star apologised to fans and said he had been in hospital over the past week.", "It is the only known complete set of crew member photographs from the Franklin expedition in the Arctic.", "Drink-driver Alexander McKellar knocked Tony Parsons off his bike and left him to die on a country road.", "West Ham continue their unbeaten Premier League start by stunning Brighton as James Ward-Prowse scores his first Hammers goal.", "A leading expert in looted antiquities tells the BBC the number of objects lost is \"mind-blowing\".", "American pole vaulter Katie Moon defends her decision to share gold with Australian Nina Kennedy following social media criticism.", "Spain's Women's World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda has called the moment Luis Rubiales kissed squad member Jennifer Hermoso \"inappropriate and unacceptable\".", "They got in touch with officials hours after a list with 388 names of missing people being published.", "The injured include 39 firefighters sent to a stricken liquefied petroleum gas station near Bucharest.", "Who is Luis Rubiales, the Spanish FA chief who has been suspended after kissing Jenni Hermoso after the World Cup?", "Protesters rallied at the Spanish Football Federation HQ to demand the resignation of Luis Rubiales after he kissed Jenni Hermoso on the lips.", "England slump to a fifth defeat in six matches as their World Cup preparations end with a first ever defeat by Fiji at Twickenham.", "Marsden co-wrote hits including Here I Go Again and Fool For Your Loving, before going solo.", "The family of Claire Knights, who went missing from Upstreet, has been informed, police say.", "Donald Patience \"had been dead for days\" when police called to a suspected robbery found his body.", "The DUP, the UUP and TUV request Stormont funds after previously pledging to cover the full cost.", "Hartwig Fischer said the museum \"did not respond as comprehensively as it should have\" to the thefts.", "Thieves climbed to an altitude of 2,350m and traversed gorges - all to rob a collection box.", "Thomas McCabe, who was given a life sentence in 1990, is at large after failing to return to prison.", "The Spanish secretary of sport \"wants this to be Spanish football's MeToo moment\" as the government announces it will take Luis Rubiales to a tribunal.", "A visit by almost 200 politicians from the US turns correspondents giddy with excitement.", "Two men and a woman were killed by a gunman who then shot himself, in a \"hate-filled\" attack, officials say.", "More than two months after saying she would go, she tells Rishi Sunak \"history will not judge you kindly\".", "The blaze took hold at a building in east London which contains flats and a business centre.", "The officer is in a critical condition in hospital after trying to save a man on the railway lines.", "Shauna Bray, who inspired the character Michelle, says friend Lisa McGee encouraged a fresh start.", "\"It felt like we were standing right at the edge of our own graves,\" one survivor tells the BBC.", "A devastated family wants better awareness of the less well-known signs of a stroke.", "The Treasury says people should be able to get cash within three miles for rural areas, or one mile in towns.", "Chief executive Mark Bullingham says the Football Association wants England manager Sarina Wiegman to remain in charge \"for a very long time\".", "Unofficial data mapping the damage to cameras suggests almost 500 have been vandalised or stolen.", "The nurse who was found guilty of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital is led from her home into a police car.", "Elon Musk says the feature \"makes no sense\", but users are concerned about protection from abuse.", "The Viking Cruises crew member was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the incident", "Television presenter Rachel Riley says she will stop supporting Manchester United if forward Mason Greenwood stays at the club.", "Peter Wilby, 78, admits having a sexual interest in children and viewing abuse images for decades.", "Rishi Sunak will not be travelling to Australia for the game, with diary commitments being blamed.", "Drivers will walk out on 1 September and refuse to work overtime on 2 September, the union says.", "Fifa president Gianni Infantino says women who \"pick the right fights\" can \"convince us men what we have to do\" to bring progress in women's football.", "Yellowknife residents have been told to evacuate by Friday as fires bear down on the city.", "A firm that makes insect repellent is seeking candidates to find out how effective their product is.", "The man convicted of killing Renee and Andrew MacRae died without revealing where the bodies were buried.", "Her trial spanned 10 months, but what is known about the nurse who murdered seven newborn babies?", "Coleen Rooney speaks publicly about her libel case against Rebekah Vardy for the first time.", "The region estimates at least 1,400 have died since a food corruption scam was uncovered in April.", "More than 5,000 people are forced out in a week as turf war and murders engulf Port-au-Prince.", "Letby killed the babies at a Chester hospital in 2015 and 2016 - she is the most prolific killer of babies in the UK in modern times.", "Firefighters are working to save the landmark tree, but experts fear it is already too damaged.", "The ruling by the International Chess Federation is drawing criticism from some players.", "Sara Sharif was found with \"multiple and extensive injuries\" at a house in Woking, police disclose.", "Cheryl Hole speaks of social media abuse, saying people \"don't understand the art form of drag\".", "Hawaii residents tell the BBC a stronger emergency response could have saved lives in the blaze.", "The mum and dad whose two boys were victims of nurse Lucy Letby have spoken exclusively to the BBC.", "Stars who were interviewed by Sir Michael Parkinson over the years pay tribute to the \"TV legend\".", "England captain Harry Kane scores on his Bundesliga debut as Bayern Munich thrash Werder Bremen.", "The RSPCA says most cases were in the West Midlands, London and West Yorkshire.", "Those working to supply Lahaina tell of devastation, looting and frustration after a deadly fire.", "Graham Linehan's Edinburgh show was cancelled over concerns about his views on transgender issues.", "Those on the list include Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer and BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness.", "A model of the face of Bonnie Prince Charlie had been created using images taken from death masks.", "Personal information of grand jury members who indicted Donald Trump this week were shared online.", "High Court challenges are launched after planning permission for two solar farms is refused.", "GMB Scotland said the two-day strike in September will cause disruption in schools after members rejected a pay offer.", "In a unique act of diplomacy, Italy's prime minister tells her government to settle the unpaid bill.", "Canadians are using Facebook to share information on fire updates but Meta's news ban is a hurdle.", "The move comes as fears grow over problems in the world's second largest economy.", "Russian officials say air defences shot down the drone and its debris landed on the city's Expo Center.", "Authorities have formally identified some of the wildfire victims. Here's what we know about them.", "Surgeons successfully transplanted the donated organ into a patient who, a year on, is doing well.", "Around 1,000 attempts to view sites were made, but no crime was committed, Cologne's archdiocese says.", "Comedian Graham Linehan performed outside Holyrood after two Fringe venues pulled out of hosting his show.", "The camera was recording a meteor shower from Hawaii when a parade of satellites passed through.", "There are queues on roads out of Yellowknife and at the airport as a fire bears down on the remote city.", "The MAC may be forced to close after a funding review carried out by Northern Ireland's Arts Council.", "The pilot died at the scene after two gliders collided over Leicestershire, police say.", "Sarah Meredith has waited for 640 days, while the average wait for an adult on the NHS is 65 days.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 11 and 18 August.", "A man has admitted his listing for the Bibby Stockholm craft on Booking.com was done as \"a joke\".", "Critics broadly welcome the Fury family's new docu-series, released on Netflix earlier this week.", "The nurse went on to be found guilty of seven murders at the Countess of Chester Hospital.", "The 10-year-old girl was found dead in her home in Woking, Surrey, last week.", "The image shows what the Scottish prince could have looked like during the Jacobite Rising.", "Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors, BBC investigation finds.", "The inquiry will investigate the circumstances around the deaths, as well as the handling of concerns.", "The suspects have been charged with involuntary manslaughter after six people died last weekend.", "Stephen Nolan addresses allegations he sent sexually explicit photographs of a potential guest in 2016.", "A rise in drug crime in the once-peaceful country has dominated the build-up to Sunday's election.", "The 33-year-old is convicted of killing babies at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked.", "Over long distances and with powerful explosive payloads, Ukraine's water drones are proving highly effective.", "The storm is expected to hit Mexico's Pacific coast and then move towards southern California.", "Martin Conway says airline staff told him he must use an app to buy a flight but did not offer any help.", "The GMB says there has been interest in firms buying \"at least parts\" of the homeware retailer.", "A fast-moving fire in Kelowna, British Columbia forces escaping locals to jump into the local lake.", "The deputy leader says the party remains committed to the plans, after it emerged it will consult on them.", "Train services in Cornwall have been disrupted and flooding has hit roads in County Cork in Ireland.", "Sam Asghari says on Instagram he and Ms Spears will \"hold onto the love\" they have even after divorcing.", "His Oscar-winning career spanned six decades and also included crime thriller The French Connection.", "Brazil's President Lula urges the nations who share the Amazon to resume cooperation.", "Finding a buyer has been a lengthy saga for the owner of the publisher, Paramount Global.", "The showbiz star and actor is \"thrilled\" to join the show as he approaches his 70th birthday.", "Flaming debris was seen blazing across the night sky in Melbourne on Monday evening.", "Global demand for Chinese goods has fallen as the cost of living and rising interest rates bite.", "Migrants are being threatened with having rights to government support withdrawn.", "National Savings and Investments is the latest provider to make savings deals more attractive.", "A police officer and a British national are among those killed since the strikes began, police say.", "The Irish singer died in July at the age of 56.", "Callum Rycroft died after being hit by a car while crossing the M62 in West Yorkshire.", "The Canadian rapper will spend 10 years in prison for shooting and injuring hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion.", "The Crooked House pub, once known as \"Britain's wonkiest\", is demolished two days after a fire.", "The fledgling is missing from Blackpool Zoo after taking to the air when it was startled by seagulls.", "Scout contingents are leaving the international event in South Korea due to an incoming tropical storm.", "Only those aged 65 and over or in at-risk groups should be invited for jab, say UK experts.", "England go agonisingly close to an early exit from the Women's World Cup but find a way to win as the Lionesses' title dream lives on.", "The bodies of two men and a woman were discovered after they failed to return from the Aonach Eagach.", "The British Museum was evacuated of visitors after a man was stabbed in the arm nearby.", "Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met Niger's military leaders for over two hours.", "Callum Rycroft, 12, from Leeds, was killed on the M62 in West Yorkshire on Saturday.", "The ruling means Pakistan's former prime minister will not be able to run in the November election.", "Tory Lanez is set to be sentenced for shooting fellow hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet.", "The car was struck after the slab was thrown from a pedestrian flyover near Glenrothes.", "The world's largest rainforest is fast losing its ability to bounce back from human impacts, researchers say.", "The justice secretary says his \"blood ran cold\" when he learned of Andrew Malkinson's case.", "Over 77% of students achieved A to C grades, which is down from last year's figure of 79.8%.", "The nurse is accused of killing seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others at a hospital.", "There are concerns the Russian mercenary group may be gaining influence in the country.", "Wet weather stopped shoppers splashing out in July prompting shops to ramp up promotions.", "Colombia set up a Women's World Cup quarter-final against England with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Jamaica thanks to Catalina Usme's goal.", "The retired nurse says she needs the shed by her flat, but housing firm says it's had complaints.", "But solicitors say the announcement is \"lawyer-bashing\" to distract from the asylum backlog.", "Fifteen men boarded the government's new accommodation barge for asylum seekers in Dorset on Monday.", "The vegan food firm's revenues fell by 30.5% as inflation impacts household budgets.", "Said to have been poisoned by wild mushrooms, three in a tight-knit town are dead, with another critical.", "A hidden world of exploitation by men working as \"spiritual healers\" has been uncovered by the BBC.", "Fans sing Nothing Compares 2 U as the star's funeral cortege passes through the Irish town of Bray.", "A top officer apologises for the breach affecting police and employees in Northern Ireland.", "A 19-year-old is awaiting plastic surgery after she was struck in the face by debris from a car fire.", "A master of disguise and a secret bunker were uncovered in a major drugs bust on the coast.", "There is anger after the pub, once known as \"Britain's wonkiest\", was demolished days after a fire.", "Officials say this is the first confirmed shark bite on the popular Rockaway Beach in recent memory.", "Unite members in 10 Scottish council areas will take industrial action when schools return after the summer break.", "Data shows a 66% drop in deforestation rates in July 2023 compared to the same month last year.", "The Home Office says \"a small group\" of about 20 people refused to board the Bibby Stockholm.", "The rape took place five months before the teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by her brother.", "Two missiles hit the town of Pokrovsk, the second as rescuers were searching for victims of the first.", "Temperatures in excess of 40C are expected to hit much of the Iberian peninsula this week.", "The actress has been praised for the \"amazing\" way she cared for Bryan Randall in his final years.", "About 80 residents were taken to an emergency rest centre after the discovery in a Glasgow flat.", "Communist Party slogans were painted over popular wall art - but the creators' motive is unclear.", "It's the first public performance since the rapper caused controversy with a series of antisemitic posts.", "The number of people heading out to the shops fell for the first July in 14 years, new data suggests.", "The attorney general orders a re-examination into the shootings of five Catholic men over 30 years ago.", "The party launches an expert team to help police and prosecutors bring more criminals to justice.", "Some parents contacted schools over a leaflet which made claims about curriculum changes.", "The Electoral Commission warns the public to be vigilant for unauthorised use of their personal data.", "The company says staff living near offices should work in person at least twice a week.", "Ministry of Defence says plan to develop new communications system for military is delayed.", "England forward Lauren James apologises for her red card during the Women's World Cup last-16 win over Nigeria.", "The cases, involving Donna Traynor and Lena Ferguson, were settled without admission of liability.", "The US Border Patrol seized seven animals as a person was arrested in Fort Brown, Texas.", "Trial suggests Wegovy cuts risk of cardiovascular event in overweight people with heart disease by a fifth.", "The potential one-off tax on the profits banks earn from higher interest rates has seen shares plummet.", "Michael O'Brien had £37,500 taken from his compensation to cover the cost of keeping him locked up.", "The shaven-headed Irish singer's turbulent life often threatened to overwhelm her music.", "The West Midlands, the South East and the East of England will be hit hardest by inflation, warns think tank.", "Anna Netrebko was dropped by the Met Opera last year after refusing to denounce Russia's president.", "Bayern Munich are still waiting to hear from Tottenham Hotspur about whether they are prepared to sell England captain Harry Kane", "The attack is the second in as many days involving sea drones, Ukrainian security sources tell the BBC.", "Police say US influencer Kai Cenat could be charged with inciting a riot after chaos in Manhattan.", "The first storm to be named by the Met Office this year has brought \"unseasonably\" strong winds.", "The showbiz star and actor is \"thrilled\" to join the show as he approaches his 70th birthday.", "Imran Khan was elected on promises to fix corruption and the economy but struggled to deliver.", "Police say influencer Kai Cenat could be charged with inciting a riot after chaos erupted at his event.", "The unverified footage was shared with the BBC by a source at Ukraine's security service.", "The Russian opposition leader is found guilty of further offences in a trial held at a prison colony.", "President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as a \"war crime\" and perpetrators as \"beasts\".", "Mark Margolis once said he based his role of drug kingpin Hector Salamanca on his mother-in-law.", "The footage was shared with the BBC by a source at Ukraine's security service.", "Vincenzo La Porta has been on the run for 11 years but was tracked down to Greece by police.", "Women in the US state with pregnancy complications will be exempted from the abortion ban, a judge rules.", "Voyager 2 has restored its communication with Earth months earlier than expected.", "In an interview with BBC HARDtalk, the former PM says only a free and fair vote can save Pakistan.", "England will face Australia in their first Netball World Cup final after their historic victory over defending champions New Zealand.", "All rail services in and out of Brighton are cancelled, while Storm Antoni will bring wind and rain.", "The ousted prime minister was given a three-year jail sentence in a case of corruption he denies.", "Hail formed 30cm drifts in Reutlingen requiring snowploughs to be deployed, at the height of summer.", "Liam Riddick imagined filming Hollywood dance routines as a boy. Being a Ken made it come true.", "The Hollywood actor joined celebrity owners to watch Wrexham's defeat to MK Dons.", "Volunteers have been sought for the effort which is to feature drones fitted with infrared cameras.", "The UK must invest in rail and road networks or accept more extreme weather disruption, a government advisor says.", "Prosecutors ask for limits on what Donald Trump is allowed to publicly say about the election fraud case.", "Spain reach the quarter-finals of the Fifa Women's World Cup for the first time after producing an outstanding display of firepower to send Switzerland out.", "Hollie Lawrence, 19, describes how she and her boyfriend were severely burned in the explosion.", "Ukrainian and Russian electronic warfare units are trying to gain the upper hand on the battlefield.", "Andy Malkinson, who cleared his name after 17 years in jail, tells the BBC more still needs to be done.", "Clinical trials showed the drug helped to reduce depressive symptoms in as little as three days.", "Marjorie Perkins woke to find an intruder standing over her. Neither of them expected what happened next.", "The US star enjoys a perfect week, while fellow rappers Dave and Central Cee set a new chart record.", "Denmark striker Rasmus Hojlund joins Manchester United for £72m on a five-year deal from Serie A side Atalanta.", "Over 4,000 UK Scouts are withdrawing from a World Jamboree over extreme heat and worries about facilities.", "Dillian Whyte returns \"an adverse finding\" from a doping test, causing his heavyweight rematch against Anthony Joshua to be cancelled.", "Wales enjoy victory in the opening World Cup warm-up game against England in Cardiff to leave Steve Borthwick mulling over Monday's tournament selection.", "One of the Edinburgh Fringe's biggest venue operators says it is owed money from an event in Coventry.", "There are concerns that the number of families who want to foster but then drop out is \"very high\".", "Mahek Bukhari and her mother were behind a crash in which the two victims were rammed off the road.", "Women in the Ukrainian military describe their battles against Russia and sexism within their ranks.", "The Met Office issued a yellow warning for rain on Saturday which ended at 11:00 BST.", "The child was unresponsive when taken to hospital on 27 July and later died, police say.", "Richard Beale has pleaded guilty over the sales of the $4m Eid Mar and parts of the \"Gaza Hoard\".", "Locals heard whispers that the motive for the killing led back to World War Two.", "The Spanish FA's president kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips has sparked a national conversation.", "Casings and coins at a site in central France suggest prisoners were shot by the French Resistance after D-Day.", "The mystery of the Loch Ness Monster lives on despite a weekend of amateur sleuthing.", "Watch highlights as Great Britain's women win 4x100m relay bronze behind winners the United States at the World Athletics Championships.", "Barker was the face of The Price Is Right, the longest-running game show in the US, for 35 years.", "Andrii Pilshchykov won fame taking part in dogfights over Kyiv during the early phase of Russia's invasion.", "Briton Daniel Dubois felt \"cheated out of victory\" after losing his world-title challenge to Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk on a dramatic night in front of 40,000 boisterous fans in Poland.", "Mnangagwa came to power in Zimbabwe after a 2017 coup which ousted long-time ruler Robert Mugabe.", "A small number of people are being cared for onboard after sustaining minor injuries, P&O says.", "An internal investigation is launched at Spain's football federation after its sexual violence protocol is activated.", "A man who shot dead three black people had a \"disgusting ideology of hate\", Jacksonville police say.", "Russia has launched hundreds of missiles and drone attacks on Ukraine in the past few weeks.", "Great Britain won 10 medals in Budapest to equal their best medal haul at a World Championships.", "Oval Invincibles stage a remarkable fightback to beat Manchester Originals and win the men's Hundred at Lord's.", "The Tory MP published the eviscerating letter she wrote to Rishi Sunak.", "The education minister says female Muslim students will not be allowed to wear the loose-fitting robe.", "Passers-by fought to free the man and woman during a flash flood but they were later pronounced dead.", "The Mid Bedfordshire seat is up for grabs after Nadine Dorries quit with a scathing resignation letter.", "The partial remains were found by a member of the public near the Manor Steps Zig Zag in Bournemouth.", "Keely Hodgkinson is forced to settle for silver as Kenya's Mary Moraa triumphs in a thrilling 800m final at the World Championships.", "A private equity firm makes a £90m bid for the business and pledges to retain all jobs for two years.", "Electroconvulsive therapy sends electricity through the brain to treat conditions like depression.", "Ever since he led a mutinous march on Moscow in late June, some speculated Yevgeny Prigozhin's days were numbered.", "Organisers of a city event hope it can attract revellers from bigger carnivals such as Notting Hill.", "Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says extra money for public services must come from economic growth.", "St Mungo Vintners shut in Glasgow in 1974 and its interior gathered dust in a warehouse for decades.", "Spain's Women's World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda has called the moment Luis Rubiales kissed squad member Jennifer Hermoso \"inappropriate and unacceptable\".", "Wales centurion Dan Biggar will hang up his international boots after the Rugby World Cup in France.", "The injured include 39 firefighters sent to a stricken liquefied petroleum gas station near Bucharest.", "Afghanistan's vice and virtue minister says female visitors to Band-e-Amir were not wearing hijabs properly.", "England slump to a fifth defeat in six matches as their World Cup preparations end with a first ever defeat by Fiji at Twickenham.", "A photographer shares the beaches, wildlife and dark starry skies of his home county Pembrokeshire.", "The Geordie rock star confirmed his headliner status with a career-defining set.", "The family of Claire Knights, who went missing from Upstreet, has been informed, police say.", "It all began in St Petersburg when state security services mingled with the criminal underworld.", "Merchandise bearing the ex-president's scowling face at his arrest on Thursday is flying off the shelves.", "Businesses are fielding calls from Chinese numbers criticising the discharge of treated waste water.", "Thieves climbed to an altitude of 2,350m and traversed gorges - all to rob a collection box.", "Genetic analysis of the bodies was carried out following Wednesday's crash, Russian officials say.", "Two men and a woman were killed by a gunman who then shot himself, in a \"hate-filled\" attack, officials say.", "More than two months after saying she would go, she tells Rishi Sunak \"history will not judge you kindly\".", "Hundreds of ginger-haired people from across the world took part in the three-day Dutch gathering.", "It all began in St Petersburg when state security services mingled with the criminal underworld.", "Aston Villa's team bus is attacked following the game at Burnley, causing significant damage but no injuries.", "Five more have been taken to hospital in a serious condition, US officials say.", "Scotland Yard says it was been made aware of \"unauthorised access\" to data held by an outside company.", "The Home Office confirms that 755 people were detected making the crossing on Thursday.", "Survivors describe narrow escapes from fast-moving flames - and what they had to leave behind.", "An injunction may be sought to stop buyers moving in until green spaces are provided.", "The Last of Us star went with friend and actor Russell Tovey - but the Margate gallery was closed.", "A small aircraft landed on the central reservation of the A40 Golden Valley just before 18:00 BST.", "Civilians in 37 settlements of the Kupiansk area are told to leave because of \"constant Russian shelling\".", "The Western Isles MP was suspended from the party's Westminster group last month.", "Erling Haaland scores twice as Premier League champions Manchester City start off their title defence with victory at Burnley.", "Edinburgh International Book festival sponsor Baillie Gifford has been criticised over its fossil fuels investments.", "The prosecutor who brought criminal charges against Hunter Biden will get additional powers.", "Getting in contact with loved ones has been made difficult by poor mobile reception on the island.", "The Mayor of Portland is claiming the Home Office has not complied with planning rules.", "Sweden produce a magnificent performance to book a semi-final date with Spain and end Japan's dreams of winning the Women's World Cup.", "The PM took almost one flight a week, data shows, as he is accused of abandoning climate leadership.", "Officials took cash and cryptocurrency and helped people to leave Ukraine, President Zelensky says.", "The showbiz star and actor is \"thrilled\" to join the show as he approaches his 70th birthday.", "Jason Chambers thanked production crew for \"breaking the fourth wall and stepping in\" during filming.", "Severe cold a million years ago forced our ancestors from the continent, but they adapted and returned.", "Several popular landmarks in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui are reduced to rubble.", "Subsidence meant the house needed to be demolished and rebuilt, an insurance firm said.", "How teens who were disengaged from education are helped to get back on track in their GCSEs.", "Footage has emerged appearing to show Kristin Harila’s team climbing over Mohammed Hassan on Pakistan's K2.", "The culture minister says he has spoken to the X boss about hosting the showdown as a charity event.", "Physicists believe that an unknown force could be acting on sub-atomic particles known as muons.", "As many as 30 others are missing after the boat foundered and was abandoned by crew on Sunday.", "Jay Humphries is jailed for just over a year for using an unapproved account on a dating site.", "Hundreds of key environmental science terms added to the British Sign Language dictionary.", "Staff at the soft drink company in Cumbernauld will stage a series of 24-hour walkouts in a pay row.", "Some schools insist on sweatshirts, blazers and gym bags being embroidered with their emblem.", "The BBC asked two junior doctors in England to show us their payslips and reveal their salaries.", "Liverpool agree a British record transfer fee of £111m with Brighton for Ecuador midfielder Moises Caicedo.", "Theresa Villiers apologises for not declaring a stake in the oil firm worth at least £70,000 before.", "Harry Kane arrives for a medical at Bayern Munich, with the England captain's move from Tottenham to the German giants \"imminent\".", "Witnesses congratulate a pilot who made an emergency landing on the A40 for doing an amazing job.", "Survivors describe narrow escapes from fast-moving flames - and what they had to leave behind.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 4 and 11 August.", "Theo says he didn't grasp the reality of saving the nine-year-old's life until the day after.", "The 0.2% growth in the second quarter was up on the first quarter, when GDP grew by 0.1%.", "The comedian has been working on a stand-up tour featuring his infamous spoof gangster.", "Keisha Schahaff and UK student Ana Mayers become the first mother-daughter duo to travel to the edge of space.", "Higher temperatures helped better-than-expected quarterly growth but fears of a slowdown remain.", "A judge is sending the founder of bankrupt crypto firm FTX to jail while awaiting trial on fraud charges.", "Six people have been arrested over the killing of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.", "This week, a reminder email was sent to employees who didn't work on-site at least three times a week.", "The death toll has risen to 67, the county said, as residents are permitted to return.", "Police are working with international authorities to find the three people over the death in Woking.", "Tapestry, which owns Coach, is creating a US luxury conglomerate in the same vein as France's giants.", "A police officer says his wife is no longer comfortable in Northern Ireland after the data breaches.", "What sparked the fires is still a mystery, but a mix of wind and dry weather helped the flames spread.", "About 20,000 members will take strike action on 26 August and 2 September over pay and conditions.", "European data storage firms are emerging that promise to protect customer data from US interference.", "Teenage winger Salma Paralluelo scores a 111th-minute winner as Spain beat the Netherlands to reach the Women's World Cup semi-finals for the first time.", "Satellite images and before-and-after pictures show extent of damage to town of Lahaina on Maui.", "Mobile phone video taken near the waterfront reveals the devastation caused by a wildfire.", "Employees discover the animal trapped in metal flooring when they arrive for work.", "Thousands of people have evacuated their homes and a state of emergency has been declared.", "Protesters gather in Niamey after a West African bloc approves intervention against coup leaders.", "Firefighters are still battling to contain the Hawaiian island's wildfires, which began on Tuesday.", "Fifteen men boarded the government's new accommodation barge for asylum seekers in Dorset on Monday.", "A student who went on a Virgin Galactic spacetrip with her mother says it is an incredible experience.", "A man wrongly convicted of rape welcomes the scrapping of a rule which deducted living costs from compensation paid to wrongly imprisoned people.", "Travis King, 23, dashed across the border from South Korea on 18 July while on a guided tour.", "Unlike his Indiana Jones character, Ford says he likes snakes and called the discovery \"humbling\".", "A number of claims about presenter Stephen Nolan appeared in the Irish News on Tuesday.", "Donald Trump and 18 others are indicted on counts that include racketeering and forgery.", "Fresh questions are raised over why Andy Malkinson was not granted an appeal as long ago as 2009.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says that the question of accountability for the mass data breach will come later.", "Watch live as enthusiasts compete in Seoul, South Korea, to solve the classic puzzle at speed.", "DfI say budget constraints and climate change commitments has \"changed the landscape considerably\".", "The NSPCC says 34,000 online sexual crimes have been recorded since it first called for tougher laws.", "He has been criminally indicted four times and will have a series of trials to attend in 2024.", "Spain beat Sweden to reach their first Women's World Cup final in a dramatic finish in Auckland.", "Thousands of police officers expressed fears for their security after the major data breach.", "Hull-born Patricia Bredin was the first person to represent the UK at Eurovision in 1957.", "The pilot and passenger safely ejected just moments before the plane crashed in a plume of smoke.", "The airline has defended its decision to charge an elderly couple who had mistakenly downloaded the wrong tickets.", "Rotherham residents fear that someone will be badly injured or killed after a spate of crashes.", "Ben Stokes' return to the England one-day side for the defence of the World Cup in India will be confirmed on Wednesday.", "The offshore wind farm is located 1.5 miles (2.5km) off the coast of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.", "Raphael Varane heads the winner as Manchester United gain a fortunate victory over Wolves in their first game of the Premier League season.", "Draft health guidance says more people will benefit from online advice from medical experts.", "Holly Willoughby and ex co-host Phillip Schofield are overlooked for best presenter, however.", "A huge fire broke out at a Buckinghamshire landfill site five years before the Black Country blaze.", "The University and College Union says its marking boycott will also continue at 145 universities.", "Tourist activity has continued despite devastating wildfires, bringing tensions with residents to a head.", "The Ulster Bank survey found the decrease was caused by weak demand and the impact of inflation.", "Fulton County’s first female district attorney is known for her ability to handle complex cases.", "The man's name was on a document mistakenly shared by the PSNI with details of about 10,000 employees.", "Ex-NFL star Michael Oher says a couple enriched themselves off his name. They say it's an extortion attempt.", "The costs of some food staples are starting to come down after surging last year, data suggests.", "The ex-president and others have been indicted for alleged attempts to overturn his election loss in the state.", "Police are trying to locate three people who left the UK a day before Sara's body was found.", "Two men were taken to hospital after being stabbed outside a nightclub in south London.", "The woman sued her ex-boyfriend for posting intimate photos of her online to \"publicly shame\" her.", "Under-fives are set to get free childcare in England and Welsh parents want this matched.", "Cadaver dogs comb ruined homes with the number of people missing now standing at around 1,300.", "Fire engulfs an area of 600 sq m (6,460 sq ft) in Makhachkala, in the southern region of Dagestan.", "Julie Lloyd is trialling the high-tech garment that helps paralysed people's rehabilitation.", "Fare increases in 2024 will again be held below the rate of inflation, says the government.", "The far-right party has been ordered to pay damages over a photo used in an anti-surrogacy campaign.", "England spoil co-hosts Australia's party by booking their place in the Women's World Cup final for the first time on a historic night in Sydney.", "The chief executive of Sama says it will no longer take work involving moderating harmful content.", "The data includes descriptions of domestic assaults, sexual offences and hate crimes, police say.", "Two men are taken to hospital after being stabbed outside a nightclub in south London.", "The men are found sleeping in a restricted area of the Paris monument in the early hours of Monday.", "The weakness of the yen has helped Japanese exporters as it makes their products cheaper overseas.", "His trial for alleged election interference is set for 4 March, 2024 - a day ahead of Super Tuesday.", "An Edinburgh arts venue says Graham Linehan's beliefs do not align with its values.", "Andrew Malkinson says Greater Manchester Police's actions caused his \"wrongful conviction nightmare\".", "Hannah Ingram-Moore's company received money for an event, rather than the Captain Tom Foundation charity.", "Patsy Gregory, from Lancashire, flew to South Carolina to meet Carol-Ann Krause, her pen pal since 1955.", "Six former police officers will appear in court next month, following a BBC Newsnight investigation.", "Three Bulgarian nationals suspected of spying in the UK for Russia face trial for \"fake passports\".", "Ninety-nine people are known to have died in the deadliest American wildfire for a century.", "The star announces rescheduled tour dates as she recovers from a bacterial infection.", "PSNI staff share their concerns with the BBC that a data breach could increase the threat they face.", "Government funding will provide 900 new hospital beds by January, with 4,100 to follow soon after.", "It is accused of promoting attitudes contrary to the cultural beliefs of the mainly Muslim nation.", "In a leaked email, a top officer says the limit will \"influence\" how fast police can respond.", "Regular pay grew at 7.8% but the data has increased the possibility of another interest rate rise.", "The chief constable says the information could be used to intimidate or target officers and staff.", "More In Common says lessons need to be learned, on the two-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul.", "The Bibby Stockholm is empty after Legionella bacteria was found and asylum seekers taken off the barge.", "The 3,600 photographs offer a birds-eye view of the country as it changed during the war.", "Mr Trump and others face charges under the Rico Act for alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.", "Detectives say the girl was alone in the house in Woking, Surrey, when she was found by officers.", "Police are working with international authorities to find the three people over the death in Woking.", "Scottish hosts say they have not been paid by the website for months and are considering legal action.", "Rishi Sunak adds his voice to those criticising the way looting and disorder has been organised.", "However, the company's administrator said parts of the business could still be bought.", "The BBC Radio 5Live presenter describes a former Edinburgh Academy teacher as a \"prolific paedophile\".", "The woman was allegedly forced to have sex and was filmed by the suspected aggressors.", "Footage exclusively obtained by the BBC shows people huddling together in the stranded cable car.", "England suffer extra-time heartbreak as Ukraine are crowned partially-sighted football world champions after a 4-3 win.", "Police say they are investigating after being called to Weston Park in Shropshire on Saturday.", "Owen Farrell will miss England's first two pool games at the World Cup as World Rugby successfully appeals against the decision to overturn his red card.", "Ever since he led a mutinous march on Moscow in late June, some speculated Yevgeny Prigozhin's days were numbered.", "A deal could be struck within months - but sources say difficult areas of negotiation remain.", "Online footage appears to show a plane falling from the sky in the Tver region.", "Russian officials blame Ukraine for the incidents, but it is unclear who is responsible.", "A pilot in west London urges passengers to greet bus drivers, resulting in a small positive impact.", "The body was found on one of Austria's fastest melting glaciers in the province of Tyrol.", "Protesters fear it will be a resort for millionaires, but backers say most residents support the plans.", "The Russian private military company boss was on the passenger list of the jet which came down near Moscow.", "The union representing its workers said a new five-year contract has been approved.", "The leader of June's aborted mutiny did not want his mercenaries to become a regular unit, President Putin says.", "A senior Surrey Police officer says contact with the girl's family was \"some years ago\".", "Two teams of US scientists have converted brain signals into words at a faster rate than before.", "The mercenary boss appears in his first video address since the mutiny - allegedly in Africa.", "Controversial incidents detracted from women’s achievements on the pitch during the Women’s World Cup.", "The Mar-a-Lago employee points the finger at Mr Trump \"in efforts to delete security camera footage\".", "For many who need to travel between mountains in Pakistan, makeshift chair-lifts are the only option.", "Amal Bafaqih, 85, says her car was not blocking traffic or other parking bays.", "Authorities say two other drones were intercepted over Bryansk, near the Ukrainian border.", "Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey visits Mid Bedfordshire as voters wait for their MP to formally resign.", "Contractor tells 300 meeting attendees in Llanelli that only families will move into Stradey Park.", "See a simulation of the moment Chandrayaan-3 lands near the Moon's south pole for the first time.", "South Yorkshire Police says it lost data such as bodycam footage from the last three years.", "Watchdog says it is struck by how many people get unwanted propositions from staff who have their data.", "A 36-year-old woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb in a medical first, doctors say.", "The BBC's analysis editor Ros Atkins takes a look at Yevgeny Prigozhin throughout the years.", "The 34-year-old hopes to now become a mum as older sister donates her womb in pioneering transplant.", "Three people died when a train hit a landslide after heavy rain near Stonehaven in 2020.", "See the moment a passenger was rescued from a dangling cable car in Pakistan.", "Keith Warhurst spoke at a tribunal that found evidence of a sexist culture in Police Scotland's firearms unit.", "Matthew Waddell denies murdering mother-of-three Sarah Albone, found dead at home in Biggleswade.", "Rishi Sunak apologises for \"inadvertent errors\" when providing information about financial interests.", "Hartwig Fischer says claims made by a former art dealer do not tell the whole story.", "The star says broadcasters like the BBC are avoiding difficult subjects for fear of causing offence.", "Rachel Riley accuses Manchester United of \"gaslighting\" and \"green lighting\" abuse for their handling of the decision to part company with Mason Greenwood.", "Morgan Stanley is punished by the energy regulator in the first fine under transparency rules.", "Eight people were left stranded over a ravine when a cable car malfunctioned in north-western Pakistan.", "The Pentagon dismisses reports that a surface-to-air missile brought down the Wagner boss's aircraft.", "Around 750 women in the UK have approached the team to enquire about transplantation.", "The party's former head of communications previously quit his role amid a row over membership numbers.", "Putin was addressing the Brics summit via video-link in South Africa - he hasn't travelled due to risk of arrest.", "Le Touquet says it has blessing from King to rename its airport after his late mother.", "Sergei Surovikin was head of aerospace forces but has not been since a failed mutiny in June.", "The Vikram lander touches down to become the first spacecraft to land near the Moon's south pole.", "For decades Russia's Vladimir Putin relied on Yevgeny Prigozhin's services, until he staged a mutiny.", "The charge for the most polluting vehicles will be expanded to all London boroughs next week.", "Advertising watchdog found Boots promoted infant milk formula in adverts, which is prohibited.", "The UK economy is set to shrink between July and September and risks a downturn, a survey warns.", "Dealer and buyer Ittai Gradel reported stolen items to the museum two-and-a-half years ago, emails show.", "Number eight Billy Vunipola will miss England's opening game of the World Cup against Argentina following his red card against Ireland.", "The band appear to announce their latest album with an ad for a fictional glass repair company.", "Chief executive Dame Alison Rose quit the bank over the closure of Nigel Farage's account.", "Royal Victoria Hospital emergency department staff say the report's criticism did not go far enough.", "Police and the coastguard were involved in a search for Claire Rock.", "Army helicopters and zip line experts were deployed in a dangerous operation that took over 12 hours.", "There has been a sharp rise in people in their 20s and 30s claiming disability benefits, a think tank says.", "The last two occupants of a cable car dangling over a ravine in northern Pakistan are rescued after nightfall.", "The labelling is a requirement of the Windsor Framework, the revised Brexit deal for Northern Ireland.", "The 18 year old leaked clips of the unreleased Grand Theft Auto 6 game while on police bail.", "As eight top Republicans debate on stage in Milwaukee, Trump releases a cannily timed interview.", "They spent hours dangling above a ravine in high winds before being rescued by helicopter and zip line.", "A vegan diet requested by Sam Bankman-Fried is not being provided in prison, a judge is told.", "Donald Trump's former lawyer faces 13 charges linked to efforts to overturn Mr Trump's 2020 election defeat.", "A report led by the judge, Patrick Robinson, says the UK should pay £18.8tn for its role in slavery.", "This is the influencer's first TV interview with a major broadcaster while under house arrest.", "Safety concerns about A&Es in Elgin and Aberdeen are being ignored claim senior doctors.", "When he turned himself in at Fulton County Jail, the process wasn't the same as his last three arrests.", "Tens of thousands more 16-year-olds will need to retake their papers in England.", "After his failed rebellion, most Russians were probably surprised this hadn't happened sooner.", "One of the oldest wooden rollercoasters in the world, the Big Dipper can carry 672 riders an hour.", "Watch Samira Hussein's response as India's Chandrayaan-3 space mission reaches the lunar surface.", "Meanwhile a strike on the Danube river port of Izmail destroyed 13,000 tons of grain, a minister says.", "A woman says she learned about Sara Sharif's injuries from her daughter, who was in the same class.", "The government says a loan guarantee will help improve Ukraine's energy security.", "The Chandrayaan-3 craft with an orbiter, lander and a rover lifted off on Friday from Sriharikota space centre.", "Greece accused of \"opportunism\" over claims thefts from the museum suggest it is not protecting artefacts.", "Britain's Josh Kerr stuns Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to win 1500m gold at the World Championships in Budapest.", "Former medical director Ian Harvey has been accused of a \"shameful\" failure to address their concerns.", "The bodies of 18 males were found in a forest in northern Greece where fires have burned for days.", "The building in Russia's capital was struck in a drone attack for the second time in two days", "Nigel Farage says the bank has offered to reinstate both his personal and business accounts.", "He has been criminally indicted four times and will have a series of trials to attend in 2024.", "Italian authorities are failing to protect the city from over tourism and climate change, Unesco says.", "Dagmar Turner played the violin while surgeons were removing a brain tumour in January 2020.", "David Hunter had been unable to visit his wife's grave after being held in prison over her death.", "The Foreign Office is urging citizens to register their whereabouts after a military coup triggered violence.", "Wales High School in Rotherham will be closing to most pupils when teachers strike over pay on Wednesday.", "The Bank of England, which has raised rates 13 times in a row, is expected to hike them again on Thursday.", "The move is the biggest unplanned shake-up in Beijing's military leadership in almost a decade.", "At least six people, including a 10-year-old girl, die in the Ukrainian president's home city of Kryvyi Rih.", "The rapper was reacting to having a drink hit her on stage while she was performing.", "Jack Smith was a top war crimes prosecutor at The Hague before he began investigating Donald Trump.", "Here's a reminder of what happened on the historic day a mob stormed the Capitol.", "MrBeast is the most popular YouTuber in the world, with more than 172 million subscribers.", "A couple in the Philippines pressed ahead with their wedding in a flooded church.", "Police say the boys suffered \"horrific\" injuries after separate incidents in Lanarkshire and Edinburgh.", "A by-election will now be held after almost 12,000 of her constituents signed a recall petition.", "The ex-president claims he has \"never had so much support\" after being charged with plotting to overturn the 2020 election.", "Europe's new space telescope, Euclid, returns test images ahead of its 3D survey of the Universe.", "A shake-up of the duties levied on alcoholic drinks will push up the price of stronger drinks.", "\"Moscow is rapidly getting used to a full-fledged war,\" claims Ukrainian adviser Mykhailo Podolyak.", "David Hunter \"can't describe\" how freedom feels after killing wife Janice in an assisted suicide.", "Commander John Holmes says he did not hesitate to go on his final rescue mission after 42 years.", "Frank and Debbie Strang have helped to lead the efforts to create Shetland's SaxaVord Spaceport.", "Royal Mail and Skyports will distribute letters and parcels between the islands using drones.", "Video from China’s Sichuan province shows the animal looking relaxed, but unimpressed.", "The veteran fundraiser's family is appealing against an order to demolish the building.", "The Met Office confirms July has been been one of the wettest on record - and there's more to come.", "Few England cricketers connect with a crowd like Stuart Broad. On the final day of the last Ashes Test he showed why we will miss him so much.", "Farhad and Touheed were among thousands paying huge sums to risk a perilous boat journey via Libya.", "Supporters of the military which seized power in Niger have been showing their support for Russia.", "His victim was nude, drunk and vomiting into a wash basin when she was raped, a court hears.", "John Stringer, 41, from Cardiff, denies five counts of sexual abuse of a girl under 13.", "There are two supermoons in August, with the full Sturgeon Moon rising on Tuesday evening.", "The prime minister was challenged about changes that will see alcohol duty rise overall.", "Life-size bronze statue celebrates the anti-slavery activist who visited the city during the 1840s.", "The rate of remote working in NI is well below the UK average of 31% and the lowest of any UK region.", "Lauren James produces a sensational performance as England sweep aside China to book their place in the last 16 of the Women's World Cup.", "Stuart Broad ends his glittering career by bowling England to another dramatic victory in the fifth Test against Australia to leave a memorable Ashes series level at 2-2.", "Leaked documents show businessman went on a spending spree and left a council effectively bankrupt.", "Tiarnan McFadden, 25, has been charged over the New IRA's claim that it shot the detective.", "Women in the Ukrainian military describe their battles against Russia and sexism within their ranks.", "Two men in suits and a woman wearing a dress target a store in a street full of luxury jewellery shops.", "The pardon, part of a seasonal amnesty by the military junta, will reduce her 33-year jail sentence by six years.", "Ghana archaeologists say they have found 17th Century remains of the long-lost Fort Kormantine.", "The star is found dead at his family home in California, just days after his father's funeral.", "The MP was suspended for breaking Covid rules and has now lost her seat after a recall petition.", "The nursery says its software indicated that the child had been picked up when they had not.", "The presence of great crested newts could hamper a development at the former PM's Oxfordshire home.", "The prime minister says the decision is \"entirely consistent\" with the UK's net zero commitments.", "The transport minister says final safety checks are still being carried out on the Bibby Stockholm.", "The reptile slithered onto a Lanka Premier League game in Colombo, Sri Lanka, bringing play to a halt.", "The BBC is given exclusive access to a team of elite Ukrainian snipers on night raids near Bakhmut.", "A social media monitoring group says legal threats sent by X Corp are an attempt to \"silence criticism\".", "The flashing sign went up three days ago. San Francisco officials investigated its installation.", "Oxford researchers say there's no evidence the platform's growth across 72 countries harmed wellbeing.", "The comedian has been arrested and charged following allegations of \"non-recent\" sexual offences.", "The Canadian rapper will spend 10 years in prison for shooting and injuring hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion.", "An analysis by the BBC shows the number leaving NHS has been pretty consistent for a decade.", "Two Crooked House landlords speak of their devastation at the loss of Britain's wonkiest pub.", "Reuben and Jasper, who are both autistic, have been given places at two different schools.", "The details now have been removed from a Scottish genealogy website over safety and privacy fears.", "The fledgling is missing from Blackpool Zoo after taking to the air when it was startled by seagulls.", "The book makes numerous false claims and portrays Ukraine as an aggressive state run by nationalists.", "Sharon Henderson had to wait 30 years for her daughter Nikki's murderer to be caught and jailed.", "The former Tory minister tells the BBC his party needs to \"come to its senses\" on the environment.", "Staffordshire Police say the fire at the Crooked House was suspicious as investigations continue.", "The man had posted threats online hours before a planned visit by Joe Biden to his home state of Utah.", "Crit'Air stickers come in six categories, from green for the cleanest vehicles to dark grey.", "Timothy Welch was adopted when he was six weeks old and found his birth mother 58 years later.", "Lawyers representing three of Lizzo's former dancers say they are reviewing new complaints against her.", "The damaged facility reportedly manufactures night vision devices and binoculars for the Russian military.", "Prosecutor Jack Smith requested data and records linked to the ex-president, unsealed files reveal.", "People have jumped into the sea to escape flames from wildfires being fuelled by hurricane winds.", "Warnings are issued after a child is swept to sea at Ilfracombe Harbour.", "French President Emmanuel Macron said his thoughts were with the victims and their families.", "Fifteen men boarded the government's new accommodation barge for asylum seekers in Dorset on Monday.", "The memorandum of understanding includes $118m to stop smuggling and return irregular migrants.", "Homeowners in idyllic village say feral goats are destroying gardens and damaging property.", "Shares of the once globally hyped company fall by close to 24% in extended trading in New York.", "Highly selective courses at elite universities will \"go quite quickly\", says the head of Ucas.", "The ex-presidential candidate offered to set up a newly single Welsh minister with her friends.", "A mother and her one-year-old baby, from the Ivory Coast, are among the dead.", "A top officer apologises for the breach affecting police and employees in Northern Ireland.", "A 19-year-old is awaiting plastic surgery after she was struck in the face by debris from a car fire.", "There is anger after the pub, once known as \"Britain's wonkiest\", was demolished days after a fire.", "Ofcom says popular platforms' terms of service are very long and difficult to understand.", "A \"significant\" number who had refused to board have changed their minds, the immigration minister says.", "Thousands of unmarried women in Scotland were forced to give their children up in the last century.", "The step count needed to reduce the risk of disease is lower than previously thought, research suggests.", "Mantle is best known for playing Jean Warboys, the annoying friend of Victor Meldrew's wife, in the BBC comedy.", "The party is likely to back leaving ECHR if Rwanda flights are still blocked, senior Tories say.", "Four survivors told rescuers the boat set off from Tunisia carrying 45 people, including three children.", "The rape took place five months before the teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by her brother.", "Temperatures in excess of 40C are expected to hit much of the Iberian peninsula this week.", "A summit in Brazil sees the countries that share the Amazon basin agree only to a new alliance on the issue.", "The Band toured with Bob Dylan before becoming one of the most influential acts of the late 1960s.", "One town's residents are campaigning to change 20mph speed limits coming in later this year.", "The tour operator says climate change could affect where and when people choose to go on holiday.", "The High Street retailer faces collapse if it cannot secure fresh investment by next week.", "One of the occupants who was dropped off prior to the crash was charged with driving offences.", "New court documents show the pupil confessed to the attack and outline how he took his mother's gun.", "It could result in customers receiving an average of £40 each, but there is no guarantee it will succeed.", "The party launches an expert team to help police and prosecutors bring more criminals to justice.", "The Electoral Commission warns the public to be vigilant for unauthorised use of their personal data.", "Maui officials say they are still in search and rescue mode, and are asking tourists to avoid the island.", "S4C \"wants to encourage Welsh learners and reflect reality\", but a campaigner calls it dangerous.", "The musician struggled to find success in his native US, but he developed a following in South Africa.", "The Police Service of Northern Ireland has apologised for mistakenly sharing details of all of its 10,000 staff.", "The political editor at BBC Scotland is to undergo surgery and will take time off work for treatment.", "Some sellers say a new policy to hold their money in reserve is 'crippling' their businesses.", "Trial suggests Wegovy cuts risk of cardiovascular event in overweight people with heart disease by a fifth.", "The potential one-off tax on the profits banks earn from higher interest rates has seen shares plummet.", "The West Midlands, the South East and the East of England will be hit hardest by inflation, warns think tank.", "The inquisitive feline stole the show as Dave Guest reported on a project transforming alleyways in Manchester.", "Kosovare Asllani's stunning second-half strike seals victory for Sweden as they beat Australia to finish third at the Women's World Cup at Brisbane Stadium.", "Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors, BBC investigation finds.", "The inquiry will investigate the circumstances around the deaths, as well as the handling of concerns.", "The nurse was found guilty of murdering one of their babies and attempting to murder the other the following day.", "US-made jets in Denmark and the Netherlands can be sent to Ukraine when its pilots are fully trained.", "NHS trust board was told there was 'no criminal activity pointing to any one individual', he says.", "One village in County Down had more than half a month's worth of rain in under 12 hours.", "In a unique act of diplomacy, Italy's prime minister tells her government to settle the unpaid bill.", "The nurse who was found guilty of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital is led from her home into a police car.", "US judges rule Wade Robson and James Safechuck can pursue lawsuits against the singer's companies.", "Spain face England in the Women's World Cup with their boss Jorge Vilda dividing opinion after he survived a player revolt to keep his job.", "The news anchor remained calm and went to a commercial break.", "Elon Musk says the feature \"makes no sense\", but users are concerned about protection from abuse.", "The mum and dad whose two boys were victims of nurse Lucy Letby have spoken exclusively to the BBC.", "It's just the second time since 2015 that the UK has has seen two named storms in August.", "The Viking Cruises crew member was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the incident", "A Russian missile strike hits the heart of the northern city of Chernihiv, Ukraine says.", "A 50-year-old man is charged with possessing documents or records likely to be useful to terrorists.", "A main square, theatre and university building in Chernihiv were reportedly damaged in the attack.", "Simon Parker gave up engineering to preserve wildlife on an island four miles off the Welsh coast.", "England have to \"play the game of our lives\" if they are to win the Women's World Cup, says captain Millie Bright.", "Families of some of the babies attacked said a non-statutory inquiry was 'inadequate'.", "England captain Harry Kane scores on his Bundesliga debut as Bayern Munich thrash Werder Bremen.", "The 33-year-old is convicted of killing babies at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked.", "A father and son were shot dead near Hawara; the Israeli military is hunting for the gunman.", "Two police teams are assigned to find Urfan Sharif in Pakistan, BBC News is told.", "Writing after her husband filed for divorce, the singer says she \"couldn't take the pain anymore\".", "As England prepare to face Spain in the Women's World Cup final, BBC sports editor Dan Roan looks at the impact of the Lionesses' success on, and off, the pitch.", "The storm is expected to hit Mexico's Pacific coast and then move towards southern California.", "Those on the list include Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer and BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness.", "A model of the face of Bonnie Prince Charlie had been created using images taken from death masks.", "As Canada's northern and western provinces battle historic wildfires, thousands have been displaced.", "About 15,000 households are told to evacuate in British Columbia, with an emergency declared.", "Despite the grey skies, some 1000 people take to the city's streets in traditional clothes.", "A tour guide says it was a shock when the \"huge animal jumped up out of the water\".", "More than 50 years after a ban on women's football was lifted, England are in to the World Cup final - but how did we get here?", "A fast-moving fire in Kelowna, British Columbia forces escaping locals to jump into the local lake.", "One of the victims, who suffered four years of sickening abuse, had to wait eight years for justice.", "The second named storm in a month has caused \"mayhem\" for holidaymakers, a campsite owner says.", "Her trial spanned 10 months, but what is known about the nurse who murdered seven newborn babies?", "Detectives who closed the net around Lucy Letby tell of their dealings with the \"emotionless\" killer.", "A man has admitted his listing for the Bibby Stockholm craft on Booking.com was done as \"a joke\".", "Critics broadly welcome the Fury family's new docu-series, released on Netflix earlier this week.", "The nurse went on to be found guilty of seven murders at the Countess of Chester Hospital.", "Letby killed the babies at a Chester hospital in 2015 and 2016 - she is the most prolific killer of babies in the UK in modern times.", "More than 5,000 people are forced out in a week as turf war and murders engulf Port-au-Prince.", "The nurse was questioned for nearly 60 hours - the BBC's Judith Moritz watched it all.", "Millie Gribble died two days after she and two teenagers were struck by a van, police say.", "West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta is being investigated by the Football Association for potential betting rule breaches, sources confirm to the BBC.", "The chef is closing his two Michelin-starred restaurant in Mayfair after 56 years.", "One prostate cancer patient says he was forced to carry used \"nappies\" around in a backpack.", "It could be a while before the economy can regain its rhythm, recent data suggests.", "Sara Sharif was found with \"multiple and extensive injuries\" at a house in Woking, police disclose.", "How animals' accounts have been bringing Ukrainians hope and even practical advice at a time of war.", "Former US President Trump says that his lawyers will ask for a recusal of the judge on his election fraud case.", "One business owner says the school summer holiday makes up more than half of his turnover.", "England's wait for a first Netball World Cup title continues after Australia defeat the Roses to win the event for a 12th time.", "The immigration minister insists the barge at Portland is safe and will not be hit by more delays.", "The first storm to be named by the Met Office this year has brought \"unseasonably\" strong winds.", "The showbiz star and actor is \"thrilled\" to join the show as he approaches his 70th birthday.", "A mother and her one-year-old baby, from the Ivory Coast, are among the dead.", "The unverified footage was shared with the BBC by a source at Ukraine's security service.", "James Gallagher meets the scientists who work at one of the most secretive research bases in the UK.", "President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as a \"war crime\" and perpetrators as \"beasts\".", "The UCI world championship men's road race from Edinburgh to Glasgow is stopped for 50 minutes near the Carron Valley Reservoir.", "Promoting a Covid conspiracy theory, the Irish Light's editor accuses the mum of \"massive fraud\".", "Vincenzo La Porta has been on the run for 11 years but was tracked down to Greece by police.", "The actor says he never intended to cause offence after his post was accused of being antisemitic.", "The tech billionaires have also been going head to head over their rival platforms, X and Threads.", "The BBC's Ian Hamilton has had seven guide dogs who have all been good friends and a way of breaking down barriers.", "The ousted prime minister was given a three-year jail sentence in a case of corruption he denies.", "Hail formed 30cm drifts in Reutlingen requiring snowploughs to be deployed, at the height of summer.", "The disgraced musician was reportedly stabbed at HMP Wakefield, where he is serving a 29-year sentence.", "The Hollywood actor joined celebrity owners to watch Wrexham's defeat to MK Dons.", "Many people in Furnace believe they have been kept in the dark over who will arrive and when.", "Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in jail for raping a woman but has always maintained his innocence.", "Prosecutors ask for limits on what Donald Trump is allowed to publicly say about the election fraud case.", "The greeting cards firm is reportedly facing financial difficulties and its third rescue since 2012.", "England midfielder Keira Walsh could be available for their Women's World Cup last-16 tie with Nigeria on Monday if she \"recovers well\", says manager Sarina Wiegman.", "Companies who repeatedly employ illegal migrants face fines up to £60,000 per breach under new rules.", "Andy Malkinson, who cleared his name after 17 years in jail, tells the BBC more still needs to be done.", "The popular Crooked House at Himley, near Dudley, is completely destroyed by a blaze.", "Four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles wins the US Classic as she makes a triumphant return to gymnastics after a two-year break.", "Arsenal give their hopes of beating Manchester City to the Premier League title a psychological boost by winning the Community Shield on penalties.", "Six months ago today, Afraa was pulled from rubble, still attached to her umbilical cord and barely alive.", "The boy was struck on the eastbound carriageway of the M62 but the driver did not stop, police say.", "The US Border Patrol seized seven animals as a person was arrested in Fort Brown, Texas.", "Money for \"board and lodging\" in jail is sometimes deducted from former prisoners' compensation.", "Greta Gerwig becomes the first woman as a solo director of a film to reach the milestone.", "Members of the Balpa union have \"serious concerns\" over schedules put in place during Covid.", "Sweden progress to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup thanks to a penalty shootout win over the USA.", "The volume of rain over the past week has broken a 140-year-old record in China.", "Wales enjoy victory in the opening 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heard a 16-year-old boy robbed the Welsh baritone in front of his son in west London.", "World football's governing body opens disciplinary proceedings against Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales.", "Residents of a Perthshire village set up their own bus company after losing their local service.", "Six others have been wounded in the incident at Cook's Corner, a popular community hangout.", "England fans will be able to buy Mary Earps replica goalkeeper shirts after Nike say \"limited quantities\" would go on sale.", "Rishi Sunak apologises for \"inadvertent errors\" when providing information about financial interests.", "The number of asylum applications increased by almost a fifth in a year, the Home Office says.", "The former president turning himself in is unlike any of his previous cases.", "The review will examine the miscarriage of justice that saw an innocent man spend 17 years in jail.", "The star says broadcasters like the BBC are avoiding difficult subjects for fear of causing offence.", "Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy made a play for top dog - here's who came out ahead.", "The UK-first trial comes as accessing usual water sources becomes less reliable due to droughts.", "More than 150,000 signed a petition started by a teen urging Nike to sell goalie kit.", "The Pentagon dismisses reports that a surface-to-air missile brought down the Wagner boss's aircraft.", "The California-based company dominates the market for chips used in artificial intelligence systems.", "Two men are taken to hospital after being stabbed outside a nightclub in south London.", "Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.", "The museum announced last week that it had sacked a member of staff over items allegedly going missing.", "For decades Russia's Vladimir Putin relied on Yevgeny Prigozhin's services, until he staged a mutiny.", "The US Department of Justice says rocket firm discriminated against refugees and asylum seekers.", "The main opposition party lost more members but raised more money than in the previous year.", "Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, has been charged with the murder of Ashley Dale in Liverpool last August.", "The controversial discharge of treated nuclear water sparks an outcry and a seafood ban from China.", "The Russian president offered \"sincere condolences\" to the family of those killed in the crash.", "As eight top Republicans debate on stage in Milwaukee, Trump releases a cannily timed interview.", "The 18 year old leaked clips of the unreleased Grand Theft Auto 6 game while on police bail.", "Karl Porter's impression of a footballer's celebration has been shared widely on social media.", "Deaths of cyclists and other vulnerable road users could also incur longer sentences under new guidelines.", "Donald Trump's former lawyer faces 13 charges linked to efforts to overturn Mr Trump's 2020 election defeat.", "A report led by the judge, Patrick Robinson, says the UK should pay £18.8tn for its role in slavery.", "The former president surrendered at Fulton County jail and was released on $200,000 bond.", "The Peruvian bear was first seen in 1958 after featuring in the book A Bear Called Paddington.", "When he turned himself in at Fulton County Jail, the process wasn't the same as his last three arrests.", "Tens of thousands more 16-year-olds will need to retake their papers in England.", "After his failed rebellion, most Russians were probably surprised this hadn't happened sooner.", "As part of London Zoo's annual weigh-in, thousands of animals are checked for health and wellbeing.", "The sandwich maker has been bought by Roark Capital, ending six decades of family ownership.", "A woman says she learned about Sara Sharif's injuries from her daughter, who was in the same class.", "The Russian president says the Wagner group boss was a \"talented person\" who made \"serious mistakes\".", "Sir John Eliot Gardiner allegedly struck a singer in the 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Western Isles MP was suspended from the party's Westminster group last month.", "Erling Haaland scores twice as Premier League champions Manchester City start off their title defence with victory at Burnley.", "The prosecutor who brought criminal charges against Hunter Biden will get additional powers.", "Stephen Chitty travelled the length and breadth of the country on 117 public buses for charity.", "The items were all stolen from Italy in the late 1990s and some were worth millions of euros.", "Getting in contact with loved ones has been made difficult by poor mobile reception on the island.", "Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on a tanker rudder. Two weeks later they were in Brazil.", "Heavyweight Anthony Joshua spectacularly knocks out Robert Helenius with one punch in round seven, after boxing tentatively in the first half of the fight at London's O2 Arena.", "The music festival in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire is cancelled on the day it was supposed to open.", "Officials took cash and cryptocurrency and helped people to leave Ukraine, President Zelensky says.", "Co-hosts Australia reach the Women's World Cup semi-finals for the first time as they beat France in a dramatic penalty shoot-out at Brisbane Stadium", "A BBC investigation has found evidence that betting firms are sponsoring websites associated with the game.", "UK and French coastguards rescued 59 people but two may still be missing, authorities said.", "Footage has emerged appearing to show Kristin Harila’s team climbing over Mohammed Hassan on Pakistan's K2.", "The culture minister says he has spoken to the X boss about hosting the showdown as a charity event.", "PSNI staff share their concerns with the BBC that a data breach could increase the threat they face.", "The bridge that connects Russia to occupied Crimea has been attacked at least twice before.", "England must face Colombia in the Women's World Cup quarter-final without suspended top-scorer Lauren James, but they have a plan according to manager Sarina Wiegman.", "People try to reach towns devastated by wildfires, as questions mount over whether locals were warned fast enough.", "England captain Harry Kane makes his Bayern Munich debut only hours after completing an £86m move from Tottenham.", "The comedian has been working on a stand-up tour featuring his infamous spoof gangster.", "Andrea Gonzalez replaces anti-corruption crusader shot in the head by suspected Colombian hitmen.", "More heat pumps in homes and community energy projects are part of the plan to meet the target.", "A judge is sending the founder of bankrupt crypto firm FTX to jail while awaiting trial on fraud charges.", "England's Women's World Cup quarter-final against Colombia will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.", "Dramatic footage shows the final moments as the Lahaina resident fled his home.", "Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on a tanker rudder. Two weeks later they were in Brazil.", "England captain Harry Kane joins German champions Bayern Munich on a four-year deal, ending his record-breaking career at Tottenham.", "Landowners and climate campaigners are divided over proposals for a licensing scheme for grouse moors.", "How lockdown helped David Hamilton discover his love for macro photography in a local park.", "Vicky McClure and Jonny Owen reveal their wedding on his daughter's BBC Wales radio show.", "Police are working with international authorities to find the three people over the death in Woking.", "The death toll has risen to 67, the county said, as residents are permitted to return.", "Fast food supplier Beyond Meat has seen its sales fall - but is it cost, taste or nutrition that is putting people off?", "A police officer says his wife is no longer comfortable in Northern Ireland after the data breaches.", "Charred trees, burnt out cars and collapsed buildings lie among the ashes left by the wildfires.", "MP David Davis criticises the Home Office after concerns about Legionella on the Bibby Stockholm.", "Luton's first match back in the top flight for 31 years ends in defeat as Joao Pedro and Simon Adingra mark their debuts with a goal each in a comfortable win.", "About 20,000 members will take strike action on 26 August and 2 September over pay and conditions.", "England captain Owen Farrell could miss their World Cup opener against Argentina after being sent off in their warm-up win over Wales at Twickenham.", "The seven-time Super Bowl winner has \"made everyone's day,\" Birmingham City fans say.", "Amazon withheld some seller takings temporarily but is releasing them after some businesses came close to collapse.", "Satellite images and before-and-after pictures show extent of damage to town of Lahaina on Maui.", "England set up a Women's World Cup semi-final with co-hosts Australia as they come from behind against a dangerous Colombia side.", "Steve Liddiard says taking photos helps him manage anxiety and depression.", "Protesters gather in Niamey after a West African bloc approves intervention against coup leaders.", "At least 96 people have died and hundreds are unaccounted for days after fires broke out in Hawaii.", "The government told Amazon UK to explain how it intends to help sellers whose money it is withholding.", "Fifteen men boarded the government's new accommodation barge for asylum seekers in Dorset on Monday.", "Faheem Younis will serve at least 24 years in prison for killing Darren Davis over a drugs dispute.", "Mohamed Bazoum's doctor visits him in a basement prison amid fears for his health after military coup.", "A man wrongly convicted of rape welcomes the scrapping of a rule which deducted living costs from compensation paid to wrongly imprisoned people.", "Travis King, 23, dashed across the border from South Korea on 18 July while on a guided tour.", "Unlike his Indiana Jones character, Ford says he likes snakes and called the discovery \"humbling\".", "It comes as Kyiv said Russian strikes damaged grain facilities in a river port 260km southwest of Odesa.", "Fresh questions are raised over why Andy Malkinson was not granted an appeal as long ago as 2009.", "Recruiters, a manager and a workplace psychologist give their advice on how to negotiate for more money.", "Police can ask people to remove anything hiding their identity amid concern over balaclava wearers.", "Two men were taken to hospital after being stabbed outside a nightclub in south London.", "A study also finds ground around Lough Neagh has more carbon stored in it than previously thought.", "Thousands of residents crowded roads and airports as a wildfire threatens the city's outskirts.", "Ukrainian citizens have told the BBC they were punched and electrocuted before being allowed to leave Mariupol.", "Fans are getting ready to roar on England's history-making team ahead of the World Cup final on Sunday.", "Poppy wreaths and a number of flags were were placed on a bonfire in Londonderry.", "Town councillor Darren Brown has been charged with attempted murder and wounding with intent.", "Manchester City win the Super Cup for the first time by beating Sevilla 5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw.", "Cases cited include a victim being told a neighbour's 13-hour long party did not warrant action.", "Fans booed frontman Brandon Flowers for asking them to welcome a fan from neighbouring Russia.", "A huge fire broke out at a Buckinghamshire landfill site five years before the Black Country blaze.", "The team \"undoubtedly saved lives\" by using laces to make tourniquets after a crash near their pitch.", "People providing support to drug users speak out after three drug-related deaths in the north west.", "The glitch led to customers being able to withdraw more money than they held in their bank accounts.", "The original venue pulled out after complaints about Graham Linehan's views on transgender issues.", "The museum dismisses a member of staff and police are investigating after items go missing.", "The woman sued her ex-boyfriend for posting intimate photos of her online to \"publicly shame\" her.", "Two men were taken to hospital after being stabbed outside a nightclub in south London.", "More than 1,000 people are still feared to be missing as the death toll continues to climb.", "Almost all those on the boat, which was at sea for over a month, are thought to have been from Senegal.", "Fare increases in 2024 will again be held below the rate of inflation, says the government.", "England spoil co-hosts Australia's party by booking their place in the Women's World Cup final for the first time on a historic night in Sydney.", "The team's never-say-die attitude has captured a nation long known for its love of an underdog story.", "Sadiq Khan urges Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire County Councils to allow Ulez signage.", "Although the rate of price rises has dropped further, the Bank of England could take further action.", "The chief executive of Sama says it will no longer take work involving moderating harmful content.", "Marco Longhi wants to see better protection for heritage buildings after crooked pub's demolition.", "Ella Toone's family joined raucous celebrations of her stunning goal at The Union Arms in Tyldesley.", "Justin McLaughlin, 14, died in October 2021 after being stabbed in the heart by Daniel Haig in Glasgow.", "The actor denies pulling the trigger of the prop gun which went off, killing Halyna Hutchins in 2021.", "Former prisoners of war tell the BBC they were abused by Russian guards inside a detention facility.", "His trial for alleged election interference is set for 4 March, 2024 - a day ahead of Super Tuesday.", "Police are investigating the death of the 10-year-old, whose body was found in Woking last week.", "An Edinburgh arts venue says Graham Linehan's beliefs do not align with its values.", "The trailer for a new film attracts criticism from some who say it plays up to Jewish stereotypes.", "The 12.4% pay increase for 2023/24 comes after the medics had planned to take strike action.", "Two journalists say quotes used on a Jordan Peterson book jacket misrepresented their reviews.", "Andrew Malkinson says Greater Manchester Police's actions caused his \"wrongful conviction nightmare\".", "Hannah Ingram-Moore's company received money for an event, rather than the Captain Tom Foundation charity.", "Australia's clash with England at the Women's World Cup has left some families divided over who they will be supporting.", "Lauren Hemp was your player of the match as England reached the World Cup final, where they will face Spain.", "Andrea González aims to be vice-president in Ecuador after her party's presidential candidate was shot dead.", "It started as a night full of optimism in Sydney, with thousands desperate to see Australia create Women's World Cup history - but England had other ideas.", "Three Bulgarian nationals suspected of spying in the UK for Russia face trial for \"fake passports\".", "Helicopters spraying water battle to contain fires that began at a nature reserve on Tuesday.", "Senior legal figures say an inquiry is needed into the case of Andrew Malkinson who spent 17 years in prison.", "There are some short-term levers the government could pull but they all involve tough political choices.", "Sarina Wiegman says it's a 'fairytale' to lead England to the final of the World Cup and reach her fourth major tournament final overall.", "The 3,600 photographs offer a birds-eye view of the country as it changed during the war.", "Former prisoners of war tell the BBC they were abused by Russian guards inside a detention facility.", "Sarina Wiegman says it's a 'fairytale' to lead England to the final of the World Cup and reach her fourth major tournament final overall.", "Questions have been raised about the federal response to the fires, in which at least 101 people died.", "The prime minister says it is difficult for people to understand the scale of energy bill help.", "Overall top grades are nearly back to 2019 levels, but most university applicants get their first choice.", "Kosovare Asllani's stunning second-half strike seals victory for Sweden as they beat Australia to finish third at the Women's World Cup at Brisbane Stadium.", "Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors, BBC investigation finds.", "As their team wins its first-ever World Cup in Sydney, supporters of women's football celebrate back home.", "Karen and Lauren say their \"therapeutic\" way of life has become a \"living hell\".", "The US actor, won two Emmy Awards for his role in the TV series, had long-standing lung problems.", "Electronic screens were shut down after a hacker used one to run a pornographic film.", "The Welsh Guards play a musical tribute to the Lionesses at the Wellington Barracks in London.", "The Viking Cruises crew member was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the incident on Friday.", "NHS trust board was told there was 'no criminal activity pointing to any one individual', he says.", "BBC Sport speaks to players and coaches to get an insight into Sarina Wiegman as she prepares to lead England into the World Cup final.", "The nurse was found guilty of murdering one of their babies and attempting to murder the other the following day.", "Luisa Gonzalez faces a run-off in a race marred by violence, as voters choose to end Amazon oil drilling.", "Spain boss Jorge Vilda says his players are \"eternal\" and have a \"star on their chest forever\" after they defeat England to win the Fifa Women's World Cup.", "The unmanned craft spun out control before its planned landing on the Moon's south pole.", "US judges rule Wade Robson and James Safechuck can pursue lawsuits against the singer's companies.", "Canadians are using Facebook to share information on fire updates but Meta's news ban is a hurdle.", "The lead medical expert says hospital executives who failed to act should be investigated by the police.", "Festival-goers in the CBeebies Bedtime Story tent are treated to a reading by Kate Winslet.", "The news anchor remained calm and went to a commercial break.", "The gunman is shot dead by police, as Hollywood director Paul Feig pays tribute to the victim.", "Watch England goalkeeper Mary Earps saves Jennifer Hermoso's penalty in the Women's World Cup final.", "Family of 19th Century prime minister will visit the Caribbean to apologise for an ancestor's role in the slave trade.", "It's just the second time since 2015 that the UK has has seen two named storms in August.", "The couple found dead at a home outside Newry are believed to have died some time ago, the PSNI say.", "A Russian missile strike hits the heart of the northern city of Chernihiv, Ukraine says.", "A 50-year-old man is charged with possessing documents or records likely to be useful to terrorists.", "Surrey County Council says it is \"working tirelessly\" to understand what happened to Sara.", "Plans for a new performing arts school to match its successful London namesake are approved.", "Families of some of the babies attacked said a non-statutory inquiry was 'inadequate'.", "England fans are heartbroken after their one-nil defeat to jubilant Spain in the Women's World Cup final.", "Another shootout prompts a call to tackle gang violence ahead of Sunday's presidential vote.", "The Prince of Wales has led a flood of support for England after they narrowly lost the World Cup final.", "England goalkeeper Mary Earps is named your player of the match after saving a penalty in their 1-0 Women's World Cup final defeat by Spain.", "Two police teams are assigned to find Urfan Sharif in Pakistan, BBC News is told.", "As England prepare to face Spain in the Women's World Cup final, BBC sports editor Dan Roan looks at the impact of the Lionesses' success on, and off, the pitch.", "Kyiv is accused of attacking the transport hub in Kursk - and also the Rostov and Moscow regions.", "Officials restrict travel to Kelowna, a lakeside city of 132,000 people where smoke hangs on the water.", "The Women's World Cup final between England and Spain on Sunday will be shown live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.", "The storm is expected to hit Mexico's Pacific coast and then move towards southern California.", "As Canada's northern and western provinces battle historic wildfires, thousands have been displaced.", "The Lionesses will become the first England side since 1966 to win a senior final on the global stage if they defeat Spain at Stadium Australia in Sydney on Sunday.", "Letby has indicated she will not be in court for sentencing, sparking calls for more powers to force criminals to attend.", "Waitrose and John Lewis are offering free hot drinks under the \"Thanks a Latte\" initiative.", "From reaching the quarter-finals in 1995 to securing a spot in this year's final, we look back at the Lionesses' World Cup journey.", "The legendary car was left untouched for decades until a hurricane blew the roof off a Florida barn.", "England's wait to win a first Women's World Cup title goes on following defeat by Spain in the final on a heartbreaking evening in Sydney.", "A selection of striking images from our readers around the world.", "More than 50 years after a ban on women's football was lifted, England are in to the World Cup final - but how did we get here?", "Tearful fans still adore this England side after Women's World Cup final heartbreak.", "England's Mary Earps is named the best goalkeeper at the 2023 Women's World Cup and wins the Golden Glove award.", "The Women's World Cup has provided many memorable moments on the pitch. Here are some you may have missed off it.", "The Location, Location, Location host says his family is \"sad and shocked beyond all belief\".", "Katarina Johnson-Thompson claims a stunning heptathlon gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.", "England captain Millie Bright says the defeat to Spain in the Women's World Cup final is \"really hard to take\".", "In 1975, Y Hin Nie fled the Vietnamese army into the jungle. He didn't emerge until 1992.", "Two people had got into difficulties in the water at Clacton-on-Sea on Saturday afternoon.", "The storm lashed Southern California and is heading to north to the state of Nevada.", "England and Spain have both reached the Women's World Cup final for the first time. BBC Sport takes a look back at some of their key moments on the way.", "This has been the worst wildfire season in Canada's history, as shown in these maps and charts.", "One prostate cancer patient says he was forced to carry used \"nappies\" around in a backpack.", "Gen Tchiani said that Niger did not want a war but would defend itself against foreign intervention.", "England's wait to win a first Women's World Cup goes on after defeat by Spain in the 2023 final in Sydney.", "When the full-time whistle was blown in Sydney, it felt like the Lionesses' best opportunity to win a Women's World Cup had passed them by.", "Olga Carmona, who scored Spain's winner in the Women's World Cup final, is told after the game against England that her father has died.", "The building in Russia's capital was struck in a drone attack for the second time in two days", "The couple are helping fund online safety projects for young people, personally phoning some recipients.", "William Logue posted a number of sectarian and racist comments aimed at Fiona Donohoe on Twitter.", "Khawaja Asif's remarks reflect ingrained attitudes in Pakistan society, but women are pushing back.", "Hundreds of foreign nationals have already been evacuated from the country since a coup last week.", "Gemma Barton says only co-accused Craig Crouch could have injured their 10-month old son Jacob.", "A grain silo was damaged and fires broke out in Ukraine's Danube port of Izmail.", "He has been criminally indicted four times and will have a series of trials to attend in 2024.", "Family of a man who developed a massive bedsore say he died a \"horrible\" death.", "Dagmar Turner played the violin while surgeons were removing a brain tumour in January 2020.", "The social media star-turned boxer makes the allegations in a Netflix documentary about his life.", "The government says 14 Britons were on the French flight, with \"a very small number\" remaining in Niger.", "Jacob Crouch suffered at least 39 rib fractures and died from a \"vicious assault\".", "Three former dancers allege the singer contributed to creating a hostile work environment.", "The Strictly judge reveals he spent three days in hospital following the attack one Boxing Day.", "England's performance against China makes a statement to their rivals and dispels doubts around their Women's World Cup campaign.", "Inspectors say a manager admitted Ashleigh House was not safe and \"people needed to leave\".", "Residents were evacuated following an explosion in an alley off Hyndford Street", "The Greek PM encouraged tourists to return to the island as an \"act of generosity\" after wildfires.", "Swedish study found computer-aided detection could spot cancer at similar rate to two radiologists.", "The BBC tracked down UK companies using fake reviews to boost their visibility in Google results.", "The Fire Brigades Union has serious concerns about potential overcrowding and fire exits access.", "Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie split after 18 years, following \"meaningful and difficult conversations\".", "Jack Smith was a top war crimes prosecutor at The Hague before he began investigating Donald Trump.", "These accusations are the gravest ones yet levelled at the former president, says our North America editor.", "Here's a reminder of what happened on the historic day a mob stormed the Capitol.", "England's Lauren James did \"special things\" in their impressive 6-1 victory over China in the Women's World Cup, says manager Sarina Wiegman.", "Juvenile killer whales in the Atlantic are learning a dangerous game by copying adults.", "MrBeast is the most popular YouTuber in the world, with more than 172 million subscribers.", "A by-election will now be held after almost 12,000 of her constituents signed a recall petition.", "The ex-president claims he has \"never had so much support\" after being charged with plotting to overturn the 2020 election.", "The rating agency said it had noted a \"steady deterioration\" in governance over the last 20 years.", "Police have seized drugs and weapons following operations against drug gangs in three states.", "A jury has sentenced Robert Bowers for the 2018 attack - the deadliest antisemitic attack in the US.", "Commander John Holmes says he did not hesitate to go on his final rescue mission after 42 years.", "The singer is accused of using a recording on remixes of the popular single without permission.", "Police have shared footage of the arrest of Craig Crouch and Gemma Barton over their son's murder.", "The former US president is accused of four counts and \"prolific lies about election fraud\".", "The Met Office confirms July has been been one of the wettest on record - and there's more to come.", "Craig Crouch and Gemma Barton are on trial accused of murdering 10-month-old Jacob Crouch.", "New York Police are investigating the death of O'Shae Sibley, a gay man, as a possible hate crime.", "The PM says he listens to his daughters' concerns about climate change but 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have to stop its operations in a block of Yasuní National Park, one of the world's largest biodiversity hotspots.\n\nThe area is home to hundreds of species of birds, amphibians and reptiles as well as indigenous people like the Tagaeri and Taromenani - who live in self-isolation.\n\nThe outcome is a significant blow to outgoing President Guillermo Lasso, who argued revenues from oil drilling were crucial for Ecuador's economy.\n\nThe Waorani tribe is one of those opposed to oil drilling in the Yasuni reserve\n\nSome 100,000 police and soldiers were deployed to protect Sunday's first round of voting.\n\nThe snap election was called after Mr Lasso - a conservative former banker - dissolved parliament to avoid impeachment.\n\nSunday's voting was peaceful, much to the relief of Ecuadoreans fearful of the political violence that has taken hold of the country.\n\nHowever, there were several shooting incidents in the run-up to the vote.\n\nThe new president will take office on 26 October and will serve only 18 months - the remainder of Mr Lasso's term.\n\nMs Gonzalez, a 45-year-old protégé of leftist ex-President Rafael Correa, was seen as the firm favourite of the eight politicians vying for the presidency.\n\nBut the assassination of candidate Fernando Villavicencio on 9 August in the capital, Quito, made the election difficult to predict.\n\nMs Gonzalez's promises of a return of generous social programmes appeal to Ecuadoreans hit hard by an economic crisis.\n\nDaniel Noboa (centre) is seen by many voters as a pro-business candidate\n\nMr Correa still looms large in the country: he cut poverty while in power, but was then mired in corruption scandals and is now in exile in Belgium.\n\nThose who want an end to his influence in Ecuador will back pro-business candidate Daniel Noboa, aged 35.\n\nThe only thing that unites Ecuadoreans is their need for peace and security. Everyone is hoping for a peaceful campaign ahead of the run-off.\n\nMr Villavicencio, 59, was an outspoken journalist who had uncovered corruption and denounced links between organised crime and officials.\n\nSix men have been arrested in connection with his assassination, all of them Colombian citizens.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fernando Villavicencio was shot as he left a rally in Quito\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Warning: This article contains details of alleged abuse\n\nManchester United forward Mason Greenwood will leave the club by mutual agreement after a six-month internal investigation into his conduct.\n\nGreenwood was arrested in January 2022 following allegations surrounding material which was published online.\n\nCharges against the 21-year-old England international, including attempted rape and assault, were dropped on 2 February 2023.\n\nUnited said in a statement: \"All those involved, including Mason, recognise the difficulties with him recommencing his career at Manchester United.\n\n\"It has therefore been mutually agreed that it would be most appropriate for him to do so away from Old Trafford, and we will now work with Mason to achieve that outcome.\n\n\"Based on the evidence available to us, we have concluded that the material posted online did not provide a full picture and that Mason did not commit the offences in respect of which he was originally charged. That said, as Mason publicly acknowledges today, he has made mistakes which he is taking responsibility for.\"\n\nIn a statement, Greenwood accepted he had \"made mistakes\" and took his \"share of responsibility\", but added: \"I did not do the things I was accused of.\"\n\nHe said: \"Today's decision has been part of a collaborative process between Manchester United, my family and me. The best decision for us all is for me to continue my football career away from Old Trafford, where my presence will not be a distraction for the club. I thank the club for their support since I joined aged seven. There will always be a part of me which is United.\n\n\"I am enormously grateful to my family and all my loved ones for their support, and it is now for me to repay the trust those around me have shown. I intend to be a better footballer, but most importantly a good father, a better person, and to use my talents in a positive way on and off the pitch.\"\n\nGreenwood, whose contract at Old Trafford runs until 2025, could now be sold, or loaned to another club for the remainder of his contract.\n\nHe remains on full pay but will not return to training with United.\n\nWhat is the background?\n\nIn material published online, a man - alleged to be Greenwood - could be heard shouting at a woman to \"move your [expletive] legs up\". The woman responded that she did not want sex, and the man replied: \"I don't give a [expletive] what you want, you little [expletive].\"\n\nThe man then says: \"Push me again and watch what happens to you.\"\n\nGreenwood was charged in October 2022 with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Nike ended its sponsorship deal with Greenwood and Electronic Arts removed him from active squads on its Fifa 22 game.\n\nAfter the charges were dropped in February 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service said key witnesses had withdrawn and new material had come to light, meaning there was \"no longer a realistic prospect of conviction\".\n\nAt the time, a statement released on Greenwood's behalf said he was \"relieved\".\n\nUnited then started their own internal investigation in to the player, who was previously named one of the most valuable players in Europe's top five leagues.\n\nGreenwood has one England cap, and was sent home from the international camp during which he won it after an \"unacceptable\" breach of coronavirus quarantine guidelines in Iceland.\n\nIn a statement last week, the club said they had gathered \"extensive evidence and context not in the public domain\" and spoken to \"numerous people with direct involvement or knowledge of the case\".\n\nIn an open letter to fans on Monday, United chief executive Richard Arnold said the extra evidence included the alleged victim requesting the police to drop their investigation in April 2022, and the club receiving alternative explanations for the material that was posted online.\n\n\"While I am satisfied that Mason did not commit the acts he was charged with, Mason's accepted that he has made mistakes which he takes responsibility for,\" Arnold said.\n\nGreenwood said that: \"I understand that people will judge me because of what they have seen and heard... and I know people will think the worst. I was brought up to know that violence or abuse in any relationship is wrong.\"\n\nAn announcement of the investigation's results was expected before United's opening Premier League game of the season against Wolves on 14 August, but the decision was delayed amid fierce debate about Greenwood's potential reintegration at Old Trafford.\n\nWhat has happened in recent weeks?\n\nA group of female United supporters protested about his potential return outside Old Trafford before the Wolves game, and said they wanted the club to \"demonstrate a zero-tolerance approach\" towards violence against women.\n\nFemale Fans Against Greenwood's Return put out a lengthy statement to say Greenwood's reintegration would tell them \"as women, that we don't matter\".\n\nThe club said they wanted to consult with their women's team, some of whom were part of England's World Cup squad playing in Australia, before announcing a decision about Greenwood's future.\n\nUnited announced their decision while the Lionesses were flying home.\n\nIn a statement last Wednesday, United said the \"fact-finding phase\" of their investigation was complete, adding a decision about Greenwood's future - which rested with Arnold - was in the final stages.\n\nThe Athletic reported United's executive leadership team had been told in early August that Greenwood - who scored 35 goals in 129 games - would be returning to the club.\n\nHowever, United said the decision had not been made and was \"the subject of intensive internal deliberation\".\n\nThe following day, television presenter Rachel Riley said she would stop supporting United if Greenwood was allowed to stay.\n\nA number of MPs criticised the club when it was reported they were considering bringing Greenwood back, with Labour MP Apsana Begum saying such a decision would be \"a stain on your club that will be hard to forget\".\n\nAfter Monday's announcement, Female Fans Against Greenwood's Return said the club had \"done the right thing, for the wrong reasons\".\n\nWomen's Aid, a charity which works to end domestic abuse against women and children, said it welcomed United's decision.\n\n\"We know that today's news from Manchester United that Greenwood will be moving on will be a relief for many survivors of domestic and sexual abuse,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Football is loved by so many people worldwide, and players are often idolised by fans, so the way that alleged domestic abuse cases are treated in clubs has a huge impact on public understanding about what is accepted and tolerated in society.\"\n\nThe Manchester United Supporters Trust said: \"Since the deeply distressing initial allegations surfaced, this episode has been allowed to drag out for far too long as the club has carried out an investigative process.\n\n\"Moreover, the complete lack of consultation with fans even with respect to process added fuel to the fire. Whilst the speculation and discussion in the last couple of weeks has been profoundly unhelpful and reflected very poorly on the club, it is clear that they have in the end reached the right decision.\n\n\"We are relieved that this matter can now be put behind us and will be working with the club to ensure lessons have been learned from this very troubling episode.\"\n\nIn August 2022, the Premier League introduced mandatory sexual consent training for players and staff, six months after a coalition of women's groups sent an open letter to the Football Association and Premier League urging them \"to confront a culture of gender-based violence\".\n\nOn Monday, two groups from that coalition - The Three Hijabis and the End Violence Against Women Coalition - reiterated their call and said Greenwood's United exit was the \"right outcome\".\n\n\"Solely focusing on the actions of individual players allows football clubs and institutions to evade accountability for the role they play in maintaining a culture of silence and impunity,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"This is a structural issue that football must take responsibility for.\"\n\n\"Now that we have concluded and announced the outcome of the club's investigation into Mason Greenwood, I want to be direct and transparent with our fans about the process and the reasons for our decision.\n\n\"This was an internal disciplinary investigation between employer and employee which would ordinarily take place outside of the public eye. Given the public nature of the allegations and Mason's profile, I acknowledge that this was not an ordinary situation, but I felt it important that we still follow due process and, so far as possible, avoid media comment until I had made a definitive decision.\n\n\"When audio footage and imagery was posted online in January 2022, my feelings were of shock and concern for the alleged victim. Her welfare, wishes and perspective have been central to the club's approach ever since, as have the club's standards and values. While we immediately concluded that Mason should be suspended pending investigation, we were also conscious of our duty of care towards him and the importance of making a decision based on full information. Until February this year, this was a matter for the police and the Crown Prosecution Service. It was only when charges were dropped that the club discussed the allegations with Mason and others involved in the case.\n\n\"Our investigation sought to collate as much evidence as possible to establish facts and context. This was not a quick or straightforward process for a variety of reasons. It was essential for us to respect the rights and wishes of the alleged victim. Also, we have limited powers of investigation which meant we were reliant on third-party co-operation. Timings have also been influenced by my desire to minimise the impact of the investigation on our men's and women's teams, as well as our Lionesses. I acknowledge that this gave more time for speculation, but the alternative would have been to compromise due process or create untimely disruption.\n\n\"While we were unable to access certain evidence for reasons we respect, the evidence we did collate led us to conclude that Mason did not commit the acts he was charged with. I am restricted as to what I can say for legal reasons, including the alleged victim's ongoing right to anonymity, but I am able to share the following with you which should give you some insight into the complexity of this case.\n• None The alleged victim requested the police to drop their investigation in April 2022.\n• None We were provided with alternative explanations for the audio recording, which was a short excerpt from a much longer recording, and for the images posted online.\n• None The alleged victim's family participated in the process and were given the opportunity to review and correct our factual findings.\n\n\"Last week the media reported that we had decided to reintegrate Mason and that elements of a plan to do so had been leaked to them. Reintegration was one of the outcomes we considered and planned for. For context, over the course of the past six months several outcomes have been contemplated and planned for, and my view has evolved as our process progressed. While the ultimate decision rested with me, I was taking various factors and views into account right up until the point of finalising my decision.\n\n\"While I am satisfied that Mason did not commit the acts he was charged with, Mason's accepted that he has made mistakes which he takes responsibility for. I am also mindful of the challenge that Mason would face rebuilding his career and raising a baby together with his partner in the harsh spotlight of Manchester United. Further, this case has provoked strong opinions, and it is my responsibility to minimise any distraction to the unity we are seeking within the club.\n\n\"Although we have decided that Mason will seek to rebuild his career away from Manchester United, that does not signal the end of this matter. The club will continue to offer its support both to the alleged victim and Mason to help them rebuild and move forward positively with their lives.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nZharnel Hughes became the first British man to make the 100m podium at a World Championships for 20 years by claiming bronze as Noah Lyles triumphed.\n\nThe 28-year-old Briton clocked 9.88 seconds - the same time as Botswana's silver medallist Letsile Tebogo in a wide-open men's final.\n\nAmerican Lyles took gold in 9.83 in Budapest.\n\nIt is a first individual global medal for Hughes, who broke two long-standing British sprint records this season.\n\nHis medal followed on from Katarina Johnson-Thompson's heptathlon gold on Sunday and is Britain's third of the championships.\n\nEuropean 200m champion Hughes has displayed his global medal credentials throughout the best season of his career, smashing Linford Christie's 30-year 100m mark by running 9.83.\n\nThat was a time matched this year only by entertainer Lyles in claiming a popular victory on Sunday night.\n\nLyles had raised expectations by predicting he would run 9.65 in the 100m before breaking Usain Bolt's 200m world record by clocking 19.10.\n\nWhile not quite reaching that ambitious target, Lyles - the reigning 200m champion - showed he will be tough to beat as he targets a sprint treble including 4x100m gold.\n\n\"I came here for three golds,\" he said. \"I've ticked off one, others are coming. The 100m was the hardest one. I will have fun with the event I love now.\"\n\nJamaican 22-year-old Oblique Seville narrowly missed out on a medal as he also crossed the line in 9.88 while 2022 champion Fred Kerley suffered a shock semi-final exit.\n\nBritain's Eugene Amo-Dadzie's fourth-place semi-final finish in 10.03 secs was not enough to see him qualify, while Reece Prescod (10.26) also failed to make the final.\n\nHughes, having also run 19.73 to break John Regis' 200m record in July, will join Lyles in beginning his bid for a 200m medal in Wednesday's heats.\n\nIn the form of his life, Hughes travelled to Hungary prepared to set the record straight and execute on a major stage.\n\nThe Briton failed to make last year's final in Eugene, 12 months on from false-starting in the Olympic final in Tokyo.\n\nBut he has gone from strength to strength in 2023 as he continues to train in Jamaica under the guidance of Glen Mills, the coach who helped sprinting legend Bolt achieve eight Olympic golds.\n\nComparisons have been drawn with Bolt given the height of the two athletes that makes both relatively slow starters before they are able to get upright and into their stride.\n\nHughes recovered well in his semi-final to progress in second place behind American Christian Coleman - but there were fears a similar slow start could cost the Briton in the final.\n\nHowever, crucially, he was able to improve when it mattered most - momentarily believing he had even got the better of Lyles, such was the tight nature of the race.\n\nIt is a breakthrough achievement nonetheless for Hughes, whose attention will soon turn to matching Regis by claiming a 200m medal.\n\nFive British men and women progressed to their respective 1500m finals, including British team captain Laura Muir.\n\nIn the women's event, Muir was fourth in a season's best time of three minutes 56.36 seconds and Katie Snowden fifth in a personal best 3:56.72 in their heat, won by reigning champion Faith Kipyegon (3:55.14).\n\nMelissa Courtney-Bryant was fifth in her heat in 4:02.79.\n\nIn the men's 1500m, Josh Kerr (3:35.14) crossed the line behind 2022 silver medallist Jakob Ingebrigtsen (3:34.98) but Elliot Giles (3:39.05) was unable to progress.\n\nNeil Gourley scraped through in the sixth and final spot in his heat (3:32.97).\n\nIn Sunday's morning session, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita safely qualified from their 100m heats.\n\nAsher-Smith, the 2019 200m champion and six-time world medallist, clocked 11.04 behind American Brittany Brown (11.01) to reach Monday's semi-finals.\n\nNeita ran 11.03 to follow expected medal contender Julian Alfred (10.99) over the line but team-mate Imani-Lara Lansiquot, who ran under protest after a false start, later had her disqualification confirmed.\n\nFive-time champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, Sha'Carri Richardson and Marie-Josee Ta Lou each progressed with victory in their heats in a wide-open event.\n\nMatthew Hudson-Smith was second to 400m world record holder Wayde van Niekerk in a season-best time of 44.69, with South Africa's two-time champion qualifying second fastest overall (44.57) for the semi-finals.\n\nIn the women's event, Victoria Ohuruogu and Ama Pipi both progressed with second-place finishes in their heats, clocking 50.60 and 50.81 respectively.\n\nTade Ojora won his men's 110m hurdles heat in 13.32, qualifying fifth-fastest for the semi-finals.\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Behind the scenes in London's most expensive hotel: It costs up to £27k a night and no request is too big", "Hollywood star Kate Winslet surprised festival-goers on the final day of Camp Bestival in the West Midlands.\n\nThe British actress treated crowds in the CBeebies Bedtime Story tent to an intimate reading of children's classic Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey on Sunday.\n\nAlso on day three of the festival, DJ Sara Cox judged a wildlife-themed fancy dress competition.\n\nThe event took place at Weston Park on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border.\n\nA roller disco, yoga sessions, a craft village and wild swimming were among the activities to enjoy.\n\nThe star surprised the crowds in the CBeebies Bedtime Story tent\n\nThe actress read an extract of children's classic Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey\n\nChildren and their families dressed up as an array of animals for the competition\n\nCamp Bestival took place at Weston Park for the second year\n\nFestival-goers dressed up for the wildlife themed competition\n\nThis Morning star Josie Gibson then judged the Beard and Moustache competition\n\nThe presenter was also on hand to judge the Pimp My Ride contest\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A US shop owner was shot dead after a dispute over a Pride flag displayed outside her business, police say.\n\nLaura Ann Carleton, 66, was found with a bullet wound at her Mag Pi shop in Cedar Glen, California, on Friday.\n\nA suspect - who fled the scene on foot - was killed by police when found nearby, allegedly still armed.\n\nMs Carleton was described as a \"wonderful friend\" by Hollywood director Paul Feig, who posted an image of them together.\n\nThe suspect made \"disparaging remarks\" about the rainbow flag before shooting the victim, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nOfficers then located the suspect, armed with a handgun, the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department said.\n\nAt this point, \"a lethal force encounter occurred and the suspect was pronounced deceased\".\n\nOfficials on Monday identified the suspect as Travis Ikeguchi, 27.\n\nFeig - known for films such as Bridesmaids as well as the Freaks and Geeks TV series - said his friend had been shot after confronting the suspect for ripping down the flag.\n\nIn an Instagram post, he said he was \"devastated\" for Ms Carleton's family and the LGBTQ+ community, \"for whom Lauri was such a true ally\".\n\n\"This intolerance has to end,\" he wrote. \"Anyone using hateful language against the LGBTQ+ community has to realise their words matter, that their words can inspire violence against innocent loving people.\"\n\nLocal group Lake Arrowhead LGBT said the incident marked a \"very sad day\" for the area and that Ms Carleton, a \"friend and supporter\", would be \"truly missed\".\n\nShe was \"murdered defending her LGBTQ+ Pride flags in front of her store\", the group wrote in its own Instagram post.\n\n\"Lauri did not identify as LGBTQ+, but spent her time helping & advocating for everyone in the community.\"", "Follow coverage of the Fifa Women's World Cup across BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds & the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "The leader of drugs gang who recruited a vulnerable 15-year-old boy in a phone call from prison has been sentenced to nine years in jail.\n\nDwayde Stock, 28, from Newport was recorded speaking to the teenager on a prison phone while he was on remand in April 2022.\n\nFive other members of the Newport-based \"county lines\" drugs gang were jailed.\n\nSwansea Crown Court heard how the group exploited the boy to sell drugs to teenagers in Neath.\n\nStock and two other men from Newport; David Allen, 30, and Justin Henshall, 36, pleaded guilty to trafficking a child and conspiracy to supply a class A drug.\n\nAllen was sentenced to eight years and three months in prison, while Henshall was given a jail term of six years and eight months.\n\nStock was recorded speaking on a prison phone to Allen, the court was told, describing him as \"the man on the outside\" helping to recruit young boys to sell class A drugs to customers in Neath.\n\nDuring the conversation Allen puts the young boy on the phone, with Stock calling him \"juve\", indicating that he knows the boy is a juvenile.\n\nMobile phone records indicate the boy travelled between Neath and Newport for the gang, with members contacting him 324 times by phone in less than six months.\n\nDavid Allen (left) and Justin Henshall were jailed for drugs and modern slavery offences\n\nEmma Harris, prosecuting, told the court the boy was \"specifically targeted by the group due to his vulnerabilities and due to the belief which the defendants had that he could be easily controlled and sent to work on their behalf\".\n\nIn another recorded prison call from March of 2022, Stock discusses the ethnicity of boys being recruited as drug runners in Neath with Henshall.\n\nIn the conversation Henshall says he \"struggling to find people to go up the roads\" explaining how it would be \"no good for black people\" and how they need a \"young white boy to go up there\".\n\nStock agrees, saying how he knows \"this kid\" who \"owes me 12 bills\".\n\nMs Harris said the exchanges \"demonstrated that the defendants were aware that the youths they were recruiting would need to be inconspicuous within the area they were operating.\"\n\nThree other gang members were sentenced for conspiracy to supply a class A drugs:\n\nKenzie Booth, 19, form Newport and Ruth Lawrence, 38, from Tonypandy in Rhondda Cynon Taf also admitted the same charge.\n\nThey are due to be sentenced next month after pre-sentence reports are completed.\n\nLouisa Robertson from CPS Cymru-Wales, said modern slavery legislation was used to \"destroy a county lines network and protect a teenage boy\".\n\n\"These criminals targeted young males who had an air of vulnerability and could be manipulated and taken advantage of as drug runners,\" she said.\n\n\"The prosecution case included mobile phone evidence which included messages showing the hierarchy of the group and the roles each defendant played within the operation.\"", "Asake hadn't performed in the UK since the crush in Brixton in December\n\nAsake started his first UK gig since two people were killed in a crush at one of his concerts with a three-minute tribute video.\n\nRebecca Ikumelo and Gaby Hutchinson died after a crowd surge outside the O2 Academy Brixton in December last year.\n\nAfrobeats star Asake paid tribute to the pair with a performance from a poet on his London return on Sunday night.\n\nThe video ended with an appeal for anyone who had any information about the crush to get in touch with police.\n\nRebecca, 33, and security guard Gaby, 23, were killed in the crush at Asake's gig on 15 December.\n\nThe Met Police investigation is still ongoing and the south London venue has been closed ever since, with its licence under review by Lambeth Council.\n\nOfficers are also still appealing for information and say a 21-year-old woman remains in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nMum-of-two Rebecca Ikumelo died in hospital from her injuries after the crush\n\nAsake kept fans waiting on Sunday night, arriving an hour and 20 minutes late for the one-off show at the O2 Arena.\n\nBut before he arrived on stage at the 20,000 capacity venue, the show started with a three-minute tribute poem to Rebecca and Gaby.\n\nThe recording, written and performed by poet Aina More, said \"we can not forget\" what happened at Brixton.\n\n\"Some came out that night and ain't returned, we need to hold this moment,\" she said.\n\nThe poem, underscored with piano music, was mixed with news coverage of the crush on a screen.\n\n\"Up at 02:30 thinking Gaby Hutchinson could be me,\" Aine said in the poem.\n\n\"Rest well and be free, rest in peace Rebecca, our sister.\"\n\nDuring the performance, dancers dressed in white appeared on stage carrying bunches of white flowers.\n\nThe crowd cheered at the mention of the victims' names and again at the end of the tribute.\n\nGaby, pictured right, had been working as a security dog handler on the night of the gig\n\nPolice officers were also handing out flyers outside the gig, encouraging witnesses to come forward.\n\nRachel Otto was at the Brixton gig and returned to see Asake on Sunday.\n\n\"After going to the Brixton event that was tragic, I just wanted to come back and see the artist that I love,\" she tells BBC Newsbeat.\n\nRachel knew one of the victim's family and says she had the family on her mind at the concert.\n\n\"It's bittersweet,\" she says.\n\n\"It's just a reminder for the family that a life was lost.\"\n\nRachel Otto was at the Brixton gig and returned to see Asake on Sunday\n\nRachel hopes what happened in Brixton will lead to a change in safety at gigs.\n\nShe says it's \"very frustrating to see that it's still taken a long time to for them [police] to conclude that investigation\".\n\n\"I hope it's a learning curve for everybody.\"\n\nToye was also at the Brixton gig and says \"it's hard to think back to it\".\n\n\"I'm very sad about the events that happened there.\"\n\nToye was at both of Asake's London gigs and had felt nervous about returning\n\nToye was nervous about coming to see Asake again but says the security was better than at Brixton which reassured him.\n\n\"The organisation with that gig, it wasn't good at all,\" he says.\n\n\"But I see the security here is doing it properly.\"\n\nHe says it's important that fans can still celebrate Afrobeats music after the tragedy.\n\n\"Afrobeats is here to stay, it's not a passing thing so this could be the start of something really new.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists say the new images offer never-before-seen details\n\nNew images of a dying star have revealed structures that no previous telescope could detect, according to astronomers.\n\nThe pictures are of a dying star at the centre of the Ring Nebula, 2,600 light years from earth.\n\nAn international team of scientists, led by Cardiff University researchers, say they reveal a triple-star system.\n\nThe pictures show about 20,000 dust clouds, known as globules, in the nebula.\n\nDr Roger Wesson, a research associate at Cardiff University who led the analysis, said: \"We can now see the subtle influence of a third, previously unknown star in the system, alongside a much more distant companion which was identified in 2021.\"\n\nThe images were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) between July and August last year, by a team of astronomers led by Professor Mike Barlow of University College London.\n\nPlanetary nebulae such as the Ring form when stars with up to about eight times the mass of our sun exhaust the hydrogen in their cores and eject their outer layers.\n\nAs the source of much of the carbon and nitrogen in the universe, the way in which these stars evolve and die is crucial to understanding the origin of these elements, without which life on earth could not have developed.\n\nThe pictures were taken by the six-metre diameter James Webb Space Telescope\n\nDr Wesson added: \"Planetary nebulae were once thought of as very simple objects, roughly spherical and with a single star at their centre.\n\n\"Hubble showed that they were much more complicated than that, and with these latest images JWST is revealing yet more intricate detail in these objects.\"\n\nLaunched in December 2021, JWST is an international programme led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.\n\nIt will enable astronomers worldwide to study every phase in the history of our universe.\n\nDr Mikako Matsuura added: \"JWST's six-metre diameter telescope is three times larger than Hubble's and also operates two infrared cameras, which can detect longer wavelengths than are visible to the human eye or indeed Hubble.\n\n\"These telescope and infrared detection innovations mean many of the Ring's details revealed in these latest JWST images were not previously visible to astronomers.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nKatarina Johnson-Thompson is back on top of the world and Zharnel Hughes earned a breakthrough 100m bronze on a stellar night for GB in Budapest.\n\nJohnson-Thompson won her second heptathlon world title in dramatic circumstances, defending a narrow lead over American favourite Anna Hall in a gripping conclusion over 800m.\n\nMeanwhile, Hughes finished behind Noah Lyles and Letsile Tebogo in a tight 100m final to clinch his first individual global medal.\n\nThe two successes arrived little over an hour apart at the World Championships on Sunday as both athletes completed their own redemption stories.\n\n\"It's the best day of my life,\" said Johnson-Thompson, who ran an 800m personal best to finish 20 points ahead of race winner Hall.\n\n\"It's more special [than winning in Doha in 2019]. I can't believe it. It's like being in a dream.\n\n\"I have been thinking about this for months and months. Nobody else could see the vision apart from me and my team. I'm just so happy that it's come true.\"\n\nHughes, who clocked 9.88 seconds to win bronze, said: \"My heart is full with emotions, I'm just super grateful.\n\n\"I honestly wanted a gold medal but hey, leaving this championship with a medal around my neck - I'm so grateful for it.\"\n\nTheir achievements took Great Britain's medal tally to three at these World Championships, following Saturday's mixed 4x400m relay silver.\n\n'All I wanted was a shot at gold'\n\nIt has been a long and arduous journey for Johnson-Thompson to reclaim the world title she won in Doha in 2019.\n\nDuring the four years since that first global triumph she has had to overcome a career-threatening Achilles rupture, the devastation of a mid-competition injury at the Tokyo Olympics and, perhaps most challenging of all, the doubt and loss of love for her sport which followed.\n\nLast year's disappointing eighth-placed finish at the Worlds in Eugene proved the turning point.\n\nThis gold signalled the completion of a remarkable turnaround in her career, the 30-year-old greeting the confirmation of her marginal victory on the big screen with a beaming smile of disbelief.\n\n\"In Tokyo I still thought I had a chance, I still thought I could have medalled. In Eugene I tried my best and I wasn't getting anywhere,\" Johnson-Thompson said.\n\n\"Eugene was the worst of me. It was such a horrible experience to be in the competition but not competing for the medals.\n\n\"I had no nerves coming into the 800m. When my name was called I could see the montages, I saw my 2019 self. All I wanted was a shot at gold.\n\n\"I committed to the vision and committed to trying again. I committed to getting my heart broken - and this time I didn't. It's all come good and I'm so happy.\"\n\nJohnson-Thompson's 43-point lead over Hall heading in to the decisive 800m equated to an advantage of about two-and-a-half seconds, setting up a nail-biting finale.\n\nBut she produced a personal best - having also done so in the javelin - of two minutes 05.63 seconds to finish within 1.54 secs of the talented 22-year-old American, taking overall victory by 20 points.\n\n\"It was incredible wasn't it?\" three-time world champion Jessica Ennis-Hill said on BBC TV.\n\n\"No-one wrote her off, but we didn't expect her to come away [as] best in the world again.\"\n\nThat Johnson-Thompson could manage that effort after two intense days of competition spoke volumes of her current form and fitness, with the Paris Games less than 12 months away.\n\nDenise Lewis, who won Olympic heptathlon gold in 2000, said: \"I am incredibly happy for Kat and her team. You don't become a bad athlete overnight. Her body had let her down and now she's fit.\n\n\"She will feel relieved to be back on top of the world. When she is healthy, she's going to deliver. She had unfinished business.\"\n\nThis means the world to me - Hughes\n\nFor Hughes, Sunday's showdown with the world's fastest men provided him the opportunity to deliver in a major final.\n\nThe 28-year-old's Olympic ambitions were abruptly ended by a false start in the Tokyo final two years ago, while he failed to qualify from his Worlds semi-final in 2022.\n\nHughes admitted a false start by South African Akani Simbine in his semi-final here caused him to start cautiously before he powered down the home straight to set up a chance at a medal.\n\n\"I just needed to execute my race. In the semi-finals I got a great start but when we had the false start it made me sit in my blocks a bit,\" said Hughes.\n\n\"I just needed to trust myself. I knew I had the speed and I just needed to stay in the mix. Once I was in the mix I just needed to power through and everything would take care of itself.\"\n\nHughes momentarily believed he had beaten American Lyles, who won in 9.83 to match the Briton's world-leading time, in a close finish to a wide-open event.\n\n\"I didn't know Tebogo was up there. When I saw the results and I saw Tebogo's name I thought 'where did he come from' but, nevertheless, I'm up there as well. This means the world to me.\"\n\nThere are further opportunities to come, with Hughes beginning his 200m campaign in Wednesday's heats before joining GB's bid for a 4x100m relay medal.\n\n\"The 200m is my baby, I love the 200m,\" Hughes said. \"For me, I'm just going to go back now and recover, get some good sleep tonight and go again.\"\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Behind the scenes in London's most expensive hotel: It costs up to £27k a night and no request is too big", "Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has been criticised after kissing Jenni Hermoso on the lips during Spain's Women's World Cup victory ceremony. The RFEF stated that Hermoso said it was a \"natural gesture of affection\". Rubiales has since apologised for his actions.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Nurse Lucy Letby has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.\n\nShe was found guilty of murdering seven babies on a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. She was also convicted of trying to kill six other infants.\n\nTwo of the attempted murder charges related to the same baby.\n\nLetby was found not guilty of two attempted murder charges and the jury was undecided on further attempted murder charges relating to four babies.", "Shefford Town Council said Nadine Dorries had an \"aversion to attending local events\" in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency\n\nA second council has urged Nadine Dorries to immediately step down as Tory MP for Mid Bedfordshire, saying she had \"abandoned the local area\".\n\nShefford Town Council has written to Ms Dorries accusing her of having \"scant interest\" in her constituency.\n\nIn July, Flitwick Town Council also urged the former minister to resign.\n\nMs Dorries announced in June she would quit after she failed to receive a peerage, but she has yet to formally do so. She has been contacted for comment.\n\n\"Nine weeks have now passed and you have not resigned,\" said Shefford Town Council in a letter, which it has also published on X (formerly Twitter).\n\nShefford's mayor highlighted that Ms Dorries' constituency office was now a dance studio\n\nThe town's mayor, Ken Pollard, told the BBC her constituency office in Shefford closed down a few years ago and was now a dance studio.\n\n\"It got to the point where it was difficult to contact Nadine on any level,\" he said.\n\nThe council also raised questions about Ms Dorries's commitment to her role as MP, as she had not spoken in the Commons since July 2022 and last voted in April.\n\nThe letter, signed by Mr Pollard, raised the \"town's concerns and frustration\" at the \"continuing lack of representation for the people of Mid Bedfordshire\".\n\nIt also accused Ms Dorries of an \"aversion to attending local events or services\".\n\n\"In her early years she was very much a constituency MP,\" Mr Pollard told the BBC. \"But over the years it has been more and more difficult to contact Nadine.\"\n\n\"Effectively since lockdown ended, we haven't had representation at government level,\" he added.\n\nShefford mayor Ken Pollard said there was a \"strong feeling\" among local politicians that Ms Dorries should resign\n\nMr Pollard told the BBC that Shefford and Flitwick were not alone in wanting Ms Dorries to quit and allow for a by-election.\n\n\"There is a very strong feeling amongst the councils within Mid Bedfordshire that she should follow through on her resignation,\" he said.\n\nIt had become a joke among local politicians, said Mr Pollard.\n\n\"Mayors often get invited to the same events and Nadine does come up. It's a little bit of a joke between us.\n\n\"'Has anyone seen Nadine recently?' The answer is always 'no', or 'Nadine who?'.\"\n\nShefford Town Council said the move was not political and it was acting \"regardless of party politics\".\n\n\"Our residents desperately need effective representation now,\" it said.\n\nChris Steeples said he had \"had enough\" of his MP Nadine Dorries\n\nFormer Shefford town councillor Chris Steeples agreed with the letter.\n\n\"I've had enough of her,\" he said. \"She needs to be doing this job. Not every other job that she's doing.\n\n\"It's not appropriate for her to be sitting in the background saying nothing, doing nothing, being nowhere and getting paid for it,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Sir Chris Bryant has proposed tabling a motion in Parliament requiring an MP to attend the Commons.\n\nHe suggested that if they failed to do so they could be found in contempt and face suspension and a by-election.\n\nMs Dorries was a health minister and then secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nParliament's summer recess is due to end at the start of September.\n\nListen to BBC Three Counties' latest Mid Bedfordshire by-election podcast with Amy Holmes here.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Metropolitan Police is to take no further action after investigating allegations involving a charity set up by King Charles as Prince of Wales.\n\nThe decision followed prosecutors' advice and consideration of information so far received, the force said.\n\nThe investigation into the Prince's Foundation began last year after media reports a Saudi donor was allegedly offered help to receive an honour.\n\nNo-one was arrested or charged over the course of the investigation.\n\nScotland Yard said in a statement on Monday that it had concluded an investigation into allegations of offences under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) act 1925.\n\n\"As part of the investigation the SET [Special Enquiry Team] obtained court production orders, spoke with a number of witnesses and reviewed in excess of 200 documents,\" the statement added.\n\nA file of evidence was then passed to the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\n\"With the benefit of the CPS's early investigative advice, and after careful consideration of the information received as a result of the investigation to date, the Met has concluded that no further action will be taken in this matter,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Should any new information or evidence come to light that requires further assessment, this will be carried out by the Met's SET. Nobody has been arrested or charged during the course of this investigation.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace said it had noted the decision but that all other enquiries were a matter for the Prince's Foundation.\n\nAnti-monarchy campaign group Republic described the decision as \"appalling\".\n\nThe group made a formal complaint to Met detectives about Charles and former close confidant Michael Fawcett in September 2021, following newspaper stories.\n\nMr Fawcett, who has since resigned as chief executive of The Prince's Foundation, had been accused of promising to help Saudi billionaire Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz to secure a knighthood and in getting citizenship.\n\nMr Mahfouz received an honorary CBE in late 2016. It was claimed he had made donations to restoration projects of interest to Prince Charles.\n\nThere are no suggestions of any wrongdoing by Mr Mahfouz.\n\nIn September, police said a man aged in his 50s and a man in his 40s had been spoken to under caution on 6 September, two days before the Queen died and Charles became King.\n\nIt is understood the King was not spoken to by police, nor was he requested to do so.\n\nWhen the investigation was opened in February, a spokesperson for Charles at Clarence House said the then Prince of Wales had \"no knowledge of the alleged offer of honours or British citizenship on the basis of donation to his charities\".\n\nA spokesperson for The Prince's Foundation said: \"The Prince's Foundation has noted the decision of the Metropolitan Police.\n\n\"Following the conclusion of its own independent investigation and governance review last year, the charity is moving forward with a continued focus on delivering the education and training programmes for which it has been established.\"\n• None File on Charles charity honours probe sent to CPS\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Families of the babies who were murdered and attacked by Lucy Letby have told Manchester Crown Court of the horrific impact the serial killer has had on their lives.\n\nThe former nurse will spend the rest of her life in prison, with no chance of parole, for murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others. Their parents gave victim impact statements before she was sentenced. Some of the surviving babies have been left with disabilities, they said.\n\nIn court, families of the babies sat in the public gallery, some crying quietly. Members of the jury were also visibly upset as they listened to the statements. Letby refused to attend court to hear the suffering she had caused.\n\nReporting restrictions protect the identities of the babies and their families, so they are referred to as babies A to P.\n\nWarning: This article contains details some readers may find upsetting\n\n\"You thought it was your right to play God with our children's lives.\"\n\nThe twins were attacked in June 2015 - Baby A was murdered on 8 June and Letby attempted to kill his sister 28 hours later.\n\n\"Our minds are so traumatised it won't let us remember the night you killed our child,\" their mother said in a statement. \"After losing (Baby A) we were riddled with fear for his sister (Baby B). We are so thankful that we had that fear for her, as it saved her life... there was always a member of our family at her side watching.\"\n\n\"Little did we know you were waiting for us to leave so you could attack,\" she added.\n\n\"You thought you could enter our lives and turn it upside down but you will never win. We hope you live a very long life and spend every day suffering for what you've done.\"\n\n\"Knowing his murderer was watching us was like something out of a horror story.\"\n\nThe mother of Baby C remembered the \"overwhelming wave of emotion\" she felt when she first held Baby C, whom she called \"my tiny feisty boy\". He was murdered on 14 June, 2015.\n\nShe wore her first-born's hand and footprints around her neck after his death. But when Letby was arrested she felt \"so conflicted\" - the nurse had been the one to take those prints.\n\nShe cried as she spoke of the impact Letby has had on her family: \"There is no sentence that will ever compare to the excruciating agony that we have suffered as a consequence of your actions.\"\n\n\"I was desperate to feel her, smell her, cuddle her.\"\n\nThe mother of Baby D held a toy rabbit as she spoke from the witness box. After her daughter was murdered on 22 June 2015, she pushed for answers, but she was initially told it was not a police matter.\n\n\"I missed (Baby D) so much. I was desperate to feel her, smell her, cuddle her. I was desperate to keep her safe.\"\n\nShe said she lost confidence \"as a woman, as a friend, as a wife\", and said her marriage suffered. \"It has been hard to keep strong together at times.\"\n\n\"Since (Baby D) passed away I live behind my own shadow.\"\n\n\"Our worlds were shattered when we encountered evil disguised as a caring nurse.\"\n\nLetby murdered Baby E on 4 August 2015. She attempted to murder his brother 24 hours later.\n\nThe mother of the twin boys said the family had been \"living with a life sentence because of Letby's crimes\". She said her surviving son had been left with complex needs after the attack. She is still frightened to leave him alone.\n\nWhen Letby was first identified as a murder suspect, she and her husband felt \"cheated, deceived and utterly heartbroken\". She described Letby's absence from court as \"just one final act of wickedness from a coward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Twins' parents: \"They passed him to us and he died\"\n\n\"Her condition affects every aspect of our lives.\"\n\nBaby G was left severely disabled by Letby. The nurse was found guilty of attempting to murder her twice, in September 2015.\n\n\"Every day I would sit there and pray. I would pray for God to save her. He did. He saved her, but the devil found her,\" her father said of their time in hospital.\n\nThe court heard Baby G is now registered blind, has cerebral palsy and progressive scoliosis. Her father said she needs substantial care and that her mother only gets about two hours of sleep a night.\n\n\"We see other families and their children fishing, playing football, other things we can't do. She will never have a sleepover, go to high school, have a boyfriend, get married.\"\n\n\"A part of us died with her.\"\n\nBaby I was alert, content and feeding well before she died, her mother said. The family was planning to bring their daughter home when they were told she'd had another collapse, on 23 October 2015. Letby was found guilty of murdering her.\n\n\"She was our gorgeous little princess and I can't even begin to explain the pain when we lost her.\"\n\nThe mother said her whole body was shaking when she was told someone had been arrested for murder. \"We were both absolutely broken that someone could do something so evil to our precious little girl.\"\n\nShe has had therapy and taken medication over the past six years to cope with her daughter's death. \"We have been in some very dark places mentally.\"\n\nAfter the death of Baby I, they had another daughter who was born prematurely and with sepsis, but she said she found it incredibly hard to be back on a neonatal unit. She refused to leave her daughter's side until she came home.\n\n\"We struggle with trust. I won't leave my kids in a hospital. We will never give anyone that type of trust with our kids again. I don't think we will ever get over the fact that our daughter was tortured until she had no fight left in her.\"\n\n\"Letby kept looking over at me.\"\n\nThe serial killer attempted to murder the twin boys in early April 2016. Their father said the image of his son collapsing was \"forever etched\" in his mind.\n\nThe family was initially told by doctors that the events were \"normal for premature babies\", he said in a statement. \"Little did we know that a year or so after their birth the police would come knocking on the door and break the news that this could be an attempted murder case.\"\n\nHe said he had been prescribed anti-depressants but \"even though they have helped, they can never take away the feelings I have as a parent\".\n\nDuring the trial, he said he had to sit in Letby's line of view one day, saying the nurse kept looking over at him. \"That made me feel quite uncomfortable and uneasy and I had to move in the afternoon, so I was out of her view.\"\n\n\"We believe Baby N has lasting damage as a result of the injuries he sustained.\"\n\nLetby attempted to murder the baby boy in June 2016. \"The day we were called to the neonatal unit was the worst day of our lives,\" his mother said in a statement.\n\nShe said she always knew her son had been deliberately harmed: \"I don't know if it was a mother's instinct, but I just knew.\" She added: \"We just questioned why a healthy baby boy was fine one minute and bleeding from the mouth and needing CPR the next.\"\n\n\"We both relive this every day.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"happy and relieved\" when the police contacted them to say they were investigating Letby. \"We felt like we were being listened to.\"\n\nThe family still has a camera in their now seven-year-old's bedroom so they can check on him while he sleeps. \"We are extremely protective,\" she said. \"We wanted him to be home-schooled as we didn't want anybody else looking after him.\"\n\n\"It has destroyed me as a man and as a father.\"\n\nThe parents had triplets, all boys. Two of the brothers were murdered on 23 and 24 June 2016 respectively.\n\nTheir parents gave statements via a pre-recorded video, played in court. \"Going through the 'firsts' with the surviving triplet is very hard,\" said the mother. \"I started to blame myself. I thought I'd passed on an illness to all three of the boys - an infection.\"\n\nAfter the death of Baby P Letby seemed \"inconsolable\" said the mother, who thanked the nurse at the time. She said she hates the fact Letby was the last person to hold her son.\n\nThe boys' father spoke about watching Baby O deteriorate and die. \"It was horrific to see - it is an image that I'll never forget,\" he said. He sobbed throughout his statement and many in court were in tears.\n\nHe said he had suffered mental breakdowns and struggled with alcohol and suicidal feelings. He is still classed as long-term sick.\n\n\"The anger and the hatred I have towards [Letby] will never go away,\" he said. \"It will continue to haunt us and will always have an impact on our lives.\"", "Beverley Allitt killed four children, tried to kill three others, and attacked six more\n\nNearly a quarter of a century before Lucy Letby began attacking babies on a neonatal unit, another hospital experienced similarly sudden and unexpected losses.\n\nDeaths on the children's ward at Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital in Lincolnshire were rare until a two-month spell in the spring of 1991, when four babies and children died suddenly and nine others collapsed, some repeatedly.\n\nFive-month-old Paul Crampton mysteriously collapsed three times before going on to make a swift recovery on each occasion. No-one was able to explain what had happened.\n\n\"It's very scary,\" remembers his father, David Crampton. \"A child ill and no-one - the people who are meant to know - can tell you why.\"\n\nPaul had been in hospital with a chest infection and had been due to go home the day before his first collapse.\n\nHe was transferred to another hospital, where he made a full recovery and was discharged.\n\nMedics were baffled as to why five-month-old Paul Crampton suddenly collapsed\n\nA few days later, police contacted Mr Crampton and broke the news that Paul's sudden deterioration had probably been caused by him being given drugs.\n\nIn the following days, he and other affected families began to realise the full truth.\n\n\"We knew there had been collapses across Grantham hospital at that time,\" said Mr Crampton. \"We were clear that this was going to become a much bigger story. We didn't know how big.\"\n\nIt would be two more years until Beverley Allitt, a nurse in the hospital's paediatrics ward, was convicted of killing four children, attempting to kill three more - including Paul - and grievous bodily harm against six others.\n\nAfter her trial, Mr Crampton stood on the steps with other victims' families outside Nottingham Crown Court and called for an inquiry into what had happened.\n\n\"What I felt these crimes of Allitt showed was the inability of the health service to respond to a developing crisis and put forward a course of action to understand what was happening and prevent it from going any further,\" he exclusively told BBC North West Tonight.\n\nAn independent inquiry was held immediately after the trial, chaired by Sir Cecil Clothier.\n\nWhile his report, published in 1994, identified a number of key failings it essentially found that because each individual collapse and death could be explained away - and no-one could believe that a colleague would deliberately harm babies - Allitt was able to continue for more than two months.\n\nThe parallels with Letby are striking.\n\nWhile some senior colleagues did raise concerns about her after the first few months, others - including those in charge - were apparently unable to contemplate that there may be a killer in their midst.\n\nIn this way, she was able to continue her attacks for a year.\n\nLucy Letby started working full-time at the Countess of Chester Hospital from January 2012\n\nSo what, if anything, could have stopped Letby sooner? And what lessons can be learned?\n\nBill Kirkup has chaired several high-profile NHS inquiries, including examining baby deaths at the Morecambe Bay and East Kent hospital trusts.\n\nWhile it is important to stress that none of his investigations involved examining the deliberate harming of babies, Dr Kirkup identified a common feature in organisations when things start to go wrong.\n\nHe expressed concerns about how people react to signs of problems, how it goes on for too long before it is picked up, and how the response is very often inadequate.\n\n\"Vigilance, thinking the unthinkable, it's very difficult to do,\" said Dr Kirkup, who wants to see better systems for tracking patient outcomes put in place.\n\nFor example, if an unusual number of deaths are entered on to that system, it would trigger an automatic flag for a particular course of action.\n\nIn this way, human bias - the automatic and understandable assumption that your friends and colleagues are not acting malevolently - would be less likely to be a factor in management decision-making.\n\nDr Kirkup explained: \"We don't look at individual variation in particular units in any systematic way and if we tracked these things in real time, it's been shown in other specialities you can do this, you can trigger action.\n\n\"You can say: 'There's something untoward happening here, it's outside the limits of normal variation - we need to look at it'.\"\n\nIn other words, a stronger system of checks and balances.\n\nFor years, Dr Kirkup has also been calling for medical examiners - independent senior doctors who look at all deaths which are not seen by a coroner.\n\nIt was recommended by the public inquiry into Dr Harold Shipman - the Greater Manchester GP who is thought to have killed 250 of his patients.\n\nHarold Shipman is one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history\n\nTwenty years after that recommendation was made, medical examiners are finally being introduced.\n\nIn 2015 - the year when Letby began to attack babies in her care in the Countess of Chester's neonatal unit - Dr Kirkup publicly lambasted the government for having failed to introduce medical examiners.\n\nWhile he welcomes their introduction, he very much regrets the delay.\n\nWhen asked whether it could have made a difference in Letby's case, he said: \"I think if somebody had asked difficult questions around the nature of the events - the pattern of events that were difficult to explain - at least somebody would have had to look harder.\n\n\"It's entirely possible that at some point what should have happened would have happened [and] somebody would have said 'There is something very wrong here'.\"\n\nThere are other parallels between Allitt and Letby.\n\nAllitt was eventually caught because Paul Crampton's blood sample showed an exceptionally high level of artificial insulin.\n\nLetby also poisoned two babies with insulin who would go on to recover.\n\nOther killers have used this technique.\n\nIn May 2015, health worker Victorino Chua was convicted of murdering two patients and poisoning several others with insulin at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport.\n\nDespite the deaths occurring only 40 miles away from Chester - and Chua's trial receiving much media attention both locally and nationally - nobody working at the Countess of Chester at the time appears to have spotted any possible parallels.\n\nLucy Letby wiped away tears as she gave evidence at her trial\n\nWhen the blood results for both babies came back the high insulin levels did not trigger any major investigation into what had happened.\n\nIf it is part of the human condition to try to rationalise away unexplained and shocking events, what can be done?\n\n\"I think Beverly Allitt did change perceptions amongst clinicians and made the unthinkable slightly less unthinkable,\" said Dr Kirkup. \"Not necessarily an awful lot, as I think we've seen here, but a bit less.\"\n\nDavid Crampton says \"something's got to change\" to help protect patients\n\nMr Crampton said that he did not dwell on what might have happened to Paul - who is now a dad himself -and stressed his support for the NHS.\n\n\"It is something we need to value and treasure as a society. We all need it at some point in our life,\" he said\n\nBut he added that while cases like Allitt's were extremely rare, he also thought it was important to see a meaningful change in the way concerns were addressed.\n\n\"I am absolutely sure that there are more safeguards than there were in the days of Allitt but I still don't think that fundamental question of once you have an issue - and staff start to suspect that there's an issue - how does that get elevated?\n\n\"Fundamentally, something's got to change hasn't it? We can't allow these things to continue\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Charlotte Wilcock was found at a house in Primrose Terrace in Blackburn\n\nA man murdered a woman he had never met before as she sat on her doorstep smoking a cigarette.\n\nAnthony Stinson, 31, had denied murdering Charlotte Wilcock on 4 March but pleaded guilty as his trial began at Preston Crown Court.\n\nMs Wilcock, 31, was stabbed 50 times at her property on Primrose Terrace, Blackburn, while her baby slept upstairs.\n\nStinson, of Darwen, is due to be sentenced on Thursday.\n\nHe had approached the house at about 21:10 GMT and attacked Ms Wilcock before continuing the deadly assault inside the home, eventually leaving her body behind the front door, Lancashire Police said.\n\nHe had kicked and stamped on her before inflicting multiple stab and slash wounds to her body.\n\nMs Wilcock's 15-month-old daughter was inside at the time - and was left alone upstairs until police were alerted the next day.\n\nWhen Stinson was arrested, he told officers he thought he had killed someone, claiming he had been suffering with psychosis and believed he had seen the devil.\n\nHowever, detectives analysed phone records and CCTV to piece together his movements.\n\nThey discovered that less than an hour before Ms Wilcock was murdered Stinson had been recording rap videos with a friend, reciting lyrics about killing somebody.\n\nCCTV revealed that 15 minutes before the assault, he had bought alcohol and cigarettes.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Haworth-Oates said \"for reasons known only to him\" Stinson \"launched a brutal attack\".\n\nHe said: \"He slashed at her body numerous times in the ferocious assault - inflicting well over 50 individual injuries in the process, many with the use of a Stanley knife - as well as punching and kicking her.\n\n\"Charlotte had never met Stinson before that night and had no personal connection to him - she was merely sat on her own doorstep having a cigarette.\n\n\"She should have been safe and could never have foreseen what was about to happen.\n\n\"It is clear from speaking to Charlotte's family that she was very much loved, and her death has left a huge void in the lives of those who knew her, not least her two children who will now grow up without their mother.\"\n\nIn a tribute, Ms Wilcock's family said they were \"devastated and truly heartbroken\".\n\n\"She was a devoted mother who was loved by many - she was our world, our love and our life,\" they added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People have been preparing for stormy weather in Palm Springs, California\n\nTropical Storm Hilary hit the US state of California on Sunday night, bringing fierce winds and flooding to the Pacific coast.\n\nNow headed north to Nevada, the storm passed over Southern California, with record rainfall and flash flooding predicted in the Death Valley National Park.\n\nIt moved across the border from Mexico, where the Baja California peninsula saw winds of 70 mph (119km/h).\n\nA number of houses are now submerged in the town of Santa Rosalia, Mexico, while some residents in California have been forced to evacuate.\n\nSchools have also had to close for Monday, including Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the country.\n\nThe last time a tropical storm made landfall in Southern California was in Long Beach in 1939.\n\nHilary is set to weaken as it moves north, but forecasters warn it could still bring dangerous and catastrophic flooding to the state.\n\n\"Areas that normally do not experience flash flooding will flood,\" the National Weather Service said. \"Lives and property are in great danger through Monday.\"\n\nExperts say recent abnormal weather events that have plagued the US - and several areas across the globe - have been influenced by human-caused climate change.\n\nIn Mexico, 18,000 soldiers have been put on standby to assist in rescue efforts\n\nThe storm made landfall in the northern part of Mexico's Baja California peninsula at 11:00 local time (18:00 GMT) on Sunday, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.\n\nIn Mexico, 18,000 soldiers were placed on standby earlier to assist in rescue efforts.\n\nThe man who died in the state of Baja California Sur was in a car with his wife and children, local officials said - his family survived.\n\nIn Santa Rosalia, on the state's eastern coast, dramatic videos have emerged showing powerful torrents of muddy water cascading down the main street.\n\nAcross California, residents have been putting out sandbags, including in Long Beach and Palm Springs. About 57,000 people in the state are without power, according to poweroutage.us.\n\nEugenie Adler, a resident of Long Beach, told Reuters: \"Flooding where people lose some property is one thing, but flooding where people die is another. And I'm afraid people might die.\"\n\n\"But Los Angeles has deep experience responding to crises whether it be wildfire or earthquakes,\" she said. \"The city is prepared.\"\n\nNearly 26 million people in the south-western US are under flood watch.\n\nHilary was downgraded to a Category 1 storm after weakening on Saturday, but officials kept up their warnings.\n\nTropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 240 miles (390 km) from its centre, according to the NHC.\n\nNancy Ward, director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, said Hilary could be one of the worst storms to hit the state in more than a decade.\n\n\"Make no mistake,\" she told a news conference on Saturday. \"This is a very, very dangerous and significant storm.\"\n\nUp to 10 in (25cm) of rain is expected in parts of Mexico, California and Nevada, according to the NHC. On Sunday, rain began to fall in Southern California deserts.\n\nAs the storm approached, Major League Baseball rescheduled three games in southern California, while SpaceX postponed the launch of a rocket from its base on the central California coast until at least Monday.\n\nThe National Park Service also closed Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve, both in California, to prevent visitors from being stranded in the event of flooding.\n\nIn the wake of the hottest month on record, July 2023, according to Nasa, the deadliest wildfire in modern US history spread across Hawaii on 8 August, killing at least 111 people.\n\nThe damage was escalated by hurricane winds passing through the area.\n\nAnd in Canada, hundreds of wildfires are raging in the province of British Columbia, scorching homes and forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate.\n\nHow have you been affected by the storms? If it's safe for you to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "\"Girl power!\" exclaimed one woman as the final whistle blew and the fan zone erupted into screams and tears of joy.\n\nThere were so many children and young people in the crowd, their faces painted in the red and yellow of the Spanish flag.\n\nThis, presumably, was a moment many will remember for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"We are especially happy to have had this experience with our baby daughter,\" one man said as he held his little girl who was wearing her very own Spain shirt.\n\n\"They play as well as the men and they have to make the same effort. I think we have to give them more support and more sponsorship by the big companies.\"\n\nAfter all, he said, \"they give us the same joy\".\n\nSpain's victory is all the more remarkable for two reasons.\n\nFirst, the national side has been plagued by reports of a difficult relationship between some of the players and the coach, Jorge Vilda, a months-long feud that overshadowed preparations for the tournament.\n\nIt was notable that every time Mr Vilda appeared in shot, there were audible boos and jeering from the watching fans.\n\nAnd second, the Spanish team does not enjoy the same level of support as the men's side.\n\nThis may be a football-mad country, but it was striking that there were few, if any, signs of support for the women in the bars, shops and restaurants that surround the fan zone.\n\nThat, many felt here, might now change significantly in the wake of such a victory.\n\n\"It's a beginning,\" said one young man. \"It's very important for me because my sister plays football.\"\n\nThe Reds do enjoy the support of Spain's Queen Letizia, who was in Australia to watch the match with her football-playing daughter Sofia.\n\nThere is much excitement in the Spanish media, after the Queen joined the players on the pitch, jumping together in celebration. And acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted that the team had \"made history\".\n\nOne woman said: \"I thought it was going to be England, actually.\"", "X, formerly called Twitter, has removed a post denying the Holocaust after criticism from the Auschwitz Museum. The social media platform had initially said the post did not break its rules.\n\nThe offensive post was a reply to one from the museum about a three-year-old Jewish girl murdered in the concentration camp's gas chambers.\n\nThe post called her death a \"fairy tale\" and used anti-Semitic tropes.\n\nAt least 1.1 million people were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. Almost one million were Jews. The museum notes more than 200,000 were children and young people.\n\nThey were gassed, starved, worked to death and killed in medical experiments.\n\nAccording to a post on X by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, it had reported the offensive reply but received a response saying that after viewing the \"available information\" the platform had decided no rules had been broken.\n\nThat initial response to the museum's complaint, according to X, was down to a mistake during the first review - it was escalated and removed in a second review.\n\n\"Violent event denial\" is banned under X's policies on abusive behaviour. The platform says it prohibits content denying that mass murder took place which \"includes, but is not limited to, events like the Holocaust, school shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters\".\n\nThe X account which made the offensive post on Sunday has 20 followers.\n\nWhile X says it has removed the post, the account was still accessible as of Monday 17:00 GMT. Its other content includes statements and language many would find offensive.\n\nThe company says it is reviewing whether the account should be permanently suspended.\n\nElon Musk - who describes himself as a free speech absolutist - denies there has been a rise in hateful posts since he took over Twitter as it was then called. In December, he tweeted that hate speech was down by a third.\n\nX concedes that its team responsible for policing hate speech on the platform is smaller than before Mr Musk took over. But it argues its new approach - which it says centres around a zero tolerance for illegal material, and de-amplifying and removing ads from lawful but offensive material - is more effective.\n\nBut others dispute that things have improved.\n\nAn Institute for Strategic Dialogue report suggested that there had been \"a major and sustained spike in anti-Semitic posts on Twitter\" since the company's takeover by Mr Musk in October.\n\nThe Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has also suggested that Twitter \"fails to act on 99%\" of hateful messages from accounts with Twitter Blue - the platform's subscription service.\n\nIt says that posts containing racist, homophobic, neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic or conspiracy content were still visible days after being reported.\n\nHowever X Corp has launched legal action against the CCDH, and in a legal letter its lawyer, Alex Spiro, argued that the research was \"little more than a series of inflammatory, misleading, and unsupported claims based on a cursory review of random tweets\".\n\nThe decision under Elon Musk to reinstate previously banned accounts, including the account of a neo-Nazi website founder, has also been heavily criticised.\n\nWhen BBC Monitoring analysed over 1,100 previously banned X accounts that were reinstated under Elon Musk, it found that 190 of them were promoting hate and violence, including depictions of rape as well as abuse directed at women and the LGBT community.\n\nBut X argues the experience of researchers who look for offensive content is different from that of ordinary users who stand little chance of encountering it.", "Lucy Letby was convicted of murder and attempted murder while working as a neonatal nurse\n\nThe mother of a baby boy killed by nurse Lucy Letby says she is \"horrified that someone so evil exists\" and it was like \"something out of a horror story\".\n\nThe 33-year-old was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.\n\nHer conviction makes her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern British history.\n\nLetby refused to appear in the dock as she was given a whole-life sentence.\n\nThe public gallery was full of parents of the babies - some cried quietly as the victim impact statements were read.\n\nSome of the jury members, who sat through nine months of evidence, also appeared upset as they heard the statements.\n\nThe mother of Baby C, who became emotional as she read her statement, told the court that knowing her son's murderer was watching over them was like \"something out of a horror story\".\n\nLucy Letby pictured during her first interview in police custody in 2018\n\n\"I will always remember the overwhelming wave of emotion I felt when I first held [Baby C],\" she said.\n\n\"It was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. My tiny feisty boy. My first born. My son.\n\n\"The trauma of that night will live with us forever.\"\n\nThe parents of Baby A and B said \"what should have been the happiest time of our lives became our worst nightmare\".\n\nThey said perhaps Letby imagined she would be remembered for her crimes but they told the court: \"My family will never think of you again - from this day, you are nothing.\"\n\n\"You thought you could enter our lives and turn it upside down but you will never win,\" they said.\n\n\"We hope you live a very long life and spend every day suffering for what you've done\"\n\nThe mother of Baby D, who was holding a toy rabbit as she read her statement, said Letby's \"wicked sense of entitlement and abuse of her role as a trusted nurse\" was a \"scandal\".\n\n\"You failed God and the plans he had for [Baby D]. You even called it fate,\" she said.\n\n\"You were clearly disconnected with God.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nThe mother of Baby E and F described Letby as a \"coward\" for failing to attend the sentencing hearing, adding: \"Our world was shattered when we encountered evil disguised as a caring nurse.\"\n\n\"Even in these final days of the trial she has tried to control things,\" she said.\n\n\"The disrespect she has shown the families and the court show what type of person she is.\n\n\"We have attended court day in and day out, yet she decides she has had enough, and stays in her cell - just one final act of wickedness from a coward.\"\n\nShe added: \"I still struggle to understand why it happened to us. Lucy presented herself as kind, caring, and soft-spoken.\n\n\"Now I know it was all an act, a sadistic abuse of power that has left me unable to trust anyone.\"\n\nThe parents of Baby G said they baby girl had been left severely disabled as a result of Letby's attacks.\n\n\"What if she outlives us? Who will care for her then?\n\n\"Her condition affects every aspect of our lives,\" they said.\n\nBaby G was the most premature of all the babies, weighing just 535g (1lb 3oz).\n\nThey told the court: \"God saved her\" but then \"the devil found her\".\n\nIn a statement, read out on behalf of Baby I's mother, she said: \"When they told us they were arresting someone for [Baby I's] murder, I remember my whole body shaking.\n\n\"We were both absolutely broken that someone could do something so evil to our precious little girl and this has had a massive effect on our family even until this day.\n\n\"I don't think we will ever get over the fact that our daughter was tortured till she had no fight left in her.\n\n\"Everything she went through over her short life was deliberately done by someone who was supposed to protect her and help her come home where she belonged.\"\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe father of Baby L and Baby M said: \"Initially doctors told us that the whole events that took place in 2016 surrounding my children was normal for premature babies and we believed what the doctors were telling us at the time.\n\n\"Little did we know that a year or so after their birth the police would come knocking on the door and break the news that this could be an attempted murder case.\"\n\nHe said he had been prescribed anti-depressants.\n\n\"Even though they have helped, they can never take away the feelings I have as a parent knowing now what had truly happened at the Countess of Chester in 2016, and it doesn't make it any easier to cope with over time,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement read to court, the mother of Baby N, who survived, said she always knew her son had been deliberately harmed.\n\nShe said she felt \"happy and relieved\" when the police got in contact to say they were investigating Letby because \"we felt like we were being listened to\".\n\n\"Finally we would receive some answers,\" she said.\n\n\"We just questioned why a healthy baby boy was fine one minute and bleeding from the mouth and needing CPR the next.\"\n\nDuring the trial, the jury was shown notes found in Letby's home including one which said: \"I am evil I did this.\"\n\nIn a video statement, the mother of triplet brothers Baby O and P said going through \"firsts\" with the surviving triplet was \"very hard\".\n\n\"I hate the fact that Lucy Letby was the last person to hold Baby P,\" she said, adding the nurse had \"destroyed our lives\".\n\nTheir father said he felt like he had been \"stabbed in the heart, no words could describe how I was feeling\".\n\n\"We have tried to explain to our children that there's a lady in prison and that the police think that this lady has hurt your brothers,\" he said.\n\n\"We did this in case they hear anything from a third party or at school.\n\n\"Having to come to terms with a police investigation has been hard to live with.\"\n\nHe said he had \"so many unanswered questions\" and the waiting had been \"unbearable\".\n\nThe trial of Lucy Letby spanned 10 months at Manchester Crown Court\n\nLetby will spend the rest of her life behind bars, becoming only the fourth woman in UK history to receive such a sentence.\n\nEarlier, Nicholas Johnson KC, prosecuting, told the court Letby's offending was a \"very, very clear case\" for a whole-life tariff to be imposed.\n\nHe said the murders qualified on a number of grounds, including they were premeditated and they involved an elements of \"sadistic conduct\".\n\nMr Johnson said there was also more than one victim and those victims were children.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak also said it was \"cowardly\" for convicted criminals not to face victims or their families in court.\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A caption posted with the video on Telegram suggests Yevgeny Prigozhin is in an African country\n\nWagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has appeared in his first video address since his failed mutiny in Russia, which suggests he is in Africa.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify where the video was filmed.\n\nThe video posted on Telegram channels linked to the Wagner mercenary group shows him in combat gear, saying the group is making Africa \"more free\".\n\nWagner is believed to have thousands of fighters on the continent, where it has lucrative business interests.\n\nMr Prigozhin's soldiers are embedded in countries including Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR) - where rights groups and the UN accuse them of committing war crimes.\n\nThe UK last month imposed sanctions on the two heads of Wagner's operations in CAR, accusing them of torture and killing civilians.\n\nWagner fighters have also been accused by the US of enriching themselves with illicit gold deals on the continent.\n\nIn the video, Mr Prigozhin says Wagner is exploring for minerals as well as fighting Islamist militants and other criminals.\n\n\"We are working. The temperature is +50 - everything as we like. Wagner PMC conducts reconnaissance and search actions, makes Russia even greater on all continents, and Africa even more free,\" Mr Prigozhin can be heard saying.\n\n\"Justice and happiness - for the African people, we're making life a nightmare for ISIS (Islamic State) and Al-Qaeda and other bandits.\"\n\nHe says Wagner is recruiting and the group will \"continue fulfilling the tasks that were set - we made promises we would succeed\".\n\nMr Prigozhin was photographed in St Petersburg during last month's Africa-Russia summit, shaking hands with Ambassador Freddy Mapouka, a presidential advisor in the CAR.\n\nMr Prigozhin has been keeping a low public profile since heading his short-lived mutiny in June, which lasted only 24 hours.\n\nAbout 5,000 Wagner troops seized control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and moved towards Moscow, with the stated aim of removing the military leadership.\n\nHowever, Mr Prigozhin stopped the advance after negotiations with the Kremlin, which were mediated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nUnder a deal to end the mutiny, charges against Mr Prigozhin were dropped and he was offered a move to Belarus.\n\nThere had been very public infighting between Wagner and Russia's ministry of defence over the conduct of the war. Mr Prigozhin repeatedly accused the ministry of failing to supply his group with ammunition.\n\nMr Prigozhin says he founded the Wagner group in 2014. A wealthy businessman with a criminal record, Mr Prigozhin is known as \"Putin's chef\" because he provided catering for the Kremlin.\n\nIn 2014, Wagner started backing pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, and is thought to have helped Russia annex Crimea.\n\nBefore the war in Ukraine, Wagner had an estimated 5,000 fighters - mostly veterans of Russia's elite regiments and special forces.\n\nHowever, Mr Prigozhin said last June that its numbers had grown since the start of the Ukraine war to 25,000 fighters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused Facebook of putting \"profits ahead of people's safety\" after it blocked news amid devastating wildfires in the country.\n\nFacebook banned news on its platform in response to Canadian law forcing it to share profit with news outlets.\n\nWildfire evacuees have said the ban has impacted their ability to share critical news with each other.\n\nThe prime minister, during a televised news conference on Monday, said the actions of Meta were \"inconceivable\".\n\nThe company has blocked news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada since 1 August, after the country's parliament passed an online news bill that requires platforms like Google and Meta to negotiate deals with news publishers for content.\n\nMeta has faced significant criticism from Canadian officials since then. On Saturday, Canada's heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge, said in a post on social media that the company is blocking \"essential information\" for users.\n\nShe added that this is being done despite the law - dubbed Bill C-18 or the Online News Act- not going into effect yet. In an earlier post, she called Meta's decision \"reckless\".\n\nMeta has called the law \"fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work\".\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Meta said the law forces the company \"to end access to news content in order to comply with the legislation\".\n\nIt added that it has activated a \"Safety Check\" feature on its platform for people living in evacuated areas.\n\nThis allows users to mark themselves safe and access \"reputable information, including content from official government agencies\", a spokesperson said.\n\nEvacuees in the Northwest Territories, where a wildfire continues to rage 15 kilometres (9 miles) away from its largest city Yellowknife, said the news ban has made it harder for them to spread life-saving information with their network.\n\nDelaney Poitras, who has had to evacuate twice in recent weeks from her home in Fort Smith, told the CBC that she has not been able to share things like news conferences from officials or news articles on evacuation updates.\n\nShe adds that Facebook plays a huge role in connecting people in her community. \"It's how we all keep in touch,\" she said.\n\nData suggests that about 77% of Canadians use Facebook, and one in four of those users rely on it for news.", "Donald Trump is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, recent polls show\n\nDonald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in the upcoming Republican presidential debate with his rivals in the race for the White House.\n\nThe ex-president said one latest poll showed he had \"legendary\" numbers ahead of other hopefuls to be the party's nominee for the 2024 election.\n\nIt is not immediately clear if Mr Trump will be skipping all the debates for the Republican primaries.\n\nThe first Republican presidential primary debate will be on 23 August.\n\nVoting begins in the state of Iowa on 15 January 2024.\n\nRecent polls have consistently shown that Mr Trump - who faces a number of criminal charges - is currently the front-runner for the Republican nomination.\n\nIn a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, Mr Trump confirmed he would not attend the debate, and pointed to the latest poll indicating he was leading the Republican field.\n\n\"The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had,\" Mr Trump said. \"I will therefore not be doing the debates.\"\n\nA poll from the BBC's US partner CBS News suggests his closest rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is lagging well behind.\n\nIn recent months, Mr Trump had repeatedly suggested that he would not join the Republican debates.\n\nThe former president plans to sit for a pre-taped interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that may run during the first debate in Milwaukee on Wednesday, sources familiar with the planning have told CBS.\n\nMr Trump's suggestion that he would skip this week's debate sparked criticism from at least one of his Republican rivals, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.\n\n\"If he believes he should be the nominee, if he believes that he's got such a great record, if he believes he's the best person to go against Joe Biden, then show up on Wednesday night and stop being such a coward,\" Mr Christie said last week.\n\nRepublican presidential hopefuls must meet several qualifications to attend the debate, including receiving donations from at least 40,000 individuals and obtaining at least 1% in high-quality polling.\n\nSo far, former Vice-President Mike Pence, Mr DeSantis, Mr Christie, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott are all confirmed to have qualified.\n\nThe first Republican debate comes the same week that Mr Trump has to voluntarily surrender in Fulton County, Georgia.\n\nHe must appear by 25 August in the state to face charges of trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election in the state.\n\nDonald Trump is facing dozens of criminal charges and will go on trial several times in the next 18 months, even as he campaigns to become president again in the 2024 US election.\n\nAside from Mr Trump's most recent Georgia charges, he has been charged in Florida with illegally hoarding classified files at his estate there, Mar-a-Lago, and refusing to hand them back when asked.\n\nHis third indictment was unveiled this month in Washington DC, where prosecutors accuse him of repeatedly airing the false claim he had won the last presidential election.\n\nHe has repeatedly described the various charges against him as a political \"witch hunt\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The atmosphere inside court number seven was hard to put into words.\n\nIt felt completely different to the rest of the trial which has involved month upon month of complex evidence.\n\nIt was intense. The room was packed with the public gallery next to where I was sitting full of the families of babies who had been murdered at the hands of Lucy Letby.\n\nThere was no technicality today, just raw humanity. As the hearing began, there was silence, which hung heavily as we waited for the judge to enter.\n\nThen, as parent after parent spoke of their grief, loss,and distress, their words were accompanied by the subtle sound of weeping coming from around the court.\n\nWe sat and listened to the harrowing human testimony from those families, who one-by-one spoke about the impact this has had on them. A lot of that detail hadn't come out in the trial.\n\nIt was written so Letby could hear about what damage she has done.\n\nShe wasn't there physically but we know the statements made by the families and the judge's remarks will be given to her in prison.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nSpanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has apologised for kissing Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain won the Women's World Cup.\n\nRubiales kissed the Spain forward during the presentation ceremony following the team's 1-0 win over England in Sunday's final.\n\n\"I didn't like it,\" Hermoso said on Instagram, but a statement released later on her behalf defended Rubiales.\n\nOn Monday, Rubiales said: \"I was completely wrong, I have to admit it.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was without bad intention at a time with a lot of excitement. In the moment, we saw it as natural, but outside a commotion has formed.\n\n\"I have to apologise, learn from this, and understand that when you are president you have to be more careful.\"\n\nRubiales had been criticised by some Spanish government ministers and come under fire on social media.\n\nSpain's equalities minster Irene Montero said: \"It's a form of sexual violence women suffer on a daily basis.\"\n\nMontero added that up to now it had been \"invisible\" and that it is something \"we can't normalise\".\n\n\"We should not assume kissing without consent is something 'that happens',\" she said.\n\nSpain's sports minister Miquel Iceta told Spanish public radio it was \"unacceptable\" for Rubiales to kiss Hermoso, adding: \"The first thing he has to do is to give explanations and make apologies, it is the logical and reasonable thing to do.\"\n\nIn a statement released by the Spanish football federation, following the player's initial comment about disliking the kiss, Hermoso said the moment was a \"natural gesture of affection\".\n\n\"It was a totally spontaneous mutual gesture because of the immense joy that winning a World Cup brings,\" said the 31-year-old, who is Spain's all-time leading scorer.\n\nVideo footage circulated online after the match also showed Rubiales, who was sat in the VIP area of the stadium near Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Queen Letizia of Spain, grab his groin as he celebrated the final whistle.\n\nRubiales' actions were heavily criticised on social media, with 'dimision ya' - 'resign now' in English - trending on X, formerly known as Twitter, in Spain.\n\nRubiales told Spanish broadcaster COPE it was \"a kiss between two friends celebrating something\" and those who saw it differently were \"idiots and stupid people\".\n\n\"Let's ignore them and enjoy the good things,\" he added, before offering a different view on Monday.\n\nSpanish newspaper El Pais ran the headline \"Jenni didn't like Rubiales' kiss, neither did we\".\n\nSpain won the World Cup despite controversy over coach Jorge Vilda, who survived a player revolt to keep his job.\n\nThe RFEF said in September 2022 that 15 players had submitted identical emails saying they would not play for Vilda unless \"significant\" concerns over their \"emotional state\" and \"health\" were addressed.\n\nHowever, the RFEF continued to back Vilda and posted 'VILDA IN' on Spain's official X account after their World Cup triumph.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "\"Her owners had ruled out ever seeing her alive again,\" said the taxi driver\n\nA kitten has been discovered stuck behind the grille of a taxi following a whopping 500-mile round trip.\n\nThe cat was spotted after cab driver Tom Hutchings returned home to Tonyrefail in Rhondda Cynon Taf having driven to Bristol Airport, Llanelli, Cardiff and Treherbert.\n\nThe fare-dodging feline was then taken for a check-up and turned out to have been missing from home for a week.\n\n\"I think the owners had given up ever seeing her again,\" said Tom.\n\nThe close encounter took place last week after the 32-year-old's fiancee noticed something odd after he pulled up outside their house in his Mercedes-Benz Citan.\n\n\"She told me to look behind the grille - I had no idea what she'd seen or what might be in there,\" said Tom, who's been running Tommy's Taxis for only few months.\n\n\"I definitely didn't expect to see this little pink nose and a pair of green eyes suddenly appear just centimetres away from my face.\"\n\nGrabbing his tool box he managed to remove the front bumper and lift out the cat, before then taking her to a nearby vet.\n\n\"She must have been exhausted from her travels because she fell fast asleep on the passenger seat right next to me,\" he added.\n\nTom rushed the feline to the nearest vet to get a health check\n\nAfter being given a clean bill of health a quick social media search revealed that the animal, whose name turned out to be Gizmo, had been missing from her home in Miskin for about a week.\n\n\"Her owners had ruled out ever seeing her alive again, and I've still no idea how she managed to get to Tonyrefail from Miskin,\" said Tom.\n\n\"That's a good six or seven miles from where we live and I've not picked up a fare from there in several weeks.\n\n\"All I can think is she hitched a ride on one of the big lorries that come and go from an industrial estate up there, a few of which occasionally come through our estate.\n\n\"Other than that it's a complete mystery,\" he added.", "Lucy Letby was convicted following a two-year investigation by Cheshire Police\n\nNurse Lucy Letby is due to be sentenced later after being found guilty of murdering seven babies, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.\n\nThe 33-year-old was also convicted of trying to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nThe trial lasted for more than 10 months and is believed to be the longest murder trial in the UK.\n\nShe has indicated she will not be in court for the hearing.\n\nHer legal team said she also does not want to follow proceedings via a videolink from prison, the reasons for her non-attendance at Manchester Crown Court have not been disclosed.\n\nIf Letby does fail to show up to the hearing, she will not hear the families' victim impact statements - where people have a chance to tell the court about how a crime has affected them and those around them.\n\nShe will also not hear the judge, Mr Justice James Goss, give his sentencing remarks where he will explain the reasons for the length of the prison sentence handed down to her.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nLetby - who deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin between June 2015 and June 2016 - refused to appear in the dock as the latest verdicts were read out on Friday.\n\nThey had been delivered over several hearings, but could not be reported until all the verdicts were returned.\n\nLetby, originally of Hereford, broke down in tears as the first guilty verdicts were read out by the jury's foreman on 8 August after 76 hours of deliberations.\n\nShe cried with her head bowed as the second set of guilty verdicts were returned on 11 August.\n\nThe refusal to attend court last week has led to renewed calls for a new law to compel convicted criminals to attend court for sentencing hearings.\n\nLetby's expected absence from the dock is the latest in a series of high-profile trials where convicted murderers have refused to turn up, including the killers of Zara Aleena in London and nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.\n\nFormer prison governor Prof Ian Acheson told the BBC judges should have the power to compel criminals into the courtroom \"to be sentenced in front of the people they have harmed\".\n\nEarlier this year, the government said it was committed to introducing legislation to ensure criminals are made to appear in the dock for sentencing.\n\nFormer justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland backed the government's announcement, saying defendants should face tougher consequences if they refuse to appear in the dock, such as receiving longer sentences.\n\nFacilitating \"better ways in which defendants really have nowhere to hide\" when it comes to listening or seeing the court \"even if they're in the cell\" is another option for the government to explore, Sir Robert added.\n\n\"We use television, video links all the time when it comes to defendants who might be on a live link from the prison, for a procedural hearing or even a sentence hearing,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe said this would avoid \"disruptive behaviour\" that would \"cause upset to the victims and the wider public\".\n\nFamilies of victims said they will \"forever be grateful\" to jurors who had to sit through 145 days of \"gruelling\" evidence.\n\nThe defendant was found not guilty of two attempted murder charges and the jury was undecided on further attempted murder charges relating to four babies.\n\nNicholas Johnson KC, prosecuting, asked the court for 28 days to consider whether a retrial would be sought for the remaining six counts of attempted murder.\n\nDuring the trial, which started in October, the prosecution labelled Letby as a \"calculating and devious\" opportunist who \"gaslighted\" colleagues to cover her \"murderous assaults\".\n\nShe was convicted following a two-year investigation by Cheshire Police into the alarming and unexplained rise in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies at the hospital.\n\nThe government has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind the baby murders.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grays, on the Thames estuary, is the administrative capital of the Thurrock borough\n\nA black hole in local authority budgets continues to grow, a BBC investigation reveals, prompting fears some will not be able to provide basic services.\n\nThe average council now faces a £33m ($42m) predicted deficit by 2025-26 - a rise of 60% from £20m two years ago.\n\nUnison said the situation meant some councils would not be able to offer the \"legal minimum of care\" next year.\n\nThe government said decisions on the funding beyond the next financial year had not yet been made.\n\nThe BBC's Shared Data Unit surveyed 190 upper-tier authorities in the UK to find out the extent of the financial difficulties facing town halls, which provide services from adult social care to bin collections and pothole repairs.\n\nIt revealed council chiefs expect to be £5.2bn short of balancing the books by April 2026 even after making £2.5bn of planned cuts.\n\nAt least £467m will be stripped from adult care services, which include elderly care homes, respite centres and support services for people with disabilities.\n\nThis year, councils are closing leisure centres, reducing care packages and raising fees for services like waste collection and parking in order to break even.\n\nUnison's head of local government Mike Short said town halls were in the \"direst of states\".\n\n\"This is not a sustainable situation,\" he said.\n\n\"Local authorities simply don't have the funds to provide even statutory services.\"\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, who chairs the Local Government Association (LGA), said inflation, the introduction of the National Living Wage, energy costs and increasing demand for services were adding \"billions of extra costs just to keep services standing still\".\n\nCampaigners in Gateshead protest against plans to close the town's leisure centre\n\nGateshead Leisure Centre was opened in 1981 by Elizabeth II and featured a pool, a soft play and a gym, as well as badminton and basketball courts.\n\nBut in November 2022, Gateshead Council recommended closing it, claiming it had no other choice \"after government cuts\".\n\nThe centre, which had more than 480,000 visits a year and served an area with high levels of deprivation, closed in July. A community bid is being put together to raise £40,000 and take over the site - but so far it has raised £5,000.\n\nMental health worker Layla Barclay, 39, from Bensham, led the campaign to keep it open.\n\n\"Everyone is just horrified it's actually come to this,\" she said. \"There is a lot of anger towards the council. We just feel that they didn't come to the community until it was too late.\"\n\nA pool has existed at the Alexandra Road site since 1941 and Wendy Arkle, 64, remembers first using it in the late 1960s as part of a Brownies swimming gala.\n\n\"There is just this huge void now,\" she said.\n\nOur investigation found on top of cuts, town hall chiefs are expected to use up £1.1bn of reserves to balance the books this year.\n\nBradford Council said the authority was using reserves at an \"unprecedented level\" while Leicester City Council said it was going to run out during the next financial year.\n\nSeveral councils have called for financial support from the government. Among them Slough, Croydon, Thurrock, Kensington and Chelsea, and newly created Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness councils will share around £393m in government funding this year.\n\nThurrock declared bankruptcy in December 2022 after a series of failed solar farm investments saw the council run up a £500m deficit - one of the largest ever reported for a council of its size.\n\nSlough was also forced to effectively declare bankruptcy after borrowing more than £700m to buy land and properties.\n\nKensington and Chelsea has been given an agreement in principle to borrow up to £51.8m to help pay the compensation due to the survivors and first responders of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. In a statement, the council said it had \"healthy finances\" and had frozen council tax this year.\n\nMeanwhile other large councils have indicated being in financial distress.\n\nBirmingham City Council, Europe's largest local authority, halted all non-essential spending in June after announcing it was facing a bill for a £760m unequal pay claim.\n\nThe £51m of savings being made at Shropshire amount to a fifth of its overall budget this year - the highest proportion for any council in the UK.\n\nA spokesman for the council said its financial position had been compounded by its \"rural nature and sparse population,\" which it said made it \"more expensive to provide services like social care\".\n\nCouncils are funded through a mix of council tax, business rates, income from services like parking and social housing rent, as well as money from the government known as the Revenue Support Grant.\n\nThat funding declined by nearly a third between 2010 and 2021, according to the Public Accounts Committee, which found council income was £8.4bn lower in real terms than it had been a decade before.\n\nIts chair Meg Hillier said the BBC study showed councils were at a \"tipping point\" where \"only so many more savings\" could be made.\n\nMs Hillier, the Labour MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, said: \"These findings should have the dashboard flashing red across the board for the government.\"\n\nDespite high profile failures, many councils have continued to take risks on commercial investments to increase their income.\n\nA Freedom of Information request by the BBC found Somerset Council had bought more than £136m worth of retail property since the start of the pandemic, including a B&Q in Ayr and a Wickes in Birmingham.\n\nStories about pressure on council budgets may not seem new. Local authorities were hit hard during the period of austerity.\n\nThe government has made more money available to councils in recent years, but rising prices and the cost of delivering services for which there is growing demand means budgets remain squeezed. This research shows the future looks bleak for some authorities who have already cut back on what they offer local communities.\n\nQuestions have been raised over investment decisions some councils have made, but beyond that there is a wider call for a rethink of the way local government is funded, to try and break what seems to be a cycle of pressure on the services on which so many people rely.\n\nNeil Crouch used to have access to a respite centre as part of his care package\n\nNeil Crouch, from Harlow in Essex, has motor conversion disorder, severe arthritis and suffers from kidney disease.\n\nEssex County Council, which is set to save £36m this year, cut the 48 hours of weekly funded social care he received down to 42, and removed his eligibility for respite care.\n\nPreviously, he was allowed two funded weeks a year at a centre that provides holidays for people with disabilities.\n\n\"It's such a shame,\" said Neil, who is becoming increasingly immobile and relies on carers and his elderly parents for support. \"It helps so much to have that respite care.\n\n\"My mum and dad are both in the mid-70s now, and it's getting hard for them. It's not an easy process to look for after somebody with a disability.\"\n\nNeil, who said many others like him are suffering from having their respite eligibility removed, is urging councils to rethink such cuts.\n\n\"They have holidays,\" he said. \"Because we are disabled does it mean we're not entitled?\"\n\nEssex County Council said, while it could not comment on individual cases, it still offered \"significant support\" to people needing respite care in the area.\n\nCurrently, councils discover how much money they are going to receive from the government one year at a time.\n\nThe LGA has repeatedly called on the government to change the way local authorities are funded. It has said multi-year settlements would give councils more clarity to plan effectively.\n\nA plan to allow councils to retain 75% of the business rates they collect instead of the current 50% was paused indefinitely in 2021.\n\nCouncillor Tim Oliver, who chairs the County Councils Network, said: \"We must remember that while inflation is beginning to reduce, these costs councils have incurred won't just disappear from our budgets overnight - they are now embedded into the future.\"\n\nA Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities spokesman said that, as no decision on council funding levels would be taken until the Spending Review next year the predicted deficit figures for 2025-26 were \"unsupported\".\n\nHe said the government had pledged to make £4.7bn available for the adult social care system in England in 2024-25 and confirmed there would be an increase in the Revenue Support Grant councils receive.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments said they had increased resources for councils this financial year. The government of Northern Ireland declined to comment.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The burnt-out shell of an old Ferrari racing car has sold at auction in the US for nearly $2m (£1.5m).\n\nIt caught fire during a race in the 1960s and was not touched for decades.\n\nIt was driven by Franco Cortese, Ferrari's first racing driver. Analysts say the new buyer may want to restore it so it can race again.\n\nThe 1954 car is a 500 Mondial Spider Series I - one of 13 ever made, with a body produced by designer Pinin Farina.\n\nIn 1954, Cortese drove the Mondial to a 14th overall finish at the Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile (1,600km) race through Italy.\n\nOver the years, the Mondial crashed numerous times and suffered fire damage.\n\nIn 1978, it was bought by a US collector who preserved it in its damaged condition.\n\nIn 2004 the car was discovered - alongside 19 other Ferraris - when a hurricane blew the roof off a barn where they were kept in Florida.\n\nAuctioneer RM Sotheby's says the vehicle will require \"a comprehensive restoration to return the car to the condition of its glory days\", but the process promises to be \"very rewarding\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles was welcomed by the Royal Regiment of Scotland and their mascot – a Shetland Pony.\n\nKing Charles III and Queen Camilla have come to Balmoral Castle for their first summer residence in Scotland since the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe King is continuing his mother's tradition of taking a summer holiday on Royal Deeside in Aberdeenshire.\n\nHe is expected to stay for three weeks and be there on the first anniversary of the Queen's death on September 8.\n\nHis visit began by inspecting troops from Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.\n\nThe King was also introduced to the regiment's official mascot, the Shetland pony Corporal Cruachan IV.\n\nThe inspection ceremony marks the formal welcome of the monarch to the Aberdeenshire castle.\n\nLast August it was held privately inside the grounds for the comfort of the Queen.\n\nShe died at the castle a month later at the age of 96. She was the first monarch to die at Balmoral.\n\nThe last photograph of Queen Elizabeth II was taken at Balmoral\n\nThe 50,000 acre estate sits 50 miles to the west of Aberdeen, within the Cairngorm National Park. It has long been established as the private summer home of the Royal Family.\n\nIt was bought by Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, in 1852 and has been handed down through the generations.\n\nThe estate includes grouse moors, forestry and farmland and is home to a large population of red deer.\n\nIt is the private property of the monarch and is not part of the Crown Estate.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II with Philip and their children at Balmoral in 1960\n\nQueen Elizabeth II hosted numerous royal garden parties there and enjoyed watching events at the nearby Braemar Highland Games with other members of the Royal Family.\n\nShe spent her final months at Balmoral and held an audience there with Liz Truss, the 15th Prime Minister of her 70 year reign, just two days before her death.\n\nThousands of people lined the route as the Queen's body was driven from Balmoral to Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.\n\nKing Charles grew up visiting the castle every year and the estate was the inspiration for his 1980 children's book The Old Man of Lochnagar.\n\nHe inherited the neighbouring Birkhall estate from his grandmother, the Queen Mother, upon her death in 2002.\n\nHe honeymooned there with Queen Camilla in 2005 and the couple later self-isolated at the house after testing for Covid-19 in March 2020.", "Theo Burrell, a specialist in decorative arts and fine antiques, joined the Antiques Roadshow in 2018\n\nAntiques Roadshow expert Theo Burrell was just 35 when she was diagnosed with an incurable cancerous brain tumour.\n\nFor six months she had endured increasingly worsening symptoms but her GP could not pinpoint the cause of her debilitating migraines.\n\nIt was only when she was offered a scan at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary's A&E that the 5cm (2in) tumour was discovered.\n\nNow, after months of treatment, she has joined calls for increased investment in brain tumour research.\n\nBrain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, according to charity Brain Tumour Research.\n\nBut just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to the disease.\n\nMs Burrell, whose son Jonah was just one when she was diagnosed last summer, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme about her experience.\n\n\"I started to get ill in the winter of 2021 and I wasn't diagnosed until the June of 2022, so [I had] five or six months of increasingly worsening symptoms - headaches, sickness, problems with my vision, very, very pressurised pains in my head, migraines - the list went on.\n\n\"And it wasn't until I went to A&E at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh that I was given the diagnosis. I had absolutely no idea it was coming, it was a huge shock.\"\n\nThe ceramics and glass expert with Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers in Edinburgh said she only learned the seriousness of her diagnosis the following day.\n\nMs Burrell was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour last summer\n\n\"At first, I didn't quite realise what I was being told,\" the 36-year-old said. \"The information in A&E was there was a 5m cancerous brain tumour in my head but it wasn't until the next day that I saw my surgeon and he explained that this was in fact incurable cancer.\"\n\nHe told her she had glioblastoma, a fast-growing brain tumour which is one of the most common cancerous brain tumours in adults.\n\n\"So I was told there and then really in no uncertain terms I will be losing my life to this... it was just shocking,\" she added.\n\nSince then, Ms Burrell has undergone months of treatment.\n\n\"I've had surgery, followed by radiotherapy, alongside chemotherapy, and then once that finished I went on to six months of chemotherapy so that's keeping the cancer in some form of control,\" she said.\n\n\"The surgery debulks the tumour so a lot of the tumour has been removed and right now I'm in a stable position.\n\n\"My scans are showing there has been no regrowth since that surgery and in fact some of the tumour has shrunk.\"\n\nMs Burrell wants to see more investment in research into brain tumours\n\nIt has sapped her of her energy, leaving her very tired a lot of time.\n\n\"Just doing a full day off, meeting friends for coffee then doing a bit of shopping, that really takes it out of me. I could be in bed all day the next day,\" she told BBC Radio Scotland's Mornings programme earlier this year.\n\nShe has lost her driving licence, and with that a lot of her independence, and she says she has \"this new sort of fear\".\n\n\"I don't know what's going to happen to my life,\" she said. \"I have scans every three months, so I can get on with life in between those scans but as soon as the next scan is on the horizon, I start to get worried and that manifests itself in physical symptoms - headaches, nausea, fatigue.\n\n\"There are lots of positive things as well. I've learned to live day-to-day. I've really given up worrying about the smaller things, things that used to keep me awake at night no longer do.\n\n\"Living day-to-day is actually quite freeing, I'm no longer looking too long into the future because it's so uncertain for me.\"\n\nShe said it was shocking that there was so little research into the disease and has joined a campaign urging the UK government to ring-fence £110m of funding for brain tumour research.\n\nA petition is also calling for an increase in the national investment in brain tumour research to £35m a year by 2028.\n\nBrain Tumour Research says that five years after the UK government announced £40m for brain cancer research, just £10.7m has been spent.\n\n\"For too long governments have put brain tumours on the 'too difficult to think about' pile,\" it said.\n\nThe UK's Department of Health and Social Care said it had \"specifically allocated £40m for research in this area, on top of £1bn a year for wider health research\".\n\nIt added that it had \"invested in every suitable research application made and the funding will continue to be available for further studies to develop new treatments and therapies for brain tumours\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had a new 10-year cancer strategy that \"aims to significantly cut the number of people diagnosed with later stage cancer and to reduce the health inequalities associated with the disease\".", "After a night of epic rain and little sleep, the storm has finally gone.\n\nWe were pummelled by a relentless downpour in Santa Clarita, 32 miles (50km) north of Los Angeles, which saw record levels for a 24-hour period.\n\nBut, for the most part, the view outside is remarkably normal. It's like, \"did that really happen?\"\n\nThere is some flooding and road closures, but the summer heat is drying the streets quickly.\n\nWith such a vast amount of rain in what is usually the year's driest month, the events of the past few hours have created an interesting paradigm for the traditionally parched countryside.\n\nThe sun and searing heat will be back very soon.\n\nIt remains to be seen how this extraordinary event impacts the enduring wildfire season.\n\nThe weeds will grow but nothing is going to burn, at least for a short while.", "Childminders should be allowed to work from their rented homes to boost childcare availability for families, the government has said.\n\nChildren's Minister Claire Coutinho has written to housing associations, social landlords and developers in England to urge them to review restrictive clauses in tenant contracts.\n\nBut the Early Years Alliance said this would make only a small difference.\n\nThe government has promised a huge expansion of free childcare in England.\n\nHowever, organisations representing the sector have warned there are not enough places to deliver this pledge, and childminders say they are leaving the job because government funding does not cover their costs.\n\nThe number of childminders operating in England has more than halved over the past 10 years, the Department for Education said.\n\nIt said blanket bans in tenant contracts, mortgage agreements or restrictive covenants for leasehold properties on using a home for business purposes was one reason more people were not signing up to be childminders.\n\nOne in eight prospective childminders who did not complete the registration process were unable to do so because they could not secure permission to work from their home, according to data collected by the agency Tiney.\n\nMinister Ms Coutinho said: \"Too often prospective childminders are having the door slammed in their faces because they face a blanket ban on working from home.\n\n\"However, parents tell us time and again how much they value the flexibility and quality that childminders bring so we are making sure that we are supporting the workforce to deliver what parents need.\"\n\nNatalia Baran, who is a childminder in London, said it had been a \"nightmare\" trying to find a landlord who would agree to her running her business from their property.\n\nShe previously worked as a nanny but when she had to find her own house to work from Ms Baran said it took her six months to find a landlord who would accept her, while 80% of estate agents said they could not help.\n\n\"The stress was unbearable,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe has now been given notice by her current landlord that they want the property back so is now in the same situation again.\n\nMs Baran welcomed the government's announcement, adding that it was important landlords were aware they could rent to childminders.\n\nThe National Residential Landlords Association said housing providers were not the issue and called for mortgage lenders and insurers to be more flexible, as well as for tenancy deposits to be allowed to reflect the greater risk of damage to properties used for childminding.\n\nThe government has already made other proposals to encourage childminders to remain in the profession, including allowing them to spend more time working outside their own homes, such as in a community centre or village hall.\n\nIt said it would consult on reducing registration times to around 10 weeks and ensure childminders are paid monthly by local authorities.\n\nChildcare start-up grants, worth up to £1,200, are also being launched.\n\nHowever, the Early Years Alliance, which represents the sector in England, accused the government of wasting time and resources \"by putting forward changes to minor challenges that in reality, will make a small amount of difference\".\n\nChief executive Neil Leitch said the latest announcement would \"fail to rectify or even slightly remedy the issues facing England's childminding sector\".\n\nHe said childminders continued to be \"underfunded, undervalued and underappreciated\" and the sector needed \"a long-term plan supported by realistic funding\".\n\nLabour said asking landlords to step in was a \"pathetic effort to make up for years of neglect\".\n\nThe government said it had already boosted the funding rates paid to early years providers, including childminders, to deliver free hours - from an average of £5.29 to £5.62 for three and four-year-olds, and from £6.00 to £7.95 for two-year-olds.\n\nHowever, the sector says the cost of providing these places in much higher and childminders have told the BBC this is a major reason many are leaving the sector.\n\nIn March's Budget, the government announced the current scheme offering some families in England 30 free hours of childcare per week for three and four-year-olds would be extended to cover children as young as nine months.\n\nThe changes will be phased in, starting with 15 hours free childcare per week for eligible parents of two-year-olds from April next year.\n\nMeanwhile, the government is urging parents to check they are claiming all their existing free childcare entitlements, with just 10 days to go to register for the autumn term.\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The family of a black man murdered in 1959 is demanding access to the police file on his unsolved killing.\n\nKelso Cochrane was stabbed to death on a west London street, in what's believed to have been a racist attack. Nobody was ever charged with the crime.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says the file is not available to the public because the case is still open.\n\nThe family lawyer says this secrecy is not justified, and the family is ready to take legal action if necessary.\n\nThe murder is arguably one of the most significant events in black British history.\n\nAt the time of his death, the 32-year-old was living in London, working as a carpenter and planning to study law.\n\nKelso Cochrane had been born in Antigua, and had arrived in England five years before his death, following a spell in the US. He had been married there, but the relationship had broken down.\n\nListen to the radio documentary, The Murder of Kelso Cochrane, on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 BST on Monday 21 August, or 11:00 BST on Wednesday 23 August, or afterwards on BBC Sounds\n\nHe had also left two young daughters in the US, to whom he still sent toys - dolls, tea sets, and skipping ropes. One of them, Josephine, says that these \"little things\" gave her \"the impression that he was a loving father and that he cared\".\n\nLike many other members of the Windrush generation, Cochrane was living in the west London area of Notting Hill. It was one of the few parts of the city where new immigrants from the Caribbean could find housing, although it was often expensive, overcrowded and in poor condition. The area was also home to a well-established white working class population.\n\nOn the evening of 16 May 1959, Cochrane paid a visit to his local hospital, Paddington General. His thumb was painful after an injury at work.\n\nOn his way back home, he was attacked by a group of five or six white youths. Witnesses said they saw them encircling him, kicking, hitting. One jumped on his back.\n\nTwo Jamaican men walking past saw the incident and ran to help. Cochrane was able to stand, so they got him into a taxi and took him to St Charles' Hospital in nearby North Kensington.\n\nCochrane didn't seem to be bleeding heavily, but he'd been stabbed in the heart with a thin blade. By the time they arrived at the hospital, he was in severe shock. He died there, just before 01:00.\n\nBy 04:00 news of the death had made the newspapers. A late edition of the Sunday Express that morning carried a flash headline: \"Murder in Notting Hill\".\n\nNotting Hill had already become identified with racial tension. In the previous summer of 1958, riots lasting several days had broken out in the neighbourhood.\n\nThe riots ended in early September, but for black residents the undercurrent of violence persisted.\n\nRacial tensions had erupted during the Notting Hill riots of 1958\n\nFar-right groups had become active in the area, including the Union Movement of Sir Oswald Mosley. In spring 1959, another group, the White Defence League, had set up an office in the heart of Notting Hill, saying it would \"campaign for white interests\".\n\nBut for all the tension, nobody had been killed in a racist attack - until Kelso Cochrane.\n\nThe police inquiry was led by Det Supt Ian Forbes-Leith. He had a team of 20 officers at his disposal.\n\nThe investigation quickly focused on a party, which had been taking place close to where Cochrane was attacked on Southam Street.\n\nSeveral guests were brought in for questioning. Two were held for more than 48 hours - Patrick Digby, a 20-year-old merchant seaman, and John \"Shoggy\" Breagan who was 24. They were later released without charge.\n\nThe street corner in London's Notting Hill where Kelso Cochrane was attacked\n\nThe police were quick to dismiss the idea that racism was the motive. Det Supt Forbes-Leith told the press that the stabbing had \"absolutely nothing to do with racial conflict\". He suggested the motive could have been robbery.\n\nThat wasn't what it looked like to many in Notting Hill's black community. John Prince, a friend of Cochrane, told the BBC in 2006 that it had been frightening: \"Suddenly now you're faced with the possibility of being murdered just because of who you were as a person.\"\n\nOn 6 June 1959 hundreds of people - black and white - gathered for Cochrane's funeral, lining the streets of Notting Hill, following his coffin to nearby Kensal Green Cemetery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the wake of the murder, the activist Claudia Jones and others set up the Inter Racial Friendship Co-ordinating Council, which paid Cochrane's funeral costs, organised silent protests in Whitehall, and pushed for laws against racial hatred.\n\nOver time, the police inquiry was wound down.\n\nDecades later in 2006, Cochrane's older brother Stanley came to England for the first time. He wanted to find out who killed his brother. A BBC documentary team followed him.\n\nThe investigative journalist Mark Olden tracked down Patrick Digby and John Breagan but neither were willing to meet Stanley. Both denied involvement in the murder. Stanley asked to see the police file but was only allowed to see an abridged version.\n\nAmong those who saw the programme was Pat Digby's step-daughter, Susie Read. She contacted Olden, and told him she remembered Digby's friends baiting him with an odd name - \"Oslo\" or \"Kelso\".\n\nPat Digby's stepdaughter Susie Read says he admitted to her that he killed Cochrane\n\nShe has now told us that once during an argument, she had challenged Digby about the accusation: \"He said, 'Well, if I did, you could never prove it.' I said, 'Did you kill him? He said, 'Yeah'.\"\n\nOlden kept digging. He spoke to a guest at the Southam Street party, who told him Digby had come back after the attack, and confessed to people there.\n\nHe spoke again to John Breagan, who said that he and Digby had left the party together before the murder. When first asked why by the police, one of them said it was to look for girls, the other said it was to have a fight. But when detained in the police station, they were held in adjacent cells. Breagan told Olden that this had allowed them to \"straighten\" their stories. Breagan died in 2019.\n\nIn 2011 Olden published a book, Murder in Notting Hill, which prompted Kelso Cochrane's daughter Josephine to contact him. Growing up in New York, she knew her father had died, but until then hadn't realised he'd been murdered.\n\nJosephine is now at the centre of the family's efforts to get the police files opened. She told us that as she hadn't known her father growing up she wanted to know \"everything\" about his murder and the investigation \"before I die\".\n\nCochrane's daughter Josephine says she wants to know \"everything\" about his murder\n\nThe investigation file into Kelso Cochrane's murder has been transferred to the National Archives in Kew, but it will remain closed from public view until 2054 - after Josephine's 100th birthday.\n\nIt's not uncommon for unsolved murder cases to be restricted for up to 100 years - this is so they only become public after all those involved have died.\n\nBut some unsolved murder files from London in the same period are open, such as that of Freda Knowles, murdered in 1964, or Ernest Isaacs, shot dead at his home in 1966.\n\nCrime historian Dr Mark Roodhouse, of the University of York, uses police files from the mid-20th Century for his research. He says he's surprised that the Kelso Cochrane file is still restricted.\n\nIn spring 2020, I made my own Freedom of Information request for the Cochrane file to be opened early, on public interest grounds.\n\nI've succeeded in getting other files opened early, notably dozens of files on institutional child sex abuse just after the Jimmy Savile scandal.\n\nOn this occasion, however, my request was turned down.\n\nThe Met Police said then the Cochrane case was considered open, and that \"new scientific techniques\" meant that \"cases hitherto considered unsolvable, are being examined afresh\".\n\nI was also told that releasing the files would cause the family \"immediate mental distress\". However, it is Cochrane's family who now wants the file released.\n\nWhat's more, the main suspects are dead and it is difficult to point to any evidence that could be subject to \"cold case\" techniques. The BBC documentary team was told in 2006 that Kelso Cochrane's clothes had been destroyed in the late 1960s.\n\nKelso Cochrane is remembered in west London by a street named after him\n\nWe went back to the Metropolitan Police this summer, asking them to explain why the Cochrane family was unable to access the file. They told us that \"as with all unsolved murders this case is not closed and any evidence that comes to light will be assessed and investigated accordingly\".\n\nThey said that officers from the Special Casework Team had made efforts to engage with Mr Cochrane's family, via their legal representatives, with a view to discussing details of this murder investigation - but that these efforts had so far been unsuccessful.\n\nDaniel Machover, the lawyer acting for the Cochrane family, says the family will pursue a formal route to obtain the file - challenging the reasons previously given to withhold it.\n\nHe has obtained multiple statements to support the request, from Kelso Cochrane's immediate and extended family, and from journalists who have tried to obtain the file over many years, including myself.\n\nMachover has also provided the death certificates of the key suspects, and others who are likely to have been significant witnesses in the case.\n\nHe says it's too late for criminal justice, but the family hopes there will be something in the file that \"at least gives them a picture, a flavour, an idea of what was done to try to secure a criminal charge and a criminal prosecution\".\n\nMachover has represented many black families in dispute with the Met Police. He believes there is a need to acknowledge the events of the past to deal with mistrust today.\n\nComparisons have been drawn with the murder of the south London teenager, Stephen Lawrence, in 1993 - in both cases, there was a reluctance by the Met Police to name racism as the motive, and an initial failure to charge anyone for the crimes.\n\nLess than a mile from where he was attacked, a street has been named after Kelso Cochrane, as well as a new block of social housing.\n\nA plaque is unveiled earlier this year at the newly opened Kelso Cochrane House in North Kensington\n\nMembers of the Cochrane family are grateful for the recognition but they still want something more.\n\nMillicent Christian, the daughter of Cochrane's cousin, says that Stephen Lawrence's mother Doreen eventually achieved \"some kind\" of justice. \"We're looking for that same kind of justice for our Kelso.\"", "A senior manager in charge of nursing when Lucy Letby murdered and seriously injured babies has been suspended.\n\nAlison Kelly and other managers at the Countess of Chester Hospital have been accused of ignoring warnings about Letby.\n\nMs Kelly, director of nursing for Rochdale Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance, has since been suspended \"in light of information\" that emerged during the trial.\n\nLetby was jailed for life on Monday.\n\nThe former nurse was found guilty on Friday of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six other infants following a 10-month trial.\n\nLetby deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin.\n\nThe BBC spoke to the lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked, who said hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015. No action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.\n\nThe government has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind Letby's \"horrific\" baby murders.\n\n\"We welcome the independent inquiry announced by the Department of Health and Social Care into the events at the Countess of Chester and will cooperate fully to help ensure all lessons are learned,\" an NHS England spokesperson said on Monday.\n\n\"In light of information that has emerged during the trial of Lucy Letby, and the announcement of the independent inquiry, the Northern Care Alliance has suspended Alison Kelly.\"\n\nMs Kelly is the director of nursing for Rochdale Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, which runs five hospitals in the Manchester area.\n\nShe has more than 30 years of experience as a nurse and was director of nursing and quality at the Countess of Chester Hospital for eight years before starting her current role, the trust's website says.\n\nA BBC investigation into how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long revealed a catalogue of failures and raised serious questions about how the Countess of Chester Hospital responded to the deaths.\n\nBefore June 2015, there were about two or three baby deaths a year on the neonatal unit at the hospital, but in that month alone, three babies died within the space of two weeks.\n\nThe first five murders all happened between June and October 2015 and - despite months of warnings - the final two were in June 2016.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit, was the first to raise his concerns with hospital managers, including Ms Kelly, that Letby might be harming babies.\n\nHe said he demanded Letby be taken off duty in June 2016, after the final two murders. Hospital management initially refused.\n\nWhen she was finally moved, Letby was assigned to the risk and patient safety office, where she had access to sensitive documents from the neonatal unit and was in close proximity to senior managers whose job it was to investigate her.\n\nLetby was arrested and suspended by the hospital in 2018, three years after Dr Brearey had first raised the alarm.\n\nShe was convicted following a two-year investigation by Cheshire Police, with the final verdicts in the trial announced on Friday.\n\nLetby was found not guilty of two attempted murder charges and the jury was undecided on further attempted murder charges relating to four babies.\n\nCorrection: This story has been amended to say that Alison Kelly is director of nursing at the Rochdale Care Organisation, which is part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. and not nursing director at the trust or its most \"senior nurse\" as earlier reported.", "Chris Evans said he will have the cancer on his leg removed next month\n\nDJ Chris Evans has revealed he has been diagnosed with skin cancer.\n\nThe 57-year-old announced the news on his Virgin Radio show on Monday, urging others to get themselves checked.\n\nHe told listeners he was tested for the disease after his \"angel\" of a masseur found \"a mark\" on his shin and that it had been \"caught as early as possible\".\n\nIt comes eight years after the former BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 broadcaster was given the all-clear following a prostate cancer scare.\n\n\"I've just got to talk briefly about my biopsy for the skin cancer issue,\" he said. \"So the best news that I got whilst I was away is that it was a positive test, so I have tested positive for skin cancer.\n\n\"Obviously better news would have been [that it was] negative. But the reason it's great news is because they've caught it as early as they can, as early as is possible.\"\n\nHe added that he had a type of skin cancer called melanoma.\n\n\"It's as treatable as cancer can be to the extent that they call it 'stage zero',\" Evans continued. He said the mark on his leg would be removed on 14 September.\n\n\"I can't run for a month afterwards so I'm going to do nothing but run until then,\" he joked. \"Is that ok?'\n\nHe went on to say he had thanked his masseur Dee for \"potentially saving my life\", as well as urging listeners to \"get yourself checked\".\n\n\"Just check yourself for stuff, as you get older especially, on your skin, on your bits and your bobs,\" said the DJ.\n\n\"Just keep checking because the biggest weapon in your arsenal, in our collective arsenal... is early detection. And so please do that.\"\n\nMost skin cancers are caused by sun damage. People with paler or fair skin are at higher risk of damage because they have less of the protective pigment melanin in their skin.\n\nPeople with any skin tone can get skin cancer though. Using sunscreen can reduce your risk.\n\nEvans, one of the biggest presenters in the country since the 1990s, bid an emotional farewell to his long-running, popular Radio 2 programme back in 2018.\n\nThe following year he went on to help Virgin Radio break the one million listener barrier with his new show.\n\nAnother skin cancer patient recently told the BBC that waiting nine months for treatment had been \"very scary and stressful\"..\n\nThe NHS cited backlogs due to the pandemic and an \"unprecedented increase\" in serious cancers.\n\nThe number of cancer waiting time targets are expected to be reduced in England, in a move the health service says aims to catch cancers earlier.\n\nNHS bosses want to cut the number of targets, most of which have been routinely missed in recent years, from nine to three.", "The mother of two of Lucy Letby's victims said her refusal to appear for sentencing was \"just one final act of wickedness from a coward\".\n\nIn statements read to the court, the victims' families said they felt disrespected by her absence.\n\nCalls are growing for the government to change the law to compel convicts to attend sentencing.\n\nRishi Sunak said it was \"cowardly that people who commit such horrendous crimes do not face their victims\".\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer said his party would close the \"shamefully exploited loophole\" if elected to government.\n\nLetby murdered seven babies and tried to kill six more while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016.\n\nThe 33-year-old's case is the latest in a series of high-profile trials where convicted murderers have refused to turn up for their sentencing, including the killers of Zara Aleena in London and nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.\n\nThe mother of Child E, who died, and Child F, who survived, told the court that Letby has \"repeatedly disrespected my boy's memory\".\n\nHitting out at Letby's refusal to attend the sentencing hearing, the woman said: \"Even in these final days of the trial she tried to control things, the disrespect she has shown the families and the court show what type of person she is.\n\n\"We have attended court day in and day out, yet she decides she has had enough, and stays in her cell, just one final act of wickedness from a coward.\n\n\"I would like to thank Lucy for taking the stand and showing the court what she is really like once the 'nice Lucy' mask slips.\n\n\"It was honestly the best thing she could have done to ensure our boys got the justice they deserve.\"\n\nAddressing Letby's absence from court as he sentenced her to spend the rest of her life behind bars, Mr Justice Goss said he would \"deliver the remarks as if she is present to hear them\" and that the 33-year-old would be sent a copy of his remarks and the victim impact statements from the families.\n\nAsked about Letby's absence from the court room, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it was \"cowardly\" when convicts \"do not face their victims and hear first-hand the impact that their crimes have had on them and their families and loved ones\".\n\nHe added that his government is looking to change the law to compel people to attend their sentencing which was something that \"we'll bring forward in due course\".\n\nFarah Naz, Ms Aleena's aunt, said convicted criminals should be forced to face their victims and listen to testimony about the impact of their offences.\n\nMs Aleena, 35, died after being attacked and badly beaten as she walked home in Ilford, east London in June 2022. Jordan McSweeney, 29, later confessed to the killing but refused to attend his sentencing.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast ahead of Letby's sentencing, Ms Naz said reading out victim impact statements in the presence of the convict is the \"only time in which the victims have a part in the justice system. And we need to have a part in the justice system in order to feel heard, in order to feel some sense of retribution\".\n\nShe said she and her family \"needed to look at him [McSweeney] and make him uncomfortable. He needed to see us, he needed to see what he did. There's never going to be a moment in his life now where he gets to hear what he did.\"\n\nThe mother of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was shot and killed by Thomas Cashman as he chased another man into her home in 2022, is backing a campaign to force criminals to attend their sentencing. Cashman was jailed for life in April but also refused to attend his sentencing.\n\nCheryl Korbel said writing her victim impact statement had been \"really hard\" and that \"it's important for the offenders to listen to the pain that they've caused, the pain that is ongoing\".\n\n\"Going to prison is supposed to be a rehabilitation. That first port of call of rehabilitation should be in that courtroom and standing there listening to the judge and listening to the families' impact statements,\" she said.\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said Letby \"took the coward's approach\" by not appearing in court.\n\nIt was one last insult to her victims by \"robbing their families of the chance to look her in the eye as the judge decided her fate\", he added.\n\n\"Cases like these make me even more determined to make sure the worst offenders attend court to face justice, when ordered by the judge,\" he said.\n\nThe family of Sabina Nessa, who was killed in a random attack in Kidbrooke, south-east London, in 2021, were also unable to face her murderer who refused to appear at his sentencing.\n\nKoci Selamaj, 36, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years in April last year.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Sabina's sister, Jebina Islam, said it was \"outrageous\" that Selamaj \"was able to decide whether or not to come to court\" and had \"refused to listen to our family impact via link\".\n\nShe has been campaigning to make convicts appear in court.\n\nUnder existing laws, a judge can order a defendant to attend court but cannot compel them to do so.\n\nIf they refuse, prison authorities can use reasonable force to bring them to court, but the Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, says there can be a reluctance on the part of prison governors to use such force.\n\nKirsty Brimelow KC, chair of the Criminal Bar Association, said forcing an offender to go to court could also \"massively increase risk to everybody around that prisoner\".\n\n\"I think it's unlikely to work. You should never underestimate the capability and capacity of somebody to disrupt court proceedings,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nLord Thomas, who was lord chief justice of England and Wales between 2013 and 2017, told the BBC's PM that time could be added to an offender's sentence if they fail to attend court or, if they are already being given a whole-life term, the judge's remarks could be broadcast into their cell.\n\n\"Having once seen someone in the United States bound and gagged in court, I don't think that that is an appropriate solution,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World At One, Lord Falconer, who served as justice secretary between 2003 and 2007, said he was in favour of defendants being made to attend court, but warned they could make the situation worse for everyone involved by \"behaving incredibly badly, being insulting, disrespecting the court\".\n\n\"We have to move on from where we are now, which is uncertainty,\" he said. \"The norm should be the judge orders the defendant to be there for sentencing. He or she is there unless there is good reason.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour men have been arrested after a large-scale disturbance at a sports event in Derby left four people injured.\n\nOfficers were called to a kabaddi match in Elvaston Lane, Alvaston, at 15:50 BST on Sunday.\n\nDerbyshire Police said one person was seriously hurt, adding a large police presence would remain in the area for some time.\n\nThe arrested men - 24, 28, 30 and 38 - remain in custody.\n\nThey have been held on suspicion of possession of a firearm and violent disorder.\n\nCh Supt Emma Aldred said: \"We are aware of videos of the incident circulating online, we are carrying out investigations in relation to these and I would encourage anyone with footage to send it to us for enquiries to continue.\n\n\"Officers remain in the area to provide reassurance to the community, please speak to them if you have any information.\"\n\nKabaddi is a field sport originating in India, in which two teams take turns to send a raider to the other's territory, or half, tag members of the opposing team, and return \"home\" without being blocked by defenders on the other side.\n\nOne nearby resident said she saw \"at least 40 cars if not more\" in the area\n\nDerby City Council leader Baggy Shanker said the authority was \"extremely saddened\" to hear what had happened, adding his thoughts were with those affected.\n\nA woman who lives nearby told BBC Radio Derby she understood it was a ticketed event.\n\n\"Police cars just kept coming for hours, ambulances, dog units - at least 40 cars if not more,\" the woman, who did not want to give her name, said.\n\n\"We saw lots of people come out of the event. Some people we spoke to said a group of people turned up at the event, who were not invited and they had weapons.\"\n\nKulwinder Singh, from the English Kabaddi Federation, said he was shocked at what had happened.\n\n\"We wanted to make it a really good event and it was up to that point,\" he said. \"We couldn't believe it.\"\n\nMike Singh, a print worker at Punjab Times - which has its office next to the venue - said he heard a commotion and saw \"40 or 50 masked kids running out\".\n\nHe said: \"I don't think there's been a kabaddi event here for six or seven years, so we're disappointed it's spoiled it for them.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Greek authorities say high temperatures and gale-force winds could lead to even more fires\n\nSeveral parts of Greece are on high alert as extreme temperatures and high winds threaten to spark more devastating wildfires.\n\nExtreme fire risk warnings have been issued for several regions in southern Greece, including around Athens.\n\nThe capital has seen searing temperatures over summer - this week they will hover close to 40C (104F).\n\nDozens of fires broke out at the weekend, prompting thousands of residents to be evacuated.\n\nOne of the worst fire fronts is near the port city of Alexandroupolis, close to the north-eastern border with Turkey.\n\nFires there have been burning for several days, and 13 communities near the city were evacuated \"for the safety of the citizens\", Greece's fire service said in a statement.\n\nThere are also fires burning in the eastern Rhodope region and the northern city of Kavala.\n\nFrance, Cyprus and Romania have sent reinforcements to help Greek firefighters.\n\nAt least one person is thought to have died so far as a result of these latest fires.\n\nAccording to local media, an 80-year-old man collapsed while trying to save his sheep from the flames in the central Boeotia region, north of Athens.\n\nSummer wildfires are common in Greece but scientists have linked the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including heatwaves, to climate change.\n\nJust last month, thousands of people were forced to flee fires on the Greek island of Rhodes after wildfires broke out there and in other parts of the country.\n\n\"Greece already had by far its worst July since 2008 in terms of wildfires,\" the EU's Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, said on Monday.\n\n\"The burnt area is bigger and the fires are more intense and more violent, burning more area than before.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Greek fire service, Ioannis Artophios, said the country is faced with \"extreme phenomena\" and that everyone needed to \"adapt to this difficult situation.\"\n\nGreece is one of several European countries currently at extreme risk of wildfires, according to the EU's climate monitoring service, Copernicus.\n\nFire crews have been battling a blaze on the Spanish island of Tenerife for almost a week, but the authorities there believe the worst is now behind them.\n\nThe fire has burned through thousands of acres of land and forced the evacuation of more than 12,000 people, according to the regional government.\n\nParts of southern France, meanwhile, could experience record-breaking heat in the coming days. Temperatures of more than 40C are expected in places including the Rhone valley.", "Charles Martinet, the now former voice of Mario\n\nCharles Martinet, the voice behind Nintendo's famous character Mario, is to step down from the role, the gaming giant has announced.\n\nThe actor has voiced the Italian plumber in the video games since 1996, starting with Super Mario 64.\n\nHowever, he did not voice the titular character in this year's movie. That honour went to Chris Pratt.\n\nNintendo announced the news on X, saying it had been an \"honour\" working with Martinet, 67.\n\nMartinet will continue to work with Nintendo as a \"Mario ambassador,\" and he seemed pleased with his new role.\n\nThe latest game starring the heroic Italian, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, was announced earlier this year and the trailer prompted speculation from some fans that Martinet had been replaced.\n\nNintendo's statement on Monday said that \"he will be stepping back from recording character voices for our games, but he'll continue to travel the world sharing the joy of Mario and interacting with you all!\n\n\"It has been an honour working with Charles to help being Mario to life for so many years and we want to thank and celebrate him. Please keep an eye out for a special video message from Shigeru Miyamoto (the creator of Mario) and Charles himself, which we will post at a future date.\"\n\nMartinet has voiced the character since 1996, featuring in multiple games such as the Mario Kart and Mario Party series.\n\nThough Martinet has become synonymous with Mario, it was Hollywood A-lister Pratt who voiced the famous tradesmen in 2023's hugely successful movie, with Martinet providing voices for Giuseppe and Mario's dad instead.\n\nIn addition to Mario, Martinet also provided the voices for other characters in the Mario series, including Mario's brother Luigi, rivals Wario and Waluigi, as well as the baby versions of the characters.\n\n2023 has been a big year for the Mario series, with the Mario movie making over $1bn at the box office and further releases to come on the Switch, with Super Mario Bros. Wonder and a remake of Super Mario RPG set for release later this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'We will rebuild the way people of Maui want to'\n\nPresident Joe Biden has toured wildfire damage in Hawaii after scrutiny of his administration's response to the state's worst ever natural disaster.\n\nHe arrived in Maui on Monday, 13 days after the deadliest US wildfire in over a century, telling survivors the nation \"grieves with you\".\n\nMr Biden and First Lady Jill Biden toured the charred ruins of the town of Lahaina and met first responders.\n\nAt least 114 people have died and 850 people are still missing.\n\nHawaii's governor has said many of the victims may be children.\n\n\"For as long as it takes, we're going to be with you,\" said Mr Biden, who spoke for about 10 minutes amid the rubble. \"The whole country will be with you.\"\n\nHe added: \"The country grieves with you, stands with you and will do everything possible to help you recover.\"\n\nMr Biden - who also took an aerial tour - described the wildfire devastation as \"overwhelming\".\n\nThe president and the federal agencies he oversees have come under fire from Hawaiians who say aid has been inadequate and poorly organised.\n\nRepublicans have led criticism of the Democratic president for having been on two holidays since the fire struck on 8 August.\n\nTo visit Hawaii, Mr Biden paused his current vacation at Lake Tahoe in Nevada, where he is renting a home belonging to a Democratic donor, according to the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There's a lack of response, it felt like\"\n\nWhen asked about the rising death toll on 13 August while he was at a Delaware beach, Mr Biden angered some Hawaiians by saying: \"No comment\".\n\nThe White House has said Mr Biden delayed his trip to the disaster zone so he wouldn't distract from recovery operations.\n\nThe president issued a major disaster declaration on 10 August to expedite federal funding and assistance to the area.\n\nThe Federal Emergency Management Agency says more than 1,000 federal responders are now on the ground in Hawaii.\n\nLocal officials have also faced criticism. Maui's emergency management chief resigned last week after the agency faced backlash for failing to activate its alarm system in the wake of the fire.\n\nTo date, 27 of the deceased have been identified and 11 families had been notified, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen said earlier on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tim Laporte searches for his father missing in Maui\n\nDetails of who the victims are have begun to emerge in recent days - they include an avid musician, and loving grandmothers and fathers.\n\nMr Bissen said that in some respects, the figure of 850 missing was \"positive news\" because it marked a decrease from the more than 2,000 unaccounted for in the immediate aftermath of the fires.\n\nFamily members of the missing have been asked to provide a DNA sample to assist in the recovery search.\n\nExperts have told the BBC both finding and identifying the victims could take months or even years given the magnitude of the destruction and the condition that many of the remains are likely to be found in.", "Lucy Letby will be sentenced on Monday for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others\n\nA judge should lead the inquiry into the circumstances behind Lucy Letby's attacks on babies, the health select committee chairman has told the BBC.\n\nAs it stands, the inquiry looking at the crimes will not have the power to compel witnesses to give evidence.\n\nConservative MP Steve Brine said some \"may not be so willing\" to cooperate.\n\nMeanwhile, the prosecution's lead medical expert in the case has said hospital executives who failed to act should be investigated by police.\n\nLetby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016, following a 10-month trial.\n\nThe nurse was found not guilty of two attempted murders and the jury could not reach verdicts on six others. She will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nThe aim of the separate non-statutory inquiry is to ensure lessons are learned, the government has said.\n\nBut concerns have been raised by some over how effective it will be in examining the case.\n\nSome have called for a statutory inquiry with legal powers to compel witnesses to give evidence. Statutory inquiries are often led by a minister-appointed judge.\n\nNon-statutory inquiries can be converted into statutory inquiries if they have been shown to cause public concern.\n\n\"I think a judge-led statutory inquiry is in order here,\" Mr Brine told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme.\n\n\"What I want to see... is not a process that drags on for years, an inquiry that can disappear down a rabbit hole.\"\n\nHe added that a \"proper judge-led\" inquiry was the only way to ensure public confidence.\n\nJane Tomkinson, acting chief executive officer at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said the trust welcomed the announcement of the independent inquiry and would be supporting the ongoing investigation by Cheshire Police.\n\n\"Due to ongoing legal considerations, it would not be appropriate for the Trust to make any further comment at this time,\" she said.\n\nCheshire Constabulary has been approached for comment.\n\nMr Brine is the latest to question the powers available to the inquiry in its current form.\n\nSlater and Gordon, the law firm representing two of the families of babies attacked by Letby, said a non-statutory inquiry \"is not good enough\" and lessons had to be learned by the hospital, NHS and wider medical profession.\n\nLabour's City of Chester MP Samantha Dixon told the BBC that as it stood the inquiry would have to rely on \"the goodwill of witnesses to attend\".\n\nBut Dr Caroline Johnson, Conservative MP and consultant paediatrician, said lessons needed to be learned quickly and the government could decide to order a statutory inquiry at a later date if extra powers were needed.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup, who has led non-statutory reviews for other maternity units, said non-compliance had not been a problem in his experience and people were \"ready and willing to cooperate\".\n\nThe patient safety investigator told the BBC he had identified common features between the Letby case and the reviews he had conducted - including managers accused of \"protecting reputations\" above listening to staff concerns.\n\nAfter the verdict, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said it was \"extremely sorry\" the crimes happened in its hospital and it had since made \"significant changes\" to their services.\n\nFormer chief executive of the hospital Tony Chambers and former medical director Ian Harvey, who were in charge at the time Letby was working at the hospital, have said they will co-operate fully with the inquiry.\n\nMr Chambers has also told The Observer newspaper that he took \"prompt action\" including to move Letby off the neonatal unit when concerns were first escalated to him in June 2016.\n\nDr Nigel Scawn, medical director at the Countess of Chester Hospital, said on Friday: \"Since Lucy Letby worked at our hospital, we have made significant changes to our services and I want to provide reassurance to every patient that may access our services that they can have confidence in the care that they will receive.\"\n\nRetired consultant paediatrician Dr Dewi Evans, who gave expert evidence during the trial, said he believed the case demanded a criminal investigation into corporate manslaughter, in comments first made to the Observer.\n\nHe told the BBC he intended to write to Cheshire Police to ask it to investigate bosses for not acting on the concerns of doctors.\n\n\"I intend to write...[to say I] believe we need to investigate the senior executives in this hospital for what in my opinion is gross dereliction of duty and repeated failures to engage effectively with experienced senior medical professionals,\" he said.\n\n\"The NHS is a corporate organisation with a chief executive - they have a duty of care to patients and staff. They failed patients and staff, and hospital management should be accountable to a disciplinary body in the same way doctors are.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues raised here, there are details of organisations that may be able to offer support on the BBC Action Line.", "Ethiopian migrants say they were shot when they tried to cross from Yemen into Saudi Arabia\n\nSaudi border guards are accused of the mass killing of migrants along the Yemeni border in a new report by Human Rights Watch.\n\nThe report says hundreds of people, many of them Ethiopians who cross war-torn Yemen to reach Saudi Arabia, have been shot dead.\n\nMigrants have told the BBC they had limbs severed by gunfire and saw bodies left on the trails.\n\nThe Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, titled They Fired On Us Like Rain, contains graphic testimony from migrants who say they were shot at and sometimes targeted with explosive weapons by Saudi police and soldiers on Yemen's rugged northern border with Saudi Arabia.\n\nMigrants contacted separately by the BBC have spoken of terrifying night-time crossings during which large groups of Ethiopians, including many women and children, came under fire as they attempted to cross the border in search of work in the oil-rich kingdom.\n\n\"The shooting went on and on,\" 21-year-old Mustafa Soufia Mohammed told the BBC.\n\nHe said some in his group of 45 migrants were killed when they came under fire as they tried to sneak across the border in July last year.\n\n\"I didn't even notice I was shot,\" he said, \"but when I tried to get up and walk, part of my leg was not with me.\"\n\nMustafa Soufia Mohammed says he came under fire at the Saudi-Yemeni border\n\nIt was a brutal, chaotic end to a three-month journey fraught with danger, starvation and violence at the hands of Yemeni and Ethiopian smugglers.\n\nA video filmed hours later shows his left foot almost completely severed. Mustafa's leg was amputated below the knee and now, back with his parents in Ethiopia, he walks with crutches and an ill-fitting prosthetic limb.\n\n\"I went to Saudi Arabia because I wanted to improve my family's life,\" the father-of-two said, \"but what I hoped for didn't materialise. Now my parents do everything for me.\"\n\nAnother Ethiopian migrant, who we are calling Ibsaa to protect his identity, said he was shot at the border by men wearing Saudi military uniforms.\n\n\"They beat us, killed some and took those who survived to the hospital. The bodies of those killed were left scattered on the ground,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I was shot between my thighs near my groin, and my legs are paralyzed now. I can't even walk. I thought I would die.\"\n\nIn the Yemeni capital, Zahra can barely bring herself to speak about what happened.\n\nShe says she is 18, but looks younger. We are not using her real name to protect her identity.\n\nHer journey, which had already cost around $2,500 (£1,950) in ransoms and bribes, ended in a hail of bullets at the border.\n\nOne bullet took all the fingers of one hand. Asked about her injury, she looks away and cannot answer.\n\nAccording to the UN's International Organization for Migration, tens of thousands of people a year attempt a perilous journey, crossing by sea from the Horn of Africa to Yemen and then travelling on to Saudi Arabia.\n\nHuman rights organisations say many experience imprisonment and beatings along the way.\n\nThe sea crossing is dangerous enough. More than 24 migrants were reported missing last week after a shipwreck off the coast of Djibouti.\n\nIn Yemen, the main migrant routes are littered with the graves of people who have died along the way.\n\nDozens of migrants were killed two years ago when fire tore through a detention centre in the capital, Sanaa, run by the country's Houthi rebels who control most of northern Yemen.\n\nBut the abuses outlined in the latest HRW report are different in scale and nature.\n\n\"What we documented are essentially mass killings,\" the report's lead author, Nadia Hardman, told the BBC.\n\n\"People described sites that sound like killing fields - bodies strewn all over the hillside,\" she said.\n\nThe report, which covers the period from March 2022 to June this year, details 28 separate incidents involving explosive weapons and 14 of shootings at close range.\n\n\"I have seen hundreds of graphic images and videos sent to me by survivors. They depict pretty terrifying injuries and blast wounds.\"\n\nThe report says it is impossible estimate how many migrants have been killed along the border\n\nThe remoteness of the border crossings and the difficulty of tracking down survivors make it impossible to know precisely how many people have been killed, say the authors.\n\n\"We say a minimum of 655, but it's likely to be thousands,\" Hardman said. \"We have factually demonstrated that the abuses are widespread and systematic and may amount to a crime against humanity,\" she said.\n\nReports of widespread killings perpetrated by Saudi security forces along the northern border first surfaced last October in a letter by UN experts to the government in Riyadh.\n\nThey highlighted \"what appears to be a systematic pattern of large-scale, indiscriminate cross-border killings, using artillery shelling and small arms fired by Saudi security forces against migrants.\"\n\nDespite the horrific nature of the allegations, the letter went largely unreported.\n\nThe Saudi government said it took the allegations seriously but strongly rejected the UN's characterisation that the killings were systematic or large-scale.\n\n\"Based on the limited information provided,\" the government replied, \"authorities within the Kingdom have discovered no information or evidence to confirm or substantiate the allegations.\"\n\nBut last month, the Mixed Migration Centre, a global research network, published further allegations of killings along the border, based on its own interviews with survivors.\n\nIts report contains graphic descriptions of rotting corpses scattered throughout the border area, captured migrants being asked by Saudi border guards which leg they want to be shot through, and machine guns and mortars being used to attack large groups of terrified people.\n\nThe report from Human Rights Watch is the most detailed yet, with multiple eyewitness reports and satellite imagery of the crossing points where many of the killings are said to have taken place, as well as makeshift burial sites.\n\nMigrant routes in Yemen are littered with graves\n\nThe report also identifies a detention centre at Monabbih, just inside Yemen, where migrants are held before being escorted to the border by armed smugglers.\n\nAccording to one migrant interviewed by HRW, Yemen's Houthi rebels are in charge of security at Monabbih and work alongside the smugglers.\n\nWhile the HRW report covers events up to June this year, the BBC has uncovered evidence that the killings are continuing.\n\nIn the northern city of Saada, footage seen by the BBC shows migrants injured at the border arriving in a hospital as late as Friday. In a nearby cemetery, burials were taking place.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Saudi government for comment about the allegations made by UN rapporteurs, the Mixed Migration Centre and Human Rights Watch, but has not received a response.\n\nA Saudi government source told AFP news agency that the allegations were \"unfounded and not based on reliable sources\".\n\nIn a letter sent to HRW in response to the report, the Houthi-led government in Sanaa said it was aware of \"deliberate killings of immigrants and Yemenis\" by Saudi border guards. It also denied working with smugglers, saying it considered them to be criminals.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Sara Sharif suffered extensive injuries over an extended period of time, police said\n\nA 10-year-old girl who was found dead in Surrey was known to the authorities, the county council has confirmed.\n\nSara Sharif's body was found at her family home in Woking early on 10 August, prompting a murder inquiry.\n\nSurrey Police confirmed they wanted to speak to Sara's father Urfan Sharif, and his partner and brother who flew to Pakistan the day before she was found.\n\nSurrey County Council said it would \"work tirelessly\" to gain a \"full understanding\" of the situation.\n\nCouncil leader Tim Oliver said previously the National Child Safeguarding Panel had been notified and a multi-agency review was under way.\n\n\"This Rapid Review will determine whether a Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review is to be undertaken by the Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership,\" Mr Oliver said.\n\nHe explained: \"A Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review is a statutory process, bringing together partners including the police, health, social care and education to review practice of all agencies involved, organisational structures and learning.\"\n\nBBC News has been told two police teams in Jhelum, north Punjab in Pakistan, are looking for Mr Sharif.\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nDistrict police officer Nasir Mehmood Bajwa, in Jhelum, told the BBC that after police find Mr Sharif they are likely to take him into custody after receiving the go-ahead from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Islamabad.\n\nPakistan's foreign ministry and the FIA have not confirmed or shared any verbal or written orders on this case.\n\nMr Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik all left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August, a day before Sara's body was discovered.\n\nSurrey Police have said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan shortly after landing in Islamabad with his partner, his brother and five children, aged between one and 13.\n\nThe call led officers to the house in Woking where they found the body of Sara who had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\", likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nThere is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Pakistan.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Sheffield Crown Court trial was abandoned after what the judge said was an \"astonishing\" string of problems\n\nA sexual assault trial has collapsed after one juror fell asleep and a second revealed he had not been able to hear crucial evidence.\n\nThe entire jury in the case at Sheffield Crown Court was discharged on Monday after a string of problems the trial judge described as \"astonishing\".\n\nA third juror had to withdraw from proceedings during deliberations after falling ill with an infectious disease.\n\nJudge Jeremy Richardson KC ordered that the defendant should face a retrial.\n\nHe said: \"Too much has gone wrong in this case. We really must start again and do it properly.\"\n\nOne juror was discharged last week after several people in court noticed he had been falling asleep.\n\nThe judge said it had been established the juror had missed \"important evidence\" due to nodding off.\n\nMeanwhile, a second juror, who suffered from the ear disorder tinnitus, was later excluded from proceedings after admitting he had not been able to hear the complainant as she gave evidence earlier in the trial.\n\nJudge Richardson said: \"It's astonishing that firstly one juror should fall asleep during an important trial and secondly that another juror should have, late in the day, reported to the court that he had not heard material portions of the evidence.\"\n\nThe remaining 10 jurors retired to consider their verdict on Friday, but on Monday it emerged one of them was suffering from a highly infectious illness and would have to be discharged.\n\nThe judge said the trial was allowed by law to proceed with only nine jurors, however he agreed to dismiss the jury after the defendant's lawyer argued it would be unfair to continue.\n\nJudge Richardson: \"I do so with a very, very heavy heart - but the fairness of these proceedings is sacrosanct.\"\n\nThe defendant is expected to face a retrial with a new jury next year.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 30,000 households have been ordered to evacuate in Canada's British Columbia province, where nearly 400 wildfires are raging.\n\nTwo huge fires in the Shuswap region merged overnight, destroying blocks of houses and other buildings.\n\nTo the south, travel to the waterside city of Kelowna has been restricted, and smoke from nearby fires hangs over Lake Okanagan.\n\nFires have charred homes in West Kelowna, a nearby city of 36,000.\n\nThe travel restriction around Kelowna is designed to ensure enough accommodation for evacuees and emergency workers. It also applies to the towns of Kamloops, Oliver, Penticton and Vernon and Osoyoos.\n\nHundreds of miles north, a huge fire continues to edge towards the city of Yellowknife.\n\nAn official deadline to evacuate the city - the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories - lapsed on Friday. A local official said later that day that nearly all residents had left, either by car or plane.\n\nAbout 19,000 of the city's 20,000 inhabitants had evacuated. Authorities said 39 patients were moved out of a hospital to alternative facilities on Friday evening, making them the last people to be evacuated from the city.\n\nEnvironment and communities minister Shane Thompson said some people had chosen \"to shelter in place\", but urged locals to leave.\n\nIn British Columbia, evacuation orders grew from covering 15,000 homes on Friday to at least 30,000 by Saturday evening. Another 36,000 homes are under evacuation alert.\n\nThe province's emergency management minister said officials \"cannot stress strongly enough how critical it is to follow evacuation orders\".\n\nBowinn Ma added: \"They are a matter of life and death not only for the people in those properties, but also for the first responders who will often go back to try to implore people to leave.\"\n\nPremier of the province, David Eby, put the total number of people ordered to leave at 35,000, with 30,000 told to be prepared to evacuate.\n\nOne Kelowna resident told the BBC the fires came over the mountainside like an \"ominous cloud of destruction\"\n\nSmoke from wildfires is hanging over Lake Okanagan, on which Kelowna sits\n\nCanada is having its worst wildfire season on record, with at least 1,000 fires burning across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).\n\nExperts say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nExtreme and long-lasting heat draws more and more moisture out of the ground - which can provide fuel for fires that can spread at an incredible speed, particularly if winds are strong.\n\nAlthough no deaths have been reported in the latest fires, at least four firefighters have lost their lives during this record-breaking season.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nAre you personally affected by the wildfires in Canada? If it is safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "How much has my lack of exercise and less than perfect diet affected my heart age?\n\nA new artificial-intelligence (AI) tool reveals by how much drinking, smoking, poor diet and a lack of exercise prematurely ages an individual's heart.\n\nThe aim is to find ways to reverse heart ageing, to reduce the risks of many age-related conditions such as stroke and heart disease.\n\nThe system was developed by a team led by Prof Declan O'Regan, of the Medical Research Council's (MRC) London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS).\n\nAnd I was offered the chance to try it.\n\n\"When we look at someone's face, we are adept at judging whether they look young or old for their age - our organs are just the same,\" Prof O'Regan told me.\n\n\"Some people have hearts that are much younger - and others have ones that have aged prematurely and they are more prone to diseases. So we want to find out what those factors are\".\n\nThe first step is an MRI scan after some gentle exercise\n\nI told Prof O'Regan I had not led the unhealthiest of lifestyles but, like many people, could improve my diet, lose a little weight and exercise more.\n\nOn top of that, my childhood diet included copious amounts of clarified butter, called \"ghee\", which my mum used to enhance the flavour of her already delicious curries, rice and flatbreads.\n\nAll of this is combined with a family history of high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes.\n\nMy South Asian genes also mean I am at higher risk of heart disease, so I was not optimistic about the outcome.\n\nBut, in the name of science, I decided to give it a go.\n\nMy beating heart is compared with those of 5,000 healthy patients of differing ages\n\nThere are plenty of ways of measuring heart health, including scans, electrocardiograms (ECGs) and blood pressure - but these give a snapshot of how things are now and can vary from day to day or month to month.\n\nThe AI analysis, however, showed up the knocks and scrapes accumulated over a lifetime, through drinking, smoking, poor diet and a lack of exercise, Prof O'Regan told me.\n\nThe process involved having a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of my heart after exercise.\n\nThe earliest signs of premature ageing can be so subtle even expert cardiologists are unable to detect them - but the AI tool can, because it has also been fed the images of 40,000 people of varying heart health along with their health outcomes.\n\nThe system analysed hundreds of tiny details in the 3D motion of my MRI scan and compared them with those of 5,000 people of varying ages who had led healthy lifestyles.\n\nThe tool calculated my heart age was 63, only a couple of years older than my birth age and not as bad as I had feared.\n\nI asked Prof O'Regan whether this was because some of the recent changes I had made to my lifestyle, such as regular exercise and a better diet, had gone some way to counteracting the ghee, beer and couch-potatoing of my early and middle years.\n\nHe told me that was exactly what he wanted to find out in the next part of his research, which has been published in the journal Nature Communications.\n\n\"We don't know whether premature heart ageing is down to your genes and you are born destined to have an older heart or it is more down to your lifestyle,\" Prof O'Regan told me.\n\n\"We also don't know whether the rate of ageing can be changed or might be reversible, enabling people to get back to a younger heart if you have the right treatment.\"\n\nGenes associated with muscle elasticity - and the wrinkles that develop as people age - were an important factor, an initial analysis found.\n\nAnother set of genes, associated with the immune system, also played a part. Immune cells fight diseases and clean up dead tissue - but if they become overactive, they can scrub too hard and cause inflammation, damaging the tissue.\n\nAnd a third set of genes, involved in carrying electrical signals through the heart, also seem to be a factor. If this is disrupted in some areas, it can make the heartbeat irregular.\n\nBy understanding the role of genes in premature heart ageing, it might be possible to develop treatments that target these mechanisms and help people live longer, healthier lives, Prof O'Regan told me.\n\n\"The genetics could help us slow or reverse ageing - and these scans could also help evaluate new therapies, to see the impact it is having on the damage,\" he added.\n• None Do you know your heart age?", "Nathan learning how to look after plants in the school garden\n\nJust a week after school pupils across the country were opening their exam results, pupils at a school in Glasgow were celebrating their own achievements.\n\nThe young people at East Park School in Maryhill worked just as hard for their qualifications and had their year's efforts marked at their weekly assembly.\n\nEast Park supports children with autism and complex learning disabilities and its pupils come from all over Scotland.\n\nLike other schools, they work towards Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) qualifications.\n\nInstead of opening National 5 and Higher results, the older children were given certificates for passing their Nat 1s.\n\nAnd this year Scottish specialist independent schools have achieved record exam success\n\nNathan is 16 and has been at East Park since first year.\n\nHe has celebrated Nat 1 success in making a healthy snack and also taking part in swimming.\n\nNathan has also taken part in music lessons\n\nDavid Lowther, a teacher at the school, said these tasks and activities were huge achievements.\n\nHe added: \"Our young people come here and they face so many challenges throughout education and in life in general.\n\n\"But they are naturally intuitive. They are curious, creative and adventurous and they rise to so many challenges on a daily basis.\n\n\"It's our job to make sure they get the attainment, the qualifications and the achievements they deserve and for them to leave here with the evidence that shows what they can do is so important to their families.\"\n\nNathan has a complex range of diagnoses and needs which mean his behaviour makes it difficult to reach him.\n\nStaff use a \"chunking\" technique where they concentrate learning into small segments of five minutes.\n\nChloe won credits for learning to make her own food\n\nChloe also achieved units in navigating the community - including putting her shopping through a supermarket self checkout\n\nChloe has also worked hard. She learned to cook and prepare her own meal and went into the community to try out her numeracy.\n\nMr Lowther said: \"Chloe did well last year, successfully completing five National 1 units in life skills, taking on a leisure activity going shopping in the community and improving her numeracy skills.\n\n\"It's important to challenge our young people and show them what they are capable of.\n\n\"It will probably never be Nat 5 for the young people who attend East Park but they still deserve to be challenged and given the appropriate qualifications.\"\n\nAll the children at East Park had their achievements recognised at a special assembly\n\nMaking sure the young people are given awards shines a light on the work schools like East Park do.\n\nAlthough it is an independent school, councils pay for places for children who need its services.\n\nEast Park's head of education Catriona Campbell said: \"It's really emotional working here.\n\n\"You get really attached to the young people and staff - it is just a really magical place to be.\n\n\"And seeing the children make progress and that being heartily celebrated by staff that love them and know them is wonderful.\"\n\nNathan's certificate celebrates his achievements for the year\n\nNat 1s are a big deal at East Park. Ms Campbell said they were about recognising practical skills that will make a difference to the young people's quality of life.\n\n\"It is not realistic for most of our children to be thinking about employment.\n\n\"We would aspire to that in some cases and we will support that but for most it is about making sure they enjoy their life in adulthood and they have their own personal aspirations, ambitions and hobbies to fulfil their lives.\"\n\nOne of the younger children at East Park - Josh - prepares his own snack\n\nLorraine Davidson is the chief executive of the Scottish Council of Independent Schools.\n\nShe stressed it was important to recognise all levels of achievement.\n\n\"It is natural that people focus on pupils who have achieved at a very high level,\" Ms Davidson said.\n\n\"But is there any higher level than this? Children who have come up against challenges the rest of us couldn't begin to imagine.\n\n\"Those Nat 1, 2 and 3 successes are life changing, transforming lives for them and their families.\"", "Tropical Storm Hilary is battering Southern California with heavy winds and rain, putting 26 million people under flood warning.\n\nSee how some of Hollywood's most iconic locations are being hit.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland's wait to win a first Women's World Cup title goes on after Spain deservedly triumphed in the final in Sydney.\n\nThe Lionesses, looking to become the first England senior side since the men's team in 1966 to win the World Cup, suffered heartbreak after being outplayed by a Spanish side full of flair and creativity.\n\nEngland's players fell to their knees in tears at the final whistle as Spain celebrated inside their penalty area after dealing with a final corner kick in the 14th minute of nerve-wracking stoppage time.\n\nSpain captain Olga Carmona slotted the winner past goalkeeper Mary Earps in the first half, capitalising after England's Lucy Bronze lost possession in midfield.\n\nEngland manager Sarina Wiegman, who has now lost two successive World Cup finals, introduced Lauren James and Chloe Kelly at half-time but Spain maintained control despite the Lionesses' best efforts.\n\nEarps, who won the Golden Glove award as best goalkeeper at the tournament, made several stunning saves, none better than from the penalty spot to deny Jenni Hermoso in the second half.\n\nThe Manchester United stopper moved early to her left and caught Hermoso's effort, the penalty having being awarded for handball against midfielder Keira Walsh following a lengthy video assistant referee review.\n\nBut it was one step too far for the European champions, who lost just their second match in two years under Wiegman.\n\n\"I'm just deflated,\" said England defender Lucy Bronze. \"Obviously we went into the World Cup wanting to win it and we were so close, but in the end we couldn't quite get it over the line.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have achieved but I think everybody that knows me, knows that I only like gold medals.\"\n\nSpain are crowned champions for the first time despite going into the tournament under a cloud of controversy following a dispute between players and the Spanish football federation.\n\nBoth teams came into the final full of confidence, having improved on their performances throughout the tournament.\n\nEngland, who played in front of a sold-out Wembley crowd last summer to win the Euros final, started brightly, testing Spain's defence with balls over the top and in behind.\n\nManchester City forward Lauren Hemp was direct and aggressive, and had England's best chance but her curling effort from 15 yards hit the crossbar.\n\nHowever Spain, packed with Barcelona stars who won their second Women's Champions League title this season, imposed their quality and worked out how to deal with England's high press.\n\nThey dominated large chunks of the game, exposing the spaces left by England's attacking full-backs and took their chance when Bronze cut inside from the right and gave the ball away when she was stopped by a wall of red in the centre circle.\n\nSpain intelligently switched play to their left and Carmona ran on to a simple pass from Mariona Caldentey before stroking the ball low past a diving Earps.\n\nSpain had several chances to extend their lead - Earps blocked shots from Ona Batlle, Caldentey and Alba Redondo in each half - while Salma Paralluelo's first-time strike brushed the post on the stroke of half-time.\n\nIt was a deserved victory for Spain but it will feel like a missed opportunity for the Lionesses, who have found a way to win so often under Wiegman but could not find the answers in the biggest game in their history.\n\nPrior to this year's competition, Spain had only ever won one Women's World Cup match.\n\nThey had suffered defeat at the hands of England in the Euro 2022 quarter-finals but unlike that evening in Brighton when the Lionesses came from behind to win 2-1, Spain stuck to their task and saw out victory.\n\nThe streets of Sydney, which had been draped in green and gold for most of the competition, were transformed on Sunday to represent Spain and England's colours.\n\nEngland fans came dressed in costumes, banging drums and chanting on the city's trains en route to the stadium and though they dominated numbers in the crowd, it was Spain's supporters celebrating at full-time.\n\nBronze, 31, was in tears lying on the pitch at full-time and had to watch on as many of her Barcelona team-mates danced for the cameras while they prepared the stage for the trophy celebration.\n\nShe has won almost everything in the game but still cannot get her hands on the most desired trophy of them all.\n\n\"The goal is always to win tournaments with this team. We have shown that we can do that,\" added Bronze.\n\n\"We have made a final. There is no reason why the team can't go and create more legacies and more winning legacies.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Spain's achievement is a remarkable one given manager Jorge Vilda survived a player revolt less than 12 months ago. That unrest in the set-up meant they were missing Sandra Panos, Mapi Leon, Patri Guijarro and Claudia Pina, who all helped Barcelona win the Champions League in June.\n\nTheir victory could transform women's football in Spain, which has been thrust into the limelight in recent years following Barcelona's domestic success.\n• None Attempt blocked. Millie Bright (England) header from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salma Paralluelo (Spain) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Teresa Abelleira.\n• None Attempt blocked. Aitana Bonmatí (Spain) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Teresa Abelleira. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Sara Sharif was found dead at her family home in Woking\n\nA 10-year-old girl found dead at home was \"a bubbly girl\" with a beautiful smile, her school has said.\n\nSara Sharif's body was found at her family home in Woking, Surrey, early on 10 August, prompting a murder inquiry.\n\nJacquie Chambers, head of St Mary's C of E primary school in Byfleet, said Sara would be \"dearly missed\".\n\nThree people who travelled to Pakistan before her body was found are believed to have gone to Islamabad and are wanted for questioning.\n\nMs Chambers said: \"She was a bubbly, confident little girl who had the most beautiful smile. She was full of ideas and was very passionate about the things she believed in.\"\n\nThe head teacher said the pupil had been in Year 5 at the school, adding: \"Sara will be dearly missed and, as a school community, we are all deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"Our thoughts, prayers and sympathy are with those affected by this heart-breaking news.\"\n\nMs Chambers said she could not make further comment due to the police inquiry, but said the school was \"fully supporting partner agencies with their investigations\".\n\nShe added: \"Our priority now is to support our school community as they grieve and recover.\"\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nThe three people who are wanted by the police are Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, 41, his partner, Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother, Faisal Malik, 28.\n\nBBC News has been told two police teams in Jhelum, north Punjab in Pakistan, are looking for Mr Sharif.\n\nSurrey Police have said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan shortly after landing in Islamabad with his partner, his brother and five children, aged between one and 13.\n\nThe call led officers to the house in Woking where they found the body of Sara who had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\", likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nThere is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Pakistan.\n\nSurrey County Council have confirmed that Sara was known to the authorities and a multi-agency review is under way.\n\nPolice have also been searching the family's previous address in West Byfleet in Surrey.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV presenter Phil Spencer has paid tribute to his \"amazing parents\" after they died together when their car toppled into a river.\n\nAnne and David Spencer died following the accident on their farm in Kent.\n\nMr Spencer, best known for presenting Location, Location, Location, said his parents \"would have held hands under the water and quietly slipped away\".\n\nHis brother had pulled them out of the river but they never regained consciousness, Mr Spencer said.\n\nIn a statement posted on Instagram, Mr Spencer, 53, said the accident on Friday had been \"what God planned\" for his parents, who had been married for six decades and raised four children.\n\n\"As a family we are all trying to hold on to the fact mum and dad went together and that neither will ever have to mourn the loss of the other one,\" he said.\n\nMr Spencer said that while both his parents had been on \"good form\" before they died, his mother's Parkinson's disease and his father's dementia had been \"worsening\".\n\nDescribing the accident, which happened in Littlebourne, Mr Spencer said they had been on their way to lunch when their car \"very slowly\" toppled over a bridge, before falling upside down into the river.\n\nTheir carer had also been in the car, but she managed to climb out of the back window and raise the alarm, Mr Spencer said.\n\n\"As many farmers do, my brother had a penknife and so was able to cut the seat belts,\" he went on, adding: \"He pulled them out of the river but they never regained consciousness.\"\n\nMr Spencer said the family was \"desperately sad and shocked beyond all belief\" but knowing his parents had died \"together on the farm they so loved\" would be \"a comfort in the future\".\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said they were called to the scene just after 12:00 on 18 August, where they stayed for 90 minutes.\n\nThree fire engines and a water safety unit attended, and crews assisted South East Coast Ambulance Service and made the scene safe, they said in a statement.\n\nKirstie Allsopp, Mr Spencer's co-host on Location, Location, Location, said she was sending him \"so much love\".\n\n\"The only blessing is they died together, so will never have to mourn the loss of each other,\" she said.\n\nSharing a recent photograph of the couple on Instagram, Ms Allsopp said she was \"desperately sad\" and asked fans to \"keep them in your thoughts and prayers\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"They were farmers, animal lovers and devoted parents to Robert, Caryn, Helen and Philip and adored their eight grandchildren,\" Ms Allsopp wrote.\n\n\"I suspect many of you may want to join me in sending so much love to Phil and all his family.\"\n\nMr Spencer and Ms Allsopp have presented Location, Location, Location together for more than 20 years, appearing in 39 series of the Channel 4 property programme as well as spin-off shows including Relocation, Relocation.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Luisa Gonzalez's victory in the first round did not come as a surprise - but she now faces a tougher run-off\n\nThe assassination of Fernando Villavicencio upended the final week of campaigning in Ecuador.\n\nAll eight candidates talked about the need for peace and security - and after an often bloody campaign, that was a message that Ecuadoreans very much wanted to hear.\n\nAfter Mr Villavicencio's death, a local politician was killed in the northern Esmeraldas province and many feared more was to come.\n\nThankfully, Sunday's elections passed off without incident, but no candidate had enough support to avoid a run-off.\n\nThat brings yet more uncertainty as campaigning ramps up again ahead of October.\n\nLeftist candidate Luisa Gonzalez took 33% of the votes, pledging generous social welfare programmes.\n\nHer victory didn't come as a surprise - she was always the frontrunner.\n\nDaniel Noboa (centre) is seen by many voters as a pro-business candidate\n\nBut the second-place candidate was less expected. Young businessman Daniel Noboa won 24% of the votes after a good performance in the last debate.\n\nAs Ecuadoreans cast their vote on Sunday, security was top of the agenda.\n\n\"Things are very complicated,\" says 33-year-old personal trainer Priscila Jaramillo. \"After the death of Villavicencio, I think that we need to unite.\"\n\nAmanda (left) and Tamia say they are honouring their murdered father's legacy of campaigning for peaceful change\n\nExperts agree that the brutal campaign has changed the views of many people here.\n\n\"Violence is a feeling for the voter,\" says political analyst Pedro Donoso. \"The reality of living in a country where authorities are murdered, a candidate has been assassinated - that could have been an important factor in deciding who to vote for.\"\n\nFernando Villavicencio's daughters, Tamia and Amanda, went to the polls on Sunday dressed in white. It was a message to those who killed their father that they will honour his legacy of campaigning for peaceful change in the country.\n\nA thick dark blue line was painted across Tamia's face, made with ink from the huito fruit - a traditional face-painting among indigenous communities in Ecuador.\n\n\"It's used for celebrations and battles, and today we're standing strong and coming to exercise a right that has been abused because they took away one of our presidential candidates,\" says Tamia.\n\n\"For me, this is a battle. We are fighting with our pen in our hand.\"\n\nHer sister Amanda says the death of her father, whom she considered a best friend, has been a wake-up call for many Ecuadoreans.\n\n\"He was beautiful, powerful, kind - a giant,\" she says.\n\n\"We're living a powerful historic moment here in Ecuador. So many of my friends, people of my age who used to spoil their votes, people who didn't care about politics are upset - and they're thinking, if I don't do something for my country, for myself, then nothing will change, the mafia will come and dominate us,\" adds Amanda.\n\nBeyond violence, though, there's another powerful force at play here in Ecuador - \"correismo\".\n\nThe political movement started with leftist populist president Rafael Correa - a politician who spent on education and health programme. He later got caught up in corruption scandals and is now exiled in Belgium.\n\nBut he remains a huge political force in Ecuador.\n\nLuisa González is the protégé of Mr Correa - she is the vote for \"correismo\".\n\nMeanwhile, Daniel Noboa will get the vote from those who want to draw a line under Mr Correa and who blame the former president for much of Ecuador's woes.\n\n\"Ecuador remains divided between two axes,\" says Sebastian Mantilla Baca, executive director of the Latin American Centre of Political Studies in Quito.\n\n\"It's likely that the vote of the other candidates will go towards Noboa as an alternative to 'correismo'. But if he doesn't manage to get solid support in the National Assembly, then that will create obstacles from the opposition.\"\n\nThis country is divided politically, but the search for peace and security unites Ecuadoreans - and that will be at the heart of campaigning as the country heads to a second round.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fernando Villavicencio was shot as he left a rally in Quito", "Watch highlights as England suffer heartbreak in a 1-0 defeat by Spain in the 2023 Women's World Cup final in Sydney.\n\nFollow coverage of the Fifa Women's World Cup across BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds & the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Dr Stephen Brearey, lead consultant on the neonatal unit, raised concerns about her in October 2015\n\nHospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against Lucy Letby and tried to silence doctors, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit where she worked has told the BBC.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.\n\nThe unit's lead consultant Dr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015.\n\nNo action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nLetby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others in a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire.\n\nThe first five murders all happened between June and October 2015 and - despite months of warnings - the final two were in June 2016.\n\nBBC Panorama and BBC News have been investigating how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long.\n\nWe spoke to the lead consultant in the unit - who first raised concerns about Letby - and also examined hospital documents. The investigation reveals a catalogue of failures and raises serious questions about how the hospital responded to the deaths.\n\nDr Brearey says he demanded Letby be taken off duty in June 2016, after the final two murders. Hospital management initially refused.\n\nBefore June 2015, there were about two or three baby deaths a year on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. But in the summer of 2015, something unusual was happening.\n\nIn June alone, three babies died within the space of two weeks. The deaths were unexpected, so Dr Stephen Brearey, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit, called a meeting with the unit manager, Eirian Powell, and the hospital's director of nursing Alison Kelly.\n\n\"We tried to be as thorough as possible,\" Dr Brearey says. A staffing analysis revealed Lucy Letby had been on duty for all three deaths. \"I think I can remember saying, 'Oh no, it can't be Lucy. Not nice Lucy,'\" he says.\n\nThe three deaths seemed to have \"nothing in common\". Nobody, including Dr Brearey, suspected foul play.\n\nAfter the first three deaths in summer 2015, Lucy Letby was identified as a common factor but no-one yet suspected foul play\n\nBut by October 2015, things had changed. Two more babies had died and Letby had been on shift for both of them.\n\nBy this point, Dr Brearey had become concerned Letby might be harming babies. He again contacted unit manager Eirian Powell, who didn't seem to share his concerns.\n\nIn an email, from October 2015, she described the association between Letby and the unexpected baby deaths as \"unfortunate\". \"Each cause of death was different,\" she said, and the association with Letby was just a coincidence.\n\nSenior managers didn't appear to be worried. In the same month - October 2015 - Dr Brearey says his concerns about Letby were relayed to director of nursing Alison Kelly. But he heard nothing back.\n\nDr Brearey's fellow consultants were also worried about Letby. And it wasn't just the unexpected deaths. Other babies were suffering non-fatal collapses, meaning they needed emergency resuscitation or help with breathing, with no apparent clinical explanation. Letby was always on duty.\n\nIn February 2016, another consultant, Dr Ravi Jayaram, says he saw Letby standing and watching when a baby - known as Baby K - seemed to have stopped breathing.\n\nDr Brearey contacted Alison Kelly and the hospital's medical director Ian Harvey to request an urgent meeting. In early March, he also wrote to Eirian Powell: \"We still need to talk about Lucy\".\n\nThree months went by, and another two babies almost died, before - in May that year - Dr Brearey got the meeting with senior managers he had been asking for. \"There could be no doubt about my concerns at that meeting,\" he says.\n\nBut others at the meeting appeared to be in denial. Dr Brearey said Mr Harvey and Ms Kelly listened passively as he explained his concerns about Letby. But she was allowed to continue working.\n\nBy early June, yet another baby had collapsed. Then, towards the end of the month, two of three premature triplets died unexpectedly within 24 hours of each other. Letby was on shift for both deaths.\n\nAfter the death of the second triplet, Dr Brearey attended a meeting for traumatised staff.\n\nHe says while others seemed to be \"crumbling before your eyes almost\", Letby brushed off his suggestion that she must be tired or upset. \"No, I'm back on shift tomorrow,\" she told him. \"She was quite happy and confident to come into work,\" he says.\n\nFor Dr Brearey and his fellow consultants, the deaths of the two triplets were a tipping point. That evening, Dr Brearey says he called duty executive Karen Rees and demanded Letby be taken off duty. She refused.\n\nDr Brearey says he challenged her about whether she was making this decision against the wishes of seven consultant paediatricians - and asked if she would take responsibility for anything that might happen to other babies the next day. He says Ms Rees replied \"yes\".\n\nThe following day, another baby - known as Baby Q - almost died, again while Letby was on duty. The nurse still worked another three shifts before she was finally removed from the neonatal unit - more than a year after the first incident.\n\nThe suspicious deaths and collapses then stopped.\n\nInstead, she was moved to the hospital's risk and patient safety office. Here she is believed to have had access to sensitive documents relating to the hospital's neonatal unit. She also had access to some of the senior managers whose job it was to investigate her.\n\nOn 29 June 2016, one of the consultants sent an email under the subject line: \"Should we refer ourselves to external investigation?\"\n\n\"I believe we need help from outside agencies,\" he wrote. \"And the only agency who can investigate all of us, I believe, is the police.\"\n\nBut hospital managers thought otherwise. \"Action is being taken,\" wrote medical director Ian Harvey in his reply. \"All emails cease forthwith.\"\n\nTwo days later, the consultants attended a meeting with senior management. They say the head of corporate affairs and legal services, Stephen Cross, warned that calling the police would be a catastrophe for the hospital and would turn the neonatal unit into a crime scene.\n\nRather than go to the police, Mr Harvey invited the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Heath (RCPCH) to review the level of service on the neonatal unit.\n\nIn early September 2016, a team from the Royal College visited the hospital and met the paediatric consultants.\n\nThe RCPCH completed its report in November 2016. Its recommendations included: \"A thorough external independent review of each unexpected neonatal death.\"\n\nIn October 2016, Ian Harvey also contacted Dr Jane Hawdon, a premature baby specialist in London, and asked her to review the case notes of babies who had died on the neonatal unit.\n\nThe result was a highly caveated report. According to Dr Hawdon, her report was \"intended to inform discussion and learning, and would not necessarily be upheld in a coroner's court or court of law\".\n\nIt was not the thorough review the consultants had wanted - or the thorough external independent review that the RCPCH had recommended. But even the limited case-note report by Dr Hawdon recommended that four of the baby deaths be forensically investigated.\n\nRather than calling police, Ian Harvey asked the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to review the neonatal unit\n\nIn early January 2017, the hospital board met and Mr Harvey presented the findings of the two reviews. Both had recommended further investigation of some of the baby deaths - and yet that message did not reach board members.\n\nRecords of the meeting show Mr Harvey saying the reviews concluded the problems with the neonatal unit were down to issues with leadership and timely intervention.\n\nA few weeks later, in late January 2017, the seven consultants on the neonatal unit were summoned to a meeting with senior managers, including Mr Harvey and the hospital's CEO Tony Chambers.\n\nDr Brearey says the CEO told them he had spent a lot of time with Letby and her father and had apologised to them, saying Letby had done nothing wrong. Mr Chambers denies saying Letby had done nothing wrong. He said he was paraphrasing her father.\n\nAccording to the doctor's account, the CEO also insisted the consultants apologise to Letby and warned them that a line had been drawn and there would be \"consequences\" if they crossed it.\n\nDr Brearey says he felt managers were trying to \"engineer some sort of narrative\" that would mean they did not have to go to the police. \"If you want to call that a cover-up then, that's a cover-up,\" he says now.\n\nManagers also ordered two of the consultants to attend mediation sessions with Letby, in March 2017. One of the doctors did sit down with the nurse to discuss her grievance, but Dr Brearey did not.\n\nYet, the consultants didn't back down. Two months after the apology, the hospital asked the police to investigate. It was the consultants who had pushed them into it.\n\nDr Brearey and his colleagues finally sat down with Cheshire Police a couple of weeks later. \"They were astonished,\" he says.\n\nThe next day, Cheshire Police launched a criminal investigation into the suspicious baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital. It was named Operation Hummingbird.\n\nMr Chambers told the Panorama his comments to consultants had been taken out of context and that prompt action had been taken after he was first told of serious concerns in June 2016 - including reviews of deaths.\n\nLetby had not yet been arrested and was still working at the hospital's risk and patient safety office. But Operation Hummingbird was in full swing and Dr Brearey was helping the police with their investigation.\n\nLate one evening, he was going through some historic medical records when he discovered a blood test from 2015 for one of the babies on his unit. It recorded dangerous levels of insulin in the baby's bloodstream.\n\nThe significance of the test result had been missed at the time.\n\nThe body produces insulin naturally, but when it does, it also produces a substance called C-Peptide. The problem with the insulin reading that Dr Brearey was looking at was that the C-Peptide measurement was almost zero. It was evidence the insulin had not been produced naturally by the baby's body and had instead been administered.\n\n\"It made me feel sick,\" Dr Brearey recalls. \"It was quite clear that this baby had been poisoned by insulin.\"\n\nDr Susan Gilby, who became medical director after Letby's arrest, says files revealed serious issues with the hospital's response\n\nA few months later, Letby was finally arrested and suspended by the hospital. But three years had passed since Dr Brearey had first sounded the alarm.\n\nWhen a new medical director and deputy chief executive, Dr Susan Gilby, began work the month after Letby's arrest, she was shocked at what she found.\n\nShe says her predecessor, Mr Harvey, had warned her she would need to pursue action with the General Medical Council, the doctor's regulator, against the neonatal unit's consultants - those who had raised the alarm. Mr Harvey denies this.\n\nHowever, inside a box of files left in his office, Dr Gilby found evidence the problems lay elsewhere. Marked with the word \"neonates\", the files revealed how a meeting of the executive team in 2015 had agreed to have the first three deaths examined by an external organisation. That never happened.\n\nThe management team had also failed to report the deaths appropriately. It meant the wider NHS system could not spot the high fatality rates. The board of the hospital trust was also unaware of the deaths until July 2016.\n\nDr Gilby says the trust's refusal to call police appeared to be heavily influenced by how it would look. \"Protecting their reputation was a big factor in how people responded to the concerns raised,\" she says.\n\nLater in 2018, after Tony Chambers resigned, Dr Gilby was appointed chief executive and she stayed in post until 2022. She is now suing the trust for unfair dismissal.\n\nThe rate of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit has now fallen\n\nDr Brearey, says hospital managers had been \"secretive\" and \"judgemental\" throughout the period leading up to the nurse's arrest.\n\n\"There was no credibility given to our opinions. And from January 2017, it was intimidating, and bullying to a certain extent,\" he tells BBC News. \"It just all struck me as the opposite of a hospital you'd expect to be working in, where there's a safe culture and people feel confident in speaking out.\"\n\nLetby would ultimately be charged with seven murders and 15 attempted murders between June 2015 and June 2016. She was found guilty of all seven murders and seven attempted murders.\n\nShe was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder. The jury also failed to reach a verdict on a further six counts of attempted murder, including all charges related to Baby K and Baby Q.\n\nIn a statement, Tony Chambers, the former CEO, said: \"All my thoughts are with the children at the heart of this case and their families and loved ones at this incredibly difficult time. I am truly sorry for what all the families have gone through.\n\n\"The crimes that have been committed are appalling and I am deeply saddened by what has come to light. As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff. I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\"\n\nHe added: \"I will co-operate fully and openly with any post-trial inquiry.\"\n\nIan Harvey said in a statement: \"At this time, my thoughts are with the babies whose treatment has been the focus of the trial and with their parents and relatives who have been through something unimaginable and I am sorry for all their suffering.\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff. I wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children. I believe there should be an inquiry that looks at all events leading up to this trial and I will help it in whatever way I can.\"\n\nThe Countess of Chester Hospital is now under new management and the neonatal unit no longer looks after such sick babies.\n\nThe current medical director at the hospital, Dr Nigel Scawn, said the whole trust was \"deeply saddened and appalled\" by Letby's crimes.\n\nHe said \"significant changes\" had been made at the hospital since Letby worked there and he wanted to \"provide reassurance to every patient who accesses our services that they can have confidence in the care that they will receive\".\n\nSince Letby left the hospital's neonatal unit, there has been only one death in seven years.\n\nWatch the full investigation, Panorama - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed - on BBC iPlayer", "Letby killed the babies at a Chester hospital in 2015 and 2016\n\nThe government has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind serial killer Lucy Letby's \"horrific\" baby murders.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would look at how clinicians' concerns were handled, as a BBC investigation found hospital bosses ignored doctors' warnings about Letby.\n\nLetby was found guilty of murdering seven babies at a hospital in Chester.\n\nShe was also found guilty of attempting to murder another six babies.\n\nOn two counts of attempted murder, she was found not guilty. The jury could not reach verdicts on six counts of attempted murder.\n\nDetectives are reviewing the care of all babies admitted to hospital while Letby was working as a neonatal nurse. The review includes her work placements at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015, although police say this did not involve any deaths.\n\nDetective superintendent Paul Hughes said: \"We would be foolish if we were to think we have gathered all cases that Lucy Letby could have touched in one go.\n\n\"So we are committed to doing an overarching investigation looking at every single baby's admission into neonatal unit for the entire footprint that Lucy Letby has been employed.\"\n\nCheshire Police stressed that only cases highlighted as medically concerning would be further investigated.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health said the independent inquiry aimed to provide answers to the parents of babies she murdered or attempted to murder, and make sure lessons are learnt.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"I am determined their voices are heard, and they are involved in shaping the scope of the inquiry should they wish to do so.\n\n\"It will help us identify where and how patient safety standards failed to be met and ensure mothers and their partners rightly have faith in our healthcare system.\"\n\nThe inquiry will not have the power to summon evidence or witnesses, as it is not a statutory inquiry, such as the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.\n\nHealth Minister Helen Whately said this meant it could be conducted \"at pace\", adding that there were \"definitely\" questions to be answered around doctors repeatedly raising concerns about Letby.\n\nBut City of Chester MP Samantha Dixon has written to the health secretary asking why the government has skipped a statutory inquiry.\n\nAnd former Crown Prosecution Service chief in north-west England Nazir Afzal, who prosecuted nurse Victorino Chua found guilty of murdering patients in Stockport in 2015, described the decision as \"hugely disappointing\".\n\n\"You have to compel people... I really don't think a non-traditional inquiry has the powers to hold people to account, which is important here,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. \"It's not just a fact-finding [mission] which is what I think this inquiry will do, people need to be held to account for their failures.\"\n\nLord Bichard, who chaired the inquiry into the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by Ian Huntley, said he was surprised the government did not take advantage of the powers of a statutory inquiry.\n\n\"Too many inquiries take too long to make a conclusion and make too many recommendations and don't follow them up,\" he added. \"It's really, really important we start making better use of inquiries in this country and that we follow up their conclusions.\"\n\nIn a statement following the verdict, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said it was \"extremely sorry\" the crimes happened in its hospital and it has since made \"significant changes\" to their services.\n\nMeanwhile, former chief executive of the hospital Tony Chambers and former medical director Ian Harvey, who were in charge at the time Letby was working at Countess of Chester Hospital, have said they will co-operate fully with the inquiry into the case.\n\nA lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked told the BBC hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015. No action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.\n\nLetby, 33, was not in the dock when the final verdicts were given at Manchester Crown Court on Friday. She will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues raised here, there are details of organisations that may be able to offer support on the BBC Action Line.", "The parents of twin brothers who were among Lucy Letby's 13 victims have told the BBC the nurse is a \"hateful human being\" who has taken \"everything\" from them.\n\nLetby murdered one of their baby boys, and tried to kill the other twin the following day.\n\nThe nurse was found guilty of murdering a total of seven babies who were being looked after on a neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nShe was also found guilty of attempting to murder another six babies, with the jury undecided on the attempted murder of a further four. She was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, need help after reading this story, details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nPanorama - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed - will be on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 20:00 BST (UK only) on Friday 18 August.", "The screens - which are generally used to advertise products or politicians - were switched off on Sunday morning\n\nIraqi officials have ordered all electronic advertising screens to be shut down in Baghdad after a hacker used one to show a pornographic film.\n\nIt happened at a major road junction in the Iraqi capital. Videos have been shared widely on social media.\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the incident, police say.\n\nA statement said the suspect was a technician who had financial issues with the company that runs the advertising screens.\n\nHe was said to have acted in retaliation.\n\nThe hacker \"showed a pornographic film for several minutes before we cut the power cable\" on Saturday, a security source who requested anonymity told the AFP news agency.\n\nThese \"immoral scenes\" prompted the authorities to \"turn off all advertising screens in Baghdad\" while they review security measures, the same official explained.\n\nScreens in the capital - which are generally used to advertise products or politicians - were switched off on Sunday morning.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nThe Women's World Cup final between England and Spain on Sunday was watched by a peak audience of 12 million viewers on BBC One.\n\nThe final was also viewed 3.9 million times on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nOverall, an audience of 21.2 million watched the BBC's television coverage of the tournament.\n\nEngland, who won the European Championship last year, were beaten 1-0 by Spain in Sydney.\n\nThe final is the second most-watched BBC TV event of 2023, after the Coronation of King Charles III in May.\n\nThe men's Wimbledon final between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic in July had a peak BBC One audience of 11.3m.\n\nAcross the World Cup there were 25.7 million streams on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app - a 75% increase on the 14.7 million streams for the 2019 World Cup in France.\n\nDirector of BBC Sport Barbara Slater said the figures for the World Cup - which was hosted by Australia and New Zealand - showed the BBC's strength when broadcasting major sport events.\n\nShe added: \"We're proud to be long-term partners for women's football, which continues its fantastic upward trajectory.\"\n\nThere were 1.9 million content plays on the BBC Sounds app, with 232,000 requests to listen to BBC Radio 5 Live's commentary of the final.\n\nGo here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Behind the scenes in London's most expensive hotel: It costs up to £27k a night and no request is too big", "I've spent ten months in the presence of Lucy Letby, and I still don't understand her. I'm not sure what you'd expect Britain's most prolific child killer to look like. But I'm pretty sure it's not this.\n\nPhotos on social media chart Letby's old life - nights out with friends, dressed up and goofing about for the camera. She doesn't look like that now - her dyed blonde hair has returned to its natural brown.\n\nBehind the glass screen of the dock she cut a feeble figure, flanked by prison officers and clutching a pink scarf like a comforter. A severe expression replaced the smiles from her photos.\n\nThe families of the murdered babies filled the public gallery. Across the aisle, most of the seats were empty. But the nurse's mother and father, Susan and John, showed up, day after day. They were sometimes joined by one of their daughter's friends - the only one to come.\n\nMy berth on the press bench was no more than five metres away from Letby's seat. Every so often I'd look across at the nurse, to try to catch a glimpse of character. As bereaved parents recounted the horrors of watching their children die, the nurse maintained a neutral expression. No matter how emotionally charged the evidence was, she sat passively.\n\nVery rarely, as she was brought in and out, she'd look up and catch my eye, but just as quickly, she'd look away again. I tried to look into her soul. I drew a blank. I started to question whether we'd ever see the real Lucy Letby.\n\nThe trial began in October and as the court broke up for the holidays, I wondered what sort of Christmas she was having, behind bars in prison in Yorkshire.\n\nIt wasn't until February that I first saw a hint of emotion from Letby. It wasn't prompted by an upsetting piece of evidence, or harrowing testimony. It was the voice of a doctor that caused the nurse to break.\n\nShe couldn't see him - he was hidden behind screens to protect his identity - but she could hear him speak, and his voice seemed to trigger feelings we hadn't seen before.\n\nLater, Letby admitted she had \"loved him like a friend\". We were shown flirty texts between the two, which suggested that although the doctor was married, it might have been more than that. The prosecution painted him as her boyfriend.\n\nI found it interesting that while the nurse remained composed throughout months of evidence relating to the terrible suffering of tiny babies, her first sign of emotion seemed to be borne out of pangs of longing for this doctor.\n\nThere were only a handful of other occasions when tears came to the surface. During evidence about being taken off nursing duty, when excerpts of her post-arrest interviews were read out, and when it was mentioned she'd had suicidal thoughts.\n\nMuch later, when lead prosecutor Nick Johnson KC got to his feet to start cross-examining Letby, his first question was one I'd been wondering too.\n\n\"Is there any reason that you cry when you talk about yourself,\" he asked, \"but you don't cry when talking about these dead and seriously injured children?\"\n\n\"I have cried when talking about some of those babies,\" Letby replied.\n\nThe first buds of spring arrived, and the trial trundled on.\n\nThe dense evidence was hard going. Blood gas records. Fluid balance charts. Clinical notes. The glossary of medical terms handed to the media at the start of the trial had become redundant. By now we were all fluent in the terminology of neonatal medicine.\n\nThe prosecution's case was carefully built on data and documentation, but it wasn't evidence that gave any clue about Letby's character. As the case progressed without any insight into her possible motives, the nurse's personality remained the elephant in the room.\n\nOccasionally, something would cast a shard of light on Letby's life. The jury saw photos of her house taken by police after her arrest. Art covered in clichéd quotes hung on the walls. A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes. Sparkles Wherever You Go. Shine Bright Like A Diamond.\n\nThere were teddy bears on the bed. Artificial flowers. A fluffy pink dressing gown hanging on the back of her bedroom door. Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit. A Mrs Doubtfire DVD.\n\nTwo books sat by Letby's bedside. In Shock, a doctor's memoir about being dangerously ill after a miscarriage, and Never Greener, a novel about a young woman who had an affair with a married man.\n\nIn the autumn, the case had opened with a flourish when the prosecution produced a green post-it note discovered by police after Letby's arrest. Covered in a desperate scrawl, it included phrases like, I AM EVIL I DID THIS, I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough, I don't deserve to live, I am an awful person.\n\nThe prosecution held it up as a confession. The defence argued it was an anguished cri de coeur written by the wrongly accused.\n\nEither way, it was the most significant insight we had into Letby's state of mind. I wrote to the judge to ask for permission to make it public. He agreed.\n\nSeveral months on, the trial returned to the note. It turned out it wasn't the only scribbled memo police had found - Letby had covered all sorts of pieces of paper with her ramblings. Tightly packed lines of handwriting laid bare her mindset as she was taken off duty as a nurse and the net closed in.\n\nPlease help me, I can't do this any more, Hate my life, I want someone to help me but they can't were all scrawled alongside the names of friends, colleagues and the married doctor, whose name was embellished with love heart doodles.\n\nThe names of her cats, Tigger and Smudge, appeared frequently.\n\nOne of the notes was found inside Letby's 2016 diary, a journal with a cartoon bear on its cover and the tagline, \"Have a lovely year!\"\n\nWe were shown a week in which she'd noted a reminder to pay her council tax, and diarised a night out at a Mexican restaurant and a salsa class. This was the same week she murdered two brothers. The baby boys were triplets.\n\nI tried to get my head around the possibility of this double life.\n\nWhatsApp and Facebook messages Letby had sent to friends and colleagues were shown to the court every so often, but it was hard to build up a picture of the nurse's character through individual texts.\n\nI spent time compiling them and started to spot some interesting themes. Quite often she'd text other nurses to tell them about her involvement with babies who had collapsed - it looked like she was fishing for sympathy.\n\nCertain messages hinted at a possible God complex.\n\nOther texts sent a chill down my spine - including one written the night before she returned to work after a holiday.\n\nAnd one she sent about two brothers.\n\nIt was particularly fascinating to read Letby's texts as she began to realise she was under suspicion.\n\nWe were deep into the prosecution case, and I still couldn't marry up Letby's apparent normality with the enormity of the allegations she was facing - but the case against her was beginning to stack up.\n\nDawn didn't feature in the trial, but she and Letby go way back - they grew up together and are still in touch.\n\nDawn was immediately warm and likeable. We went for a drive and she pointed out the cathedral green where she and Letby used to hang out, and their favourite restaurants.\n\n\"That's where we used to spend lunch times, away from all the popular kids,\" Dawn told me as we drove past the geography block of their old school.\n\nShe laughed. \"No, we were the nerdy ones that concentrated on our studies, and didn't mess around in the lessons.\"\n\nThe friends had moved on to sixth form college together, and while most of their circle had no firm career plans, Dawn told me Letby was clear about her path.\n\n\"It was always her aspiration - her dream - to become a nurse and to help babies,\" Dawn said. \"She told me she'd had quite a difficult birth herself and was quite poorly, and I think that's affected a lot of her life.\n\n\"She feels that's what she was called to do - to help children who might have been born in similar circumstances.\"\n\nUnwavering in her loyalty and belief that her friend was incapable of murder, was it possible that Letby had pulled the wool over her eyes?\n\nDawn let out a long sigh, before answering.\n\n\"The only way I'd ever believe that she's guilty is if she tells me she's guilty,\" she said.\n\nI was struck by Dawn's certainty, but my own mind was far less settled. Like Dawn, I needed to hear directly from the nurse herself.\n\nProfessor David Wilson, a criminologist with an interest in healthcare serial killers, told me Letby was facing a \"crucial decision\" about whether to give evidence at the trial - or not.\n\n\"I've seen people do it and they unravel within the first five minutes,\" he said. \"They might be clever, they might actually hold their own, but their entire attitude in the witness box can really prejudice what the jury thinks about them.\"\n\nProfessor Wilson said the outcome of the entire case might hinge on whether or not Letby decided to take the stand herself - which she finally did, at the start of May.\n\nI came into court one morning, and Letby was sitting just in front of me, staring straight ahead. She looked tense and kept her hands clasped below the counter.\n\nShe was asked to stand, gave her name, and swore to tell the truth. I was gripped.\n\nThe nurse's defence barrister, Ben Myers KC, got to his feet. He started gently, with questions about Letby's childhood and school days - benign stuff, but I hung on every word - after seven months it was captivating just to hear her speak.\n\nLetby came across as well-spoken and unflustered, thoughtful and co-operative.\n\nI started to detect certain phrases she had on repeat. Asked about the Facebook searches she made for the babies' parents she replied: \"That was a normal pattern of behaviour for me.\"\n\nAnd asked about taking nursing documents home with her, and storing them? \"That was a normal pattern of behaviour for me,\" she said. It sounded rehearsed.\n\nAfter five days of relatively tame questioning from her own barrister, the prosecutor, Nick Johnson KC, bore down on Letby. The easy ride was over.\n\nWhat followed was the court at its most compelling. At first, Letby coped well. She clearly felt equal to her interrogator, and her knowledge of neonatal medicine was obvious - sometimes it veered on cocky.\n\nShe disagreed with established nursing guidelines, senior doctors, and medical experts. There were even moments when she tried to outsmart Johnson. Those never ended well.\n\nThe prosecutor picked holes in her testimony, pointing out the differences between what she'd told the police after her arrest, and what she was saying in court. He found examples of her disagreeing with herself - highlighting evidence she had previously agreed and was now disputing.\n\n\"You're lying aren't you, Lucy Letby?\" he'd ask her. \"You enjoyed what was going on didn't you, Lucy Letby?\"\n\n\"No,\" she'd answer, meekly. It was clear he was getting to her.\n\nThe defendant's delivery started to change. She became staccato and monosyllabic. Her voice level dropped to a whisper, and even though I was just a few metres away, it was becoming harder and harder to hear her.\n\nAnd then, for the first time, Letby asked to stop.\n\nNick Johnson had been asking her about each baby in the order they appeared on the charge sheet. We were only four babies in - I remember wondering how on earth she was going to manage to get through the remaining 13.\n\nThe jury was asked to leave the room, and we were told Letby's welfare officer had visited her. The court finished early for the day and the prosecution team walked out looking jubilant.\n\nThey had her on the ropes.\n\nIn total, Letby spent 14 days in the witness box and faced nearly 60 hours of questioning - but did I feel any clearer about her true self? No.\n\nShe returned to the glass walled dock for the rest of the trial. June turned to July. The lawyers closed their cases, and the judge summed up the evidence.\n\nNow the nurse's future was in the jury's hands. They had nine months of evidence, and 22 charges to work through. Was Letby evil personified, or a victim herself? How they felt about her would determine the rest of her life.\n\nThe smiling nurse with the sing-song name who went to salsa classes is now Britain's most prolific child murderer. Can anyone make sense of that? I know I can't.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, need help after reading this story, details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.", "Twenty-one people died in two explosions in Birmingham in November 1974\n\nNo criminal charges will be brought following a reinvestigation into the Birmingham pub bombings, due to insufficient evidence, prosecutors say.\n\nTwenty-one people were killed and more than 200 injured when bombs went off at two pubs on 21 November 1974.\n\nIt remains one of the worst single losses of life during the Troubles.\n\nThere was hope a new police investigation could bring justice, after inquests were finally held in 2019.\n\nSix innocent men - known as the Birmingham Six - were released in 1991 when their convictions for the bombings were quashed.\n\nNo-one has since been criminally convicted for the attacks and no-one has ever admitted responsibility, but it is believed the IRA was behind them.\n\nThe bombs at the Tavern in the Town and Mulberry Bush pubs also injured 220 people\n\nIn November 2022, West Midlands Police submitted a file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) about an unnamed individual's suspected role in the bombings.\n\nHowever, the CPS has said that it could not positively identify who planted the bombs.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with the families and victims of this terrible atrocity,\" said West Midlands Police assistant chief constable Jayne Meir.\n\n\"We remain committed to bringing to justice those responsible for the Birmingham pub bombings.\"\n\nThe CPS said it would continue to support police should there be further lines of inquiry.\n\nThe inquests heard the bombings were \"an IRA operation that went badly wrong\"\n\nTwin blasts tore through the Tavern in the Town and Mulberry Bush pubs 50 years ago. A third bomb failed to go off and was recovered, but later lost, by West Midlands Police.\n\nThe force lost a court appeal in 2020 to force the journalist Chris Mullin to hand over source material from the 1980s which was said to contain a confession from the true perpetrator of the crimes.\n\nThe Guardian reported that in a letter to the victims' families, the CPS said that it did not have sufficient evidence to identify who made the confession to Mr Mullin and that it was unlikely that a new court order compelling him to reveal the source would be granted.\n\nCampaigners had hoped the reinvestigation would bring justice for their relatives killed in the attack\n\nNick Price, head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said: \"The Birmingham pub bombings were a terrorist atrocity which cut short the lives of 21 people and injured many more who were simply seeking to enjoy their evening.\n\n\"The attack has brought such unimaginable grief and our thoughts remain with the family, friends and every one of the victims.\"\n\nThe victims' families, through the Justice4the21 campaign group, have long been calling for a public inquiry into the attack, which was spotlighted after the announcement of an inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing in February this year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baggage mishandling rates last year hit the highest in a decade globally as the airline industry scrambled to recover after the pandemic, a report shows.\n\nSome 26 million pieces of luggage were lost, delayed or damaged in 2022 - nearly eight bags in every 1,000.\n\nBut new data seen by the BBC indicates the situation is improving as passenger numbers return to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThis was down to more airport staff and automation technology, said Sita, which handles IT systems for 90% of airlines.\n\nBut that is no consolation to Chloe, whose bag got lost when she flew from the UK to Italy for a friend's wedding.\n\nInstead of sightseeing, the 27-year-old from Croydon said she spent the first hours of her holiday frantically running around the shops in search of emergency toiletries and clothes.\n\nChloe has not seen her suitcase since she checked it in at Gatwick on 1 August and flew to Pisa in Italy\n\n\"It was a lot of stress I didn't particularly want on my first holiday since 2014,\" she said. \"It also tainted the experience of seeing my friend get married... which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.\"\n\nChloe flew from Gatwick to Pisa with EasyJet on 1 August but her suitcase did not arrive on the baggage carousel. She filled in paperwork at the airport but then had to jump on a train to Florence where her friend was getting married.\n\nChloe said she was thankful she had packed her outfit for the wedding in her hand luggage.\n\n\"But there was the rest of my holiday and events around the wedding like a barbecue and a pool party where I didn't really feel comfortable having photos taken with me in the same outfit all the time,\" she said.\n\nChloe said losing her suitcase meant she was wearing the same clothes in every holiday photo\n\nEasyJet has apologised to Chloe and said it will keep looking for her bag for 45 days before changing its status from delayed to lost.\n\n\"That means I'm in limbo because I can't put a claim in for compensation from EasyJet or my travel insurance until they say it's lost,\" she said.\n\nChloe said the total value of her case and its contents was about £1,000. \"Some of it I've already had to buy again because there are things I need on a day-to-day basis so I'm already out of pocket,\" she said.\n\n\"You do get £25 per person per day for up to three days from EasyJet for toiletries and basic clothing. But that doesn't go very far.\"\n\nThe UK watchdog, the Civil Aviation Authority, said the maximum most airlines pay out is about £1,000 but added: \"It would be very rare for you to receive this much.\"\n\nIt also warned that airlines judge the value of an item on its age when lost, not how much it costs to buy new, so it might be better to claim via travel insurance.\n\nAirlines must track every piece of luggage at various points during its journey using the barcode on the luggage tag, according to Sita.\n\nLast year was the first summer that holidaymakers returned in droves after Covid travel restrictions were eased.\n\nBut many airports and airlines that had made cuts during the pandemic struggled to recruit staff including baggage handlers quickly enough.\n\nThe number of bags that were delayed, lost or damaged jumped to 7.6 pieces of luggage per 1,000 passengers in 2022, Sita's latest baggage insights report found.\n\nThis was the highest rate since 2012 when the overall figure was 26.3 million - nearly nine pieces mishandled per 1,000 passengers. The figure before the pandemic in 2019 was nearly six pieces per 1,000 passengers.\n\nThe report found the increase in 2022 was down to issues during transfers from flight to flight, which accounted for 42% of lost, damaged or delayed baggage.\n\nA technical malfunction meant baggage piled up at Heathrow Airport in June 2022\n\nNicole Hogg, Sita's head of baggage said: \"Post-pandemic we've seen staff shortages at the same time as a surge in passenger traffic.\n\n\"People are really anxious about travelling with baggage, we've seen that with the baggage mountains. I think what we want to do is put confidence back into passengers to travel with bags.\"\n\nSita has shared its provisional 2023 data with the BBC although it cannot work out the rate until it has passenger data for the whole of this year.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association (Iata) said there were 4.5 billion air passengers in 2019 and estimates this year will see 4.4 billion.\n\nIn the first half of 2023, the number of mishandled pieces of luggage was 5.7 million, down from 5.8 million in the first half of 2019.\n\n\"The trend started to sharply improve from May to the end of July 2023, with fewer bags being misplaced despite strong growth in passenger numbers going into the summer,\" Sita said.\n\nNicole Hogg said there was a less than 1% chance that you would lose your bag and never be reunited with it\n\nMs Hogg said airlines were using automation to prevent baggage mishandling and reunite people with lost luggage.\n\n\"The system is quite clever. There's an algorithm that basically works out what's the next best available flight, and that bag is then sent directly on that flight without any human intervention.\"\n\nShe said it was very rare that a bag that went missing was not found and sent back to its owner.\n\n\"I think a bag that is lost or never reunited with the passenger is because the tag had come off and there was no name or phone number on it. But it's less than a 1% chance - bags that are mishandled are always more than likely reunited with passengers,\" she said.\n\nA statement from EasyJet said \"incidents of lost luggage are extremely low\" and that it \"has one of the best performances in the industry\".\n\nFor now Chloe can only wait in hope that she is either reunited with her bag or able to claim enough to replace it.\n\nWhat should I do if my luggage is delayed, lost or damaged?", "A flagship Russian long-range bomber has been destroyed in a Ukrainian drone strike, according to reports.\n\nImages posted on social media and analysed by BBC Verify show a Tupolev Tu-22M on fire at Soltsy-2 airbase, south of St Petersburg.\n\nMoscow said that a drone was hit by small-arms fire but managed to \"damage\" a plane. Ukraine has not commented.\n\nThe Tu-22M can travel at twice the speed of sound and has been used extensively to attack Ukraine.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry said in a statement that an attack by a \"copter-type UAV\" took place at around 10:00 Moscow time (07:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nIt stated the location as \"a military airfield in the Novgorod region\", where Soltsy-2 is situated.\n\n\"The UAV was detected by the airfield's observation outpost and was hit with small-arms fire,\" the ministry said.\n\n\"One airplane was damaged; there were no casualties as a result of the terrorist act.\"\n\nThe statement also said a fire which broke out in the airfield parking lot was quickly extinguished.\n\nHowever, images posted on the social media platform Telegram showed a large fire engulfing a jet with the distinctive nose cone of the Tu-22M. BBC Verify analysed the images and believes them to be credible.\n\nThe UK Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence briefing that it was \"highly likely destroyed\" in the attack on Soltsy-2.\n\nWhile the destruction of a single aircraft will have little effect on the potency of Moscow's current 60-strong fleet, the operation highlights Kyiv's growing ability to strike targets deep inside Russian territory.\n\nKyiv has over recent months launched dozens of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft to attack Moscow, several hundred miles away. Soltsy-2 is around 400 miles (650km) from the Ukraine border.\n\nHowever, the Russian MoD's description of the drone as a \"copter-type UAV\" suggests a cheap, commercially available device launched at short range.\n\nThe Tu-22M is a Cold War-era, swing-wing supersonic bomber, codenamed \"Backfire\" by Nato, which has been used extensively in attacks on Ukrainian cities.\n\nModern versions such as the Tu-22M3 can reach speeds of Mach 2 (2,300km/h or 1,430mp/h) and can carry up to 24,000kg of weapons, including \"dumb bombs\" and homing missiles.\n\nThey have been used in conflicts in Syria, Chechnya, and Georgia and most recently in Ukraine.\n\nAccording to prosecutors in Kyiv, 30 people were killed when a Tu-22M-launched missile hit a block of flats in Dnipro in January.\n\nThey said Russia's 52nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment carried out the attack. The regiment is based at Soltsy-2.\n\nBBC Verify confirmed the location of the Ukrainian drone attack on Soltsy-2 by comparing visual clues - such as the appearance of aircraft and bays - to historical satellite images of the airbase.\n\nThe weather conditions at the time - wet and overcast - also matched the weather in the images, as well as other witness photos of the incident.\n\nThe remnants of the aircraft visible in the footage are consistent with that of a Tu-22M3.\n\nHistorical satellite imagery analysed by BBC Verify shows that aircraft of this kind were stationed at the base.\n\nOn Monday, a spokesperson for Ukraine's defence intelligence service said another military aircraft had been damaged in a drone attack in Russia's Kaluga region.\n\nRussian media also reported the attack, but denied there had been any damage.", "Lucy Letby, 33, targeted babies when she was working as a neonatal nurse\n\nNurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies on a neonatal unit, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.\n\nThe 33-year-old has also been convicted of trying to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nLetby deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin.\n\nShe refused to appear in the dock for the latest verdicts.\n\nThey have been delivered by the jury over several hearings but they were not reportable until jurors were discharged.\n\nLetby broke down in tears as the first set of guilty verdicts were read out by the jury's foreman on 8 August after 76 hours of deliberations.\n\nShe cried with her head bowed as the second set were returned on 11 August.\n\nHer mother sobbed loudly and was heard to say \"this can't be right - you can't be serious\" while the families of the babies cried and gasped.\n\nLetby, originally from Hereford, was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nThe jury was unable to reach verdicts on six further attempted murder charges.\n\nNicholas Johnson KC, prosecuting, asked the court for 28 days to consider whether a retrial would be sought for these remaining six counts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nDuring the trial, which started in October 2022, the prosecution labelled Letby as a \"calculating and devious\" opportunist who \"gaslighted\" colleagues to cover her \"murderous assaults\".\n\nShe was convicted following a lengthy investigation by Cheshire Police into the alarming and unexplained rise in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies at the hospital.\n\nBefore June 2015, there were fewer than three baby deaths per year on the neonatal unit.\n\nHer defence team argued the deaths and collapses were the result of \"serial failures in care\" in the unit and she was the victim of a \"system that wanted to apportion blame when it failed\".\n\nThe trial lasted for more than 10 months and it is believed to be the longest murder trial in the UK.\n\nLetby was charged in November 2020 with murder and attempted murder\n\nOne of the babies' family members left the courtroom when the jury foreman said it was not possible to return verdicts on the remaining six counts, while a couple of jurors appeared upset.\n\nAs the judge discharged the jury, he told the panel of four men and seven women that it had \"been a most distressing and upsetting case\" and they were excused from serving on juries in the future.\n\nLetby will be sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.\n\nShe has indicated - via her legal team - that she does not want to attend her sentencing hearing or follow proceedings via a videolink from prison.\n\nThe reasons for her non-attendance have not yet been disclosed by the judge.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the Lord Chancellor had been clear that he wanted victims to see justice delivered and for all those found guilty to hear society's condemnation at their sentencing hearing.\n\n\"Defendants can already be ordered by a judge to attend court with those who fail facing up to two years in prison,\" the spokesman added.\n\nLegislation to force convicted criminals to appear in court for their sentencing is currently being examined.\n\nThe jury was shown a note, found at her home, which read: \"I am evil I did this\"\n\nThe parents of twin brothers who were among Letby's 13 victims have told the BBC the nurse was a \"hateful human being\" who had taken \"everything\" from them.\n\nLetby murdered one of their baby boys, and tried to kill the other twin the following day.\n\nThey said their child, who is now seven years old, was badly harmed by Letby and has been left with severe learning difficulties and \"a lot of complex needs\".\n\n\"There's a consequence and he's living with it,\" his mother said.\n\nJanet Moore, Cheshire Police's family liaison officer, speaking on behalf of the babies' families, said it had been a \"long, torturous and emotional journey\".\n\n\"We are heartbroken, devastated, angry and feel numb,\" she said.\n\n\"We may never truly know why this has happened.\"\n\nSenior Crown Prosecutor Pascale Jones said the nurse \"did her utmost to conceal her crimes, by varying the ways in which she repeatedly harmed babies in her care\".\n\nShe said Letby \"sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby's existing vulnerability\".\n\n\"She perverted her learning and weaponised her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.\"\n\nDetectives are continuing to review the care of some 4,000 babies admitted to hospital while Letby was working as a neonatal nurse.\n\nThe period covers her spell at the Countess of Chester Hospital from January 2012 to the end of June 2016, and includes two work placements at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015.\n\nCheshire Police emphasised that only those cases highlighted as medically concerning would be investigated further.\n\nThey added that the review at Liverpool Women's Hospital did not involve any deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked has told the BBC that hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against the nurse and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015 but he said no action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nBBC Panorama and BBC News have been investigating how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long.\n\nDr Ravi Jayaram, a consultant paediatrician at the hospital, wrote on social media that the truth of what happened would \"shock you to the core\".\n\n\"There are bad people in all walks of life and many of them are very good at hiding in plain sight,\" he said.\n\n\"There are also people in highly paid positions of responsibility in healthcare whose job it is to ensure patient safety.\"\n\nHe said he felt relief that the \"often-maligned criminal justice system\" had \"properly worked\" this time.\n\nBut he said there were \"things that need to come out about why it took several months from concerns being raised to the top brass before any action was taken to protect babies\".\n\nHe added: \"And why from that time it then took almost a year for those highly-paid senior managers to allow the police to be involved.\"\n\nThe government has since ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind Letby's killing spree following her conviction.\n\nThe Department of Health said the inquiry would investigate the wider circumstances around what happened at the hospital, including the handling of concerns and governance, and would also look at what actions were taken by regulators and the wider NHS.\n\nPrior to the government's announcement, Dr Nigel Scawn, executive medical director from the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said he was \"deeply saddened and appalled\" at Letby's crimes.\n\nHe said the trust was committed to learning lessons and would support its staff who had been \"devastated\" by what happened.\n\n\"We are grateful for the cooperation of our staff, especially those who have maintained the utmost professionalism whilst giving evidence in the trial, sometimes on multiple occasions,\" he added.\n\nIan Harvey, a former medical director at the hospital, said he would help the inquiry \"in whatever way I can\".\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff.\n\nI wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children,\" he said.\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nTony Chambers, former chief executive of the hospital, said he was \"truly sorry\" for what the families had gone through and he would \"co-operate fully and openly\" with any post-trial inquiry.\n\n\"As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff,\" said Mr Chambers, who served six years in his post before he resigned in September 2018.\n\n\"I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\n\n\"The trial, and the lengthy police investigation, have shown the complex nature of the issues raised.\n\n\"There are always lessons to be learnt and the best place for this to be achieved would be through an independent inquiry.\"\n\nOperation Hummingbird was launched in 2017 by Cheshire Police and Letby was first arrested at her home in Chester in July 2018.\n\nDetectives gathered 32,000 pages of evidence, sifting through reams of medical records, and interviewed 2,000 people, with 250 identified as potential witnesses.\n\nDet Supt Paul Hughes, who was the senior investigating officer (SIO) in the case said it had \"been an investigation like no other - in scope, complexity and magnitude\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Nicola Evans, who was the deputy SIO, described the case as \"truly crushing\", adding there were \"no winners\".\n\n\"The compassion and strength shown by the parents - and wider family members - has been overwhelming,\" she said.\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Glasgow City Council has spent almost £100,000 to hire vehicles to replace parts of its fleet that do not comply with its low-emission zone (LEZ).\n\nFigures also reveal the council was fined several times because its vehicles breached the rules.\n\nThe LEZ launched in June in a bid to improve air quality in the city centre.\n\nThe SNP-run council said the cost was mitigated by taking older vehicles out of service. The Tories said the rental outlay was \"farcical\".\n\nThe LEZ covers an area from the M8 motorway to the north and west of Glasgow, the River Clyde to the south, and the Saltmarket/High Street to the east.\n\nIn response to a freedom of information request, the council said that between 12 June and 14 July it had spent £95,344 hiring 131 vehicles to cover fleet vehicles that do not meet LEZ standards.\n\nThis included two eight-tonne DAF trucks, a Skyking cherry picker, a Mercedes refrigeration van, 52 Ford Transit vans and 22 Vauxhall Corsa cars.\n\nThe council said some of the 131 vehicles were hired to replace older non-compliant parts of the fleet that were earmarked for removal as part of a planned process, rather than specifically because they were required in the LEZ zone.\n\nIt said £74,128 was spent in the two months from 1 June on hiring 50 vehicles for LEZ compliance purposes.\n\nEvery non-compliant vehicle detected in the LEZ zone initially faces a fine of £60.\n\nCars and light-goods vehicles face fines of up to £480 per day for repeated breaches of the rules, known as surcharging, with penalties of up to £960 for buses and HGVs.\n\nExemptions are available for blue badge holders, motorbikes, mopeds and emergency vehicles.\n\nBut in general petrol cars made before 2005 and diesels built before September 2014 are not allowed in the zone.\n\nThe council said 21 of its vehicles had been issued penalty charge notices by 27 July.\n\nHowever, nine were subsequently cancelled as the vehicles were found to be LEZ compliant.\n\nScottish Conservative transport spokesman Graham Simpson urged the council to reconsider its LEZ scheme.\n\n\"It is farcical that the SNP-run council have spent these eyewatering sums on hiring vehicles to replace those that did not comply with the new rules,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone wants to improve air quality in our cities but it is high time council bosses started listening to people, businesses and charities over how low emission zones are being imposed.\"\n\nA council spokesperson said only a limited part of its fleet would be required to enter the city-centre LEZ, and those that do will be required to meet the emission standards.\n\n\"New vehicles which meet LEZ requirements are expected to be delivered to us in the near future and we are also retrofitting existing vehicles to improve emissions standards across our fleet,\" they said.\n\n\"LEZ compliant vehicles have been hired in the short term to ensure emissions standards are met.\n\n\"The cost of these hires has been mitigated by taking a number of older vehicles out of service in line with our fleet replacement programme, offsetting their operational costs.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHilary, the first tropical storm to hit southern California in 84 years, cut off the desert city of Palm Springs after dumping a year's worth of rain.\n\nMajor roads in and out of Palm Springs were temporarily closed on Monday by flooding after it was drenched with 3.18in (8cm) of rain.\n\nRescuers had to save several people there from swollen rivers.\n\nHilary, now a post-tropical cyclone, could still bring flooding to parts of Nevada, Oregon and Idaho.\n\nThe storm made landfall in the northern part of Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Sunday morning.\n\nIt quickly crossed the border into the US. Death Valley National Park received a full year's worth of rain in one day, and remains indefinitely closed.\n\nThe storm broke single day rainfall for San Diego, Palm Springs and several other California cities, according to the National Weather Service.\n\nEmergency 911 lines went down in Palm Springs, which is about 110 miles (175km) east of Los Angeles, as well as in nearby Cathedral City and Indio, according to officials.\n\n\"Right now we have flooding on all of our roads. There's no way in or out of Palm Springs and that's the case for the majority of the Coachella valley. We're all stuck,\" said Palm Springs Mayor Grace Garner in an interview with CNN on Monday.\n\n\"This is a very extreme situation at the moment.\"\n\nInterstate 10 through Palm Springs - which had been closed in both directions - reopened later on Monday.\n\nDuring the heaviest rains on Sunday, many Palm Springs residents spent hours sweeping water away from doorways to prevent their homes from flooding, resident Sean Heslin told the BBC.\n\nJust outside of Palm Springs, in Cathedral City, 14 people were trapped in an old people's home as flooding and mud cut off exits. Firefighters rescued them by Monday afternoon.\n\nFifty mobile homes were under water in the city and firefighters had to rescue four adults.\n\nSchools were closed on Monday, including in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the country, because of concerns about driving conditions.\n\nAs Californians battened down the hatches for the storm another natural disaster - a magnitude 5.1 earthquake - hit north-west of Los Angeles on Sunday, though without causing major damage.\n\nAbout 30,000 people in the state were without power as of Monday evening local time after the storm, according to poweroutage.us.\n\nNo deaths, serious injuries or major damage have been reported in the US from Hilary.\n\nBut one man died in a car in a flash flood in Mexico on Sunday. The Baja California peninsula saw heavy rain and winds of 70mph on Sunday.\n\nThe last time a tropical storm made landfall in Southern California was in Long Beach in 1939.\n\nExperts say recent abnormal weather events that have plagued the US - and several areas across the globe - have been influenced by human-caused climate change.\n\nHow have you been affected by the storms? If it's safe for you to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More needs to be done to ensure a plan to address women's health inequalities in Scotland is making a difference, doctors have warned.\n\nThe 2021 plan includes recommendations for better treatment of endometriosis, the menopause and heart disease.\n\nBMA Scotland said \"practical and substantive changes\" had not been felt by women so far.\n\nProf Anna Glasier, the Women's Health Champion for Scotland, said progress had been made.\n\nThe Scottish government's women's health inequalities plan, which was drafted with input from the real-life experiences of women, set out 66 actions in 2021.\n\nThese included appointing a national women's health champion and a women's health lead in every NHS board, as well as developing a menopause and menstrual health workplace policy.\n\nGP Patricia Moultrie, who is deputy chairwoman of the BMA's Scottish GP Committee told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"It is true to say progress has been made, we are doing this in the context of a very difficult situation with the NHS with long waiting lists and increased pressure on GPs.\n\n\"There's a great deal more to be done before women and girls in this country really feel that things have substantially changed.\n\n\"I don't think that perhaps very practical and substantive changes are being felt by women and girls in this country trying to access care [but] I think what is being done is a significant amount of pathways work, and that has potential to improve the care of patients.\"\n\nA national women's health champion was appointed in January and there is now a women's health lead in nearly every NHS board.\n\nIn addition, a network of menopause and menstrual health experts has been set up across the country.\n\nProf Glasier said these appointments meant they were \"making progress in changing the culture of boards to pay more attention to women's health in Scotland\".\n\nShe added: \"The overall aim is to improve the health of women and girls in Scotland and reduce health inequalities.\n\n\"It is going to take time. Discrepancies have been embedded for many years but we are working together more than we were and we are making use of opportunities to improve and to think differently about women's health service.\"\n\nProf Glasier gave the example of how men and women in their 60s going to a GP complaining of chest pains were often treated differently, leading to delays in women getting diagnosed with heart disease.\n\nShe added: \"It take a long time to change these historical attitudes.\"", "A red-roofed house was spared from the Lahaina fires while many others were reduced to rubble\n\nPictures have gone viral of a single red-roofed home that appears virtually unscathed as the neighbourhood around it has been reduced to piles of ash and rubble from the Maui fires.\n\nThe 100-year-old wood house on Front Street is still standing as most of the town of Lahaina has been destroyed.\n\nIts owners have been left wondering what spared it.\n\nFrom pictures, \"it looks like it was photoshopped in\", owner Trip Millikin told Honolulu Civil Beat.\n\nThe search and recovery efforts are still ongoing in Maui, with 114 confirmed deaths so far.\n\nOfficials say some 850 people are missing, but over 1,200 people who had been on the list have been found safe.\n\nThe blazes destroyed most of the historic Maui town of Lahaina and the fires are now considered the worst natural disaster in Hawaii state history.\n\nPresident Joe Biden arrived in Hawaii on Monday to see the devastation.\n\nThe red-roofed home's owners were on a trip to Massachusetts when they heard news of the fire.\n\nMr Millikin and his wife learnt that the whole neighbourhood had been caught in the blaze and would likely burn down. But the next morning, aerial footage showed their house was intact.\n\n\"We started crying,\" he told Honolulu Civil Beat. \"I felt guilty. We still feel guilty.\"\n\nMr Millikin and his wife said they are unsure exactly what saved their home. Two years ago, the couple purchased the 100-year-old property that used to be a bookkeeper's house for employees of a sugar plantation.\n\nMr Millikin and his wife said the house was in disrepair, so they sought to restore it. It may have been these renovations that saved the home, the pair told US media.\n\nThey switched out the home's asphalt roof for one with heavy-gauge metal, surrounded the house with river stones and removed foliage around it. But none of these actions were meant to stop a blaze, they said.\n\n\"It's a 100% wood house, so it's not like we fireproofed it or anything,\" Dora Atwater Millikin told the Los Angeles Times.\n\nShe said as the fires blazed, large pieces of wood would hit people's roofs. \"If it was an asphalt roof, it would catch on fire. And otherwise, they would fall off the roof and then ignite the foliage around the house,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the home's distance from its neighbours may have also served as a cushion.\n\nThe couple say they hope to return to Lahaina when it's safe, and when they do, they plan to offer up their home for the many who have lost theirs.\n\n\"Many people have died,\" said Ms Atwater Millikin. \"So many people have lost everything, and we need to look out for each other and rebuild. Everybody needs to help rebuild.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nAlmost two million fans attended the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand - up by more than 600,000 on the previous record.\n\nThe tournament, which Spain won for the first time, expanded to 64 games compared to 52 four years ago.\n\nHowever, the average attendance was 30,911 - up from 21,756 at the 2019 World Cup in France.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino had set a target of 1.5m ticket sales for 2023.\n\nThe ninth edition, featuring 32 nations for the first time, exceeded expectations, according to Fifa chief women's football officer Sarai Bareman.\n\n\"This momentum is unstoppable,\" she said. \"The numbers and data and everything about this World Cup has eclipsed 2019.\n\n\"Over the past few weeks weeks we have witnessed record-breaking crowds, significant global broadcast audiences and staggering digital metrics, highlighting the truly global impact of this ground-breaking event.\"\n\nJust short of two million fans\n\nIn total, 1,978,274 fans watched the games inside 10 stadiums in Australia and New Zealand between 20 July and 20 August.\n\nThe previous record aggregate attendance was set in 2015 when 1,353,506 people watched 52 matches in Canada.\n\nThe 2019 edition was watched by 1,131,312 supporters.\n\nSunday's final between Spain and England at Stadium Australia in Sydney, which Spain won 1-0, attracted a sell-out crowd of 75,784.\n\nMore than 700,000 fans watched 29 World Cup matches in New Zealand.\n\nBefore the World Cup, the record crowd for a football match in New Zealand was 37,034 for a men's World Cup play-off against Peru in Wellington in 2017.\n\nDespite early concerns about ticket sales, that record was shattered three times at Eden Park, Auckland.\n\n\"The atmosphere at Eden Park has been electric, with colour and culture celebrated through the beautiful game,\" said Nick Sautner, chief executive of Eden Park.\n\nThe Wellington Regional Stadium hosted nine matches in New Zealand's capital.\n\n\"I was in the stands when Japan scored their third goal against Norway,\" said Shane Harmon, chief executive of Wellington Regional Stadium.\n\n\"It may as well have been New Zealand playing given the roar from the crowd. The fans have been fantastic.\"\n\nStadium Australia was used five times at the tournament and hosted an aggregate 378,920 fans, with sell-out crowds at all the games staged there.\n\nTen of the 64 matches attracted crowds of 45,000-plus.\n\n\"Fifa's original sales target for Australia and New Zealand was 1.3m,\" said a Fifa spokesperson.\n\n\"This was adjusted to 1.5m, which was surpassed.\"", "The Spanish football team continued to celebrate their Women's World Cup win as they landed in Madrid.\n\nDefender Ivana Andrés held the trophy aloft as they exited the plane.\n\n\"This is amazing, amazing, just amazing,\" said fellow player Irene Paredes, clutching the golden trophy, as she boarded the team's coach.\n\nSpain beat England 1-0 in the World Cup final in Sydney on Sunday.", "About 100,000 passengers travelled on Cardiff Bus services on an average weekday before Covid\n\nUp to a quarter of bus services in Wales could be cut if operators fail to get further long-term government funding, passengers have been warned.\n\nIt is estimated almost 10% of bus routes have been axed this summer now the Welsh government's £150m pandemic-era emergency funding has ended.\n\nMinisters said they were working on funding to start after April.\n\nMother-of-two Chelsea Hamlyn, 29, said she relies on buses to get her daughter to nursery then travel to work.\n\nThe Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT), which represents bus companies, said bus users could be hit further by more cuts in the next financial year.\n\nRoutes in Cardiff and Newport are among those that have been cut this summer, with bus firms blaming reduced funding, fewer passengers after Covid and the new 20mph speed limit.\n\nMinisters said this year's grant could save a \"majority\" of routes.\n\nChelsea, a hairstylist, has a 40-mile round trip to get to work in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, from her home in Llangynwyd, Bridgend county, including a detour for her childcare arrangements.\n\n\"I relied on the 7:30am bus that would take me at from Llangynwyd to Cwmfelin to drop my daughter at nursery,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't rely on family or friends for a lift and I simply cannot afford to learn to drive at the moment. I sometimes take a taxi but they can be expensive.\n\n\"So many people rely on the bus for work. The early bus always had hospital staff on it and now they are having to also rely on family and friends' help or catch really early trains.\"\n\nChelsea Hamlyn says the bus cuts affect her dropping off her children and then getting to work on time\n\nCPT Cymru director Aaron Hill said: \"We could have seen 20-25% of the whole network in Wales cut as a result of this most recent funding ended. We don't want to be in that position in March and April.\n\n\"The industry wants to be able to grow to run new services and to reach places that they are not able to at the moment, but the level of funding isn't there.\"\n\nMr Hill said he appreciated how tight public finances were, but \"we need to work with Welsh government to find a solution beyond April\".\n\nWales' cross-country TrawsCymru routes have been protected by the most recent grants but services across the nation have been hit, affecting Stagecoach in the south and Arriva in the north.\n\n\"Regrettably bus operators in Cardiff, Newport and other areas are withdrawing services right, left and centre,\" said Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies.\n\nHe said the government grant was insufficient and ministers had not \"done enough to promote returning passengers to bus services\".\n\nPassengers numbers in Wales have almost halved since Covid, falling from 101 million in 2018-19 to 52 million in 2021-22, according to Department of Transport figures.\n\n\"You need the passengers to maintain the service but you need the service to bring the passengers on board - it's a vicious circle,\" said Mr Davies.\n\nStagecoach in south Wales has made timetable amendments due to government funding cuts\n\nPlaid Cymru called on the Labour-run Welsh government to act \"decisively and urgently\".\n\n\"These cuts will be felt by communities across our country by people who rely on the bus network to go to work, see friends and family, or hospital appointments,\" said Plaid transport spokeswoman Delyth Jewell.\n\n\"It will harm local economies and make inequality worse.\"\n\nAs well as an estimated 10% cut in bus services, operators have also altered routes as more people work from home.\n\nOne group of residents in Monmouthshire has helped save their local bus after it was threatened with closure.\n\nResidents of villages that use the 65 service between Monmouth and Chepstow campaigned to save it.\n\nWith the help of Monmouthshire council, The Friends of the 65 created a website and Twitter and Facebook accounts and brought a bunch of rural communities together.\n\nJane Gilliard (second from left) helped campaign to save the 65 bus service between Chepstow and Monmouth\n\nRetired lecturer and Friend of the 65 member Jane Gilliard, who lives in The Narth, near Monmouth, said: \"The bus has become a community in itself with friendly users and drivers and have people that catch it from Monmouth to Chepstow and back again simply to get out of the house and see people.\n\n\"We have many regular passengers and sometimes absence of regulars is noted by the drivers who alert other passengers.\n\n\"In one case, we went around to a lady's house and she'd had a fall so we galvanised support and helped with tasks until they were well enough to get back on the bus and do their shopping again - so it's a social service as much as a bus service.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was supporting councils with bus-priority measures to keep passengers moving and make bus travel more attractive.\n\nIt added: \"Our priority up until now been ensuring services continue to run and that we are not facing wholesale collapse of the industry. We are now working on the funding offer for next year\".", "In the end, it came down to that word that has haunted England fans for decades: hurt.\n\nBut after the Lionesses' heartbreaking defeat to Spain in Sunday's final, it was impossible to find a single person gathered in the fan zone to watch the match who thought this was the end of the line for a side the country has fallen head over heels in love with.\n\nAt Croydon Boxpark in London, hundreds of supporters began the morning hopeful as they crammed into the stiflingly hot fan venue.\n\nIn scenes repeated across the country, the faithful had arrived early, waving flags, many wearing shirts with names of their heroes on the back, and hoping for a historic win.\n\nThe final whistle might have brought the curtain down on this particular World Cup dream - but this team's place in fans' hearts has been cemented.\n\nDani and Georgia Beazley were the first in line when the doors opened, queuing from 07:30 BST to secure a front row seat.\n\n\"We're gutted, but they've done the country proud,\" said Dani. \"And I think this defeat will only make people love them more.\"\n\nCoach Sarina Wiegman has built a winning team and mentality - and a generation of fans who have got used to winning.\n\nBefore kick-off, Holly Cornford, 30, said: \"I started watching women's football seriously during the [2022] Euros and just thought it was incredible. Before that it felt like you had to jump through hoops to watch it.\n\n\"I don't think there's any chance it will go backwards from here\", she said. \"It's only going up.\"\n\nHer friend Phoebe Shavelar, who's 25, said: \"This England team just make me feel positive about women's sport in general.\n\n\"For a little boy, that dream was always there for them. That's changing for little girls now.\"\n\nDani and Georgia were first in line at Croydon Boxpark\n\nAmong those watching was 10-year-old Isla Burton, from Horley, West Sussex.\n\nHer dad Luke described them as a \"football family\" as he played for AFC Wimbledon, his sons compete at youth level and now Isla plays at Brighton's centre of emerging talent.\n\n\"The standard of women's football is amazing and for my daughter to be able to see that, it gives her drive and belief,\" Luke said.\n\n\"She was brought up on football but even five or 10 years ago I didn't know if she'd be able to have a career in it.\n\n\"But now there's just such a buzz around the sport.\"\n\nMum Sarah agreed, saying she hoped to see her daughter \"up on that screen one day\".\n\nSimilar events were held elsewhere across the country.\n\nIn Birmingham, the Witton Arms, next to Aston Villa's Villa Park, reopened after a refurbishment with a big screen and brand new fan zone.\n\nAston Villa fan Rhiannon Williams said: \"It's good seeing how people have started watching it and [they] proved that they can play football.\n\n\"Hopefully Villa Park can be sold out at a women's game.\"\n\nThe crowd in Croydon watched as England started to try and break down a stubborn Spain side and there were groans when England went close early on (so close that five people sharing a bench ended up flat on their backs) and the nerves were palpable.\n\nBut across London, at a fan zone in Victoria Park in the east of the city, England supporters were stunned into silence as Olga Camona scored the opening goal on 29 minutes. A single Spain fan celebrated.\n\nBack in Croydon there was still belief at half-time but the game slipped away from England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the second half, a penalty save from Mary Earps sent the crowd into raptures and pints were thrown in the air.\n\nAt a screening in North Walsham, Norfolk - the home town of England forward Lauren Hemp - there was hope England could still find an equaliser.\n\n\"We will keep working hard and cheering them on,\" said Nicola Wicks.\n\nBut in the end, there were tears.\n\nIn Croydon, a despondent Holly Sohail was consoled by friends after the final whistle.\n\n\"I woke up at 2am and was convinced we could win\", she said dabbing at her eyes with her England shirt.\n\n\"But we'll come back. We will win this tournament in four years' time.\"\n\nLaura, Emma and Helen Davies had no doubt the Lionesses will keep growing\n\nNicola Byrne said: \"We're devastated but they were amazing. We couldn't be any prouder. Will they be back? 100%.\"\n\nMum Helen Davies and daughters Emma and Laura, had arrived early, with their replica kits on.\n\nAnd off the pitch, Emma said, this team's influence is beyond doubt.\n\n\"Girls are now seeing football as a career which never could before. Even some older players like Lucy Bronze - she wouldn't have dreamt of this as a child.\"\n\nOne of them who might go to bed tonight dreaming of playing on the big stage is Lilly Rush.\n\nThe three-year-old had one of the best seats in the house under the big screen alongside dad James Rush and mum Lisa Campbell.\n\nParents James and Lisa hope England inspire Lilly to believe she can pursue a career in sport\n\n\"She plays football on a Saturday and loves it,\" Lisa said.\n\n\"This final will show her that playing sport is something can do when she grows up.\n\n\"Even just before the Euros in 2022 it was hard to imagine.\n\n\"Let's face it, everyone wants a team to believe in.\"\n\nWorld Cup winners or not, England has one.", "Bosses at Britain's biggest companies saw their pay rise by almost 16% on average last year as most workers' wages were squeezed by rising prices.\n\nThe High Pay Centre said the median pay of a FTSE 100 chief executive was £3.91m in 2022, up from £3.38m in 2021.\n\nIt added that the average earnings of a FTSE 100 boss was 118 times more than a typical UK worker on £33,000 a year.\n\nCritics called the earnings extreme, but some of the firms argued they were in line with competitors.\n\nAccording to the High Pay Centre - a think tank which tracks executives' pay - the highest paid boss last year was Sir Pascal Soriot, the boss of the drugs giant AstraZeneca, with £15.3m.\n\nThe British-Swedish company became a household name when it teamed up with Oxford University scientists to develop a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nCharles Woodburn of security and aerospace firm BAE Systems was the second highest earner with £10.7m, while Emma Walmsley, boss of GlaxoSmithKline, was the highest female earner with £8.45m.\n\nBen van Beurden, the former boss of energy giant Shell with £9.7m, and BP's Bernard Looney securing £10m featured in the top six biggest earners after both firms reported record profits on soaring energy prices.\n\nThe think tank, which analysed the pay of chief executives of all companies on the UK's blue chip company index through firms' annual reports for 2022, reported median pay was more than £500,000 up on 2021, continuing its upward trend since it dropped to £2.46m in 2020 during the height of the pandemic.\n\nThe High Pay Centre said the rise was in part due to the economic recovery following lockdowns and through bosses having \"strong incentive pay awards tied to profitability and share prices\".\n\nHowever, earnings are still not as high as they were in 2017 when they hit £3.97m.\n\nThe centre said the gap between company executives and other workers' pay had widened further last year.\n\nThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) said the report showed Britain was a \"land of grotesque extremes\".\n\n\"We need an economy that delivers better living standards for all - not just those at the top,\" said Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC.\n\nBut economic think tank the Adam Smith Institute said \"knee-jerk attacks\" on chief executive pay were unhelpful, and said more attention needed to be applied to the benefits for the wider economy.\n\nIn response to the report, AstraZeneca said 12% of Sir Pascal's pay was fixed, while 88% of it was subject to share price and performance. The firm's share price has soared 81% in the past five years.\n\nThe company also pointed out that on a global basis, its chief executive pay was below big pharmaceutical competitors.\n\nAstraZeneca's chief executive Pascal Soriot was the highest paid boss on the FTSE 100\n\nBP, Shell and other energy firms have faced criticism over the extent of their profits at a time when high energy prices have been a big driver in the cost of living rising.\n\nShell told the BBC the £9.7m figure was Mr van Beurden's \"single figure remuneration\", which included a £1.42m salary, £2.59m bonus, Long Term Incentive Payment worth £4.9m, plus pension and other taxable benefits.\n\nA spokesperson said its \"executive remuneration\" was \"benchmarked against a broad range of European multinational companies\", adding that data from the past 10 years showed its senior leaders were \"paid competitively\".\n\nAlthough a single figure is disclosed as the pay package of a chief executive, it typically consists more than just a base salary, with bonuses, incentives and pension pay also included.\n\nBase salary represents only 21% of total FTSE 100 bosses' remuneration on average, the High Pay Centre said - a direct contrast to most UK workers.\n\nGillian Wilmot, who runs remuneration committees at various listed and private companies, told the BBC's Today programme that the companies highlighted were at \"the very top bar\"\n\n\"It's a bit like comparing half a dozen premiership footballers with most people in sport... it gives a very false view of business.\"\n\nShe also said that there was a \"narrow talent pool\" considered appointable to these roles. \"We need to broaden the talent pool. It's very undiverse, very few women.\"\n\nOutside of the biggest firms, workers' wages on average have failed keep up with rising prices, especially for gas, electricity and food during last year and this year so far.\n\nInflation, which is the rate consumer prices rise at, is currently at 6.8% in the year to July. However, the figure was much higher throughout the majority of 2022, peaking at 11.1% last October, meaning back then goods on average were more than 10% more expensive compared to prices the year before.\n\nLatest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show regular pay growth, which excludes bonuses, reached 7.8% over the three months to June compared to a year earlier, but actually dropped by 0.6% once inflation was taken into account.\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey told the BBC last year that workers should not ask for big pay rises to try to stop prices rising out of control, comments which resulted in backlash from unions and the government's distancing itself from the stance.\n\nLuke Hildyard, director at the High Pay Centre, said \"at a time when so many households are struggling with living costs, an economic model that prioritises a half-a-million-pound pay rise for executives who are already multi-millionaires is surely going wrong somewhere\".\n\nThe think tank called for a requirement for companies to include a minimum of two elected workforce representatives on the remuneration committees that set pay.\n\nGary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union, said if the government \"genuinely think high wages are going to cause spiralling inflation, they probably need to think about curbing pay at the top of the tree, rather than everyone else\".\n\n\"While workers in sectors across the board were forced onto picket lines to make ends meet, these top brass were trousering fortunes,\" he added.\n\nBut Duncan Simpson, executive director at the Adam Smith Institute economic think tank, argued that the pay of chief executives was \"all too often\" criticised \"without further thought\".\n\n\"16% is a marked increase. But company leaders provide value to customers with the products and services they sell, to pensioners with dividends from profits they generate and to HMRC through tax receipts,\" he said.\n\n\"Knee-jerk attacks remain an unhelpful way to look at the private sector which employs over 80% of workers in the UK and generates benefits across society.\"\n\nThe BBC also contacted BAE systems, GlaxoSmithKline, and BP for comment in relation to the pay packets of chief executives.", "Lucy Letby was convicted of murder and attempted murder while working as a neonatal nurse\n\nNeonatal nurse Lucy Letby, who is the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern British history, will spend the rest of her life behind bars.\n\nThe 33-year-old was convicted on Friday of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nLetby deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin.\n\nShe refused to appear in the dock for her sentencing hearing.\n\nThe judge proceeded without her and said he was addressing her as if she were in the dock.\n\nLetby was given multiple whole-life terms - one for each offence - becoming only the fourth woman in UK history to receive such a sentence.\n\nWhole-life orders are the most severe punishment available and are reserved for those who commit the most heinous crimes.\n\nMr Justice Goss said the \"cruelty and calculation\" of Letby's actions between June 2015 and June 2016 were \"truly horrific\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"You acted in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies and in gross breach of the trust that all citizens place in those who work in the medical and caring professions,\" he said.\n\nHe added handover sheets relating to all but the first four babies were found when police searched Letby's home, which he was satisfied she kept as \"morbid records\".\n\nPassing sentence, he said: \"There was a malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions.\n\n\"During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing.\n\n\"You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors.\"\n\nHe said Letby, originally from Hereford, would be provided with copies of his remarks and the personal statements of the parents.\n\nLucy Letby pictured during her first interview in police custody in 2018\n\nBen Myers KC, defending Letby, said the neonatal nurse had \"maintained her innocence throughout these proceedings\" so there was nothing he was \"able to add in mitigation that was capable of reducing the sentence\".\n\nAs the hearing began, there was silence, which hung heavy, as those in courtroom seven at Manchester Crown Court waited for the judge to enter the room.\n\nEight of the jurors who tried Letby over 10 months were in attendance. Some were visibly upset as they heard about the grief, loss and distress suffered by each family.\n\nParents cried quietly in the public gallery as victim impact statements were heard. Their words made it clear the effect on their lives would be never-ending.\n\nLetby's parents, who had been present throughout her trial, did not attend her sentence hearing.\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe mother of a baby boy killed by Letby said she was \"horrified that someone so evil exists\".\n\nAddressing an empty dock, the mother of Baby C, who became emotional, told the court that knowing now that her son's murderer had been watching over them throughout those traumatic hours was like \"something out of a horror story\".\n\nThe mother of Baby D, who was holding a toy rabbit as she read her statement, said Letby's \"wicked sense of entitlement and abuse of her role as a trusted nurse\" was a \"scandal\".\n\nBaby E and F's mother described Letby as a \"coward\" for failing to attend the sentencing hearing, adding: \"Our world was shattered when we encountered evil disguised as a caring nurse.\"\n\n\"We have attended court day in and day out, yet she decides she has had enough, and stays in her cell - just one final act of wickedness from a coward,\" she said.\n\nThe parents of Baby G, who was the most premature of all the babies, weighing just 535g (1lb 3oz), and who now requires constant care, told the court: \"God saved her\" but then \"the devil found her\".\n\nThe parents of Baby N, who Letby attempted to murder in June 2016, said the family still had a camera in their now seven-year-old's bedroom so they can check on him while he sleeps.\n\n\"We are extremely protective,\" they said.\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nA total of 70 criminals are serving a whole-life order, four of whom are being held in secure hospitals.\n\nThey will never be considered for release, unless there are exceptional compassionate grounds to warrant it.\n\nThe other women to have been given a whole-life sentence are serial killers Rose West and Joanna Dennehy, as well as Moors murderer Myra Hindley, who died in 2002.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"get on\" and bring forward proposals to force offenders to face their victims after Letby refused to appear in the dock.\n\n\"I want to see action as quickly as possible in this case, because victims' families have been through the most awful ordeal,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope the government will do it because I think it can be done very quickly.\"\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said Letby was \"not just a murderer but a coward, whose failure to face her victims' families, refusing to hear their impact statements and society's condemnation, is the final insult\".\n\n\"We are looking to change the law so offenders can be compelled to attend sentencing hearings,\" he said.\n\nEarlier Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also said it was \"cowardly\" for convicted criminals not to face victims or their families in court.\n\nThe government has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind Letby's killing spree but, as it stands, the inquiry will not have the power to compel witnesses to give evidence.\n\nAs a result of this, concerns have been raised by some about how effective the inquiry will be in examining the case.\n\nAmong them is Labour's City of Chester MP Samantha Dixon who told the BBC the inquiry would have to rely on \"the goodwill of witnesses to attend\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nThe lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked previously said hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015 with hospital managers, including Alison Kelly, who was in charge of nursing at the time.\n\nBut he said no action was taken and Letby went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nMs Kelly has since been suspended as director of nursing for Rochdale Care Organisation, which is part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nNHS England said the decision was made \"in light of information that had emerged during the trial\".\n\nFollowing the verdicts on Friday, the prosecution's lead medical expert in the case, Dr Dewi Evans, said hospital executives who failed to act should be investigated by police.\n\nHe said he intended to write to Cheshire Police to ask the force to investigate bosses for not acting on the concerns of doctors.\n\nTony Chambers, former chief executive of the hospital, previously said he was \"truly sorry\" for what the families had gone through and he would \"co-operate fully and openly\" with any post-trial inquiry.\n\n\"As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff,\" he said.\n\n\"I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\"\n\nIan Harvey, a former medical director at the hospital, also said he would help the inquiry \"in whatever way I can\".\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff,\" he said.\n\n\"I wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The family of a black man murdered in 1959 is demanding access to the police file on his unsolved killing.\n\nKelso Cochrane was stabbed to death on a west London street, in what's believed to have been a racist attack. Nobody was ever charged with the crime.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says the file is not available to the public because the case is still open.\n\nThe family lawyer says this secrecy is not justified, and the family is ready to take legal action if necessary.\n\nThe murder is arguably one of the most significant events in black British history.\n\nAt the time of his death, the 32-year-old was living in London, working as a carpenter and planning to study law.\n\nKelso Cochrane had been born in Antigua, and had arrived in England five years before his death, following a spell in the US. He had been married there, but the relationship had broken down.\n\nListen to the radio documentary, The Murder of Kelso Cochrane, on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 BST on Monday 21 August, or 11:00 BST on Wednesday 23 August, or afterwards on BBC Sounds\n\nHe had also left two young daughters in the US, to whom he still sent toys - dolls, tea sets, and skipping ropes. One of them, Josephine, says that these \"little things\" gave her \"the impression that he was a loving father and that he cared\".\n\nLike many other members of the Windrush generation, Cochrane was living in the west London area of Notting Hill. It was one of the few parts of the city where new immigrants from the Caribbean could find housing, although it was often expensive, overcrowded and in poor condition. The area was also home to a well-established white working class population.\n\nOn the evening of 16 May 1959, Cochrane paid a visit to his local hospital, Paddington General. His thumb was painful after an injury at work.\n\nOn his way back home, he was attacked by a group of five or six white youths. Witnesses said they saw them encircling him, kicking, hitting. One jumped on his back.\n\nTwo Jamaican men walking past saw the incident and ran to help. Cochrane was able to stand, so they got him into a taxi and took him to St Charles' Hospital in nearby North Kensington.\n\nCochrane didn't seem to be bleeding heavily, but he'd been stabbed in the heart with a thin blade. By the time they arrived at the hospital, he was in severe shock. He died there, just before 01:00.\n\nBy 04:00 news of the death had made the newspapers. A late edition of the Sunday Express that morning carried a flash headline: \"Murder in Notting Hill\".\n\nNotting Hill had already become identified with racial tension. In the previous summer of 1958, riots lasting several days had broken out in the neighbourhood.\n\nThe riots ended in early September, but for black residents the undercurrent of violence persisted.\n\nRacial tensions had erupted during the Notting Hill riots of 1958\n\nFar-right groups had become active in the area, including the Union Movement of Sir Oswald Mosley. In spring 1959, another group, the White Defence League, had set up an office in the heart of Notting Hill, saying it would \"campaign for white interests\".\n\nBut for all the tension, nobody had been killed in a racist attack - until Kelso Cochrane.\n\nThe police inquiry was led by Det Supt Ian Forbes-Leith. He had a team of 20 officers at his disposal.\n\nThe investigation quickly focused on a party, which had been taking place close to where Cochrane was attacked on Southam Street.\n\nSeveral guests were brought in for questioning. Two were held for more than 48 hours - Patrick Digby, a 20-year-old merchant seaman, and John \"Shoggy\" Breagan who was 24. They were later released without charge.\n\nThe street corner in London's Notting Hill where Kelso Cochrane was attacked\n\nThe police were quick to dismiss the idea that racism was the motive. Det Supt Forbes-Leith told the press that the stabbing had \"absolutely nothing to do with racial conflict\". He suggested the motive could have been robbery.\n\nThat wasn't what it looked like to many in Notting Hill's black community. John Prince, a friend of Cochrane, told the BBC in 2006 that it had been frightening: \"Suddenly now you're faced with the possibility of being murdered just because of who you were as a person.\"\n\nOn 6 June 1959 hundreds of people - black and white - gathered for Cochrane's funeral, lining the streets of Notting Hill, following his coffin to nearby Kensal Green Cemetery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the wake of the murder, the activist Claudia Jones and others set up the Inter Racial Friendship Co-ordinating Council, which paid Cochrane's funeral costs, organised silent protests in Whitehall, and pushed for laws against racial hatred.\n\nOver time, the police inquiry was wound down.\n\nDecades later in 2006, Cochrane's older brother Stanley came to England for the first time. He wanted to find out who killed his brother. A BBC documentary team followed him.\n\nThe investigative journalist Mark Olden tracked down Patrick Digby and John Breagan but neither were willing to meet Stanley. Both denied involvement in the murder. Stanley asked to see the police file but was only allowed to see an abridged version.\n\nAmong those who saw the programme was Pat Digby's step-daughter, Susie Read. She contacted Olden, and told him she remembered Digby's friends baiting him with an odd name - \"Oslo\" or \"Kelso\".\n\nPat Digby's stepdaughter Susie Read says he admitted to her that he killed Cochrane\n\nShe has now told us that once during an argument, she had challenged Digby about the accusation: \"He said, 'Well, if I did, you could never prove it.' I said, 'Did you kill him? He said, 'Yeah'.\"\n\nOlden kept digging. He spoke to a guest at the Southam Street party, who told him Digby had come back after the attack, and confessed to people there.\n\nHe spoke again to John Breagan, who said that he and Digby had left the party together before the murder. When first asked why by the police, one of them said it was to look for girls, the other said it was to have a fight. But when detained in the police station, they were held in adjacent cells. Breagan told Olden that this had allowed them to \"straighten\" their stories. Breagan died in 2019.\n\nIn 2011 Olden published a book, Murder in Notting Hill, which prompted Kelso Cochrane's daughter Josephine to contact him. Growing up in New York, she knew her father had died, but until then hadn't realised he'd been murdered.\n\nJosephine is now at the centre of the family's efforts to get the police files opened. She told us that as she hadn't known her father growing up she wanted to know \"everything\" about his murder and the investigation \"before I die\".\n\nCochrane's daughter Josephine says she wants to know \"everything\" about his murder\n\nThe investigation file into Kelso Cochrane's murder has been transferred to the National Archives in Kew, but it will remain closed from public view until 2054 - after Josephine's 100th birthday.\n\nIt's not uncommon for unsolved murder cases to be restricted for up to 100 years - this is so they only become public after all those involved have died.\n\nBut some unsolved murder files from London in the same period are open, such as that of Freda Knowles, murdered in 1964, or Ernest Isaacs, shot dead at his home in 1966.\n\nCrime historian Dr Mark Roodhouse, of the University of York, uses police files from the mid-20th Century for his research. He says he's surprised that the Kelso Cochrane file is still restricted.\n\nIn spring 2020, I made my own Freedom of Information request for the Cochrane file to be opened early, on public interest grounds.\n\nI've succeeded in getting other files opened early, notably dozens of files on institutional child sex abuse just after the Jimmy Savile scandal.\n\nOn this occasion, however, my request was turned down.\n\nThe Met Police said then the Cochrane case was considered open, and that \"new scientific techniques\" meant that \"cases hitherto considered unsolvable, are being examined afresh\".\n\nI was also told that releasing the files would cause the family \"immediate mental distress\". However, it is Cochrane's family who now wants the file released.\n\nWhat's more, the main suspects are dead and it is difficult to point to any evidence that could be subject to \"cold case\" techniques. The BBC documentary team was told in 2006 that Kelso Cochrane's clothes had been destroyed in the late 1960s.\n\nKelso Cochrane is remembered in west London by a street named after him\n\nWe went back to the Metropolitan Police this summer, asking them to explain why the Cochrane family was unable to access the file. They told us that \"as with all unsolved murders this case is not closed and any evidence that comes to light will be assessed and investigated accordingly\".\n\nThey said that officers from the Special Casework Team had made efforts to engage with Mr Cochrane's family, via their legal representatives, with a view to discussing details of this murder investigation - but that these efforts had so far been unsuccessful.\n\nDaniel Machover, the lawyer acting for the Cochrane family, says the family will pursue a formal route to obtain the file - challenging the reasons previously given to withhold it.\n\nHe has obtained multiple statements to support the request, from Kelso Cochrane's immediate and extended family, and from journalists who have tried to obtain the file over many years, including myself.\n\nMachover has also provided the death certificates of the key suspects, and others who are likely to have been significant witnesses in the case.\n\nHe says it's too late for criminal justice, but the family hopes there will be something in the file that \"at least gives them a picture, a flavour, an idea of what was done to try to secure a criminal charge and a criminal prosecution\".\n\nMachover has represented many black families in dispute with the Met Police. He believes there is a need to acknowledge the events of the past to deal with mistrust today.\n\nComparisons have been drawn with the murder of the south London teenager, Stephen Lawrence, in 1993 - in both cases, there was a reluctance by the Met Police to name racism as the motive, and an initial failure to charge anyone for the crimes.\n\nLess than a mile from where he was attacked, a street has been named after Kelso Cochrane, as well as a new block of social housing.\n\nA plaque is unveiled earlier this year at the newly opened Kelso Cochrane House in North Kensington\n\nMembers of the Cochrane family are grateful for the recognition but they still want something more.\n\nMillicent Christian, the daughter of Cochrane's cousin, says that Stephen Lawrence's mother Doreen eventually achieved \"some kind\" of justice. \"We're looking for that same kind of justice for our Kelso.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nSpain captain Olga Carmona, who scored her country's winner in the Women's World Cup final, was told after the game that her father had died.\n\nCarmona, 23, scored the only goal as Spain beat England to claim the trophy.\n\nThe Real Madrid left-back's father had been fighting a long illness and died on Friday, Reuters reported.\n\n\"I know you have been watching me tonight and that you are proud of me. Rest in peace dad,\" Carmona wrote on social media.\n\nCarmona included a picture of her kissing her winners' medal along with the message.\n\nShe added: \"And without knowing it, I had my star before the game started. I know that you have given me the strength to achieve something unique.\"\n\nA gold star is added to the shirt of the winners of a World Cup, above the national team crest, every time they win the trophy.\n\nIn a later statement on Monday she added: \"I have no words to thank [you for] all your love. Yesterday was the best and the worst day of my life.\"\n\n\"The RFEF deeply regrets to announce the death of Olga Carmona's father,\" the Spanish Football Association (RFEF) wrote on social media.\n\n\"The footballer learned the sad news after the World Cup final.\n\n\"We send our most sincere embrace to Olga and her family in a moment of deep sorrow. We love you, Olga, you are Spanish soccer history.\"\n\nCarmona started five of Spain's seven games at the World Cup.\n\nSpanish media outlet Relevo said her family and friends decided not to tell her so she could focus on the final, with her mother and brothers arriving in Australia on Saturday to support her.\n\nHer club Real Madrid also expressed \"condolences and affection for Olga, her relatives and all her loved ones\".\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Behind the scenes in London's most expensive hotel: It costs up to £27k a night and no request is too big", "Christopher O'Kane appeared before Coleraine Magistrates' Court sitting in Ballymena on Monday\n\nA 50-year-old man has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences linked to the major data breach by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nIt is alleged Christopher Paul O'Kane had a spreadsheet containing the names on a phone found at his home.\n\nThe phone allegedly had screenshots of sections with officers names, including one who was previously targeted in a dissident bomb attack.\n\nMr O'Kane of Main Street, Feeny, was remanded in custody for four weeks.\n\nHe was arrested by police at his County Londonderry house last Friday.\n\nThe data breach happened two weeks ago, when police released the names of more than 10,000 staff and officers by mistake, under a Freedom of Information (FoI) request.\n\nMr O'Kane is charged with two offences:\n\nColeraine Magistrates' Court, sitting in Ballymena, was told the two phones were found in Mr O'Kane's bedroom.\n\nOn one of the phones, the spreadsheet had allegedly been downloaded to a file.\n\nIt is also claimed there were images of certain sections of groups of officers, including those at a senior level, and two individuals.\n\nOne had detained Mr O'Kane for a stop-and-search, while the second was the victim of an attempted murder in a bomb attack claimed by the New IRA.\n\nIt is also alleged a phone contained images of DIY bomb detonators.\n\nA police detective told the court there is also evidence the accused had registered for a website used for searching for addresses using surnames.\n\nA defence solicitor said Mr O'Kane had received the file on WhatsApp and he had deleted it.\n\nHe said he was not in possession of the spreadsheet with his knowledge, and he was unaware it had been downloaded to the phone.\n\nThe solicitor stated: \"There is no evidence it had been used for any nefarious purposes or with any intent.\"\n\nIn response to questions from the solicitor, the police detective said there is no evidence at this point the spreadsheet had been forwarded by Mr O'Kane.\n\nHe could also not say how long it had been on one of the phones.\n\nMr O'Kane did not speak during the hearing, nor did he stand when the charges were read out.\n\nHe sat in the dock handcuffed in between two prison officers.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nTwo-time champions Germany were sent crashing out of the Women's World Cup group stages in the biggest shock of the tournament thanks to a draw with South Korea.\n\nIt is the first time in Germany's history they have failed to reach the knockout stages.\n\nOne of the pre-tournament favourites, Germany knew they needed to better Morocco's result against Colombia to progress in Group H, but that match finished 1-0 to Morocco.\n\nAn early goal by South Korea's Cho So-hyun shook the Euro 2022 finalists in Brisbane, but captain Alexandra Popp netted her fourth goal in three matches to equalise shortly before half-time.\n\nGermany were heading through as group runners-up as they went off the pitch for the break, but Morocco stunned Colombia to score minutes later in Perth, meaning Martina Voss-Tecklenburg's side had to win.\n\nPopp was their best hope of scoring again and she almost did, thumping a header off the crossbar minutes after she had bundled it over the line, only for the video assistant referee to confirm it was offside.\n\nThe Wolfsburg striker came close again later when she sent a free header wide of the post, roaring in frustration as the minutes ticked away for Germany.\n\nDuring stoppage time Germany sent countless crosses into South Korea's box to no avail as substitute Sydney Lohmann struck wide and sent another effort inches over the bar.\n\nGermany's players fell to the ground at full-time and were in tears as they were consoled by staff members.\n\nSouth Korea finish bottom of the group, having lost their first two matches.\n\nColombia face Jamaica on Tuesday at 09:00 BST in the last 16, while Morocco take on France at 12:00.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nThis has already been a World Cup full of surprises, but very few would have predicted Germany to exit after only three games in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nRanked second in the world, they have topped their group in eight of their nine tournament appearances and won back-to-back titles in 2003 and 2007.\n\nHowever, cracks had shown during the tournament as, despite opening with a 6-0 victory over Morocco, they looked shaky at the back and were making too many mistakes in possession.\n\nThey were punished in their second match by Colombia, losing 2-1, and were at risk of exit as they prepared for their final showdown with South Korea.\n\nSouth Korea's 16-year-old Casey Phair had an early strike pushed on to a post by goalkeeper Merle Frohms.\n\nBut Germany did not learn from their error as South Korea once again broke in behind Germany's backline, and this time Cho did not miss.\n\nLike she has done on so many occasions, Popp stepped up to the plate to head in an equaliser and give Germany a lifeline, but they grew frustrated and lost patience as the game wore on.\n\nFurther missed chances by Popp, Lohmann and Klara Buhl proved costly and South Korea grew in confidence, running down the clock smartly and remaining resolute in defence.\n\nGermany are the third team in the world's top 10 to drop out of the group stages after Olympic champions Canada and South American giants Brazil failed to progress.\n\nBut this will send shockwaves among supporters who are so used to seeing Germany arrive in the latter stages of major tournaments, and it is a huge comedown 12 months after they lost to England in the Euro 2022 final.\n\nSouth Korea had a disappointing tournament but at least end on a high, avoiding defeat for only the third time in 13 matches in the competition.\n\nCho, who left Tottenham at the end of the Women's Super League season, became the first South Korea player to score more than one goal at the Women's World Cup, having netted against Spain in 2015.\n\nHer goal, though it did little to change South Korea's outcome, could have a significant impact on the rest of the tournament given the draw is now wide open thanks to Germany's shocking exit.\n\nVoss-Tecklenburg's side would have been on course to meet England in the quarter-finals or semi-finals had both reached that stage.\n\nBut there is now an opportunity for Morocco, who pipped Germany to a place in the last 16, to mirror the achievements of their male counter-parts, who shocked the world to reach the last four in Qatar in December.\n\n\"Everybody would have thought that was it when Popp scored, but we kept fighting and kept playing,\" said South Korea manager Colin Bell.\n\n\"I didn't know that Germany would be out. I only found out four or five minutes after the match. I lived there and played football there. I am surprised and also sad that they didn't get into the last 16.\n\n\"They tried everything so you have to credit them for that.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Sydney Lohmann (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Lena Oberdorf.\n• None Attempt missed. Sydney Lohmann (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Park Eun-Sun (Korea Republic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Substitution, Korea Republic. Kang Chae-Rim replaces Cho So-Hyun because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Cho So-Hyun (Korea Republic).\n• None Marina Hegering (Germany) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Ji So-Yun (Korea Republic).\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Adidas generated millions from its first \"drop\" of Yeezy trainers after ending the collaboration with rapper and fashion designer Kanye West.\n\nThe sportswear giant reported sales of €400m (£344m) from the shoes between April and June this year.\n\nAdidas cut ties with West, known as Ye, last November after he made a series of antisemitic comments on social media.\n\nIt has pledged to donate some of the proceeds of the sales to charities who work on combating hate.\n\nThe demand for Yeezy shoes has not faded though, with the trainers remaining wildly popular in the resale market.\n\nAdidas boss Bjorn Gulden said the firm will \"continue to carefully sell off more of the existing Yeezy inventory\" in its latest financial update.\n\nHe argued the sale was \"much better than destroying and writing off the inventory\", but acknowledged that it boosted the company's \"general financial strength\".\n\nKanye West designed trainers for Adidas under the Yeezy brand\n\nStrong demand for Yeezys helped the company narrow its projected loss for the year to €450m, down from the €700m previously expected.\n\nSales from the Yeezy line were similar to the level seen in the same period in 2022 before the high-profile fallout.\n\nAdidas also set aside €110m for charitable donations to the likes of the Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism and the Anti-Defamation League - a move it had announced previously in the wake of Kanye West's remarks online.\n\nIn May, Adidas said it had about €1.2bn worth of Yeezy shoes sitting in storage after the highly profitable partnership came to an end.\n\nOn Thursday, it said that if it decided not to sell the rest of the inventory it would take a hit of about €400m.\n\nIts latest results did not account for the recent second release of the trainers, which is likely to give it a further financial boost.\n\nJD Sports said it had started selling Yeezy products from the German sportswear giant's second release of the shoes on Wednesday.\n\nBut Alice Price, associate apparel analyst at research firm GlobalData, said that the sale of remaining Yeezy stock was a \"short-term solution for a brand that has lost some of its identity and relevance in the market\".\n\nShe suggested that Adidas was now trailing behind some of its competitors like Puma who offered more on-trend and innovative products.\n\nDespite Mr Gulden's efforts to turn the chaotic situation around, Adidas is being sued by investors who claim the firm knew about Kanye West's problematic behaviour years before it ended their partnership.\n\nInvestors allege Adidas failed to limit financial losses and take precautionary measures to minimise their exposure.\n\nAdidas has previously said it rejected \"these unfounded claims\", adding that it would take \"all necessary measures to vigorously defend ourselves against them\".", "Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is suing Placebo singer Brian Molko for defamation after he called her a fascist and a racist during a gig in Turin last month, Italian media report.\n\nMr Molko launched his expletive-filled rant from the stage of the Sonic Park festival.\n\nProsecutors in Turin opened an investigation into Mr Molko soon after.\n\nMs Meloni has not commented publicly about the issue although the BBC has approached her team for a reaction.\n\nVideos from the Placebo concert posted on social media show Mr Molko shouting an expletive about the prime minister followed by the words \"fascist, racist\" in Italian, to cheers from the audience.\n\nA few days later, sources told Italian news agency Ansa that prosecutors in Turin had opened an investigation into the incident for \"defamation of [public] institutions\".\n\nMs Meloni is leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party and heads Italy's most right-wing government since World War Two. She has filed defamation lawsuits in the past. Last year, she initiated legal action for aggravated criminal defamation against the editors of Domani newspaper.\n\nDomani alleged Ms Meloni had tried to help an MP from her own party win a government contract to procure face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMs Meloni rejected the allegation and sought damages of €25,000 (£21,500) from the paper. The trial is set to start in July 2024.\n\nShe also filed a defamation lawsuit against Roberto Saviano, a journalist and the author of Gomorrah, for calling her a \"bastard\" during a TV interview in 2020 in which he denounced her for attacks on migrant rescue NGOs.\n\nThe trial has been adjourned until October. If found guilty, Mr Saviano could face up to three years in jail.\n\nUnder Italian law, some defamation cases can be criminal and carry a custodial sentence.\n• None The rise to power of Italy's new far-right PM", "An Italian flight carrying evacuees from Niger, including American nationals, landed in Rome on Wednesday\n\nThe United States has ordered the partial evacuation of its embassy in Niger following last week's coup.\n\nHundreds of foreign nationals have already been evacuated from the country, and on Sunday the French embassy was attacked by protesters.\n\nCoup leader Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani has warned against \"any interference in the internal affairs\" of the country.\n\nProtests in support of the coup are expected to take place on Thursday to mark Niger's independence day.\n\nThat is despite an official ban on demonstrations.\n\nFrance, the former colonial power in Niger, has asked the military junta which has taken control of the country to guarantee the security of their embassy.\n\nCrowds attacked the French diplomatic mission on Sunday, prompting the country to organise evacuation flights.\n\nMore than 1,000 French citizens and other Europeans have now been flown out, according to France's Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu.\n\nOne resident in the capital, Niamey, told the BBC's Outside Source programme that everything had been quiet there so far.\n\n\"People are doing their duty like they do it every day,\" said Sidien.\n\nHe added that there was a military presence around some embassies and ministry offices, as well as the president's palace.\n\nSadissou, who is in Niger's second city, Maradi, said it was a similar situation there but that the calm was deceptive.\n\n\"The situation has changed and so people are very anxious. They're anxious about the future, about what's going to happen.\"\n\nNiger is a significant uranium producer and lies on a key migration route to North Africa and the Mediterranean.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to the ousted President, Mohamed Bazoum, on Wednesday, the state department says, adding that the US is committed to the restoration of Niger's democratically elected government.\n\nSpokesperson Matthew Miller said that, despite the partial evacuation, the country's embassy in capital Niamey would remain open.\n\n\"We remain committed to the people of Niger and our relationship with the people of Niger and we remain diplomatically engaged at the highest levels,\" he said.\n\nThe US is a major donor of humanitarian and security aid to Niger, and has previously warned that the coup could lead to the suspension of all co-operation.\n\nThe British embassy in Niger's capital, Niamey, has also announced that it will also reduce staff numbers due to the security situation.\n\nFrance and the EU have already suspended financial and development aid.\n\nThe Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), a trade bloc of 15 West African countries, has imposed sanctions which include a halt on all commercial transactions with Niger and a freeze on the country's assets in the regional central bank.\n\nNiger's electricity company also says that neighbouring Nigeria has cut electricity supplies, leading to widespread power cuts, although this has not been confirmed by Nigeria.\n\nIn a televised address on Wednesday, Gen Tchiani said the new regime rejected \"these sanctions as a whole and refuses to give in to any threat, wherever it comes from\".\n\nHe labelled the sanctions \"cynical and iniquitous\" and said they were intended to \"humiliate\" Niger's security forces and make the country \"ungovernable\".\n\nMilitary chiefs from Ecowas met in Nigeria on Wednesday to discuss a possible military intervention, though they said such action would be a \"last resort\".\n\nGen Tchiani, a former chief of the presidential guard to Mr Bazoum, seized power on 26 July, saying he wanted to avert \"the gradual and inevitable demise\" of Niger.\n\nThe coup has prompted major demonstrations against France, which remains a major partner, and in favour of Russia, whose influence in west and central Africa has grown in recent years.\n\nOn Sunday, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the French embassy in Niamey, some chanting \"Long live Russia\", \"Long live Putin\", and \"Down with France\".\n\nThey also set fire to the walls of the embassy compound.\n\nOn Wednesday, 262 people arrived in Paris on evacuation flights organised by the French government. A flight organised by Italy also landed in Rome with 87 people on board.\n\nIn his address, Gen Tchiani said French people in Niger had never been subjected \"to the least threat\".\n\nNiger, where both France and the US maintain military bases, has been a key Western ally in the fight against jihadist extremism in the Sahel.\n\nAfter military leaders in neighbouring Mali chose to partner with the Russian Wagner mercenary group in 2021, France moved the centre of its regional counter-terror operations to Niger.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Niger coup: More trouble for the Sahel region?", "Mortgage interest rates have risen sharply over the past six months after years of historic lows.\n\nAs higher interest rates will mean higher mortgage payments, experts say more people are at risk of falling into debt or losing their homes.\n\nTry our calculator below to see how your fixed rate mortgage might be affected as borrowing becomes more expensive.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. How much could my mortgage go up by? How much are you borrowing? If you have an existing mortgage enter the outstanding balance left to pay. If not, enter the total you are looking to borrow. How long will you take to pay it back? If you have an existing mortgage enter the total number of years remaining. If not, enter the total number of years you are looking to borrow over. What is your current... For those with a mortgage enter the rate for your current fixed term. 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The men would come down, be on the phone, go inside and stay for 15 minutes,\" the 57-year-old says.\n\n\"Then we got a poster through the door. It went into explicit detail as to what they were offering and gave the address.\"\n\nPosters were sent to other homes and businesses too. One was received by staff at the local primary school and passed on to the police.\n\nA flyer advertising sexual services was posted through residents' doors in the spring\n\nOne leaflet features a half-dressed woman who gave her address and promised \"amazing sexual services\" urging men to \"come along and feel like a king\".\n\n\"I will be here for a short stay. However, I will often come back… and my girlfriends too,\" it stated.\n\nTinsel has been wound through a shrub directly outside the house.\n\nHowever, Mr Al Jabbar, who works at a local supermarket, says many callers come to his home instead, making him worry about his family's safety.\n\nA man was seen running out of the backdoor of the brothel after his wife came to find him, neighbours said\n\n\"One young man tried to get into my house while I was out. Luckily my wife, Becky, is a very brave person and told him where to go,\" he says.\n\n\"If I was here at the time, it would have been a different story.\n\n\"When we get packages or food delivered to the house my youngest daughter is scared to open the door in case it's one of these guys.\"\n\nOnce, very early in the morning, Abdul says they were disturbed by screaming and banging on their neighbour's front door.\n\nA woman had apparently tracked her husband's phone to the property and was shouting for him to come outside. Later a man was spotted sprinting from the back door.\n\nThe experience for Abdul's family has been upsetting and everything came to a head in early July.\n\nMrs Al Jabbar woke on a Sunday morning to find the wall outside their home covered in red paint and permanent marker. The word \"brothel\" had been scrawled in huge letters and paint had been trailed in large globs down the pavement.\n\nAbdul's says he's waiting for the council to come and clear up the graffiti\n\nIt was the final straw, and she made her feelings public in a local Facebook group.\n\nHer post said: \"Please if you're going to protest, at least do it at the right house and spare a thought for us as we were cleaning our wall up on our child's 18th birthday.\n\n\"Ladies, know where your men are. We've seen some familiar faces over the past 12 months!\"\n\nAbdul says they first contacted the police nine months ago, giving them flyers and detailed information about all the comings and goings.\n\nAt first they were assigned a police community support officer (PCSO), then the case was turned over to the CID before being passed to another PCSO.\n\n\"We understand they're understaffed, but all we are asking for is for some peace,\" Mr Al Jabbar insists.\n\nSultan Rauf, whose house also adjoins the brothel, has grown frustrated with men banging on his door and having \"brochures\" stuffed through his letterbox.\n\nHe says he resorted to fitting an expensive security system in February.\n\nSultan Rauf has fitted extra security at his home\n\n\"We are very worried - if you want to do this business go somewhere else, not this family place,\" he says.\n\n\"I work during the day, so most of the time my wife and children are alone.\"\n\nBrothels are commonly linked to organised crime groups and many sex workers are found to be the victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation.\n\nInsp Miriam Kiernan, from Northamptonshire Police local neighbourhood team, says they are \"aware of issues at the address\" and are \"working to tackle them with the property owner\".\n\n\"I would encourage people not just to talk about the issues on social media but to report incidents to us directly,\" she says.\n\n\"This will allow us to build up a larger case of evidence in order to find a long-term solution.\"\n\nThe exchange of sexual services for money is legal in the UK.\n\nHowever, under the Sexual Offences Acts of 1956 and 2003, it is illegal to own or manage a brothel, which is defined as a premises used by more than one person for sex work.\n\nIt is generally not illegal to advertise sexual services but it is an offence to publish an obscene article or publicly display an indecent matter.\n\nThe owner of the property told the BBC he had no knowledge of it being used as a brothel because an agency looks after it on his behalf.\n\n\"Since receiving your letter I have been in touch with my letting agents who have told me they have struggled to contact the tenants for the last few weeks and from my knowledge these tenants have now left the property.\n\n\"Neither myself nor the agents had any idea of the concerns you raised and they will be looking into it as a matter of urgency,\" he said.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Is this happening in your own neighbourhood? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Blake was a follower of neo-Nazi and Satanic ideologies, the Old Bailey heard\n\nA neo-Nazi paedophile who previously avoided a prison term has been jailed after committing further offences.\n\nHarry Blake, from south-west London, was given a suspended sentence in 2020 after admitting 14 terror charges.\n\nOn Thursday, the 21-year-old was sentenced to three years and two months in jail after pleading guilty to a counter-terror order breach, as well as making an indecent image of a child.\n\nPassing sentence, an Old Bailey judge said he posed a \"significant risk\".\n\nBlake also pleaded guilty to possessing extreme pornography, and breaching a crime prevention order and the terms of his suspended prison sentence.\n\nPreviously known as Harry Vaughan, he is the son of a House of Lords clerk and achieved high grades at his prestigious grammar school.\n\nAfter he was arrested again last year, detectives found a laptop and a mobile phone that he was barred from owning.\n\nMaterial recovered from the devices showed Blake's \"continued interest\" in right-wing extremism, prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds told the court.\n\nMr Pawson-Pounds said Blake had searched online for the banned terrorist groups Sonnenkrieg Division and Atomwaffen Division. He also had a book in which Adolf Hitler is revered as a god.\n\nBlake's phone contained videos of the \"violent forcing\" of a sex act on women, and a film of a young boy being sexually abused by a man.\n\nIn mitigation, defence barrister Arthur Kendrick said Blake had been exposed to a \"toxic online community\" at a young age, and, while the views instilled in him may take time to diminish, there were some \"green shoots\" of change.\n\nIn 2020, Blake admitted 12 counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist, one count of encouraging terrorism and one of disseminating terrorist publications. He also admitted having videos of young boys being raped.\n\nThe judge decided against sending Blake to prison, despite concluding he was dangerous. Expert evidence had stated Blake's ideology was a \"hybrid\" of neo-Nazism and a violent form of Satanism.\n\nOn Thursday, Judge Sarah Munro KC said that when he was sentenced in 2020, Blake had \"falsely asserted\" that his \"mindset had changed\" since committing his initial crimes.\n\nAs well as sentencing him to a 38-month prison term, she made him the subject of a five-year serious crime prevention order.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Remini, pictured in 2019, accused the Church of Scientology of \"mob-style operations and attacks\"\n\nLeah Remini is taking legal action against the Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige, for harassment and defamation.\n\nThe actress, who starred in sitcom The King of Queens, joined the Church in 1979 as a child and left in 2013.\n\nRemini, 53, claims Scientology's \"mob-style operations and attacks\" have \"significantly\" impacted her life and career.\n\nThe Church of Scientology described the allegations as \"pure lunacy\".\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"The Church is not intimidated by Remini's latest act of blatant harassment and attempt to prevent truthful free speech.\"\n\nIn a statement released to Variety, Remini said: \"For 17 years, Scientology and David Miscavige have subjected me to what I believe to be psychological torture, defamation, surveillance, harassment, and intimidation, significantly impacting my life and career.\n\n\"I believe I am not the first person targeted by Scientology and its operations, but I intend to be the last.\"\n\nAccording to the press release, Remini filed the lawsuit in the California Superior Court on Wednesday (2 August) in an attempt to \"require Scientology, and any entity it controls and funds, to cease and desist its alleged practice of harassment, defamation, and other unlawful conduct against anyone who Scientology has labelled as an 'enemy.'\"\n\nVariety reports Remini is also seeking compensatory and punitive damages for the alleged harm Scientology has inflicted on her personal and professional life.\n\nThe press release refers to \"OSA Network Orders\" - a reference to directives alleged to be issued by the Church's Office of Special Affairs.\n\nRemini alleges these orders are a series of retaliatory measures, said to have been implemented by the Church's founder L Ron Hubbard, to be taken against any individual or organisation that the Church deems to be an enemy.\n\nNamed defendants in the legal case are the Church of Scientology, Miscavige and Religious Technology Center, Inc., which, Remini alleges, manages policing operations and principally enforces Scientology's punishment orders.\n\nRemini (pictured with co-stars Kevin James and Jerry Stiller in 2007) is best known for starring in The King of Queens\n\nRemini alleges that a series of attacks meant to \"obliterate\" and \"totally restrain and muzzle\" her were \"activated by OSA and their operatives.\" The case details alleged \"coordinated campaigns\" by the Church levied against Remini and her family, friends and business associates.\n\n\"With this lawsuit, I hope to protect my rights as afforded by the Constitution of the United States to speak the truth and report the facts about Scientology,\" Remini continued.\n\n\"I feel strongly that the banner of religious freedom does not give anyone licence to intimidate, harass and abuse those who exercise their First Amendment rights.\"\n\nIn a statement issued in response, the Church of Scientology said: \"This lawsuit is ludicrous and the allegations pure lunacy.\n\n\"Remini spreads hate and falsehoods for a decade and is now offended when people exercise their right to free speech, exposing her for what she is - an anti-free speech bigot.\"\n\nThe statement on behalf of the Church claimed Remini had an \"obsession with attacking her former religion, by spreading falsehoods and hate speech\", and alleging that she had profited from speaking publicly about the Church via books, podcasts and television.\n\nIt continued: \"Remini has spun entirely out of control by filing a frivolous lawsuit attempting to stop free speech exposing her false propaganda. Remini's decade of harassment and fabrications are all coming back to haunt her.\n\n\"If Remini can no longer get a job, she has nobody to blame but herself. Obviously everybody in Hollywood now knows what we already knew: That Remini is a horrible person and toxic to so many who have the misfortune to come in contact with her.\"\n\nIn 2015, Remini co-created and executive produced a documentary series about the Church, called Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, which ran for three seasons and won two Emmy Awards.\n\nThe actress is best known for starring in The King of Queens, a comedy which ran from 1998 until 2007 and is still regularly repeated in the UK by Channel 4.\n\nIn addition, she played smaller roles in Cheers, Friends, and NYPD Blue. She was also a regular panellist on US daytime show The Talk, and finished in fifth place in the 2013 series of Dancing With The Stars, the US version of Strictly.", "Some other European countries have already started evacuation flights from Niger\n\nThe first group of British nationals to be evacuated from Niger have arrived safely in Paris.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said 14 Britons were on Wednesday's French flight.\n\nThe Foreign Office said a \"very small number of British nationals\" remained in the country.\n\nViolence has broken out in the west African country following last week's military coup.\n\nNations including France and Italy have organised flights for their own citizens, which have also transported some individuals from other countries.\n\nThe UK has not yet arranged its own flights.\n\nThe UK government had previously advised British nationals to register their whereabouts and stay indoors.\n\nThere were believed to be fewer than 100 British nationals in Niger.\n\nThe first to be evacuated were those who had requested to leave Niger and were able to make their way to the airport in time for this flight.\n\nA statement from the Foreign Office said: \"The UK's ambassador and a core team remain in Niger to support the very small number of British nationals who are still there. We are grateful to the French for their help in this evacuation.\"\n\nMr Dowden said: \"Our advice continues to be if you're there and need assistance getting out, get in touch with the embassy, we still have staff on the ground and we will work to provide that assistance.\"\n\nThe government has announced it is temporarily reducing the number of staff at its embassy in Niger's capital, Niamey. The US has also ordered all non-emergency staff at its embassy to leave.\n\nGerman citizens in Niger - who are also thought to number fewer than 100 - have been urged to leave the country on board planes organised by France, while the Spanish government said it was evacuating around 70 of its citizens.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly, who was in Nigeria as part of a three-country tour of Africa, said on Wednesday: \"The UK government's priority remains the safety of British nationals and helping them get out of the country to safety.\"\n\nThe coup has prompted demonstrations against France, the former colonial power in Niger, with the French embassy coming under attack.\n\nEarly on Wednesday 262 people arrived in Paris from Niger, while Italy also organised a flight, which arrived in Rome with 87 evacuees.\n\nThe plane was carrying 36 Italians, 21 Americans and one Briton, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nNiger, which is rich in uranium, has been a key Western ally in the fight against jihadist extremism in the Sahel region. Both France and the US have military bases there.\n\nPresident Mohamed Bazoum, Niger's first democratically elected leader since the country's independence in 1960, was detained by his presidential guards last week.\n\nThe west African regional bloc Ecowas has said it will use force unless the president is released and reinstated within a week.\n\nBut military groups in neighbouring Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea, also former French colonies, warned any forcible intervention would be seen as a declaration of war.\n\nThere are concerns Niger's new leadership could now move away from its Western allies and closer to Russia, like Burkina Faso and Mali, which have both pivoted towards Moscow since their own military coups.\n\nThe evacuation flight comes three months after airlifts were organised out of Sudan following fighting between warring factions there.\n\nA negotiated, short-term ceasefire allowed UK evacuation flights to take off from an airstrip near Khartoum, while the fragile ceasefire held and some 2,341 people were airlifted to safety on 28 UK flights.\n\nAre you a UK citizen? Have you evacuated Niger or plan to in the future? If it is safe to do so please get in touch. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A baby who was murdered by his stepfather was \"born into a culture of cruelty,\" police have said.\n\nJacob Crouch suffered at least 39 rib fractures, and died from a \"vicious assault\" at the hands of Craig Crouch.\n\nThe 10-month-old died \"in his cot, alone\" on 30 December 2020 at home near Swadlincote, Derbyshire, having suffered a \"living hell\".\n\nCrouch was found guilty of murder following a seven-week trial.\n\nJacob's mother Gemma Barton has been cleared of murder but she was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nSpeaking on the steps of Derby Crown Court, Det Insp Paul Bullock of Derbyshire Police said: \"Jacob Crouch was born into a culture of cruelty where both of the people who he should have been able to trust above any other allowed him to be subjected to assault after assault.\"", "The UN says there are efforts to bring Travis King home\n\nNorth Korea has confirmed custody of Travis King in its first response to requests for information on the US soldier's whereabouts, the UN Command has said.\n\nThe 23-year-old private dashed across the border from South Korea on 18 July while on a guided tour.\n\nThe UN Command said it would not give more details about Pyongyang's response at this time.\n\nIt said it \"did not want to interfere with the efforts to bring him home\".\n\nHowever, the reply indicates Pyongyang could be ready to start negotiating.\n\nThe UN Command, which polices the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), had sought information on Private 2nd Class (PV2) King using its direct phone line to the North Korean Army [KPA] in the Joint Security Area.\n\n\"KPA has responded to the United Nations Command with regards to PV2 King. In order not to interfere with our efforts to get him home, we will not go into details at this time,\" a statement said.\n\nTravis King, dressed in a black shirt and black cap, is seen on the tour before he crossed the border\n\nThe North Koreans had previously acknowledged the request but this is the first time they have responded, confirming the US solider is in their custody.\n\nNorth Korea has not publicly acknowledged custody of PV2 King.\n\nBefore he crossed the border, PV2 King served two months in detention in South Korea for assault charges. He was released on 10 July.\n\nHe was supposed to fly back to the US to face disciplinary proceedings but managed to leave the airport and join the DMZ tour.\n\nHe is a reconnaissance specialist who had been in the army since January 2021 and was in South Korea as part of his rotation.\n\nThe Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separates the two Koreas and is one of the most heavily fortified areas in the world.\n\nIt is filled with landmines, surrounded by electric and barbed wire fencing and surveillance cameras. Armed guards are supposed to be on alert 24 hours a day.\n\nThe DMZ has separated the two countries since the Korean War in the 1950s, in which the US backed the South.\n\nThe war ended with an armistice, meaning that the two sides are still technically at war. Tens of thousands of US troops remain in the South.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What's next for captured US soldier in North Korea\n\nAs the US and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations, the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang tends to negotiate on behalf of the US. Currently its diplomatic staff are not in the country, because of the ongoing border closure since the pandemic.\n\nBoth the UN Command, that runs the border area, and the South Korean military have direct phone lines to the North Korean military, that they call daily to check in, though the North Koreans do not always pick up.\n\nIn recent years, a number of American citizens who illegally entered North Korea - excluding those convicted of criminal activity there - have been released within six months.\n\nThe detention of the soldier presents a major foreign policy headache for US President Joe Biden. PV2 King is believed to be the only American citizen currently in North Korean custody. Six South Koreans remain in detention there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty in a Washington DC court to conspiring to overturn his 2020 election defeat.\n\nDuring a short arraignment, he spoke softly to confirm his not-guilty plea, name and age, and that he was not under the influence of any substances.\n\nHe later told reporters the case was \"persecution of a political opponent\".\n\nIt marks the former president's third appearance in four months as a criminal defendant.\n\nMr Trump entered through a backdoor of the courthouse on Thursday afternoon in the centre of the nation's capital, just yards from the scene of the US Capitol riot that is central to the prosecution's case.\n\nAbout 1,000 defendants charged with participating in the storming of Congress on 6 January 2021 have appeared in the same court building.\n\nThe former president seemed to exchange glances across the court with Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the investigation.\n\nMr Trump was seen twiddling his thumbs as he sat waiting for the hearing to begin, and he shook his head as the clerk read out the case number.\n\nHis not-guilty plea covered the four charges in this latest indictment:\n\nThe judge told the former president not to communicate about the facts of the case.\n\nShe warned him that failure to comply could result in an arrest warrant, revoked release conditions and contempt of court charges.\n\nProsecutors told the hearing the case would benefit from a speedy trial.\n\nMr Trump spoke to reporters at Reagan airport standing near his aide Walt Nauta (left), his co-defendant in a separate case\n\nBut Trump defence attorney John Lauro said they would need more time to prepare. He said the prosecution's timeline was \"somewhat absurd\" given that the investigation itself had taken three years.\n\nThe allegations laid out on Tuesday in an indictment, or charge sheet, include a count of \"conspiracy to impair, obstruct, and defeat the federal government function through dishonesty, fraud and deceit\".\n\nMr Trump lost the 2020 election to his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, but he refused to concede and mounted weeks of challenges across several US states.\n\nHe is currently the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican White House nomination and may face a rematch with Mr Biden.\n\nSpeaking to reporters before flying home to New Jersey in his private plane, Mr Trump said his arraignment was a \"very sad day for America\".\n\nHe told reporters he was sad to see \"the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti\" in Washington DC.\n\nOutside court, one of his lawyers previewed a possible defence strategy.\n\nAlina Habba argued that the former president had been given bad guidance by his team in the aftermath of the election.\n\n\"I think that everybody was made aware that he lost the election, but that doesn't mean that that was the only advice he was given,\" said Ms Habba.\n\nShe added: \"He may not agree with Mike Pence. He may not agree with one of his lawyers.\n\n\"But that doesn't mean there weren't other people advising him exactly the opposite. And the president has a right, as every one of us do, to listen to several opinions and make a decision.\"\n\nThe indictment lists six unnamed co-conspirators who allegedly helped Mr Trump plot to quash his election loss.\n\nThree police officers who testified to Congress about their battle with Trump supporters during the US Capitol riot attended Thursday's court hearing. Several off-duty judges were also in the room.\n\nA group of supporters waving Trump campaign flags assembled outside, along with anti-Trump demonstrators.\n\nThe next hearing will take place on 28 August and is expected to be procedural. However, the judge may set a trial date.\n\nThe Republican has already been charged in two other cases: with mishandling classified files and falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to a porn star.\n\nMr Trump now faces five upcoming trials - three in New York, over the hush-money payment, and civil trials over business practices and alleged defamation of a woman who accused him of rape.\n\nThe fourth trial will take place in Florida relating to the alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Saudi Pro League's \"remarkable\" spending spree on players is set to continue, according to one of its leading executives.\n\n\"I think the budgets are in place for a number of years - you know, I don't see this slowing down,\" said British director Peter Hutton, who sits on the league's board.\n\nThe SPL has lured some of football's biggest names since five-time Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo joined in January from Manchester United.\n\nThey include former Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, Liverpool's former captain Jordan Henderson and established players from Chelsea, Manchester City and Bayern Munich.\n\nIn addition, last month Al-Hilal made a world-record £259m bid for Paris St-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe.\n\nHutton, who has been a senior executive at Eurosport, ESPN, IMG & Facebook, said: \"I've worked in sport for 40 years and I've never seen a project as big, as ambitious and as determined to be a success.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC sports editor Dan Roan in a wide-ranging interview for BBC Radio 5 Live's special 'The Saudi Story', he said it was \"not necessarily a bad thing\" if European football was not as strong as it has been.\n\nHutton also put the Saudi spending into context, saying \"it has got the world of sport talking but it's a quarter or a fifth of what Premier League clubs have spent this summer\".\n• None Which players have joined Saudi Pro League this summer?\n\nCity manager Pep Guardiola has said the Saudi Pro League's financial power has \"changed the market\" for transfers and elite clubs \"need to be aware of what is happening\", while Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp has expressed concern about the transfer window closing late in Saudi.\n\nAccording to Transfermarkt, SPL clubs have spent 409m euros (£352m) so far this summer - the fifth-highest total in world football and more than Spain's La Liga's 254m euros (£218m). The Premier League leads the way with 1.37bn euros (£1.17bn) spent.\n\nAsked how big a threat the SPL is to the established powers in football, Hutton said: \"The investment from Saudi is remarkable. It's certainly been a big acceleration.\n\n\"This doesn't necessarily mean that Europe isn't going to be as strong in world football going forward. But I would say that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's good that football has strength around the world.\"\n\nSaudi Arabia has invested heavily in sport in recent years and has been accused of using events to 'sportswash' its reputation.\n\nThere are concerns over human rights and women's rights in the country, while same-sex sexual activity is illegal in Saudi Arabia, with the death penalty a possible punishment.\n\nHenderson's move to Al-Ettifaq drew criticism given his previous support of the LGBTQ+ community.\n\nResponding to these issues, Hutton said: \"The reason I got involved in the KSA [Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] was I saw some of the stuff that was happening on the ground.\n\n\"My wife works in women's football in Fifa, she was aware of what was happening in the kingdom. And you see that change, you see how much joy they're bringing to the local community.\n\n\"The changes in the role of women in Saudi community are remarkable and moving very fast. Clearly in Western eyes it could move a lot faster, but it has moved remarkably in the context of the history of the kingdom.\n\n\"I look at the evidence I see. You've now got 50,000 school girls playing football. You've got 1,000 women coaches. In 2018 there were 750 registered coaches. Now there are over 5,500.\n\n\"So you see that as evidence of change, and women's football development as part of societal change. That for me is the real attraction of this project.\n\n\"It's not just about headline players and big transfer fees and wages. It's also about the whole Saudi football infrastructure, whether that be women, youth football, creating a whole pyramid that really transforms the sport in the country.\"\n\nThe SPL's rise has drawn comparisons with the big-spending Chinese Super League, which declined after a rapid start.\n\nThe country's Public Investment Fund (PIF) has taken over four of the SPL's leading clubs, while there is a centralised player acquisition centre.\n\nHutton believes the government's involvement in the SPL could be a template for other countries in terms of bringing together the academies, women's league, men's league, and football federation to \"create a roadmap for growth which is interlinked, not people fighting for territory\".\n\n\"The Saudi League has 50 years of tradition behind it. It has established fans for established clubs. This is a real competition that we're trying to upgrade as opposed to starting something new,\" says Hutton.\n\n\"The good thing about the Mbappe bid and signings like Ruben Neves is it shows it's not just old players that are being looked at. It's more a question of what will add value, what will add glamour, what will add star factor.\n\n\"There are real clubs with real fan bases who are genuinely excited, just as Chelsea fans or Manchester City fans were excited when the new influx of money and stars came to their clubs. It's not so dissimilar.\"\n\nAsked when he expects the league to see a return on its considerable investment, Hutton says: \"I can see projections for income which are really strong in nine or 10 years' time.\n\n\"It's just important to see year-by-year increases and certainly the gates are up, TV revenues are up, sponsorship is up. I don't see why that should slow down.\n\n\"When Ronaldo signed for Al Nassr we suddenly had this interest from international broadcasters. Last year, we ended up in over 170 territories once Ronaldo signed.\n\n\"It's clearly something that's caught the imagination of broadcasters worldwide and that's been a really positive sign. I'd be confident we'll get a broadcast deal in the UK for this coming season.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie together - in Cuba, Mexico and with Joe Biden\n\nCanada's PM Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie are separating after 18 years, following \"meaningful and difficult conversations\".\n\nThe couple said they would remain \"a close family with deep love and respect\" in an Instagram post.\n\nThey were married in Montreal in 2005 and have three children together.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Trudeau's office said that while the couple had signed separation agreement they will still make public appearances.\n\n\"They have worked to ensure that all legal and ethical steps with regards to their decision to separate have been taken, and will continue to do so moving forward,\" the statement said, adding they would be on holiday as a family next week.\n\nSophie Grégoire Trudeau will no longer take part in official duties, nor will the government help in arranging her own appearances, Canadian media reports.\n\nThe couple have asked for privacy for the \"well-being\" of their children, Xavier, 15, Ella-Grace 14, and Hadrien, nine.\n\n\"We remain a close family with deep love and respect for each other and for everything we have built and will continue to build,\" Mr Trudeau, 51, and Ms Grégoire Trudeau, 48, said.\n\nThey have been seen together publicly less frequently in recent years, though they attended the coronation of King Charles III together in May and hosted US President Joe Biden in Canada in March.\n\nWhen Mr Trudeau first became prime minister in 2015, the couple appeared in a high-profile Vogue spread where she told the magazine that at the end of dinner after their first date he said, \"I'm 31 years old, and I've been waiting for you for 31 years\".\n\nJustin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire got married in Montreal in 2005\n\nThe couple have asked for privacy for the \"wellbeing\" of their three children, seen here in 2016\n\nIn a wedding anniversary post on Instagram in May 2022, Ms Grégoire Trudeau wrote about the challenges of long-term relationships, saying \"we have navigated through sunny days, heavy storms, and everything in between\".\n\nMr Trudeau has also spoken about the challenges in their marriage, writing in his 2014 autobiography: \"Our marriage isn't perfect, and we have had difficult ups and downs, yet Sophie remains my best friend, my partner, my love. We are honest with each other, even when it hurts.\"\n\nThe two began dating in 2003, when Ms Grégoire Trudeau was working as a TV personality. She is also known for her charity work around mental health and eating disorders.\n\nCoincidentally, Ms Grégoire Trudeau had been at school with Mr Trudeau's younger brother, Michel.\n\nMr Trudeau is the second Canadian prime minister to announce separation while in office. The first was his father, the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and mother Margaret Trudeau, who announced their split in 1977 after six years together. They later divorced.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Smith charges Trump with conspiracy to defraud US\n\nHe is currently overseeing two separate criminal investigations into a former American president, but Jack Smith is no stranger to bringing high-stakes cases.\n\nOver the past two decades, Mr Smith, 54, has pursued public officials in the US and abroad - with a mixed record of success.\n\nThe veteran prosecutor has cut a low profile since his appointment as special counsel in the two investigations of Donald Trump by the US Department of Justice.\n\nIn announcing his selection last November, Attorney General Merrick Garland called him \"the right choice to complete these matters in an even-handed and urgent manner\".\n\nMr Trump meanwhile has characterised Mr Smith as a \"deranged\" man at the forefront of a \"political witch hunt\" against him.\n\nThe special counsel has indicted Mr Trump over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He has also indicted the ex-president on 40 felony counts over his alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nAt Mr Trump's arraignment hearing in Washington DC on Thursday, Mr Smith sat in the court's front row about 20ft away from the former president. The two seemed to exchange glances.\n\nMuch like the man he is now investigating, John Luman Smith is a New York native.\n\nA Harvard Law School graduate, he began his prosecutorial career in 1994 as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan district attorney's office.\n\nOver the next decade, he climbed up the ranks of the US attorney's office in Brooklyn, where he pursued violent gangs, white-collar fraudsters and public corruption cases.\n\nHe once spent a weekend sleeping in the hallway of an apartment building so he could convince a woman to take the witness stand in a domestic violence case, the Associated Press (AP) reported.\n\nDuring that time, Mr Smith was also among those who investigated the infamous assault of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima with a broomstick by New York police.\n\nHis work on the team led in part to his recommendation as special counsel in the Trump cases, according to the New York Times.\n\nTrump's role in the events leading up to the Capitol riot is being investigated\n\nIn 2008, Mr Smith went overseas to The Hague in the Netherlands where he oversaw war crimes investigations as a junior investigator for the International Criminal Court.\n\nHe returned to the justice department two years later as chief of the department's public integrity unit, which prosecutes federal crimes such as public bribery and election fraud.\n\nIn a 2010 AP interview, he described the career transition as leaving \"the dream job for a better one\".\n\nBut when he took over, the unit was recovering from a prosecutorial debacle that had seen a banner criminal conviction tossed out by a judge.\n\nMr Smith's stint began with the closure of some long-running investigations into members of Congress without charges, but he pressed ahead with other efforts.\n\nUnder his tenure, prosecutors brought a public corruption case against former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a Republican, in a case unanimously overturned by the US Supreme Court in 2016.\n\nThe unit also prosecuted former Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, but a jury acquitted Mr Edwards on one count and was deadlocked on others, and he was never tried again.\n\nMr Trump has seized on these examples to argue Mr Smith has \"destroyed a lot of lives\", while also skewering him over his involvement in a tax scandal over the alleged targeting of conservative groups.\n\n\"What he's done is just horrible,\" the ex-president told Breitbart. \"The abuse of power - it is prosecutorial misconduct.\"\n\nMr Smith has also had many notable victories, including sending former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to prison on corruption charges.\n\nHe also convicted ex-Arizona congressman Rick Renzi, a Republican, of corruption. Mr Renzi later received a presidential pardon from Mr Trump.\n\nIn 2015, Mr Smith accepted a post with the federal prosecutor's office in Nashville, Tennessee, so he could be closer to family.\n\nHe left in 2017 for a private health care company after being passed over for a permanent appointment under the Trump administration.\n\nBy 2018, he was back at The Hague where he took up a post as the court's chief prosecutor of war crime allegations in the 1990s Kosovo conflict.\n\nWhen Mr Garland offered Mr Smith the job of special counsel in Washington, his team was preparing for the trial of Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaci, the Times reported.\n\nThough eager to return to the justice department, Mr Smith was at the time recovering from surgery to his left leg after a bicycle accident and did not return to the US until January 2021.\n\nIt is at least the second major injury he has suffered while cycling.\n\nIn the 2000s, he fractured his pelvis after being struck by a truck, an incident which he claimed in an interview has led to multiple physical therapy visits.\n\nAs avid a runner as he is a cyclist, Mr Smith has completed more than 100 triathlons since 2002, even representing Team USA in World Triathlon.\n\nHis friend and former colleague, New York attorney Moe Fodeman, described Mr Smith to CNN last year as a \"literally insane\" triathlete and \"one of the best trial lawyers I have ever seen\".\n\nOther former co-workers have spoken of Mr Smith's fearless and proactive manner, and many say that Mr Trump's efforts to malign him will come up empty.\n\n\"If I were the sort of person who could be cowed -— 'I know we should bring this case, I know the person did it, but we could lose, and that will look bad' - I would find another line of work,\" Mr Smith said in a 2010 interview with the Times.\n\n\"I can't imagine how someone who does what I do or has worked with me could think that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Violations of those laws put our country at risk'", "Members of the Belgian road cycling team go for a ride in the city centre of Glasgow\n\nTop cyclists from around the world are in Scotland for a \"first-of-its-kind mega event\".\n\nThe UCI Cycling World Championships begins on Thursday and runs until 13 August.\n\nRoad racing, time trials, track, BMX, mountain bike, indoor cycling and para-cycling will all take place at venues across Scotland.\n\nChampionships chairman Paul Bush said it would showcase Scotland's status as a world-class events destination.\n\nSix times Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme it would be the single biggest cycling event in history.\n\n\"It's going to be great for the country, it's going to be great for Glasgow and it's also going to be great for the sport,\" he said.\n\nSir Chris said Scotland already had world class cyclists such as Katie Archibald, Neah Evans, Jack Carlin and Neil Fachie.\n\n\"Hopefully these championships are going to propel these names to the front of your mind,\" he said.\n\nKT Tunstall performs during the opening ceremony for the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships\n\nRoad cycling commentator Phil Liggett told the BBC it was the \"pinnacle of the world of cycling\" to win a UCI world championship.\n\n\"You win a rainbow jersey if you win the title which you get to wear for one year afterward.\n\n\"The Tour De France is for the multi-day cyclist and the world championship is for the one-day expert. They are the two highest rewards in the world of cycling.\"\n\nAbout 2,700 riders will compete for rainbow jerseys across seven disciplines with more than 200 world titles on the line.\n\nThe events range from mountain biking in the Tweed Valley to elite track cycling in Glasgow's Sir Chris Hoy velodrome.\n\nA giant penny farthing bike leads the procession during the opening ceremony for the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in George Squar\n\nThere will also be time trials on roads around Stirling; para-cycling road races in Dumfries; and a special Gran Fondo event in Perth and Dundee.\n\nReigning champion Remco Evenepoel will compete in the men's elite road race which takes place over a 271.1km (168 mile) route from Edinburgh to Glasgow on Sunday 6 August.\n\nThe Women's Elite race follows a route from Loch Lomond to Glasgow on the last day of the championship - Sunday 13 August.\n\nMost events are ticketed but all the road races and time trials are free to attend. So too are the BMX Flatland Freestyle and Mountain Bike Cross-Country Marathon.\n\nThe BBC will also have full coverage of the events on TV and online.\n\nTeam Great Britain at the start of their race in the Women's Elite Team Sprint qualification\n\nEight of the 13 championships will take place in Glasgow and the city's George Square will become the official fan zone, hosting the culmination of road races and their medal ceremonies.\n\nIt will have the most extensive road closures, with a city centre circuit being shut over seven full days.\n\nThe Road Race Circuit covers large parts of Glasgow city centre and the west end of the city.\n\nRoads will be closed from Friday 4 to Tuesday 8 August and then again on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 August.\n\nThe biggest road race event takes place on Sunday 6 August when the Men's Elite Race completes 10 laps of the Glasgow circuit after its journey from Edinburgh via Fife.\n\nThe race will see road closures along the route from Edinburgh on a rolling basis, most notably on the M9 at Junctions 1A (Newbridge) and 7 (Kinnaird House Interchange) to allow the race to pass over the Queensferry Crossing.\n\nThe following Sunday (13 August) the Women's Elite Race will see similar restrictions in Glasgow as well as closures and movements on the A82 to Balloch, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nOther events around the country will see the following road closures:\n\nTraffic Scotland has a dedicated page for the UCI Cycling World Championships and can offer support on journey planning.\n\nTransport Minister Fiona Hyslop said: \"We have worked closely with organisers, Police Scotland, local authorities and many others to test travel arrangements, however given the complex nature and scale of this operation road users should expect delays at certain points and on the busier days.\"\n\nHugh Gillies, director at Transport Scotland, said: \"Traffic modelling shows that we are set for a number of days where queues and congestion are likely, and that's before we factor in any incidents on the network.\n\n\"We really need the public and spectators to play their part and check before they travel, to maximise their enjoyment and ensure Scotland is on the global map for all the right reasons.\"\n\nTeam Great Britain in action in the Men's Elite Team Pursuit", "The January 6th attack on the capitol was \"fuelled by lies\", said special counsel Jack Smith at his brief news conference. Donald Trump's lies.\n\nThroughout the 45 detailed pages of this indictment that theme of dishonesty is repeated again and again. It talks about \"prolific lies about election fraud\" and says \"these claims were false and the defendant knew that they were false\".\n\nThis will clearly be a key theme when this trial gets to court. Whether it leads to a conviction is unclear - some legal experts have said this is not the strongest case.\n\nBut these charges are, in my view, the most serious and potentially the most consequential that Donald Trump has yet faced. Not least because they relate to things that happened whilst he was still president.\n\nThe case in New York, which was brought in March, is about allegations that he committed business fraud to conceal hush money to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, before he was president. The federal case relating to the classified documents Mr Trump kept at his Mar a Lago residence details events that happened after he left office.\n\nBut these latest charges - that he conspired to attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election - revolve around things that happened when Donald Trump still inhabited the White House. He is alleged to have repeatedly lied to the American people whilst he was their president.\n\nThere is also a real-world impact laid out in this indictment which we have not seen in the other cases. Everyone saw the violence that engulfed the US Capitol on January 2021 and although Mr Smith stopped short of charging Mr Trump with inciting that mob, the prosecutor was clear in his statement to reporters where he sees the link.\n\nSome US commentators have introduced another reason why they think these charges are the most serious. They see in Mr Trump's alleged conduct a threat to the ideals that underpin the bedrock of the country.\n\nNot since the nation's founding has any president \"voted out of office been accused of plotting to hold onto power in an elaborate scheme of deception and intimidation that would lead to violence in the halls of Congress,\" writes Peter Baker in the New York Times.\n\nHe goes on: \"As serious as hush money and classified documents may be, this third indictment in four months gets to the heart of the matter, the issue that will define the future of American democracy.\"\n\nMr Smith also made a similar point in the indictment, that Mr Trump created \"an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and eroded public faith in the administration of the election\".\n\nBut will any of this matter to voters?\n\nAll over America I have met countless numbers of Trump supporters who appear to sincerely believe that Donald Trump really did get more votes than Joe Biden and was cheated out of office.\n\nThat is one of the tenets of faith that solidifies his bedrock of support.\n\nHow will these people react when they hear detailed evidence that Donald Trump knew there was no evidence of electoral fraud? That he was told again and again, by his trusted inner circle, that he had lost the election?\n\nCan their faith withstand the weight of the evidence the prosecution will bring to court?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump charged with conspiracy to defraud US\n\nJack Smith says he is pressing for a speedy trial. So it could well be taking place right in the middle of the next presidential election. And Mr Trump is still the clear frontrunner to become the Republican party's presidential candidate.\n\nSo voters - and not just Trump's base but moderate Republicans, independents and crucial swing voters - will hear detailed allegation of Mr Trump's \"dishonesty, fraud and deceit\" whilst being asked to vote him back into office.\n\nIt is such a cliché to describe events involving Donald Trump as \"unprecedented\".\n\nBut what other word is there is to describe the prospect of a US presidential candidate running a re-election campaign at the same time as being prosecuted for attempting to subvert the results of the last election?\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Staff at a hotel for asylum seekers obstructed a police investigation into a report that a man masturbated in front of a seven-year-old child, the BBC has been told.\n\nOfficers were blocked from entering the east London hotel and staff delayed providing CCTV - which was later automatically deleted, it is claimed.\n\nThe provider - Clearsprings - says it has robust safeguarding processes.\n\nThe BBC has also learned of a reported unrelated sex assault in another hotel.\n\nFamilies of asylum seekers are frequently housed in the same buildings as single men who are also waiting for their applications to be processed.\n\nThe BBC has been told that on 30 June 2023 a seven-year-old girl and her mother were reported to have witnessed a 34-year-old man intentionally masturbating in their presence.\n\nIt is claimed that staff and security obstructed the police investigation when officers visited the hotel around three weeks after the incident.\n\nThe hotel is run by Clearsprings Ready Homes, which has a 10-year contract to manage asylum seeker accommodation in England and Wales.\n\nThe BBC has been told that staff refused to provide their own names and told officers they had no rights to enter the hotel without a warrant.\n\nIt is also claimed that staff initially blocked officers from entering the building and refused to provide the name of the suspect - which was unknown to the police at that point - and CCTV was also not provided to officers upon request.\n\nWhen the police were provided with access to footage that may have been relevant - more than a fortnight after the incident - it had been automatically deleted.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says a man has been charged with outraging public decency and engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.\n\nIt said that officers attended the hotel after a report of a man having exposed himself but the alleged victim did not initially wish to support any prosecution.\n\nIt added that when officers returned two days later and spoke to the alleged victim and her family, they agreed to provide a statement.\n\nIn 2022, in an unrelated incident, a teenage boy was reported to have been raped by a man in his 30s at a different hotel for asylum seekers in east London run by the same company, Clearsprings Ready Homes.\n\nThe BBC has also learned that a male was sexually assaulted at another hotel for asylum seekers in Staffordshire in December 2022.\n\nThe local authority declined to provide the person's age or the name of the provider.\n\nThe UK now houses about 47,000 asylum seekers in hotels while it processes their applications, at a cost of about £2bn a year. Hotels typically have security guards on site.\n\nIn July, the High Court ruled that \"routine\" housing of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels was unlawful.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, says she has repeatedly raised concerns with the Home Office about such accommodation.\n\n\"All children, whether they are with their parents or not, should be living in places where they are safe, protected from harm, and are able to thrive\", a spokesperson for the commissioner said.\n\n\"We have spoken to too many children and families where that is not happening - this must change.\"\n\nThe Home Office declined to say what vetting and compliance checks are made of safeguarding arrangements at hotels. It said it would be inappropriate to comment on an ongoing police investigation.\n\nClearsprings Ready Homes declined to say when it had first been made aware of the alleged incident and wouldn't comment on the conduct of its staff.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"For obvious reasons we cannot comment on any ongoing investigations but can confirm that we have a robust safeguarding process in place and any issues arising are dealt with promptly by our experienced team.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences anonymously by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA strange, dangerous game of targeting and ramming into small sailing and fishing boats is spreading through a population of orcas off Spain's coast.\n\nScientists say at least 20 Iberian orcas have now learned the behaviour by copying their elders.\n\nIt is believed that one or two orcas started interacting with and damaging small sailing vessels in 2020.\n\nScientists told the BBC the animals appear to be \"playing\" with the boats rather than acting aggressively.\n\n\"It's only a game. It isn't revenge [against boats], it isn't climate change, it's just a game and that's it,\" said Dr Renaud de Stephanis, a scientist based on the south coast of Spain.\n\nIberian orcas hunt for tuna in the same locations as fishing boats\n\nDr de Stephanis is president of Conservation, Information and Research on Cetaceans (CIRCE), a marine conservation organisation. He said the orcas, also known as killer whales, appeared to be playing a \"game\" focused on the boats' rudders - part of the moveable steering apparatus that sits in the water.\n\nHe and his colleagues have now pinned satellite tracking tags to the fins of two of the fewer than 60 animals in this population, which is critically endangered.\n\nThe Spanish government is using maps of their movements to help inform sailors about how to avoid these marine mammals, which hunt for tuna along the coast of Portugal and Spain, and through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar.\n\nFrench sailor Lou Lombardi had his own encounter with the orcas near Gibraltar in July. He and the rest of the crew watched as five of the animals nudged and spun his boat around for 80 minutes - hitting the rudder until it split apart.\n\nAn orca plays with a floating piece of debris after breaking a sailing vessel's rudder\n\nTalking to us in the shipyard in Barbate in Spain, as he and his colleagues prepared to put their repaired boat back into the water, he said the encounter appeared playful rather than aggressive.\n\n\"There's foam inside the rudder that went into the water, he explained, \"and the orcas were pushing it around with it on their noses - like a toy.\n\n\"I had the feeling they were training each other,\" he told us. \"There were two calves, and the adult would do it, then watch while the calf did it - like they were transmitting something.\"\n\nOrcas, like this pod in the Pacific, are known to engage in play\n\nOrcas are known to be highly social mammals. Other subspecies of killer whale have been recorded playing with floating seaweed, toying with fishing gear and one population in the Pacific even went through an apparent phase of carrying dead salmon around on their heads.\n\nUsing boat rudders as playthings is novel behaviour and it is currently confined to this small, endangered Iberian population, but the young animals do appear to be copying adult orcas.\n\nBy examining footage and images, captured by sailors, scientists have identified some of the animals involved.\n\nMonica Gonzalez is a marine biologist with the organisation Orca Iberica, which is logging and mapping the orca encounters reported by sailing vessels. She explained: \"The adults are very targeted - they're focused on the rudder - just the rudder.\n\nTourists pay for close encounters with these orcas\n\n\"But the juveniles seem to approach, move away, explore the whole boat - it's a very different kind of behaviour.\"\n\nThese large, intelligent and now troublesome marine mammals are causing confusion and division in both the sailing and the scientific community along this stretch of the Atlantic coast.\n\nSome scientists have suggested that one female orca started \"attacking\" boats as revenge, because she had been injured by a vessel.\n\nThere are ongoing discussions on social media among sailors, with a few proposing methods of defending their boats, including carrying firecrackers to throw into the water if the orcas approach.\n\nDr de Stephanis, who has studied the marine mammals since 1996, hopes his tagging and tracking work with help show sailors \"killer whale hotspots\" to avoid.\n\nThe animals appear to target smaller sailing vessels\n\n\"They tend to stay in the same place for 2-3 hours, because they're looking for tuna,\" he explained. \"So the official advice from the Spanish government is not to stop if you see orcas - move away from the area as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThat, however, is in direct contradiction to last year's advice and current recommendations from the Portuguese government which is that if orcas approach, stop your boat.\n\nThe idea behind that, explained Monica Gonzalez, was to be as boring as possible. \"Keep the rudder still, don't throw anything, don't shout,\" she said. The orcas should simply get bored and move on.\n\nDr Luke Rendell, a marine mammal expert from St Andrews University, is not optimistic that sailors will simply be able to navigate around defined hotspots of orca activity.\n\n\"It's a risk that it's going to escalate and that sailors will take matters into their own hands,\" he said.\n\n\"Ultimately, if we want the behaviour to stop, we have to take the boats out of that environment. That's a radical step for us as a species - to say we're going to restrain our behaviour for the sake of another.\"\n\nThere are fewer than 60 orcas in this population\n\nDr Rendell thinks, in the future, there might be economic, rather that scientific reasons, for some boats to avoid the waters - and perhaps avoid sailing during the season - in which most of these encounters happen.\n\n\"Insurance companies might be looking at this,\" he said.\" It might require an extra premium to navigate those waters, which could reduce the density of vessels there. That might be the most favourable outcome for the orcas.\"\n\nMeanwhile, as sailors and the fishing industry try to work out how to avoid the animals, tourists on the coast of Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar pay to go on whale-watching trips to catch a glimpse of them.\n\nNuria Riera, an artist who lives in Tarifa on the southern Spanish coast, and who volunteers with the conservation and whale-watching organisation Firmm, says the language that has been used to describe the orcas' behaviour is simply unfair.\n\n\"Scientists don't even know why they are doing this,\" she said. \"And yet I'm reading reports about orcas attacking - it's such aggressive language.\n\n\"We have to remember that the sea is their home - we're the intruders,\" she said.\n\nIberian orcas hunt in one of the world's busiest waterways - the Strait of Gibraltar\n\nHear more insight about the Iberian orcas and their strange behaviour on BBC Inside Science on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The publisher of MailOnline, DMG Media, has confirmed it has paused Dan Wootton's column, while it considers \"a series of allegations\" against him, which he denies.\n\nWootton has a twice-weekly column with MailOnline, the last of which was published on 29 June.\n\nHe has previously admitted making \"errors of judgement\" but strongly denied any criminality in relation to claims made against him.\n\nThe disputed allegations include that he used a fake online identity to offer money to individuals for sexually explicit images.\n\nFollowing the claims last month, the publishers of MailOnline and his previous employers at the Sun newspaper - where he worked between 2013 and 2021 - immediately made separate statements saying they were looking into allegations made against him.\n\nIn a new statement, a DMG Media spokesperson said: \"The allegations are obviously serious but also complex and historic and there is an independent investigation under way at the media group which employed him during the relevant period.\n\n\"In the meantime, his freelance column with MailOnline has been paused.\"\n\nLast month, the TV presenter and columnist used his self-titled GB News programme to admit he had made \"errors of judgement\" in the past but branded the \"criminal allegations\" as \"simply untrue\".\n\nHe said he was the victim of a \"witchhunt\" by \"nefarious players\", and that the allegations had been spread by a \"race to the bottom\" on social media.\n\nDuring his time at the Sun, Wootton edited the paper's showbiz column Bizarre, and became the paper's executive editor.\n\nHe was also previously showbiz editor at the News of the World and appeared on ITV's Lorraine as the programme's showbiz correspondent. He was named showbiz reporter of the year at the British Press Awards three times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer US attorney general Bill Barr spoke out against Donald Trump ahead of his court appearance for allegedly plotting to overturn his election defeat in 2020.\n\nMr Barr, who was appointed by the former president, said that Mr Trump \"knew well he lost the election\".\n\nMr Trump is accused by federal prosecutors of lying about mass voter fraud and pressing officials to change results to keep him in power.\n\nHe has entered not guilty pleas.\n\nThe 77-year-old Republican, who is running for election again, appeared in court in Washington on Thursday afternoon. He has denounced the charges as politically motivated.\n\nTrump lawyer John Lauro has called the indictment an attack on free speech and said: \"There's nothing more protected under the First Amendment [the right to free speech] than political speech.\"\n\nBut Mr Barr, who quit the top job in the US legal system shortly after Joe Biden won that election in November 2020, said free speech is not a valid defence.\n\n\"They are not attacking his First Amendment right. He can say whatever he wants, he can even lie. He can even tell people that the election was stolen when he knew better,\" Mr Barr told CNN.\n\n\"But that does not protect you from entering into a conspiracy.\"\n\nBy saying his former boss knew he had lost the election, Mr Barr is undermining another plank of Mr Trump's defence which is that he was not defrauding the American people because he always believed he had won.\n\nHe added that the former president's alleged actions, as outlined in the indictment, are \"nauseating\" and \"despicable\".\n\nIn this latest indictment, Mr Trump faces four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the US, obstructing an official proceeding and conspiracy against the rights of citizens to have their votes counted.\n\nHe has already been charged in two other cases: with mishandling classified files and falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to a porn star.\n\nOn the eve of the arraignment, Mr Trump slammed the case as proof of the \"corruption, scandal, and failure\" of the US under Joe Biden's presidency.\n\nDonald Trump at a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, at the weekend\n\nPrior to Thursday, the former president had visited Washington DC only once since leaving the White House.\n\nMr Trump appeared before Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, while another judge, Tanya Chutkan, will handle the criminal trial.\n\nThe indictment came at the end of an investigation into events surrounding the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol.\n\nIt focused on Mr Trump's actions in the two-month period between his loss to Joe Biden and the riot in Washington DC, where his supporters stormed Congress as lawmakers certified the Democrat's victory.\n\nThe man leading the inquiry, special counsel Jack Smith, did not charge the former president with inciting the mob that day but he said the violence had been \"fuelled\" by his lies.\n\nThe court document accuses Mr Trump of a \"conspiracy to impair, obstruct, and defeat the federal government function through dishonesty, fraud and deceit\".\n\nNews trucks are parked around the courthouse\n\nMr Trump is currently the clear front-runner in the Republican Party's contest to pick its next presidential candidate.\n\nCongressional Republicans have been rallying round him, arguing that the latest indictment shows the US has become a \"banana republic\" and echoing the former president's claim that the prosecutions amount to election interference.\n\nMr Trump's former vice-president, Mike Pence, appears in the indictment more than 100 times.\n\nThe document says he was being repeatedly pressured by his boss to reject the true electoral votes in his ceremonial role to certify the election.\n\nHe said on Wednesday that he had \"done his duty\" by not bowing to Mr Trump's demands.\n\n\"Sadly the president was surrounded by a group of crackpot lawyers that kept telling him what his itching ears wanted to hear,\" he said. \"The president ultimately continued to demand that I choose him over the Constitution.\"\n\nThe 45-page election-related indictment against Mr Trump is based partly on contemporaneous notes that Mr Pence kept of their conversations in the days leading up to the US Capitol riot.", "The beehives were stolen last weekend, and most likely at night\n\nFourteen beehives and thousands of bees have been stolen.\n\nNorth Wales Police believe they were probably taken at night by someone with knowledge of beekeeping from Mynydd y Garth, near Llangollen, Denbighshire.\n\nThe number of bees taken has not been disclosed, but officers are appealing for information about anyone with a \"sudden influx\" of hives, or who is selling them or colonies.\n\nOne experienced beekeeper said it would be a \"terrible blow\" for the owner.\n\nThe theft took place between Monday and Wednesday, and police said the owner had lost thousands of pounds worth of bees and honey.\n\nPolice Community Support Officer Iwan Owen said whoever took them from Blackwood Lane last weekend came prepared.\n\n\"A total of 14 hives have gone, so they're likely to have been taken in a vehicle similar to a long wheelbase Ford Transit, or a trailer,\" he said.\n\n\"They are likely to have been taken late at night because the bees would presumably return to the hive after about 8.30pm.\"\n\n\"If they are hobby beekeepers like me then you have lost everything,\" says Cathy Williams\n\nHobby beekeeper Cathy Williams, who lives near Wrexham, has been beekeeping for about 10 years, a hobby that has been in her family for generations.\n\nShe has eight hives which produce about 226kg (500lbs) of honey a year and is a member of the South Clwyd Beekeepers Association.\n\n\"My smallest one [hive], with a very small colony, we've only got around 2,500 bees, but a really good strong colony will have anything upwards of 60,000,\" she said.\n\n\"It would be catastrophic. If it was a bee farmer - it was 14 hives that were stolen - that would make a big punch in his profits for the year, a huge punch and it would set him right back to next year.\n\n\"It's because the colony goes on from year to year, season to season through its lifecycle and if you've lost all those bees, you're not going to have honey from those colonies next year, it's really very serious.\n\n\"If they are hobby beekeepers like me then you have lost everything. It's a terrible blow.\"\n\nShe agreed with police that the culprit would need knowledge of bees.\n\nCathy Williams believes that the hive thief \"knows what they're doing\"\n\nShe said that at this time of year bees were making \"lots and lots of honey\" and building up their numbers for the winter.\n\n\"So the colonies now are pretty big, on the whole, so whoever has taken these has got very probably very good sturdy colonies, which will then go through the winter.\n\n\"If they were to steal spring colonies, they will probably be a lot smaller.\n\n\"So again, whoever has stolen them knows what they're doing.\n\n\"They know that these colonies are big and desirable for people who perhaps don't know a lot about them, but want to have them.\n\n\"We would normally think of getting new colonies in the spring, we wouldn't think of necessarily buying colonies at this time of the year.\"", "Former US President Donald Trump has been charged over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the run up to the 6 January riot. We asked people on our US voters panel for their reaction to the news, and how it makes them feel about Mr Trump's campaign to run again in 2024.\n\nLuke Gordon grew up in a liberal-leaning part of the north east. He voted for Donald Trump in 2020, but he wants someone else to win the Republican nomination for 2024.\n\nJanuary 6 will always have a splintered legacy: Those who despise Trump will gleefully remember it as a \"sombre\" day and those who voted for him will remember it as the day after January 5.\n\nThere is nothing to celebrate with this indictment. It fuels both the Democrats who want to use the justice system for political gain, and the Trump-leaning Republicans who already view the system as against them. It serves only as another force pulling us apart as a country.\n\nAt least these charges are somewhat believable. The other charges, for mishandling documents and an improperly recorded business expense, were laughable and an undeniable abuse of prosecutorial power.\n\nTrump's base is big enough that no amount of indictments can tank his road to the Republican nomination. Whether or not there are enough voters still willing to put up with his baggage to return him to the Oval Office remains to be seen. I tend to think there aren't.\n\nKathleen McClellan is a strong anti-abortion voter and backed Donald Trump twice.\n\nIt seems as though they'll never stop trying to keep Donald Trump from running. I don't think it will end until Mr Trump is made ineligible to run for office. If this fails, they'll try something else. That's what makes this indictment look bad for America.\n\nI think January 6 will be remembered as a riot, not an insurrection. I had family living in Haiti years ago, so I know what a real insurrection looks like. I think January 6 served a perfect device to smear Donald Trump and his supporters.\n\nI don't feel any differently about the 2024 election. If Mr Trump becomes the Republican candidate I will vote for him, but I still think we need some younger faces. We currently have two candidates who would be in their 80s in office.\n\nNuha Nazy says democracy, women's rights and gay rights are her top priorities.\n\nI remember doing a tour of the Philadelphia Senate building where George Washington peacefully shook hands with his successor, got on his horse, and returned to his farm, even as his soldiers were lined up outside waiting for his orders to fight to keep him in power. I am upset that Donald Trump could tarnish that.\n\nI think an indictment is a great step. It gives Donald Trump a chance to clear his name, if he is in fact not guilty as he claims. It allows the justice system to reinforce that no-one is above the law.\n\nFor those, like me, who found January 6 to be antithetical to the peaceful transfer of power, we get to see him held to account. We may be challenged to accept a result other than guilty, but that's OK. We still have to give the system a chance to prove that law and order is still a fact in this country.\n\nThe indictment just builds on the already simmering belief that our justice system is corrupt and politicised.\n\nThey say the victors write the history books, so I suspect how 6 January will ultimately be remembered depends on who wins these cultural wars between the left and the right. I doubt anyone will look back on 6 January and speak fondly of it, though.\n\nI do believe that Trump will gain voters from all of this. The indictment and all these investigations only helps to boost Trump. It solidifies his base. It sucks the oxygen out of the room for all of his rivals - see how far Ron DeSantis has fallen now - and it sets Trump up as something like the messiah figure that he portrays himself to be. That perspective resonates especially so now with his base, given the Biden scandals that appear to be bubbling up.\n\nThis country appears to be at a real turning point. I am not hopeful. I hate to say that. We're headed to very dark place.\n\nI don't think this indictment is bad for America at all. I'm surprised it took two-and-a-half years. I believe these charges are more severe than the [other cases] because it had actual ramifications on the country and threatened to have a terrible detriment to the rule of law and transfer of power.\n\nThis doesn't make me feel any different whatsoever about the next election. I didn't like him before, I thought he was a bad candidate, bad president, and bad person. I don't think that he will actually face any real consequences for his actions, and he will certainly become the Republican nominee.", "Kara Gammell, personal finance expert at MoneySuperMarket, says the latest rate rise will feel like more bad news, but urges people to not \"let this make you feel despondent\".\n\n\"Bear in mind that the most competitive offers don't tend to last long, particularly if they’re popular. It’ll pay to do your sums carefully and look around for the best deal for your circumstances,\" she says.\n\nLaura Suter, head of personal finance at AJ Bell, says \"it might feel like madness\" to say that interest rates have peaked, but argues this could be the peak for consumers - she says banks and building societies have started cutting both savings and mortgage rates.\n\nSkipton Building Society has announced it will not change its variable rate mortgages following the Bank's decision.\n\nMeanwhile, Matt Thompson, head of sales at estate agents Chestertons, says they expect the rate rise will force house hunters to be more cautious, review their financial situation and calculate \"a more conservative budget\".\n\nBut while fewer first-time buyers have entered the housing market, he is confident that things will pick up again \"once buyers have adjusted their criteria and lenders are bringing more products to the market again\".", "Police raids targeting drug gangs in three Brazilian states have left at least 45 people dead.\n\nIn the latest operation in Rio de Janeiro, police said they returned fire in a shoot-out in the Complexo da Penha area, killing at least 10.\n\nEarlier, 16 people died in clashes during a five-day police raid in São Paulo state, dubbed Operation Shield.\n\nAnd in the north-eastern state of Bahia, officials say 19 suspects have been killed since Friday.\n\nFifty-eight people were arrested during the operation in São Paulo state, which began after a special forces police officer was killed on Thursday in the coastal town of Guarujá.\n\nPolice seized 385kg of narcotics, as well as guns, according to local media.\n\nThe operation in Guarujá was criticised by Brazil's Justice Minister Flavio Dino, who said the police's reaction was not proportional to the crime committed.\n\nDuring an interview on Tuesday, São Paulo state governor Tarcisio de Freitas said two police officers were among those killed during clashes.\n\nAmnesty International said the Guarujá police raid showed \"clear signs of seeking vengeance for the death of a police officer\".\n\nIn Rio de Janeiro, a drug trafficking kingpin and a trafficker were among the 10 people killed on Wednesday, according to local media reports.\n\nFour others were injured, including a police officer.\n\nAccording to the city's military police, the operation in Complexo da Penha, a group of favelas in the north of the city, was launched after intelligence information suggested that a meeting of drug traffic ringleaders would be taking place in the area.\n\nEyewitnesses told local media they heard several gunshots and clashes between heavily armed gang members and the police.\n\nTalíria Petrone, a member of the Rio state legislature, condemned the operation. She said there was \"no explanation for the state to continue turning life in favelas into a hell like this\".\n\nSchools around Complexo da Penha did not open on Wednesday, forcing about 3,220 pupils to stay at home.\n\nHouse visits organised by the national health service were also suspended because of security concerns.\n\nInstituto Fogo Cruzado, an organisation that looks into armed violence data in Brazil, described the raids as \"mass killings\".\n\nIn a statement published after the police raid in Rio, the institute said there had been 33 such incidents in the city since the start of the year - with a total of 125 people dead.\n\nInstituto Marielle Franco - an NGO named after campaigning politician Marielle Franco who was murdered in 2018 - also publicly criticised the latest events.\n\n\"The slaughter repeats itself,\" it said in a statement.\n\nBefore her death, Ms Franco was an outspoken councillor who had been critical of the police's often deadly raids in densely populated shanty towns, or favelas, and denounced paramilitary groups run by retired and off-duty police known as milícias.\n\nPolice violence is not new here - every week there are shootouts, leaving people dead.\n\nRio de Janeiro though is one of Brazil's most violent states - operations to tackle drug crime in areas such as favelas often lead to fatalities and accusations that the authorities are poorly-trained and trigger-happy.\n\nWhile the focus is usually on Rio, the fact that this past week has seen a series of operations across the country brings into sharp focus the issue of police violence across Brazil.\n\nIn the north-eastern state of Bahia, clashes between police and gang members between Friday and Monday revolved around three cities - Salvador, Itatim and Camaçari.\n\nThe deaths included seven people killed in Camaçari on Friday and another eight people killed during clashes in Itatim on Sunday.\n\nIn Salvador, clashes between police and armed suspects killed four others and led to school closures in the area on Tuesday.\n\nGuns, phones and drugs were seized during the three operations.\n\nIt is a complicated picture in a country with a high level of gun violence where fears about security are also growing. But there are increasing calls to look into human rights abuses committed by the police.\n\nThere have been some initiatives to improve the situation. Since 2020, São Paulo's military police have worn cameras on their uniforms - and in the first two years of the programme, the number of people killed by police fell by 61%.\n\nIt is an initiative that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is reportedly keen to implement on a federal level.", "Robert Bowers shot and killed 11 people at Pittsburgh synagogue and injured several more\n\nA US judge has sentenced the attacker who killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018 to death by execution.\n\nA 12-member jury agreed unanimously for the death sentence to be imposed. Prosecutors had asked the jury to vote for the death penalty.\n\nThe same jury found the man guilty of all 63 charges stemming from the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue.\n\nIt was the worst antisemitic attack in American history.\n\nThe jury's decision was delivered to US District Court Judge Robert Colville on Wednesday. Mr Colville formally imposed the sentence at a hearing on Thursday.\n\nHe did so after hearing emotional testimonies from survivors and family members.\n\nThe jury in the case deliberated for 10 hours over two days. A decision was reached on the second day of deliberations.\n\nRobert Bowers killed 11 worshippers in the attack, ranging in age from 54 to 97. Seven others were injured, including five police officers who rushed to the scene.\n\nThree congregations - Dor Hadash, New Light and the Tree of Life - shared the synagogue.\n\nReporters inside the courtroom said Bowers had no reaction as the death sentence verdict was read.\n\nMost families of those killed in the attack have said they support the death penalty for Bowers, although some, including the Dor Hadash congregation, have stated their opposition.\n\nAt a news conference on Wednesday, many families and survivors said they were relieved at the verdict.\n\nRabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life Congregation, a survivor of the attack, said the jury's decision provides some closure to the community.\n\n\"Today we've received an immense embrace from the halls of justice around all of us, to say our government does not condone antisemitism in the most violent form that we have witnessed,\" Rabbi Myers said.\n\nAudrey Glickman, another survivor, said the verdict is \"a step in the right direction\".\n\n\"Had we not had this trial, the deeds of this criminal would have been glossed over in the annals of history,\" she said.\n\nFamily of Rose Mallinger, one of the victims, said: \"Returning a sentence of death is not a decision that comes easy, but we must hold accountable those who wish to commit such terrible acts of antisemitism, hate, and violence.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Dor Hadash congregation thanked prosecutors and those who participated in the trial.\n\nProsecutors had argued during the trial that the death sentence was necessary because the 50-year-old truck driver continues to espouse a hatred for Jews and has demonstrated no remorse for his actions.\n\n\"This is a case that calls for the most severe punishment under the law - the death penalty,\" US Attorney Eric Olshan said.\n\nBowers' defence argued that he suffers from mental health issues that causes him to hold delusional beliefs about Jewish people.\n\nIn Wednesday's verdict, the jury unanimously said the defence failed to prove the gunman suffered from a mental disorder or committed the crimes \"under mental or emotional disturbance\".\n\nThey also ruled that all five aggravating factors in the case were proven, which included Bowers' killing of the worshippers inside the synagogue as well as the permanent impact left on the survivors.\n\nFederal prosecutors rarely pursue the death penalty. Between 1988 and 2021, only 79 defendants in such cases were sentenced to death, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nThe jury's ruling marks the first federal death sentence under Joe Biden's presidency.\n\nIt is the second federal death penalty prosecution during Mr Biden's administration, after a jury failed to unanimously vote to execute a man inspired by ISIS who attacked a New York City bike path in 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rabbi Doris Dyen: 'I'm broken and I can't pray' (from 2018)", "The barge will provide basic and functional accommodation and healthcare provision\n\nAsylum seekers will move onto the Bibby Stockholm barge \"in the coming weeks\" once safety concerns are addressed, the deputy prime minister has said.\n\nOliver Dowden told the BBC he was \"confident\" any remaining issues with the vessel would be resolved.\n\nEarlier, the Fire Brigades Union wrote to Home Secretary Suella Braverman seeking talks over fire safety fears.\n\nSome 500 asylum seekers are set to be housed on the accommodation barge, moored in Portland Port in Dorset.\n\nIt is seen as a key part of the government's strategy to deter migrants from arriving on Britain's shores in small boats, and ministers have said it would help cut the £6m-a-day cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels while their claims are processed.\n\nPlans to move the first 50 asylum seekers onto the vessel were delayed on Tuesday with the FBU describing it as a \"potential death trap\".\n\nMr Dowden told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We have to undertake a number of inspections and other measures to make sure that these vessels, and this vessel in particular, is suitable and ready.\n\n\"We are confident that we will be able to address all of these concerns, I'm absolutely certain of that, and I'm absolutely certain we will be able to get people on this vessel in the coming weeks.\"\n\nPortland councillors and campaign groups had argued against the barge ahead of its arrival in July\n\nA Home Office source said the government was still excepting the first migrants on the Bibby Stockholm next week, despite the suggestion from the deputy PM that it might be longer before the vessel was operational.\n\nIn a letter sent to the Home Office, FBU assistant general secretary Ben Selby said the union wanted to ensure a \"tragedy\" would be prevented and to guarantee public safety.\n\nHe said the union had fears about overcrowding, access to fire exits and \"other safety matters on the vessel\".\n\n\"We have substantial expertise, including from earlier disasters such as the Grenfell Tower fire and the subsequent public inquiry,\" he added.\n\n\"We are concerned above all to prevent another tragedy.\"\n\nGovernment sources have suggested complaints by the Labour Party-affiliated FBU are politically motivated, and Mr Dowden also pointed out that the union was a Labour donor.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, cabinet minister Grant Shapps denied the barge was a \"death trap\" and said there was no reason why it \"wouldn't be absolutely safe\".\n\nThe 222-room, three-storey barge will house adult males, aged from 18 to 65, who are in the latter stages of their asylum applications.\n\nThe rooms on the barge were first converted to house asylum seekers in Germany in the 1990s\n\nIt will be the first time migrants have been housed in a berthed vessel in the UK.\n\nThe government said there were currently about 51,000 \"destitute migrants\" in hotels across the UK, costing the taxpayer in excess of £6m a day - and argues the vessel will reduce these costs.\n\nThere has been considerable local opposition within the south coast community of Portland, amid concerns about the impact 500 new arrivals would have on local services.\n\nHuman rights groups have also described the decision to house migrants on a barge as \"inhumane\".\n\nFinal preparations for the arrivals are continuing, with food being delivered earlier this week\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This suspected shoplifter got extremely abusive with a shop security guard\n\nBody worn cameras are being used by a high street shop to curb rising levels of theft and violence in its stores.\n\nJohn Lewis has given its staff bodycams and \"de-escalation\" training to diffuse tensions when shoppers react angrily.\n\nThe Welsh Retail Consortium (WRC) said violence towards staff in Cardiff between 2021 and 2022 had risen by 30% while shoplifting had spiked by 68%.\n\nThe Home Office said it had invested a record amount into policing but retailers have demanded tougher laws.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC), which works with the WRC representing retailers said thefts across the sector in England and Wales rose by 26% in 2022.\n\nIn March, police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland recorded almost 33,000 incidents of shoplifting.\n\nMeanwhile in Pembrokeshire, one shop has invested £15,000 in anti-theft security.\n\nAlcohol, perfumes, cosmetics and meat were among the most stolen items, with prolific repeat offenders, organised gangs and the cost of living blamed.\n\nAdrian Palmer who works in the Cardiff branch of John Lewis.\n\nAdrian Palmer who works at a store in Cardiff says thieves are becoming more brazen\n\nHe said interactions were becoming increasingly violent: \"This happens fairly often, more often than you would like. I wouldn't say daily, but we're probably not far off.\"\n\nHe said shoplifters had also become more brazen and he once witnessed a man take a bin bag out of his pocket, fill it with goods and attempt to walk out.\n\n\"I was lucky enough that we also had a PCSO in branch at the time, so we detained him,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man can been seen on CCTV loading smart speakers from a shop shelf into a bin bag\n\nHead of security Nicki Juniper said John Lewis was \"investing heavily in training\" for security and shop staff.\n\n\"Should they want to take part in some de-escalation training they'd be able to handle an incident should it arise,\" she said.\n\nThey are also doing training known as \"love bombing\", which uses good customer service to deter abuse.\n\n\"It has proven very successful in reducing levels of theft,\" she said, but added prolific offenders needed to face consequences.\n\nHead of security Nicki Juniper says new techniques are proving successful\n\nThe Association of Convenience Stores said the problem was UK-wide, with 1.1 million thefts in their stores in the past year.\n\nChief executive James Lowman said that was \"probably an underestimate\" and thefts were at \"highest level it's ever been\".\n\n\"Around 70% of staff say they've been verbally abused on the job, which is an extraordinary high number but sadly not a great surprise,\" he said.\n\nHe added he suspected repeat offenders were also committing crime elsewhere but said he could see \"how the police and retailers see that as just too big a problem to tackle\".\n\nBut he said focusing on these individuals \"might bring real benefits to our sector, but perhaps hopefully to the wider community\".\n\nFiona Malone from Tenby Stores says every time someone steals, it takes away from what she can give her children\n\nFiona Malone, from Tenby Stores in Pembrokeshire, said she did not think the police took enough notice of thefts under £50 - but these added up over time.\n\nThe shop has invested £15,000 in new cameras and security technology this year, including headsets.\n\n\"Although some of the things stolen are things that are nice to have, such as wine and vapes, I think people are struggling,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it is something the government really need to think about.\"\n\nShe said police have a difficult job and have needed to prioritise high-value crimes but due to a lack of consequence, the thieves keep coming back.\n\n\"Losing money through theft is a huge challenge for us because we are an independent business and what people don't understand is everything that gets stolen comes out of things I can give to my children.\"\n\nSara Jones, head of the WRC, says the losses businesses incur will start to hit the customers soon\n\nSara Jones, head of the WRC said the losses were costing shops billions of pounds a year across UK but added that effect may soon be felt by customers.\n\nShe said the WRC planned to write to South Wales Police about how to deal with retail crime in Cardiff.\n\nShe said: \"At the moment only 7% of retail crime gets prosecuted and we need to see that figure significantly increase.\n\n\"We understand the challenges and we are also asking the Home Office to look at some of the legislation that's in place like the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.\n\n\"We want that to be bolstered, better reporting around the data in that, which will hopefully help our retailers in the long run.\"\n\nShe said retailers wanted to prioritise retail crime while protecting staff and customers.\n\n\"Over 40% of colleagues fear for their safety when they're in the workplace and that is a concern for all of us,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"Shoplifting strikes at the heart of local communities and we expect police forces to take this seriously - deterring this kind of crime but also catching more offenders.\"\n\n\"We have delivered more police officers in England and Wales than ever before and invested a record of up to £17.6bn in 2023/24 into policing, including for more visible patrols in our neighbourhoods and better security such as CCTV and alarm systems.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police has been asked to comment.", "The stepfather of a 10-month-old baby who endured a \"culture of cruelty\" has been found guilty of his murder.\n\nJacob Crouch suffered at least 39 rib fractures, and died from a \"vicious assault\" at the hands of Craig Crouch, Derby Crown Court heard.\n\nJacob died \"in his cot, alone\" on 30 December 2020 at home near Swadlincote, Derbyshire, having suffered a \"living hell\".\n\nHis mother Gemma Barton has been cleared of murder.", "With its dense, heavy bones, Perucetus could only have foraged in shallow waters\n\nScientists have identified a new candidate for the heaviest ever animal on Planet Earth.\n\nIt's an ancient, long-extinct whale that would have tipped the scales at close to 200 tonnes.\n\nOnly some of the very biggest blue whale specimens might have rivalled its heft, researchers say.\n\nThe creature's fossilised bones were dug up in the desert in southern Peru, so it has been given the name Perucetus colossus.\n\nDating of the sediments around the remains suggests it lived about 39 million years ago.\n\n\"The fossils were actually discovered 13 years ago, but their size and shape meant it took three years just to get them to Lima (the capital of Peru), where they've been studied ever since,\" said Dr Eli Amson, a co-worker on the discovery team led by palaeontologist Dr Mario Urbina.\n\nIt took an immense effort to extricate the bones from the hard desert rock\n\nEighteen bones were recovered from the marine mammal - an early type of whale known as a basilosaurid. These included 13 vertebrae, four ribs and part of a hip bone.\n\nBut even given these fragmentary elements and their age, scientists were still able to decipher a huge amount about the creature.\n\nIn particular, it's evident the bones were extremely dense, caused by a process known as osteosclerosis, in which inner cavities are filled. The bones were also oversized, in the sense they had extra growth on their exterior surfaces - something called pachyostosis.\n\nThese weren't features of disease, the team said, but rather adaptations that would have given this large whale the necessary buoyancy control when foraging in shallow waters. Similar bone features are seen for example in modern-day manatees, or sea cows, which also inhabit coastal zones in certain parts of the world.\n\nPerucetus would have been shorter than the average blue whale but much heavier\n\n\"Each vertebra weighs over 100kg, which is just completely mind-blowing,\" said co-worker Dr Rebecca Bennion from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.\n\n\"It took several men to shift them out into the middle of the floor in the museum for me to do some 3D scanning. The team that drilled into the centre of some of these vertebrae to work out the bone density - the bone was so dense, it broke the drill on the first attempt.\"\n\nWhen confronted with a skeleton of a long-extinct species, scientists use models to try to reconstruct the body shape and mass of the animal. They do this based on what they know about the biology of comparable living creatures.\n\nIt is predicted Perucetus would have been about 17-20m in length, which is not exceptional. But its bone mass alone would have been somewhere between 5.3 and 7.6 tonnes. And by the time you add in organs, muscle and blubber, it could have weighed - depending on the assumptions - anywhere between 85 tonnes and 320 tonnes.\n\nThe bones are going on display in Lima to celebrate their description in a scientific journal\n\nDr Amson, a curator at Germany's State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, uses a median number of 180.\n\nThe largest blue whales recorded during the era of commercial exploitation were at this scale.\n\n\"What we like to say is that Perucetus is in the same ball park as the blue whale,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"But there's no reason to think that our individual was particularly big or small; it was likely just part of the general population. So it's worth keeping in mind that when we use the median estimate, it's already at the very upper ranges of what blue whales can measure.\"\n\nThe largest dinosaurs might have been about 100 tonnes in weight\n\nOne of the comparators used by the research team in its investigations is a blue whale that will be very familiar to anyone who has visited the Natural History Museum in London.\n\nNicknamed Hope, this animal's skeleton took pride of place at the institution when it was hung from the ceiling in the main hall in 2017.\n\nBut before being installed, the skeleton was scanned and described in great detail and is now an important data resource for scientists across the world.\n\nHope: The London whale skeleton is a key resource for scientists worldwide\n\nIn life, Perucetus' skeletal mass would have been two to three times that of Hope, even though the London mammal was a good five metres longer.\n\nRichard Sabin, the curator of marine mammals at the NHM, is thrilled by the new find and would love to bring some aspect of it to London for display.\n\n\"We took the time to digitise Hope - to measure not just the weight of the bones but their shape as well, and our whale has now become something of a touchstone for people,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't get hung up on labels - like 'which was the largest specimen?' - because we know science at some point will always come along with new data.\n\n\"What's amazing about Perucetus is that it demonstrated so much mass some 30 million-plus years ago when we thought gigantism occurred in whales only 4.5 million years ago.\"\n\nPerucetus colossus is reported in the journal Nature.\n\nThe very biggest blue whales could reach near 200 tonnes, but that was before commercial whaling", "Ken Bruce left Radio 2 in March to host the mid-morning programme on Greatest Hits Radio\n\nBBC Radio 2 lost a million listeners in its first quarter without Ken Bruce, after he left the station to join Greatest Hits Radio (GHR).\n\nIn his first three months, Bruce attracted just below three million listeners to his GHR mid-morning show.\n\nThat is around 1.25 million more than the show's previous host Mark Goodier.\n\nHowever, it is a much lower audience than Bruce attracted on Radio 2, where his was the most popular radio programme in the UK.\n\nThe latest figures from radio industry body Rajar reflect a difficult quarter for Radio 2, which lost more than a million listeners between April and June following Bruce's exit in March.\n\nZoe Ball dropped by 533,000 listeners compared with the previous quarter, bringing her audience down to 6.7 million, but her programme remained the most popular breakfast show in the UK.\n\nThe second quarter of the year saw Bruce's former Radio 2 mid-morning show hosted by stand-in presenter Gary Davies for several weeks, before his permanent replacement Vernon Kay took over the slot.\n\nKay presented his first show on 15 May - which was half way through the audience measuring period for industry body Rajar.\n\nThat means the radio industry will not get a true representation of Kay's figures until the next quarter - which will reflect a full three months for him in the role.\n\nZoe Ball's breakfast show dropped by 533,000 listeners, while the station as a whole lost more than a million\n\nThe decrease in audience for BBC Radio 2 constitutes a loss of around 7% for the station on the previous quarter. However, Radio 2 remained the UK's most listened to station by a comfortable margin.\n\nStation boss Helen Thomas said: \"Radio 2 remains the UK's most popular radio station with 13.5 million loyal listeners who tune in each week to the best music from the past seven decades, presented by some of the country's most loved presenters.\n\n\"Congratulations to the brilliant Zoe Ball who continues to host the most listened to Breakfast Show in the country,\" she added.\n\nThe last year has seen several big names on Radio 2 either leave or have their number of programmes reduced - including Bruce, Steve Wright, Vanessa Feltz and Craig Charles.\n\nGreatest Hits Radio now has nearly six million listeners overall, with its drivetime host Simon Mayo, another former Radio 2 presenter, attracting 2.3 million listeners.\n\nIn a statement, Bruce commented: \"I've always said that it's not really about the numbers and it's not, for me at least, but I'm delighted to hear today's news for the team here at my new home, Greatest Hits Radio.\n\n\"My first four months have flown by and I've loved every minute of it - and there's much more to come. [The show] wouldn't be what it is without its listeners so your company is always much appreciated.\"\n\nOn Thursday, parent company Bauer announced Bruce would front a new GHR spin-off station dedicated to music from the 1960s.\n\nVernon Kay (left) replaced Ken Bruce in May, while Scott Mills (right) replaced afternoon host Steve Wright last year\n\nBruce also recently launched a TV adaptation of his popular quiz PopMaster, which he took with him from Radio 2 to GHR.\n\nThe Scottish presenter's GHR show is currently being investigated by Ofcom over the station's campaign calling for offenders to be prevented from refusing to attend sentencing hearings.\n\nElsewhere, Radio 4 continued its recent decline, with a loss of a further 428,000 compared with the previous quarter. Over the course of a year, the station has dropped from 10.2 million listeners to 8.9 million.\n\nPartly reflecting a decline in speech radio as a whole, the station's flagship Today programme lost 266,000 listeners on the previous quarter, while 5 Live Breakfast dropped by 27,000.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"Today remains one of the most listened to breakfast radio programmes, providing listeners with trusted in-depth reporting and agenda setting interviews. \"\n\nBBC Radio 1 was up slightly, to 7.7 million, but there was a small drop for breakfast host Greg James, whose average weekly audience this quarter was 3.9 million.\n\nThere was better news for BBC Local Radio stations, which jointly increased their total audience from 7.38 to 7.65 million, despite a period of significant upheaval and job cuts.\n\nHowever, a more detailed look at individual local radio stations shows 24 of them actually lost listeners this quarter, while 13 improved their reach.\n\nThe corporation also said its BBC Sounds app enjoyed a surge in listening - with a nearly 50% increase in usage on last year, and a record 582 million plays to its programmes, podcasts and music mixes.\n\nThe radio listening figures were published on the same day as a new report by Ofcom, which revealed a record decline in traditional TV viewing.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Sir Iain Livingstone is due to retire next week as Police Scotland's chief constable\n\nPolice Scotland's chief constable has said the sooner the investigation into the SNP's finances is concluded the better for everyone involved.\n\nSir Iain Livingstone said he hoped it would clarify \"evidence and facts\" instead of \"rumours and innuendo\".\n\nThe investigation has seen former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon arrested before being released without charge.\n\nSir Iain said his working relationship with Ms Sturgeon had made the process \"difficult\".\n\nBut he insisted the two years already spent on Operation Branchform were \"entirely legitimate\".\n\nAnd he denied any suggestion that it had been politically motivated.\n\nIn his last interview before he retires next week, Sir Iain said: \"We are duty bound to investigate matters if they are reported to us.\n\n\"Our action and our investigation is in the interests of everybody involved because it will clarify facts and deal with evidence and facts as opposed to rumour and innuendo.\n\n\"So the sooner this investigation is concluded, the better for everyone involved.\"\n\nHowever, the outgoing chief constable said it wasn't possible to predict when the police probe would be finalised.\n\n\"In the nature of these complex investigations, there are a whole series of factors and a multitude of variables that come into play,\" he said. \"So I would never put an artificial timescale on it.\n\n\"It has to take its course. We will continue to work very closely with independent prosecutors and matters will progress in due course.\"\n\nPolice Scotland has been investigating what happened to more than £600,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists since 2021.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she is certain she has done nothing wrong.\n\nIn April, police arrested Ms Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell, the SNP's former chief executive, before he was released without charge pending further investigation.\n\nNicola Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell were both arrested before being released without charge\n\nAs part of the operation, a tent was put up in the couple's garden as various items were removed from their Glasgow home. Sir Iain Livingstone later described the move as \"proportionate and necessary\".\n\nOfficers also searched the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh in April.\n\nA luxury motorhome, costing about £110,000, was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nAlmost two weeks later, SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was arrested and released without charge while further inquiries were carried out.\n\nA police tent was erected outside Nicola Sturgeon's home in Glasgow during an investigation in April\n\nMs Sturgeon, Mr Murrell and Mr Beattie were the three signatories on the SNP's accounts.\n\nThe chief constable reiterated that the police investigation had not been politically motivated, saying he and his officers \"have to do our duty without fear or favour\".\n\nHe added: \"These are difficult challenges but I would fiercely reject any sense that I, as an individual, am motivated through any political perspective.\n\n\"I am not. Not for a second. My priorities are the rule of law and public safety.\"\n\nSir Iain also said the investigation had not affected Police Scotland's relationship with the Scottish government and its ministers.\n\n\"Scottish ministers recognise the operational independence of the chief constable,\" he said.\n\n\"I would rightly be criticised if I hadn't conducted this investigation with the rigour that we are doing because I would have been seen as neglecting my duty. That has not happened.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon announced on 15 February - four months before her arrest - that she would be standing down as both SNP leader and first minister once a successor was elected. Humza Yousaf later won the contest to replace her.\n\nShe said at the time that she knew \"in my head and in my heart\" that it was the right time to go, and has since denied the timing was influenced by the police investigation.\n\nJo Farrell, the current chief constable of Durham Constabulary, will replace Sir Iain. She will be Police Scotland's first female chief constable.", "Climate change is seeing a species of migratory butterfly stay in the UK over the winter instead of returning to Europe and Africa, experts say.\n\nA charity's butterfly count in July recorded a four-fold increase in sightings of the majestic red admiral - continuing a long-term trend.\n\nSightings rose by more than 175,000 compared to the same period last year.\n\nButterfly Conservation said \"there can be no doubt climate change is the driver\" behind the increase.\n\nThe red admiral is a common sight in British and Irish gardens with its distinctive dark brown body, red stripes and white patches, but is actually a migrant species from continental Europe and North Africa. It migrates north to the UK each spring and summer, and the females lay eggs.\n\nThe experts say it appears many more are staying in southern England over the winter months, leading to more sightings this year.\n\nThe Big Butterfly Count found between 14 July and 2 August this year there was a 400% increase in sightings of red admirals.\n\nThe count continues until 6 August and scientists at Butterfly Conservation are looking to see how many more red admirals are recorded, and how they are dispersed around the UK.\n\nIn total the count - which involves butterfly watchers reporting online which species they see - recorded 177,000 sightings of red admirals so far.\n\nButterfly Conservation, which works to reverse the decline of the most threatened species, said with global temperatures rising the need for the red admiral to return to continental Europe and Africa is reducing, and it is possible a greater number will now be spending winter in the UK.\n\nDr Zoe Randle, senior surveys officer at the charity, said: \"We've been surprised to see the red admiral taking the lead; however, with the increased frequency of warm weather, the UK may well become a permanent home for this species...\n\n\"With climate change here to stay, we need people to take part more than ever before and help us understand how extreme weather is affecting our butterflies.\"\n\nOverall more than one million butterfly sightings have been recorded in the Big Butterfly Count so far this year by nearly 65,000 participants.", "This tribute to Mr Sibley was posted to Beyonce's website\n\nBeyoncé has paid tribute to O'Shae Sibley, a professional dancer who was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn, New York while dancing to her music.\n\nMr Sibley, 28, was voguing while he and friends filled up at a petrol station when men approached and told them to stop, friends reported.\n\nThe men began using slurs and Mr Sibley, a gay man, confronted them, according to video of the altercation.\n\nNo arrests have yet been made, but police said on Tuesday that they were seeking a teenage boy in connection with the killing. The New York Police department has also said it is investigating Mr Sibley's death as a possible hate crime.\n\nMr Sibley's friends told US media that while some of their group filled up their car at a Mobil petrol station in Brooklyn on Saturday, the professional dancer and choreographer played Beyoncé's latest album, Renaissance, and danced to the music. Renaissance, is considered a celebration of black and queer dance culture, featuring artists like Big Freedia, Syd and Honey Dijon.\n\nAfter a group of men approached Mr Sibley and his friends, surveillance video appears to show the two groups in a heated argument.\n\nThe confrontation escalated, and one man stabbed Mr Sibley, police said.\n\nOtis Pena, one of Mr Sibley's friends, pressed on his wound to stop the bleeding before Mr Sibley was taken to Maimonides Medical Center, the New York Times reported, where he was pronounced dead.\n\n\"They murdered him because he's gay, because he stood up for his friends,\" Mr Pena said in a Facebook video. \"They killed my brother right in front of me,\" he wrote in another post.\n\nMr Sibley's death has rocked the LGBTQ+ community in New York, where friends said he had moved to continue his dance career, and beyond.\n\nPhiladelphia dance organisation Philadanco, which said Mr Sibley had been involved with them since he was a teenager, released a statement calling his death \"absolutely heartbreaking\".\n\n\"We believe no one deserves to be targeted for simply being themselves and living in their truth,\" the statement said.\n\nMr Sibley was also recognised by New York's leaders, including Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul, who wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that \"discrimination, hate, and violence\" have no place in our state.", "Matthew Hedges said the apology was \"crucial\" for his recovery\n\nThe Foreign Office has been told to make a formal apology to a British academic who was accused of spying and tortured in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nMatthew Hedges, originally from Exeter, repeatedly denied the accusation and said he was researching for his Durham University PhD.\n\nHe called the Parliamentary Ombudsman's ruling that the Foreign Office failed to protect him \"a personal victory\".\n\nThe Foreign Office (FCDO) said it would \"review the ombudsman's findings\".\n\nThe watchdog said the department had \"missed signs of potential torture\".\n\nVisits to Dr Hedges by British Embassy officials were always supervised by guards \"who told him what to say\" but officials did not take account of \"clear signs\" he might have been mistreated, such as his voice shaking, his avoidance of eye contact and his references to having anxiety attacks, it said.\n\nFCDO guidelines tell staff to act on warning signs even when they do not have consent and \"it must have been clear to FCDO staff that he was not in a position to give or withhold consent\", the watchdog added.\n\nDr Hedges said the ombudsman's ruling was an \"acknowledgement\" of what happened.\n\n\"It's a personal victory for me to know that it wasn't just my experience but others recognised it,\" he said.\n\nMatthew Hedges' wife Daniela Tejada campaigned to have him freed\n\nDr Hedges was in Abu Dhabi in 2018 when he was accused of working for MI6 and \"spying for or on behalf of\" the UK government\n\nThe UAE authorities said material found on his laptop proved he was a spy. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but was pardoned by the nation's president days later.\n\nDr Hedges said he was kept in handcuffs and in solitary confinement, questioned for hours and fed a cocktail of drugs. He said he was left with post traumatic stress disorder and insomnia.\n\nOn his release he complained to the Parliamentary Ombudsman about the government's response.\n\nThe watchdog has now found the Foreign Office failed to protect him and should pay £1,500 compensation.\n\nDr Hedges said the money was \"a paltry sum\" but welcomed the apology.\n\n\"The most crucial thing for my recovery is a formal apology from the Foreign Office and for them to acknowledge and to implement changes so that other people who are currently, or have been, in similar circumstances don't have to endure this,\" he said.\n\nChief executive of the ombudsman's office, Rebecca Hilsenrath, said the \"nightmare\" of Mr Hedges' terrifying experience was \"made even worse by being failed by the British government\".\n\n\"He trusted them to help him and they let him down,\" she said.\n\nThe FCDO said it had \"worked extensively on this case\" and raised it at ministerial level \"on multiple occasions\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The best interests of British nationals, including those detained overseas, is at the heart of our consular work and we support their families wherever we can.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Donald Trump is not a man used to waiting.\n\nBut at a court hearing in the nation's capital, the former US president found himself fidgeting in his seat while he waited 20 minutes for the judge to arrive.\n\nIn the meantime, he also stole furtive glances at Special Counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor who has now indicted him in two separate federal cases.\n\nIn recent days, Mr Trump has raged on social media against what he calls a continuing \"witch hunt\" led by a \"deranged\" and \"wild\" Mr Smith.\n\nBut in the courtroom, he had to stay silent.\n\nThe latest indictment stems from his alleged role in plotting to overturn the 2020 election results. He faces four counts: conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.\n\nFederal prosecutors allege he knowingly and repeatedly spread false claims about the 2020 election, and, along with several unnamed co-conspirators, took unlawful measures in a bid to stay in power.\n\nAhead of this latest arraignment - his third in four months - he wrote to his supporters in an all-caps post on his Truth Social platform that his voluntary surrender was \"a great honor, because I am being arrested for you\".\n\nBut inside the small, second-floor courtroom, Mr Trump listened carefully and answered politely, save for the occasional noticeable shake of the head in dismay.\n\nIn one moment, unprompted by the judge, he stood up to answer her question and was told he could sit back down.\n\nStanding up later, he affirmed that his lawyers were entering a plea of not guilty on his behalf.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Smith said he will seek a speedy trial in this case, and his prosecutors reiterated that request on Thursday.\n\nBut Mr Trump's attorney John Lauro argued that the government has had three years to prepare their case and said that the judge must ensure the trial was fair and protected his client's rights.\n\nThe federal courthouse is in the shadow of the US Capitol, where his supporters rioted in January 2021 to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory.\n\nThursday's court appearance was the latest in a growing list of legal woes, including charges stemming from allegations he paid hush money to a porn star, and federal charges over the alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nThe latter case also involved Mr Smith. When they last met in Miami, the federal prosecutor reportedly did not stop staring at Mr Trump.\n\nBut in Washington, Mr Smith was careful to avoid the former president's gaze.\n\nAs he launches a third consecutive bid for the White House, the 77-year-old now faces 78 felony charges in total.\n\nHis legal bills are mounting and his court dates are adding up - but Mr Trump remains the firm frontrunner for the Republican Party's nomination for president in 2024.\n\nThis court date marked only his second trip back to Washington since he left office, but he was barely here for two hours before flying back to his New Jersey residence.\n\n\"This is a very sad day for America,\" he said, as he boarded Trump Force One.\n\nAnd with a parting shot at \"the filth and decay\" of the city in which he was once commander-in-chief, he added: \"This is not the place that I left.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A group of young people from different communities in Belfast are lobbying to keep a so-called 'peace gate' open longer.\n\nThe gates are mostly located at peace walls in Belfast, acting as dividing lines between predominantly unionist and nationalist areas.\n\nMost are at interfaces which experienced some of the worst violence of nearly 30 years of the Troubles.\n\nOpened during the day, the closure of the gates at night is a familiar sight.\n\nNow a group of young people from both backgrounds, either side of the gate at Northumberland Street in west Belfast, are trying to extend some peace gate opening times.\n\nThey are part of the Empowering Young People Programme run through Active Communities Network, which received funding from the National Lottery Community Fund.", "Activists covered the front of the property in black sheeting on Thursday morning\n\nFive people have been arrested after activists climbed on the roof of the prime minister's home to protest at 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences.\n\nCampaigners had unfurled \"oil-black fabric\" on the house in a North Yorkshire village, Greenpeace said.\n\nTwo men and two women were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage and public nuisance after they returned to ground level at about 13:00 BST.\n\nA third man was also arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said all those arrested remained in police custody.\n\nRishi Sunak's office confirmed neither the prime minister nor his family were present at the time.\n\nOne of the protesters had earlier told the BBC they had scaled the building to \"bring home to the prime minister the really serious consequences of a new drilling frenzy in the North Sea\".\n\nProtesters targeted the prime minister's home in his Richmond constituency\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said the force had been made aware of the incident at Mr Sunak's constituency home at about 08:05.\n\nOfficers had \"contained the area\" and no-one had entered the building, a spokesperson said.\n\nA large cordon was put in place and specialist police liaison officers were used to bring the protesters down from the roof of the property, they added.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Elliot Foskett, said: \"There was no threat to the wider public throughout this incident which has now been brought to a safe conclusion.\"\n\nWhen asked about the incident, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said he thought the British people were \"sick of these stupid stunts\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the incident was \"disgraceful\".\n\n\"This is against the law and rightly the police are taking enforcement action.\n\n\"The prime minister's home and family should never be targeted in this way.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Conservative chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Alicia Kearns said the action by Greenpeace was \"unacceptable\".\n\nShe said the family homes of politicians should \"not be under assault\".\n\n\"Before long police will need to be stationed outside the home of every MP,\" she said.\n\nResponding to the protest, a No 10 source said: \"We make no apology for taking the right approach to ensure our energy security, using the resources we have here at home so we are never reliant on aggressors like Putin for our energy.\n\n\"We are also investing in renewables and our approach supports 1000s of British jobs.\"\n\nA police cordon was in place at Rishi Sunak's home in North Yorkshire on Thursday\n\nA former deputy chief constable of North Yorkshire Police said he was \"absolutely astonished\" by the incident.\n\nPeter Walker, who left the force in 2003, told BBC Radio York: \"You really have to wonder how people have been able to gain access to the prime minister's residence without hindrance.\"\n\nMr Sunak purchased the house after becoming the MP for the rural Richmond constituency in 2015.\n\nThe Grade II listed property was built in 1826 and has extensive gardens.\n\nIn 2021, planning permission was granted for an annex with a swimming pool, gym and tennis court.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, has named her left breast \"Derek\" after a single mastectomy surgery\n\nThe Duchess of York has named her reconstructed breast \"Derek\" after her single mastectomy surgery to treat breast cancer.\n\nSarah, 63, had the operation in June after she was diagnosed with breast cancer following a routine mammogram screening.\n\nShe explained in her own podcast that personalising her new breast was a positive move to help her move forward.\n\nAsked why she chose the name, she said: \"I don't know. It just made me laugh.\"\n\nThe mum-of-two said she is still coming to terms with \"new best friend\" Derek.\n\n\"He is very important; he saved my life,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking on the latest episode from her podcast Tea Talks, with co-host Sarah Thomson, she discussed work-life balance, balancing parenthood and finding happiness.\n\n\"Now I have a friend, Derek, with me all the time who is protecting me with his shield of armour,\" she said.\n\nSarah Ferguson was married to Prince Andrew for 10 years before they divorced in 1996. They continue to share a home at Royal Lodge - a property owned by the Crown Estate at Windsor Great Park.\n\nThey have two daughters - Princess Beatrice, 34, and Princess Eugenie, 33 - and three grandchildren.\n\nThe duchess said she is feeling much better a few weeks on from surgery and will start travelling again soon.\n\nShe has urged other people to take advantage of cancer screening programmes.\n\nReferring to her breast that underwent surgery, she said: \"I think it's balancing the fact I've got a new model, a new wheel and new engine.\"\n\nJoking about her \"perky\" friend on the left-hand side of her chest, she said: \"Poor Eric on the right is feeling rather sad because he is not as perky.\"\n\nShe praised the work of the surgeons, nurses, doctors and everybody at King Edward VII hospital, a private clinic in central London that previously treated the late Queen Elizabeth II and other senior royals.\n\nThe podcast also covered a range of other positive subjects - such as leading by example, taking responsibility for one's actions, and setting boundaries.\n\nThe duchess also talked about the importance of hobbies, which she said were a form of escapism for her as a child. She said she loved collecting stamps when she was little.\n\nThe duchess revealed that as an adult she still has the collecting bug but nowadays it is fountain pens and watches that she favours.\n\nOn achieving balance, the duchess said: \"its important to step back, see the big picture and not to sweat the small things.\"\n\nQuoting American actor Sidney Poitier's documentary, she said: \"Every day I promise to be a better person,\" emphasising it is important to be more kind, grateful and listen more.", "The fines imposed on illegal logging have increased since President Lula came into office\n\nThe rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon has dropped to its lowest in six years, space agency data suggests.\n\nIn July of this year, 500 sq km (193 sq miles) of rainforest were cleared in Brazil - 66% less than in July of last year, national space agency Inpe said.\n\nThe drop is a welcome boost for the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who pledged to end deforestation by 2030 when he took office in January.\n\nRainforest destruction had surged under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.\n\nThe far-right leader promoted mining in indigenous lands in the Amazon and forest clearances soared at the same time as resources to protect the forest were cut.\n\nThe Amazon rainforest is a crucial buffer in the global fight against climate change and 60% of it is located in Brazil.\n\nLula came to power promising to halt the damage done during Mr Bolsonaro's four-year term and the figures released by the satellite agency show that things are improving.\n\nInpe said that the area of forest cut down in the first seven months of 2023 was smaller than that razed in the same period in 2022.\n\nThe drop is substantial and makes for an impressive turnaround just days before an Amazon summit with leaders from countries that share the world's largest rainforest.\n\nOn Wednesday, Lula told the BBC that the meeting next week was something the whole world should watch.\n\nHe argued that all too often, promises made at global summits were not met, but he insisted that \"where there's a will, there's a way\".\n\nData released by Inpe also shows that the authorities are going after those engaging in illegal logging.\n\nThe fines imposed in the first seven months of this year have topped $400m (£315m), a rise of almost 150%.\n\nReversing the damage done in the Amazon remains challenging but the deforestation drop announced by Inpe on Thursday will send a reassuring message to the world that progress has been made in a relatively short time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate activist: The Earth tells us we have no more time", "A man can be seen grabbing several smart speakers off a shop shelf, loading them into a bin bag and walking off in a brazen shoplifting attempt caught on CCTV.\n\nJohn Lewis has given its staff bodycams and \"de-escalation\" training to defuse tensions when shoppers react angrily.\n\nIt comes as violence towards shop staff in Cardiff went up by 30%, according to the Welsh Retail Consortium, while shoplifting spiked by 68%.\n\nThe Home Office said it had invested a record amount into policing but retailers have demanded tougher laws.", "Trump’s allies have been out in force, alleging the charges against the former president are politically motivated “election interference”.\n\nIt may seem ironic – given that Trump himself is being charged with illegally interfering with the 2020 vote – but his fans aren’t merely protesting his innocence. They’re trying to turn the tables and pointing fingers at the Biden administration.\n\nSpeaking outside the court just before today’s hearing, Trump's attorney Alina Habba rattled off a timeline of news events and allegations against President Biden, implying a vast conspiracy of tit-for-tat legal action guided from the top.\n\n“This is election interference at its finest against the leading candidate right now for president,” she said.\n\n“President Trump is under siege in a way that we have never seen before.”\n\nThe theme was quickly picked up by Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress – including Ohio Senator JD Vance and Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene both of whom repeated the “election interference” phrase on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nIt seems that a big part of the former president’s strategy – at least in public, if not in court – will be to skirt around the substance of the charges at hand and instead engage in whataboutery.", "Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Niger's capital, Niamey, in support of last week's military coup.\n\nThey condemned West African countries who have imposed sanctions on the country, and also demanded the departure of foreign troops.\n\nBoth US and France have military bases in the country to help fight Islamist militants.\n\nA similar protest on Sunday led to attacks on the French embassy but Thursday's demonstration was peaceful.\n\nFrance, the former colonial power in Niger, had called on the military leader to ensure there was no repeat.\n\nPrevious demonstrations had seen some chanting \"Long live Russia\", \"Long live Putin\", and \"Down with France\" - the leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has reportedly described the coup as a triumph.\n\nBut organisers had asked people not to wave Russian flags this time, and there were far fewer on display compared to Sunday. People had Nigerien flags instead.\n\nIt isn't clear if this was because Russia has issued a statement calling for the return to power of the ousted president, Mohamed Bazoum, and negotiations, or because Thursday is Niger's Independence Day.\n\nMr Bazoum, the first democratically elected president to succeed another in Niger, was detained by his own guards last week.\n\nCorrespondents in the country say there are also many people who are opposed to the coup.\n\nThe Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), a trade bloc of 15 West African countries, has imposed financial and trade sanctions. It has also threatened to use force if President Bazoum is not reinstated by Sunday.\n\nSenegal on Thursday said it would send troops if the bloc decided on military intervention. Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall said there had been one \"coup too many\" in the region. The army has seized power in neighbouring Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea in recent years.\n\n\"Senegalese soldiers, for all these reasons, will go there,\" she said.\n\nNiger's electricity company says that neighbouring Nigeria has cut electricity supplies, leading to widespread power cuts, although this has not been confirmed by Nigeria.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, coup leader Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani warned against \"any interference in the internal affairs\" of the country.\n\nGen Tchiani, a former chief of the presidential guard to Mr Bazoum, seized power on 26 July.\n\nIn a televised address on Wednesday, Gen Tchiani said the military regime rejected the Ecowas \"sanctions as a whole and refuses to give in to any threat, wherever it comes from\".\n\nHe labelled the sanctions \"cynical and iniquitous\" and said they were intended to \"humiliate\" Niger's security forces and make the country \"ungovernable\".\n\nHundreds of foreign nationals have been evacuated from Niger. The US has ordered a partial evacuation of its embassy and more than 1,000 French and Europeans have been flown out of the country.", "Craig Crouch and Gemma Barton referred to Jacob as \"the devil\" in one text message\n\nThe stepfather of a 10-month-old baby who endured a \"culture of cruelty\" has been found guilty of his murder.\n\nJacob Crouch suffered at least 39 rib fractures, and died from a \"vicious assault\" at the hands of Craig Crouch, Derby Crown Court heard.\n\nJacob died \"in his cot, alone\" on 30 December 2020 at home near Swadlincote, Derbyshire, having suffered a \"living hell\".\n\nHis mother Gemma Barton has been cleared of murder.\n\nHowever, she was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nThe pair will be sentenced at the same court on Friday.\n\nCraig Crouch was convicted of murder while co-accused Gemma Barton was acquitted of murder but found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors said Jacob's injuries had been caused by him being kicked or stamped on.\n\nThey said neither parent gave him the care he \"needed or deserved\" or sought medical attention for him.\n\nThe seven-week trial had heard Barton, 33, met Crouch, 39, while four months pregnant with Jacob and they became \"very close, very quickly\", calling Jacob \"our little boy\" after only a month.\n\nJacob was born healthy on 17 February 2020, with Crouch named as his father on the birth certificate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut prosecutor Mary Prior KC said he was assaulted \"causing bruising on a regular basis for at least six months\" from the age of just four months, and was referred to as \"the devil\" in one text message.\n\nThe jury heard Jacob had suffered \"repeated physical abuse\" in the days before he died in Linton.\n\nForklift truck operator Crouch, of Donisthorpe Lane, Moira, near Swadlincote, was also convicted of three counts of child cruelty.\n\nHe had given evidence to say Jacob's injuries had nothing to do with him.\n\nBarton, of Ray Street, Heanor, Derbyshire, was also cleared of an alternative charge of manslaughter, and two counts of child cruelty, but was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child and a third count of child cruelty.\n\nShe had also denied harming Jacob and, when asked by prosecutors who had caused his injuries, said: \"It was not me, so that leaves Craig.\"\n\nBoth Crouch and Barton were asked how Jacob was injured by police and suggested he may have hurt himself.\n\nHowever, experts told the court was \"not remotely\" possible that the injuries could have been self-inflicted.\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Michael Biggs gave evidence to say he would expect to see injuries such as Jacob's in car crash victims or those who had suffered a multi-storey fall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter the verdict, Det Insp Paul Bullock, of the East Midlands Special Operations Regional Policing Unit, said: \"Jacob Crouch was born into a culture of cruelty where both of the people he should have been able to trust above any other allowed him to be subjected to assault after assault.\n\n\"Heartbreakingly, for much of Jacob's short life he would have been in significant pain as a result of the serious and repeated assaults.\"\n\n\"It is clear from the evidence found on Gemma Barton and Craig Crouch's phones, through text messages, videos and audio recordings, that they were equally responsible for the culture of cruelty inflicted on baby Jacob.\n\n\"As a father I cannot comprehend what happened behind closed doors and my thought remain with Jacob's wider family who have been left devastated by his death.\n\n\"I hope today's verdict brings with it a degree of closure for them and begins the process of them being able to grieve for Jacob and remember the happier times with a much-loved child.\"\n\nFollowing the case, a spokesperson for the Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (DDSCP) said: \"We extend our sympathies to all those affected by the tragic death of Jacob.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said agencies had supported police in reviewing the circumstances of Jacob's death and that policy and training changes had already been made to create new \"Keeping Babies Safe\" guidance.\n\nThe DDSCP said there were no plans to publish the findings of the review.\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"The DDSCP is required to share the review report with the National Safeguarding Review Panel who agreed with the decision of the partnership not to initiate a local child safeguarding practice review into this case.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jenia said farewell to his family in Lviv railway station shortly after the Russian invasion\n\nIn early 2022, as war was breaking out, a Ukrainian family said a painful goodbye to their father amid chaotic scenes at Lviv railway station. Almost 18 months later, Fergal Keane travelled with them as they prepared to come back together.\n\nThe children are struggling to sleep. For at least the last week, 10-year-old Anna has been asking her mother Oksana how many days to departure.\n\nShe hops from one leg to the other. Then disappears to her bedroom to find a painting she has done at school. It is a rendering of their little flat here in Surrey, up a quiet cul-de-sac in the shade of tall trees, and she will present it to her father when they meet.\n\nThere is snow falling in the foreground. It is an image of winter, like the country she left behind 18 months ago.\n\nBut they are going back. In just two days' time, she reminds me. Just two days.\n\nMaybe because he is four years older, growing into the role of the wise big brother, Ilya is more reserved in the joy of his anticipation.\n\nI ask him how he feels about seeing his father for the first time since March 2022 - the first time since they said farewell at Lviv railway station in the days after the Russian invasion.\n\n\"I'm so happy. Happy.\" He repeats himself as if he had been hoarding the word for this moment on the eve of departure. Now that they were actually returning it could fly free from his lips.\n\nJenia, Oksana and their children before the war\n\nFirst they will go to Krakow in Poland, then by road to the border, and finally onto the train that will carry them across Ukraine to the reunion with Jenia - the father and husband they have missed so much every day and night of exile.\n\nOksana says she cannot believe they will see him soon. \"It's like a dream.\" Then she asks herself a question, and answers all at once: \"Can I believe it? Yes!\"\n\nThe story of exile from Ukraine begins in the darkness of 24 February 2022, when the first Russian artillery shells began to land in the Kharkiv suburb of Saltivka. The couple had been watching the news about a troop build-up just over the border, but like so many Ukrainians, Oksana and Jenia wanted to protect their children from the fear of war.\n\nThen came the blasts. The rattling of windowpanes. The news of the first deaths. The long queues forming outside food stores and petrol stations.\n\nBy night they obeyed the authorities' order to observe a blackout. \"We gathered with the children in a little space where no light could be seen from outside and we played board games,\" Oksana recalls.\n\nBut war is the ultimate purveyor of cruel choices. Staying at home meant risking death under the shelling or direct assault by Russian troops. In those days of late February and early March last year, nobody - no leader in Ukraine or abroad, no journalist or security expert - knew if the Russians would be stopped.\n\nLeaving for safety in the West meant separating the family. Men between 18 and 60 - those considered of fighting age - were forbidden from going.\n\nJenia remained in Ukraine while his family sought refuge in the UK\n\nJenia would have to stay and Oksana would go to Poland with the children. She had an aunt living in England but, at the time, that seemed a journey too far from Jenia.\n\nHe went with them as far as Lviv station, a journey of 24 hours from Kharkiv, and into the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War Two.\n\n\"I will never forget the journey,\" Oksana says. \"The small children and babies sat on tables and we stood. So many people crowded together. We had no idea where we were going to finally end up.\n\n\"The only thing was to get to Poland. And Jenia and me knew that at Lviv we would have to say goodbye.\"\n\nAround the clock, tens of thousands of refugees poured into Lviv railway station seeking an escape route to the West. Within a month, a quarter of all Ukrainians would flee their homes. Ninety per cent of those who went abroad were women and children.\n\nI saw them waiting to board trains. They were crammed into the underground corridors leading to the platforms. They lay in the hallways and dining room of the railway hotel - converted into a temporary camp for the displaced - and they huddled around braziers in the cold at the front of the building.\n\nIt all unfolded to a cacophony of departing trains, loud speaker announcements, crying children, and the intermittent wailing of the air raid sirens.\n\nThe events of those days will never leave her, Oksana says. The fear, the feeling that life as they had lived it - not rich, not poor, but contented - had been ripped away.\n\nIt was mid-morning when they said goodbye on Platform 5 of Lviv station. Jenia was allowed to go as far as the carriage door to say goodbye.\n\nHe hugged his children, his wife, then walked away for a few yards before turning around.\n\nOksana stood by the door opening and closing the palm of her hand in a gesture of farewell. Ilya and Anna stood behind their mother and so could not see the tears stream down her cheeks.\n\nBut Jenia could. He went back to the carriage door. It was closed and the glass was fogging up with condensation. Oksana and Anna placed a hand each against the window.\n\nJenia moved his palm from one to the other while keeping up a conversation on the telephone with Oksana. They had been together since she was 15 and he 16, lovers who had met on New Year's Day 1999, the last year of the old century.\n\nOutside the station, after his family had gone and as he was walking away, Jenia's phone rang. It was Ilya. The boy wanted to know if his father had a proper coat and hat. It was important that he keep warm.\n\n\"Calm down,\" Jenia said, \"everything will be fine.\" It was the kind of thing a father needed to say, even if he had no idea whether it would turn out to be true or not.\n\nThey went to Poland and were given short-term accommodation by the authorities. Then after four months, with the help of Oksana's aunt, they were allowed to come to the UK.\n\nOksana had learned English as a child - her mother had been an English teacher. In Surrey this enabled her to get a job in a local school teaching the children of recently arrived refugees. Ilya and Anna began to learn English and rapidly gained fluency.\n\nIn her own words Oksana became \"mother, father, teacher\" to her children. \"I found that I was strong,\" she says.\n\nOksana with Anna and Ilya in Surrey\n\nEvery few nights - unless the power is out in Kharkiv - there is a video call with Jenia. He rings one evening while I am visiting. There are questions about the children's schoolwork and he reassures Anna about her progress in maths. \"Bunny, don't worry… there are no people who know everything from the start.\"\n\nThe chat goes back and forth. From Jenia's side there is news of neighbours whose windows are being repaired after being shattered by Russian shelling. Ilya talks about his basketball training. The call ends with expressions of love on both sides.\n\nFor a few moments after the call a sadness settles on the little group. Oksana does not allow it to linger. A pot of tea is made. Cake and biscuits are passed around. There are smiles again.\n\nBy early summer 2023 a plan has been finalised. Oksana and the children will return to Ukraine for a holiday. She has been saving through the winter. Flight and train tickets have been bought.\n\nThey will meet Jenia in Dnipro, a town in south-eastern Ukraine he judges safer than Kharkiv.\n\nThe family will spend a month together in a rented apartment. Ilya wants to fish with his dad in the Dnipro River. Anna will give him her drawings. They will go for long walks in the evenings like before the war.\n\nThey board a train on the Polish-Ukrainian border on an afternoon of stifling heat.\n\nGone are the lines of refugees I saw here in the early days of the Russian invasion. There are about 100 people heading into Ukraine.\n\nDusk is settling over the fields as we move towards the frontier. Eventually a Ukrainian flag appears on a building to our left. \"Finally!\" exclaims Oksana and points it out to the children. Three hours later we enter Lviv and there is a short break while more passengers board for Dnipro.\n\nOksana and the children step out onto the platform where, 18 months before, they'd endured their heart-breaking farewell.\n\nGoing back is not only about seeing Jenia again. It is the reclaiming of a lost land, mile by mile, as the train moves east through the night. By early morning Oksana is up, combing Anna's hair and putting it into pigtails. Ilya is dressed and ready to disembark.\n\nThe end of the journey is an hour away. Then half an hour. Then counted down in increments of minutes: 15, 10, five.\n\nUntil the train slows and stops, and there is Jenia at the door of the carriage with a joy that has waited 18 months to express itself.\n\nAnna jumps into his arms with a little cry, wrapping her arms around his neck.\n\nThe family were reunited in Dnipro, south-eastern Ukraine\n\n\"Oh yo yo,\" Jenia calls out. He kisses his daughter's head.\n\nOksana has tears in her eyes but like Ilya she is smiling. The boy holds his father's hand.\n\n\"I can't believe it,\" Oksana says.\n\n\"Right now this is really hard for me,\" Jenia replies. \"It's really hard to comprehend.\"\n\nBefore the family leaves us, Oksana wants to say something to other Ukrainians who have been separated by the war: \"Love each other and take care of each other. Hold on to your love until the end.\"\n\nIn a month they will have to say goodbye again. But Jenia's words from Lviv station at the beginning of the war come back: everything will be fine.\n\nI realise they are more than simply words to this family. They are an enduring act of faith the war has not destroyed.", "A husband and wife cyber-crime team have pleaded guilty to trying to launder $4.5bn (£3.5bn) of Bitcoin that he had stolen in a hack in 2016.\n\nHeather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested last year in New York after police traced their riches back to the crypto heist.\n\nWhile evading police, Morgan masqueraded as a rapper and tech entrepreneur.\n\nAs part of a plea deal, Lichtenstein admitted he was behind the hack.\n\nThe couple both pleaded guilty to money laundering, but Morgan pleaded guilty to an additional count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.\n\nIn spite of attempting to cover up her crimes, Morgan published dozens of expletive-filled music videos and rap songs filmed in locations around New York, under the name Razzlekhan.\n\nIn her lyrics she called herself a \"bad-ass money maker\" and \"the crocodile of Wall Street\".\n\nIlya Lichtenstein kept meticulous records of how the couple were laundering the stolen Bitcoin\n\nIn articles published in Forbes, Morgan also claimed to be a successful tech businesswoman, calling herself an \"economist, serial entrepreneur, software investor and rapper\".\n\nBut while developing her rapping and tech persona, she and her computer programmer husband were attempting to cash out their fortune stolen from the crypto firm Bitfinex.\n\nThe couple now face prison sentences with Lichtenstein in line for a possible maximum 20 years in prison and Morgan a possible 10.\n\nAt the time of their arrest in February 2022, the stash of 119,000 Bitcoins was worth about $4.5bn - making it the US Department of Justice's largest single financial seizure in its history.\n\nWhen the hack was carried out, the Bitcoins were worth about $71m.\n\nHeather Morgan was a regular contributor to Forbes magazine as a tech entrepreneur\n\nCourt documents showed in detail how the couple cashed out millions of dollars of the Bitfinex Bitcoins into traditional money using sophisticated techniques to try to stay under the radar.\n\nThe successful police operation is the latest case to utilise tools able to analyse transactions on Bitcoin's public blockchain ledger.\n\nOne of the couple's key mistakes was shopping with Walmart supermarket vouchers paid for with the stolen funds.\n\nPolice used advanced techniques to track the stolen Bitcoin across the public records of transactions\n\n\"Police were able to link the Walmart gift cards back to some of the proceeds of the Bitfinex hack, which then opened up the further investigation,\" said Jonathan Levin, founder of cryptocurrency investigators Chainalysis which was involved in the investigation.\n\n\"Buying gift cards and moving between different exchanges and different cryptocurrency never actually created this sort of break in provenance that the couple intended,\" he said.\n\nWhen police raided the couple's Manhattan apartment, they found hollowed-out books created to conceal mobile phones.\n\nThey also discovered dozens of burner handsets, several USB sticks and $40,000 in cash.\n\nPolice say the couple tried to hide burner phones in their apartment\n\nPolice successfully decrypted a spreadsheet meticulously detailing the couple's intricate methods for laundering the stash, allowing them to recover nearly the full amount.\n\nIn court documents, prosecutors say they uncovered communication records that indicate Morgan and Lichtenstein were planning to flee the US for Russia - his country of birth.\n\nIf successful, they would have probably lived a billionaire lifestyle, safe from arrest by the US.\n\nWhen the hack happened, Bitfinex customers took an enforced \"haircut\", losing 36% of their assets held by the crypto exchange. By 2019, the company had reimbursed the victims, so now the Hong Kong-based firm and some customers who exchanged their losses for shares are in line for a windfall once the recovered Bitcoins are returned.", "The number of people heading out to the shops fell for the first July in 14 years as the UK grappled with one of the wettest months on record.\n\nOverall footfall was down by 0.3% in the first drop in July since 2009, said retail analysis firm Springboard.\n\nHigh Streets were hit hardest but shopping centres and retail parks got a boost in visitor numbers.\n\nAside from the rain, the rising cost of living and rail disruption were also behind the fall, Springboard said.\n\nIt warned that shoppers could continue to stay away even if the weather picked up.\n\n\"It is inevitable that consumers' attention will now turn towards planning for Christmas spending, which may well dampen footfall further in the latter part of the summer,\" said Springboard's Diane Wehrle.\n\nShoppers have been battling with one of the wettest Julys on record, according to provisional data.\n\nMs Wehrle said High Street footfall declined in part \"due to the rain, as shoppers tend to gravitate towards either the covered environments of shopping centres or retail parks as they are easier to access by car.\"\n\nShe added that High Streets in coastal towns were especially hard hit, with footfall dropping 4.6%, as the rain kept people away from beaches.\n\nMs Wehrle said July's figures also appeared to \"demonstrate the harsh reality of the impact of interest rate rises on consumers, combined with rain and a rail overtime ban\".\n\nThe Bank of England has been raising interest rates to cool down the economy amidst record rises in consumer costs.\n\nA rise in mortgage rates has begun to \"seep into people's finances\", she added, \"putting a serious squeeze on everyone\".\n\nThe Bank is tomorrow expected to raise interest rates for the 14th time since December 2021 in an effort to squeeze spending and slow price rises.\n\nBut the wet weather appears to have benefited other sectors, including cinemas which saw a spike in sales in July.\n\nVue Box Office revenue is up 36% on the same month in 2022, and 56% on June 2023.\n\nMuch of the gain was due to the success of the Barbie and Oppenheimer films but a spokesman from the cinema chain said the \"wet weather had undoubtedly played its part\".\n\nSylvie, assistant manager at Rio, an independent cinema in Hackney, London, said: \"When it's sunny in the UK everyone wants to be outside and so the rain is good for us\", adding that Barbie and Oppenheimer contributed to a \"big\" boost in visitors.\n\nPete Terry, managing director of Disco Bowl, which owns a chain of bowling alleys across the UK, including in Nottingham and Worcester, said: \"July was an excellent month for us. This time last year we were struggling with 40-degree heat, which meant no one wanted to go bowling, but this year that's all changed and we've had a much better July than I can remember. Rain is good for business.\"\n\nMeanwhile Jon Skelding, the owner of two indoor play centres in the West Midlands called Scallywags, told the BBC that July had been their busiest month since the first site opened 19 years ago.\n\n\"Customers have said the wet weather has been driving them inside,\" he said, with some reportedly making bookings online after checking the weather forecast for the week.\n\nWith admission ranging between £2.50 and £5.25 per child, he adds that he is conscious of parents' budgets being stretched when looking for weather-proof activities.\n\n\"We are trying to keep it affordable for parents because of the cost of living and summer holidays can be expensive as well - we are trying to be mindful,\" Mr Skelding added.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Do you have any questions about interest rates? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nHere are five suggestions for rainy-day activities during the summer holidays if you are looking to keep costs down:\n\n1. Visit a museum or gallery: There are lots of brilliant, free, attractions across the UK, with many activities aimed at children. Check out the newly-renovated National Portrait Gallery in London, the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, or St Fagan's National Museum of History in Cardiff.\n\n2. Watch a movie: Instead of venturing out, why not settle into the sofa with your favourite film? Many streaming services offer free trials if you're looking for something new.\n\n3. Board game fun: Dig out old games for some traditional fun.\n\n4. Indoor work-out: On YouTube and other video platforms, there are all kinds of work-outs available for free no matter your ability.\n\n5. Go to the library: Look up your local library and pay a visit. Many host activities such as craft sessions for kids too.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The woman said she was held in a cell inside the suspect's garage\n\nUS authorities are searching for other possible victims in at least 10 states after a woman escaped a makeshift concrete block cell in Oregon.\n\nThe woman reported that she had been kidnapped by a man posing as a police officer and was sexually assaulted before she managed to escape.\n\nPolice have arrested 29-year-old Negasi Zuberi in connection to the assault.\n\nThe suspect has lived in several states over the course of a decade and police fear he may have assaulted others.\n\n\"We are fortunate that this brave woman escaped and alerted authorities,\" special agent Stephanie Shark with the FBI Portland Field Office said.\n\nThey have linked him to additional sexual assaults in at least four states, according to the FBI.\n\nPolice in Klamath Falls, Oregon said they first made contact with the woman, who has not been named, in July.\n\nShe reported that she had been approached by Mr Zuberi on 15 July in Seattle for prostitution services. He was posing as an undercover police officer at the time, according to court records.\n\nThe suspect then handcuffed the woman and drove her 450 miles (724 km) away to Klamath Falls, where he lives.\n\nThere, the woman said she was sexually assaulted and locked in a makeshift cell that Mr Zuberi had constructed in his garage, made of concrete blocks and a metal door that could not be opened from the inside.\n\nMr Zuberi later left that day, and she was able to break down the door and escape. The woman then flagged a passing motorist who called 911 and took her to hospital.\n\nPolice say they searched Mr Zuberi's home and found the makeshift cell.\n\nThey traced his whereabouts to Reno, Nevada, where police officers spotted him with his wife and children. He was arrested and taken into custody.\n\nMr Zuberi, who also went by the name Sakima, has lived in 10 states over the last 10 years, including in California, New York and Florida, and the FBI believes there may be more victims.\n\nThe federal police agency has accused Mr Zuberi of targeting sex workers or roommates in those states, often spiking their drinks or pretending to be a police officer before assaulting them.\n\nThey have appealed for any other possible victims to come forward.", "Last updated on .From the section The Hundred\n\nPresenter Chris Hughes has been told by the BBC a comment he made to Australian all-rounder Maitlan Brown during The Hundred was \"not appropriate\".\n\nHughes interviewed Brown, 26, pitchside during BBC Two's coverage of Southern Braves' win over Trent Rockets.\n\nAfter Brown said she had been to see the Barbie movie with her Braves team-mates, Hughes replied: \"You're a little Barbie yourself with your blue eyes.\"\n\nHughes, who first found fame on Love Island, added: \"She's blushing now.\"\n\nThe comments were criticised on social media.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the BBC said: \"We have spoken to Chris and explained that his comment was not appropriate.\"\n\nBrown has played for the Australia A team and has received call-ups to the full Australia squad.\n\nIn addition to presenting coverage of The Hundred, Hughes has also worked on ITV's horse racing programmes.\n• None The face you know, the story you don't: The life and legacy of Marilyn Monroe from a modern perspective", "A future pandemic and extreme weather caused by climate change are among the key risks facing the UK, according to a new government register.\n\nIt has been published to help the UK prepare for \"worst-case scenarios\" of some of the most serious threats.\n\nOfficials say the list, first published in 2008, shares some previously classified information and is the most transparent ever.\n\nIt includes risks posed by advances in artificial intelligence (AI) systems.\n\nThe National Risk Register, produced by the Cabinet Office, warns these could result in chronically harmful misinformation and disinformation, or reduce the UK's economic competitiveness.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, who heads the Cabinet Office, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"This isn't supposed to be alarmist, this is about reasonable worst-cased scenarios, so that businesses, organisations from the Red Cross to local government can plan accordingly.\"\n\nThe impact of each risk has been assessed according to factors such as the potential number of lives lost and the financial cost, while the likelihood of each risk has been determined using extensive data modelling and expert analysis.\n\nThe register measures likelihood on a scale of one to five with an above 25% chance the highest score, but says this is because \"all risks\" considered \"are relatively low likelihood events\".\n\nFor \"non-malicious risks\" such as weather events or accidents, the likelihood is assessed over a period of five years, while for \"malicious risks\" such as terrorist attacks, the time period is two years.\n\nThe register, the previous version of which was published in December 2020, during the Covid pandemic, puts the chance of a future pandemic at between 5% and 25%, and concludes this would be \"catastrophic\".\n\nImpact assessments for weather events such as heatwaves and storms range from \"significant\" to \"moderate\" with likelihoods of between 1% and 25%.\n\nClimate change has already altered the risk of certain types of extreme weather in the UK, with evidence suggesting that the frequency and intensity of storms is likely to increase, the register says.\n\nIn the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the potential threat of disruption to global energy supplies is also included as one of the newly publicly-listed risks.\n\nHowever, its likelihood and impact are said to be relatively low, having been assessed at between 0.2% and 1% and \"moderate\" respectively.\n\nThe malicious use of drones is another potential threat to be made public in the latest list, though it carries similarly low likelihood and impact ratings.\n\nRisks to undersea transatlantic telecommunications cables used for internet and communications are also among 89 threats listed as having a potentially significant impact on the UK's safety, security or critical systems.\n\nThe new register of risks is grouped into nine categories:\n\nIn considering risks, the register takes recent high-profile events into account.\n\nFor example, it cites the murder of Conservative MP Sir David Amess in 2021 in its assessment of the likelihood of the assassination of a public figure, which it puts at more than 25%.\n\nMr Dowden will visit energy supplier SSE's Able Seaton Port facility in Hartlepool to launch the new list.\n\nThe renewables firm is overseeing the installation of the first 853ft-high (260m) wind turbines at Dogger Bank Wind Farm.\n\nMr Dowden said: \"This is the most comprehensive risk assessment we've ever published, so that government and our partners can put robust plans in place and be ready for anything.\n\n\"One of those rising risks is energy security. We've installed the first turbine at the future world's largest offshore wind farm, which will provide secure, low-cost and clean energy for the British people - enabling us to stand up to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's energy ransom.\"", "GP practices in England will be able to order a host of checks directly to help speed up the diagnosis of a range of heart and respiratory conditions.\n\nTraditionally GPs refer to specialists when conditions like heart failure and lung problems are suspected.\n\nBut the ability to direct refer, which was rolled out for cancer last year, is now being extended.\n\nGPs welcomed the move, but questioned whether there was sufficient testing capacity to cope.\n\nCurrently a quarter of people are waiting longer than six weeks for a diagnostic test - before the pandemic only 3-4% were.\n\nNHS England said the diagnostic testing capacity was increasing with the rollout of one-stop community testing centres to supplement tests available in hospitals.\n\nAnd it said the move would also free up the time of hospital doctors to focus on tackling the backlog in treatment.\n\nAlongside heart failure, the increased access to testing is aimed at speeding up diagnosis for conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which causes breathing problems.\n\nDr Vin Diwakar, medical director for secondary care and transformation at NHS England, said: \"We know how important it is to diagnose people with conditions like these early so they can get the treatment they need to manage their condition well and to prevent more serious conditions or illness from developing.\"\n\nGPs in some areas can already order diagnostic tests for these conditions directly, but NHS England said this marked the start of the national rollout.\n\nRoyal College of GPs chair Prof Kamila Hawthorne said: \"Any initiative to accelerate the process by which patients can be diagnosed and begin to receive any necessary treatment should be seen as positive.\"\n\nShe said GPs had \"long been calling\" for better access to diagnostic tests.\n\nBut she added: \"For this initiative to be successful, it is vital that diagnostic capacity - both in terms of testing and people to conduct and interpret tests - is sufficient.\"\n\nJohn Maingay, of the British Heart Foundation, also said access to testing was an issue along with waits when diagnosed.\n\n\"Many people are facing extremely long waits for heart care in England,\" he added.", "A police officer in Florida published dashcam footage of pulling over a 16-year-old driving his dad's car at 132mph (212km/h). The teen was clocked going double the posted speed limit.", "A supporter of the coup wears a hat in the colours of the Russian flag during a rally in the capital on Thursday\n\nNiger's ousted leader has urged the US and \"entire international community\" to help \"restore... constitutional order\" after last week's coup.\n\nIn an opinion piece in the Washington Post, President Mohamed Bazoum said he was writing \"as a hostage\".\n\nHe also warned that the region could fall further under Russian influence, via the Wagner Group which already operates in neighbouring countries.\n\nDefence chiefs from the region finished a three-day meeting in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, on Friday saying they had drawn up a detailed plan for the use of force for leaders from the regional bloc Ecowas to consider.\n\n\"All the elements that will go into any eventual intervention have been worked out here, including the resources needed, the how and when we are going deploy the force,\" Abdel-Fatau Musah, Ecowas commissioner for political affairs, peace and security said.\n\nNigeria's President Bola Tinubu on Friday wrote to lawmakers seeking their support for the sanctions and military action. His letter included a reference to a \"military build-up and deployment of personnel\".\n\nOn Thursday, the coup leaders announced they were withdrawing the country's ambassadors from France, the US, Nigeria and Togo.\n\nIn a statement read out on national television, they said the functions of the four ambassadors had been \"terminated\".\n\nThe junta also announced it was cutting bilateral military ties with former colonial power France. The country currently has around 1,500 troops in Niger and has been part of a force combating Islamist militancy.\n\nFrance has responded by saying that only \"legitimate\" governments could alter agreements.\n\nEcowas has imposed sanctions and given the junta until the end of the weekend to reinstate the president or face the possibility of military intervention.\n\nThe regional bloc is also trying to pursue a diplomatic solution, but a delegation that arrived in Niger on Thursday left after just a few hours without any sign of progress.\n\nNiger is a significant uranium producer - a fuel that is vital for nuclear power - and under Mr Bazoum was a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa's Sahel region.\n\nWhere is Niger? It's a vast country in West Africa, and one of the poorest countries in the world, but has been a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants.\n\nWhy was there a coup? The military said it seized power because of insecurity and the economic situation, but there have been suggestions it came after reports the coup leader was about to be sacked.\n\nWhat next? It's feared the military may seek to switch allegiance to Russia and close French and US bases there; for their part, Niger's neighbours have threatened to use force to end the coup.\n\nIn his newspaper article, Mr Bazoum warned the coup, if it succeeded, would have \"devastating consequences for our country, our region and the entire world\".\n\n\"Fighting for our shared values, including democratic pluralism and respect for the rule of law, is the only way to make sustainable progress against poverty and terrorism,\" Mr Bazoum wrote.\n\n\"The Nigerien people will never forget your support at this pivotal moment in our history.\"\n\nMr Bazoum also warned of the coup leaders' links to Russian mercenary group Wagner, which operates elsewhere in the region and has been seen by many as exercising a malign influence in Niger.\n\n\"The entire central Sahel region could fall to Russian influence via the Wagner group, whose brutal terrorism has been on full display in Ukraine,\" wrote Mr Bazoum.\n\nMany supporters of the coup in Niger have been chanting pro-Russian slogans and wearing the colours of the Russian flag.\n\nOn Thursday, thousands of people took to the streets of Niger's capital, Niamey, in a peaceful demonstration backing the coup and criticising other West African countries for imposing financial and trade sanctions on Niger.\n\nThere is no indication that Wagner was involved in the overthrow of Mr Bazoum, according to the US - but Wagner's leader has reportedly described the coup as a triumph. The Russian government, however, has called for the ousted president to be returned to power but stressed this should be done peacefully.\n\nThe military takeover has also been internationally condemned, including by the EU, UN and the US.\n\nEarlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Mr Bazoum on the phone, with the US saying afterwards it was committed to the restoration of Niger's democratically elected government.\n\nMr Bazoum, the first democratically elected president to succeed another in Niger, was detained by his own guards last week. Coup leader Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani has been installed as head of state.\n\nNiger is a key part of the African region known as the Sahel, an area plagued by jihadists and beset by military regimes. In recent years it had been seen as an example of relative stability, while its neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso succumbed to military coups.\n\nIt hosts both French and US military bases which are used to fight Islamist insurgents.\n\nPresident Bazoum's government has been a partner to European countries trying to stop the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea, agreeing to take back hundreds of migrants from detention centres in Libya. He has also cracked down on human traffickers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Niger coup: More trouble for the Sahel region?\n• None Africa Daily podcast: What’s behind the coup in Niger?", "Participants in the 25th World Scout Jamboree arrive at a camping site in Buan\n\nHundreds of participants at the 25th World Scout Jamboree in Buan, South Korea have been hit by heat exhaustion.\n\nSome 400 cases were reported on the first night of the event on Tuesday, with many treated at a makeshift hospital at the campsite.\n\nTemperatures have hit 35C (95F) in North Jeolla province, where the event is being held, amid a heatwave warning.\n\nScouts from the US, Bangladesh and the UK have been affected, local media is reporting.\n\nThe UK contingent is expected to be the largest in South Korea, numbering about 4,500 of the total 43,000 in attendance.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said the situation was being closely monitored.\n\n\"Consular officials are on site to support attendees as planned and in line with standard practice for such events,\" a spokesperson for the Foreign Office added.\n\n\"We are in regular contact with both Scouts UK and the relevant Korean authorities to ensure the safety of British nationals.\"\n\nScouts UK has been approached for comment.\n\nA fire service official told Reuters that most of the scouts who required medical attention experienced mild symptoms such as headaches, dizziness and nausea.\n\nThe official added that most have since returned to their campsites.\n\nThe jamboree, sometimes called the world's largest youth camp, kicked off on Tuesday.\n\nWhile participants are typically aged from 14 to 18, the event also draws many adults such as celebrity survivalist Bear Grylls, 49, who is the UK's Chief Scout.\n\nSouth Korea's interior minister Lee Sang-min on Thursday urged jamboree organisers to adjust their programmes according to the number and severity of cases.\n\nChoi Chang-haeng, secretary general of the event's organising committee, told a press conference on Thursday that 39 people were still being treated at medical institutions.\n\nHe added that additional medical personnel have been deployed at the event, and cooling devices were on-site to ensure the event can proceed smoothly.\n\nParts of South Korea have been roasting in an unusually hot summer.\n\nEarlier this week, Seoul authorities raised its hot weather warning to the highest level for the first time in four years, as temperatures hovered between 33C and 38C.\n\nThe scorching heat is estimated to have killed at least 16 people across the country, more than doubling the record of seven during the same period last year.\n\nAre you or your relative at the World Scout Jamboree? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of Nicholas Rossi, the US fugitive who ‘faked his own death’ (Video by Morgan Spence, Graham Fraser and David MacNicol)\n\nAn American fugitive who faked his own death can be extradited from Scotland to his homeland, a sheriff has ruled.\n\nNicholas Rossi, who claims to be Arthur Knight and a victim of mistaken identity, is wanted in Utah to face rape charges.\n\nSheriff Norman McFadyen said Rossi was \"as dishonest and deceitful as he is evasive and manipulative\".\n\nThe final decision on his extradition now rests with Scottish ministers.\n\nRossi, 35, was being treated for Covid-19 when he was arrested at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow on 13 December 2021.\n\nBBC Scotland News later established he was a registered sex offender in the US and spoke to his ex-wife Kathryn Heckendorn, who said she was physically and psychologically abused during their seven-month marriage.\n\nOn Wednesday he appeared before Edinburgh Sheriff Court via videolink to learn the outcome of the extradition case.\n\nEarlier in the morning the fugitive sat slumped in his wheelchair before the camera in Edinburgh's Saughton Prison with his face hidden.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheriff Norman McFadyen said Nicholas Rossi was \"as dishonest and deceitful as he is evasive and manipulative\".\n\nBut as Mungo Bovey KC was asking for his client to be excused, Rossi raised his head and shouted at the sheriff, calling him a \"disgrace to justice\".\n\nAt that point the clerk cut the video connection.\n\nWhen the court reconvened Sheriff McFadyen said Rossi's character had \"undoubtedly complicated and extended what is ultimately a straightforward case\".\n\nHe also highlighted unreliable testimony from the fugitive, ranging from the length of time he had been in a wheelchair to his claim that he couldn't lift his hands above his head.\n\nRossi, pictured during a previous hearing, claims to be Arthur Knight and a victim of mistaken identity\n\nThe sheriff concluded that there was no legal barrier to extradition.\n\nHe added: \"It follows that I must send the case of the requested person Nicholas Rossi to the Scottish ministers for their decision whether he is to be extradited.\"\n\nLast November Sheriff McFadyen ruled that he was Nicholas Rossi and not Arthur Knight, as he had repeatedly claimed, with the bizarre story making headlines on both sides of the Atlantic.\n\nAuthorities in the US have said Rossi was known by several aliases, including Nicholas Alahverdian.\n\nHe was involved in local politics in the state of Rhode Island and was a critic of the state's child welfare system.\n\nRossi was supported in court by his wife Miranda Knight\n\nIn December 2019 he told media in his home state that he had late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma and had weeks to live.\n\nSeveral news outlets in Rhode Island reported that he had died in February 2020.\n\nA memorial posted online described him as a \"warrior that fought on the front lines for two decades\" for children's rights and said his ashes had been scattered at sea.\n\nBut less than two years later Rossi, who was the subject of an Interpol wanted notice, turned up on a hospital ward in Glasgow during the pandemic.\n\nIn March last year, as he awaited his extradition hearing, the fugitive was interviewed by BBC Scotland reporter Steven Godden in Glasgow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man who claims to be Arthur Knight denies he is Nicholas Rossi\n\nRossi, who was in a wheelchair and wearing an oxygen mask, maintained he was not Nicholas Rossi - and claimed to have never even been to America.\n\nBut in 2008 he was found guilty of sexual imposition and public indecency while a student at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.\n\nRossi also introduced his wife, Miranda Knight, during the interview and claimed the couple got married in Bristol in 2020.\n\nHe brought a pile of documents to BBC Scotland's Pacific Quay headquarters but said he had no birth certificate as he was adopted in Ireland before moving to London in his teens.\n\nBut last November a court in Edinburgh ruled that he was Rossi after hearing that his fingerprints and distinctive tattoos matched those of the fugitive.\n\nHe appeared in court in a wheelchair every day during the three-day identification hearing, and his accent changed several times while he was giving evidence.\n\nStaff at a Glasgow hospital recognised Rossi by the distinctive tattoos on his arms\n\nDespite the ruling Rossi maintained he was the victim of mistaken identity - and said he had been tattooed while he was lying unconscious in hospital in an attempt to frame him.\n\nHe returned to the city's Sheriff Court in June of this year for his extradition hearing.\n\nMr Bovey urged the court to refuse extradition of his client or adjourn proceedings to allow fuller investigation of Rossi's mental health.\n\nBut three medical witnesses said Rossi showed no signs of acute mental illness and a GP at Saughton also cast doubt on the state of his health in general.\n\nDr Barbara Mundweil told the court there was \"no reason\" for Rossi to be using an electric wheelchair and that his legs were \"strong and athletic\".\n\nShe also said she saw a video appearing to be of Rossi kicking open a door and kicking a prison officer in the face, despite using a manual wheelchair in prison.\n\nSheriff McFadyen had been due to deliver his ruling last month but the hearing was delayed after Rossi tested positive for Covid.\n\nMeanwhile, in a separate development, it emerged last year that Rossi was wanted by Essex Police for questioning over a rape allegation in the UK.\n\nWatch Now on BBC iPlayer: Unmasking A Fugitive - The story of Nicholas Rossi, the US fugitive who came to the UK with a new identity", "A buyer for Angela's cottage in north Powys pulled out just before exchanging the contract\n\n\"Being close to my son is really the only thing on my bucket list, I don't have anything else.\"\n\nAngela Ramsell, from Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys, has incurable blood cancer and wants to move to Chichester to be near her only child Charlie.\n\nBut unless she finds a buyer for her cottage, she could lose out on a new build in the West Sussex city.\n\nThe Bank of England has increased the interest rate to 5.25% from 5% to try to bring rising prices under control.\n\nRising mortgage rates have caused a big slowdown in the housing market in Wales, with latest figures showing the number of house sales falling by a quarter year-on-year.\n\nAngela said she did not have time to wait a few years for the housing market to stabilise, meaning \"the time I was hoping to spend with my son will be lost\" if she cannot sell and move.\n\n\"When I was diagnosed I was told I had five to 10 years. I've made 10 years so I could get 12 or 13,\" she said.\n\nThe 59-year-old has spent the summer visiting Charlie and is hopeful a new buyer for her cottage will emerge before the new build she has put a deposit on is ready in the autumn.\n\nA potential buyer pulling out hours before the deadline to exchange contracts was a \"big shock\", she said.\n\nAngela hopes to spend her final years living near her son\n\n\"I was hooked up to my infusion at the time so the timing couldn't have been worse, it meant I was back to square one.\n\n\"There's nothing wrong with my cottage, the location is fabulous. It's literally that the market is stagnant.\n\n\"So my biggest fear is that I won't get a buyer in time for the completion of the property that I want to buy.\"\n\nIt is hoped the treatment Angela is undergoing will give her some time in remission from the blood cancer - time she wants to spend with her son and Chichester is a five-hour drive from Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant.\n\nShe said: \"Not only is being close to my son paramount to my mental health, but also physically.\n\n\"I've been having nightmares. I have insomnia due to the stress and that affects my recovery.\"\n\n\"I am remaining positive,\" she added, \"but the whole housing market is a mess, I feel sorry for young people. At least I have a roof over my head, so I'm very grateful for that.\"\n\nAnyone struggling to meet mortgage payments are advised to contact their lender as part of the \"reach out\" campaign by the banking and finance industry - doing so will not affect your credit score.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More people than ever are choosing online devices like laptops, tablets and smartphones over television\n\nTraditional TV viewing in the UK has seen its sharpest ever decline over the past year, according to Ofcom.\n\nThe broadcasting watchdog's annual report into viewing and listening habits showed the proportion of people who tune in each week was down from 83% in 2021 to 79% in 2022.\n\nMedia Nations 2023, released on Thursday, suggested older audiences are also switching off at the fastest rate.\n\nBBC One continues to have the highest weekly reach of all TV channels (58%).\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"While long-term trends show traditional viewing and listening forms are declining over time, we are seeing record growth for our digital services with BBC iPlayer streams up 11% on last year, and BBC Sounds plays up 50% from the same period last year.\n\n\"So, while the way audiences are consuming content is changing the BBC is leading the response to this, making us well placed for the future.\"\n\nBBC One's figure is still 12 per cent lower than in 2017, as more people leave the telly turned off in favour of streaming shows online on other, more modern devices like laptops, tablets and smartphones.\n\nA similar decline, the report showed, is evident in the average time that viewers spend watching TV every day, down by 12 per cent from two hours 59 minutes in 2021, to two hours 38 minutes in 2022.\n\nAnd for the first time, there appears to be a \"significant decline\", it noted, in the average daily broadcast TV viewing among \"core\" older audiences (aged 65 years old or more).\n\nOlder viewers may now be more likely to take up streaming services alongside broadcast TV. Ofcom data suggests that the proportion of online over-64s using Disney+ increased from 7% in early 2022 to 12% in early 2023 although the figures for Netflix (43%) and Amazon Prime Video (37%) were stable compared with 2022.\n\nThe overall picture is that take-up of such services appears to be plateauing although the use of video-on-demand services provided by traditional broadcasters continues to grow. ITVX accounted for 10% of ITV's total viewing in the first half of 2023, up from 7% across 2022. BBC iPlayer rose from 14% of the BBC's total viewing to 18% during the same time period.\n\nAt the other end of the age spectrum, children and young adults' average daily broadcast viewing has fallen by a significant, if not surprising, 73% since 2012.\n\nTeens and young adults spent an hour a day on the social media platform TikTok, consuming \"snackable\" short-form content.\n\nOfcom said the UK's media diet was now more \"diverse and fragmented than ever\".\n\nOne of its directors of research, Yih-Choung Teh, stressed today's audiences have \"an 'all-you-can-eat' buffet of broadcasting and online content to choose from\", adding that \"there's more competition for our attention than ever\".\n\n\"Our traditional broadcasters are seeing steep declines in viewing to their scheduled, live programmes - including among typically loyal older audiences - and soaps and news programmes don't have the mass-audience pulling power they once had,\" he said.\n\n\"But despite this, public service broadcasters are still unrivalled in bringing the nation together at important cultural and sporting moments, while their on-demand players are seeing positive growth as they digitalise their services to meet audience needs.\"\n\nMembers of the public gather to watch large screen live BBC TV coverage of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Truro Cathedral\n\nAlso notable in the report is the fact that the number of TV programmes pulling in four million viewers or more has halved since 2014.\n\nThat said, public service broadcasters - such as the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 - still dominated the most-watched lists due to their coverage of \"valued national TV moments\".\n\nA spokesman for Broadcast 2040+, which campaigns for broadcast TV and radio to be protected, said: \"These services are an important safety net for millions of people who do not have access to high speed internet or cannot afford expensive streaming subscriptions.\n\n\"The choice of streaming is great if you have access to this plethora of services and can afford them - but millions don't and can't. That is why it is critical broadcast services are protected in Britain as an affordable alternative to 2040 and beyond.\"\n\nEngland's World Cup defeat was the most viewed programme of the year\n\nIt was also a tough year financially for the broadcast industry. For channels which rely primarily on income from advertising, the downturn in the UK economy in the second half of 2022 saw them face revenue declines. The likes of ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 collectively generated £97m less than in 2021.\n\nIn fact, spending on all genres across TV fell by 5%, except for news that is, with newly-launched channels such at Talk TV and GB News contributing to news programming investment reaching its highest levels at £189m in 2022, up by 42% on the previous high of £134m in 2021.\n\nUnlike its audio-visual TV cousin, radio continued to prove popular with 88% of people tuning in for an average of 20 hours each week across various formats.\n\nCommercial radio took a 51.4% share of the audience in the first quarter of this year, moving it five percentage points ahead of the BBC.\n\nBut people under the age of 35 are now more likely to stream music than listen live.\n\nThe report also found that one in five adults listened to a podcast every week, with the medium being particularly popular with listeners aged 25-44, while younger people aged 15-25 appear to be losing interest.\n\nUK consumers spent almost £2bn on music in 2022, with subscriptions to online music services like Spotify and Apple Music accounting for 83% of the total.\n\nThe Ofcom report was published on Thursday, the same day as the radio listening figures, which revealed that Radio 2 has lost a million listeners following the exit of Ken Bruce for Greatest Hits Radio.\n\nThis new data is yet more evidence the habit of sitting down and seeing \"what's on the telly\" is in long term decline. Ten years ago, the average evening audience sitting down to watch the evening schedule at around 9pm was about 20 to 24 million people. These days, on a summer Saturday, the number is getting close to half of that.\n\nAnd it could have been much worse, what has saved TV is the loyalty of its older viewers. The schedules have increasingly dumped anything aimed younger people and doubled down on old reliables.\n\nOutside the big networks the top shows are often repeats of Heartbeat or Last of the Summer Wine. Bargain Hunt is a ratings success but when you look at its 1.6 million regular viewers, it often shows that the number of 16 to 34 year olds tuning in is zero. (Or rather a number too low to register). Love Island is still a youth ratings winner but has been recently dipping under three million viewers.\n\nThe biggest shows on British television are for the most part long-established old friends. I'm a Celebrity is 20 years old. Strictly Come Dancing is only a year younger. The two biggest regular weekly shows in the UK are the Antiques Roadshow and Countryfile, both are more than 30 years old.\n\nOf the 4.3 million watching Antiques Roadshow in June, 4.2 million were over 35. The most reliable old faithful, Coronation Street, is eligible for a free bus pass and while it still draws around 5 million viewers, it's a fraction of what it used to pull.\n\nSo, the news that older viewers may now be increasingly venturing away from their old habits is extra worrying for the traditional broadcasters and the challenge is multipronged.\n\nThe streamers have more money, YouTube has more variety and TikTok has more laughs. Traditional TV is increasingly being reduced to news, quizzes, soaps and events. Its central place in daily life is in rapid decline.", "UK homeware retailer Wilko has warned that it is on the brink of collapse, putting some 12,000 jobs at risk.\n\nThe privately owned company said it had filed a \"notice of intention\" to appoint administrators after failing to find enough emergency investment.\n\nWilko, which has 400 UK stores across the UK, is well-known for its affordable everyday items.\n\nChief executive Mark Jackson said it would continue to talk with interested parties about options for the business.\n\nHe said the company was left with \"no choice but to take this action\", but hopes to find a solution as quickly as possible to \"preserve the business\".\n\nWilko did not confirm in the announcement on Thursday whether or not any jobs would be affected.\n\nAndy Prendergast, national secretary at the GMB union, said: \"This is extremely concerning but we remain hopeful that a buyer can be found.\n\n\"Wilko's staff deserve reassurance that their jobs are safe. We hope this is the number one priority going forward.\"\n\nWilko added that it had received \"significant interest\" from investors and some offers, but none of them would have provided enough cash within the time needed.\n\nRising interest rates, higher energy costs and squeezed consumer spending have all been weighing on retailers.\n\nShops including furniture retailer Made.com and clothing group Joules collapsed into administration last year, although both were offered rescue deals by High Street giant Next.\n\nBut Wilko's boss said on Thursday that the company, which has an annual turnover of about £1.2bn, had a \"robust turnaround plan\" in place.\n\nThe discount chain has been struggling for months and had been considering a company voluntary arrangement, under which some of its landlords would have received no rent for three years.\n\nAfter Mr Jackson joined the retailer late last year, the retailer announced that it would cut 400 jobs in an attempt to cut costs.\n\nAt the time, the GMB union said the company was in a \"fight for survival\".\n\nWilko has about 400 stores across the UK, with its head office in Worksop\n\nCatherine Shuttleworth, founder of retail analysis firm Savvy Marketing, told the BBC that the announcement marked a sad day for a \"stalwart of the UK High Street\".\n\n\"It should have been Wilko's time to shine, with the Cost of Living crisis going on and shoppers looking for a bargain\".\n\nBut she added that customers had been going to rivals such as Home Bargains, B&M and the Range as they looked for discounted food, household goods and garden items.\n\nLonger-term problems at Wilko have been exposed, she said, with a lack of investment over time and issues with stock in recent months.\n\nThe latest announcement by Wilko gives it breathing space of up to 10 working days to come up with a rescue deal.\n\nThe company, which was founded in 1930 in Leicester, is still owned by the Wilkinson family.\n\nIt has already borrowed £40m from Hilco, a specialist retail investor and the owner of Homebase, and has even been exploring the potential sale of a stake in business, according to reports by Sky News.\n\nMs Shuttleworth added: \"I don't think we'll see Wilko disappear from the High Street, because it's such a well-loved brand and shoppers hold it in high regard.\n\n\"But, it could look very different in the future.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are six unnamed co-conspirators in the latest indictment against former President Donald Trump, including a Department of Justice official, four attorneys and a political consultant.\n\nThey have not been named by prosecutors because they are not charged with a crime, but quotes, anecdotes and other context in charging documents and previous investigations have allowed most to be identified.\n\nProsecutors say the group worked together and with Mr Trump to overturn the election result by pushing officials to ignore the vote count, to disenfranchise millions of voters and to replace legitimate electors with fake ones.\n\nThe former New York mayor and lawyer for Mr Trump played a very public role in the aftermath of the election when he toured the US speaking to Republican legislatures in states Mr Trump lost about unfounded claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMr Giuliani is described in the indictment as \"Co-Conspirator 1\". Without using his name, it says he is a lawyer \"who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies\" that Mr Trump's campaign did not pursue itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump charged with conspiracy to defraud US\n\nThe charging document references meetings, testimony to lawmakers and political events that have previously been attributed to Mr Giuliani.\n\nTed Goodman, a spokesman for Mr Giuliani, said that it \"appears\" the indictment is referring to Mr Giuliani, and accused the prosecution of violating the First Amendment right to free speech.\n\nCo-Conspirator 2 has been identified as John Eastman, a White House lawyer who helped develop the Trump team's plan to invalidate the election result and instead choose a slate of \"fake electors\" to keep Mr Trump in power.\n\nHe is described in the indictment as the man \"who devised and attempted to implement a strategy to leverage the Vice-President's ceremonial role overseeing the certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election\".\n\nVice-President Mike Pence resisted pressure from Mr Trump to try to halt Joe Biden's certification on 6 January 2021, leading rioters inside the US Capitol to chant calls for Mr Pence to be hanged.\n\nMr Eastman's lawyer Charles Burnham said in a statement that the new indictment used a \"misleading presentation of the record to contrive criminal charges against Presidential candidate Trump and to cast ominous aspersions on his close advisors\".\n\nMost known for her vow to \"release the Kraken\" after Mr Trump's defeat, Sidney Powell is a lawyer that embraced the unfounded theory that that the election had not been conducted fairly.\n\nThe indictment describes Co-Conspirator 3 as \"an attorney whose unfounded claims of election fraud the Defendant [Mr Trump] privately acknowledged to others sounded 'crazy'\".\n\nIt goes on to say that Mr Trump, despite describing her views as crazy, \"embraced and publicly amplified\" her disinformation.\n\nMrs Powell spoke publicly about a lawsuit she filed against Georgia's governor, which is mentioned in the indictment.\n\nIn testimony to the congressional committee examining the 6 January riot, Mrs Powell said she did not review all of the many claims of election fraud she made, telling them that \"no reasonable person\" would view her claims as fact. Neither she nor her representatives have commented.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch dramatic footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot\n\nCo-Conspirator 4 is described by prosecutors as a Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer who tried to \"use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud\".\n\nIt says the person \"worked on civil matters\" at the DOJ, making it clear that it is Jeffrey Clark, who Mr Trump named as acting head of the Justice Department Civil Division weeks before the election.\n\nThe indictment says he met secretly with Mr Trump several times in the days before the 6 January riot, and \"tried to coerce\" top DOJ officials to sign a letter falsely declaring that voting irregularities had been discovered in multiple states.\n\nMr Trump even considered appointing him as acting attorney general, the indictment says, but abandoned the plan on 3 January 2021 after DOJ officials threatened to resign en masse.\n\nAfter one DOJ official said there would be \"riots in every major city in the United States\" if Mr Trump did not leave office after Joe Biden's inauguration, the person responded: \"That's why there's an Insurrection Act.\"\n\nHe has not commented to media on the reports.\n\nThe indictment calls Co-Conspirator 5 \"an attorney who assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding\".\n\nMr Chesebro is an appellate lawyer who first became involved in the Trump campaign's post-election efforts in Wisconsin before expanding into other states lost by Mr Trump.\n\nThe indictment cites a memo by the fourth co-conspirator in which they present a plan to send a slate of fake electors to Washington for Congress to approve.\n\nHe has not commented on the reports.\n\nThe identity of co-conspirator six remains unclear.\n\nThe indictment describes the person as a \"political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding\".\n\nIt says the person worked to identify lawyers that could aid the Trump campaign in six swing states, and on the night of the riot, tried to find senators' phone numbers for Mr Giuliani to call in an attempt to delay the election certification.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Doctors were the most frequent nose-pickers, according to a survey of Dutch health workers\n\nHealthcare workers who pick their noses are more likely to get Covid and should be made aware of the infection risk, a study suggests.\n\nOf 219 participants, 17% of those who admitted nose-picking tested positive for Covid compared to 6% of those who did not pick their noses.\n\nThe Dutch researchers said the role of nose-picking in spreading the virus could be underestimated.\n\nMen and younger people were more likely to admit to the habit, they found.\n\nThe survey of healthcare workers at two university medical centres in The Netherlands in 2020 revealed the majority (85%) of respondents admitted to picking their nose \"at least incidentally\" - somewhere between monthly, weekly and daily.\n\nAnd doctors were the most frequent nose-pickers (95%), followed by support staff (86%) and nurses (80%), the data showed.\n\nIn contrast, a third of staff admitted to biting their nails but this didn't make a positive Covid test any more likely.\n\nThis may be because of the protective effects of saliva, the researchers said, which means the mouth is not \"an entrance route\" for the virus.\n\nHaving a beard or wearing glasses did not increase the risk of getting Covid either, despite the potential issues with wearing masks correctly, the study found.\n\nThe researchers said as the nose was a main route for coronavirus to get into the body, nose-picking may make infection easier by directly introducing virus particles on the hands into the nose.\n\nThe habit could also mean the virus spreading more easily to other people.\n\nEven before symptoms start developing, they explained there would be a lot of virus in the moist tissues that line the nose in the days after becoming infected.\n\n\"Subsequently, nose picking healthcare workers who are infected with [coronavirus] could contaminate the work environment, potentially leading to further transmission,\" they concluded.\n\nThe study authors pointed to the fact that the spread of coronavirus between staff was an important problem in hospitals, saying the role of nose picking could be \"underestimated\".\n\nWriting in the PLOS One journal, they recommended \"educational sessions against nose-picking in infection prevention guidelines\".\n• None Why do we pick our nose? BBC Future", "Challenging budgets and the lack of a functioning executive are said to be impacting the publicly-funded construction sector\n\nStormont budget problems and the lack of devolved government are having a negative impact on the local construction sector, a survey suggests.\n\nThe Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) indicated workloads fell in the second quarter of 2023.\n\nThe biggest falls were in sectors dependent on public spending.\n\nThe survey suggests some wider economic challenges appear to be easing, but the lack of a functioning executive is the one challenge that is not improving.\n\nThe institute's construction spokesman, Jim Sammon, added the lack of devolved government is \"impacting on decision-making and ultimately industry activity\".\n\nNorthern Ireland is without a functioning executive or assembly because of the DUP's protest against post-Brexit trade arrangements..\n\n\"This is weighing on market conditions with public sector projects playing such an important and vital role in the construction industry in NI,\" Mr Sammon said.\n\n\"We very much need a working NI Executive to ensure that necessary investment in the economy and infrastructure can be delivered efficiently and in a timely way.\"\n\nStormont has been without a functioning executive or assembly since last February\n\nRespondents to the survey indicated that profit margins will be squeezed over the next year, although this may be eased by falling inflation.\n\nThey also highlighted a \"key challenge\" would be a skills shortage, according to RICS.\n\nHowever, this appeared to be \"less severe\" that recorded in the previous quarter.\n\nRICS chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said: \"Infrastructure number remain solid, but the survey provides further evidence of the challenges in delivering residential developments at the current time.\"", "Mattel is trying to stir up interest in a new version of the classic Uno game\n\nToymaker Mattel is hunting for someone to help promote its new Uno game - and wild-card applicants are most definitely welcome.\n\nThe company is asking enthusiasts of the card game to apply on TikTok for a chance at the part-time post of \"Chief Uno Player\".\n\nThe gig will be based in New York for four weeks starting in September.\n\nResponsibilities include playing the new game, Uno Quatro, for four hours a day, four days a week.\n\nApplicants must be US residents and aged 18 or over to be selected for the job, which pays $4,444.44 (£3,500) a week.\n\nThe company declined to say how many people had responded since the job offer was posted on Tuesday.\n\nA TikTok video announcing the role had received about 9,000 likes - and hundreds of replies - many of them from accounts expressing interest. The deadline to apply is 10 August.\n\n\"We're constantly looking to create new ways for fans to engage with Uno - and with the nationwide search for the first-ever Chief Uno Player, we're bringing in-person gameplay to fans in a way they've never experienced before,\" Mattel's global head of games, Ray Adler, said announcing the post.\n\nThe person selected for the job is expected to help create and star in social media posts, give interviews and challenge strangers to play the new version of the classic game, which relies on tiles instead of cards.\n\nThe company also warns that candidates must be able to \"sit for long periods, lift and carry 50 lbs, and set up playing tables & tents on location\".\n\nThe stunt comes after Mattel won plaudits for its success in stirring up excitement about the Barbie movie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.\n\nBut the toymaker is also in need of hits. It recently reported sales in the April-June period of about $1bn (£786m), down 12% compared with the prior year.\n\nProfits in the quarter also slumped to $27m, compared with $68m in the previous year.", "Post-Brexit checks on fresh farm produce coming to the UK from the EU have been delayed again, the BBC understands.\n\nNew import controls on EU food products had been due to begin in October.\n\nThere is concern that the extra checks on imported goods will push up prices and fuel inflation.\n\nThe delay, which was first reported by the Financial Times, will give companies and port operators more time to prepare for these changes.\n\nUK food producers have argued that it gives a free pass to continental rivals, while all fresh food exports from the UK to the European Union face checks.\n\nHealth certification on imports of \"medium-risk\" products were due to start in October with physical checks beginning in January 2024.\n\nHowever, the Cold Chain Federation welcomed news of the delay.\n\n\"UK food retailers, hospitality businesses and consumers were in line for major disruption because many EU food-producing businesses supplying into the UK are not ready for the new requirements,\" said Shane Brennan, the chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation.\n\nIndustry sources have told the BBC that many will be sceptical of the changes coming in at all before the next general election, which is expected in 2024.\n\nThe Labour Party has said it will negotiate a veterinary agreement with the EU that could greatly reduce the need for such procedures, if it is elected into government.\n\nThe delays to new import controls on food come at a time when the Bank of England is battling to control high inflation.\n\nIndustry sources have said the delay is viewed as a sign that the government is prioritising the economy over issues around Brexit and border controls.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government dropped plans for a rival to the \"CE\" quality mark over concerns that it would introduce more red tape for businesses.\n\nThe \"CE\" quality mark is an EU regulatory stamp of approval on products, signifying it has has passed checks like health and safety.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak told broadcaster LBC on Wednesday that inflation was not falling \"as fast\" as he would like.\n\nNick von Westenholz, director of trade at the National Farmers Union, said any further delay would exasperate many farmers, who face barriers for their exports which are not put on imports from overseas.\n\nHe said: \"We appreciate the need to protect consumers from rising food prices, but it is vital that we introduce proportionate, light-touch checks on all our food imports that keep costs for importers to a minimum while properly managing biosecurity risks.\"", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has previously said he wants to get more children playing chess\n\nEnglish chess is set to get a funding boost to help foster young talent.\n\nBloomberg has reported that the government is to announce £500,000 of funding for the English Chess Federation, alongside plans to expand chess in schools and public parks.\n\nAn announcement is expected later this month and the federation said it was in talks with the government over how to best invest in the game.\n\nIt said the money was \"potentially transformational\".\n\nChess is not officially recognised as a sport in England, which means it can not access funding from Sport England.\n\nMalcolm Pein, the federation's director of international chess, told the BBC this would be the first time the UK government had financially backed the national team.\n\nNeither Downing Street nor the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport would comment.\n\nHowever, Mr Pein said the federation was expecting funding to be announced this month.\n\nHe said that while the reported £500,000 of funding sounded like \"a trivially small amount\", chess was a cheap sport so a small amount of funding could go a long way.\n\nMr Pein added that there were plans to invest in training camps, top coaches and cutting-edge computer analysis to support up-and-coming players.\n\nHe said the hope was that the funding could help England create more grandmasters and return the country to its number two position in the world rankings, which it reached in the 1980s.\n\nEngland's men have since slipped to 18th and their women to 24th, according to the International Chess Federation.\n\nThere are plans to invest in new chess tables for public places\n\nMr Pein, who founded the charity Chess in Schools and Communities, said there had also been discussions about installing chess tables in parks and expanding chess in schools.\n\nBloomberg reported that the proposals were for just 100 tables to be installed, but Mr Pein said that given there were currently thought to be only five in parks across the whole country, this would be \"a good result\".\n\nHe added that the hope was that more local authorities would want to install tables if they proved popular.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told BBC Radio 2 she would love to have a chess board for a park in her constituency \"but it doesn't sound like there's many to go around\".\n\nThe former junior chess champion added: \"If Rishi Sunak fancies a game of chess, I'm happy to take him on too.\"\n\nChess saw a boom in popularity during lockdowns, with websites reporting a surge in sign-ups.\n\nRachel Reeves, a former junior champion, beat former Met Police Commissioner Lord Horgan-Howe at a recent tournament\n\nSarah Longson, a former British ladies champion who now coaches England's junior players, said Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, which follows the story of a young female chess prodigy, also sparked an increase in interest, particularly among women.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the gender balance of the game was roughly 50:50 at primary school age, but it became more male-dominated in older age groups.\n\nMr Pein said the federation also wanted to use the funding to encourage more women to play chess.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has already expressed a desire to improve numeracy amongst the country's children, saying he wants all pupils in England to study some maths to the age of 18.\n\nOn a visit to a US school in Washington in June, Mr Sunak spoke of his desire to get more British children playing chess, saying it was a \"great skill\".", "The owner of Bud Light took a hit to its sales after a US boycott of the brand sparked by its work with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.\n\nBrewing giant AB Inbev said sales in the US fell more than 10% this spring, as demand for Bud Light lager plunged.\n\nThe brand faced a wave of attacks after it sent a personalised can of beer to Ms Mulvaney for an online post.\n\nHowever, Belgium-based AB Inbev said performance overall was better than many analysts had expected.\n\nOutside of the US, Budweiser sales jumped nearly 17% compared with last year.\n\nAB Inbev - whose other brands include Stella Artois and Leffe - makes about a quarter of all beer sold globally and continues to claim more than a third of the market in the US.\n\nIn its update to investors on Thursday, it said its share of the US market has dropped more than 5% since last year.\n\nIt is showing few signs of recovery since April, when the Bud Light controversy reached its peak.\n\nFollowing Ms Mulvaney's social media post promoting the beer with her personalised can, many on the right criticised the company for going \"woke\".\n\nWoke is an informal term from the US, meaning alert to injustice and discrimination in society, particularly racism and sexism. It is often used by the right in a derogatory way towards left-leaning views on topics from climate change to support for minorities.\n\nMusician Kid Rock, NFL player Trae Waynes and model Bri Teresi all shared videos of themselves shooting Bud Light cans.\n\nThe company's response to the criticism - which included putting two executives blamed for the relationship on leave - was subsequently decried by many on the left.\n\nWithin weeks, industry analysts reported that Modelo - sold in the US by a rival firm - had replaced Bud Light as the top-selling beer in the US, and rivals such as Coors Light and Miller Light were gaining fast.\n\nThe parent company of those beers, Molson-Coors, reported its best US sales since the two firms merged in 2005 this week.\n\nAb Inbev said its own internal data showed about 80% of consumers in the US remain favourable or neutral toward the Bud Light brand.\n\nBut its recovery efforts - including an advertising blitz and support for stores and distributors - weighed heavily on the firm's core profits in the US, which dropped more than 28% in the quarter.\n\nThe company earlier this month said it was cutting about 2% of its US workforce.\n\nOverall Ab Inbev performed better than many analysts expected.\n\nIt said global revenue rose 7.2% year-on-year in the April-June period to $15.1bn, as higher prices and growth in China made up for the decline in sales volume in the US.\n\nThe company said its underlying profits dipped only about 1% year-on-year and stood by its full-year forecast.", "The former US President Donald Trump is once again headed to court, this time to face charges over his role in the Capitol riots on 6 January 2021.\n\nThe BBC's Nomia Iqbal has this quick explainer.", "British Rowing has announced that transgender women will not be able to compete in the women's category at its events.\n\nThe governing body has changed its policy following \"extensive and ongoing research and consultation\".\n\nTransgender athletes who were born female and are not undergoing hormone treatment can still enter female races.\n\nAn 'open' category will be available to transgender and non-binary rowers in competition events.\n\nCompetition organisers can also offer a mixed category, providing half the crew meet the women's category guidelines.\n\nBritish Rowing previously allowed transgender women to participate in female events if their testosterone level was below a certain level for two years.\n\nWorld Rowing tightened its own policy in March to reduce the allowable testosterone level, but it does allow transgender women to compete in the female category.\n\nThe British Rowing changes come into effect at the end of the season on 11 September. They will apply to athletes representing Great Britain or England at international events, including the Olympics and Paralympics.\n\n\"British Rowing is committed to promoting an environment in which rowing is accessible and inclusive and to ensuring that we provide opportunities and enjoyment for everyone,\" the governing body said.\n\n\"In order to achieve this in a fair manner, we need to establish conditions for competition that guarantee fair and meaningful competition by placing necessary and proportionate restrictions on eligibility.\"\n\nOrganisations including Fair Play for Women, Stonewall and Mermaids have been involved in the policy review since 2020, with the latest changes following consultation with more than 4,500 members of the organisations.\n\nThe eligibility policy update follows similar moves from other sports governing bodies, including World Athletics, British Cycling and swimming's Fina.", "Banks face fines if they fail to provide free access to cash withdrawals for consumers and businesses, the Treasury has confirmed.\n\nA new policy will state that free cash withdrawals and deposits must be available within one mile for people living in urban areas.\n\nIn rural areas, where there are concerns over \"cash deserts\", the maximum distance is three miles.\n\nThe move is unlikely to halt branch closures and the decline in cash use.\n\nThe Treasury said the distances were chosen to maintain the current level of coverage of free access to cash, through ATMs or face-to-face services. Those limits could be extended if cash use declines in the future.\n\nUnder the new guidance, if a service such as an ATM or branch is withdrawn and a replacement service is needed in the area, then this should be done before the closure takes place.\n\nA voluntary arrangement is currently in place which means every High Street should have free access to cash within 1km. The detail of the new policy will come under the microscope, including the starting point and practicalities of the distances that have been stipulated.\n\nAn average of more than 50 UK bank branches have closed each month since 2015. Campaigners fear some retailers could stop accepting cash if it becomes too burdensome to process.\n\nCash remains a necessity for millions of people, research has found, with the elderly and those with disabilities among those likely to struggle. Branches have been more likely to close in disadvantaged areas.\n\nBanks have pointed to the large reduction in branch use - a trend accelerated by the Covid pandemic - and the popularity of managing money via smartphones, as good reason for diluting their branch network.\n\nBut a recent survey by Age UK suggested that, among those who were uncomfortable about digital banking, the key concerns were fraud and scams, a lack of trust in online banking services, and a lack of computer skills.\n\nShare your experiences. Get in touch.\n\nMeanwhile, some small businesses are concerned about the declining use of cash, which accelerated during the Covid pandemic.\n\nNina Narramore, who runs the Norfolk Cheese Company in Downham Market, said that when customers pay by card it creates additional costs for her business.\n\nNina Narramore says card payments add to her costs\n\n\"I think post-Covid people have got used to using and paying with cards,\" she said. \"I would say about 10% of our shop sales are only cash payments now. We're just about to see the closure of our last bank in the town so that is only going to get worse.\n\n\"The impact that has on a small business is that we get charged per transaction rather than one deposit that we put in the bank per week.\"\n\nAndrew Griffith, economic secretary to the Treasury, said that \"cash is here to stay\".\n\n\"People shouldn't have to trek for hours to withdraw a tenner to put in someone's birthday card - nor should businesses have to travel large distances to deposit cash takings,\" he said.\n\n\"These are measures which benefit everyone who uses cash but particularly those living in rural areas, the elderly and those with disabilities.\"\n\nThe City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), will be given the power to police the provision of cash access, including the power to order fines. Legislation was voted through earlier in the summer.\n\n\"The government's new law has made it a legal requirement for the banking industry to protect the current levels of cash access and cash deposits, and to support the specific needs of different communities,\" said Natalie Ceeney, who authored a major report on the issue.\n\n\"That doesn't mean that nothing will change, but it does mean that where services plan to close, there need to be appropriate alternatives in place before they do so,\" Ms Ceeney added.\n\nAmong the alternatives are bank hubs, which are spaces shared by several different High Street banks and are meant to help communities that have seen all their bank branches close.\n\nSo far, only seven permanent hubs have opened in various areas across the UK. Another 10 leases have been signed, and organisers suggest more than 100 will be open over the next few years - a number dwarfed by the amount of branch closures.\n\nMs Ceeney told the BBC's Today programme that the advantage of hubs is that all banks are covered \"which in many ways it actually a better service than relying on one brand in that town\".\n\nJenny Ross, of Which? - the consumer group that has campaigned on the issue, said: \"The Financial Conduct Authority must make use of its new powers to ensure banks meet their obligations and stand ready to direct them to address any gaps.\"\n\nHowever, cash machine operators have criticised the Treasury for failing to address funding issues for the sector.\n\n\"The network remains under significant cost pressures due to successive cuts to the funding paid to ATM operators for every customer withdrawal, with rising interest rates making this picture even worse,\" said Charlie Evans, sales director at NoteMachine.", "Cheikhouna Ba was determined to make the trip to help support his wife and two children\n\nThe brother of a man who died after a boat carrying dozens of migrants was found off Cape Verde has told the BBC they were trying to reach Spain.\n\nMore than 60 people are feared to have died on the boat, which was at sea for over a month. Most were from Senegal.\n\n\"Everyone is shocked. He was one of the pillars of our family,\" Mamour Ba said about his brother Cheikhouna.\n\nBut the 27-year-old said he would still attempt the trip himself as it was impossible to make a living in Senegal.\n\nMr Ba, 27, is a student from the small fishing town of Fass Boye, halfway along the coast between the capital, Dakar, and the historical town of St Louis.\n\nThree of his brothers and one of his cousins were on the wooden pirogue style boat that set off for Europe on 10 July from Fass Boye with 101 people on board.\n\n\"They wanted to get to Spain. They said they wanted to leave and I couldn't tell them not to because they'd already made their minds up.\"\n\nHe thought they had all died, until he got a call from Cape Verde on Wednesday after their rescue.\n\nThey were among 38 people, including children, who were saved, with footage showing them being helped ashore, some on stretchers, on the island of Sal. More than 60 other people are feared to be lost at sea.\n\nThe archipelago sits around 600km (372 miles) off the coast of West Africa and on the migration route to the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory seen by many as a route to the EU.\n\nMr Ba says he still does not know the details of his relatives' five-week journey as they were too disorientated: \"They didn't have the strength to explain what happened, they just said: 'We're alive'. They sounded very weak.\"\n\nSenegalese migrants recovered in tents after disembarking, most suffering from dehydration\n\nBut as the conversation continued, he found out that not all of them had survived.\n\n\"One of my brothers, Ibrahima, used one of the doctor's phones to call me from Cape Verde.\n\n\"He told us our other brother Cheikhouna was lost at sea. I was shocked. We were very close, he was a real fighter. He was married with two kids.\n\n\"The day he left he held my hands and said, 'Brother I have to go.'\n\n\"He was my brother, he was my friend.\"\n\nThirty-eight people survived, and were carried off the boat on stretchers\n\nAfter news of the tragedy spread in Fass Boye, where most of those on board the boat hailed from, anger erupted on Wednesday.\n\nSome set fire to the house of the mayor, angered with the authorities about the lack of opportunities for young people.\n\nThis frustration is something Mr Ba is all too familiar with - he has tried at least twice to leave Senegal.\n\n\"There was nothing for me here... so I decided I needed to try to move to Europe via Morocco,\" he said, speaking of his first attempt during his third year at university.\n\nThings did not work out though, and he was forced to return home after spending nine months there.\n\nBut he was determined to achieve his dream of moving to Europe - and tried again, this time just a few weeks ago, at the end of June, with Cheikhouna.\n\n\"This latest trip was Cheikhouna's second attempt at getting to Europe by boat. Three days after we came back, he had set off again,\" Mr Ba said.\n\n\"He was determined to leave because he had a family and there's nothing for us here in Senegal.\n\n\"We're fishermen, we work all day and we make no money. He just wanted to feed his family and have a better life.\"\n\nMr Ba knows it is risky to try to board another boat to Europe, but it comes down to finances.\n\n\"I don't have the money to take a plane. It's better to pay 300,000 CFA ($480, £375) or 400,000 CFA to go to Spain than to spend millions trying to get there by plane.\"\n\nHe says he is not scared of drowning.\n\n\"Others have done this journey and have drowned but it doesn't put me off. It's a risk I'm willing to take. Even if there was a boat ready to go today, I'd take it.\"\n\nAre you or your family affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Amazon has been accused of sexism after its Alexa voice assistant was unable to respond to a question about the Lionesses' semi-final victory at the Women's World Cup.\n\nWhen asked on Wednesday \"for the result of the England-Australia football match today\" it said there was no match.\n\n\"This was an error that has been fixed,\" an Amazon spokesperson said.\n\nAcademic Joanne Rodda - who alerted the BBC - said it showed \"sexism in football was embedded in Alexa\".\n\nDr Rodda, a senior lecturer in psychiatry at Kent and Medway Medical School - with an interest in artificial intelligence (AI), said she had only been able to get an answer from Alexa when she specified it was women's football she was interested in.\n\n\"When I asked Alexa about the women's England-Australia football match today it gave me the result,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe BBC was able to replicate what she had found on Alexa.\n\nResponding to Amazon saying it had remedied the situation, Dr Rodda told the BBC it was \"pretty sad that after almost a decade of Alexa, it's only today that the AI algorithm has been 'fixed' so that it now recognises woman's World Cup football as 'football'\".\n\nAmazon told the BBC that when a customer asks Alexa a question, information is pulled from a variety of sources, including Amazon, licensed content providers, and websites.\n\nIt added that it had automated systems which use AI to understand the context and pull out the most relevant information, but the systems got it wrong in this case.\n\nThe firm said it expected the systems to get better over time, adding that it has teams dedicated to help prevent similar situations in the future.\n\nDr Rodda also questioned the extent to which the problem had actually been fixed, saying she still found similar problems with the Women's Super League.\n\n\"Out of interest, I just asked Alexa who Arsenal football team are playing in October,\" she said.\n\n\"It replied with information about the men's team, and wasn't able to give an answer when I asked specifically about women's fixtures.\n\nThe incident highlights the issue of bias being embedded in systems powered by the booming AI sector.\n\nThat rapid growth has led some to warn that AI could threaten humanity's future - but others, including the EU's competition chief Margrethe Vestager, say it's the potential for AI to entrench existing prejudices that is a bigger concern.\n\nThat is because AI is only as good as the data that has been used to train it. AI tools are trained on vast datasets and the onus is on the developers to ensure that they are sufficiently diverse, which they aren't always.\n\nAn added difficulty is that once bias is embedded it is not always straightforward to make a tool \"unlearn\" its training - sometimes the only option is to start again, which firms may be reluctant to do given the huge costs of creating AI in the first place.\n\nBeing overlooked by an algorithm is only going to become an increasingly problematic experience as AI tools decide not only what we see and hear but also how much we pay for things like car insurance, and perhaps what healthcare we require.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nAny approaches for England manager Sarina Wiegman would be \"100% rejected\", says Football Association chief executive Mark Bullingham.\n\nWiegman, appointed in 2021, has led England to the Women's World Cup final a year after they won Euro 2022.\n\nShe is the first coach to take two countries to a World Cup final, having led the Netherlands there in 2019.\n\n\"It is not about money. We are very happy with her and feel she is happy,\" Bullingham said.\n\nUSA manager Vlatko Andonovski resigned on Thursday following their last-16 exit from the World Cup, with Wiegman listed as a potential candidate to replace him.\n\n\"We've seen lots of rumours, and she is a special talent - we know that. From our side, she's contracted through until 2025,\" said Bullingham.\n\n\"She's doing a great job. We're obviously huge supporters of her and hopefully she feels the same way. She's someone we'd like to have with us for a very long time.\"\n• None How England crashed Australia's party to reach the final\n\nEngland meet Spain in the final at Stadium Australia in Sydney on Sunday at 11:00 BST, a match which will be shown live on the BBC.\n\nAsked whether there had been discussions with Wiegman over a new contract, Bullingham said: \"We've always said we'd get to it after a tournament. We had good conversations after the Euros.\n\n\"There will be an appropriate time to do it. We've got a bit of time. She'll want to have a decent holiday after this.\"\n\nFA women's technical director Kay Cossington said Wiegman and assistant coach Arjan Veurink have had \"a fantastic impact\" and have \"embraced the England DNA across all of our teams\".\n\nPlans to build a statue of Wiegman outside Wembley Stadium have been looked at by the FA and Brent Council since England's European triumph.\n\n\"We've made progress on that and it would be right to have something to commemorate that success outside Wembley. It's more the whole team,\" said Bullingham.\n\n\"You have to go through various permissions - we've gone through that. The next stage is working on the design.\"\n\nBullingham went on to say Wiegman \"could do anything she wants in football\" when pressed if she could potentially take over from men's boss Gareth Southgate.\n\n\"Firstly, I think it's a bit disrespectful to the Lionesses to project it as a step up,\" said Bullingham.\n\n\"People always say it is 'the best man for the job'. Why does it have to be a man? Our answer is always 'it's the best person for the job'.\"\n\n'There's a discussion to be had about player bonuses'\n\nBefore flying to Australia, England players said they were frustrated with the FA over its stance on performance-related bonuses.\n\nThe Lionesses, who are not set to receive bonuses, halted discussions during the tournament but are set to renew them after returning from Australia.\n\n\"We're sorting it after the tournament,\" said Bullingham. \"They had a very strong case before the World Cup and a very strong case after, but the reality is there's a discussion to be had.\"\n\nAsked why those discussions were not resolved, he told BBC sports editor Dan Roan: \"Fifa were relatively late in announcing the prize money for the tournament and the bonuses always come off that.\n\n\"That meant we didn't get the chance to finalise the agreement with the players before we came out here. They then asked to park it until after the tournament, so that's what we've done.\n\n\"It hasn't affected anything. We've got a brilliant morale in the camp, got a brilliant relationship and the two most important things are we're all aligned in winning the tournament and in growing the women's game.\"\n\nSunday's World Cup-winning team will be awarded £3,357,000 in prize money by Fifa, with the runners-up receiving £2,359,000.\n\nThe champions' players will each pocket £211,277 and the runners-up £152,600 each.\n\nBullingham said the \"commercial disparity is still huge\" between men's and women's players but the FA is \"committed to investing ahead of revenue\" to try to bridge the gap.\n\n'Wiegman well paid in market she operates'\n\nThere have also been questions asked as to why Wiegman's salary is not on parity with men's boss Southgate despite her recent success.\n\n\"I understand the question. If you look at the disparity in the market and the income coming in, that's why you've got a difference,\" said Bullingham.\n\n\"We don't talk about people's remuneration but I would say that Sarina is, within the market she operates, well paid. If you look at the comparison in the men's game, it's a different market.\n\n\"I really want those markets to merge over time but we're not there yet. That is the long-term objective and where we have got to get.\"\n\nMeanwhile, England goalkeeper Mary Earps said it was \"hurtful\" that fans cannot buy a replica of her shirt.\n\nAsked if the FA had discussed the issue with kit manufacturers Nike, Bullingham said: \"It's not something we're going to get into now. But it will be something that is addressed quite soon after the tournament.\n\n\"Mary spoke passionately about it and we want to grow goalkeeping - it's building role models. It's something we're getting to but it's not anything we're going to announce now.\"\n\nThe Lionesses are set to leave Australia on Monday and there could be plans to celebrate in London on Tuesday or Wednesday should they beat Spain.\n\nEngland's Euro 2022 captain Leah Williamson, who missed the World Cup through injury, is set to be in Sydney to watch the final, but Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and FA president Prince William will not be present.\n\nLucy Frazer, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will attend.", "Archbishop Eamon Martin said his support for Catholic police employees was \"unequivocal\"\n\nThe leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has encouraged young Catholics to consider a career in policing.\n\nThe Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin was speaking after meeting Northern Ireland's Chief Constable Simon Byrne on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes after a major breach of data from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nThe mistakenly-released data included the surnames and initials of 10,000 officers and employees.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Byrne said the information is now in the hands of dissident republican paramilitaries, who could use the list of names to generate \"fear and uncertainty\".\n\nThe threat to officers means they must be extremely vigilant about their security.\n\nMany, especially those from Catholic communities, keep their employment secret, in some cases even from many family members.\n\nCatholic officers have often been targeted by dissidents, who want to discourage people from Catholic backgrounds from joining the police.\n\nDuring a meeting with the chief constable, Archbishop Martin said he expressed concern at the implications of the data breach.\n\nSpeaking to BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster programme, the archbishop said his support for Catholic police employees was \"unequivocal\" after speaking to several of their families.\n\nHe said relatives of the employees were \"shocked and concerned\" following the data release.\n\n\"Twenty-five years on from the Good Friday Agreement we're still talking about the importance of keeping our police members and their support workers safe.\" he said.\n\n\"Any normal society would have extensive respect and support for the police service - we wouldn't be in a situation where people are afraid if people know they're in the PSNI.\n\nArchbishop Martin said it was unconscionable that PSNI employees should feel this way.\n\n\"This is considered across the world a noble vocation, something that should be natural for our young people to consider and we all need to play our part in making that a reality,\" he said.\n\nLast week, Mr Byrne apologised for what he described as a breach of data on an \"industrial scale\".\n\nIt was one of two breaches which emerged over a two-day period, causing considerable concern among PSNI officers and staff who face continuing threat from paramilitaries and must be extremely vigilant about their personal security.\n\nIn the wake of the data breach, nearly half of Northern Ireland's officers have contacted the Police Federation about potential damages.\n\nThe first, and biggest, breach happened when data was made public in error by police responding to a routine Freedom of Information (FoI) request.\n\nThe information appeared online for three hours last Tuesday, leading the PSNI to update its security advice to its officers and staff.\n\nThe surname and initials of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence, were included.\n\nInformation about a second data breach, involving the theft of a spreadsheet with the names of 200 officers and staff, emerged the following day.\n\nThe PSNI said documents, along with a police-issue laptop and radio, were believed to have been stolen from a private vehicle in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, on 6 July.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nTelevision presenter Rachel Riley says she will stop supporting Manchester United if forward Mason Greenwood stays at the club.\n\nUnited say no decision has been made about his future, which is the \"subject of intensive internal deliberation\".\n\nForward Greenwood, 21, had criminal charges against him, including attempted rape and assault, dropped.\n\n\"I won't be able to support United if Greenwood remains at the club,\" Riley said on Thursday.\n\nWriting on social media, Countdown co-presenter Riley added: \"We've all seen and heard enough. Pretending this is OK would be a huge part of the problem.\n\n\"It would be devastating for my club to contribute to a culture that brushes this under the carpet. I really hope they do the right thing.\"\n\nAn announcement from United on Greenwood was expected before Monday's Premier League opener against Wolves but was delayed.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, United said the \"fact-finding phase\" of their investigation was now complete.\n\nThey added a decision about Greenwood's future - which \"ultimately rests\" with chief executive officer Richard Arnold - was in the final stages.\n\nIt is thought United's direction of travel was for Greenwood to return in some form, but the fierceness of debate around his future, among other things, has made them pause.\n\nUnited said they had gathered \"extensive evidence and context not in the public domain\" and spoke to \"numerous people with direct involvement or knowledge of the case\".\n\nFans protested outside Old Trafford against Greenwood's potential return before the Wolves game and a group of female United supporters said they want the club to \"demonstrate a zero tolerance approach\" towards violence against women.\n\nFemale Fans Against Greenwood's Return put out a lengthy statement to say Greenwood's reintegration \"tells us, as women, that we don't matter\".\n\nBBC Sport contacted Greenwood's lawyers for a response to the planned protest, but they declined to comment.\n\nGreenwood has been unavailable for selection since his arrest in January 2022 and has not been involved at the club's Carrington training ground.\n• None Listen to the latest The Devils' Advocate podcast\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Christopher Binns made multiple appearances on TV and radio, as well as live performances\n\nA comedian who appeared on Channel 4's 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown has been sentenced after being found with more than 35,000 indecent images of children.\n\nChristopher Binns - also known as Tom - created the hospital radio DJ character Ivan Brackenbury.\n\nBinns had admitted five counts of making and one of possessing indecent images of children.\n\nHe was given a combined 10-month sentence, suspended for 15 months.\n\nThe 53-year-old was also made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order, and ordered to sign the sex offenders register, both for 10 years, at Derby Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nBinns is best known for two creations, Ivan Brackenbury and Ian D Montfort, a psychic.\n\nBrackenbury was the central character in Hospital People, which had a six-part run on BBC One in 2017, and Ian D Montfort had a BBC Radio 2 series in 2013.\n\nA judge called the offending \"simply unacceptable\", but said Binns did not pose a risk to the public\n\nLauren Fisher, prosecuting, said all the images were downloaded between 26 March and 21 November 2020.\n\nShe said: \"Between October 14 and 15 2020 the National Crime Agency received information that the user of [the defendant's email] had uploaded multiple category C indecent images of children.\"\n\nA warrant was executed at Binns's address in Calow, Chesterfield, and he was arrested, with 39 devices seized including a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and an iPad.\n\nMs Fisher said: \"During the investigation, it was established that a third party of Mr Binns's partner had been asked to sell several devices on behalf of Mr Binns.\n\n\"Those devices were also checked.\"\n\nMs Fisher said 104 category A indecent images - the most serious - were found, along with 411 in category B and 34,946 in category C.\n\nShe added three prohibited images were found, along with \"multiple\" category B and C moving images.\n\nHowever, the court heard some of the images may have been duplicates.\n\nIn an earlier statement to comedy news website Chortle, Binns said: \"Over two years ago, while under the influence of an overdose of prescription drugs for ADHD, which induced obsessive-compulsive disorder, I downloaded and deleted a very large amount of adult pornography over a short period of time.\n\n\"Within those downloads, it appears there was some child pornography which I had not sought out nor wanted.\n\n\"I have no sexual interest in children. I have taken and passed a polygraph stating I have no sexual interest in children.\n\n\"I am bitterly upset at the hurt this has caused my family, for which I take full responsibility.\"\n\nMatthew Hayes, mitigating for Binns in court, said his client had not committed any other offences since, and referenced the impact of prescribed medication his client was taking at the time.\n\nJudge Shaun Smith KC said Binns's offending was \"simply unacceptable\", but deemed he did not pose a risk to the public, and was unlikely to re-offend.\n\nHe said: \"You are sickened by what it was that you were downloading and looking at and, quite frankly, you don't need me to tell you that you should be, because this kind of offending has real victims.\n\n\"It is right to say that had it not been for Covid, had it not been for the medication you were taking at that period of time, you would not be before the court, but the fact is that you are.\n\n\"You have returned to the law-abiding life that you were living before these offences.\"\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Holly Triggs, operations manager at the National Crime Agency, said: \"Tom Binns deliberately collected a huge number of indecent images of children.\n\n\"Behind each one is an abused child who has had their wellbeing, innocence and privacy violated.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Det Ch Insp Jivan Saivb asked if members of the public recognised the man's clothes and mask\n\nNew images have been released of a man suspected of carrying out a homophobic attack on two men outside a south London nightclub.\n\nThe two victims, in their 20s and 30s, were attacked with a knife outside the Two Brewers, in Clapham High Street, at about 22:15 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe force has said it is treating the incident as homophobic.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has released an image of a man on a number 50 bus in Thornton Heath at 20:30 BST that night.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jivan Saib, who is leading the investigation, called on the public to think about whether they could name or identify the man pictured.\n\n\"I would urge people to look at these images - do you know this man? Do you recognise the clothes he is wearing?\" he said.\n\n\"If you can help identify him then please get in touch.\"\n\nThe images, which are the latest to be released following a previous appeal on Tuesday, show the man wearing a black and grey hooded coat with a red zip and a black facemask, as well as red and black gloves.\n\nThe man was wearing a black and grey hooded coat with a red zip and a black facemask, as well as distinctive red and black gloves\n\nThe incident happened as the two victims were standing outside the nightclub, when they were approached by a man who attacked them with a knife before running away.\n\nNo arrests have been made so far, and police inquiries are ongoing. The men have since been sent home from hospital.\n\nIt comes as the Met Police have increased safety measures in the area following the attack, with nightclub staff being escorted to their cars by police in Clapham and Vaxuhall.\n\nPC Hayley Jones, the Met's LGBT+ community liaison officer for Lambeth and Southwark, said a minibus of six officers and a sergeant were also patrolling the area every day this week and officers would be speaking to revellers outside venues to reassure them.\n\nThe attack took place outside Clapham's Two Brewers nightclub\n\nIn nearby Clapham Junction, the Clapham Grand nightclub, which holds its own drag and LGBTQIA+ events, said it was stepping up security including enhanced bag searches and increased staffing.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, it also said it would be liaising with police on a daily basis ahead of events, adding a communications network across all venues in the area would also be set up to share information and issues.\n\nDr Mahamed Hashi, Lambeth Council's cabinet member for safer communities, condemned \"those who perpetrate violence in our borough, those who carry knives and those who carry out hate crimes against our communities\".\n\nHe said: \"This is a really distressing incident and our thoughts are with the two men who are now recovering from the attack, and their friends and family who will be deeply affected by this violence.\n\n\"There is absolutely no tolerance for hatred of this kind in our borough and we will work with the police to ensure that action is taken swiftly to deal with this terrible incident and prevent incidents of this kind in the future.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The two years Gabriel has spent preparing for his A-levels have been punctuated by bereavement, first with the loss of his older brother and then his father.\n\n\"It was really hard to keep focused on things,\" he says. \"It's stressful - you just want to block everything out and not think about it.\"\n\nHis mum Sharon says she is \"off-the-scale proud\" of him after he got the results he needed to secure his place to study history at Cardiff University.\n\n\"My mindset was ‘if I can just keep my head down and work hard for one year it’s going to be a lot easier for me in the future',\" Gabriel says.\n\n\"He’s been remarkably resilient – we as adults have been shattered into a million pieces,\" adds Sharon.\n\n\"But he’s been so strong and focused on his work. This is going to stand him in really good stead.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dramatic helicopter rescue for three hikers trapped by wildfire in Canada\n\nThousands of people fleeing a wildfire on the outskirts of Yellowknife, one of the largest cities in Canada's north, have crowded into the local airport and the road out of town.\n\nHundreds have also lined up for emergency military evacuation flights.\n\nLocal officials have given the 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories, a deadline of noon Friday (18:00 GMT) to leave.\n\nAs of Thursday, the fire was within 16km (10 miles) of the city.\n\nThe Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency late on Tuesday as it battles nearly 240 wildfires.\n\n\"Very tough days ahead - with two days of northwest to west-northwest winds on Friday and Saturday, which would push fire towards Yellowknife,\" the territorial fire service said in a statement on Facebook.\n\nThere have been reports of long lines at petrol stations in the city and on the road out of town.\n\nResident Bill Braden told Global News he was carrying extra petrol with him after a family member told him the line at one gas station stretched a kilometre in length.\n\nPolice advised drivers to slow down as they reach Fort Providence, about 300km southwest of Yellowknife by road, as a long queue for gas was affecting traffic.\n\nFor those not staying with friends or family in other communities, the closest centre for evacuees is 1,100km south of Yellowknife.\n\nMilitary evacuation flights are scheduled throughout the afternoon and evening on Thursday, with five flights to Calgary, in the neighbouring province of Alberta.\n\nThe federal transport minister has also assured evacuees that the country's largest airline, Air Canada, is capping the cost of flights out of Yellowknife.\n\nAir Canada has added two extra flights out of the city.\n\nShane Thompson, environment minister for the Northwest Territories, told reporters on Wednesday that the fires had \"taken another turn for the worse\" and represented a \"real threat\" to Yellowknife, the region's capital.\n\n\"I want to stress that the city is not in immediate danger,\" he said. \"[But] you put yourself and others at risk if you choose to stay.\"\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau held an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the wildfire situation in the northern territory.\n\nSome residents of Yellowknife had already begun leaving earlier on Wednesday after parts of the city were put on evacuation alert, meaning they could be asked to leave at a moment's notice.\n\n\"Watching the flights sell out and the prices go up I just kind of got to a point where we should leave,\" Ashley Maclellan, who fled south to Edmonton with her baby, told the CBC.\n\nAnother fire is threatening the community of Hay River.\n\nOne evacuee told the CBC her car began melting as she and her family drove through embers while fleeing that town over the weekend.\n\nCars on Highway 3 out of Yellowknife were bumper to bumper on Wednesday as people scrambled to evacuate\n\nHay River Mayor Kandis Jameson pleaded with anyone remaining in the town to leave immediately.\n\nThe fire moved 30km in a few hours because of strong winds earlier this week, closing the only two highways out of the town. Then it stalled about 10km away from the town.\n\nResident Lisa Mundy described how her bumper had begun to melt, her windscreen had cracked and her car had filled with smoke as she and her husband left the town with their two children on Sunday.\n\n\"You couldn't see anything - we were driving through embers,\" she said.\n\nAbout 46,000 people live in the Northwest Territories, and Canada's military has been co-ordinating the largest airlift evacuation effort in the region's history.\n\nThe communities of Fort Smith, K'atl'odeeche First Nation, Hay River, Enterprise, and Jean Marie River are all also under evacuation orders.\n\nKakisa, a community of about 40 people some 130km from Hay River, received an evacuation order on Thursday.\n\nKofi Yeboah, a social worker in Fort Good Hope, about 800km northwest of Yellowknife, said his community has had some smoky skies from the fires in the territory.\n\n\"We are all praying we get as much rain as we can,\" he told the BBC.\n\nCanada is having its worst wildfire season on record, with nearly 1,100 active fires burning across the country as of Wednesday.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason.\n\nScientists say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nAre you personally affected by the wildfires in Canada? If it is safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 60 people are feared dead after a migrant boat, at sea for over a month, was found off Cape Verde in West Africa.", "Some visitors have been stripping off for photographs among the sunflowers\n\nA sunflower farm has urged visitors to keep their clothes on after some reportedly stripped off for photos.\n\nStoke Fruit Farm on Hayling Island said it had an \"increase of reports of naked photography taking place\" at its Sam's Sunflowers visitor attraction.\n\nOne visitor said her son stumbled across a woman wearing \"just a thong\" and \"didn't know where to look\".\n\nSam Wilson, who runs the site at Northney, confirmed there had been a few \"isolated incidents\" of nudity.\n\nHe said there had been reports of four naked photo shoots since the flower-picking fields opened on 28 July, three of which had been on the same day.\n\nMr Wilson said: \"We have always had photo shoots here but they are always respectfully done and it's always organised so other people are not affected.\n\n\"People are having fun and taking pictures for their Instagram but we just ask that they keep their clothes on.\"\n\nA message on the farm's Facebook page said: \"Reminder to all, we are a family area and please keep your clothes on in the sunflowers!\n\n\"We are having a increase of reports of naked photography taking place and this must not happen during our public sessions please.\"\n\nOne visitor commented: \"Yes, we stumbled on a 'session' - I'm not a prude but I don't expect to see almost naked bodies while searching for the best blooms.\"\n\nAnother reported a woman wearing \"just a thong\", adding: \"Our son got a right eyeful last night, should have seen his face!!\"\n\nMost commenters saw the funny side, although some speculated whether it had been a publicity stunt, while others defended the right of people to be naked in public.\n\nOne man wrote: \"Nothing wrong with topless. So teach children it is not right and the taboo continues.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sara's body was found at her family home in Woking, Surrey\n\nFurther tests are needed to establish the cause of death of 10-year-old Sara Sharif, police have said.\n\nSara's body was found at her family home in Woking, Surrey, at about 02:50 BST on 10 August.\n\nA post-mortem examination performed on Tuesday concluded that the cause was \"still to be established\".\n\nThree people known to Sara booked one-way tickets to Pakistan, and flew the day before her body was found, BBC News understands.\n\nSurrey Police launched a murder investigation after Sara's body was found alone in the property in Hammond Road, and officers plan to be there for \"some weeks\".\n\nFlowers have been left outside the house where Sara's body was found\n\nNo arrests have been made, but the three people detectives wish to speak to are believed to have left the country on 9 August.\n\nA travel agent in Woking told the BBC that he was contacted by someone known to Sara, wanting tickets for three adults and five children.\n\nOn Thursday, flowers were left outside the house, including a bouquet with a card written in Polish that appeared to be from Sara's mother.\n\nThe message translated as: \"Sleep sweetly my darling daughter. You are an angel in heaven now and watching over us from above. Love you, Mama.\"\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman, of the Surrey Police and Sussex Police major crime team, said officers are not looking to identify anyone else in connection with the investigation.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) has also revealed it is working with Surrey Police in their investigation.\n\nPolice said Sara's mother continued to be supported by specially trained officers\n\nA statement from the NCA said: \"The NCA is supporting Surrey Police with their investigations into the murder of a 10 year old girl.\n\n\"This involves specialist officers from our Joint International Crime Centre and across our international network providing operational support, advice and guidance as required.\"\n\nThe BBC has spoken to police in Pakistan who have said that no formal approach has been made by the British authorities over the case.\n\nPakistan and the UK do not have a formal extradition treaty.\n\nSurrey Police said the girl's mother was informed and continues to be supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk", "Coleen Rooney has branded the \"Wagatha Christie\" trial \"horrible\", in her first public comments since the case.\n\nIn an interview with British Vogue, she suggested she could not forgive Rebekah Vardy for her libel claim, but said \"the relief was everything\" to win.\n\nRooney, the wife of ex-England captain Wayne Rooney, had accused Vardy of leaking stories about her.\n\nThe High Court decision which found the comments \"substantially true\" was criticised by Vardy.\n\nIn the interview for Vogue's September edition, Rooney opened up about \"dreading\" going to court - and said she \"sticks to\" the original claims.\n\nAsked if she could forgive Vardy, who is married to her husband's former team-mate Jamie Vardy, she added: \"I'm a forgive-and-forget person, I can't be bothered with things going on and on...\n\n\"But this is obviously totally different.\"\n\nRooney, 37, continued: \"You see social media people calling people out in such nasty ways and I was thinking I wasn't that nasty.\n\n\"I've never been in a legal case before, so for me it was scary.\n\nShe also criticised Vardy, 41, for taking the case to court, but did voice sympathy for her \"obviously going through it\".\n\n\"I just thought, 'Why have you put yourself in this position?' It was not nice to watch,\" Rooney said.\n\nThe July 2022 trial came after Rooney conducted a sting operation in 2019, accusing Mrs Vardy of leaking private information to The Sun.\n\nThe sleuthing caused a social media sensation and led to the case being dubbed \"Wagatha Christie\" - in reference to Wags (footballers' wives and girlfriends) and the writer Agatha Christie.\n\nVardy has always denied the allegations but was expected to pay an estimated £1.5m towards Rooney's legal costs following the ruling.\n\nRooney told Vogue that she took her son Kai indoor skydiving after initially posting the infamous \"It's……….Rebekah Vardy's account\" accusation.\n\nAnd then \"her phone exploded\".\n\n\"All these messages of support [were] coming in... Then I thought, 'Oh, my God, this has gone extreme.'\"\n\nAnd she said \"the relief was everything\" after the judgement.\n\nAsked about her previous relationship with Vardy, Rooney said the pair would \"associate\" but were not friends and did not socialise. She says she now wonders if invitations to events might have been part of a \"plan to get closer to me\".\n\nResponding to comments about Rooney's interview, Vardy wrote on Instagram: \"I don't get why you would want to keep bringing it up. It's boring now!\n\n\"The public doesn't care and neither do I. She won that's the end of it!\n\n\"Be happy move on... because I know I have.\"\n\nThe BBC has also contacted representatives for Vardy for comment.\n\nThe September issue of British Vogue is available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday 22 August.", "England women's football team are 90 minutes away from immortality - but the government has all but ruled out an extra bank holiday if they win.\n\nFans are eagerly awaiting the final on Sunday after the Lionesses beat Australia 3-1 to secure their place.\n\nIf they beat Spain in Sydney on Sunday, they will become the first England team to win a World Cup since 1966.\n\nBut there are \"no plans\" for an extra day off if the Lionesses secure a famous victory, the government says.\n\nSupporters across the country are already making plans for the final, which kicks off at 11:00 BST and will be shown live on the BBC.\n\nTickets for three London fan zones sold out in just eight minutes when they went on sale shortly after England's semi-final win against co-hosts Australia - nicknamed the Matildas - in Sydney.\n\nWhether or not they win on Sunday, Sarina Wiegman's trailblazing Lionesses have already made history by becoming the first English women's football side to reach a World Cup final.\n\nThe King led tributes to the team on Wednesday, who are on the cusp of winning their second major trophy in just over a year after Euro 2022.\n\n\"While your victory may have cost the magnificent Matildas their chance for the greatest prize in the game, both teams have been an inspiration on and off the pitch - and for that, both nations are united in pride, admiration and respect,\" said the King, who is the head of state of both the UK and Australia.\n\nThe Welsh Guards Band could be heard playing Sweet Caroline - one of England's unofficial footballing anthem - during Wednesday's Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace after the match.\n\nDespite popular support for an extra bank holiday whenever an England side looks to be on the brink of a major tournament win, there has never been one held to mark a sporting occasion.\n\nThe government resisted appeals for an extra day off in the run-up to the Lionesses' Euros win in 2022, and a petition calling for a bank holiday in the event the men's team won Euro 2020 also failed to get support.\n\nAsked if there could be a change of heart this time around, a government spokesperson said: \"We congratulate the Lionesses on their fantastic achievement in getting to the Women's World Cup final.\n\n\"The current pattern of public and bank holidays is well established and there are no plans to change this.\"\n\nIn a later statement issued after this story was published, a government spokesperson added: \"Winning the World Cup would be a massive moment for the country and make no mistake we'll find the right way to celebrate.\n\n\"As Sarina Wiegman herself has said, the first thing to do is focus on the final and the whole country will be rooting for the Lionesses this weekend\".\n\nDespite a morning kick-off, fan zones were packed for England's semi-final on Wednesday.\n\nLondon fan zones sold out within minutes of the semi-final victory.\n\nBut the government is understood not to be considering a bank holiday as part of any post-tournament celebrations.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called the semi-final victory \"phenomenal\" and backed calls for an extra bank holiday.\n\nWriting writing on social media, he said: \"It's almost 60 years since England won the World Cup.\n\n\"I'm never complacent about anything… but there should be a celebratory bank holiday if the Lionesses bring it home.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Ed Davey also backed the call, describing the England team an \"inspiration\" and saying a final win would \"absolutely\" deserve to be marked with a bank holiday.\n\nGurinder Chadha - who directed women's football classic Bend It Like Beckham - echoed calls for a bank holiday, telling Channel 4 News \"it deserves some kind of marking, it deserves some kind of national holiday\".\n\nThe match looks set to be played without the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak or the Prince of Wales - who is chair of the Football Association - in the stadium, with neither expected to make the journey to Australia.\n\nAfter Wednesday's match, Mr Sunak congratulated the team, tweeting: \"What a performance Lionesses. Just one more game to go... Bring on Sunday.\"\n\nWilliam tweeted: \"What a phenomenal performance from the Lionesses - on to the final!\".\n\nThe Right Reverend Libby Lane, Bishop of Derby and the Church of England's lead bishop for sport, told BBC Newscast that she would understand if people wanted to change their Sunday church plans to watch the final.\n\nShe said: \"We know that lots of people will want to watch it live or to go to church and then catch up later on - and so to avoid the score while they're at worship. Either way, I'm sure it's going to be a wonderful occasion.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFans at Boxpark in Wembley on Wednesday morning\n\nWhile there would likely be support from the public for an extra bank holiday, the government is wary of the costs associated with them.\n\nEstimates of the impact on the economy vary widely, but in 2010 a House of Commons library report put the bill for an extra bank holiday at £2.9bn, and both the Bank of England and Office of Budget Responsibility say it negatively impacts growth.\n\nExtra bank holidays have been held for various royal events, while one was moved in 2020 to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nEngland and Wales have eight bank holidays a year, while Scotland has nine and Northern Ireland 10. There was an extra bank holiday in 2023 for the King's Coronation.\n\nOther countries do sometimes declare bank holidays for sporting wins - with Argentina enjoying a special day off last year after winning the men's World Cup. Panama even declared a national holiday in 2017 just for qualifying for the World Cup for the first time, while Saudi Arabia held one for beating Argentina in last year's group stages.\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had called for a bank holiday there if his team won the cup.", "The bonfire was lit on Tuesday night.\n\nThe placing of poppy wreaths on a bonfire is being investigated by police as a potential hate crime.\n\nHundreds of people gathered on waste ground in Creggan in Londonderry when the bonfire was lit on Tuesday night.\n\nIt featured several poppy wreaths, a number of flags - including a King Charles Coronation flag and UVF flag - and a Traditional Unionist Voice election poster.\n\nPolice described the material placed on the bonfire as a \"provocative display\".\n\nHundreds of people gathered to watch the Creggan bonfire on Tuesday night\n\nBonfires on 15 August are traditional in some nationalist parts of Northern Ireland.\n\nIn previous years a bonfire in the Bogside area attracted condemnation for the burning of flags and posters.\n\nThat bonfire did not go ahead this year.\n\nA smaller bonfire was held in Galliagh where there had been disturbances last week.\n\nIt followed the removal of pallets from the bonfire site.\n\nPolice said material placed on that bonfire was also being investigated and was being treated as a sectarian hate incident.", "The International Chess Federation (FIDE) says it is temporarily banning transgender women from competing in its women's events.\n\nThe FIDE said individual cases would require \"further analysis\" and that a decision could take up to two years.\n\nThe move has been criticised by some players and enthusiasts.\n\nMany sports governing bodies have been working on policies towards transgender athletes, but chess does not involve comparable levels of physical activity.\n\nHowever the FIDE told the BBC it wanted to analyse the impact of these policies and did not want to rush this process.\n\n\"The transgender legislation is rapidly developing in many countries and many sport bodies are adopting their own policies,\" it said.\n\n\"FIDE will be monitoring these developments and see how we can apply them to the world of chess. Two years is a scope of sight that seemed reasonable for the thorough analyses of such developments.\"\n\nIt added that transgender players could still compete in the open section of its tournaments.\n\nYosha Iglesias, a trans woman professional chess player with the FIDE rank of chess master, said the policy would lead to \"unnecessary harm\" for trans players and women.\n\nWoman Grandmaster and two-time US Women's Champion Jennifer Shahade also criticised the FIDE decision, saying the policy was \"ridiculous and dangerous\".\n\n\"It's obvious they didn't consult with any transgender players in constructing it... I strongly urge FIDE to reverse course on this and start from scratch with better consultants,\" Ms Shahade said.\n\nUK MP Angela Eagle, who was a joint winner of the 1976 British Girls' Under-18 chess championship, said: \"There is no physical advantage in chess unless you believe men are inherently more able to play than women - I spent my chess career being told women's brains were smaller than men's and we shouldn't even be playing.\"\n\n\"This ban is ridiculous and offensive to women,\" she added.\n\nIn its policy decision, FIDE also said that trans men who had won women's titles before transitioning would see their titles abolished.\n\nChess is classified as a sport by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).\n\nLast month, the world's cycling governing body ruled that transgender women would be prevented from competing in female events.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday World Aquatics said it would debut a new open category for transgender athletes at this year's Swimming World Cup event in Berlin after it voted last year to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues raised in this story you can access help and support via the BBC Actionline.\n\nUpdate 31st August: We have updated this story to amend a quote.\n• None What is the new trans guidance for schools?", "Smouldering flames litter the ruins of a church in Jaranwala, Pakistan\n\nMore than 100 people have been arrested in a city in east Pakistan after thousands of Muslims burned churches and vandalised homes.\n\nViolence in Jaranwala was sparked by claims that two Christian men had torn pages from a copy of the Quran.\n\nThe historic Salvation Army Church was still smouldering on Thursday, one day after the riot.\n\nRuins have been surrounded with barbed wire as the situation remains tense in the city.\n\nPublic gatherings have also been restricted for seven days in Faisalabad district, which includes Jaranwala.\n\nThe two men accused of damaging the Quran, Islam's holy book, have been arrested and are being investigated for blasphemy, which is punishable by death in Pakistan.\n\nWhile some have been sentenced to death, it has never been carried out. However a mere accusation of blasphemy can result in widespread riots, sometimes leading to lynchings and killings.\n\nA local official told BBC Urdu that authorities had received calls about protests and fires early on Wednesday morning, after reports about the desecration of the Quran circulated in the city and on social media.\n\nAuthorities said torn pages of the sacred text with blasphemous content allegedly scribbled on them in red marker ink were found near a Christian community.\n\nThe reports sparked outrage among the Muslim community, and the violence that ensued saw mobs attacking and looting private homes belonging to Christians.\n\nPolice told the BBC that possessions belonging to Christians were pulled into the streets and set on fire.\n\nYassir Bhatti, a 31-year-old Christian, was one of those forced to flee their homes.\n\n\"They broke the windows, doors and took out fridges, sofas, chairs and other household items to pile them up in front of the Church to be burnt,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\n\"They also burnt and desecrated Bibles, they were ruthless.\"\n\nChurches and other buildings were attacked\n\nVideos on social media show protesters destroying Christian buildings while police appear to watch on.\n\nA worshipper was in tears as he told the BBC: \"They burnt everything. They destroyed our homes, this house of God.\"\n\nAnother woman, called Sonam, fled with her three children just before the area was attacked.\n\n\"We just left without dressing,\" she said. \"We picked up our small children and just ran.\"\n\nUsman Anwar, the police chief in Punjab province, was asked by the BBC why - according to some eyewitness accounts - in some cases, the police did not appear to try to stop the protestors.\n\nHe said that law enforcement did not want to escalate the tension in case it led to loss of lives.\n\nHe also confirmed the arrest of over 120 people for their involvement in the unrest. Police identified them through social media videos.\n\nThe police chief added that five cases have been filed against hundreds of people suspected of being responsible for the violence. More arrests are expected once the identification process is concluded.\n\nTwo years ago, a Sri Lankan man accused of blasphemy was killed by an enraged mob and had his body set on fire. In 2009, a group burned down about 60 homes and killed six people in the Gorja district in Punjab, after accusing them of insulting Islam.\n\nPakistan inherited the blasphemy law from the British in the 19th Century. In the 1980s, Islamabad introduced stiffer penalties, including the death sentence for insulting Islam.\n\nAround 96% of Pakistan's population is Muslim. Other countries, including Iran, Brunei, and Mauritania also impose capital punishment for insulting religion.\n\nThe violence has sparked protests by Christians in several Pakistani cities, including Hyderbabad\n\nReligion-fuelled violence in Pakistan has risen since the country made blasphemy punishable by death, as it \"bolsters violent behaviour,\" Iftekharul Bashar, a researcher at the think-tank RSIS who focuses on political and religious violence in South Asia, told the BBC.\n\n\"The Pakistani society has experienced increased fragmentation, driven by widening economic disparities, leading to an upsurge in violence directed towards minority religious groups,\" Mr Bashar said, adding that the emergence of \"extremist and vigilante factions\" within Pakistan has also contributed to this.\n\nAmir Mir, the information minister for Punjab province, condemned the latest alleged blasphemy and said in a statement that thousands of police had been sent to the area, with dozens of people detained.\n\nThe angry group was mostly made up of people from an Islamist political party called Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a government source told Reuters. The TLP has denied any involvement.\n\nCaretaker PM Anwar ul-Haq Kakar called for swift action against those responsible for the violence.\n\nAnd Pakistani bishop Azad Marshall, in the neighbouring city of Lahore, said the Christian community was \"deeply pained and distressed\" by the events.\n\n\"We cry out for justice and action from law enforcement and those who dispense justice, and the safety of all citizens to intervene immediately and assure us that our lives are valuable in our own homeland,\" he posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.", "Cheryl Hole said abuse she received for being on the BBC show proved her point about hate towards the LGBTQ+ community\n\nDrag artist Cheryl Hole said the online abuse she had received for appearing on Celebrity MasterChef highlighted the \"hate\" directed at LGBTQ+ people.\n\nEarlier this week, she told the BBC in an interview that representation on high-profile TV shows was important.\n\nShe has since posted on X, formerly Twitter, that people have claimed her drag name and act was misogynistic and spoke of other abuse.\n\nThe BBC said MasterChef was \"proud of its diverse and inclusive cast\".\n\nA spokesperson for Cheryl said drag had \"a long successful history in British mainstream entertainment\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cheryl Hole This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC ahead of Wednesday's show, Cheryl, who rose to fame on RuPaul's Drag Race UK, said participating in shows like MasterChef was a way to \"have our voices and stories heard and show we're nothing to be feared\".\n\nShe said it felt like \"the movement is going a bit backwards\" and pointed to a homophobic stabbing in Clapham on Sunday and bans on drag performers in parts of the US.\n\nAfter being targeted with abusive comments, Cheryl, from Essex, said on X: \"All I will say is people clearly don't understand the art form of drag and it's a celebration of women.\n\n\"Women shaped me into the person I am today either through music, their words of wisdom or support.\"\n\nShe said people could \"hurl abuse\" but it all \"stemmed from me speaking up and using my platform on the hate that is directed to our community and you've proved everyone right\".\n\nShe added that Celebrity MasterChef, presented on BBC One by John Torode and Gregg Wallace, was \"a light hearted entertainment cooking show. I'm not doing anything other than using a few pots and pans & an oven\".\n\nOn Instagram, she said the \"haters\" did not \"faze\" her.\n\nCheryl shot into the public eye when she joined the queens in season one of Drag Race UK\n\nThe BBC said: \"MasterChef is proud of its diverse and inclusive cast across all its series. Drag artists have featured twice before in the Celebrity series.\"\n\nKitty Scott Claus came fifth in Celebrity MasterChef 2022 and Baga Chipz appeared on the show in 2020.\n\nCheryl's spokesperson said: \"Having a drag star on the show is nothing newsworthy in 2023.\n\n\"Drag has always appeared on prime-time family television as both Dame Edna and Lily Savage's careers show.\n\n\"Drag has a long successful history in British mainstream entertainment, so any attempt to whip up controversy around this appearance is another effort to create an unnecessary culture war.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City added the Uefa Super Cup to the Treble they claimed last season with victory over Sevilla on penalties in Athens.\n\nPep Guardiola's Champions League winners lost the Community Shield to Arsenal in a shootout, but saw their fortunes transformed when Sevilla's Nemanja Gudelj hit the bar after nine successful penalties.\n\nCity had to come from behind in an entertaining encounter to force penalties after a towering header from Youssef En-Nesyri put the Europa League holders ahead on 25 minutes.\n\nSevilla goalkeeper Bono and his Manchester City counterpart Ederson both excelled with fine saves before man-of-the-match Cole Palmer rose at the far post in the 63rd minute to level with a looping header from Rodri's cross.\n\nIt set up the tense finale that resulted in another piece of silverware being added to Guardiola's vast collection.\n• None What did you make of Man City's performance? Have your say here\n\nThe talented Palmer has already made an impact this season with a spectacular goal in the Community Shield against Arsenal.\n\nThe 21-year-old's performance here in Athens not only made a case for further first-team action but also drew praise from a predecessor.\n\nRiyad Mahrez, now with Al-Ahli in Saudi Arabia, tweeted appreciation of Palmer's performance when he was substituted - and the youngster could be pleased with his work in stifling conditions.\n\nHe had already tested Bono and shown nice touches in the first half before guiding in the header for City's equaliser.\n\nPalmer's languid left-footed style on City's right flank posed a real threat, with several inviting deliveries not getting the reward they deserved.\n\nHe was deservedly announced as the game's best performer on a night when City had to cope with fierce humidity and heat which were physically taxing for both sides.\n\nGuardiola was able to give expensive summer signing Josko Gvardiol his first start in defence and when it came to penalties City were flawless.\n\nErling Haaland, Julian Alvarez, Mateo Kovacic, Jack Grealish and Kyle Walker were successful, before Sevilla blinked first to start the celebrations for the English side that also won the Premier League and FA Cup last season.\n\nWhile no-one could seriously make a case for the Uefa Super Cup being anywhere near the top of City's list of priorities, Guardiola made it clear how desperately he wanted to win the trophy - and his joy when the shootout was over was a clear illustration of that.\n\nAfter previous triumphs with Barcelona and Bayern Munich, he became the first coach to win the competition with three different clubs.\n\nCity finally climbed the mountain after seasons of disappointment in the Champions League with their June success against Inter Milan and wanted victory here as further affirmation of their new standing among Europe's elite.\n\nThey had to fight for it, though, and were not at their best against their Spanish opponents, who will regret missed opportunities in the second half before Palmer struck.\n\nBut the suffering was worthwhile for City as they were rewarded with another major prize.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Manchester City 1(5), Sevilla 1(4). Nemanja Gudelj (Sevilla) hits the bar with a right footed shot.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(5), Sevilla 1(4). Kyle Walker (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(4), Sevilla 1(4). Gonzalo Montiel (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(4), Sevilla 1(3). Jack Grealish (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(3), Sevilla 1(3). Ivan Rakitic (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(3), Sevilla 1(2). Mateo Kovacic (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(2), Sevilla 1(2). Rafa Mir (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(2), Sevilla 1(1). Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(1), Sevilla 1(1). Lucas Ocampos (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(1), Sevilla 1. Erling Haaland (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Will the faithfuls unmask the traitors? 24 Aussies take on the ultimate game of trust and treachery", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVeteran broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has died at the age of 88.\n\nHis TV career spanned seven decades, and he interviewed the world's biggest stars on his long-running chat show.\n\nSir Elton John was among the former guests paying tribute to the \"TV legend\", who was a \"real icon who brought out the very best\" in guests.\n\nSir Michael Caine agreed he \"brought the best of everyone he met\", while Sir David Attenborough said he \"always wanted the interviewee to shine\".\n\nSir David, who was a guest on Parkinson a number of times, told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: \"With Michael, it was always friendly, always thorough, always intelligent, always a pleasure to do it, and I think that came over no matter who his interviewee was.\n\n\"He always did his homework, he always knew what the interesting bits were, and he steered you through.\"\n\nHe added: \"As a viewer, you knew if Michael was asking the questions there were going to be good questions, they would elicit good answers.\"\n\nStephen Fry appeared on the show in 2002 with comedian Robin Williams\n\nComedian and broadcaster Stephen Fry described being interviewed by Sir Michael as \"impossibly thrilling\".\n\n\"The genius of Parky was that unlike most people (and most of his guests, me included) he was always 100% himself. On camera and off. 'Authentic' is the word I suppose.\"\n\nFormer cricket umpire Dickie Bird, a friend since childhood, told the PA news agency: \"His friendship meant more to me than anything else. If I wanted any advice, I would ring Parky up. He helped me in so many, many ways.\"\n\nHe added: \"There will never be a chat show host like Michael Parkinson. He was the best. There will never be anyone better than him in your lifetime, my lifetime or anyone else's lifetime.\"\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie described Sir Michael as \"truly one of a kind, an incredible broadcaster and journalist who will be hugely missed\".\n\n\"Michael was the king of the chat show and he defined the format for all the presenters and shows that followed,\" Davie said.\n\nRadio 4 presenter Nick Robinson said: \"He was the greatest interviewer of our age who owned Saturday night TV for year after year.\"\n\nSinger Elaine Paige added: \"Such very sad news that Sir Michael Parkinson has died. Have known him for many years, sang on his TV chat show and attended many events with him.\n\n\"A legendary interviewer that will be remembered as the best of his profession. We will never see his like again.\"\n\nGwyneth Paltrow was among Sir Michael's guests in 2003\n\nBroadcaster and author Gyles Brandreth said Sir Michael's chat shows were \"truly engaging conversations that brought out the best in his guests\".\n\n\"And what an array of guests,\" he continued. \"'Parky' was one of my heroes - and a lovely guy. A privilege to have known and worked with him.\"\n\nComic Dara Ó Briain wrote: \"I had the privilege of doing the Michael Parkinson show three times and it the most I ever felt like I was in 'proper showbiz'.\n\n\"He was a consummate pro on-screen, and generous and encouraging off-screen.\"\n\nSir Michael said boxing great Muhammad Ali was his favourite guest\n\nSir Michael introduced the first Parkinson show in 1971 on BBC television. The show ran initially for 11 years and spanned hundreds of episodes in which Sir Michael combined an avuncular style with a journalistic background.\n\nHe returned to the BBC in 1998 for another run of the show. Sir Michael estimated he had interviewed more than 2,000 guests in total.\n\nSir Michael's high-profile guests included Sir Billy Connolly, Muhammad Ali, Sir Elton John, Madonna and Dame Helen Mirren. Of the many celebrities he interviewed, Sir Michael said Ali was his favourite.\n\nSir Michael was made a CBE in 2000 and was knighted in 2008\n\nBorn in 1935 in the south Yorkshire village of Cudworth, Sir Michael was the son of a miner who instilled in his son a love of cricket.\n\nHe achieved two O-Levels and got a job collating sports results on a local newspaper.\n\nAfter two years in the British army, he worked as a journalist for the Manchester Guardian (later renamed the Guardian) before joining the Daily Express in London.\n\nHe moved into television as a current affairs presenter and reporter for both Granada and the BBC before he was recruited to present his self-titled show on BBC One.\n\nHe also hosted game show Give Us A Clue, which also featured Liza Goddard and Lionel Blair\n\nSir Michael brought down the curtain on more than 30 years of his chat show in 2007 with a special two-hour final episode featuring David Beckham, Sir Michael Caine, Sir David Attenborough, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Edna Everage, Sir Billy Connolly, Peter Kay and Jamie Cullum.\n\nElsewhere, his TV career also included ITV's TV-am breakfast show, Give Us a Clue and BBC One's Going For a Song, while he had a three-year stint hosting Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s.\n\nSir Michael also hosted a Sky Arts series called Michael Parkinson: Masterclass from 2012 to 2014.\n\nHe was made a CBE in 2000 and was knighted in 2008.\n\nThe presenter revealed he was receiving radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer in 2013, and said he got the all-clear from doctors two years later.\n\nA statement from Sir Michael's family on Thursday said: \"After a brief illness Sir Michael Parkinson passed away peacefully at home last night in the company of his family.\n\n\"The family request that they are given privacy and time to grieve.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Lucy Frazer called Sir Michael a \"broadcasting giant who set a gold standard for the television interview\".\n\n\"He spent his life entertaining millions of us with his Saturday night talk show and was one of our most treasured TV personalities,\" she said. \"My thoughts are with Michael's family and friends.\"\n\nYorkshire County Cricket Club said it would hold a minute's silence before play in York on Thursday \"to show our respects\" for Sir Michael.\n\nBarnsley Football Club said it had \"lost one of its favourite sons\", adding the club was \"deeply saddened\" to hear of Sir Michael's death.\n\nBBC One will re-broadcast a documentary, Parkinson at 50, on Thursday at 21:00 BST, in tribute to Sir Michael.", "More than 200 captive-bred water voles have been released at a secret location close to Haweswater, as part of an attempt to create a thriving population of the endangered species in Cumbria.\n\nConservationists and volunteers carried the semi-aquatic mammals to their new home in temporary soft-release pens, to allow them a few days to acclimatise.\n\nAlthough, 10 of the older ones were freed directly into the water.\n\nNearly wiped out in recent decades, the species was widespread across the UK.\n\nThis reintroduction is the first in the Lake District.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVolunteers will check the pens in the coming days, eventually removing them when the newly wild voles have moved into their own burrows.\n\nThis release is the culmination of more than two years of work restoring a river valley in the Haweswater Reserve, which is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and United Utilities.\n\nAccording to the charity, in the past century the UK has seen an estimated water-vole population of eight million drop to about 132,000, as the species disappeared from 94% of the sites it had occupied.\n\nOne of the key projects in Haweswater has been controlling the population of American mink, first brought to Britain in the 1920s for fur farms.\n\nThe animals were all checked before being released\n\nAccording to the People's Trust for Endangered Species, they began escaping those farms and were breeding in the wild by the mid-1950s.\n\nThe water vole's defences, diving beneath the water and kicking up a screen of dirt or hiding in their burrows, were insufficient. A female mink can fit into water-vole burrows and wipe out entire colonies and populations along waterways.\n\nRSPB conservation scientist Dr Ashely Lyons said the water vole had become a \"missing piece\" of this landscape.\n\n\"Through their burrows, they dig up the soil and bring nutrients to the surface, which helps vegetation,\" she said.\n\n\"They also nibble plants, leaving room for other plants to come through. And they're an important part of the food chain. It's fabulous to see them back here.\"\n\nWater voles have been missing from the Cumbrian landscape for decades\n\nThe project, a partnership between the Eden Rivers Trust, Cumbria Connect and the Environment Agency, will see a total of about 350 voles released at two locations.\n\nIt was exciting to set them free in the Cumbrian landscape, Dave Greaves, from the Eden Rivers Trust, said.\n\n\"It's lovely to see them back where they should be,\" he said.", "Drug users who take medicines not prescribed to them have been warned they are \"playing Russian roulette\".\n\nIt comes after a court in Londonderry was told there were three drug-related deaths and five cardiac arrests in the north west at the weekend.\n\nThe Public Health Agency said it was aware of deaths where it was suspected pregabalin and a mixture of drugs were taken.\n\nHe said the drugs were often bought online.\n\n\"The drugs we are talking about are manufactured on a production line somewhere,\" Mr Kyle, manager of the HURT centre in Derry, told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme.\n\n\"There is not any quality control, no one knows what's in them.\n\n\"To be honest it is Russian roulette for those people who are using them. Who knows what is in them?\"\n\nHe said very few of HURT's service users took one substance on its own.\n\n\"There is poly-drug use and alcohol use, that really multiplies the risk factor,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, police in Derry said a batch of extra-strength pregabalin tablets were missing after the three drug-related deaths.\n\nNews of the three deaths first emerged during a court hearing of a 36-year-old woman charged with a number of drug offences on Tuesday.\n\nA police officer told Londonderry Magistrates' Court that pregabalin tablets found as part of the investigation were \"four times stronger\" than normal.\n\nPregabalin is normally used to treat epilepsy and anxiety, according to the NHS.\n\nIt was upgraded to a class C drug in Northern Ireland in 2019, which made it illegal to have the drugs without a prescription or supply or sell them to others.\n\nIn a statement, the PHA warned people against taking any substance that has not been prescribed by a medical professional.\n\nGary Rutherford is a founder of drug abuse charity Arc Fitness in Londonderry\n\nGary Rutherford, founder of drug abuse charity Arc Fitness in Derry, told BBC Radio Ulster more potent drugs are being sourced online.\n\n\"If you are using pregabalin amidst other medications, such as codeine-based medications, opiates or benzodiazepines, if you are using these or have bought them recently I would be extremely cautious on how you use them, if you use them at all,\" he said.\n\n\"Drug deaths are increasing year on year, so it's not going away.\n\n\"We need to get better at providing solutions and give help, support and provide better education around these drugs.\"\n\nOne man who turned his life around after being addicted to drugs has said there is always hope.\n\nHenry Roddy now works with Mr Rutherford at Arc Fitness and helps provide support to people addicted to drugs.\n\nHenry Roddy is a recovering drug addict and now helps provide support to those struggling with substance abuse\n\n\"When I got sober I realised how close I was to jail and even death,\" Mr Roddy said.\n\n\"It's a scary time to look back on and sometimes I take a shiver when I remember how I used to think about things and how I used to justify things.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStars who were interviewed by Sir Michael Parkinson over the years - from Sir David Attenborough to David Beckham - have paid tribute to the \"TV legend\" following his death at the age of 88.\n\nSir Michael interviewed many of the world's biggest stars on his long-running self-titled chat show.\n\nSir Elton John said he was \"a TV legend who was one of the greats\", and Beckham wrote: \"We say goodbye to the best.\"\n\n\"I don't remember being frightened of being interviewed by Michael, because it was just like talking to a really good friend,\" she said.\n\n\"His enjoyment and love of doing it, it was a complete joy to watch. He never shunned asking a direct question.\"\n\nIn his tribute, Sir Elton added: \"I loved his company and his incredible knowledge of cricket and Barnsley Football Club. A real icon who brought out the very best in his guests.\"\n\nBeckham appeared on Parkinson with wife Victoria in 2001, when she famously revealed his Goldenballs nickname.\n\nThe former footballer wrote: \"I was so lucky to not just be interviewed by Michael but to be able to spend precious time talking about football and family, our 2 passions. Plus the GoldenBalls moment…\"\n\nActor Sir Michael Caine said: \"Michael Parkinson was irreplaceable, he was charming, always wanted to have a good laugh. He brought the best of everyone he met. Always looked forward to be interviewed by him.\"\n\nA statement from the chat show host's family on Thursday said: \"After a brief illness Sir Michael Parkinson passed away peacefully at home last night in the company of his family.\n\n\"The family request that they are given privacy and time to grieve.\"\n\nAs told to BBC Radio 4's The World At One\n\nAs a viewer, you knew if Michael was asking the questions, there were going to be good questions, and they would elicit good answers.\n\nAs a network controller, I thought he was the best freelance interviewer in the business. He was always knowledgeable, he was absolutely classless. You knew he was not a southerner, you knew he was a northerner, and that was a very refreshing voice in those days.\n\nYou knew that he would do his homework, and that he would ask questions that didn't occur to you, as well as those that did. I thought he was the best interviewer in the business at that time.\n\nHe was extremely generous. He wanted you to shine, and not particularly himself. He would always laugh at your jokes, and give you an opportunity to make them sound funnier than in fact they were. When you were told that he was going to be the interviewer, it was like meeting a friend. Though in fact we didn't meet very often, but you knew that he was on your side as much as on his own.\n\nHe was Saturday night television, and there's nobody like him doing the sort of things that he did when his career was at its height. Television doesn't give that kind of space to interviews these days, to its loss, and of course Michael did it better than anybody.\n\nI remember he was interviewing me and Billy Connolly together, and of course Billy Connolly made both of us laugh a lot but he laughed even at my jokes, and my stories, and, as it were, looked after me to make sure I wasn't swamped by Billy Connolly, who is after all a very big character.\n\nWith Michael, it was always friendly, always thorough, always intelligent, always a pleasure to do it, and I think that came over no matter who his interviewee was.\n\nHe always knew what the interesting bits were, and he steered you through that sort of thing. He was always generous in the way he framed his questions. He wanted you, his interviewee, to shine.\n\nI didn't ever see him uncomfortable, he was unflappable. It didn't matter what you did, whether it was a puppet that tried to consume him, or if he was interviewing a great intellect, he was always in charge, but not dominantly so.\n\nComedian and travel presenter Sir Michael Palin described the broadcaster as \"incisive and very sharp\".\n\nSir Michael told The World At One: \"He wanted to get people on his show who entertained him and therefore who he thought would entertain the audience. He was not picky. He was not trying to diss anybody. He was an enthusiast and he was very positive.\n\n\"It didn't always work,\" he noted. \"In some cases, [interviewees] suspected what they saw as the difficult questions he might ask in among all the fun and the enjoyment.\n\n\"Because he was a very good journalist, and a very proud journalist, and it was very important for him not to give people an easy ride. But he did basically choose people he liked, because he liked to be entertained himself.\"\n\nOn social media, TV presenter Davina McCall described Sir Michael as \"unique and always so well researched\".\n\n\"[He was] loved by all the biggest stars in the world and they were all desperate to be interviewed by him,\" she continued. \"Funny, self deprecating, sharp, charming, strong, honest and a fantastic listener. His legacy is enormous.\"\n\nFormer prime minister Theresa May said she and Sir Michael shared a passion for cricket (the pair pictured at Lord's cricket ground in 2018)\n\nFormer prime minister Theresa May said Sir Michael was \"a remarkable man and an outstanding broadcaster\".\n\n\"We knew each other well through his charitable work in my constituency and our mutual passion for cricket. My thoughts and prayers are with his family,\" she added.\n\nMatch of the Day host Gary Lineker described Sir Michael a \"a truly brilliant broadcaster and wonderful interviewer\", while presenter Dermot O'Leary said he was \"one of the greats\".\n\n\"But above all else he listened… in a world full of noise,\" O'Leary added. \"RIP Michael, thanks for the education.\"\n\nBoxer Frank Bruno praised Sir Michael's ability \"to frame and gift wrap the guest to deliver to the TV viewer\".\n\nTV presenter Piers Morgan said Sir Michael was the greatest of TV interviewers. \"Wonderful character, great writer, sublimely talented broadcaster, and hilarious lunch partner. Loved him,\" he said.\n\nSir Michael Parkinson was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008\n\nSir Michael was described as a \"giant\" by comic and impressionist Rory Bremner.\n\nGood Morning Britain host Susanna Reid said Sir Michael \"was the King of Interviewers\".\n\n\"He also enjoyed being interviewed. [I'm] lucky to have had that pleasure. He was authentic, funny and charming. Thank you for being the best.\"\n\nOfcom chairman and former TV executive Sir Michael Grade described the chat show host as \"a master of his craft\".\n\n\"He was charming, not aggressive, not looking for a cheap soundbite,\" he told BBC News. \"He prodded and probed, but he wanted to give the stars the opportunity to express themselves, tell us who they were.\n\n\"The show was about who was on, it wasn't about Michael, he saw his role really as a journalist, to get the best out of his subject. His library of interviews is like a popular history of the 20th Century.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer cricket umpire Dickie Bird has paid tribute in an emotional interview to his \"dearest friend\".\n\nThe pair became friends when they opened the batting together for Barnsley Cricket Club as youngsters, and Bird said they remained \"so, so close\".\n\n\"I only spoke to him yesterday morning,\".\n\n\"His voice sounded weak to me and he said 'you know Dickie, I've got a feeling I'm getting towards the end'.\n\n\"And I said 'no, come on, keep going, you've got to keep your chin up, keep going'.\n\n\"And we shed a few tears, and we said our goodbyes.\"\n\nHe added: \"He always had a smile on his face. And every time we met, of course, we always talked about cricket.\"\n\nSir Michael introduced the first Parkinson show in 1971 on BBC television. The series ran initially for 11 years and spanned hundreds of episodes in which Sir Michael combined an avuncular style with a journalistic background.\n\nHe returned to the BBC in 1998 for another run of the show. Sir Michael estimated he had interviewed more than 2,000 guests in total. Of the many celebrities he interviewed, Sir Michael said Ali was his favourite.\n\nHis TV career also included ITV's TV-am breakfast show, Give Us a Clue and BBC One's Going For a Song, while he had a three-year stint hosting Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s.\n\nHe was made a CBE in 2000 and was knighted in 2008.\n\nThe presenter revealed he was receiving radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer in 2013, and said he got the all-clear from doctors two years later.", "The defendants were on trial at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court\n\nFive men have been convicted of \"sickening\" historical child sexual offences as part of a grooming gang.\n\nMohammed Ghani, 38, Insar Hussain, 38, Jahn Shahid Ghani, 50, Martin Rhodes, 39, and Ali Razza Hussain Kazmi, 35, sexually exploited two teenage girls in Rochdale between 2002 and 2006.\n\nThe victims would often be picked up from outside their schools, still in their uniforms, and sexually assaulted.\n\nThey will be sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court at a later date.\n\nThe first victim, known as Girl A, was just 12 when the abuse first started, the court heard.\n\nGirl A, was filmed being sexually assaulted while passed out as members of the gang laughed, the trial heard.\n\nThe jury was told the video was then shared around the Greater Manchester town.\n\nThe allegations only came to light in 2015 after Girl A told of being \"beaten and raped\" while on a parenting course and police were contacted.\n\nAs a result of what she told the police, they spoke with the second girl, Girl B - a childhood friend.\n\nNeither alleged victims, as complainants of sexual offences, can be identified.\n\nGirl A also told a friend that what had happened to her was \"so much worse\" than Three Girls - the BBC drama about child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.\n\nThe trial heard how Girl A only realised she was a victim of abuse in 2014 when she read the book behind the series.\n\nGirl A told her sister: \"That happened to me.\" She later wrote on social media that her experience was \"so much worse than what happened in Three Girls\".\n\nGirl B told the court how she and another girl were plied with drink before being persuaded to have sex by the gang members.\n\nGhani, Hussain, and Ghan and Kazmi were found guilty of child sexual offences following a trial while Rhodes pleaded guilty to child sexual offences.\n\nIkhlaq Yousef, 38, Aftar Khan, 34, and Mohammed Iqbal, 67, all of Rochdale, were found not guilty following the trial.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sarah Jackson, from Greater Manchester Police, praised the victims, who \"demonstrated such bravery in testifying against these offenders on their journey to justice\".\n\n\"This result is long-awaited - we are truly thankful to the victims and survivors for their continued patience and engagement,\" she said.\n\nFrances Killeen, senior crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"These men committed appalling offences for their own sexual gratification, with no thought for the lasting effects their offending would have on their victims.\n\n\"I would like to thank the two victims for coming forward and supporting a prosecution.\n\n\"I hope they can find some comfort in knowing their abusers will finally face the consequences of their actions.\"\n\nSharon Hubber, Rochdale Borough Council's director of children's services, said: \"These were sickening crimes committed against two vulnerable young girls, whose strength and determination was instrumental in bringing this case forward.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hozier said that AI that can mimic artists' voices can't create something based on a human experience\n\nIrish musician Hozier has said he would consider striking over the threat artificial intelligence (AI) poses to his industry.\n\nHollywood actors and writers are currently striking over a row about better contracts and protection from the use of AI.\n\nHozier told the BBC's Newsnight he would be willing to join similar strike action in the music industry.\n\nThe singer added he was not sure if AI \"meets the definition of art\".\n\nIn July, Hollywood writers and actors manned picket lines for the first time in decades. Among their concerns was a proposal by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to keep \"digital replicas\" of actors.\n\nBut musicians are yet to follow suit regarding the threat AI poses to their own industry. The technology could be used to write songs or mimic well-known artists.\n\nIn April, a song that used AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd was removed from streaming services following criticism that it violated copyright law.\n\nAsked if he could imagine going on strike over the threat AI poses to music, Hozier, whose real name is Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, said: \"Joining in solidarity if there was… action on that? Absolutely.\"\n\n\"Whether [AI is] art or not, I think, is nearly a philosophical debate,\" the Grammy-nominated singer, well known for his song Take Me to Church, told presenter Victoria Derbyshire.\n\n\"It can't create something based on a human experience. So I don't know if it meets the definition of art.\"\n\nLast week, the Financial Times reported that Google and Universal Music are in talks to license artists' melodies and voices for songs generated by AI.\n\nDuring his interview, Hozier also discussed the death of fellow Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor.\n\nHozier said he was walking on a road paved by fellow Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor, who died last month\n\nThe singer reflected that he was \"walking on this road that she paved\", after she ripped up a picture of the Pope on US TV in 1992, in protest against child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.\n\nThree decades later, Hozier's debut single Take Me to Church, which he said criticised the church's teaching of \"shame about sexual orientation\", reached number one in 12 countries and remains the 30th most streamed song of all time.\n\n\"I think sensibilities have changed,\" Hozier said of the difference in reaction. \"I think part of it is because Sinead was a woman. I think a lot of it is she was one of the first who had that courage to stand up and say it.\n\n\"That was such a taboo at the time.\"\n\nHozier suggested the \"mission statement\" of his debut single is \"more applicable now than it was 10 years ago\".\n\n\"I'm not delighted about this, but I think in some ways it is more applicable… We didn't have LGBTQ+ free zones in the European Union 10 years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn't have armed militia waiting outside of, you know, gay and queer spaces and with this sort of terrible threat hanging over that.\"\n\nWhen asked if he would ever perform in Russia, Saudi Arabia, or other states that repress minorities, the artist described the issue as \"a tricky one\".\n\n\"Do we not repress minorities here? Or in America?\" he asked, as he revealed he had turned down an invite to an event that was sponsored by the Russian state.\n\n\"I was invited to perform once in the Vatican City, which was interesting… They invited me to sing Take Me to Church, I believe, at one point.\"\n\n\"And you said no?\" Derbyshire asked. \"Oh yeah. That would've been fun,\" Hozier quipped.\n\nThe musician spoke to Newsnight in his only UK broadcast interview ahead of the launch of his new album Unreal Unearth.\n\nThe album, which is partly inspired by Italian poet Dante's Inferno, and his experience of the pandemic, is released on 18 August.\n\nThe full interview is broadcast on Newsnight at 22:30 BST on BBC Two, the BBC News Channel and on iPlayer.", "Volunteers organise supplies for a trip to Lahaina. \"Everyone's in survival mode,\" one said\n\nWhen deadly fires torched the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, improvised groups of volunteers raced to respond. In convoys of trucks, they delivered supplies and were some of the first to witness the devastation in the place many of them called home.\n\nAlong an industrial road in Kahului, not far from Maui's northern shore, Auntie Lehua Kekahuna sat in the back office of a nondescript single storey building. A handful of men stood around her - tall and broad, half wore bright yellow construction vests, with dirt caked on their faces and under their nails. When Kekahuna spoke, they stayed quiet.\n\nIt was Tuesday, one week after a fast-moving fire tore through Lahaina, levelling most of the historic town and killing more than 100. In the last few days, efforts from local, state and federal agencies have come into focus - with hundreds of emergency personnel deployed and $2.3m (£1.81m) in assistance to families disbursed so far.\n\nBut in the immediate aftermath of the fires, before official forces had mobilised, Kekahuna already had. She and her friend, Duke Sparks, devised their own response within hours. Sparks shut down his central Maui restaurant, calling in staff to make hot meals for shelters and emergency responders, and the two collected donations for evacuees. And - within a day - they had organised an impromptu team of truck drivers to transport that aid to Lahaina, moving in and out of the devastated town more than a dozen times even when official routes were closed.\n\n\"Auntie says it all the time, when the kāhea comes, we'll be there,\" said Koa Gomes, a nephew of Kekahuna, using the Hawaiian word for 'call'. \"We're our own soldiers.\"\n\nTheir efforts are part of a wider network of support run by locals outside the formal channels of government agencies and NGOs. According to dozens of people here, that grassroots aid has been crucial in the face of governmental bureaucracy and delays.\n\n\"Honestly we don't disrespect our government,\" Kekahuna said. \"But we're not waiting.\"\n\n\"We don't disrespect our government,\" Auntie Lehua Kekahuna said. \"But we're not waiting\"\n\nThe group's headquarters are now at Shaka Detailing, an auto detailing company owned by Kekahuna's son, Sonny, that is around 25 miles from Lahaina. The short hallway to Kekahuna's office was lined with donations, neatly ordered piles of nappies, food, water and batteries.\n\nKekahuna's authority was clear, her low voice silencing entire rooms. \"She's our auntie, she's a mother, she's a grandmother,\" Gomes said. \"When she speaks we keep our mouths shut.\"\n\nPassing through the small building was an assortment of drivers, most stopping on their way to or from Lahaina. For days they have filled their trucks, owned or borrowed, before setting off to the frontlines and using connections with local police to pass through checkpoints designed to keep non-official personnel away.\n\nMost of these men are from Lahaina, meaning that some of the first to see the town after it was destroyed were those who call it home.\n\n\"It's survival, everyone's in survival mode,\" said Casey Smythe, from Lahaina, who drove in the first convoy to West Maui. \"You're in disbelief. How could this happen?\". During his first trip in, he said, he cried the entire time.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nSome supplies are deposited at makeshift hubs, dubbed Kanaka [Hawaiian] Costcos. Others are delivered door to door, to the few homes still standing.\n\n\"Before FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] and Red Cross was there, don't take it in the wrong way, but Kanaka Costco was there,\" Smythe said. \"We were there.\"\n\n\"Lahaina itself, it looks like hell,\" said Eddie Iniba in Kekahuna's office, stopping in after an overnight shift in the levelled town, with mud and sweat streaking his shirt. Streetlights in Lahaina were still down, he said, and the only visible sights at night were of police barricades and military personnel.\n\n\"It's like watching an apocalypse movie,\" he said. \"It hurts.\"\n\nEddie Iniba has made several trips to Lahaina. \"It looks like hell,\" he said\n\nIniba and several others spoke of a different kind of horror inside Lahaina - the looting of both vacant homes and of the bodies of the dead.\n\nOne man, Chaymen Enomoto, said he was forced to stop a friend from assaulting someone who they found pillaging in Lahaina.\n\n\"He found someone looting the body of an elderly woman who was charred up. She had gold and jewellery everywhere.\" His friend \"broke\" at the sight, Enomoto said, and used a knife to attack the looter.\n\n\"It took every ounce of me to stop him from killing this guy, because I felt the same anger he was going through.\"\n\nOfficials have denied claims of violence or looting in Lahaina. At a press conference last week, Hawaii's Governor Josh Green said there had been \"virtually no conflicts between the residents of Maui that have survived\".\n\nAsked about these comments, Enomoto replied: \"We're catching it before they get there.\"\n\nFEMA, the behemoth federal agency tasked with handling natural disasters, has provided $2.3m in assistance to more than 1,300 households so far and sent more than 190 search and rescue team members as well as hundreds more of its own personnel. The agency has urged survivors to register online to receive housing and other assistance - including an immediate payment of $700 for food and water - but with limited power in West Maui, this aid remains out of reach for some.\n\nThe agency cannot offer direct assistance for a recovery operation until a state requests a disaster declaration from the president. In Hawaii, this did not come until Thursday - two days after the fires began.\n\nTaken together, the accounts from Lahaina suggest improvised volunteer groups have acted as a substitute for aid workers, demolition crews and law enforcement. And while neither Kekahuna or Sparks criticised the government explicitly, their story reflects a common sentiment in Maui - that locals have stepped in to fill the void of a slow official response.\n\n\"All those Red Cross people, bless their hearts, flying in from out of state,\" Kekahuna said. \"Do you think they're going to pick up the bodies? You think they can pick up metal? You think they can pick up cars?\"\n\nShe continued: \"Our locals are going to be the people to clean up this mess.\"\n\nRefrigerated trucks sit at the Maui forensic facility. Most on the island expect the death toll to continue its climb\n\nSome West Maui residents have said they received more help from unofficial supply chains than from government channels. Inside Shaka Detailing this week, a man dropping off donations said of the volunteer group: \"They're the only ones doing anything.\"\n\nAnd the alienation between locals and their government has deepened due to a widespread belief that the precise scale of destruction has been downplayed. On Tuesday, Hawaii's governor said he expects the death toll to grow significantly, suggesting it may double as the search progresses.\n\n\"We live by the forensic facility,\" said Gomes, Kekahuna's nephew. \"There are four reefers [refrigerated trucks]. One container, easy, 100 bodies in there. They don't even have enough body bags.\"\n\nAnd from that same view, Gomes has watched families be called in to identify the remains. \"All you can hear is crying, screaming, wailing,\" Gomes said. \"But we can't call on anybody, we get nothing.\"", "Graham Linehan appeared on a small stage outside the Scottish Parliament\n\nFather Ted writer Graham Linehan has appeared at a comedy show outside the Scottish Parliament, after it was cancelled twice by Edinburgh venues.\n\nComedy Unleashed moved the gig to Holyrood on Thursday when a second venue declined to host the show.\n\nThe original venue, Leith Arches, had pulled out amid concern about Mr Linehan's views on transgender issues.\n\nMr Linehan has threatened legal action if the venue refuses to reverse its decision and apologise.\n\nThe cancellation of the show had sparked a wider debate on freedom of speech.\n\nA small temporary stage was erected near the main entrance to the Holyrood building, where Mr Linehan appeared as part of the bill. About 100 people were in the audience.\n\nHis eyes were said to have welled up with tears as he closed the act, telling his audience: \"Comedy is my first love, it's the thing I love to do, but I have not been allowed to do that for five years.\"\n\nAfter the show he told BBC Scotland News: \"It is important to make a stand. It is important to at least stand in front of a microphone, even if it's just for a second, and show that these people don't get to push the rest of us around.\"\n\nHis appearance in the comedy showcase was initially kept under wraps with organisers only describing him as a \"surprise famous cancelled comedian\" on the bill.\n\nBut the venue called off the entire show within hours of his identity being confirmed on Tuesday, saying they had not been made aware of the line-up in advance.\n\nGraham Linehan received an International Emmy Comedy Award for The IT Crowd in 2008\n\n\"We have made the decision to cancel this show as we are an inclusive venue and this does not align with our overall values,\" they said in a post on Instagram.\n\n\"We work very closely with the LGBT+ community, it is a considerable part of our revenue, we believe hosting this one off show would have a negative effect on future bookings,\" they later added.\n\nMr Linehan, who also wrote TV sitcoms The IT Crowd and Black Books, is often at the centre of heated rows over trans issues and women's rights on social media, with opponents accusing him of transphobia.\n\nIn a BBC Newsnight interview in 2020 he compared the medical treatment of transgender teenagers with puberty blockers to Nazi human experimentation.\n\nHe told TalkTV on Wednesday: \"The most important view I have is that it is a crime against humanity to tell children they may have been born in the wrong body.\"\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry, who was at the centre of a free speech row earlier this year, said the efforts to cancel Mr Linehan's show was a pattern of \"all-too familiar discrimination against people... who don't subscribe to gender identity ideology.\"\n\n\"That is Graham holds a view like me that a man can't become a woman and someone's gender identity, somebody's feelings about their gender should not trump the realist of the sex that they are born into,\" she told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime.\n\nJoanna Cherry appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last week\n\nMs Cherry added: \"It's astonishing that a comedy night in Edinburgh, during the largest arts festival in the world, should be prevented from going ahead simply because some people are offended by the views of the comedian and how he expresses himself.\n\n\"Free speech is freedom from consequences so long as the speech does not break the law and it's not against the law to be offensive or to say things which other people don't agree with.\"\n\nMr Linehan co-created the Channel 4 comedy Father Ted and later wrote Black Books and the Emmy-award winning The IT Crowd.\n\nA 2008 episode of The IT Crowd which involved a transgender storyline was pulled from Chanel 4's streaming service in 2020.\n\nHe was suspended from Twitter shortly afterwards, with the social media giant claiming he breached rules on \"hateful content\".\n\nIn an emotional BBC interview last year, the Dublin-born writer told Nolan Live he had been unfairly targeted over his views, losing him work and contributing to the break-up of his marriage.", "Fans watching in Melbourne react to Australia scoring against England\n\nThe Matildas' semi-final defeat to England in the Women's World Cup has become the most watched television show in Australia on record.\n\nThe game drew 11.15 million viewers at its peak on Wednesday as football fever gripped the host nation.\n\nHost broadcaster Channel Seven said an average audience of 7.13 million tuned in for the Sydney match.\n\n\"The Matildas have rewritten the history books,\" said Seven's head of network sport Lewis Martin.\n\nThe semi-final, which the Lionesses won 3-1, commanded the highest viewership ever recorded since the current rating system was established in 2001.\n\nSome 975,000 viewers watched the match on 7plus, which the network said was record viewership for a streaming event in Australia.\n\nIt added the final figure will likely be higher as the audience data, which is measured by research firm OzTAM, does not include people watching from pubs, live sites and stadiums.\n\nThe data also does not include those who watched on pay-TV broadcaster Optus Sport.\n\nMr Martin said Australia was \"captivated\" and the Matildas had \"captured the hearts and minds of the nation\".\n\n\"Seven is beyond proud to have played a part in bringing Australia together around our screens, as the Matildas' performance captured the Australian spirit like nothing we have seen in decades,\" he said.\n\nIt was the second time in less than a week that television records were broken in the country, which has a population of 25 million.\n\nOn Sunday, Australia's win over France after a thrilling penalty shootout had a peak audience of 7.2 million on Channel Seven.\n\nThe figures surpassed other major sporting events such as the Rugby World Cup final in 2003.\n\nMore than 8 million people are reported to have tuned in to watch Cathy Freeman's 400m final at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, which predates the current ratings system.\n\nAustralian fans will have one more chance to support the Matildas in the World Cup for their third-place play-off against Sweden in Brisbane on Saturday.\n\nEngland face Spain in the final in Sydney on Sunday.", "A number of the museum's items are \"missing, stolen or damaged\", it said\n\nThe British Museum in London has sacked a member of staff and police are investigating after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nItems including gold, jewellery and gems of semi-precious stones were among those missing from the museum, one of the UK's largest tourist attractions.\n\nThe majority of the items were kept in a storeroom, the museum said.\n\nBritish Museum director Hartwig Fischer said the museum would \"throw our efforts into the recovery of objects\".\n\nHe added: \"This is a highly unusual incident. I know I speak for all colleagues when I say that we take the safeguarding of all the items in our care extremely seriously.\n\n\"We have already tightened our security arrangements and we are working alongside outside experts to complete a definitive account of what is missing, damaged and stolen.\"\n\nLegal action would be taken against the staff member who was fired, the museum added.\n\nThe Economic Crime Command of the Metropolitan Police is investigating but no arrests have been made.\n\nThe British Museum has also started an independent review of security.\n\nNone of the items had recently been on display\n\nNone of the items, which dated from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD, had recently been on display and were kept primarily for academic and research purposes, the museum said.\n\nThe PA news agency said it understood the items were taken before 2023 and over a \"significant\" period of time.\n\nGeorge Osborne, chair of the British Museum, said: \"The trustees of the British Museum were extremely concerned when we learnt earlier this year that items of the collection had been stolen.\"\n\nHe added: \"We called in the police, imposed emergency measures to increase security, set up an independent review into what happened and lessons to learn, and used all the disciplinary powers available to us to deal with the individual we believe to be responsible.\"\n\nMr Fischer added the organisation had \"brought an end to this\", and was \"determined to put things right\".\n\nThe museum's independent review will be led by former trustee Sir Nigel Boardman and Chief Constable Lucy D'Orsi, of British Transport Police.\n\nThey will provide recommendations regarding future security arrangements and start \"a vigorous programme to recover the missing items\", according to the museum.\n\nSir Nigel said: \"It will be a painstaking job, involving internal and external experts, but this is an absolute priority, however long it takes, and we are grateful for the help we have already received.\"\n\nThe Bloomsbury-based attraction sees more than six million people visit it each year.\n\nIts collection spans six continents and two million years of history, including the Parthenon sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles - the fate of which is the subject of much discussion.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'This acrid smoke really sticks in your throat'\n\nThe first names of people killed by wildfires in Maui have been released by officials, one week after at least 111 people died on the Hawaiian island.\n\nRobert Dyckman, 74, and Buddy Jantoc, 79, were the first to be named.\n\nOn Wednesday night local time in Hawaii, County Maui officials confirmed Melva Benjamin, 71, Virginia Dofa, 90 and Alfredo Galinato, 79, were also killed in the fires.\n\nMore than 1,000 people are estimated still to be missing.\n\nThe fire, which destroyed the historic town of Lahaina within hours, has been followed by a slow and gruelling search for victims.\n\nMr Jantoc's body was discovered at his home in an old people's home in Lahaina, the New York Times reported.\n\nRelatives told the newspaper he was known by family as \"Mr Aloha\" and regaled them with tales of his heyday as a bass guitarist playing alongside Carlos Santana and George Benson.\n\n\"I'm hoping he was asleep,\" his daughter-in-law said. \"I hope to God he did not suffer.\"\n\nTwenty sniffer dogs trained to detect bodies have led teams on a block-by-block search of the wreckage, a 5sq mile (13sq km) area now filled with twisted metal and other debris.\n\nAnother 20 canine teams are expected to join the search, said Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) Administrator Deanne Criswell on Wednesday.\n\n\"This is a really hard disaster. And this is a really difficult search operation,\" she told reporters in Washington DC. \"This is also going to be a very long and hard recovery.\"\n\nPreviously on Tuesday evening, Governor Josh Green said 27% of the disaster site had been searched. In a televised address he warned the number of dead could climb significantly and even double over the next 10 days.\n\nOfficials must then complete the difficult work of identifying the dead, a process complicated by the severity of the victims' burns and one that requires forensic experts and DNA samples from family members.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I just want to put my stepfather's body to rest.'\n\nThirty specialists from federal mortuary teams are already in Maui and will soon be joined by more from the US defence department.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Hawaii on Monday, the White House said in a statement.\n\nMr Biden was asked by a reporter over the weekend about the rising death toll in Hawaii and responded: \"No comment.\" The president's apparent delay in visiting Maui, as well as that remark, has angered many locals, who told the BBC they see his absence as a slap in the face.\n\n\"Hey Mr President, how about Hawaii?\" said Chaymen Enomoto. \"'No comment'? That is a big screw you.\"\n\nMr Biden said on Tuesday that he had not yet visited because of concerns it would divert resources and attention from the humanitarian response. Jill Biden will accompany him to Hawaii, he said.\n\n\"I don't want to get in the way. I've been to too many disaster areas,\" he said. \"I want to be sure we don't disrupt ongoing recovery efforts.\"\n\nIt will probably be a long wait until the full scale of the destruction is understood. The Maui Emergency Management Agency has estimated it will cost $5.52bn (£4.3bn) to rebuild.\n\n\"We have officials who don't even want to go back to the site, that's how devastating [it is],\" said Maui resident Koa Gomes.\n\nMany people told the BBC they were frustrated by the scale and speed of the recovery efforts.\n\nOne resident, Les Munn, said he had so far received $500 (£392) from Fema - less than the price of a night in most hotel rooms on the island.\n\nFor now, he is still sleeping in a shelter.\n\nFema said Wednesday it had sent millions of litres of water and food to the island, and given $2.3m in assistance to families.\n\nBut in Lahaina, once Hawaii's royal capital, many people are relying on relief supplies co-ordinated by other Maui locals. Ice, water, clothing and other supplies are being delivered by grassroots groups.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the Honoapiilani Highway, the primary route into Lahaina, opened to non-residents for the first time since last week's fires. For days, the road was closed even to residents who sat in long queues for hours hoping to get in.\n\nThe road will be open to everyone during the day, with late-night access limited to West Maui residents, employees and first responders. Still, officials have asked that people travel to this part of the island only if necessary to live, work, or volunteer.\n\nThe vast majority of Lahaina's wreckage is yet to be searched", "Non-teaching staff such as learning support and janitorial workers will go on strike next month\n\nNon-teaching school staff in 10 council areas will go on strike on 13 and 14 September, GMB Scotland has announced.\n\nThe areas affected are Aberdeen, Clackmannanshire, Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar, Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Glasgow, Orkney, Renfrewshire and South Ayrshire.\n\nThe union said the offer \"does not come close\" to matching the cost of living and warned of disruption in schools.\n\nStaff in schools and early years working across catering, cleaning, pupil support, administration and janitorial services will take part in the action.\n\nGMB Scotland said Cosla, the body which represents local authorities, had refused to revise the pay offer or ask the Scottish government for support.\n\nCosla previously said the \"strong offer\" raised the local government living wage by 99p to £11.84 per hour.\n\nAbout 20,000 GMB members voted against the deal in April.\n\nUnite members in 10 Scottish councils also voted to strike over pay after the summer break - although dates have not yet been confirmed.\n\nUnison has yet to announce the results of its strike ballot to members.\n\nGMB Scotland senior organiser Keir Greenaway said: \"Scotland stands on the shoulders of our local authority workers and the value of their work must be reflected in their salaries.\n\n\"Cosla has refused to seriously engage with our members during what has been a protracted, frustrating process. If they had, parents and pupils would not now be facing disruption.\n\n\"Cosla and Scottish ministers need to engage now or risk turning a crisis into a calamity.\"\n\nA Cosla spokeswoman said council leaders had made a \"strong offer\" which clearly illustrates the value they place on their workforce.\n\nShe said: \"While the offer value in year is 5.5%, the average uplift on salaries going into the next financial year is 7%. Those on the Scottish Local Government Living Wage would get 9.12% and those at higher grades, where councils are experiencing severe recruitment challenges, would see 6.05%.\"\n\nHundreds of striking teachers joined a rally outside the Scottish Parliament in November last year\n\nSchools closures were expected across Scotland this time last year due to planned council strikes which included non-teaching staff. This was called off after a new pay offer was accepted.\n\nIn November teachers joined mass rallies in the first national schools strike in over a decade - resulting in the closure of nearly every primary and secondary school in the country, and many council nurseries.\n\nThis escalated when teachers took part in rolling strikes across every council area earlier this year. Action was eventually called off in March following a new pay offer.\n\nThe GMB union is giving councils plenty of warning of possible strike dates.\n\nIt insists there is still plenty of time to resolve the pay dispute.\n\nBut it knows that even the possibility of strikes which may close schools is a powerful weapon.\n\nLast year, a council pay dispute led to rubbish building up in Edinburgh and other cities. A settlement was made possible after the Scottish government gave councils more money to help them increase their pay offer.\n\nSo far, council body Cosla has not asked the government for more money for pay.\n\nSome council leaders believe a bigger pay offer may only be possible if the government helps to finance it.\n\nWithout a bigger pay offer, however it is financed, strikes would seem inevitable.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf is proud of the fact that strikes in the NHS in Scotland were avoided.\n\nBut could he soon be facing the second council strike within barely a year? And although teachers are not involved, it would also be the second time in recent months when education has been affected by industrial action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa.\n\nThirty-eight people, including children, were rescued, with footage showing them being helped ashore, some on stretchers, on the island of Sal.\n\nAlmost all those on board the boat, which was at sea for over a month, are thought to have been from Senegal.\n\nCape Verde officials have called for global action on migration to help prevent further loss of life.\n\nThe vessel was first spotted on Monday, police told the AFP news agency. Initial reports suggested that the boat had sunk but it was later clarified that it had been found drifting.\n\nThe wooden pirogue style boat was seen almost 320km (200 miles) off Sal, a part of Cape Verde, by a Spanish fishing boat, which then alerted authorities, police said.\n\nThe survivors include four children aged between 12 and 16, a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.\n\nThe boat left the Senegalese fishing village of Fass Boye on 10 July with 101 people on board, Senegal's foreign ministry said on Tuesday, citing survivors.\n\nModa Samb, an elected official in the village, told AFP news agency nearly all those on the boat had grown up in the community and that some local families were still waiting to hear whether their relatives were among the survivors.\n\nThe ministry said it was liaising with authorities in Cape Verde to arrange the repatriation of Senegalese nationals.\n\nThe passengers' other countries of origin reportedly include Sierra Leone and, in one case, Guinea-Bissau.\n\nPeople in the small fishing community of Fass Boye are in shock - and there is a lot of anger too.\n\nUniversity student Moussa Diop, who lives here, told me he had three male cousins and a teenage nephew on the boat that left in secret last month. His sister had no idea her son was on the boat - and had been in a desperate state since his disappearance last month.\n\nThe first the family heard about their doomed voyage was when one of the cousins sent Mr Diop a WhatsApp video from Sal on Wednesday to tell them that three of them had made it and were in hospital - but one of the young cousins had died.\n\nA screengrab from a video sent to a relative in Fass Boye of young men at a hospital in Sal\n\nMr Diop says sorrow for lost relatives and relief about those who have survived has boiled over into frustration. After news of the tragedy spread on Wednesday, people in the town began damaging cars and boats and they also set fire to the house of the mayor.\n\nYoung people blame a lack of opportunities and want the authorities to do more to help them.\n\nJose Moreira, a health official on Sal, said the survivors were improving and were being looked after, with a focus on rehydration and tests for conditions like malaria.\n\nHealth Minister Filomena Goncalves said: \"We know that migration issues are global issues, which require international co-operation, a lot of discussion and global strategy.\n\n\"We all - all the nations - have to sit down at the table and see what we can do so that we don't lose any more lives at sea, above all.\"\n\nAnger has boiled over in Fass Boye about the deaths\n\nIOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli said safe pathways for migration were \"sorely lacking\" and that their absence gave \"room to smugglers and traffickers to put people on these deadly journeys\".\n\nThe survivors may have ended up in Cape Verde, but it was almost certainly not their intended destination.\n\nThe archipelago sits around 600km off the coast of West Africa and on the migration route to the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory seen by many as a route to the EU. According to the IOM, it is one of the most dangerous journeys any migrant can make.\n\n\"This devastating loss of life demonstrates the continued failure of the Europe's hostile approach to refugee protection,\" Natasha Tsangarides, Associate Director of Advocacy at Freedom from Torture, said.\n\nAs ever with irregular migration, exact figures are hard to come by, but between 2020 and 2023 at least 67,000 people arrived in the Canary Islands.\n\nOver that same period, just over 2,500 lost their lives. The IOM point out that figure covers the deaths that have been registered. Given the irregular and secretive nature of the route, the true figure could be far higher.\n\nSo, what is driving people to leave their homes and risk such a dangerous journey? In many cases, poverty is thought to be a key factor. Europe is seen by many as a route to a better life for the person migrating, as well as remittances to support the families they leave behind.\n\nThere are, however, other factors at play as well. Much of West Africa is increasingly unstable, with coups and Islamist insurgencies making an already difficult situation worse.\n\nIn Senegal, opposition politicians have been imprisoned, with claims of violent crackdowns by the authorities. President Macky Sall recently announced he would not seek a third term in office, but tensions remain high.\n\nAre you or your family affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Frankie Jules-Hough was in the car with her two sons and a nephew before the crash\n\nThe family of a pregnant woman killed by a speeding driver have welcomed a decision to have his sentence reviewed by the Court of Appeal.\n\nFrankie Jules-Hough, 38, died when Adil Iqbal hit her car after filming himself driving at 123mph.\n\nIqbal was jailed for 12 years after admitting causing her death on the M66 in Bury, Greater Manchester on 13 May.\n\nMs Jules-Hough's partner, Calvin Buckley, hoped it was \"the first step towards some form of justice\".\n\n\"I think this case is a good opportunity to send a message across to people that you can't drive around recklessly and put everyone else's lives in danger just for a bit of a thrill or for whatever reason,\" he said.\n\n\"At the moment it doesn't feel like we have had justice for Frankie and baby Neeve.\n\n\"It doesn't seem like they've had their justice at the moment,\" he said.\n\n\"That would help us come to terms with what happened and get on with other aspects of our lives.\n\n\"It would just help repair a bit of faith in the justice system.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adil Iqbal filmed himself at 123mph before ploughing into Ms Jules-Hough's car\n\nThe mother-of-two had pulled her Skoda Fabia onto the hard shoulder with a puncture.\n\nIqbal, 22, undertook a motorbike in a BMW before swerving, over-compensating and hitting a barrier.\n\nHe spun before ploughing into Ms Jules-Hough's car at an estimated 92mph.\n\nShe had been 17 weeks pregnant with her first daughter, who had already been given the name Neeve.\n\nCalvin Buckley has called for a campaign to raise awareness of dangerous driving\n\nMs Jules-Hough suffered brain injuries and died along with her unborn child two days later in hospital.\n\nHer nine-year-old son and four-year-old nephew, who were in the car along with her other son, were left in a coma with serious brain injuries.\n\nThe long-term outcomes of their injuries remains uncertain, a court heard.\n\nBefore the crash, Iqbal had been driving his father's BMW with one hand and holding his phone with the other as he filmed himself - possibly to upload to social media - tailgating and undertaking other vehicles.\n\nAdil Iqbal was told he was guilty of \"the most indescribable reckless driving\"\n\nIqbal, from Accrington in Lancashire, admitted causing the death of Ms Jules-Hough by dangerous driving and causing serious injury to her son and nephew.\n\nHis 12-year jail sentence was described as \"insulting\" by Mr Buckley who had rushed to the crash scene as emergency services pulled her out of the car.\n\nHe previously said: \"If people aren't getting tough sentences for this, they are going to keep doing it.\"\n\nIn 2022, judges were given the power to hand down greater sentences to those convicted of death by dangerous driving.\n\nPreviously, the maximum tariff was 14 years but it was increased to life imprisonment.\n\nThe Attorney General has decided that Iqbal's sentence should be reviewed by the Court of Appeal.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland's Fifa Women's World Cup semi-final win over Australia was watched by more than seven million on BBC TV.\n\nWednesday's historic match was the most watched of the tournament so far, with a peak audience of 7.3m and an additional 3.8m streams across BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport Online.\n\nThere were also 2.7m requests on digital platforms for highlights and clips from the game.\n\nSunday's final against Spain in Sydney at 11:00 BST will be shown on BBC One.\n\nCoverage will begin at 10:00 with live commentary also available on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.\n\nElla Toone, Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo were on target in Sydney on Wednesday as the Lionesses claimed a 3-1 victory to become the first England team to reach a senior World Cup final since the men's side won the 1966 tournament on home soil.\n\nCoach Sarina Wiegman, who is the first coach to take two countries to the final of the tournament after leading the Netherlands to the 2019 showpiece, said reaching the decider was a \"fairytale\".\n\nThe match also broke Australian broadcast records as it became the most watched television programme of any genre in the country since the existing rating system was established in 2001.\n\nAccording to viewing figures, it had an average audience of 7.13m and reached 11.15m Australians across the country.\n\nIt beat the 2003 men's Rugby World Cup final, which had attracted an average audience of about 4m. Under the previous rating system, more than 8m watched Cathy Freeman win 400m gold at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None Will one deal change their lives?: Crazy Rich Agents battle to sell dream homes and make it big...\n• None Behind the scenes in London's most expensive hotel: It costs up to £27k a night and no request is too big", "Emergency services were called to a fire at the Crooked House pub on 5 August\n\nAn MP has told a public meeting he will pursue a law granting better protection for heritage venues in the name of a pub which was demolished after a fire.\n\nAbout 100 people attended the meeting after the 18th Century Crooked House, near Dudley, was destroyed less than two days after the fire.\n\nMarco Longhi, Conservative MP for Dudley North, said he would love to see a Crooked House law protect other venues from the same fate.\n\nThe fire is being treated as arson.\n\nMarco Longhi, MP for Dudley North speaking at the public meeting in Himley near Dudley, about The Crooked House pub, more than a week after its burnt-out shell was demolished\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council has said it was looking at possible enforcement action against those responsible.\n\nSpeaking at Himley Hall, Mr Longhi urged patience and asked residents to avoid speculating about the circumstances of the fire on social media.\n\nOrganisers of The Crooked House campaign group, Ian Sandall, Jackie Marsh, Paul Turner, Jacqueline Arriola and Tony Chen, were among about 100 who attended the meeting\n\nHe said the building, which sank due to subsidence caused by mining works in the area, would \"rise from the ashes\", but it would be a \"marathon, not a sprint\".\n\n\"I don't believe our current legislative framework is strong enough,\" he said. \"I would love to see, in future, a Crooked House law.\n\n\"It is important we make a change in the law. Our historic pubs and buildings are not protected adequately.\"\n\nThe MP expressed disgust that people had removed bricks and debris from the site to \"make a quick buck2\n\nThe MP pledged to bring the matter to Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, as soon as parliament reconvened in September.\n\nThe pub, known for its sloping walls and floor, was bought from Marston's by ATE Farms Limited in July.\n\nOn Tuesday, the BBC revealed its owners had experienced a huge fire on other land they owned.\n\nPaul and Dawn Craig say the pub was a \"landmark\" and part of their heritage\n\nMembers of the public voiced concerns about a smell from the stream that runs alongside the pub and rubbish being dumped at the site.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, residents reiterated their support for the venue to be rebuilt.Dawn and Paul Craig said the landmark should be reconstructed in the same spot, but better lighting would be needed on the approach to avoid people using the driveway as a \"tip\".\n\nJohn Hutchinson managed The Crooked House for several years\n\nJohn Hutchinson, who ran the pub as a relief manager in the 80s and 90s called for the new owners to explain what had happened. \"Where are they, why haven't they come on camera and faced the public?\" he asked.Others expressed disappointment South Staffordshire Council did not attend the meeting.\n\nFencing has now been erected around the ruins, after the Health and Safety executive ordered the owners to make the site safe.\n\nMr Longhi said the behaviour of people who had been removing bricks and other debris from the rubble was \"disgusting\" and said he was happy the fencing was up.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Conservative MP Sir Gavin Williamson has also voiced his support for restoration of the site.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLike many in Canada's Northwest Territories, Poul Osted has been relying on social media to keep in touch with loved ones as they scramble to evacuate from nearby wildfires.\n\nBut Mr Osted said he has been left frustrated by his inability to share news articles on Facebook during the active emergency situation, due to Meta's ban on news content for Canadian users.\n\n\"Instead we have to screenshot parts of a news story and post that as a picture,\" Mr Osted told the BBC.\n\n\"Oftentimes this means you don't get the whole story, or have to go searching the web for verification.\"\n\nA Canadian government minister has demanded that Meta - the company that owns Facebook and Instagram - \"reverse its decision\" as what it was doing was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"Due to this ban, people do not have access to information that is absolutely crucial,\" Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez told a briefing on Friday.\n\nPoul Osted, who lives in the small hamlet of Fort Resolution, said the ban had affected his family members who were forced to flee Hay River, which is threatened by a wildfire is burning nearby.\n\n\"The state of the highway system is one example,\" he told the BBC via Facebook messenger.\n\nSeveral people were inquiring on the platform whether it was safe to drive out of town but couldn't share that information on the social network.\n\nMeta began blocking access to news for its Canadian users on 1 August, not long after Canada's parliament passed an online news bill that will require platforms like Google and Meta to negotiate deals with news publishers for content.\n\nIt has called the law \"fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work\".\n\nIn response to questions from the BBC, a Meta spokesperson declined to comment on the ban and its impact on evacuees. On Thursday, the company added a safety check-in feature on the platform.\n\nAs Meta rolls out the ban as part of its campaign against the legislation, a growing number of Canadian users have found themselves unable to view news shared by media organisations on its platforms.\n\nThey are also unable to view articles shared by friends, instead seeing a message that reads: \"This content isn't available in Canada.\"\n\nThis has raised concern about people's access to information, especially during the wildfire evacuations.\n\n\"The timing could not have been worse for this,\" said Shawna Bruce, an instructor at the disaster and emergency management program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.\n\nAbout 77% of Canadians use Facebook, she said, and one in four of them rely on the platform as their primary source of news.\n\n\"I am wondering if we have a bit of an information void there because of this decision,\" Ms Bruce said.\n\nCanada's Minister of Heritage, Pascale St-Onge, called Meta's decision to continue to block news for Canadians \"irresponsible and unreasonable\".\n\nShe too called on the tech giant to resume talks over the law and to restore access to news.\n\nResidents in Yellowknife, the territory's largest city with 20,000 people, have been ordered by officials to leave by Friday afternoon over fears a wildfire burning about 16 km (10 miles) could reach the city limits by the weekend.\n\nOther towns in the Northwest Territories, including Hay River and Fort Smith, are also under evacuation orders.\n\nMany evacuees have been using Facebook groups like NWT Wildfires Safety Check to mark themselves safe from the fires and to ask about updates.\n\nOfficials have also relied on Facebook to share evacuation information and updates on the fires directly to their official pages and websites.\n\n\"Some of them have really stepped up in the absence of not being able to use Facebook in a way they could before,\" Ms Bruce said.\n\nMeta's restriction on news has forced other jurisdictions in Canada to rethink how they disseminate essential information.\n\nPolice in Manitoba, for example, told the Canadian Press earlier this summer that it will rely on direct posts through social media accounts to get news out to the public.\n\nNearly 240 wildfires are active across the Northwest Territories as of Thursday, part of what has been Canada's worst forest fire season on record.\n\nMore than 1,000 wildfires are burning across Canada, including in British Columbia and Quebec.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason.\n\nScientists say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.", "Russian and Belarusian track and field athletes are \"unlikely\" to be able to compete at the 2024 Olympics, says World Athletics president Lord Coe.\n\nWorld Athletics has banned competitors from the two countries from its events, including under a neutral flag, because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe International Olympics Committee (IOC) has said athletes should be able to compete as neutrals.\n\nHowever, Lord Coe said World Athletics' position was \"very clear\".\n\nHe was speaking in Budapest before the World Athletics Championships which start on Saturday, having been re-elected for a third and final term as head of track and field's governing body alongside a new council.\n\nThe IOC has not made a final call for the Olympics, and can only give broad recommendations - meaning individual sports can still choose to enforce bans.\n\n\"The new council, and I'm not going to speak for them in advance, but I would be very surprised if there is any shift in that position,\" Lord Coe said.\n\nThe two-time British Olympic champion, 66, has led World Athletics, formerly the International Association of Athletics Federations, since 2015.\n\nWhen World Athletics announced its ban in March, he said \"unprecedented sanctions\" on Russia and Belarus by \"countries and industries\" are the \"only way to restore peace\".\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Lord Coe added: \"I don't have a crystal ball, I follow world events in the same way that you all do.\n\n\"We have risk committees, we have working groups that will always be wanting to be across that and what might the circumstances look like if there's any shift in the situation but I have to say that looks unlikely at the moment with where we are with events in Ukraine.\"\n\nThe IOC has been criticised for saying it is \"exploring a pathway\" for Russian and Belarusians to compete, with the United Kingdom among more than 30 countries to pledge support for a ban.\n\nIt updated its stance last month, saying it was still fine-tuning plans for the Olympics next summer.\n\nLord Coe's third term in charge of World Athletics will run until 2027 after he was re-elected unopposed, while he has refused to rule out a bid for the IOC presidency in 2025.\n\n\"I genuinely haven't ruled it in or certainly haven't ruled it out,\" he said.\n\n\"My primary objective was to make sure we had the best possible council, the strongest executive board to complete the work that I set out in 2015.\"\n\nHe said over his term he wanted to lead a \"really significant shift\" in the way the sport is presented to keep up with changing audiences.", "Broadcaster and journalist Sir Michael Parkinson interviewed many of the world's most famous celebrities for his best-known show, Parkinson.\n\nTake a look at some memorable moments from the series, which wasn't without elements of controversy.", "An avid musician, loving grandmothers, and an inspiring father are among the victims of the devastating Hawaii wildfires identified and named by Maui officials.\n\nAt least 115 people have died and authorities have warned the death toll could climb in the coming days.\n\nOfficials say identifying those lost in the wildfires is expected to be painstakingly long.\n\nTo date, they have publicly identified 46 people who died in the blaze.\n\nBefore families were notified, they spent days posting on social media in hopes of finding loved ones.\n\nHere's what we know so far about those who were lost.\n\nJoe Schilling, a 67-year-old Lahaina resident, went by many names: \"Joe, Maui Joe, Uncle Joe, Funkle\", according to a Facebook post from his sister, Penny Schilling.\n\n\"He had the hugest heart and was ready to assist anyone in need,\" she wrote. \"The last two weeks of my husband's life, Joe took off work and came over to help me during a most difficult time. I wouldn't have made it through without him.\"\n\nMs Schilling told local news her brother died while trying to help his elderly neighbours to safety amid the blaze.\n\nJoe Schilling's friend Corie Bluh told ABC News the two were texting as wildfires reached his Lahaina residence, the Hale Mahaolu Eono apartment complex.\n\n\"We are trapped can't see a thing plus when you try to breathe it burns your lungs,\" Mr Schilling wrote.\n\nHe is survived by his brother Dan Schilling and sister Penny.\n\n\"His family and his music was everything\" to Buddy Jantoc (in the centre)\n\nHis eldest granddaughter, Keshia Alakai, told a local ABC station that \"his family and his music was everything\" to him.\n\nHis family said he toured on the US mainland with Carlos Santana, percussionist Pete Escovedo and guitarist George Benson. Dubbed \"Mr Aloha\", he would play bass guitar at hula competitions. His flat, filled with instruments, resembled a music store.\n\nMr Jantoc lived at Hale Mahaolu Eono, a low-income senior housing complex. He was legally blind and had difficulty hearing.\n\nThe family started to worry when they did not hear from him. Ms Alakai told The New York Times \"I had a bad feeling\".\n\n\"I'm hoping he was asleep,\" Shari Jantoc, his daughter-in-law, told the newspaper. \"I hope to God he did not suffer.\"\n\nMr Jantoc is survived by two sons, multiple grandchildren and great-grandchildren.\n\nBefore authorities identified 72-year-old Lahaina resident Melva Benjamin as one of the victims, her family and friends had been posting a \"missing\" photo of her and her boyfriend on social media.\n\nHer daughter-in-law, Janell Benjamin, shared photos of Ms Benjamin with her grandchildren, writing on Facebook: \"Can someone please wake me up from this nightmare…still holding on to hope.\"\n\nMs Benjamin was last seen evacuating from her home.\n\nOnline tributes poured in after her death was confirmed. Friend Bernadette Garces Kaai wrote: \"thank you for the memories and beautiful heart\".\n\nAlfredo Galinato was reported missing 9 August, a day after the deadly blaze swept through the historic town of Lahaina.\n\nHis son, Joshua Galinato, posted pictures seeking information about the 79-year-old Lahaina resident.\n\n\"We are still searching for my father and hoping for his safe return,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Galinato's last known location was the family's home which, along with his vehicle, went up in flames, according to his son.\n\nA GoFundMe page for the family now says: \"We are grateful to finally hear about our father's remains but saddened that he has not joined us in safety.\"\n\nMr Galinato's other son, John Galinato, posted a tribute saying: \"I love you and I thank you for everything you did for the family you are inspiration.\"\n\nDonna Gomes (third from left) with her family\n\nThe family of Donna Gomes remembers the 71-year-old matriarch as a strong and independent woman.\n\nMs Gomes grew up in Lahaina and was trying to flee her home of 15 years when the wildfire took her life.\n\n\"Not only have we lost our homes, but our family is also grieving the loss of our family backbone,\" wrote her oldest grandchild, Tehani Kuhaulua.\n\nMs Gomes had the biggest heart - full of tough love, her grandchild wrote.\n\n\"Some of her oldest friends know her as 'the bull' - no one could tell her what to do,\" she said.\n\nShe would have turned 72 on 15 August.\n\nTony Takafua was just seven years old when he died, trapped in a car with his mother and his mother's parents, all of whom died with him.\n\nTheir bodies were discovered in a burnt car near their Lahaina home, Hawaii News Now reported.\n\nThe family issued a statement: \"On behalf of our family, we bid aloha to our beloved parents, Faaso and Malui Fonua Tone, as well as our dear sister Salote Takafua and her son, Tony Takafua. The magnitude of our grief is indescribable, and their memories will forever remain etched in our hearts.\"\n\nOn 10 August, Jona Arafiles shared a post on social media requesting people to get in touch if they see \"Grandma Virginia Dofa\".\n\nThe County of Maui and Maui Police Department later confirmed she was one of the wildfire victims.", "Queen Letizia (L) and Infanta Sofia (R), pictured with King Felipe and Crown Princess Leonor, will go to Sydney for the final\n\nSpain's Queen Letizia will fly to Australia to attend Sunday's World Cup final in Sydney but no British royals will be present.\n\nEngland's Lionesses take on Spain in what is both teams' first final in the women's event.\n\nFootball Association President Prince William will cheer on the England team from the UK, Kensington Palace said.\n\nIt is understood he made the decision to avoid making long-distance flights for a very short stay in Australia.\n\nThe prince has made tackling climate change one of his priorities and is believed to be concerned about the impact of such a journey.\n\nHowever, the Royal Spanish Football Federation confirmed that Queen Letizia and her 16-year-old daughter Infanta Sofia would go to the final.\n\nKing Felipe is busy with other official duties and will not be joining them, it said in a statement.\n\nThe federation added that the queen visited the team during training in June and gave a speech to players and coaching staff.\n\nPrince William also visited the Lionesses in training, handing manager Sarina Wiegman an honorary CBE - Commander of the Order of the British Empire.\n\nThe Prince of Wales met the Lionesses on a surprise visit to their training camp in June\n\nHe is expected to watch the final on TV.\n\n\"What a phenomenal performance from the Lionesses - on to the final!\" the prince wrote following their semi-final victory against Australia.\n\nKing Charles also congratulated the team, writing to Wiegman and the players: \"My wife and I join all our family in sending the mighty Lionesses our warmest congratulations on reaching the final of the World Cup, and in sharing our very best wishes for Sunday's match.\"\n\nEngland's women are European champions, and were given their medals by Prince William after last year's final at Wembley.\n\nEngland's only other football World Cup final, also at Wembley in 1966, was attended by Queen Elizabeth II, who presented captain Bobby Moore with the trophy after the team's 4-2 victory over West Germany.", "Martin Scorsese has lent his support to an Iranian director who has been jailed for screening a film at the Cannes Film Festival without government permission.\n\nSaeed Roustaee, who premiered Leila's Brothers at the French festival in 2022, was reportedly sentenced to six months in prison by an Iranian court.\n\nFestival organisers said it was \"a serious violation of free speech\".\n\nScorsese shared a petition calling for \"justice\" for Roustaee and the film's producer Javad Noruzbegi.\n\nAccording to Iranian media, the pair were convicted of \"contributing to propaganda of the opposition against the Islamic system\".\n\nThe film is about economic issues faced by a family in Tehran. It had already been banned in Iran after it \"broke the rules by being entered at international film festivals without authorisation\" and the director refused to \"correct\" it as requested by the culture ministry, the AFP news agency reported.\n\nRoustaee (second left) with the cast of Leila's Brothers on the red carpet in Cannes in May 2022\n\nHowever, the film-makers will only serve one-twentieth of their jail sentence, about nine days, while the remainder \"will be suspended over five years\", according to the Etemad newspaper, which said they could appeal against the verdict.\n\nDuring the suspension period, the defendants will be required to take a film-making course while \"preserving national and ethical interests\" and refrain from associating with other cinema professionals, the newspaper said.\n\nThe 34-year-old director is also not allowed to work for five years.\n\nLeila's Brothers was in competition for the Palme d'Or, the top prize at Cannes, and won the event's International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) award.\n\nCannes organisers added in a statement that this ban \"constitutes once again a serious violation of free speech for Iranian artists, film-makers, producers and technicians\".\n\n\"The Cannes Festival expresses its support to all those who suffer violence and reprisals for creating and distributing their works. The Festival is their home,\" it said.", "Surgeons say they have successfully transplanted a donor liver kept warm and alive outside the body for three days, using a special machine.\n\nThe normothermic perfusion method gives the organ a continuous blood supply, which experts say is better than the traditional way of putting it on ice.\n\nIt might even be possible to stretch viability to 10 days, the Swiss team told the journal Nature Biotechnology.\n\nThe patient who received the warm liver is doing well a year on.\n\nExperts hope the advance could help reduce the number of donor organs that have to be discarded, since preserving tissues and organs at low temperatures can cause substantial cell damage.\n\nExtending how long a donor liver can be kept would allow more flexibility in the timing of the transplant operation too. Cooled livers only keep for up to 12 hours.\n\nThe machine can also deliver drugs or other nutrients, as well as blood, to make sure the organ is in the best condition ahead of the transplant.\n\nThe man who received the liver - which was plumbed into the perfusion machine for 68 hours - needed a new one because he had cancer.\n\nHis transplant operation was done four days after the donor organ was removed from its original owner - a 29-year-old woman who died in May 2021.\n\nThe man was able to go home from hospital 12 days after the surgery.\n\nHis doctors say more research - with more patients and longer observation periods - is still needed, but the results so far look very promising.\n\n\"We think that this first transplantation success...can open new horizons in the treatment of many liver disorders,\" they told Nature Biotechnology journal.\n\nSome of the UK's seven liver transplant units have also started using the same type of technology, and experts at Oxford University plan to assess the outcomes as part of a trial called the PLUS study.", "CCTV footage shows a bus in Argentina engulfed in flames while burning fuel spilled across the highway. According to local media, the fire was the result of an electrical issue.\n\nNo injuries have been reported.", "World Aquatics will debut a new open category for transgender athletes at this year's Swimming World Cup event in Berlin.\n\nLast year, the world governing body voted to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races.\n\nThe open category will feature 50m and 100m races across all strokes.\n\n\"This highlights [our] unwavering commitment to inclusivity, welcoming swimmers of all sex and gender identities,\" said World Aquatics.\n\nLast year World Aquatics said the open category would be for swimmers whose gender identity is different than their birth sex.\n\nDescribing the creation of the open category in Berlin as a \"pioneering pilot project\", World Aquatics said more events could be added.\n\nThe governing body said detailed entry requirements and entry times would be made available \"soon\".\n\n\"To be eligible, swimmers need an affiliation with a national federation and will be given the flexibility to participate individually, for their club, team or as national federation members,\" it added.\n\nThe Berlin competition, which takes place on 6-8 October, is the first of three World Cup meetings this year.\n\nThey are a key part of the swimming calendar, coming shortly after the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka and before the same event in Doha in January.\n\nWorld Aquatics, which was formerly known as Fina, said the open category placed emphasis on \"gaining further experience for future development and celebrating diversity\".\n\nGerman Swimming Federation's vice president Kai Morgenroth added the hosts were \"proud\" to hold an event where swimmers can \"compete without barriers\".\n\n\"Berlin is Germany's hub for diversity and inclusion and therefore the perfect location for such a progressive project,\" he said.", "Andrew Malkinson's conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal last month\n\nThe body which looks into potential miscarriages of justice will review how it handled the case of Andy Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison after his wrongful conviction for rape.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission's (CCRC) decision came after mounting pressure from leading legal figures.\n\nCritics say that it could have asked judges to quash his conviction as early as 2009, after DNA evidence of the probable attacker emerged.\n\nHis conviction was only overturned last month, 20 years after he was arrested.\n\nHe was jailed for life after a trial in 2004 but was denied an earlier release on license because he refused to accept he was guilty.\n\nThe Court of Appeal quashed the 57-year-old's conviction after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) accepted that DNA obtained from the victim's clothing in 2007 - but never fully and repeatedly tested for matches - pointed to another man who has since been arrested.\n\nMr Malkinson had twice applied for his case to be referred for appeal by the CCRC.\n\nDocuments revealed on Wednesday by BBC News show forensic scientists discovered the critical DNA profile four years after Mr Malkinson was jailed - and prosecutors then acknowledged it was important new evidence.\n\nDespite that finding, the CCRC refused to commission further testing to fully investigate the DNA, telling Mr Malkinson there was nothing to be gained.\n\nOn Thursday morning Lord Thomas, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, became the most senior legal figure to call for urgent answers into what had happened, telling BBC Radio 4 Today programme there needed to be \"urgent answers\".\n\nHours later, the CCRC announced there would be a review. That decision came after its chairwoman Helen Pitcher met Justice Secretary Alex Chalk.\n\nThe Commission has previously defended why it twice rejected Mr Malkinson's case - but in a statement on Thursday afternoon , it said it had \"long recognised\" there needed to be a review.\n\nAn experienced senior barrister will look at the two previous decisions. But the Commission has declined to say whether they will be allowed to question investigators and managers over their decisions.\n\nIn its statement, the CCRC said it would be as open as possible with the findings but there could be legal restrictions on what it could say.\n\nA spokesman said: \"A review into the decisions taken in Mr Malkinson's case couldn't be started until we had the judgment from the Court of Appeal, but we have long recognised that it would be important to have one.\n\n\"This is a complex case in which many elements have informed the decisions taken.\"\n\nMr Malkinson has called on the CCRC's chair Helen Pitcher to resign - and more than 140,000 people have signed a petition urging her to apologise. She's declined BBC requests for an interview.\n\nResponding to the CCRC announcement, Mr Malkinson said the CCRC's review was not enough.\n\n\"There is need for a statutory public inquiry into the role of all state agencies in my case,\" he said.\n\n\"This inquiry needs the power to compel disclosure, so that I can finally understand what went so wrong.\n\n\"I call on [Justice Secretary] Alex Chalk to establish a public inquiry into the Criminal Cases Review Commission, Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service, and their respective roles in my wrongful conviction as well as why it took so many years to overturn it.\"\n\nEmily Bolton, the head of Mr Malkinson's legal team at the charity APPEAL, said her client must be allowed to meet the barrister leading the review and have a say in what it will do.\n\nThe CCRC looks into criminal cases where people believe they have been wrongly convicted or wrongly sentenced.\n\nThese cases are for people who have already lost their appeal. If the body finds something wrong with the conviction or sentence, it will send the case back to the Court of Appeal.", "Sarah Meredith: \"I would be lying if I said that I don't get really down about it because I do\"\n\nA woman in need of a liver transplant has been waiting almost 10 times the average wait for the operation.\n\nSarah Meredith, 30, from Totnes, Devon has waited for 640 days, while the average wait for an adult is 65 days.\n\nShe has now moved to Cambridgeshire to be close to a specialist facility at Addenbrooke's Hospital when a liver becomes available.\n\nThe NHS said a shortage of donors could lead to long delays.\n\nCatherine Meredith: \"We're wondering if she's going to get transplanting at all\"\n\nMs Meredith's family fear she could become too poorly to have the transplant at all.\n\nThey believe the way organs are prioritised for transplant leads to younger people having to wait longer.\n\nMs Meredith, who has cystic fibrosis, said: \"I would be lying if I said that I don't get really down about it, because I do.\n\n\"But you've got to carry on as best you can.\"\n\nMs Meredith and her mother Catherine highlighted the importance of families talking about organ donation.\n\nAlmost 7,000 people are currently waiting for a transplant in the UK.\n\n\"Every time the phone rings you're thinking that it might be the call, but it hasn't been for nearly two years now,\" said Catherine.\n\n\"So we're wondering if she's going to get transplanting at all.\"\n\nDerek Manas, associate medical director for organ and tissue transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant, said: \"All patients waiting for a transplant face a great deal of uncertainty.\n\n\"Due to a shortage of potential donors, it can take a long time for a call to come and specialist clinical teams must individually assess the suitability of each patient waiting for a liver transplant.\"\n\nHe said eligibility criteria was \"based on nationally agreed guidelines\" and surgeons \"evaluate each donor, organ and recipient carefully\".\n\nThe transplant team may decide the organ is not suitable for transplantation or the organ could prove to be a better match with better outcomes for another waiting patient, Mr Manas explained.\n\n\"The more people who agree to support donation, the better the chances are for these patients who are desperately awaiting these life-saving calls,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bradley Cooper plays Leonard Bernstein, with Carey Mulligan as his wife Felicia\n\nThe family of Leonard Bernstein have defended actor Bradley Cooper in a row over his biopic of the late composer.\n\nThe first trailer for Maestro, which Cooper both directs and stars in, was released earlier this week.\n\nIt attracted some criticism over the size of Cooper's nose, which some social media users said played up to offensive Jewish stereotypes.\n\nBut Bernstein's family said they were \"perfectly fine\" with Cooper using make-up to \"amplify\" his appearance.\n\nThere has also been criticism that a Jewish actor was not cast to play the West Side Story composer.\n\n\"It breaks our hearts to see any misrepresentations or misunderstandings of [Cooper's] efforts,\" wrote Jamie, Alexander and Nina Bernstein in a statement posted online.\n\n\"It happens to be true that Leonard Bernstein had a nice, big nose. Bradley chose to use make-up to amplify his resemblance, and we're perfectly fine with that. We're also certain that our dad would have been fine with it as well.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Netflix This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThey continued: \"Any strident complaints around this issue strike us above all as disingenuous attempts to bring a successful person down a notch - a practice we observed all too often perpetrated on our own father.\n\n\"At all times during the making of this film, we could feel the profound respect and yes, the love that Bradley brought to his portrait of Leonard Bernstein and his wife, our mother Felicia. We feel so fortunate to have had this experience with Bradley, and we can't wait for the world to see his creation.\"\n\nBernstein's family added that Cooper had \"included the three of us along every step of his amazing journey as he made his film about our father\".\n\n\"We were touched to the core to witness the depth of his commitment, his loving embrace of our father's music, and the sheer open-hearted joy he brought to his exploration.\"\n\nWhen the first images of Cooper were seen last year, the Hollywood Reporter's film critic Daniel Feinberg said Cooper's appearance could be \"problematic\", suggesting the movie featured \"ethnic cosplay\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, English actress Tracy-Ann Oberman, who is Jewish, compared Cooper apparently using a prosthetic nose to the use of blackface make-up.\n\n\"If Bradley Cooper can't do it through the power [of] acting alone then don't cast him - get a Jewish actor,\" she wrote.\n\nLeonard Bernstein, pictured in 1974, composed songs such as America and I Feel Pretty for the musical West Side Story\n\nBinyomin Gilbert, a spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism, said it was \"astonishing that nobody thought twice about sticking a big nose on a non-Jewish actor playing a Jew\".\n\n\"The filmmakers here need to show that they understand why this is a problem,\" he said. \"A failure to do so would indicate that there is a double standard when it comes to the portrayal of Jews on screen.\"\n\nMaestro is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month, before being released on Netflix in December.\n\nIt is said to examine the relationship between Bernstein, who died in 1990, and his wife, the actress and activist Felicia Montealegre.\n\nBernstein is best known for composing the songs for West Side Story, including America and I Feel Pretty. He also co-wrote Broadway musicals On the Town, Wonderful Town and Candide.\n\nIn his distinguished career, which also saw him become one of the most well-respected orchestral conductors of the late 20th Century, he won Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards for his work.\n\nAnother film scheduled for release in the coming months, Golda, has attracted similar controversy.\n\nDame Helen Mirren will play former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film, which will be released in US cinemas at the end of this month.\n\nLast year, actress Maureen Lipman told the Jewish Chronicle she \"disagreed\" with Dame Helen's casting \"because the Jewishness of the character is so integral\".", "A number of rescued migrants have been taken to hospital\n\nAt least 227 migrants were rescued off Spain's Canary Islands on Thursday, officials say, a day after reported deaths of more than 30 migrants there.\n\nEmergency services say the Coast Guard saved the migrants travelling on inflatable boats near the Lanzarote and Gran Canaria islands in the Atlantic.\n\nA number of them were taken to hospital to be treated for a \"mild condition\".\n\nOn Wednesday, two charities said more than 30 migrants may have drowned after their dinghy sank off Gran Canaria.\n\nSpanish authorities said rescue workers found the bodies of a minor and a man, and rescued 24 other people.\n\nHowever, the charities - Walking Borders and Alarm Phone - said about 60 people had been on board.\n\nHelena Maleno Garzon, from Walking Borders, said 39 people had drowned, including four women and a baby, while Alarm Phone said 35 people were missing.\n\nBoth organisations monitor migrant boats and receive calls from people on board or their relatives.\n\nA Spanish rescue service ship, the Guardamar Caliope, was only about an hour's sail from the dinghy on Tuesday evening, according to Spanish news agency Efe.\n\nBut the ship did not aid the dinghy because the operation had been taken over by Moroccan officials, which dispatched a patrol boat that arrived on Wednesday morning, 10 hours after it had been spotted by a Spanish rescue plane, according to Reuters.\n\nThe BBC has sent a request for comment to Morocco's interior ministry.\n\nAngel Victor Torres, leader of the Canary Islands region, described the incident as a \"tragedy\" and called on the European Union to establish a migration policy that \"offers coordinated and supportive responses\" to the issue of migration.\n\nAlthough off Africa's western coast, the Canary Islands are part of Spain, and many migrants travel from Africa to the archipelago in the hope of reaching mainland Europe.\n\nThe Western Africa-Atlantic migration route is considered one of the world's deadliest, and at least 543 migrants died or went missing on that journey in 2022, according to the UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM).\n\nIOM says there were 45 shipwrecks on the route during that period, but acknowledges that the figure is \"probably underestimated\" because data is scarce and incomplete.\n\nMost of those making the journey are from Morocco, Mali, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, it says.\n\nLast week, a migrant boat carrying hundreds of people sank off the Greek coast, with at least 78 known to have died, although many more are feared to have drowned.\n\nThe UN's human rights office says up to 500 people are still missing, and the BBC has obtained evidence casting doubt on the Greek coastguard's account of what happened. The coastguard claims that the boat was on a course to Italy and not in need of rescue.", "A Texas woman has been charged with threatening to kill a judge who is overseeing a criminal case against former US President Donald Trump.\n\nAbigail Jo Shry, 43, allegedly phoned the court in Washington DC on 5 August and used a racial slur in her message for US District Judge Tanya Chutkan.\n\nMs Shry also allegedly threatened to kill a Democratic member of Congress.\n\nShe admitted making the call after investigators traced her phone number, according to a court document.\n\nIn the call, Ms Shry allegedly told the judge, who is overseeing an election conspiracy case against Mr Trump: \"You are in our sights, we want to kill you.\"\n\nProsecutors say Ms Shry added: \"If Trump doesn't get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you.\"\n\nThe caller also threatened all Democrats in Washington DC and the LGBT community, according to the court filing.\n\nSheila Jackson Lee is running for mayor of Houston\n\nShe allegedly also threatened to kill congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a black Texas Democrat who is running for mayor of Houston.\n\nWhen federal agents visited Ms Shry's home in the Houston suburb of Alvin three days later she said she had harboured no intention of going to Washington DC to carry out her threats, according to the court filing.\n\nBut she allegedly added that \"if Sheila Jackson Lee comes to Alvin, then we need to worry\".\n\nA day before the threatening phone call, Mr Trump had posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, in all capital letters: \"If you go after me, I'm coming after you!\" He had been arraigned a day earlier on the election plot charges.\n\nLast Friday Judge Chutkan warned at a court hearing that both sides should avoid any \"inflammatory statements\" about the case.\n\nMeanwhile, supporters of Mr Trump have posted personal details of the Georgia grand jury members who voted to indict him over election interference allegations earlier this week.\n\nA report by a private investigative organisation found social media users had called for violence to be used against them and Fani Willis - the lead prosecutor in the case against the former president.\n\nOn Monday, a 98-page indictment was unsealed and claimed Mr Trump \"unlawfully conspired\" to change the election outcome while participating in a \"criminal enterprise\".\n\nHe denies all charges. Ms Willis has given Mr Trump and 18 other defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on 25 August.\n• None Who is the hard-line judge on Trump's election case?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Death masks were mapped and then technology de-aged the facial features\n\nResearchers say they have created the \"most lifelike\" reconstruction of the face of Bonnie Prince Charlie.\n\nA team at the University of Dundee's Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification used death masks to recreate the Scottish prince's looks.\n\nAfter his death in 1788, a cast of the prince's face was taken, which was common for notable figures at the time.\n\nThis was painstakingly photographed and mapped along with software allowing the experts to \"de-age\" the prince.\n\nCharles Edward Stuart was renowned for his good looks and has captivated a new generation of audiences through the TV show Outlander.\n\nThe resulting images show the prince with blond ringlets, wearing a white shirt, and with blotchy patches on his skin.\n\nIt recreates how he could have looked at the time of the Jacobite rising, where he was unsuccessful in his attempt to restore his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, to the British throne.\n\nBarbora Vesela, a masters student who initiated the project, said: \"I have looked at previous reconstructions of historical figures and was interested as to how these could be done differently.\n\n\"I wanted to create an image of what he would have looked like during the Jacobite rising.\n\n\"There are death masks of Bonnie Prince Charlie that are accessible, while some are in private collections.\n\n\"We also know that he suffered a stroke before he died, so that made the process of age regression even more interesting to me.\"\n\nPortraits of Bonnie Prince Charlie have depicted the prince as a handsome man\n\nIn 1745, Prince Charles Edward Stuart sought to regain the British throne for his father when he was aged just 24.\n\nDespite some initial successes on the battlefield, his army was defeated at the Battle of Culloden, near Inverness, in April 1746.\n\nBonnie Prince Charlie spent the next five months as a fugitive before fleeing to France and living on the continent for the rest of his life.\n\nHe died in Palazzo Muti in Rome, at the age of 67, after suffering a stroke.\n\nAfter his death, a cast of the prince's face was taken, which was common for notable figures at the time.\n\nResearchers examined copies of the masks, at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, and The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, creating a composite over several months.\n\nMs Vesela took photographs from all around the masks and used software to make a 3D model using almost 500 images.\n\nShe said: \"It has been a pleasure to work with these artefacts. The access I have been given has been incredible.\n\n\"There are moments, when you are working with the masks, that it suddenly strikes you that this was once a living person.\n\n\"We don't tend to think about the age of people when we study history, but Prince Charlie was just 24 years old when he landed in Scotland and to visualise how young he was at this pivotal moment in history is fascinating.\n\n\"Hopefully this recreation encourages people to think about him as a person, instead of just a legend.\"\n\nThe work will feature as part of the University of Dundee's annual Masters Show, which opens to the public on Saturday.", "The UK government has been accused by a human rights watchdog of making \"slow progress\" in improving the lives of disabled people.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission said some recommendations made by a United Nations inquiry in 2016 had not been delivered.\n\nThe UN called for changes after investigating the rights of disabled people in the UK.\n\nThe government said it was already making reforms and taking action.\n\nIn a new report submitted to the UN, the EHRC warns that many disabled people continue to face discrimination in the UK, and the situation continues to worsen, particularly in light of current cost-of-living pressures.\n\nThe report assesses the extent to which the previous UN recommendations from 2016 have been implemented.\n\nThe EHRC said, despite limited progress in certain areas, \"we are disappointed to see no progress against some other recommendations\".\n\n\"While commitments to address some issues have been made, actions have been delayed or don't go far enough,\" the human rights watchdog says.\n\nThe report found there had been no progress in monitoring the impact of welfare reforms or access to justice for disabled people. Its report also found gaps in \"meaningful engagement\" between governments and disabled people across many parts of the UK.\n\nIt said there continued to be a disproportionate number of disabled people living on low incomes or in poverty with some facing long waits for decisions on eligibility for benefits.\n\nKishwer Falkner, chairwoman of the EHRC, urged the UK and Welsh governments \"to address the problems faced by disabled people and take action to address the UN's recommendations from 2016\".\n\n\"Disabled people must be treated with dignity, respect and fairness,\" Ms Falkner said. \"The recommendations made years ago must be addressed if the lives of disabled people are to improve.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said it was reforming the health and disability benefits system and was investing £2bn to support sick and disabled people back into work.\n\n\"Last month we launched a consultation on our new Disability Action Plan, which is part of this government's commitment to create a society that works for everyone,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Significant work is already being taken forward including reforming the health and disability benefits system, boosting disability benefits by 10.1%, investing £2bn to support sick and disabled people back into work, and helping the most vulnerable with record financial support worth around £3,300 per household.\n\n\"We remain committed to making our society a more inclusive and accessible place for all disabled people.\"", "Each year thousands of migrants make the journey from Western Africa to the Canary Islands\n\nNegligence may have led to the deaths of migrants whose boat sank after waiting 10 hours for help off the Canary Islands, a lawsuit has alleged.\n\nProsecutors in Gran Canaria say crimes including failure to provide assistance may have been committed.\n\nThirty-six people drowned while attempting to reach the islands in an inflatable boat in June.\n\nSeveral recent incidents have put Europe's response to migration under fresh scrutiny.\n\nSpanish rescue officials were forced to defend their lack of action after it was reported that a Spanish search and rescue ship was only about an hour away from the dinghy.\n\nThe ship did not help them because the rescue operation had been taken over by Moroccan officials, Reuters news agency reported at the time.\n\nA patrol boat was despatched, but it arrived 10 hours after the migrants' dinghy was first spotted by a Spanish rescue plane.\n\nTheir boat sank about 100 miles (160km) south-east of Gran Canaria island on June 21, and 24 survivors were picked up by the Moroccan boat.\n\nSpain's coastal rescue service said the sinking happened in waters monitored by both Spain and Morocco, and that they did not know the vessel's occupants were in danger, Spanish news agency EFE reported.\n\nThe Canary Islands are part of Spain, although they are situated off Africa's western coast. Many migrants travel from Africa to the archipelago in the hope of reaching mainland Europe.\n\nThe Western Africa-Atlantic route is considered one of the world's deadliest migration passages, and at least 543 migrants died or went missing on that journey in 2022, according to the UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM).\n\nThe incident comes as Europe's response to migration is being held under increased scrutiny following the sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Greece in June.\n\nGreece's coastguard came under fire for their handling of the tragedy, after the BBC obtained evidence casting doubt on their version of events.\n\nThe UN has called for an investigation into Greece's handling of the disaster, amid claims more action should have been taken earlier to initiate a full-scale rescue attempt.\n\nEarlier this week, 86 people were rescued by the Spanish coast guard off the coast of the Canary Islands. There are also more than 300 people still missing at sea on three boats, after setting off from Senegal two weeks ago.", "It started as a night full of optimism in Sydney as thousands flooded into Stadium Australia desperate to see their team create history - but England had other ideas.\n\nEngland arrived this time, not with hope, but with expectation, despite experiencing heartache in previous back-to-back Women's World Cup semi-finals.\n\nMemories of defeats by Japan in 2015 and the USA in 2019 were cast aside - any doubts the Lionesses would not succeed this time disappeared as they played with swagger and composure, producing arguably their greatest-ever performance in the 3-1 win over the Matildas.\n\nAs the higher-ranked side and the European champions, England would in theory have underwhelmed if they had lost. But in practice, the task was much tougher - they had to overcome serious injuries and adapt throughout the tournament before meeting fierce Australian opposition.\n\nIn the end, the performance they produced was a culmination of two years' worth of sensational growth under manager Sarina Wiegman, whose status as the world's best is unquestionable.\n\nHaving led England to Euro 2022 glory last summer on home soil, the Dutchwoman will now coach in a fourth successive major tournament final. Before joining England, she led the Netherlands to the Euro 2017 title and runners-up spot at the 2019 World Cup.\n\nThe squad have evolved under her leadership from being near-misses and contenders to relentless winners and tournament favourites.\n• None 'This is just the beginning for disappointed Australia'\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None Get to know the England Women's World Cup squad\n\n'Matildas Mania' had taken over Australia during their World Cup run, with their success dominating the front and back pages of every national newspaper. The momentum they had built en route to the semi-finals made for a carnival atmosphere in Sydney on Wednesday.\n\nStreets were painted in green and yellow, supporters queued for hours to get into fan parks across the city and there were barely any shops left selling merchandise, with most stock sold out.\n\nThe match was sold out too; 75,784 fans piled into the stadium, most of them booing the England players as they emerged for the warm-ups, and then belting out their national anthem with pride.\n\nBut England were not fazed by any of it. They have lived in the bubble of their base camp out in Terrigal, an hour from Sydney, for the duration of the tournament and they arrived for the semi-final apparently oblivious to the hostility of the home crowd.\n\nA crunching tackle from Keira Walsh on Australia's superstar Sam Kerr within two minutes set the tone. The next 15 minutes was a masterclass in killing momentum.\n\nWhatever feverish excitement had built throughout the week, England dampened quickly as they controlled possession, broke up play and frustrated the home crowd by taking their time over set-pieces.\n\nA few half-chances came Australia's way - Kerr raced through on goal and was offside when goalkeeper Mary Earps blocked her strike - but England brushed them off instantly.\n\nAt the other end, Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo's flourishing partnership up front caused havoc for Australia as they linked up instinctively, creating chances and terrifying the hosts' defence.\n\nIt was not a surprise when the Lionesses took the lead through Ella Toone, someone synonymous with the big stage; she is the first England player to score in a major tournament quarter-final, semi-final and final.\n\nThe deafening roars that had greeted the Matildas on their entrance at Stadium Australia were quietened by half-time but England did not become complacent. They had been here before, they knew the score.\n\nThe fierce pressure promised by Australia arrived in the second half. Kerr burst into life, pouncing on England's lost possession and scoring a sublime long-range goal to make it 1-1.\n\nIn past semi-finals, this may have been the moment England's players began to doubt themselves. But this is a squad built on resilience and lifted with unwavering belief.\n\nAnother goal would come - they knew it would - and when the moment arrived, Hemp did not hesitate.\n\n\"I just want to be fearless, I want to show what I can do on the biggest stage,\" she said afterwards, having earlier stated England's intentions to go all the way in the tournament.\n\nBy the time Hemp linked up with Russo to add England's third, Australia's balloon had burst.\n\nMeanwhile, England were creating more history, having come through a test that required steeliness and experience, yet the scenes of celebration at full-time were short-lived.\n\nThe Lionesses allowed themselves just a few minutes of dancing and applause, greeted by another rendition of Sweet Caroline by the travelling support, before heading down the tunnel. Job done.\n\nWhile England gathered momentum during their successful Euro 2022 campaign, feeding off the memorable scenes of celebration after each victory in front of a home crowd, they have done the opposite here in Australia, having to navigate each match as if they were making their way across a board game of snakes and ladders, picking themselves up if they had an unexpected fall and finding a different route.\n\nIt has felt less like a party and more like a mission.\n\nIf this England team can reach the final without their captain Leah Williamson, the Euro 2022 top goalscorer Beth Mead, playmaker Fran Kirby - all out through injury - while also dealing with an injury scare to instrumental midfielder Keira Walsh and a two-match suspension for Lauren James during the competition, there is no reason why they cannot go all the way.\n\nAnd while Australia absorbs the pain of defeat and the missed opportunity of a lifetime, England supporters are now believing that this team could be champions again.", "Michael Parkinson's gentle but probing style set a standard for television chat shows that has rarely been equalled.\n\nIn a remarkable career, he interviewed some of the most famous people in the world, including many of the Hollywood stars he had idolised as a child.\n\nHis interviews always adhered to his own rigorous journalistic standards and he was insistent that his guest, not himself, should be the star of the show.\n\nHe was at his best when he managed to winkle out sensitive details of a guest's life without appearing prurient.\n\nHe once famously defined a chat show as \"an unnatural act between consenting adults in public\".\n\nParkinson (r) with fellow presenters in the 1971 Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show\n\nMichael Parkinson was born on 28 March 1935 in the South Yorkshire village of Cudworth, the son of a miner.\n\nHis father was a great believer in self-improvement and the young Parkinson was encouraged to go to the local Working Men's Club where he read copies of the Manchester Guardian, a paper for which he would later write.\n\nParkinson senior was also determined that young Michael would not follow him down the pit. To that end he took his son down into one of the narrowest seams in Grimethorpe Colliery, an experience that made Parkinson determined to seek an alternative career.\n\nAs a child in the days before television he used to go regularly to his local cinema, giving rise to a lifelong passion for film and its stars as well as a burning desire to marry Lauren Bacall.\n\nParkinson attended the local primary school before moving on to Barnsley Grammar School where he achieved just two O-Levels and discovered a talent for writing by providing essays for his class mates at half a shilling each.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe also learned to play cricket, developing an aptitude for the game that saw him seriously consider becoming a professional.\n\nWhile playing for Barnsley Cricket Club he attended trials for Yorkshire alongside the future umpire Dickie Bird and a young batsman called Geoffrey Boycott.\n\nHis modest academic achievements were enough to allow him to get a job on a local newspaper, helping to collate sports results.\n\nIt was his National Service that finally got him out of the village and opened his eyes to the wider world beyond what he referred to as the \"parochial\" nature of his upbringing.\n\nHe had a successful stint in uniform, receiving a commission and becoming the youngest captain in the British army, seeing action during the Suez crisis.\n\nMichael Parkinson (right) Elton John (left) and Rod Stewart are game for a laugh at a 1974 charity football match\n\nHis time as an officer also enabled him to move into social circles that might have remained closed to a young Yorkshire lad who left school at 16 and had never been to university.\n\nAfter his return to civilian life he went to work for the Manchester Guardian which became simply, the Guardian, in 1959. In the same year Parkinson married Doncaster-born Mary Heneghan, to whom he had proposed on the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Scarborough.\n\nParkinson left the Guardian and began working in London for the Daily Express while Mary, who was pregnant with their first child, remained in Manchester.\n\nParkinson later recalled getting a phone call from his father to say that he had \"kidnapped\" Mary and taken her back home in order to ensure that the couple's first child, which his father assumed would be a boy, would be born in Yorkshire and therefore qualify to play cricket for the county.\n\nHis move into television came when he was invited to a screen test by Granada, which was commissioning a new current affairs programme.\n\nParkinson later reflected that he had never thought of television as a career: \"We had a contemptuous, bemused view of television at the Guardian in those days. We believed it would go away.\"\n\nIntending to go, purely so he could write a cynical newspaper piece on the upstart new medium, he was quickly swept up in what he referred to as the \"theatrical excitement\" of the television studio.\n\nHe worked as a current affairs presenter and reporter for both Granada and the BBC and, in 1969, presented a late night film review for Granada during which he did an interview with Laurence Olivier.\n\nWhen Parkinson was recruited to present his eponymous show on BBC One, the corporation's head of light entertainment, Bill Cotton, envisaged a variety programme along the lines of America's Ed Sullivan Show.\n\nThe initial run of shows all opened with Parkinson, somewhat self-consciously perched on a stool, cracking topical jokes, as well as featuring a resident singer, Marion Montgomery. It wasn't until the third series that the programme took on its now familiar format.\n\nThe show quickly became a success with audience-pulling appearances by Morecambe and Wise, and guests like Orson Welles giving it great credibility.\n\nJohn Lennon, Michael Caine and Elton John were among the earliest people to appear on the show and Parkinson also featured some of the music hall stars he had seen in his home town of Barnsley, such as Tessie O'Shea and Sandy Powell.\n\n\"We had a duty in a sense, to preserve this part of our culture. We were in danger of letting it pass by and remain only in the memory of people who had seen them. That was the unexpected bonus of the show.\"\n\nMichael Parkinson was part of the TV-am team with Robert Kee (left), Anna Ford, David Frost\n\nThe show conjured a host of memorable appearances - notably a monosyllabic Meg Ryan, the wisecracking Muhammad Ali, dubbed by Parkinson as his favourite interviewee, and an assault by Rod Hull's alter ego Emu, which had the host sprawling out of his chair.\n\nIn 1983 he became one of the so-called \"Famous Five\" presenters who launched the new ITV breakfast franchise TV-am, where he presented the Sunday morning programme. However he, together with other big names, eventually departed after a very public row with the station's management.\n\nIn 1985 he took the helm at Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, following the death of its creator, Roy Plomley. It was reported that Plomley's widow was unhappy with the Parkinson style and he handed over to Sue Lawley after just three years. He also had a spell as a presenter on Radio 2.\n\nHe continued to appear on television presenting, among other things, ITV's Give Us a Clue, and the BBC One programme, Going For a Song.\n\nIn 1998 his chat show returned to BBC One, although his style of questioning had become less probing.\n\nIn 2003 he fell out with the corporation's management who wanted to move his programme from its regular Saturday night slot in favour of Match of the Day. Parkinson took his show to ITV where he stayed until hanging up his hat as a mainstream TV interviewer in 2007.\n\nHe remained the plain-speaking Yorkshire man, causing something of a storm in 2009 when he described the recently deceased reality TV star, Jade Goody, as \"a woman who came to represent all that's paltry and wretched about Britain today\".\n\nAnd, in an interview with the Radio Times, he bemoaned what he saw as the declining state of British TV, saying he was fed up with the rise of celebrities hosting shows, ridiculously titled documentaries and property programmes.\n\nParkinson was created a Knight Bachelor in the 2008 New Year's Honours.\n\nAt the end of his final Parkinson show he made a poignant reference to his father Jack, who died in 1975 following a battle with lung disease pneumoconiosis - caused by long-term retention of dust in the lungs.\n\nJack Parkinson had slightly mixed feelings about his son's chosen career, his son later revealed.\n\n\"Father loved coming to the show but he was never sure his son was doing a proper job. 'You've made a bob or two without breaking sweat,' he once told me. 'But, think on. It's not like playing for Yorkshire, is it?'\"\n\nMichael Parkinson agreed: \"Of course, it wasn't. But, once or twice, it got pretty damned close.\"\n\nThe presenter suffered his own health problems in later life. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2013, from which he recovered after an operation and radiotherapy. He was also plagued with a back condition for 11 years for which he underwent spinal surgery in 2017.\n\nParkinson couldn't quite give up his interviewer status and hosted a series on Sky Arts called Michael Parkinson: Masterclass from 2012 to 2014, featuring guests such as Jamie Cullum, Michael Morpurgo, Carlos Acosta and Lang Lang.\n\nBut with or without his own show, Parkinson remained a frequent face on the small screen as he himself became a popular guest on shows such as This Morning, Loose Women, The Graham Norton Show and Piers Morgan's Life Stories.", "Dozens of people were rescued following the fatal sinking of a migrant boat in the Channel\n\nFour people have been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter in France following the fatal sinking of a migrant boat in the Channel.\n\nSix men died after the vessel they were aboard got into difficulty near Calais on Saturday.\n\nMore than 50 other people were rescued by French and British coastguards.\n\nFrench judges are also reportedly considering further charges against the Iraqi and Sudanese suspects.\n\nAt least two of those detained are thought to have links to human trafficking networks, according to French media.\n\nThe people on board were reported to be mainly Afghan, with some Sudanese also present.\n\nKarim was one of about 10 people who was turned away from boarding the vessel due to overcrowding, despite paying people smugglers €2,000 ($2,200; £1,700) for a place.\n\nHe told the BBC the smugglers promised him a \"good boat\" - something at least 10m (32ft) long - but what they were given was only 3m long.\n\nTwo of his friends were allowed aboard and Karim thinks they were among those who died.\n\nAnother man, Idris, managed to survive the journey but has ended up back in France.\n\n\"There were far too many passengers,\" the 22-year-old told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"The waves were very strong, and the boat split up.\n\n\"Half the passengers fell into the water and were swallowed up by the sea. Those who were left in the boat tried to stay alive with the help of their lifebuoys.\"\n\nRescue workers on Saturday said it was the seventh time that week that they had pulled people from the water, raising concerns that the smugglers organising the crossings may be using a defective batch of boats.\n\nThe English Channel is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, with 600 tankers and 200 ferries passing through it every day.\n\nDespite this, many people are willing to take the risk.\n\nFigures released on Thursday show more than 17,000 migrants have arrived in the UK so far this year after crossing the Channel.\n\nMore than 400 people arrived in small boats on Wednesday alone.\n\nThe BBC also spoke to Zhala in Calais, who said she was fleeing gun attacks in Iraq with her young family. They have repeatedly tried to get on a boat.\n\n\"It's fate,\" she said when asked what she thought about Saturday's sinking.\n\n\"It's not dangerous for us. We've come across so many difficulties in my country.\"\n\nA migrant from South Sudan, who has set up a camp hidden in the bushes on the coastline, told the BBC he was adamant to get to the UK to make a success of himself.\n\nHe said: \"[The UK} colonised me in Sudan, that's why. It's like my father.\"\n\nExplaining why he wants to leave Sudan, he explained he was leaving because of war and corruption.\n\nBut French authorities have threatened to move him and his fellow countryman from their makeshift camp, he added.\n\nKarim said he is also still looking to try and make it across into the UK.\n\nAid workers in Calais say more migrants have been arriving in recent weeks and have been living rough on the coastline. They say many of them are determined to get to the UK, despite warnings over the dangers of the crossing.", "Video posted on social media shows a plane surrounded by flood waters, after thunderstorms and lightning disrupted flights at Frankfurt International Airport on Wednesday evening.\n\nA spokesperson for the airport said they experienced \"massive amounts of rain in a short period\" but that flights \"started regularly\" again on Thursday morning.\n\nFlood waters can be seen cascading down into Frankfurt's main underground station in another video posted online.\n\nThe German city has experienced severe weather conditions, with thunderstorms and heavy rain disrupting travel.", "Aircraft is being deployed to tackle the flames on the island of Tenerife\n\nA major wildfire on the Spanish island of Tenerife has led to the evacuation of five villages.\n\nThe fire has spread some 8 sq km (800 hectares) since it started in a nature reserve on the north-east coast of the island late on Tuesday evening.\n\nLocal authorities have cut off access to the forest around the Mount Teide volcano, Spain's highest peak, and say secondary fires have now broken out.\n\nHelicopters spraying water have been seen flying over the area.\n\nThe main blaze is spreading through woodland and ravines in the Candelaria and Arafo areas, making it difficult for firefighters to tackle.\n\nRosa Davila, president of the Tenerife Council, said aircraft were necessary because it was a steep area.\n\n\"The blaze has a huge potential, we have asked for additional means,\" she said on local radio.\n\nThe villages of Arrate, Chivisaya, Media Montaña, Ajafoña and Las Lagunetas were evacuated on Wednesday morning.\n\nPedro Martinez, head of Tenerife's emergency services, said multiple secondary fires had also broken out.\n\nPhotos show large flames engulfing parts of the forest, and thick plumes of smoke billowing into the sky.\n\nAs of Wednesday evening, there was no apparent disruption to arrivals or departures at Tenerife's South and North airports.\n\nIt comes after the Canary Islands were hit by a heatwave that has left many areas bone dry, increasing the risk of wildfires.\n\nLast month, thousands of residents on the nearby island of La Palma - which also forms part of the Canary Islands archipelago off the coast of northern Africa - were told to evacuate due to a wildfire amid a period of intense heat.\n\nWildfires have raged in many parts of the world this summer, including in southern Europe, northern Africa, Canada, and Hawaii.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nAre you in the affected region? If it's safe to do so, please share your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Calls are growing for a public inquiry into the case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit.\n\nDNA implicating another suspect in the crime was found just three years into his jail term, BBC News has learned.\n\nFormer Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) director Lord Ken Macdonald described the case as a \"whole system failure\".\n\nEx-Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland said \"all agencies involved in this have some explaining to do\".\n\nMr Buckland told BBC Radio 4's World At One programme that he was \"deeply concerned and rather shocked\" at revelations about the existence of DNA evidence in the case.\n\nCalling for an inquiry, he said: \"Clearly, this latest revelation is startling to say the least. Shocking, which is why I think we need to get to the bottom of this - not just for the sake of this case and Mr Malkinson but for any other cases that either might be out there or might be to come.\"\n\nMr Malkinson, 57, was found guilty in 2004 of raping a woman in Greater Manchester but always maintained his innocence.\n\nHe was eventually released in 2020 but remained on licence as a registered sex offender until his conviction was finally quashed last month at the Court of Appeal.\n\nIn July, judges said DNA evidence pointing to another man's involvement in the attack cleared Mr Malkinson's name after his long legal battle.\n\nBut case documents seen by BBC News show that all the key agencies involved in the case knew of this exonerating DNA by 2009, which first emerged two years prior.\n\nThe CPS has insisted this was not \"ignored\" and was handed to Mr Malkinson's defence team.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has already apologised for its handling of the investigation, admitting that Mr Malkinson was the victim of a \"grave miscarriage of justice\".\n\nNow senior legal figures say a formal inquiry is needed to establish where the fault lies for Mr Malkinson's wrongful conviction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson speaks to Radio 4's Today programme about his first night of freedom\n\nLord Garnier, who was solicitor general from May 2010 to September 2012, expressed \"jaw-dropping shock\" over failures in the case.\n\nHe told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme: \"It seems to me that what we need now is complete and utter disclosure, public disclosure, of every document that relates to this case, save those which if disclosed would impede the prosecution of a new suspect.\n\n\"And there should be a public inquiry which should reach conclusions about what went wrong, who knew what and when, within a sixth-month period.\"\n\nLord Ken Macdonald, who was director of public prosecutions between 2003 and 2008, told the BBC: \"It's a perfect storm of injustice - everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.\n\n\"This is a whole system failure which is why we need a public inquiry.\"\n\nBarrister Michael Mansfield described the case as a \"catastrophe\" and pointed to other issues with the case beyond the DNA evidence, including the credibility of the witnesses who detectives relied on and the rules around identification parades.\n\nHe said the \"whole of this case indicates a very basic malaise and rottenness at the system\".\n\nMr Mansfield said he supports calls for an inquiry, adding: \"However I don't want one that lasts six years. This has got to happen quickly, a rapid response to this - because there are other people sitting in jail.\"\n\nA CPS spokesperson said: \"It is clear Mr Malkinson was wrongly convicted of this crime and we share the deep regret that this happened.\n\n\"Evidence of a new DNA profile found on the victim's clothing in 2007 was not ignored. It was disclosed to the defence team representing Mr Malkinson for their consideration.\n\n\"In addition, searches of the DNA databases were conducted to identify any other possible suspects. At that time there were no matches and therefore no further investigation could be carried out.\"", "Magaluf has become a popular destination for young tourists\n\nSpanish police are investigating the alleged gang rape of an 18-year-old British woman on the island of Majorca.\n\nThe alleged incident is said to have happened early on Monday at a hotel in the popular holiday resort town of Magaluf.\n\nFive French tourists and a Swiss tourist have been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and violation of the right to privacy.\n\nThey are in custody and their phones have been seized.\n\nThe alleged victim is thought to have met a group of young tourists in the early hours of Monday morning.\n\nShe is believed to have followed them to their hotel, where she was forced to have sexual intercourse and was filmed by her alleged aggressors.\n\nThe woman later escaped and was helped by hotel staff after being found calling for help on the street.\n\nIt is the second case of suspected gang rape in Majorca in recent months. A group of German tourists was arrested in July on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman.\n\nMajorca has become a popular destination for young tourists due to its reputation for cheap alcohol and beach parties.\n\nHowever, the authorities there have long said they want to clean up the area to make it more attractive to more upmarket travellers and families.", "Boxer Muhammad Ali was one of Parkinson's most famous guests, and is pictured sparring with the host on his second visit in 1974", "Kerry Palin claimed to be raising money for wildlife affected by the 2020 Australian wildfires\n\nA woman has been jailed for 16 months after spending most of the £34,000 she raised for charity on herself.\n\nKerry Palin, 27, was living in Peterborough in January 2020 when she started fundraising for wildlife victims of the Australian bush fires.\n\nBut she only donated $20 (£10) and doctored screenshots of the receipts.\n\nPalin, now of Rushden, Northamptonshire, pleaded guilty to fraud and acquiring and concealing criminal property.\n\nCambridgeshire Police said that Palin set up an equestrian-themed online auction on Facebook to raise money for wildlife charities helping victims of the bushfires.\n\nTens of millions of animals were estimated to have died in the fires.\n\nThe page had 7,000 members and more than 300 people donated goods to sell.\n\nThe money raised was paid directly to Palin via her bank or PayPal accounts, but she only donated $5 AUD each to four different charities, police said.\n\nHundreds of millions of animals died or were harmed in the Australian bush fires\n\nWhen donors raised concerns, Palin blocked them so they were unable to contact her.\n\nBut the pressure mounted and her PayPal account ran into problems due to the high level of funds transferred.\n\nPalin finally contacted police herself and admitted to spending some of the money on luxury items, including a treadmill, hair extensions and a new rug.\n\nShe later pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation, concealing criminal property and acquiring criminal property.\n\nPalin's partner, David Collins, 39, from Peterborough, pleaded guilty to acquiring criminal property after parcels at their home were found in his name. He was given a conditional discharge.\n\nPC Sam Dane, who investigated, said: \"This was an appalling case of fraud where Palin not only deceived generous, kind-natured individuals, but deprived the wildlife victims of the wildfires of thousands of pounds in donations, which would have made a huge difference to their lives.\"\n\n\"Instead of helping the desperate victims of these horrific events, the money was spent on frivolous and unnecessary luxuries,\" she added.\n\nCambridgeshire Police urged anyone wanting to donate money to good causes online to be \"vigilant\".\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830", "Students at Ballakermeen High School were asked to delete the email and ignore its contents\n\nSome A-level students have been sent their results on email a day early by mistake.\n\nA high school in Douglas on the Isle of Man confirmed the communication was meant to be timed to go out on Thursday morning.\n\nBallakermeen High School said emails had \"accidentally\" been sent early and pupils were asked to \"delete and disregard\" them.\n\nHow the mistake happened was currently being investigated, the school said.\n\nThere is a national embargo on the results until 08:00 BST Thursday, in line with England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA Ballakermeen High School spokesman said \"no advantage\" could be gained by those who were seeking to secure a university place as educational institutions would not take calls in advance of the embargo.\n\nAlthough the situation was \"not particularly helpful\", normal preparations for the official release of the results on Thursday were continuing at the school, he said.\n\nSixth Form staff would then be on hand to support students with their university choices and finding a place through the clearing system if necessary, he added.\n\nThe Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) said: \"All applicants will be receiving the decisions on their applications at 08:00am tomorrow, and while it's unfortunate that some applicants have found out their results before, this has not impacted the decisions made by universities and colleges.\n\n\"And this year, applicants will receive an email from Ucas tailored to them, which will clearly outline their next steps and other options they may want to consider.\"\n\nThe Department of Education, Sport and Culture has been contacted for a comment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to IsleofMan@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Luxury cars were among the 50 vehicles seized by police\n\nSingapore police have seized about S$1bn ($735m; £578m) - including luxury homes, cars and watches - in one of its biggest anti-money laundering probes.\n\nGold bars, designer handbags, wine and S$23m in cash were among the items seized in the raids.\n\nPolice arrested ten people in the operation, all of whom held foreign passports.\n\nRaids of this size are rare in Singapore, which has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.\n\nThe Singapore Police Force said in a statement that simultaneous raids were held across the city-state on Tuesday.\n\nIt added that 94 properties, including houses in some of the country's most sought after areas, were seized, along with 50 vehicles.\n\nPolice said the cash seized was in Singapore bank notes and other currencies\n\nTen people, aged between 31 and 44, were arrested for alleged money laundering and forgery offences. Police said that those arrested had passports from China, Cambodia, Turkey and Vanuatu.\n\nThe group was \"suspected to be involved in laundering the proceeds of crime from their overseas organised crime activities including scams and online gambling,\" according to the police.\n\nMore than 250 luxury handbags and watches were seized in the operation\n\n\"We have zero tolerance for the use of Singapore as a safe haven for criminals,\" said David Chew, director of the police's Commercial Affairs Department, which investigates white-collar crime.\n\n\"Our message to these criminals is simple - if we catch you, we will arrest you. If we find your ill-gotten gains, we will seize them. We will deal with you to the fullest extent of our laws,\" he added.\n\nPolice said another 12 people were assisting with investigations, while eight others are currently on its wanted list.\n\nThe country's central bank and financial regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, said it had been in contact with financial institutions \"where the potentially tainted funds have been identified\".\n\nIt added that it would take \"firm action\" against institutions which did not meet official anti-money laundering requirements.", "Lord Michael Grade, a former BBC and ITV chair, has paid tribute to Parkinson, calling the former interviewer a \"master of his craft\".\n\n\"I don’t really know of any chat-shows other than the Parkinson show that were absolutely an appointment to view. He was incredibly reliable, he got the biggest stars of the day to talk to,\" Grade tells the BBC.\n\nHe says he always wanted to get the best interviews out of his guests, and suspects Parkinson never interviewed anyone \"he didn’t admire and respect for their talent and he got the best out of people\".\n\nGrade recounts meeting Parkinson for the first time when he was a talent agent and had seen some of his work. He then decided to approach him and offered to be his agent \"and I never heard another word\", Grade says.\n\nHe also echoes a number of other tributes talking about how genuine Parkinson was and how despite his incredible career, he never lost sight of his roots.\n\nParkinson on the set of a television show in 1985. Image caption: Parkinson on the set of a television show in 1985.", "Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been invited to visit the UK, the Saudi Arabian embassy has told the BBC.\n\nNo 10 said it would confirm the prime minister's engagements in the usual way, with nothing in the diary yet.\n\nA spokesperson said the prime minister looked forward to meeting the crown prince \"at the earliest opportunity\".\n\nIt would be the prince's first UK visit since the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.\n\nThe invitation was first reported by the Financial Times and the Times newspapers.\n\nThe murder of Mr Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia's government, was condemned by the West at the time.\n\nUK ministers said it involved \"appalling brutality\" and later sanctioned 20 Saudi nationals involved in the killing.\n\nUS intelligence agencies concluded that the prince must have authorised the killing, despite him denying any involvement.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke to the crown prince earlier, with the leaders discussing their commitment to developing the trade and investment relationship between the two countries, as well as to strengthening cooperation on defence and security.\n\nThe BBC has been told the Saudis were already making plans for a visit at least a month ago.\n\nIt is not clear whether the prince has formally accepted the invitation yet but it is known that he does want to come to the UK.\n\nDates currently being considered are in the first half of October.\n\nThe invitation was criticised by the Liberal Democrats, who said it sent a signal that the crown prince \"can continue acting with impunity and we and our allies will do nothing about it\".\n\nThe party's foreign affairs spokeswoman Layla Moran said: \"It beggars belief that Rishi Sunak is rolling out the carpet for Mohammed bin Salman.\n\n\"This man - who authorised the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi and presides over a dismal human rights record - should not be receiving a warm welcome from the UK government.\"\n\nPolly Truscott, from human rights campaign group Amnesty International, said: \"There must be no question of the UK rolling out the red carpet for Mohammed bin Salman or of the Saudi ruler being able to use this visit to rehabilitate himself on the world stage.\"\n\nHowever, Labour said the UK also had to have a \"dialogue\" with Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe party's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"It's important as part of that visit that the prime minister speaks to him about human rights.\"\n\nShe added: \"Part of our role internationally is to challenge other nations… and to try and influence in that way. If you don't then you don't have any influence whatsoever.\"\n\nThe crown prince met the Queen during a visit to the UK six months before the murder of Jamal Khashoggi\n\nUK ministers have indicated a desire for closer ties with the kingdom in recent months. The nation has opened an office in London for its trillion pound investment fund to diversity its economy away from oil.\n\nSaudi Arabia has also spent billions of pounds through its Public Investment Fund on international sports deals, including a takeover of Premier League club Newcastle United and the negotiation of a dominant stake in professional golf.\n\nCritics have described this as an attempt to \"sportswash\" - or distract from - the country's human rights record.\n\nEarlier this year, when he was business secretary, Grant Shapps held talks with Saudi Arabia over collaborating more in sectors like space, tech, and critical minerals.\n\nThe government has also been exploring support for a trade deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), of which Saudi Arabia is a key member.\n\nWhile they have not been involved in the crown prince's invitation, a Department for Business and Trade source said securing a trade deal with the GCC was a \"priority\" for Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch.\n\nThe GCC is headquartered in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, where Ms Badenoch visited earlier this summer.\n\nThe source added a deal would provide \"enormous opportunities to bring investment into the UK\" but said talks were separate to those about a visit by the prince.\n\nThey said the government view was that \"when it comes to trade deals and relationships you are in a stronger position to talk about what they are doing if working with them not lecturing from the outside\".\n\nThen-Prime Minister Boris Johnson met the crown prince in Riyadh last year, as part of talks with Gulf leaders about ending reliance on Russian oil and gas.\n\nHowever, he turned down an invite to the Queen's funeral in September, with another senior Saudi royal attending in his place.\n\nHe last visited the UK in March 2018, when Theresa May was prime minister, six months before the murder of Mr Khashoggi.\n\nThe prince, who is the de facto ruler of the world's leading oil exporter, won plaudits from Western leaders for overseeing some reforms in the conservative Gulf kingdom, including lifting the ban on women driving.\n\nHowever, his international reputation was severely damaged by the killing of Mr Khashoggi.", "Britney Spears' husband Sam Asghari has said the pair have decided to end their \"journey together\" after 14 months of marriage.\n\nA divorce petition filed on Wednesday and seen by BBC News cited \"irreconcilable differences\" between Mr Asghari, 29, and Ms Spears, 41.\n\nThe couple got engaged in September 2021 and were married in a small but star-studded ceremony in June 2022.\n\nRumours of their marital struggles were reported in US tabloids this year.\n\nMs Spears became a global superstar after her song ...Baby One More Time was released when she was just 16. She went on to have hits including Toxic, Womanizer and Oops!...I Did It Again.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Mr Asghari said: \"After 6 years of love and commitment to each other my wife and I have decided to end our journey together.\n\n\"We will hold onto the love and respect we have for each other and I wish her the best always.\n\n\"Asking for privacy seems rediculous [sic] so I will just ask for everyone including media to be kind and thoughtful.\"\n\nRepresentatives for Ms Spears have not yet commented.\n\nThe musician did not address the divorce in a Wednesday night post to her 42 million Instagram followers, instead writing that she was \"buying a horse soon\".\n\nAccording to the dissolution of marriage petition filed by Mr Asghari in Los Angeles County Superior Court, he asks that spousal support and attorneys' fees be paid by Ms Spears.\n\nThe Iranian-American actor, model and fitness trainer met Ms Spears while she was shooting the video for her song Slumber Party in 2016.\n\nHe was a vocal supporter of her efforts to end her father Jamie's conservatorship, a fight she won just months before their marriage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTheir wedding last year, at the superstar's home in Thousand Oaks, California, was an intimate and lavish affair attended by celebrities including Paris Hilton, Madonna and Drew Barrymore.\n\nThe two had recently been seen without their wedding rings in public.\n\nThe separation comes as Ms Spears prepares to publish her memoir - The Woman in Me - this October.\n\nIt marks the end of her third marriage.\n\nIn 2004, she married childhood friend Jason Alexander for 55 hours in Las Vegas, before she annulled the nuptials at the urging of her management team.\n\nMr Alexander, who was seen participating in the pro-Trump riot at the US Capitol in Washington DC in January 2021, attempted to crash Ms Spears' wedding to Mr Asghari hours before they tied the knot.\n\nHe was charged with trespassing, vandalism and two counts of battery, and has been court-ordered to stay away from her.\n\nMs Spears' second marriage - to rapper Kevin Federline - lasted from 2004 to 2007. Mr Federline retains sole custody of their two children, Jayden James and Sean Preston.", "Top A-level results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have fallen for a second year running - with 27.2% of all grades marked at A* or A.\n\nThat is almost back to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nIt follows a spike in top grades in 2020 and 2021, when exams were cancelled because of Covid.\n\nThe drop is steeper in England, where grades were due to be brought back in line with 2019 in this year's results.\n\nIn Wales and Northern Ireland, grades were always meant to be a bit higher this year.\n\nOverall, there are 73,008 fewer top grades compared with 2022, but 31,834 more than in 2019.\n\nThe pass rate for exams in Scotland fell last week - but was still higher than before the pandemic.\n\nThe fall in top grades will mean disappointment for some students, but it has got nothing to do with students' individual performance.\n\nIt is part of a plan to bring grades back down in line with pre-pandemic levels, after sharp rises in 2020 and 2021 when exams were cancelled and results were based on teachers' assessments.\n\nThe Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) said 79% of 18-year-olds applying to university got a place at their first choice - which is lower than last year, but higher than before the pandemic.\n\nAnother 9% did not get into their firm or insurance choice of university and are in clearing, Ucas's online system that advertises courses with vacancies.\n\nUcas has previously warned that spaces on some courses at top universities would \"go quite quickly\" in clearing, with the number of 18-year-olds in the population growing and international applications to undergraduate courses up slightly on last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A-Level results: What to do if you missed your grades\n\nAS-level results are also being released which, in Wales and Northern Ireland, count towards students' final A-level results next summer.\n\nAnd 3,448 students in England are receiving vocational T-level qualifications in England. The pass rate was 90.5%, and 69.2% of students achieved a merit or above.\n\nLara, 18, is planning to move out of her family home in London and head to university in the next few weeks.\n\nShe was disappointed when she did not get the grades she wanted in her English literature, maths and computer science A-levels - but has since found a place through clearing.\n\n\"Luckily my parents and my teacher were on hand to offer me support and we got on the phone to clearing immediately,\" she said.\n\n\"Everyone should be proud of what they have achieved and remember, if you don't get the grades you want there are still so many options available to you.\"\n\nLara is a registered young carer for her younger sister, and says moving to university does \"bring up some anxieties\".\n\n\"I'll still be available to phone and pop down to visit, but there is that anxiety that I will be leaving and I'm not sure how either of us will react to that situation,\" she said.\n\nWith the support of her parents and family and the Carers Trust charity, Lara says she is ready to take the next step and would encourage other young carers to reach out and get some help.\n\n\"Hollie, my sister, would like to turn my room into a Lego room when I leave,\" she says. \"She is very excited.\"\n\nThere was a steeper drop in the proportion of A-levels marked at A* and A in England than elsewhere:\n\nExams were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid. Pupils' grades were based on teachers' predictions instead, leading to a spike in top results.\n\nEngland's exams watchdog, Ofqual, set out a two-year plan to bring A-level and GCSE results back down to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nLast year was the first time students sat exams since the start of the pandemic. Ofqual called it a \"transition year\", with grades set to reflect a midway point between 2019 and 2021. About 36.4% of A-levels in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were marked at A* and A.\n\nNow, in the second stage of the plan, grades in England are more similar to those in 2019, when 25.4% of A-levels were given the top grades.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb said bringing them back down would ensure results carried \"weight and credibility\" with employers, universities and colleges, so they know what the different grades mean.\n\nHowever, this year's A-level students also suffered from disruption because of Covid.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said students getting A-level and other Level 3 results had faced \"unprecedented circumstances\".\n\nMost of them were in Year 10 when the pandemic hit and their GCSEs were cancelled, so this is the first time they have sat formal exams.\n\nThe impact on pupils was not equal, and MPs have warned it could take a decade for the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others to narrow to what it was before Covid.\n\nThese students have also faced disruption from teacher strikes this year, although unions said they tried to minimise the impact on exam year groups.\n\nThe Covid disruption means things are not quite back to normal.\n\nOfqual says there was \"protection built into the grading process\" so that students should achieve the grades they would have done if the pandemic had not happened - even if they did not perform as well in their exams.\n\nSome Covid measures also remained in place for this year's exams. A-levels were spaced apart more than they were before the pandemic, allowing for rest and revision.\n\nBut, unlike in the rest of the UK, A-level students in England were not given advance information about the topics on which they would be tested.\n\nThe Higher Education Policy Institute said this week that \"England has probably got it wrong\" by trying to get back to normal \"too quickly\".\n\nJo Saxton, the head of Ofqual, told the BBC that students in England would not be disadvantaged because universities had been pre-warned that different nations were taking different approaches.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders has said the government must make employers aware that different year groups have been graded differently.\n\nWhat questions do you have about results day? Whether you have queries about A-levels, GCSEs, Highers or vocational courses, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The annual Perseid meteor shower has lit up skies across the world to the delight of those hoping to catch a glimpse of a shooting star.\n\nThe phenomenon brings up to 100 meteors an hour, as the Earth slams into the debris left behind from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle.\n\nAs the debris hits the Earth's atmosphere it burns up, resulting in the bright flashes known as shooting stars, which can be seen with the naked eye.\n\nThe natural display happens at a similar time in July and August each year, and this year peaked between Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHeavy cloud over much of the UK meant many stargazers were disappointed, although some sightings were possible over Yorkshire, north-east England and parts of southern Scotland.\n\nLooking ahead to the chances of spotting a shooting star over the coming days, BBC weather forecaster Billy Payne said many should be able to get a glimpse despite less than perfect conditions.\n\n\"Tonight, we'll see cloud and rain spreading across much of England and Wales, so viewing opportunities will be limited,\" he said.\n\n\"East Anglia and the south-east and the far north of England may see some breaks for a time before cloud increases later.\n\n\"Scotland and Northern Ireland will have a few clear spells overnight but even here there will be some areas of cloud around.\n\n\"Tomorrow night should offer better conditions as cloud and rain gives way to clearer skies for many.\n\n\"Rain may drag its heels across northern England though, while the far north and west are likely to see areas of cloud come and go, particularly towards coasts and hills.\"\n\nA meteor was spotted in front of the Sphinx Door at the ancient city of Hattusa, in Turkey\n\nTwo meteors streaked across the night sky above Leeberg hill in Grossmugl, Austria\n\nThe meteors - which can be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a pea - hit the Earth's atmosphere at speeds of 134,000 mph (215,000 km/h). The blazing debris does not pose any danger to us on Earth.\n\nIt is considered one of the best astronomical events because it produces bright meteors and is one of the most active.\n\nThis beautiful shot catches a shooting star and the lighthouse of the island of Lastovo in Croatia\n\nSky watchers on the same island in Croatia brought out a telescope hoping to catch sight of a meteor\n\nThis year, Nasa's All Sky Fireball Network, which observes meteors using a network of cameras, detected the first Perseid meteor on 26 July.\n\nA meteor streaks in the night sky during annual Perseid meteor shower at Shebenik National Park, in Fushe Stude, Albania.\n\nIt is called a \"Perseid\" meteor shower because the meteors appear to originate from the constellation of Perseus - named after a figure from Greek mythology.\n\nThe Milky Way can be seen behind a Perseid meteor in this photo taken in Cantabria in Spain\n\nA meteor can be seen during the annual Perseid meteor shower in Ronda, Spain\n\nCallum White said he spent Saturday night in the Wye Valley for the Perseid meteor shower.\n\n\"I spent three hours looking out over the River Wye and although the cloud rolled in and out throughout, I saw quite a few meteors and the camera captured even more - they have all been combined to produce this photo.\"\n\nCallum White spent three hours looking over the River Wye - \"I saw quite a few meteors and the camera captured even more\"", "Two hundred officers and staff of the Police Service of Northern Ireland were not informed of the theft of personal data from a superintendent's car for a month, police have admitted.\n\nPolice said news of the security breach in Newtownabbey was relayed to affected individuals on 4 August.\n\nA document containing the names of officers and staff was taken along with a police-issue laptop on 6 July.\n\nThe police said the nature of the missing data had to be confirmed.\n\nThe senior officer remains in his post while the subject of an investigation into the loss of the items from a car parked outside a retail complex.\n\nThis data breach is one of two such leaks affecting data about the employees of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nOn Tuesday, the PSNI mistakenly shared details of about 10,000 employees. The chief constable has apologised.\n\nThe PSNI's data risk management unit was first informed of the theft incident on 27 July.\n\nHowever, in response to questions from BBC News NI, it has emerged that individuals were not advised of the data leak, which could have compromised their security, until 4 August.\n\nBBC News NI understands that what happened during the intervening weeks is being urgently reviewed.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne and Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd spoke at a press conference earlier this week\n\nThe document contained the full names and work locations of more than 200 officers and support staff. It did not reveal any home addresses.\n\nThe laptop is password protected and its contents are believed to have been remotely erased by the PSNI. However, the police have not said on what date this was done.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd confirmed the police were investigating the circumstances of the theft.\n\n\"Our Information Security Unit were informed on 27th July,\" he said.\n\n\"As there was a delay, our Information Security Unit had to conduct their own enquiries to be clear on what accurate information could be conveyed to the Information Commissioners Office who were then informed on the 31st July.\n\n\"The precise nature of the missing data had to be confirmed before we could inform our officers and staff on the 4th August.\n\n\"We have worked with our Data Protection Officer and sought legal advice and guidance to ensure the information we provided to our employees was accurate.\"\n\nThe Superintendent Association of Northern Ireland (SANI) confirmed that one of its members was involved, adding that it was giving them \"every possible support in this difficult situation\".\n\nThe information released in the first data breach was accidentally included in a response to a freedom of information (FoI) request.\n\nIt included the surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence.\n\nIt appeared on the internet for a few hours but was later taken down.\n\nMike Nesbitt, from the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and a member of the Policing Board, said the PSNI had multiple opportunities to stop the publication of that information.\n\n\"It was my understanding from the police that no one individual or indeed single department was responsible for the leak,\" he said.\n\nHe added that there were \"multiple opportunities for a number of individuals to spot that the spreadsheet had a facility on it where with one click you could get behind what was on your computer screen and access all the source data, the names, the ranks, the positions\".", "Lynette \"Pinky\" Iverson has been a fixture in the Hawaiian town of Lahaina for years. Locals know her for her extravagantly self-decorated pickup truck and her chihuahua named Tiny.\n\nThat truck became a lifeline for many as she loaded \"at least a dozen\" people onto the back of it and fled town on Tuesday as the wildfires spread.\n\n\"I got to my truck and it was already engulfed in flames around the tires,\" she told BBC News from the War Memorial Stadium emergency shelter, recalling how her ordeal began.\n\n\"I tried to save people, but for some, I wasn't able to,\" she adds.\n\nIt is the deadliest natural disaster in Hawaii's history.\n\nThe fire arrived as she was spraying her building with water, in the hopes of preventing falling embers from igniting it. But despite her efforts, she was helpless as she witnessed her own home beginning to catch fire.\n\n\"One lady didn't want to come out. Another man was screaming help,\" she said of the hectic scene.\n\n\"By that time we were engulfed in the black, black smoke,\" she said.\n\nShe was only able to grab her car keys and Tiny before fleeing.\n\nMaui has six shelters now in operation\n\nAs we spoke, I noticed something crawling around in the bedding only inches away from her dog. Without knowing what it was, I use my notebook to fling it into the ground, where she squashed it with her purple cowboy boot.\n\nIt was a centipede, which is venomous, she and other evacuees in the shelter told me. Tiny could have died if stung, she added.\n\nMs Iverson was rattled by the ordeal and frustrated about the cleanliness of the donated sheets at the shelter.\n\nWithout her phone, she says she's hopeful that her brother in Nevada will see that she spoke to the BBC and finally learn that she is safe.\n\nMs Iverson lived in her locally famous truck for six years before finally being accepted into a housing community in Lahaina for the disabled or elderly.\n\nNow in her 70s, she's hopeful that she'll be able to find a place to live once again.\n\nSteve Strode, a former commercial diver who has lived in Lahaina for 10 years, says he is haunted by the neighbours he was forced to leave behind as he ran for his life.\n\nSpeaking from his bed in the same shelter, he says there was one disabled man in his apartment complex who needed assistance from multiple people in order to be able to flee.\n\nBut there was no time to gather a group to help, he says. \"I had to go around him,\" he recalls.\n\nHe and his neighbour survived by using their bicycles to reach temporary safety at the Safeway. The men, both in their 60s, had to cycle through flames that at times were as tall as 10ft (3 meters) high\n\nWildfires on Hawaii's Maui island, where the historic town of Lahaina is located, and Big Island began on Tuesday night. Hurricane winds and dry weather helped fuel the flames, causing rapid spread.\n\nThousands have been left homeless by the disaster and Maui has six shelters now in operation.", "On 4 January, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set out his five priorities for 2023.\n\n\"I fully expect you to hold my government and I to account on delivering those goals,\" he said.\n\nWhat progress has been made?\n\nThe government's top priority is halving inflation - the increase in prices over time - by the end of 2023.\n\nInflation was at 10.7% in the three-month period between October and December 2022, so the aim was to reduce inflation to 5.3% or lower in the last three months of 2023.\n\nThe government is using a measure called the Consumer Prices Index, which tracks the price of a typical basket of goods.\n\nThe monthly inflation figure for the year to October was 4.6%, with the fall largely due to lower energy prices.\n\nAt this point, the government said it had met its target early, without having to wait for the final quarter figure.\n\nThe rate of inflation fell further to 3.9% in the year to November.\n\nWhen the prime minister made the pledge, many experts already expected inflation to drop sharply. However, it did not fall as quickly as anticipated at the beginning of the year.\n\nWhen will we know? The figure for the fourth quarter of 2023 will be released on 17 January 2024.\n\nDowning Street said the pledge to \"grow the economy\" will be met if the economy is bigger in the three-month period of October to December 2023 than it was in the previous quarter (July-September).\n\nIt is using GDP (or Gross Domestic Product), a measure of all the activity of companies, governments and individuals.\n\nThis would not normally be seen as a difficult pledge to meet, because the UK's economy is usually growing.\n\nBut the latest monthly figures for October show that the economy has been flat in 2023.\n\nAnd, in November, the Office for Budget Responsibility, which assesses the health of the UK's economy, cut its growth forecasts to 0.7% in 2024 and 1.4% in 2025.\n\nThe pledge to grow the economy has been made more difficult by the government's promise to halve inflation.\n\nThe Bank of England put up interest rates 14 times to stop prices rising so quickly.\n\nHowever, this also reduces spending, and slows economic growth.\n\nWhen will we know? GDP for the fourth quarter of 2023 will be published on 13 February 2024.\n\nWhen governments talk about debt falling, they almost always mean as a proportion of GDP.\n\nThe idea is that debt is falling if it is growing more slowly than the economy.\n\nBut debt is not currently falling - it is rising. The latest figures for October showed that government debt stood at 97.8% of the size of the economy.\n\nThat was 2.3 percentage points higher than October 2022 and, as the Office for National Statistics pointed out, \"remains at levels last seen in the early 1960s\".\n\nBut the government pledge wasn't about how much debt is today - it was that debt would be forecast to come down in five years (2028-29).\n\nIn the Autumn Statement in November, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt claimed to be on track to meet that pledge because the OBR predicted a fall in 2028-29.\n\nBut it's going to be tight and will involve challenging spending restraint for some government departments.\n\nIn December, the statistics regulator criticised the prime minister for saying debt was falling when it was actually rising, as BBC Verify also pointed out.\n\nWhen will we know? The next debt forecasts will be published alongside the Spring Budget in 2024.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"NHS waiting lists will fall and people will get the care they need more quickly.\"\n\nHis pledge only refers to waiting lists in England, because Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland manage their own health systems.\n\nThe overall number of waits for non-emergency treatment in England was 7.71 million in October. This was about 40,000 down from September, but almost half a million higher than it was at the start of the year.\n\nOn a visit to a hospital in September, Mr Sunak conceded that his target was in doubt, saying it was \"very hard\". He said it would have been met without ongoing NHS industrial action.\n\nBut research by the Health Foundation think tank suggested that industrial action by consultants and junior doctors had only lengthened the waiting list by around 210,000, which is 3% of the list.\n\nThe NHS target is to see people within 18 weeks for non-urgent consultant-led treatment.\n\nWhen we asked Downing Street when the prime minister aimed to have waiting lists falling, we were pointed towards the plan for tackling the backlog of elective care (care planned in advance). This said the overall waiting list was expected to be falling by about March 2024.\n\nWhen will we know?: March's figures should be out in May.\n\nThe final priority was to \"stop the boats\" which bring people across the English Channel, after 45,755 migrants crossed over from France that way in 2022.\n\nMr Sunak has said that his plan to tackle small boat crossings is \"starting to work\".\n\nAs at 16 December, 29,437 people had been detected crossing the English Channel in 2023, according to the Home Office, which is down a third from the same date in 2022.\n\nWhen will we know? Figures on arrivals in small boats are collected daily.", "Thousands of Ecuadorian soldiers and police have been involved in a dawn operation to move a notorious gang leader to a maximum security jail.\n\nJose Adolfo Macias, known as \"Fito\" is accused of sending death threats to Ecuador's murdered presidential candidate, Fernando Villavicencio.\n\nThe anti-corruption campaigner was shot three times in the head leaving a campaign rally on Wednesday.\n\nBefore his murder Mr Villavicencio said he had been threatened by Fito.\n\n\"If I continue... mentioning Los Choneros [the gang], they are going to break me,\" he said.\n\nHis death has shocked a nation that has largely escaped the decades of drug-gang violence, cartel wars and corruption that has blighted many of its neighbours. Crime has however shot up in recent years, fuelled by the growth of Colombian and Mexican drug cartels.\n\nOn Sunday, his Construye party announced Christian Zurita, another journalist, would replace Mr Villavicencio as its presidential candidate.\n\nThis was a reversal from Saturday when the slain politician's running mate, Andrea Gonzalez, had been named.\n\nMr Villavicencio's widow Veronica Sarauz said she held the state responsible for her husband's death that she was unhappy Ms Gonzalez had been named as her husband's replacement.\n\nEcuador's security forces shared photos of the raid on social media\n\nMr Villavicencio's campaign focused on corruption and drugs. He was one of the only candidates to allege links between organised crime and Ecuadorian government officials.\n\nThe day before his assassination, he complained to the Public Prosecutor's Office about alleged irregularities in oil contracts negotiated during former president Rafael Correa's administration which had cost the country US $9bn (£7 bn).\n\nSix Colombians have been arrested in connection with the murder, while a seventh was killed in a shootout. The authorities have not said who hired and paid the hitmen.\n\nGang leader Fito had been held in Prison 8 in Guayaquil since 2011, and videos shared by security forces showed him handcuffed in his underwear as security forces moved him to another facility.\n\nEcuador's President Guillermo Lasso said Fito had been moved to La Roca, a 150-person maximum security prison that is part of the same complex.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Western Isles MP said the SNP are 'not being serious about independence'\n\nMP Angus MacNeil has been expelled from the SNP after he was suspended from its Westminster group last month.\n\nThe Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles) MP had been suspended after reportedly clashing with party chief whip Brendan O'Hara.\n\nThe SNP conduct committee met on Thursday after he refused to rejoin the group at the end of his suspension.\n\nThe party confirmed that Mr MacNeil was expelled after a breach of their code of conduct.\n\nMr MacNeil said he would stand as an independent candidate at the next general election.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland News, Mr MacNeil reiterated that he had not left the SNP and that he had been expelled in an \"ad hoc\" manner by a committee on Thursday night.\n\nHe said the party had \"lost its way quite badly\" and criticised a number of policies championed by the Scottish Greens, including gender reform and Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs).\n\nHowever he said the SNP's main problem was \"not personalities\", adding: \"The real problem the SNP have got is not being serious about independence and believably serious about independence.\n\n\"Jobs at Holyrood are far more important than creating an election that might give the people the chance to get away from… anything that's associated with the difficulties in Westminster.\n\n\"It's in the SNP's gift to do something about it and it's chosen not to take that opportunity and that's what I find very frustrating.\"\n\nDuring an event at the Edinburgh Fringe, First Minister Humza Yousaf told broadcaster Iain Dale that Mr MacNeil's expulsion was the correct move.\n\nHe said: \"The party did not leave him. He left the party. He wrote a statement to say he left the party.\n\n\"Regardless of length of service as a politician, you were elected on party ticket and you can't pick and choose when you are in or out of party. We should all be held to same standard.\n\n\"Joanna Cherry demonstrates how we can have differences and remain within party.\"\n\nAngus MacNeil was one of the SNP's longest-serving MPs, having first been elected in 2005, but has been a vocal critic of the party leadership in recent years, particularly over its independence strategy.\n\nHe was involved in a row with chief whip Mr O'Hara in July over missing votes in the House of Commons.\n\nIt was alleged he had threatened Mr O'Hara during a confrontation - an allegation Mr MacNeil denies - and he had the whip removed for a week.\n\nFollowing the falling-out, he announced he would sit as an independent MP until at least October.\n\nHis membership of the party was suspended as he refused to immediately rejoin the SNP group.\n\nHe then released a statement attacking the SNP leadership's approach to independence, accusing it of a lack of urgency. \"I will only seek the SNP whip again if it is clear that the SNP are pursuing independence,\" he wrote.The SNP's code of conduct requires members who resign from a party group - at any level of government - to also resign as a member of the parliament they were elected to.\n\nA party spokesperson said: \"Following his decision to resign from the SNP Westminster Parliamentary Group, and therefore no longer sit as an SNP MP, the unanimous decision of the SNP's Member Conduct Committee is that a breach of the code of conduct has occurred and Angus MacNeil MP has been expelled from the Party.\n\n\"Mr MacNeil was given the opportunity to rejoin the group, and subsequently chose not to attend the hearing.\"\n\nScottish Conservative deputy leader Meghan Gallacher said Mr MacNeil's expulsion was evidence of \"civil war engulfing\" the SNP and questioned the first minister's ability to manage party conflicts.\n\nShe said: \"Humza Yousaf cuts a weak, inconsistent figure - a leader in name only, being buffeted by events rather than shaping them.\"\n\nThis saga brings to an end Angus MacNeil's 18-year SNP representation of the Western Isles at Westminster.\n\nA colourful character and well-liked across the political divide, he's not made any secret of his frustrations about the party's independence strategy. Things have now come to a head.\n\nMr MacNeil will stand as an independent candidate at the next general election, after a year languishing on the green benches as an independent.\n\nThis will cause another headache in the constituency for the SNP - possibly splitting the pro-independence vote against a Labour candidate that is said to be liked and respected locally. He is Torcuil Crichton, the Daily Record's former Westminster editor.\n\nMore fundamentally for SNP leader Humza Yousaf, this expulsion further tears open divides in the party that had been almost masked under the Sturgeon leadership.\n\nThe SNP already faces a by-election following the recall of Rutherglen MP, Margaret Ferrier\n\nFurthermore, Mr Yousaf could face internal dissent at SNP conference in October. We've already heard this week rumblings against the SNP's deal with the Greens.\n\nAngus MacNeil is said to have been an SNP member for almost 30 years. For the first time in a generation, he will not be able to attend the conference now he's been expelled from the party.", "Photos of the aftermath showed a plume of smoke rising from the family's home\n\nA baby aged just 22 days, her 12-year-old brother and their parents were among seven people killed by Russian shells in southern Ukraine on Sunday.\n\nBombs hit their family home in the village of Shyroka Balka in Kherson, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said.\n\nThe dead also included another village resident and two men in neighbouring Stanislav.\n\n\"Terrorists must be stopped. They must be stopped by force,\" said Mr Klymenko. \"They don't understand anything else.\"\n\nThe minister shared photographs of the aftermath of the attack on Shyroka Balka, showing black columns of smoke rising from buildings, and the digitally obscured bodies of some of the dead.\n\nThirteen others were injured in the shelling, he added.\n\nUkraine President Volodymyr Zelensky used his daily address to the nation to condemn the \"brutal\" attack in Shyrokа Balka.\n\n\"Five people were killed,\" he said. \"Among them was a baby girl, only 22 days old. Her brother, just 12 years old. The mother Olesia... only 39, also perished.\"\n\nHe added there had been 17 reports of Russian shelling in Kherson alone, and many more beyond.\n\n\"There is no day when Russian evil does not receive our entirely just response,\" he said.\n\n\"We will not leave any of Russia's crimes unanswered.\"\n\nKherson was one of four regions in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have annexed last year.\n\nUkraine's military reclaimed the western part of the region in November. Russian troops have continued to shell the area from across the Dnipro river.\n\nThe shelling came a day after Moscow accused Kyiv of \"terrorism\" for what it said was an attempted missile strike on the Crimean Bridge linking the peninsula to Russia.\n\nUkraine has not confirmed the attack, although Mr Zelensky has previously said the bridge is used as a military supply route and is a legitimate target.\n\nCrimea has been under Moscow's control since Russian forces annexed the peninsula in 2014 - a move condemned internationally.\n\nIn another development, Moscow said it had fired warning shots at a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea to halt it for an inspection as it made its way to the Ukrainian port of Izmail on the Danube river.\n\nThe Russian claim has not been independently verified. If confirmed, it would be the first time Russia has fired on merchant shipping beyond Ukraine since exiting a landmark UN-brokered grain deal last month.\n\nRussia said that its Vasily Bykov patrol ship had fired automatic weapons toward the Palau-flagged Sukru Okan when it refused to halt, then boarded for an inspection.\n\nMeanwhile, an aide to the exiled Ukrainian mayor of Mariupol reported that several Ukrainian civilians were killed as Russian soldiers fought among themselves on Sunday.\n\nTwo teenage girls, four young men and a woman were among the dead in the \"shoot-out\" in the village of Urzuf, Petro Andryshchenko said in a Telegram post.\n\nHe said the gun battle followed an argument between Chechen troops and personnel from the local commandant's office.\n\nMariupol, a major port on the Sea of Azov, was captured by Russia after months of fierce fighting last year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"They were crying and screaming, I think that was the scariest thing\"\n\nThree people are in hospital after a car crashed into a campsite and injured nine people, police have said.\n\nA Ford Fiesta left the road and hit a tent with people inside at a campsite in Newgale, Pembrokeshire, on Saturday night.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said investigations into the incident were continuing and no arrests had been made.\n\nA baby that was asleep in the tent hit by the car escaped serious injury as it was in a cot, the campsite owner said.\n\nThe car went over a ditch, rolled into a tent and over a group of people.\n\nPolice have said the crash happened just after 22:30 BST, with passengers in the car among the injured.\n\nThe road's speed limit changes from a 60mph (100km/h) to 30mph (50km/h) just beside the entrance to the campsite, with tents just a few feet away from passing cars.\n\nCampsite owner Mike Harris told BBC Radio Wales he reviewed CCTV afterwards to make sense of the situation.\n\nHe said: \"I couldn't believe this car, how it had been speeding so fast down the road from the Roch area through a 30mph zone and then left the road.\"\n\nThe car veered into the campsite just after the point where the speed limit changes from 60mph to 30mph\n\nFern Wilson, who was nearby when the crash happened, said children screaming after the crash was the \"scariest thing\".\n\n\"There was a little girl that got hurt and there was a lot of young girls in the car... they were pretty much in shock so they were crying and screaming,\" she said.\n\nJoshua Tam, a firefighter who was also at the campsite, said he ran over to the scene following the crash and helped lift the car.\n\n\"I was just trying to help do what I could... there were already three or four people there.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAdriana de Pertis was staying at the campsite on Saturday and says she \"heard lots of people yelling and then you could see everyone's little headtorches from the window running towards the incident\".\n\n\"Although there was people screaming, there was blood, there was crying, there were still a lot of people at the incidents that were able to help\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we know about the Newgale Campsite crash?\n\nCouncillor Peter Morgan added: \"It's a miracle that nobody is killed, that's the main thing.\n\n\"It wasn't a very good scene to look at, but the people there were thankfully a couple of medics who were staying on site that night, and thankfully they were there to help.\"\n\nMr Morgan said a planned new road - several years in the making - needed to be looked at \"sooner rather than later\".\n\nHe added: \"I think you can look at things but you can't warrant for a car allegedly speeding and rolling over on a campsite.\"\n\nA cordon was placed around a collapsed tent on Saturday night as investigators surveyed the scene\n\nMr Harris runs the campsite with his wife Clare, who said the car tried to brake as it came down a hill.\n\n\"It flipped and rolled several times, and crashed into the tent,\" she said.\n\n\"There was a young child, a baby, in the tent at the time. Thankfully they are OK.\"\n\nThe car had to be lifted to free casualties beneath according to Mr Harris, who said despite being seriously injured it could have been a \"lot worse\".\n\nHe said it was \"fortunate\" there were firefighters and two surgeons staying on the campsite who were \"able to take charge and make the best of the situation\".\n\nMr Harris added he was \"very impressed\" with the speed and response of the emergency services, with about 15 vehicles on the scene quickly.\n\nOne person was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff by a coastguard rescue helicopter, the Welsh Ambulance Service said.\n\nSix ambulances were sent to the scene, and five other people were taken to hospital by paramedics.\n\nFour of the patients were taken to Glangwili General Hospital in Carmarthen, and another one to Morriston Hospital, Swansea.\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service also sent a crew to the scene.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it was \"continuing to investigate the incident which occurred in Newgale on Saturday evening\".\n\nA mixture of young families and surfers are waking up at Newgale Campsite on a grey rainy morning as the investigation continues into the cause of the accident.\n\nOwner Mike Harris showed me CCTV of the incident - you can see a car apparently travelling at considerable speed before crossing the carriageway, flipping over a ditch and landing on a tent.\n\nMr Harris said he felt blessed that two surgeons and a firefighter were on site at the time of the accident to deal with the wounded.\n\nIn response to concerns about the safety of the road, Mr Harris said he would welcome traffic calming measures such as a sleeping policeman just before the 30mph zone starts next to his campsite.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this incident. We are unable to comment while police investigations continue.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The artefacts date back thousands of years and are worth millions of euros\n\nThe United States has returned more than 250 ancient artefacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.\n\nThe art unit of Italy's police force found the items had been looted and sold to US museums and private collectors in the 1990s.\n\nAmong the precious artefacts are pots, paintings and sculptures - some up to 3,000 years old.\n\nSeveral of the mosaics are worth tens of millions of euros.\n\nThe oldest item dates back to the Villanovan age (1000 - 750BC), while other artefacts were from the Etruscan civilisation (800 - 200BC), Magna Graecia (750 - 400BC) and Imperial Rome (27BC - 476AD).\n\nMost artefacts had been stolen in the 1990s, then sold through a series of dealers with one selection apparently being offered to the Menil Collection, a museum in Houston, Texas.\n\nThe Italian Ministry of Culture said the artefacts were on display in the Menil Collection, but a spokesperson for the museum denied this and said they had never been a part of the collection.\n\nThe spokesperson said the museum had been offered the artefacts as a gift, but instead referred the donor to Italy's culture ministry.\n\nThe ministry said the owner of the collection \"spontaneously\" returned the items after police found that they had come from illegal excavations of archaeological sites.\n\nSeparately, the ministry said that 145 of the returned artefacts had come from a bankruptcy procedure against an English antiques dealer, Robin Symes, who amassed thousands of pieces as part of a network of illegal traders.\n\nItaly has long sought to track down antiques and artefacts that have been stolen and sold to private collectors and museums.\n\nIn September 2022, New York returned $19m (£16m) worth of stolen art to Italy, including a marble head of the goddess Athena dated 200BC, worth an estimated $3m alone.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nHeavyweight Anthony Joshua spectacularly knocked out Robert Helenius with one punch in round seven, after boxing tentatively in the first half of the fight at London's O2 Arena.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton - who was jeered by fans during the bout - landed nothing of note until a huge right to the jaw ended Helenius' night.\n\nThe win - Joshua's first stoppage victory in two-and-a-half years - sets up a blockbuster fight with American Deontay Wilder in January.\n\n\"It's a fickle sport, you've got to be real about this industry and not get caught up. I've done my job tonight,\" Joshua told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nWhen asked in the ring about the potential fight with Wilder, Joshua joked: \"My back's gone, is there a doctor in here? I want to carry this heavyweight division to the top.\"\n\nAfter the knockout, an emotionally charged and smiling Joshua climbed out of the ring, high-fived fans and shared a beer with Irish mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor.\n\nHelenius needed oxygen after the heavy knockdown, but recovered and left the ring unassisted after congratulating Joshua.\n• None 'A highlight reel KO but not the ruthless Joshua many expected'\n\nJoshua extends his record to 26 wins - with 23 stoppages - and three defeats.\n\nFinland's Helenius - who took the bout on a week's notice after Briton Dillian Whyte failed a voluntary drug test - loses his fifth pro fight in 36 outings.\n\nJoshua struggled to find any rhythm but the manner of the finish may just be the confidence-boosting win he so desperately needed, and a gentle reminder to other heavyweights he is not yet done.\n\nHelenius made his way to the ring in a packed out arena at the late time of 23:10 BST. Fans were offered a full refund when Whyte was withdrawn from the card, but such is the draw of Joshua there were no empty blue seats once the main event started.\n\nThe Briton confidently strode to the ring to a medley of a violinist playing the title song from the film 'The Godfather' and then the more upbeat 'Insomnia' by Faithless.\n\nThe 2012 Olympic gold medallist - fighting at the O2 Arena for the ninth time - kept his eyes firmly locked on Helenius during the introductions, who mockingly clapping back.\n\nHelenius took the middle of the ring and swung a wild left in the first few seconds. The 'Nordic Nightmare' looked unfazed by the hostile atmosphere but neither man landed anything of note in a cagey opener.\n\nJoshua was moving freely, looking to set traps but throwing single shots and not imposing himself on the stand-in fighter.\n\nFans started to become restless as early as the third. Boos echoed around the arena. The crowd wanted to see combinations, not this tentative approach.\n\nJoshua had not knocked out an opponent in the first half of a fight since beating Eric Molina in 2016, a staggering statistic for someone once considered one of the heaviest hitters in boxing.\n\nThe Watford-born fighter landed a solid left in the fourth which sent Helenius backpedalling, but there was no sustained attack to follow.\n\nHelenius grew in confidence, landing jabs to mark Joshua under the eye in the fifth. There were more jeers from a bored crowd at the halfway stage.\n\n\"It's hard to find the right hand,\" Joshua told trainer Derrick James. The American replied: \"Keep trying.\"\n\nJoshua adhered to the instructions. Those fans who left their seats missed what promoter Eddie Hearn described as the \"knockout of the year\".\n\nA double feint followed by a right sent the Finn to the canvas, with referee Victor Loughlin halting the contest.\n\nRepresentatives from Saudi Arabia were in attendance, keen to conclude negotiations for a Joshua-Wilder mega-fight in the Middle East early next year.\n\nAll Joshua had to do was avoid a potential banana skin in Helenius. Fortunately for him and Wilder, there was no slip-up.\n\n\"We hope it's imminent,\" Hearn said. \"That's why he wanted the Dillian Whyte fight, it's hard for him to get up to fights like this.\n\n\"If he hits Wilder on the chin then it's over. This is about Anthony Joshua now, it's not about pleasing others. He's given everything to British boxing.\"\n\nJoshua-Wilder is a fight which has been mooted several times before, notably when the two heavyweights collectively held all four world titles.\n\nBoxing politics starved it from happening then, but it appears the money offered for a Middle East showdown will be too good for either fighter - or their promoters - to turn down.\n\nThe winner will be propelled back towards world-title contention, the loser consoled by a career-high purse.\n\nAlabama's Wilder is one of the most ferocious punchers in heavyweight history. 'The Bronze Bomber' stopped Helenius in under three minutes in October, and Joshua was under pressure to deliver an equally devastating, statement win.\n\nDespite the sensational finish, there are still plenty of question marks surrounding Joshua's performance. The same cautious approach may not be wise against Wilder.\n\n\"I just want to see AJ fight someone of the calibre of Robert Helenius and treat him like Wilder,\" former world champion David Haye said on BBC 5 live.\n\n\"He can't just stand there and jab, it doesn't work against Wilder. He will run through him.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nPlay was interrupted briefly on the final day of the Women's Open when protesters with flares made their way on to the 17th green.\n\nEventual winner Lilia Vu and England's Charley Hull were finishing the hole when the incident took place at approximately 18:15 BST.\n\nSecurity and police arrived to remove those involved, some of whom were carrying red and yellow flares, and play resumed within a couple of minutes at Walton Heath in Surrey.\n\nThe protests appeared to be aimed at the tournament's sponsors, insurance company AIG.\n\nSurrey Police later confirmed five people had been arrested for aggravated trespass.\n\nThe police also added that the individuals are believed to belong to the protest group Eko.\n\nA spokesperson for tournament organisers the R&A said: \"Protesters were quickly apprehended on the 17th green during the final group and five arrests were made by the police.\n\n\"Play was not disrupted and we would like to thank the police and marshals for their vigilance and the players and spectators for their understanding.\"\n\nSeveral sporting events in England this year have been disrupted by environmental protesters.\n\nLast month, a smoke flare was set off at the men's Open at Royal Liverpool and orange powder was thrown at a green.\n\nEngland wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow carried a Just Stop Oil protester off Lord's Cricket Ground during the Ashes Test in June.\n\nThree Just Stop Oil protesters ran on to a court at Wimbledon last month, throwing orange paper and jigsaw pieces during a match.\n\nThere was also a protest in April at snooker's World Championship in Sheffield, during which a man jumped on to a table and dropped orange powder.\n\nAfter the Women's Open protesters were removed, Vu went on to finish six shots clear of Hull to claim the final women's major of the year.", "The health secretary has invited the Welsh and Scottish governments to discuss how best to tackle NHS waiting lists, as millions wait for hospital treatment across the UK.\n\nSteve Barclay accused them of having worse delays than England in some cases - but they disputed the figures.\n\nMr Barclay also said he was open to Scottish and Welsh patients being treated in England.\n\nNHS services are devolved, meaning Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland control them in those nations, while the UK government runs them in England.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made cutting waiting lists one of his \"five priorities\", and he's said people should hold him to account if NHS waiting lists in England do not fall by January 2025.\n\nSo far the numbers are not moving in the right direction.\n\nKnowing this could bite when it comes to an election campaign, UK government ministers are keen to argue things wouldn't be better under Labour or the SNP.\n\nThe government said under Labour in Wales more than 73,000 people have been waiting at least 77 weeks for treatment, and under the SNP in Scotland more than 21,600 people have been waiting over 78 weeks for outpatient, day-case or inpatient appointments.\n\nBut both Scottish and Welsh governments have hit back, saying it isn't comparing like-for-like figures.\n\nScottish health minister Michael Matheson said: \"Rather than attempting to involve themselves in devolved areas, the UK government would be well-served focusing on tackling the many issues in the health service south of the border.\"\n\nHe added that after the Scottish government negotiated with junior doctors, Scotland was the only part of the UK to avoid NHS strike action this year.\n\nAnd a Welsh government spokesperson said: \"Long waiting times are falling every month in Wales and have more than halved in the past year.\n\n\"The overall growth in waiting lists... has been smaller in Wales than in England over the last 12 months.\"\n\nIn England, the waiting list for hospital treatments in June was more than three million higher than it was before the pandemic, hitting 7.57 million people.\n\nOf those on a waiting list, more 383,000 people have been waiting longer than a year.\n\nOfficial counterparts in Northern Ireland have also been invited to the meeting in the absence of a functioning government.\n\nMr Barclay has asked UK health ministers to discuss how health data can be made more comparable, and what \"lessons can be learnt\" from different approaches taken in each nation.\n\nWhile there may be merits in discussing shared challenges and solutions, health has been used as a political attack line ever since the pandemic.\n\nAs it's run by different parties in each part of the UK, seemingly well-meaning letters and meetings between the governments have often been used to take a veiled pop at each others' approach.\n\nFor years, UK government insiders have mulled the idea of creating more centrally held, comparable data on NHS performance across the UK. If this happened, it may be easier to see which of these attacks - or not - are really justified.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: \"What's next, the Conservatives offering advice on bringing mortgage costs down?\n\n\"The only advice the Tories are qualified to offer is how to wreck the NHS and cause the biggest strikes in its history.\"", "One group claims bilingualism is a \"threat\" to Welsh after S4C said at the National Eisteddfod it will make \"no apologies\" for featuring more English\n\nA campaign group has claimed the Welsh language and identity are being \"eroded\" by the use of English.\n\nIt follows Welsh language broadcaster S4C insisting it would make \"no apologies\" for including more English language in its output.\n\nIeuan Wyn, of campaign group Cylch yr Iaith, said bilingualism was \"always a threat\" for a minority language.\n\nHowever, sociolinguist Mercedes Durham has said it is \"natural\" for a language to adapt if it is to be preserved.\n\nMr Wyn said he believed Welsh speakers using English words often did so \"unconsciously\" due to the amount of English media they experienced.\n\n\"There is so much exposure to the English language on the media and that itself is a threat... we feel the pressure is so much now with the Anglo-American popular culture, it's drowning us,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to we have to stop that kind of erosion, what is called the 'language shift', that is our responsibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do people make of S4C including more English content?\n\nMr Wyn called it a \"very, very difficult and very painful time\" for those living in the \"natural and organic\" Welsh-language communities.\n\n\"If we lose the language, then we'll be losing our basic identity as a people and any sense of Welshness will be eroded,\" he said.\n\nProf Durham, of Cardiff University, said the only way to achieve Wales' goal of reaching one million Welsh speakers by 2050 was get people who had never spoken the language before to pick it up.\n\nShe added the feeling Welsh needs to be spoken \"a particular way\" could deter new speakers from feeling confident.\n\n\"It means that people who have learned it aren't necessarily confident, or they're afraid to use it, because they might make a mistake.\n\n\"That seems like a shame sometimes, because the more you practise it, the better it will be.\"\n\nProf Mercedes Durham says there is no \"better\" way to speak a language\n\nProf Durham added: \"People speak languages lots of different ways and there's not necessarily one that's better than another.\n\n\"If you want to preserve Welsh, and make sure more people use it, it's natural that it will have changes.\"\n\nEarlier this year, bilingual rapper Sage Todz announced he would not be performing at this year's National Eisteddfod because there are English lyrics in his songs, as well as Welsh. The Eisteddfod has a Welsh-language only policy.\n\n\"He uses Welsh and English in his songs and he mixes them... in some ways, that is part of his identity,\" said Prof Durham.\n\n\"And for some people it may be that mixing the languages is using Welsh. So with any luck there'll be a place for that as well.\"\n\nSage Todz wrote that his songs are \"finished products, not subject to change\" after announcing he would not perform at the Eisteddfod\n\nRobat Idris, chairman of Welsh language pressure group Cymdeithas yr Iaith, has said the Welsh language belongs to \"everyone in Wales\".\n\n\"We would like that anyone who doesn't currently speak Welsh to be on a journey to speak it to the best of their ability,\" he said.\n\n\"There isn't just one type or standard of Welsh, just as there is no one type of English.\n\n\"In order for a language to thrive it must maintain a range of demographic speakership that may from time to time adopt English words.\"\n\nOn S4C's decision to include more English language in its output, Mr Idris added: \"There is no shortage of English-language programmes, and it is not the role of S4C - the only Welsh-language channel we have - to provide more.\"\n\nSara Peacock, S4C's lead on Welsh language strategy, said at the National Eisteddfod: \"It is important to us that the whole of Wales is seen and heard on S4C.\n\n\"We try hard to ensure that every form of Welsh spoken in the country is reflected on our programmes in one way or the other.\n\n\"We also try to help our communities and encourage people to learn Welsh and go out and speak Welsh in our communities.\"", "Four survivors were spotted in a small steel boat - 41 others died when the initial vessel used to transport the migrants sank\n\nIn grainy photographs shot from a plane circling overhead, four people adrift in a small, metal boat in an expanse of the Mediterranean Sea wave their arms in distress.\n\nIt later emerges that the group - a 13-year-old boy, two men and a woman - are the only survivors of a shipwreck that they say killed the other 41 people they were travelling with.\n\nThe four survived by floating with inner tubes and lifejackets until they found another empty boat, likely from a previous migrant crossing, and clambered in. They spent several days drifting before being rescued.\n\nA day after news of the tragedy emerged, migrants in the Tunisian city of Sfax prepared to make the same crossing.\n\nOne man, who had fled fighting in Sudan's western region of Darfur, told BBC Arabic that he planned to seek asylum in Tunisia, but was ready to board a boat if this didn't work. \"I just survived a war, I have nothing to lose,\" he said. Another, from Kenya, dreamed of a better life for his family in Europe.\n\nIf they go ahead with the journeys, the two men will join thousands of others who have risked their lives this year on what has been dubbed the world's most dangerous migration route.\n\nExperts told the BBC that badly designed and overcrowded boats, stormy weather, and gaps in international efforts were all factors in the danger - and one search-and-rescue NGO described the central Mediterranean as a \"cemetery\".\n\nIf it feels like you are seeing more reports of shipwrecks this year in the central Mediterranean, then both crossings and deaths do appear to be on the rise.\n\nPeople making the journey set sail from the shores of North Africa, usually for Italy.\n\nEuropean border agency Frontex says the central Mediterranean is the \"most active route\" into the European Union, and that reported crossings are at their highest since 2017.\n\nThe International Organization for Migration (IOM) has recorded more than 1,800 migrant deaths in the central Mediterranean so far this year, compared to 1,400 for the whole of 2022.\n\nAmong the migrant shipwrecks this year was an overcrowded fishing vessel off the coast of Greece, which killed hundreds in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the Mediterranean in recent years.\n\nThe IOM says there is strong evidence that many shipwrecks are \"invisible\": unrecorded boats disappearing with no survivors, meaning the real death toll is likely to be much higher.\n\nThose embarking on the perilous voyage come from around the world and have various reasons for wanting to reach Europe, from fleeing war or torture, to searching for jobs.\n\nAfter being rescued from an overcrowded rubber raft this summer, one 16-year-old boy from the Gambia told the BBC he left home three years ago to \"hustle hard and help my family\".\n\nHe was aware of how dangerous the journey was, having lost an 18-year-old friend to the crossing, but he said this did not deter him - his friend had \"lost his life for his family and his society and his nation\".\n\nThis year, Tunisia has overtaken Libya as the main point of departure - amid a wave of racism against black Africans.\n\nSome say the Libya crossing remains more dangerous, both for geographical and political reasons.\n\n\"In terms of fatalities, I think that the opening up of the Eastern Libya route (from territories controlled by Wagner-supported militias) is having a bigger impact,\" said Nando Sigona, a professor at the University of Birmingham, and a migration expert.\n\n\"It is much longer and it also brings boats at the border between Italian and Greek national waters - two governments currently not too keen to be seen as providing rescue operations to migrants at sea,\" he said, citing the Greek shipwreck in June by way of example.\n\nMigrants are typically travelling on overcrowded and unseaworthy boats, with limited flotation devices should they capsize.\n\nTypes of boats include rubber rafts and fishing vessels - on the Tunisian route, metal boats are common.\n\nExperts say metal boats are even more likely to capsize in stormy seas\n\nFrontex spokesperson Chris Borowski described them as \"coffins in water\".\n\n\"Combine this with the fact that usually there are dozens of these launched at one time with 40 or more people on board and you have a recipe for disaster,\" he said.\n\nMr Borowski said that \"greedy people smugglers\" used metal boats to offer \"discount\" crossings as they competed for migrants' business.\n\nCrossings are seasonal, with more attempts in the summer. But weather can be unpredictable and successful journeys can take days.\n\n\"If storms occur - or the seas are rough - which may become more frequent with climate change, there is a much greater risk to life,\" IOM spokesperson Ryan Schroeder said.\n\n\"Sometimes not even bad weather deters smugglers from sending people out to sea,\" he added, pointing to the boats that recently capsized near the island of Lampedusa, which were launched despite rough seas.\n\nAnd Mr Borowski says poor weather makes spotting boats in distress even more difficult.\n\n\"Imagine searching for a Vauxhall Corsa from the air in an area the size of the UK. Now try looking for a dozen or more in the open sea,\" he said.\n\n\"This is the daunting challenge in the central Med. This, combined with an unforgiving sea - especially when the weather turns bad - as we have seen in recent days.\"\n\nWhile Frontex offers \"general oversight and technical support\", Prof Sigona says national governments mostly govern search and rescue (SAR) operations in the central Mediterranean.\n\nThe IOM's Mr Schroeder said SAR efforts are no longer as \"proactive, comprehensive or adequately resourced\" as they were during the big Mare Nostrum rescue operation led by Italy in 2013-2014.\n\nUnder the current system, Mr Schroeder said the IOM was concerned that \"SAR gaps, alleged delays in rescue, and reported lack of response to distress calls may be contributing to tragedies on this route\".\n\nNGOs operating rescue vessels on the central Mediterranean were more critical. The route has become increasingly deadly \"because of a reckless policy of deterrence and neglect that European states have been pursuing for years\", Wasil Schauseil, communications co-ordinator at SOS Humanity, claims.\n\nGerman NGO Sea-Watch said the EU had \"willingly created a cemetery\".\n\nIt said there was a lack of SAR co-ordination and that \"illegal pullbacks\" were being conducted by the Libyan coastguard, which the EU has equipped and trained. In addition, last month, the EU signed a $118m (£90m) deal with Tunisia to try to reduce \"irregular\" migration.\n\nA European Commission spokesperson defended working with the North African countries, saying the \"still too high number of casualties\" in the Mediterranean meant it was \"important to continue strengthening the capacity of the Libyan coastal authorities to carry out effective search and rescue operations, in line with international standards\".\n\nNGOs have also criticised a new law in Italy requiring their rescue vessels to head to often distant ports after an operation, rather than continuing to patrol for more boats in distress. They say this reduces their time in areas where shipwrecks are more common.\n\nItaly says the aim is to spread arrivals across the country.\n\nCritics of rescue NGOs say their presence encourages migrants to embark on the potentially fatal journey - the NGOs reject this.\n\nFrontex's Mr Borowski acknowledged that \"we can, and indeed, we must, do better\" at stopping \"tragedies at sea\", calling for \"shared solutions\". IOM spokesperson Mr Schroeder said all efforts should \"focus on saving lives and addressing the reasons that people are compelled to risk their lives\".\n\nThe IOM and other UN agencies have called for co-ordinated European search-and-rescue operations in the central Mediterranean, and for safer legal pathways for migration and asylum to prevent deaths at sea.\n\nThe European Commission spokesperson said its efforts to enhance SAR co-ordination between its members were \"extensive\". It was working to deter smugglers and develop safe ways for people to come to the EU that would break \"the business model of the smugglers and the traffickers\", the spokesperson said.\n\nShipwrecks, like the one this summer off the coast of Greece, are \"yet another call to action\" that highlighted \"the urgency to intensify our work\".", "Pubs in England and Wales will be able to continue selling takeaway drinks after the government decided to keep Covid licensing rules.\n\nThey were allowed to serve customers through hatches when they were forced to close under pandemic laws in 2020.\n\nThe rules were due to expire on 30 September, but they will now be continued until March 2025.\n\nThe move - aimed at saving the trade from financial ruin - was previously extended twice during the pandemic.\n\nDuring the temporary extension of the rules the government said it would continue to look for a \"permanent solution\" to best support local pubs and bars.\n\nThe Sun newspaper, which first reported the story, quoted a source as saying the prime minister had \"listened to the industry and heard them loud and clear\".\n\nThe rules, which were granted in July 2020, allow pubs without an off-premises licence to sell takeaway alcohol without having to apply to their local council for permission.\n\nThey are also allowed to sell alcohol on the street within the area covered by any pavement licence they may have - something that will continue post-September as well.\n\nThe changes enabled pubs to keep trading during Covid restrictions.\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, whose members own over 20,000 pubs, welcomed the decision, saying landlords would be pleased not to have to apply for additional licences.\n\n\"This was a measure introduced to support our pubs during difficult times and the prime minister must recognise that these businesses are still under immense pressure,\" she said.\n\nMartin McTague, national chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the move would provide pubs with an \"extra revenue stream to mitigate the rising costs\".\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said many businesses had benefited from so-called pavement licences and had built outdoor areas for takeaway sales and al fresco dining.\n\nShe added the government's decision to continue them was a \"welcome dose of common sense\" and would avoid restaurants, bars and pubs being hit with \"additional bureaucracy\".\n\nWith the rules having been expected to expire at the end September, pubs that wanted to continuing serving takeaway pints would have had to apply to local councils for permission.\n\nBefore its decision to keep the rules in place after all, the Home Office had said that it had sought opinions from councils, residents' groups and drinks retailers - and that the majority of those who responded were in favour of returning to the pre-pandemic rules.\n\nThere were concerns from pub groups that such a move would have forced landlords to go through a lengthy application and approval processes to keep takeaway sales.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"I'm determined to back British pubs and make sure they have all the support they need after weathering the storm of the pandemic as we grow our economy.\n\n\"That's why we're cutting unnecessary red tape so that customers can enjoy a takeaway pint or al fresco drink without businesses facing extra burdens.\"", "Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool: Axel Disasi scores on his debut to secure point for Chelsea Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nAxel Disasi is the 26th different Chelsea player to score on his Premier League debut Chelsea and Liverpool played out a thrilling draw at Stamford Bridge as both sides delivered a prime example of why they are doing battle over £110m Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo. Liverpool agreed a British record deal for the Ecuador player but Caicedo's preference means he is likely to complete a move to Chelsea. A highly entertaining encounter showcased the attacking quality of both sides while the defensive deficiencies illustrated why Caicedo has become a prized target. Liverpool dominated the early stages, Mohamed Salah striking the bar before the Egypt forward delivered a stunning pass for Luis Diaz to slide home the opening goal after 18 minutes. Chelsea, in their first Premier League game under new manager Mauricio Pochettino, rallied and drew level with an equaliser from new signing Axel Disasi, who scored from six yards after Liverpool failed to clear a set-piece. Both sides had further chances - with Liverpool keeper Alisson saving well from Ben Chilwell and Nicolas Jackson - but neither could find a winner. Chelsea's new manager Pochettino will have hoped to start his reign with a victory but there was plenty for him to be satisfied about as his new team recovered from a shaky start to deliver many encouraging signs. There is work to do on making Chelsea more solid, hence the pursuit of Caicedo, but they showed character to overcome a sticky opening to make Alisson the busier goalkeeper in the second half and draw warm applause from their supporters at the final whistle. New striker Jackson was powerful and industrious while left wing-back Chilwell was a threat going forward, not only bringing a save from the Brazil goalkeeper but also having a goal narrowly ruled out for offside following a video assistant referee intervention. Pochettino knows there is work to do but a point against a Liverpool team determined to recapture their old position at the top of the table represents a decent start to the new campaign. \"We feel pleased but at the same time disappointed because we wanted to win and we deserved to win, but it is only the beginning,\" said Pochettino. \"We have created a very good way to work here and that is important. The connection from day one has been fantastic.\"\n• None 'Caicedo perfect for Chelsea but no panic for Liverpool' - analysis\n• None How did you rate Chelsea's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Liverpool's display? Send us your views here When Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp made the surprise decision to replace Salah after 77 minutes the forward made little attempt to disguise his unhappiness. Salah had shown his usual magic in the first half, hitting the bar then producing a brushstroke of genius to set up Diaz's opener. As a result, there were plenty of quizzical looks as he made his way to the technical area, shaking his head and throwing his wrist strapping to the turf as he did so. Klopp said: \"I can understand because if Mo scored it would have been a new record for goals scored in the opening game but I didn't think about that. \"We needed stability and we needed fresh legs. It was super intense for everybody. That's all I can say about it. His reaction was absolutely OK.\" Salah was part of a potent Liverpool attacking display but it was clear in this game why Klopp is keen to add a midfield shield of security in the shape of Caicedo or Southampton's Romeo Lavia. For all Liverpool's threat going forward, and substitute Darwin Nunez almost won it with a deflected shot in the last few seconds, Liverpool looked vulnerable at the back. The visitors will nevertheless be reasonably happy with a point, although they thought they had made it 2-0 when Salah scored in the first half before it was ruled out for offside by VAR. However the flaws Klopp is trying to address remain obvious, and at least one more midfield signing seems certain before the transfer window closes. Liverpool were angry they did not receive a penalty for a handball against Jackson but a point was probably what they deserved. \"We scored a super first goal, scored a sensational second goal that was unfortunately offside,\" said Klopp. \"If you ask me if I was completely happy with the game, then no, but I saw enough that we are a step further in the right direction. \"We had our moments. It was a super intense game, a wild game in moments. We should have controlled it more but couldn't.\" Mohamed Salah has been directly involved in 12 goals in seven opening days of the season in the Premier League BBC Sport app: Download to follow all the latest on your Premier League team\n• None Attempt blocked. Darwin Núñez (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Harvey Elliott tries a through ball, but Dominik Szoboszlai is caught offside.\n• None Malo Gusto (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Darwin Núñez (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andy Robertson tries a through ball, but Curtis Jones is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Six people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank in the Channel, off the French coast.\n\nThe French coast guard said the vessel got into difficulty in the sea near Calais in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nFifty-nine people - many of them Afghans - were rescued by French and British coastguards, officials said. But the search for two people who may still be missing has been called off.\n\nSome people were seen being brought off a lifeboat in Dover on stretchers.\n\nThe extent of injuries remain unclear and the exact numbers of those rescued changed during the day as more information was released.\n\nThe six people who died were Afghan men thought to be in their 30s, the AFP news agency reported Philippe Sabatier, deputy public prosecutor for the French coastal city of Boulogne, as saying.\n\nHe said those rescued included some children and were mostly from Afghanistan, although there were some Sudanese.\n\nThe French coastal authority Premar said a passing ship first raised the alarm at around 04:20 local time that an overloaded boat was in difficulty off the coast of Sangatte.\n\nWhen the French lifeboat arrived, they found people in the sea, with some screaming for help.\n\nThe Dover lifeboat, which was already in the Channel dealing with another boat carrying migrants, joined the rescue operation at 05:50.\n\nOne of the volunteer rescuers told the Reuters news agency migrants were using shoes to bail water out of the sinking boat.\n\nAnne Thorel said there had been \"too many\" people on board.\n\nAnother French rescuer, Jean-Pierre Finot, said: \"Some were suffering from sea sickness and the boats are quite simply overloaded... [and] can no longer move forward\".\n\nRescue crews say this is the seventh time this week that they have had to pull people from the water, raising concerns that the smugglers organising the crossings may be using a defective batch of boats.\n\nIn its latest update, French officials said interviews with survivors suggest 65 or 66 people were on the boat. Often boats are so overloaded it is difficult to tell how many people are on them.\n\nPremar said 23 people were taken to Dover by UK rescue crews and a French boat took 36 to Calais.\n\nTwo French boats were still searching for the two people who could still be missing, it added.\n\nA French Navy aircraft and a helicopter had been deployed to help the search.\n\nThe MP for Calais, Pierre-Henri Dumont, said authorities are interviewing the migrants who are able to speak and not too unwell, to establish what happened and where they are from.\n\nAlthough the incident happened in French territory, with these types of operations, British and French rescue teams work together to rescue as many people as possible.\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, thanked the rescuers for their efforts but urged the UK government to work on creating an \"orderly and humane asylum system\".\n\nThe English Channel is one of the most dangerous and busiest shipping lanes in the world, with 600 tankers and 200 ferries passing through it every day.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the deaths were \"devastating and our thoughts are with the victims' families and friends at this time\".\n\nThey added: \"This incident is sadly another reminder of the extreme dangers of crossing the Channel in small boats and how vital it is that we break the people smugglers' business model and stop the boats.\"\n\nPeople were seen being brought ashore on stretchers at Dover, for medical treatment\n\nDover MP, Natalie Elphicke, said the incident highlighted the need for joint patrols on the French coast.\n\n\"These overcrowded and unseaworthy death traps should obviously be stopped by the French authorities from leaving the French coast in the first place,\" she said.\n\nOn X, formerly known as Twitter, shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said it was an \"appalling, deeply shocking tragedy\".\n\nAnother small boat also got into difficulty on Saturday but all on board were rescued, the UK Coastguard said.\n\nMeanwhile, people from other migrant boats that had made successful crossings could be seen being brought ashore at Dover during the day.\n\nIn the last two days more than 1,000 people made the journey across the Channel to the UK, government figures show. More than 100,000 migrants have crossed in small boats since 2018.\n\nAt least 27 migrants died after a dinghy sank while heading to the UK from France in November 2021, the highest recorded number of deaths from a single incident.\n\nFour people died at sea while trying to cross in December 2022.\n\nThe incident comes after the UK government faces pressure over fears of a Legionella outbreak on its new migrant barge, Bibby Stockholm, moored in Portland Port, Dorset. The first migrants to board the vessel had to be removed after bacteria was found in the water system.\n\nToday's tragedy is a reminder of one thing that unites all parties when it comes to immigration policy at the moment - nobody wants people making the very dangerous route across the channel in small boats.\n\nBut people still are, and in great numbers.\n\nThe government is insisting it wants to push on with its plans to house some asylum seekers on barges like the Bibby Stockholm - and with its plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, which is still subject to legal challenge.\n\nTwo of its flagship policies are currently stalled. But the bigger overarching question for ministers, yet to be established, is will they work?\n\nAnd will, as ministers suggest, reducing the \"pull factors\" be enough to stop people from making this dangerous journey when some are already not deterred by the very real risk of harm?", "Wallace says the government accepts the vast majority of the Etherton's report's recommendations in principle, but will deal with them in more depth after the summer recess.\n\nWallace continues to say today's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is a \"very different place\" from the late 1960s-90s.\n\n\"Our LGBT colleagues are an integral part of the defence family,\" Wallace adds.\n\n\"There is no place for prejudice in today's modern armed forces.\"\n\nWallace admits \"cultural change takes time\", but says it is important to note the armed forces would not be in the position it is in now if it wasn't for people fighting for change.\n\nIn his closing remarks, Wallace quotes one veteran who says: \"I don't feel like a veteran - I don't feel like my service was recognised.\"\n\nWallace says: \"You are one of us - you have proven yourself to be the best of us.\" He again apologises for historic wrongs.", "Elon Musk \"isn't serious\" about holding a cage fight and \"it's time to move on\", Mark Zuckerberg has said.\n\nIn a post on his social media site Threads, the Meta boss said he had offered Mr Musk \"a real date\" but the rival entrepreneur had made excuses.\n\nMr Musk had earlier on Sunday suggested on his own messaging site X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was willing to fight as early as Monday.\n\nThe billionaires agreed to the bout in June, sparking huge media attention.\n\nBut despite egging each other on for months, the rivals have yet to secure a date, raising doubts the fight will ever go ahead.\n\nThe war of words was complicated by the launch of Threads in July, with the rival messaging app to X attracting more than 100 million sign-ups in less than a week.\n\nThat number has fallen back, and X remains comfortably ahead with around 350 million users - but Mr Musk has threatened to sue Facebook for \"unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets\".\n\nLast week, Mr Zuckerberg said he had proposed 26 August for the cage fight. Then in a twist on Friday, Italy's culture minister said that he had spoken to Mr Musk about hosting the showdown in the country as a charity event.\n\nMr Musk suggested it would have \"an ancient Rome theme\".\n\nOn Sunday, however, the Meta boss posted on Threads: \"Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead.\n\n\"If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I'm going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.\"\n\nResponding on X, however, Mr Musk called the Meta boss a \"chicken\".\n\nEarlier, Mr Musk had posted a text message exchange on the messaging platform purportedly between himself and Mr Zuckerberg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn it he tells the Meta boss that he will be in Palo Alto, home to Meta's headquarters, on Monday and that the fight could be held in Mr Zuckerberg's Octagon, which is the eight-sided ring in which cage fights are held.\n\nMr Musk continued: \"I have not been practicing much, apart from a brief bout with Lex Fridman [the computer scientist and podcast host] today.\n\n\"While I think it is very unlikely, l given our size difference, perhaps you are a modern day Bruce Lee and will somehow win.\"\n\nElon Musk, 52, and Mark Zuckerberg, 39 are two of the world's most high-profile technology billionaires.\n\nThe bizarre idea to fight each other started in June, when Mr Musk tweeted that he was \"up for a cage fight\" with Mr Zuckerberg.\n\nThe Meta boss, who already has mixed martial arts (MMA) training and has recently won jiu-jitsu tournaments, simply responded with \"send me location\".", "Many schools want children to wear uniforms branded with the school logo\n\nAs the summer holidays draw to a close, some parents feel under pressure to buy sweatshirts, blazers and gym bags embroidered with their school's emblem.\n\n\"The school likes you to have the logo,\" says mother-of-two Mhairi.\n\nShe says she has bought cheaper items from supermarkets and has some hand-me-down items for her primary school-age children.\n\n\"I've still managed to spend almost £100 at the official school shop just to buy a cardigan, four polo shirts and the PE kit,\" Mhairi says.\n\n\"Someone has given me a blazer this year, which means that I don't have to spend the £80 or £90 which some other people are paying.\"\n\nLocal councils and individual schools decide on uniform policy at a local level - with no legal requirement in Scotland to wear it.\n\nMhairi says parents feel pressured into buying items embroidered with the school logo\n\nBut Mhairi, who lives in West Dunbartonshire, says parents still feel pressured into buying items embroidered with the school logo from suppliers suggested by schools.\n\n\"It makes me feel a wee bit nervous as a parent that someone might judge my parenting or judge my child for not looking quite as smart as everybody else,\" she says.\n\n\"I know from experience where my child's gone in with the yellow supermarket polo shirt with no logo on it, and I think it does look a little bit shabby.\"\n\nWith the price of an embroidered polo shirt at £12, Mhairi says she can buy eight unbranded ones for the same price.\n\nShe says it is tempting to opt for the cheaper items.\n\n\"If you spent £20 on a jumper and it goes missing in the first week, it's quite upsetting as a parent,\" Mhairi says.\n\n\"That has happened before.\"\n\nSara Spencer from the Child Poverty Action Group encouraged all schools to consider the cost associated with branded uniforms\n\nSchool clothing grants are available through local authorities in Scotland for those on the lowest incomes.\n\nThis is at least £120 per child of primary school age and £150 per child of secondary school age.\n\nThose on certain benefits may also be able to claim a Best Start Grant School Age Payment of £294.70 to help with the costs of a child starting primary 1.\n\nSara Spencer, from the Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland (CPAG), says this is a huge help for some but there are lots of families on a low income who are not eligible and still struggle with the costs associated with school clothing.\n\n\"Parents say that if the school is asking for you to purchase something, they're going to go to the ends of the earth to be able to do that\", she says.\n\n\"They cut corners on other essentials.\"\n\nMs Spencer says lots of schools are aware of the challenges that parents are facing.\n\nThey are trying to make school uniform more affordable, she says, and some are getting rid of the need for branded items entirely.\n\nHashim Ahmed says parents want their kids to look nice and look professional when they go to school\n\nHashim Ahmed and his family have sold school-branded uniforms in the Greater Glasgow area for more than 30 years - with stores in East Kilbride and Newton Means.\n\n\"We regularly have grandparents coming in to buy uniforms for their grandchildren at the same store that they bought their own children's,\" he says.\n\nThe Blossoms School Wear owner says that although his products are more expensive, they last longer.\n\n\"We do focus on ensuring that our school uniform lasts the year as opposed to parents having to come in say at Christmas and New Year time and purchase more.\"\n\nThe supplier embroiders school logos in-house on a range of products including jumpers, sweatshirts, polo shirts and school bags.\n\n\"There's a lot of emphasis from the schools that they would like the uniform to be worn.\n\n\"A lot of parents do choose to have it because they want their children to be part of an educational environment where they're the same as the person next to them.\n\n\"They want their kids to look nice and look professional when they go to school.\"\n\nIzzie Eriksen from Apparel Xchange is asking parents to think sustainably when kitting out their kids\n\nThere are various schemes offered by schools and charities across the country to help with the cost of going back to school such as uniform banks, blazer hiring and sharing second-hand items with others.\n\nIn Glasgow city centre, rails and rails of preloved kid's clothing hang in a huge warehouse run by social enterprise, Apparel Xchange.\n\nThe group promotes the reuse, repair & recycling of clothing - including school uniforms.\n\nIt sells official logo-branded items for a fraction of the original cost.\n\n\"They sell like hot cakes,\" says Izzie Eriksen, the managing director.\n\n\"They're really popular because they're so much cheaper than actually buying them new.\"\n\nLike CPAG, the organisation is a member of the Scottish government's working group on school uniforms.\n\nThe Scottish government says it will issue new guidance for schools before the start of the school term in August next year.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise that many families are facing real hardship as a result of the cost of living crisis and so more needs to be done to make uniforms more affordable.\n\n\"That is why we will be introducing new guidance on school uniforms based on what we have heard from a recent consultation.\"", "An officer stands guard at the site of a mass stabbing attack in a shopping centre south of Seoul\n\nA knife darting out in a packed subway car. An assailant, chasing shoppers, stabbing wildly in the street.\n\nThese nightmares have played out in the minds of many South Koreans following a mass stabbing attack last week - the country's second in as many weeks.\n\nOn 21 July, a man attacked commuters in the capital, killing one person and stabbing three more at a subway station. He later told police he lived a miserable life and \"wanted to make others miserable too\".\n\nThen, on 3 August, 14 people were injured in Seongnam, south-east of Seoul, when a man rammed his car into pedestrians near a subway stop, and then ran into a department store, where he stabbed nine people. One woman died later from her injuries.\n\nThe second attacker, Choi Won-jong, 22, was a delivery driver and high-school dropout who had been diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder. Police said he had googled news about the first attack before his own rampage.\n\n\"What's happening in South Korea these days?\" cried citizens online afterwards - dazed by back-to-back stabbings in a nation known otherwise for low rates of violent crime.\n\n\"Our country used to be one of the safest in the world… but recently I can't say that any more,\" one commented on YouTube.\n\nIn South Korea, they are known as \"Don't Ask Why\" or Mudjima crimes - inexplicable acts of violence targeting strangers, driven by no personal link to victims or obvious motive.\n\nChoi Won-jong is facing murder and attempted murder charges for the stabbing rampage in Seongnam, south-east of Seoul\n\nWhile they've been called Mudjima by the public for years, it was only in 2022 that South Korean police officially designated such crimes as a distinct category: \"Abnormal Motive Crimes\".\n\nWith specific definitions and a task force set up to combat them, the move appeared to show authorities finally taking the crimes seriously. In the first half of this year, police recorded 18 Mudjima acts.\n\nWhile overall data shows no rise in violent crime - South Korea last year in fact recorded its lowest rates in a decade - the recent stabbings have driven the perception that Mudjima acts are more common, and society more dangerous.\n\nIt has even led to some commentators making comparisons with the US, with online remarks: \"It's the American mentality that's going viral in South Korea\" and \"OMG South Korea has become the USA of Asia\".\n\nExperts reiterate, however, that South Korea remains a very safe country. \"Murder and other violent crime rates are very low compared to other countries, and they have been steadily declining in the last 10 years,\" said Prof Hyojong Song, a criminology expert at Korea University in Seoul.\n\nSouth Korea's homicide rate - down to 1.3 murders per 100,000 people - is half the average of OECD nations, and less than a fifth of America's murder rate. And there are strict gun controls.\n\nMany online said the crude comparisons to the US mask what authorities need to do locally: \"They need to take a look at South Korea's own social issues that have led to this,\" one user wrote.\n\nWhile the details surrounding the perpetrators are still sketchy, the little revealed so far has already fuelled public anger.\n\n\"These days there are jobless losers who are taking their ills out on everybody else,\" one user wrote on Tiktok, in a vein of commentary which has become common online.\n\nA woman walks past a blood stain on the footpath outside the store where the Seongnam stabbing attack took place\n\nAnother, on Youtube, argued that \"in the past, only psychopaths would do something like this, but now we are living in a world where ordinary people are becoming murderers. People don't have hope, the sense of panic is high and sense of happiness is low.\"\n\nExperts have pointed to underlying social pressures in South Korean society - from unstable job prospects and housing, to a continued stigma around mental health and a lack of support services. Police said Choi had not received adequate treatment.\n\n\"Fundamentally, I think we need to have some emotional and instrumental social support systems or policies that can help those who are disconnected from society, with no social bond,\" Prof Song told the BBC.\n\nWhat drove greater anxiety among the public after last week's stabbing was the wave of threats that popped up, vowing copycat attacks.\n\nOnline posts stated specific timings and locations, and some even named the gender of the victims they wanted to kill. One person vowed to \"kill as many people as possible.\"\n\nAlthough many dismissed them as the work of juveniles and attention seekers, they succeeded in unnerving people.\n\nOn social media, users posted warnings for the weekend of 4-6 August: \"Please avoid these areas in South Korea\" was one TikTok video which drew more than 300,000 views across Asia.\n\n\"Go ahead and screenshot this- here's a list of public stabbings on the weekend,\" the host, a North American expat in Seoul, says in the video. Several subway stations were named as attack spots - as well nightlife areas, an amusement park and a women's university stop.\n\n\"Be careful, be mindful of surroundings and stay safe out there,\" they say.\n\nIn response, police mounted a \"special enforcement\" operation for the weekend, dispatching thousands more officers to public sites. They were told to stop and search \"suspicious-looking\" people- at least one person was arrested after he was seen carrying knives in public.\n\nAuthorities also moved in on the online threats, tracing people across the country through internet service addresses and tip-offs.\n\nFollowing the weekend operation, police identified nearly 200 threats and arrested about 60 people - 34 of whom were teenagers, several aged 14 or under and not liable for prosecution.\n\nOne 17-year-old boy was detained for making a stabbing threat at a train station in Wonju, then reporting it to police as a tip-off.\n\nIn another case, a 14-year-old was arrested outside the subway station he had listed as a target. He had told police he had no murderous intent, but was \"bored, and posted it as a joke\".\n\nAs more and more days pass without incident, some of the immediate public tension is fading.\n\nHowever, fear remains on the edge of people's minds. More people are carrying protective weapons, like mace sprays. And on subway platforms and in other crowded areas, more are staying vigilant and wary of those around them.\n\nLast Saturday, exuberant fans on a night train returning from a BTS member's concert sparked a near stampede, when their excited shrieks were mistaken for terror. Passengers who ran away said later they felt like they'd been in a zombie film.\n\nA web service set up to map online threats drew more than 50,000 views in its first days of operation last week, local media reported. The service is still recording new threats each day.\n\nOn Wednesday, Korean media also reported police had identified the poster of an online threat within eight minutes of it going out. The \"acts of terror\" have fuelled political discussion around cracking down on crime.\n\nLawmakers in the past week have promised harsher criminal punishments for mass stabbings, lowering the age of criminal responsibility and amending laws to justify heavy-handed police action. On Monday, the country's justice minister said the use of force by police should be considered self-defence.\n\nAn editorial this week in the Korean Herald summed up many people's feelings: \"It is deeply shocking to witness such violent crimes committed in a country known for a relatively high level of public safety.\n\n\"A thorough investigation to identify the specific motives of the horrifying crimes should be carried out. At the same time, police must take steps to prevent copycat crimes.\"", "There are more than 700,000 \"patient pathways\" waiting for treatment in Wales\n\nPatients on long NHS Wales waiting lists should have the \"right\" to be treated more quickly by going to hospitals in England, according to Welsh Secretary David TC Davies.\n\nHe spoke after the UK government said it wants to work with the Welsh government to help cut waiting times.\n\nThe Welsh government has been asked to comment.\n\nUK minister Steve Barclay invited Welsh and Scottish ministers to discuss how to \"get patients seen more quickly\".\n\nHe said he would be \"open to requests\" for Welsh and Scottish patients who were \"waiting lengthy periods\" to be treated in England.\n\nBut a source in the UK government's Department for Health and Social Care confirmed that Welsh government would have to pay for extra treatment for Welsh patients in England, in line with existing arrangements.\n\nThey would not confirm whether there was sufficient capacity in the English NHS to take extra Welsh patients.\n\nThe Welsh government declined to respond directly to the offer of talks, and has previously said long waiting list times were \"falling every month in Wales\".\n\nHealth services in Wales are run by the Welsh government but some NHS patients travel to England for treatment.\n\nMonmouth MP Mr Davies said: \"I think what Steve Barclay is saying is that it is a National Health Service... and the clue [is] in the name, and everyone across the United Kingdom is paying the same amount of tax towards the NHS.\n\n\"And it is therefore manifestly wrong that some people in parts of the United Kingdom are waiting over two years for treatment. That will never happen, quite frankly, where the Conservatives are running the NHS.\n\n\"So we're offering to give patients in Wales the same rights that they would get in England, which is that if they are prepared to travel, they can go to any hospital which can offer them the treatment they need and get treated\".\n\n\"Steve Barclay is just saying, look, we're all part of the United Kingdom, and patients in Wales who want to be, if they want to be treated in England, should have that right. And that's fine, that's a great thing\".\n\nMr Barclay, who is responsible for the NHS in England, said the proposed talks would be aimed at \"building on the current arrangements for cross-border healthcare\".\n\nFigures published last month showed hospital waiting lists had risen again in Wales, although A&E waiting times had improved despite record numbers turning up at emergency units.\n\nAccording to the statistics there were 748,395 \"patient pathways\" waiting for hospital treatment in May.\n\nPatient pathways refer to the total number of waits, rather than people waiting, as some may be on more than one waiting list.\n\nIn England, the latest waiting list for hospital treatment topped 7.5m people for the first time.\n\nNearly 780,000 hospital appointments have been postponed because of strike action since last December with NHS England saying that was a factor in the rising number of people waiting for treatment.\n\nThe NHS in Scotland is also facing record waiting times.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Barclay said: \"I hugely value being able to share knowledge and experiences on the joint challenges facing our healthcare systems\".\n\n\"I want to support collaboration between our nations to share best practices, improve transparency and provide better accountability for patients\".\n\n\"This will help to ensure we are joined up when it comes to cutting waiting lists - one of the government's top five priorities - and will allow us to better work together to improve performance and get patients seen more quickly, \" Mr Barclay added.\n\nBut Wes Streeting, UK Labour's shadow health secretary, said: \"The only advice the Tories are qualified to offer is how to wreck the NHS and cause the biggest strikes in its history.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Russell George said: \"People's health is more important than politics or boundaries.\n\n\"We have a problem here in Wales with long-term waiting lists on the Welsh NHS, one which the Welsh government is struggling to get down.\n\n\"I hope the Welsh government will accept the UK government's offer of support to ensure that no-one has to wait anywhere near two years for treatment in pain, in agony, putting their lives on hold.\"\n\nAlthough the Welsh government declined to directly respond to Mr Barclay's offer, it previously said: \"Wales includes more referrals in its waiting times statistics than England does.\n\n\"Long waiting times are falling every month in Wales and have more than halved in the past year.\n\n\"The overall growth in waiting lists in Wales has been smaller in Wales than in England over the last 12 months - it grew by 3.6% in Wales and by 12.1% in England.\"\n\nIt also said Wales had outperformed England in major emergency department performance in nine of the past 10 months, adding patients were treated according to clinical urgency.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's John Sudworth travels with volunteers delivering supplies by boat to the people of Maui, who have been affected by devastating wildfires.\n\nSupplies of fuel, water and other essentials were brought ashore by people who formed a human chain.\n\nDozens of people on the island have died in the wildfires, with scores of buildings and vehicles also being destroyed.", "Families gathered at the memorial garden in the town to remember lost loved ones\n\nRelatives and friends of those who died in the Omagh bomb have remembered their loved ones at a special service on the 25th anniversary of the atrocity.\n\nIt was the greatest single loss of life in the history of the Northern Ireland Troubles.\n\nMichael Gallagher, whose son Aiden, 21, was killed in the bombing said Sunday's service showed people were unified.\n\nHe said the attendance was a \"powerful testimony to community spirit and cohesion 25 years after our small town was ripped apart\".\n\nMichael Gallagher, the father of one of the victims, spoke at the service on Sunday\n\nHe also paid tribute to Fr Kevin Mullan, who died in May of this year. He said the priest had helped \"rebuild hearts and minds\" in the wake of the bomb.\n\nNo one has ever been convicted of carrying out the attack.\n\nIn February, the UK government announced an independent statutory inquiry into the Omagh bombing.\n\nBereaved families had been campaigning for an inquiry for more than a decade.\n\nMany people came out to pay their respects to the dead in Omagh on Sunday\n\nSunday's commemoration had been organised by Omagh Support and Self-Help Group, Families Moving On and the Omagh Churches' Forum.\n\nThey said it was an opportunity for people to come together to remember the victims and survivors in a peaceful and supportive environment.\n\nThe service was organised by Omagh Support and Self-Help Group, Families Moving On and the Omagh Churches' Forum\n\nThe service took place in the town's memorial garden and consisted of music, prayer and reflection with contributions from the local community.\n\nDonna Marie McGillion, who was severely injured in the explosion alongside her husband Gary, said the milestone anniversary also reflected survivors' struggles.\n\n\"It's always very important to remember those who were with us in town that day, those who are struggling, those who have found ways to cope because you never really get over it.\"\n\nStanley McCombe, who lost his wife Ann in the bombing, laid a wreath at the memorial on Sunday.\n\n\"Twenty-five years seems a long time, it is a long time but it's just like yesterday,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nNorthern Ireland Office minister Jonathan Caine, who represented the British government, said it was to important to reflect on an \"absolutely appalling, hideous\" attack.\n\nThe Irish government was represented by Minister of State for European Affairs and Defence Peter Burke.\n\nPeople gathered at the monument following the service to view the floral tributes left to the victims\n\nHe added: \"It's very important for us all to understand that peace needs advocates, we need so many people across all strands of our communities never to take peace for granted.\"\n\nPrayers were read in English, Irish and Spanish to reflect the nationalities of those who died.\n\nA large car bomb exploded in the centre of the town on Saturday 15 August 1998.\n\nIt happened four months after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the peace deal that eventually brought an end to decades of violence known as the Troubles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 29 victims of the Omagh bombing\n\nIt was carried out by dissident republican group the Real IRA, which split from the much larger Provisional IRA after objecting to its ceasefire of 1997.\n\nReal IRA leader Michael McKevitt, who died in 2021, was found responsible for the Omagh bombing in a civil case in 2009, with three other men - Liam Campbell, Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly - also being found liable for the attack.\n\nThe four men were named by Mr Justice Morgan in a ruling made as part of a landmark case taken by some of the families of the victims.\n\nThe 12 relatives were awarded more than £1.6m in damages for the attack.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the service, Mr Gallagher said the 25th anniversary was an \"extremely difficult\" time.\n\n\"They talk about this as being the worst atrocity of the Troubles, in fact, it was the first atrocity of peace time.\n\n\"But for us, and for all the other people that lost family members, it was a personal, individual family tragedy.\"\n\nHe said the service and the demonstration of unity would provide them with comfort.\n\n\"We weren't two communities on the 15th of August, we were one community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFather Eugene Hasson, the co-chair of Omagh Churches' Forum, was the chaplain of Tyrone County Hospital in 1998.\n\nIn the aftermath of the bomb, he went to the crisis centre at Omagh leisure centre where relatives gathered to await news.\n\nFr Eugene Hasson said the intensity of hurt will not be as acute for some people as it is for others\n\n\"Many of us have been involved 25 years ago, and many others are new to the area and, for them, the Omagh bomb experience is a moment of history rather than a moment of experience of life,\" said Fr Hasson.\n\n\"Naturally, the intensity of the hurt of 25 years ago will not be as acute for some people as it is for others, but it's there and we acknowledge that.\n\n\"And we also acknowledge that there is also hope, people move forward, people desire peace, people want to move forward and they want healing, and that's a personal thing and certainly a community thing, too.\n\n\"There is great resilience in people here.\"\n\nNext Tuesday, the actual date of the 25th anniversary of the bombing, a short private service at Omagh library has been organised by Families Moving On.\n\nRelatives will then be invited to lay flowers at the glass obelisk memorial that stands on the site of the bomb on Market Street.", "Major Herbert Armstrong has been described as a pompous little man with a waxed moustache\n\nFresh doubt has been cast on a 100-year-old murder conviction that saw a solicitor sent to the gallows for poisoning his wife with arsenic.\n\nOn 22 February 1921, Kitty Armstrong died at their home in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, from supposed gastritis, heart disease and inflammation of the kidneys.\n\nBut just months later, her husband, Major Herbert Armstrong, was accused of poisoning a rival solicitor, which led to his wife's body being exhumed and a murder trial that gripped the nation.\n\nIn his new podcast, US journalist Joe Nocera and a host of experts conclude it was a miscarriage of justice.\n\nThe case of \"the dandelion poisoner\", as Armstrong was referred to by the papers of the day, has all the ingredients of a classic Agatha Christie novel and has been intriguing armchair detectives for more than a century.\n\nStephen Bates, author of The Poisonous Solicitor, describes Armstrong as a pompous little man with a waxed moustache and spectacles, proud of his station who insisted on being called by his military title, despite never being in active combat.\n\nKitty, meanwhile, is described as a woman with a reputation for being highly strung, reserved and bossy.\n\nIn February 1921, Kitty came down with a severe case of diarrhoea, she could not hold down food, or get up and down the stairs without assistance.\n\nNo-one suspected Armstrong had a hand in her death until eight months later, when he invited rival local solicitor Oswald Martin to his home, where they shared scones and tea.\n\nMaj Herbert Armstrong, who always maintained his innocence, was sent to the gallows in 1922\n\nAfter returning home Oswald became unwell. His father-in-law Fred Davies, a chemist, questioned if he had been poisoned.\n\nWhen he said he had dined with Armstrong, the chemist told him Armstrong had bought arsenic from him weeks before his wife died. This planted the seed and Oswald became convinced Armstrong was trying to kill him.\n\nA doctor took a urine sample from Oswald which was sent to Scotland Yard. Months later the results came back: Oswald had arsenic in his system.\n\nPolice arrived at Armstrong's office on 31 January 1922 and discovered a twist of arsenic in his pocket, which he told police he used to control dandelions in his garden. He was charged with attempted murder.\n\nHis arrest prompted questions about his wife's death and nine months after she had been buried her body was exhumed for testing. She was found to be riddled with arsenic, and Armstrong was promptly charged with murder.\n\nBut why would he want his wife dead?\n\nInvestigators found three affectionate letters in his bureau from a widow in her 40s. They met during the war when Armstrong was stationed near her home in Bournemouth. They also found condoms at his home.\n\nDuring his trial, Armstrong's doctor would tell the court he had treated him for syphilis, implying he had strayed from his wife.\n\nThen detectives discovered Kitty's will, which months before her death had been changed to exclude her family and leave everything to her husband.\n\nHad he killed his wife so he could live off her money with his lover?\n\nUntil his dying day, Armstrong never stopped insisting he had not poisoned his wife and was innocent of her murder. But the jury did not believe him and on 31 May 1922 he was sent to the gallows.\n\nThat seemed to be the end of the story, but in 1975 a book was written about the case. Exhumation of A Murder by Robert O'Dell raised questions about the fairness of Armstrong's trial.\n\nThen 20 years after that came another: Dead Not Buried, later renamed The Hay Poisoner. It was by Martin Beales, who was a solicitor in Hay-on-Wye, like Armstrong.\n\nMore than that, he worked in Armstrong's old office and even went on to buy his house Mayfield, now known as The Mantles.\n\nHis law firm had represented Armstrong during his trial and kept hold of all the documents, which he devoured along with the transcript of the trial.\n\n\"He got sort of a bit obsessed about it,\" his wife Morwenna told the podcast.\n\nWith the blessing of Armstrong's only surviving daughter Margaret, Beales spent years working on his book and became convinced there had been a miscarriage of justice.\n\nLast year another book was published which again raised questions over the conviction: Stephen Bates's The Poisonous Solicitor.\n\nRival local solicitor Oswald Martin and his wife arriving at the trial in 1922\n\nPodcast Agatha Christie & the Dandelion Poisoner is the latest attempt to uncover the truth.\n\nBut what is it about this case that continues to suggest there has been a miscarriage of justice?\n\nThe case was based on circumstantial evidence - no-one actually witnessed Armstrong putting arsenic in food or even being unkind to his wife. Then there are a doubts over the forensics.\n\nCelebrated pathologist Bernard Spilsbury told the court the arsenic present in Kitty's intestines showed a large dose was taken within 24 hours before her death, when she would not have been mobile enough to get out of bed.\n\nBut forensic toxicologist Prof Atholl Johnston told the podcast he could not possibly have known that.\n\n\"We can't line up a lot of volunteers and give them arsenic or give them drugs and see what happens to them... for him to say she couldn't have taken it three of four days before, I think it's impossible for him to say because he doesn't know, it is his opinion,\" he said.\n\nPodcast host Joe Nocera believes the judge, Justice Darling, who was due to retire following the case, wanted to leave on a high with a conviction, so did not conduct a fair trial.\n\nIn his closing remarks, he spoke for four hours, leaving the jury with the words: \"She died of arsenical poisoning undoubtedly... if she did not die of suicide but died of a dose of arsenical poisoning administered at some short time before her death who had the arsenic? Only the defendant.\"\n\nAuthor Stephen Bates told the podcast: \"There was a degree of unscrupulousness which I found quite extraordinary.\"\n\nCaroline Crampton, host of the Shedunnit podcast added: \"I think the trial was riddled with problems, whether you think he did it or not.\"\n\nThen there is the defence case to consider - that Kitty killed herself.\n\nArmstrong's barrister Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett told the court Kitty had spoken about potential suicide and knew where the arsenic was kept.\n\nA nurse testified Kitty had asked her if a person throwing themselves through an attic window would be sufficient to kill someone. A friend told the jury sharp objects had been removed from the house to keep Kitty safe.\n\nNotes taken during her six-month stay at an asylum suggest she was suffering delusions about not caring for her children or paying her servants correctly and was in poor physical health. She left that institution one month before her death.\n\nWhile she was there, Armstrong would frequently make the 120-mile round trip to visit his wife - is this the actions of a man plotting her death?\n\nWhile there are those who believe the trial was unfair, does anyone who has studied the case believe Armstrong was innocent?\n\n\"There's a possibility, and I know this is maybe a radical theory, but maybe he really did know she'd taken her own life and maybe the reason he never brought it up was because of all the shame surrounding it,\" suggested podcast producer Poppy Damon.\n\nLaw professor Sir John Baker had another suggestion: \"Could it have been an assisted suicide?\"\n\nStephen Bates said while researching his book he believed he was probably innocent until he came across something intriguing - another alleged poisoning by Armstrong.\n\nHe said he was told a former tax inspector suspected Armstrong had tried to kill him.\n\nUS journalist Joe Nocera believes Armstrong was an innocent man\n\nTen months after Kitty's death, the tax inspector had sent Armstrong a letter saying he owed back taxes.\n\nHe was invited to join Armstrong for dinner, on the drive home smoked a cigarette Armstrong had given him, and became violently ill.\n\nThe next day the tax inspector bumped into his doctor who commented on how unwell he looked and noticed a distinctive smell on his breath - arsenic.\n\n\"If you ask me now I think he was probably guilty,\" said the author.\n\nHistorian Jeremy Black, Sir John Baker and former police officer Tony Price all told the podcast they believe Armstrong killed his wife but he would not be convicted on the evidence presented in court if he had been on trial today.\n\nBut Joe Nocera remains convinced Armstrong was an innocent man.\n\n\"Kitty hadn't just thought about suicide, she'd talked about it out loud,\" he said.\n\n\"When you think about the kind of person he was, the evidence that he did truly love his wife, the effort he made when she was in the asylum, that he really did use arsenic as a weed killer, that she was depressed and talking often about suicide - it make you think 'yes, she had arsenic in her body because she killed herself'.\"", "A 17-year-old hillwalker reported missing overnight on a walking trip in the Highlands has been traced safe and well, say police.\n\nIsaac Johnson had set off at lunchtime on Saturday from Glen Moidart in Lochaber, but did not return as planned.\n\nMountain rescue teams, the coastguard and police were involved in the search.\n\nPolice said on Monday morning the teenager had been found.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A support worker with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said he does not feel safe in his home following a massive data breach.\n\nThe man said he had made changes to his daily life and no longer attended his child's Gaelic football training.\n\nHis name was on a document mistakenly shared by the PSNI that gave details of about 10,000 officers and staff.\n\nHe said it had \"raised security concerns\" and caused \"sleepless nights\".\n\nSome 1,700 staff have reported concerns with police since the data was leaked.\n\nThe worker, who is based outside Belfast, said that many of his colleagues were in \"extreme panic\", especially those with unique surnames.\n\nMany of whom, he added, \"are no longer travelling to work in their own vehicles. They're maybe taking their partner's, their mum's, a close family relative, and varying which car to travel to work in on a daily basis\".\n\nHe also said that since the breach many have changed their names on social media or deleted their accounts entirely.\n\nThe chief constable has apologised for what he called an \"industrial-scale\" breach of internal data.\n\nThe details included the surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence.\n\nA number of PSNI employees have spoken anonymously to BBC News NI about their safety fears following the data breach.\n\nThe civilian staff member said that prior to the leak he had taken steps to conceal his profession.\n\nPolice in Northern Ireland are very conscious of their personal security\n\n\"I would wear a uniform with the PSNI emblem on it,\" the support worker said.\n\n\"When I wash the clothing, I wouldn't be hanging it out on the line like the rest of my clothes, it would be taken to another location and washed and dried or tumble dried or left in the house over the radiator just to ensure that I don't leave with anything, with any emblems on me.\n\n\"There were places before that I was going to and there was people that I would have been in general contact with that would have had suspicions at times that I was an employee of the police service,\" the man told BBC News NI.\n\n\"So it has changed my attendance at a local sports club that I have been attending for maybe 10 or 15 years - or going to a club that my child would also be attending. I've varied my attendance at things I have been doing regularly for years.\"\n\nLaw firms are already making it known that they will represent officers and civilian staff who have had their identities revealed in these data breaches.\n\nAs of Monday morning, 2,834 police officers had signed up to take legal action after the data breaches, according to the Police Federation.\n\nWith more than 10,000 people affected, the potential bill for compensation could run to tens of millions of pounds, according to BBC NI's home affairs correspondent, Julian O'Neill.\n\nIn March, the terrorist threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nIt followed an attack on an off-duty senior detective, who suffered life-changing injuries after being shot several times by dissident republican paramilitaries.\n\nThe civilian worker said the data breach had \"brought on a level of panic that hasn't been around in a lot of years\".\n\n\"It's giving my partner issues as well. She has concerns and is now extremely panicked about me going to work. It has raised the security concerns, I suppose, that were never fully away. There have been a few sleepless nights.\n\n\"With my details being leaked out on this, I'm unsure who has had access to it. I think that although not easily identifiable, a couple of key pieces of information could lead [to people] realising that those details are mine.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne has apologised for what he called a breach on an \"industrial scale\"\n\nThe civilian worker pointed out that support staff only receive about £500 in so-called danger money - while an officer can get up to £3,500.\n\nHe also said he knows of two PSNI employees actively seeking new employment directly because of the breach.\n\nMeanwhile, it emerged on Saturday that 200 PSNI officers and staff of the Police Service of Northern Ireland were not informed of the theft of personal data from a superintendent's car for a month.\n\nThis was in relation to another data breach in Newtownabbey in July.\n\nThe Superintendents' Association of Northern Ireland (SANI) confirmed one of its members was involved, adding that it was giving them \"every possible support in this difficult situation\".", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane made his Bayern Munich debut as they lost 3-0 to RB Leipzig in the German Super Cup.\n\nOnly hours after completing his £86m move from Tottenham on Saturday, the striker came on as 64th-minute substitute to a huge cheer at the Allianz Arena.\n\nHe had only three touches and made little impact.\n\nDani Olmo scored a hat-trick for Leipzig to deny 30-year-old Kane the first trophy of his career.\n\nOlmo's first goal was into the bottom corner after a cross was not cleared. His second was brilliant, spinning Matthijs de Ligt before slotting through Sven Ulreich's legs.\n\nThe Spain forward got his hat-trick with a penalty after Kane's introduction.\n• None Where does Kane rank among Premier League forwards?\n\nBayern manager Thomas Tuchel said: \"It is a big problem because it feels as if we had done nothing in the past four weeks.\n\n\"I cannot explain it. It was just not enough in every department. I have no idea why. There is no relation between our form and attitude going into the game and our performance on the pitch.\n\n\"It is the worst thing because there is such a big discrepancy.\"\n\nKane will have better days in Germany once he gets to know his new team. It was a slight surprise he was involved, having only become a Bayern player on the morning of the game.\n\nHe has scored 354 goals in his career and is the record scorer for Tottenham with 280, and England with 58.\n\nLeipzig's performance was especially impressive considering they lost three of their leading players to the Premier League this summer.\n\nCroatia defender Josko Gvardiol joined Manchester City for £77m, Hungary midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai went to Liverpool for £60m and France striker Christopher Nkunku moved to Chelsea for £52m.\n\nThe German Super Cup is the equivalent of the Community Shield in England, with Bayern the Bundesliga champions and Leipzig the German Cup winners.", "A car has crashed into a campsite in Pembrokeshire in South West Wales, injuring a number of people, two of them seriously.\n\nNewgale Campsite owner Mike Harris spoke to the BBC and recalled what the scene was like before emergency services arrived.\n\nPolice said the car crashed into the campsite just after 22:30 BST and that the passengers in the car were among the injured.\n\nMr Harris said there was a baby in a tent hit by the car - but it was protected from injuries by being in a cot, which was a \"miracle\".", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 4 and 11 August.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nStrike a pose: Kyle Brown took this beautiful picture of his nine-year-old niece, Amelia Rose Brown, practising her gymnastics at the top of Turnhouse Hill in the Pentland Hills during a holiday to Edinburgh.\n\nPeter Ormsby took this picture at the UCI BMX Freestyle at Glasgow Green.\n\nDevin Scobie took this photograph of derelict Newark Castle by St Monans, East Neuk of Fife.\n\nAlastair Nunn said a visit to Bunnet Stane in Fife is well worth the walk.\n\nRay Mckay took this picture on a walk along Loch Glass, looking at the Pink House, a local landmark.\n\nGerald Geoghegan's wife waits for him during a summer shower, in the picture-perfect village of New Abbey, Dumfries.\n\nSteve Adam took this photo of the leading pack of cyclists coming over the Clackmannanshire Bridge during the Elite Men's Road Race.\n\nNeil Craig snapped the dolphin-watchers under threatening clouds at Chanonry Point on the Black Isle.\n\nRobert Booth took this picture of a fitness centre in Perth.\n\nDave Stewart came across this tiny lizard sunning itself in Mabie Forest, Dumfries & Galloway.\n\nGraham Paton took this picture of the UCI Elite Men's Road Race, as it passed down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.\n\nMike Hay took this incredible picture of this grasshopper, poised on some thistledown, on Drummond Hill at Loch Tay.\n\nEmma West took this fantastic picture of gannets flying over Stac an Armin at St Kilda.\n\nRob Mitchell took this photo at the Dumfries Agricultural Show.\n\nMartin Leiper took this beautiful picture of the sunset at Cairngorms glamping in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire with masses of rosebay willowherb in the forefront of the image.\n\nWilma Boyle enjoyed meeting this Highland cow during her walk at Balgavies Loch.\n\nNeil Robertson took this picture of a swallow's nest under the entrance gateway to Falkland Palace.\n\nA walk in the woods in East Lothian nets Greg Dimeck a lovely basket of porcini mushrooms.\n\nColin Hattersley took this picture of the Les Foutoukours clowns, who are performing at the Edinburgh Festival.\n\nChris Bell took this picture at Glencoe Village of a beautiful sunset overlooking Loch Leven.\n\nKirsteen Young said she thought at first this White Plume moth was a feather floating in her garden in Brig O'Turk.\n\nLiz Hamilton had a fantastic time at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.\n\nWendy Hamlet took this photo of Balfour Castle on Shapinsay, Orkney.\n\nJohn Donnelly took this picture of Glenbrittle sheep at the Eas Mor waterfall.\n\nChristina Cucurullo captured these two resident swallows while visiting Caerlaverock Castle in Dumfries & Galloway.\n\nAndrew McLaren took this photograph of the coral beach on Skye.\n\nNeil Macdougall took this picture of Mathieu Van Der Poel, whose clothes were ripped while participating in the UCI World Championships Elite Men's Road Race in Glasgow.\n\nHazel Thomson took this beautiful picture at Kingairloch\n\nLorna Donaldson took this picture of the evening sky over the Wallace Monument.\n\nMegan Kirkaldy said she had a beautiful day getting lost near the Falls of Acharn at Kenmore.\n\nTerry Aldous took this beautiful picture at Loch Shiel at Glenfinnan.\n\nIain Stewart took this dramatic picture of his daughters looking over Torrisdale beach.\n\nMaw and Paw and the Weans: Sylvia Beaumont took this picture of scarecrows through the gate at the allotments at North Berwick Law.\n\nSuzanne Emptage said the colours in the Isle of Harris 'have to be seen to be believed'.\n\nBrian Colston paused for reflection when he passed this colourful display of mirrors and pictures in a shop window in Falkirk.\n\nBrian Mann thought this a very elegant heron, standing on the harbour wall at Pennan.\n\nGraham Cristie's photo of the fishing boats in Crail Harbour.\n\nGordy Macdonald took this photo during the Edinburgh Fringe: 'Perhaps the only way to avoid the crowds on the Royal Mile is to be way above them.'\n\nTina Torrens took this picture at sunset from Scalpay Bridge on the Isle of Harris, looking west towards Tarbert.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "The running-mate of a murdered Ecuadorian politician is to contest the presidential election in his place.\n\nFernando Villavicencio was shot three times in the head after a campaign rally in Quito. Police say all suspects are Colombian.\n\nHis Construye party said it would put Andrea Gonzalez forward as its presidential candidate.\n\nThe party added that it was in the process of choosing a vice-presidential candidate for the August 20 election.\n\nMs Gonzalez, 36, whose career has mainly focused on environmental issues, is due to take part in Sunday's presidential debate in the capital.\n\nThe party said on social media that she would \"guarantee the legacy\" of Mr Villavicencio \"and millions of Ecuadorians will accompany her in this purpose\".\n\nThe candidate for the vice-presidency would come from \"the most trusted of those who have shared the struggles of comrade Fernando Villavicencio\", the party added.\n\nMr Villavicencio, 59, a former journalist and member of the country's national assembly, was shot three times in the head as he left a public event in the capital on Wednesday.\n\nOne attacker was killed in an exchange of fire with police while several others escaped.\n\nHis death has shocked a nation that has largely escaped the decades of drug-gang violence, cartel wars and corruption that has blighted many of its neighbours. Crime has however shot up in recent years, fuelled by the growth of Colombian and Mexican drug cartels.\n\nMr Villavicencio's campaign focused on corruption and gangs, and was one of only a few candidates to allege links between organised crime and government officials in Ecuador.\n\nOn Saturday, his widow, Veronica Sarauz, told a news conference that she held the state responsible for her husband's death.\n\n\"The state still has to give many answers about everything that happened, his personal guards did not do their job,\" she said.\n\n\"I do not want to think that they sold my husband to be murdered in this infamous way.\"\n\nMs Sarauz also expressed her displeasure that Ms Gonzalez had been named as her husband's replacement to contest the presidential election.\n\nAccording to Interior Minister Juan Zapata, six Colombians have been arrested, who were members of organised criminal groups.\n\nEcuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has called on the FBI to help investigate Mr Villavicencio's death.\n\nMeanwhile, three men considered highly dangerous by Ecuador's authorities have been moved from a jail in the port city of Guayaquil where they were inmates in a maximum security prison.\n\nThey included Jose Adolfo Macias, known as \"Fito\", the leader of one of Ecuador's main organised crime groups from whom Mr Villavicencio said he had received death threats.\n\nMr Villavicencio, who was married and had five children, was one of eight candidates in the first round of the election - although he was not the frontrunner and was polling around the middle of the pack.\n\nPatricia Villavicencio, his sister, said \"this crime can't go unpunished... We are hurting, with a broken soul, there is no justice, there is no protection\".", "The government has urged university bosses and a lecturers' union to restart talks and prevent disruption continuing into the new academic year.\n\nUniversity and College Union (UCU) members have been boycotting marking papers since April over a pay dispute.\n\nNegotiations with the University and College Employers Association (UCEA) have broken down without an agreement.\n\nEducation minister Robert Halfon said the uncertainty faced by students was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe UCU has vowed to continue the marking boycott, which covers all exams and any assessment that counts towards a student's final grade, until the dispute has been resolved.\n\nThe industrial action at 145 higher education institutions across the UK began on 20 April.\n\nThe union has a six month mandate from members to continue the action, meaning it will run into the new term - which starts in early September for some universities - without a resolution.\n\nIt means some students left university this summer without knowing what grade they have been awarded, or were unable to graduate at all.\n\nUCU members voted to reject a pay offer for 2023-24 worth between 5% and 8%, with the union pushing for a rise of the highest from two options - the RPI measure of inflation plus 2%, or a 12% increase.\n\nSenior union officials are due to hold an emergency meeting on Monday to decide on their next steps.\n\nMr Halfon wrote to UCU general secretary Dr Jo Grady on Friday ahead of that meeting, saying: \"It is unacceptable that students, many of whom have already suffered significant disruption to their studies over recent years, face further disruption and uncertainty\".\n\nHe continued: \"Final year students who have still not yet graduated will be understandably anxious about the status of job offers or progression to further study.\n\n\"It would be disappointing if future cohorts suffer similar disruption as a result of a marking and assessment boycott.\n\n\"Whatever the rights and wrongs of the current dispute, action that damages students' prospects is the wrong thing to do.\"\n\nThe government does not have a formal role in the negotiations, but the education minister called for news talks to be held as soon as possible.\n\nDr Grady welcomed the letter, adding \"I'm glad to see the government has taken notice of the crisis our members and university students are facing\".\n\nShe continued: \"We've done everything possible to settle this dispute, protect UK degree standards and students' graduations, including calling for the talks to restart in the first place.\n\n\"Unfortunately, UCEA, and university bosses, have made it clear they would rather throw students under the bus than settle this dispute.\"\n\nShe said Mr Halfon should urge the UCEA to \"use the sector's huge wealth to support staff and allow students to graduate\".\n\nIn a separate letter to Raj Jethwa, the chief executive of the UCEA, he urged the body to do \"everything within your powers to protect the interests of students\".\n\nHe added: \"Wherever possible, I would encourage higher education providers to award degrees when they have enough evidence of a student's prior attainment to do so.\"\n\nMr Jethwa said: \"Our recent feedback that two thirds of higher education institutions said that all of their students were able to graduate this summer is little comfort to the students who continue to bear the marking and assessment repercussions, nor for the higher education institutions and the staff who have been working tirelessly to try to help these students.\n\n\"This form of industrial action, which is particularly damaging to students at this time of year, has been very disappointing.\"", "Iranian MPs have voted to review a controversial hijab law behind closed doors - meaning it is likely there will be no public debate on the matter.\n\nThe so-called Hijab and Chastity Bill would impose a raft of new punishments on women who fail to wear the headscarf.\n\nIt was drafted in response to months of mass protests triggered by the death in custody of a woman who was accused of not wearing her hijab correctly.\n\nParliament will now be able to approve a three to five year trial of the bill.\n\nIran's Council of Guardians - the country's most powerful legislative body - will first have to approve this.\n\nOnce the trial begins, MPs will then be able to change the legislation, ultimately making it a permanent law.\n\nMPs called on Article 85 of Iran's constitution to progress the legislation, which allows a parliamentary committee to review bills without public debate.\n\nThe vote, which took place in an open session of parliament, saw 175 members vote in favour of the move, while 49 voted against it.\n\nMember of parliament Mohammad Rashidi said MPs will vote to determine how long it should be implemented for \"experimentally\".\n\nHowever MP Gholamreza Nouri-Qezeljeh warned that the move came with \"dangers\", especially since a large portion of the bill focuses on \"criminalising and punishing\" hijab-related violations.\n\nThe hijab is a powerful political symbol in Iran - both for the ideology of the clerical establishment, and for the women protesting against being told what to wear.\n\nMany women have been openly flouting the dress code laws - by either wearing their headscarf incorrectly or not wearing one at all - in protest at the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been arrested for allegedly breaking the strict hijab rules.\n\nHer death sparked months of mass protests in Iran, which saw the morality police unit temporarily pause their controversial street patrols to enforce the dress code. However they resumed last month.\n\nIt is not the first time Iran has implemented Article 85 to force through legislation that curbs civil rights.\n\nIn August 2021, politicians voted in favour of using it to review a draconian internet bill - a decision that was met by fierce criticism from human rights groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC has mapped how the death of Mahsa Amini sparked widespread unrest in Iran", "The club's interior is in a bad way, photos put on Facebook reveal\n\nNew photos have emerged showing the rundown state of a renowned former rock venue with a cachet of cool that once attracted big names from home and abroad like Oasis and Green Day.\n\nTJ's in Newport was once a shining light on the Welsh music scene.\n\nBut since closing more than a decade ago the building has fallen into disrepair and has been deemed structurally dangerous by the council.\n\nPlans to transform it into a budget easyHotel have now also been dropped.\n\nThe city-centre building found fame in the '90s for playing host to the likes of The Stone Roses and Muse, while soon-to-be-huge transatlantic acts such as The Offspring and Hole also took to the TJ's stage.\n\nHole singer Courtney Love even brought boyfriend and Nirvana star Kurt Cobain along to their gig in 1991, and the story goes that the future grunge legend even proposed to her right there.\n\nKurt Cobain turned up for a Hole gig at TJ's in 1991\n\nIndeed, grunge was a fitting description of the overall TJ's charm, with its tightly packed, 400-capacity, spit-and-sawdust vibe a huge part of its appeal.\n\nIts reputation would even extend as far as the New York Times, which described Newport as the Seattle of the UK.\n\nLate BBC DJ John Peel also constantly referred to the place on his shows as \"the legendary TJ's,\" while FHM magazine put it in its 'Top 50 Nights Out in the World' round-up in 1997.\n\nTJ's as it looked in 2010, when it shut down after years attracting bands\n\nOriginally known as Cedar's when it opened in 1971, it later became El Sieco's before finally changing its name to TJ's in 1985. Some 5,000 bands would pass through its doors before the death of its owner John Sicolo saw the business shut down in 2010.\n\nIt has stood derelict and crumbling ever since, and in 2016 it was ravaged by fire.\n\nIn 2017, its new owners - London-based 121 Ventures - were successfully prosecuted by Newport council for allowing the building to fall into disrepair.\n\nLiam Gallagher performing with Oasis at TJ's on their way to becoming Britpop superstars\n\nThe firm was fined nearly £54,000 for non-compliance with previously served safety notices.\n\nNow new photographs detailing the extent of the damage inside the building have appeared online.\n\nUploaded earlier this month on the Newport Concert History music memorabilia Facebook page, the anonymously supplied shots were taken by so-called \"urban explorers\" trespassing on the premises. They have been so far viewed more than 100,000 times.\n\nDamage from the 2016 fire is still visible in the newly published photos\n\nHundreds have commented on the post, with most expressing their anger and disgust at how it has been allowed to atrophy.\n\n\"Breaks my heart to see it like this,\" said one former staff member, while another poster called it \"an absolute disgrace\" and \"so incredibly sad.\"\n\nThere have been plans to turn TJ's into a four-storey 58-room hotel. In 2019 development firm 45 Croydon Way Ltd applied for full planning consent for the revamp project - although it is unclear it was the building's owner or acting on their behalf.\n\nWhat was established though was that the finished product would be run by easyHotel, the budget chain with 44 branches across Europe. However, that plan has now been quashed by easyHotel itself, BBC Wales has learned.\n\nIt said: \"We have in the past discussed with the building's owner the possibility of opening a franchised easyHotel there.\n\n\"These discussions are no longer progressing and so an easyHotel will not be coming to the site.\"\n\nA spokesperson added that all structural work remains the responsibility of the building's owner.\n\nThe club's owner has faced legal action over its deteriorating condition\n\nOn the ongoing legal action, Newport council said: \"We have taken enforcement and legal action on more than one occasion due to concerns over this privately-owned property.\n\n\"Last year, scaffolding was erected after the council's building control team served a dangerous structure notice on the owners.\n\n\"This required stone balustrades on the front façade to be reinstated and renewed. Other loose material that posed a risk also had to be removed and repairs carried out to the roof.\"\n\nThe council said two notices were served on the owner, whose appeals were dismissed. A court later asked the owner to set out a timetable for repair work, which it did.\n\nThe council said that recently \"significant work has been undertaken to the roof and façade of the building\", which had been mainly hidden by scaffolding and netting\".\n\n\"Like many others in the city, the council would like to see the building completely refurbished and brought back into beneficial use.\n\n\"Planning permission was granted in 2019 for it to be used as a hotel and the consent is still valid but the owners have not confirmed whether the proposal is going ahead.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four factors that made Maui wildfires so deadly\n\nHawaii is no stranger to wildfires, but those of the past few days are being called some of the worst in the archipelago's history.\n\nTheir toll has been devastating, although what sparked the deadly fires is still under investigation.\n\nHurricane winds and dry weather, however, helped fuel the flames.\n\nDrought or abnormally dry conditions across large parts of Hawaii - including the entire island of Maui - also played a role.\n\nWildfires generally need three ingredients: fuel in the form of biomass like vegetation or trees, a spark, and weather such as winds that drive the flames.\n\nAbout 14% of the state is suffering from severe or moderate drought, according to the US Drought Monitor, while 80% of Hawaii is classed as abnormally dry.\n\nDry weather sucks moisture out of vegetation, meaning it can catch alight more easily and then spread.\n\nScientists have calculated that 90% of Hawaii is getting less rainfall than it did a century ago, with the period since 2008 particularly dry.\n\nMaui itself was also under a red flag alert - meaning warm temperatures, very low humidities and stronger winds were expected to combine to produce an increased risk of fire danger - before the fires broke out.\n\nStrong winds from Hurricane Dora, which passed Hawaii's coast on Tuesday, helped fan the flames even further.\n\nForecasters are expecting a stronger-than-usual Atlantic hurricane season due to record high sea surface temperatures this year, which are adding energy to the atmosphere.\n\nLast month, the National Weather Service noted that brush fires had been reported in Maui and briefly closed a highway. Forecasters warned at the time that \"the risk of fires during this year's dry season is elevated\".\n\nScientists also note that some parts of the Hawaiian islands are covered with non-native grasses that are more flammable than native plants.\n\nThis, coupled with dry conditions, can cause a spark to ignite a fire that can spread quickly.\n\nIn a news conference on Thursday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said that the wildfires were the \"largest natural disaster\" in the state's history.\n\n\"We have never experienced a wildfire that affected a city like this before,\" Mr Green said, adding that the challenges of climate change were putting unprecedented strain on Hawaii.\n\n\"We're seeing this for the first time in many different parts of the world,\" he said.\n\nThe last major fire in Hawaii occurred in 2018, when winds from Hurricane Lane whipped up the flames around Lahaina - the same town ravaged by the fires this week.\n\nFive years ago, the fire destroyed 2,000 acres of land, 31 vehicles and 21 structures - most of which were homes - according to local media.\n\nWildfires were once uncommon in Hawaii, ignited largely through volcanic eruptions or lightning strikes. But in recent decades, human activity has made them more common and extreme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Are wildfires in the US getting worse?\n\nClimate change is increasing the risk of wildfire globally as it drives up temperatures and makes heatwaves longer and more intense.\n\nDrier vegetation and hotter temperatures mean that once a fire is ignited, it can spread more easily.\n\nThe UN expects extreme wildfires to increase in number and spread to areas previously unaffected as a result of climate change and changes in how humans use land.", "Video footage captured by a drone shows the destruction caused by wildfires that swept through the historic town of Lahaina, on the Hawaiian island of Maui.\n\nDozens of people on the island have died in the wildfires, with scores of buildings and vehicles also being destroyed.\n\nThe coastal town attracts some two million tourists a year.", "The barge is part of the government's plan to deter Channel crossings by migrants\n\nThe evacuation of the government's Bibby Stockholm barge amid fears of Legionella being found was the result of \"startling incompetence\", a senior Conservative has said.\n\nAll 39 migrants were removed after traces of Legionella bacteria were found in the on-board water system.\n\nThe bacteria can cause Legionnaires disease - a type of pneumonia.\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary David Davis said he believes the bacteria should have been identified sooner.\n\nThe MP told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme: \"It's really, really hard to understand how, at all layers, this could not be caught early.\n\n\"The primary thing that's been revealed has been the startling incompetence of the Home Office itself.\n\nDavid Davis MP says the barge is not a solution to the problem of migrant Channel crossings\n\n\"Rather famously many years ago, John Reid, when he took over as Home Secretary, talked about it being not fit for purpose, and I'm afraid you're seeing that here.\"\n\nThe barge, in Dorset, is part of the government's plan to deter Channel crossings by migrants.\n\nThe Home Office said the migrants were taken off the vessel on Friday as a precaution.\n\nMr Davis, who served as Shadow Home Secretary, added: \"Even working properly, the Bibby barge would only take effectively one day's arrivals.\n\n\"So it's not a solution to the problem and all of this is going to go on until the Home Office manages to process these arrivals more quickly.\"\n\nOne resident told the BBC the migrants had been transferred to a hotel and said a few of those who had been on board had sore throats, adding that he had also been having breathing problems.\n\nMost people who contract Legionnaires disease make a full recovery but it can be deadly, with some 10% of cases proving fatal.\n\nPeople with underlying health conditions, the over 50s and smokers are at risk of serious illness.\n\nA Home Office source told the BBC on Friday that results showing \"low levels\" of Legionella in the water system on the Bibby Stockholm were received by a contractor on Monday.\n\nIt is understood the local council informed the Home Office on Wednesday evening but, at this stage, the results being discussed were still \"low levels\".\n\nOn Thursday further results \"changed the picture\".\n\nThere was a discussion with the UK Health Security Agency which advised that the six newly-arrived asylum seekers should be taken off the vessel.\n\nFurther testing has been done by Dorset Council's environmental health team and it is expected that migrants will be moved back only if and when the water supply is completely clear of contamination.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England captain Owen Farrell could miss their World Cup opener against Argentina after being sent off in their warm-up win over Wales at Twickenham.\n\nFarrell became the first England player to have a yellow card upgraded to a red by the new 'Bunker' review system, after a high tackle on Taine Basham.\n\nTomos Williams scored after a penalty try to hand Wales the lead with three England players in the sin bin.\n\nMaro Itoje's try cut the deficit and George Ford kicked the winning penalty.\n\nFarrell kicked three penalties in a scrappy Test match in which neither side was close to their best as England looked to avenge last week's defeat by Wales in Cardiff.\n\nWales reduced England's lead to a couple of points with a penalty try as Freddie Steward tackled Josh Adams in the air before the game sparked into life with Farrell's red card.\n\nThe newly introduced 'Bunker' review system for foul play, which is being used during the Summer Nations Series, was called into action as on-field referee Nika Amashukeli could not decide if Farrell's tackle on Basham warranted a straight red card.\n\nHe was initially shown a yellow card and took his place in a chair on the touchline before later being shown a red card and sent down the tunnel into the bowels of England's headquarters.\n\nWales cut loose with Steward, Farrell and 50th cap winner Ellis Genge all off the field as Tomos Williams scored a simple run-in to threaten a first Welsh win at Twickenham since the 2015 World Cup.\n\nUrged on by a vocal home support, England quickly responded and Itoje was the beneficiary at the back of the rolling maul to end England's two hours and 34 minute wait for a try since Jamie George's consolation against Ireland in Dublin at the end of the Six Nations.\n\nFord kicked the winning penalty a few moments later as England ended their run of three defeats in a row, but any pleasure the home side take from the win will be offset by the prospect of a likely ban for their experienced skipper.\n\nThis was not a vintage England performance as they continued their preparations for this year's showpiece in France but the victory was important to boost morale.\n\nSteve Borthwick's men returned to Twickenham for the first time since their humbling by France in the Six Nations and struggled for attacking cohesion early on as they made 11 changes to the side beaten in Cardiff last weekend.\n\nFarrell's boot handed them the advantage but Ollie Lawrence's powerful run, as he cut back inside and shrugged off Tom Rogers with an outstretched palm, was a rare moment of incision.\n\nEngland lacked discipline - with Henry Arundell also sent to the bin in the first-half - but showed resilience to recover from a losing situation to wrestle back momentum and clinch victory.\n\nMore important than warm-up results and performances, however, is the ability to come through a pre-tournament schedule unscathed and Borthwick will be concerned at the potential loss of half-back pairing Farrell and Jack van Poortvliet.\n\nThe scrum-half had to be supported as he hobbled off the pitch before later emerging on the sidelines in crutches, while Farrell's fate now lies in the hands of a disciplinary panel, who will determine the length of any ban and whether there were any mitigating factors.\n\nGatland will be concerned at defeat from winning position\n\nFor Wales, it was a completely different side at Twickenham from the one which overcame England last week with centre Joe Roberts handed a first cap.\n\nThe Scarlets back impressed in setting-up Tomos Williams' second-half try, while experienced full-back Liam Williams demonstrated his Test talents once again in his first game in five months.\n\nIt should also have been a chance for new captain Dewi Lake to showcase his leaderships skills but the hooker was forced off after 26 minutes after injuring his knee at a ruck.\n\nLake's injury adds to Wales' concerns at hooker after Ryan Elias was forced off the field with a hamstring injury during the win in Cardiff.\n\nLake, playing his first international for 13 months after missing the 2022 autumn internationals and 2023 Six Nations through injury, was replaced by fellow Ospreys hooker Sam Parry.\n\nElliot Dee is the other hooker in Wales' extended training squad with Ken Owens out of at least the World Cup group stages with a back injury.\n\nLike their hosts, Wales failed to play with a freedom until veteran fly-half Dan Biggar came on to steer the ship. It was his pin-point cross-field kick that found 50th cap winner Adams, who was illegally brought down by Steward for the penalty try.\n\nGatland will be concerned that Wales conceded Itoje's try while having a three-player advantage as they let their 17-9 lead slip, and will want his charges to quickly respond in their next warm-up match against world champions South Africa back in Cardiff next Saturday.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea have agreed a deal to sign Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo for a British record fee of £115m.\n\nLiverpool agreed a £111m deal for the 21-year-old Ecuador player on Friday.\n\nBut Caicedo's preference is Chelsea and they have finally succeeded with a bid after having a succession of proposals rejected by Brighton this summer.\n\nThe fee means Chelsea will break the British record twice in 2023, following the £107m purchase of Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez in January.\n\nCaicedo, who was left out of Brighton's squad for their season-opening win at home to Luton Town, is still to have a medical.\n\nIt is understood the initial fee is £100m, with half of the additional payments said to be easily achievable, while Brighton have also negotiated a sell-on clause.\n• None Why Caicedo is perfect for Chelsea - Danny Murphy analysis\n• None 'Signs of hope in Liverpool draw for those wearied by Chelsea chaos'\n\nBrighton had set a fee in excess of £100m for Caicedo this summer and said they felt no-one would reach it. Chelsea are believed to have bid £80m previously.\n\nIn his news conference before the Seagulls' game against Luton, manager Roberto de Zerbi said he had \"already forgotten\" about Caicedo, adding: \"Bigger clubs can buy our players but they can't buy our soul or spirit.\"\n\nCaicedo joined Brighton from Ecuadorian side Independiente del Valle for £4m in February 2021, although he did not make his Premier League debut until April 2022.\n\nHe asked to leave Brighton in the January transfer window earlier this year and Arsenal had multiple offers turned down for the midfielder before he signed a new contract until 2027 in March.\n\nCaicedo will be Chelsea's eighth signing of the summer, following Axel Disasi, Christopher Nkunku, Nicolas Jackson, Lesley Ugochukwu, Angelo Gabriel, Robert Sanchez and Diego Moreira.\n\nNew manager Mauricio Pochettino has been tasked with overhauling the squad and vastly improving on last season's 12th-place finish in the Premier League.\n\nMateo Kovacic, Edouard Mendy, Kalidou Koulibaly, N'Golo Kante, Mason Mount, Kai Havertz, Christian Pulisic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Ethan Ampadu, Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang, Abdul Rahman Baba and former captain Cesar Azpilicueta have all departed so far this summer.\n\nChelsea opened their Premier League season with a 1-1 home draw against Liverpool on Sunday.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "In the past four decades, more than 64,000 people have been killed after stepping on landmines in Cambodia\n\nA high school in north-eastern Cambodia has been forced to close temporarily after thousands of unexploded munitions were discovered.\n\nCambodia remains one of the world's most heavily mined countries, 48 years after the end of its brutal civil war.\n\nAt that time, the Queen Kosomak High School in Kratie province was being used as a military station.\n\nPhotos show tons of rusty explosives neatly stacked in rows, with grenades and anti-tank launchers among them.\n\nIn total, more than 2,000 pieces of ordnance was discovered over three days - Heng Ratana, director general of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre, told AFP news agency.\n\nHe said the munitions were found when the ground was being cleared to expand a garden, and if the whole school was cleared, more would likely be dug up.\n\n\"It is a huge stroke of luck for the students. These explosive devices are easy to explode if someone dug into the ground and hit them,\" Mr Heng said.\n\nStudents were told to stay away from the school until the clean up was complete, which was expected to take two days.\n\nCambodia's eight-year civil war ended in 1975, however it continue to suffer from the aftermath.\n\nLandmines that are scattered across the country have killed more than 64,000 people, while 25,000 amputees have been recorded since 1979, according to The Halo Trust.\n\nThe Cambodian government has vowed to clear all landmines and unexploded artillery by 2025.\n\nA deminer stands next to some of the thousands of unexploded ordnance", "Hawaiian officials are braced for a significant rise in the death toll from the fast-spreading wildfires, which caused devastation on the island of Maui and destroyed most of the historic town of Lahaina.\n\nHawaii Governor Josh Green said the fires were the \"largest natural disaster in Hawaii state history\" and that 80% of the beach-front town had \"gone\" - satellite images gave an immediate sense of the scale of the damage.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nHundreds of people remain missing almost a week after the disaster, and search teams have only covered a tiny percentage of the area affected.\n\nThe fires are now reported to be under control, but efforts to fully extinguish them continue on some parts of the island.\n\nHundreds of people who fled their homes in Lahaina have been taking cover in an emergency shelter. About 2,700 homes are reported to have been destroyed.\n\nIncredibly strong winds from Hurricane Dora, which passed south of Hawaii on Tuesday 8 August fanned the flames and prevented aircraft from flying over the town during the fire - but once they had passed, pilots were shocked by what they saw.\n\n\"It's horrifying. I've flown here 52 years and I've never seen anything come close to that,\" helicopter pilot Richard Olsten told the Associated Press news agency. \"We had tears in our eyes.\"\n\nThe flames destroyed most of the buildings in front of the port, including the old courthouse.\n\nAnger has grown among the community with many people telling the BBC they were not forewarned about the fires. It is currently unclear if early warning systems were used, or if they malfunctioned.\n\nThe town's lighthouse has survived but most of the surrounding buildings were destroyed, including the oldest hotel in Hawaii - the 122-year-old Pioneer Inn.\n\nThe centre of Lahaina dated back to the 1700s and was on the US National Register of Historic Places - it was once Hawaii's capital.\n\nThe town was home to about 12,000 people - the initial assessments say about 86% of the damaged buildings were residential.\n\nAlice Lee, chair of the Maui County Council, told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme how the fire razed the \"beautiful\" Front Street, the town's main strip.\n\n\"The fire traversed almost the entire street, so all the shops and little restaurants that people visited on their trips to Maui, most of them are burnt down to the ground,\" Lee said, adding: \"So many businesses will have to struggle to recover,\" she said.\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama - who was born in Hawaii - is among those who has expressed his sorrow at the impact of the blaze. He posted on the X social network (formerly known as Twitter): \"It's tough to see some of the images coming out of Hawaii — a place that's so special to so many of us.\"\n\n\"Michelle and I are thinking of everyone who has lost a loved one, or whose life has been turned upside down.\"\n\nThe fires also destroyed many natural features on the island - there are fears for Lahaina's banyan tree, the oldest in Hawaii, and one of the oldest in the US.\n\nThe 60ft-tall (18m) fig tree was planted in 1873, on the place where Hawaiian King Kamehameha's first palace stood, but it was burnt after fires ravaged the area on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to the town's website, if its roots remain healthy it will likely grow back. But at this stage, they say the tree \"looks burned\".\n\nMost of the damage was done on Tuesday as the flames engulfed the town.\n\nThe blaze ripped through the town so quickly that some people jumped into the harbour to escape the flames and smoke.\n\nThe flames were fanned by gusts of wind of up to 65mph (100km/h) that hit the islands last week as Hurricane Dora passed about 700 miles (1,100km) south of Hawaii.\n\nDrought or abnormally dry conditions across large parts of Hawaii - including the entire island of Maui - also played a role.\n\nAbout 14% of the state is suffering from severe or moderate drought, according to the US Drought Monitor, while 80% of Hawaii is classed as abnormally dry.\n\nWildfires were once uncommon in Hawaii, ignited largely through volcanic eruptions or lightning strikes. But in recent decades, human activity has made them more common and extreme.\n\nClimate change is increasing the risk of wildfire globally as it drives up temperatures and makes heatwaves longer and more intense.\n\n\"We have never experienced a wildfire that affected a city like this before,\" Governor Josh Green said, adding that the challenges of climate change were putting unprecedented strain on Hawaii.\n\nHow are you affected by the wildfires? If it is safe to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Miss Universe Organisation (MUO) has cut ties with its Indonesian franchise after several contestants alleged sexual abuse days before the pageant's crowning ceremony in Jakarta.\n\nContestants said finalists were unexpectedly asked to strip for \"a body check for scars and cellulite\" and some said they were photographed topless.\n\nThe US-based MUO said it was clear the franchise had not lived up to its brand standards, ethics, or expectations.\n\nMUO also said it was also cancelling this year's pageant in Malaysia which is run by the same company, PT Capella Swastika Karya.\n\nMiss Universe Organisation thanked the women that filed the complaints for their bravery and reiterated \"providing a safe place for women \" was its priority.\n\nIt said it was evaluating its policies and procedures to avoid similar occurrences and said there were no measurement or body dimensions requirements to join its pageants worldwide.\n\n\"In light of what we have learned took place at Miss Universe Indonesia, it has become clear that this franchise has not lived up to our brand standards, ethics, or expectations,\" MUO posted on Saturday night.\n\nMiss Universe, which is now on its 73rd edition, is popular in South-east Asia, especially in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, where winners go on to become celebrities and social media influencers.\n\nIts owner Anne Jakrajutatip, a Thai transgender woman and media mogul, has sought to revamp the brand to make it more inclusive by allowing married women, transgender women and single mothers to compete.\n\nPoppy Capella, Indonesia's franchise director said on Instagram that she had \"never known, ordered, requested or allowed anyone who played a role and participated in the process of organizing Miss Universe Indonesia 2023 to commit violence or sexual harassment through body checking\".\n\nShe also added that she was against \"any form of violence or sexual harassment.\"\n\nIndonesia's Ms Fabienne Nicole Groeneveld who who won the contest to represent her country in the 2023 Miss Universe finals in November will compete with the organisation's support, MUO said.", "Ministers are facing renewed pressure to tackle boat crossings in the Channel after six migrants died when a vessel sank off the French coast on Saturday.\n\nLabour said people smugglers were \"running rings\" around the government, and a Tory backbencher said the UK had a \"moral duty, both to our own citizens and... asylum seekers, to act\".\n\nThe government has made \"stopping the boats\" one of its five priorities.\n\nInvestigations continue into the incident which saw 59 people rescued.\n\nThe overloaded vessel, which got into difficulty and capsized 12 miles (20km) off Sangatte, was said to be one of a number of migrant vessels which set off in the hope of reaching the UK.\n\nThe incident happened in French waters at about 04:00 local time, with British and French teams working together to rescue the migrants.\n\nThe people on board were reported to be mainly Afghan with some Sudanese.\n\nMore than 100,000 migrants have made the perilous journey across the Channel in small boats in the last five years. and more than 500 arrived on Saturday.\n\nA new law, the Illegal Migration Act, is central to the government's plans to stop small boats crossing the Channel. It aims to deter people from making such journeys by detaining and removing those who do.\n\nBut plans to do this by sending some of them to Rwanda, to claim asylum there, is still subject to legal challenge.\n\nShadow cabinet minister Bridget Phillipson told BBC Breakfast: \"The events in the Channel are absolutely tragic.... and demonstrate why we need much tougher action to crack down on criminal gangs that are exploiting people, putting them in harms' way\".\n\nShe said saying convictions had fallen for people smugglers under the current government and accused ministers of presiding over a Home Office which was \"increasingly shambolic and completely incompetent\".\n\nMs Phillipson added a \"better, fairer system\" was needed to address a backlog of asylum applications \"that is completely out of control\".\n\nCalls for action have also come from within the Conservative Party. Backbench MP and ex-party chairman Sir Jake Berry said \"only radical changes can truly turn the tide\".\n\nWriting in the Sunday Express, he called for the UK to leave the European Convention of Human Rights, which he claimed would continue to block \"any and all attempts to stop the boats\".\n\nRefugee charity Care4Calais said the incident was an \"appalling and preventable tragedy\", while the Refugee Council warned \"more people will die\" unless more safe routes to the UK are created.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman, who chaired a meeting with UK Border Force officials on Saturday, said the deaths were a \"tragic loss of life\".\n\nConservative minister David TC Davies says the government has already stopped \"a lot\" of boats and insisted the controversial Rwanda policy was a solution. He said it would \"take away the incentive to jump into rickety boats\".\n\nA government spokesman said Labour was \"cynically using the deaths\" to make \"cheap political points\".\n\nLabour was not offering any solutions, they said, while the government was \"determined to break the people smuggling gangs' business model and save people's lives\".\n\nThe government has also struck an agreement with France, under which the UK will pay £500m over three years to fund more patrol officers and a new detention centre.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the Nationality and Borders Act, which came into effect in April 2022, was \"beginning to have an impact on the exploitative business model of people smugglers\", with more than 650 people arrested.\n\nFrench authorities have in the past pointed to the English Channel's long coast line as making it extremely difficult for the coastguard to prevent all small boat crossings.\n\nOn Saturday, 509 people made the journey across the Channel to the UK, government figures show, bringing this year's total to 16,679.\n\nThe English Channel is one of the most dangerous and busiest shipping lanes in the world, with 600 tankers and 200 ferries passing through it every day.\n\nFrench authorities said the migrant boat was first detected by a commercial vessel, before a French patrol boat was dispatched to the boat in distress.\n\nFrench sea minister Hervé Berville said: \"While we mourn these victims... it is the responsibility of human traffickers - of criminals - who send young people, women, adults, to their death on these maritime routes that are dangerous and lethal.\"\n\nInvestigators are looking for any information that might lead them to the smuggling gang which organised the crossing.\n\nAid workers in Calais say more migrants have been arriving in recent weeks and have been living rough on the coastline. They say many of them are determined to get to the UK, despite warnings over the dangers of the crossing.\n\nThe pressure on the ministers follows criticism after 39 asylum seekers had to be moved off the Bibby Stockholm barge moored off the Dorset coast because of the discovery of Legionella bacteria in the water supply.", "Police in the US were able to use a drone to uncover a suspected package thief's hiding place.\n\nThe suspect had fled on foot after attempting to steal a package from a porch, causing a minor traffic accident in the meantime, Fayette County police said in a statement.\n\nUsing a drone, officers followed the man's movements, eventually tracking him to the storm drain.\n\nA police dog was sent down the hole before the man decided to surrender, local media reported. He was jailed after a medical check up.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNinety-six people are known to have died in wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, with officials warning that figure is likely to rise.\n\nHawaii Governor Josh Green said more than 2,700 buildings had been destroyed in the historic town of Lahaina.\n\nHundreds of people are still missing and search teams have only covered 3% of the affected area.\n\n\"None of us really understand the size of this yet,\" a visibly emotional Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said.\n\nThe local authorities are focusing their efforts on combing through what is left of the coastal area of the island, as work continues to identify victims.\n\nThe fires that started on Tuesday would \"certainly be the worst natural disaster that Hawaii ever faced\", Mr Green warned, adding that the death toll would likely rise \"significantly\".\n\nMeanwhile, it remains unclear if early warning systems were used or if they malfunctioned, with many people telling the BBC they were not forewarned about the fires.\n\nThe state's attorney general is conducting a \"comprehensive review\" into how the authorities responded.\n\nRepresentative Jill Tokuda of Hawaii's 2nd congressional district told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme on Sunday that \"serious questions\" needed to be addressed.\n\n\"There's every justification for everyone to feel angry in this particular situation, and we all want answers,\" Ms Tokuda said.\n\nShe also described her visit to Lahaina over the weekend as \"heart-breaking\", saying that \"so many of our families and friends lost everything\".\n\nThe fires were fuelled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane.\n\nMr Green said gusts from that storm reached speeds of as high as 81mph (130km/h), fanning the flames to travel at one mile per minute and giving people little time to escape.\n\nWhile the fires are now largely under control, efforts to fully extinguish them are continuing in parts of the island.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Greenberg, a senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told the BBC that extra support was being sent included urban search and rescue, and fire suppression teams.\n\n\"The absolute number one priority is survivor safety,\" he said.\n\nMr Greenberg added that while close to 1,000 people were yet to be contacted, some of these may be safe but out of reach for a number of reasons.\n\nIn the emergency shelter at Maui's War Memorial Complex, hundreds of evacuees continued to gather over the weekend, receiving food, toiletries and medical aid from a still-growing number of volunteers.\n\nLarge whiteboards noted the most pressing needs - batteries, water, and generators - and an all-caps note that no more clothing was needed.\n\nKeapo Bissen, a member of the War Memorial shelter team, said the list of the missing was fluctuating hour to hour as more people reported absent loved ones, and others were found.\n\n\"We've had a lot of great reunions happen in this parking lot,\" she said. \"That's really been the bright side in all of this.\"\n\nAfter flying over Maui, helicopter pilot Richard Olsten told the BBC that even most of the boats in the harbour were burnt and had sunk.\n\n\"The historic buildings, the church, the missionary building and so forth - all gone.\n\n\"The main tourist area where all the shops and restaurants are, the historic Front Street - everything burnt to the ground,\" he said.\n\nFelicia Johnson (right) is among the locals who have been coordinating efforts to help victims of the wildfires\n\nFelicia Johnson, who owns a printing business in the city of Kahului, Maui, is organising a massive grassroots response to the disaster.\n\nHer family is from the Lahaina area. She has amassed hundreds of pounds of donated supplies to bring in, but has been unable to shuttle them through the government checkpoint.\n\nShe said that pleading with authorities to let her enter with her donated goods was the hardest part for her emotionally - not the devastation she witnessed while dropping off supplies.\"That's the part that I'm so wrecked on, is I got to keep begging you to come in to feed people,\" Ms Johnson said.\n\nShe added that many of the docks in the area are too badly damaged or destroyed to bring in supplies by boat. Some people that have made the journey have swum the supplies to the shore.\n\nSome of the young men helping her load supplies blame government mismanagement and bureaucracy.\n\n\"Too many chiefs, not enough warriors,\" said Bradah Young, 25.\n\n\"Everybody is in charge but nobody is moving,\" said another man.\n\nAs they departed in hope of being allowed through the checkpoint, one man threw up a shaka, a traditional hand greeting in Hawaii.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The 18-year-old was discovered by police on patrol in Booth Road\n\nA teenager who died after being found in a road had climbed on to the bonnet of a car before he fell and was fatally injured, police have said.\n\nThe 18-year-old was found by police in Booth Road, Altrincham, at about 05:00 BST on Saturday, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nThe driver of a grey Ford Ka had already left the scene.\n\nPolice have since arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nThe force said the teenager fell after being driven across the junction of Dunham Road and Booth Road.\n\nIt has appealed for anyone with information or CCTV footage to contact them.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump has said he will ask the judge in his alleged election fraud case to step aside on what he called \"very powerful grounds\".\n\nHe claimed that \"there is no way I can get a fair trial\" unless he has a different judge.\n\nHis call came after the prosecution requested a court order that would limit what he can publicly say about the case.\n\nThe judge, Tanya Chutkan, was appointed by former President Barack Obama.\n\nTrump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Sunday morning, describing the case as \"the ridiculous freedom of speech/fair elections case\" and saying that his legal team would immediately be asking for recusal of the judge.\n\nHe gave no details of his grounds for asking her to step down.\n\nJudge Chutkan, appointed in 2014, previously ruled against Mr Trump's efforts to shield evidence from the House January 6 Committee.\n\nThe 61-year-old judge has won a reputation for harsh sentences for those convicted of participation in the riots. According to Associated Press news agency she is one of the toughest punishers.\n\nUnder US federal law, any judge of the United States must disqualify themselves in any proceeding in which their impartiality might reasonably be questioned.\n\nRecusal of the judge was not the only thing Mr Trump said he would request. He also said he wanted a \"venue change\" and for his case to be moved out of Washington.\n\nHe previously said there would be \"no way I can get a fair trial, or even close to a fair trial, in Washington\", which he describes as \"anti-Trump\", and has previously described the Department of Justice as \"highly partisan and very corrupt\".\n\nMr Trump's lawyer, John Lauro, said on Sunday that the former president \"believed in his heart of hearts\" that he had won the 2020 election - and that prosecutors will not be able to prove that Mr Trump did not believe this.\n\nSpeaking to US TV networks, Mr Lauro said Mr Trump was being attacked for exercising his constitutional First Amendment right to free speech.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump wrote in capital letters, \"If you go after me, I am coming after you!\" on Truth Social, just a day after he pleaded not guilty to four charges in the alleged election fraud case.\n\nAnd the same night, the prosecutors said they feared there was a chance Mr Trump might disclose confidential evidence and asked for a protective order to prevent \"the improper dissemination or use of discovery materials, including to the public\".\n\nJudge Chutkan gave Mr Trump's legal team until 17:00 local time on Monday to respond to the submission. Mr Trump's lawyers asked for three more days, but the judge denied their request.\n\nJudge Chutkan is expected to call in attorneys from both sides on 28 August to discuss setting a trial date.\n\nThe charges - which include conspiracy to defraud the US and conspiracy against the rights of citizens - stem from the former president's actions in the wake of the 2020 election.\n\nMr Trump now faces five upcoming trials - three criminal trials which include his alleged mishandling of classified documents, accounting fraud and these election charges; and two civil trials over business practices and alleged defamation of a woman who accused him of rape.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWilliam Friedkin, director of the classic horror film The Exorcist, died on Monday at the age of 87.\n\nHis widow Sherry Lansing told the BBC through tears: \"He had a wonderful life. He was almost 88 - he has a new movie coming out.\n\n\"He was the most wonderful husband in the world. He was the most wonderful father in the world. He had a big wonderful, life. There was no dream unfulfilled.\"\n\nNo cause of death has yet been confirmed. The director was said to have suffered health issues in recent years.\n\nHis other famous films included crime thriller The French Connection, which won five Academy Awards including best director.\n\nTributes from celebrities and fans began pouring in over social media.\n\nOn X, formerly known as Twitter, actor Elijah Wood wrote: \"Aww man…a true cinematic master whose influence will continue to extend forever. So long, William Friedkin.\"\n\nFriedkin died before his latest movie, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, could hit screens at the Venice Film Festival beginning on 30 August.\n\nThough his career started in the early 1960s, his most notable success came in the following decade with the release of 1971's The French Connection.\n\nThe film's five Oscars included best picture, and best actor for Gene Hackman.\n\nThe Exorcist, released in 1973, had audiences horrified and entranced by the story of a 12-year-old girl possessed by the devil.\n\nNews media at the time reported cinemagoers fainting and vomiting in their seats, and people leaving the theatre shaking and screaming.\n\nWilliam Friedkin on set alongside lead actress from The Exorcist, Linda Blair\n\nThe film is reported to have grossed $500m (£391m) worldwide. It was nominated for 10 Oscars, winning two, and spawned multiple sequels.\n\nThe latest, titled The Exorcist: The Believer, is scheduled for release in October this year. It was directed by David Gordon Green, who helmed the most recent three films in the Halloween franchise.\n\nFriedkin, for his part, was historically not a fan of remakes of the film.\n\nAt one point he said: \"All of them are ridiculous... what I've seen of them, they want to make me vomit as the little girl vomits in the movie.\"\n\nWhen told by the interviewer that his version of The Exorcist was the best, Friedkin replied: \"By far the best? The others don't even exist.\"\n\nFriedkin suffered a decline in form just a few years after The Exorcist, his biggest box office success.\n\nSorcerer, released in 1977, had an estimated budget of $22m but drew barely $6m in box office sales. US media called it a \"flop\".\n\nStill, his wider filmmaking legacy remains cherished by critics and audiences alike.\n\nSimpsons producer Mike Reiss remembered how the show made \"a parody of his film Sorcerer\", and that Friedkin \"charmed everyone, and even wound up as a guest star\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mike Reiss This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe director is survived by his widow, Ms Lansing - a former studio chief at Paramount Pictures who was his fourth wife - and two sons.\n\n\"The family is obviously very upset,\" Stephen Galloway, a friend of Friedkin's and the dean of Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, told the BBC. \"He literally just finished making a new movie.\"\n\n\"His mind was just so sharp, always. And mixed with a kind of wicked mischievous humour. The films that he made in the 70s, they still stand out.\"", "Publishing giant Simon & Schuster is to be sold to a private equity giant for $1.6bn (£1.27bn) in cash.\n\nThe deal with investor KKR marks the likely end of a years-long saga for owner Paramount Global, which had been looking for a buyer for the book company since 2020.\n\nCompetition concerns had scuppered a previous deal, which valued the firm at more than $2bn.\n\nKKR said the publisher would continue to operate independently.\n\nSimon & Schuster, founded in the US in 1924, employs more than 1,600 people globally.\n\nIts first book was filled with crossword puzzles. Titles released since include Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People; Joseph Heller's military satire Catch-22 and best-selling mysteries by Stephen King.\n\nKKR, which counts digital books platform Overdrive among its earlier investments, said it saw an opportunity to expand the company's distribution \"across mediums and markets\".\n\nIt said it would also create a plan to provide employees shares of the firm, to help create an \"ownership culture\".\n\nSimon & Schuster's roster of writers includes former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton\n\nSimon & Schuster is the fourth largest of the US's \"big five\" publishing companies, which also include HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group USA, Penguin Random House and Macmillan Publishers.\n\nA tentative deal to sell the company to Penguin Random House for $2.2bn was blocked due to regulatory concerns late last year.\n\nA US judge ruled in favour of the US government, which had attempted to block the takeover, arguing that the tie-up would reduce pay and opportunities for writers.\n\nAuthor Stephen King was among the big names to testify against the sale on behalf of the US government, which has taken a harder line on competition under US President Joe Biden.\n\nBut on Monday, the boss of Paramount Global, Bob Bakish, said in a statement that the money raised by Simon & Schuster's sale would give the entertainment firm greater \"financial flexibility\".\n\nIt will also boost the cash available for content on its streaming service Paramount+ as competition from the likes of Disney and Netflix shows no sign of slowing.\n\nOn Monday, Paramount reported sales of $7.62bn in the three months to 30 June - down compared to $7.8bn in the same period a year before.\n\nIt reported an overall loss after ad sales at its TV networks fell by 10% and the firm couldn't follow up with a film that was as big as Top Gun: Maverick last year.", "Actor and entertainer Les Dennis is the 15th and final celebrity contestant to be announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe said he was \"thrilled\" to join the show, as his 70th birthday approaches.\n\nHe will join Annabel Croft, Nigel Harman, Bobby Brazier, Jody Cundy, Zara McDermott, Ellie Leach, Nikita Kanda, Adam Thomas and Eddie Kadi on the show.\n\nAngela Rippon, Layton Williams, Angela Scanlon, Amanda Abbington and Krishnan Guru-Murthy will also appear.\n\nDennis, whose career spans more than 50 years, was host of ITV's Family Fortunes for 16 years.\n\nHe has also had roles in ITV's Coronation Street, Extras and Death in Paradise; and has appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera, and in such plays and musicals as Hairspray, Legally Blonde The Musical and 42nd Street.\n\n\"In my career I've always gone for challenges outside my comfort zone and this is the ultimate one!\" he said. \"Can't wait.\"\n\nThis year's series will arrive on screens in the autumn and will be judged by Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse.\n\nHere are the other contestants who have been announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing so far:\n\nFormer tennis player and broadcaster Annabel Croft said she was looking forward to \"swapping tennis balls for glitter balls\" and was \"looking forward to finding some joyfulness in the process\".\n\nCroft became the youngest British player to compete at Wimbledon for 95 years when she was just 15 years old.\n\nShe continues to play a role in the coverage of the tournament and other tennis events, as a presenter, commentator and pundit for the BBC, Sky, Amazon Prime, ITV and Discovery.\n\nCroft has also presented entertainment shows such as Treasure Hunt and Inceptor.\n\nEx-EastEnders star Nigel Harman, known for playing Dennis Rickman on the soap, said he was \"amazed, excited, and terrified\" to be joining the line-up.\n\n\"As an armchair fan of the show, I have watched in awe as people have twirled and gyrated across the screen,\" he said. \"And now it's my turn... gulp!\"\n\nScreen and stage actor and director Harman won awards, including most popular newcomer at the National Television Awards, for his role as the roguish Rickman. He has also appeared on TV in Downton Abbey and in the film Blood Diamond, as well as on London's West End in Guys and Dolls and Shrek the Musical - for which he won an Olivier award.\n\nHarman recently joined the cast of the BBC hospital drama Casualty, as clinical lead Max Cristie.\n\nCurrent EastEnders actor and model Bobby Brazier, son of the late Big Brother star Jade Goody, plays Freddie Slater in the BBC soap.\n\nHe said he was \"excited\" to join the Strictly line-up. \"I can't wait to start training like a professional dancer and adding a few moves to my locker,\" he added.\n\nAway from Walford, Brazier has modelled for the major fashion house Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week.\n\nJody Cundy has represented Great Britain at seven Paralympics, winning eight gold medals in swimming and cycling events.\n\n\"[Strictly is] so far away from what I'm used to, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and pushing myself way out of my comfort zone, especially as I'm always last onto the dance floor,\" he said. \"Can't wait to get stuck in, bring on the glitter and sequins!\"\n\nCundy has also competed in multiple World Championships, winning 23 world titles, the most recent of which added at the recent World Cycling Championships in Glasgow.\n\nIn 2021, he became the first man in Paralympics GB history to win medals at seven different games, and was last year made a CBE for services to cycling.\n\nEllie Leach is best known for her 12 years playing Faye Windass on ITV soap Coronation Street.\n\nShe has been nominated for multiple British Soap Awards and Inside Soap Awards for her role in hard-hitting storylines, which have included being pregnant at 13 and later reconnecting with the child she gave up.\n\n\"It still doesn't feel real that I'm going to be doing Strictly!\" she said.\n\n\"It's always been a dream of mine so I guess dreams really do come true!\" added the actress, who left the soap earlier this year.\n\nNikita Kanda hosts the BBC Asian Network radio station's breakfast show, and also reports regularly on TV on the BBC's The One Show.\n\n\"I don't think it will properly sink in until I step on to the dancefloor,\" she said. \"I can't wait to get glammed up and get out there. Throw the glitter on me!\"\n\nIn her day job, the presenter - recently nominated for presenter of the year at the Asian Media Awards - has interviewed stars including Killing Eve's Sandra Oh, Bridgerton's Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran and Marvel actress Awkwafina.\n\nHer TV work has seen her look into the rise of cashless businesses and government support for female sport.\n\nThomas is best known for playing Adam Barton in ITV soap Emmerdale, winning the TV Choice award for best soap newcomer in 2010.\n\n\"I can't dance to save my life but I'm buzzing to learn and have a good laugh with my pro. Get me on that dance floor... I can't wait!\" he said.\n\nAfter appearing the 2016 edition of ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, Thomas went on to co-host the spin-off-I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp, and recently reprised his role as Donte Charles in BBC One drama Waterloo Road.\n\nIn 2020, the soap star teamed up with his brothers and fellow Mancs on the Mic podcasters Ryan and Scott, for six-part ITV travel series Absolutely India: Mancs in Mumbai, where they traced their family heritage alongside their father.\n\nRip-Off Britain presenter Rippon, 78, will be the series' oldest contestant, after Johnny Ball took part in 2012 aged 74.\n\nRippon said: \"Why didn't they ask me 10 years ago? Having been a fan of Strictly since day one, and as a former presenter of Come Dancing, this will be quite an adventure for me.\"\n\nShe was the first female journalist to permanently present the BBC national television news, and was also one of the presenters of the BBC's original Come Dancing series.\n\nShe hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, presented ITV breakfast show TV-am and famously appeared in a dancing sketch with comedy duo Morecambe and Wise.\n\nGuru-Murthy is the lead anchor for Channel 4 News. He joined the programme in 1998 and is its second-longest-serving presenter after Jon Snow.\n\n\"I'm surprised, delighted and slightly confused to find myself taking part in Strictly on the basis of 'you only live once!\" he said.\n\nThe broadcaster has also fronted Channel 4's Paralympics coverage and was one of the original presenters of the BBC News channel, then called BBC News 24, in 1997.\n\nLast year, Guru-Murthy was briefly suspended after he was heard using an expletive to describe a Conservative minister, something for which he apologised \"unreservedly\".\n\nAbbington is known for starring in TV series including Sherlock and Mr Selfridge, as well as stage plays such as The Son.\n\nThe actress said: \"I'm thrilled to have been asked to do Strictly. I'm actually really shy and self-conscious so this will be a great opportunity for me to overcome those things! Plus I get to learn to dance, which I am incredibly excited about.\"\n\nHowever, some fans have claimed they will boycott the show after Abbington stirred controversy earlier this year with comments about drag performances, questioning whether young children should watch or partake in sexually-charged drag shows.\n\nIn a recent Instagram video, Abbington explained she \"loved drag\" and was not transphobic, adding: \"Personally speaking, I don't think 12-year-olds should be performing in drag shows in overtly sexual ways because they're 12 and they need a childhood.\"\n\nWilliams has performed in London's West End in Billy Elliot, Thriller Live and Everyone's Talking About Jamie. He has also appeared in TV series Bad Education and I Hate Suzie.\n\nThe actor said: \"So excited to learn new skills from the best. Bring on the sequins… ALL the sequins!\"\n\nWilliams most recently provided the voiceover for the BBC Three gay dating show I Kissed A Boy.\n\nThe actor said he would be happy as long as he is paired with a male professional dancer so he can be lifted up during the performances.\n\nAngela Scanlon presents Your Home Made Perfect on BBC Two\n\nIrish TV star Angela Scanlon hosts the BBC Two series Your Home Made Perfect as well as a Saturday night chat show on RTÉ.\n\n\"I'm terrified, I'm excited and I have so many questions. Will they make me tan? How itchy are sequins?! Do they do flesh coloured sports bras? Well - there's only one way to find out, right?!\" she said.\n\nScanlon has appeared on TV shows including The One Show and Robot Wars, and presented a Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio 2.\n\nShe previously worked as a print journalist, writing for magazines including Grazia, Tatler and the Sunday Times Style supplement.\n\nKadi is a stand-up comic who became the first black British comedian to headline London's 02 Arena.\n\nHe announced his participation on BBC Radio 1Xtra's Official UK Afrobeats Chart Show on Sunday, which he presents.\n\n\"I'm so unbelievably proud and honoured that Strictly and the BBC have asked me to join the 2023 team,\" Kadi said.\n\n\"I promise you, I'm going to give it everything I've got. This is going to be a vibe.\"\n\nZara McDermott worked as a government policy advisor before joining ITV reality show Love Island in 2018, and since leaving the villa has presented a series of documentaries.\n\n\"I grew up watching Strictly every year with my nan and she was the biggest fan,\" she said. \"We would dance around the house and I have such fond memories of that time in my life.\n\n\"I even remember the first ever series, and being mesmerised by all the beautiful dresses! I can't wait to throw myself into this experience and start training. It's going to be incredible.\"\n\nSince leaving Love Island, McDermott has presented BBC documentaries including Revenge Porn, Uncovering Rape Culture, Disordered Eating, and Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A grieving mother and her lawyer have been targeted by an extreme campaign of abuse after suing a conspiracy theory newspaper which falsely claimed her son died from a Covid vaccine.\n\nThe Irish Light repeatedly abused Edel Campbell online and its supporters have threatened her lawyer with \"execution\".\n\nConspiracy theorists worldwide have used dozens of tragic deaths to spread vaccine misinformation.\n\nThis case is thought to be the first where a relative has sued.\n\nThe Irish Light included Ms Campbell's son, Diego Gilsenan, and 41 others in an article last year which suggested the \"untested and dangerous\" Covid vaccine was to blame for the deaths. In fact, the BBC has been told Diego had taken his own life in August 2021, aged 18, and had not been vaccinated.\n\nThe campaign of abuse following her legal case has been \"nothing short of shocking\" and may explain why other relatives have not taken action, Ms Campbell's solicitor, Ciaran Mulholland, told BBC Radio 4's Marianna in Conspiracyland podcast.\n\n\"You can understand why a lot of people were incredibly reluctant to go to a solicitor when they saw the backlash with Edel Campbell,\" he said.\n\nMs Campbell told the BBC that the Irish Light has \"made my life hell\" and said she's now fearful of speaking out.\n\nThe BBC has agreed not to use a photo of Ms Campbell - or her son - for this story to protect her.\n\nIn frequent social media posts over several weeks, the Irish Light and its editor, Gemma O'Doherty, have accused Ms Campbell of \"outrageous lies\", being \"mentally unstable\" and involved in a \"massive fraud\". There are also extreme references to suicide about Ms Campbell.\n\nAccording to Mr Mulholland, people who support the Irish Light have called for him to be executed or shot, as well as anonymously calling his office and threatening other members of staff.\n\nMs Campbell and her solicitor decided to bring a civil case against Ms O'Doherty for harassment with defamation, after the paper published a photo of her son Diego Gilsenan and others on the front page under the headline \"Died Suddenly\".\n\nThis tagline has been widely used across social media by conspiracy theory activists to suggest unexpected deaths of young people are related to the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nIn the article that featured Ms Campbell's son, the Irish Light claims that the establishment is not questioning the \"mysterious deaths\" because \"they know exactly what it is: the untested and dangerous injection they forced into the Irish people\".\n\nCiaran Mulholland, Ms Campbell's lawyer, said the level of abuse she has received may be preventing others from speaking out\n\nDeaths from Covid vaccines are extremely rare. UK figures record 55 deaths where the vaccine was given as the underlying cause, out of more than 50m people who have had at least one dose.\n\nAmong some of the other young people featured by the Irish Light, one died in a swimming pool accident, another from a head injury and a third from meningitis, according to their families.\n\nMs Campbell says the Irish Light did not contact her for comment about Diego before publication. The BBC also understands that the Irish Light did not contact several other family members of young people featured.\n\nMr Mulholland said the aim of the legal case is not \"retribution\" or compensation. \"All Edel Campbell wanted was to protect the integrity of Diego, and her family as a whole,\" he said.\n\nMs Campbell's legal case has been funded through donations and her lawyer's pro-bono work.\n\nHe told the BBC the legal proceedings were launched after various attempts to ask Gemma O'Doherty to remove the images of Diego Gilsenan failed and resulted in an escalation in online abuse.\n\nIn July, the High Court in Dublin granted a restraining order that prohibits the Irish Light editor from contacting Ms Campbell and from using or publishing the image of her son for any purpose without his mother's consent.\n\nAbusive posts about Ms Campbell have continued on social media, including from the Irish Light account on X, formerly known as Twitter, which Gemma O'Doherty has admitted to running.\n\nMs Campbell made reports of harassment to the police - but Mr Mulholland says they are yet to contact or question Gemma O'Doherty about these.\n\nGarda Síochána - the Republic of Ireland's national police service - told the BBC that it \"does not comment on named individuals\" or \"specifics of on-going investigations\". It says it continues to \"actively investigate the alleged harassment of an individual in the North Western Region\" of Ireland.\n\nMs O'Doherty and the Irish Light have not responded to the BBC's request for comment. However, on social media the Irish Light says the BBC will \"do a character assassination\" on Gemma O'Doherty because \"she exposed the vaccine genocide\".\n\nIn its gallery of recent front pages, the Irish Light shows the one featuring Diego as \"censored\" after a restraining order\n\nIn online posts, Ms O'Doherty denies harassing Edel Cambell and continues to suggest her son's death was sinister or mysterious in some way. She has instructed a solicitor to defend the case brought against her.\n\nThe Irish Light is a sister paper of its namesake in the UK, the Light, although they are editorially independent of each other. The BBC previously revealed the UK paper has called for the execution of politicians and doctors. It has links to the British far-right and a German publication connected to a failed coup attempt.\n\nAs well as more innocuous features, the Irish Light has published stories promoting conspiracy theories such as \"Pfizer knew the vaccine would kill\", \"Water fluoridation is lowering Irish IQ\", \"Why manmade climate change is a fraud\" and \"Irish to become a minority in Ireland\".\n\nWhile Ms Campbell is thought to be the first to sue over a false claim about a vaccine death, the case has parallels with other victims of conspiracy theorists.\n\nManchester Arena bomb survivors are suing over claims the attack was faked and parents of Sandy Hook mass shooting victims won a landmark ruling against Infowars host Alex Jones.\n\nListen to the bonus episode of BBC Radio 4's Marianna in Conspiracyland on BBC Sounds.", "Mrs Brooks said the couple had been crushed by the loss of their son, who she said was \"our best mate\"\n\nA couple who warned a landlord that the mould in their home was deadly before their son died have said they want his inquest to find out why their pleas for help were ignored before his death.\n\nLuke Brooks, 27, struggled with pneumonia and respiratory problems prior to his death in October 2022.\n\nJimmy and Patsy Brooks believe damp and mould in their home led to his issues.\n\nThey hope his inquest will find out why, despite their warnings and requests, the house was not repaired.\n\nThe family lived in the privately-rented property on Huxley Street for nine years, but said the problems began almost as soon as they moved in.\n\nThe couple said they \"begged\" their landlord to make repairs\n\nThey said leaks, from rainwater through the roof or their own shower, turned into mould, the boiler was broken, gas was not connected and the house felt cold, even in spring.\n\n\"It's freezing in this house at night, no insulation whatsoever,\" Mrs Brooks said.\n\n\"It's like a wound that isn't healing.\"\n\nMr Brooks said they tried to treat the mould themselves and complained to both their landlord and Oldham Council many times, which led to repeated visits from environmental health officers.\n\nHe said they \"shouted from the top of the mountain\", but their landlord would not \"put his hands in his pockets to do any repairs\".\n\nThe BBC has approached the family's landlord for comment.\n\nThe couple said they felt they did everything in their power to fix the mould in their property\n\nWhen the BBC visited the property in May 2023, there was mould around window frames and a hole in the ceiling where water had leaked between floors.\n\nThe family also shared videos and photos, which showed large, blackened mould patches on walls and ceilings and water running down internal walls as it rained.\n\nThe couple said they \"begged\" their landlord to make repairs.\n\n\"We're not in the 18th Century, we're in the 21st Century,\" Mrs Brooks said.\n\n\"This should not be happening.\n\n\"It should never have happened to my boy.\"\n\nThe couple believe damp and mould in their home led to their son's respiratory problems\n\nShe said the week Luke died, he complained to her of chest pains.\n\nShe said after calling NHS 111 and being told it was probably a viral infection, Luke took paracetamol and ibuprofen and stayed in his bed.\n\n\"Two days later he was gone,\" she said.\n\n\"We tried to resuscitate him.\n\nShe said the couple had been crushed by the loss of the son, who she said was \"our best mate\".\n\n\"He had plans,\" she said.\n\n\"He's never going to experience love. He's not going to have children.\"\n\nThe couple said leaks, from rainwater through the roof or their own shower, turned into mould\n\nSince Luke's death, the couple have moved to a new home, provided by Oldham Council, and said they felt healthier and were sleeping better.\n\nHowever, they added that they felt they did everything in their power to fix the mould in their property and wanted Luke's inquest to find out if their landlord and other agencies had also done everything they should have.\n\nThe hearing, which is due to open later and will hear five days of evidence, will be overseen by Manchester North senior coroner Joanne Kearsley.\n\nMs Kearsley also oversaw the inquest into toddler Awaab Ishak's death, which also heard about how his family had been living in a mould-infested home.\n\nShe concluded that he died from a respiratory condition caused by exposure to mould in his home, a result which sent ripples across the housing industry and led the government to introduce tougher legislation on social landlords.\n\nOldham councillor Elaine Taylor said the authority's \"thoughts go out to Luke's family and friends during this time\".\n\nShe added that the council would await the coroner's findings before commenting further.\n\nA Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities representative said their thoughts were also with Luke's parents \"at this very difficult time\".\n\n\"We extend our deepest condolences to them and to all who knew and loved Luke,\" they said.\n\nThey added that \"given the ongoing investigations into Luke's death\", the department was \"unable to comment further at this time\".\n\nAt Awaab Ishak's inquest last year, Coroner Joanne Kearsley posed a question: \"How in the UK in 2020 does a two-year-old child die as a result of exposure to mould?\"\n\nIt struck a chord. Politicians called for urgent change in the housing sector and tenants who felt ignored suddenly felt empowered.\n\nNine months on, a family say they believe their son died in the same circumstances and the same coroner is holding another inquest in the same court.\n\nLiving conditions in modern Britain are being brought into the spotlight once again. So what has changed?\n\nUnlike Awaab's parents, the Brooks family were renting from a private landlord.\n\nThe government says updated quality and safety standards for social housing will be introduced into the private sector for the first time and it is also creating a new ombudsman service for private tenants.\n\nLuke's mum Patsy says it is taking too long.\n\nThe family were living in the house where Luke died until July and were worn down by complaining.\n\nThe inquest will look at the facts - what action the family took, what action the landlord took and the role of any other authorities involved.\n\nJimmy and Patsy hope those facts will help them come to terms with their loss and lead to reform.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Australian company that was meant to buy failed battery firm Britishvolt has missed the deadline to pay for the business, casting doubt on the deal.\n\nFilings from administrators EY show that the final instalment of a total payment of £8.57m, which was due on 5 April, is still outstanding.\n\nEY said that the buyer, Recharge Industries, had therefore defaulted on its agreement to buy the business.\n\nHowever, Recharge Industries said: \"We dispute we are in default.\"\n\nBritishvolt had planned to build a massive £4bn car battery factory in the north-east of England, but went into administration in January after running out of money.\n\nGreat hopes had been pinned on the site, with the promised creation of thousands of jobs and the technology and batteries needed to answer the UK's electric car needs.\n\nIts collapse - which came despite support from politicians including former Prime Minister Boris Johnson - was blamed on a lack of battery experience, proven technology, customers and cash.\n\nRecharge Industries, which agreed to buy the firm out of administration in February, shares similarities with Britishvolt.\n\nThe Australian firm, which is ultimately owned by a New York-based investment fund called Scale Facilitation, is a start-up with little battery manufacturing experience.\n\nIts plan for the Britishvolt site is to initially develop battery storage technology, rather than batteries for electric vehicles.\n\nBut it faced issues in June, when Scale Facilitation's Australian offices were raided by police over alleged tax fraud.\n\nAt the time, sources close to the owner, entrepreneur David Collard, said the raid was due to a misunderstanding of the interaction between US and Australian tax filings and that all parties were co-operating.\n\nThe raid cast doubt, however, over the final payment for the Northumberland Britishvolt site, which had been extended long beyond the original deadline of 31 March.\n\n\"The sale to the buyer had not completed as the final amount of deferred consideration was due to be paid on 5 April 2023,\" the report from EY to creditors said last week.\n\nIt added: \"As noted in the proposals, the buyer purchased the company's business and assets for £8.57m.\n\n\"This amount was payable in a number of instalments. The final instalment remains unpaid and overdue. As a result, the buyer is in default of the business sale agreement.\"\n\nBut on Monday, a spokeswoman for Recharge Investments told the BBC that the timing of the final instalment to be paid to EY depended on a \"funding facility, which when closed will also cover the cost of the land acquisition\" and provide extra cash for the project.\n\nShe added that it expects to close the deal in August.\n\nThe report from EY showed that when the firm collapsed, causing the loss of about 200 jobs, Britishvolt likely owed between £130m and £160m to its creditors.\n\nThe biggest debt, of about £26.6m, is to DC Energy, a firm which was meant to supply around €100m (£86m) worth of manufacturing gear to the British start-up in its bid to build technology for electric cars.\n\nThe business owes some £3m to the government, mostly in income tax and VAT, while employees are also owed just under £280,000.\n\nIt is not yet clear how much might be paid back to those owed money by the failed firm.\n\nThe UK currently only has one Chinese-owned battery plant, which is next to the Nissan factory in Sunderland.", "Fitness trackers, home security systems and baby monitors are among the devices that MPs warn are enabling the growing issue of tech-enabled domestic abuse.\n\nThe Culture, Media and Sport Committee says there are on average nine such \"smart\" products in UK homes.\n\nIt found they were being used to \"monitor, harass, coerce and control\" victims by collecting recordings and images.\n\nThe MPs say the government must tackle the situation.\n\n\"While the rising popularity of connected technology has brought undoubted benefits to everyday life, the flip side is the real risk some of these gadgets pose to privacy and personal safety online,\" said Dame Caroline Dinenage, who chairs the committee.\n\n\"The government must make it a priority to work with manufacturers to tackle this technology-facilitated abuse, which is only going to get worse in the future,\" she added.\n\nDame Caroline also called for the police and criminal justice system to be better equipped to deal with the problem, and for victims to be provided with extra support.\n\nThe committee has been investigating the issue since May 2022, considering the potential benefit and harms of connected technology, other examples of which include smart speakers and virtual assistants.\n\nWidely present across the UK at present, their use is expected to mushroom in the coming years - the committee estimates that by 2050 there will be 24 billion interconnected devices worldwide.\n\nDuring its investigation, the committee says it heard evidence that the \"vast majority\" of domestic abuse cases now feature some sort of cyber element, including the use of spyware, and perpetrators monitoring movements and collecting recordings and photos of victims and survivors.\n\nIt identified children as being particularly in need of protection, not just from abuse but from having their data and personal information harvested and potentially misused, especially as young people are considered more likely to use smart devices.\n\n\"The Government and Information Commissioner's Office should make sure products used in schools and by young people at home have privacy settings that are intuitive for children, and age-appropriate terms and conditions,\" Dame Caroline said.\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales, Nicole Jacobs, agreed that the onus should be on tech firms to address the problem.\n\n\"Too often, victims and survivors are expected to keep themselves safe from tech abuse, rather than tech companies taking steps to prevent harm,\" she said.\n\n\"While the government has made good progress on some forms of tech abuse through the Online Safety Bill, they must ensure tech companies address all the tools that perpetrators use, including smart home devices.\"\n\nA Government spokesperson said domestic abuse was a \"despicable crime\" ministers were \"determined to tackle\". They pointed to the cross-party Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan published in March 2022, and more than £230m of funding provided to prevent offending, support victims and pursue perpetrators.\n\n\"We will introduce world-leading rules next year to bolster cyber-security standards across devices, protecting individual privacy and security, and our Online Safety Bill will become law in a matter of months - making the UK the safest place in the world to be online,\" they added.", "During the trial, the jury heard that during the drive home from Kylie Jenner’s pool party on the night of July 11, 2020, Megan Thee Stallion insulted Tory Lanez‘s musical talent.\n\nAs the argument escalated, she demanded to be let out of the car. Megan testified that she heard Lanez shout “dance\" before he fired five rounds at her.\n\nThe court heard she left a trail of blood at the scene, before getting back into the vehicle, which was stopped minutes later by police.\n\nA gun that was still warm to the touch was found near where Lanez had been sitting.\n\nMegan testified Lanez had offered her $1m (£780,000) to keep quiet about the attack because he claimed to be on probation for a weapons offence.\n\nMinutes after the shooting, another passenger texted Megan Thee Stallion's security detail, saying: \"Help... Tory shot meg.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCoverage : Watch on BBC One, listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds and follow on the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nEngland midfielder Keira Walsh could make their Women's World Cup last-16 tie with Nigeria on Monday if she \"recovers well\" from Sunday's training session, manager Sarina Wiegman says.\n\nWalsh, 26, was taken off on a stretcher during the 1-0 win over Denmark on 28 July with a knee injury, which Wiegman confirmed was \"not ligament damage\".\n\nThe Barcelona midfielder trained with the squad at Central Coast Stadium before flying to Brisbane on Sunday.\n\n\"Keira's doing well,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"She started her rehabilitation straight after we knew what was going on. She has been on the pitch training today and now we will wait to see how she recovers.\n\n\"If she does well, then she will be available for [Monday].\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\nThere were initial fears that Walsh had suffered a serious knee injury, but scans then ruled out anterior cruciate ligament damage.\n\n\"Everyone was in shock of course,\" said Wiegman. \"But then really quickly, the day after, we knew things weren't as bad as it looked and that people had thought.\"\n\nEngland have won all three matches at the Women's World Cup and face Nigeria for a place in the quarter-finals in Brisbane at 08:30 BST on Monday.\n\nFor last Tuesday's 6-1 win over China, Manchester United captain Katie Zelem made her first start in midfield and impressed alongside regular Georgia Stanway.\n\n\"Of course we want every player to be fit and available,\" added Wiegman. \"Keira wasn't available for the last match and we know what options we have in that position.\n\n\"Katie [Zelem] did really well against China and now Keira is back ,so that's really nice for the team. We know we have other options too. Keira is exceptional but other players can solve that.\"\n\n'We have two formation options now'\n\nEngland defender Alex Greenwood said Walsh had been \"fine\" in camp during the last week despite having to miss their final group match.\n\n\"We obviously spent a few days apart when we played but she's Keira and was focused on her rehab,\" said Greenwood.\n\n\"She always had a smile on her face and we just supported her as team-mates as best we could.\"\n\nThere was plenty of speculation in the build-up to England's win over China about how they might replace Walsh, a key figure in their Euro 2022-winning side.\n\nWiegman switched formations, opting to play a back three, and included Zelem in midfield. It was hugely successful but the Dutchwoman would not give any clubs as to how England might set up against Nigeria.\n\n\"We have two options now - the way we have played and what we did against China, so we will take that into consideration. You will see tomorrow what we will do,\" said Wiegman.\n\nGreenwood added: \"In both formations, we're able to express ourselves. I think for the game and the challenge that lay ahead [against China], the back three worked. That proved in the game.\n\n\"Whatever formation we play, we're strong in all areas and we'll prepare for anything. But no, sorry, I'm not going to give you the answer.\"\n\nNigeria manager Randy Waldrum said his side had to prepare for both possible formations, which makes his \"job a little more challenging\".\n\n\"As a coach, I expect [Wiegman] to go with a back three as they played so well and I don't know why they would change that,\" said Waldrum.\n\n\"But we have to be prepared for both systems. It makes the job a little challenging as you don't have that much time and I'm sure England would have worked at both systems quite extensively.\"", "British scouts were moved to Seoul on Saturday\n\nThousands of scouts at an international event in South Korea are being evacuated from a campsite due to an incoming tropical storm.\n\nSeveral countries including the UK had already left, blaming high temperatures and poor sanitary conditions at the camp.\n\nUK Scouts chief executive Matt Hyde said he felt let down by organisers and UK activities had been set back years.\n\nThe site had become a health risk, he told the BBC.\n\nAttended by more than 40,000 young people from 155 countries, the World Scout Jamboree has been plagued by problems from the very start.\n\nHundreds had fallen ill amid 35C (95F) heat, with scouts from the UK among those affected by heat exhaustion.\n\nThe British group of 4,500 people, the largest in attendance, arrived at the campsite in Saemangeum near the town of Buan last week.\n\nThey were moved to hotels in the capital Seoul over the weekend, where they will remain until the jamboree finishes on 12 August.\n\nMr Hyde said the relocation will cost the UK Scout Association well over £1m from its reserves.\n\n\"We had commitments to those reserves that will of course mean that we can't now do things that we wanted to do over the next three to five years,\" he said.\n\nThe US and Singapore have also already pulled their teams from the campsite.\n\nWorld Scout Jamboree organisers said on Monday that the South Korean government told them it was no longer safe to hold the event.\n\nThe government said it had listened to the concerns of the World Organisation for Scout Movements and national delegations, who had been requesting they close the site for days.\n\nFrom Tuesday at 10:00 local time (01:00GMT), some 36,000 people still in Saemangeum will be taken by bus to safer areas, South Korea's vice minister for disaster and safety management, Kim Sung-ho, has said.\n\nThe event \"is still continuing,\" but \"the location is only changing because of the natural disaster,\" he added.\n\nOfficials are seeking alternative venues and accommodation in and around Seoul.\n\nSevere Tropical Storm Khanun, which has already forced evacuations and cut off power to thousands in Japan, is forecast to reach South Korea's southern Jeolla province on Thursday.\n\nOriginally classified as a typhoon, the weather system has weakened but is still bringing high winds and torrential rain to the region.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change. Increased sea surface temperatures also mean storms are likely to be more intense and bring more extreme rainfall.\n\nCoaches of British teenagers started arriving back in Seoul - around 120 miles (197km) from the campsite - on Saturday.\n\nMr Hyde said the UK contingent was focused on running an \"engaging programme\" from their young people from the capital.\n\nHe said the UK Scouts feel let down by the organisers after repeated concerns were raised about conditions at the site. While there were some improvements it was \"too little too late\".\n\nConditions breached four red lines around a lack of shade, lack of food for those with dietary needs, poor sanitation and insufficient medical services, he added.\n\n\"We were promised things were going to be put in place and they weren't,\" he said.\n\n\"If you can imagine [toilets] that are being used by thousands and thousands of people that are not being cleared with the regularity you would expect, you can imagine the sort of things that people were seeing.\"\n\nEach British scout had spent around £3,500 on the trip, with many relying on fundraising, he said.\n\nPlanning of the event may have been affected by the Covid pandemic, Mr Hyde said, adding it was \"critical\" an independent review was carried out.\n\nOne parent told the BBC concerns about the event were raised two weeks ago when torrential rain fell and flooded Saemangeum, a reclaimed tidal flat.\n\nVincent Blood, whose daughter fell ill at the event, said: \"How on earth are you going to go from a flooded site to something that's adequate and going to provide this superb experience the kids have been looking forward to?\n\n\"Our fears have now been justified.\"\n\nJohn Coleman, 57, from Liverpool, said what was meant to be the \"trip of a lifetime\" for his teenage daughter - who celebrated her 17th birthday at the event - had \"turned into a disaster\".\n\nHe told the BBC their whole family had contributed to fundraising efforts for the £3,500 cost of sending her on the trip, but she has \"not got what we paid for\".\n\nThe BBC has seen emails sent to the parents of young people on the trip by UK Scouts.\n\nOne email sent on 31 July before the scouts arrived at the site said an inspection revealed it was not ready \"as we would have expected\".\n\nParents were told facilities were \"improving continuously\" on 2 August, two days before a decision to leave was taken citing numerous problems on the site.\n\nThe BBC has been told that some scouts are now sharing five to a room, while up to 250 spent a night in the ballroom of one Seoul hotel due to a lack of available accommodation. All now have hotel rooms.\n\nThe head of the country's ruling People's Power Party, Kim Gi-hyeon, issued a public apology on Monday and proposed an investigation into whether taxpayers' money had been well spent on preparations.\n\nThe jamboree, described as the world's largest youth camp, gathers scouts from around the world every four years, each time in a different country.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "When Declan Spencer's care falls through, it's his mother Alex who takes on the role\n\nFamilies of people with complex medical needs are warning the NHS system that funds their care at home is struggling to provide sufficient support.\n\nDespite recent significant increases in spending on Continuing Healthcare, experts say staff shortages and rising prices mean families are lacking help.\n\nSome say at times they are so exhausted from providing care, they worry about the safety of their relatives.\n\nThe government says it has invested billions into health and social care.\n\nWe've followed 24-year-old Declan Spencer for 10 months, witnessing how the repeated breakdown of his care has left his mother having to provide it by herself, day and night.\n\nMeeting Declan and his mother Alex, you immediately understand the warmth and strength of their relationship.\n\nThey chat at the table about his dating app experiences as Alex feeds him breakfast, interrupted by calls from a care company and specialist equipment provider that need her attention.\n\n\"Normally you would get annoyed with your parent occasionally, but that never happens,\" Declan explains.\n\n\"But she can't do all my care. It's a lot of work for one person.\"\n\nDeclan has a severe and progressive muscle wastage condition known as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and is unable to move unassisted. He requires a ventilator to breathe and lives with chronic heart and respiratory failure.\n\nThe care he requires at his family home in Leicestershire should be met by the NHS Continuing Healthcare scheme (CHC), which is designed to enable people with the highest and most complex needs to live outside of hospital.\n\nAt least 16,000 people in England and Wales are in a situation like Declan's, having their long-term care, in their own home, funded through the scheme. Others may receive \"fast-track\" care for the final months of their lives, or have a care home place funded.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have different approaches to managing patients with high-level healthcare needs at home.\n\nDeclan is entitled to 24/7 support - plus extra help in the morning and before bed. He and Alex have been asking only for care overnight and during her working hours - but repeatedly they have faced a shortfall in care workers.\n\nThrough their video diaries, email logs, phone calls and messages, we have seen the toll this has taken on them.\n\nDeclan was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy as a child\n\nAlready living with the realisation of Declan's declining health, finding support has added pressure and stress, with Alex standing in when no-one is available.\n\nShe has given up one of her jobs and had a mental health breakdown. On one occasion she remained awake for 60 hours caring for Declan and monitoring his equipment.\n\nIf there was an issue with his ventilator overnight, she says, \"it could potentially end his life\".\n\nDeclan's CHC team said they \"always ensure a patient's health care needs are met\", but cannot always commission the support families would prefer. It had offered to find Declan a temporary place in a care home, which the family declined, saying a suitable location with staff trained on ventilators would not have been possible at short notice.\n\nGuidelines state that patients should always have the support set out by their care plan.\n\nBut the company providing NHS England's advice line, Beacon, told the BBC it had seen a sharp rise in calls from families \"who just sound incredibly desperate, upset, stressed, exhausted, because the care package isn't working for them, and [they] are struggling to get anybody to listen to them\".\n\nIts managing director, Dan Harbour, said the Continuing Healthcare scheme was \"in a perfect storm of financial constraints and significant recruitment challenges\".\n\nIntegrated Care Boards [ICBs] decide the support package an individual receives, introduce families to their approved care agencies and monitor the quality of care provided. Their representatives told the BBC they were grappling with a lack of experienced care workers, at a time when patients were living longer and with greater levels of need.\n\nDeclan says the anxiety caused by his care situation has left him unable to sleep.\n\nHis NHS budget for care agencies has been £18.87 an hour - of which a smaller sum is paid to the carers themselves.\n\nThe family and Declan's local CHC team, NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit, have struggled to find sufficiently trained and experienced carers within this price.\n\nAlex hoisting Declan into bed, before remaining awake overnight to ensure his safety\n\n\"Dec's got high-level needs,\" says Alex. \"Doing the suctioning and the cough assist machine [to clear his airways]. Troubleshooting the ventilator. Knowing the difference between him going into respiratory arrest and cardiac arrest.\n\n\"His life is totally dependent on the person looking after him.\n\n\"But I've had carers crying on my shoulders, saying 'I'm not a nurse, this is too technical for me'.\"\n\n\"They are meant to have been trained on my equipment,\" says Declan. \"But I have some who come in knowing nothing.\"\n\nThe family say Declan's CHC team has repeatedly downplayed his needs when introducing them to new care companies.\n\nIn one instance, in an email seen by the BBC, a care company told Declan's CHC team that his needs were \"more complex\" than stated to them, and \"we would not be able to meet all requirements safely\".\n\nDeclan's CHC team said their approved care agencies underwent regular training and \"have the necessary knowledge, experience and skills to provide suitable care\".\n\nAlex estimates 60 carers have entered Declan's life in the past two years - including many who meet him, learn about his needs, but never start. Others leave shortly after their first shift, overwhelmed by his level of need.\n\n\"It's made him feel like a burden,\" Alex says.\n\nThe family are also battling against a nationwide shortage of care sector workers, which experts say is underpinned by poor levels of pay.\n\nUnder the Continuing Healthcare framework, this shortage should not mean the responsibility for care falls on the patient's family.\n\nOne Integrated Care Board told the BBC when care workers regularly could not be sought, it would raise the hourly pay rates, and hire nurses on a full-time basis until care workers were found.\n\nDeclan has created a bucket list of experiences he wants to enjoy\n\nAlex says the stress of arranging care has greatly affected her mental health - to the point she has been very close to suicide.\n\n\"After Dec had been in hospital with pneumonia [in October], he'd deteriorated a lot,\" she adds. \"[His CHC team] didn't ask if we needed any extra help.\"\n\nBy February, two of Declan's medical specialists had written to his local NHS team saying he required an increase in his care package as his needs had - one specialist said - \"drastically increased\" since his hospitalisation. Three months on, this was not yet in place.\n\nIn emails, his CHC team told the family it had been following procedure for increasing care packages.\n\nIn May, the family received the news from doctors they had feared. Declan is now considered as \"end-of-life\" and has months to live.\n\n\"The doctors found Declan's kidneys weren't coping very well and told us he can't take his heart medication any more, which was our biggest hope of keeping him here longer.\"\n\nDeclan's consultant wrote to his CHC team, saying he needed additional care. It took four weeks for this to be approved.\n\n\"We're now eligible for 24-hour support with a nurse and healthcare assistant, but realistically it's not happening because we can't find the staff,\" says Alex.\n\n\"I'm still staying up overnight on my own to care for him. And it's worse than before, because Dec's health needs are now greater.\n\n\"If decisions over Dec's care had been made sooner, we wouldn't be in this horrendous situation.\"\n\nThe teams commissioning and managing Declan's care - Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB and NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit - told us they were continuing to work with the family to ensure Declan has the care he needs.\n\nMeeting Fast and Furious actor John Cena was a highlight for Declan, while in London completing items on his bucket list\n\nIn the past four years in England and Wales, the annual spend on long-term Continuing Healthcare patients living at home has risen from just over £30,000 to nearly £48,000 per person - data from 33 out of 50 health and social care boards has shown via Freedom of Information requests.\n\nThe managing director of the company behind the Beacon helpline, Dan Harbour, said this was positive - but that it was crucial for more to be done to tackle the national shortage of care workers, to improve training, and to ensure that guidelines were being followed.\n\nHe said when it came to commissioning and managing Continuing Healthcare for patients, \"there are pockets of really good practice and pockets of quite appalling practice in [different] parts of the country\".\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said arrangements for Continuing Healthcare should place the individual at the centre of the process.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"To support ICBs in their provision of this, we've made up to £7.5bn available to help reduce adult social care waiting times and increase workforce capacity.\" They added that the government has made a further commitment to boost staff retention.\n\nAlex says the stress of finding care has \"robbed\" her and Declan of joyful times together, and taken her to breaking point.\n\nThey hope in these coming months Declan will still be able to complete items on his bucket list - a huge car enthusiast, he's already added a new body kit to his adaptable van, and he's been in the pit lane at the British GT Championship. He also met Fast and Furious actor John Cena in a chance encounter.\n\n\"Even when you're disabled, you can still do your dreams,\" Declan says.\n\nAnd for Alex, it's just about being together with her son, \"the amazing, funny, intelligent, incredible person he is\".\n\nWhat are your experiences of Continuing Healthcare? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA landmark pub in the Black Country has been demolished two days after fire ripped through the building.\n\nThe Crooked House in Himley near Dudley, once known as \"Britain's wonkiest pub\", caught fire on Saturday night.\n\nStaffordshire Police and the fire service are trying to establish the cause.\n\nIn the meantime, the mayor of the West Midlands has called for it to be rebuilt \"brick by brick\".\n\nThe mayor of the West Midlands has called for the pub to be rebuilt\n\nBefore it was felled, campaigners were petitioning for the damaged building to be restored as a pub, as while the fire had gutted the property, the exterior was largely left standing.\n\nBut on Monday afternoon, shocked local residents and former customers gathered at the site to see the large pile of rubble where the pub once stood.\n\nIt is not yet clear who demolished the building, which was sold by previous owner Marston's to a private buyer in March.\n\nThe property was built in 1765 as a farmhouse but, due to mining in the area during the early 19th Century, one side of the building began to sink, causing its distinct, sloping appearance.\n\nMayor Andy Street said he had asked South Staffordshire Council to ensure the pub was rebuilt \"and any attempt to change its use blocked\".\n\n\"We will not let the Crooked House be consigned to history,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe that great pubs have immense cultural and historical value here in the West Midlands and we should be taking steps to protect and preserve their heritage.\"\n\nFlowers and sympathy cards have been left at the scene\n\nMr Street's letter to council leader Roger Lees, was also signed by West Midlands night-time economy adviser Alex Claridge.\n\n\"Whilst we do not yet know the cause of the fire or the outcome of any investigation being conducted by Staffordshire Police or Staffordshire Fire and Rescue, it is clear that we should not allow such a tragic act to be the end of The Crooked House,\" the correspondence said.\n\nFormer Labour MP for Dudley North, Lord Ian Austin, an independent peer, called the destruction of the landmark a tragedy.\n\n\"Set on fire and now demolished,\" he wrote on social media. \"Very interested to see what happens to the site now.\"\n\nHe had earlier highlighted how lanes leading up to the pub were found blocked on Saturday, hampering efforts of firefighters to reach the flames.\n\nStation commander Liam Hilton of Staffordshire Fire Service said on Monday \"[there were] mounds of mud and soil placed in the centre of the road and covering the whole of [it]\".\n\nWhat remained of the building had been deemed unsafe, the fire service said.\n\nA second letter from Mr Street and Mr Claridge has been sent to Staffordshire Police's chief constable Chris Noble and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue chief fire officer Rob Barber.\n\nIt repeated Mr Street's concerns of Monday, stating \"clearly there are major questions to be answered\" as to what had happened on Saturday, and also raised the issue of dirt mounds hampering firefighters' efforts.\n\nOn Sunday, the exterior of the building was left standing, but within 24 hours, it was reduced to rubble\n\nThe property was a popular attraction for decades after Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries bought it and converted it into a pub in the 1940s.\n\nVisitors flocked to see the distinctive building and witness the illusion of coins and marbles appearing to roll uphill along the bar.\n\nMarston's listed it for sale with a guide price of £675,000 - a move that was met with a petition to keep the site as a pub.\n\nThe new owners would be spoken to as part of inquiries, police said.\n\nLord Austin said he did not understand why the owners were yet to identify themselves, adding the information would become public eventually via the Land Registry.\n\nThere are calls to rebuild the site brick by brick\n\nMarston's said it was \"shocked and disappointed\" to learn about the fire.\n\nA spokesperson explained: \"We know the significance that the building has within the local community and we are working alongside our colleagues in the police to investigate what happened.\"\n\nDet Insp Richard Dancey, of Staffordshire Police, said on Monday: \"This incident has caused a great deal of speculation locally and we understand the significance of the building within the local community.\"\n\nThe force encouraged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Nationwide programme spent an afternoon inside The Crooked House in 1974\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The outcome was testament to the resilience England have built under Sarina Wiegman's management, but the European champions were also reliant on a whole load of luck in their last-16 victory over Nigeria.\n\nTwenty-four hours earlier, England supporters watched on eagerly as back-to-back champions and long-standing rivals the USA were stunned in a shootout defeat by Sweden, blowing the Women's World Cup wide open.\n\nThat result put the Lionesses right up there as one of the heavy favourites to go all the way. Therefore, few would have imagined the excruciating experience that was to come in Brisbane against a Nigeria side who had battled the odds to reach the knockout round.\n\nEngland came agonisingly close to following the USA on a plane home but clung on to their World Cup dreams by the skin of their teeth, doing what some of their rivals could not and managing to find a way - even if it did involve penalties.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\n\"A win is a win\" was the motto from England's players as they moved through the group stages with 1-0 victories over Haiti and Denmark to open proceedings.\n\nThey had underwhelmed and stumbled along, not really imposing themselves on their opponents or the competition itself.\n\nAn injury to instrumental midfielder Keira Walsh cast further doubts until England finally turned up, thrashing China 6-1 in their final match of Group D, cementing their status as Europe's best.\n\nAll of a sudden, concerns over England's slow start evaporated and instead praise was showered on Wiegman's tactical masterclass, where a rarely seen back three allowed England to express themselves in a free-flowing and highly entertaining display.\n\nLauren James was the star of the show, netting twice and assisting three goals as England's stature grew overnight in the competition.\n\nBut six days later when they made their second appearance in Brisbane, it was not the China performance that was reproduced but the one we have become accustomed to seeing in recent months.\n\nWiegman had warned her players of complacency and defender Alex Greenwood had made it clear in a media conference they would ignore any external noise.\n\nNigeria, aiming to become the first African team to win a knockout match at the Women's World Cup, were certainly no easy opponents.\n\nThe nine-time African champions had beaten co-hosts Australia and finished above Olympic gold medallists Canada in the group stages. They were here for a giant-killing and almost succeeded.\n\nEngland were lacklustre and predictable, struggling to create chances and growing frustrated as each minute passed, feeling as if they were repeating the same things to no avail.\n\nThey had been there before against Haiti and Denmark, but this time it was even more noticeable given how much of a drop-off in performance it was from the one that sliced open China.\n\nBy half-time England had faced more shots (nine) than they had ever done in an opening 45 minutes under Wiegman.\n\nAfter 120 minutes, Nigeria had attempted 405 passes - their highest in this year's tournament - while England only had 12 shots, their lowest since arriving in Australia.\n\nBut nothing was more unexpected during England's struggling performance than the lack of perceived ideas from Wiegman, a coach who usually has an answer to everything but did not seem to come up with anything to counteract Nigeria's growing control on the game.\n\nFrustration was building, the drums brought by Nigeria's faithful in the stands were getting louder, and audible groans from England fans behind the goal were becoming more frequent.\n\nGeorgia Stanway's corner floated straight out for a goal kick after an hour, summing up England's performance, and then a moment of wild emotion saw James sent off. After the latest instance of her being dispossessed, the Chelsea forward snapped - standing on Michelle Alozie's back.\n\nIt was a deserved red card and it made England's job a whole lot tougher as they faced extra time a player down.\n\nHowever, it was from this moment that the real England - Wiegman's England - turned up.\n\nFaced with adversity, the odds stacked up against them given Nigeria's stranglehold on the game and a player advantage, England seemed to spark into gear and Wiegman finally found an answer.\n\nThe Dutchwoman took off striker Alessia Russo and introduced Chloe Kelly as part of a reshuffle as England returned to a back four with one up front.\n\nIt worked. Nigeria's momentum faded and England ground out half an hour of unattractive hardball to take it to a deciding shootout.\n\nStanway stepped up first and struck wide. Surely England had not just pushed through 30 minutes of extra time with 10 players to lose now?\n\nThen Nigeria missed... twice. Goalkeeper Mary Earps did not need to make a save as the rest of England's chosen penalty takers delivered.\n\n\"I don't know what my heart rate is, I just know I'm 10 years older,\" Wiegman said afterwards.\n\n\"I have never experienced so many problems, but of course that's my job to think of things that can happen. You try to turn every stone and today we got totally tested on those stones!\"\n\nThis game was perhaps the scare England needed. They got one in Euro 2022 when Spain took them to extra time having outplayed them for large periods in the quarter-final.\n\nEngland do not always make it easy and they may not be so lucky next time.\n\nBut they are three games from glory now, and as the theory goes, the best teams find a way to win, even when they don't play well.", "The ridge in Glen Coe is popular with climbers\n\nThree climbers have been found dead after failing to return from a trip into Glen Coe.\n\nPolice Scotland said the bodies of two men and a woman were discovered during a search of Aonach Eagach, a ridge popular with climbers.\n\nA spokeswoman confirmed the alarm was raised shortly after 21:05 on Saturday.\n\nAn initial search involving Inverness coastguard helicopter was made in mist and fog in difficult terrain, before the bodies were found on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice said Glencoe and RAF mountain rescue teams also assisted with the search and recovery operation.\n\nThe police spokeswoman added: \"There do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances. A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.\"\n\nThe coastguard said it was alerted at 22:50 on Saturday, and its Inverness search and rescue helicopter assisted in a search of the ridge.\n\nA spokeswoman said a coastguard helicopter from Prestwick provided further support to police and mountain rescue teams on Sunday morning.\n\nKate Forbes, SNP MSP for MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, described the deaths as \"horrendous news\".\n\nShe said: \"My thoughts are with the families. My sincere appreciation to mountain rescue, as always, and the emergency services.\"\n\nAngus MacDonald, a local Highland councillor who grew up in the Clachaig Inn below the ridge, said: \"This is a tragedy for those who died and their families.\n\n\"I know everyone in the area will feel for them.\"\n\nThe high, narrow, exposed ridge runs almost the length of Glen Coe and links two summits - 953m (3,127ft) Meall Dearg and 967m (3,172ft) Sgòrr nam Fiannaidh.\n\nIts name means \"notched ridge\", a reference to its jagged, rocky terrain.\n\nTraversing - crossing - Aonach Eagach involves about six miles (9km) and can take up to nine hours to complete, according to mountaineering guides.\n\nMuch of the route involves scrambling - a mountaineering term meaning climbers using their hands to help keep their balance on steep, difficult terrain.\n\nThe ridge is popular with keen and experienced climbers and many traverse Aonach Eagach safely every year.\n\nBut it has been the site of fatalities, and recent previous deaths in the area have included a 63-year-old woman in September 2014 and a 44-year-old man in July 2016.\n\nLast September, the body of Alan Taylor, from Dundee, was found in a gully near the ridge. The 57-year-old had been missing since September 2021.\n\nDavid Whalley, a veteran mountaineer and former RAF mountain rescue team leader known in the climbing community by his nickname \"Heavy\", said conditions could change quickly on Aonach Eagach.\n\nHe told BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"It is one of the best ridges in Scotland. It's a wonderful thing and I have done it quite a few times, and done quite a few rescues on it.\n\n\"There are a few tricky bits, with greasy rocks. The weather is always changing - one minute it is clear and the next the mist is down.\n\n\"The big problem is if it all goes wrong there are very few places to get off, so you have to keep going or go back the way you came.\"\n\nMr Whalley added: \"We mustn't forget we are talking about people and grief going on in (families') lives.\"\n\n\"Mountaineering is wonderful but it is a risk sport and we all live with that when we are out in the mountains.\"\n\n\"The Glencoe is an extremely professional team with a great history,\" he said.\n\n\"They are unpaid volunteers and have to go back to work the next day, but someone has to do it and they do a wonderful job.\"", "Members of the military attend a rally in Niamey on 6 August\n\nA senior US official has held face-to-face talks with Niger's military leaders following last month's coup.\n\nActing Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said the conversations had been \"extremely frank and at times quite difficult\".\n\nWashington has said the coup can still be ended diplomatically and President Mohamed Bazoum reinstated, but has suspended aid payments in the meantime.\n\nWest African countries are set to meet on Thursday to discuss the crisis.\n\nEcowas - a trading bloc of 15 West African states - had issued a 23:00 GMT Sunday deadline to Niger's junta leaders to stand down and restore the elected president.\n\nThe coup leaders responded to a threat of military action from the bloc by closing Niger's airspace.\n\nSpeaking to reporters from capital Niamey, Ms Nuland said that, in talks lasting more than two hours, the US had offered its help \"if there is a desire on the part of the people who are responsible for this to return to the constitutional order\".\n\n\"I would not say that we were in any way taken up on that offer,\" she said.\n\nMs Nuland said she had met the new military chief of staff, Brigadier General Moussa Salaou Barmou, but not with Niger's self-proclaimed new leader, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, or with Mr Bazoum.\n\nMr Bazoum remains in detention but has previously spoken to US officials by phone.\n\nMs Nuland said she also raised concerns over claims the coup leaders had asked Russia's Wagner mercenary group for help in maintaining control of the country.\n\n\"The people who have taken this action here understand very well the risks to their sovereignty when Wagner is invited in,\" she said.\n\nGen Tchiani, a former chief of the presidential guard to Mr Bazoum, seized power on 26 July, saying he wanted to avert \"the gradual and inevitable demise\" of Niger.\n\nThe growing instability in the region compelled former colonial power France on Monday to warn its citizens against travelling to the Sahel region, and for those still there to be cautious due to anti-France sentiment.\n\n\"It is essential to limit travel, to stay away from any gatherings and to keep themselves regularly informed of the situation,\" read a statement from the foreign ministry.\n\nThe junta in Niger on Sunday said it had information that \"a foreign power\" was preparing to attack the country, following reports that military chiefs from Ecowas had drawn up a detailed plan for use of force.\n\nEarlier, Abdel-Fatau Musah, Ecowas' commissioner for political affairs, peace and security, said that while \"all the elements\" had been worked out about an \"eventual intervention\", the body wanted \"diplomacy to work\".\n\nOver the weekend Nigeria's Senate discussed the situation in Niger after President Bola Tinubu wrote to it about the Ecowas resolutions imposing sanctions and the possible use of military force.\n\nLocal media report there was strong opposition to military intervention, especially from senators representing states near the long border the two countries share.\n\nPresident Tinubu has been especially vocal in demanding that the Niger military leave power and has threatened to use force if they do not - but he needs approval from the National Assembly for any foreign military intervention.\n\nThe coup leaders seem to be showing no sign of willingness to cede power, and on Sunday thousands of their supporters rallied defiantly at a stadium in the capital Niamey.\n\nNiger is a significant uranium producer - a fuel that is vital for nuclear power - and under Mr Bazoum was a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa's Sahel region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Niger coup: More trouble for the Sahel region?\n\nWhere is Niger? It's a vast country in West Africa, and one of the poorest countries in the world.\n\nWhy was there a coup? The military said it seized power because of insecurity and the economic situation, but there have been suggestions it came after reports the coup leader was about to be sacked.\n\nWhat next? It's feared the military may seek to switch allegiance to Russia and close French and US bases there; for their part, Niger's neighbours have threatened to use force to end the coup.\n\nAre you in the region? If it is safe to do so, email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Africa Daily podcast: What’s behind the coup in Niger?", "Prison and probation staffing in England and Wales is approaching dangerously low levels, the Ministry of Justice has said.\n\nThe comments were published by mistake on a government website as part of an £8m year-long contract awarded to a London company, PeopleScout, to manage the ministry's recruitment marketing.\n\nThe wording was spotted by the Labour Party.\n\nThe BBC understands the comments were not meant to be made public.\n\nThe contract blames \"government commitments on prison expansion and high staff attrition levels\" for the shortages.\n\nIt warned 15% of prisons are expected to have fewer than 80% of the prison staff that they need.\n\nAnd on the probation service, a third of regions in England and Wales have fewer than 80% of the necessary probation officers.\n\nShadow justice secretary Steve Reed said the whole country would be alarmed at the warning.\n\n\"Thirteen years of Conservative incompetence have left our probation service in tatters. Violent criminals are left to roam the streets without proper supervision, placing the public at serious risk,\" he said.\n\n\"If a third of the country has 'dangerously low levels' of probation officers, we risk seeing even more cases where violent criminals who never should have been released from prison in the first place are left unsupervised to strike again.\"\n\nChief Inspector of Probation, Justin Russell, found failings in the murder of Zara Aleena\n\nEarlier this year, the Chief Inspector of Probation, Justin Russell, said the service had failed at every stage to assess the risk of Damien Bendall, who murdered his partner, her two children and their 11-year-old friend.\n\nThe failings meant Bendall was deemed suitable to live with his pregnant partner Terri Harris and her two children when he could, instead, have been sent to prison after being sentenced for arson just months before the murders.\n\nRelatives of the victims were said to be \"shocked\" by the failings.\n\nMr Russell also found failings in the case of Jordan McSweeney, who sexually assaulted and murdered law graduate Zara Aleena nine days after he was released from prison on licence.\n\nMcSweeney, a man with a history of violence, was wrongly assessed by staff as a \"medium risk.\"\n\nThey were said to be under mounting pressure at the time, and one worker faced disciplinary action over the case.\n\nMs Aleena's aunt, Farah Naz, accused the Probation Service of having \"blood on its hands\" and said her niece \"would have been alive today if probation had done their jobs better\".\n\nIn February, internal figures, seen by the BBC, showed that some probation officers in England and Wales had workloads twice as large as their recommended capacity.\n\nA whistleblower warned the risks to the public are \"significant\".\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"We have hired a record 4,000 probation officers since 2021 and we will recruit up to 5,000 more prison officers by the mid-2020s to steer offenders away from crime and keep people safe.\"\n\nThe comments have now been removed from the website.", "Callum Rycroft, 12, was \"unique, great fun and larger than life\", his mother says\n\nA man is due in court over the death of a \"beautiful happy\" boy who was hit by a car while crossing a motorway.\n\nThe mother of Callum Rycroft, from Leeds, has paid tribute following his death on the M62 near Cleckheaton at 21:50 BST on Saturday.\n\nHe and a man were walking on the road after an earlier crash, police believe.\n\nMatthew Rycroft, 36, of Leeds, will appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Tuesday charged with causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nHe has also been charged with failing to provide a specimen.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police previously said it believed Callum was trying to make his way from the central reservation to the hard shoulder when he was hit.\n\nThe fatal crash happened on the eastbound carriageway after a separate crash on the slip road to Hartshead Moor services.\n\nInvestigators said they did not believe any other vehicles were involved in the first crash.\n\nIn a statement released by West Yorkshire Police, the boy's mother said: \"Callum was a beautiful happy soul who was unique, great fun and larger than life.\n\n\"He brought light, laughter and noise into any room.\n\n\"Callum had a massive impact on everyone who met him. The house is so quiet without him here.\n\n\"We are devastated at what has happened and request that people respect our wish for privacy at this difficult time.\n\n\"We are very grateful for the support and kind comments we have received.\"\n\nAnother man, 47, from Bolton, who had previously been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, had been released on bail pending further inquiries, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Netball\n\nEngland's wait for a first Netball World Cup title continues after Australia defeated the Roses to win the event for a 12th time.\n\nThe Roses were gradually overwhelmed by a dominant Australia, who pulled away to win 61-45.\n\nEngland were appearing in their first World Cup final, following a group-stage win over Australia and a semi-final victory against New Zealand.\n\nHowever, they had to settle for leaving Cape Town with silver.\n\nA dejected England may have missed out on the trophy, but have equalled the nation's best result at the tournament - previously achieved in 1975 after a round-robin event.\n\nHowever, they will be left to rue some of the sloppy play that allowed the Diamonds to strengthen their grasp on the trophy, particularly in the final quarter.\n\n\"We are obviously gutted with a losing margin like that but such is the difference between seasoned finalists and a team in their first final,\" said England head coach Jess Thirlby.\n\n\"Today was always going to be a tough ask, you just can't throw ball like that against Australia in a final.\n\n\"If we do that, we need to find a way to win it back. Unfortunately both of those things eluded us for long periods during the match.\"\n• None Best clips and analysis from Australia's win over England\n\n'Disappointment' for Roses in first final\n\nEngland claimed a thrilling 56-55 win against the Diamonds earlier in the week but repeating that feat against the nation that has featured in every World Cup final was ultimately a step too far.\n\nSome of Australia's aura had been diminished after England claimed Commonwealth gold against them on the Gold Coast in 2018.\n\nBut the Diamonds took revenge to end England's Commonwealth challenge at the semi-final stage in Birmingham last year, with this final the latest twist in a growing rivalry that so often swings Australia's way.\n\n\"We are really grateful for that silver medal and over time I'm sure that it will sink in,\" said Thirlby.\n\n\"The disappointment [we feel] is a measure of the belief we had in ourselves.\"\n\nDespite Australia maintaining their status at the top of world netball, England's presence in the final and Jamaica's bronze-medal victory against New Zealand earlier on Sunday shows the strength of the chasing pack.\n\n\"We had the better of them the other day and they had the better of us today,\" said England shooter Eleanor Cardwell.\n\n\"There's so many positives. This is the first World Cup final for every name on the team sheet and a lot of those Diamonds players have a whole lot of experience.\n\n\"I am super proud of us making history. Last year at the Commonwealth Games we came fourth and were gutted. This year we've got a silver medal.\"\n\nSince winning Commonwealth gold five years ago England have beaten Australia just twice in 11 meetings, but will hope to use this final as a platform to push to greater heights.\n\nEngland mid-courter Imogen Allison, who has often produced the key moment for the Roses at this tournament, said she was \"super proud\" of the team.\n\n\"We have to take this and run with it. If this is the first time in a final, the next time we are getting the gold,\" she added.\n\nEngland took confidence from their victory over the Diamonds on Thursday but Australia were powered by anger from an uncharacteristic defeat.\n\nKeen to reassert themselves as the dominant force in world netball, Australia head coach Stacey Marinkovich used all her trump cards to keep England on the back foot throughout the final.\n\nThe tone was set when the Roses lost the ball on their first centre pass, but they battled to keep the scores level at 13-13 after the first quarter.\n\nThe Diamonds started to build their lead and England struggled to cope with a dynamic attack circle, which was boosted by the arrival of shooters Sophie Garbin and Kiera Austin.\n\nEngland coach Thirlby tried multiple combinations in defence in an attempt to prevent the goal tally from running away, but a four-goal lead quickly became six before the wheels came off in the final quarter.\n\nEven after half-time a comeback seemed unlikely as England seemed to lack the belief that had powered them through the tournament.\n\nAustralia capitalised on wayward passes and sloppy play in key areas as the Roses struggled to win the ball - something they have excelled at in previous matches.\n\nThe Australia players on the court and on the bench sensed victory was close even with several minutes remaining, as a Roses side who seemed overwhelmed by their first foray into a World Cup final looked increasingly out of sorts.\n\nQuestions will be asked over the choice and timing of Thirlby's substitutions but in the end England were over-awed by a side who are, quite simply, so used to winning the big finals.", "He's been behind the camera for Doctor Who, Broadchurch and Happy Valley.\n\nBut despite his impressive track record, Euros Lyn has admitted he was unsure his latest TV drama would be a success.\n\nTherefore, the Swansea-based director said Netflix's Heartstopper becoming a global smash is \"a brilliant, lovely surprise\".\n\nThe 52-year-old also revealed a third series has already got the greenlight and is ready to begin filming.\n\nAdapted from Alice Oseman's popular graphic novels, Heartstopper tells of life and love in the teen LGBTQ+ community - and it's struck a chord with audiences.\n\n\"When I first read the script it really got to me emotionally and I hoped it would have the same effect on audiences,\" said Mr Lyn.\n\n\"But there are always so many variables, so many things which can shift it either way that you never know how it's going to go.\n\n\"So it's a brilliant lovely surprise that people have taken it to their hearts and loved it so much.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales, he added that despite being targeted at teens, it has won over viewers of all ages.\n\n\"Falling in love for the first time stays with you forever - no matter what age you are,\" he said.\n\nHeartstopper has recently returned to our screens for a second series\n\n\"People really get how the two boys in our story are destined for each other, just as Shakespeare realised Romeo and Juliet were star-crossed lovers.\"\n\nMany fans have lauded Heartstopper's representation of LGBTQ characters for helping them open up about their own sexuality for the first time.\n\nThis includes those now in their 40s and 50s who felt reluctant to come out whilst growing up during the 1980s.\n\nThe show has proved such a sensation for Netflix that the streaming giant has already asked the Welshman for more - despite series two only having debuted on our screens last week.\n\n\"Season three has been commissioned already, we're very excited and are due to start work on it soon,\" he said.\n\n\"When I read a script I really have to feel it because I always put my heart and soul into it. I just try to tell the best story I possibly can.\"", "Seren has raised in excess of £7,000 for Birmingham Children's Hospital where she received care as a baby\n\nA five-year-old girl is aiming to reach new heights by climbing the highest point in north Africa.\n\nSeren Price became the youngest person to complete the UK's three peaks challenge in under 48 hours last year.\n\nIf walking up the three highest points of Scotland, England and Wales was not enough, Seren and her dad Glyn Price, 44, now plan to climb Mount Toubkal in Morocco.\n\nShe is currently a finalist in a fundraiser award.\n\nThe little explorer cut her teeth on the Welsh three peaks aged just three.\n\nIt covers 17 miles (27km), taking on Yr Wyddfa and Cadair Idris, both in Eryri, also known as Snowdon, and Pen y Fan in Bannau Brycheiniog, .or the Brecon Beacons\n\nThen last December and aged five, she and her father, a mountain leader, walked up Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Yr Wyddfa, also known as Snowdon.\n\nSeren and her father Glyn climbed Yr Wyddfa, Ben Nevis and Scafell Pike in less than 48 hours last winter\n\nSeren said her favourite parts of that 23-mile (37km) challenge was \"the view\" and \"being with my dad\".\n\nThey next plan to take on Mount Toubkal, in Morocco's Atlas Mountains.\n\nWhen planning their challenge to climb the three highest peaks of Scotland, England and Wales, the Price family decided to use it as an opportunity to fundraise for a special cause.\n\nThey wanted to give something back as Seren needed treatment at the Birmingham Children's Hospital as a premature newborn.\n\n\"They did remarkable wonders with her,\" said former firefighter Glyn, from Llangennech, Carmarthenshire.\n\nSetting out to raise £100, the youngster instead received in excess of £7,000 as the pair persevered in severe winter weather conditions and temperatures as low as -18C (-0.4F) in December.\n\nSeren has been shortlisted in the JustGiving awards at London's Roundhouse on 25 September.\n\nShe has already picked out a \"princess gown\" to wear to the ceremony and is looking forward the most to \"the ball and the dancing\" afterwards.\n\nSeren climbed the Welsh three peaks of Yr Wyddfa and Cadair Idris, both in Eryri, and Pen y Fan in Bannau Brycheiniog as a three-year-old\n\nSeren - who says she wants to be both a doctor and rock star when she grows up - helped a fellow climber in need on Ben Nevis during her Three Peaks challenge.\n\nAfter spotting the female walker suffering from exhaustion, she alerted her father, saying \"Daddy, we need to help\".\n\nShe and her father called in mountain rescuers and assisted as the hiker was taken to a location where it was safe for a helicopter to land.\n\n\"We gave her our last Lucozade and she followed our torch down,\" Seren recalled.\n\nSeren now wants to climb Mount Toubkal in Morocco\n\nGlyn is no stranger to adventure, having taken many groups on the National Three Peaks challenge.\n\n\"We thought it would be a good experience for Seren and a good chance for her to raise money for her chosen charity,\" he said.\n\nMax Woosey, known as the Boy in the Tent, was crowned as last year's Young Fundraiser of the Year after camping outside every night for three years in memory of his neighbour to raise £750,000 for North Devon Hospice.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFive people have been arrested after a protest halted the Men's Elite Road Race at the UCI Cycling World Championships in Scotland.\n\nThe event was paused with just over 190km (118 miles) of the 271km (168 miles) remaining, with the Edinburgh to Glasgow route blocked west of Falkirk.\n\nThe demonstration took place on a narrow stretch of the B818 near the Carron Valley Reservoir.\n\nPolice said five people were arrested after the protesters were removed.\n\nEnvironmental group This Is Rigged claimed responsibility for the demonstration and said four of its activists were involved.\n\nIt was reported that protesters glued themselves to the road.\n\nThe race, which was won by Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel, was paused for about 50 minutes before restarting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by This Is Rigged This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by This Is Rigged\n\nThis Is Rigged has recently targeted the Scottish Parliament and Grangemouth oil and gas petrochemical plant.\n\nIn a statement posted on social media, This Is Rigged activist Cat said: \"The fact that Ineos has been allowed to sponsor a team in the race around the Campsie Fells - which were engulfed in wildfires last month - is a disgrace and an insult to the both cycling community and the people of Scotland.\n\n\"We cannot continue with business as usual while our country burns and our futures are ruined. Time is of the essence and we need to act like it.\"\n\nThe group called on the Scottish government to \"stand up to Westminster and oppose all new oil and gas, and implement a fair transition now\".\n\nIt comes after Rishi Sunak announced last week that he would back licences for 100 new oil and gas projects in the North Sea.\n\nElite cyclists were stopped by a demonstration in the Carron Valley area\n\nGraham Simpson, the Scottish Conservatives net zero and transport spokesman said: \"This was a dangerous act of disruption which put both the protesters and athletes in this race at risk.\n\n\"It's utterly nonsensical for a group which claims to stand for environmental protection to target an event promoting active, green travel like cycling - and raises a huge question mark about this publicity-seeking group's true motives.\"\n\nBefore the protest, Welsh cyclist Owain Doull and Ireland's Rory Townsend were part of a nine-strong breakaway that had gone seven minutes clear of the main peloton. The lead group set away ahead of the other riders when the demonstration was cleared.\n\nThe race ended with 10 laps of a Glasgow city centre circuit.\n\nThe race was restarted after protesters were removed and a white powder was laid on the road\n\nVan der Poel won the race despite falling while coming round a bend in the rain-soaked Glasgow city centre.\n\nHe saw off competition from two-time Tour De France winner Tadej Pogacar, as well as Wout van Aert and Mads Pedersen.\n\nRoad cycling commentator Phil Liggett earlier told the BBC's Drivetime programme the event was the \"pinnacle of the world of cycling\".\n\n\"The Tour De France is for the multi-day cyclist and the world championship is for the one-day expert,\" he said. \"They are the two highest rewards in the world of cycling.\"\n\nThe race started at 09.30 near the Scottish Parliament before heading through Edinburgh city centre towards the Queensferry Crossing.\n\nThe cyclists had set off from Edinburgh on the 168 mile route\n\nIt then went through south Fife and across the Clackmannan Bridge into the Falkirk area.\n\nThe cyclists then headed west towards the Carron Valley - where the protest stopped the race - before continuing over Crow Road into East Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe race then descended through Glasgow's west end into the city centre.\n\nRiders completed 10 laps of a 14.3km (8.9 mile) Glasgow City Circuit before finishing in George Square.\n\nA rolling road closure was in operation across the event route, with roads closed for about 30-45 minutes.\n\nRoads around the Glasgow City Circuit were closed completely.\n\nThere was heavy rain in Glasgow city centre during the closing stages of the race\n\nMathieu van der Poel is the new men's road race world champion\n\nAfter the event, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken said: \"It was great to see the streets of Glasgow provide the backdrop for such a stunning sporting occasion.\n\n\"The city turned out in force to watch the men's road race and spectators were rewarded with an incredible display of skill, stamina and bravery.\n\n\"The crowds generated a superb atmosphere to spur the riders on and there was drama right to the end.\n\n\"This an event that will have been viewed all across the world and Glasgow has again shown its passion for sport before a global audience.\"\n\nThe race is part of the UCI Cycling World Championships which sees the world's best cyclists compete across a range of disciplines being brought together for the first time in one \"mega event\".\n\nIt will see action across the country - from mountain biking in the Tweed Valley to elite track cycling in Glasgow's Sir Chris Hoy velodrome.\n\nThere will also be time trials around Stirling and para-cycling road races in Dumfries.\n\nThe Women's Elite Road Race on Sunday 13 August follows a 154km (96 mile) route from Loch Lomond to Glasgow via the Stirling countryside. It ends with six laps of Glasgow city centre.", "Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has said he is \"not holding his breath\" over a proposed cage fight with rival Elon Musk.\n\nIn a post on the new social media app Threads, Mr Zuckerberg said he had proposed 26 August for the showdown.\n\nFollowing a post on X in which Mr Musk claimed he was training \"throughout the day\", Mr Zuckerberg wrote: \"I'm ready today... but he hasn't confirmed.\"\n\nThe two became direct competitors in July with the launch of Threads.\n\nAsked by a Threads user whether the fight had been mutually agreed upon, Mr Zuckerberg responded that is was more like \"funding secured,\" in an apparent reference to posts made by Mr Musk in 2018 when he said the same about plans to take electric car company Tesla into private hands.\n\nThat deal never happened and led to Mr Musk paying a $20m (£15.7m) fine to the US financial markets watchdog, stepping back from being Tesla's chairman and limits put on what he can tweet about Tesla.\n\nMr Musk cast further doubt about the potential bout, saying that the \"Exact date is still in flux\", as he may need surgery on his neck and upper back.\n\nThe social media moguls have been egging each other on in recent months, with Mr Musk claiming on Sunday that their fight would be broadcast live on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nHe said that any proceeds from a match would go to veterans charities.\n\nWhen asked what the point of the bout was by one X user, Mr Musk responded: \"It's a civilized form of war. Men love war.\"\n\nMr Zuckerberg also shot back at the suggestion that the fight would be streamed on X, posting: \"Shouldn't we use a more reliable platform that can actually raise money for charity?\"\n\nThe stakes are seemingly high after Meta, which also owns Instagram and Facebook, launched Threads in early July, drawing in more than 100 million sign-ups within days.\n\nHowever, Mr Zuckerberg later said the platform had lost more than half of its users by the end of last month.\n\nRival social media platform X has faced criticism on several occasions since Mr Musk took over the firm and made a number of changes, such as forcing users to log in to view posts. He also carried out mass firings at the company.\n\nMr Musk posted a message on the social media platform in June claiming he was \"up for a cage fight\" - a fight which typically involves few rules.\n\nMr Zuckerberg then posted a screenshot Mr Musk's tweet with the caption \"send me location\", while Musk responded with: \"Vegas Octagon.\"\n\nThe Octagon is the competition mat and fenced-in area used for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bouts. The UFC is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.\n\nMr Musk, 52, also wrote: \"I have this great move that I call 'The Walrus', where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing.\"\n\nHe later tweeted videos of walruses, perhaps suggesting his challenge to the Facebook founder may not have been entirely be serious.\n\nMr Zuckerberg is a martial arts enthusiast and said on Sunday: \"I love this sport and will continue competing with people who train no matter what happens here.\"", "Consultants who are part of the British Medical Association (BMA) in England will strike on 19 and 20 September.\n\nThe 48-hour walkout will affect routine services, but emergency care will be covered after the BMA promised to provide a Christmas Day level of cover.\n\nThe dates have been announced ahead of their next strike at the end of August.\n\nThe government has said there will be no more pay talks, after agreeing to the 6% pay increase the independent pay review body recommended.\n\nThe union has asked for more to make up for what it says is repeated pay cuts.\n\nPay has fallen by 27% since 2008 once inflation is taken into account, but the BMA said once changes to tax and pension contributions are factored in, the cut to take-home pay is 35%.\n\nUnlike the junior doctors, who are taking strike action next week, consultants have not put an exact figure on what they want.\n\nInstead, they have said they want to see the government to start at least giving pay rises that match inflation.\n\nBMA consultants committee chairman Dr Vishal Sharma urged the government to return to the negotiating table.\n\nHe said doctors were prepared to be in the fight for the \"long haul\".\n\nAre you a consultant taking part in the strike action? Or a patient affected? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Venue:Date: Coverage: Live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app (UK only).\n\nEngland and Nigeria meet in the last 16 of the Women's World Cup on Monday in a game likely to hinge on key battles across the pitch at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium.\n\nGoalkeepers Mary Earps and Chiamaka Nnadozie have kept four clean sheets in their six combined appearances at the 2023 tournament, while the likes of Barcelona's two-time Champions League winner Asisat Oshoala and in-form Lauren James are targeting more goals.\n\nBBC Sport Africa takes a look at which individual contests could prove pivotal.\n\nThe Super Falcons will be desperate for star striker Asisat Oshoala to score her second goal of the tournament and end an unwanted record of never netting more than once at a World Cup.\n\nThe five-time African Women's Footballer of the Year hit 26 goals in all competitions on her way to European glory and a fourth Spanish title with Barcelona last season, but she did not have a shot on target during Nigeria's goalless draws with Canada and the Republic of Ireland during the group stage.\n\nIn between, Africa's first and only female Ballon d'Or nominee made herself the first player from the continent to score at three finals with the third goal in her country's 3-2 win against co-hosts Australia.\n\nThe 28-year-old pounced on the chance to open her account from a tight angle following the kind of defensive mix-up that Bright is unlikely to afford her, although the England captain produced an uncharacteristically shaky performance as the Lionesses laboured to beat Haiti in their opener.\n\nBright, 29, returned from a four-month injury absence for the start of the tournament but the rustiness she continued to show against Denmark in England's second game was made more forgivable by her place at the centre of a defence that kept two-time European Women's Player of the Year Pernille Harder from scoring.\n\nBright's four interceptions in England's 6-1 thrashing of China were more than her total from her first two games combined, while her 145 successful passes against the former runners-up were the most on record for a player in a Women's World Cup match.\n\nBright was also involved in England's second goal, winning possession and driving forward before finding scorer James, and finished the game with a combined total of five more clearances and interceptions than any of her team-mates.\n\nOshoala's pace and finishing ability could show up any lingering shortcomings in Bright's athleticism and sharpness following her injury. But she failed to score from positions classed as big chances by analytics experts Opta against Canada and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe former Liverpool and Arsenal forward surely cannot afford any more wastefulness against opponents who have conceded just once in open play in competitive games since winning the Euro 2022 final more than a year ago.\n\nAs they have done since the very start of their teams' campaigns, both goalkeepers may have to continue adding to their reputations.\n\nHaving become the youngest goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet at the World Cup in 2019, Nnadozie returned four years later at the relatively ancient age of 22 to captain her team against Olympic champions Canada in the Super Falcons' opening game.\n\nThe Paris FC goalkeeper kept out a penalty by a player 18 years her senior when she stopped Christine Sinclair scoring at a record sixth World Cup tournament, leading Nigeria coach Randy Waldrum to laud the player of the match and praise a save that he said \"really lit the fire and made us realise there's still something to play for.\"\n\nIt means England cannot take scoring from the spot for granted against the player responsible for saving three successive penalties in a shootout against Cameroon in the 2019 African Games final.\n\nEarps has more freedom to advance forward in a team that kept more than 70% of possession in all of their group games, taking a total of 20 touches outside of her penalty area to Nnadozie's seven.\n\nIn England's opener, against a Haiti team who had been deceptively wayward with their shooting, Earps produced two excellent saves to preserve three points. The 30-year-old subsequently called on England to raise their standards, but Nigeria's historic struggle to score means they are likely to be more dependent on their goalkeeper keeping a clean sheet.\n\nThe African team's equaliser against Australia ended a wait of more than six hours for a goal at the finals and since the turn of the century they have gone without a goal in 14 of their 19 World Cup matches - only two of which have ended in victories.\n\nNnadozie's saves, then, are more likely to be crucial.\n\nAll-action Ucheibe could be key to limiting England's at-times irresistible flow through the centre of the pitch.\n\nThe Benfica midfielder has done most of her busy work from midway inside Nigeria's half, taking on 16 more duels than anyone else.\n\nFrom 49 such challenges, the 22-year-old has won 11 more than any other Nigeria player, tending to stay closest to Sinclair in the opening match to snuff out the threat of Canada's dangerwoman.\n\nUcheibe's total of 18 tackles is twice as many as any of her team-mates, and she is one of only four Nigeria players to have found a team-mate more than 20 times in opposition territory.\n\nBut in-form James will take some stopping and must be brimming with confidence. Against China, the 21-year-old scored twice and provided three assists as she became the youngest player on record to directly contribute to at least four goals during a single World Cup match, while her shot conversion rate currently sits at 60%.\n\nEngland had the squad depth to start James on the bench against Haiti but she has been described as \"very special\" by coach Wiegman.\n\nWith 19-year-old Deborah Abiodun suspended for two games as a result of her dismissal against Canada, Nigeria have started Halimatu Ayinde in a defensive midfield pairing with Ucheibe.\n\nAyinde had by far the highest passing accuracy of any Nigeria player against Australia, while no player eclipsed the number of times she won possession against the Republic of Ireland.\n\nWhether Ucheibe lines up alongside Ayinde or Abiodun, the Super Falcons' defensive midfielders will have to be at the top of their game to deal with James.\n\nNigeria took the lead at the finals for the first time courtesy of centre-back Ohale's bravery, going ahead against Australia after the defender bundled the ball in while taking a boot to the ribs.\n\nSeveral minutes of treatment followed for the 31-year-old, and her reward for helping her country through to the knockout stage is a likely tussle with new Arsenal signing Russo.\n\nOhale has been here before - starting Nigeria's 3-0 defeat to Germany in the last 16 in 2019 - and her aerial ability is one of her team's strengths in their quest for a first ever knockout stage win, underlined by the nine headed clearances she has made - four more than any other player who could take to the field in the last-16 tie.\n\nPart of Ohale and Nigeria's challenge will be judging where Russo is playing. The 24-year-old can act as something of a throwback centre-forward, with the physicality and poacher's instinct to match, but she spurned one big chance and did not score from six shots from inside the box against Haiti.\n\nThings were different against China, when a deft fourth-minute strike ended Russo's wait of more than five months for an international goal.\n• None Listen to Match of the Day Africa: Top 10\n\nAnother issue for Ohale is Russo's potential to drag her out of position and leave space for the likes of Chloe Kelly, Lauren Hemp and Georgia Stanway to find space in dangerous areas.\n\nOhale has spent all but six minutes of the tournament in a central defensive partnership with 21-year-old Reims defender Oluwatosin Demehin. Should they continue together against England, the understanding they have formed is in for its sternest test yet.\n• None Enjoy a selection of classic songs and new tunes from the iconic band\n• None Why would you want to avoid red ropes? Take a journey back to Ancient Greece to find out...", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nThe group stages of the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup have packed a punch.\n\nThere's been 48 games, 126 goals, and a whole host of of shocks and surprises across a thrilling 15 days of action.\n\nWith some of the favourites suffering early exits and underdogs proving themselves against the world's best, it's set to be an intriguing knockout phase.\n\nSo, what have been the main things we have learned from the opening stage of the tournament so far?\n• None Who went through? Final Women's World Cup groups\n\nOne of the biggest surprises of this tournament is that the teams tipped to go all the way haven't lived up to expectations and none of them look likely to run away with the tournament.\n\nReigning champions the USA, the top ranked nation, look a shadow of a team that beat the Netherlands 2-0 in the 2019 final, and they have come under plenty of fire for underwhelming performances that saw them scrape through to the last 16 with a draw against debutants Portugal.\n\nSpain and France have also looked below par while two-time winners Germany, Olympic champions Canada and Brazil all suffered surprise early exits.\n\nThere's only three teams - Japan, England, Sweden - who have reached the knockout rounds with a 100% win record.\n• None Which 'bigger' nations have impressed at World Cup?\n\nEven Sarina Wiegman's Euro 2022 winners, despite cruising through their final group stage match against China, didn't look overly convincing with narrow 1-0 wins over Haiti and Denmark.\n\nIn fact, Japan are the only team that haven't looked vulnerable. The 2011 World Cup winners, along with Jamaica and Switzerland, are the only sides who haven't conceded a goal at the tournament, while their 4-0 victory against Spain - a result very few expected - showed their fluidity in attack.\n\nThe next generation are coming through...\n\nWhile Brazil's Marta and Canada's Christine Sinclair bowed out of their sixth and final World Cups without making their mark, the next generation have been soaking up the limelight.\n\nNone more so than England's number seven Lauren James, who has racked up six goal involvements - the most of any player - with three goals and three assists.\n\nAfter starting the Lionesses' opening game against Haiti from the bench, the 21-year-old Chelsea forward has quickly established herself as a definite in manager Wiegman's starting line-up.\n\nHaiti may have exited their debut World Cup without a point, but 19-year-old Melchie Dumornay showed exactly why eight-time Champions League winners Lyon fought for her signature as the midfielder spearheaded Haiti's attack and was the main threat in each of their group stage matches.\n\nMeanwhile, Linda Caicedo has been the standout player for Colombia, who find themselves in the last-16 after topping Group H. The 18-year-old Real Madrid forward had no problem in finding the back of the net, scoring Colombia's second against South Korea and firing home a wonder goal in the South American's extraordinary 2-1 victory over Germany.\n\nAnother young star who has found herself on the scoresheet more than once is 20-year-old Netherlands midfielder Esmee Brugts. She scored with two sensational long-range strikes in the 7-0 win over Vietnam, while Sophia Smith, who was one of the most hyped young names before the tournament, has shown why she is one to watch with two goals also coming against the Asian side.\n\nAttendances are on the rise...\n\nSo far, 1,222,839 fans have passed through the turnstiles in Australia and New Zealand respectively, according to Fifa - a 29% increase compared to after 48 matches in France four years ago.\n\nThe average crowd across the group stages has been 25,476, while it was 18,495 in 2019.\n\nAustralia's opening game against the Republic of Ireland had the largest attendance with 75,784 fans turning out to see the co-hosts win 1-0.\n\nFifa women's football chief Sarai Bareman said: \"The tournament has been incredible so far, it has exceeded our expectations in many ways.\"\n\nWhen the tournament was expanded to 32 teams for 2023 - up from 24 - there were worries that the lower-ranked teams wouldn't be able to compete and scorelines tilted heavily towards bigger teams would be commonplace.\n\nHowever, we've seen the number of goals per game decrease from 2.94 in 2019 to 2.63, while the number of defensive blocks that have been broken through has decreased by 28%.\n\n\"During the tournament, what we're seeing is an increase in compactness within the defensive shape,\" said Jill Ellis, the former US manager who led them to their last two World Cup titles.\n\n\"Some of the higher ranked nations are facing teams that are a lot more defensively organised. They're really clear on what their strengths are.\n\n\"Teams have a tactical plan now and they really focus in on what their strengths are, it's not so much about having possession of the ball as a strength.\"\n\nAfter Germany's surprise early exit, captain Alexandra Popp's quest for the Golden Boot is also over.\n\nPopp had scored four goals, the joint highest with Hinata Miyazawa, but the Japan forward leads on assists.\n\nThere are plenty of others hot on Miyazawa's tail with James, France's Kadidiatou Diani, Norway's Sophie Haug, Swedish defender Amanda Ilestedt of Sweden and the Netherlands' Jill Roord all on three goals.\n\nAnd, there are 14 players remaining in the competition who have netted twice and still have the Golden Boot in their sights.\n\nWhat else have we learnt?\n• More red cards: There have already been five red cards - equal to the previous tournament record from 1999. Three have been straight sending offs.\n• Fewer yellow cards: While red cards are on the up, the number of yellow cards per game at 1.85 is the lowest since the inaugural World Cup in 1991.\n• More goalless draws : There's been seven 0-0 draws so far - there were just eight in total between 1991 and 2019.\n• Games last longer: The average length of a game has increased from 97 minutes 48 seconds in 2019 to 103 minutes in 2023.\n\nPlayer and team stats from the group stage\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None Enjoy a selection of classic songs and new tunes from the iconic band\n• None Why would you want to avoid red ropes? Take a journey back to Ancient Greece to find out...", "Retailers are ramping up promotions to try to persuade shoppers to spend more after July's wet weather hit business.\n\nSales of clothing and shoes declined last month, which is usually a busy month for fashion, as shoppers held back from updating their summer wardrobes.\n\nBut a report on retail sales said there was a \"big rise\" in offers designed to persuade shoppers back.\n\nThe higher cost of living and rising interest rates are squeezing spending.\n\n\"We are starting to see a big rise in the number of promotions that retailers are putting in place in order to get shoppers through the door, as they battle to keep market share,\" said Paul Martin, UK head of retail at consultancy firm KPMG.\n\n\"Price conscious consumers are shopping more carefully, more aware of where bargains can be found and what they are getting for their money.\"\n\nAccording to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG, spending in July was dented by the damp weather, which \"did no favours\" to sales of clothing, and other seasonal goods.\n\nThe value of retail sales was 1.5% higher in July compared to a year ago, but volumes were lower once inflation, which is currently 7.9%, was taken into account.\n\n\"Both consumers and retailers are finding that they are having to get used to doing more with less as conditions remain incredibly challenging,\" Mr Martin added.\n\nIt was not just High Streets impacted last month, online sales also continued to slide, falling nearly 7% year-on-year, the report said.\n\nHowever, sales of furniture, health and beauty goods held up.\n\n\"While consumer confidence is generally improving, it remains below longer-term levels,\" said Helen Dickinson, boss of the BRC, which represents some 5,000 businesses.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - fell to 7.9% in June, which is its lowest level in more than a year but still high by historical standards.\n\nThis is due to energy bills and food prices starting to fall, official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest.\n\nThe BRC-KPMG retail statistics are not as extensive as the ONS figures. However, reports of larger-than-usual summer discounts still suggest there could be an impact on inflation when the July data is released next week.\n\nEconomists are predicting inflation to drop to 6.8% due to energy prices falling.\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the 17% fall in households' energy bills will have \"boosted disposable incomes\", adding it appeared the cost of goods was now rising less quickly than wages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Is this it for summer in the UK?\n\nLast week, the Bank of England put up interest rates for the 14th time in a row in a bid to make borrowing more expensive, dampen demand and therefore slow price rises.\n\nThis is driving up mortgage rates, something Ms Dickinson said was squeezing household budgets.\n\nEconomist Michael Hewson from CMC Markets said the slowdown in the pace of consumer spending was \"not surprising\", considering interest rate rises.\n\n\"This is what rate hikes are designed to do,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Hewson said there was a \"looming cliff edge\" as there is a lag before the effect of such rises is fully felt in the economy.\n\nHe said consumers were now saving more to mitigate a sharp rise in mortgage costs as their fixed rate deals come up for renewal.\n\nNew figures from Barclays, which monitors about half of credit and debit card spend in Britain, also suggest there has been an overall slowdown in spending.\n\nBut there were a few bright spots, with more being spent on takeaways and streaming services as people stayed indoors away from the rain.", "Major brands including Adidas, Nike and Puma have been quizzed by MPs about the lack of football boots specifically designed for women and girls.\n\nThere are concerns higher rates of knee injuries among female players are linked to boots designed for men.\n\nACL anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries impacted five of the world's top 20 female footballers in 2022.\n\nKey players for the Lionesses are missing from the 2023 Women's World Cup because of the injury.\n\nSports scientists have said the use of boots created for male players could be putting women at a higher risk of injury. Research is still being carried out.\n\nResearch published last year found football boots fail to account for the fact women's feet, heels and arches are shaped differently.\n\nAnd wearing boots designed for men is causing blisters and stress fractures in elite female players.\n\nBoot manufacturers told MPs they were investing in women-only and gender neutral products but retailers were sometimes reluctant to stock them and there was lower consumer demand, and awareness, of the products.\n\nConservative MP Caroline Nokes, who chairs the women and equalities committee, said it was disappointing that no retailers responded to the committee's inquiry.\n\nShe called on sportswear brands to do more to influence their behaviour.\n\nThe committee singled out product descriptions of football boots on Sports Direct's website and in-store. which do not appear to indicate whether they are designed specifically for women and in many cases are promoted as just \"men's\" or \"boys\".\n\nThe committee asked Sports Direct what it is doing to support women and girls wishing to play football but did not receive a response.\n\nMs Nokes added: \"Football brands are making welcome progress on supporting the needs of female football players, but this needs to be better reflected on the High Street and online.\n\n\"It remains the case that major retailers give limited recognition to women and girls when it comes to football boots.\n\n\"It is no good investing in research and making boots for female football players if women are unaware of those products or unable to buy them.\"\n\nThe committee asked major brands about their approach to the design, manufacture and marketing of football boots and how this could help prevent avoidable injuries.\n\nPuma was asked why there are so few football boots on the market designed specifically for women and girls.\n\nIn its response, Puma said: \"One hypothesis might be that women have grown up with the notion that the best way to challenge male domination in football (and all spheres of life) is to challenge it head on and refuse to be seen as any less capable than men, or different to men.\n\n\"One way this may have manifested itself is that female players wanted to play and be treated exactly as male players are, with the exact same footwear and in the same colourways.\"\n\nThe committee also raised that several boots that are designed for women can cost over £200 more and asked what the barriers are to producing more affordable boots for women and girls.\n\nNike responded by saying they are offering two styles across the Phantom Luna boot, giving consumers options to choose from.\n\nIDA Sports have a range of boots that are designed specifically for women's feet and were featured in this inquiry.\n\nThey said that women are not small men and that unisex boots are not suitable because \"women are built differently\".\n\nHowever, they have yet to break into one of the major retailers in the UK.", "Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said new fines targeting employers would help to deter dangerous Channel crossings\n\nFines for businesses and landlords who knowingly support illegal migrants are set to triple under new rules announced by the government.\n\nFirms who are found to have repeatedly employed illegal migrants could face fines of up to £60,000 per breach.\n\nThe Home Office argues \"illegal working and renting are significant pull factors\" for illegal migration.\n\nImmigration Minister Robert Jenrick said the move would help deter perilous channel crossings by small boats.\n\nUnder the new punishments, which come into force at the beginning of 2024, businesses will see the civil penalty for employing illegal migrants rise from £15,000 for the first offence to £45,000.\n\nRepeat offenders will see fines triple from £20,000 to £60,000.\n\nMeanwhile, landlords will have fines hiked from £80 per lodger and £1,000 per occupier for a first breach to up to £5,000 per lodger and £10,000 per occupier.\n\nFurther breaches could result in penalties of to £10,000 per lodger and £20,000 per occupier, up from £500 and £3,000 respectively.\n\n\"Unscrupulous landlords and employers who allow illegal working and renting enable the business model of the evil people smugglers to continue,\" Mr Jenrick said in a statement.\n\n\"There is no excuse for not conducting the appropriate checks and those in breach will now face significantly tougher penalties.\"\n\nIt is unknown how many people reside in the UK illegally. A 2020 study conducted by the Greater London Authority estimated that between 594,000-745,000 undocumented people were living in the country - about 1% of the total population.\n\nSince 2018 some 4,000 civil penalties have been issued to employers for employing undocumented workers, raising more than £74m.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made tackling the number of migrants making the dangerous crossing across the channel one of his government's five main priorities.\n\nBut Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said penalties issued to firms employing workers illegally had actually fallen by two-thirds since 2016, noting that arrests had also fallen.\n\n\"Strengthening penalties must be combined with stronger enforcement action if the government is serious about tackling the problems,\" the Ms Cooper said.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael called the move \"another pointless announcement on the asylum system which will make no meaningful difference\".\n\n\"A bolder fix is required by ministers, yet they are too arrogant to admit it,\" Mr Carmichael added.\n\nMore than 45,000 people entered the UK via Channel crossings last year, up from about 300 in 2018.\n\nLast month, a controversial new bill was approved by Parliament which will see people removed from the UK being blocked from returning or seeking British citizenship in future.\n\nThe home secretary has also been given the duty to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally to Rwanda or a \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe move, which could see up to £6bn spent a year on detention and removal, attracted an unusually strong response from the United Nations.\n\nIn a joint statement, UN human rights chief Volker Turk and the UN refugees head Filippo Grandi said the bill \"will have profound consequences for people in need of international protection\".\n\n\"This new legislation significantly erodes the legal framework that has protected so many, exposing refugees to grave risks in breach of international law,\" Mr Grandi said.\n\nThe Home Office defended the bill and said the government took its international obligations seriously - noting that nothing in the bill required the government to act in a way which was incompatible with international law.\n\nThe UK had the fifth highest number of asylum applications in Europe, behind Germany, France, Spain and Austria in 2022.\n\nWith 217,735 applications, Germany had a quarter of all first-time asylum applications within the EU.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCoverage : Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nColombia set up a Women's World Cup quarter-final against England with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Jamaica.\n\nCatalina Usme, who captained Colombia in Melbourne, curled home the decisive strike in the 51st minute.\n\nIt was the first goal Jamaica had conceded at the tournament after 321 minutes of play, but they could not find a response.\n\nThis is the first time Colombia have reached the last eight of the Women's World Cup.\n\nThey will face European champions England at Stadium Australia in Sydney on Saturday, kick-off at 11.30 BST.\n• None Women's World Cup quiz: What do you know about the past 24 hours?\n• None World Football podcast at the World Cup: Colombia and France end Jamaica and Morocco's dreams\n\nThis was the final match in Melbourne at this World Cup, and the Rectangular Stadium has claimed many traditional names of women's football as victims.\n\nOlympic champions Canada were eliminated by hosts Australia, Brazil icon Marta saw her World Cup dreams dashed, and the once unbeatable four-time world champions the United States were humbled.\n\nThis game was about the new generation, two sides re-writing their football history.\n\nBoth seemed weighed down by the opportunity early on, with a first half more about fouls than shots.\n\nThe clearest first-half chance came on 38 minutes, as Linda Caicedo shot over on the turn from six yards.\n\nBut this young, vibrant Colombia side is near impossible to contain. And, while Caicedo has made the headlines this tournament, it was another 18-year-old who set the winner in motion.\n\nAna Maria Guzman was making her first World Cup start in place of suspended full-back Manuela Vanegas.\n\nThe absence of Vanegas, who scored the winner in the victory over Germany, was the cause of much pre-match worry among Colombian media.\n\nBut they need not have worried as Guzman produced a moment of magic, a brilliant deep cross from the left which Usme brought down and buried in the far corner.\n\nColombia should have made the game safe but Caicedo was denied by Jamaica keeper Becky Spencer following a counter-attack before Leicy Santos hit the post late on.\n\nBut they saw the job through - and face the Lionesses next.\n\nWhile much attention has been placed on Colombia and Caicedo and co, Jamaica's impressive World Cup has been built on their watertight defence.\n\nOn debut in 2019, they let in 12 goals in three matches. In 2023, they went into this match as the only side yet to concede.\n\nThe first Caribbean nation to play in the knock-outs of any Fifa World Cup since Cuba in 1938 and the sole remaining Concacaf representative after the eliminations of Canada and USA, they did not allow Colombia to easily build any attacking tempo.\n\nDrew Spence drew the ire of the partisan Colombia fans, who made up the vast majority of the crowd in Melbourne, when she threw Caicedo to the ground late in the first half, the former England international getting a yellow card.\n\nBut Jamaica struggled to create, with striker Khadija Shaw - scorer of 31 goals in 30 games for Manchester City last season - feeding off scraps.\n\nTheir best chance came almost immediately after Usme's goal, Jody Brown striking the post with a close-range header. They also came close with eight minutes remaining as Spence headed narrowly wide.\n• None Offside, Jamaica. Deneisha Blackwood tries a through ball, but Atlanta Primus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Diana Ospina (Colombia) right footed shot from long range on the right is high and wide to the right.\n• None Leicy Santos (Colombia) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Catalina Usme with a cross following a corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Catalina Pérez (Colombia).\n• None Attempt missed. Drew Spence (Jamaica) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Tiffany Cameron with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree people have died following a helicopter crash during a firefighting mission in the US state of California.\n\nThe incident happened on Sunday evening after fire crews were called to a blaze near Cabazon, Riverside County.\n\nThe two helicopters collided, with one then landing safely and the second crashing into the ground, killing everyone on board.\n\nAn investigation has been launched into the cause of the crash by the National Transportation Safety Board.\n\nThe victims were identified as a fire captain and division chief from the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), as well as a contracted pilot. They have not been named.\n\nDavid Fulcher, southern region chief for Cal Fire, described the incident as a \"tragic loss\".\n\n\"We have lost three great individuals. Three fathers, three husbands, three friends, three sons,\" he said.\n\n\"Daughters have lost their fathers, sons have lost their fathers\".\n\nThe helicopters collided while fighting a fire near Cabazon, Riverside County, with one then crashing into the ground\n\nMr Fulcher told a press conference the fire initially broke out in a building but later spread to surrounding vegetation.\n\nThe crash also caused an additional four-acre fire. All fires were eventually extinguished.\n\nThe helicopter that crashed was a Bell helicopter, which was being used for observation. The helicopter which landed safely was a Sikorsky Skycrane, which typically carries fire retardant or water. Both had been contracted to Cal Fire.\n\nThese are the first deaths of the 2023 fire season, according to Cal Fire data.", "Government departments should cut ties with Greenpeace in the wake of last week's protest at Rishi Sunak's house, No 10 has said.\n\nActivists from the group scaled the prime minister's home in his North Yorkshire constituency last Thursday during an anti-oil demonstration.\n\nFive people were arrested by police and released on bail pending further inquiries.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said engagement with the group was no longer \"appropriate\".\n\n\"We obviously don't think that people who are accused of breaking the law should have a seat at the table in discussions with government,\" he added.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) was no longer engaging with the group because of the stunt, the spokesman added.\n\n\"I don't think it's unusual for Defra or other agencies to engage with climate action groups - that's taken place for a number of years,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"But clearly given their actions and the arrests last week we don't think it's appropriate to engage with them.\"\n\nThe most recent known meeting between Greenpeace and Defra took place between January and March this year, when the group met marine minister Richard Benyon to discuss fisheries policy, according to departmental data.\n\nDepartmental records show the group met ministers three times last year. Records beyond March 2023 are not yet available.\n\nThe energy security department cut ties with Greenpeace some months ago.\n\nThe department's records, also available up to March 2023, do not show any meetings with Greenpeace this year. One meeting was registered last year, with then energy minister Greg Hands, to discuss energy security.\n\nGreenpeace UK's co-executive director, Will McCallum, said: \"Burying your head in the sand isn't going to make the climate crisis go away.\n\n\"It's precisely because the government has effectively shut the door to civil society groups, like Greenpeace, as well as ignoring warnings from the UN, its own advisors and the International Energy Agency, that we need to protest in the way that we do.\n\n\"The bunker mentality on display from this current government is deeply damaging - cutting ties with Greenpeace isn't going to help.\"\n\nHe claimed the public wanted to see \"bold action\" on climate and would make their views known at the next general election.\n\n\"We would like to invite any member of this government to discuss with us environmental policy and the need for urgent action,\" he added.\n\nFive people scaled Mr Sunak's country house to protest against the government's decision last week to grant 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences.\n\nActivists covered the Grade II listed property in black sheeting, and unfurled a sign reading \"No new oil\".\n\nTwo men and two women were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage and public nuisance. A third man was also arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.\n\nMr Sunak's office confirmed neither the prime minister nor his family, who are currently on holiday in the US, were present at the time.\n\nThe prime minister purchased the house after becoming the MP for the rural Richmond constituency in 2015.\n• None What is an oil and gas licence?", "Keisha Schahaff, left, and her daughter Anastatia Mayers will be the first mother and daughter to travel to space together\n\nAn 18-year-old Aberdeen University student and her mother will travel to space later this week after winning a place on Virgin Galactic's second commercial flight in a prize draw.\n\nAnastatia Mayers and her mum Keisha Schahaff will be the first mother and daughter to go to space.\n\nThe pair will take off from New Mexico on Thursday.\n\nKeisha was travelling to the UK to sort out her daughter's visa when she entered the competition.\n\nShe was on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Antigua to London when suddenly an advert popped up.\n\n\"I filled out this sweepstake and then suddenly months later I'm getting correspondences saying that you're a top 20 finalist, then a top five finalist, to becoming a winner,\" she says.\n\n\"Suddenly, who's walking into my yard? Richard Branson. The whole team just swarmed into my house saying 'you're the winner, you're going to space'.\"\n\nThe Galactic 01 flight reached a height of 279,00ft (85km) in June\n\nAnastatia says it was her decision to travel from the Caribbean to study in Scotland that led to the opportunity to go space.\n\n\"Had I not randomly chosen Aberdeen University and had we not had to take a massive detour to get my visa - we wouldn't be going to space,\" she says.\n\n\"I feel like a lot of things had to happen at very specific moments for us to end up here.\"\n\nThe second-year philosophy and physics student says coming to study in Scotland was one of the biggest decisions of her life but it has \"led to magnificent things happening\".\n\nThe mission, named Galactic 02 is the second commercial spaceflight conducted by the American space company, and the first with paying customers onboard.\n\nThe advertised price for a ride on the rocket plane has been as high as $450,000 (£350,000).\n\nThe Galactic 01 mission took place in June. It reached an altitude of 279,000ft (85km). It is thought the second mission will attempt the same path.\n\nAnastatia, who will be the second youngest person to go to space, says she hopes she can use the experience to inspire others.\n\n\"That would be very important to me, both in Scotland and Antigua and anywhere else I have any ties,\" she says.\n\n\"I do hope that people are watching and supporting.\n\n\"My intention is to just break any barriers that we set for ourselves or that the world sets for us.\n\n\"I want people to know that it doesn't matter where you come from, who you are - anything - your dream is your dream and you can make that happen, despite what anyone else says.\"\n\nKeisha adds: \"For me and my daughter together, it's more than a dream come true.\n\n\"This is my kid, I love her with all my heart, and to know that we both share the same goal, the same dream, that is super over the moon.\"\n\nThe pair will be joined former Team GB Olympian Jon Goodwin from Newcastle. He will become the second person with Parkinson's to go to space as well as the first Olympian.", "The USA entered this Women's World Cup with the aim of becoming the first team to win it three times in succession.\n\nInstead, they failed to win even three matches at the tournament for the first time - a lacklustre performance culminating in an extraordinary and historic exit at the hands of Sweden on penalties.\n\nShock abounded even among the media ranks after the Americans' fate was sealed, a natural reaction when such a long-dominant team are dethroned.\n\nWorld champions in 2015. World champions in 2019. But now there is a new world order, and the USA will have to get used to it.\n• None \"We can't win forever\" USA fans react to World Cup exit\n• None Reaction as Sweden beat the USA on penalties\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\n\"A total disaster, to say the least,\" Ryan Tolmich, American soccer correspondent for Goal, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I think most people here would have been totally stunned if they had actually won it, but going out so early is a historically bad result.\"\n\nIt is the first time the USA have finished a Women's World Cup lower than third place.\n\nTaking the Sweden game in isolation, it would be possible to think the USA were unfortunate. They dominated play, and were it not for Swedish keeper Zecira Musovic - player of the match with 11 saves - they would have progressed.\n\nThey could also point to the decisive penalty, scored by Sweden's Lina Hurtig. USA keeper Alyssa Naeher appeared to have clawed the ball away, however goal-line technology indicated it had just crossed the line. By millimetres, USA were out.\n\nBut they have not fallen short of expectations by millimetres. That gap is a chasm.\n\n'An imperfect team from front to bottom'\n\nIssues have included the tactics of head coach Vlatko Andonovski, whose direct football has attracted criticism for not getting the best out of the players available.\n\nHe switched formation from the 4-3-3 which produced unimpressive draws with Netherlands and Portugal to a 4-2-3-1 against Sweden, but it was too late. He is soon out of contract and seems unlikely to get another.\n\nThe USA have also been rocked by injuries to key players, with those affected including captain Becky Sauerbrunn, creative force Catarina Macario plus strikers Mallory Swanson and Christen Press.\n\nThere is also the issue of a generation of older players on which Andonovski has been too reliant. The 38-year-old Megan Rapinoe's final act of her World Cup career - which has included her winning it twice - was to blast her penalty well over the bar.\n\n\"It's a catastrophe,\" Jonathan Tannenwald of the Philadelphia Inquirer told the BBC's World Football Podcast. \"Obviously Andonovski will lose his job - he's out of contract anyway.\n\n\"The funny thing is, Andonovski was hired to have a generational overhaul, but the timing of the pandemic and the Olympics [Tokyo 2021] were a hindrance, he never got to take it all the way. Now, US Soccer are really going to have to clean house - they have an Olympics next year, [they are] possibly hosting the next World Cup, you don't want to stand around.\"\n\nInjuries led to square pegs in round holes, but the bigger problem was a lack of coherence. The front three of Sophia Smith, Trinity Rodman and Alex Morgan are among the greatest individual players in the world, but they never convinced as a working attacking unit.\n\n\"The USA is very much an imperfect team from front to bottom,\" said Tolmich. \"Their centre-back pool is weak, which means Julie Ertz drops back from midfield. Then, the midfield becomes weak. And then the attack has totally not been in sync, not finishing chances created through pure talent, but also not creating much else through actual good play.\n\n\"I don't think anyone who has followed along would say it's been a surprise to see them show some weaknesses, but I think everyone is surprised at just how bad it's been.\n\n\"The casual American fan that only watches big tournaments is confused, but this team is one that is missing up to five starters due to injury, and they are struggling to overcome that.\"\n\n'The world has caught up'\n\nIndeed, the fans are only now starting to get used to the USA's new straitened circumstances.\n\nTwo who were at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium on Sunday night, Esaam and Sonya, had rushed over from Orlando, Florida, on a 15-hour flight after realising they could miss out on seeing the USA play at this World Cup.\n\n\"We thought they were going to waltz right through to the final, so we were starting our trip in Auckland on 10 August,\" Esaam said.\n\n\"Then when we saw how poorly they were doing, we thought we should start our trip right now or we might not see them.\n\n\"We should have known, the world has caught up.\"\n\nAmerica and Kat from Portland, Oregon had been following the USA throughout this World Cup and had their tickets booked for Sydney where they expected their team to be facing South Africa in the last 16.\n\nSo they \"were refreshing the page for an hour\" to get tickets for Melbourne after their team's unexpected second place in Group E.\n\n\"Women's sport has come really far. I think other countries are getting more experience,\" said America. \"I think they should have different tactical iterations, I don't know if we have seen many versions of this team.\"\n\nUltimately, this seismic shift had been coming. At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Sweden beat USA 3-0. The European side may have won in very different style and circumstances two years later - but the signs were there.\n\n\"Everybody knows the world has closed the gap,\" New York Times world editor Andrew Das told the BBC after the draw with Portugal.\n\n\"Things are not the same as they used to be, when the US would hang nine or 10 on teams routinely - they do not win like that any more. The US has not scored six goals in a game for two years, which is something they used to do quite often.\n\n\"The idea of being the best team in the world is something that motivates them, but it may not be based in reality any more. That's something they have to come to terms with.\"\n\nThe USA's exit from the 2023 Women's World Cup will go down in history. Just not the history they have been used to making.", "The bridge has been closed for two years\n\nResidents fear a \"nightmare\" bridge closure that has cut off their homes for two years means properties have lost thousands of pounds in value.\n\nOld Bassaleg Bridge, in Newport, was shut suddenly in August 2021 due to safety concerns.\n\nHomeowners have said they worry people could die if emergency vehicles have problems accessing their community.\n\nNewport council said the project was \"complex and technically challenging\", and did not say when work would end.\n\nTony Brooks, who lives on the street with his 90-year-old mother Margaret, said the situation was \"scary\".\n\nHe said paramedics had difficulty getting to her after she choked on food and became unconscious.\n\n\"How someone hasn't died, we don't know. If the circumstances were right, they wouldn't survive and if my mum had a heart attack, she would have gone,\" he said.\n\nTony Brooks feared his mother Margaret could have died due to emergency vehicles struggling to access the street\n\nThe bridge was initially closed after a structural review revealed it could potentially collapse under its own weight. It resulted in residents being evacuated to hotels in Cardiff.\n\nSome repairs had been carried out by the start of 2022, and the bridge was reopened to pedestrians.\n\nA gate was installed off the nearby dual carriage for emergency vehicles, but there have been problems when crews have not known the code and forced to cut off the lock.\n\n\"I just don't want to live here any more,\" said Katharine Kirby, who has had a home on the street for 29 years.\n\n\"Every time I get off the bus and walk down this road and see the bridge, my heart just sinks.\"\n\nNeighbour Sarah Williams said the time since the bridge closed had been an \"absolute nightmare\" for residents.\n\n\"We can't get any maintenance done on the houses because nobody will bring their equipment all their way up to the houses and back,\" she said.\n\n\"We want to sell up, but the trouble is the house prices have gone down by 25% so we can't even sell up and move.\"\n\nSarah Rogers pulling a trolley full of shopping from the other side of the river to help a disabled neighbour\n\nAnother resident, Lisa Grant, said there are longer term questions that need to be answered.\n\n\"I am sick and tired of the council's patronising attitude towards us,\" the retired NHS worker said.\n\n\"All we get whenever we try to contact them is that they are monitoring the bridge. Well how long does it take to monitor a bridge?\"\n\nShe added: \"I would move if I could, but no one wants to buy [the houses] now.\n\n\"I am not selling my property for far less just because the bridge has been closed. It's just so hard to live here now.\"\n\nResidents have been given trolleys to move things around, and when we visited resident Sarah Rogers was pulling one full of shopping from her car on the other side of the River Ebbw to the houses.\n\n\"Once a week I do the shopping for my next door neighbour who is disabled,\" she said.\n\n\"His care package doesn't include somebody to do the shopping and we can't have any home deliveries, so if I didn't do his shopping he wouldn't have any stuff.\"\n\nNewport council said: \"Due to the nature of the damage to the structure, work on the Bassaleg Bridge project has proved complex and technically challenging.\n\n\"Emergency services all have access to Forge Mews via the emergency gate. The access code has been provided to all emergency service partners and should be passed on to frontline workers should they need it.\"\n\nThe council added that it would continue to monitor the situation.", "A house has fallen into the Mendenhall river in Alaska's capital, Juneau after record glacial flooding in the city.\n\nThe subsidence prompted city officials to issue evacuation orders for residents on one street.\n\nGlacial flooding occurs when trapped water makes its way through thinning ice.", "One of the UK's most secretive centres of scientific research - Porton Down - is aiming to stop the next pandemic \"in its tracks\".\n\nI have passed through the incredibly tight security at this remote facility to get rare access to its scientists.\n\nThey are based in the shiny new Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre.\n\nTheir work builds on the response to Covid, and aims to save lives and minimise the need for lockdowns when a new disease next emerges.\n\n\"Covid, of course, is not a one-off,\" says Prof Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which runs these laboratories.\n\n\"We say it [Covid] was the biggest public health incident for a century, but I don't think any of us think it'll be a century before the next,\" she adds.\n\nThe combination of climate change, urbanisation and people living closer to animals - the source of many new diseases which transfer to people - means we're facing a \"rising tide of risk\", she says.\n\nDame Jenny Harries is clear Covid was not \"a one-off\" public health incident\n\nPorton Down - located in the tranquil Wiltshire countryside, near Salisbury - is one of the few places in the world equipped to research some of the nastiest viruses and bacteria you could imagine. The freezers here contain the likes of Ebola.\n\nNeighbouring buildings include the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (part of the Ministry of Defence), where it was confirmed the nerve agent Novichok has been used in the Salisbury poisonings.\n\nThe vaccine laboratories - housed in dark green buildings - were hastily constructed as part of the emergency response to Covid.\n\nBut, as the intense demands of the pandemic have waned, the focus has shifted.\n\nThe new vaccine research centre is concentrating on three types of threat:\n\nThe aim is to work with the pharmaceutical industry, scientists and doctors to support all stages of vaccine development.\n\nPorton Down scientists are working on the first vaccine against Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, which is spread by ticks and kills about a third of those infected.\n\nThe disease is found in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and in Asia - and could spread further with climate change.\n\nAt the other end of the process, vaccine effectiveness is evaluated. It was scientists here who spotted that the Omicron variant could bypass some of the protection afforded by Covid vaccines.\n\nAnd they are still monitoring new Covid variants by growing them in the laboratory, exposing them to antibodies taken from blood samples and seeing if new variants are still able to infect.\n\nAntibodies taken from blood samples are being tested at the lab to see if they still offer protection against new Covid variants\n\nMeanwhile machines - unofficially named Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, BB8 and Palpatine - are part of the front line monitoring the threat posed by the world's largest flu outbreak in birds.\n\nThe H5N1 avian flu virus has devastated bird populations, and routine testing of farmworkers has found the first, symptomless, cases in people in the UK.\n\nThe difference is, before the pandemic the teams here were able to test just 100 samples a week - now it is more than 3,000.\n\nThe work here feeds into the \"100 Days Mission\" - a hugely ambitious vision to develop a vaccine against a new threat in 100 days.\n\nHistorically, it has taken a decade to design and test new vaccines. The unique circumstances of the pandemic meant the first Covid vaccines were produced within a year, with the vaccine rollout starting in December 2020.\n\nEstimates suggest Covid vaccines saved more than 14 million lives in just the first 12 months they were used.\n\n\"Imagine if those vaccines had been available just a bit earlier,\" said Prof Isabel Oliver, chief scientific officer for UKHSA.\n\n\"They were available more rapidly than ever before in history, [but] we could have saved many more lives and we could have returned to greater normality much more quickly.\"\n\nThe hope here is the lessons of the Covid pandemic will mean we are better prepared next time.\n\nProf Harries says in the past we have been simply reacting to events, but in the future we need to be on the front foot and \"try and stop\" any pandemic before it even begins.\n\nAnd if a new disease does occur, she adds, we need to \"stop it in its tracks\" in its earliest stage.", "Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has been attacked in prison while serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offences.\n\nThe Mirror newspaper reports that the disgraced rock star, who is being held in HMP Wakefield, was stabbed.\n\nA Prison Service spokesperson said police were investigating an incident that took place at the prison on Saturday.\n\nThey added: \"We are unable to comment further while the police investigate\".\n\nWatkins was jailed in December 2013 for a string of child sex offences, including the attempted rape of a baby.\n\nWhile not wanting to comment specifically about the attack on Watkins, Prison Officers' Association vice-chair Dave Todd said he was concerned for staff and prisoners over the rising number of incidents they are being exposed to in jails.\n\nWatkins was sentenced to 29 years in prison with a further six years on licence, but he will be eligible for parole after serving two thirds of the prison term.\n\nHis two co-defendants, the mothers of children he abused, were jailed for 14 and 17 years.\n\nDuring sentencing, Mr Justice Royce said the case broke \"new ground\" and \"plunged into new depths of depravity\".\n\nWatkins admitted the attempted rape and sexual assault of a child under 13 but pleaded not guilty to rape.\n\nJudges rejected an appeal by Watkins in 2014 to reduce the length of his jail term.\n\nAs a rock star in his 20s, he sold millions of albums around the world and commanded huge arena crowds.\n\nFormed in 1997, Welsh rock band Lostprophets released five studio albums in total, including a number one album in the UK and two Top 10 singles. They also saw some success in the US, where their second and third albums both reached the Top 40.", "Staff working in education and early years could take targeted industrial action as early as September, a union has warned.\n\nUnite members in 10 Scottish councils have voted to strike over pay when schools resume after the summer break.\n\nIt will involve thousands of workers including janitors, cleaners, caterers, classroom assistants and admin staff.\n\nCouncil body Cosla said the \"strong offer\" raised the local government living wage by 99p to £11.84 per hour.\n\nThe 10 councils affected are: Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Fife, Glasgow City, Inverclyde and Orkney.\n\nThe development follows talks with Cosla last week. No improved pay offer was put on the table.\n\nThe current 5% offer for 2023 was rejected by 84% in a consultative ballot held by Unite in May. The current rate of broader inflation (RPI) stands at 10.7%.\n\nUnite has also called for First Minister Humza Yousaf to intervene directly in the pay dispute following what it describes as a \"collapse\" in negotiations.\n\nThe trade union has repeatedly criticised Cosla for failing to approach the Scottish government to financially support a fairer pay offer for council workers, saying that both bodies are in danger of repeating the \"same mistakes\" of last summer's pay dispute.\n\nLast week, support staff in GMB Scotland also voted for strike action.\n\nThis will affect councils in Aberdeen, Clackmannanshire, Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar, Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Glasgow City, Orkney, Renfrewshire and South Ayrshire.\n\nUnison has yet to announce the results of its strike ballot to members.\n\nGraham McNab, regional officer for Unite in Scotland, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that it was awaiting the outcome of Unison's strike ballet before confirming dates.\n\n\"Along with our sister unions, It could potentially be thousands of union members taking action on this,\" he said.\n\nHe claimed that some members were forced to turn to foodbanks and universal credit.\n\nThe union is pushing for a £2,000 uplift for its lowest paid members - the same offer that was made last year.\n\n\"I don't think they are taking us seriously enough,\" he said. \"We're treated like second class citizens.\n\n\"We had a meeting last week with Cosla and I said to them it's just like groundhog day, it's going back to when they made the original offer to us.\n\n\"Nothing has changed, nothing has improved.\"\n\nMr McNab urged the Scottish government and Cosla to get back to negotiations and make an improved offer.\n\nThe union representative added: \"There's an offer been made down south to our colleagues in England and Wales by a Conservative government that puts this Scottish government to shame and that's just not right.\"\n\nA Cosla spokesman said the offer compared favourably to other sectors, responded to the cost of living crisis and would help to protect jobs and services.\n\n\"While the offer value in-year is 5.5%, the average uplift on salaries going into the next financial year is 7%,\" he said.\n\n\"Those on the Scottish local government living wage would get 9.12% and those at higher grades, where councils are experiencing severe recruitment challenges, would see 6.05%.\n\n\"It is an offer which recognises both the vital role of the people who deliver our essential services across councils every day and the value that we, as employers, place on them.\"\n\nThe spokesman added that the offer would also raise the Scottish local government living wage by 99p to £11.84 per hour and included a commitment to working towards a £15 per hour pay deal.\n\nThe Scottish government said it had provided a further £155m to support a \"meaningful pay rise for local government workers\".\n\nEducation secretary Jenny Gilruth told BBC Scotland News that the Scottish government would continue to work with Cosla to reach a \"suitable and an affordable deal for the dispute\".\n\nWhen asked if school support staff were valued, she said: \"Absolutely. In every school I've ever worked in, school janitors, classroom assistants, people who work in our office are all hugely valued and schools can't operate without them - they are absolutely pivotal to our school communities.\n\n\"It's really important that we secure a pay deal that is recognised by the trade unions and by Cosla as one that is fair and affordable.\n\n\"And of course we'd continue to support efforts in that endeavour, making sure that we can hopefully avert further strike action in our schools.\"\n\nThere is a real possibility of strikes closing schools in the new term.\n\nMembers of Unite and the GMB working in schools could strike in 14 of Scotland's 32 council areas between them.\n\nAlthough teachers would not be on strike, action involving staff like janitors could mean schools would be unable to open.\n\nThe largest council union Unison is currently balloting its members on possible action.\n\nNo strike dates have been announced and action is unlikely before September.\n\nBut this also means there is time to avoid action.\n\nLast year, action by council workers led to rubbish piling up in Edinburgh and some other towns and cities. The action was set to spread to school staff.\n\nThe Scottish government made money available to help councils fund an improved pay offer to resolve the dispute.\n\nAfter the disruption of the pandemic and the teachers strike, some parents and students will be nervous about the possibility of further school closures.\n\nThe unions will be hoping that even the prospect of disruption will lead to an improved pay offer.", "The organisers of a festival in Malaysia cancelled last month after a controversial performance by the British band The 1975 have threatened the group with legal action.\n\nOn Monday, the company behind the Good Vibes Festival sent the band a warning letter demanding compensation.\n\nThe event was cancelled after the band's singer Matt Healy attacked the country's anti-LGBT laws.\n\nRepresentatives for the band refused to comment when contacted by the BBC.\n\nDuring the band's headline performance, Healy addressed the audience in a profanity-laden speech before kissing a fellow band member.\n\nThe event in Kuala Lumpur was cancelled the next day after a directive from Malaysia's communications ministry as part of its \"unwavering stance against any parties that challenge, ridicule or contravene Malaysian laws\".\n\nHomosexual acts are illegal in Malaysia and punishable by 20 years in prison - Healy's performance was also criticised by members of the country's LGBT community as an act of \"performative activism\" that would make their lives harder.\n\nEvent organisers Future Sound Asia said in a statement that it had issued the band with a Letter of Claim - essentially a final warning - demanding they acknowledge their liability and compensate the organisers for damages incurred.\n\nThey said the band's failure to do so would result in legal proceedings being pursued in English courts.\n\nFSA said it strongly disapproved of the band's conduct, in particular Healy's \"use of abusive language, equipment damage, and indecent stage behaviour\".\n\nIt said the band had \"intentionally contravened\" the agreement it had with organisers, leading to the festival's cancellation and resulting in \"significant financial losses\" for FSA, as well as negatively impacting local artists and businesses reliant on the festival.\n\nIn footage shared online, Healy could be seen telling the crowd that the band's decision to appear in Malaysia had been a \"mistake\".\n\n\"When we were booking shows, I wasn't looking into it,\" he said. \"I don't see the [expletive] point, right, I do not see the point of inviting The 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with.\n\n\"Unfortunately you don't get a set of loads of uplifting songs because I'm [expletive] furious,\" the frontman continued. \"And that's not fair on you, because you're not representative of your government. Because you're young people, and I'm sure a lot of you are gay and progressive and cool.\"\n\nHealy and the band's bass player Ross MacDonald then kissed as the band played the song I Like America & America Likes Me.\n\nSoon after - just 30 minutes into the set - Healy and the band walked off stage, with the singer telling the audience: \"Alright, we just got banned from Kuala Lumpur, see you later.\"\n\nThe band later cancelled performances in Indonesia and Taiwan.\n\nThe Good Vibes Festival has been held annually in Kuala Lumpur since 2013, with previous acts including The Smashing Pumpkins, Ellie Goulding and Lorde.", "People were seen boarding the vessel on Monday\n\nThe first small group of asylum seekers has boarded the controversial Bibby Stockholm housing barge after a series of delays over safety concerns.\n\nUp to 500 men will eventually live on the vessel in Dorset while they await the outcome of asylum applications.\n\nSome human rights groups have called the scheme \"inhumane\", but ministers insist it is safe and will save money.\n\nThe Home Office said 15 people had successfully got on to the vessel, but a group of about 20 refused to board.\n\nAsked about the refusal, the department's director for asylum accommodation Cheryl Avery said she could not go into details \"of the legal proceedings for each individual\".\n\n\"But we are continuing to bring people on board... later this week and then over the coming weeks as well,\" she added.\n\nThere has been considerable local opposition to the barge coming to Portland\n\nVideo footage showed people carrying bags being escorted on to the barge by staff in high-vis jackets and coaches were also seen arriving at Portland Port.\n\nHowever a number of asylum seekers due to be sent on to the vessel did not board following legal challenges, refugee charity Care4Calais said.\n\nSome had been expected to be transferred from a Bournemouth hotel, but a BBC reporter at the scene saw a large blue coach leave at about 12:40 BST with just one - or possibly two - passengers on board.\n\nCare4Calais chief executive Steve Smith said: \"None of the asylum seekers we are supporting have gone to the Bibby Stockholm today as legal representatives have had their transfers cancelled.\"\n\nAmong them were people who are \"disabled, who have survived torture and modern slavery and who have had traumatic experiences at sea\", he added.\n\nBibby Stockholm is the flagship of the government's latest plan to \"stop the boats\" and deter dangerous Channel crossings by migrants.\n\nHome Office minister Sarah Dines said it would provide \"basic but proper accommodation\" and would send \"a forceful message that there will be proper accommodation but not luxurious\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels has gone up by 3,000 since the end of March. Interim figures released by the Home Office show a record 50,546 were in so-called contingency accommodation at the end of June.\n\nThe 222-room, three-storey barge arrived in Portland Port three weeks ago, chartered by the government to reduce what it says is the £6m-a-day cost of placing asylum seekers in hotels.\n\nMinisters plan to increase the numbers aboard up to 500, despite safety warnings from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) which has raised concerns over narrow exits and possible overcrowding.\n\nThe Home Office says the men aged 18-65, from various countries, could spend nine months on board the barge, which it views as safe and has previously been used to accommodate homeless people and asylum seekers in Germany and the Netherlands.\n\nAt the end of July the number of asylum decision-makers employed by the Home Office was 1,729, up from 1,556 a month earlier. The backlog of cases awaiting an initial decision is at 136,779, slightly down on the previous month when it was 138,700.\n\nMs Dines also said \"all possibilities\" were being examined on tackling the migrant crisis amid reports the government is looking at flying illegal migrants to the British overseas territory Ascension Island, in the middle of the southern Atlantic.\n\nAmnesty International compared the Bibby Stockholm to \"prison hulks from the Victorian era\", saying it was an \"utterly shameful way to house people who've fled terror, conflict and persecution\".\n\nTV crews film as a coach believed to be carrying asylum seekers arrives at Portland Port\n\nFreedom from Torture, which provides therapeutic care for survivors of torture seeking protection in the UK, said the government should stop \"forcing refugees to live in unsafe and undignified accommodation\".\n\nSenior ministers hope to confirm the use of further barges in the coming months but they have struggled to find ports prepared to host them so far.\n\nA site next to London City airport and another on the River Mersey in Wirral were among those rejected.\n\nHowever, the government believes a successful scheme in Dorset will help encourage other areas to sign up.\n\nIt said there were currently about 51,000 \"destitute migrants\" in hotels across the UK, costing the taxpayer more than £6m a day.\n\nThe Home Office said its plans for alternative accommodation - including two more barges and three ex-military bases in East Sussex, Essex and Lincolnshire - offered better value.\n\nA spokesman said it had produced a factsheet to answer common questions about the Bibby Stockholm.\n\nHowever, the full costs of the barge have not been disclosed, with refugee campaign group Reclaim The Sea claiming it would cost more than hotels.\n\nThe vessel - chartered for an initial 18-month trial - includes catering, a TV room, a multi-faith prayer room and a gym.\n\nMigrants will be free to leave on hourly buses to Weymouth and Portland, although they are encouraged to return by 23:00 each night.\n\nThe Home Office said the barge occupants would undergo security screening and Dorset Police has said it does not expect any impact.\n\nDorset Council is receiving £3,500 per occupied bedspace on the barge, with additional funding provided to the local NHS and police.\n\nThe council has also received almost £380,000 in a one-off grant to help support local charity and voluntary organisations provide services, it is understood.\n\nThe Labour Party has been repeatedly pressed on whether it would continue to use the barge to house asylum seekers if it was in power.\n\nShadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said barges would continue to be used in the short term due to what he described as \"the complete and utter chaos and shambles of the Tory asylum crisis\".\n\nOn Tuesday the government is formally launching a new team tasked with tackling what Home Secretary Suella Braverman described as \"crooked immigration lawyers\", a small minority of law firms accused of encouraging illegal migrants to make false asylum claims.\n\nThe Home Office said the Professional Enablers Taskforce had begun \"preliminary work\" in recent months and featured representatives of legal regulatory bodies, law enforcement and government departments.\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said it would \"hold to account unscrupulous lawyers who aid and abet\" people making false asylum claims.\n\nSeparately, it said the Solicitors Regulation Authority had suspended three law firms last week who were offering to help with bogus claims.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary, Steve Reed, said the government was \"setting up a talking shop instead of cracking down on those who abuse our immigration system\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least seven people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, officials say.\n\nTwo missiles hit the town - the second as rescuers were searching for victims of the first.\n\nDozens of people were injured, including police officers and rescuers. Two children were among more than 30 civilians who were hurt.\n\nPokrovsk lies about 70km (43 miles) north-west of Donetsk city, which is occupied by Russian forces. Before the war it had a population of around 60,000 people.\n\nPavlo Krylenko, the head of the Donetsk region, said the first strike killed five civilians, and that an official from the emergency services was killed in the second strike. A person who works in the military also died.\n\nHe added that the buildings which were \"destroyed and damaged\" were \"high-rise buildings, private houses, administrative buildings, catering establishments [and] a hotel\".\n\n\"Russia is a terrorist state. And she must be punished for her crimes!\" he added in a post on Telegram.\n\nAccording to other Ukrainian officials, the second missile struck 40 minutes after the first, killing and wounding rescuers as they searched for survivors in the ruins of what Mr Zelensky described as an \"ordinary residential building\".\n\nHe publishing a video of a five-storey building that had its top floor destroyed.\n\nAmid scenes of general chaos and confusion it showed civilians clearing away rubble, and rescuers helping people into ambulances.\n\nA day after the strikes, Russia claimed that its forces had also hit a Ukrainian military command post in Pokrovsk. Ukraine offered no comment on Tuesday's reported strike.\n\nKateryna, a resident who who was injured in the first attack, told the Reuters news agency she was at home when the missile struck.\n\n\"The flame filled up my eyes. I fell down on the floor, on the ground. My eyes (hurt) a lot, otherwise I am ok, just the shrapnel in my neck.\"\n\nAndriy Yermak, head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, said at least two civilians were also killed when Russian guided bombs hit \"private houses\" in the Kharkiv Region on Monday evening.\n\nFive people were injured in those strikes, he said.\n\nWe were in Pokrovsk in May reporting on the thousands of people returning there to live close to the front line.\n\nThey continue to ignore warnings from local authorities to stay away because of the real risks.\n\nThe sights of rescue teams sifting through rubble are a reminder of how enduring those hazards are.\n\nIt is a town constantly on a war footing, where civilians mingle with soldiers. Our team have stayed in the Hotel Druzbha and eaten in the mafia-themed Corleone restaurant.\n\nBoth are prominent hubs in this eastern community. Both are now gutted from the impact of a Russian missile.\n\nThe attacks came a day after a Russian \"guided bomb\" hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing two people, according to Ukrainian officials.\n\nUkraine has been trying to regain territory occupied by Russia but has made modest gains since launching a counter-offensive two months ago.\n\nOn Sunday Mr Zelensky sought to justify attacks on Russian ships in the Black Sea, telling Argentine newspaper La Nacion that Ukraine \"has to find another method to end the blockade of our water\".\n\n\"If Russia continues to dominate its territory in the Black Sea and blockading, firing missiles, then Ukraine will do the same, which is a fair protection of our chances,\" he said.\n\nRussia withdrew from a deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain and warned ships in the Black Sea they could face military action, prompting Ukraine to issue a similar declaration.\n\nLast week, a Russian tanker with 11 crew members was hit by what Moscow said was a Ukrainian attack in the Black Sea. Although Ukraine did not comment publicly, a security service source told the BBC a sea drone had been used.\n\nThat followed a similar sea drone attack on a Russian naval ship near the Russian port of Novorossiysk, which is a major hub for Russian exports.\n\nNaval drones, or sea drones, are small, unmanned vessels which operate on or below the water's surface. Research by BBC Verify suggests Ukraine has carried out several attacks with sea drones.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at three key pieces of video evidence", "Angus Cloud \"said he would see me in the morning\", according to his mother\n\nThe mother of Euphoria actor Angus Cloud, who died last week at the age of 25, has given an insight into his \"joyful\" final day, and said he \"did not intend to end his life\".\n\nCloud, who played Fez in the hit HBO show, was found dead last Monday, days after attending his father's funeral.\n\nHis mother Lisa wrote that although Cloud had been \"in deep grief\", his last day was \"a joyful one\".\n\nIt was \"clear that he did not intend to check out of this world\", she added.\n\nIn a message on Facebook, Lisa Cloud wrote: \"I want you all to know I appreciate your love for my family at this shattered time. I also want you to know that although my son was in deep grief about his father's untimely death from mesothelioma, his last day was a joyful one.\n\n\"He was reorganising his room and placing items around the house with intent to stay a while in the home he loved. He spoke of his intent to help provide for his sisters at college, and also help his mom emotionally and financially. He did not intend to end his life.\n\n\"When we hugged goodnight we said how much we loved each other and he said he would see me in the morning. I don't know if or what he may have put in his body after that. I only know that he put his head on the desk where he was working on art projects, fell asleep and didn't wake up.\"\n\nMrs Cloud told emergency services her son had suffered a possible overdose, according to a recording of the 911 dispatch call obtained by US media.\n\nShe wrote: \"We may find out that he overdosed accidentally and tragically, but it's abundantly clear that he did not intend to check out of this world.\n\n\"His struggles were real. He gave and received so much love and support to and from his tribe. His work in Euphoria became a lightning rod for his generation and opened up a conversation about compassion, loyalty, acceptance and love.\"\n\nShe added: \"Social media posts have suggested his death was intentional. I want you to know that is not the case. To honour his memory, please make random acts of kindness part of your daily life. Bless your hearts.\"\n\nZendaya remembered \"all of the boundless light, love and joy he always managed to give us\"\n\nHis cause of death has not yet been confirmed.\n\nLast week, a family statement announcing his death said Cloud had \"intensely struggled\" with the loss of his father.\n\nIt added: \"Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.\n\n\"We hope the world remembers him for his humour, laughter and love for everyone.\"\n\nHis death was met with an outpouring of tributes from fans and co-stars including Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney.\n\nRappers Drake - an executive producer on Euphoria - and Kid Cudi also paid homage.", "A referendum allowing the president of the Central African Republic (CAR) to run for office as many times as he likes has been labelled a farce by opponents.\n\nThe electoral authority says 95% of voters backed constitutional changes; critics say turnout was as low as 10%.\n\nCAR is still in the throes of a civil war that has uprooted a third of all people from their homes.\n\nExtra fighters arrived ahead of the referendum to provide security.\n\nWagner forces have been accused of committing war crimes as they back President Touadéra in the fight against rebel groups who still control large swathes of the country.\n\nThey reportedly trade in the minerals and timber industries.\n\nThe proposed new law would scrap the current two-term limit and extend the presidential mandate from five to seven years.\n\nIt would also ban politicians with dual citizenship from running for president unless they renounce the other.\n\nCampaign group Human Rights Watch says this stirs up memories of anti-Balaka militias who targeted Muslims for their perceived association with Séléka rebels in the 2013 conflict, which saw hundreds killed in a civil conflict that continues to this day.\n\nOpposition parties and some civil society groups boycotted the referendum vote on 30 July, calling it a \"constitutional coup\" designed to keep President Touadéra in power for life.\n\nThey also say the election process lacked transparency and there was not enough consultation beforehand.\n\nUnder the changes, a new post of vice-president would be created, who would be appointed by the president. The Senate would be scrapped and parliament would be transformed into a single chamber.\n\nThe president and members of his United Hearts Party say they are following the \"will of the people\".", "Anja Macleod crashed an unmarked police car while taking her dog to the vet, and then lied to her sergeant\n\nA police force has lost the value of a car an officer crashed while on a trip to the vet, it has confirmed.\n\nNorth Wales Police traffic PC Anja Macleod lied to her sergeant that she was at Dyserth Bends, Denbighshire, looking for a disqualified driver.\n\nBut in fact she was taking her dog to a vets' surgery, and a misconduct hearing decided she should be sacked.\n\nThe force said it had lost the value of the 2019 BMW 330 estate - cars which typically cost more than £30,000.\n\nMs Macleod tried to hide her wrong-doing and was guilty of gross misconduct, June's hearing concluded.\n\nShe had previously been convicted for animal cruelty in 2008, after she was filmed kicking and throwing her pet dogs, resulting in 10 days' pay being docked.\n\nFollowing the crash at Dyserth Bends, it was found Ms Macleod had lied to her sergeant about why she was in the area.\n\nSgt Jason Diamond told the hearing that he had given Ms Macleod an hour off duty to go to the vet on 26 May, but that nothing was mentioned about taking a police car.\n\nHe said he went to the scene following the crash and Ms Macleod told him \"that she had caused the collision by being across the road\".\n\nHe said he had not been informed that the dog, named Guinness, was in the back of the car at the time of the crash.\n\n\"She told me she was in the area looking for a disqualified driver,\" he said.\n\nWhile North Wales Police confirmed it had lost the value of the car, it is believed a third party insurance claim relating to the crash is ongoing.", "HSBC's head of public affairs has apologised after accusing the British government of being \"weak\" for complying with US demands to cut back business dealings with China.\n\nA spokesperson for the bank said Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles made the comments \"at a private roundtable discussion and shared his personal views.\"\n\nUS-China ties have become increasingly tense in recent years.\n\nThe UK-based firm makes much of its profit in Asia, including China.\n\n\"I was speaking at a private event under Chatham House Rules and my personal comments do not reflect the views of HSBC or the China British Business Council. I apologise for any offence caused,\" Sir Sherard, who is also chairman of the China-Britain Business Council lobby group said in a statement provided to the BBC by HSBC.\n\nUnder the Chatham House Rule, attendees of meetings are free to use information gained from discussions, but are not allowed to reveal who made any comments.\n\nThe rule, which originated almost a century ago, is a system for holding debates about controversial topics and is named after the London headquarters of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.\n\nSir Sherard told the closed-door meeting that Britain often bowed to calls by the US and should look after the UK's own interests, rather than blindly following Washington's lead, Bloomberg News first reported, citing several people familiar with the matter.\n\nAccording to Bloomberg, Sir Sherard told the meeting that one example of the UK caving in to US demands was when Britain banned Chinese telecoms giant Huawei from taking part in building the country's 5G mobile phone networks in 2020.\n\nMore than 80% of HSBC's profits are generated from outside the UK, with over half of that coming from mainland China and Hong Kong.\n\nIt means that the global banking giant has to walk a fine diplomatic line between authorities in Washington and Beijing.\n\nThe UK and other Western governments have found themselves caught between the constant tit-for-tat between the world's two biggest economies as they hit each other with trade restrictions.\n\nIn October, Washington announced restrictions on Beijing's access to advanced computer chip technology.\n\nChina responded this month with restrictions on exports of gallium and germanium - two materials key to the semiconductor industry.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson says there were \"mass failings\" by police\n\nPolice kept evidence from jurors in a case which led to an innocent man spending 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, judges have ruled.\n\nAndrew Malkinson was cleared last month after new DNA evidence linking another suspect to the crime emerged.\n\nCourt of Appeal judges have now also called the original conviction \"unsafe\" because Greater Manchester Police did not disclose images during his trial.\n\nMr Malkinson had always maintained his innocence and was released in 2020.\n\nHe was jailed in 2004 for an attack on a woman in Salford and the prosecution case against him was based only on identification evidence.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the force was \"truly sorry for this most appalling miscarriage of justice\".\n\nFollowing the Court of Appeal ruling, Mr Malkinson said he felt \"vindicated by the court's finding that [GMP] unlawfully withheld evidence\" and \"caused his wrongful conviction nightmare\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"They had control of the evidence, they chose not to disclose these vital pieces of evidence.\n\n\"The impact has been catastrophic on me, of course, to even have had to face trial for this.\n\n\"That could have been stopped, or at least reduced the amount of time I've had to spend behind bars which I can't even elaborate what it's like to be in prison at all for something you've not done, let alone aeons of time.\"\n\nIn July, Mr Malkinson's convictions for two counts of rape and one of choking or strangling with intent to commit rape were overturned by Lord Justice Holroyde.\n\nThe judge, sitting with Mr Justice Goose and Sir Robin Spencer, said last month that Mr Malkinson's legal team had \"raised a number of substantial and important points\" in other parts of his appeal that would be decided in writing.\n\nIn a ruling earlier, the three judges said Mr Malkinson's conviction was also unsafe because of failures to disclose evidence.\n\nThe police evidence included photographs of the victim's hands which showed the fingernail of the rape victim's left middle finger was noticeably shorter than her other fingernails, which corroborated her evidence that she scratched her attacker's face.\n\nIn his judgement, Lord Justice Holroyde said the failure to disclose the photographs had \"prevented the appellant from putting his case forward in its best light and strengthened the prosecution case against him\".\n\nMr Malkinson's defence team was therefore unable to highlight to the jury that he had no such scratch injury to his face.\n\nLord Justice Holroyde said: \"If the photographs had been disclosed, the jury's verdicts may have been different\".\n\nIn his judgement, it was also noted that two eyewitnesses who identified Mr Malkinson had convictions for dishonesty offences.\n\nLord Justice Holroyde said if the previous convictions had been disclosed during the trial it \"would have been capable of casting doubt on their general honesty and capable of affecting the jury's view as to whether they were civic-minded persons doing their best to assist.\"\n\nHe added: \"In our judgement, the challenge to the character and credibility of those two identifying witnesses would have been capable of affecting the jury's overall view as to whether they could be sure that the appellant was correctly identified.\"\n\nMr Malkinson said: \"The evidence needed to overturn my conviction has been sitting in police files for the past two decades.\n\n\"Yet the [Criminal Cases Review Commission] did not bother to look and it fell to the small charity Appeal to bring it to light.\"\n\nHe said that cost him \"extra years behind bars for a crime I did not commit\".\n\nHe told the BBC it had caused him \"immense pain\" and \"oceans of suffering\".\n\nGMP's Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Jackson said the force accepted the Court of Appeal's judgement and added: \"I speak on behalf of the whole force when I say that we are truly sorry for this most appalling miscarriage of justice.\n\nShe said she had \"extended an invitation to meet with Mr Malkinson and say sorry to him personally for the time he wrongly spent in prison and for all that he endured as a consequence\".\n\nMs Jackson said she could not comment further because the force was being investigated by the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, in relation to the case and due to a live criminal investigation.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Dan Evans won the first ATP 500 title of his career by beating Tallon Griekspoor in the Citi Open final in Washington DC.\n\nEvans, now the world number 21, triumphed 7-5 6-3 against the Dutchman after a 90-minute rain stoppage.\n\n\"To do the work I've done and to stick with it and come through is [amazing],\" said Evans.\n\nAmerican 19-year-old Coco Gauff beat Greece's Maria Sakkari 6-2 6-3 to take the women's title.\n\n\"It was really tough a couple weeks ago,\" said world number seven Gauff, who was knocked out in the first round at Wimbledon last month but did not drop a set in the Citi Open. \"We were all feeling it and I'm glad that I was able to bounce back.\"\n\nBritish number two Evans, 33, required four break points to take the opening set, before play was suspended at 2-2 in the second because of rain and lightning.\n\nAfter the restart Evans cruised through his remaining service games until he saved four break points in the penultimate game of the match.\n\n\"The last game sort of summed up my week. I got out of trouble and it was an amazing week,\" said Evans, who began the tournament on a seven-match losing streak.\n\n\"I wasn't playing very well and I wasn't happy with my game.\"\n\nHe is the first Briton to win the tournament since Tim Henman in 2003.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Coverage : Watch on BBC One, listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds and follow on the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nEngland put in a strong performance to finish off the Women's World Cup group stage and have good momentum going into their last-16 tie with Nigeria - but they cannot be complacent.\n\nThat was the message from manager Sarina Wiegman, who does not want her side to suffer an early exit and follow in the footsteps of top-ranked nations the USA, Germany, Canada and Brazil.\n\nNigeria, 11-time African champions, are ranked 36 places lower than England and have never gone further than the quarter-final stage at the Women's World Cup.\n\nMeanwhile England won Euro 2022 last summer and are favourites to win the tournament in Australia and New Zealand, but first must negotiate Monday's game in Brisbane (08:30 BST kick-off).\n\n\"What we have seen in this tournament is that nothing is easy,\" said Wiegman. \"The growth of the game has shown in this tournament.\n\n\"We've not had an easy game at all and that's what we expect [on Monday], that it will be very competitive and we need to be at our best.\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None Zelem on fears for her World Cup and the 'Meringue-tangs' band\n• None Key battles that may decide England's match with Nigeria\n\nWiegman said it was \"inappropriate\" for her side to be complacent but hopes they can cause Nigeria problems after showing their attacking prowess in a brilliant 6-1 thrashing of China last week.\n\nEngland have reached the semi-finals in back-to-back Women's World Cups and last failed to reach the quarter-finals in 2003 when they did not qualify for the tournament.\n\nThe Lionesses could also be boosted by the return of instrumental midfielder Keira Walsh, who was in team training on Sunday at Central Coast Stadium.\n\n\"Everyone who plays us wants to beat us. That's nothing new,\" added Wiegman. \"The games have been very competitive. Nobody can be complacent because that's inappropriate.\n\n\"I think Nigeria have done really well in this tournament and were in a very hard group. We all saw they did very well.\n\n\"They are an athletic team, quick in the transition and also want to play. We are aware of their strengths. What we will try to do is exploit their weaknesses.\"\n\nWiegman said England now have two formation options they could use against Nigeria after the selection of a back three against China was so effective.\n\nChelsea's Lauren James was a standout performer in that 6-1 win, scoring two goals and assisting three, and is now England's top scorer at the tournament having also netted in their 1-0 victory over Denmark.\n• None The potential path to the final for England\n\n'People outside of Africa are shocked'\n\nNigeria, ranked 40th in the world, finished second in their group and are unbeaten in the tournament having kept two clean sheets.\n\nBarcelona forward Asisat Oshoala is yet to play 90 minutes as she returns to full fitness following injury, but she came off the bench to score Nigeria's winner against Australia and is available.\n\nShe could play a key role for Randy Waldrum's side, who came through a group with Olympic champions Canada, co-hosts Australia and debutants the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Already with what we've accomplished, Nigeria is buzzing,\" said Waldrum. \"I don't think people expected us to get out of the group with the results we got.\n\n\"We [knocked out] the Olympic gold medallists and if we beat the European champions it would be something extremely special back home. It could be transformational in a lot of different ways.\"\n\nWaldrum said Wiegman had done \"great things\" since taking over the Lionesses but insisted there was \"a lot of talent\" in African football so England must be wary.\n\nNigeria, who are the third-lowest ranked nation left in the competition, are seeking to become the first African team to win a knockout match at the Women's World Cup.\n\n\"With the investment they're making now it is really starting to pay off. Maybe people outside of Africa are shocked but those in Africa really aren't,\" he added.\n\n\"The teams who are the so-called 'underdogs' are coming in more tactically prepared. Maybe some teams have underestimated that and all of a sudden found out it wasn't as easy as they thought it would be.\n\n\"Hopefully what it's saying to us is that more federations are investing in women's football - but we still need to do more. \"\n\nThey have won just one of their 14 Women's World Cup matches against European opposition but the likes of former England youth player Ashleigh Plumptre, who switched nationality in 2022, and Barcelona's Oshoala have provided valuable experience.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis is predicting the outcome of all 64 games in Australia and New Zealand:\n\nThe way this World Cup has gone appears to have opened up an easier path to the semi-finals than England probably expected. Germany and Brazil are out, so the winner of this tie will play Colombia or Jamaica next.\n\nIt would be foolish to think that far ahead, though, because they have to get past Nigeria first and they are going to be very hard to score against. They can't take anything for granted.\n\nNigeria will concede possession, so England will see a lot of the ball like they did against China, but Nigeria are stronger at the back and the Lionesses will have to be careful of their threat on the break.\n\nEngland have played against plenty of teams like this before, though, and they will be ready.\n\nThe Lionesses have got so many attacking options now, and I feel like they will have the tools and the tactics to break Nigeria down.", "The first 50 asylum seekers had originally been expected to move into the barge on Tuesday\n\nAsylum seekers will begin arriving on the UK's first migrant barge \"in the coming days\", the immigration minister has said.\n\nRobert Jenrick said about 50 men would board the Bibby Stockholm, moored at Portland in Dorset, later this week.\n\nThe first tranche of arrivals were due last week but safety issues, including the suggestion the vessel was a \"death trap\", caused a delay.\n\nThe minister said he considered the barge a \"safe facility\".\n\nMr Jenrick told Sky News: \"We hope that the first migrants will go on to the boat in the coming days, I'm not going to give you an exact date - but very soon.\n\n\"For security reasons we prefer not to give the dates on which individuals arrive.\n\n\"You won't have long to wait. This is an important step forwards.\"\n\nPortland councillors and campaign groups had argued against the barge ahead of its arrival in July\n\nHe added that increasing the numbers on the barge to the capacity of 500 was still the plan despite concerns from the Fire Brigades Union that the vessel had originally been designed to house 200 people.\n\nThe barge is seen as a key part of the government's strategy to deter migrants from arriving on UK shores in small boats.\n\nMinisters have said it would help cut the £6m-a-day cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels while their claims are processed.\n\nLabour said it would use barges to house asylum seekers for a \"very short\" period while the cases backlog is tackled.\n\nStephen Kinnock, shadow immigration minister, said barges would continue to be used by a Labour government.\n\nHe said former military bases would also continue to be used for a period of possibly around six months during work to bring down claims delays from a record high.\n\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has previously indicated she would not be able to immediately shut down the sites but declined to be explicit about the policy.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Kinnock told BBC Breakfast: \"The reality is that we've got tens of thousands of people in hotels, we need to get them out of hotels and we need to get them off the barges and out of the military camps too.\n\n\"Because of the complete and utter chaos and shambles of the Tory asylum crisis, we are going to have to continue in a very short-term period to use the infrastructure that is there, including the barges and the hotels.\"\n\nAfter an initial delay while works were carried out in Cornwall, the Bibby Stockholm was met by opposition from some residents when it arrived in Portland on 18 July over fears it could put a strain on local services.\n\nHuman rights groups have also described the decision to house migrants on a barge as \"inhumane\".\n\nThe rooms on the barge were first converted to house asylum seekers in Germany in the 1990s\n\nReporters were invited to look inside the barge last month, with pictures showing a TV room with a big screen and sofas, a multi-faith prayer room and a classroom that can be used for meetings and activities.\n\nThere is a gym and outdoor recreational space in the two courtyards in the centre of the barge.\n\nThe men will also have access to the dockside, within a fenced off area, and they will be provided with 24-hour security and healthcare provision.\n\nThe Home Office has repeatedly insisted the barge meets all safety standards.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The big red Chinese characters appeared overnight at the start of the weekend\n\nLondon's Brick Lane, well known for its street art, has become a talking point after one of its walls was covered by slogans extolling Chinese Communist Party ideology.\n\nOnline videos showed a group of people had spray painted the big red Chinese characters on a white background overnight at the weekend.\n\nThe \"core socialist values\", composed of 12 two-character words, are some of the most common political slogans under President Xi Jinping's rule. Political propaganda in the form of red block characters on a white wall are a familiar sight in China.\n\nThe Brick Lane slogans have sparked debate online over whether they count as street art and how freedom of expression and political propaganda interact.\n\nThe wall has also become an arena for competing narratives - people swiftly added new graffiti criticising the Chinese government.\n\nSome added \"no\" in front, or posted other messages or images taking issue with the spray-painted words. One picture shows an £800 fine issued on Saturday, citing \"graffiti & flyposting\" as offences.\n\nOthers were upset that the slogans covered up older works, including a tribute to a well-known street artist who died.\n\nThe socialist slogans, first revealed by President Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao in 2012, include prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, the rule of law, patriotism, dedication, integrity and friendship.\n\nAlthough the slogans have attracted negative comment, it's not clear if the people who painted them were being serious or ironic.\n\nWang Hanzheng, one of the creators who also goes by the name Yi Que for his art works, claimed the piece \"didn't have much political meaning\".\n\nIn an Instagram photo post, Mr Wang wrote in Chinese saying the group used the political elements as a coat \"to discuss different environments\".\n\n\"In the name of freedom and democracy, it illustrates the cultural centre of the West, this is London's freedom… Decolonize the false freedom of the West with the construction of socialism, let's see what happens,\" the post reads.\n\n\"Needless to say what's the situation on the other side,\" he added.\n\nMr Wang told the BBC \"there is no question\" that the 24 characters are \"not only goals of China, but common goals for the world\".\n\nPictures of the wall immediately sparked strong reactions among Chinese speakers on social media.\n\nMany inside China, mostly those who also defend the government, argued that what had been done in Brick Lane was freedom of expression and should be protected. Some said they were proud of this kind of \"cultural export\".\n\nBut some nationalists also questioned whether it was a form of \"high-level black\", a term often used by state media and social media users to describe people who use veiled language to criticise and satirise the Communist Party regime.\n\nOutside China, the work has seen a flood of criticism.\n\n\"Obstructing freedom of speech is not a part of freedom of speech. The jargons you used cannot justify your brutal destruction of other people's art,\" a top-liked comment under Mr Wang's Instagram post reads.\n\n\"Do you dare to go to Beijing and write democracy and freedom? If you dare, the home country you love will dare to arrest you,\" another top comment wrote.\n\nMr Wang admitted the reaction had been more intense than he expected. He told the BBC he had been doxed and his parents harassed. \"More and more people are using this subject for their own purposes and displaying maliciousness, this is not my intention,\" he added.\n\nComments under his Instagram post of the work were no longer visible on Monday morning.\n\n\"This piece is not finished yet,\" wrote another creator Gino Huang on Instagram.\n\n\"Like any other graffiti, being covered and discussed will be this wall's final ending. We wish it… to turn into a part of this neighbourhood that can be seen every day when people pass it by, and to be included into a bigger narrative.\"", "The government has announced a tripling of fines for firms employing illegal migrants or renting out property to them.\n\nThe government says its visits to companies, including those targeting illegal working, were “at their highest levels since 2019, up 50% on last year”, resulting in arrests of “more people in 2023 than during the whole of 2022”.\n\nBut Labour says the number of penalties issued to firms employing workers illegally has fallen by two-thirds since 2016, arrests have dropped, and illegal working visits are down by over 1,000 on 2019.\n\nWho is right?\n\nIf you compare the number of fines to earlier years, there has been a 70% drop in penalties issued to employers since 2016. In 2016, there were 3,089 fines recorded, and in 2022 there were just 911.\n\nThere has also been a drop in the number of illegal working visits by Immigration Enforcement - a Home Office body responsible for tracking immigration offenders. In 2022, there were 3,735 visits by officials , down from 5,937 in 2019.\n\nHowever, the number of arrests resulting from these visits has indeed been rising in 2023.\n\nUp to July this year, there have been 3,959 arrests - more than in the whole of 2022. But this is still significantly lower than the 6,723 arrests recorded in 2019.", "Relatives of the five men held photographs of them outside a court in Belfast after the announcement of the new inquests\n\nNew inquests are to be held into the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) murders of five Catholic men in Mid-Ulster more than 30 years ago.\n\nThe move was ordered by Attorney General Dame Brenda King, who took account of \"deficiencies\" in the original investigations and inquests.\n\nSean Anderson, Thomas Armstrong, Dwayne O'Donnell, Thomas Casey and Phelim McNally died in four separate attacks.\n\nTheir families suspect soldiers were involved in the killings.\n\nIn a letter to their solicitor, the attorney general's office stated there was new information not considered at the first inquests.\n\nThat included intelligence \"as to whether state agents/bodies played a role in the deaths\" and \"wider evidence suggestive of collusion\".\n\nGavin Booth, the solicitor acting for the men's families, said the cases were linked \"through suspects, geography and ballistics\".\n\nThomas Armstrong and Dwayne O'Donnell were killed in a gun attack at a bar in Cappagh\n\nUnder the government's Troubles legacy bill which is going through Parliament, inquests linked to the conflict must reach a conclusion by May of next year.\n\nThose which have not reached that stage will be ended.\n\nMr Booth said the cases had to be listed for hearing \"urgently\" and he called for Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris to ensure the inquests can go ahead.\n\n\"We are under the pressure of the legacy bill - that bill is pending, we believe it's going to come into law,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe that all these inquests should take place and should take place before April.\n\n\"For too long these families have sought answers as to what happened.\n\n\"New evidence raises serious questions, not only about the 8th Battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment, but also the failure of the police to prosecute these individuals.\"\n\nThe UK government said its plan to end Troubles-era inquests next year would provide \"better outcomes for families\" and allow police and the judicial system could \"focus on contemporary issues\".\n\nDozens of families have good reason to fear their relatives' inquests may never be heard due to a UK government deadline.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill will end all Troubles-related inquests in May unless they have reached the point of delivering findings.\n\nBut more than 20 others have yet to be heard, including the shooting of eight IRA men by the SAS at Loughgall in 1987.\n\nThe latest cases referred by the attorney general, and several others recently, are joining a lengthy queue.\n\nThey have just seven months to be dealt with.\n\nThat is a very tall order - and one which may ultimately deprive bereaved families of a long-awaited day in court.\n\nSeventeen-year-old Mr O'Donnell, a member of the IRA, was killed at Boyle's Bar in Cappagh, County Tyrone, in 1991.\n\nMr Armstrong, who was 52, died in the same incident.\n\nMr McNally, 28, was murdered in a gun attack on the home of his brother, a Sinn Féin councillor, near Coagh, County Tyrone, in 1988.\n\nMr Casey, 57, was shot at a friend's house in Cookstown, County Tyrone, in 1990.\n\nMr Anderson, who was 32 and had served a prison sentence for IRA offences, was killed behind the wheel of his car in Pomeroy, County Tyrone, in 1991.\n\nPhelim McNally's daughter said she was robbed of her father\n\nPhelim McNally's daughter Davina Bolton said it was an important day for the families as they were finally getting closer to the truth.\n\n\"We've been waiting a long time for this - 35 years is a long time - and we just need the truth and justice,\" she said.\n\nShe said it was \"heart-breaking\" trying to explain to her children why their grandfather had died.\n\n\"They only go to a grave, that's all they know,\" she said.\n\n\"For us as a family, we were robbed of a father; our mother was robbed of a husband; our children were robbed of a grandfather.\n\n\"It's about closure for us and the truth and justice for Daddy.\"\n\nDwayne O'Donnell's sister Shauna Quinn said she did not expect to ever see anyone prosecuted in relation to her brother's death.\n\n\"However, what I'm looking [for] is that there is an acknowledgement that there was collusion - and a very high level of collusion - within the Cappagh case.\n\n\"If that's the result we get, that will satisfy us. We deserve the truth.\n\n\"Dwayne would have [turned] 50 last week. He died at 17 years of age. My mum was 39 when he passed away, her eldest child, and my daddy was 41.\n\n\"We just really all deserve the truth… all of the families that have been granted inquests today.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland are through to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup, but it was not a performance to remember as they beat Nigeria 4-2 in a penalty shootout.\n\nThis is reflected in the scores you handed out using BBC Sport's player rater.\n\nGoalkeeper Mary Earps was the highest-scoring England player with an average of 6.89 out of 10, with four Nigeria players equal or higher.\n\nThe scores for Ashleigh Plumptre (6.99), Chiamaka Nnadozie (6.92), Rasheedat Ajibade (6.90) and Uchenna Kanu (6.89) illustrate the Super Falcons' dominance of the last-16 tie.\n\nEngland's Lauren James was given a rating of only 2.93 after being sent off for stamping on Michelle Alozie.", "Watch the winning moment as Chloe Kelly fires England into the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup by scoring the winning penalty in the shootout against Nigeria.\n\nFollow coverage of the Fifa Women's World Cup across BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds & the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Shirley Ballas will do a Skyathlon challenge - a zipline, a 700ft wing walk and 15,000ft skydive\n\nStrictly's Shirley Ballas is embarking on a trio of challenges to raise money for a suicide prevention charity after her brother took his own life.\n\nShe will do a Skyathlon challenge - a zipline, a 700ft wing walk and 15,000ft skydive throughout the week.\n\nThe Strictly Come Dancing judge said even though she was scared of heights, she was \"more terrified at the thought of losing another person to suicide\".\n\nBallas said suicide leaves \"a hole in your heart that will never go away\".\n\nHer brother David took his own life in 2003 at the age of 44, leaving her and her mother \"absolutely devastated\".\n\nShe is now working with mental health charity CALM - the Campaign Against Living Miserably - to raise awareness.\n\nShe said last year she \"struggled\" on social media after being trolled.\n\n\"It does affect you,\" she said. Social media \"can be a great platform on one hand\" but it can also be \"very dark\".\n\nTo the point she has now employed \"a young man to sift through my social media before I even get to it\" to avoid reading potentially offensive messages.\n\nShirley Ballas's brother David took his own life in 2003 at the age of 44\n\nBallas, who grew up on Merseyside, told BBC North West Tonight she was doing the charity challenge \"because I don't want anybody at all out there to experience what my mother and I have experienced\".\n\n\"I want people to talk about the way they feel I want people to really reach out if they're struggling and CALM is the best place to go,\" she said.\n\n\"I just don't like to see people suffer one second longer than they have to.\"\n\nShe said Strictly had given her a \"platform\" to reach people \"who are suffering\".\n\n\"People are sharing their stories with me and it is gut-wrenching,\" she said.\n\n\"Tragedy is such an awful, awful thing.\n\n\"Sometimes when I'm sitting in Strictly, some tune will come up like Moon River or a tune that my brother and I loved and I can feel myself getting overwhelmed because it comes at times when you least expect it, he's there in the forefront of my mind.\"\n\n\"So I want to do this for every single person out there.\n\n\"I'm sixty-two and I'm not dead yet.\n\n\"I want to try things and challenges and this seemed the perfect thing for all the people who have somebody who's struggling.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grana Padano resembles Parmesan and is popular in Italy\n\nAn Italian man has been crushed to death under thousands of wheels of a Parmesan-style cheese, authorities said.\n\nGiacomo Chiapparini, 74, was buried when a shelf broke in his warehouse in the Lombardy region on Sunday, firefighter Antonion Dusi told AFP.\n\nThe collapse created a domino effect bringing down thousands of wheels, which weigh about 40kg (84lbs) each.\n\nIt took 12 hours to find Mr Chiapparini's body, Mr Dusi said.\n\nSome of the wheels reportedly fell about 10m (33ft) and a local resident told Italian media the collapse sounded \"like thunder\".\n\nThe economic damage caused has been estimated at €7m (£6m).\n\nSpeaking to Italian media, a neighbour described Mr Chiapparini as \"very supportive… and generous\". They also said he lost a child decades ago.\n\nThe warehouse, located in Romano di Lombardia, about 50km (31 miles) east of Milan, contained a total of 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano, a hard cheese which resembles Parmesan and is popular in Italy.", "Ian still remembers getting Stella, his first guide dog, 40 years ago\n\nIt's been 40 years since I started training with my very first guide dog but the memories are still vivid.\n\nBack then I was a slim 20-year-old student at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford.\n\nI travelled up to Forfar for four weeks at the guide dog training centre, where I stayed with 11 other blind people.\n\nWe were a diverse bunch, strangers brought together by our shared journey of sight loss and desperation to maintain our independence.\n\nI knew this training would change how I navigated the world.\n\nNo more would I have to gingerly manoeuvre my way down the streets with a white cane, desperately hoping to avoid collisions with lampposts, rubbish bins, and cars parked on pavements.\n\nThe accommodation at the centre in August 1983 was far from luxurious but clean and comfortable.\n\nIan, who has worked for the BBC for 23 years, with his latest guide dog Major\n\nThere was an empty dog bed and bowl waiting for my new companion but I wouldn't meet the dog for another four days.\n\nThe Guide Dog Association for the Blind was incredibly secretive back then, resembling something akin to MI5.\n\nWe weren't told anything about the dog's breed, name, or sex at the beginning, and the human trainer played the role of the dog, demonstrating the correct way to guide and give commands.\n\nIt felt a bit like \"Strictly Come Dancing\" without the sparkly tights and harsh judging.\n\nThe trainer would say: \"Ian, put your left foot back and turn. Now, bring both feet back together and pirouette to the right. Slap your right thigh simultaneously and turn, all in one move.\n\n\"Oh, and don't forget to tell me what a good dog I am.\"\n\nWhat a sight it must have been, the trainer and I mincing in unison around the centre's car park with me exclaiming: \"Who's a good boy?\"\n\nWhen the time came to meet my new dog, I'd grown impatient.\n\nThe tension in the room was palpable as we were all called to gather in the large sitting room.\n\nOne by one, trainers read aloud our names and matched them with the dogs' names.\n\nIan's third dog, Tim, was a seven-stone German Shepherd with a personality to match\n\nI sat there, silently praying that they wouldn't give me a dog with a stupid name.\n\nAfter what felt like an eternity, I was told I'd be getting a crossbreed Labrador Retriever bitch called Ursula.\n\nI slumped in my seat, dejected, wondering why they would give a 20-year-old lad from deepest, darkest Lanarkshire a dog with a name like that.\n\nBefore we met our dogs, we were given strict instructions about what to do and what not to do.\n\nWe were told to sit quietly in our chairs and let the dog come to us.\n\nIt was imperative that we remained calm and, under no circumstances, chase the dog frantically around the room.\n\nThere's a story about a far too excitable trainee who ignored this instruction and couldn't find their dog.\n\nThey pressed the call bell for assistance, and when the trainer returned, they found the dog sitting in the sink, hiding from its new blind owner.\n\nMoss, Ian's fifth guide dog, had a natural talent for stealing the limelight\n\nLuckily for me, when Ursula was brought into my room, she bounded in and leaped straight on to my lap.\n\nNot long afterwards, I changed her name to Stella, which I considered a much more acceptable option for a young man.\n\nDay by day, our training expanded from basic house drills, which included walking the dog around the building on a lead, to venturing outside into the wider world and encountering various obstacles.\n\nInitially, the trainer would always be nearby, but as the weeks passed, they would observe from a distance, scrutinising our every move.\n\nWe had cars driven at us to see how the dog and I would react, and obstacles were strategically placed in our path to test our problem-solving skills.\n\nA lot has changed in the four decades since I was trained with my first guide dog.\n\nMajor is my seventh dog and his training required just one week in a local hotel followed by three weeks at home.\n\nWhat's more, I had the chance to meet him before the training began, to see if we were a good match. Spoiler alert, we were.\n\nMatching dogs and owners is important but the way trainers describe dogs is a bit like how estate agents talk about houses.\n\nIt took me a couple of dogs before I fully grasped this code.\n\nWhen an instructor says: \"This dog is a keen worker\", it really means it is likely to pull you down the street at top speed.\n\n\"This dog has great initiative,\" translates to it will go wherever it wants, regardless of how much you protest.\n\nFrom the moody and officious to the joker and the Buddhist, every canine companion I have worked with brought a distinct character to our partnership.\n\nFor example, Stella would sulk and walk slower if we ventured somewhere she didn't fancy.\n\nShe would take revenge by skilfully avoiding puddles, delicately tiptoeing along the edges to keep her paws dry, while I found myself splashing through the deep end.\n\nIndependent by nature, Leo showed little interest in playing with other dogs and preferred the company of humans.\n\nAlthough he carried out his guiding duties, he lacked enthusiasm, doing only what was necessary to keep us both alive.\n\nMy third dog, Tim, was a seven-stone German Shepherd with a personality to match.\n\nTim effortlessly commanded attention during train rides, his mere presence persuading passengers to vacate their seats.\n\nHe would fixate his intense gaze on people until they relented, creating a space for both of us to sit.\n\nWeaver, my fourth dog, tended to go on strike, defiantly throwing himself to the ground and refusing to move.\n\nMoss, my fifth guide dog, had a natural talent for stealing the limelight. He would confidently stare down TV camera lenses like a seasoned professional, becoming a familiar face on numerous television reports.\n\nRenton, my sixth companion, also a large German Shepherd, had a unique approach to guiding. Instead of manoeuvring around people, he would gently lean on pedestrians, encouraging them to step aside and allow us to pass.\n\nIan's current guide dog Major takes his job very seriously\n\nLastly, Major, my seventh and current guide dog, takes his job very seriously.\n\nOut of all the dogs I've had, Major demonstrates an exceptional level of understanding.\n\nIt never ceases to amaze me how much he understands.\n\nOur interactions often feel like one-sided conversations, as I know he absorbs every word I say.\n\nStella lived a long and fulfilling life until she was nearly 16, and every dog I've had since has been not just a good friend but a way of breaking down barriers.\n\nIn two or three years it'll be time for Major to retire and I don't know how long it will take to get another dog.\n\nAt the moment, many people are waiting as long as two years after their previous dog retired, which is far too long to be without a reliable form of mobility.\n\nIt's difficult to pinpoint the exact reason for this, and Covid is often blamed, but many blind people believe the issues began before the pandemic.\n\nSome attribute it to a change in training methods, which has led to a high rejection rate of dogs. A shortage of staff has also been said to be a factor.\n\nThe Guide Dogs Association says its training methods for guide dogs are in line with international standards and prioritise welfare and safety.\n\nThey say the Covid pandemic led to a pause in its breeding programme and also caused a dip in guide dog training success rates due to limited socialisation opportunities for the dogs.\n\nThey say the average wait is currently 15 months and they are taking action to address waiting times.\n\nI hope they are because I know that guide dog training has been a lifeline for blind people for decades and will continue to be, no matter how it evolves.", "Zoom, the video communications company whose name became synonymous with remote work during the pandemic, has ordered staff back to the office.\n\nThe firm said it believed a \"structured hybrid approach\" was most effective and people living within 50 miles (80km) of an office should work in person at least twice a week.\n\nIt is the latest push by a major firm to row back flexible working policies.\n\nAmazon and Disney are among the firms that have reduced remote work days.\n\nSurveys suggest that workers are still holding onto the ability to work from home to some degree.\n\nAbout 12% of workers in the US, where Zoom is headquartered, were fully remote in July, while another 29% had hybrid policies, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford University and others that has been conducted monthly since the pandemic.\n\nThat is similar to patterns recorded by the Office for National Statistics in the UK earlier this year.\n\nEarlier research by the Stanford team has found remote work is more common in English-speaking countries, and far less common in Asia and Europe.\n\nBefore the pandemic, the share of days worked from home in the US was only about 5%. Globally, workers consistently desire more flexible working arrangements than employers see as optimal.\n\nZoom at one point said staff would be able to work remotely indefinitely.\n\nThe tech firm said the new policy would be rolled out in August and September, on a staggered timeline that varied by country.\n\nIt said it would continue to \"hire the best talent, regardless of location\". At the end of January, the company employed about 8,400 people, more than half of whom were based in the US.\n\nAbout 200 people currently work for Zoom in the UK, where it just opened a new London office.\n\nZoom said that the new policy, which was first reported by Business Insider, would put the company in a \"better position to use our own technologies, continue to innovate, and support our global customers\".\n\n\"We'll continue to leverage the entire Zoom platform to keep our employees and dispersed teams connected and working efficiently,\" Zoom said.\n\nOnly about 1% of the company's workers had \"regular office presences\" in September 2022, while 75% lived remotely and the remainder had hybrid arrangements, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.\n\nBut Zoom is under mounting pressure as the expansion of remote work prompts rivals, such as Microsoft, to upgrade their video offerings.\n\nGrowth has slowed sharply since the pandemic. Earlier this year, it announced it was cutting 15% of its staff and top executives would take major pay cuts.\n\nIts shares are worth about $68 apiece today, down from more than $500 at the peak in October 2020.", "The case between Donna Traynor and the BBC in Northern Ireland and its director Adam Smyth was settled in June with no admission of liability\n\nThe BBC has paid a legal bill of more than £450,000 in high-profile disputes with two former employees.\n\nThe corporation disclosed the figures following a freedom of information request from the Belfast Telegraph.\n\nBoth cases, involving Donna Traynor and Lena Ferguson, were settled without any admission of liability.\n\nBBC NI said that the legal expenditure was \"only incurred to the extent that is necessary and after careful consideration\".\n\nThe employment tribunal case between Ms Traynor and the BBC in Northern Ireland and its director Adam Smyth was settled in June with no admission of liability.\n\nMs Traynor, a former BBC Newsline presenter, had claimed she was discriminated against on the basis of age, sex and disability.\n\nIn an agreed joint statement following the settlement, Ms Traynor acknowledged \"the BBC and Adam Smyth continue to refute strongly all the allegations made against them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Smyth was asked to comment on the Donna Traynor case after it had been settled\n\nLater in June, Ms Ferguson, who had sued the BBC over alleged bullying, also settled her case.\n\nMs Ferguson was an experienced journalist who had worked on the Spotlight programme for BBC Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC paid Ms Ferguson's legal costs as part of agreed terms, which involved no admission of liability.\n\nThe financial terms of the settlements in both cases were undisclosed.\n\nThe Belfast Telegraph subsequently submitted a freedom of information (FoI) request to BBC Northern Ireland asking for the BBC's legal costs in both cases.\n\nIn response, the BBC provided \"the fees incurred on legal advice and counsel fees which have been invoiced to and paid by the BBC to date\" for both Ms Traynor's and Ms Ferguson's cases.\n\nThe figures also included \"amounts which have been invoiced but not yet verified and paid,\" according to the BBC response, and do not include VAT.\n\nIn Ms Traynor's case, the BBC said the total legal costs it incurred in respect of claims in both the Industrial Tribunal and High Court were £256,231.\n\nThose costs were incurred between April 2020 and the date of the Belfast Telegraph's FoI request on 16 June 2023.\n\nIn Ms Ferguson's case, the BBC said that the legal costs it had incurred since April 2020 to the date of the FoI request were £207,884.\n\nThat meant the BBC's total legal bill to date for the two cases came to £464,115.\n\nIn a statement, a BBC spokesperson said that the corporation was \"committed to resolving employee relations issues without external legal support, whenever that is possible\".\n\n\"When legal actions are initiated by others against the BBC or important considerations of law are engaged, we may decide to draw on external legal advice and representation to ensure that the BBC's position is properly protected,\" they added.\n\n\"Such expenditure is only incurred to the extent that is necessary and after careful consideration.\n\n\"It may also, in a local context, reflect the requirements of Northern Irish law and the absence of in-house legal expertise in this area.\"", "An episode of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg's show State of the Nation is one of those being investigated\n\nMedia regulator Ofcom has launched four new investigations into GB News after complaints that the channel broke impartiality rules.\n\nThree episodes of shows hosted by Conservative MPs are being investigated in relation to a rule that politicians can't normally act as news presenters.\n\nProgrammes hosted by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Philip Davies and Esther McVey are among those being examined.\n\nIt takes the number of active Ofcom investigations into GB News to seven.\n\nThe UK media watchdog has a rule that prevents politicians from acting as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in news programmes \"unless, exceptionally, it is editorially justified\".\n\nHowever, some news networks have argued their programmes hosted by politicians do not break the rules because they should be classed as current affairs rather than news.\n\nIn June, Ofcom commissioned research into public attitudes towards such programmes to decide whether the rules should change.\n\nGB News launched in 2021 and also broadcasts on radio\n\nOn Monday, Ofcom said it was looking into three editions of GB News programmes in relation to the restrictions on politicians acting as news presenters.\n\nThey include the 13 June episode of Sir Jacob's show State of the Nation, which covered a stabbing in Nottingham.\n\nThe regulator is also investigating the 12 May episode of Friday Morning with Esther and Phil, which featured issues including a teenager who was being sentenced for terrorism offences.\n\nThe following day's Saturday Morning with Esther and Phil is also being investigated under the \"politicians as presenters\" rule, as well as another rule that says news must be presented with due impartiality.\n\nThat episode featured an interview with Howard Cox - the Reform UK Party's candidate for the London mayoral election - who was speaking live from an anti-Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) demonstration.\n\nFinally, Ofcom is investigating an episode of Laurence Fox's programme from 16 June, when it was being guest-presented by Martin Daubney.\n\nThat show featured an interview with Reform UK leader Richard Tice and included a discussion about immigration and asylum policy.\n\nThe regulator said it was looking into whether the programme broke rules requiring due impartiality to be \"preserved on matters of major political or industrial controversy, or those relating to current public policy, and that an appropriately wide range of significant views are included and given due weight\".\n\nA spokesman for GB News declined to comment on the investigations.\n\nThere are three other Ofcom investigations into the channel - relating to Sir Jacob's show, Davies and McVey's programme, and the channel's Don't Kill Cash campaign.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA controversial rule which deducted living costs from compensation paid to wrongly jailed people has been scrapped.\n\nThe government rethink follows the case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit.\n\nHe welcomed the move but said he still faces a two-year wait for his payment.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Malkinson said: \"It's a step in the right direction. But there's much more that needs changing too.\n\n\"You know, you don't want to just put a sticking plaster on something that's mortally wounded.\"\n\nHe has described it as \"sickening, abhorrent, repugnant\" that a percentage of his compensation could have been reduced before Sunday's announcement.\n\nPeople who are wrongly jailed for more than 10 years can be paid up to £1m under a government compensation scheme.\n\nBut since a House of Lords ruling in 2007, that total figure can be reduced to take into account \"savings\" individuals made on things like housing and food while imprisoned.\n\nHowever, the Ministry of Justice said its independent assessors who make the deductions have not done this in the last 10 years.\n\nMPs said individuals whose payments were reduced should now be reimbursed.\n\nMr Malkinson has been calling for the living costs rule to be removed since the Court of Appeal cleared him last month of a 2003 rape in Salford.\n\nHe was convicted by a jury on the basis of a prosecution which relied solely on identification evidence but a new DNA investigation has now linked another suspect to the crime.\n\nMr Malkinson was originally sentenced with a seven-year minimum term but was held for much longer because he refused to admit to a crime he knew he did not commit.\n\nHe was released in 2020 having always maintained his innocence and could now be in line for compensation after his conviction was formally quashed after his latest appeal.\n\nGreater Manchester Police apologised to him last month and admitted their investigation resulted in a \"grave miscarriage of justice\".\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk confirmed the rule would be scrapped, calling it a \"common sense change which will ensure victims do not face paying twice for crimes they did not commit\".\n\nHe said: \"Fairness is a core pillar of our justice system and it is not right that victims of devastating miscarriages of justice can have deductions made for saved living expenses.\"\n\nBut the government has not committed to reimbursing wrongly convicted people who have had the deduction applied to their compensation since the rule was introduced.\n\nMr Malkinson called for an overhaul of the jury and appeals system to give wrongly convicted people more protections, and said he believes \"there should be consequences\" for those who secured his imprisonment.\n\nHe said even with the living costs rule removed, he expects to wait two years for any compensation while the independent board which determines how much he is entitled to makes its decision.\n\nHe continued: \"I'm struggling. I'm living on benefits. I'm jobless, I'm homeless pretty much... I'm pretty much bereft of everything.\"\n\nCalling for the system to be speeded up and requirements to be simplified, he said: \"It's a silly barrier that's been artificially erected... it's inexcusable. It's not justified.\"\n\nA House of Commons library document from 2015 describes compensation as \"the exception rather than the rule\" in miscarriage of justice cases.\n\nEmily Bolton, director of the charity Appeal and Mr Malkinson's solicitor, said some wrongly convicted people are \"denied compensation altogether because of a restrictive test which flies in the face of the presumption of innocence\".\n\nShe added: \"The state robbed [Mr Malkinson] of the best years of his life. Changing this one rule is not an adequate response.\n\n\"We need a complete overhaul of the appeals system, which took two decades to acknowledge this obvious miscarriage of justice.\"\n\nThere have been calls from some MPs for the government to review cases where compensation payments have had living costs deducted, and to reimburse those individuals if necessary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson speaks to Radio 4's Today programme about his first night of freedom\n\nThe chair of the Commons Justice Committee, Conservative MP Sir Bob Neill, told the BBC: \"I'm very glad that the government have listened to what I think was the overwhelming reaction from the public and politicians about this.\"\n\nHe continued: \"There is a bigger piece of work that needs to be done about reforming compensation, both for victims of crime and for victims of miscarriages of justice, because the process is long-winded.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with the PA news agency, Sir Bob said: \"I wonder if the government could consider ex-gratia payments on a case-by-case basis to make up for that if people can demonstrate they fulfil all the criteria.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat justice spokesman Alistair Carmichael echoed that sentiment, calling on the government to review past cases and \"compensate these individuals fully\".", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland scraped through to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup with a dramatic penalty shootout victory over Nigeria despite Lauren James' red card.\n\nGeorgia Stanway fired wide with the opening penalty but Nigeria missed their next two efforts and the European champions secured their spot in the last eight when Chloe Kelly smashed in the winning kick.\n\nIn an outburst of frustration, James stamped on Michelle Alozie's back in the 87th minute after losing possession and was rightly shown a red card following a video assistant referee (VAR) review.\n\nEngland were given an almighty scare but face Colombia or Jamaica next at 11:30 BST on Saturday.\n• None England ride their luck and find way to win\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nIt was an excruciating watch for England supporters in Brisbane as the Lionesses played 120 minutes on a knife's edge and were largely second best to Nigeria.\n\nJames' petulance meant England had to navigate extra time with 10 players, and Nigeria had their tails up following a sustained period of pressure prior to the Chelsea star's sending-off.\n\nThe nine-time African champions executed their gameplan to perfection, frustrating England, causing them problems on the break and winning almost every duel.\n\nThey hit the crossbar in each half, Ashleigh Plumptre's powerful drive ricocheting off the woodwork before Uchenna Kanu's header looped over goalkeeper Mary Earps and bounced off the top of the bar.\n\nEarps was kept busy throughout, needing to produce smart saves to deny Plumptre at her near post in the first half and later keeping out Uchenna Kanu, who had an excellent performance.\n\nSarina Wiegman's England side thought they had a penalty in the first half when Rachel Daly went down claiming a push by Rasheedat Ajibade, but it was overturned by VAR.\n\nEventually, England stumbled to the end of normal time lacking the fluidity they showed in abundance in the impressive display against China and held on to seal the deal in a shootout.\n\nOnly 24 hours earlier, back-to-back champions the USA were knocked out of the competition, and England were forced to show resilience to overcome one of their most challenging matches of Wiegman's tenure.\n• None Earps tops England ratings as James gets 2.93 out of 10\n\nIn the build-up to England's last-16 tie there was plenty of praise for James, who has been simply sensational so far in Australia.\n\nThe 21-year-old stole the show in Adelaide when she scored two goals and assisted three in England's thrashing of China in their final group game.\n\nBut, as Wiegman has often reminded people, James is still young in terms of international experience, with this only her 15th appearance since making her debut a year ago.\n\nShe struggled to get on the ball in the first half as England's build-up play was slow and disconnected - a far cry from their slick attacking play against China.\n\nAs the game wore on several England players became frustrated. They were fortunate James' stamp did not prove too costly and they showed the type of resilience that has formed since Wiegman's arrival in September 2021.\n\nJames will miss the quarter-finals and could face a longer suspension should Fifa deem it worthy.\n\nHer loss will certainly be felt given she is England's leading scorer at the tournament, having also popped up to provide the winner in the 1-0 victory over Denmark in the second group game.\n\n\"I don't know what my heart rate is, I just know I'm 10 years' older,\" said manager Wiegman.\n\n\"I was not worried. It was a really intense game. Nigeria has done really well in the group stages so we were not underestimating them at all and they showed what a good team they were.\n\n\"We had trouble getting out of their press. We could do a little better but I also think we should give them credit.\"\n\nNigeria manager Randy Waldrum had already praised his side's efforts in escaping a group containing Olympic champions Canada, co-hosts Australia and plucky debutants the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHe said victory over European champions England could have had \"significant implications\" for the development of women's football in Nigeria, but they can exit the tournament with their heads held high.\n\nThey more than matched England and carried momentum going into extra time, but just could not provide the ruthlessness that was needed.\n\n\"[The players] have been fantastic all tournament,\" said Waldrum. \"We've played four matches, including against the Olympic gold medallists and the European champions and had clean sheets in those games.\n\n\"I'm so proud of them. They have such a bright future. The players came together in an unbelievable way. They just played their hearts out and I couldn't be more proud of them.\n\n\"We can be and should be one of the top teams in the world. I think we have shown we're capable of playing with anybody.\"\n\nEngland captain Millie Bright made numerous last-ditch blocks, Earps faced more shots in the first half than in any other game under Wiegman and Nigeria rattled the Lionesses.\n\nAll signs had started to point to a historic Nigeria victory - they were seeking to become the first African nation to win a knockout tie - and even a corner from Stanway floated out of play in a rare break-up of Nigeria possession late in the second half.\n\nBut in the end England found a way, as they so often have under Wiegman, and it was the familiar sight of Kelly - who netted the winning penalty in the shootout victory over Brazil in the Women's Finalissima and scored the Euro 2022 winner against Germany - who ran away celebrating at the end.\n• None Goal! England 0(4), Nigeria 0(2). Chloe Kelly (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! England 0(3), Nigeria 0(2). Christy Ucheibe (Nigeria) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! England 0(3), Nigeria 0(1). Alex Greenwood (England) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! England 0(2), Nigeria 0(1). Rasheedat Ajibade (Nigeria) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! England 0(2), Nigeria 0. Rachel Daly (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Michelle Alozie (Nigeria) left footed shot is too high. Michelle Alozie should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! England 0(1), Nigeria 0. Bethany England (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Désiré Oparanozie (Nigeria) right footed shot is close, but misses to the left. Désiré Oparanozie should be disappointed.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Georgia Stanway (England) right footed shot is close, but misses to the left. Georgia Stanway should be disappointed.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Substitution, England. Katie Zelem replaces Keira Walsh because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Keira Walsh (England).\n• None Attempt missed. Bethany England (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Greenwood with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Georgia Stanway (England) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal gave their hopes of beating Manchester City to the Premier League title a psychological boost as they defeated Pep Guardiola's side on penalties to win the Community Shield.\n\nAfter a largely forgettable 70 minutes in the season curtain-raiser, Cole Palmer looked to have won it for City when the substitute curled home a stunning strike.\n\nBut Leandro Trossard equalised in the 101st minute when his shot deflected into the back of the net.\n\nThat took the game to spot-kicks, where substitute Kevin de Bruyne struck the crossbar before Rodri saw his effort saved and then Fabio Vieira converted to secure the silverware for Arsenal.\n• None Guardiola says injury-time 'big brains' never consulted them\n• None Read reaction to the Community Shield here\n• None How did you rate Arsenal's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Manchester City's display? Send us your views here\n\nArsenal led the Premier League for 248 days last season but their challenge fell apart in the closing stages as City overtook them to claim the title as part of a Treble, along with the Champions League and FA Cup.\n\nGunners boss Mikel Arteta admitted in the build-up to this game that the end of last season still hurt, and was clearly desperate to get one over City, who beat his side home and away last season.\n\nArsenal's big summer signings Declan Rice, Kai Havertz and Jurrien Timber were all handed their competitive debuts at Wembley, but it looked like it was going to be a familiar story as Havertz failed to convert two big opportunities in the first half, before Palmer's stunner put City ahead.\n\nBut Arteta's side showed impressive spirit to battle to the end and got their reward when substitute Trossard struck before keeping their cool to come out on top in the shootout.\n\nFew people put great stock in a Community Shield win and history tells us that it does not often lead to a Premier League title win - only once since 2011 has the winning side gone on to secure the league title.\n\nBut that will not concern Arsenal for now as they revel in a positive result after such a disappointing end to last season.\n\nGuardiola said in the build up to this game that Arsenal's transfer business in the summer has moved them to another level, and while neither Rice or Havertz particularly excelled, there is little doubt their arrival has strengthened the core of Arteta's team.\n\nThe Gunners lost 4-1 and 3-1 in the Premier League to City last season but this was a much closer affair with Arsenal having the better chances of a cagey first half, but Havertz was twice denied from close range by Stefan Ortega.\n\nWhile the pressure of a title race is nowhere near the same of a Community Shield match, it will still have been encouraging for Arteta to see his side battle back after going behind, particularly after the manner of their capitulation towards the end of last season.\n\nThis is familiar territory for City. They have now played in the last three Community Shields and lost them all, but City fans will not care if the ultimate outcome is the same as in previous campaigns - winning the Premier League.\n\nAfter winning three major trophies last season, Guardiola did not need to significantly strengthen in the summer, although Mateo Kovacic - one of their two big summer signings along with Josko Gvardiol - started in this game.\n\nHe slotted in well to City's midfield and for large parts of this game they looked to have picked up from where they left off last season, controlling play and dominating possession.\n\nGolden Boot winner Erling Haaland, who scored 52 goals in all competitions last season, had an off day in front of goal but did so when he made his debut in last year's Community Shield loss to Liverpool and both he and City went on to enjoy an exceptional campaign.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1(4), Manchester City 1(1). Fábio Vieira (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Rodri (Manchester City) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1(3), Manchester City 1(1). Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1(2), Manchester City 1(1). Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1(2), Manchester City 1. Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Arsenal 1(1), Manchester City 1. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) hits the bar with a right footed shot.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1(1), Manchester City 1. Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, Manchester City 1. Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bukayo Saka following a corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Kyle Walker (Manchester City).\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Thomas Partey (Arsenal). Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Conservative MP Nadine Dorries is facing a move to force her out of Parliament if she fails to attend for six months.\n\nThe proposals have been put forward by senior Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant.\n\nMs Dorries said she was standing down as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire in June but later said she would not formally resign until she got more information about why she was denied a peerage.\n\nShe has not spoken in the Commons since July 2022 and last voted in April.\n\nSix months on from her last vote in Parliament would be 26 October.\n\nUnder his proposals, first reported by the Financial Times, Sir Chris said a motion could be tabled in Parliament requiring an MP to attend the Commons on a certain date.\n\nIf they failed to do so he said this could be considered a \"contempt of Parliament\", which can be punished with a suspension from the Commons.\n\nIf MPs approve a suspension of 10 days or more this can trigger a by-election in the constituency, where voters have the chance to oust their local MP.\n\nSir Chris, who chairs the Commons standards committee, said the move had basis in a parliamentary rule from 1801 stating that \"no member do presume to go out of town without leave of this House\".\n\nHe told the BBC he wanted to see MPs held to the same standards as councillors, who automatically cease to be a councillor, triggering a by-election, if they fail to attend any meetings for six months without good reason.\n\n\"I just think this is bringing the whole system into disrepute,\" he said.\n\n\"Why should you be allowed to draw a salary and claim expenses for your staff and all that kind of stuff if you're not actually doing the job of turning up?\"\n\nSir Chris said he had discussed his proposals with both the Conservative and Labour whips, who help organise each party's contribution to parliamentary business, as well as the Clerk of the House, who advises on procedure.\n\n\"Everybody knows that, at least in theory, it is a feasible option,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he would table a motion to oust Ms Dorries when Parliament returns in the autumn, Sir Chris said: \"Maybe she'll turn up on the first day back in September and take part in debates and so on. Or maybe she'll resign... Let's see what happens.\"\n\nDowning Street said it was for Ms Dorries's constituents to decide whether they were \"well served\".\n\nLast week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the people of Mid Bedfordshire were not being properly represented.\n\nWhile he could suspend her as a Conservative MP, Mr Sunak has no power to remove Ms Dorries from Parliament.\n\nMs Dorries has been approached for comment.\n\nShe has previously claimed that \"sinister forces\" denied her a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nA close ally of Boris Johnson, she has accused Mr Sunak's political team of removing her name from the former prime minister's resignation honours list.\n\nShe said she had requested copies of all correspondence relating to her nomination for the Lords and was waiting for this process to be completed before she formally resigned.\n\nHowever, the former minister has faced calls, including from her local town council, to resign immediately.\n\nFlitwick Town Council said she had not held a surgery in the area since March 2020 and was more focused on her TV show and upcoming book.\n\nMs Dorries has said her office continues to function as normal and she would continue to serve her constituents.", "The Barbie film has hit the billion-dollar mark just 17 days after it was released, according to distributor Warner Bros.\n\nThe movie will finish the weekend with $1.03bn (£808m) in ticket sales at the global box office, it said in a statement on Sunday.\n\nIt means Greta Gerwig has become the first woman to reach the milestone as a solo director.\n\nWarner Bros described it as a \"watershed moment\".\n\nJeff Goldstein, president of domestic distribution in the US, said: \"No-one but Greta Gerwig could have brought this cross-generational icon and her world to life in such a funny, emotional and entertaining story... literally turning the entire world pink.\"\n\nHe said that long lines in cinemas and repeat viewings \"prove that movies are back\" after the cinema industry suffered due to pandemic lockdowns and competition from streamers.\n\nOther female directors have helmed films that have surpassed the $1bn-mark but working with others. Frozen, the animated blockbuster, and its sequel have generated more than $1.4bn in box office takings and were co-directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck.\n\nMeanwhile, Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson and co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, generated more than $1.1bn in takings.\n\nThe pink-hued film has received praise from critics and inspired scores of selfies at doll boxes installed in cinemas across the UK too.\n\nStarring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken, it has drawn in $459m so far in the US and $572m internationally.\n\nAchieving \"Barbillion\" - as described by Warner Bros - is no mean feat. Just five other films have done so since the pandemic, including The Super Mario Brothers Movie earlier this year, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Top Gun: Maverick, Jurassic World Dominion and the Avatar sequel.\n\nCinema-goers have often paired a viewing of Barbie, which tells a coming-of-age story of the iconic doll, with Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer - a story about the development of the first atomic bomb.\n\nGreta Gerwig previously directed well-acclaimed films such as Little Women and Lady Bird\n\nUK-based cinema chain Vue recently said both films had led to the firm seeing its busiest weekend in four years.\n\nMs Robbie also served as one of the producers on Barbie. According to an interview with Collider, she banked on making a billion dollars in early meetings.\n\n\"I think I told them that it'd make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, okay?!\" she told the publication.\n\nThe film's marketing campaign has been huge, with pink billboards installed in cities around the world while a pink Tardis also appeared at Tower Bridge.\n\nToy-maker Mattel is hoping to repeat the same success with other films.\n\nOther Mattel brands - including Barney, Hot Wheels and Polly Pocket - are set to feature in upcoming Hollywood movies.\n\nIt released a soundtrack album and entered into more than 165 consumer product partnerships for the Barbie film, although it recently reported that its sales fell by 12% for the three months to end of June.", "The first 50 asylum seekers will be moved to the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset later, the BBC has been told.\n\nUp to 500 men, aged 18-65, will be housed on the three-storey barge while they await the outcome of their asylum application.\n\nThe floating accommodation block was docked off the Dorset coast nearly three weeks ago, and has been empty since due to health and safety worries.\n\nA Home Office minister said migrants would be moved to the barge imminently.\n\nHome Office sources have said the barge, moored in Portland, is ready to host its first group of asylum seekers.\n\nSome people were informed to expect to be moved on Monday, BBC News has been told.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, the Home Office has written to an asylum seeker telling them they will have to move to the Bibby Stockholm.\n\nThe government has said the vessel offers basic and functional accommodation and it previously housed oil and gas workers - as well as asylum seekers in other countries.\n\nHowever, the key difference is that its capacity - which used to be 222 - has been doubled to 500 by putting bunk beds in its cabins, and converting some communal rooms into dormitories for four to six men.\n\nAsylum seekers would be on the Bibby Stockholm \"imminently this week, in the coming days\", Minister for Safeguarding Sarah Dines told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme.\n\nShe said the increase in the number of people on the ship would be \"gradual\", with a possible 500 by the end of the week, despite concerns from the Fire Brigades Union that the vessel had originally been designed to house around 200 people.\n\nA Home Office press officer later said Ms Dines misspoke when suggesting there could by 500 people on board by the end of the week. It was a general figure they are expecting to be on the ship at some point, they further clarified.\n\nThose arriving in the country through unauthorised means should have \"basic but proper accommodation\" and they \"can't expect to stay in a four-star hotel\", Ms Dines added.\n\nThe government has repeatedly said the barge will be better value for British taxpayers and more manageable for local communities.\n\nBut there has been considerable local opposition to the plan, due to concerns about the asylum seekers' welfare, as well as the potential impact on local services.\n\nMore than 40 organisations and campaigners have called the plans \"cruel and inhumane\" in an open letter to barge owner Bibby Marine.\n\nA group supporting an asylum seeker shared a copy of a Home Office letter informing a migrant, currently living in a Dorset hotel, he would be moved to the barge on Monday.\n\nThe letter states he would be free to come and go from the site and lists onboard facilities, including an on-site nurse, English classes and Wifi.\n\nOne asylum seeker from Syria says the Home Office told him to move out of his Bournemouth hotel to live on the barge.\n\nThe man, who the BBC is not naming, said he had no intention of living there.\n\n\"We ran from war. We don't want to go on the barge. It's a jail,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe man said he and four others at the hotel have challenged the decision.\n\nThe Bibby Stockholm is the first vessel secured under Home Secretary Suella Braverman's plans to reduce the cost of asylum accommodation.\n\nMinisters have said it would help cut the £6m-a-day cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels while their claims are processed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Sunday, shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said barges would continue to be used by a Labour government if his party won the next general election.\n\nMr Kinnock said that due to \"the complete and utter chaos and shambles of the Tory asylum crisis\", Labour would use barges and hotels to house asylum seekers during \"a very short-term period\".\n\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper had previously indicated she would not be able to immediately shut down the sites but declined to be explicit about the policy.", "(L-R) Rejjie Snow, Móglaí Bap, The Rubberbandits, Mango, Jafaris, Erica Cody, Jordan Adetunji, Denise Chaila, Versatile and Hare Squead represent a portion of the Irish hip-hop industry\n\nFifty years ago this week hip-hop was born in the United States.\n\nBut it would take a little longer to reach the island of Ireland.\n\nWhile hip-hop artists like A Tribe Called Quest, LL Cool J, Dr Dre and Public Enemy dominated the American charts in the late '80s, new-age artist Enya and the Celt-rock Saw Doctors reigned supreme on Irish radio.\n\nBut a new sound, and attitude, was about to disrupt the airwaves.\n\nThe group, consisting of Dada Sloosh, DJ Mek, Mr Browne and Rí Rá, was formed in 1990 and are considered by many to be the forefathers of Irish hip-hop.\n\nTheir sound was a melting pot of genres proudly delivered with an Irish accent, and they soon found themselves opening for the likes of Madness, U2 and the Beastie Boys.\n\n\"Hip-hop was fundamental, that was always the base, but we listened to all sorts - reggae, funk, jazz, punk,\" Rí Rá told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Sloosh brought the traditional Irish element in, we stewed it all together and made music that could've went anywhere.\"\n\nScary Éire are considered by many to be the first Irish hip-hop act\n\nCapturing the bleak realities of life in a pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, the group's music caught on with many remembering their live session for RTÉ 2FM's Dave Fanning.\n\nOthers, Rí Rá recalled, looked on with bemusement: \"Not quite sure what they were hearing but kind of liking it, and some not so keen on it.\"\n\nHe added: \"From people within the hip-hop crowd it was a big thing. The support was massive. Like they had their own group now, their representatives, and we were it.\"\n\nScary Éire subsequently became the first Irish rap act to sign a major label deal with Island Records but it was to be short-lived with only one single release, 1993's Dole Queue.\n\nThe album was shelved, only to emerge 13 years later followed by some high-profile reunion gigs, including a set at Electric Picnic festival in 2019.\n\nLooking back on their success, Rí Rá - who still releases solo material - said he was grateful for the experience and is proud of the group's legacy.\n\n\"There's never been a time when we weren't mentioned in some capacity by people who came after us,\" he said.\n\n\"I meet young people now who tell me their da' had a tape, or their uncle used to play them this and that song, and they're passing it on to their younger siblings and their own kids now.\n\n\"It's a good feeling to know we made enough noise to still be heard.\"\n\nOn 11 August 1973, Cindy Campbell hosted a \"back-to-school\" party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, New York City.\n\nMore than 300 people attended and her brother DJ Kool Herc was recruited to showcase his innovative mixing style that extended percussion samples, creating instrumental dance breaks.\n\nIn 2007 the New York State Office officially recognized 1520 Sedgwick Avenue as the \"birthplace of hip-hop\"\n\nThe event marked the birth of hip-hop, leading to its global cultural impact over the next 50 years.\n\nIrish hip-hop appeared to disappear for a few years after the Scary era, resurfacing during the early noughties when budding MCs took to online forums with digital space giving rise to emerging talent like Rob Kelly, Lunitic and Collie Collins.\n\nAnd then, in 2010, The Rubberbandits and their Horse Outside arrived - a surreal time in the Irish media-landscape - which led to a number two single and a lasting career for the artist, author and commentator Blindboy Boatclub.\n\nComedy-rap duo The Rubberbandits from Limerick rose to prominence in 2010 with a viral music video\n\nThose artists were respected at home but commercial success and wider industry recognition was not forthcoming.\n\nOf course, there's always been one or two exceptions, like Ciarán McDonald, also known as Bearface, from Belfast.\n\nThe producer and performer's career highs include two sets at 2022's Coachella festival as part of the Brockhampton hip-hop collective - a group he joined after connecting with members online.\n\nBrockhampton released eight studio albums, with McDonald serving as executive producer for their penultimate release, The Family, before disbanding last year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFor solo artists, it would take until 2013 for an Irish act to really challenge the hip-hop industry in a serious way.\n\nRejjie Snow, formerly known as Alexander Anyaegbunam, was born in 1993 in Drumcondra to a Nigerian father and an Irish-Jamaican mother.\n\nHe later relocated to the US but returned to Ireland to pursue a music career, debuting with his Rejovich EP in June 2013.\n\nFeaturing a cameo from English-rapper Loyle Carner, the record topped the iTunes hip-hop chart, ahead of a release from Kanye West.\n\nRejjie Snow from Dublin launched his music career in 2013 to critical acclaim\n\nMillions of streams followed, a stint touring with Madonna for her Rebel Heart tour and the release of his first album Dear Annie.\n\nThe album was well received, touted as the first major Irish hip-hop record.\n\nBut his music is a massive contrast to the thick-accented Versatile - the first Irish hip-hop act to sell out Dublin's 3Arena - and Belfast-based Kneecap, who rap in both Irish and English.\n\nVersatile become the first Irish rap group to headline the 3Arena in Dublin\n\n\"I think in Ireland for a long time, hip-hop was looking outwards... they were performing with American accents but there's a big change now with people using their own accents and trying to be authentic and looking inwards,\" Kneecap's Móglaí Bap told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We had a big interest in hip-hop and that genre of music and there was really no representation of this growing [Irish speaking] community.\"\n\nBut that could be about to change.\n\nWith an increasing number of acts - such as Imlé, Ushmush and Hazey Haze - spitting bars in Irish, there has seemingly never been a better time to express Irish identity through the genre.", "Police officials inspect the carriages at the accident site following the derailment of the train\n\nAt least 30 people have been killed and 100 injured when a train derailed in southern Pakistan, a police spokesman has confirmed.\n\nSeveral carriages of the Hazara Express overturned near Sahara railway station in Nawabshah, about 275km (171 miles) from the largest city Karachi.\n\nWounded passengers were moved to nearby hospitals. Rescue teams are trying to free people from the twisted wreckage.\n\nAccidents on Pakistan's antiquated railway system are not uncommon.\n\nVideos posted on social media showed dozens of people at the site of the accident, with some passengers climbing out of the overturned carriages.\n\nOne passenger who survived told BBC Urdu he had seen many women and children lying on the ground.\n\n\"They were shouting and screaming. I didn't know what to do. I filled my hands with water from this canal nearby and poured it on the faces of those who were unconscious, hoping they would regain consciousness,\" Naseer Ahmed said.\n\nNasser said he survived the accident because he \"fell out of the window when the train derailed\".\n\nAslam, who was on the train with his son, said: \"We were sleeping when suddenly the carriage came down and [it felt like] an apocalypse.\"\n\nRailway Minister Saad Rafiq said initial investigations showed the train was travelling at normal speed and they were trying to establish what led to the derailment. It could be the result of a mechanical fault or sabotage, he added.\n\nAuthorities have dismissed reports the track was flooded.\n\nA railways spokesperson in Karachi said at least eight carriages went off the track.\n\nHe said military and paramilitary troops along with rescue workers were on the scene and helped to rescue passengers trapped inside the train carriages.\n\nThe most seriously injured passengers were transported to distant, better-equipped hospitals in military helicopters.\n\nOfficials said rescue operations were completed in the early evening on Sunday.\n\nParamilitary rangers and volunteers inspect the carriages at the accident site following the derailment\n\nAn emergency has been declared in the main hospitals in Nawabshah and neighbouring districts of Sindh.\n\nTrain services to the interior districts of Sindh have been suspended.\n\nSindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon told BBC News that the government's top priority was \"the rescue work, which we are totally focused on\".\n\nIn 2021, two trains travelling in Sindh province collided, killing at least 40 people and injuring dozens.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2019, 150 people died in such incidents, according to local media reports.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Children sit in a makeshift classroom at a refugee camp in eastern Mali\n\nAs Mali fights Islamist militants and separatists, it has turned to Wagner mercenaries for security. But the group's leader is now presumed dead, UN peacekeepers are leaving and Mali faces a crisis. The BBC's Feras Kilani travelled to its dangerous northern desert region - the only international journalist to go there in the past year - to meet people caught up in the chaos.\n\nIt was late in the evening when we set up camp, lit a fire to cook our dinner and laid down our blankets to sleep under the open sky. Suddenly the silence of the hot desert night was broken by the roar of a motorbike.\n\nAround us, we heard a series of clicks as the armed men in our convoy cocked their rifles and machine guns. We were with a group of Tuareg separatists who told the man on the motorbike to move on.\n\nAs soon as he left, our hosts told us we had to leave too. Immediately. It was too risky to stay put as the man was a scout for a local group linked to al-Qaeda.\n\nWe had been careful, swapping our jeans for traditional robes and Tuareg headscarves to blend in, but if he realised foreigners were in the camp he could lead the militants to us and we could be kidnapped.\n\nWe packed up as quickly as we could and drove off into the pitch black without any headlights or torches so that we couldn't be followed.\n\nThis part of northern Mali is beyond government control and is run by groups of Tuareg separatists and Islamist extremists linked to al-Qaeda - they don't exactly get along but they have reached a mutual understanding to leave each other alone. But the tension and fear we experienced that night reflects a deepening crisis across the country as it slides deeper into lawlessness and chaos.\n\nThe government has turned away from international peacekeeping forces, relying on Russia's Wagner group for security instead. But now the mercenaries' notorious leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is believed to have died in a plane crash, leaving questions over operations here and fears that Mali is in an even more precarious position.\n\nFurther to the east, the Islamic State group has established itself and is trying to increase the area it controls. We wanted to meet the civilians caught up in the violence IS fighters have brought with them. So we drove more than 1,000km (650 miles) through the desert to the city of Kidal in the east of Mali. When we arrived, we saw camps where thousands of refugees are living after fleeing their homes.\n\n\"Islamic State forced us to come here,\" Fatima told us, sitting on the floor of a makeshift tent - a rough piece of material propped up by a few branches. She is in her 60s and this is now her home, with her daughter and two of her grandchildren by her side.\n\nHer husband and son-in-law were killed when IS attacked the village where they used to live.\n\n\"They killed all our men and burned all our food and animals,\" she added. Others told us similar stories of how their supplies of grain, sheep and camels had been destroyed, leaving them with nothing. Many of the youngest children we saw had no clothes or shoes.\n\nFatima (R) and her daughter (L) who has one of her children cradled in her lap\n\nFatima, and what remains of her family, walked hundreds of kilometres to reach Kidal from her old home in Menaka state in eastern Mali.\n\nAs we had seen for ourselves, travelling across the desert is tough. There are no paved roads, just rough routes marked in the sand by vehicles that have passed through before. The sand stretches as far as you can see, sometimes dotted with trees and shrubs.\n\nThere's not much for people in Kidal, but at least they can survive. \"We found water and shelter, so we stayed,\" Fatima said. People in these camps get some basic assistance from local NGOs but there isn't much.\n\nWe also met Musa Ag Taher, one of the few men in the camp. Islamic State fighters attacked his home too. \"When IS entered the town I buried myself until they left and then I managed to escape with my family,\" he said. He described how he dug a shallow pit in the ground and covered himself with sand to hide. He managed to escape with his four children.\n\nThough Kidal is safer than the areas Fatima and Musa left behind, there are fears the situation is about to get worse.\n\nIn 2012, the military staged a coup, while rebels and Islamist fighters took control of the north, declaring an independent state in the region. A new interim government asked French troops to come and fight the Islamist extremists. A few months after their arrival in 2013, the UN sent an international force called Minusma to keep the peace.\n\nThe country's military leaders seized power again in 2020 - since then the junta has distanced itself from France, its former colonial ruler, and French troops have been sent home.\n\nIn 2021 the government invited Wagner to Mali to help with security and soon the Russian mercenary group will be the only outside force providing military support. The government has told the UN's 12,000 peacekeepers to leave - they are now in the process of pulling out.\n\nWe visited a UN base in Kidal that is due to close in November. Huge sandbags topped with coils of razor wire had been set up around the entrance for security. Beyond, we could see people in blue helmets and rows of white vehicles with UN markings.\n\nFeras stands at the gate of a UN base speaking to people inside\n\nThe security guard at the gate called someone on his radio and three men appeared. They asked us to stop filming and explained that because they were preparing to leave they wouldn't be able to give us an interview.\n\nLocal groups are worried that when these UN forces go, they will leave a power vacuum with IS, militants affiliated to al-Qaeda and separatists all fighting for control.\n\nThere are believed to be about 1,000 Wagner soldiers in Mali - less than a tenth of the size of the UN force they are replacing and there are fears they will be even less effective at countering jihadist groups.\n\nAnd earlier this year, the UN accused Wagner of committing atrocities alongside the Malian army, describing \"alarming accounts of horrific executions, mass graves, acts of torture, rape and sexual violence\" in the Mopti area. It also described how Malian soldiers, overseen by Wagner fighters, killed around 500 mostly unarmed civilians in a village. The Malian government denied any wrongdoing.\n\nAt a nearby compound we met a group of separatists from the Tuareg ethnic group who control Kidal. They are worried that Mali's military government, who control the south of the country, might try to seize what is left of the UN base when the international force pulls out. He says this could lead to renewed fighting.\n\n\"If these camps are handed over by Minusma to the Malian army, Minusma will be responsible for what happens next,\" Bilal Ag Sharif, the local Tuareg leader, told us.\n\n\"The Malian government will also be responsible because it is demanding something that is not its right, and we will not accept it,\" he added, making it clear his group will not give up control of the region without a struggle.\n\nAs well as providing security, the 12 UN bases across Mali also support about 10,000 local jobs. They employ translators, drivers, people to distribute food and provide services such as street lighting and some very basic healthcare.\n\n\"It will leave these people without any work without any hope, without any source [of income] to feed their families,\" Sharif told us. He's worried Islamist militant groups will step in and benefit.\n\n\"This will give extremist groups new opportunities for recruitment,\" he said.\n\nChildren sitting on the ground read from boards in their makeshift classroom\n\nIn the refugee camp we had seen rows of children huddled on the ground of a makeshift school.\n\nA teacher hit their heads with a cane as they recited verses from the Quran.\n\nTheir parents had been killed by IS and it was easy to see how they could be targeted and recruited by militant groups as they grow up.\n\nThe motivation of the Wagner group in the region has been questioned, however. The US government has accused it of running gold and diamond mines in other African countries, saying it is a \"destabilising force\", mainly interested in profiting from natural resources.\n\nA few days before the plane crash in Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared in a video which suggested he was in Africa.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify where the video was filmed, but in it, Prigozhin said the group was making Africa \"more free\" and that Wagner was exploring for minerals as well as fighting Islamist militants and other criminals.\n\nJust outside Kidal, we visited one of Mali's many gold processing plants. It's only a small operation, with little heavy machinery and much of the panning and smelting is done by hand.\n\nBut with hundreds of sites like this across the country, Mali manages to produce more than 60 tonnes of gold a year, making it one of Africa's top five exporters of the precious metal.\n\nTuareg groups are worried that Wagner soldiers might try to seize control of the local gold industry and sites like this one. If they do, Sharif warns there will be bloodshed.\n\nThe UN has warned that the threat from jihadist groups has increased across Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in the past year.\n\nAll three countries have had military coups, with civilian governments pushed out of power in Burkina Faso in 2022 and in Niger in July this year.\n\nAnd with Wagner's future now uncertain, it's unclear how much Mali can rely on the group for security. If the situation within the country deteriorates further, it could have a knock-on effect causing wider instability in the region.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The UK's second-largest vape company took down social media accounts after sending vapes to reporters in an online giveaway without age verification.\n\nChinese government-owned SKE has seen rapid growth in sales of its Crystal Bar disposable vapes, which have been criticised for appealing to children.\n\nIn an exclusive interview SKE marketing director Serge Davies said the accounts were taken down for a \"review\".\n\nSKE also apologised for not signing up to government recycling schemes.\n\nIn supermarkets, newsagents and vape shops, Crystal Bar disposable vapes are everywhere in the UK. Designed to deliver a few hundred puffs of nicotine-containing vapour and then be thrown away, disposable vapes have seen astonishing growth in recent years.\n\nSKE, the partly state-owned Chinese company which makes Crystal Bar, is now the second biggest seller of vapes in the UK, according to new figures from data provider NielsenIQ, selling more than 30 million in the past year. Nielsen's figures don't include independent retailers and vape shops - SKE's true sales figure is thought to be over 100 million.\n\nGiving away free samples has been a key part of its rise - last month it ran an online giveaway on the Discord instant messaging platform, promoted via its Instagram feed. Discord began as a platform for gamers, and has a large number of under-18 users.\n\nBBC reporters entered the competition. They were asked to state that they were over 18, but no further verification was required. Two vapes were then sent in the post.\n\nIt is illegal to sell vapes to anyone under 18.\n\nAfter the BBC contacted SKE, some of its social media accounts were taken down pending a \"review\", including its YouTube and TikTok channels.\n\n\"We're looking to relaunch them with a local social media company that has more of an understanding of the local laws, the local customs,\" Serge Davies, SKE's European communications director, told the BBC.\n\nSKE's two biggest rivals, the Chinese company Elfbar and UK-listed BAT, which makes Vuse vapes, both say they don't publish on TikTok. That's partly because the risk of appearing on children's phones is too great.\n\nSKE, however, is committed to the platform. \"We will be looking to relaunch with an exciting new strategy on TikTok,\" said Mr Davies. It is also committed to continuing with vape giveaways. \"It does seem to create a lot of interest in the brand and a lot of excitement for all,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked whether he could defend one particular video from SKE's TikTok feeds, which saw a Crystal Bar being opened to a soundtrack saying, \"I wish that I could be like the cool kids,\" Mr Davies said: \"None of our policies are geared towards marketing to children. So what we try and do with the [social] media accounts is just try and build up a bit of a buzz really.\"\n\nSKE's Serge Davies said the firm was looking to relaunch some of its social media accounts\n\nMP Steve Brine, chair of the health select committee, said: \"It is extremely concerning to hear that vapes could easily fall into the hands of children because proper checks are not being made.\n\n\"Responsible manufacturers should not be using giveaway schemes that can act as a green light to children to begin vaping when what they need is protection from potentially harmful effects.\"\n\nDisposable vapes contain electronics, including a small battery, which are difficult and expensive to recycle. Discarded vapes are a common sight, and local councils have called for them to be banned.\n\nLike all makers of electronic goods, vape companies are legally obliged to register with recycling schemes under which producers contribute to the cost of recycling. Until this month, SKE had not registered with these schemes, or paid the contributions, estimated at about £100,000.\n\nMr Davies said the firm apologised for this, which he blamed on a \"communications issue\".\n\n\"We're glad you highlighted that and we have now signed up to the relevant schemes,\" he said.\n\nSKE set up a UK company for the first time this month, and the paperwork at Companies House shows that the Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision And Administration Commission (SASAC) has \"significant control\". The SASAC administers investments on behalf of the Chinese state.\n\nSKE is owned by Shenzhen Yinghe Technology Co, whose largest shareholder is Shanghai Electric Co, which is in turn more than 50% owned by entities linked to the Chinese state, according to its annual report.\n\nIn a report to shareholders last year, Yinghe said it had missed vape sales targets due to a government crackdown in China, and was focusing on international expansion to make up the gap. The UK is now its largest market in Europe.\n\nIn China, only tobacco or menthol flavoured vapes are legal, but in the UK SKE sells a dazzling variety or flavours. In the Discord giveaway BBC reporters were sent Watermelon Ice and Vimbull Ice - combining the tastes of Red Bull and Vimto.\n\nSome flavours, such as Gummy Bear, are named after sweets, which have been criticised as likely to appeal to children. Mr Davies said SKE would continue to sell them. \"You've got to consider that many Gummy Bears are sold to adults,\" he said. It was down to enforcement to prevent vapes being sold to children, he added.\n\nHealth committee chair Mr Brine said: \"We've taken evidence from the vaping industry and do not believe it has gone far enough to ensure that its products don't appeal to children.\n\n\"Marketing is designed to target exactly this age group with the bright colours and flavours that refer to unicorns, sweets or popular fizzy drinks. We want to see restrictions on packaging and marketing practices in line with those that apply to tobacco products.\"\n\nDespite many who believe that disposable vapes will be banned, Mr Davies said SKE had set up a headquarters in Manchester, was hiring new staff and expanding.\n\n\"We are here to stay,\" he said.", "Sinn Féin spent over £300,000 more than it received last year, making it the largest overspender of Stormont's main political parties.\n\nLatest figures from the Electoral Commission detail spending for the year ending 31 December.\n\nSinn Féin received £1,186,378 but spent £1,533,335 while the Ulster Unionists overspent by more than £160,000.\n\nIt is not unusual for political parties to record an overspend in years in which election campaigns are run.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Alliance Party overspent by £61,793 and £23,109 respectively.\n\nThe SDLP was the only main party which recorded an income greater than its expenditure last year.\n\nSinn Féin also recorded an overspend back in 2020 but in recent years the party has benefitted from millions of pounds in donations from a deceased donor.\n\nTotalling more than £3m since the first donation in 2019, the money came from Billy Hampton, a former market trader who died in Pembrokshire in Wales in 2018.\n\nHis father Tim Hampton was a wealthy businessman who had significant commercial interests in the village of Fenstanton in Cambridgeshire in England.\n\nWhen Billy Hampton's first donation of £1.5m was made it was understood to be the largest ever known donation to a Northern Ireland political party.\n\nIt has been reported that a further tranche of money, £100,000, was donated to Sinn Féin in July.", "Kleenex facial tissues will soon be leaving Canada\n\nCanadians with runny noses and teary eyes will soon have to part with their Kleenex after the company announced it was pulling its famous facial wipes from the country.\n\nKimberly-Clark, the company behind Kleenex, said the decision was based on \"unique complexities\".\n\nOther Kimberly Clark products like Huggies and Cottonnelle will remain on Canadian shelves.\n\n\"The decision was incredibly difficult for us to make,\" the statement said.\n\nThe news of Kleenex's exit is \"shocking\" in a country where the brand is so well known, said David Soberman, a marketing professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.\n\n\"In Canada, the word Kleenex is almost synonymous with a facial tissue,\" he said.\n\nSo why the sudden goodbye? Experts like Mr Soberman told the BBC the decision almost certainly came down to the bottom line.\n\n\"No company pulls out of a market if they're making money,\" Mr Soberman said. \"Whatever they want to say, they could have just said 'we're not making any money in Canada, that's why we're pulling out of facial tissues'.\"\n\nPart of Kleenex's problem, Mr Soberman said, was likely the popularity of Scotties, the facial tissue produced by the Canadian company Kruger.\n\n\"They [Kleenex] really are the second place brand in Canada to Scotties,\" he said, noting Scotties' major Canadian sponsorship deals, like its presence in women's curling.\n\nBut this is not the first time a big brand name has abandoned Canada. Beloved American snacks like Bugles, Bagel Bites and Little Debbie products have also said goodbye in recent years.\n\nEconomists told the BBC that may be because Canada's market is not all that friendly to foreign business.\n\nAccording to the World Economic Forum's competitiveness index, CEOs most frequently complain about Canada's inefficient government bureaucracy and high taxes - at least compared to the US.\n\n\"The US market is easier than Canada's for a variety of reasons,\" said Walid Hejazi, an economics professor also at the Rotman School.\n\nFirst, Mr Hejazi said, is the sheer size of the US - almost 10 times as many people to buy, sell and manufacture products.\n\nMore readily available credit, less government regulation and more investment in research and development are other reasons the US can be a more attractive market than Canada.\n\n\"Another huge one is in Canada is there's so much protectionism, I think this is the biggest one,\" Mr Hejazi said. In Canada, all three of the biggest industries - airlines, telecom and finance - are heavily protected by the federal government, he said.\n\nWhile Canadian companies may benefit, that home court advantage may help drive out US and other foreign companies from travelling up north.\n\nAnd now, it means, Canadians will have to save their tears - at least for another brand of facial tissue.", "The couple were travelling to a friend's house after celebrating Black Pride when they were attacked\n\nTwo men were taken to hospital after a homophobic attack in south London, the second such incident publicised within the space of a week.\n\nThe couple, in their 30s and 40s, were assaulted on Saturday at about 23:00 BST while waiting for a bus in Brixton, after spending the day at Black Pride.\n\nBoth men were treated in hospital and one needed stitches.\n\nNo arrests have been made and police, who are treating this as a homophobic attack, are appealing for information.\n\nMichael Smith and his boyfriend Nat Asabere were waiting for a bus on Brixton Road when a man they did not know approached them and then assaulted them as a bus approached.\n\nNat was punched in the back of the head, while Michael describes being punched in the face \"three or four times\".\n\nThey both ran on to the bus for safety, which is when they began to realise the extent of Michael's injuries.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Luckily, my flight mode just set in and we just ran on to that bus.\n\n\"That's where I looked down, and I just saw blood all over my T-shirt, and I was thinking 'where's this blood coming from?'. I could taste it in my mouth and I could see it on my hands, and when my tongue went over my lip I could just feel this massive split in my lip.\"\n\nThe attack left Michael needing stitches in his lip\n\nMichael says he has been struggling to process what happened to him, and gets emotional talking about the incident.\n\nHe added: \"I'm having such a rollercoaster of emotions at the moment. When it's online and someone sends me a message, I'm able to articulate how I'm feeling.\n\n\"But when someone asks me how I am in person, a lump gets my throat and that's when I feel like I'm about to break down. It's taken a lot out of me.\"\n\nThe attack happened less than a week after two men were stabbed outside the Two Brewers nightclub, just over a mile away.\n\nPolice are keeping an open mind but say they do not think the two attacks are linked.\n\nMichael says he fears hostility against the LGBTQ+ community is increasing, and is now raising money for the charity Stonewall. He says it is important for him to speak out and raise awareness.\n\nHe said: \"I had to channel all of those emotions and feelings and make it empower me to do something good. That's why I've done a fundraiser and that's why I decided to talk about it. Because I know that if I didn't talk about it, I know it will be eating away at me.\"\n\nNat, who is suffering from headaches after the assault, says it was a great day that turned into an \"horrific experience\" but he wants people to know there is support out there for anyone who has been a victim of abuse.\n\nBoth praised their involvement with the police and doctors and are now being supported by charities.\n\nSexual orientation hate crimes in England and Wales rose by 41% to 26,152, according to Home Office data for the year ending March 2022 - the largest annual percentage increase since records began in 2012.\n\nTransgender identity hate crimes also increased by 56% to 4,355.\n\nPolice say both Michael and Nat are being supported by a dedicated LGBT+ Community Liaison Officer.\n\nAny witnesses or anyone with information about the attack are asked to call 101 and quote reference number 8673/22AUG.", "A mum suffered a perforated bowel and sepsis after being told she was anxious and should take constipation medication and drink peppermint tea.\n\nFarrah Moseley-Brown was in \"agonising pain\" after having her second son, Clay, but the hospital sent her home.\n\nBecause of the delay in treating her, Ms Moseley-Brown, 28, of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, now has a stoma.\n\nCardiff and Vale health board admitted failures in her care and gave its \"sincere apologies\".\n\nSince the error, Ms Moseley-Brown has turned to TikTok to inform people about the dangers of sepsis and has had 15 million views one one video alone.\n\nShe was booked into University Hospital Wales, Cardiff, for a Caesarean on 7 May 2020.\n\nAfter Clay was born, Ms Moseley-Brown lost about two-and-a-half pints of blood and needed further surgery to stem the bleeding.\n\n\"I felt really unwell and I said this to the nurses and the staff at the hospital which they didn't listen to. They kept saying it was after-pain but it was just agonising,\" Ms Moseley-Brown said.\n\nFarrah Moseley-Brown lost a lot of blood after giving birth to Clay\n\nShe was discharged three days later, despite her concerns, after being given medication for her constipation.\n\n\"Every single night they'd say 'she's anxious, she's just anxious'. I was just given tablets for constipation and was fed lots of peppermint tea.\"\n\nTwo days later, she returned to hospital with stomach pain and vomiting and had a stomach X-ray and was given more treatment for constipation before being sent home again on 15 May.\n\nOnly after her third trip to the hospital, the following day, was she diagnosed with a perforated bowel and sepsis after she was struggling to breathe.\n\n\"I had about five minutes to absorb what was going to happen,\" Ms Moseley-Brown said.\n\n\"He explained the procedure to me and at that point I didn't even know what a colostomy bag was. The doctor said, 'you're very poorly and it's a very risky operation'. I could have died.\"\n\nThe impact of the operation has been life changing for Ms Moseley-Brown.\n\n\"As a woman, and being the age I am now, very self-conscious,\" she said.\n\n\"The amount of damage they have done with scarring and stuff, I would need a lot of plastic surgery to fix it.\n\n\"I think they thought I was a mum who couldn't deal with the after pains of the C-section.\"\n\nThe 28-year old said she was not taken \"seriously\" when she said she felt unwell\n\nMs Moseley-Brown has osteogenesis imperfecta, more commonly known as brittle bone disease.\n\nThis can cause an increased risk of complications during pregnancy and birth and she believes she was not cared for correctly.\n\nCardiff and Vale health board said the perforation and events that followed would not have happened if further imaging was done and surgical opinion was arranged.\n\nJames Pink, an associate solicitor for Irwin Mitchell acting for Ms Moseley-Brown, said the health board \"failed to appropriately review\"her, leading to the \"traumatic\" perforation.\n\nHe added: \"She did not undergo the investigations that she perhaps needed, which would have resulted in more treatment that could have helped resolve what was worsening constipation.\"\n\nFarrah Moseley-Brown has two sons - Cohan (left) and Clay\n\nThe health board said: \"We reiterate our sincere apologies to Ms Moseley-Brown's for her maternity care experience whilst at the University Hospital of Wales in 2020.\"\n\nIt said it could not comment on individual cases but when \"concern was raised\", a \"formal litigation process\" began.\n\nThe health board added that \"safe, effective care\" to patients is \"of paramount importance\" and it was \"fully committed to continually improving the care\".\n\nSince Ms Moseley-Brown's case, University Hospital Wales has been found to have wider failings in its maternity care.\n\nSince recovering from sepsis, Ms Moseley-Brown said raising awareness on TikTok had been one of the positives to come out of her ordeal.\n\n\"So many women were really supported by it and I had messages from all over the world. I had emails from a lady in South Africa who had told me her story.\n\n\"All these women explained that they needed this advice. They needed these signs. They needed somebody to talk to about it.\"", "Border Force officers assisting people believed to be migrants in Dungeness this month\n\nRishi Sunak has warned the UK's asylum system is facing unsustainable pressure after the cost almost doubled in a year to nearly £4bn.\n\nThe prime minister, who has made stopping small boats one of his top five priorities, said the cost was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHome Office asylum spending rose by £1.85bn in the year 2022/23.\n\nLabour said the record high asylum backlog pointed to \"disastrous\" handling by Mr Sunak.\n\nAccording to Home Office figures, 19,382 people had crossed the Channel on small boats by 24 August this year.\n\nBut small boat crossings in the first six months of 2023 were 10% down on the same period last year.\n\n\"That is the first time that has happened since the small boats crisis has emerged,\" Mr Sunak told reporters.\n\n\"That shows that the plan is working.\"\n\nAccording to government statistics, the total cost of the asylum system to the taxpayer in 2022/23 was £3.97bn - up from £2.12bn in 2021/22.\n\nOnly a decade ago that figure was £500.2m.\n\nStatistics also show 80% of asylum seekers are waiting longer than six months for an initial decision.\n\nEarlier the prime minister told the Daily Express: \"The best way to relieve the unsustainable pressures on our asylum system and unacceptable costs to the taxpayer is to stop the boats in the first place.\n\n\"That's why we are focused on our plan to break the business model of the people smugglers facilitating these journeys, including working with international partners upstream to disrupt their efforts, stepping up joint work with the French to help reduce crossings and tackling the asylum backlog.\"\n\nOverall, a total of 175,457 people were waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application in the UK at the end of June 2023 - the highest figure since records began in 2010. It was also up 44% from 122,213 for the same period last year.\n\nOf these, 139,961 had been waiting longer than six months for an initial decision, up 57% year on year from 89,231 and another record high.\n\nLabour said the backlog amounted to a \"disastrous record\" for Mr Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman, while campaigners called for asylum claims to be processed more efficiently.\n\nThe Home Office said the government was \"on track\" to clear the legacy backlog by the end of the year, and added that progress has been made since June.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"We've already reduced the legacy backlog by over 28,000 - nearly a third - since the start of December and we remain on track to meet our target.\n\n\"But we know there is more to do to make sure asylum seekers do not spend months or years - living in the UK at vast expense to the taxpayer - waiting for a decision.\"\n\nPeter Walsh, senior researcher at the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said it was becoming harder to see how government could achieve its pledge to eliminate the legacy backlog of older claims by the end of the year, as the rate of decision-making would have to more than double.\n\nAn asylum seeker is a person who flees their home country, enters another country and applies for the right to international protection and to stay in that country.\n\nIn the UK, asylum seekers are not allowed to work and must rely on state support. Housing is provided, but asylum seekers can not choose where it is. Small boat arrivals account for 45% of the total number of people claiming asylum in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The remains of an English Channel inflatable recovered by the UK Border Force.", "Volunteer Caroline McNamara in front of a yellow fibreglass submarine that was used in a search of Loch Ness in 1969\n\nA search for the Loch Ness Monster, billed as the biggest Nessie hunt in more than 50 years, has been taking place in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nA hundred volunteers helped record natural - and any unusual - sights on Loch Ness from vantage points on land.\n\nAlmost 300 have signed up to monitor a live stream from the search, which is taking place on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nStories of a monster have existed for centuries but it is 90 years since the modern myth of Nessie began.\n\nIn April 1933, hotel manageress Aldie Mackay said she had seen a whale-like creature in the loch.\n\nThe Inverness Courier newspaper reported the sighting and the editor at the time, Evan Barron, suggested the creature be described as a \"monster\".\n\nSince then the mystery of Nessie has inspired books, TV shows and films, as well as sustaining a major tourism industry.\n\nThis weekend's search has been organised by the Loch Ness Centre in Drumnadrochit and a volunteer research team called Loch Ness Exploration.\n\nBoats carrying acoustic listening equipment were taking part in the search\n\nLoch Ness Centre general manager Paul Nixon insisted it was more than a PR stunt.\n\n\"There are a hundred volunteers lining the banks of Loch Ness today, all on a quest to find some answers to what is the Loch Ness Monster,\" he said.\n\n\"Some of the more recent sightings that I've seen are sonar contacts - showing objects in the water at depth.\n\n\"The biggest one I've seen is an object the size of a transit van, which hasn't been explained to me what that was. It wasn't there when we went back.\"\n\nDrones fitted with infrared cameras have been flown over the loch, and a hydrophone is being used to detect unusual underwater sounds.\n\nA study of the loch in 1968\n\nThe sheer size of the loch which extends over 36km (23 miles)and is more than 200m (650ft) deep in places makes exploration a challenge.\n\nIt can hold more water - 7,452 million cubic metres - than all English and Welsh lakes together.\n\nAlan McKenna, of Loch Ness Exploration, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We are looking for breaks in the surface and asking volunteers to record all manner of natural behaviour on the loch.\"\n\nHe said the loch could play tricks on people's eyes and mind.\n\n\"Not every ripple or wave is a beastie. Some of those can be explained, but there are handful that cannot,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The famous \"surgeon's photo\"of the monster is now thought to be a hoax but the fascination with Nessie endures\n\nThe Loch Ness Centre documents some of the best known monster \"sightings\"\n\nOrganisers said the effort was the biggest search for the monster since the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau carried out a study in 1972.\n\nThe bureau was set up in the 1960s to find proof of a large beast in the waters.\n\nIt was wound up in 1977 after it was unsuccessful in uncovering any significant evidence for or against the existence of a monster.\n\nThe legend of Nessie dates back to the Middle Ages when Irish monk St Columba is said to have encountered a beast in the Ness, a river that flows from Loch Ness.\n\nPrevious attempts to find the monster included 1987's Operation Deepscan, when 24 boats equipped with echo sounders swept the entire length of the loch.\n\nOn three occasions something was detected that could not be immediately explained. Large debris was one of the explanations offered for the \"contacts\".\n\nLoch Ness can hold more water than all the lakes in England and Wales together\n\nIn 2019, scientists said the creatures behind repeated sightings of the fabled Loch Ness Monster may be giant eels.\n\nResearchers from New Zealand tried to catalogue all living species in the loch by extracting DNA from water samples.\n\nFollowing analysis, the scientists ruled out the presence of large animals which were said to be behind reports of a monster.\n\nNo evidence of a prehistoric marine reptile called a plesiosaur or a large fish such as a sturgeon were found.\n\nThe Loch Ness Monster myth is surrounded by claims and confirmed hoaxes. Ninety years on from the first \"sighting\" here is a rundown of 10 weird and wonderful headline-making moments.", "Two men have been released from custody after being arrested over a fire that tore through the Crooked House pub.\n\nOnce known as \"Britain's wonkiest\" inn, it set alight on 5 August, and was then demolished less than 48 hours later.\n\nA 66-year-old man from Dudley and a 33-year-old man from Milton Keynes were detained on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.\n\nThey have been released under conditional police bail as inquiries into the fire continue.\n\n\"We understand the strength of feeling in the community following the fire and later demolition of the building, given the significance and popularity of this cultural landmark,\" Staffordshire Police said.\n\nThe building was reduced to rubble on 7 August\n\nThe18th Century building in Himley, was known for its sloping walls and floor due to mining subsidence in the area.\n\nProtesters angry at the demolition have camped out at the site since Monday to watch over the foundations and bricks.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council is conducting its own investigation into the demolition.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEver since he led a mutinous march on Moscow in late June Yevgeny Prigozhin was described by Russia watchers as \"a dead man walking\".\n\nCommenting recently on the mercenary boss's life expectancy the CIA Director William Burns even said: \"If I were Prigozhin I wouldn't fire my food taster\".\n\nIf it is ever proven that the mid-air destruction of a plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin was an act of deliberate, cold-blooded revenge by the Kremlin, this will go down in Russian history as the ultimate \"special military operation\".\n\nPrigozhin, a former convict, chef and hot dog salesman-turned mercenary boss, had a lot of admirers amongst the ranks of his Wagner mercenary army and beyond. Many will have witnessed his warm reception by the public in Rostov-on-Don when he turned up there exactly two months ago in the throes of his aborted one-day rebellion.\n\nBut he also had a lot of enemies in Moscow, most notably in the upper ranks of the Russian military whose leaders he frequently and publicly criticised.\n\nWhat has probably turned out to have been his fatal mistake was crossing President Putin when he launched that march on Moscow on 23 June. Although he did not mention Putin by name at the time, Prigozhin infuriated the Kremlin by very publicly criticising the official reasons given for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He told Russians they had been deceived and that their sons were dying in the Ukraine war due to poor leadership. This was heresy and Putin's video message on that day was sizzling with vitriol. He called Prigozhin's march on Moscow a betrayal and a stab in the back.\n\nAlexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who became a British citizen, was fatally poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006\n\nVladimir Putin does not forgive traitors nor those who challenge him.\n\nThe former Russian intelligence officer-turned defector, Alexander Litvinenko, died a slow and agonising death in a London hospital in 2006 after he was poisoned with radioactive Polonium-210.\n\nA subsequent investigation concluded that this assassins brought the lethal substance with them from Russia and that it could only have been sourced from a Russian government laboratory. Moscow denied any involvement but refused to surrender the two suspects for trial.\n\nThen there was Sergei Skripal, a former Russian KGB officer and again a defector to Britain.\n\nIn 2018 he and his daughter Yulia narrowly escaped death when GRU Russian military intelligence officers allegedly put Novichok nerve agent on the door handle of his house in Salisbury.\n\nA discarded perfume bottle containing the lethal agent was later found by a local Wiltshire resident, Dawn Sturgess, who died after applying it to her wrists.\n\nSergei Skripal survived being poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in 2018\n\nInside Russia there is a long list of people, including both critics and businessmen, who have met with sudden death, in some cases \"falling out of upper floor windows\". President Putin's most vocal opponent, Alexei Navalny, is now languishing in a penal colony on what are said to be politically-motivated fraud charges. He too survived assassination by Novichok nerve agent poisoning after nearly dying onboard a flight across Siberia in 2020.\n\nBut Prigozhin was a very different case, which makes his demise all the more controversial for Russians. Here was a man who was extremely useful to the Kremlin and seen by some Russians as a national hero.\n\nHis Wagner group of mercenaries, founded in 2014, was formed from a hard core of former Russian Speznaz (Special Forces) operatives and other soldiers. It has been highly active in eastern Ukraine where it drove the Ukrainian army out of Bakhmut, acquiring a fearsome reputation not shared by the often decrepit and poorly-led regular Russian army. Wagner bolstered its ranks when Prigozhin personally toured Russian penal colonies to recruit thousands of convicts, including rapists and murderers. These were effectively used as cannon fodder in eastern Ukraine where commanders ordered them to advance into withering fire in repeated attempts to overwhelm the enemy lines.\n\nWagner have also been operating in Syria for years but it is in Africa where they have achieved strategic success for the Kremlin. There they have developed a brutally effective business model that is proving popular with undemocratic regimes. By providing a range of \"security services\", from VIP protection to influencing elections, silencing critics, they have received in return mineral rights and access to gold and other precious metals in several African states. Money flows back to Moscow and everyone gets rich - except the actual populations of those countries.\n\nWagner troops have been accused of numerous human rights abuses including the massacre of civilians in Mali and Central African Republic. Yet they have succeeded in supplanting French and other western forces across a huge swathe of the African continent. Only this week Prigozhin popped up on a Telegram channel in a video presumed to have been filmed at a base in Mali, promising an expansion of Wagner's activities in Africa and \"freedom\" for its people.\n\nDespite all this, there are certainly some back in Moscow, notably in military intelligence, who viewed him as a liability, a loose cannon and a potential future threat to Putin's rule and the system around him.", "Gut problems including constipation, difficulty swallowing and an irritable bowel may be an early warning sign of Parkinson's disease in some people, a new study suggests.\n\nThe findings in the journal Gut add more evidence to the idea that brain and bowel health are intimately linked.\n\nUnderstanding why gut issues happen might allow earlier treatment of Parkinson's, say the researchers.\n\nParkinson's is progressive, meaning the brain disorder gets worse over time.\n\nPeople with Parkinson's do not have enough of the chemical dopamine in their brain because some of the nerve cells that make it are damaged.\n\nThis causes symptoms including involuntary tremor or shaking, slow, shuffling movements and stiff muscles.\n\nAlthough there is currently no cure, treatments are available to help reduce the main symptoms and maintain quality of life for as long as possible.\n\nSpotting the disease even sooner - before neurological symptoms appear and there is substantial brain cell damage - might make a big difference.\n\nFor the study, researchers analysed US medical records of 24,624 people with Parkinson's, comparing them with:\n\nWhat they wanted to find out was:\n\nThe answer that came back for both questions was \"yes\", based on five years of data.\n\nSpecifically, four gut conditions - constipation, difficulty swallowing, gastroparesis (a condition that slows the movement of food to the small intestine) and irritable bowel - were associated with a higher risk of Parkinson's.\n\nAppendix removal, however, seemed to be protective, which is something that other scientists have recognised before.\n\nNot everyone with gastrointestinal problems will go on to get Parkinson's, the researchers stress, but there appears to be some kind of link between gut and brain health.\n\nThe gastrointestinal tract has millions of nerve cells that communicate with the brain. Experts say it is possible that therapies that help one system might also help the other, or that an illness in one region will affect the other.\n\nClare Bale, from Parkinson's UK, said the results \"add further weight\" to the hypothesis that gut problems could be an early sign of the disease.\n\nProf Kim Barrett, from University of California, Davis, said more studies were needed to understand whether the link was something that could be used by doctors to help patients.\n\n\"It remains possible that both gastrointestinal conditions and Parkinson's disease are independently linked to an as yet unknown third risk factor - the work reported cannot ascribe causality.\n\n\"Nevertheless, the conclusions may have clinical relevance, and certainly should prompt additional studies.\"\n\nDr Tim Bartels, from the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London, said the work firmly establishes that the gut might be a \"prime target\" to search for biomarkers of Parkinson's - measurable physical changes that can act as an early warning sign.\n\nHe said being able to predict Parkinson's earlier would be \"highly valuable for earlier, and therefore more effective, treatment and drug targeting\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We're wrapping up our live coverage on this morning's energy price cap announcement, but you can read our main story rounding up what we learned here.\n\nThere's plenty of explainers and analysis across the BBC website so you can delve deeper into some of the points we've covered today, including:\n• An explanation of what the price cap actually is\n• Advice on how to reduce your bills this winter\n• And guidance what to do if you can't afford your energy bill\n\nThank you for joining us. Today's coverage was edited by Marita Moloney and Jasmine Taylor-Coleman, and the writers were Anna Boyd and Emily Atkinson working alongside our Money and Work team and cost of living correspondent Kevin Peachey.", "Super-recognisers are used by police forces to identify suspects\n\nA police force is using experts in facial recognition to patrol for sexual predators outside nightclubs and bars.\n\nThames Valley Police has deployed so-called \"super-recognisers\" near nightspots to spot known sex offenders.\n\nThe operation is part of Project Vigilant, a national police initiative to combat sexual violence.\n\nThe force is the first in the UK to use officers in such a way, according to specialist firm Super Recognisers International.\n\nIts chief executive, Mike Neville, said: \"Thames Valley Police are at the forefront of using them to tackle people who commit offences against women and girls, spotting these offenders on the street so they can be quickly arrested or warned.\"\n\nSuper-recognisers were used in the hunt for the Salisbury Novichok poisoners\n\nThe term super-recognisers is applied to people with talents such as a good memory for faces or the ability to recognise an individual pictured at different ages.\n\nExperts believe the innate ability - in about 2% of people - fades later in life and is less effective outside the user's own ethnic background.\n\nSuper-recognisers have previously been used in the hunt for the Salisbury Novichok poisoners, as well as to track the movements of the Hillsborough disaster victims.\n\nOne of its officers, who cannot be named, said: \"We would be out proactively patrolling areas of night-time economy, where people would be preying upon victims that are potentially vulnerable - intoxicated or under the influence of drugs.\n\n\"So we are just looking for that predatory behaviour... and then we would get uniformed people to stop them and ask where they're from and find out what they're doing.\"\n\nThames Valley Police super-recogniser Alex Thorburn was deployed at Coronation events in May\n\nCivilian investigator Alex Thorburn, a super-recogniser with the force's major crime unit, said she had previously patrolled major events such as the Coronation weekend and Windsor and Ascot races.\n\nShe said: \"We will get sent emails of people to identify. It might be that we have dealt with that person before.\"\n\nOther forces using super-recognisers include City of London, Jersey, West Midlands and the Met Police.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nLuis Rubiales has made global headlines for kissing Jenni Hermoso - so who is the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president who has been suspended by Fifa?\n\nThere was overwhelming pressure on the 46-year-old - who once played three games in the Scottish top flight - to resign after the incident following Spain's win in the Women's World Cup.\n\nHermoso confirmed she did not consent to the kiss, with the entire World Cup-winning squad refusing to play again until his removal, and all of the team's coaches bar manager Jorge Vilda resigning.\n\nSpain's government started legal proceedings seeking to remove him after he emphatically refused to resign in a poorly-received speech on Friday.\n\nAnd Fifa suspended him on Saturday for an initial 90 days from any football-related activity.\n\nBut who is Rubiales?\n\nBorn in 1977 in the Canary Islands, Rubiales - who grew up in the Spanish mainland - had moderate success in his playing career as a defender.\n\nHe played lower-league football in Spain for Mallorca B, Lleida and Xerez before helping Levante to promotion and playing 53 La Liga games for them between 2004-05 and 2007-08.\n\nHe would lead a players' strike at Levante over unpaid wages.\n\nRubiales then played a season for Alicante in the second tier before moving to Scottish side Hamilton Academical.\n\nThe full-back, then 32, played three Scottish Premier League matches and one League Cup game for Accies in August 2009, all defeats, and left the club just two weeks after signing. Family reasons were cited in the BBC news story at the time but he in fact retired.\n\nHis career ended with a 4-1 defeat at Rangers, with Rubiales setting up Mark McLaughlin's header with a corner in the final three minutes.\n\n\"Billy Reid, the manager, said: 'Why do you want to leave?'\" Rubiales told the Daily Mail in 2018.\n\n\"They expected me to ask them to pay up my contract but I told them to just pay me for what I had played, nothing more. They were surprised. They offered me to stay as a scout or on the coaching staff. It was a lovely club.\n\n\"Physically I was still in good shape but I left because in Spain there were lots of footballers going through a situation like the one I had gone through [at Levante and Alicante] where clubs were in administration and players were not being paid.\n\n\"Every day there were more and more players calling. Xavi Oliva, who was a goalkeeper at Villarreal, told me: 'Luis, you have to come and be our leader, we need you.'\"\n\nRubiales, who would get a law degree after retiring, became the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) president in March 2010.\n\nHis time there was relatively controversy free.\n\nHowever, Tamara Ramos, a marketing and commercial director at the AFE during Rubiales' reign, recently claimed she left the organisation and sued Rubiales after being humiliated on several occasions.\n\nThe RFEF released a statement criticising Ramos and accusing her of \"taking advantage of the current media\" climate.\n\nRubiales held that players' union role until standing down in November 2017 when he decided to go for the top job at the football federation, where he had been on the board of directors for six years.\n\nHe got that job in May 2018 - and made headlines just weeks later.\n\nRubiales sacked Spain boss Julen Lopetegui just two days before their 2018 men's World Cup opener after discovering he had agreed to take over as Real Madrid boss after the tournament.\n\n\"I know there's going to be criticism whatever I do,\" he said at the time.\n\n\"I'm sure this will, in time, make us stronger. I admire Julen very much, I respect him very much. He seems a top trainer and that makes it harder to make the decision.\"\n\nSpain, with Fernando Hierro in charge, lost to hosts Russia in the last 16.\n\nAt the time that was seen as a political power play, with newly-appointed Rubiales seizing the first opportunity to show that the federation would not be pushed around by anyone - including their most decorated club.\n\nRubiales would have repeated run-ins with La Liga boss Javier Tebas in another power struggle.\n\nIn August 2018, La Liga announced that a Spanish top-flight game would be played in the USA, later decided to be Girona v Barcelona in Miami, as part of a 15-year partnership.\n\nBut Rubiales said the deal was done without the permission of the RFEF and refused to authorise it. Barca withdrew the plans.\n\nA year later a bid to have Villarreal v Atletico Madrid in Miami went to the courts, with La Liga losing.\n\nEarlier this year they were locked in another dispute over the repeated racist abuse towards Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr.\n\nTebas said in a social media message to the Brazil international: \"Before you criticise and slander La Liga, you need to inform yourself properly. Neither Spain nor La Liga are racist, it is very unfair to say that.\"\n\nBut Rubiales told his Brazilian counterpart Ednaldo Rodrigues \"to ignore the irresponsible behaviour of the president of La Liga\".\n\nHe said \"we have a serious behavioural problem, of education, of racism\" which requires \"a firm response from the federation, but they must let us apply it and so far it has not been the case\".\n\nIn February 2019, Rubiales joined Uefa's executive committee and in May became a vice-president.\n\nIn 2021, he was acquitted in a legal case after architect Yasmina Eid-Macchet accused him of assault and non-payment.\n\nLast year, Rubiales would say there was a \"campaign to discredit me\" and blamed the \"mafia\", adding: \"I cannot guarantee that one day they will put a bag of cocaine in the boot of my car.\"\n\nThat came after hackers released stolen audio recordings from Rubiales and other officials, accusing them of a conflict of interest with then Barcelona defender Gerard Pique's company in a deal to play the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia - something the Spanish FA chief denies.\n\nOf the human rights controversies about hosting the games in Saudi Arabia, Rubiales said: \"We are doing a lot here on an ethical level, helping women in football.\n\n\"The other questions are political questions, outside football. Some critics invent things, sitting at home, without knowing what really happens here. We can't expect a society to change overnight - but girls can play football here in Saudi Arabia, and that is thanks to the Spanish federation.\"\n\nAnd in September 2022 he backed coach Vilda and not the players in a huge dispute that has never really ended.\n\nThe RFEF released a statement saying 15 players submitted emails saying they would not play for Vilda unless \"significant\" concerns over their \"emotional state\" and \"health\" were addressed.\n\nBut the players denied asking for him to be sacked. Rubiales stood by the coach, though, and only three of those 15 players were in the World Cup squad.\n\nAfter Spain's semi-final win over Sweden this summer, Vilda said: \"The support of Luis Rubiales and everyone at the federation means so much and will always stay with me.\"\n\nRubiales said on Friday: \"Jorge Vilda, they wanted to do to you the same thing that they are doing to me now. We've been through a lot, but we've been together.\"\n\nVilda may have survived a players' revolt - and led them to World Cup glory this summer - but Rubiales' time looks numbered with a total of 81 players saying they will not play for Spain while he remains in charge.\n\nAnd now even Vilda appears to have turned on him, calling Rubiales' behaviour \"inappropriate and unacceptable\" in a critical statement on Saturday.", "The stone was commissioned to mark Northern Ireland's centenary\n\nUnionist party leaders have asked for help to cover the cost of installing a stone at Stormont to mark Northern Ireland's centenary.\n\nIf the request is accepted, it could cost the public purse up to £14,000.\n\nThe stone, carved in the shape of Northern Ireland, was set to be unveiled in Parliament Building's east Belfast grounds this summer.\n\nBut the plans have stalled due to issues including costs and deciding where to place the stone.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Traditional Unionist Voice previously said the stone would be \"paid for by unionist MLAs and therefore will not cost the public purse\".\n\nIn a joint letter seen by BBC News NI, the party leaders said it would be \"problematic\" to require them to cover the \"full installation costs\".\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, UUP leader Doug Beattie and TUV leader Jim Allister instead proposed contributing £4,000 and for Stormont to \"bear the balance costs\".\n\nThey said that was a \"fair and equitable way forward\" as the planned location for the stone to the east of Parliament Buildings was a \"more elaborate and costly setting\" than the western site unionist parties had proposed.\n\nIt is understood that officials have estimated the installation costs for the eastern site at about £18,000, whereas the western site could cost £4,000.\n\nThe unionist leaders wrote: \"We also think that requiring a donor to undertake the full installation costs, as suggested, is problematic not just in this instance but in respect of the practicalities and the precedent going forward.\n\n\"Is it now to be policy that if any further memorials or structures are requested at Parliament Buildings, then, those seeking such will have to bear the full costs of production and installation, or is the centenary stone project alone to be treated in this way?\"\n\nThey requested a meeting with officials \"so that our respective parties can clarify and agree on an acceptable way forward\".\n\nThe stone sparked a political row in 2021 - the year of the centenary - when Sinn Féin blocked the proposal.\n\nUnionist leaders said the veto caused \"great hurt\" but Sinn Féin said it \"opposed a stone to celebrate partition\".\n\nSinn Féin said it opposed the stone as it \"reflects only one political perspective\"\n\nThis year the stone was passed by the Assembly Commission in the absence of a Sinn Féin representative on the body.\n\nThe Assembly Commission manages Stormont's property, staff and services. It currently consists of representatives of the DUP, the UUP, the Alliance Party and Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and is chaired by Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey.\n\nSinn Féin MLA John O'Dowd stood down from the commission last year after he was appointed as Stormont's infrastructure minister.\n\nThe party has not been able to nominate a replacement due to the collapse of the devolved institutions.\n\nAn SDLP spokesman said: \"This is clear cut. The proposers agreed to cover the costs of the installation and they should honour their commitment to the full amount at the location agreed by the Assembly Commission.\"\n\nTUV leader Jim Allister told BBC News NI that it was \"quite staggering\" that Northern Ireland's centenary had passed and Stormont \"has nothing to mark that occasion for future generations\".\n\nHe said the Assembly Commission had originally accepted unionists' proposal to place the stone to the west of Parliament Buildings but in June it \"unilaterally\" decided it should be erected to the east.\n\nHe said that because the eastern location near Lord Craigavon's tomb would be a more \"elaborate construction\" it was a \"reasonable proposition\" to share the costs.\n\nAn Assembly spokeswoman said the commission received a report in June \"on the detail of issues to give effect to its previous decision to agree to erect a centenary stone donated by the unionist parties\".\n\n\"These issues included environmental heritage and planning permission, equality and good relations and associated costs,\" she added.\n\n\"Discussions have not yet concluded on this matter.\"", "Robbie Graham with the stolen Leonardo painting Madonna of the Yarnwinder, the night before it was returned\n\nThe Madonna of the Yarnwinder by Leonardo da Vinci was the most valuable painting ever stolen in Britain. Twenty years on Olivia Graham tells the inside story of how her dad's role in getting the painting back led to him standing trial for extortion.\n\nI was 18 when my dad took me to one side in the Liverpool pub he owned.\n\nHe told me something amazing was going to happen - something unbelievable - that one day I could tell the grandkids about.\n\nAt the time I was too stunned to ask him anything about it.\n\nBut now I have made a podcast for BBC Sounds, where I ask plenty of questions about what really happened when my dad rescued a stolen 16th Century masterpiece.\n\nThe story begins on the morning of 27 August 2003, when an old VW Golf GTI drove through the Dumfriesshire countryside and pulled up outside Drumlanrig Castle, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch - one of the richest men in the country.\n\nTwo men got out of their car and made their way into the castle where they took tour guide Alison Russell by surprise.\n\nThe Madonna of the Yarnwinder is now on display in the National Gallery of Scotland\n\nOne of them put his hand over her mouth and told her to \"get down on the floor\". Then they prised the Leonardo masterpiece off the wall with an axe and ran to their getaway car.\n\nThe whole operation took just a few minutes.\n\nThe day after the heist a press conference was held. The Madonna of the Yarnwinder was a 500-year-old painting by one of the most famous artists in the world and was thought to be worth £40m. It was big news around the world.\n\nMark Dalrymple, the fine art loss adjuster representing the painting's insurers, announced a \"substantial\" reward for information leading to its return.\n\nAn extensive police operation kicked into gear but the criminals slipped the net.\n\nPolice vehicles parked outside Drumlanrig Castle after the painting was stolen\n\nFour years later, the painting had fallen off the radar.\n\nBy this time it was in the possession of a group in Liverpool who had acquired it as collateral in a failed property deal. They wanted to recoup the money they had lost - £700,000. But how?\n\nThat's where my dad comes in.\n\nRobbie Graham was a man of many parts.\n\nHe wasn't college or university educated and I don't think he left school with any qualifications but this didn't stop him from thriving in many different lines of work.\n\nHe saw everything as an opportunity, the next big break.\n\nSome of his business ideas were dead in the water but others opened up exciting opportunities, such as his private investigations agency and his website reuniting stolen items with their owners.\n\nIt was a small-scale operation called Stolen Stuff Reunited but it attracted the attention of some surprising clients.\n\nSo it was that in June 2007 two men, known as J and Frank, came to Robbie and his business partner Jackie Doyle with a proposal.\n\nCould they return The Madonna of the Yarnwinder to its owner and claim the reward?\n\nRobbie Graham (left) and Jackie Doyle were partners in Stolen Stuff Reunited\n\nRobbie and Jackie were interested, but only if they could do it lawfully - so they got in touch with a lawyer, Marshall Ronald.\n\nDavid, and his HBJ partner Callum Jones, advised Marshall to establish contact with the loss adjuster, Mark Dalrymple. So Marshall sent him an email.\n\nThis instant reaction shaped everything that followed, although that wouldn't become apparent until later.\n\nMarshall didn't deal with Mark Dalrymple directly. Instead he was passed on to a third party who was described to him as a representative of the Duke of Buccleuch.\n\nRobbie and Jackie got in touch with lawyer Marshall Ronald\n\nA reward of £2m was settled upon quickly.\n\nIt would be paid into an escrow account - held by a third party - in advance of the painting being returned.\n\nMarshall would not be able access the cash until the painting was back, but he would be able to see the money sitting in the account waiting for him.\n\nThe group holding the Madonna agreed to hand over the painting in exchange for a £700,000 cut of the reward money.\n\nA plan was formed. Robbie would collect the artwork, take it to the offices of HBJ Gately Wareing in Glasgow for repatriation and claim the reward.\n\nBut then the Duke changed his mind.\n\nApparently no money was to leave his account until after the Madonna had been returned.\n\nOlivia with her dad after the court case\n\nThe people holding the painting weren't happy with this development. It shook their confidence. They demanded payment upfront.\n\nWhere were Robbie and Marshall going to get their hands on £700,000 in cash?\n\n\"It was the most stressful week of my life,\" remembers Marshall.\n\nNegotiations led to the group agreeing to a reduced payment of £350,000 in cash, plus a banker's draft for £150,000. Marshall was just about able to lay his hands on that amount of money.\n\nHale Village lies a few miles southeast of Liverpool city centre. It was here on Wednesday 3 October 2007 that Robbie pulled in to the car park of the Childe of Hale pub with the cash and banker's draft.\n\nIt was J who turned up to take the money, but he disappeared without handing over the painting.\n\nBy the time he came back - four hours later - my dad had been joined by Jackie. J came up to the car carrying something covered in a white blanket.\n\nI can only imagine what went through Robbie and Jackie's minds as they took hold of the package. I do know that they unwrapped one corner and had a peek. Then Robbie called Marshall.\n\n\"The lady is on her way home,\" he said.\n\nAt 11:05am the following day, Robbie, Jackie and Marshall met outside the offices of HBJ Gateley Wareing - ready for a heroes' welcome.\n\nBut that's not what happened.\n\nMark Dalrymple tells me: \"I knew that Glasgow and Dumfries police were there and had surrounded the offices.\"\n\nThis had been the plan all along. Get the painting back and then swoop in and make arrests.\n\nThe reward hadn't been real, just a part of a police operation.\n\nI remember how I found everything out. My sister picked me up from the train station at Ormskirk and it came out all in one go.\n\nShe said: \"Dad has been arrested, our house has been raided and we are on the front page of the local paper.\"\n\nThe charge was conspiracy to extort.\n\nThe Madonna of the Yarnwinder currently hangs in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.\n\nThe defence relied upon proving the group had been led by the nose by officials. It wasn't a straightforward case.\n\nOn 20 April 2010, Callum and David were found not guilty.\n\nThe charge against Robbie, Jackie, and Marshall was found not proven.\n\nMy dad phoned me not long after the verdict. I don't remember exactly what he said. It was something like: \"We did it and I'll be home in a few days. I love you\".\n\nThe Duke of Buccleuch never got to see his painting returned. He died on 4 September 2007 - one month before The Madonna of the Yarnwinder was delivered to the solicitors' offices.\n\nNo-one has been arrested for the theft of the painting and no reward paid out for its return. The Madonna of the Yarnwinder currently hangs in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.\n\nMy dad tried to move on after the trial.\n\nHe threw himself into his family and his next big plan - with him there was always something new.\n\nBut he also developed a new appreciation for art and I remember him dragging us round galleries on family holidays.\n\nHe died on 19 December 2013, aged just 61.\n\nMy dad's funeral, like his life, was one big party filled with wonderful people, lots of stories, love and laughter.\n\nHe was a man for whom the possibilities of any given day seemed endless.\n\nI miss him all the time. I didn't think I could love and appreciate him any more.\n\nIn accordance with his wishes, my dad's coffin featured a photo of him - one he really loved.\n\nHis arm is proudly wrapped around a painting - Leonardo da Vinci's The Madonna of the Yarnwinder.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of arson over a fire that tore through the Crooked House pub.\n\nOnce known as \"Britain's wonkiest\" inn, it was set alight on 5 August, leaving it gutted.\n\nWithin 48 hours of the blaze, the pub was demolished by diggers, infuriating many in the local community who treasured the landmark building.\n\nA 66-year-old man from Dudley and a 33-year-old man from Milton Keynes are being questioned over the fire.\n\nThe suspects were arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and remain in custody, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nThe pub, known for its sloping walls and floor, was demolished less than two days after the fire\n\nThe force is continuing to appeal for any information that may help the ongoing investigation.\n\nA group of more than 21,000 people has formed on Facebook, with campaigners rallying to preserve the site and calling for the Crooked House to be rebuilt.\n\nProtesters angry at the demolition were also involved in a stand-off with contractors on Wednesday, frustrated at what they described as a lack of communication over work at the site.\n\nIn a statement at the time, police said they recognised \"the strength of local feeling following the loss of a significant cultural landmark\".\n\nThe much-loved 18th Century building, known for its sloping walls and floor due to mining subsidence in the area, was sold by Marston's to ATE Farms Limited in July.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council has said the foundations and bricks from the pub will stay on site as work to remove hazardous waste is carried out.\n\nThe local authority is conducting its own investigation into the demolition.\n\nDudley North MP Marco Longhi told a public meeting last week that he would \"love to see a Crooked House law\" put in place to protect other pubs from the same fate.\n\nThe building was reduced to rubble on 7 August\n\nTeachers Hayley Mason and Gemma Edwards-Smith have been camping outside the site entrance since Monday to try and make sure the bricks are preserved.\n\n\"We want to make sure everything is protected the best way we can - our long-term goal is to have the pub rebuilt,\" said Mrs Edwards-Smith, who celebrated her wedding at the venue in 2017.\n\n\"It's been nice to see how many bricks they have been able to salvage, even in the few days [contractors] have been working and looking forward to the future and how many original bricks will be used for the new build.\n\n\"The owners definitely underestimated the strength of feeling behind it, I hope they are aware of how committed we are.\"\n\nHayley Mason and Gemma Edwards-Smith are among the campaigners fighting to have the pub rebuilt\n\nMs Mason, a history fan who visited the pub with her family as a child, says \"this was my life\".\n\n\"I'm confident that it will be rebuilt, no matter how long it takes. Until I've had that confirmation that that is the intention, I'm not going to move.\n\n\"It's important that we remain a presence here and it's not forgotten.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Michael Parkinson's son has said star broadcaster suffered from \"imposter syndrome\" and \"was wracked with self-doubt\".\n\nMike Parkinson told BBC Radio 4's Last Word that his famous father \"didn't have as much self-confidence as he appeared to have on TV\".\n\nSir Michael died earlier this month at the age of 88.\n\nHe was known for interviews on his self-titled chat show with the likes of Muhammad Ali and Dame Helen Mirren.\n\nParkinson grew up on a council estate near Barnsley and his son told the BBC programme that his father was \"still very class-ridden\" despite his success.\n\n\"There were people in positions of authority, at the BBC, that were questioning his talent, questioning his right to be an interviewer,\" the director said.\n\n\"He was always acutely aware that he was with people that he felt were brighter than him, were more educated than him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"He went to the BBC, and he felt very much... not inferior, [but] he was very insecure.\n\n\"He was a man who was constantly questioning himself and didn't have as much self-confidence as he appeared to have on television.\"\n\nHe added that his confidence grew in the 1990s when his chat show returned to the BBC \"because he'd earned his stripes\".\n\nMike Parkinson also said his father, who was a founding member of the Anti Nazi League, had \"no interest in politics\" and had \"an innate distrust of the establishment\".\n\n\"He never trusted the establishment because he always felt that the establishment treated people like his father [a coal miner] - terribly, and wrongly,\" he said.\n\n\"And he carried that with him all through his life. He always wanted to stand up against what he thought was unfairness.\n\n\"What he was was very socially aware, and he was very political in that sense.\"\n\nMike Parkinson also said that while his dad had been described as \"sexist Parky\" by some over interviews such as one with Dame Helen Mirren - \"and he'd be the first to admit it was not very well handled... he was against sexism\".\n\nSir Michael Parkinson was made a CBE in 2000 ahead of his knighthood in 2008\n\nHis son said that despite his father's anti-establishment stance, he accepted a knighthood from the Queen in 2008 for the sake of his parents as he knew they would be proud.\n\n\"And also, you've got to understand that this says a lad who was born in a pit village, went to a grammar school... worked for the local newspaper and all of a sudden, 67 years later, he's kneeling in front of the Queen, being knighted.\"\n\nTributes from around the world came in following Sir Michael's death from the likes of Sir Michael Caine and Sir David Attenborough.\n\nBut Mike Parkinson said that meant the family's grieving had almost gone on hold.\n\nBecoming emotional, he said: \"The difficulty with having a public figure as a father is that you feel you can't grieve until everyone else has.\n\n\"It's a silly thing to say, but that's the truth - you feel that everyone else must express what they feel about him because he meant so much to them.\n\n\"He meant so much to so many people but, actually, as a family, it's hard because your experience is overshadowed by noise and an outpouring that you feel almost that you have to step back from and allow that to happen, and allow that wave to subside.\n\n\"And then you, as a family, can remember him as a father, as a husband.\"\n\nThe full interview with Mike Parkinson can be heard on BBC Radio 4's Last Word with John Wilson and on BBC Sounds.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani have been indicted in cases in Georgia and beyond\n\nAs former US President Donald Trump is charged with attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia, who are the other 18 people accused along with him?\n\nHere's a potted guide to the others charged, with input from BBC North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher (AZ).\n\nPerhaps the best known of the co-accused, the former mayor of New York City was a personal lawyer for Mr Trump at the time of the election.\n\nHe led legal challenges to dispute the outcome of the elections, and is accused of making numerous false statements about election fraud, including claims that errors had been made by the Dominion vote-counting machines.\n\nHe faces 13 charges, more than any of the co-accused except for Mr Trump himself. He has dismissed the investigation against him as politically motivated.\n\nAZ: As mayor of New York, Giuliani was one of the most popular politicians in the US. As a close adviser after the 2020 election, he helped organise attempts to challenge Mr Trump's defeat at the polls.\n\nMr Eastman, a lawyer for Mr Trump, represented the former president in a lawsuit trying to overturn election results in four states he lost in 2020.\n\nIn Georgia he is alleged to be part of a plot to urge state senators to disregard the election results and appoint fake electors.\n\nAZ: A California law professor who advanced the theory that Vice-President Mike Pence had the power to reject the certified results from certain states that Mr Trump lost in 2020, including Georgia, based on allegations of voting irregularities.\n\nSidney Powell at a news conference on voter fraud in November 2020\n\nAnother Trump attorney and a vocal promoter of false fraud claims.\n\nSome of her more outlandish claims - that electronic systems switched millions of votes to President Biden and that he won thanks to \"communist money\" - led Mr Trump's team to distance itself from her in the weeks after the election.\n\nAZ: A lawyer closely tied to Mr Trump's attempts to challenge the 2020 election results. She is also alleged to have been involved with an illegal breach of election data in Coffee County, Georgia, in an attempt to find evidence of voter fraud.\n\nMr Chesebro is an appellate lawyer who first became involved in the Trump campaign's post-election efforts in Wisconsin before expanding into other states lost by Mr Trump.\n\nIn Georgia he is accused of helping to devise a plan to submit fake slates of electors for Mr Trump.\n\nIt is alleged he wrote a memo that provided instructions for how such electors in states including Georgia should proceed to meet and cast votes for Mr Trump.\n\nAZ: The indictment alleges this scheme constituted, among other things, fraud and forgery.\n\nJenna Ellis is said to have written legal memos for the former president\n\nAnother of Mr Trump's legal team alleged to have been involved in trying to get false electors appointed in four states, including Georgia.\n\nShe is said to have written legal memos for the former president advising how then vice-president Mike Pence could delay the certification of Mr Biden's election win.\n\nAZ: A Trump attorney who, along with Mr Giuliani, was one of the most ardent supporters of allegations of election fraud and an organiser of attempts to reverse the election results.\n\nA member of the Trump legal team who filed one of the campaign's election challenges in a state court and is alleged to have made false claims at a legislative hearing in the state.\n\nA Georgia-based lawyer, accused of making unfounded accusations that election workers were double and triple-counting votes.\n\nHe has also served as an attorney for another of the accused, Cathy Latham, according to the Washington Post.\n\nAZ: Smith and Cheeley are attorneys involved in the Trump team's efforts to advance \"alternate\" presidential electors who claimed Mr Trump won Georgia\n\nThe former congressman was Mr Trump's chief of staff at the time of the election.\n\nHe is alleged to have tried to pressure a chief investigator to speed up signature verification in Fulton County and to have been involved in a phone call in which Mr Trump tried to persuade Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to \"find\" enough votes to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the state.\n\nAZ: A former conservative leader in the House of Representatives, he headed the Trump White House team. He has been indicted for his involvement in that phone call.\n\nA former Department of Justice (DoJ) official, Mr Clark is accused of trying to persuade the then acting attorney-general to write to the Georgian authorities claiming voting irregularities had been found there.\n\nHe is also alleged to be part of wider efforts to use the department to investigate voter fraud.\n\nAZ:Mr Trump reportedly considered making Mr Clark the acting US attorney general - but he backed down when other senior Justice Department officials threatened to resign en masse.\n\nA senior member of the Trump election campaign, he is said in the indictment to have played a role in organising the fake electors' plot.\n\nAt the time, Mr Shafer was chairman of the Georgian Republican Party.\n\nHe is one of those charged with mailing a fake certificate of Trump electors to a federal courthouse, and making false statements to investigators.\n\nHe portrayed himself as the \"chairperson\" of the 16 fake Trump electors.\n\nAZ:He led the meeting of \"alternate\" electors who claimed Mr Trump won Georgia.\n\nFormer election supervisor of Coffee County, who is alleged to have helped Trump supporters gain access to the county's voting equipment.\n\nShe also made a video soon after the election claiming that voting machines used in the county could be manipulated.\n\nFormer Republican Party chair in Coffee County and one of the 16 fake Trump electors for the state.\n\nThen finance chair of the state Republican Party and now a Georgian state senator, he was another of the fake electors.\n\nA former publicist for R Kelly and Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), accused of involvement in a plot to pressure a Fulton County election worker to falsely admit committing fraud.\n\nA Lutheran pastor from the state of Illinois accused of efforts to intimidate election workers in the Georgian state capital Atlanta.\n\nFormer head of a group called Black Voices for Trump, also accused of intimidation of Atlanta election workers.\n\nBail bondsman and Trump supporter involved in allegedly trying to gain access to sensitive election equipment in Coffee County.\n\nAZ: Lee, Floyd and Kutti are Trump supporters alleged to have attempted to illegally pressure Ruby Freeman, a volunteer election worker, into admitting that she committed election fraud.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe Spanish secretary of sport says he \"wants this to be Spanish football's MeToo moment\" after the government started legal proceedings seeking to suspend football federation president Luis Rubiales for kissing World Cup star Jenni Hermoso on the lips.\n\nRubiales has refused to resign despite overwhelming pressure after the incident following Spain's Women's World Cup final win over England.\n\nFifa opened disciplinary proceedings against the 46-year-old former player on Thursday.\n\nThe Me Too movement seeks to end violence against women and shot into mainstream consciousness in 2017 after film producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of numerous sexual offences - he was subsequently found guilty and jailed.\n\n\"The government starts today the procedure so that Mr Rubiales has to give explanations before the Sport Court and if the Sport Court agrees, I can announce that we will suspend Mr Rubiales from his functions,\" Victor Francos, secretary of sport and head of the state-run National Sports Council said.\n\n\"There has to be a change. The government wants to warn, to be very clear and say that there are things that can't happen again.\"\n\nThe sports council cannot suspend Rubiales unless the court rules that the kiss is in violation of the professional sports code.\n\nRubiales kissed the Spain forward during the presentation ceremony after the final in Sydney. She later said on social media \"I didn't like it\".\n\nHe apologised earlier in the week and had been expected to announce his resignation at an extraordinary general assembly called by the federation, but instead vowed to \"fight until the end\".\n\nOn Friday he said sorry for grabbing his crotch while celebrating in the VIP area in Stadium Australia, with Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter standing nearby.\n\nSpain's acting labour minister Yolanda Diaz said: \"What we have seen today in the Federation Assembly is unacceptable. The Government must act and take urgent measures. Impunity for macho actions is over. Rubiales cannot continue in office.\"\n\nActing social rights minister Ione Belarra added: \"Consent is not decided by the aggressor, it is decided by the woman. Mr Rubiales' violent, mafia-like discourse will not work against a country that has already changed. Everyone already knows what kind of man he is.\"\n\nSpanish players, clubs and organisations have all spoken out - largely against Rubiales.\n\nAlexia Putellas, a Ballon d'Or winner and another member of the World Cup-winning team team, said: \"This is unacceptable. It is over. With you partner Jenni Hermoso.\"\n\nAnother team-mate, Aitana Bonmati, wrote: \"There are limits that cannot be crossed and we cannot tolerate this. We are with you partner.\"\n\nReal Betis striker Borja Iglesias, who has won two caps for the Spain men's team, said: \"As a footballer and as a person I do not feel represented by what happened today...\n\n\"I have made the decision not to return to the national team until things change and these types of acts do not go unpunished.\"\n\nSeveral Spanish football clubs, including Barcelona, Sevilla, Espanyol and Racing Santander, have also released statements critical of Rubiales.\n\nHermoso played for Barcelona from 2013 to 2017 and from 2019 until last year when she joined Mexican side Pachuca.\n\nA club statement read: \"FC Barcelona wishes to make clear that it considers totally improper and inappropriate the RFEF president's behaviour during the celebrations for the World Cup victory achieved by the Spanish women's team. The incident we consider to be deplorable.\"\n\nEngland forward Beth Mead wrote on social media: \"The game, the Spanish players deserve more, no players should have to endure this. It's unacceptable, and also laughable that these men still are allowed so much power.\"\n• None Go here for all the Women's World Cup news", "As we head into the weekend, the mystery surrounding the potential death of Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin remains.\n\nRussia has branded allegations that it ordered his killing a \"complete lie\" but officials there continue to refer to him in the past - including Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe Russian leader's spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to say if the Kremlin knows for certain whether Prigozhin was on board a plane that went down near Moscow on Wednesday.\n\nWe do now know that 10 bodies and a black box were recovered at the crash site, according to Russian authorities, but who they are is yet to be confirmed.\n\nUntil there is official confirmation of Prigozhin's death, it seems the mystery and confusion will only intensify.\n\nThanks for following today's coverage, which was written by Antoinette Radford, Oliver Slow, Joel Guinto, Ece Goksedef and Adam Durbin. It was edited by Matt Murphy, Sam Hancock, Dulcie Lee and Nathan Williams.\n\nYou can continue to follow our coverage with our main story here.\n\nAnd here is our piece on what happens to Wagner after the presumed death of its leader.", "Travellers face major disruption this bank holiday weekend as rail workers across England walk out on Saturday.\n\nSome 20,000 RMT union members at 14 rail companies are striking as part of a long-running dispute over pay.\n\nThousands will be travelling to events such as the Notting Hill Carnival and the Reading and Leeds festivals.\n\nSeparately, a plan to close ticket offices in England has further angered rail unions who warn there will be more strikes if a deal is not reached.\n\nTransport Focus, an independent passenger watchdog, said a public consultation on the plans had received 460,000 responses ahead of the deadline of 1 September.\n\nSaturday's RMT strike, which is its 24th since last summer, will see a reduced timetable in place in much of England, with some journeys into Scotland and Wales also affected.\n\nAround half the usual train services will run and in many areas services will start late and finish much earlier than usual.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents operators, said the strike was \"designed to deliberately target passengers who want to enjoy various sporting events, festivals, and the end of the summer holidays\".\n\nThe Department for Transport said the government had \"played its part to try and end these disputes by facilitating fair and reasonable pay offers\", adding that the RMT's strike action was \"damaging its own industry's future\".\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association, a trade group, called the walkout \"reckless\", saying it would leave major events like the Notting Hill Carnival and the Reading & Leeds Festival \"in chaos as ticket holders attempt to navigate a limited transport network\".\n\nThe RMT and train drivers' union Aslef have held a wave of strikes since last summer which have brought much of the rail network to a standstill.\n\nThe RMT has said the fresh strike action is happening because it had not received an improved offer, after rejecting the industry's latest proposals in the spring.\n\nIts general secretary, Mick Lynch, told the BBC that union members were targeting Saturdays.\n\n\"The strike has to be effective,\" he said. \"We haven't got a plan to disrupt anybody's particular activities but that is the busiest day for the railway and members have decided that's the way they want to go.\"\n\nThe RMT and Aslef have held a wave of strikes since last summer\n\nFurther action is planned for the weekend of 1-2 September, with Aslef workers walking out on the Friday and RMT members again on the Saturday.\n\nThe RMT has a mandate to strike until November, but Mr Lynch told the BBC the union was already preparing to re-ballot workers over further action this autumn and winter.\n\n\"We have to keep our campaign up until we get a negotiated settlement on jobs, conditions and pay. There will be more strikes if there's no change,\" he said.\n\nAslef is expected to step up its campaign of industrial action in the autumn. It hasn't yet announced details.\n\nEngineering works will add to the disruption over the next few days. Network Rail says more than 7,500 metres of new track and 2,400 sleepers will be installed across the country and almost 15,000 tonnes of ballast will be laid over the long weekend.\n\nNetwork Rail said the works had been carefully planned to minimise the impact on passengers but added that it was vital to check journeys before travelling.\n\nOn Wednesday, Aslef boss Mick Whelan hit out at operator plans to close ticket offices, accusing the government of endangering lives by \"de-staffing\" the railway.\n\nHe argued that drivers and passengers felt vulnerable early in the morning and late at night, and having fewer staff on hand could lead to attacks.\n\nThe proposals from the train companies, who are backed by the government, have been met by a backlash, including from disability groups.\n\nTransport Focus, which is collecting the public's views on the plans, said that while it had received hundreds of thousands of responses, there was still time for people to have their say.\n\nOver the coming weeks Transport Focus and another watchdog, London TravelWatch, will analyse the proposals and consultation responses before deciding on whether to support or object to the plans.\n\nThey will be considering issues such as whether stations will continue to be staffed, accessibility, the alternative options for buying tickets and whether passengers will continue to be able to access station facilities such as lifts, waiting rooms and toilets.\n\nA Rail Delivery Group spokesperson said: \"Across the network as a whole, there will be more staff available to give face-to-face help to customers out in stations than there are today [as a result of our ticket office closure plans].\"\n\nThey added that staff affected by closures would be given a range of options, including moving to new roles or retraining.\n\nThe Department for Transport said consultations on ticket offices were ongoing and no final decisions had been made.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nHave your plans been affected by the train strikes? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Tony Bundy was healthy and active but suffered a stroke in June\n\nA devastated family wants a review of medical advice on strokes to raise awareness of less well-known symptoms.\n\nTony Bundy died from a stroke in June after his condition was not picked up using routine tests.\n\nThe most-known symptoms such as a drooping face, arm weakness and difficulty speaking were not there.\n\nNow the Bundys, from Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, want to make more people aware of other signs to stop their tragedy happening to others.\n\nFather-of-four Tony was just 53 when he died. His widow, Selena said he was active and healthy, but had started to feel unwell over a period of several weeks.\n\nThe symptoms got worse until one day, he collapsed.\n\n\"He couldn't stand up,\" said Selena. \"He couldn't take weight on his legs at all and he was really sick and dizzy.\n\n\"He just felt different - he had cold sweats and really bad colour. Those were the main things that were happening.\n\nTony's wife Selena said the family was devastated about his death\n\nBecause his symptoms were not the ones most people associate with stroke, he was not treated for it straight away.\n\nTony collapsed while out shopping and was taken to hospital. He died after having a Basilar Artery Ischaemic Stroke - which has different symptoms to more common types of stroke.\n\nSelena said losing her husband was a huge and sudden shock.\n\n\"Everybody that knew Tony liked him, and we are just all devastated he is not there any more. We just don't want other people to go through this.\n\nThe Stroke Association says a stroke will strike someone in the UK every five minutes.\n\nIt can happen to anyone, of any age, at any time, so it is vital to know how to spot the signs of a stroke in yourself or someone else.\n\nThe standard checklist for identifying if someone is having a stroke is called the \"Fast\" test, an acronym that highlights certain symptoms:\n\nThe association says in most cases this is a good indicator of stroke and it is an easy acronym for people to remember.\n\nTony Bundy was a much-loved father of four\n\nJohn Watson, who is the charity's Scottish spokesman, says in all cases, speed is the key.\n\n\"Always our messaging is about getting help quickly. If that is through the Fast test then great, but if it is somebody turning up at hospital with some difficult symptoms, it could be a headache, it could be nausea, dizziness.\n\n\"We need to make sure people who are receiving at the hospital have the time and resources to treat people and examine quickly every patient that turns up, and also have access to scanners - which is the best way of identifying if a stroke is actually happening.\"\n\nTony Bundy's son James, who is a Conservative councillor with Falkirk Council, would now like to see the Fast test being extended to include the less familiar symptoms.\n\nHe said it does not have to be complicated.\n\n\"I am looking at other countries around the world, particularly in some states in the US and they use \"Be Fast\" with 'b' standing for balance, 'e' standing for eyes and 't' standing for throwing up rather than time.\n\n\"It is keeping that message of acting fast whilst incorporating a lot of the symptoms that my dad had.\"\n\nTony Bundy and his daughter Anthea who is now fundraising for the Stroke Association\n\nAs the family come to terms with their loss, daughter Anthea is fund-raising for the Stroke association.\n\nShe said the family was shattered by what happened, and wants to push for changes that will save other lives.\n\n\"That is why we are trying to get the different symptoms out into the public - the inability to stand, the vertigo, the dizziness and sickness the lack of focus in the eyes.\n\n\"We knew something wasn't right we just didn't know what it was.\n\n\"Maybe by getting this message out there - it won't help my dad - but it will maybe save someone else in the future.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said its condolences went out to the family on their \"immeasurable loss\".\n\nThey said: \"The Scottish government is committed to ensuring that people who have had a stroke receive the best possible care as quickly as possible to enable them to live longer, healthier and more independent lives.\n\n\"We published our refreshed Stroke Improvement Plan in June 2023, which sets out our vision for minimising preventable strokes and ensuring timely and equitable access to life-saving treatment. NHS Boards are also required to demonstrate how they are actively upskilling and maintaining the knowledge of their stroke workforce.\n\n\"The plan commits us to establishing current public understanding of stroke symptoms and whether certain groups require different messaging. We will work with third sector organisations to consider the most effective way of raising public awareness of stroke symptoms.\"", "The photo of Donald Trump scowling defiantly into the camera in the Fulton County Sheriff's office will go down in history.\n\nThe mugshot, the first of a former US president, came after his fourth arrest in five months.\n\nMr Trump posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, for the first time since January 2021 to share the address of his website and the mugshot with an all-capital letters caption: \"Election interference. Never surrender!\"\n\nWithin hours, his campaign website was selling mugshot-branded mugs, t-shirts and drink coolers.\n\nJohn Bolton, who served as national security advisor under Mr Trump, said the image was likely carefully staged. \"I think it's intended to be a sign of intimidation against the prosecutors and the judges,\" he told CNN.\n\n\"He could've smiled. He could've looked benign,\" Mr Bolton added. \"Instead he looks like a thug.\"\n\nMr Trump was charged last week with 18 alleged co-conspirators with attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state of Georgia.\n\nAt least 11 of the co-conspirators - Mr Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Cathy Latham, Harrison Floyd, Mark Meadows, Ray Smith, Harrison Floyd and Scott Hall - have so far been booked and processed at the local jail in Atlanta.\n\nWhile the former president and his supporters are clearly pleased with his mugshot, photos of his indicted allies have been less well received.\n\n\"I thought these were all memes at first,\" said Jake Olson, a photographer based in Columbus, Ohio. \"It's the perfect storm of bad photos, There are so many cardinal rules of photography that they are just not following.\"\n\n\"They have this one interrogation-style light, you can see they all have that little highlight on their foreheads,\" said Pittsburgh photographer and professor Ray Mantle. \"They all don't look great… they all look tired.\"\n\nThe expressions vary widely. Lawyer Jenna Ellis is beaming down the lens, while Ray Smith, also an attorney, glares into the camera - two strikingly different choices for a photo that, unlike most other mugshots, will be published far and wide.\n\n\"For a lot of these people, this is their major public debut,\" Mr Mantle said. \"They know that everyone's going to see these.\"\n\nPulling off a good mugshot can be tough, said Cooper Lawrence, a journalist who has written extensively about celebrity culture. It's a difficult balance to strike, a challenge that celebrities like Justin Bieber, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton have all had to face.\n\n\"Don't smile. A smile will make it look too arrogant,\" Lawrence said. \"You want to smirk like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton do. A smirk says, 'yes, this sucks, but I'm gonna be fine.'\"\n\nHair, makeup and wardrobe - even while in the custody of Fulton County authorities - is crucial, she said. But \"keep it simple\", she added. \"You're going to jail, not on an audition.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump, however, is a man well aware of the power of his public image.\n\nEarlier this year he complained that producers on Fox News chose to \"purposely show the absolutely worst pictures of me, especially the big 'orange' one with my chin pulled way back\".\n\nAnd to some the low quality of the Fulton County mugshot looks especially strange on a former president, even with its possible promotional value.\n\n\"It struck me how humbling and humanising a bad portrait can be,\" said Mr Olson. \"It's funny to see such a poorly done portrait of somebody who has such a significant presence, to say the least.\"\n\nBut despite the low resolution, Edd Mair, a lecturer in the History of Modern America at the University of York, said Mr Trump's campaign \"clearly thinks there's a lot to get out of a photo like this\".\n\n\"What's most striking about it is how on brand this is for Donald Trump. Even a mugshot there's a way of converting this into political capital and enthusing his base.\"\n\nSome right-wing commentators have been drawing analogies with Nelson Mandela and Dr Martin Luther King Jr, who had mugshots taken, including in an iconic 1963 shot from Birmingham Jail.\n\n\"They did the same thing to Martin Luther King Jr,\" tweeted comedian and Trump supporter Terrence K Williams.\n\n\"They go after the good guys and especially the ones who fight for freedom and expose evilness and corruption. I stand with President Trump and this mugshot makes me want to vote for him even more.\"\n\nMr Mair said Trump supporters will be attempting to frame the mugshot in this way. \"These people were deemed as dangerous individuals going against the grain, but they were eventually proven right. This is what Donald Trump and his supporters want to get out of this mugshot.\"\n\nBut those on the left and the centre will see the photo very differently, he said.\n\n\"Certainly it will be used in the same breath as Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal too, but even Nixon never got this far in actually having a mugshot.\n\n\"I think on the left and in the centre ground this will be seen as quite a low moment for the American presidency.\"", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 18 and 25 August.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nJonathan Kerr captured this incredible shot of a sparrowhawk feeding in his East Renfrewshire garden.\n\nHelen Pratt took this picture of the Red Arrows flypast over Edinburgh for the Tattoo.\n\nMichael McConville took this incredible shot of Scottish internationalist Karolina Wroblewska at Darnhall Beach Volleyball Courts in Perth during a European Small Countries event.\n\nJay Kimber took this image of rain falling on Loch Carron.\n\nGraham Christie took this photo of a lesser black backed gull with hungry chick on Low Road at the Isle of May.\n\nStephen Archer liked the patterns the light made on this bridge in Stonehaven.\n\nMatthew Boyle said he was 'gifted' with this view from what is considered by many as the remotest Munro in Scotland, A' Mhaighdean, after a long day.\n\nHugh Maxwell said he was lucky to be in the right place at the right time to capture a nice sunrise at Dunure Castle in South Ayrshire.\n\nIan Smith said he almost fell asleep counting these sheep on the A93 between Breamar and Glenshee.\n\nMhairi Mackinnon took this picture of a Highland Cow while on a night stroll in Drinan, on the Isle Skye.\n\nAlan Maclennan was looking over Findhorn Bay at what he believes are Asperitus clouds over Culbin Forest.\n\nStuart McMillan said Achmelvich Bay was basking in sunshine was perfect for his wife, Laura's birthday.\n\nSarah Metcalfe took this photo of freshly caught langoustine getting ready for the BBQ in Leverburgh on the Isle of Harris.\n\nNeil Lea captured Toward Lighthouse in Cowal at night.\n\nJohn Forsyth said Shared Parenting Scotland walkers raised over £2,000 for the charity at Dundee's Kiltwalk.\n\nRob Barrie caught Corsewall lighthouse above the fog at sunrise.\n\nPaul Dimmock loved seeing the Idle salmon boats sitting in the slow moving river Tay at Dunkeld.\n\nDanny Thomas said he was out for a walk in Glenbuchat near Strathdon when he came across an Albino Stoat (might be a mink or escaped ferret!). He said: 'At first it took shelter in its burrow but very soon came out looking curious and performed for the camera.'\n\nGerry Murdoch caught this sunset at Ailsa Craig from Gibran shoreline.\n\n17-year-old Jay Kimber took this wonderful picture of a highland cow near Loch Carron,\n\nTom McDonnell captured this white tailed eagle on the Isle of Mull.\n\nMary Ferguson captured the sunrise over the ocean going superyacht Adele moored in Rothesay Bay.\n\nCatherine Munro took this photo of her son and his catch while he was fishing on the rocks in north Skye with the hills of Harris in the background.\n\nSusan Walker said this is her local fox catching some rays in a neighbour's garden in Edinburgh.\n\nCatriona Ranson said her grandaughter, Eleanor, got to take a sunflower home in Stirling.\n\nJohn Dewar captured all the action of the farriers at Thrumster Game Fair.\n\nKaren McGibbons took this photo of the sunset reflection on the beach at Lendalfoot.\n\nBernie Boyle took this picture of a Robin on an old tree stump at the River Leven near Balloch.\n\nJacqueline Dawson waiting on Sunrise at her favourite hidden beach at Seacliff in the East of Scotland.\n\nScott Torbett snapped this picture of two Edinburgh Fringe street performers chatting and comparing notes.\n\nElise Schwarz took this picture of her daughter jumping off a bollard on the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Festival\n\nGary Cantwell took this amazing Ninja-style shot of a red squirrel jumping through the trees at Penny Hedge hide north of Bridge of Cally.\n\nJim Miller took this incredible picture of a paddleboarder in whitewater on the River Garry .\n\nAndy McManus snapped this picture of his partner Maria, kayaking in a lumpy sea beside the Dore Holm in Shetland.\n\nJohn Hamilton said this picture was taken at sunset on Yesnaby Point in Orkney.\n\nCarol Ann McNaughton snapped this artist capturing the GOMA and the Duke of wellington in Glasgow.\n\nGraham Farley took this picture of his wife Karen on a lovely evening in Findhorn.\n\nHelen Baird said this little stonechat was on the beach at Bennane shore enjoying lunch - unfortunately for the caterpillar.\n\nPeter Wilkinson said he was in the fields around The Carse of Gowrie, in the early morning with sunflowers stretching out all around him.\n\nWill Brown took this shot at the wedding of Craig and Ashley Gormley in Kirkwall, Orkney.\n\nPat Christie took Dobby to admire the glorious sunrise in North Berwick.\n\nEllie Williams captured the rut in a garden while staying with family on Mull.\n\nCharlotte Grant took this picture of her grandson on Dornoch beach.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Residents check the rooms of a destroyed house in Acharnes, north of Athens\n\nGreece has called out \"arsonist scum\" after police made 79 arson arrests over wildfires ravaging the country.\n\nCivil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said there had been several attempts by arsonists to start new fires on Mount Parnitha, north-west of Athens.\n\nThe blaze is one of hundreds in the nation where wildfires have already killed at least 20 people this week.\n\n\"You are committing a crime against the country,\" Mr Kikilias said.\n\n\"Arsonist scum are setting fires that threaten forests, property and, most of all, human lives,\" Mr Kikilias told Greeks during a televised emergency briefing on Thursday.\n\n\"You will not get away with it, we will find you, you will be held accountable.\"\n\nSummer wildfires are common in Greece and scientists have linked the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including heatwaves, to climate change.\n\nStefan Doerr, who directs the Centre for Wildfire Research at Swansea University, says that more flammable landscapes - due to hot weather or poor vegetation management - mean that arson and other incidents can more easily turn into fast-moving wildfires.\n\nPolice and Greek intelligence service EYP are investigating the incidents, AFP reported.\n\nGovernment spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis told Greek public broadcaster ERT that of 140 wildfire-related arrests, 79 were related to arson.\n\nHundreds of firefighters across Greece have been battling deadly wildfires.\n\nThe large fire front which erupted on Saturday near the port city of Alexandroupolis has become the EU's largest on record, according to European commissioner Janez Lenarcic.\n\nMeanwhile, on Mount Parnitha near Athens, fires have been raging in a forest adjoining the capital, threatening a national park.\n\nEarlier this week, the bodies of 19 people believed to be migrants, with children among them, were found near the Evros region of north-eastern Greece.\n\nA shepherd also lost his life in the fires in the Boeotia region on Monday.\n\nA plane drops water over wildfires spreading in Dadia forest, one of the most important areas in Europe for birds of prey\n\nMr Kikilias said on Wednesday the country was going through the worst summer since fire-risk maps were introduced in 2009.\n\nJust last month, thousands of people were forced to flee fires on the Greek island of Rhodes after wildfires broke out there and in other parts of the country.", "Three-time WWE world champion Bray Wyatt has died at the age of 36.\n\nThe wrestler had been dealing with an undisclosed health issue that had kept him out of the ring since February, but his death was characterised as sudden by his family.\n\nThe news was announced by WWE content officer Triple H, who posted on social media that Wyatt, real name Windham Rotunda, had \"unexpectedly passed\".\n\nDwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, was among those paying tribute to the star.\n\nWriting on X, formerly Twitter, Johnson said he was \"heartbroken\" and had \"always had tremendous respect and love\" for the wrestler.\n\n\"Loved his presence, promos, in ring work and connection with @WWE universe,\" he wrote. \"Very unique, cool and rare character, which is hard to create in our crazy world of pro wrestling.\"\n\nWWE commentator Mick Foley added: \"I thought so highly of Bray Wyatt... He was a true visionary; one of the most compelling presences that wrestling has ever seen.\"\n\nWyatt came from a family of wrestlers, including his grandfather Blackjack Mulligan, his father Mike Rotunda and his younger brother Bo Dallas.\n\nRotunda was a famous wrestling legend in his own right, known as IRS due to his gimmick as being a tax collector from Washington DC who harassed wrestlers and fans as \"tax cheats\".\n\nBorn in Brooksville, Florida on 23 May, 1987, Wyatt was a state wrestling champion in high school and earned a football scholarship to Troy University.\n\nHowever, he left his course before graduating to become a professional wrestler, making his professional debut in 2009.\n\nReports suggested the star had died from a heart attack\n\nHe fought under several names including Husky Harris, Alex Rotunda, Duke Rotundo and The Fiend.\n\nAs Bray Wyatt, he portrayed the villainous leader of a cult faction named The Wyatt family with Erick Rowan, Braun Strowman, and the late Luke Harper (aka Brodie Lee).\n\nAfter being released from WWE in 2021, he made a long-awaited comeback at the pay-per-view Extreme Rules event last October, where he debuted a new version of his character.\n\nHe had recently missed several months due to illness but was close to returning to the WWE before his death, according to Wrestling News.\n\nLast year, Wyatt broke character to discuss how he overcame his mental health struggles, commenting: \"I lost my career. I lost my self-confidence. I lost two people who were very, very close to me. I lost my way.\n\n\"And I got to a point where I thought that everything that I've ever done here or otherwise, it was all meaningless. Nothing I've ever did has ever mattered to anyone. And I was wrong.\"\n\nHe continued: \"Once I was done feeling sorry for myself, I decided to go out in the world again and see… people everywhere that would say, 'Thank you, Bray, man. When you coming back home?'\n\n\"And then every once in a while there would be someone I would meet that would be truly remarkable.\"\n\nTriple H, real name Paul Levesque, said he had been informed of Rotunda's death by his father.\n\n\"Just received a call from WWE Hall of Famer Mike Rotunda who informed us of the tragic news that our WWE family member for life Windham Rotunda - also known as Bray Wyatt - unexpectedly passed earlier today,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his family and we ask that everyone respect their privacy at this time.\"\n\nWrestling reporter Sean Ross Sapp later said that the 36-year-old had died of a heart attack, after a brush with Covid that exacerbated existing heart conditions.\n\n\"There was a lot of positive progress towards a return and his recovery,\" he said. \"Unfortunately today he suffered a heart attack and passed away.\"\n\nWyatt is survived by his fiancee and former WWE ring announcer Joseann Offerman, their two children, Wyatt's two children from a previous marriage, brother Bo Dallas (Taylor Rotunda), and sister Mika.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Yevgeny Prigozhin and the war in Ukraine\n\nWhen Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner troops launched their insurrection two months ago, Vladimir Putin made his feelings more than clear. He called it \"treachery\" and a \"stab in the back\" of Russia. He promised that the perpetrators would be punished.\n\nSo there was incredulity in Russia when they were not. When a deal was cut between Mr Prigozhin and the Kremlin to end the mutiny; when all the charges against the Wagner founder and his fighters were dropped, despite the fact that Russian servicemen had been killed during the murky but brief insurrection.\n\nCommenting on the agreed compromise (ending the mutiny in exchange for immunity from prosecution) one Russian newspaper commented: \"This kind of compromise is normally made with political opponents. Never with criminals and terrorists. Does that mean we should view Mr Prigozhin now as a political figure?\"\n\nSuddenly things look rather different.\n\nExactly two months on, Mr Prigozhin is presumed dead after his private jet crashed and exploded in a field. Wagner commander Dmitry Utkin was on the same jet.\n\nThe Russian elite will shed few tears over Mr Prigozhin's reported demise. That goes for Russia's military leadership, whom Mr Prigozhin had publicly and vocally condemned and whom he demanded be sacked. The Wagner boss claimed that the so-called \"March of Justice\" (his euphemism for the insurrection) had not targeted the Kremlin but had instead been directed at Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov.\n\nIn reality, the Wagner mutiny had been a direct challenge to President Putin's authority and a humiliating 24 hours for the Kremlin. Mr Putin himself pointed out that the Russian state had been financing Wagner. Money had clearly not bought loyalty.\n\nIf this was an act of revenge by those in power, that sends two clear messages to Mr Prigozhin's loyalists and to anyone else in Russia who may have been contemplating armed resistance:\n\nThat means that President Putin could emerge from these dramatic events stronger domestically.\n\nBut what if Mr Prigozhin becomes a martyr? What if those who had pledged loyalty to him - and who are well-trained fighters - call for their own acts of revenge?\n\nWagner supporters turned out in St Petersburg after news of the air crash\n\nIt did not clarify who it believed those traitors were and what Wagner's response would be.\n\nIf this crash was foul play, that will come as little surprise to many in Russia. Ever since the mutiny there has been feverish speculation about Mr Prigozhin's fate, about whether his actions really would be forgiven.\n\nHe must have known that. Yet, in recent weeks, as he jetted around on his private plane he clearly did not view air travel as a danger. Perhaps he believed that he was too powerful, too crucial a figure in today's Russia to be taken out?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows plane crash in in the Tver region\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Elizabeth Debicki reprises her role as Princess Diana in The Crown's forthcoming sixth season\n\nThe makers of The Crown have said the death of Princess Diana is recreated \"delicately\" and with sensitivity in the drama's forthcoming final season.\n\nExecutive producer Suzanne Mackie told the Edinburgh TV Festival: \"The show might be big and noisy, but we're not.\n\n\"We're thoughtful people and we're sensitive people.\"\n\nThe Netflix hit has previously faced criticism for its approach to historical accuracy. Season six is expected to arrive later this year.\n\nThe show will conclude with its sixth season after taking the story of the Royal Family to the years after the death of Diana, who lost her life in a car crash in Paris in 1997 at the age of 36.\n\n\"There was a very, very careful, long, long, long conversation about how we do it - and I hope, you know, the audience will judge it in the end, but I think it's been delicately, thoughtfully recreated,\" Mackie said.\n\nMore from the Edinburgh TV Festival\n\nDiana is played in the final two seasons by Elizabeth Debicki, who is an \"extraordinary actress\", Mackie said.\n\n\"She was so thoughtful, considerate and loved Diana. So there was a huge amount of respect from us all. I hope that's evident when you see it,\" she told the festival on Thursday.\n\nThe role of Princess Diana was previously played by Emma Corrin.\n\nThe Crown producer Andy Harries said the death of Queen Elizabeth II \"undoubtedly\" impacted the show's team\n\nAndy Harries, another executive producer on the Crown, was asked if the passing of the late Queen has impacted the show in any way.\n\n\"I think that the passing of Her Majesty undoubtedly impacted on us all and [writer Peter Morgan] in particular,\" he responded.\n\n\"It didn't change fundamentally, but it did change in a sense and when you see it I think you'll know what I mean.\"\n\nMackie said Morgan told her the show is a \"love-letter to the Queen\".\n\nThe Crown launched in 2016 and will conclude when the sixth season is released on Netflix later this year.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Children sit in a makeshift classroom at a refugee camp in eastern Mali\n\nAs Mali fights Islamist militants and separatists, it has turned to Wagner mercenaries for security. But the group's leader is now presumed dead, UN peacekeepers are leaving and Mali faces a crisis. The BBC's Feras Kilani travelled to its dangerous northern desert region - the only international journalist to go there in the past year - to meet people caught up in the chaos.\n\nIt was late in the evening when we set up camp, lit a fire to cook our dinner and laid down our blankets to sleep under the open sky. Suddenly the silence of the hot desert night was broken by the roar of a motorbike.\n\nAround us, we heard a series of clicks as the armed men in our convoy cocked their rifles and machine guns. We were with a group of Tuareg separatists who told the man on the motorbike to move on.\n\nAs soon as he left, our hosts told us we had to leave too. Immediately. It was too risky to stay put as the man was a scout for a local group linked to al-Qaeda.\n\nWe had been careful, swapping our jeans for traditional robes and Tuareg headscarves to blend in, but if he realised foreigners were in the camp he could lead the militants to us and we could be kidnapped.\n\nWe packed up as quickly as we could and drove off into the pitch black without any headlights or torches so that we couldn't be followed.\n\nThis part of northern Mali is beyond government control and is run by groups of Tuareg separatists and Islamist extremists linked to al-Qaeda - they don't exactly get along but they have reached a mutual understanding to leave each other alone. But the tension and fear we experienced that night reflects a deepening crisis across the country as it slides deeper into lawlessness and chaos.\n\nThe government has turned away from international peacekeeping forces, relying on Russia's Wagner group for security instead. But now the mercenaries' notorious leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is believed to have died in a plane crash, leaving questions over operations here and fears that Mali is in an even more precarious position.\n\nFurther to the east, the Islamic State group has established itself and is trying to increase the area it controls. We wanted to meet the civilians caught up in the violence IS fighters have brought with them. So we drove more than 1,000km (650 miles) through the desert to the city of Kidal in the east of Mali. When we arrived, we saw camps where thousands of refugees are living after fleeing their homes.\n\n\"Islamic State forced us to come here,\" Fatima told us, sitting on the floor of a makeshift tent - a rough piece of material propped up by a few branches. She is in her 60s and this is now her home, with her daughter and two of her grandchildren by her side.\n\nHer husband and son-in-law were killed when IS attacked the village where they used to live.\n\n\"They killed all our men and burned all our food and animals,\" she added. Others told us similar stories of how their supplies of grain, sheep and camels had been destroyed, leaving them with nothing. Many of the youngest children we saw had no clothes or shoes.\n\nFatima (R) and her daughter (L) who has one of her children cradled in her lap\n\nFatima, and what remains of her family, walked hundreds of kilometres to reach Kidal from her old home in Menaka state in eastern Mali.\n\nAs we had seen for ourselves, travelling across the desert is tough. There are no paved roads, just rough routes marked in the sand by vehicles that have passed through before. The sand stretches as far as you can see, sometimes dotted with trees and shrubs.\n\nThere's not much for people in Kidal, but at least they can survive. \"We found water and shelter, so we stayed,\" Fatima said. People in these camps get some basic assistance from local NGOs but there isn't much.\n\nWe also met Musa Ag Taher, one of the few men in the camp. Islamic State fighters attacked his home too. \"When IS entered the town I buried myself until they left and then I managed to escape with my family,\" he said. He described how he dug a shallow pit in the ground and covered himself with sand to hide. He managed to escape with his four children.\n\nThough Kidal is safer than the areas Fatima and Musa left behind, there are fears the situation is about to get worse.\n\nIn 2012, the military staged a coup, while rebels and Islamist fighters took control of the north, declaring an independent state in the region. A new interim government asked French troops to come and fight the Islamist extremists. A few months after their arrival in 2013, the UN sent an international force called Minusma to keep the peace.\n\nThe country's military leaders seized power again in 2020 - since then the junta has distanced itself from France, its former colonial ruler, and French troops have been sent home.\n\nIn 2021 the government invited Wagner to Mali to help with security and soon the Russian mercenary group will be the only outside force providing military support. The government has told the UN's 12,000 peacekeepers to leave - they are now in the process of pulling out.\n\nWe visited a UN base in Kidal that is due to close in November. Huge sandbags topped with coils of razor wire had been set up around the entrance for security. Beyond, we could see people in blue helmets and rows of white vehicles with UN markings.\n\nFeras stands at the gate of a UN base speaking to people inside\n\nThe security guard at the gate called someone on his radio and three men appeared. They asked us to stop filming and explained that because they were preparing to leave they wouldn't be able to give us an interview.\n\nLocal groups are worried that when these UN forces go, they will leave a power vacuum with IS, militants affiliated to al-Qaeda and separatists all fighting for control.\n\nThere are believed to be about 1,000 Wagner soldiers in Mali - less than a tenth of the size of the UN force they are replacing and there are fears they will be even less effective at countering jihadist groups.\n\nAnd earlier this year, the UN accused Wagner of committing atrocities alongside the Malian army, describing \"alarming accounts of horrific executions, mass graves, acts of torture, rape and sexual violence\" in the Mopti area. It also described how Malian soldiers, overseen by Wagner fighters, killed around 500 mostly unarmed civilians in a village. The Malian government denied any wrongdoing.\n\nAt a nearby compound we met a group of separatists from the Tuareg ethnic group who control Kidal. They are worried that Mali's military government, who control the south of the country, might try to seize what is left of the UN base when the international force pulls out. He says this could lead to renewed fighting.\n\n\"If these camps are handed over by Minusma to the Malian army, Minusma will be responsible for what happens next,\" Bilal Ag Sharif, the local Tuareg leader, told us.\n\n\"The Malian government will also be responsible because it is demanding something that is not its right, and we will not accept it,\" he added, making it clear his group will not give up control of the region without a struggle.\n\nAs well as providing security, the 12 UN bases across Mali also support about 10,000 local jobs. They employ translators, drivers, people to distribute food and provide services such as street lighting and some very basic healthcare.\n\n\"It will leave these people without any work without any hope, without any source [of income] to feed their families,\" Sharif told us. He's worried Islamist militant groups will step in and benefit.\n\n\"This will give extremist groups new opportunities for recruitment,\" he said.\n\nChildren sitting on the ground read from boards in their makeshift classroom\n\nIn the refugee camp we had seen rows of children huddled on the ground of a makeshift school.\n\nA teacher hit their heads with a cane as they recited verses from the Quran.\n\nTheir parents had been killed by IS and it was easy to see how they could be targeted and recruited by militant groups as they grow up.\n\nThe motivation of the Wagner group in the region has been questioned, however. The US government has accused it of running gold and diamond mines in other African countries, saying it is a \"destabilising force\", mainly interested in profiting from natural resources.\n\nA few days before the plane crash in Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared in a video which suggested he was in Africa.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify where the video was filmed, but in it, Prigozhin said the group was making Africa \"more free\" and that Wagner was exploring for minerals as well as fighting Islamist militants and other criminals.\n\nJust outside Kidal, we visited one of Mali's many gold processing plants. It's only a small operation, with little heavy machinery and much of the panning and smelting is done by hand.\n\nBut with hundreds of sites like this across the country, Mali manages to produce more than 60 tonnes of gold a year, making it one of Africa's top five exporters of the precious metal.\n\nTuareg groups are worried that Wagner soldiers might try to seize control of the local gold industry and sites like this one. If they do, Sharif warns there will be bloodshed.\n\nThe UN has warned that the threat from jihadist groups has increased across Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in the past year.\n\nAll three countries have had military coups, with civilian governments pushed out of power in Burkina Faso in 2022 and in Niger in July this year.\n\nAnd with Wagner's future now uncertain, it's unclear how much Mali can rely on the group for security. If the situation within the country deteriorates further, it could have a knock-on effect causing wider instability in the region.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The girl fell from a tower block flat in Portsmouth\n\nA woman arrested on suspicion of child neglect following the death of an eight-year old girl been released on bail.\n\nThe girl died after falling from a tower block balcony.\n\nPolice were called at 18:50 BST on Thursday to Wingfield Street in Portsmouth, Hampshire.\n\nThe child was treated by paramedics but was later pronounced dead, police said. The woman arrested was released on bail until 24 November.\n\nFloral tributes have been left at the scene\n\nThe girl's family had been informed, police said.\n\nA police spokesperson said: \"We attended along with our colleagues from South Central Ambulance Service who treated the eight year-old girl, who subsequently died.\n\n\"Officers will be in the area throughout the day to conduct inquiries.\n\n\"Anyone with any concerns can speak to our Neighbourhood Policing Teams that will be regularly patrolling.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's Matthew Hudson-Smith claimed a gutsy 400m silver at the World Championships as he finished an agonising 0.09 seconds behind Jamaican champion Antonio Watson.\n\nThe 28-year-old led until the closing stages but could not hold off Watson, who clocked victory in 44.22 secs.\n\nHudson-Smith's preparations were impacted by a foot problem that he said sometimes left him \"unable to walk\".\n\n\"The last two weeks I've been rehabbing every day,\" he said on BBC TV.\n\n\"I've had really bad Achilles tendonitis. Sometimes I can't walk, sometimes I can.\n\n\"I've been saying all year I just have to be perfect for three days.\"\n\nHudson-Smith went out hard in pursuit of his first global title but could not respond as a measured Watson overhauled him in the push to the end in Budapest.\n\nThe Briton had made his gold medal ambitions clear after setting a European record in the semi-finals and initially appeared unsure how to react to his achievement.\n\nCrouching down in a mixture of contemplation and exhaustion after upgrading his 2022 medal, he was able to enjoy the moment after being handed his hard-earned silver.\n\nIt is Great Britain's fifth medal of the championships and comes a day after Josh Kerr's stunning 1500m victory.\n• None 'I threw 16 years in the sport at the final 200m'\n\nHudson-Smith had insisted last year's bronze was only the start for him, believing that breakthrough global medal would allow him to unleash his full potential.\n\nThe unfortunate injury sustained by Steven Gardiner, the heavy favourite in the absence of reigning champion Michael Norman, in the previous round had left the medal fight wide open.\n\nHudson-Smith looked set to take full advantage as he emerged from the bend with a marginal advantage. But he ultimately paid for his earlier exertion, unable to maintain the pace to finish in 44.31.\n\nSilver still represents a remarkable achievement for Hudson-Smith, who put three years of \"absolute hell\" behind him to win world bronze, Commonwealth silver and European gold in a stellar 2022 season.\n\nWhat has made these successes all the more remarkable is what he has overcome to accomplish them.\n\nOverwhelmed with emotion after crossing the line in Eugene, he revealed he had severely struggled with his mental health in 2021 as he struggled with injury, debt and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnd while he may feel the title was there for the taking on Thursday night, this medal, earned despite suffering with Achilles tendonitis this year, represents another notable milestone in his career.\n\nThere was a delay to the start of the men's 200m semi-finals following a bizarre incident in which two buggies transporting the athletes contesting the first race crashed on route to the stadium.\n\nMen's 100m champion Noah Lyles was one of those caught up in the incident.\n\nOne athlete and a volunteer were assessed, with the athlete cleared to participate and the volunteer also unharmed. The World Championships Local Organising Committee said it would investigate the matter.\n\nWhen those races did eventually get under way, Britain's Zharnel Hughes safely progressed, finishing second to last year's bronze medallist and rising star Erriyon Knighton (19.98).\n\nHughes, who with bronze on Sunday became the first British man to make a world 100m podium for 20 years, clocked 20.02 to qualify fifth fastest overall.\n\nReigning champion Lyles, whose semi-final was pushed back to allow the athletes time to recover, won his heat comfortably in 19.76 - the fastest time of the round.\n\nOlympic and world silver medallist Kenny Bednarek also took victory (19.96) ahead of Botswana's 100m runner-up Letsile Tebogo (19.97).\n\nThree days after being disappointed by her eighth place finish in the women's 100m final, Dina Asher-Smith left the track with a smile on her face after securing a place in Friday's 200m medal race.\n\nThe 27-year-old, world champion in the distance in 2019, clocked 22.28 on her return to action to finish behind American Gabrielle Thomas (21.97) - ranked fastest this year.\n\nAsher-Smith will be joined by team-mate Daryll Neita, who produced a personal best of 22.21 to reach her first individual final at a World Championships.\n\nCompatriot Bianca Williams also ran a personal best, clocking 22.45, but was unable to qualify from a star-studded semi-final won by reigning champion Shericka Jackson.\n\nThe Jamaican won in 22.00 and was followed over the line by newly crowned 100m champion Sha'Carri Richardson (22.20).\n\nElsewhere, Ben Pattison ensured there will be British representation in Saturday's men's 800m final, progressing as a non-automatic qualifier in one minute 44.23 seconds, but Daniel Rowden (1:45.38) and Max Burgin (1:47.60) missed out.\n\nAnna Purchase finished 11th in the women's hammer throw final with a best of 70.29m, with Canadian Camryn Rogers (77.22m) taking gold.\n\nOverwhelming favourite Femke Bol clinched her first world title in the women's 400m hurdles final, crossing the line ahead of American Shamier Little in 51.70.\n\nHer triumph came after the 23-year-old had a dramatic fall as she battled for mixed 4x400m relay gold for the Netherlands on Saturday, with the team disqualified after she dropped the baton.\n\nGreece's Olympic long jump champion Miltiadis Tentoglou completed his set of major titles with a final round leap of 8.52m, beating Jamaicans Wayne Pinnock (8.50m) and Tajay Gayle (8.27m).\n\nOn a successful night for Jamaica, Danielle Williams took women's 100m hurdles gold in 12.43, beating Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.44) and Kendra Harrison (12.46).\n\nNigeria's 100m hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan, permitted to compete late on after a suspension for missing three doping tests was lifted, finished sixth.\n\nNorway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen returned to the track following his stunning 1500m final loss to Kerr to safely qualify for the 5,000m final where he will aim to defend his title.", "One Direction singer Payne had solo hits with Strip That Down, For You and Familiar\n\nSinger Liam Payne has cancelled his forthcoming tour after suffering a serious kidney infection.\n\nThe One Direction star has pulled out of performances in South America after being taken to hospital.\n\nThe 29-year-old said that he was following doctor's orders and planning to \"rest and recover\" following his scare.\n\nHe apologised to fans who had bought tickets and said he hoped to reschedule the live dates.\n\nIn a statement posted on Instagram on Friday, Payne said: \"It's with a heavy heart I have to tell you that we have no other choice but to postpone my upcoming tour of South America.\n\n\"Over the past week, I've been in hospital with a serious kidney infection, it's something I wouldn't wish on anyone, and doctor's orders are that I now need to rest and recover.\"\n\nHe continued: \"I was beyond excited to come play for you guys. To all of you who have bought tickets: I'm so sorry.\"\n\nFans who had bought tickets would be refunded, Payne said, adding that he was \"working to reschedule the tour\".\n\n\"Please look out for updates from your point of purchase,\" he said. \"Thanks as always for the love and support, and look forward to seeing you soon.\"\n\nIn an accompanying video addressing fans, Payne told fans: \"This really is the last news I want to be telling you... We started rehearsals and I've been advised that now is really not the right time to be travelling on the road while I recover from this.\n\n\"I've got the best people around me at home trying to help me recover as we speak.\"\n\nPayne joined One Direction in 2010, when he was put together with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson on ITV talent competition the X Factor.\n\nThe group went on to score hits with Best Song Ever, What Makes You Beautiful, Kiss You, Steal My Girl and Live While We're Young.\n\nAfter going on hiatus in 2015, Payne launched a solo career and enjoyed chart success with Strip That Down, Get Low, Familiar (featuring J Balvin) and For You (with Rita Ora).\n\nPayne had been due to play dates in Peru, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Colombia on the tour.", "On any given day, about 800 million people around the world are on their period.\n\nGiven those numbers, surprisingly little is known about menstrual blood itself.\n\nSara Naseri, a doctor, hopes to change that with her healthcare start-up Qvin. She believes that testing this largely-ignored monthly blood sample could offer ground-breaking new health insights.\n\nBut it's been challenging developing technology in this area, as there has not been much research conducted on menstrual blood.\n\nWhile still in medical school, Dr Naseri could find only one study on menstrual blood, a 2012 paper that described its composition and structure and found 385 proteins that are unique to menstrual blood.\n\nAs well as blood, menstrual effluent contains vaginal secretions, cervical mucus, and endometrial cells. The endometrium is a membrane that lines the uterus and thickens every month to support embryo implantation. If pregnancy doesn't occur, this lining is shed through the vagina.\n\n\"Blood is the most commonly-used bodily fluid for medical decision-making,\" says Dr Naseri. \"I thought: 'Women bleed every month. Why has nobody used this blood for health purposes?'\"\n\nQvin co-founder Sara Naseri believes menstrual blood could be used for health purposes\n\nThe team at Qvin are trying to bridge the research gap by conducting a broad range of studies.\n\nInitial results have been promising. Qvin's research has shown that menstrual blood can be used to monitor blood sugar and cholesterol levels.\n\nUsing that research, Qvin has developed a pad that can be used to test menstrual blood. It is currently being assessed by US health regulators.\n\nFuture potential lies in finding non-invasive ways to diagnose and treat conditions that affect the female reproductive system.\n\nA lack of research into female reproductive diseases has resulted in slow diagnosis times, relatively few treatment options, and tests that are often painful and distressing for the patient.\n\nIn the UK, just 2.1% of medical research funding goes to reproductive conditions, despite research showing that 31% of women experience severe issues with their reproductive health.\n\nLess than half of those affected will seek medical help.\n\nAs well as a lack of research and precedent, seeking to test menstrual blood means negotiating a lot of resistance and societal taboos.\n\nBerlin-based start-up Theblood struggled to find a lab partner that would agree to analyse menstrual blood samples.\n\n\"We have to do everything from scratch, from the very, very start. Labs will test saliva, urine, or stool samples but there's just nothing for menstrual blood,\" says Theblood co-founder Miriam Santer.\n\nPeter Gregersen and Christine Metz are co-directors of the Rose study\n\nDr Christine Metz, a professor and endometriosis researcher at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health on Long Island, New York, believes that a \"yuck factor\" is a large part of the reason there's been so little research into period blood.\n\n\"When we set out to collect menstrual effluent to study it, I had several physicians tell us that they can't ask their patients to do that,\" she says. \"[But when] we [put a call out on] social media, we got 6,000 people in our registry. Obviously, they got beyond the yuck factor.\"\n\nTesting menstrual blood has never been part of clinical gynaecology practice.\n\nEndometriosis is one of the most common gynaecological conditions. It's extremely painful and occurs when tissue that normally lines the uterus grows on the outside of other organs in the pelvic cavity. It affects roughly 10% of women and girls. Diagnosis can take up to 12 years and can only be confirmed through surgery.\n\nThere are currently no effective treatments for endometriosis.\n\nThings are slowly getting better thanks in part to awareness raised by prominent advocates like Lena Dunham and Padma Lakshmi.\n\nNevertheless, pain is currently treated with hormones that can have severe side effects and even a hysterectomy does not guarantee the removal of endometriosis lesions.\n\nChristine Metz is part of a team running the Rose (Research Outsmarts Endometriosis) study which is looking into menstrual effluent in an effort to speed up diagnosis times and develop treatments for endometriosis.\n\nGetting funding for studying menstrual blood has been hard to come by. \"I'm told all the time: 'Oh, you should work in cancer. There's so much more money.' And it's true. There's just no money available for this. It's worth fighting all the time to get a dime but it's very, very, very difficult,\" she says.\n\nCompanies like Qvin and Theblood are paying for their studies with venture capital funding, in the hope that that the fastest way to drive change may be through demonstrating that menstrual blood tests have value as a consumer product.\n\nHowever, each admits that pitching to investors often means explaining the very basics of menstruation, like how tampons, sanitary pads, and menstrual cups are used.\n\nTheblood team, Miriam Santer and Isabelle Guenou, struggled to find a lab partner to analyse menstrual blood.\n\nHome-testing solutions would make testing for some conditions far more convenient.\n\nAshley Draper, a 36-year-old from Washington DC, took part in a Qvin study that aimed to assess if menstrual blood could be used to screen for cervical cancer after responding to an Instagram ad.\n\nFor over ten years, abnormal smear test results have required Ms Draper to go in for cervical cancer checks every 6 months.\n\nDuring a cervical cancer test, a doctor will use a speculum to open the vagina and insert a small brush or spatula to scrape cell samples from the cervix at the entrance to the uterus. Pain relief is generally not offered.\n\n\"It's obviously a very invasive process,\" says Ms Draper. \"Although you're there to work with the doctor..., as far as going through the process itself, you kind of feel just like a slab of meat on a table. It just seems like they're using very archaic processes.\"\n\nReducing the high cost of care and feeling more in control of health outcomes is also appealing to Ms Draper. \"For me, it's just a win overall if this becomes a product because it will reduce my anxiety and will give me more control over what's going on with the testing.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWithin hours of releasing the names of 388 people unaccounted for following the Maui wildfires, 100 were reported safe, the FBI confirmed.\n\nAuthorities released the names on Thursday and asked survivors to come forward, so they could focus their efforts on locating any others.\n\nThe official death toll from the fires currently stands at 115.\n\nSearch teams are still combing through the charred remains of the historic town of Lahaina and other areas.\n\nThe devastating fires spread on 8 August and blazed through the oceanside town of Lahaina, home to 12,000 people.\n\nIn a press conference, the FBI's special agent in charge in Honolulu, Steven Merril, said they were \"very thankful for the people who have reached out by phone or email\".\n\n\"As we get someone off of a list, this has enabled us to devote more resources to those who are still on the list.\"\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Maui's police chief John Pellettier said the names were released in an effort to narrow down who remains unaccounted for.\n\n\"We know that it will help with the investigation,\" Chief Pelletier said.\n\nOfficials also asked residents to come forward if they see a name of a person they know to be safe.\n\nEarlier in the week, authorities said more than 1,000 people were still unaccounted for.\n\nAs of Thursday, Chief Pelletier said that an additional 1,732 people who were believed to be missing have since been found safe. Officials have been able to narrow down the list of missing by cross referencing it with names of people staying at shelters.\n\n\"We also know that once those names come out, it can and will cause pain for folks whose loved ones are listed,\" Chief Pelletier added in his statement.\n\n\"This is not an easy thing to do, but we want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to make this investigation as complete and thorough as possible.\"\n\nThe wildfires are among the deadliest in US history, and officials have said that they anticipate the death toll may rise.\n\nThe official death toll from the Maui wildfire is 115, though officials have cautioned it may rise\n\nMaui officials have publicly identified 46 people who died in the fire. The latest names, released on Thursday, include a family of four whose remains were found in a burnt car near their home.\n\nThey were identified as: 7-year-old Tony Takafua; his mother Salote Tone, 39; and his grandparents Faaoso Tone, 70, and Maluifonua Tone, 73.\n\nTony is the first confirmed child victim of the wildfire.", "Former President Donald Trump has surrendered to the Fulton County Jail to face charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.\n\nThis, the fourth criminal case brought against him this year, differs from the others in that Mr Trump actually had a mugshot taken.\n\nUS voters shared their gut reactions to seeing the first booking photo of a former president.\n\nMr Trump has denied all 13 charges against him.\n\nCrystal Myers-Barber is a staunch supporter of Donald Trump. She voted for him in both 2016 and 2020 and plans on voting for him next year.\n\nWow! I didn't expect this expression. I had wondered if he would smile and the answer is no!\n\nHe looks very upset and actually disgusted. It makes me very sad to see this.\n\nHe's tough but I can see this appears to hurt him within. I do believe it will help his ratings and backfire, though!\n\nLuke Gordon grew up in a liberal-leaning part of the north-east. He voted for Donald Trump in 2020, but he wants someone else to win the Republican nomination for 2024.\n\nTrump is the most photographed person in human history. The mugshot was obviously unnecessary and vindictive.\n\nRegardless, the Trump campaign is going to use this image to fundraise - and they will make a fortune.\n\nVoters who feel the system does not apply an equal standard of justice to politicians, like the former president, will be instantly mobilised.\n\nI think it's simultaneously hilarious and not as funny as I hoped it would have been.\n\nIt is somewhat surreal to see his mugshot, but I have no faith in these charges going anywhere substantial.\n\nI find the fact that him getting this picture taken funny in its own right, but I was hoping for some odd facial expression.\n\nHe looks more stern than I think we've ever really seen him in public, and that adds a bit of humour as well.\n\nKathleen McClellan is a strong anti-abortion voter and backed Donald Trump twice.\n\nPresident Trump looks mightily displeased with the whole thing as I think many people are.\n\nJoey Blackburn is a liberal Democrat, who was very politically active in previous years - campaigning for various candidates.\n\nHe looks very angry, which frankly I find refreshing!\n\nHe always has a very smug, satisfied look on his face.\n\nPerhaps he is actually realising he might finally face consequences for his actions - something he's avoided essentially all his life.\n\nAnna Bosking is a politically active young person who first voted in 2020 for Joe Biden.\n\nNo matter the party you affiliate with, it's truly devastating to see the mugshot of an individual who held the highest office in the United States.\n\nPutting party aside, it is an international embarrassment that the man we put on the world stage is an alleged criminal.\n\nBut at the same time, it is a wave a relief to know that the justice system is doing its job. No person is above the law.\n\nGabriel Montalvo is part of the military and is active in local political groups. He voted for Trump in 2020.\n\nTrump, one of the most powerful men in the free world, was taken into custody by his political opponents because he questioned election integrity.\n\nLatin America is the closest example of this response towards open discourse to tackling corruption within a governing body. Trump is the most investigated man in our history, with the intent evident; the Democratic party and the far left do not want him to run for president and succeed.\n\nWhile the mugshot will certainly rally the Republican base, the arrest now sets a dangerous precedent for how the United States handles the ruling party's opposition.\n\nNuha Nazy says democracy, women's rights and gay rights are her top priorities.\n\nSad for the US and happy that the chickens are coming home to roost for Donald Trump after all the damage he has done. It will make 2024 even more contentious than 2020.\n\nI still think he will lead in the Republican primary. I'm glad he is being charged on the state level, none of the Republican candidates can pardon him.\n\nEven the government of Georgia can't pardon him until he has served a part of his sentence. He will have to live with whatever comes from this.", "An annual energy bill for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will fall to £1,923 in October under regulator Ofgem's new price cap.\n\nBills will be £151 lower than current rates and £577 down on last winter.\n\nBut many people will see little difference in what they pay despite the fall because some government support has been withdrawn.\n\nCharities said the government must protect the most vulnerable households.\n\nAverage annual gas and electricity bills remain high by historical standards. In winter 2021, an energy bill for a typical household was £1,277.\n\nAnalysts also suggest that prices could rise again at the start of next year.\n\nOfgem chief executive Jonathan Brearley said: \"We know people are struggling with the wider cost of living challenges and I can't offer any certainty that things will ease this winter.\"\n\nVolatility in the market gave little long-term certainty to customers, he said.\n\nOfgem's price cap affects 29 million households in England, Wales and Scotland. It sets the maximum amount that suppliers can charge for each unit of gas and electricity but not the total bill. If you use more, you will pay more.\n\nFor a home using a typical amount of gas and electricity and paying by direct debit, the current annual bill is £2,074. This will fall to £1,923 between 1 October and 31 December.\n\nSpecifically, the price of gas will fall from 7.5p per kilowatt hour (kWh) now to 6.89p for the final three months of the year. The price of electricity will fall from 30.1p per kWh to 27.35p.\n\nThe typical bill is calculated on an estimate that the average household uses 2,900 kWh of electricity and 12,000 kWh of gas.\n\nThose who pay bills every three months, often by cheque - known as standard credit - will pay £129 more a year than those using direct debit.\n\nDomestic energy bills will be lower than the £2,500 a year paid last winter and spring, when the government stepped in to limit further rises. Prices rose following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBut last winter's government-funded £400 discount to every household, which was paid in six instalments between October and March, has finished and will not be repeated.\n\nAdam Scorer, from charity National Energy Action, said costs would be higher for many if the weather is colder than last year.\n\n\"Millions will still face unaffordable bills this winter and we are concerned about a mood of complacency. Government must remain laser focused on the risk of vulnerable households struggling in cold homes this winter,\" he said.\n\nCitizens Advice called for more targeted government support for those who need it most. The charity said the number of people getting in contact for advice about paying energy bills jumped by 17% in the first half of this year.\n\nOfgem's Mr Brearley said that social tariffs, for lower-income households, should be considered as a future option.\n\nAsked about families being concerned they will again struggle to pay their bills this winter, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the government was working \"night and day to ensure the money in people's pockets goes further\".\n\n\"I want to make sure the most vulnerable in our society do get help, even when prices are coming down,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, households are paying more for standing charges, which are a fixed daily payment covering the costs of supply and other levies.\n\nThey are also capped and part of the typical energy bill but, because they are fixed, consumers have no way of reducing them even if they cut back on energy use.\n\nOfgem officials said that the latest rise was the result of a higher rate of inflation. That meant suppliers' operating costs, such as running call centres, were higher. Mr Brearley said that it was difficult to shift some of these costs onto usage prices.\n\nThe average standing charge for electricity will be 53.37p per day from October. For gas customers, it will be 29.62p per day.\n\nJay Cross, who runs a barbers shop, said he and his wife Andrea found their direct debits were failing to cover their bills last year.\n\n\"We ran over on the bills and then made payment plans to catch up with it,\" he said.\n\nAndrea and Jay say they have energy debts\n\n\"We've got no choice, we've got to have the heating on - especially with the baby. We're still in arrears but we are going to get back on top of it ready for this winter.\"\n\nAnalysts suggest domestic energy bills are unlikely to fall significantly for the next decade.\n\nShadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband said higher energy bills were \"here to stay\" and that Labour would bring in a \"proper windfall tax\".\n\nMeanwhile, Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse said high bills reflected a \"shocking failure\" by ministers.\n\nCost-of-living payments will continue to be made to people on lower incomes and those receiving certain benefits to help with high bills.\n\nHere are some energy saving ideas from environmental scientist Angela Terry, who set up One Home, a social enterprise that shares green, money-saving tips:\n\nWhat are your experiences with the cost of energy? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "About 200 elected representatives from 44 legislatures across the United States visited Stormont on Thursday\n\nNot much usually happens at Stormont in August - or ever, come to think of it.\n\nIn the good old days this was recess when assembly members took their summer holidays.\n\nBut because of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) boycott of the institutions there hasn't been a proper sitting of the assembly since 24 March 2022.\n\nThere's little sign of that changing any time soon.\n\nSo the prospect of a visit by almost 200 elected representatives from 44 legislatures across the US, who none of us had ever heard of, turned us almost giddy with excitement.\n\nMaybe, but Stormont can't afford to be choosy these days and at least this was something.\n\nThe delegation, delivered in four large coaches, was led by Robin Vos, the president of the National Conference of State Legislators.\n\nA Republican politician, he's the 79th Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, a man best known for sacking a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice he once hired to investigate electoral fraud.\n\nHe said the US politicians were at Stormont to \"listen and learn\".\n\nPart of that learning was to hear from members of the five main Stormont parties who took questions from their guests in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings.\n\nOne of their inquisitors wondered aloud how their constituents were being served by not being there to do the jobs they were elected for.\n\nDUP assembly member Emma Little Pengelly said it was the only way to address the problems caused by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework.\n\nBut Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy called it \"a failed strategy\", \"reprehensible\" and \"unforgivable\".\n\nThe Alliance Party's Kellie Armstrong, warming to the task, described the situation at Stormont as \"the political equivalent of the seventh circle of hell\".\n\nMatthew O'Toole of the Social Democratic and Labour Party said: \"If you'd have told me we'd have lots of middle aged legislators sitting in the Great Hall I'd have been delighted but sadly we had to bring them in from America.\"\n\nThe politicians, plus about 100 more spouses and guests, then headed to the members' dining room for a three-course lunch from a menu boasting Young Buck blue cheese, panna cotta and spiced pear chutney, County Armagh beef cheek pie topped with buttery mash, Stormont lime mousse with raspberry gel, Jawbox gin syrup and yellowman.\n\n\"This is a junket for Americans and their families,\" said one cynical voice, thankfully not loudly enough to be heard.\n\nNon-event? Maybe. But as we trudged away from Stormont none of us could think of when, and for what purpose, any of us may be back.", "The number of people in the UK waiting for a decision on their asylum claims has risen to a record high, latest Home Office figures show.\n\nMore than 175,000 people were waiting for a decision on whether they will be granted refugee status at the end of June 2023 - up 44% from last year.\n\nIn December 2022, PM Rishi Sunak set a target of clearing the so-called legacy backlog by the end of this year.\n\nOfficials have cleared on average 2,061 of those cases a month since then.\n\nWith 67,870 of the legacy cases remaining, the Home Office would have to process around 11,311 of them per month if it is to meet its target.\n\nThe legacy backlog refers to the asylum applications lodged before June 2022.\n\nThe number of cases awaiting decision refers to main claimants, while the number of people also includes any family members or other dependents.\n\nThe figures also show in the year ending June 2023:\n\nAn asylum seeker is a person who flees their home country, enters another country and applies for the right to international protection and to stay in that country.\n\nIn the UK, asylum seekers are not allowed to work, and must rely on state support. Housing is provided, but asylum seekers cannot choose where it is.\n\nTwo asylum seekers, both from African countries, spoke to the BBC about their experiences in the asylum system.\n\nRose (not her real name), a single mother who arrived in the UK from Cameroon in August 2019, has been waiting four years for her asylum claim to be processed.\n\nRose has enrolled on a college course in IT and hopes to work in computing, but - like all asylum seekers - cannot be employed until her refugee status is confirmed.\n\n\"I struggle with not knowing what the future holds,\" she said, adding that she suffers with anxiety and depression.\n\nShe and her friend Mohammed are members of the same youth group for asylum seekers set up by the London-based charity Praxis.\n\nThey both arrived in the UK on visitor visas before claiming asylum.\n\nMohammed said he came to the UK because he faced discrimination in Ghana as a bisexual man.\n\n\"I chose to come to Britain because Britain is the most protective country,\" he said.\n\n\"Going to a different European country I might face racism. It will be less in this country,\" he said.\n\nMohamed, a bisexual man from Ghana, said he came to the UK because it protects LGBT people\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"on track\" to clear the legacy backlog, and that the number of withdrawn claims had increased because of \"our efforts to clear the asylum backlog\".\n\n\"[They] occur for a number of reasons including where someone has already left the UK before their claim was considered or they choose to pursue another application for permission to stay,\" a spokesperson said.The number of cases awaiting an initial decision has increased by less than 1% over the three months to June 2023, which the Home Office said indicated a \"slowdown in the rise of the backlog\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the department remained committed to reducing levels of immigration, adding that the system was working to encourage the \"best and the brightest\" to come to the UK.\n\nBut Labour said the latest migration figures showed the government had \"lost control\" of the immigration system.\n\n\"This legacy thing is just ridiculous because they've been in power for 13 years and the backlog has built up,\" shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said.\n\nDr Peter William Walsh, senior researcher at the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said the backlog remained \"stubbornly high\", despite falling numbers of asylum claims and more asylum caseworkers in the Home Office.\n\n\"It's becoming harder to see how the government can meet its pledge to eliminate the so-called 'legacy backlog' of older claims by the end of the year, as the rate of decision-making would have to be more than doubled,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The remains of an English Channel inflatable recovered by the UK Border Force.\n\nThe figures also show some 44,460 people were recorded as having arrived by small boats in the year to June 2023, up 26% from the same period last year.\n\nMore than half of these arrived in the three months from August to October 2022. August last year saw the highest number of arrivals of any month since data was collected.\n\nAlbanian and Afghan nationals accounted for almost half of small boat arrivals in the year to June - 26% and 21% respectively.\n\nThe number of Afghans arriving on small boats has been increasing since summer 2021, when the Taliban took over the country, and make up the most common nationality so far in 2023, the Home Office said.\n\nThere are two resettlement schemes open to Afghan nationals - the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, for citizens who were employed by the British government in Afghanistan and fear reprisals from the Taliban, and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), which prioritises women and children as well as religious and other minorities.\n\nUnder the ACRS, 233 people were resettled in the UK in the year to June, the figures show.\n\nThe International Rescue Committee (IRC) UK said the numbers \"reveal the shocking reality of the government's failure to provide protection for vulnerable Afghans\", adding that there are not enough safe routes for refugees from countries like Afghanistan.\n\n\"The majority of the almost 10,000 Afghans seeking safety in the UK were forced to make dangerous journeys across the channel,\" said Laura Kyrke-Smith, IRC's executive director.\n\nA government spokesperson said \"there are safe and legal routes to come here\", calling the ACRS scheme \"generous\".\n\nA previous version of this article incorrectly stated the number of asylum claims withdrawn last year.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "When the former president surrenders at a Georgia jail on Thursday, it will be unlike any of his previous cases. The BBC's Barbara Plett Usher explains what makes the appearance, and Trump's fourth indictment, so unique.", "Dr Hartwig Fischer has been director of the British Museum since 2016\n\nThe head of the British Museum has defended its investigation into allegedly stolen items, after an art dealer said he alerted bosses in 2021.\n\nThe British Museum told Ittai Gradel that \"all objects were accounted for\", according to emails seen by the BBC.\n\nMuseum director Hartwig Fischer now claims the art dealer had more items in his possession, unknown to the museum.\n\nDr Gradel claimed that was an \"outright lie\", adding the museum did not contact him despite making himself available.\n\nThe museum has sacked a member of staff after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nEmails seen by BBC News between Dr Gradel and the museum appear to show the London institution was alerted to the thefts in 2021 but it appears that they did not take sufficient action.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, Mr Fischer said that when allegations were brought to the British Museum in 2021, \"we took them incredibly seriously, and immediately set up an investigation\".\n\n\"Concerns were only raised about a small number of items, and our investigation concluded that those items were all accounted for,\" he continued.\n\n\"We now have reason to believe that the individual who raised concerns had many more items in his possession, and it's frustrating that that was not revealed to us as it would have aided our investigations,\" he said.\n\nMr Fischer said a \"full audit\" was launched in 2022, which \"revealed a bigger problem\", after which they alerted the police and a disciplinary process was launched. This \"resulted in a member of staff being dismissed,\" Mr Fischer said.\n\nHe added that his priority was to the \"incredible British Museum collection\".\n\nIn response, Dr Gradel said: \"The claim that I withheld information from the British Museum is an outright lie.\n\n\"I was explicit in my communication with the British Museum that I was entirely at their disposal for any further information or assistance they would require. They never contacted me.\"\n\nThe British Museum has been contacted for comment.\n\nAccording to the PA news agency, the missing items are believed to have been taken over a \"significant\" period of time. Some of them reportedly ended up on eBay, being sold for considerably less than their actual estimated value.\n\neBay said it \"does not tolerate the sale of stolen property\".\n\nNone of the treasures, which dated from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD, had recently been on display and had been kept primarily for academic and research purposes, the museum said. The majority of them were kept in a storeroom.\n\nDr Gradel's emails suggest he became suspicious when he \"stumbled\" upon a photo of a Roman cameo fragment that he said had been up for sale and had been listed on the British Museum website but had since been removed.\n\nDr Gradel also alleges in one of his emails that a third-party seller returned a gem to the museum as soon as Dr Gradel told him his suspicions, but claims the museum didn't follow this up sufficiently.\n\nIn one of several emails he sent to follow up any progress, this time to a board trustee, Dr Gradel accuses Mr Fischer and deputy director Jonathan Williams of \"sweeping it all under the carpet.\"\n\nIn one response emailed in October 2022 to a trustee who was following up on Dr Gradel's concerns, Fischer said there was \"no evidence\" of any wrongdoing, adding that the \"three items\" Dr Gradel had mentioned were \"in the collection\".\n\nIt's now believed that more than 1,500 objects were stolen, damaged and destroyed, in a crisis that is threatening the reputation of the British Museum.\n\nDespoina Koutsoumba, director of the Association of Greek Archaeologists, said the museum could no longer claim Greek heritage was protected - Greece has long campaigned for the return of the Parthenon sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, which are held at the museum.\n\nMP Tim Loughton, chair of the British Museum All-Party Parliamentary Group, called the remarks \"blatant opportunism\".", "The French government is allocating €200m (£171.6m) to destroy surplus wine and support producers.\n\nIt comes amid a cocktail of problems for the industry, including a falling demand for wine as more people drink craft beer.\n\nOverproduction and the cost of living crisis are also hitting the industry.\n\nMost of the €200m will be used to buy excess stock, with the alcohol sold for use in items such as hand sanitiser, cleaning products and perfume.\n\nIn a bid to cut back on the overproduction, money will also be available for winegrowers to change to other products, such as olives.\n\nIn funnelling the money into the industry, the French government aims to stop \"prices collapsing... so that wine-makers can find sources of revenue again\", Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau said.\n\nDespite the financial help - an initial EU fund of €160m which the French government topped up to €200m - the wine industry needs to \"look to the future, think about consumer changes ... and adapt\", he added.\n\nEuropean Commission data for the year to June shows that wine consumption has fallen 7% in Italy, 10% in Spain, 15% in France, 22% in Germany and 34% in Portugal, while wine production across the bloc - the world's biggest wine-making area - rose 4%.", "Janet Atkins said the incident had been \"upsetting\"\n\nA woman says she has been unable to go to work after discovering \"tonnes of waste\" dumped outside her house.\n\nJanet Atkins, who lives at Warwick Bridge near Carlisle, woke up to find \"about eight hills\" of debris blocking her driveway.\n\nShe has been told she is responsible for the cost of removing the waste and that will be about £10,000.\n\nThe Environment Agency said an investigation had begun into the incident, which happened on 17 August.\n\n\"It happened overnight. I discovered it at about 09:30 on Thursday morning,\" Ms Atkins said.\n\n\"We're looking at dirty waste. We're seeing shredded-up plastic bags, nappies, bits of plastic, vinyl gloves, cardboard, bits of metal, bits of plastic tubes. There's a bit of everything.\"\n\nThe \"rubbish mountain\" spilled on to the driveway, leaving her unable to take her car to work, she said.\n\n\"My first reaction was to phone the police. They don't deal with fly tipping.\n\n\"When I described that it was the amount of an articulated lorry, they said they still don't deal with fly-tipping. It's dealt with by the council.\"\n\nAfter \"five hours of phoning and chasing\", Ms Atkins said she was informed that due to the incident location on the A69, the matter would be dealt with by Northumberland County Council.\n\n\"It's an awful thing to do. I am responsible for paying for clearing and moving\n\nThe cost of removal was the responsibility of the landowner, the Environment Agency said\n\nBen Dobson, National Highways route manager for the A69, said the agency had inspected the site to identify the perpetrators.\n\nHe said: \"The legal responsibility for removing and disposing of fly-tipped waste materials rests with the landowner upon whose land the waste has been illegally deposited. In this instance, the waste has been dumped along a private access site as well as on a layby which forms part of the A69.\n\n\"As soon as the resident got in touch with us, arrangements were immediately made to clear an access route to and from her property. The Environment Agency also needed to carry out its inspections, and check the waste was not hazardous, before we could arrange for it to be cleared.\n\n\"Now that the agency has concluded its investigations, arrangements are being made via Road Link for the safe removal and legal disposal of the fly-tipped waste from the A69 layby and the adjoining landowner's property, and we're in contact with the resident to arrange for this to cleared as quickly and effectively as possible.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Some of the biggest tech organisations and search engines now have to comply with new EU rules designed to protect users.\n\nUnder the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) rule-breakers can face big fines.\n\nNineteen major platforms, such as Facebook or TikTok, face the most stringent rules which include having plans in place to protect children and stop election interference.\n\nMany have made changes, some of which will affect users in the UK.\n\nWhile the UK Online Safety Bill is still working its way through parliament - the EU's Digital Services Act became law on 16 November 2022.\n\nBut firms were given time to make sure their systems complied.\n\nOn 25 April the commission named the very large online platforms - those with over 45 million EU users - that would be subject to the toughest rules. They are: Alibaba, AliExpress, Amazon Store, the Apple App Store, Booking.com, Facebook, Google Play, Google Maps, Google Shopping, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), Wikipedia, YouTube and Zalando. Search engines Google and Bing will also be subject to the rules.\n\nThey had four months to comply with the act's rules. Smaller tech services won't have to comply until next year.\n\nBreaches could lead to a fine of 6% of turnover and potentially suspension of the service.\n\nThere are extra requirements in the DSA for these very large platforms and search engines. They have to assess potential risks they may cause, report that assessment and put in place measures to deal with the problem. This includes risks related to:\n\nTargeted advertising based on profiling children is no longer permitted.\n\nThey must also share with regulators details of how their algorithms work. This could include those which decide what adverts users see, or which posts appear in their feed. And they are required to have systems for sharing data with independent researchers.\n\nIn blog posts, and in statements given to the BBC, organisations have stressed the effort the put in to comply. Both TikTok and Meta said more than 1,000 people across their businesses had worked on complying with the act.\n\nMany have already implemented changes. A number focus on personalised advertisements and feeds including:\n\nThere were also commitments to provide more data to researchers: Google promised to increase data access for those hoping to understand more about how Google Search, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Play and Shopping work.\n\nSome have not yet detailed the changes they have made when asked to do so by the BBC. X, formerly called Twitter, simply said it was \"on track\" to meet its compliance deadlines.\n\nRetailers Zalando and Amazon have mounted legal action to contest their designation as a very large online platform. Amazon argues they are not the largest retailer in any of the EU countries where they operate.\n\nNevertheless Amazon has taken steps to comply with the act and has \"created a new channel for submitting notices against suspected illegal products and content\". Zalando told the BBC it will be compliant with the act.\n\nWikipedia has made some changes in response to the DSA but the Foundation which supports the project says they should not affect users everyday experiences. It argues that the approach to regulation in the DSA is preferable to the approach of the online safety bill. It has said some of the requirements in the UK legislation would be hard for it to comply with.\n\nPhil Bradley-Schmieg, legal counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation told the BBC: \"Our hope is that lawmakers emulate the DSA; understand the diverse internet ecosystem; and protect safe, free, and public projects online. \"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman filmed kicking and striking a pony during a hunt has been cleared of animal cruelty charges.\n\nThe RSPCA brought a private prosecution after Sarah Moulds, 39, disciplined the animal in Lincolnshire in 2021.\n\nMrs Moulds and supporters wept as she was cleared of two charges at Lincoln Crown Court.\n\nAfterwards, she criticised the RSPCA, saying it had been \"pressured\" to act by \"online bullies and ill-informed high-profile individuals\".\n\nIn response, the RSPCA said it respected the jury's decision but denied it had been pressured.\n\nSpeaking outside court on Friday, Mrs Moulds said the verdict was \"a testament to the importance of due process\" and showed \"there are two sides to every story\".\n\nShe said: \"The jury's decision today has vindicated me, however, the damage from the last 20 months' trial by social media is irreversible.\"\n\nShe said death threats sent to her and her family included one in a Christmas card delivered to her home.\n\nSarah Moulds spoke outside court after she was cleared of animal cruelty offences\n\nMrs Moulds faced charges under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, namely causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.\n\nThe court heard differing veterinary opinions about how much pain and fear the pony might have suffered.\n\nMrs Moulds, from Somerby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, said she intended to \"briefly shock\" the animal but denied losing her temper and insisted the force used was appropriate.\n\nShe told the court her life had been \"torn to pieces\" by the case, having lost her job as a teacher, and that she had received death threats.\n\nThe court had heard Mrs Moulds had made \"minimal contact\" with the pony, which she still owned, and that there were no signs of external or internal injury following the incident, which took place in The Drift, Gunby, on 6 November 2021.\n\nMrs Moulds had been riding with children as part of the Cottesmore Hunt - one of Britain's oldest foxhound packs.\n\nOne of her own animals, called Bruce Almighty, pulled away from a child but quickly returned.\n\nAs the pony returned, the court was told Mrs Moulds \"immediately chastised him\".\n\nMrs Moulds denied two offences on the basis her actions were proportionate\n\nA hunt saboteur filmed Mrs Moulds kicking the pony in the chest and slapping him four times in the face before returning him to the horse box.\n\nGiving evidence, Mrs Moulds said: \"In that moment [Bruce] has done something incredibly dangerous and, in that exact moment, I decided that the right thing to do was discipline him quickly.\n\n\"In reality, in that moment, it was four seconds. My intention was then, and always was, to discipline Bruce in the moment so that he does not do it again.\n\n\"There was minimal contact and it was so quick and so short.\"\n\nAfter a three-day trial and just over five hours of deliberation, the jury of 11 men and one woman cleared Mrs Moulds.\n\nRecorder Graham Huston, addressing the jury, said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. I know it was not an easy case, no case is easy, but some cases are more difficult than others.\n\n\"What is obvious is you gave this case the utmost attention and you proceeded with your deliberations carefully and thoroughly and I am very grateful to you.\"\n\nIn a statement outside the court, Mrs Moulds said: \"It is profoundly troubling that, in this digital age, misinformation can spread like wildfire, leading to premature judgments and jeopardising the lives and careers of innocent individuals.\n\n\"A snippet of video was taken out of context, and manipulated to paint a picture of me that is entirely at odds with who I am.\n\n\"I adore my animals and have dedicated my life to teaching and nurturing young minds; it was heart-wrenching to be so wrongly and publicly maligned.\n\n\"The loss of my career, the hand-delivered death threats to me and my children, and the distress caused to my family cannot be undone.\"\n\nOn the RSPCA, she said: \"They are an animal charity, whose concern is animal welfare. They are the only charity in the UK with the power to prosecute.\n\n\"They have been pressured to be seen to be doing something by online bullies and ill-informed high-profile individuals, wasting a phenomenal amount of public donations to bring a politically-charged case.\"\n\nShe said the charity had never asked to examine the pony or see the environment in which he was being looked after.\n\n\"If they had visited Bruce on the day after this incident, or indeed any day in the last year and a half, they would have met a perfectly healthy, well-cared-for and happy pony - as verified by an independent veterinary practice at our request,\" she added.\n\nAn RSPCA spokesperson said: \"An independent vet watched the video evidence and in their expert opinion stated it was clear that suffering had been caused to Bruce by his reaction and therefore there was no need to examine him. This was backed by a second vet who is an equine specialist.\n\n\"The vets we consulted felt in their expert view that Bruce suffered pain and also psychological suffering by the fear and distress caused.\n\n\"The RSPCA will always look into concerns that are raised about animal welfare. This case was treated no differently to any other case, all of our prosecution decisions follow the same guidance as the CPS - that is the Code for Crown Prosecutors.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A transporter carrying a fleet of luxury cars overturned on a main road in Kent.\n\nThe vehicle came off the A20 near Farningham on Wednesday evening, spilling high-value cars across the carriageway.\n\nThe driver of the transporter was treated for minor injuries, while the road was closed for several hours.", "Football fan Emmy once got to meet her idol Mary Earps and has found the Lionesses' success inspirational\n\nA teenager who campaigned for Nike to sell England women's goalkeeper shirts said it was \"amazing\" the brand had made a U-turn on its position.\n\nA petition started by 16-year-old Mary Earps fan Emmy, from Northamptonshire, garnered more than 152,000 signatures.\n\nEngland goalkeeper Earps, who saved a penalty in the World Cup final, also expressed dismay that her shirt was not sold with the rest of the team kit.\n\nIn a change of heart, Nike said it had \"secured limited quantities\" for sale.\n\nEmmy, 16, told the BBC: \"Obviously there was that hope that it would happen, I didn't believe it would happen so quickly, and it would be a very quick turn-around.\n\n\"But I think we can just be grateful that they have turned around and listened to us.\"\n\nEmmy's petition was launched on 21 July, with the number of signatures doubling since the Lionesses finished runners-up in the World Cup.\n\nBefore the tournament, Lionesses star Earps said she found it \"hurtful\" that fans could only buy outfield players' shirts - and not hers.\n\nEngland were beaten 1-0 by Spain in the World Cup final, but Earps saved a penalty and it was the team's best-ever result at the competition.\n\nEarps' efforts at the tournament earned her the Golden Glove award.\n\nThe petition, which was started by Emmy in July, has doubled in signatures since Sunday's final\n\nEmmy, who also plays football, said: \"Mary's such an inspiring person in my life.\"\n\nShe said an apology form the firm was deserved, given \"the upset that they (Nike) caused, Mary having to go into the tournament, not being able to see her fans in the stands wearing her on their shirts.\n\n\"Obviously they (Nike) said there would be limited stock, so I hope I can actually get my hands on one.\"\n\nMary Earps was named best goalkeeper of the World Cup\n\nThe sportswear firm confirmed its U-turn on Thursday and acknowledged it failed to respond quickly enough to public demand during the tournament.\n\nIt said: \"Nike has secured limited quantities of goalkeeper jerseys for England, US, France, and the Netherlands to be sold through the federation websites over the coming days, and we are also in conversations with our other federation partners.\n\n\"We recognise that during the tournament we didn't serve those fans who wished to show their passion and support to the squad's goalkeepers.\n\n\"We are committed to retailing women's goalkeeping jerseys for major tournaments in the future.\"\n\nRecently, an Oxford-based company designed its own version of the goalkeeper top.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia says 10 bodies and flight recorders have been recovered from the scene of a jet crash presumed to have killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.\n\n\"Molecular-genetic tests are now being carried out,\" investigators say.\n\nThe plane crashed near Moscow on Wednesday, prompting speculation that a bomb or a missile was to blame.\n\nClaims that the Kremlin gave an order to kill Prigozhin were a \"complete lie\", Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman told the BBC earlier.\n\nPrigozhin - once a Putin loyalist - led an aborted armed revolt by his mercenary fighters in June.\n\nMr Putin at the time described the mutiny as \"treachery\", but a deal was later struck for Wagner mercenaries to either join Russia's regular army or go to Belarus - Moscow's ally.\n\nEven so, in the wake of the rebellion, many observers described Prigozhin, 62, as a \"dead man walking\", arguing that the Russian president would never forgive the Wagner boss.\n\nDuring Friday's conference call with journalists, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the BBC there was \"lots of speculation\" around the \"tragic\" deaths of all 10 people in Wednesday's air crash in the Tver region, north-west of the Russian capital.\n\nPrigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitry Utkin, as well as five other passengers and three crew members, were on board of the Embraer Legacy 600 jet, according to the passenger list.\n\n\"In the West, of course, this speculation comes from a certain angle. It's all a complete lie,\" Mr Peskov went on.\n\n\"We don't have many facts at the moment, the facts need to be clarified during the official investigation which is being carried out now,\" he added.\n\nAnd despite the jet's manifest, Mr Peskov refused to be drawn on whether the Kremlin had confirmation that Prigozhin was definitely on board the downed plane.\n\nThe future of Wagner itself has also been thrown further into doubt by Prigozhin's presumed death.\n\nOn Friday, Belarus' leader Aleksander Lukashenko said that up to 10,000 Wagner fighters would continue to be based in the country.\n\nHowever, many experts believe that Mr Lukashenko takes orders from the Kremlin.\n\nPresident Putin stayed silent over the crash for almost 24 hours, before expressing condolences to all the victims' families.\n\nHe also described Prigozhin as a \"talented person\" who \"made serious mistakes in life\".\n\nBut from the moment the plane came down, there has been frenzied speculation about what caused the crash.\n\nThe Pentagon says it believed the Wagner chief was probably killed, while a US official told CBS News that the most likely cause of the crash was an explosion on board the plane.\n\nPresident Joe Biden said on Friday that the US was still trying to \"nail down\" precisely what brought down the plane.", "Manon Rhys-Jones said it took two-and-a-half years for her daughter Awen to be seen by a health visitor\n\nA mum said her daughter had to wait two-and-a-half years to see a health visitor after she was born.\n\nManon Rhys-Jones, 36, from Ystrad Meurig in Ceredigion, said there were \"cracks in the system\" when she had her other children before the pandemic.\n\nShe said when she talked about it online, mums from other parts of Wales were \"totally shocked\".\n\nHywel Dda health board said staff shortages had put a strain on health visits, but things were improving.\n\nMs Rhys-Jones said the reaction online to her post indicated that \"other mothers from Ceredigion... were like 'oh yes, tell me about it, we haven't seen anyone either'\".\n\nShe added: \"But other mothers from other counties were totally shocked we hadn't seen anyone because they'd had all their regular appointments.\"\n\nThe Welsh government's Healthy Child Wales programme sets out targets for children to receive eight or nine health visits by the time children start school.\n\nCeri said living in rural Ceredigion was \"a bit of a postcode lottery\" for families\n\nCeri Evans, 33 from Penrhyn-coch, near Aberystwyth, had a similar experience after giving birth to Anna in April 2022.\n\n\"As a new parent you worry about everything,\" she said.\n\n\"I just didn't see any health visitors or anyone really.\n\n\"I did contact them when she was about six months, she was due her six-month check, they said they'd come back to me but I didn't see anyone and I kept hassling them.\n\n\"After finally getting one of the health visitors out to see her, she did admit that Anna had fallen through the net.\"\n\nSian Jones, a health visitor in Ceredigion, said the visits played an important role in measuring a child's development, supporting parents and assessing any potential risks in the home.\n\nShe added: \"It has been challenging, Covid obviously made changes to how we could visit and we've also had difficulties recruiting into posts that have become vacant.\"\n\nThe Ceredigion team has been helped by those in neighbouring Carmarthenshire, she said.\n\nLiz Wilson says there will be more health visitors qualified by October\n\nSenior nurse at Hywel Dda health board, Liz Wilson, said \"First of all I'm sorry if they haven't had the service that they [parents] were expecting.\n\n\"We've come from a place which was quite worrying and it is an improving picture.\"\n\nShe said recruitment was a \"national issue\" but was \"worse in the more rural areas\".\n\nBarnardo's Cymru said health visits were \"crucial\" for child development, safeguarding and wellbeing and staff shortages were being felt \"all over Wales\".\n\nThe charity's Laura Bibey said: \"What we know is that early childhood experiences and infancy is such a crucial period of a child's development and it can have a lifelong impact on children.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We expect health boards to offer the full range of Healthy Child Wales programme contacts and they should risk assess all caseloads to identify vulnerable and at-risk families.\n\n\"We also expect health boards to regularly review operations, including workforce requirements for the health visiting service.\"", "The owner of OnlyFans, the online platform used by sex workers, musicians, celebrities and more, has been paid $338m (£268.5m) in dividends.\n\nIts parent company, Fenix International, says annual profits jumped to over half a billion dollars.\n\nThe platform says it now hosts more than three million creators, serving almost 240 million users, or \"Fans\".\n\nUK-based Fenix's sole shareholder, Leonid Radvinsky, has a personal fortune estimated at more than $2bn.\n\nIn accounts filed at the UK corporate registry Companies House, the firm said more than $5.5bn was spent on the OnlyFans platform in the year to the end of November 2022. That was up from $4.8bn in 2021.\n\nThe London-registered firm said pre-tax profits for the period reached $525m, up from $432m the previous year.\n\nThe number of creators on OnlyFans jumped by 47% to almost 3.2 million, while the number of users rose by 27% to close to 239 million.\n\nThe company also said that for the first time more than half of its revenues were from non-subscription services such as tips and on-demand content by creators.\n\nThe firm said it takes a fifth of the payments made on the site, with around 80% going to creators.\n\n\"OnlyFans recorded sustained growth and profitability,\" Fenix said in the filing.\n\n\"This reflects both the platform growth, in terms of number of content creators and fans, as well as growth in existing content creators earnings,\" it added.\n\nTraffic soared for OnlyFans and other streaming sites during the coronavirus lockdowns as people were stuck in their homes.\n\nHowever, many of those platforms have seen the pandemic-era gains drop away after restrictions were lifted.\n\nOnlyFans was founded in 2016 by father and son team Guy and Tim Stokely.\n\nThey sold the company to Ukrainian-American entrepreneur and porn site owner Mr Radvinsky in 2018.\n\nMr Radvinsky has an estimated net worth of $2.1bn, according to Forbes magazine.", "The down feathers on emperor chicks are not waterproof. They must fledge before the ice breaks up\n\nA catastrophic die-off of emperor penguin chicks has been observed in the Antarctic, with up to 10,000 young birds estimated to have been killed.\n\nThe sea-ice underneath the chicks melted and broke apart before they could develop the waterproof feathers needed to swim in the ocean.\n\nThe birds most likely drowned or froze to death.\n\nThe event, in late 2022, occurred in the west of the continent in an area fronting on to the Bellingshausen Sea.\n\nIt was recorded by satellites.\n\nDr Peter Fretwell, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), said the wipeout was a harbinger of things to come.\n\nLost ice: Smyley Island would normally expect to produce 3,000 or so chicks\n\nMore than 90% of emperor penguin colonies are predicted to be all but extinct by the end of the century, as the continent's seasonal sea-ice withers in an ever-warming world.\n\n\"Emperors depend on sea-ice for their breeding cycle; it's the stable platform they use to bring up their young. But if that ice is not as extensive as it should be or breaks up faster, these birds are in trouble,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"There is hope: we can cut our carbon emissions that are causing the warming. But if we don't we will drive these iconic, beautiful birds to the verge of extinction.\"\n\nA combination of winds and warm water reduced ice cover in the Bellingshausen\n\nDr Fretwell and colleagues report the die-off in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.\n\nThe scientists tracked five colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea sector - at Rothschild Island, Verdi Inlet, Smyley Island, Bryan Peninsula and Pfrogner Point.\n\nUsing the EU's Sentinel-2 satellites, they were able to observe the penguins' activity from the excrement, or guano, they left on the white sea-ice.\n\nThis brown staining is visible even from space.\n\nAdult birds jump out on to the sea-ice around March as the Southern Hemisphere winter approaches. They court, copulate, lay eggs, brood those eggs, and then feed their nestlings through the following months until it's time for the young to make their own way in the world.\n\nA sea-ice platform needs to be present for eight to nine months for breeding success\n\nThis normally occurs around December/January time, when the new birds head out into the ocean.\n\nBut the research team watched as sea-ice under emperor rookeries fragmented in November, before thousands of chicks had had time to fledge the slick feathers needed for swimming.\n\nFour of the colonies suffered total breeding failure as a result. Only the most northerly site, at Rothschild Island, had some success.\n\nAntarctic summer sea-ice has been on a sharp downturn since 2016, with the total area of frozen water around the continent diminishing to new record lows.\n\nThe two absolute lowest years have occurred in the past two summer seasons, in 2021/22 and in 2022/23, when the Bellingshausen was almost completely devoid of ice cover.\n\nWhat is more, the slowness of floes to form in recent months means the colonies will probably not be producing chicks for at least another year.\n\nWinter maximum sea-ice extent, normally reached in September, will track far below where it would normally be.\n\nScientists believe the emperor will see its range greatly restricted as the century progresses\n\nDr Fretwell and colleagues said the emperors were feeling the impacts of this shift in conditions. Between 2018 and 2022, roughly a third of the more than 60 known emperor penguin colonies were affected in some way by diminished sea-ice extent - whether that's ice forming later in the season or breaking up earlier.\n\nAt the other end of the planet, in the Arctic, the sea-ice has been in a decades-long, steady decline. The Antarctic in contrast seemed more robust. Up until 2016, it was becoming slightly more extensive year on year.\n\nBAS colleague Dr Caroline Holmes is an expert on Antarctic sea-ice. She links the causes for the current decline to anomalously warm ocean water around the continent and a particular pattern of winds, which in the case of the Bellingshausen, has pushed ice back towards the coast, making it difficult to spread.\n\nSea-ice extent is currently far, far below where it should be\n\nThese were remarkable times, she said.\n\n\"What we're seeing right now is so far outside what we've observed previously. We expected change but I don't think we expected so much change so rapidly,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Studies in the Arctic have suggested that if we could reverse climate warming somehow, the sea-ice in the polar north would recover. Whether that might also apply in the Antarctic, we don't know. But there's every reason to think that if it got cold enough, the sea-ice would reform.\"\n\nCurrently, emperors are classified as \"Near Threatened\" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the organisation that keeps the lists of Earth's most endangered animals.\n\nA proposal has been made to lift emperors into the more urgent \"Vulnerable\" category because of the danger posed by climate warming to their way of life.", "A man has been interviewed by the Metropolitan Police following alleged thefts at the British Museum.\n\nThe London institution announced last week that it had sacked a member of staff after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nA Met Police spokesman told BBC News: \"A man has been interviewed by investigating officers.\n\n\"No arrests have been made. We have worked closely with the British Museum and will continue to do so.\"\n\nThe British Museum would not comment on the man being questioned.\n\nThe PA news agency said the items, which include gold jewellery, gems of semi-precious stones and glass, were taken before 2023 and over a \"significant\" period of time.\n\nEmails seen by BBC News appear to show the museum was alerted by an antiquities dealer to items being sold on eBay in 2021.\n\nDirector Hartwig Fischer said earlier this week the museum had taken concerns two years ago about a small number of items \"seriously\".\n\nThe German art historian, who the museum announced in July would step down from his role next year, added: \"The investigation concluded that those items were all accounted for.\"\n\nHowever, he added: \"We now have reason to believe that the individual who raised concerns had many more items in his possession, and it's frustrating that that was not revealed to us as it would have aided our investigations.\"\n\nMr Fischer said a \"full audit\" was launched in 2022, which \"revealed a bigger problem\", after which they alerted the police and a disciplinary process was launched. This \"resulted in a member of staff being dismissed,\" Mr Fischer said.\n\nIn response, the art dealer, Ittai Gradel, said: \"The claim that I withheld information from the British Museum is an outright lie.\n\n\"I was explicit in my communication with the British Museum that I was entirely at their disposal for any further information or assistance they would require. They never contacted me.\"", "Fulton County Jail has come under fire for allegations of unsanitary living conditions and negligence\n\nOn Thursday, Donald Trump turned himself in to police in Fulton County, Georgia. The process took just minutes - but most other defendants are not so lucky.\n\nMr Trump said in a fundraising email afterwards that he found conditions at the jail \"poor and disgraceful\". \"It's worse than you could even imagine,\" he wrote. \"It's violent. The building is falling apart.\"\n\nYet the former president had a very different experience from those who languish in the county's notoriously unsafe jail for weeks, months or even years while awaiting trial.\n\nIn the US, criminal defendants wait in a jail if they have been arrested, are awaiting trial without bail, or are serving a short sentence behind bars. Prisons are where criminals serve longer sentences after conviction.\n\nHundreds of people were held at Fulton County Jail for more than 90 days because they had yet to be formally charged or could not afford to pay the bail bond required for their release, according to a September 2022 report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).\n\nThe report also found 117 people had waited in jail for more than a year because they had not been indicted; 12 had been held for two years for the same reason.\n\n\"It's essentially been overcrowded since it was built,\" said Fallon McClure, the deputy director of policy and advocacy at the ACLU of Georgia. \"This has just been a perpetual cycle over and over for years.\"\n\nBuilt in 1985 to house around 1,300 inmates, Fulton County Jail has held more than 3,000 people in recent years.\n\nThe jail provides \"unhygienic living conditions\" that have led to outbreaks of Covid-19, lice and scabies, a report by the Southern Center for Human Rights said. It found inmates were \"significantly malnourished\" and dealing with a condition called cachexia, also known as wasting syndrome.\n\nWaiting in these dilapidated conditions has proven deadly for some.\n\nThis month, a 34-year-old man was found unconscious in a medical unit cell at the jail, where he had been held since 2019. He was resuscitated, but then died at the hospital, according to the Fulton County Sheriff's office.\n\nHe was the sixth person this year to die in the county jail system in 2023.\n\nNoni Battiste-Kosoko was just 19 when she died in Fulton County Jail custody in July after being arrested on a less serious misdemeanour charge. Deputies found her unresponsive in her cell in the Atlanta City Detention Center, an additional space the county is leasing to alleviate overcrowding at the main jail.\n\nBattiste-Kosoko's family has still not been given a cause for her death or found out the results of her post-mortem examination, her family's lawyer told the BBC.\n\n\"There has been a consistent and unsettling pattern of poor healthcare and inmates dying at the jail under mysterious circumstances,\" said Roderick Edmond.\n\nThe Fulton County Sheriff's Office told the BBC it was still awaiting a final report from the autopsy, and that it was investigating the incident.\n\nBattiste-Kosoko's death came just before Fulton County this month agreed to pay $4m (£3.1m) to the family of a man who died in the jail covered in bed bug bites.\n\nAn independent autopsy found 35-year-old Lashawn Thompson died in the jail's psychiatric wing last September because of \"severe neglect\" from jail staff. His death sparked an investigation from the US Department of Justice into conditions at the jail, access to medical care and excessive use of force by officers.\n\nWhen it was built in the 1980s, the jail was \"state of the art\", said Dr Edmond, the attorney. \"But it is no longer. That jail needs to be demolished and the citizens of Fulton County need to dig deep and pay the tax dollars to build a brand new jail.\"\n\nThe Fulton County Sheriff's Office itself has acknowledged conditions at the building are \"dilapidated and rapidly eroding\". It has also called for the construction of a new $1.7bn jail.\n\n\"There's been a lot of talk of cleaning it up,\" said Ms McClure of the ACLU. \"We have not really seen or heard anything particularly significant. It seems like a lot of posturing.\"\n\nMs McClure said a number of factors have led to overcrowding in the Fulton County Jail system. For one, people charged with misdemeanours in the county are arrested and taken into custody, unlike some other Georgia jurisdictions, where defendants are generally released and given a future court date for minor offences, she said.\n\nThe county has also faced a backlog of cases because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and most recently, a slew of indictments under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Rico) Act unrelated to the Trump case, she said.\n\nMr Trump and his co-defendants were charged for violating the same statute. But indictments under the law, passed in the 1970s to help take down organised crime groups like the mafia, are complex and resource intensive, experts say.\n\n\"There's the assumption that other cases aren't getting indicted because this is taking up so much time,\" Ms McClure said.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Trump was fingerprinted and had his mugshot taken. He was given an identification number and details of his charges, his height and weight, and his home city were published on the Fulton County website.\n\nBut it's there that the similarities between the former president and the average inmate end.\n\nMr Trump travelled to and from the jail with a large police escort, and his visit lasted around 20 minutes. Authorities have cited heightened security concerns in making special arrangements.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe contrast in experiences rankled some defence attorneys who have worked in Fulton County for years.\n\n\"He's gonna be treated with kid gloves because he's a former president,\" said Keisha Steed, an Atlanta-area criminal defence attorney who once worked as a public defender.\n\n\"And our clients are going to be kicked in the teeth.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLuis Rubiales has refused to step down as president of the Spanish football federation following his behaviour at the Women's World Cup final on Sunday.\n\nHe had earlier grabbed his crotch as he celebrated at the final whistle.\n\n\"I will not resign, I will not resign,\" he told an extraordinary general assembly called by the federation. \"A social assassination is taking place.\"\n\nRubiales apologised for the kiss on Monday before Fifa, world football's governing body, opened disciplinary proceedings against him on Thursday.\n\nOn Friday he apologised for grabbing his crotch while celebrating in the VIP area in Stadium Australia, with Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter standing nearby.\n\nWidespread reports in Spain suggested Rubiales would announce his resignation on Friday - but instead he vowed to \"fight until the end\".\n\n\"I'm ready to be vilified to defend my ideals,\" he added. \"I don't deserve this manhunt I have been suffering.\n\n\"I want to apologise without reservation for everything that happened in the box, when in a moment of euphoria I grabbed that part of my body that you have already seen.\n\n\"Of course I have to apologise, to the Queen, and to everyone who has felt offended. I have been in countless boxes and I have never behaved like that.\"\n• None Women playing two games at same time - Rapinoe\n\nRubiales - who was elected to his role in May 2018 - was repeatedly applauded as he addressed the assembly, which the Spanish football federation (RFEF) called \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nHe defended his actions by saying he was trying to console Hermoso after she had a late penalty saved by Mary Earps.\n\n\"Jenni was the one who lifted me up,\" he said. \"I told her to 'forget about the penalty' and I said to her 'a little peck?' and she said 'OK'.\n\n\"It was a spontaneous kiss. Mutual, euphoric and consensual. That's the key. A consensual 'peck' is enough to get me out of here?\n\n\"There are many people who, although silent, are supporting me. More than those who are against me.\"\n\nSpain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Rubiales' initial apology was \"not enough\" and second deputy prime minister Yolanda Diaz joined those calling on him to resign.\n\nFutpro, a players' union representing Hermoso, said the incident should not go unpunished while the 33-year-old forward said it would \"defend my interests\" in the matter.\n\nThe Pachuca player, who has 101 caps, initially said on Instagram she \"didn't like\" Rubiales' actions but a statement released later on her behalf defended him.\n\nRubiales also talked of extending the contract of controversial coach Jorge Vilda and offering him a salary of 500,000 euros.\n\nVilda, 42, survived a player revolt last September and the RFEF continued to back him, posting 'VILDA IN' on Spain's official X account after the team's World Cup triumph.\n\n\"Jorge Vilda, they wanted to do to you the same thing that they are doing to me now,\" Rubiales said. \"We've been through a lot, but we've been together.\"\n• None Three controversial moments of the Women's World Cup\n• None Spain women's players deny asking for coach to be sacked\n\nRubiales' defiant stance has been met with widespread condemnation.\n\n\"What we have seen today at the federation assembly is unacceptable,\" Spain's second deputy prime minister Yolanda Diaz wrote on social network X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\n\"The government must act and take urgent measures: impunity for macho actions is over. Rubiales cannot continue in office.\"\n\nMinister for equality Irene Montero, who has previously called for Rubiales to resign, said on X: \"Silence has not worked and discrediting the victim, her support networks and the feminist social demand for the guarantee of the right to sexual freedom will not work either. Only yes is yes.\"\n\nVictor Francos, secretary of state for sport, told Spanish radio station La Ser: \"We are going to act. We have activated all the mechanisms to take the appropriate measures.\"\n\nJavier Tebas, head of Spain's top division La Liga, said it was \"very difficult to explain what is happening with Luis Rubiales\".\n\nHe added that the sport was having to \"live with dealing with him as president of the RFEF. The misogynistic gestures, the profane expressions, the protocol disaster and the insults of this latest global embarrassment are not a surprise\".\n\nTebas went on to allege serious criminal allegations against the president, adding: \"The list of women and men aggrieved by Luis Rubiales these years is too long and this must stop.\"\n\nSpanish football expert Guillem Balague posted on social media: \"Against all the reporting, against the advice of people close to him, against the wish of the government (who will now go after him), Rubiales surprises even his close circle and insists he will not resign.\n\n\"Embarrassing, his explanations are obsolete. He will have to be pushed out,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Spanish football presenter Semra Hunter said: \"I am both incredibly gobsmacked and at the same time not.\n\n\"There was an incredible amount of pressure both internally here within Spain and externally from basically the entire world, so in that sense it has come as a surprise because everyone this morning expected he was going to be addressing the assembly by saying yes [he will resign].\n\n\"What's really sad about this is that he's doubling down on the fact he's saying this kiss - he's not even calling it a kiss, he's saying it's a peck - was consensual.\n\n\"He insists it was mutual and he says it was spontaneous, and so he's still defending himself saying he's done nothing wrong.\"\n\nFormer Manchester United and Spain goalkeeper David de Gea wrote \"my ears are bleeding\" on X, while Iker Casillas, Spain's World Cup-winning captain in 2010, simply said: \"Embarrassing.\"\n\nThe former Real Madrid goalkeeper later added: \"We should have spent these five days talking about our girls, of the joy they gave us all, to boast of a title that we did not have in women's football but... \"\n\nBarcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas, the 2021 and 2022 Ballon d'Or winner, wrote on X: \"This is unacceptable. It's over. With you team-mate @jennihermoso.\"\n\nReal Betis striker Borja Iglesias, who won the second of his two caps for Spain in March, said: \"I am sad and disappointed. As a footballer and as a person I don't feel represented by what happened today. I find it unfortunate that they continue to press and focus on a colleague.\n\n\"Wearing the Spanish national team shirt is one of the greatest things that has happened to me in my career. I don't know if at some point I will be an option again, but I have made the decision not to return to the national team until things change and this type of act does not go unpunished.\"\n\nPlayers' union Fifpro said it \"again calls for immediate disciplinary action\" against Rubiales and has written to Uefa, of which Rubiales is one of six vice-presidents, \"requesting that it starts disciplinary proceedings\".\n\n\"Any lack of action by authorities in addressing the conduct of Mr Rubiales would send an entirely unacceptable and damaging message to the football industry and wider society,\" Fifpro added.\n• None 'They were regarded as the elite of the criminal world': Get onboard the story of The Great Train Robbery, told by a journalist who reported on it in 1963\n• None How much water should you drink a day? Dr Michael Mosley looks at the importance of hydration", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nAmerican pole vaulter Katie Moon has defended her decision to share world gold after criticism on social media.\n\nDefending champion Moon and Australia's Nina Kennedy agreed to share the title rather than continue with a jump-off after each missed three goes at 4.95m.\n\nIt is the first time a gold has been shared in the competition's history.\n\nMoon said she wanted to enlighten critics who had called them \"cowards, shameful, pathetic\", explaining that fatigue was a key factor.\n\n\"To say I have seen mixed reviews about our decision to share the win would be an understatement,\" Olympic champion Moon wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"I know you can't make everyone happy in this world but, in an effort to help people understand the sport that I love so much, I would like to explain the mentality in that moment.\n\n\"The pole vault is not an endurance event. Once the fatigue sets in it not only becomes more difficult but dangerous.\n\n\"The sport has seen everything from athletes just landing funny with minor tweaks to horrific accidents.\"\n\nThe decision of high jumpers Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi to share gold was one of the standout moments at the Tokyo Olympics two years ago.\n• None Hudson Smith goes from 'absolute hell' to world silver\n\nMoon and Kennedy's shared gold was celebrated at Budapest's National Athletics Centre following a thrilling pole vault final.\n\nBoth athletes had cleared 4.90m but neither could make the 4.95m mark.\n\nMoon said the fatigue from such a long competition had led her to move her take off step further from the pit, making further attempts riskier.\n\n\"To walk away healthy and with a gold medal while celebrating with my friend that had jumped just as well was a no-brainer,\" Moon added.\n\n\"I understand that people want to see a clear winner but in this instance it was without a doubt the right decision, and one that I will never regret.\n\n\"Contrary to popular belief, you do not need a 'win at all cost' mindset to have a champion's mentality.\n\n\"Part of the reason we've reached the highest level is by listening to our bodies.\"", "SpaceX has been developing a line of Starship prototypes at its facility in South Texas\n\nThe US Department of Justice (DOJ) has said it is suing Elon Musk's SpaceX, alleging the rocket firm discriminates against refugees and asylum seekers in its hiring practices.\n\nThe DoJ says SpaceX falsely claimed that it was not allowed to hire non-US citizens.\n\nThe investigation into SpaceX by the DoJ was prompted after allegations of discrimination from a foreign worker.\n\nThe BBC has contacted SpaceX for comment.\n\nThe DoJ alleged that SpaceX \"routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status\" from September 2018 to May 2022.\n\nAn asylee is a person who has been granted asylum. They are authorised to work in the US, may apply for a social security card, may request permission to travel overseas, and can apply to bring family members to the country.\n\nElon Musk's company said it was only allowed to hire citizens and green card holders because of \"export control laws,\" the DOJ said.\n\nHowever, the DoJ also said that this was not correct and that these laws do not mandate such restrictions.\n\nThe jobs from which refugee and asylee applicants were allegedly excluded from were wide ranging - from rocket engineering to dish-washing and cooking.\n\nThe DoJ has asked SpaceX to look at providing backpay for those who were wrongly denied work because of this alleged discrimination.\n\nThis lawsuit is not the first time one of Mr Musk's companies has been accused of discriminatory behaviour.\n\nA group of former employees of the social media website formerly known as Twitter, now X, filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging that Mr Musk engaged in gender, age and racial discrimination.", "Donald Patience was found at a house in Radcliffe by police responding to reports of a dog being stolen\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a man was found dead when police were called to reports of a dog being stolen in a burglary.\n\nDonald Patience, 45, was found at a house on Ainsworth Road in Radcliffe, Bury, at about 10:30 BST on Tuesday. He was declared dead at the scene.\n\nThree men have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nTwo men, aged 27 and 41, have been bailed pending further inquires and a 39-year-old man is in police custody.\n\nMr Patience's family said he was \"a much-loved son, brother and father\" who will be \"sorely missed by many\" and was \"affectionately known as Prentice\".\n\nThe back window of the house was smashed while neighbours said police had been outside the home since Tuesday.\n\nOfficers have appealed to the public who may have seen or heard anything \"unusual\" earlier in the week in and around the area.\n\nDet Ch Insp Rachel Smith said: \"I would like to reassure the local public, as I understand there will be alarm when finding out about this, but we are confident it is a targeted attack.\n\n\"We are also looking for people who may know Donald, have seen him walking his beloved white labradoodle in the local area or have any knowledge of any activity at or near his address.\"\n\nThe force added the dog was being looked after.\n\nA man from a nearby street, who did not want to be named, said: \"I was coming out of my house in the morning and there were police all over the road.\n\n\"There was a man, about 6ft in a grey jacket, who had been arrested, and a curly dog.\n\n\"They were in the back of a police van.\n\n\"I just thought there had been a bit of an argument or something but then the next thing there were forensics everywhere so I knew it must be serious.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The British Museum is one of the most popular visitor attractions in the UK\n\nAn art dealer alerted the British Museum to alleged stolen items from the institution in 2021 but was told \"all objects were accounted for\".\n\nIttai Gradel alleged in February 2021 he had seen items online belonging to the museum, according to correspondence seen by BBC News between Mr Gradel and the museum.\n\nDeputy director Jonathan Williams responded in July 2021 to Dr Gradel, saying \"there was no suggestion of any wrongdoing\".\n\nThe British Museum has been contacted for comment.\n\nMr Williams added during the correspondence that there had been a \"thorough investigation\" and that the \"collection was protected.\"\n\nThe London institution announced last week that it had sacked a member of staff after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nPolice are now investigating. A statement issued by the Metropolitan police said: \"We have been working alongside the British Museum.\n\n\"There is currently an ongoing investigation - there is no arrest and enquiries continue. We will not be providing any further information at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that while there are unanswered questions for the museum, due to police involvement, they don't intend to comment further at present.\n\nThe museum has launched its own investigation into the thefts.\n\nFischer recently announced that he would stepping down as museum director next year\n\nAccording to the PA news agency, the missing items are believed to have been taken over a \"significant\" period of time. Some of them reportedly ended up on eBay, being sold for considerably less than their actual estimated value.\n\nAn eBay spokesperson said: \"Our dedicated law enforcement liaison team is in close contact with the Metropolitan Police and is supporting the investigation into this case.\n\n\"eBay does not tolerate the sale of stolen property. If we identify that a listing on our site is stolen, we immediately remove it and work with law enforcement to support investigations and keep our site safe.\"\n\nNone of the treasures, which dated from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD, had recently been on display and had been kept primarily for academic and research purposes, the museum said. The majority of them were kept in a storeroom.\n\nDr Gradel's emails suggest he became suspicious when he \"stumbled\" upon a photo of a Roman cameo fragment that he said had been up for sale and had been listed on the British Museum website but had since been removed.\n\nDr Gradel also alleges in one of his emails that a third-party seller returned a gem to the museum as soon as Dr Gradel told him his suspicions, but claims the museum didn't follow this up sufficiently.\n\nIn one of several emails he sent to follow up any progress, this time to a board trustee, Dr Gradel accuses the director - Hartwig Fischer - and Mr Williams of \"sweeping it all under the carpet.\"\n\nIn one response emailed in October 2022 to a trustee who was following up on Dr Gradel's concerns, Fischer said there was \"no evidence\" of any wrongdoing, adding that the \"three items\" Dr Gradel had mentioned were \"in the collection\".\n\nChair of the museum former chancellor George Osborne was alerted to Dr Gradel's emails by one of the museum's trustees in October 2022.\n\nAccording to the emails, Mr Fischer told that trustee that \"there is no evidence to substantiate the allegations\".\n\nMr Osborne told Dr Gradel in January this year that \"I have taken your comments very seriously\".\n\nIt's now believed that more than 1,500 objects were stolen, damaged and destroyed, in a crisis that is threatening the reputation of the British Museum.\n\nLabour MP Ben Bradshaw, a former culture secretary, told BBC News the latest allegations were \"extremely serious\".\n\n\"These are priceless objects that belong to the nation, and they should be safe,\" he said.\n\n\"This has potential reputational damage for Britain because this is already being reported across the globe. The British Museum is a probably the world's most famous museum.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Culture department will be wanting to assure itself from the board of trustees and George Osborne, that it has the governance in place to protect these items now and in the future, to prevent anything like this ever happening again.\"\n\nLast month, it was announced Fischer will step down from his role as director of the British Museum in 2024.\n\nMr Osborne told the BBC: \"Hartwig has been a much respected director. I have been very clear - as has Hartwig - that his decision was not connected to our announcement last week.\"", "Thirty families are starting legal action against the government, care homes and several hospitals in England over the deaths of their relatives in the early days of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe families argue not enough was done to protect their loved ones from the virus.\n\nThey are claiming damages for loss of life and the distress caused.\n\nThe government says it specifically sought to safeguard care home residents using the best evidence available.\n\nThe legal claims focus on the decision in March 2020 to rapidly discharge hospital patients into care homes without testing or a requirement for them to isolate.\n\nThe cases follow a 2022 High Court judgement that ruled the policy was unlawful - as it failed to take into account the risk to elderly and vulnerable care home residents of asymptomatic transmission of the virus.\n\nBetween early March and early June 2020, nearly 20,000 care home residents in England and Wales died with Covid-19. That's about a third of all care home deaths during that period.\n\nThe government said at the time it had \"tried to put a protective ring\" around care home residents.\n\nOne of the cases is being brought by Liz Weager, whose 95-year-old mother Margaret tested positive for the virus in her care home in May 2020 and died later in hospital.\n\n\"What was happening in the management of those care homes? What advice were they having?\" Liz asks. \"It goes back to the government. There was a lack of preparedness, which then translated down to the care home.\"\n\nMargaret took an active interest in the world outside her care home and kept a diary\n\nAll the families are bringing claims for damages against the secretary of state for health and social care - plus the individual care homes and hospitals involved in each case.\n\nThey argue the European Convention on Human Rights was breached, including a failure to protect their relatives' rights to life and to protect them from discrimination.\n\nEmma Jones, from Leigh Day solicitors is representing the families. She says she hopes for \"a full and thorough investigation into the deaths, which might help our clients to feel they have obtained justice for their loved ones\".\n\nLiz Weager believes important evidence is provided by her mother's diary - a small black book embossed with the date 2020 and packed with bits of paper.\n\n\"She kept diaries all her life,\" says Liz. \"This one is particularly special.\"\n\nAlthough Margaret's physical health had declined in her nineties, \"mentally she was all there still,\" says Liz. \"And she knew everything that was going on in the world.\"\n\nMargaret's final diary mainly documents the times of visits, phone calls and the staff who came in to look after her - but there are also observations which paint a picture of what was going on in the care home more widely.\n\nHer daughter feels it provides a timeline which shows a care system under huge pressure in the early weeks of the pandemic.\n\nOn 3 March 2020, the government sets out its Coronavirus action plan, with the then-Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, telling people \"our country remains extremely well-prepared\".\n\nIt is also the day that experts on the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) talk about care homes for the first time - it is their 12th meeting. The minutes mention the difficulty of introducing social distancing in residential settings.\n\nDuring the pandemic Liz was no longer able to visit her mother\n\nMeanwhile, Margaret has other matters on her mind. She writes she is feeling well, \"but the staff situation is bad\".\n\nIn the days that follow, the virus takes hold in the UK. Most of the focus is on the NHS. Care providers supporting vulnerable elderly and disabled clients warn they do not have enough personal protective equipment (PPE), such as masks and gloves. They are also calling for testing and clearer, quicker government guidance.\n\nOn 17 March, the NHS tells hospitals to rapidly discharge patients where possible, including into care homes. There is no requirement for testing or isolation.\n\nMargaret's family say they were later told that some hospital patients had ended up in her care home.\n\nOn 23 March, the whole country goes into lockdown.\n\nOver the weeks, Margaret jots down in her diary what she sees. It ranges from a note about the lack of potatoes for her dinner, to the Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) form she is asked to sign with the doctor on the phone, and the matron in her room. Initially she signs it, but then asks for things to be \"put back as they were\".\n\nIt would later be claimed that some care home residents in England had bans on resuscitation placed on them without discussion.\n\nBy early to mid-April deaths from Covid in care homes reach a peak. On 13 April, Margaret writes that staff have started taking her temperature each day. From then on, she makes a daily note of it.\n\nThe government publishes its social care action plan on 15 April and says all patients discharged from hospital will now be tested. Previous advice had said \"Negative [coronavirus] tests are not required prior to transfers/admissions into the care home.\"\n\nOn 20 April, Margaret records that it is the \"first day of masks\", then on the following day notes, \"all wearing masks\".\n\nOn 30 April, she writes that her \"breathing is very bad\" if she exerts herself in any way.\n\nTwo days later, she is told her door must be kept shut for \"public health\".\n\nOn 4 May 2020 Margaret writes in her diary that she has the virus\n\nAnd on 4 May, after a visit from the matron at 10:30 in the morning, she notes in spidery letters - \"I have the virus\".\n\n\"It's hard to see,\" says her daughter, Liz. This is Margaret's last entry in her diary - the blank pages that follow tell their own story.\n\nLiz had not been able to visit her mother for nearly seven weeks. Now she had to watch from a distance as Margaret arrived at the hospital with the paramedics.\n\n\"She was in her wheelchair, and they took her out of the ambulance. And we waved. And that was the last time we managed to get a glimpse of her.\"\n\nThe following day the then-Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock, made his now well-known statement that: \"Right from the start, we've tried to throw a protective ring around our care homes.\"\n\nMatt Hancock at the Downing Street daily news conference on 15 May 2020\n\nLiz says she was upset and angry after her mother died but thought long and hard before deciding to take legal action.\n\n\"I felt that her care was completely lacking,\" she says. \"Ultimately, we all put our trust and our faith in these public servants. And it seemed to me that there was a lot of headless-chicken action going around. Where was the planning?\"\n\nSean Davies, whose mother Florence died in April 2020 in a care home, is also taking legal action. He said families want \"truthful answers and honesty\" from the Government.\n\nHe and other family members were not allowed to visit the 72-year-old, and said their goodbyes to her in a 30-second WhatsApp call arranged by a carer. Mr Davies described the situation as \"absolutely horrendous\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We just want some truthful answers and some honesty really from the Government for once.\n\n\"I just think they've got to be accountable in how they handled the whole situation.\"\n\nThe UK Covid-19 Inquiry, which started hearing evidence earlier this year, will look at many of the issues arising from the pandemic - including what happened in care homes. But it won't examine individual cases.\n\nSolicitor Emma Jones hopes to help her clients obtain justice for their loved ones\n\nSolicitor Emma Jones, who is representing the families taking legal action, says they will ask the courts to look at whether the decisions taken in their cases were reasonable.\n\n\"If not,\" she says, \"did the decisions cause or contribute to individuals losing their lives? And I would say that without the legal claims, the families won't get answers to the questions.\"\n\nThe government says it doesn't comment on ongoing legal action, but a statement from the Department of Health and Social Care says: \"Our thoughts are with all those who lost loved ones during the pandemic.\"\n\nIt says that, as well as specifically safeguarding care home residents, it aimed to protect the public throughout the pandemic.\n\nIt concludes: \"We provided billions of pounds to support the sector, including on infection and prevention control, free PPE and priority vaccinations - with the vast majority of eligible care staff and residents receiving vaccinations.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Ashley Dale worked as an environmental health officer for Knowsley Council\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was shot dead in the back garden of her home.\n\nAshley Dale, 28, was found with a gunshot wound in Old Swan, Liverpool, on 21 August last year.\n\nMerseyside Police said Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, had been extradited from Spain on a trade and co-operation agreement.\n\nHe has also been charged with conspiracy to murder Lee Harrison and possession of a prohibited weapon with intent to endanger life.\n\nMr Fitzgibbon, from St Helens, is also facing an allegation of conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon, namely a Skorpion sub machine gun, and associated ammunition.\n\nHe is due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nMs Dale was found in the back garden of her home on Leinster Road in Old Swan last August\n\nSean Zeisz, 27, Niall Barry, 26, James Witham, 41, and Joseph Peers, 28, who were previously charged with Ms Dale's murder, are due to stand trial on 2 October.\n\nMr Fitzgibbon was arrested by the Spanish National Police and extradited from Spain, with the support of the National Crime Agency's National Extradition Unit, on Thursday afternoon.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump has surrendered in Georgia on charges of plotting to overturn the state's 2020 election results in an arrest that saw the first ever mugshot of a former US president.\n\nMr Trump had to pay a bail bond of $200,000 (£160,000) to be released from the Atlanta jail while he awaits trial.\n\nAfterwards, he described the case as \"a travesty of justice\".\n\nIt was his fourth arrest in five months in a criminal case, but this was his first police booking photo.\n\nMr Trump later posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, for the first time since January 2021. He shared the address of his website and the mugshot with an all-capital letters caption: \"Election interference. Never surrender!\"\n\nHe joins the ranks of American public figures who have had arrest booking photos, including Frank Sinatra, Al Capone and Dr Martin Luther King Jr.\n\nMr Trump argues the cases against him are politically motivated because he is leading the Republican race to challenge President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in next year's presidential election.\n\nThe first former or serving US president ever to be indicted, he made the round trip from New Jersey on his private jet on Thursday afternoon.\n\nMr Trump was whisked to Fulton County Jail by a more substantial motorcade than he has used for previous court appearances this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe was inside the facility for around 20 minutes. Dozens of his supporters gathered outside.\n\nRecords posted on the jail's website described Mr Trump as a white male, 6ft 3in, and weighing 215lbs (97kg), with blond or strawberry hair and blue eyes. His inmate number was P01135809.\n\nBefore heading home he told reporters at the airport that he was entitled to challenge the result of a vote.\n\n\"I thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election,\" said Mr Trump, who often makes unfounded claims of widespread ballot fraud in 2020. \"And I should have every right to do that.\n\nMr Trump was charged last week alongside 18 co-defendants with meddling in Georgia's election results following his loss to Mr Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes in that state.\n\nThe former president was heard in a phone call pressuring Georgia's top election official to \"find 11,780 votes\" during the ballot count.\n\nAmong the 13 charges Mr Trump faces are racketeering, soliciting a public official to violate his oath of office, conspiracy to impersonate a public officer, conspiracy to commit forgery and making false statements.\n\nHe denies all the counts against him.\n\nEach of his 18 alleged co-conspirators has been booked at Fulton County Jail in recent days ahead of a Friday deadline set by prosecutors. The list includes former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.\n\nOne of Mr Trump's co-defendants - the leader of Black Voices for Trump, Harrison Floyd - is being held in custody after turning himself in on Thursday without a bail agreement, court officials say.\n\nA Georgia judge granted a speedy trial request to another co-defendant, attorney Kenneth Chesebro. His case is now due to begin on 23 October.\n\nJust hours before turning himself in, Mr Trump replaced his leading defence lawyer, Drew Findling, with veteran Atlanta criminal defence attorney Steven Sadow.\n\nOne of the conditions of Mr Trump's bail release is that he refrain from any comments, on social media or otherwise, that are intended to \"intimidate\" witnesses or co-defendants. He is also not allowed to have any communication with the other co-defendants, except through his lawyers.\n\nBefore arriving in Georgia, Mr Trump continued to criticise the prosecutor bringing the charges, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, who he accuses of trying to sabotage his White House campaign.\n\nPosting on his Truth Social platform, he blamed Ms Willis for murder and violent crime in Atlanta, writing that \"people are afraid to go outside to buy a loaf of bread\".\n\nThe latest police figures indicate that homicides in Atlanta have decreased by about a quarter since last year. Murders in the city spiked during the pandemic, as they did in most major US cities, but they are far from the levels seen in the 1990s.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None What are the charges in Trump's Georgia indictment?", "Heineken has finally sold off its Russian business for €1 - or 86p - nearly a year and a half after first pledging to do so.\n\nThe Dutch brewer said it will take a loss of €300m on the division, which is being offloaded to Russia's Arnest, which makes aerosol cans.\n\nMany Western firms jettisoned their Russian operations when the country invaded Ukraine last February.\n\nHeineken's Dolf van den Brink said: \"It took much longer than we had hoped.\"\n\nThe chief executive and chairman added: \"[But] this transaction secures the livelihoods of our employees and allows us to exit the country in a responsible manner.\"\n\nFor €1, Arnest will buy seven breweries and take on 1,800 workers with guarantees to employ them for the next three years.\n\nThe manufacture of the Amstel beer brand will be phased out over six months, joining Heineken lager which the company said was removed in 2022.\n\n\"Recent developments demonstrate the significant challenges faced by large manufacturing companies in exiting Russia,\" Mr van den Brink said.\n\nLast month, President Vladimir Putin seized Russian assets owned by Carlsberg and French yoghurt-maker Danone.\n\nEarlier this week, the franchise owner of Domino's Pizza signalled it would shut its Russian shops and put the business into bankruptcy.\n\nDP Eurasia said it would no longer try to sell the operation because of an \"increasingly challenging environment\".\n\nRussia has been targeted by a number of economic sanctions since its tanks rolled into Ukraine on 24 February 2022.\n\nMany household names decided to close their operations in the immediate aftermath of the invasion. Others, such as McDonald's and Coca-Cola, faced pressure to exit Russia.\n\nThere has also been ongoing criticism for the ones that have continued business.\n\nYale University's School of Management has been tracking which firms have exited and which have stayed. Those that remain include the likes of UK telecoms firm BT Group, and Lacoste, the upmarket French sportswear brand.", "The Nottinghamshire Police officer was trying to save a distressed man on the railway lines, the force said\n\nA police officer is in a critical condition in hospital after being hit by a train as he attempted to save a distressed man on the tracks.\n\nNottinghamshire Police were called to a residential area in Balderton at about 19:00 BST on Thursday over concerns for a man's safety.\n\nThe force said one of its officers was hit by the train during the incident, while a man suffered non life-threatening electrocution injuries.\n\nThey both remain in hospital.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP), which is leading the investigation, said it happened on the line near Newark Northgate station.\n\n\"Officers attended alongside paramedics, where one man was found to have sustained non life-threatening electrocution injuries, and another man, a Nottinghamshire police officer, had sustained life-changing injuries and sadly remains in a critical condition,\" a BTP spokesperson said.\n\n\"British Transport Police is continuing to make inquiries into the incident.\"\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the injured officer had been taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.\n\nChief Constable Kate Meynell said: \"This is a truly devastating incident that has left one of our officers very poorly in hospital. We are supporting his family and ensuring that he gets all the care and support he needs.\n\n\"This was also extremely traumatic for all those who attended the scene, some of whom provided immediate medical assistance while the ambulance was on its way.\n\n\"I would like to personally thank them for their quick and dedicated response to this incident.\"\n\nSimon Riley, chair of the Nottinghamshire Police Federation, said the organisation's thoughts were \"very much with our injured colleague and his family\".\n\nHe added: \"We are supporting a number of officers involved in the incident and will continue to do everything we can to support all of our members at this time.\"\n\nNottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service also expressed sympathy for the officer.\n\nIn a post on X - formerly Twitter - a spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with the family, friends, and colleagues of our fellow emergency responder.\"\n\nNewark MP Robert Jenrick added: \"Risking your life to save someone else is the epitome of public service.\n\n\"I'm humbled by the bravery and self-sacrifice of the police officer who was critically injured at Newark station today, in the line of duty.\n\n\"He is a true hero and I know the whole community will join me in sending our thoughts and prayers to him and his family.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nJenni Hermoso says she did not consent to be kissed by Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales - as 81 players confirm they will not play for Spain's women's team until he is removed from his post.\n\nRubiales has refused to resign after kissing forward Hermoso on the lips following Spain's Women's World Cup final win over England in Sydney.\n\nThe Spanish government started legal proceedings seeking to suspend the 46-year-old, while Fifa has also launched disciplinary proceedings.\n\nRubiales had been widely expected to resign at an extraordinary general assembly called by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), but instead said \"I don't deserve this manhunt\".\n\nHe added: \"Jenni was the one who lifted me up. I told her to 'forget about the penalty [that Mary Earps saved]' and I said to her 'a little peck?' and she said 'OK'.\n\n\"It was a spontaneous kiss. Mutual, euphoric and consensual. That's the key. A consensual 'peck' is enough to get me out of here?\"\n\nPachuca player Hermoso released a long statement on social media, saying: \"I want to make clear that at no time did the conversation to which Mr Luis Rubiales refers to in his address take place and, above all, was his kiss ever consensual.\"\n\nShe added his claims were \"categorically false and part of the manipulative culture that he has generated\".\n\n\"I feel the need to report this incident because I believe no person, in any work, sports or social setting should be a victim of these types of non-consensual behaviours. I felt vulnerable and a victim of impulsive-driven, sexist, out-of-place act, without any consent on my part,\" she continued.\n\n\"Quite simply, I was not respected.\"\n\nShe added that she was put \"under continuous pressure\" to help with a \"statement that could justify\" Rubiales' actions - and so were her family, friends and team-mates.\n\n\"These types of incidents add to a long list of situations that the players have been denouncing. This incident is the final straw and what everyone has been able to witness on live television also comes with attitudes like the one we saw this morning [Friday] and have been part of our team's daily life for years,\" she added.\n\nA statement from England's Lionesses, who lost to Spain in the final, said the incident was \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt added: \"The behaviour of those who think they are invincible must not be tolerated and people shouldn't take any convincing to take action against any form of harassment.\n\n\"We stand with you, Jenni Hermoso.\"\n\nA statement by players' union Futpro was signed by a host of players, including all 23 members of the Spain squad which just won the World Cup.\n\nIt read: \"After everything that happened during the delivery of medals of the Women's World Cup, we want to state that all the players who sign this letter will not return to a call for the national team if the current leaders continue.\"\n\nSpain's next game is against Sweden in the Nations League on 22 September.\n\nBorja Iglesias, who plays for Real Betis, said earlier on Friday he would not play for the men's national team again while Rubiales is in charge.\n\nThe Spanish government will ask Rubiales to explain himself to a Spanish court as soon as possible, secretary of sport Victor Francos said earlier on Friday.\n\nIf the administrative court deems he violated the professional sports code, he could then be suspended.\n\nMeanwhile, Fifa will look at whether his actions constitute violations of Article 13 in its disciplinary code, concerning offensive behaviour and fair play.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his \"sincere condolences\" to the family of those killed in a plane crash on Wednesday.\n\nIt's reported that on board was Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group.\n\nAuthorities say all 10 people on the plane were killed when it crashed near Moscow.", "Charlie Gladstone read an apology to the people of Guyana on behalf of his family\n\nThe descendants of former Prime Minister William Gladstone are facing calls to pay reparations to Jamaica for an ancestor's role in slavery.\n\nThe Gladstone family apologised for its slaveholding past in Guyana and pledged to fund research into slavery and other projects at a ceremony on Friday.\n\nBut the family has been accused of failing to acknowledge the case for paying slavery reparations in Jamaica.\n\nThe family told the BBC: \"At the moment we are solely focused on Guyana.\"\n\n\"There is a huge amount to do here [in Guyana],\" the Gladstones said.\n\nJohn Gladstone - the father of William Gladstone, one of the UK's most revered prime ministers - was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.\n\nThe University of London's (UCL) Legacies of British Slavery database shows John Gladstone owned or held mortgages over 2,508 enslaved Africans in Guyana and Jamaica in the 19th Century.\n\nHe was paid more than £100,000 in compensation after the British Parliament passed a law to abolish slavery in most British colonies in 1833, receiving £15,052 for 806 enslaved people in Jamaica.\n\nReading the family's apology to Guyana, Charlie Gladstone, the great-great-grandson of William Gladstone, condemned slavery as \"a crime against humanity\" and acknowledged \"slavery's continuing impact on the daily lives of many\".\n\nHe said the family supported a 10-point reparations plan proposed by Caribbean nations.\n\nBut there was no mention of John Gladstone's slave ownership in Jamaica at the ceremony in Guyana on Friday, nor in the family's statement announcing their intention to apologise and make donations last week.\n\nJohn Gladstone owned \"significant properties\" in Jamaica, said Verene Shepherd, director of the Centre for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies.\n\nShe said the Gladstone family \"must come to the scene of the crime and apologise to the people who live in those neighbourhoods\".\n\nThe Jamaican academic and professor of social history urged the Gladstone family to \"commit to reparations, as they're doing in Guyana\".\n\nReparations are broadly recognised as compensation given for something that was deemed wrong or unfair, and can take many forms.\n\nLast week, the Gladstones said they would aim to donate £100,000 to the University of Guyana's International Institute for Migration and Diaspora Studies, which was launched on Friday.\n\nIn Guyana, the family also pledged funding \"to assist various projects in Guyana\" and UCL's Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery for five years.\n\nProf Shepherd said: \"Now that we realise that we've been ignored, I think Jamaica should make an approach.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told that Jamaica's National Council on Reparations is discussing the Gladstone case and considering what action to take.\n\nThe council has not had any contact with the Gladstone family to date.\n\nJohn Gladstone was a Scottish merchant who made a fortune from his ownership of sugar plantations and enslaved workers in the decade before abolition.\n\nHis prominent involvement in the industry shaped the political career and legacy of his son, William Gladstone, whose attitude towards slavery changed over his life.\n\nIn his first speech to Parliament, the Liberal prime minister defended the rights of plantation owners, but later branded slavery the \"foulest crime\" in history.\n\nWilliam Gladstone was Liberal prime minister on four occasions in the 19th Century\n\nThe Gladstones are the latest British descendants of slave owners to attempt to atone for the actions of their ancestors in recent years.\n\nThe family's historic link to slavery came into sharper focus during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.\n\nSince then, some members of the family have joined the Heirs of Slavery, a group of British people whose families profited from the transatlantic slave trade and want to make amends.\n\nOther members include former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan and her family, who apologised to Grenada and promised £100,000 in reparations in February this year.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC earlier this week, United Nations Judge Patrick Robinson said he had \"some scepticism about these families\".\n\nHe said the reparations paid should be based on the number of slaves John Gladstone owned and the extent to which the family benefited from this economically.\n\nHe said he would be willing to ask for a calculation from the Brattle Group, an economic consulting firm that produced a report on the reparations states owe for their involvement in slavery.\n\n\"If it's not to be seen as a tokenistic exercise, if it is to be taken seriously, they must ascertain the reparations that are owed,\" Mr Robinson said.\n\nThe Brattle Group Report, which was co-authored by Mr Robinson, said the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries.\n\nThe Gladstones should undertake a similar calculation to \"demonstrate how much is really owed\", said Robert Beckford, professor of climate and social justice at the University of Winchester.\n\nThe professor said that rather than giving money to a university for further research, he would have \"preferred them to talk to community organisers or reparations groups, to explore what is the best way forward\".\n\nAlthough he welcomed the Gladstone apology in Guyana, he said the failure to acknowledge Jamaica hinted at \"an unwillingness to face up to the full brutal, bestial horror of chattel slavery\" in the country.", "A comic whose slow-motion impression of a footballer celebrating has been watched by millions online has said the reaction has been \"overwhelming\".\n\nKarl Porter's routine has been widely shared online, with his Instagram post receiving more than 3.3 million views.\n\nIt has also garnered thousands of comments, including one from the Premier League asking who inspired it.\n\nThe 30-year-old said it was based on what he saw during his time as a binman at Manchester City's Etihad stadium.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was not the way Alim Beisembayev had expected to make his debut at the BBC Proms.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who won the 2021 Leeds Piano competition, got a call in early August asking if he could step in for Benjamin Grosvenor, who had taken ill.\n\nOne rehearsal later, he was playing Rachmaninov's famous Second Piano Concerto to a sold out Albert Hall.\n\nFilmed by the BBC, footage shows his hands trembling as he lays them across the keyboard and prepares to play.\n\n\"I wasn't expecting this two days ago,\" Beisembayev told BBC Radio 3's Petroc Trelawney immediately after the concert, but added it was \"really thrilling and really great to be here\".\n\nThe concert will be broadcast on BBC Four on Friday at 19:00 BST.\n\nBesembaiev's performance was part of a concert by John Wilson's Sinfonia that also included Lili Boulanger's tone-poem D'un matin de printemps, and Walton's First Symphony.\n\nDespite his nerves, the Kazakhstan-born pianist's Proms debut received glowing reviews.\n\n\"Beisembayev reeled off the concerto as if he was to the manner born,\" wrote The Guardian's Martin Kettle, praising his \"sparkling technique, rhythmic control and dynamic range\".\n\nHe was \"hugely impressive\", agreed Rebecca Franks in The Times, praising a \"high-stakes, electrifying performance\" that marked the youngster out as \"a name to follow\".\n\nRachmaninov's concerto is one of the most recognisable pieces in the classical cannon, which has appeared in films such as Brief Encounter and Seven Year Itch.\n\nIt also inspired the melody of Eric Carmen's soft-rock ballad All By Myself, memorably covered by Celine Dion and featured in the first Bridget Jones movie.\n\nBut the Proms performance added new shades to a familiar piece, said Jessica Duchen in the i Paper.\n\n\"Wilson and Beisembayev ditched sugar for heroism and sentiment for noble eloquence - and the utter glory of that heady, vibrant string sound could melt anything that remains of the polar ice caps,\" she wrote.\n\nDuchen also wrote appreciatively of Beisembayev's encore - \"an ear-boggling transcription of the Infernal Dance from Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird\".\n\nLater, the pianist, who was recently accepted to Radio 3's New Generation talent development scheme, recalled how he had ended up at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\n\"It was just a snap decision I had to make,\" he said,\n\n\"I remember I got the phone call and I said, 'OK, fine, let's go for it'. And then I got another phone call to warn me that it's televised.\n\n\"So that was quite the Friday morning! I was in the rehearsal two hours later.\"\n\nAsked if he'd had other plans for the weekend, he replied: \"Yes, I was going to cook myself a nice dinner and listen to Ben Grosvenor on the radio.\"", "Rudy Giuliani, who served as Donald Trump's personal lawyer, in a police booking mugshot released by Fulton County Sheriff's Office\n\nRudy Giuliani, who was Donald Trump's personal lawyer, has surrendered at a jail in Atlanta, Georgia on charges of helping Mr Trump try to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.\n\nMr Giuliani, who was released on a $150,000 (£118,000) bond, faces 13 charges including racketeering.\n\nThe former New York mayor is one of 19 people, including Mr Trump, indicted in the election interference case.\n\nMr Trump has said he will attend jail to be booked on Thursday afternoon.\n\nWhile yet to enter a plea, he denies wrongdoing and has said the charges are politically motivated.\n\nLeaving the Fulton County jail, Mr Giuliani told reporters he was \"honoured\" to be involved in the case.\n\n\"This case is a fight for our way of life,\" he said. \"This indictment is a travesty.\"\n\nMr Giuliani and Mr Trump face the most charges among all those accused.\n\nBefore Mr Giuliani, seven of Mr Trump's other co-defendants had arrived in Atlanta to be processed, including lawyer John Eastman, Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall, and Sidney Powell - another lawyer who allegedly took a central role in efforts to undermine the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.\n\nFormer Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer, Cathy Latham, Ray Smith III and Kenneth Chesebro have also been booked at the jail.\n\nProsecutors in Fulton County have set a deadline of noon local time on Friday for each of the defendants to surrender. They will then appear in court to hear the charges against them at a later date.\n\nThose who were booked on Wednesday had mugshots taken and posted to the Fulton County website within hours. Mr Trump is also expected to get his mugshot taken.\n\n(L-R, top): Former Trump Lawyers Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis had mugshots taken at Fulton County Jail. (L-R, bottom): Fellow co-defendants Kenneth Chesebro, Cathy Latham and Ray Smith\n\nLike Mr Giuliani, the former president faces 13 charges including racketeering and election meddling. Mr Trump is yet to enter a plea, but he denies wrongdoing and has said the charges are politically motivated.\n\nIn a post on Wednesday to his social media site, Truth Social, Mr Trump said he would \"proudly be arrested\" on Thursday afternoon.\n\n\"Nobody has ever fought for election integrity like President Donald J. Trump,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump has already been granted a $200,000 bond and issued with other release conditions, such as being barred from using social media to directly or indirectly threaten alleged co-conspirators or potential witnesses.\n\nThe former president, who Forbes estimates to have a personal wealth of $2.5bn, has drawn criticism for not paying the legal fees of his co-defendants.\n\nOne of them, ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that \"this has became a bigger principle than just one man. So why isn't MAGA, Inc funding everyone's defence?\"\n\nAnother former Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen, now a fierce critic of his former boss, told CNN on Tuesday that Mr Trump was not paying Mr Giuliani's fees. The BBC has contacted Mr Giuliani's lawyer for comment.\n\nFormer White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, another co-defendant, filed court papers asking a judge for an immediate ruling on a bid to move his case from Fulton County to a federal court, or - alternatively - to issue an order shielding him from arrest in Georgia.\n\nThe filing came after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis denied a request to delay Mr Meadows' arrest. An email from Ms Willis included in the filing said Mr Meadows \"is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction\".\n\nA similar request was made by former justice department official Jeffrey Clark. Lawyers for both men have argued that their alleged actions should be handled by the federal court system, as they were federal officials at their time of their alleged involvement in the case.\n\nThe Georgia case is the latest in a series of criminal indictments filed against Mr Trump.\n\nHe faces 78 charges across three other criminal cases, including an investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Kenneth Law, from Toronto, has been charged over two deaths in Canada but police believe there may be more victims\n\nDozens of people in the UK died after buying a poisonous substance from a seller in Canada, who is accused of helping people to take their own lives.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) could not confirm the chemical was the direct cause of the 88 deaths but has launched a criminal investigation.\n\nBritish police have been making welfare visits to hundreds of addresses to trace buyers across the country.\n\nKenneth Law was arrested in Toronto in May, accused of assisting suicide.\n\nOn Friday he appeared briefly in court in Brampton, Ontario, before the hearing was adjourned to 8 September.\n\nThe 57-year-old is thought to have run a number of websites selling equipment to assist suicide.\n\nCanadian authorities believe he sent 1,200 packages to customers in more than 40 countries, though it is not known how many included the poisonous substance.\n\nBBC News is not naming the chemical allegedly sold by Mr Law.\n\nPeel Regional Police said they began investigating the case in April following the sudden death of an adult in the Toronto area.\n\nAlleged links between Mr Law and deaths in the UK first surfaced in an undercover investigation by The Times the same month.\n\nSince Mr Law's arrest, police forces across the UK have been making welfare checks on everyone who ordered the substance.\n\nThe NCA, which was coordinating the checks, said that 272 people in the UK had been identified as buying from Mr Law over a two-year period.\n\nThe NCA says 88 of them later died, but at this stage there are no confirmed links between the items purchased from the websites and cause of death.\n\nNCA deputy director Craig Turner said: \"Our deepest sympathies are with the loved ones of those who have died. They are being supported by specially trained officers from police forces.\n\n\"In consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, the NCA has taken the decision to conduct an investigation into potential criminal offences committed in the UK. This operation is under way.\"\n\nTom Parfett died in October 2021 after buying the chemical from Mr Law\n\nTom Parfett, from Maidenhead, was 22 when he ended his own life in October 2021 after buying the chemical from Mr Law.\n\nHis father David Parfett is angry at what he sees as police failures.\n\n\"It's important for families to understand what has happened and why policing worldwide allowed this scale of deaths despite clear warning signs,\" he said.\n\nMr Parfett fears there other suppliers out there and unregulated websites promoting suicide.\n\n\"What can be done immediately to close down internet sites that prey on vulnerable young people and prosecute the people who take pleasure in helping others take their own life?\" he asked.\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Parfett said his son had discussed taking his own life with people he met online in communities set up to discuss the subject, and was encouraged to do so by some.\n\nHe added: \"We have to accept that in the modern age, people can find like-minded people to discuss even the most difficult problems...those communities are unregulated and causing a huge amount of harm.\"\n\nMr Parfett called for stronger action from police and policymakers to crack down on people selling poison, and for online communities targeting vulnerable people to be regulated.\n\nHe continued: \"We need to be more sensitive around the risks that people like Tom have in society through their ability to find information online that is unchallenged.\"\n\nUnder the country's criminal code, counselling or aiding a person to die by suicide can result in a 14-year prison sentence.\n\nA previous version of this article, using information from the NCA, said 232 people had been identified as having purchased products from Mr Law. The NCA has since clarified that the number is 272.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Witnesses say they saw sparks from power lines which ignited fires during a hurricane\n\nMaui County is suing energy firm Hawaiian Electric, saying it failed to turn off electric equipment before wildfires started on the island.\n\nIf power lines had been switched off during exceptionally high winds and dry conditions, the destruction could have been avoided, the lawsuit said.\n\nThe Lahaina fire killed 115 and more than 1,000 people are still missing..\n\nThe company says it is disappointed the county chose to sue while the fire investigation was ongoing.\n\nWitnesses say they saw sparks from power lines which ignited fires after utility poles were damaged by winds, caused by a passing hurricane.\n\nThe lawsuit said the utility company knew high winds \"would topple power poles, knock down power lines, and ignite vegetation\".\n\nThe company was warned in advance of dangerous wildfire conditions by the National Weather Service, the lawsuit added.\n\n\"Defendants also knew that if their overhead electrical equipment ignited a fire, it would spread at a critically rapid rate,\" it said.\n\n\"Severe and catastrophic losses... could have easily been prevented\" if the firm had a safety shut-off plan during high wind events, similar to that of other utility companies, it suggested.\n\nIt further claimed that Hawaiian Electric had a duty to properly maintain and repair its power lines and keep vegetation trimmed to prevent contact with overhead lines and other electric equipment.\n\nThe county said it is seeking compensation for damage to public property and resources in Lahaina and in nearby Kula.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC on Thursday, Hawaiian Electric said that since the fires, it had been focused on doing what it could to support the people of Maui.\n\n\"We are very disappointed that Maui County chose this litigious path while the investigation is still unfolding.\"\n\nThe wildfire that ripped through Hawaiian town of Lahaina on 8 August destroyed most of the historic town and the fires are now considered the worst natural disaster in Hawaii state history.\n\nAuthorities are now expected to make public a list of the missing in the coming days to try to narrow the search.\n\nSearch teams combing through the rubble are finding only bones or fragments of bodies.\n\nThe county said: \"Maui County stands alongside the people and communities of Lahaina and Kula to recover public resource damages and rebuild after these devastating utility-caused fires.\n\n\"These damages include losses to public infrastructure, fire response costs, losses to revenues, increased costs, environmental damages, and losses of historical or cultural landmarks.\"\n\nTemporarily shutting off power to reduce fire risk is a tactic used in western US states, where wildfires are common. In California, power lines have been blamed for half of the state's most destructive wildfires.", "Severance pay for MPs leaving Parliament at the next general election is to be doubled, to more than £19,000.\n\nFormer MPs will be paid for four months instead of the current two, while they close their office and manage the departure of their staff.\n\nIPSA, the independent body that sets the rules for MPs' expenses, said the current period was not long enough.\n\nIt follows a review of the rules following a public consultation that ended in June.\n\nPreviously, only those who lost their seat at a general election, or who stood down at a \"snap\" election, could qualify for the extra pay.\n\nBut following the end of five-year fixed term parliaments, all MPs who are standing down at an election will now qualify.\n\nAs before, those MPs who stand down before an election period will not receive the payment.\n\nIPSA said the tasks departing MPs needed to complete included closing down their constituency offices, returning equipment, managing staff redundancies, and transferring constituency casework.\n\nThe watchdog said its \"experience of previous elections\" showed this process was taking longer than two months.\n\nIt also said the handover process could be more complicated at the next election because of new constituency boundaries.\n\nMPs are currently paid £86,584 a year. The severance payment will increase from two months' net pay to four, which on current salaries would mean an increase from around £9,878 to £19,756.\n\nMPs can claim separately from IPSA to cover the actual costs incurred during the handover process, such as salary and pensions costs for staff, office rent and closing-down costs.\n\nIn addition, MPs who lose their seat at a general election are also eligible for a separate redundancy payment, known as a \"loss-of-office\" payment.\n\nIt is paid only to MPs who have been in Parliament for more than two years, and depends on their time in the job. The average payment made after the last election in 2019 was £5,250.\n\nAccording to IPSA's 2021 accounts, the body paid out £1.28m in severance payments and £827,600 in \"loss-of-office\" payments after that election.\n\nMore than 70 MPs have so far announced they will not be standing for re-election, including Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and former cabinet ministers Dominic Raab, Matt Hancock and Sajid Javid.\n\nThe new system does not need to be approved by Parliament as IPSA has been granted the powers to set the rules itself.\n\nConservative MP Bob Seely said he was \"not particularly happy\" about the changes, adding: \"I don't think people resigning should be getting a payout.\"\n\nSpeaking on TalkTV, he added that while IPSA was an independent body, \"everyone is going to blame us for it\".\n\n\"It really winds me up, frankly,\" he told the channel.\n\nIn February, a report from MPs on the cross-party Commons Administration Committee asked IPSA to rethink the length of the winding-down period, noting some ex-MPs had taken between five and eight months to complete their handover.\n\nIt also called on IPSA to review the loss-of-office payments against \"comparable redundancy payment schemes in other sectors\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Anticipation is rising outside the jail house, where the atmosphere can only be described as anything but normal.\n\nPolice and law enforcement officers have blocked off each end of the half mile street.\n\nThe public have not been allowed in at all and those of us inside the security zone are locked down.\n\nNo one can enter.\n\nYou can leave but then no one can cross back until the former president leaves.\n\nAnother half mile up the road, protesters and counter protesters line both sides of the busy road.\n\nPlenty have turned out to support Donald Trump - maybe a few dozen, but they are making their presence known.\n\nMany are convinced that Trump is innocent of all charges but no one has been able to explain why they have reached that conclusion.\n\nWe met Lee and Nadine from the self-styled Fani Willis fan club.\n\nFani Willis is the lead prosecutor who’s pursuing Trump and 18 co-defendants. Nadine said she believes the prosecutor is being targeted because she is a black woman.\n\nLee said he just wants to be part of history.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump turned himself in as expected on Thursday in Georgia to be charged with an election plot. That process - and the coming arraignment - may follow a script unlike his previous three arrests this year.\n\nDuring bookings in New York, Florida and Washington DC - where the former president has pleaded not guilty - he got special treatment.\n\nHere's why this time will be different.\n\nThe former president has until now been spared a booking photo and having to interact with other criminal defendants.\n\nBut Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat has said the department's \"normal practices\" will be followed when processing Mr Trump. These practices typically include a medical screening, fingerprinting and a warrants check.\n\nA number of his alleged co-conspirators have already been booked into the Fulton County Jail, which is notorious for hazardous conditions that some inmates endure for months.\n\nMr Trump was also subjected to his first mugshot on Thursday, as the county's normal steps include photographing all its defendants.\n\n\"The Fulton County Jail, amongst jails, is a very disturbingly dysfunctional place,\" said Rachel Kaufman, an attorney in Atlanta.\n\nMr Trump and his 18 co-defendants \"are going to witness some level of that dysfunction\" when processed, she said.\n\nStill, the former president wasn't kept in a holding cell overnight like many other defendants - he was in and out in about 20 minutes.\n\n\"He's not going to feel the full force of what an average person experiences in the Fulton County Jail when they've been charged with several felonies,\" said Ms Kaufman.\n\n\"And what they experience is their life being put at risk.\"\n\nMr Trump's arraignment in Georgia - where he is expected to plead not guilty - could be the first time the public actually sees him in court.\n\nTo date, video cameras have not been allowed during Mr Trump's arraignments in New York, Washington DC and Miami.\n\nThat's because New York state and federal courtrooms do not usually allow video and microphone recordings.\n\nBut the state of Georgia does.\n\nIt's up to the judge to decide whether cameras are allowed, said Ms Kaufman, adding that the judge assigned to Mr Trump's arraignment, Scott McAfee, has often allowed them in the past.\n\n\"He's a full transparency judge,\" she said. \"My guess is that whatever happens in front of him is going to be televised.\"\n\nThat could mean cameras in the courtroom for Mr Trump's potential trial, too.\n\nIt would not be the first time that one of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' high-profile cases took place on screen.\n\nIn 2014 and 2015, an eight-month long trial involving a controversial Atlanta Public School cheating scandal was broadcast on television and radio, capturing the attention of locals.\n\nMr Trump waves ahead of his arraignment at the Manhattan Criminal Court\n\nMr Trump floated the idea of pardoning himself before leaving the White House in 2021, and some have suggested he might attempt to do so in the criminal cases against him if elected president in 2024.\n\nBut experts say that would be much harder for the top Republican candidate to pull off in the state of Georgia.\n\nFor one, presidents can only issue pardons for federal crimes, and Mr Trump is facing state charges in Georgia.\n\nMr Trump would not be able to appeal to Georgia's governor for a pardon either, because unlike many other states, the governor there is not allowed to issue them.\n\nInstead, Georgia's State Board of Pardons and Paroles is responsible for issuing pardons, which it only does five years after a convicted person has completed his or her sentence.\n\nMr Trump is facing up to 20 years in prison in Georgia if convicted of the most severe charge of racketeering.", "Former US President Donald Trump turned himself in at the notorious Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia. He was booked on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia and had his mugshot taken just like his 18 alleged co-conspirators.", "The two-year-old boy was found hurt at a house on Central Drive in Blackpool\n\nA toddler has died after being found injured and unresponsive at a house.\n\nThe two-year-old boy was found by emergency services at a house on Central Drive in Blackpool at about 11:00 BST on Saturday, police said.\n\nHe was taken to hospital where he died two days later.\n\nA man in his 30s was arrested at the house and appeared before Blackpool Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with wounding. He was remanded into custody.\n\nPolice, who have only just revealed details of the incident, said they would speak to the Crown Prosecution Service about potential further charges as the investigation continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexander McKellar (left) killed Tony Parsons and, along with his twin brother Robert, disposed of his body\n\nA drink-driver who killed a charity cyclist then hid his body in a shallow grave on a remote Scottish estate has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.\n\nAlexander McKellar, 31, was speeding when he hit 63-year-old Tony Parsons, then left him to die on the A82 near Bridge of Orchy in September 2017.\n\nMcKellar and his twin brother Robert later hid Mr Parsons' body. His remains were not found for three years.\n\nRobert McKellar was jailed for five years and three months.\n\nAlexander McKellar admitted culpable homicide, while both brothers pled guilty to defeating the ends of justice.\n\nMr Parsons was last seen alive in September 2017\n\nJudge Lord Armstrong said the brothers had caused Mr Parsons' family \"devastating loss and emotional ongoing harm\".\n\nHe added: \"I suspect no sentence will ever be regarded as sufficient.\"\n\nMr Parsons' body was buried in a shallow grave on the Auch Estate, near Bridge of Orchy in the southern Highlands, in September 2017.\n\nIt was not found until Alexander McKellar confided in his girlfriend and showed her the grave.\n\nMr Parsons, a grandfather from Tillicoultry, in Clackmannanshire, had gone missing during a 104-mile (167km) charity bike ride from Fort William back to his home town.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While passing sentence, Lord Armstrong spoke about the devastation felt by Mr Parsons' family.\n\nHe had previously been treated for prostate cancer and wanted to do the ride to raise money for charity to \"give something back.\"\n\nPolice knew he passed through Glencoe Village at about 18:00 before going on to the Bridge of Orchy Hotel in Argyll.\n\nThe last known sighting of him was at the hotel at 23:30 that night, and he headed south on the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum.\n\nAppeals about his whereabouts drew a blank. His disappearance was a complete mystery.\n\nExtensive searches were made for the former navy officer over the following years, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nThere were numerous police appeals and the release of CCTV showing some of the last known sightings of him. The case also featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme.\n\nThe car driven by Alexander McKellar when he struck Mr Parsons\n\nThen in January 2021 police confirmed that his body had been found and that two men, both aged 29, had been arrested.\n\nAfter the McKellar twins' guilty pleas last month, the court heard that on the day of the incident they had dinner and had been drinking with a shooting party at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nAs Alexander McKellar drove home to the Auch Estate, where the brothers were self-employed farm workers, he hit Mr Parsons. He did not seek any medical assistance.\n\nThe court heard that the cyclist's injuries were so bad that he would only have survived for 20 or 30 minutes without help but it was unlikely that he had died instantly.\n\nThe twins left the area and came back to the site in another car before transporting Mr Parson's body to the Auch Estate, where they buried him.\n\nHis body remained undiscovered for three years until 2020 when Alexander McKellar led his former girlfriend to the shallow grave.\n\nAlexander McKellar's girlfriend left a Red Bull can at the site of the grave\n\nShe left a Red Bull can to mark the location before contacting police.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Parsons' body would probably never have been found without her revelation.\n\nDuring the police dig investigators initially discovered a segment of red material, which matched the jacket Mr Parsons had been wearing.\n\nHis body was gradually exposed over the course of two days before being carefully recovered.\n\nMr Parsons was found to have suffered \"catastrophic\" rib, pelvic and spine fractures following the collision.\n\nThe rib injuries were considered to be \"the most immediate cause of death\" due the effect it would have had on his breathing. He may also have suffered a collapsed lung.\n\nMr Parsons' body was buried by the twins on the remote Auch Estate\n\nBrian McConnachie KC, the defence lawyer for Alexander McKellar, told the court that his client wanted to apologise for the trauma that he had caused to Mr Parsons' relatives.\n\nHe added: \"He is not an evil man. He acknowledges that he has done a terrible thing which has caused untold distress to the Parsons family.\n\n\"He would do anything he could to alter the decision he took in September 2017, but he cannot rewind the clock.\"\n\nJohn Scullion KC, defending Robert McKellar, said he had \"misplaced loyalty\" towards his brother in trying to cover up the death.\n\nMr Scullion said: \"He bitterly regrets his callous and cowardly actions.\"\n\nThe McKellars showed no emotion as they were taken handcuffed to the cells.\n\nA police watchdog is currently looking into Police Scotland's handling of the investigation.\n\nThe Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (Pirc) is investigating \"allegations of criminality\" after a complaint against the police by Mr McKellar's former girlfriend.\n\nShe had been due to appear as a key witness in the case but did not turn up to court.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Watch Hana Burzalova and her team-mate Dominik Cerny get engaged after Burzalova crossed the finish line 28th in the women's 35k race walk at the 2023 World Championships. Cerny had finished 19th the men's race earlier in Budapest.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thailand street puppy on the brink of death finds a new home in Wales\n\nWhen Rodney was found malnourished on the side of the road on a Thai island the puppy was just hours from death, his rescuer said.\n\nThe week-old stray was rescued in Koh Samui by Niall Harbison, an Irishman who is on a mission to feed, sterilise and treat street dogs.\n\nHe documents these rescue dogs on social media.\n\nRodney's new owners from south Wales followed his journey on Instagram and \"fell in love\".\n\nMr Harbison retired to Thailand but struggled with his mental health and addiction and said he \"wanted to do something meaningful\".\n\nHe started by \"feeding a few dogs on the street\", but it quickly grew from there.\n\nMr Harbison, who has 588,000 followers on Instagram, is on a mission to save 10,000 dogs a month.\n\n\"I don't want to log into social media and see sad news, so I try and make the dogs little characters and make it a bit happier,\" he said.\n\nOne of those characters was Rodney, who was \"oozing\", \"raw\" and \"barely looked like a dog\" when he found him.\n\n\"He was within an hour of dying.\"\n\nAfter seven months of intensive care, Rodney recovered and Mr Harbison was inundated with adoption applications.\n\nCarys Hawkey and Cameron Clarke competed with 500 other applicants for Rodney\n\nAfter multiple interviews by the team at Mr Harbison's newly founded charity, Happy Doggo, Rodney's new home was found.\n\nCarys Hawkey and Cameron Clarke, from Church Village, Rhondda Cynon Taf, watched Rodney's transformation on Instagram.\n\n\"When I found Niall's account, I was just obsessed,\" said Ms Hawkey, a teacher.\n\nWhile Ms Hawkey was \"desperate\" for a second dog to join their New Zealand huntaway Khabib, Mr Clarke took a little more persuasion.\n\nHowever, as soon as he saw Rodney, Mr Clarke said he knew he was the dog for them.\n\nMs Hawkey said the adoption process was \"important\" to ensure dogs are safely rehomed.\n\nOnce the couple knew for certain that they could become Rodney's owners, Mr Clarke booked a trip to Thailand.\n\nCarys Hawkey said she was \"obsessed\" with Rodney when she saw him on Instagram\n\nIt took Rodney two flights, 24 hours and a pet taxi from Paris to London before he reached his new home, more than 6,200 miles away from Thailand.\n\n\"It's like he's always been here,\" said Ms Hawkey. \"He doesn't realise how happy he makes me.\"\n\nHowever, she said the attention on social media was \"overwhelming\".\n\nThere are more than 20,000 followers of Rodney and Khabib's daily adventures on Instagram.\n\n\"As soon as we post a photo, we get 400-500 comments on it,\" Ms Hawkey said.\n\nBut transporting rescue dogs is not always a happy story - when Rory Cellan-Jones and his wife Diane rehomed their dog Sophie from Romania, she was left traumatised by the journey.\n\nAccording to the World Health Organization, there are an estimated 200 million street dogs in the world.\n\nWhile it may be a happy ending for Rodney and the handful of other dogs who have been rehomed, Mr Harbison admitted that flying street dogs to forever homes abroad was not the solution.\n\nBesides sterilising, he said one answer was to help provide locals with knowledge about food and medicine.\n\n\"I've nearly got a Thai foundation set up and now confirmation of a UK charity, so I will be able to hire people to help,\" Mr Harbison said.\n\nNiall Harbison began his journey by feeding two street dogs, now he aims to save 10,000 dogs a month\n\nAt the moment he relies on volunteers but is planning to \"put structures in place and find solutions all over the world\".\n\nThe next step in his mission is to build a hospital for sick dogs on Koh Samui which will be named after another of Mr Harbison's rescues to have captured the hearts of people around the world.\n\nGolden retriever Tina, who was kept on a chain and used for breeding, became a feel-good story of hope for many who followed her journey.\n\n\"I have a feeling Tina has helped a lot more people than I even realised,\" Mr Harbison said.\n\n\"Her life will definitely not have been in vain.\"", "The barge is part of the government's plan to cut the cost of housing asylum seekers\n\nAsylum seekers housed briefly on a migrant barge have asked the government for its \"support and unity\" in a bid to achieve a \"peaceful and secure life\".\n\nThe 39 men were taken off the Bibby Stockholm, berthed in Portland Port, Dorset, when traces of Legionella bacteria were found.\n\nIn an open letter, some express \"shock and fear\" over the find, and \"isolation and loneliness\" since being moved off.\n\nThe Home Office said it was following all health protocol and advice.\n\nThe vessel has so far housed 39 migrants\n\nThe BBC understands the letter was written by an individual on behalf of some of the 39 migrants, in collaboration with migrant support group Portland Global Friendship Group.\n\nThe men have been moved to a hotel in another county, and in the letter it is described as \"old and abandoned\".\n\nAsking for support and guidance from the government, the group said: \"We are individuals who are tired of the challenges that have arisen and no longer have the strength to face them.\"\n\nThe letter added the migrants were \"striving for a freedom that is deteriorating in these exhausting conditions\".\n\nIt continued: \"We even lack the desire to live and perform any tasks.\n\n\"The absence of tranquillity, comfort and basic needs has become our daily concerns.\"\n\nThe letter also claimed, while the migrants were onboard the Bibby Stockholm: \"In a tragic incident, one of the asylum seekers attempted suicide, but we acted promptly and prevented this unfortunate event.\"\n\nIn a statement, a Home Office spokesperson said it was \"conducting further tests\" on the vessel's water system, with migrants expected to \"re-embark only when there is confirmation that the water system meets relevant safety standards\".\n\n\"The safety of those onboard remains the priority,\" they added.\n\nHeather Joans, from the Portland Global Friendship Group which has helped with the letter, said it expressed \"what a challenging experience it has been for them\".\n\nShe said a nurse from the barge was now living in the hotel with the men \"so they are getting a little bit more support on the healthcare side\".\n\nThere has been considerable local opposition to the barge coming to Portland\n\nThe Home Office said: \"We are following all protocol and advice from Dorset Council's Environmental Health team, UK Health Security Agency and Dorset NHS, who we continue to work closely with.\"\n\nEnding the letter, the group said: \"With your support and unity... We believe that with our joint effort, we can overcome these unfavourable conditions and achieve the peaceful and secure life that we aspire to.\"\n\nThe barge is part of the government's plan to cut the cost of housing asylum seekers and deter dangerous Channel crossings by migrants.\n\nIt previously said there were currently about 51,000 asylum seekers in hotels across the UK - having gone up by 3,000 since the end of March, costing the taxpayer about £6m a day.\n\nMinisters intend to house about 500 men on the vessel while they await the outcome of asylum applications.\n\nThe 222-room, three-storey barge, chartered by the government for 18 months, arrived at the port in July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Inside the housing barge after first asylum seekers board\n\nThe barge was previously used to accommodate homeless people and asylum seekers in Germany and the Netherlands.\n\nThe Home Office previously said \"using vessels as alternative accommodation, like our European neighbours are already doing, will be better value for British taxpayers and more manageable for communities than costly hotels\".\n\nHowever, human rights group Amnesty International compared the Bibby Stockholm to \"prison hulks from the Victorian era\", saying it was an \"utterly shameful way to house people who've fled terror, conflict and persecution\".\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify any of the claims in the letter.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Hartwig Fischer has been director of the British Museum since 2016\n\nBritish Museum director Hartwig Fischer has said he will step down from his role, after treasures were stolen from the London institution.\n\nIn a statement, he said it was evident the museum \"did not respond as comprehensively as it should have\" when it was told about the thefts in 2021.\n\nMr Fischer also withdrew remarks he made earlier this week about the art dealer who first alerted museum bosses.\n\nHe said he expressed \"sincere regret\" over the \"misjudged\" comments.\n\nThe museum announced last week that it had sacked a member of staff after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Fischer defended the museum's investigation in 2021, when it had told antiques dealer Ittai Gradel that \"all objects were accounted for\".\n\nMr Fischer said he had \"reason to believe\" Dr Gradel had withheld information on other missing items, a comment Dr Gradel said was \"an outright lie\".\n\nDr Gradel told BBC News on Friday that Mr Fischer's resignation was \"the right thing to do, I think he should have done it sooner but I do accept his apology\".\n\nMr Fischer, who has held the position since 2016, said he would step down as soon as the museum's board had found an replacement.\n\nHe had previously announced he would leave the position, but he was not due to depart until 2024.\n\nDeputy Director Jonathan Williams has also agreed to step back from his normal duties until an independent review into the thefts at the Museum has concluded.\n\n\"Over the last few days I have been reviewing in detail the events around the thefts from the British Museum and the investigation into them.\n\n\"It is evident that the British Museum did not respond as comprehensively as it should have in response to the warnings in 2021, and to the problem that has now fully emerged. The responsibility for that failure must ultimately rest with the director.\n\n\"I also misjudged the remarks I made earlier this week about Dr Gradel. I wish to express my sincere regret and withdraw those remarks.\n\n\"I have offered my resignation to the chairman of the trustees, and will step down as soon as the board have established an interim leadership arrangement. This will remain in place until a new director is chosen.\n\n\"The situation facing the Museum is of the utmost seriousness. I sincerely believe it will come through this moment and emerge stronger, but sadly I have come to the conclusion that my presence is proving a distraction.\n\n\"That is the last thing I would want. Over the last seven years I have been privileged to work with some of the most talented and dedicated public servants.\n\n\"The British Museum is an amazing institution, and it has been the honour of my life to lead it.\"\n\nGeorge Osborne, the former chancellor who is now the chairman of the museum's trustees, said Mr Fischer's resignation had been accepted.\n\nHe added that Mr Fischer had acted \"honourably in confronting the mistakes that have been made\".\n\n\"No one has ever doubted Hartwig's integrity, his dedication to his job, or his love for the museum,\" Mr Osborne said.\n\nHe added the trustees would ensure the museum had the \"necessary leadership to take it through this turbulent period as we learn the lessons of what went wrong\".\n\n\"I am clear about this: we are going to fix what has gone wrong,\" he added. \"We will learn, restore confidence and deserve to be admired once again.\"\n\nA man was interviewed by police earlier this week in connection with the thefts from the museum\n\nThe museum was first warned by Dr Gradel of thefts from its collection two years ago.\n\nEmails seen by the BBC suggest he had become suspicious when he \"stumbled\" upon a photo of a Roman cameo fragment that he said had been put up for sale online.\n\nHe suggested the item had previously been listed on the museum's website but had since been removed.\n\nThe museum said it would investigate, but when Dr Gradel sent emails to follow up on progress, he accused Mr Fischer of \"sweeping it all under the carpet\".\n\nEarlier this week, a man was interviewed by the Metropolitan Police in connection with the thefts. No one has been arrested.\n\nAccording to the PA news agency, the missing items are believed to have been taken over a \"significant\" period of time.\n\nSome of them reportedly ended up on eBay, being sold for considerably less than their actual estimated value.\n\nNone of the treasures, which dated from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD, had recently been on display and had been kept primarily for academic and research purposes, the museum said.\n\nThe majority were kept in a storeroom.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVladimir Putin has broken his silence over Yevgeny Prigozhin's reported death - some 24 hours after the Wagner chief's private jet crashed.\n\nRussia's president said the head of the mercenary group was a \"talented person\" who \"made serious mistakes in life\".\n\nMr Putin also sent condolences to the families of all 10 people said to be on board the plane that went down north-west of Moscow on Wednesday evening.\n\nHowever, he stopped short of explicitly confirming Prigozhin's death.\n\nFrom the moment the plane came down, there has been frenzied speculation about what caused the deadly crash and whether Prigozhin was indeed on board, as stated on the passenger list.\n\nAt a briefing on Thursday, a Pentagon spokesperson said the US believed the Wagner chief was likely killed in the crash.\n\nVillagers near the crash site in the Tver region say they heard a loud bang before seeing a plane falling out of the sky.\n\nOne of the theories being investigated is whether a bomb was smuggled on board, reports in Russian media suggest.\n\nA US official told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that the most likely cause appeared to be an explosion aboard the aircraft.\n\nWhat caused the explosion was not known, although a bomb was one possibility, the official added.\n\nAnother theory, raised by a Prigozhin-linked Telegram channel, suggested that the jet had been shot down by Russian anti-aircraft forces. This has not been confirmed, and on Thursday the Pentagon said there was no information to indicate this.\n\nGround staff in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport - where the plane took off heading for St Petersburg - are being questioned, and CCTV footage is being checked.\n\nPrigozhin - the leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group - was once known as a Putin loyalist.\n\nBut after leading a short-lived mutiny in Russia in June, many observers described him as a \"dead man walking\".\n\nThe Kremlin stayed conspicuously silent after the crash. The following morning, President Putin even addressed the Brics summit in South Africa via video-link - but made no mention of the crash that much of the world was talking about.\n\nOn Thursday evening, however, that changed.\n\n\"I would like to above all express words of the most sincere condolences to the families of all those who have died,\" he said in a televised meeting at his Kremlin residence.\n\nInitial data, he continued, suggested that \"Wagner employees\" were on board.\n\n\"These are people who have made a significant contribution to our common cause of fighting the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine,\" Mr Putin said, repeating the Kremlin's false narrative that Ukraine is aligned with Nazism.\n\nHe used this accusation to justify his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nTurning to Prigozhin himself, Mr Putin said he had known him since the early 90s, and described him as a \"man with a complicated life\".\n\nThe Russian leader also had praise for Prigozhin and his fighters, in particular for their actions in Ukraine.\n\n\"He made serious mistakes in life. But he achieved results both for himself, and for the common good when I asked for it - like in the last few months.\"\n\nDespite speaking about Prigozhin in the past tense and offering his sympathy to the families of the victims, Mr Putin did not confirm the Wagner chief's death.\n\nWhen Prigozhin and his armed men - including many convicts - launched their insurrection two months ago, Mr Putin described their actions as \"treachery\" and a \"stab in the back of Russia\".\n\nHe vowed to punish the perpetrators, who called off their march on Moscow only about 200km (125 miles) from the capital.\n\nHowever a deal was later reached that saw Wagner fighters given a choice - either join the Russian army or move to neighbouring Belarus, and you will face no punishment.\n\nThe rollback surprised both ordinary Russians and experts, who were puzzled that the Wagner boss was apparently being allowed to travel freely across Russia and, it seemed, internationally.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry has not commented.\n\nRussian forensic experts are now reported to have started the victims' identification, but Mr Putin said DNA tests would take time.\n\nAccording to Russia's civil aviation authority, Wagner co-founder Dmitry Utkin and the man who looked after Wagner's finances, Valeriy Chekalov were also on the plane.\n\nAll seven passengers and three crew members on board the plane are believed to have died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Dmitry Utkin is one of the figures most associated with the Wagner Group\n\nNine other people were on the plane alongside Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin when it crashed, according to flight details released by the Russian aviation authorities.\n\nThey include Dmitry Utkin, who is believed to have given the mercenary group its name.\n\nRussia also says Valery Chekalov, who is believed to have been crucial to the group's finances, was on board.\n\nThree crew members were on the flight alongside the Wagner members.\n\nHere's what we know about them.\n\nThe history of the Wagner Group is murky but follow the trail back far enough and Dmitry Utkin's name will inevitably crop up.\n\nThe 53-year-old veteran of Russia's two wars in Chechnya in 1994-2000 is believed to have been involved in the private army since its early days in 2014.\n\nThe group itself is named after his call sign Wagner. It is seemingly a reference to composer Richard Wagner, who was Adolf Hitler's favourite composer.\n\nIn recent years, Utkin is reported to have been Prigozhin's right-hand man, responsible for overall command and combat training.\n\nThere are few photographs of Utkin but one of those in circulation is a selfie which reveals neo-Nazi tattoos on his body.\n\nAccording to Utkin's online CV, which appears to be from around 2013 and was unearthed by the investigative website Bellingcat, he served in the GRU - Russia's military intelligence division - from 1988 to 2008. It says his involvement in combat operations led to government awards, and lists weapons skills among his professional qualities.\n\nUtkin became a gun for hire after leaving military intelligence and gained influence in Wagner when the group fought on the side of pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014.\n\nHe is also thought to have been involved in the group's operations in Syria and Africa. A BBC investigation in 2021 linked him to documents which exposed Wagner's involvement in the Libyan civil war.\n\nA picture thought to be taken in 2016 shows Utkin alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Kremlin reception, at a time when the Russian government was denying links to Wagner.\n\nMr Putin has since said the Russian government funded the group to the tune of billions of dollars.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChekalov is believed to be a close Prigozhin associate with business links to the Wagner leader stretching back to the 2000s.\n\nThe 47-year-old appears to have been involved in running Prigozhin's non-military business interests, which Western governments say are used to finance the mercenary group.\n\nChekalov was linked with Evro Polis, a company associated with Prigozhin, which signed contracts for the production of gas and oil in Syria in 2017.\n\nAccording to the US Treasury, the company was contracted by President Bashar al-Assad's government \"to protect Syrian oil fields in exchange for a 25% share in oil and gas production from the fields\".\n\nThe finances raised from the deal were used to pay Wagner fighters and procure arms, the US Treasury said.\n\nChekalov is also believed to have been in charge of Wagner's business projects across Africa.\n\nHe had been targeted by US and Ukrainian sanctions over his links with Prigozhin, and Evro Polis has also been sanctioned by a number of governments, including the UK.\n\nThe other four men listed as passengers all appear to be Wagner fighters.\n\nUnlike Utkin and Chekalov, they do not appear on international sanctions lists and so have not been deemed to be senior figures by Western governments.\n\nGiven that we know Prigozhin was surrounded by close protection - and even more so after his rift with Vladimir Putin deepened - they may have been travelling as bodyguards.\n\nThe names of three of the men appear in a database of alleged Wagner fighters which has been compiled by pro-Ukrainian activists: Yevgeny Makaryan, Sergei Propustin and Alexander Totmin.\n\nAnother man identified by the Russian authorities as Nikolai Matuseyev does not appear in the database.\n\nOne Russian Telegram channel says it could have been Nikolai Matusevich, a member of Wagner's assault unit.\n\nThe remaining three people identified as being among the dead by Russian authorities are the pilot Alexei Levshin, co-pilot Rustam Karimov and Kristina Raspopova, a flight attendant and the only woman on board.\n\nVery little confirmed information is available on the trio and it is unclear if they were directly employed by Prigozhin, by a company he owned, or by another firm entirely.\n\nPrigozhin is known to have regularly travelled by private jet, and the aircraft involved in the crash, a Brazilian-made Embraer Legacy 600, is known to have been used by him previously.\n\nThe plane was put under US sanctions in 2019 - when it was listed under a different registration - because of its links to Prigozhin via a company, Reuters reported.\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified details about the flight crew but reports citing interviews with their relatives are circulating in Russian online media.\n\nRaspopova, 39, is said to have spoken to her family and posted photographs on social media shortly before the flight took off.\n\nKarimov, 29, had only worked for the company for three months, according to a Russian media interview with his father, and reportedly celebrated his fourth wedding anniversary earlier this month.\n\nLevshin, 51, was married with two children and had worked in aviation his entire adult life, Russian outlets reported quoting his family.", "Radioactive isotopes were used in chapatis fed to South Asian women in Coventry in the 1960s\n\nResearchers are looking for South Asian women who were fed radioactive chapatis in the 1960s as part of a study looking at iron absorption.\n\nTaiwo Owatemi MP said she was \"deeply concerned\" about the study in Coventry funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC).\n\n\"It seems that consent was not sought nor proper information given to women at the time they took part,\" she said.\n\nA MRC spokesperson said an independent inquiry had examined questions raised.\n\nThe independent report, published in 1998, found research practice, ethics and regulation had \"moved on significantly\" and had \"directly resulted\" in new guidance, the MRC said.\n\nThe inquiry report was commissioned in response to a documentary on Channel 4 in 1995 which raised concerns about participants, including pregnant women, being able to consent to the experiments.\n\nIt was reported in 1995 that about 21 women were involved in the experiment after seeking medical help from a city GP for minor ailments.\n\nThe study was carried out due to concerns of widespread anaemia among Asian women and researchers suspected traditional South Asian diets were to blame.\n\nChapatis containing Iron-59 - an iron isotope with a gamma-beta emitter - were delivered to participants' homes.\n\nThey would later be invited to a research facility in Oxfordshire to have their radiation levels assessed.\n\nIt was reported that the MRC said the study proved that \"Asian women should take extra iron because the iron in the flour was insoluble\".\n\nMP Taiwo Owatemi said she was \"deeply concerned\" about the effects of the MRC-funded study\n\nIn a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Ms Owatemi, MP for Coventry North West, said there continued to be \"deep worry\" among the South Asian community in the city.\n\nShe said a University of Warwick researcher was now seeking to identify women affected, adding she was \"deeply disturbed\" they may have been targeted for research in 1969, \"without being able to give informed consent\".\n\n\"I will be calling for a debate on this as soon as possible after Parliament returns in September,\" she said, adding it had seemed \"no follow up morbidity study\" had been performed to look at the long-term medical effects.\n\nMs Owatemi added it would be followed by a full statutory inquiry into why the recommendation of the MRC report to identify the women affected \"was never followed up\".\n\nIn a statement posted online on Wednesday, the MRC said it remained committed to the highest standards, including \"commitment to engagement, openness and transparency\".\n\n\"The issues were considered following the broadcast of the documentary in 1995 and an independent inquiry was established at that time to examine the questions raised,\" they added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rocket Science Corporation has worked on several major titles including Call of Duty\n\nA US video games company that worked on Call of Duty and Fortnite will open its European headquarters in Wales.\n\nRocket Science Corporation will employ more than 50 people, creating tools for some of the world's most popular games.\n\nThe global video games market is expected to be worth more than £200bn by 2025.\n\nThe Welsh government has helped to fund the move in a bid to grow the games sector in Wales.\n\nRocket Science, which already has studios in New York and Austin, Texas, will set up a new studio in Cardiff.\n\nThe company has worked with the world's biggest games developers including the makers of Marvel games and Activision Blizzard, which produces Call of Duty, Candy Crush and World of Warcraft.\n\nRocket Science's co-founder Thomas Daniel, 38, who is originally from Bridgend, said: \"We're coming in to work on the biggest games in the world and we're bringing the experience of our American-based teams to Cardiff.\n\nThe company's co-founder Thomas Daniel is originally from Bridgend\n\n\"It's going to create a skill-set and experience I'm not sure Wales has had to date.\n\n\"I was like any other kid growing up in Wales, playing on my Amiga or Super Nintendo, but I didn't know anyone who worked in games in Wales.\n\n\"Playing for Manchester United seemed more achievable than being successful in the games industry.\n\n\"I had to move to the south-east of England because at the time that's where most jobs were and then on to America.\"\n\nRocket Science describes itself as \"the team (behind the team) behind many of the world's hottest games\"\n\nHe added: \"How do we do our best to make the kid in school who wants to make games actually think it's a reality?\n\n\"We're looking at how can we be a foundational brick so that hopefully in a few years' time we can say 'if you love games and you want to work in games, stay in Wales'.\"\n\nRocket Science has received £825,000 from the Welsh government to open its new base and to provide employment for at least the next five years.\n\nDeputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Dawn Bowden said: \"This significant investment will support the Welsh government's strategic objective of developing the games industry in Wales\".\n\nWales has a small but growing video games development sector compared with other parts of the UK.\n\nAccording to the The Independent Gaming Developers Association, there were 140 games developers in Wales in 2022, compared with fewer than 100 in 2020.\n\nIn 2021, Wales had a 0.7% share of the development workforce, which was far smaller than places such as London, the south-east of England and Scotland, which is home to one of the UK's biggest games development companies, Rockstar North, made famous by its Grand Theft Auto series.\n\nCardiff has the largest number of games developers in Wales, along with smaller clusters in the north-east and Swansea.\n\nThe largest publisher, Wales Interactive, has helped create games for Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox.\n\n\"There are lots of people who are eager to get a break in the game industry no matter what their skills are,\" says chief executive David Banner\n\nChief executive and co-founder David Banner said: \"The games industry makes more money than the film and music industries combined so it's really something Wales should tap into more going forward.\n\n\"There was a time gaming didn't have a tick box for support but now we do. There is a pathway to get investment in the games industry in Wales.\n\n\"The reality of it is, there are lots of people who are eager to get a break in the game industry no matter what their skills are, whether it's programming, art or accountancy.\n\n\"Investment into the games industry will hold some of that talent and make sure it doesn't leave Wales and help the local economy.\"\n\nThere are a growing number of games design and development courses across Wales.\n\nThe Games Developer Foundry Wales initiative was established last year by iungo Solutions in partnership with Bridgend College and Creative Wales.\n\nChief executive Jessica-Leigh Jones said: \"The gaming sector in Wales is unique in its composition.\n\n\"We don't currently have a major games business such as Rockstar North in Scotland. Instead, we have a highly interconnected cluster of indie developers powered by a predominantly freelance workforce.\"\n\nShe said Wales punched \"well above its weight\" in the creative economy, adding: \"We have a strong TV and screen sector and whilst the games development cluster is smaller than in other regions, we've seen an explosion in new gaming businesses since 2020.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"committed to working in partnership with the industries of the future to create new, high quality skilled jobs, while supporting its staff already working in these sectors to further develop their skills\".", "Warning: This article contains details of alleged abuse\n\nManchester United forward Mason Greenwood will leave the club by mutual agreement after a six-month internal investigation into his conduct.\n\nGreenwood was arrested in January 2022 following allegations surrounding material which was published online.\n\nCharges against the 21-year-old England international, including attempted rape and assault, were dropped on 2 February 2023.\n\nUnited said in a statement: \"All those involved, including Mason, recognise the difficulties with him recommencing his career at Manchester United.\n\n\"It has therefore been mutually agreed that it would be most appropriate for him to do so away from Old Trafford, and we will now work with Mason to achieve that outcome.\n\n\"Based on the evidence available to us, we have concluded that the material posted online did not provide a full picture and that Mason did not commit the offences in respect of which he was originally charged. That said, as Mason publicly acknowledges today, he has made mistakes which he is taking responsibility for.\"\n\nIn a statement, Greenwood accepted he had \"made mistakes\" and took his \"share of responsibility\", but added: \"I did not do the things I was accused of.\"\n\nHe said: \"Today's decision has been part of a collaborative process between Manchester United, my family and me. The best decision for us all is for me to continue my football career away from Old Trafford, where my presence will not be a distraction for the club. I thank the club for their support since I joined aged seven. There will always be a part of me which is United.\n\n\"I am enormously grateful to my family and all my loved ones for their support, and it is now for me to repay the trust those around me have shown. I intend to be a better footballer, but most importantly a good father, a better person, and to use my talents in a positive way on and off the pitch.\"\n\nGreenwood, whose contract at Old Trafford runs until 2025, could now be sold, or loaned to another club for the remainder of his contract.\n\nHe remains on full pay but will not return to training with United.\n\nWhat is the background?\n\nIn material published online, a man - alleged to be Greenwood - could be heard shouting at a woman to \"move your [expletive] legs up\". The woman responded that she did not want sex, and the man replied: \"I don't give a [expletive] what you want, you little [expletive].\"\n\nThe man then says: \"Push me again and watch what happens to you.\"\n\nGreenwood was charged in October 2022 with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Nike ended its sponsorship deal with Greenwood and Electronic Arts removed him from active squads on its Fifa 22 game.\n\nAfter the charges were dropped in February 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service said key witnesses had withdrawn and new material had come to light, meaning there was \"no longer a realistic prospect of conviction\".\n\nAt the time, a statement released on Greenwood's behalf said he was \"relieved\".\n\nUnited then started their own internal investigation in to the player, who was previously named one of the most valuable players in Europe's top five leagues.\n\nGreenwood has one England cap, and was sent home from the international camp during which he won it after an \"unacceptable\" breach of coronavirus quarantine guidelines in Iceland.\n\nIn a statement last week, the club said they had gathered \"extensive evidence and context not in the public domain\" and spoken to \"numerous people with direct involvement or knowledge of the case\".\n\nIn an open letter to fans on Monday, United chief executive Richard Arnold said the extra evidence included the alleged victim requesting the police to drop their investigation in April 2022, and the club receiving alternative explanations for the material that was posted online.\n\n\"While I am satisfied that Mason did not commit the acts he was charged with, Mason's accepted that he has made mistakes which he takes responsibility for,\" Arnold said.\n\nGreenwood said that: \"I understand that people will judge me because of what they have seen and heard... and I know people will think the worst. I was brought up to know that violence or abuse in any relationship is wrong.\"\n\nAn announcement of the investigation's results was expected before United's opening Premier League game of the season against Wolves on 14 August, but the decision was delayed amid fierce debate about Greenwood's potential reintegration at Old Trafford.\n\nWhat has happened in recent weeks?\n\nA group of female United supporters protested about his potential return outside Old Trafford before the Wolves game, and said they wanted the club to \"demonstrate a zero-tolerance approach\" towards violence against women.\n\nFemale Fans Against Greenwood's Return put out a lengthy statement to say Greenwood's reintegration would tell them \"as women, that we don't matter\".\n\nThe club said they wanted to consult with their women's team, some of whom were part of England's World Cup squad playing in Australia, before announcing a decision about Greenwood's future.\n\nUnited announced their decision while the Lionesses were flying home.\n\nIn a statement last Wednesday, United said the \"fact-finding phase\" of their investigation was complete, adding a decision about Greenwood's future - which rested with Arnold - was in the final stages.\n\nThe Athletic reported United's executive leadership team had been told in early August that Greenwood - who scored 35 goals in 129 games - would be returning to the club.\n\nHowever, United said the decision had not been made and was \"the subject of intensive internal deliberation\".\n\nThe following day, television presenter Rachel Riley said she would stop supporting United if Greenwood was allowed to stay.\n\nA number of MPs criticised the club when it was reported they were considering bringing Greenwood back, with Labour MP Apsana Begum saying such a decision would be \"a stain on your club that will be hard to forget\".\n\nAfter Monday's announcement, Female Fans Against Greenwood's Return said the club had \"done the right thing, for the wrong reasons\".\n\nWomen's Aid, a charity which works to end domestic abuse against women and children, said it welcomed United's decision.\n\n\"We know that today's news from Manchester United that Greenwood will be moving on will be a relief for many survivors of domestic and sexual abuse,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Football is loved by so many people worldwide, and players are often idolised by fans, so the way that alleged domestic abuse cases are treated in clubs has a huge impact on public understanding about what is accepted and tolerated in society.\"\n\nThe Manchester United Supporters Trust said: \"Since the deeply distressing initial allegations surfaced, this episode has been allowed to drag out for far too long as the club has carried out an investigative process.\n\n\"Moreover, the complete lack of consultation with fans even with respect to process added fuel to the fire. Whilst the speculation and discussion in the last couple of weeks has been profoundly unhelpful and reflected very poorly on the club, it is clear that they have in the end reached the right decision.\n\n\"We are relieved that this matter can now be put behind us and will be working with the club to ensure lessons have been learned from this very troubling episode.\"\n\nIn August 2022, the Premier League introduced mandatory sexual consent training for players and staff, six months after a coalition of women's groups sent an open letter to the Football Association and Premier League urging them \"to confront a culture of gender-based violence\".\n\nOn Monday, two groups from that coalition - The Three Hijabis and the End Violence Against Women Coalition - reiterated their call and said Greenwood's United exit was the \"right outcome\".\n\n\"Solely focusing on the actions of individual players allows football clubs and institutions to evade accountability for the role they play in maintaining a culture of silence and impunity,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"This is a structural issue that football must take responsibility for.\"\n\n\"Now that we have concluded and announced the outcome of the club's investigation into Mason Greenwood, I want to be direct and transparent with our fans about the process and the reasons for our decision.\n\n\"This was an internal disciplinary investigation between employer and employee which would ordinarily take place outside of the public eye. Given the public nature of the allegations and Mason's profile, I acknowledge that this was not an ordinary situation, but I felt it important that we still follow due process and, so far as possible, avoid media comment until I had made a definitive decision.\n\n\"When audio footage and imagery was posted online in January 2022, my feelings were of shock and concern for the alleged victim. Her welfare, wishes and perspective have been central to the club's approach ever since, as have the club's standards and values. While we immediately concluded that Mason should be suspended pending investigation, we were also conscious of our duty of care towards him and the importance of making a decision based on full information. Until February this year, this was a matter for the police and the Crown Prosecution Service. It was only when charges were dropped that the club discussed the allegations with Mason and others involved in the case.\n\n\"Our investigation sought to collate as much evidence as possible to establish facts and context. This was not a quick or straightforward process for a variety of reasons. It was essential for us to respect the rights and wishes of the alleged victim. Also, we have limited powers of investigation which meant we were reliant on third-party co-operation. Timings have also been influenced by my desire to minimise the impact of the investigation on our men's and women's teams, as well as our Lionesses. I acknowledge that this gave more time for speculation, but the alternative would have been to compromise due process or create untimely disruption.\n\n\"While we were unable to access certain evidence for reasons we respect, the evidence we did collate led us to conclude that Mason did not commit the acts he was charged with. I am restricted as to what I can say for legal reasons, including the alleged victim's ongoing right to anonymity, but I am able to share the following with you which should give you some insight into the complexity of this case.\n• None The alleged victim requested the police to drop their investigation in April 2022.\n• None We were provided with alternative explanations for the audio recording, which was a short excerpt from a much longer recording, and for the images posted online.\n• None The alleged victim's family participated in the process and were given the opportunity to review and correct our factual findings.\n\n\"Last week the media reported that we had decided to reintegrate Mason and that elements of a plan to do so had been leaked to them. Reintegration was one of the outcomes we considered and planned for. For context, over the course of the past six months several outcomes have been contemplated and planned for, and my view has evolved as our process progressed. While the ultimate decision rested with me, I was taking various factors and views into account right up until the point of finalising my decision.\n\n\"While I am satisfied that Mason did not commit the acts he was charged with, Mason's accepted that he has made mistakes which he takes responsibility for. I am also mindful of the challenge that Mason would face rebuilding his career and raising a baby together with his partner in the harsh spotlight of Manchester United. Further, this case has provoked strong opinions, and it is my responsibility to minimise any distraction to the unity we are seeking within the club.\n\n\"Although we have decided that Mason will seek to rebuild his career away from Manchester United, that does not signal the end of this matter. The club will continue to offer its support both to the alleged victim and Mason to help them rebuild and move forward positively with their lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicky Campbell says a former teacher abused children on a Savile scale\n\nBroadcaster Nicky Campbell has claimed a teacher at two Edinburgh schools abused children on a \"Savile scale\".\n\nHe compared Iain Wares to the disgraced BBC TV and radio presenter Jimmy Savile after giving evidence to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.\n\nThe BBC Radio 5Live presenter told the inquiry he was sexually and physically abused by other teachers while he was a pupil at Edinburgh Academy.\n\nHe said he witnessed the sexual abuse of a pupil aged about 10 by Mr Wares.\n\nThe 83-year-old retired teacher lives in South Africa where he is fighting extradition to Scotland.\n\nHe is facing charges relating to his time teaching at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes Academy in the 1960s and 70s, which he denies.\n\nAfter giving evidence of his own abuse to the inquiry, Mr Campbell became emotional as he told journalists outside the hearing: \"It's as if someone at last has told the grown ups about what happened to us when we were little\".\n\nHe said Mr Wares had abused children on an \"industrial scale\" at Edinburgh Academy before being moved to Fettes after parents raised concerns.\n\n\"We're talking about, for sure, one of the most prolific paedophiles in British history,\" he said. \"And due to the ineptitude of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, he's living in a retirement complex in South Africa with an expensive lawyer delaying and delaying and delaying.\n\n\"But this could have been sorted out years ago and should have been sorted out years ago. This is Savile scale.\"\n\nA spokesman for the COPFS said it had been a complex investigation which had been difficult for all involved.\n\n\"In order to protect any future proceedings and to preserve the rights of the complainers, the Crown will not comment further at this stage,\" he added.\n\nIain Wares (centre) is facing abuse charges at Wynberg Magistrate's Court in Cape Town\n\nMr Campbell is one of a number of former pupils of the independent, fee-paying schools who have been giving evidence to the long-running inquiry.\n\nHe has previously said the sexual and violent abuse he experienced while a day pupil at the school had a \"profound effect on my life\".\n\nWarning: Some readers might find some of the following details upsetting\n\nDuring two hours of testimony on Tuesday morning, he told the inquiry about an occasion when he says a teacher touched his genitals.\n\nThe Long Lost Family presenter recalled that the history teacher, Hamish Dawson, would call forward students who were wearing shorts.\n\nMr Campbell said that on three occasions he was tickled by the teacher on his leg in front of other pupils.\n\nOn the fourth he said the teacher's finger went into Mr Campbell's underwear and touched his genitals.\n\nNIcky Campbell said Hamish Dawson sexually abused him at Edinburgh Academy\n\nMr Campbell also described a time when he was assaulted in a corridor by a teacher when he was aged about 14 or 15. He said he was held down by his hair.\n\nHe said he was then kicked and his shirt was ripped. Mr Campbell described this as the worst day of his life.\n\nThe 62-year-old, who was adopted by a \"very loving family\" as a baby, told the inquiry he was sent to the fee-paying school because his parents \"wanted the best for me\".\n\nHe said his form teacher would carry out relentless beatings on pupils using a wooden bat known as a clacken without reason.\n\nMr Campbell said the teacher would smirk as he told pupils he would see them after the class had finished.\n\nHe said the situation was terrifying.\n\nMr Campbell told the inquiry that on one occasion the same teacher was responsible for \"a moment of brutality that never leaves you\".\n\nHe said that the man held him down and banged him on the head with his knuckles.\n\nMr Campbell went on to tell the inquiry he still has nightmares about a beating he said he experienced at the hands of another teacher.\n\nHe said he was punched and kicked like a rag doll and that the assault left him crying and screaming.\n\nAfterwards, he said, his mother contacted Edinburgh Academy and received a \"mealy mouthed\" apology from the teacher.\n\nMr Campbell told the inquiry he \"wept like a little boy\" when he heard a programme had been made about sexual abuse at his former school.\n\nHe described his subsequent involvement with the project as a life changing moment when he realised abuse was \"happening on an industrial scale\".\n\nThe Edinburgh Academy is the subject of the latest abuse inquiry hearings\n\nIn an emotional closing address, Mr Campbell wiped away tears as other former pupils sobbed in the public gallery.\n\nHe said Edinburgh Academy must apologise for sending Iain Wares to teach at Fettes.\n\nBut the broadcaster described the current rector of the school as \"a good man trying to do good things in a dreadful situation\".\n\nA spokesperson for Edinburgh Academy said it unreservedly apologised to those \"wronged by specific individuals whose roles were to educate, protect and nurture them\".\n\nIt said it was committed to supporting former pupils and helping investigating allegations of historical abuse.\n\nThe Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was set up in October 2015 to look at the abuse of children in care in Scotland.\n\nLady Smith, who chairs the inquiry, has heard evidence of abuse at schools including Fort Augustus Abbey in the Highlands, and Loretto School in East Lothian.\n\nShe has found that children in homes run by Quarriers, Aberlour Child Care Trust and Barnardo's suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse\n\nThe inquiry has also found that Sisters of Nazareth children's homes and orphanages run by the Daughters of Charity were places of fear.", "Magaluf is a popular holiday destination in the Spanish island of Majorca\n\nEight men suspected of gang-raping an 18-year-old British woman in Majorca were not all known to each other, Spanish police have said.\n\nFive French and one Swiss tourist were arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and violation of the right to privacy earlier this month.\n\nTwo more men, both residents in France, were arrested in that country this week and are awaiting extradition.\n\nThe alleged attack is said to have taken place in the resort of Magaluf.\n\n\"Of the eight [suspects], some knew each other, they weren't all strangers,\" said a spokesman for the civil guard. \"But it was not one group of friends.\"\n\nThe alleged victim is thought to have met a group of young tourists in the early hours of 14 August.\n\nShe is believed to have followed them to their hotel, where she was forced to have sexual intercourse and was filmed by the alleged aggressors.\n\nThe woman later escaped and was helped by hotel staff after being found in the street.\n\nShe was taken to Son Espases hospital in Palma de Mallorca, where she was treated before registering her rape complaint.\n\nPolice arrested the first six suspects within hours of the alleged attack and they are in preventive custody.\n\nThe pair arrested this week flew from Spain to Baden-Baden in Germany, then travelled to France.\n\nA Spanish judge issued a European detention order and one of them was held in Scherwiller and the other at the airport of Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, both in the north-eastern Alsace region, the civil guard reported.\n\nWith the two arrests in France, the Spanish civil guard said it has closed its investigation into this case.\n\nThe force said that \"the swift and efficient action of this team\" in tandem with local police \"has permitted the arrest of all those responsible for this brutal attack\".\n• None Six arrested over alleged gang rape of British teen", "The hotel owner has secured a temporary High Court injunction against protesters which limits their activities\n\nFive protesters have been arrested at a hotel set to house asylum seekers.\n\nPolice appealed for \"calm and co-operation\" amid \"escalation\" in demonstrations at Stradey Park Hotel, in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.\n\nDyfed-Powys officers said they were particularly concerned about people in balaclavas and they have been given the power to demand they are removed.\n\nIt comes after one man was arrested for allegedly damaging a hotel contractor's car on Monday.\n\nPolice said five further arrests were made on Wednesday in connection with further incidents.\n\nThe hotel owner took protesters to court last month over hindering access to the site.\n\nGryphon Leisure Ltd secured a temporary High Court injunction against protesters which limited their activities.\n\nProtests began when the plans to house up to 241 asylum seekers were announced in June, and disrupted preparations to move the new residents in by 10 July.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said a Section 60AA order, under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, had been put in place. This means police can ask anyone to take off something they believe is being used to hide their identity.\n\n\"We will always seek to facilitate peaceful protest, while balancing it with the rights of others, keeping the public safe and preventing crime and disorder,\" a force spokesperson said.\n\nDemonstrators have blocked entrances of the hotel to try to hinder efforts to prepare for the arrival of asylum seekers\n\nProtesters have previously said worry around the intended use of the hotel stemmed from a lack of information being provided to locals.\n\nFurnace Action Committee previously responded to the threat of legal action by asking people to support an online \"fighting fund\".\n\nThe group hoped to raise at least £10,000 online to fund legal action to \"defend the cause.\"\n\nIt claimed Gryphon Leisure had \"picked on innocent locals to take to court\".", "The leader of drugs gang who recruited a vulnerable 15-year-old boy in a phone call from prison has been sentenced to nine years in jail.\n\nDwayde Stock, 28, from Newport was recorded speaking to the teenager on a prison phone while he was on remand in April 2022.\n\nFive other members of the Newport-based \"county lines\" drugs gang were jailed.\n\nSwansea Crown Court heard how the group exploited the boy to sell drugs to teenagers in Neath.\n\nStock and two other men from Newport; David Allen, 30, and Justin Henshall, 36, pleaded guilty to trafficking a child and conspiracy to supply a class A drug.\n\nAllen was sentenced to eight years and three months in prison, while Henshall was given a jail term of six years and eight months.\n\nStock was recorded speaking on a prison phone to Allen, the court was told, describing him as \"the man on the outside\" helping to recruit young boys to sell class A drugs to customers in Neath.\n\nDuring the conversation Allen puts the young boy on the phone, with Stock calling him \"juve\", indicating that he knows the boy is a juvenile.\n\nMobile phone records indicate the boy travelled between Neath and Newport for the gang, with members contacting him 324 times by phone in less than six months.\n\nDavid Allen (left) and Justin Henshall were jailed for drugs and modern slavery offences\n\nEmma Harris, prosecuting, told the court the boy was \"specifically targeted by the group due to his vulnerabilities and due to the belief which the defendants had that he could be easily controlled and sent to work on their behalf\".\n\nIn another recorded prison call from March of 2022, Stock discusses the ethnicity of boys being recruited as drug runners in Neath with Henshall.\n\nIn the conversation Henshall says he \"struggling to find people to go up the roads\" explaining how it would be \"no good for black people\" and how they need a \"young white boy to go up there\".\n\nStock agrees, saying how he knows \"this kid\" who \"owes me 12 bills\".\n\nMs Harris said the exchanges \"demonstrated that the defendants were aware that the youths they were recruiting would need to be inconspicuous within the area they were operating.\"\n\nThree other gang members were sentenced for conspiracy to supply a class A drugs:\n\nKenzie Booth, 19, form Newport and Ruth Lawrence, 38, from Tonypandy in Rhondda Cynon Taf also admitted the same charge.\n\nThey are due to be sentenced next month after pre-sentence reports are completed.\n\nLouisa Robertson from CPS Cymru-Wales, said modern slavery legislation was used to \"destroy a county lines network and protect a teenage boy\".\n\n\"These criminals targeted young males who had an air of vulnerability and could be manipulated and taken advantage of as drug runners,\" she said.\n\n\"The prosecution case included mobile phone evidence which included messages showing the hierarchy of the group and the roles each defendant played within the operation.\"", "Rescue crews used a front loader to take residents trapped in their homes to safety in Coachella Valley, southern California.\n\nStorm Hilary battered parts of the US, bringing record-breaking rainfall and causing flash flooding. Death Valley National Park received a full year's worth of rain in one day, and remains indefinitely closed.\n\nHilary, now a post-tropical cyclone, could still bring flooding to parts of Nevada, Oregon and Idaho.", "Organisers said they would continue to support the family after Saturday's tragedy\n\nA child has died after falling ill at Camp Bestival in Shropshire.\n\nThe child was taken to hospital in a critical condition on Saturday but died a short while later, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nEmergency services were called to the festival site at Weston Park at 00:37 BST.\n\nAn investigation has been launched to determine the circumstances of the death, the force said.\n\nFestival organisers expressed their \"deepest sympathies\" to the child's family.\n\nA spokesperson for Camp Bestival said: \"A child became poorly on Friday night and, after receiving immediate medical care onsite, was taken to hospital in an ambulance, where they tragically passed away.\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the family at this terrible time, and we will continue to support them in any way we can.\"\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said it was not called to the site and a private ambulance company was used.\n\nIt was the second year the festival took place in Shropshire. The sister site in Dorset has been running for 15 years.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nOwen Farrell will miss England's first two World Cup pool games after World Rugby successfully appealed against the decision to overturn his red card.\n\nThe England captain's four-game ban means he will miss the group matches against Argentina and Japan, with two warm-up fixtures also included.\n\nFarrell's red card had been overturned by an independent judicial committee, which was then overruled on Tuesday.\n\nThe appeal committee said the tackle was \"always illegal\".\n\nFarrell became the first England player to receive a red card from rugby's new 'bunker' review system when he made a high tackle on Taine Basham during England's 19-17 win over Wales on 12 August.\n\nThe appeal committee found that, in their original hearing, the disciplinary committee should have considered Farrell's attempt to wrap his opponent in the tackle.\n\nTherefore the appeal committee determined that no mitigation could be made for the tackle, and the decision to overturn the red card was an error - which led them to ban Farrell.\n\nThe ban will include last weekend's 29-10 defeat by Ireland in Dublin, which the appeal committee said Farrell \"voluntarily stood down\" from playing in after World Rugby announced its intention to appeal beforehand.\n• None England working on tackle technique every day, says Care\n\nThe 31-year-old will also miss England's final warm-up game against Fiji this weekend at Twickenham as well as the first two pool matches. He will be available to play again on 23 September against Chile.\n\nEngland's opening World Cup game against Argentina is on 9 September in Marseille.\n\nWhen launching its appeal against the overturning of the ban, World Rugby said \"player welfare is the number one priority\".\n\nIn January, the RFU approved a reduction in tackle height for the community game in England in order to improve player safety, while tightening laws around high tackles in the professional game aimed to further help the issue.\n\nEngland number eight Billy Vunipola is also due to face the disciplinary panel for a red card in the defeat by Ireland following a high tackle which resulted in direct head contact on Ireland prop Andrew Porter.\n\nA ban of more than one game for Vunipola would result in England also being without their only specialist number eight for the start of the competition.\n• None A messy hen-do in an isolated Welsh cottage gets derailed by the apocalypse...\n• None One of Britain's most callous and brutal killings", "Scientists say the new images offer never-before-seen details\n\nNew images of a dying star have revealed structures that no previous telescope could detect, according to astronomers.\n\nThe pictures are of a dying star at the centre of the Ring Nebula, 2,600 light years from earth.\n\nAn international team of scientists, led by Cardiff University researchers, say they reveal a triple-star system.\n\nThe pictures show about 20,000 dust clouds, known as globules, in the nebula.\n\nDr Roger Wesson, a research associate at Cardiff University who led the analysis, said: \"We can now see the subtle influence of a third, previously unknown star in the system, alongside a much more distant companion which was identified in 2021.\"\n\nThe images were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) between July and August last year, by a team of astronomers led by Professor Mike Barlow of University College London.\n\nPlanetary nebulae such as the Ring form when stars with up to about eight times the mass of our sun exhaust the hydrogen in their cores and eject their outer layers.\n\nAs the source of much of the carbon and nitrogen in the universe, the way in which these stars evolve and die is crucial to understanding the origin of these elements, without which life on earth could not have developed.\n\nThe pictures were taken by the six-metre diameter James Webb Space Telescope\n\nDr Wesson added: \"Planetary nebulae were once thought of as very simple objects, roughly spherical and with a single star at their centre.\n\n\"Hubble showed that they were much more complicated than that, and with these latest images JWST is revealing yet more intricate detail in these objects.\"\n\nLaunched in December 2021, JWST is an international programme led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.\n\nIt will enable astronomers worldwide to study every phase in the history of our universe.\n\nDr Mikako Matsuura added: \"JWST's six-metre diameter telescope is three times larger than Hubble's and also operates two infrared cameras, which can detect longer wavelengths than are visible to the human eye or indeed Hubble.\n\n\"These telescope and infrared detection innovations mean many of the Ring's details revealed in these latest JWST images were not previously visible to astronomers.\"", "Little was left of the village of Avantas on the northern outskirts of Alexandroupolis\n\nEighteen bodies have been found in a forested area of northern Greece hit by wildfires for the past four days, the Greek fire service says.\n\nInitial reports suggest those who died may have been migrants. A coroner and investigation team are heading to the scene near the Dadia forest.\n\nThe Evros region of north-eastern Greece, not far from the Turkish border, has been ravaged by fires.\n\nA hospital in the city of Alexandroupolis had to be evacuated.\n\nNewborn babies and intensive care patients were among those moved to a ferry at the port.\n\nFires are raging across several fronts in Greece, whipped up by high winds and temperatures which climbed above 40C in several places on Tuesday.\n\nFlames are thought to have spread rapidly since Monday in the large wooded Dadia national park to the north of Alexandroupolis. Emergency services sent mobile text messages to the surrounding areas asking people to leave.\n\nBefore the latest grim discovery, an initial death believed to have been of a migrant was reported in the area.\n\nEighteen more bodies were found on Tuesday near a hut outside the village of Avantas, reports said, when the fire brigade inspected the charred remains of a building.\n\nFire service spokesman Yiannis Artopios said the possibility that the victims had entered Greece illegally was being investigated, given that there had been no reports of missing residents.\n\nUnconfirmed reports said the bodies were discovered in two groups and there were fears that the number of casualties could increase. The fire service said investigations were continuing throughout the area where the fire had spread.\n\nThe Evros region has become one of the most popular routes for Syrian and Asian migrants crossing the River Evros from Turkey into the European Union. The Dadia forest is also known to be a route favoured by migrants.\n\nYiannis Artopios stressed that emergency messages had been sent to all mobile phones in the area, including foreign networks.\n\nMigrant support group Alarm Phone said it had been in contact with more migrants who needed rescuing from the fires. One group of nine people had already crossed the border while another 250 people were stranded on two small islands in the River Evros, it said.\n\nIn the past three days 380,000 acres of land has burned in the Evros region alone, according to the National Observatory of Athens' Meteo unit.\n\nFirefighters are having to respond to major outbreaks in other parts of Greece too. The fire brigade has urged tens of thousands of people to leave parts of the north-west Athens suburb of Ano Liosia.\n\nA few kilometres to the north, 50 nuns were reported trapped when a fire broke out near a historic monastery on the slopes of Mt Parnitha.\n\nSeveral villages have also been evacuated on the island of Evia and in Boeotia in central Greece.\n\nA fiery, red glow was visible on the fringe of Alexandroupolis in the early hours of Tuesday and satellite images showed several regions of Greece covered in thick smoke.\n\nDuring the night residents in eight nearby villages were told to leave their homes and head for safety in the city. Later on Tuesday a stream of cars could be seen heading there as vegetation along the coast burned.\n\nA number of those evacuated from the hospital were taken to a ferry at the port of Alexandroupolis\n\nFlames were seen entering the grounds of the university hospital while the operation was taking place to evacuate the site on the north-east fringe of Alexandroupolis. Greek officials ordered a fleet of ambulances and buses to take some 115 patients away.\n\nWhile some of the patients were moved to other hospitals in the city, as many as 90 were taken to a ferry, the Adamantios Korais, which has been requisitioned to look after intensive care patients and new-born babies.\n\nWest of Athens, several warehouses became engulfed in flames in an industrial area in Aspropyrgos and close to the Attica Highway the sky darkened with acrid smoke.\n\nTwo Albanian workers told the BBC that if helicopters had arrived in time they would have been able to put the fire out.\n\nAround midday on Tuesday a second large fire broke out on the opposite side of the highway in the village of Fyli. Half an hour later residents received a mobile phone message from the 112 emergency number to evacuate the area.\n\nFires raged out of control around Fyli, close to the Attica Highway\n\nMeanwhile, France endured its hottest ever day on Monday after the mid-August holiday, according to weather service Météo-France.\n\nTemperatures on Monday soared as high as 42.4C in the Drôme area of south-eastern France but the record refers to Monday's daily average temperature of 26.63C, recorded in 30 weather stations across France.\n\nIn Switzerland, the high temperatures have pushed the \"zero-degree isotherm\" - the height where temperatures fall below freezing point - to a record altitude. MeteoSwiss said the limit had now increased to 5,298m (17,381ft).\n\nThe point is shifting steadily higher, mainly because of global warming induced by humans, the Swiss met office says.\n\nThe increased height of the zero-degree isotherm has been accelerating since the 1970s, especially in spring and summer, it says.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by the wildfires? You can get in touch, if it is safe to do so, by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Peter Farquhar was tricked into changing his will by Benjamin Field\n\nA murderer who duped two elderly people into changing their wills has paid more than £124,000 to their families after selling his flat, police said.\n\nBen Field manipulated Peter Farquhar, 69, and Ann Moore-Martin, 83, both from Buckinghamshire.\n\nHe was jailed in 2019 for the 2015 murder of Mr Farquhar and for defrauding Ms Moore-Martin.\n\nA flat bought with money that was obtained by deception was sold to settle a court confiscation order.\n\nField was 28 when he was jailed for life in 2019 for the murder of Mr Farquhar in the village of Maids Moreton in October 2015.\n\nHe was found not guilty of plotting to kill Mr Farquhar's neighbour Ann Moore-Martin but admitted defrauding her.\n\nThe case has recently been dramatised by BBC TV as The Sixth Commandment, starring Timothy Spall and Anne Reid.\n\nBenjamin Field was jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years for Mr Farquhar's murder\n\nThe Oxford Crown Court trial heard Field admitted duping the pair and drugging Mr Farquhar to \"torment\" him but denied involvement in either of their deaths.\n\nA jury heard Field suffocated Mr Farquhar and created the impression he had drunk himself to death, a view the coroner agreed with.\n\nField then took advantage of Ms Moore-Martin's loneliness and they developed a sexual relationship.\n\nShe changed her will and also gave him more than £30,000, which he said he needed for a new car and a dialysis machine for his younger brother who he said had a kidney condition.\n\nIn February 2017, Ms Moore-Martin became ill and suffered a seizure. While in hospital, she confided in her niece about her relationship with Field. Police started an investigation and established the link between the three people.\n\nMr Farquar's body was exhumed and, after a second post-mortem examination, Field was arrested.\n\nField admitted defrauding both Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin by pretending to be in meaningful relationships with them\n\nMs Moore-Martin reversed her will to benefit her family before she died of natural causes in a care home in May 2017.\n\nMr Farquhar had changed his will, naming Field as the main beneficiary and giving him a life interest in his house as well as half share in the property with Mr Farquhar's brother Ian.\n\nWhen the property was sold, Field used his share to buy a flat in Towcester, Northamptonshire, which has now been sold with proceeds going to the victims' families.\n\nPeter Farquhar lived at the house circled on the left, and Ann Moore-Martin on the right\n\nA proceeds of crime hearing at Oxford Crown Court in June 2020 was told Field had received £193,921.32 from his two victims, but only £146,561.02 was available.\n\nHe was ordered to pay £123,111.26 to Mr Farquhar's family and £23,449.76 to the family of Ms Moore-Martin or face a 16-month extension to his 36-year minimum jail sentence.\n\nThe court later granted an extension of the time to pay to December 2020 when the \"available figure\" of money was \"varied by consent\".\n\nBen Field left messages on one of his elderly victim's mirrors and persuaded her they were from God\n\nThames Valley Police said that the original order of £146,561.02 had been \"varied down\" due to the sale price, fees and money spent on repairs ahead of the market sale.\n\n\"The flat was sold and this money used to compensate the victims,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe force confirmed that the confiscation order of £124,665.03 had now been paid in full and that \"monies have been distributed as part of the agreed order to the victims in this case\".\n\nKathryn Curtis, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Field could \"no longer profit from his cruel actions\".\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Authorities said Sara Sharif had suffered \"multiple and extensive injuries\", likely caused over a sustained period of time\n\nPolice have had \"historic\" contact with the family of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead at her home, a senior officer has said.\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman of Surrey Police said the interaction with Sara Sharif's family \"goes back some years\".\n\nIt follows Surrey County Council's disclosure that the family, from Woking, were known to the authorities.\n\nThree family members went to Pakistan before Sara's body was found on 10 August and are wanted by the police.\n\nDet Supt Chapman told the BBC: \"Surrey Police's contact with the family has been on a limited basis. It's been on a historic basis. And that goes back some time.\"\n\nHe said police interaction with the Sharif family \"goes back some years\" but declined to expand on his comment.\n\nThe police officer also said the force had not referred the case to the police watchdog, adding: \"Surrey Police have reviewed the position and it doesn't fulfil the criteria to alert the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\"\n\nThe three people who travelled to Pakistan, and are now thought to be in Islamabad, are Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, 41, his partner, Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother, Faisal Malik, 28.\n\nPolice in Pakistan confirmed to the BBC that they had questioned - but not arrested - two of Mr Sharif's brothers as well as his father. The brothers - Imran Sharif and Zareef Sharif - are both based there.The police also revealed that they are under pressure from the Federal Investigation Agency in Pakistan to find the trio who left England.\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nDet Supt Chapman said Surrey officers wanted to build a picture of how Sara - a Year 5 pupil at St Mary's C of E primary school in Byfleet - had lived.\n\nHe said: \"We're looking to hear from anybody who lived in the area who regularly saw Sara going about her daily routine.\n\n\"Any parents who may know of Sara from school or other regular activities. Any parties that might have gone on out of school, or anyone who had any form of contact with her really, no matter how insignificant it might seem.\"\n\nAfter it was revealed Sara was known to the authorities, campaigner on children's social care, Chris Wild, who advised the government's most recent review into children's social care, told the BBC's World at One programme this meant Sara would have been \"on their radar\".\n\nHe also said there may have been a child protection order in place, or a safeguarding concern made.\n\nThe council has said a multi-agency review is under way.\n\nPolice have said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan shortly after landing in Islamabad with his partner, his brother and five children, aged between one and 13.\n\nThat led officers to the house in Woking where they found Sara's body. She had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\" likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nPolice have also been searching the family's previous address in West Byfleet.\n\nThere is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Pakistan.\n\nThis article has been updated to clarify the nature of the family's previous contact with the police.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Beverley Allitt killed four children, tried to kill three others, and attacked six more\n\nNearly a quarter of a century before Lucy Letby began attacking babies on a neonatal unit, another hospital experienced similarly sudden and unexpected losses.\n\nDeaths on the children's ward at Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital in Lincolnshire were rare until a two-month spell in the spring of 1991, when four babies and children died suddenly and nine others collapsed, some repeatedly.\n\nFive-month-old Paul Crampton mysteriously collapsed three times before going on to make a swift recovery on each occasion. No-one was able to explain what had happened.\n\n\"It's very scary,\" remembers his father, David Crampton. \"A child ill and no-one - the people who are meant to know - can tell you why.\"\n\nPaul had been in hospital with a chest infection and had been due to go home the day before his first collapse.\n\nHe was transferred to another hospital, where he made a full recovery and was discharged.\n\nMedics were baffled as to why five-month-old Paul Crampton suddenly collapsed\n\nA few days later, police contacted Mr Crampton and broke the news that Paul's sudden deterioration had probably been caused by him being given drugs.\n\nIn the following days, he and other affected families began to realise the full truth.\n\n\"We knew there had been collapses across Grantham hospital at that time,\" said Mr Crampton. \"We were clear that this was going to become a much bigger story. We didn't know how big.\"\n\nIt would be two more years until Beverley Allitt, a nurse in the hospital's paediatrics ward, was convicted of killing four children, attempting to kill three more - including Paul - and grievous bodily harm against six others.\n\nAfter her trial, Mr Crampton stood on the steps with other victims' families outside Nottingham Crown Court and called for an inquiry into what had happened.\n\n\"What I felt these crimes of Allitt showed was the inability of the health service to respond to a developing crisis and put forward a course of action to understand what was happening and prevent it from going any further,\" he exclusively told BBC North West Tonight.\n\nAn independent inquiry was held immediately after the trial, chaired by Sir Cecil Clothier.\n\nWhile his report, published in 1994, identified a number of key failings it essentially found that because each individual collapse and death could be explained away - and no-one could believe that a colleague would deliberately harm babies - Allitt was able to continue for more than two months.\n\nThe parallels with Letby are striking.\n\nWhile some senior colleagues did raise concerns about her after the first few months, others - including those in charge - were apparently unable to contemplate that there may be a killer in their midst.\n\nIn this way, she was able to continue her attacks for a year.\n\nLucy Letby started working full-time at the Countess of Chester Hospital from January 2012\n\nSo what, if anything, could have stopped Letby sooner? And what lessons can be learned?\n\nBill Kirkup has chaired several high-profile NHS inquiries, including examining baby deaths at the Morecambe Bay and East Kent hospital trusts.\n\nWhile it is important to stress that none of his investigations involved examining the deliberate harming of babies, Dr Kirkup identified a common feature in organisations when things start to go wrong.\n\nHe expressed concerns about how people react to signs of problems, how it goes on for too long before it is picked up, and how the response is very often inadequate.\n\n\"Vigilance, thinking the unthinkable, it's very difficult to do,\" said Dr Kirkup, who wants to see better systems for tracking patient outcomes put in place.\n\nFor example, if an unusual number of deaths are entered on to that system, it would trigger an automatic flag for a particular course of action.\n\nIn this way, human bias - the automatic and understandable assumption that your friends and colleagues are not acting malevolently - would be less likely to be a factor in management decision-making.\n\nDr Kirkup explained: \"We don't look at individual variation in particular units in any systematic way and if we tracked these things in real time, it's been shown in other specialities you can do this, you can trigger action.\n\n\"You can say: 'There's something untoward happening here, it's outside the limits of normal variation - we need to look at it'.\"\n\nIn other words, a stronger system of checks and balances.\n\nFor years, Dr Kirkup has also been calling for medical examiners - independent senior doctors who look at all deaths which are not seen by a coroner.\n\nIt was recommended by the public inquiry into Dr Harold Shipman - the Greater Manchester GP who is thought to have killed 250 of his patients.\n\nHarold Shipman is one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history\n\nTwenty years after that recommendation was made, medical examiners are finally being introduced.\n\nIn 2015 - the year when Letby began to attack babies in her care in the Countess of Chester's neonatal unit - Dr Kirkup publicly lambasted the government for having failed to introduce medical examiners.\n\nWhile he welcomes their introduction, he very much regrets the delay.\n\nWhen asked whether it could have made a difference in Letby's case, he said: \"I think if somebody had asked difficult questions around the nature of the events - the pattern of events that were difficult to explain - at least somebody would have had to look harder.\n\n\"It's entirely possible that at some point what should have happened would have happened [and] somebody would have said 'There is something very wrong here'.\"\n\nThere are other parallels between Allitt and Letby.\n\nAllitt was eventually caught because Paul Crampton's blood sample showed an exceptionally high level of artificial insulin.\n\nLetby also poisoned two babies with insulin who would go on to recover.\n\nOther killers have used this technique.\n\nIn May 2015, health worker Victorino Chua was convicted of murdering two patients and poisoning several others with insulin at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport.\n\nDespite the deaths occurring only 40 miles away from Chester - and Chua's trial receiving much media attention both locally and nationally - nobody working at the Countess of Chester at the time appears to have spotted any possible parallels.\n\nLucy Letby wiped away tears as she gave evidence at her trial\n\nWhen the blood results for both babies came back the high insulin levels did not trigger any major investigation into what had happened.\n\nIf it is part of the human condition to try to rationalise away unexplained and shocking events, what can be done?\n\n\"I think Beverly Allitt did change perceptions amongst clinicians and made the unthinkable slightly less unthinkable,\" said Dr Kirkup. \"Not necessarily an awful lot, as I think we've seen here, but a bit less.\"\n\nDavid Crampton says \"something's got to change\" to help protect patients\n\nMr Crampton said that he did not dwell on what might have happened to Paul - who is now a dad himself -and stressed his support for the NHS.\n\n\"It is something we need to value and treasure as a society. We all need it at some point in our life,\" he said\n\nBut he added that while cases like Allitt's were extremely rare, he also thought it was important to see a meaningful change in the way concerns were addressed.\n\n\"I am absolutely sure that there are more safeguards than there were in the days of Allitt but I still don't think that fundamental question of once you have an issue - and staff start to suspect that there's an issue - how does that get elevated?\n\n\"Fundamentally, something's got to change hasn't it? We can't allow these things to continue\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The number of people who died due to drug misuse in Scotland last year fell by 279 to the lowest level for five years.\n\nHowever, Scotland continues to have the worst drug death rate in the UK and the rest of Europe, with narcotics claiming about 90 lives on average every month.\n\nThe Scottish government is proposing to decriminalise the possession of drugs for personal use to \"help and support people rather than criminalise and stigmatise them\".\n\nBut the UK government, which controls drugs policy, has rejected the plan as dangerous and says it has no intention of giving the Scottish Parliament the power to enact the new policy.\n\nSo what is decriminalisation - and would it work?\n\nIn setting out their proposals, Scottish National Party (SNP) ministers cited Portugal, which relaxed its drug laws in 2001, as a potential model.\n\nDespite having almost double the population of Scotland - 10.3 million compared with 5.5 million - Portugal has far fewer drug deaths. There were just 74 in 2021 compared with 1,330 in Scotland in the same year - the latest for which comparable data is available - although the rate in Scotland has since fallen.\n\nThe European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) makes comparisons using drug deaths of people aged 15-64 years-old.\n\nOn that measure, National Records of Scotland says Scotland had 248 deaths per million people in 2022.\n\nThe EMCDDA says Portugal had nine deaths per million in 2020, the most recent year for which figures are available.\n\nStatisticians say there are some methodological differences between the two nations but the figures are broadly comparable.\n\nPortugal's architect of decriminalisation, João Goulão, argues that adopting a similar policy in Scotland could save lives.\n\n\"We are dealing with a health condition, with a disease, and we do not criminalise other diseases,\" he tells BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWe meet Dr Goulão in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, at the General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies, where he oversees national drugs policy.\n\nGlobally, many advocates of drug liberalisation praise the framework which the former GP helped to design.\n\nIn Portugal, drug trafficking and dealing remain criminal offences. Possession of up to 10 days' supply for personal use of any drug, including heroin and cocaine, is not criminal - but it is not legal either and is dealt with as an administrative matter.\n\nIf a user is detained, and if there is no evidence that they are supplying narcotics, the police can confiscate their drugs and refer them to a Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Use. This is a panel usually made up of a legal expert, a health professional and a social worker.\n\nPorto is home to one of Portugal's two consumption rooms\n\nThere is one commission for each of the country's 18 districts. Overseen by Portugal's health, rather than justice, ministry, they try to establish if a drug user is an occasional recreational consumer or someone struggling with addiction.\n\nThe panels have a variety of options available to them, including referring the user for treatment or counselling; levying fines for repeat appearances; imposing sanctions such as revoking a driving licence, a gun licence, or the right to practise in a licensed profession; and applying restrictions on visiting certain places or associating with certain people.\n\nHowever, in around four out of five cases, after a discussion with the user about their drug use, no action is taken.\n\nIn the last year for which figures are available, nine out of ten participants were male and 45% were aged between 16 and 24.\n\nThe number of people appearing before the commissions rose from 4,850 in 2002 to 11,995 in 2017 before falling back to 6,628 in 2021.\n\nThe head of the commissions, Nuno Capaz, says that reflects the changing rate at which police referred users, rather than a shift in drug use.\n\nDespite having almost double the population of Scotland, Portugal has far fewer drug deaths\n\nDr Goulão says there have been challenges with funding and recruitment of staff in recent years which have made the job of the panels more difficult, but he insists Portugal is in a much better place than it was before decriminalisation.\n\nThen, he says, the nation was in the grip of heroin and HIV epidemics, with drugs deaths running at around 350 per year.\n\nAt one point, one per cent of the entire population — some 100,000 people — had used heroin, estimates Dr Goulão.\n\n\"It was difficult to find a Portuguese family that had no problems related to drugs,\" he adds.\n\nIllicit drug use had exploded after the overthrow, on 25 April 1974, of the right-wing Estado Novo (New State) dictatorship, in a peaceful coup which became known as the Carnation Revolution.\n\nThe restoration of democracy saw a closed, conservative and Catholic country rapidly opening up to the world.\n\nIt also led to the return of tens of thousands of Portuguese soldiers who had been fighting to retain colonies in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luis Miguel Pereira is HIV-positive and addicted to cocaine and heroin\n\nLuis Miguel Pereira recalls how, as the troops came home, drugs flooded into the country.\n\nHe started using at the age of 14, he says. Nearly four decades later, he is HIV-positive and remains hooked on cocaine and heroin.\n\n\"I need it,\" he says, simply.\n\nAs a child, Mr Pereira says, he had a good life, studying and playing football, \"but when I start to take drugs, everything changes.\"\n\n\"It's like a prison,\" he says. \"You are locked inside of the drugs. You wake up thinking drugs. You lay down thinking drugs. It's the only thought that you think in your mind.\"\n\nBy the late 1990s the left-wing government of António Guterres - who is now Secretary-General of the United Nations - had begun to take steps towards liberalisation. In November 2000, it passed law number 30/2000, which enacted decriminalisation from 1 July 2001.\n\n\"The initial impact was amazing,\" says Rui Moreira, who was running a nightclub at the time but is now the independent mayor of Porto. \"It was great.\"\n\n\"It was very influential. We were giving them methadone. We were supplying them with medical help. We started controlling HIV. We started distributing free syringes through pharmacies.\"\n\nRui Moreira is the independent mayor of Porto\n\nThese days the most obvious embodiment of this 'harm reduction' approach are Portugal's two drug consumption rooms, one in Porto which opened exactly one year ago, the other in Lisbon, which has been running since 2021.\n\nIn the Porto centre, co-ordinator Diana Castro explains that nurses, a psychologist, a social worker and a doctor are on hand to assist and advise users.\n\nIn just nine months, she says, it has helped 1,600 people.\n\n\"Every day we are saving lives,\" she added.\n\nThe mayor of Porto supports the facility and remains in favour of decriminalisation, but he tells us that he also has concerns.\n\nTime, says Mr Moreira, has revealed some nasty side effects of law 30/2000.\n\nFirst, he argues, it normalised dangerous drug use among young people, entrenching criminal behaviour by those desperate to feed their addiction and supporting profits for drug dealers.\n\nAnd as hard drugs began to lose their stigma, users could even be seen shooting up outside schools - where it was forbidden to advertise ice cream or sweets, he adds.\n\nA psychologist, a social worker and a doctor are on hand to advise users in consumption rooms\n\nThese side effects are not everywhere, by any means. Many parts of this industrial powerhouse turned tourist hotspot on the Douro estuary are bright, clean and bustling with visitors.\n\nBut look for evidence of drug taking in Portugal's second city, and you can certainly find it.\n\nOutside São Bento railway station, in the historic centre of this Unesco World Heritage site, syringes lie discarded on the cobbles.\n\nA short drive away, a group of drug users, stripped to the waist, huddle in the shade under a public stairway.\n\nAnd in Porto's noisy margins, under the flight path of Francisco Sá Carneiro airport, the atmosphere outside the drug consumption room in the neighbourhood of Pasteleira is edgy, as Tony prepares to smoke crack cocaine.\n\n\"I'm here every day,\" he tells me, in his native Portuguese.\n\nTony has been taking drugs for 40 years\n\nTony's aquiline features and grey curls lend him the air of a senator in Ancient Rome.\n\nBut given that Tony, 61, says he has been taking drugs for 40 years, perhaps his most remarkable feature is a beating heart.\n\n\"I only do coke,\" he says but then adds: \"I take methadone. And I only take heroin when I run out of methadone.\"\n\n\"Even if the law decriminalises consumption… the police are very aggressive with us,\" adds Tony.\n\n\"We're treated like garbage. It's not fair.\"\n\nNot long after chatting to Tony outside the facility, our guide tells us abruptly that we must leave.\n\nA look-out has apparently summoned a more senior member of a drug trafficking gang and Pasteleira is no longer considered safe for us or for those with us.\n\nWe return to the area a few hours later, accompanied by Porto's municipal police chief, Superintendent Antonio da Silva. He takes us to a rabbit warren of a housing scheme, its high walls crisscrossed by shaded alleyways.\n\nA few months ago, says Mr da Silva, standing here would not have been possible.\n\n\"This was a stronghold of drug dealing in Porto,\" he explains, describing it as a \"complete nightmare\" full of dealers and users.\n\nFaced with angry residents who felt trapped in their own homes, the national police moved in and cleared out the criminals.\n\nDrug trafficking is a \"big problem\" in Portugal says Commander Rui Mendes, head of Porto CID at the national police force, which carried out the operation.\n\n\"The traffic dealers are very well organised,\" he adds.\n\n\"You can make 500 arrests but sometimes I feel you can do a thousand and it would be the same because the profits are too high for them,\" says Mr Mendes.\n\nMr da Silva supports decriminalisation but he agrees that the fight is never ending. Asked if the operation in Pasteleira simply pushed the problem elsewhere, he replies: \"Definitely.\"\n\n\"We can make arrests,\" he adds, but \"the police will not solve the social problem of drug addiction.\"\n\nRoberta Reis says decriminalisation has a history of success.\n\nThe drug consumption room in Lisbon, like its counterpart in Porto, is also under a noisy flight path on the margins of the city, with drug users sheltering from the blazing sun beside a dual carriageway, barely visible in shadows cast by concrete and steel.\n\nRoberta Reis, who runs it, agrees with Mr da Silva that decriminalisation has worked. \"A history of success,\" is how she describes the policy.\n\nMs Reis says harm reduction has led to a fall in cases of hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis, and HIV.\n\n\"You can educate people to use [drugs] in a safer way,\" she adds.\n\nThis is a common view here. Decriminalisation feels settled in Portugal. There is no mainstream call for the policy to be reversed.\n\nThe mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, does want changes though. As well as improving housing, cleaning up public spaces, and offering more opportunities for young people, he is calling for criminalisation of drug use in certain areas, such as near schools and civic centres.\n\nPortugal had nine drugs deaths per million people in 2020 compared with 327 deaths per million in Scotland\n\nThere are limits to the comparisons between Portugal and Scotland. No two countries are the same. Scotland has a particularly acute problem with benzodiazepines.\n\nThe outgoing chief constable of Police Scotland, Sir Iain Livingstone, recently told Today on BBC Radio 4, that officers had, in effect, been operating a de facto decriminalisation policy.\n\n\"For many years now, those that use drugs and addicts have not been subject to criminal sanctions,\" he said.\n\n\"My greater concern,\" added Sir Iain, \"rather than the decriminalisation of drugs, is actually making sure there's enough support services.\"\n\nOn that point at least there appears to be some agreement.\n\n\"Scotland is by far the worst… It's something that should make us think about what is going wrong there,\" he says.\n\n\"Must do something,\" agrees João Goulão, although he has a word of caution for policymakers in Edinburgh and London.\n\n\"Decriminalisation by itself gives you nothing,\" he warns, \"but all the health responses — treatment, harm reduction — are much more efficient within a decriminalised environment than they were before.\"", "Families of the babies who were murdered and attacked by Lucy Letby have told Manchester Crown Court of the horrific impact the serial killer has had on their lives.\n\nThe former nurse will spend the rest of her life in prison, with no chance of parole, for murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others. Their parents gave victim impact statements before she was sentenced. Some of the surviving babies have been left with disabilities, they said.\n\nIn court, families of the babies sat in the public gallery, some crying quietly. Members of the jury were also visibly upset as they listened to the statements. Letby refused to attend court to hear the suffering she had caused.\n\nReporting restrictions protect the identities of the babies and their families, so they are referred to as babies A to P.\n\nWarning: This article contains details some readers may find upsetting\n\n\"You thought it was your right to play God with our children's lives.\"\n\nThe twins were attacked in June 2015 - Baby A was murdered on 8 June and Letby attempted to kill his sister 28 hours later.\n\n\"Our minds are so traumatised it won't let us remember the night you killed our child,\" their mother said in a statement. \"After losing (Baby A) we were riddled with fear for his sister (Baby B). We are so thankful that we had that fear for her, as it saved her life... there was always a member of our family at her side watching.\"\n\n\"Little did we know you were waiting for us to leave so you could attack,\" she added.\n\n\"You thought you could enter our lives and turn it upside down but you will never win. We hope you live a very long life and spend every day suffering for what you've done.\"\n\n\"Knowing his murderer was watching us was like something out of a horror story.\"\n\nThe mother of Baby C remembered the \"overwhelming wave of emotion\" she felt when she first held Baby C, whom she called \"my tiny feisty boy\". He was murdered on 14 June, 2015.\n\nShe wore her first-born's hand and footprints around her neck after his death. But when Letby was arrested she felt \"so conflicted\" - the nurse had been the one to take those prints.\n\nShe cried as she spoke of the impact Letby has had on her family: \"There is no sentence that will ever compare to the excruciating agony that we have suffered as a consequence of your actions.\"\n\n\"I was desperate to feel her, smell her, cuddle her.\"\n\nThe mother of Baby D held a toy rabbit as she spoke from the witness box. After her daughter was murdered on 22 June 2015, she pushed for answers, but she was initially told it was not a police matter.\n\n\"I missed (Baby D) so much. I was desperate to feel her, smell her, cuddle her. I was desperate to keep her safe.\"\n\nShe said she lost confidence \"as a woman, as a friend, as a wife\", and said her marriage suffered. \"It has been hard to keep strong together at times.\"\n\n\"Since (Baby D) passed away I live behind my own shadow.\"\n\n\"Our worlds were shattered when we encountered evil disguised as a caring nurse.\"\n\nLetby murdered Baby E on 4 August 2015. She attempted to murder his brother 24 hours later.\n\nThe mother of the twin boys said the family had been \"living with a life sentence because of Letby's crimes\". She said her surviving son had been left with complex needs after the attack. She is still frightened to leave him alone.\n\nWhen Letby was first identified as a murder suspect, she and her husband felt \"cheated, deceived and utterly heartbroken\". She described Letby's absence from court as \"just one final act of wickedness from a coward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Twins' parents: \"They passed him to us and he died\"\n\n\"Her condition affects every aspect of our lives.\"\n\nBaby G was left severely disabled by Letby. The nurse was found guilty of attempting to murder her twice, in September 2015.\n\n\"Every day I would sit there and pray. I would pray for God to save her. He did. He saved her, but the devil found her,\" her father said of their time in hospital.\n\nThe court heard Baby G is now registered blind, has cerebral palsy and progressive scoliosis. Her father said she needs substantial care and that her mother only gets about two hours of sleep a night.\n\n\"We see other families and their children fishing, playing football, other things we can't do. She will never have a sleepover, go to high school, have a boyfriend, get married.\"\n\n\"A part of us died with her.\"\n\nBaby I was alert, content and feeding well before she died, her mother said. The family was planning to bring their daughter home when they were told she'd had another collapse, on 23 October 2015. Letby was found guilty of murdering her.\n\n\"She was our gorgeous little princess and I can't even begin to explain the pain when we lost her.\"\n\nThe mother said her whole body was shaking when she was told someone had been arrested for murder. \"We were both absolutely broken that someone could do something so evil to our precious little girl.\"\n\nShe has had therapy and taken medication over the past six years to cope with her daughter's death. \"We have been in some very dark places mentally.\"\n\nAfter the death of Baby I, they had another daughter who was born prematurely and with sepsis, but she said she found it incredibly hard to be back on a neonatal unit. She refused to leave her daughter's side until she came home.\n\n\"We struggle with trust. I won't leave my kids in a hospital. We will never give anyone that type of trust with our kids again. I don't think we will ever get over the fact that our daughter was tortured until she had no fight left in her.\"\n\n\"Letby kept looking over at me.\"\n\nThe serial killer attempted to murder the twin boys in early April 2016. Their father said the image of his son collapsing was \"forever etched\" in his mind.\n\nThe family was initially told by doctors that the events were \"normal for premature babies\", he said in a statement. \"Little did we know that a year or so after their birth the police would come knocking on the door and break the news that this could be an attempted murder case.\"\n\nHe said he had been prescribed anti-depressants but \"even though they have helped, they can never take away the feelings I have as a parent\".\n\nDuring the trial, he said he had to sit in Letby's line of view one day, saying the nurse kept looking over at him. \"That made me feel quite uncomfortable and uneasy and I had to move in the afternoon, so I was out of her view.\"\n\n\"We believe Baby N has lasting damage as a result of the injuries he sustained.\"\n\nLetby attempted to murder the baby boy in June 2016. \"The day we were called to the neonatal unit was the worst day of our lives,\" his mother said in a statement.\n\nShe said she always knew her son had been deliberately harmed: \"I don't know if it was a mother's instinct, but I just knew.\" She added: \"We just questioned why a healthy baby boy was fine one minute and bleeding from the mouth and needing CPR the next.\"\n\n\"We both relive this every day.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"happy and relieved\" when the police contacted them to say they were investigating Letby. \"We felt like we were being listened to.\"\n\nThe family still has a camera in their now seven-year-old's bedroom so they can check on him while he sleeps. \"We are extremely protective,\" she said. \"We wanted him to be home-schooled as we didn't want anybody else looking after him.\"\n\n\"It has destroyed me as a man and as a father.\"\n\nThe parents had triplets, all boys. Two of the brothers were murdered on 23 and 24 June 2016 respectively.\n\nTheir parents gave statements via a pre-recorded video, played in court. \"Going through the 'firsts' with the surviving triplet is very hard,\" said the mother. \"I started to blame myself. I thought I'd passed on an illness to all three of the boys - an infection.\"\n\nAfter the death of Baby P Letby seemed \"inconsolable\" said the mother, who thanked the nurse at the time. She said she hates the fact Letby was the last person to hold her son.\n\nThe boys' father spoke about watching Baby O deteriorate and die. \"It was horrific to see - it is an image that I'll never forget,\" he said. He sobbed throughout his statement and many in court were in tears.\n\nHe said he had suffered mental breakdowns and struggled with alcohol and suicidal feelings. He is still classed as long-term sick.\n\n\"The anger and the hatred I have towards [Letby] will never go away,\" he said. \"It will continue to haunt us and will always have an impact on our lives.\"", "Charlotte Wilcock was found at a house in Primrose Terrace in Blackburn\n\nA man murdered a woman he had never met before as she sat on her doorstep smoking a cigarette.\n\nAnthony Stinson, 31, had denied murdering Charlotte Wilcock on 4 March but pleaded guilty as his trial began at Preston Crown Court.\n\nMs Wilcock, 31, was stabbed 50 times at her property on Primrose Terrace, Blackburn, while her baby slept upstairs.\n\nStinson, of Darwen, is due to be sentenced on Thursday.\n\nHe had approached the house at about 21:10 GMT and attacked Ms Wilcock before continuing the deadly assault inside the home, eventually leaving her body behind the front door, Lancashire Police said.\n\nHe had kicked and stamped on her before inflicting multiple stab and slash wounds to her body.\n\nMs Wilcock's 15-month-old daughter was inside at the time - and was left alone upstairs until police were alerted the next day.\n\nWhen Stinson was arrested, he told officers he thought he had killed someone, claiming he had been suffering with psychosis and believed he had seen the devil.\n\nHowever, detectives analysed phone records and CCTV to piece together his movements.\n\nThey discovered that less than an hour before Ms Wilcock was murdered Stinson had been recording rap videos with a friend, reciting lyrics about killing somebody.\n\nCCTV revealed that 15 minutes before the assault, he had bought alcohol and cigarettes.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Haworth-Oates said \"for reasons known only to him\" Stinson \"launched a brutal attack\".\n\nHe said: \"He slashed at her body numerous times in the ferocious assault - inflicting well over 50 individual injuries in the process, many with the use of a Stanley knife - as well as punching and kicking her.\n\n\"Charlotte had never met Stinson before that night and had no personal connection to him - she was merely sat on her own doorstep having a cigarette.\n\n\"She should have been safe and could never have foreseen what was about to happen.\n\n\"It is clear from speaking to Charlotte's family that she was very much loved, and her death has left a huge void in the lives of those who knew her, not least her two children who will now grow up without their mother.\"\n\nIn a tribute, Ms Wilcock's family said they were \"devastated and truly heartbroken\".\n\n\"She was a devoted mother who was loved by many - she was our world, our love and our life,\" they added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some men should have annual prostate checks once they turn 40 to spot early, treatable cancers, UK experts say.\n\nTargeted screening would save lives, the Institute of Cancer Research team says, even though the PSA blood test it relies on is not accurate enough to offer more widely.\n\nIt was trialled in men at high genetic risk for certain cancers.\n\nPSA is a protein made only by the prostate gland and a raised level can be a sign of cancer.\n\nPaul Cunningham, 67 and from Plymouth, is one of those who took part in the trials.\n\nHe is glad he did because the screening picked up a cancer that he will soon have removed.\n\nPaul's risk of getting cancer is far above the national average because of a condition he has called Lynch syndrome (LS).\n\nHe explained: \"I have inherited genes that put me at higher risk.\"\n\nHe has already been treated for bowel cancer, and has had numerous skin cancers removed.\n\nDuring the prostate screening trial, called IMPACT, his fifth annual check revealed he had an elevated PSA (prostate specific antigen) level in his blood.\n\nPaul went for further tests and his doctors found the tumour.\n\nHe said: \"Thanks to the screening, they've managed to catch my cancer early. I hope these findings will go on to help others in my position.\"\n\nThe prostate (the smaller red oval in this picture) is a gland located below the bladder\n\nA PSA test can give confusing results, which is why routine prostate screening is not yet offered to men.\n\nAbout 75% of men who get a positive PSA test result are not found to have cancer when they go for a follow-up invasive - and sometimes painful - biopsy.\n\nA raised PSA can be a sign of other conditions that are not cancer, such as an enlarged prostate or a urinary tract infection.\n\nAnd PSA misses the tumour in about 15% of men with prostate cancer. It also cannot show whether a cancer will probably go on to cause harm.\n\nIf you're a man aged 50 or over and decide to have your PSA levels tested after talking to your GP, they can arrange for it to be carried out free on the NHS.\n\nThe IMPACT study involves 828 men at 34 centres in eight different countries.\n\nThe results so far, published in The Lancet Oncology journal, suggest targeted PSA testing is worthwhile for men with Lynch syndrome, with the benefits outweighing the risks.\n\nLead investigator Prof Ros Eeles said: \"Our new findings show that PSA testing in men with Lynch syndrome is much more likely to pick up life-threatening prostate cancer than in the general population.\n\n\"We think that men with the gene faults causing Lynch syndrome are likely to benefit from regular PSA testing from the age of 40.\"\n\nIt has the potential to spot 3,000 of these cancers a year in the UK, she estimates. These tumours are more likely to be aggressive than many of the 50,000 other new cases of prostate cancer diagnosed each year.\n\nProf Charles Swanton, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"What's needed now is research to find out how early the test can diagnose prostate cancer in this group and - like any screening programme - the potential harms and survival benefits would need to be investigated before it could be rolled out.\n\n\"We don't currently recommend the PSA test for high-risk men who are asymptomatic, but if you're concerned about your cancer risk it's important you speak to your doctor.\"\n\nHayley Luxton, Research Impact Manager at Prostate Cancer UK, said: \"Research like this to identify men at higher risk is vital, but we also need to find better tests which could be used to screen everyone.\"", "Thai police have seized thousands of small bowls carrying a message signed by ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.\n\nThey also arrested the female politician from his party in whose house they were found.\n\nShe has now been charged with sedition, which can carry seven years in prison.\n\nIt is the latest sign of the tense dispute between Thaksin supporters and Thailand's military government, says BBC East Asia editor Jill McGivering.\n\nThe bowls at the centre of the row are small, red and plastic - and typically used for water.\n\nWritten on them is \"The situation may be hot but you can be cooled by this water\", along with Mr Thaksin's signature.\n\nThe move comes several days after another woman posted a picture of herself on Facebook smiling as she held up a similar bowl. She too has been charged with sedition.\n\nOur East Asia editor says this shows the ruling military junta's determination to stifle shows of support for Mr Thaksin and his sister Yingluck, who have both served as prime minister and both face corruption charges that they deny.\n\nMr Thaksin has been living in self-imposed exile for 10 years, while Ms Yingluck is facing a decade in jail over a negligence charge linked to farming subsidies distributed while she was in office.\n\nThailand's struggle to overcome its deep and bitter political divide has been reflected in some of the social media responses to this latest incident.\n\nSome said it sounded like a late April Fool's joke. One wrote that the bowls should be given away with bags of rotten rice as a reminder of Mr Thaksin's alleged corruption.\n\nOthers described the police response as absolutely ridiculous, urging them to concentrate on more serious issues than free plastic bowls.", "X, formerly called Twitter, has removed a post denying the Holocaust after criticism from the Auschwitz Museum. The social media platform had initially said the post did not break its rules.\n\nThe offensive post was a reply to one from the museum about a three-year-old Jewish girl murdered in the concentration camp's gas chambers.\n\nThe post called her death a \"fairy tale\" and used anti-Semitic tropes.\n\nAt least 1.1 million people were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. Almost one million were Jews. The museum notes more than 200,000 were children and young people.\n\nThey were gassed, starved, worked to death and killed in medical experiments.\n\nAccording to a post on X by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, it had reported the offensive reply but received a response saying that after viewing the \"available information\" the platform had decided no rules had been broken.\n\nThat initial response to the museum's complaint, according to X, was down to a mistake during the first review - it was escalated and removed in a second review.\n\n\"Violent event denial\" is banned under X's policies on abusive behaviour. The platform says it prohibits content denying that mass murder took place which \"includes, but is not limited to, events like the Holocaust, school shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters\".\n\nThe X account which made the offensive post on Sunday has 20 followers.\n\nWhile X says it has removed the post, the account was still accessible as of Monday 17:00 GMT. Its other content includes statements and language many would find offensive.\n\nThe company says it is reviewing whether the account should be permanently suspended.\n\nElon Musk - who describes himself as a free speech absolutist - denies there has been a rise in hateful posts since he took over Twitter as it was then called. In December, he tweeted that hate speech was down by a third.\n\nX concedes that its team responsible for policing hate speech on the platform is smaller than before Mr Musk took over. But it argues its new approach - which it says centres around a zero tolerance for illegal material, and de-amplifying and removing ads from lawful but offensive material - is more effective.\n\nBut others dispute that things have improved.\n\nAn Institute for Strategic Dialogue report suggested that there had been \"a major and sustained spike in anti-Semitic posts on Twitter\" since the company's takeover by Mr Musk in October.\n\nThe Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has also suggested that Twitter \"fails to act on 99%\" of hateful messages from accounts with Twitter Blue - the platform's subscription service.\n\nIt says that posts containing racist, homophobic, neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic or conspiracy content were still visible days after being reported.\n\nHowever X Corp has launched legal action against the CCDH, and in a legal letter its lawyer, Alex Spiro, argued that the research was \"little more than a series of inflammatory, misleading, and unsupported claims based on a cursory review of random tweets\".\n\nThe decision under Elon Musk to reinstate previously banned accounts, including the account of a neo-Nazi website founder, has also been heavily criticised.\n\nWhen BBC Monitoring analysed over 1,100 previously banned X accounts that were reinstated under Elon Musk, it found that 190 of them were promoting hate and violence, including depictions of rape as well as abuse directed at women and the LGBT community.\n\nBut X argues the experience of researchers who look for offensive content is different from that of ordinary users who stand little chance of encountering it.", "A 23-year-old man was confirmed dead on Berwick Avenue in Coton Hill, Shrewsbury\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a DPD delivery driver in Shropshire.\n\nWest Mercia Police said the 23-year-old male was confirmed dead on Berwick Avenue in Coton Hill, Shrewsbury, on Monday afternoon.\n\nParcel delivery business DPD said he was part of a two-man crew working for the company.\n\nTwo men aged 22 and 26 and two men both aged 24 have been detained and remain in police custody.\n\nA spokesperson for DPD said the company was working closely with the police investigation team.\n\n\"We can confirm that a two-person DPD crew was involved in an incident on Berwick Avenue in Shrewsbury [on Monday] afternoon and that sadly one of the two individuals delivering parcels was attacked and subsequently died,\" they said.\n\nPolice believe the attack happened at about 13:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe West Mercia force said there would be increased patrols in the area to reassure residents.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Bellamy said: \"We understand this incident may be concerning for the local community and I would like to offer my reassurance that we will carry out a full and thorough investigation to establish the circumstances.\"\n\nPolice say they have increased patrols in the area\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said crews were called on Monday to an assault at 13:12 BST.\n\n\"Upon arrival we found a man with life-threatening injuries,\" a spokesperson explained.\n\n\"He received advanced life support and advanced trauma care from ambulance staff at the scene but sadly, nothing more could be done to save him and he was confirmed deceased at the scene.\"\n\nNat Green, Liberal Democrat councillor for Quarry and Coton Hill, said he hoped the \"deeply upsetting\" event was an \"isolated\" incident\" and that \"nothing like this ever happens again\".\n\n\"The only reaction can be one of shock and horror at this event,\" he told BBC Radio Shropshire.\n\n\"I can't remember such an event happening in Shrewsbury myself, and in such a close-knit community that I know Coton Hill is. Many residents are going to be feeling extremely unhappy and distressed about this.\"\n\nHe said the local community was going to wonder about \"their own safety and security\", adding: \"I hope that in the coming days and weeks the police will ensure that there are plenty of patrols and reassurance.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucy Letby was convicted of murder and attempted murder while working as a neonatal nurse\n\nThe mother of a baby boy killed by nurse Lucy Letby says she is \"horrified that someone so evil exists\" and it was like \"something out of a horror story\".\n\nThe 33-year-old was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.\n\nHer conviction makes her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern British history.\n\nLetby refused to appear in the dock as she was given a whole-life sentence.\n\nThe public gallery was full of parents of the babies - some cried quietly as the victim impact statements were read.\n\nSome of the jury members, who sat through nine months of evidence, also appeared upset as they heard the statements.\n\nThe mother of Baby C, who became emotional as she read her statement, told the court that knowing her son's murderer was watching over them was like \"something out of a horror story\".\n\nLucy Letby pictured during her first interview in police custody in 2018\n\n\"I will always remember the overwhelming wave of emotion I felt when I first held [Baby C],\" she said.\n\n\"It was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. My tiny feisty boy. My first born. My son.\n\n\"The trauma of that night will live with us forever.\"\n\nThe parents of Baby A and B said \"what should have been the happiest time of our lives became our worst nightmare\".\n\nThey said perhaps Letby imagined she would be remembered for her crimes but they told the court: \"My family will never think of you again - from this day, you are nothing.\"\n\n\"You thought you could enter our lives and turn it upside down but you will never win,\" they said.\n\n\"We hope you live a very long life and spend every day suffering for what you've done\"\n\nThe mother of Baby D, who was holding a toy rabbit as she read her statement, said Letby's \"wicked sense of entitlement and abuse of her role as a trusted nurse\" was a \"scandal\".\n\n\"You failed God and the plans he had for [Baby D]. You even called it fate,\" she said.\n\n\"You were clearly disconnected with God.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nThe mother of Baby E and F described Letby as a \"coward\" for failing to attend the sentencing hearing, adding: \"Our world was shattered when we encountered evil disguised as a caring nurse.\"\n\n\"Even in these final days of the trial she has tried to control things,\" she said.\n\n\"The disrespect she has shown the families and the court show what type of person she is.\n\n\"We have attended court day in and day out, yet she decides she has had enough, and stays in her cell - just one final act of wickedness from a coward.\"\n\nShe added: \"I still struggle to understand why it happened to us. Lucy presented herself as kind, caring, and soft-spoken.\n\n\"Now I know it was all an act, a sadistic abuse of power that has left me unable to trust anyone.\"\n\nThe parents of Baby G said they baby girl had been left severely disabled as a result of Letby's attacks.\n\n\"What if she outlives us? Who will care for her then?\n\n\"Her condition affects every aspect of our lives,\" they said.\n\nBaby G was the most premature of all the babies, weighing just 535g (1lb 3oz).\n\nThey told the court: \"God saved her\" but then \"the devil found her\".\n\nIn a statement, read out on behalf of Baby I's mother, she said: \"When they told us they were arresting someone for [Baby I's] murder, I remember my whole body shaking.\n\n\"We were both absolutely broken that someone could do something so evil to our precious little girl and this has had a massive effect on our family even until this day.\n\n\"I don't think we will ever get over the fact that our daughter was tortured till she had no fight left in her.\n\n\"Everything she went through over her short life was deliberately done by someone who was supposed to protect her and help her come home where she belonged.\"\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe father of Baby L and Baby M said: \"Initially doctors told us that the whole events that took place in 2016 surrounding my children was normal for premature babies and we believed what the doctors were telling us at the time.\n\n\"Little did we know that a year or so after their birth the police would come knocking on the door and break the news that this could be an attempted murder case.\"\n\nHe said he had been prescribed anti-depressants.\n\n\"Even though they have helped, they can never take away the feelings I have as a parent knowing now what had truly happened at the Countess of Chester in 2016, and it doesn't make it any easier to cope with over time,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement read to court, the mother of Baby N, who survived, said she always knew her son had been deliberately harmed.\n\nShe said she felt \"happy and relieved\" when the police got in contact to say they were investigating Letby because \"we felt like we were being listened to\".\n\n\"Finally we would receive some answers,\" she said.\n\n\"We just questioned why a healthy baby boy was fine one minute and bleeding from the mouth and needing CPR the next.\"\n\nDuring the trial, the jury was shown notes found in Letby's home including one which said: \"I am evil I did this.\"\n\nIn a video statement, the mother of triplet brothers Baby O and P said going through \"firsts\" with the surviving triplet was \"very hard\".\n\n\"I hate the fact that Lucy Letby was the last person to hold Baby P,\" she said, adding the nurse had \"destroyed our lives\".\n\nTheir father said he felt like he had been \"stabbed in the heart, no words could describe how I was feeling\".\n\n\"We have tried to explain to our children that there's a lady in prison and that the police think that this lady has hurt your brothers,\" he said.\n\n\"We did this in case they hear anything from a third party or at school.\n\n\"Having to come to terms with a police investigation has been hard to live with.\"\n\nHe said he had \"so many unanswered questions\" and the waiting had been \"unbearable\".\n\nThe trial of Lucy Letby spanned 10 months at Manchester Crown Court\n\nLetby will spend the rest of her life behind bars, becoming only the fourth woman in UK history to receive such a sentence.\n\nEarlier, Nicholas Johnson KC, prosecuting, told the court Letby's offending was a \"very, very clear case\" for a whole-life tariff to be imposed.\n\nHe said the murders qualified on a number of grounds, including they were premeditated and they involved an elements of \"sadistic conduct\".\n\nMr Johnson said there was also more than one victim and those victims were children.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak also said it was \"cowardly\" for convicted criminals not to face victims or their families in court.\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are many different designs of the makeshift cable cars (file image from 2007)\n\nEight people, including children, were left stranded in a cable car dangling above a ravine in Pakistan's north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday.\n\nFootage of the chair lift, dangling precariously at 274m (900ft) above ground, is the stuff of nightmares for many.\n\nBut makeshift cable cars are widely used in eastern Mansehra and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and stretch all the way up to Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the north.\n\nWith little infrastructure in the area and long-distances between facilities like schools - the cable cars, often thrown together with scrap metal - are born from necessity.\n\nThey are built by local communities - mostly illegally, because it is cheaper and there is no alternative infrastructure.\n\nSometimes they are made of the upper body of a pick-up truck. For example, a Suzuki may be converted into a large cabin used to transport people and cattle. They are then attached to the cable - which can also be scrap iron - using ropes.\n\nThough dangerous, people often use them to cross rivers and to shorten the distance needed to travel between valleys in the mountains.\n\nIn Allai - the mountainous area where the group were trapped on Tuesday - there is no road infrastructure or basic facilities.\n\nAs a result, a local resident obtained permission from the city administration to build the cable car, police confirmed to BBC News.\n\nKnown to locals as \"Dolly\", it links the village of Jangri to Batangi, where the local school is located.\n\nWhat would usually be a two-hour walk was reduced to just four minutes in the cable car.\n\nPolice said they checked the lift every month, however BBC News has been unable to independently verify this.\n\nStrong winds made the rescue particularly difficult, as army soldiers dangled from helicopters, trying to reach those trapped in the cable car\n\nThe affordability of the Allai cable car also makes it an attractive mode of transport.\n\nIt costs far less than road travel, and while the fare varies depending on the distance being travelled, it begins from as little as 20 PKR (£0.053; $0.067).\n\nOne local, Mohabbat Shah, said residents were willing to take the risk with the cable cars. Since there had been no problems with these particular cars before, they were a good option for people trying to move around the region.\n\n\"We pay only 10 rupees per person on a one way trip. If we book a cab, this will cost up to 2000 rupees (£18.91; $24.09)\", he told the BBC.\n\nWhile this particular cable car had not yet encountered any challenges, others across Pakistan have.\n\nIn 2017, an illegal car crashed in Murree, Punjab, killing 11 passengers as it plummeted into a ravine.\n\nAnd last December, local media reported that 12 children had to be rescued after a rope snapped in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Those children were on their way to school, and were stranded 61m over a river until they could be rescued.\n\nFollowing Tuesday's incident, Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar ordered \"safety inspections of all such private chairlifts to ensure that they are safe to operate and use.\"\n\nBut without significant investments into new infrastructure, the lifts will continue to be the main mode of transport for most people in the mountainous region.", "A caption posted with the video on Telegram suggests Yevgeny Prigozhin is in an African country\n\nWagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has appeared in his first video address since his failed mutiny in Russia, which suggests he is in Africa.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify where the video was filmed.\n\nThe video posted on Telegram channels linked to the Wagner mercenary group shows him in combat gear, saying the group is making Africa \"more free\".\n\nWagner is believed to have thousands of fighters on the continent, where it has lucrative business interests.\n\nMr Prigozhin's soldiers are embedded in countries including Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR) - where rights groups and the UN accuse them of committing war crimes.\n\nThe UK last month imposed sanctions on the two heads of Wagner's operations in CAR, accusing them of torture and killing civilians.\n\nWagner fighters have also been accused by the US of enriching themselves with illicit gold deals on the continent.\n\nIn the video, Mr Prigozhin says Wagner is exploring for minerals as well as fighting Islamist militants and other criminals.\n\n\"We are working. The temperature is +50 - everything as we like. Wagner PMC conducts reconnaissance and search actions, makes Russia even greater on all continents, and Africa even more free,\" Mr Prigozhin can be heard saying.\n\n\"Justice and happiness - for the African people, we're making life a nightmare for ISIS (Islamic State) and Al-Qaeda and other bandits.\"\n\nHe says Wagner is recruiting and the group will \"continue fulfilling the tasks that were set - we made promises we would succeed\".\n\nMr Prigozhin was photographed in St Petersburg during last month's Africa-Russia summit, shaking hands with Ambassador Freddy Mapouka, a presidential advisor in the CAR.\n\nMr Prigozhin has been keeping a low public profile since heading his short-lived mutiny in June, which lasted only 24 hours.\n\nAbout 5,000 Wagner troops seized control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and moved towards Moscow, with the stated aim of removing the military leadership.\n\nHowever, Mr Prigozhin stopped the advance after negotiations with the Kremlin, which were mediated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nUnder a deal to end the mutiny, charges against Mr Prigozhin were dropped and he was offered a move to Belarus.\n\nThere had been very public infighting between Wagner and Russia's ministry of defence over the conduct of the war. Mr Prigozhin repeatedly accused the ministry of failing to supply his group with ammunition.\n\nMr Prigozhin says he founded the Wagner group in 2014. A wealthy businessman with a criminal record, Mr Prigozhin is known as \"Putin's chef\" because he provided catering for the Kremlin.\n\nIn 2014, Wagner started backing pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, and is thought to have helped Russia annex Crimea.\n\nBefore the war in Ukraine, Wagner had an estimated 5,000 fighters - mostly veterans of Russia's elite regiments and special forces.\n\nHowever, Mr Prigozhin said last June that its numbers had grown since the start of the Ukraine war to 25,000 fighters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused Facebook of putting \"profits ahead of people's safety\" after it blocked news amid devastating wildfires in the country.\n\nFacebook banned news on its platform in response to Canadian law forcing it to share profit with news outlets.\n\nWildfire evacuees have said the ban has impacted their ability to share critical news with each other.\n\nThe prime minister, during a televised news conference on Monday, said the actions of Meta were \"inconceivable\".\n\nThe company has blocked news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada since 1 August, after the country's parliament passed an online news bill that requires platforms like Google and Meta to negotiate deals with news publishers for content.\n\nMeta has faced significant criticism from Canadian officials since then. On Saturday, Canada's heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge, said in a post on social media that the company is blocking \"essential information\" for users.\n\nShe added that this is being done despite the law - dubbed Bill C-18 or the Online News Act- not going into effect yet. In an earlier post, she called Meta's decision \"reckless\".\n\nMeta has called the law \"fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work\".\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Meta said the law forces the company \"to end access to news content in order to comply with the legislation\".\n\nIt added that it has activated a \"Safety Check\" feature on its platform for people living in evacuated areas.\n\nThis allows users to mark themselves safe and access \"reputable information, including content from official government agencies\", a spokesperson said.\n\nEvacuees in the Northwest Territories, where a wildfire continues to rage 15 kilometres (9 miles) away from its largest city Yellowknife, said the news ban has made it harder for them to spread life-saving information with their network.\n\nDelaney Poitras, who has had to evacuate twice in recent weeks from her home in Fort Smith, told the CBC that she has not been able to share things like news conferences from officials or news articles on evacuation updates.\n\nShe adds that Facebook plays a huge role in connecting people in her community. \"It's how we all keep in touch,\" she said.\n\nData suggests that about 77% of Canadians use Facebook, and one in four of those users rely on it for news.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nSpain's prime minister says Luis Rubiales kissing Jenni Hermoso on the lips was an \"unacceptable gesture\" and that his apology is \"not enough\".\n\nSpanish football federation president Rubiales kissed forward Hermoso following Spain's 1-0 win over England in Sunday's Women's World Cup final.\n\nRubiales apologised on Monday and said he was \"completely wrong\".\n\n\"What we saw was an unacceptable gesture,\" prime minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday.\n\n\"Rubiales' apologies are not enough, I even think they are not adequate. He has to continue taking steps to clarify what we all saw.\n\n\"The players did everything to win but Rubiales' behaviour shows that there is still a long way to go for equality.\"\n\n\"Their excuses are useless,\" she said.\"[The Spain squad] have shown us many things about equality, not only in sports and football.\n\n\"They have shown us that there is still a lot to do in our country, that there is still a lot to do so that men and women can become equal.\"\n\nThe Spanish football federation (RFEF) has called an extraordinary general assembly \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nHermoso said on Instagram that she \"didn't like\" Rubiales' actions after the final, but a statement released later on the Spain forward's behalf defended him.\n\nIn a video released on Monday, Rubiales said: \"It was without bad intention at a time with a lot of excitement. In the moment, we saw it as natural, but outside a commotion has formed.\n\n\"I have to apologise, learn from this, and understand that when you are president you have to be more careful.\"\n\nRubiales has also been criticised by other Spanish government ministers and came under fire on social media for grabbing and kissing Hermoso.\n\nSpain's equalities minster Irene Montero said: \"It's a form of sexual violence women suffer on a daily basis\", while sports minister Miquel Iceta told Spanish public radio it was \"unacceptable\" for Rubiales to kiss Hermoso.\n\nVideo footage circulated online after the match also showed Rubiales, who was sat in the VIP area of the stadium near Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Queen Letizia of Spain, grab his groin as he celebrated the final whistle.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "It wasn't clear which way this story was going to go.\n\nSo it was a joy to be able to bring you the news that all eight people - six of them children - were successfully rescued today. I heard cheers behind me in the newsroom when the development was confirmed.\n\nThe relief on the ground - captured in videos of the final rescues - was palpable.\n\nWe've focused on the drama of what Pakistan's army called an operation of \"unprecedented difficulty\". But as you'll have seen in some of our later entries, there's been renewed scrutiny of the country's makeshift cable car system - and calls for safety inspections from Pakistan's leaders.\n\nOur live coverage is coming to a close, but you can read our full report here.\n\nAs well as the reporting by our colleagues at BBC Urdu in Pakistan, today's posts were brought to you by Jamie Moreland, Fiona Nimoni, Thomas Mackintosh, Jacqueline Howard, Liv McMahon, Ali Abbas Ahmadi and Jack Burgess in London. The editors were Marita Moloney, Jamie Whitehead, Rob Corp, Dulcie Lee and me.", "Cuts to the number of hours England's secondary school pupils spend doing physical education and sport \"should be a matter of immediate national concern\", the Youth Sport Trust says.\n\nFigures released by the government show 4,000 hours were lost in state-funded schools in the last academic year.\n\nThere has also been a 12% drop since the 2012 London Olympics.\n\nThe children's charity says the latest data reveals a \"further threat to the wellbeing of young people\".\n\nIn March, the government announced that schools in England would be required to deliver a minimum of two hours of PE per week, and ensure equality of access to sport for girls and boys.\n\nMore than £600m of funding is to be delivered over two academic years.\n\nMembers of England's Euros-winning women's football squad - who on Sunday finished runners-up in the World Cup - campaigned for all girls to have equal access to school PE.\n\nThe team highlighted that only 63% of girls could play football in PE lessons, according to a Football Association (FA) campaign published last year.\n\nA report by England Football, part of the FA, said only 44% of secondary schools in England offered girls equal access to football in PE lessons.\n\nThe latest government figures reveal that 326,277 hours of PE and sport were delivered in secondary schools in England in in 2011/12.\n\nThat had fallen to 290,033 in 2021/22 and then to 285,957 in the last 12 months.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, who won Olympic heptathlon gold at the 2012 Olympics said: \"It's hugely disappointing. Some young kids have the opportunity to do sport outside of school. They have the set up and the funds to do that.\n\n\"However a lot of children need that access to sport and get into grassroots level sport at school. I think it's really important that we have skilled lessons, the hours within school hours, to be able to identify young kids who are performing well within sport. And to give them the opportunity.\"\n\nYST chief executive Ali Oliver MBE, said: \"Fewer than half of children in the UK currently meet 60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity which is the chief medical officers' minimum recommended level.\n\n\"This is contributing to a nation where too many children are missing out, have poor wellbeing and lack a sense of belonging. The evidence is clear: unhappy and unhealthy children do not learn and just this week we are seeing proof of this as high levels of persistent absence and mental ill health have been cited as undermining pupils' GCSE results.\"\n\nIn December, funding agency Sport England said children and young people's activity levels had recovered to pre-pandemic levels, with 47% of children meeting recommended activity level. But in April it also revealed there were nearly half a million fewer active young people, aged 16-34, than six years ago.", "Theresa is one of a group of campaigners who have vowed to remain outside the hotel until the plans are dropped\n\nA mist of uncertainty has fallen over a small village in Carmarthenshire, with locals unclear what the future holds as they await the arrival of 240 asylum seekers.\n\nSome have fitted extra security to their homes, with the lack of information fuelling fears on the streets in Furnace.\n\nAll most people know is that the four-star Stradey Park Hotel closed last month with the loss of 100 jobs, following a deal with the Home Office.\n\nMany feel helpless and in the dark, but others say they are determined to make their point.\n\nTheresa, 58, is among those who have set up a camp outside the hotel to try to put a stop to the plans, and said she would stay in place \"for the long run, as long as it takes\".\n\n\"It's the nicest hotel in Carmarthenshire. Everyone comes here. Rugby teams stay here, people going to Ffos Las Racecourse. I did before I lived here,\" she said.\n\nThe camp set up outside the hotel's gates has about 20 people who swap shifts around the clock. The flurry of beeping horns from passing motorists suggests their cause is backed by many in the wider community.\n\nLast week, hotel owner Gryphon Leisure won a High Court injunction to limit the activities of protestors, and in a letter seen by the BBC they threatened to appoint enforcement agents to stop blocking of the entrance.\n\nThe company has refused to address the change of use for Stradey Park, but the Home Office said asylum seekers were costing the taxpayer too much and the plans were necessary because the system was under \"incredible\" strain.\n\nIn the face of this, those against the plans remain resolute.\n\nProtesters have been chatting to PCSOs who have kept a regular presence nearby\n\nTheresa said she arrives at the camp every morning around 9am, and will stay until 11:30 before returning at 4pm for another three hours.\n\n\"I do the early [shift]. These (other protesters) stay awake all night.\"\n\nThose gathered have been angered by media reports linking them to far-right groups. They say they are just concerned locals, and there is no political agenda behind their stance.\n\nThis becomes clear when they start nostalgically reminiscing about what has been lost - the Sunday lunches, so popular it was hard to book a table, afternoon teas, a James Bond night, international rugby sides staying, as well as golf groups.\n\nAlso, the sadness at seeing French and Dutch visitors turn up with their suitcases recently, having not realised it's closed.\n\nIt's not just a hotel, but a focal point of the community, from where everyone has memories.\n\nThat's the simple reason there are about 20 people who, like Theresa, are \"here for the long run\".\n\nThey talk to PCSOs and hand out bread rolls that a resident has delivered, with Theresa adding: \"The donations are amazing, food, water, loads of Welsh cakes.\n\n\"The ladies do a lot of baking. There was pavlova the other day, I missed that one. Also, curry and rice.\"\n\nBarman Geraint Phillips said no advice has been given about the new imminent new arrivals to the village.\n\nThere are many questions - when will the asylum seekers finally arrive? Where will they be from? How will they integrate?\n\nDown the road at Furnace RFC, head barman Geraint Phillips, 58, said he is simply concerned about a move that will add significantly to the local population.\n\n\"We've been in the dark since day one. It's just not knowing who and what are coming here,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no more than 400 people here, and one corner shop.\"\n\nIt is also fuelling rumours and in some cases fear. Susan Davies, 64, has had a bell fitted to her front door for extra security.\n\nShe was a bridesmaid at the hotel, and believe it is \"such a shame it's being used this way\".\n\nLooking at work being carried out to ready the hotel for the arrivals, she said: \"A lot of people are struggling in this area, it's a really poor area. A lot more could be done to help local people [with the money] instead.\"\n\nRachel Peregrine says the lack of information has made her concerned\n\nRachel Peregrine, 33, said while pushing her children on the swings in Parc Howard: \"I don't really know what to think.\n\n\"If it was all men, I wouldn't be too happy. But we have no information.\"\n\nAllan Edwards, 72, and John Bennett, 74, said it's all everyone has been talking about.\n\nAllan Edwards and John Bennett say the plans are all people in the village have been talking about in recent weeks\n\n\"He [the owner] is from London, he doesn't give a monkey's about Llanelli,\" said John.\n\n\"It's a rural community, a way of life, and he's cashing in.\"\n\nAllan questioned whether the Conservative UK government were intentionally placing the asylum seekers in a Labour-voting area for political reasons, and whether the situation could have been avoided if people around the UK had been asked to take them in, like with Ukrainian refugees.\n\nHe also wondered if there will be tensions among asylum seekers who have to share rooms, saying: \"In my school, there were 240 boys, there was fighting, some were tidy, some were not.\n\n\"Here, you are going to have four blokes in one room, one toilet, different religions, backgrounds.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's all about money for the owner.\"\n\nTattiana Alfaia and Simon Elliot, who were walking dog Kobe in Parc Howard, believe many of the issues have been caused by a lack of information given to locals\n\nMany of the issues stem from a lack of explanation and understanding of the dire situations many of the people will be coming from, believes Tattiana Alfaia, 46.\n\n\"I see posters that say 'Wales belongs to the Welsh'. I am from Portugal, how many British people are there?\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same in Spain. It just makes them look silly, it's not a good message.\"\n\nSimon Elliot, 43, said he understands the concerns about people being housed in such close proximity to the community.\n\nBut he said he wondered if there could be more empathy, adding: \"You hear so many stories [about asylum seekers], good and bad. But bad things happen with people who live here too.\"\n\nResidents could have been forgiven for thinking the days of Stradey Park making the headlines ended when the famous old rugby ground was bulldozed in 2010.\n\nIt was less than a mile from the hotel, and where Llanelli beat the 1972 All Blacks.\n\nThe Stradey Arms is just down the road from the hotel and benefitted with trade from guests\n\nMax Boyce wrote a song about pubs running dry on that famous day - the Felinfoel Brewery is just up the road, and there are many watering holes scattered around Furnace.\n\nOne is called the Stradey Arms and licensee Wayne Stephens lamented the loss of custom from golf groups staying at the hotel, as well as raising concerns about a change to his clientele.\n\n\"Are they [the asylum seekers] going to wander out or stay at the hotel?,\" he said.\n\n\"If they are all in the pub, will it put people off? Most probably, yes. We are stuck in the middle, people will be put off coming to drink with us.\"\n\nHowever, he said the issue had brought with it some positivity in bringing everyone together.\n\nPolice have been keeping a presence in the community in recent weeks\n\n\"These days, people don't go out to socialise together, people are on their phones or tablets,\" he said.\n\n\"One positive, people are all out there together, all religions, ages, backgrounds.\"\n\nBut while he said the protestors have been peaceful and respectful, he warned there could be a flashpoint if the hotel owner tries to remove \"people or infrastructure\" from outside.", "A number of buildings in Moscow have been hit in drone attacks in recent weeks\n\nRussia's defence ministry says it has thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack after it downed two drones over the Moscow region.\n\nTwo other drones were intercepted over the Bryansk region, north-east of the Ukrainian border, it added.\n\nFlights were temporarily stopped to and from Moscow's airports early on Tuesday, the ministry said.\n\nAirspace above Moscow has been closed several times in recent days as reports of drone strikes become more regular.\n\nThe defence ministry also said a Russian warplane had destroyed a Ukrainian reconnaissance boat in the Black Sea that had sailed near Russian gas production facilities.\n\nEarly on Tuesday, Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russian air defences had shot down two drones to the west of the capital in the Krasnogorsk and Chastsy districts.\n\nNo injuries were reported in the attacks and Ukraine has not commented.\n\nAlthough Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for specific drone strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said that attacks on Russian territory are an \"inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process\".\n\nOn Saturday, a flagship Russian long-range bomber was destroyed in a Ukrainian drone strike, according to reports.\n\nImages posted on social media and analysed by BBC Verify show a Tupolev Tu-22 on fire at Soltsy-2 airbase, south of St Petersburg.\n\nMoscow said that a drone was hit by small-arms fire but managed to \"damage\" a plane.\n\nThe Russian Tu-22 bomber that was destroyed can travel at twice the speed of sound and has been used extensively by Russia to attack cities in Ukraine.\n\nMoscow's defence ministry said in a statement that an attack by a \"copter-type UAV\" took place at around 10:00 Moscow time (08:00 BST) on Saturday.\n\nIt stated the location as \"a military airfield in the Novgorod region\", where Soltsy-2 is situated.\n\n\"The UAV was detected by the airfield's observation outpost and was hit with small-arms fire,\" the ministry said.\n\n\"One airplane was damaged; there were no casualties as a result of the terrorist act.\"\n\nThe statement also said a fire which broke out in the airfield parking lot was quickly extinguished.\n\nHowever, images posted on the social media platform Telegram showed a large fire engulfing a jet with the distinctive nose cone of the Tu-22. BBC Verify analysed the images and believes them to be credible.\n\nOver recent months dozens of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft have attacked Russia's capital.\n\nMoscow has blamed Kyiv for the attacks. Ukraine rarely takes responsibility for incidents or strikes that take place within Russian territory.", "Demonstrators have blocked entrances of the hotel to try to hinder efforts to prepare for the arrival of asylum seekers\n\nA move to house asylum at a village hotel is not imminent and won't happen until the site is \"signed off as safe\", officials have said.\n\nPlans for up to 241 people to live at Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, have led to protests, damage and arrests, police have said.\n\nAbout 300 people took part in an online meeting with Home Office officials and contractors Clearsprings on Tuesday.\n\nLocals were told only families will be placed at the hotel.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of Clearsprings, Steve Lakey said the company recognised the challenges for the community and wanted to work \"resolve those issues where possible\".\n\n\"Our intention for this hotel is very much entirely for family use, so there won't be any singles accommodated there, and [there] will be up to 241 people but phased over a period of time,\" he said.\n\n\"Nobody will be accommodated on site until it has been signed off as safe by all those statutory partners and our own teams as well.\"\n\nAbout 300 people attended an online Q&A with a panel about plans for Stradey Park Hotel\n\nTim Rymer, of the Home Office, added: \"I recognise the use of this hotel, any hotel, is very far from ideal. But right now it remains an operational necessity.\n\n\"I can certainly say to you now that we're not about to start moving people in, we will do that further work first, and then work through any plans with partners before we actually bring people onto the site.\"\n\nA previous legal bid by Carmarthenshire council to halt the plans failed, and the authority said it was \"the saddest and most divisive and difficult case we have had to deal with\".\n\nJake Morgan, the council's deputy chief executive, said that the council still believes the hotel is \"the wrong site and wrong model of care\" to house the asylum seekers and \"we don't believe that Clearsprings' model works\".\n\nMr Morgan added: \"We regret the loss of an iconic hotel in the county and the 100 jobs that it supported in a community that, frankly, couldn't afford to bear such a loss.\"\n\nProtestors have been camping outside the hotel, leading to the owners securing a temporary injunction to restrict their activities.\n\nSome against the move have cited lack of community consultation and information as their reason for opposing the plans.\n\nStradey Park Hotel in Llanelli is set to house up to 241 asylum seekers\n\nCanon Aled Edwards, who chaired the meeting on Tuesday, told BBC Radio Wales: \"There were very legitimate questions. We received many questions and they were filtered through to the panel.\n\n\"What we have to remember here is that Wales does actually have a longstanding tradition of setting up such accommodation for those who are seeking asylum.\n\n\"I think we do have a good legacy in Wales in terms of being able to handle these situations relatively well, but they are always going to be challenging.\"\n\nAppealing for calm at the site moving forward, Supt Ross Evans from Dyfed-Powys Police said the past few weeks had been \"extremely challenging\".\n\nHe also confirmed 17 people had been arrested at the site, most happening in the past seven days, and said more were likely to follow.\n\nIn an update on Wednesday, the force said an investigation was ongoing into disorderly behaviour last week which \"resulted in extensive damage to the hotel\".\n\nSupt Evans added that it was the police's intention to \"work with any protest groups in advance of any events so that we can facilitate peaceful demonstration\".\n\nAll questions heard at Tuesday's meeting were submitted to panel members beforehand, with no opportunity for any additional comments or questions during the session.\n\nFollowing the session, Rob Lloyd, spokesman for the Furnace Action Group of protestors, said he did not feel any of his concerns were alleviated and he did not feel that the community had any trust in the Home Office or Clearsprings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles was welcomed by the Royal Regiment of Scotland and their mascot – a Shetland Pony.\n\nKing Charles III and Queen Camilla have come to Balmoral Castle for their first summer residence in Scotland since the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe King is continuing his mother's tradition of taking a summer holiday on Royal Deeside in Aberdeenshire.\n\nHe is expected to stay for three weeks and be there on the first anniversary of the Queen's death on September 8.\n\nHis visit began by inspecting troops from Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.\n\nThe King was also introduced to the regiment's official mascot, the Shetland pony Corporal Cruachan IV.\n\nThe inspection ceremony marks the formal welcome of the monarch to the Aberdeenshire castle.\n\nLast August it was held privately inside the grounds for the comfort of the Queen.\n\nShe died at the castle a month later at the age of 96. She was the first monarch to die at Balmoral.\n\nThe last photograph of Queen Elizabeth II was taken at Balmoral\n\nThe 50,000 acre estate sits 50 miles to the west of Aberdeen, within the Cairngorm National Park. It has long been established as the private summer home of the Royal Family.\n\nIt was bought by Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, in 1852 and has been handed down through the generations.\n\nThe estate includes grouse moors, forestry and farmland and is home to a large population of red deer.\n\nIt is the private property of the monarch and is not part of the Crown Estate.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II with Philip and their children at Balmoral in 1960\n\nQueen Elizabeth II hosted numerous royal garden parties there and enjoyed watching events at the nearby Braemar Highland Games with other members of the Royal Family.\n\nShe spent her final months at Balmoral and held an audience there with Liz Truss, the 15th Prime Minister of her 70 year reign, just two days before her death.\n\nThousands of people lined the route as the Queen's body was driven from Balmoral to Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.\n\nKing Charles grew up visiting the castle every year and the estate was the inspiration for his 1980 children's book The Old Man of Lochnagar.\n\nHe inherited the neighbouring Birkhall estate from his grandmother, the Queen Mother, upon her death in 2002.\n\nHe honeymooned there with Queen Camilla in 2005 and the couple later self-isolated at the house after testing for Covid-19 in March 2020.", "Theo Burrell, a specialist in decorative arts and fine antiques, joined the Antiques Roadshow in 2018\n\nAntiques Roadshow expert Theo Burrell was just 35 when she was diagnosed with an incurable cancerous brain tumour.\n\nFor six months she had endured increasingly worsening symptoms but her GP could not pinpoint the cause of her debilitating migraines.\n\nIt was only when she was offered a scan at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary's A&E that the 5cm (2in) tumour was discovered.\n\nNow, after months of treatment, she has joined calls for increased investment in brain tumour research.\n\nBrain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, according to charity Brain Tumour Research.\n\nBut just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to the disease.\n\nMs Burrell, whose son Jonah was just one when she was diagnosed last summer, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme about her experience.\n\n\"I started to get ill in the winter of 2021 and I wasn't diagnosed until the June of 2022, so [I had] five or six months of increasingly worsening symptoms - headaches, sickness, problems with my vision, very, very pressurised pains in my head, migraines - the list went on.\n\n\"And it wasn't until I went to A&E at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh that I was given the diagnosis. I had absolutely no idea it was coming, it was a huge shock.\"\n\nThe ceramics and glass expert with Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers in Edinburgh said she only learned the seriousness of her diagnosis the following day.\n\nMs Burrell was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour last summer\n\n\"At first, I didn't quite realise what I was being told,\" the 36-year-old said. \"The information in A&E was there was a 5m cancerous brain tumour in my head but it wasn't until the next day that I saw my surgeon and he explained that this was in fact incurable cancer.\"\n\nHe told her she had glioblastoma, a fast-growing brain tumour which is one of the most common cancerous brain tumours in adults.\n\n\"So I was told there and then really in no uncertain terms I will be losing my life to this... it was just shocking,\" she added.\n\nSince then, Ms Burrell has undergone months of treatment.\n\n\"I've had surgery, followed by radiotherapy, alongside chemotherapy, and then once that finished I went on to six months of chemotherapy so that's keeping the cancer in some form of control,\" she said.\n\n\"The surgery debulks the tumour so a lot of the tumour has been removed and right now I'm in a stable position.\n\n\"My scans are showing there has been no regrowth since that surgery and in fact some of the tumour has shrunk.\"\n\nMs Burrell wants to see more investment in research into brain tumours\n\nIt has sapped her of her energy, leaving her very tired a lot of time.\n\n\"Just doing a full day off, meeting friends for coffee then doing a bit of shopping, that really takes it out of me. I could be in bed all day the next day,\" she told BBC Radio Scotland's Mornings programme earlier this year.\n\nShe has lost her driving licence, and with that a lot of her independence, and she says she has \"this new sort of fear\".\n\n\"I don't know what's going to happen to my life,\" she said. \"I have scans every three months, so I can get on with life in between those scans but as soon as the next scan is on the horizon, I start to get worried and that manifests itself in physical symptoms - headaches, nausea, fatigue.\n\n\"There are lots of positive things as well. I've learned to live day-to-day. I've really given up worrying about the smaller things, things that used to keep me awake at night no longer do.\n\n\"Living day-to-day is actually quite freeing, I'm no longer looking too long into the future because it's so uncertain for me.\"\n\nShe said it was shocking that there was so little research into the disease and has joined a campaign urging the UK government to ring-fence £110m of funding for brain tumour research.\n\nA petition is also calling for an increase in the national investment in brain tumour research to £35m a year by 2028.\n\nBrain Tumour Research says that five years after the UK government announced £40m for brain cancer research, just £10.7m has been spent.\n\n\"For too long governments have put brain tumours on the 'too difficult to think about' pile,\" it said.\n\nThe UK's Department of Health and Social Care said it had \"specifically allocated £40m for research in this area, on top of £1bn a year for wider health research\".\n\nIt added that it had \"invested in every suitable research application made and the funding will continue to be available for further studies to develop new treatments and therapies for brain tumours\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had a new 10-year cancer strategy that \"aims to significantly cut the number of people diagnosed with later stage cancer and to reduce the health inequalities associated with the disease\".", "Ariana Grande has been with Scooter Braun for the entirety of her singing career\n\nScooter Braun, the music mogul who made headlines for a long-running dispute over Taylor Swift's master recordings, has reportedly been left by two of his biggest clients.\n\nAccording to Billboard, both Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato have parted ways with the manager.\n\nColombian star J Balvin, who signed with Braun in 2019, left in May and is now managed by Roc Nation.\n\nBut reports that Justin Bieber has also split from Braun have been denied.\n\nBraun is one of the world's most successful music managers, with clients including David Guetta, Black Eyed Peas, Ava Max, Carly Rae Jepsen and Quavo, according to his website.\n\nHe started his career as a teenager, promoting parties and events in Atlanta, before being signed to Def Jam Records.\n\nBut his big break came in 2008, when he spotted a 12-year-old Bieber singing on YouTube and saw star potential.\n\nHe tracked the youngster down through his school, asking board members to put him in touch with Bieber's mum, and signed him to a record label he had formed with R&B star Usher.\n\nBieber quickly became one of pop's biggest stars, and Braun has steered his career through several ups-and-downs, including a period in 2013-14 where the singer faced a string of arrests for vandalism, dangerous driving and assault.\n\n\"I was not going to give up on him, I was not going to let him die,\" Braun told the Guardian in 2016.\n\nHe eventually helped the singer rehabilitate his image by arranging a Comedy Central \"roast\" that showcased his humility, paired with a stretch of singles including Sorry and Love Yourself that marked his transformation from teen idol to adult star.\n\nAriana Grande signed with Braun in 2013, since when she has released six albums, all but one of which topped the US Billboard charts.\n\nAfter the Manchester bombing, which claimed the lives of 22 of her fans, Braun organised the One Love benefit concert that helped raise millions of pounds to support the families of the victims.\n\nGrande has not released an album since 2020's Positions, and is currently working on the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked.\n\nIt is unclear whether she is severing all ties with Braun outside of management.\n\nDemi Lovato started working with Braun in 2019, saying at the time: \"Dreams came true for me. I officially have a NEW MANAGER. And not just any manager but the one and only Scooter Braun.\"\n\nAn unnamed source told Variety that their split was amicable. Indeed, on Sunday, Braun posted a birthday message to Lovato on his Instagram story, calling her \"one of the kindest souls out there\".\n\nBraun and Grande are thought to have had a close working relationship\n\nThe manager is probably best known for his feud with Taylor Swift, which began in 2019 when he bought her former record label Big Machine for $300 million (£227m) through his investment group Ithaca Holdings.\n\nThat meant he gained control of the master recordings of Swift's first six albums, which she saw as an act of aggression that \"stripped me of my life's work\".\n\nHer animosity appears to have been partly fuelled by Braun's relationship with Kanye West, who he managed for two-and-a-half years from 2015.\n\nThe rapper had constantly sought to belittle Swift, first by interrupting her acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Awards, then by recording a song where he took credit for her fame, and later by putting a waxwork sculpture of her naked body into one of his music videos.\n\nSwift felt Braun had encouraged and endorsed this behaviour; and exacerbated the hurt by posing for a photograph with West and Bieber that was posted to Instagram with the caption \"What up Taylor?\"\n\nIn response, she blocked requests for her music to be used in TV shows and films - cutting off a vital source of income for Braun's investment group. She then started re-recording all of her old material, reclaiming ownership of the albums and further devaluing the originals.\n\nBraun later sold the star's catalogue to another investment firm, Shamrock Holdings. A year later, he sold Ithaca Holdings to South Korean entertainment giant HYBE, which represents acts like BTS and NewJeans.\n\nBraun is now HYBE America's CEO and earlier this year helped the company purchase US hip-hop label Quality Control, whose acts include Quavo, Lil Baby, Lil Yachty and City Girls.\n• None Taylor Swift speaks out after her masters are sold", "Lorna described herself as \"blooming chuffed\" with the accolade\n\nA joke about an unfaithful zookeeper has been named the funniest gag at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.\n\nComedian Lorna Rose Treen was voted the winner with her pun: \"I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.\"\n\nThe Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe is chosen by members of the public from a shortlist drawn up by judges.\n\nThe zookeeper one-liner was ranked among the best by 44% of those surveyed.\n\nLorna is the first female comedian to win the accolade since Zoe Lyons at the very first Fringe joke award in 2008.\n\nShe described herself as \"blooming chuffed\" at learning her joke was the winner.\n\n\"A huge thank you for awarding my stupid joke with this title!\" she said.\n\nA University of Edinburgh graduate and former BBC production trainee, Lorna has also spent time studying theatre and clowning at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris.\n\nOriginally from the West Midlands, Lorna has won several comedy awards elsewhere, and been billed as \"the greatest thing to come out of Redditch since the fishing tackle\", a reference to the town's history of angling equipment manufacture.\n\nNow based in London, her multi-character show Skin Pigeon is her Edinburgh Fringe debut. She told BBC News her joke is delivered by a \"film noir character with a mouth full of cigarettes\".\n\n\"She's basically turned up a bar at about 4am and she's telling all these bar keepers - who are my audience - about her life, and that's one of the things she says.\"\n\nLorna is the first female comedian to win the accolade since 2008\n\nThe Joke of the Fringe Award is now in its 14th year, with last year's winner Masai Graham a runner up in this year's contest.\n\nA panel of comedy critics attend hundreds of shows, listening out for the best jokes before drawing up a shortlist of 10 favourites.\n\nThe jokes are then voted on anonymously by 2,000 members of the public who are asked to select their top three.\n\nThe Edinburgh Fringe is the world's biggest performance art festival, taking place over three weeks every year in August.\n\nThis year's event had 3,535 shows registered across 248 venues, close to the record number seen in 2019 before the Covid pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2020 festival.\n• None Funniest Fringe jokes from years gone by", "A 34-year-old woman received her sister's womb in the first transplant of its kind in the UK\n\nSurgeons in Oxford have carried out the first womb transplant in the UK.\n\nThe recipient was a 34-year-old woman, and the donor her 40-year-old sister, both of whom wish to remain anonymous.\n\nDoctors say both recovered well from surgery and the younger sister - with her husband - has several embryos in storage, waiting to be transferred.\n\nA team of more than 30 carried out the procedures, lasting around 17 hours, in adjoining operating theatres at the Churchill hospital in February.\n\nThe surgical team shortly after completing the surgery\n\nHer sister already had two children and had completed her family. Both sisters live in England.\n\nProf Richard Smith, gynaecological surgeon, who led the organ retrieval team, has spent 25 years researching womb transplantation. He told the BBC it was a \"massive success\".\n\nHe said: \"The whole thing was emotional. I think we were all a bit tearful afterwards.\"\n\nTransplant surgeon Isabel Quiroga, who led the team implanting the womb, said the recipient was delighted: \"She was absolutely over the moon, very happy, and is hoping that she can go on to have not one but two babies. Her womb is functioning perfectly and we are monitoring her progress very closely.\"\n\nThe woman had her first period two weeks after the surgery. Like other transplant patients, she needs to take immunosuppressive drugs to prevent tissue rejection. These carry some long-term health risks, so the uterus will be removed after a maximum of two pregnancies.\n\nShe was born with a rare condition, Type 1 Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) where the uterus is absent or underdeveloped, but has functioning ovaries. Prior to surgery she had fertility treatment with her husband, and they have eight embryos in storage.\n\nBoth underwent counselling before surgery, and their case was reviewed and approved by the Human Tissue Authority. The NHS costs, estimated at £25,000, were paid for by the charity Womb Transplant UK. More than 30 staff involved on the day gave their time for free.\n\nProf Smith, who is Chairman of Womb Transplant UK, said the team had been authorised to carry out a total of 15 transplants - five with live donors and 10 with deceased, brain-dead donors - but would need another £300,000 to pay for all the procedures.\n\nHe said: \"The shocking truth is that there are currently more than 15,000 women of child-bearing age in this country who have Absolute Uterine Factor Infertility. They were either born without a womb or have had a hysterectomy due to cancer or other abnormalities of the womb.\"\n\nIn 2014 a woman in Sweden became the first to have a baby as a result of a womb transplant. She had received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s.\n\nSince then 100 womb transplants have taken place worldwide and around 50 babies have been born, mostly in the US and Sweden, but also in Turkey, India, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Germany and France.\n\nSurgeons in the UK were given permission to begin performing womb transplants in 2015. Writing in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the team cited \"institutional delays\" and Covid as reasons why the UK had taken so long to perform its first operation.\n\nWomb Transplant UK said more than 500 women had contacted the charity wishing to take part in the programme, and around a dozen had embryos in storage or were undergoing fertility treatment - a prerequisite for getting on the waiting list.\n\nOne of them is 31-year-old Lydia Brain, who needed a hysterectomy after having womb cancer. She was diagnosed when she was 24 after experiencing heavy periods, and bleeding between periods, which led to anaemia. She and her partner have paid £15,000 for fertility treatment and now have several embryos in storage.\n\nLydia Brain hopes to be able to have a transplant\n\nLydia said she was delighted by the news of the first successful womb transplant in the UK, describing it as \"miraculous\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"Infertility was a huge part of the impact of my cancer. It affects you every day as you can't avoid pregnant people, babies, and your friends getting into that phase of their life.\"\n\nShe said it \"would mean everything\" if she could get on the waiting list and have a womb transplant, because she wants to \"carry my own child and have that experience, being able to breastfeed and to have a newborn baby, at least once.\"\n\nLydia said she would consider surrogacy and adoption, but said both routes were problematic. \"The laws and the process are very difficult,\" she explained, adding that with adoption \"you often don't get a newborn baby\".\n\nLydia now works for the charity Eve Appeal, which funds research and raises awareness into the five gynaecological cancers - womb, ovarian, cervical, vulval and vaginal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The derailment happened near Stonehaven in August 2020\n\nNetwork Rail is to face court action after an Aberdeenshire train crash which claimed three lives.\n\nDriver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died when the train derailed at Carmont on 12 August 2020.\n\nNetwork Rail is due to face criminal action at the High Court in Aberdeen on 7 September.\n\nThe court roll, which is published by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service, states the case will call under a section 76 indictment.\n\nThis procedure suggests that a guilty plea may be offered.\n\nNetwork Rail said: \"The Carmont derailment and the tragic loss of Christopher Stuchbury, Donald Dinnie and Brett McCullough was a terrible day for our railway and our thoughts remain with their families and all those affected by the accident.\n\n\"While we cannot comment on the ongoing legal process, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch report into Carmont made clear that there were fundamental lessons to be learnt by Network Rail and we have supported the investigation process.\n\n\"Since August 2020, we have been working hard to make our railway safer for our passengers and colleagues.\"\n\nSix other people were injured when the 06:38 Aberdeen to Glasgow service hit washed-out debris at Carmont, south of Stonehaven.\n\nThe train was returning to Aberdeen due to the railway being blocked further down the line.\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) made 20 safety recommendations in the wake of the crash.\n\nThey included better management of civil engineering projects, improved response to extreme rainfall, and better understanding of the additional risk associated with older trains.\n\nA drainage system was installed in 2011 and 2012 by now-collapsed contractor Carillion - but it was not in accordance with the design.\n\nAnd Neil Davidson of Digby Brown Solicitors, which represents some of those impacted, said: \"For nearly three years bereaved families and injured survivors have waited patiently for answers so the update of these criminal proceedings is generally positive.\n\n\"However, it is what actually transpires from the hearings that is important such as the nature of the charge, the outcome of the prosecution and any other information that sheds light on the mindsight of those in charge at Network Rail.\n\n\"It is fair to say that each person and family affected by this tragedy will be looking for different things from this hearing and we will continue to support our clients in their pursuit for justice and recognition.\"", "See the moment one child was rescued from a dangling cable car in Pakistan.\n\nDramatic footage shows the moment a child - reportedly the first - was rescued by helicopter.\n\nAll occupants of the dangling cable car were eventually rescued.\n\nThis video has no sound.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dozens of protesters gathered outside Stradey Park Hotel on Saturday\n\nThe UK government has \"lost control\" of the asylum system, a councillor has claimed.\n\nOn Friday, Carmarthenshire council failed in a High Court bid to stop Stradey Park Hotel, in Llanelli, being used to house up to 241 asylum seekers.\n\nThe Home Office said the plans were necessary and that the asylum system was under \"incredible\" strain.\n\nIt comes as dozens of protesters, for and against the plans, gathered outside the hotel on Saturday.\n\nLocal councillor Martyn Palfreman called on the UK government to \"get a grip\" of the asylum system - saying it had lost it.\n\nFormer racial equality commissioner Aled Edwards also said more work needed to be done in the community to to allay \"irrational fears\" and \"address legitimate ones\".\n\nMaxson Kpakio, 45, is originally from Liberia but has lived in Swansea for 20 years, and came to Wales as an asylum seeker.\n\n\"I am an activist who advocates for social justice and peace. Where I see a group talking about peace and love, I am part of them,\" he said.\n\nMaxson Kpakio said \"asylum seeking is a right for everybody\"\n\nHe was confronted at one point by protesters who oppose the asylum plan.\n\n\"I don't think it was necessary for any confrontation. It was the group from the other side who came to me, and asked me why I'm here, and I told them,\" he said.\n\n\"We had a frank conversation where I tried to educate them as well. Asylum seeking is a right for everybody.\"\n\nResident Helen Thomas, who is against the plans, said a lot of people in the community are scared, partly by how the issue has divided locals.\n\nMs Thomas said some people against the plan have been labelled racist, but said she has friends from many different backgrounds, adding: \"I am not racist, I never have been.\"\n\nDozens of protesters gathered outside Stradey Park Hotel on Saturday\n\n\"My plea would be with the UK government to get a grip on an asylum system, which they have clearly lost the grip of,\" councillor Martyn Palfreman told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"In terms of what happens next and the asylum seekers arrival in Llanelli, the honest answer is I don't know.\"\n\nPolice were called to the hotel on Friday after protesters blocked vehicles entering the site\n\n\"We've been told previously they will be arriving next week, we don't know any more details in terms of the composition of the group that will be arriving or exactly when they will be arriving,\" added Mr Palfreman.\n\nThe Labour councillor for the Hengoed ward of Llanelli added that his \"real concern\" is that the asylum seekers themselves will have anger directed towards them, which he hopes \"doesn't happen\".\n\nLlanelli MP Dame Nia Griffith said she was very disappointed with the outcome of Friday's hearing.\n\n\"I think it's particularly upsetting for the residents who live closely to the hotel and whilst people have a right to their opinion I would actually beg them to be very considerate,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to work together with other countries to find solutions that will last... there has to be a really concerted effort to work internationally with partners so there are proper agreements.\"\n\nFollowing Friday's hearing, council leader Darren Price said he was disappointed and that the authority would consider the judge's reasons on Monday.\n\nThe hotel has faced local opposition since it first announced the plans\n\nAled Edwards, the former commissioner for racial equality in Wales, said a conversation was needed with people in the community to allay \"irrational fears\" and \"address legitimate ones\".\n\n\"If we spend the time explaining to people what people's backgrounds are, what they can offer us, what they can bring us... I think it could become much better,\" he said.\n\n\"But there is a toxicity to the debate around the globe that is not good.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the number of people arriving in the UK in need of accommodation had reached record levels.\n\n\"The Home Office is committed to making every effort to reduce hotel use and limit the burden on the taxpayer,\" a spokesman said.", "A police inspector who gave evidence in an employment tribunal that found a female officer was victimised has been charged with perjury.\n\nKeith Warhurst spoke at the case brought by Rhona Malone, which found evidence of a \"boys' club\" culture in Police Scotland's firearms unit.\n\nHis evidence was criticised by the tribunal, which concluded in 2021.\n\nIt came about after Mr Warhurst said two female firearms officers should not be deployed together in an email.\n\nA settlement was reached in which Ms Malone was to be paid nearly £1m by Police Scotland.\n\nBBC News understands Mr Warhurst has been suspended from the force.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"On Thursday, 17 August, 2023, a 48-year-old man was charged in connection with a perjury offence. A report has been submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.\"\n\nThe tribunal heard in 2021 that Ms Malone, who was based in Edinburgh, was a committed police constable who had an exemplary record.\n\nIt accepted evidence that the culture in parts of armed policing was \"horrific\" and an \"absolute boys' club.\"\n\nThe tribunal said Rhona Malone was to be paid nearly £1m by the force\n\nOne female officer said she was told women should not be firearms officers because they menstruate and this would affect their temperament.\n\nWhen Ms Malone raised concerns about her experiences she was offered a small payout on the condition she signed a non disclosure agreement (NDA) to stop her speaking out.\n\nShe refused and ended up taking her case to a tribunal.\n\nMs Malone's solicitor said the findings were a watershed moment for Police Scotland.\n\nFormer Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said an independent force would review the judgement over \"legitimate concern\" about what it had found.\n\nHe said: \"Misogyny, sexism and discrimination of any kind are deplorable. They should have no place in society and no place in policing.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'We will rebuild the way people of Maui want to'\n\nPresident Joe Biden has toured wildfire damage in Hawaii after scrutiny of his administration's response to the state's worst ever natural disaster.\n\nHe arrived in Maui on Monday, 13 days after the deadliest US wildfire in over a century, telling survivors the nation \"grieves with you\".\n\nMr Biden and First Lady Jill Biden toured the charred ruins of the town of Lahaina and met first responders.\n\nAt least 114 people have died and 850 people are still missing.\n\nHawaii's governor has said many of the victims may be children.\n\n\"For as long as it takes, we're going to be with you,\" said Mr Biden, who spoke for about 10 minutes amid the rubble. \"The whole country will be with you.\"\n\nHe added: \"The country grieves with you, stands with you and will do everything possible to help you recover.\"\n\nMr Biden - who also took an aerial tour - described the wildfire devastation as \"overwhelming\".\n\nThe president and the federal agencies he oversees have come under fire from Hawaiians who say aid has been inadequate and poorly organised.\n\nRepublicans have led criticism of the Democratic president for having been on two holidays since the fire struck on 8 August.\n\nTo visit Hawaii, Mr Biden paused his current vacation at Lake Tahoe in Nevada, where he is renting a home belonging to a Democratic donor, according to the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There's a lack of response, it felt like\"\n\nWhen asked about the rising death toll on 13 August while he was at a Delaware beach, Mr Biden angered some Hawaiians by saying: \"No comment\".\n\nThe White House has said Mr Biden delayed his trip to the disaster zone so he wouldn't distract from recovery operations.\n\nThe president issued a major disaster declaration on 10 August to expedite federal funding and assistance to the area.\n\nThe Federal Emergency Management Agency says more than 1,000 federal responders are now on the ground in Hawaii.\n\nLocal officials have also faced criticism. Maui's emergency management chief resigned last week after the agency faced backlash for failing to activate its alarm system in the wake of the fire.\n\nTo date, 27 of the deceased have been identified and 11 families had been notified, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen said earlier on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tim Laporte searches for his father missing in Maui\n\nDetails of who the victims are have begun to emerge in recent days - they include an avid musician, and loving grandmothers and fathers.\n\nMr Bissen said that in some respects, the figure of 850 missing was \"positive news\" because it marked a decrease from the more than 2,000 unaccounted for in the immediate aftermath of the fires.\n\nFamily members of the missing have been asked to provide a DNA sample to assist in the recovery search.\n\nExperts have told the BBC both finding and identifying the victims could take months or even years given the magnitude of the destruction and the condition that many of the remains are likely to be found in.", "The foundations and bricks from the Crooked House pub will stay on site, councillors say, as work to remove hazardous waste is carried out.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council said the agreement with the site owners and contractors was \"a positive step\" weeks after the fire on 5 August.\n\nResidents angry at the demolition of the \"wonky\" pub two days later gathered there on Monday as contractors arrived.\n\nHowever, the council said all parties were discussing the scope of work.\n\nSeveral protests and gatherings have taken place at the site of the pub since it was demolished without full permission, angering the local community and leading to support to rebuild it from around the world.\n\nThe pub, known for its sloping walls and floor due to mining subsidence in the area, was bought from Marston's by ATE Farms Limited in July.\n\nThe building was reduced to rubble on 7 August\n\nA number of council officers visited the pub site on Monday to see what works were being carried out after residents raised concerns about the presence of contractors.\n\nFollowing discussions with the contractors it was agreed that their work would cease so a comprehensive schedule of works could be submitted and reviewed by the relevant authorities, a council spokesperson said on Tuesday.\n\nThe council said responsibility for the health and safety of the works lay with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), but it had been engaging with the site owners and contractors to understand the scope of works proposed on site.\n\nA number of residents joined the protest at the site of the former Crooked House pub\n\n\"We are very pleased that we now have agreement that the bricks will remain on site, and that the foundations and slabs will remain to assist our future investigation,\" it said.\n\n\"This is a positive step and the council continues to engage with the site owners, contractor, HSE, police and other partners to ensure the site is made safe from hazardous substances.\n\n\"However, this means that there will be activity on site over coming days to remove hazardous waste and to make the site safe, and this will be closely monitored.\"\n\nThe council's investigation was continuing and would be a \"long process\", it said.\n\n\"We are aware of the strength of feeling of the local community and will continue to use all the resources available to us, including expert legal advice to move the matter forward,\" it added.\n\nThe pub, known for its sloping walls and floor, was demolished less than two days after the fire\n\nCampaigner Paul Turner, whose online petition Save The Crooked House has attracted more than 21,000 signatures, said he had met with a contractor at the site and a representative of a second firm overseeing work taking place and trusted that it would be the only work carried out.\n\n\"Basically, they will be using a grabber to pick up bricks with as much care as possible to avoid damage,\" he said.\n\n\"These will be laid aside for the specialist asbestos workers to clean by hand and stack on pallets. There may be bricks which are too badly damaged to be of any use and these will be put aside.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Several people including children were trapped in a cable car over a ravine in Pakistan's north-west.\n\nHere are the first pictures from that incident.\n\nAll occupants of the dangling cable car were eventually rescued.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nMason Greenwood's last appearance for Manchester United was against West Ham in January 2022 Rachel Riley has accused Manchester United of \"gaslighting\" and \"green lighting\" abuse for their handling of the decision to part company with Mason Greenwood. Greenwood's exit was confirmed on Monday after a six-month internal investigation into his conduct. It came after charges against the player, including attempted rape and assault, were dropped in February. In explaining the lengthy process behind their decision, a Manchester United statement claimed Greenwood \"did not commit the offences in respect of which he was originally charged\", adding: \"Based on the evidence available to us, we have concluded that the material posted online did not provide a full picture.\" An open letter from chief executive Richard Arnold also said: \"While we were unable to access certain evidence for reasons we respect, the evidence we did collate led us to conclude that Mason did not commit the acts he was charged with\". And Greenwood issued a statement saying he accepted he had \"made mistakes\" and took his \"share of responsibility\", but added: \"I did not do the things I was accused of.\" Arnold said that Greenwood's potential reintegration was \"one of the outcomes we considered and planned for\" but that \"several outcomes have been contemplated and planned for\" and his view \"evolved\". However, United fan Riley claimed the club's statements were \"gaslighting\" - a term used to describe a form of manipulation where a person is given false information that leads them to question the truth. She also accused the club of \"green lighting\" abuse on social media, saying: \"This overreaching statement will put wind in the sails of abusers and send a message to victims it's more trouble than it's worth to report alleged abuse. It's so disappointing to see my club contribute to the culture that upholds this.\" \"The question before them [United] was not whether Mason Greenwood may be found guilty in a criminal, or even civil court, it was whether he's fit to wear the United badge, to be a role model to kids who look up to footballers as heroes, and have his name proudly displayed on shirts sold in the club shop,\" Riley wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Riley had previously said she would stop supporting United if forward Greenwood stayed at the club. She also told podcast The News Agents: \"I think it's gaslighting for people to have two statements saying, Mason Greenwood himself saying he's been cleared of all charges - which is not the case, the claims were dropped because the key witness dropped out - and they [United] claim new evidence. \"I've never been more ashamed of the club. I think it's just a disgrace. And they had another opportunity to make it right, make a good statement and they have just greenlighted the abuse that's been going on on social media.\" Writing on X on Tuesday, the Countdown co-presenter said: \"I've been a red since before I was born, I've passed it on to my baby girls and some of the all-time best times of my life have been working with and cheering on Man United, so I write with such a heavy heart - as a club we've handled this appallingly.\" England international Greenwood was arrested in January 2022 following allegations surrounding material published online. He was later charged in October 2022 with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. After the charges were dropped in February 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service said key witnesses had withdrawn and new material had come to light, meaning there was \"no longer a realistic prospect of conviction\". United then started their own investigation. On Monday the club issued three statements: from the club, Greenwood and an open letter from Arnold to fans. They came after a number of delays amid fierce debate about Greenwood's potential reintegration at Old Trafford. The club said they wanted to consult with their women's team, some of whom were part of England's World Cup squad playing in Australia, before announcing a decision about Greenwood's future. Arnold said the club had \"limited powers of investigation\" and \"were reliant on third-party cooperation\" as they \"sought to collate as much evidence as possible to establish facts and context\". He said the extra evidence included the alleged victim requesting the police to drop their investigation in April 2022, and the club receiving alternative explanations for the material that was posted online. Former United player Gary Neville said United's handling of the Greenwood investigation had been \"pretty horrible\", lacked strong leadership and should have been dealt with independently. Riley told The News Agents podcast that Arnold should consider his position. \"I've seen first hand how little is known, even amongst professionals who are supposed to be dealing with this - I include the police, I include social services,\" she said. \"If they don't know the intricacies, I don't know how a CEO at Manchester United who has multimillion pounds at stake is in any position to make a judgement on what has happened, especially having not consulted abuse charities.\" In her social media post, Riley said the situation needed \"trained, qualified, experienced experts\" and it \"goes far beyond the scope of what United were tasked with\". \"It is absolutely right a thorough investigation should take place. Yet experts could have used their knowledge to help United navigate the process so we could trust the outcome. And an external party with no vested interests would have been far more credible,\" she added.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Conduct guidelines for UK doctors are being updated to spell out what constitutes workplace sexual harassment, amid concerns abuse is going unchallenged.\n\nThe General Medical Council, which regulates doctors to ensure they are safe and fit to care for patients, says it is adopting a zero-tolerance policy.\n\nThe new advice explains it is not just physical acts that can be a breach.\n\nVerbal and written comments or sharing images with a colleague count too.\n\nIt is difficult to say precisely how common sexual harassment is within the NHS and private medical practice, because, as in other workplaces, not all cases are reported.\n\nA recent survey of 2,500 doctors by the British Medical Association (BMA) found a third of female and a quarter of male respondents had experienced unwanted physical conduct in the workplace.\n\nDr Amy Attwater, an accident-and-emergency doctor in Warwickshire who is the lead for equality, diversity and inclusivity at the non-profit campaign group Doctors Association UK, said: \"Sexual harassment is always serious and it can have a long-term impact on people.\n\n\"The level of which it's happening is hugely under-reported. It is very infrequent that people actually report sexual harassment.\"\n\nSpeaking out about her own experience for the first time, Dr Attwater told BBC News: \"I've been a doctor now for 12 years and as a medical student and as a doctor, particularly earlier in my career, I have unfortunately experienced sexual harassment myself.\n\n\"To be honest, it is actually quite difficult to talk about, because, as you get older, you feel very naive and you think, 'Why didn't I report it?'\n\n\"My first thought was that I didn't want to talk about this - but I feel I have a duty to speak out against these things and hopefully help other people to speak out.\n\n\"Early in my career, I was sent sexual text messages by a senior colleague and I wasn't sure what to do, as they were senior.\n\n\"There was also a male nurse when who would touch me inappropriately without asking me, including massaging my shoulders and making comments about my body. He has since been fired.\n\n\"Then, there was another time, when I worked in a department where there wasn't a lot of space, and at times, I would be standing there, for example writing notes, and a more senior male doctor would come behind me and almost slowly rub their genitals against my bottom and then say something like, 'I enjoyed that.' It was seen as a joke - but it's not OK.\"\n\nThe new guidance sets out what doctors should do if they witness bullying or harassment, including:\n\nAnd it says leaders and managers must make sure bad behaviours are addressed, dealt with promptly and escalated if necessary.\n\nThere have been calls to overhaul the NHS whistleblowing system in the wake of the Lucy Letby trial, after it emerged hospital bosses had ignored senior doctors who had raised concerns about the baby killer.\n\nExisting guidance already warns doctors must not act in a sexual way towards patients or use their professional position to \"pursue a sexual or improper emotional relationship\".\n\nThe GMC says it heard from thousands of doctors, patients and members of the public during a consultation on the guidelines.\n\nThe new guidance will not come into effect until the end of January, after a five-month familiarisation period for staff. And some say there is still a long way to go.\n\nDr Chelcie Jewitt, an emergency-medicine doctor who is part of the Surviving in Scrubs campaign group, which aims to raise awareness of sexism, harassment and sexual assault in the healthcare workforce, said: \"We have spoken with the GMC about the guidelines and we do think that they are a step in the right direction - but there is still a long way to go on this journey to eradicating the culture of sexual misconduct within healthcare.\n\n\"The GMC has the potential to make a real difference and we need to see them supporting victims when they report perpetrators.\n\n\"We need their reporting processes to be transparent and clearly explained to victims.\n\n\"We need cases to be thoroughly investigated rather than dismissed.\n\n\"And we need appropriate, proportionate sanctioning of perpetrators.\"\n\nProf Phil Banfield, BMA council chair, said: \"Encouraging individuals to speak up and report bullying and harassment, for example, will not be effective if doctors do not trust those who they are complaining to or if complaints are not taken seriously when people do.\"\n\nDr Caroline Fryar, from the Medical Defence Union, which represents doctors over medical and legal matters, said: \"We are calling on employers to ensure they give medical professionals time to digest it and the GMC to do all they can to make sure doctors can easily understand the main changes.\n\n\"Doctors shouldn't be getting homework at a time when they are already working incredibly hard, around the clock, to deliver safe and effective patient care.\"\n\nThe GMC offers support and information on addressing sexual misconduct in the workplace at its dedicated ethical hub.\n\nThose affected by sexual harassment in the workplace can also call its confidential helpline on 0161 923 6399, between 09:00 and 17:00 Monday to Friday.\n\nIt says: \"We can provide guidance on how to raise concerns you might be struggling with and you can remain anonymous.\n\n\"Although our staff aren't trained to provide legal or counselling support in relation to sexual misconduct, they can signpost you to other organisations.\"\n\nThe BBC Action Line website has information and support for anyone affected by sexual abuse.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Supporters cheered as Pita Limjaroenrat left the parliamentary chamber after being suspended\n\nThai reformist Pita Limjaroenrat's bid to be nominated prime minister has ended, prompting outrage from his supporters after he won May's election.\n\nThe 42-year-old was first dramatically suspended from parliament by the constitutional court, forcing him to leave the debating chamber.\n\nLawmakers then agreed to block a second vote on whether he should be PM.\n\nThe Move Forward party leader had swept to victory in the general election as voters rejected years of military rule.\n\nBut to seal his victory, he needed the approval of parliament - which he failed to secure last week, plunging the country into political limbo.\n\nThe constitutional court must now decide whether he should be disqualified from parliament for owning shares in a long-defunct media company.\n\n\"I would like to say goodbye until we meet again,\" Mr Pita said, raising his fist as he left the floor of the assembly to cheers from party allies.\n\nMr Pita, a Harvard graduate and former tech executive, won on the promise of major reforms, including a pledge to amend lese-majeste, Thailand's strict royal defamation laws, pitting him against the unelected senate and other conservatives who say he poses a threat to the monarchy.\n\nMove Forward supporters outside parliament have seen their hopes for change scuppered\n\nOutside parliament, Move Forward supporters wondered what the point of the election had been.\n\n\"Why ask people to go to the polls? Why don't you just pick someone from your families to be the prime minister?\" asked one man, AFP news agency reported.\n\n\"Pita is not wrong at all. He did everything right,\" a woman said.\n\nBefore he was forced to leave parliament, Mr Pita had said he would stop working as an MP until the court made its decision.\n\n\"I think Thailand has changed and will never be the same since 14 May,\" he said, referring to the date of his election victory.\n\n\"The people have won halfway, there's another half to go.\"\n\nMr Pita needed the votes of more than half of the 749 members in parliament's two chambers to become prime minister.\n\nLast week, he secured only 324 votes, 51 short of the required 375. He had a clear majority from elected MPs in the lower house, but not from the upper house.\n\nHe always faced an uphill battle, as there was little evidence that the 249 upper house senators would support him. They were all installed by the military leaders of a 2006 coup as a brake on any democratic outcome that the military and royalists were uncomfortable with.\n\nMove Forward is popular among young Thai voters who wanted to end nearly a decade of conservative military rule.\n\nArt Chaturongkul, a 39-year-old living in Bangkok, said he and fellow supporters are deeply concerned as they see Mr Pita as representing their voices in the parliament.\n\n\"I'm filled with mixed emotions. Utter rage, frustration, and disappointment. It feels like a setback to the democratic process,\" he had earlier told the BBC.\n\nMove Forward has formed a coalition government with seven other parties, including Pheu Thai, the second most popular party in the May election.\n\nMany young voters switched to voting for Move Forward because Pheu Thai had been unwilling to rule out doing deals with the military.\n\nPro-establishment campaigners have sought to block Mr Pita from taking the reins of power after the shock election results in May.\n\nTwo cases have been filed against him in the conservative-leaning Constitutional Court. Alongside the one for which he was suspended, the other complaint claims Move Forward's proposal to amend lese-majeste laws - which have seen hundreds of critics of the monarchy jailed - amounts to an attempt to an overthrow Thailand's entire political order.\n\nThere is a precedent for what is happening now. In the 2019 elections, Future Forward - the predecessor to Move Forward - was dissolved by the Constitutional Court after it was found to have violated electoral rules.\n\nSince 2008, it has also dismissed three PMs aligned with former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled by a 2006 coup.\n\nIronically his party, Pheu Thai - which has been on the receiving end of nearly all of the Constitutional Court's rulings - is now poised to benefit from this latest ruling against its coalition partner.\n\nThere is no love lost between Pheu Thai and Move Forward, particularly as the former has taken the latter's mantle as a champion of democracy.\n\nBut despite winning the election, Mr Pita may have to accept not only giving up the top job, but having no place at all in the new government.", "Microsoft has made a new bid to buy Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard in the latest twist in the tale of what would be the biggest deal of its kind in the gaming industry.\n\nIts original $69bn (£59bn) deal was blocked by UK regulators.\n\nMicrosoft's president Brad Smith said the new offer was \"substantially different\" and should be approved.\n\nThe UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will review the deal but said: \"This is not a green light.\"\n\nThe offer, if approved, would end a tumultuous 18 months for Microsoft.\n\nSince it announced plans to buy Activision Blizzard in January last year, the proposed merger has split regulators around the world, some of whom fear it could stifle choice for gamers.\n\nThe CMA will make a decision on Microsoft's revised bid by 18 October - without its approval the deal cannot go ahead globally.\n\nMicrosoft hopes the merger will boost demand for its Xbox console and its gaming subscription business.\n\nUnder the new offer Microsoft has agreed to transfer the rights to stream Activision games from the cloud to Ubisoft, a video games publisher, for 15 years.\n\nMr Smith said: \"Microsoft will not be in a position either to release Activision Blizzard games exclusively on its own cloud streaming service - Xbox Cloud Gaming - or to exclusively control the licensing terms of Activision Blizzard games for rival services.\"\n\nSo far, it said its initial offer for Activision has been approved in 40 countries including the European Union and China.\n\nThe US Federal Trade Commission is continuing to try to block the deal in America but has been overruled several times by the courts.\n\nHowever, the CMA blocked the tie-up in April, warning it would harm innovation and choice for gamers in the fast-growing cloud gaming business.\n\nThe move sparked an angry reaction from Mr Smith, who said it was \"bad for Britain\" and marked Microsoft's \"darkest day\" in its four decades of working in the country.\n\nIt was also a blow for the UK government, which wants the country to become a tech powerhouse.\n\nUnder the revised terms, Microsoft said that Ubisoft would supply Activision's content \"to all cloud gaming service providers including to Microsoft itself\".\n\nActivision boss Bobby Kotick said the deal had been \"a longer journey than expected\" but that \"nothing substantially changes\" under the new bid.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with Microsoft and the CMA throughout the remaining review process, and we are committed to help Microsoft clear any final hurdles as quickly as possible,\" he said.\n\nMicrosoft wants to buy Activision to add more titles to its Xbox Game Pass streaming service.\n\nMembers pay a subscription fee to access a catalogue of games from the cloud.\n\nHowever, rivals such as Sony have objected to the deal, concerned that Microsoft could stop major games being available to its own PlayStation business.\n\nModern Warfare 2, the latest instalment in the Call of Duty series, made $1bn in its release weekend, and more than half of all copies sold in the UK were for PlayStation.\n\nFor the Microsoft-Activision merger to work, it has to be approved by regulators in the UK, the US and the EU.\n\nIf the new bid goes ahead, it would also be a win for the CMA, which would have a fresh opportunity to approve the deal.\n\nIt has faced criticism for blocking the tie-up.\n\nSarah Cardell, chief executive of the CMA, said Microsoft's new offer was \"substantially different from what was put on the table previously\".\n\n\"We will carefully and objectively assess the details of the restructured deal and its impact on competition, including in light of third-party comments,\" she said.\n\n\"Our goal has not changed - any future decision on this new deal will ensure that the growing cloud gaming market continues to benefit from open and effective competition driving innovation and choice.\"", "The fake sites are offering goods with big discounts\n\nWilko shoppers are being urged to avoid being scammed by a raft of fake websites that have been set up after the retailer fell into administration.\n\nSeveral fake sites are supposedly offering hefty discounts on Wilko goods.\n\nHowever, Wilko has stopped selling goods online, and is also no longer offering home delivery or click and collect services.\n\nOne fake site had a sofa for £25 and an adult's electric bike also for £25.\n\nWilko announced earlier this month that it was going into administration, putting 12,500 jobs and its 400 stores at risk.\n\nPwC was appointed as the company's administrator, tasked with trying to find a buyer for the business.\n\nHowever, it is now trying to close at least 10 fake websites.\n\n\"We have been made aware of a number of fake Wilko websites which are offering Wilko products at heavily discounted prices,\" a PwC spokesperson said.\n\n\"These websites are not genuine and have been set up to scam users, the only legitimate Wilko website is www.wilko.com.\n\n\"We are in the process of working with the relevant authorities to have these websites removed. We would like to remind our customers that all Wilko sales are now in-store and you are unable to purchase items online.\"\n\nLisa Webb, consumer law expert at Which?, said: \"Criminals are always on the lookout for new ways to part people from their hard-earned cash and these dodgy websites offering heavily discounted Wilko goods are no exception.\n\n\"If you are keen to get a bargain from Wilko, you can only buy in-store at the moment so anything online should be taken with a pinch of salt. If you or a loved one do fall victim to a scam then contact your bank immediately and report it to Action Fraud or Police Scotland.\"\n\nLast week, the GMB union said there were \"genuine grounds for hope\" that at least parts of Wilko will be taken over.\n\nThe union's boss, Andy Prendergast, said he had met PwC and confirmed there had been expressions of interest in the business, although talks with potential buyers were \"still at an early stage\".\n\nIt is not clear as yet which companies are bidding for Wilko, although there has been speculation that rival chains such as B&M, Poundland, The Range and Home Bargains could be those interested.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTV news presenter Nick Owen has revealed he has undergone surgery for prostate cancer.\n\nOwen, 75, well known for hosting shows including Good Morning Britain, said he had been diagnosed with the \"extensive and aggressive\" cancer in April, on \"one of the worst\" days of his life.\n\n\"I was told that it was pretty serious and [I] had to do something about it soon,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC broadcaster is now urging other men to get tested.\n\nOwen, best known as a pioneer of breakfast TV and his partnership with Anne Diamond, said he had had no symptoms and the diagnosis had \"come out of the blue\".\n\nHe revealed he had had a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test which had shown slightly elevated results.\n\n\"My GP insisted that I go and see a specialist just to reassure me... he saved my life,\" he said.\n\nThe broadcaster has been presenting BBC Midlands Today since 1997\n\nA scan had revealed \"there was something dodgy going on\", he explained, \"and then he sent me for a biopsy and it was the results of that [that] were the killer\".\n\nOwen, who has presented regional news show BBC Midlands Today since 1997 and is also the former Luton Town chairman, said the date of the diagnosis, 13 April, would \"forever be imprinted\" on his mind.\n\n\"He told us that it was extensive and aggressive and I had prostate cancer full-on and something needed to be done and done pretty fast,\" he said.\n\n\"And that was probably the worst day of my life, well certainly one of them, it was a very grim moment.\"\n\nThe broadcaster said it had been a \"very difficult time\" for him and his wife Vicki, who was \"by my side all the time through this\".\n\nOwen was a pioneer of breakfast TV with his then co-host Anne Diamond\n\nThe presenter came to national prominence in 1983 as one of the first faces to appear on breakfast television in Britain.\n\nAfter a spell with ITV Sport, Owen co-hosted Good Morning with Anne and Nick with Anne Diamond, who recently revealed she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The programme ran on BBC One between 1992 and 96.\n\nFollowing his diagnosis, Owen has taken time off work for recovery and plans to be back presenting Midlands Today in the autumn.\n\nA scan before surgery had given him \"a beacon of hope\" as it showed the cancer was contained in the prostate and had not spread, the presenter said.\n\nTaking advice from specialist doctors, Owen said he had opted for a radical prostatectomy, which involves removing the whole prostate gland.\n\nThe surgery was successful but he had been on a \"pretty bumpy ride\" afterwards, he said, and was supported throughout by Vicki.\n\n\"She had to do a lot of things medically when I came home, to look after me, including having to give me an injection once a day for about a month - and she's got no experience of that, I've certainly got no experience of doing [it] myself or having it done by a non medical professional,\" he explained.\n\n\"So that was one of the many ingredients [which] made it a tough time.\n\n\"Although I'm not exactly myself at the moment, I do feel a lot more like it,\" he said.\n\nThe presenter plans to return to screens in the autumn, said the BBC\n\nProstate cancer affects one in eight men in the UK and diagnosis has tripled over the past three years.\n\nThe figures were \"pretty startling\" said the presenter, who is urging other men to see their doctor if they have any concerns.\n\n\"I think it's very important to get yourself checked,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had been having PSA tests, which measure the amount of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in blood, \"for many years\".\n\n\"Thank god I'd had one recently and my GP said 'we just need to get this checked', because if he hadn't, that ultimately would have been curtains I suppose,\" he added.\n\n\"For goodness sake, speak to a doctor about it and get it checked because if it's caught early - and I know it's a bit of a sort of medical cliché - but if it's caught early, you've got a chance. If it's left too late, you probably haven't.\"\n\nThe presenter, who lives in Kinver, Staffordshire, said he could not wait to return to work.\n\nMany viewers have contacted Midlands Today to ask about his absence and have missed him dearly in recent weeks, said the BBC.\n\n\"We can't wait to welcome him back to the studio as soon as he's ready.\"\n\nOwen said he would be \"apprehensive\" after his break, \"but I'm desperate to get back\".\n\n\"I know I'm not the youngest. In fact, I think I'm probably the oldest regional TV presenter in the country, probably by a mile, but I love it,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel a real connection with the viewers - people you talk to every night on Midlands Today - and you get a very warm reception whenever you see anyone out and about.\n\n\"After 45 years in television, 54 years as a journalist, my goodness. I'm very lucky. I feel blessed.\"\n\nThe lifelong Luton Town fan spent nearly 10 years as chairman of the Kenilworth Road club.\n\nIn 2006, he was awarded the Baird Medal by the Royal Television Society, Midlands, for lifelong achievement in television.\n\nOwen has also previously worked at the Birmingham Post and what was BBC Radio Birmingham, before moving to ATV's sports department.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Meta is releasing a web version of Threads, as it attempts to revive the social media platform.\n\nThe rival to X, formerly known as Twitter, enjoyed meteoric growth when it launched in July.\n\nHowever, users then abandoned it just as rapidly, partly due to its limited functionality.\n\nMeta says the web version is part of a drive to deliver new features but experts warn more needs to be done to rebuild customer interest.\n\nIn a post on the platform - accompanied by what he said was a picture of him building Threads for the web - Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said it would be \"rolling out over the next few days.\"\n\nUsers will be able to post a thread, view their feed and interact with other people's threads.\n\nHowever other aspects of the mobile app will not be available on the web initially.\n\nFor example, users won't be able to edit their profile or send a thread to the direct messenger feature of its sister platform, Instagram.\n\nMeta says it will add more functionality in the coming weeks as it seeks to make the web and mobile experience of the app the same.\n\nThreads raced to more than 100 million users in the week following its launch but by the end of July that figure had more than halved.\n\nThe tech giant, which also owns Facebook and WhatsApp, will hope this announcement will help reverse that trend.\n\n\"Meta made the choice to launch Threads in a very basic form,\" said Rebecca McGrath, associate director for media and technology at Mintel.\n\n\"This has frustrated users who checked out the platform following its much-hyped launch, and were expecting it to be a ready-to-go alternative to Twitter,\" she added.\n\n\"Offering a web version is a very important step. However, it still has a way to go.\"\n\nThe platform still does not have a search function - something users have complained about and experts say it needs if it is to really take on Elon Musk's X.\n\n\"Meta are going to have to work to roll out a vastly improved search functionality to let users find topic-based communities to really draw back the crowd who are looking to replace Twitter,\" Tama Leaver, professor of internet studies at Curtin University in Australia, told the BBC.\n\n\"On that front, Meta's reluctance to implement hashtags, especially as they're already on Instagram, seems an odd choice when really that's the single feature that's most synonymous with X and the function that would most likely convince users to come back and give Threads a second look.\"\n\nProf Leaver also said Threads' attempts to dethrone X might be aided by the controversies that continue to dog the platform previously known as Twitter.\n\nOn Monday it was criticised for failing to remove a Holocaust-denying post quickly enough. Mr Musk's plans to remove the block feature have also drawn criticism, with some saying it will make it harder to stop abusive messages.\n\nRebecca McGrath from Mintel agrees, saying the \"continued controversial moves\" at X would \"keep up the desire\" for an alternative.\n\n\"This means people will be ready to engage with Threads once again when it has a more advanced version,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Time, though, is still of the essence for Threads.\"", "The British Museum is one of the most popular visitor attractions in the UK\n\nAn art dealer alerted the British Museum to alleged stolen items from the institution in 2021 but was told \"all objects were accounted for\".\n\nIttai Gradel alleged in February 2021 he had seen items online belonging to the museum, according to correspondence seen by BBC News between Mr Gradel and the museum.\n\nDeputy director Jonathan Williams responded in July 2021 to Dr Gradel, saying \"there was no suggestion of any wrongdoing\".\n\nThe British Museum has been contacted for comment.\n\nMr Williams added during the correspondence that there had been a \"thorough investigation\" and that the \"collection was protected.\"\n\nThe London institution announced last week that it had sacked a member of staff after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nPolice are now investigating. A statement issued by the Metropolitan police said: \"We have been working alongside the British Museum.\n\n\"There is currently an ongoing investigation - there is no arrest and enquiries continue. We will not be providing any further information at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that while there are unanswered questions for the museum, due to police involvement, they don't intend to comment further at present.\n\nThe museum has launched its own investigation into the thefts.\n\nFischer recently announced that he would stepping down as museum director next year\n\nAccording to the PA news agency, the missing items are believed to have been taken over a \"significant\" period of time. Some of them reportedly ended up on eBay, being sold for considerably less than their actual estimated value.\n\nAn eBay spokesperson said: \"Our dedicated law enforcement liaison team is in close contact with the Metropolitan Police and is supporting the investigation into this case.\n\n\"eBay does not tolerate the sale of stolen property. If we identify that a listing on our site is stolen, we immediately remove it and work with law enforcement to support investigations and keep our site safe.\"\n\nNone of the treasures, which dated from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD, had recently been on display and had been kept primarily for academic and research purposes, the museum said. The majority of them were kept in a storeroom.\n\nDr Gradel's emails suggest he became suspicious when he \"stumbled\" upon a photo of a Roman cameo fragment that he said had been up for sale and had been listed on the British Museum website but had since been removed.\n\nDr Gradel also alleges in one of his emails that a third-party seller returned a gem to the museum as soon as Dr Gradel told him his suspicions, but claims the museum didn't follow this up sufficiently.\n\nIn one of several emails he sent to follow up any progress, this time to a board trustee, Dr Gradel accuses the director - Hartwig Fischer - and Mr Williams of \"sweeping it all under the carpet.\"\n\nIn one response emailed in October 2022 to a trustee who was following up on Dr Gradel's concerns, Fischer said there was \"no evidence\" of any wrongdoing, adding that the \"three items\" Dr Gradel had mentioned were \"in the collection\".\n\nChair of the museum former chancellor George Osborne was alerted to Dr Gradel's emails by one of the museum's trustees in October 2022.\n\nAccording to the emails, Mr Fischer told that trustee that \"there is no evidence to substantiate the allegations\".\n\nMr Osborne told Dr Gradel in January this year that \"I have taken your comments very seriously\".\n\nIt's now believed that more than 1,500 objects were stolen, damaged and destroyed, in a crisis that is threatening the reputation of the British Museum.\n\nLabour MP Ben Bradshaw, a former culture secretary, told BBC News the latest allegations were \"extremely serious\".\n\n\"These are priceless objects that belong to the nation, and they should be safe,\" he said.\n\n\"This has potential reputational damage for Britain because this is already being reported across the globe. The British Museum is a probably the world's most famous museum.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Culture department will be wanting to assure itself from the board of trustees and George Osborne, that it has the governance in place to protect these items now and in the future, to prevent anything like this ever happening again.\"\n\nLast month, it was announced Fischer will step down from his role as director of the British Museum in 2024.\n\nMr Osborne told the BBC: \"Hartwig has been a much respected director. I have been very clear - as has Hartwig - that his decision was not connected to our announcement last week.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Gifts and cheers for the man wanting to reform Thailand\n\nThai voters have delivered a stunning verdict in favour of an opposition party that is calling for radical reform of the country's institutions.\n\nEarly results show Move Forward exceeding every prediction to win 151 of the 500 seats in the lower house.\n\nIt's now 10 seats ahead of what was the frontrunner, Pheu Thai, led by ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's daughter.\n\nAnalysts are calling this a political earthquake that represents a significant shift in public opinion.\n\nIt is also a clear repudiation of the two military-aligned parties of the current government, and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led a coup that ousted an elected government in 2014. The governing coalition won only 15% of the seats.\n\n\"We didn't leave any stones unturned,\" Move Forward's 42-year-old leader Pita Limjaroenrat told the BBC. \"People have had enough in the last decade. Now, it's a new day.\"\n\nPheu Thai, the second-largest party, has said it has agreed to join Move Forward and four smaller opposition parties, giving them a coalition of more than 60% of seats in the new parliament.\n\nHowever, that still isn't enough to outvote the 250-strong unelected senate, which was appointed by Mr Prayuth, and are allowed to join the vote in parliament for the next administration. They are likely to object to Move Forward's progressive agenda, in particular its pledge to amend the controversial lese majeste law.\n\nIn the political negotiations which lie ahead, many Thais fear the military and its backers may yet try to block the winning parties from taking office. A military coup is unlikely, but yet another court ruling to disqualify Move Forward on a technicality, as happened to its predecessor Future Forward in 2020, is possible.\n\nThe other question is how well Move Forward and Pheu Thai, whose relations in the last parliament were sometimes fractious, can work together. Mr Pita, a Harvard University graduate and a skilled parliamentarian, is still untested in the more ruthless art of stitching together and sustaining a coalition.\n\nBut that uncertainty doesn't change the fact that the people of Thailand woke up to a changed political landscape this morning.\n\n\"The majority of votes reflect the need to escape from the 'Prayuth regime', and the yearning for change,\" says Prajak Kongkirati, a political scientist from Thammasat University. \"It shows that people believe in the Move Forward demand for change - many more people than predicted.\"\n\nThai social media has been awash with victory messages from Move Forward supporters, who call themselves \"organic canvassers\", and describe the party's win as a \"wind of change\" and the \"dawn of a new era.\"\n\nMr Pita tweeted that he was \"ready\" to become the country's 30th prime minister. \"We have the same dreams and hopes. And together we believe that our beloved Thailand can be better, and changes are possible if we start working on them today,\" he wrote.\n\n\"This election really tells you that only four years have passed, but the people's thinking has changed a lot, both the establishment and the pro-democracy camps,\" a tweet read, adding that, \"democracy cannot be taken for granted\".\n\nIt would have once been unthinkable that Move Forward, a party calling for wholesale changes to Thailand's bureaucracy, its economy, the role of the military, and even the laws protecting the monarchy, could win more seats and votes than any of its rivals.\n\nSocial media is full of Thais taking \"big steps\" as a show of support for Move Forward\n\nIt's no coincidence that these were the same issues that spurred a months-long student-led protest movement in 2020. Some of Move Forward's candidates had been leaders in the movement. And, like the 2020 protests, young and passionate voters, many of them followers of Move Forward, played a big role in the election result.\n\nThe mood in favour of the young party was hard to miss in the weeks leading up to the election. A new wave of memes exploded on Thai social media - people taking big steps or leaps in an obvious nod to Move Forward's Thai name.\n\nAnd that played out in real life at voting booths on Sunday as people took exaggerated, giant steps to show their support. It was the only way to indicate which way they were leaning because election rules don't allow voters to declare their preferences openly. Others wore bright orange shirts, flip flops and sneakers - the party's chosen colour for campaigning.\n\nMove Forward's candidates had fewer resources than their rivals, and had to rely on social media, and sometimes old technology like bicycles, to get their message across. It helped that their vision seemed much clearer than other parties.\n\nMove Forward ruled out any coalition with parties associated with the 2014 military coup, a position on which its reformist rival Pheu Thai was initially evasive. The party was also fresh and bold, and in the last parliament, was known for taking principled positions.\n\nThe vote is also a rejection of nearly a decade of military-backed rule\n\nIt also benefitted from what appears to be a widespread public appetite for change. Voters under 26 years are not a large bloc in ageing Thailand - they make up just 14% of the 52-million electorate - but they worked hard to persuade older voters to back Move Forward to offer their generation a better future.\n\nThe most immediate question is whether, despite the mandate for change, the two reformist parties are allowed to form a government.\n\nMr Pita was optimistic while addressing the media on Monday. \"With the consensus that came out of the election, it will be quite a hefty price to pay for someone who is thinking of abolishing the election results or forming a minority government... it is quite far-fetched for now,\" he said.\n\n\"And I think the people of Thailand will not allow that to happen.\"", "Sara Sharif was found dead at her family home in Woking\n\nA 10-year-old girl found dead at home was \"a bubbly girl\" with a beautiful smile, her school has said.\n\nSara Sharif's body was found at her family home in Woking, Surrey, early on 10 August, prompting a murder inquiry.\n\nJacquie Chambers, head of St Mary's C of E primary school in Byfleet, said Sara would be \"dearly missed\".\n\nThree people who travelled to Pakistan before her body was found are believed to have gone to Islamabad and are wanted for questioning.\n\nMs Chambers said: \"She was a bubbly, confident little girl who had the most beautiful smile. She was full of ideas and was very passionate about the things she believed in.\"\n\nThe head teacher said the pupil had been in Year 5 at the school, adding: \"Sara will be dearly missed and, as a school community, we are all deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"Our thoughts, prayers and sympathy are with those affected by this heart-breaking news.\"\n\nMs Chambers said she could not make further comment due to the police inquiry, but said the school was \"fully supporting partner agencies with their investigations\".\n\nShe added: \"Our priority now is to support our school community as they grieve and recover.\"\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nThe three people who are wanted by the police are Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, 41, his partner, Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother, Faisal Malik, 28.\n\nBBC News has been told two police teams in Jhelum, north Punjab in Pakistan, are looking for Mr Sharif.\n\nSurrey Police have said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan shortly after landing in Islamabad with his partner, his brother and five children, aged between one and 13.\n\nThe call led officers to the house in Woking where they found the body of Sara who had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\", likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nThere is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Pakistan.\n\nSurrey County Council have confirmed that Sara was known to the authorities and a multi-agency review is under way.\n\nPolice have also been searching the family's previous address in West Byfleet in Surrey.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emergency Department staff at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) have described a recent report into patient safety as \"wholly unsatisfactory\".\n\nStaff said they were \"deeply disappointed\" in the lack of \"explicit focus on patient safety\" in the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) report.\n\nIt was published in July after the RQIA carried out an unannounced inspection.\n\nIt said the department was operating beyond its core purpose and capacity.\n\nIn a letter to the RQIA seen by BBC News NI, staff said that despite taking part in a feedback session, where RQIA staff agreed that the emergency department was \"unsafe\", the final report did not sufficiently focus on patient safety.\n\nThe RQIA has defended the report, which also found that department staff were experiencing burnout.\n\nIn response to the criticism, it said the report does \"articulate the patient safety impact of patient crowding, and reflects concerns of staff, who were clearly doing their best to provide safe care within the service\".\n\nThe inspection happened in November 2022, when there were media reports of patients waiting for days in overcrowded areas and on trolleys.\n\nLengthy ambulance waits, negative reports by staff and patients being cared for in corridors and cupboards triggered headlines for months.\n\nBBC News NI, after being given exclusive access to the emergency department, captured conditions that showed hospital trolleys packed tightly against each other, with patients waiting for days to be admitted onto a ward.\n\nIn its statement to BBC News NI, the RQIA said that during its inspection it found each of the five standards were breached, namely fire safety, workforce, environment, infection prevention and control, and medicines management.\n\nIt added there was an escalation due to service pressures regionally.\n\nThe regulators said this was a \"a very significant and serious outcome\".\n\nThey also said services operating below the minimum quality standards are \"less able to prevent risks translating into actual events or incidents, and resulting in harm\".\n\nThe RQIA stressed this is clearly recorded and reflected in the report.\n\nBut health staff have told BBC News NI the report did not go far enough and have questioned why it took eight months between inspection and publication.\n\nThe letter said they hoped the feedback could bring about improvement in RQIA inspections and highlight ongoing safety concerns.\n\nIt added that waiting times and the lack of safe patient flow at every stage of the patient journey are not adequately addressed in the report.\n\nIn response to allegations of a delay, the RQIA said it is committed to publishing reports in a \"timely way\" and it is important that inspection reports are subject to a robust peer review and accuracy checking process.\n\nIt added there was a significant volume of material to be reviewed, then time provided to the Belfast Trust to draw up its response to the Quality Improvement Plan.\n\nIt also said the report provides evidence of specific safety issues, including increases in reported incidents of patient falls, pressure sores and medication incidents; challenges in managing patients presenting with mental health crisis; and impact on patient's privacy and dignity.\n\nThe RQIA said it will follow up with the Belfast Trust to seek evidence of progress on the actions the trust has committed to take to address the issues identified in the inspection report.\n\nWhat can unlock the conundrum that is Northern Ireland's emergency department crisis?\n\nToo often we hear that the lack of budget and government is to blame. And while the system by its very nature will never be perfect, it could be a lot better.\n\nEmergency departments were in crisis long before Stormont fell and were in crisis when the power-sharing government collapsed previously too.\n\nLike most health services, there needs to be change within emergency care if the NHS is to survive.\n\nDoctors and nurses told me there's little thinking outside the box and those in charge often look as if they are being left to manage the optics instead.\n\nThere is a feeling health trusts should be more fearful of the regulator - and that the regulator should instil greater fear.\n\nIf the key to making emergency departments safer and less crowded requires shifting some resources away from hospitals and into the community instead - why can't this happen?", "Sir Keir Starmer says he could not afford university if he was a student today\n\nSir Keir Starmer said Labour would make the student fees system fairer in England but didn't give any details about what their plans would look like.\n\nScrapping university tuition fees was one of his pledges during his leadership campaign.\n\nBut in May the Labour leader said a \"difficult financial situation\" meant it would probably have to be dropped.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsbeat in West Sussex earlier, Sir Keir said the current system was \"unfair and ineffective\".\n\nIn response, the government said there were lots of opportunities for students to access higher education and support.\n\nIt comes after Sir Keir said university would be out of reach for him if he was applying as a student today and the cost of living crisis was holding young people back.\n\n\"We do need to change that and we will come up with a fairer package for students that helps them with the money they have to outlay,\" he said.\n\nNewsbeat spoke to him at a seaside cafe in Worthing and asked what that system would look like.\n\nBut he didn't give any details, adding: \"That's work in progress.\n\n\"It will be a fairer system but on a wider package, how do we get our energy bills down, how do we get our food bills down, how do we ensure our economy is actually booming and people feel like they've got money in their pocket again.\"\n\nThe Labour leader was in Worthing to speak about the impact of the cost of living crisis\n\nMany teenagers got their results last week but rules around student finance differ depending on a variety of things - like where you're studying in the UK and what subject you pick.\n\nOn average, including tuition fees and accommodation, it costs £49,887 to study in England, £45,494 in Wales £32,091 in Northern Ireland and £27,775 in Scotland.\n\nBut tuition fees vary between the nations, costing £9,250 a year in England, £9,000 in Wales, £4,710 for Northern Irish students in Northern Ireland and free for the majority of Scottish students in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir said the cost of living crisis is impacting on people's day-to-day lives but also \"on the longer term decisions, particularly of young people\".\n\n\"One of the worries I have now is because the government has failed so badly on the economy, for many young people they're holding their results but their hopes and aspirations are being held back,\" he said.\n\n\"Increasingly young people are feeling they've got to stay near home so they can stay living with their parents because they can't afford it - that's holding them back.\"\n\nResponding to Sir Keir's comments that he would not be able to afford university, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan told the BBC he \"doesn't need to worry\".\n\n\"I have been working on degree apprenticeship routes for lots and lots of different occupations and one of those now includes a lawyer,\" she said.\n\nStudent loans are made up of a loan for tuition fees, which have been capped until next year at £9,250 a year, as well as a means tested loan which covers accommodation and living costs.\n\n\"We have also got a £276m hardship fund which will be given out by universities,\" Ms Keegan said.\n\n\"So if anybody does feel that that's holding them back, then that option is there.\"\n\nSir Keir revealed he's a Stormzy fan, weeks after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is rumoured to have watched Taylor Swift perform\n\nNewsbeat also asked Sir Keir whether he was a fan of Taylor Swift after recent reports that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak went to one of her gigs during his US holiday.\n\nHe didn't reveal whether he was a Swiftie but did admit to being a fan of Stormzy - who's previously backed ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAnd he even turned into a bit of a music critic when he described the rapper's This Is What I Mean album as \"really fantastic\".\n\n\"I think it's very different to some of the stuff he did before. It was really brave to go out in a slightly different way,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir says he planned to see Stormzy live months ago, but couldn't after one of his kids tested positive for Covid.\n\n\"That's the one that we want to get back in the diary as soon as we can.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Donald Trump has said he plans to turn himself in on Thursday to a court in the state of Georgia to face charges of election interference.\n\nA judge in Atlanta who is overseeing the former president's case has set bail at $200,000 (£157,000).\n\nThe agreement says Mr Trump can remain free pending trial so long as he does not attempt to threaten or intimidate witnesses.\n\nHe and the 18 others accused in this case had previously been given until noon on Friday to appear at Fulton County Jail for processing.\n\nThe county sheriff has said they will all be treated like any other defendants, which could mean Mr Trump is fingerprinted and has his mugshot taken.\n\nBefore he announced on social media that he would surrender on Thursday, a court filing was released that set out the terms of his bond agreement.\n\n\"The defendant shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him or her to be a co-defendant or witness in this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice,\" it said.\n\n\"The above shall include, but are not limited to, posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media,\" the order adds.\n\nIt was signed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is overseeing the case, and lawyers for Mr Trump.\n\nLater on Monday Mr Trump posted to his social media platform, Truth Social: \"Can you believe it? I'll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED by a Radical Left District Attorney, Fani Willis.\"\n\n\"She campaigned, and is continuing to campaign, and raise money on, this WITCH HUNT,\" he added. \"This is in strict coordination with crooked Joe Biden's DOJ [Department of Justice].\"\n\nMs Willis has asked the judge to schedule arraignments - in which a defendant is formally charged and enters a guilty or not guilty plea - on 5 September.\n\nShe has also proposed that the trial begin in March. Both the arraignment and trial could be televised.\n\nWhen Mr Trump does surrender, there will be a lockdown of the surrounding area and barricades have already been erected outside the court.\n\nMr Trump was charged last week alongside his co-defendants with attempting to subvert the will of the Georgia electorate by meddling in the state's election results following his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden.\n\nThe former president was heard in a phone call pressuring Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to \"find 11,780 votes\" during the ballot count.\n\nThe first former or serving US president ever to be indicted, he faces three other criminal cases.\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and calls the charges politically motivated.\n\nHe is currently leading the Republican race to pick its next White House nominee to challenge the Democratic candidate, probably Mr Biden, in the 2024 presidential election.\n\nMr Trump has already said he will skip the first Republican televised debate on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had,\" Mr Trump said on Truth Social on Sunday. \"I will therefore not be doing the debates.\"\n\nSources close to Mr Trump say he has instead recorded an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.\n\nState-by-state primaries - in which Republican voters will choose their party's nominee - are due to begin on 15 January 2024.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"I just want to find 11,780 votes\"", "Raymond Starr is taking part in Prostate Cancer UK's Boys Need Bins campaign\n\nProstate cancer patients have described the \"horrendous\" experience of urinary incontinence, which some men undergo as a result of surgery.\n\nRaymond Starr, 68, described being \"like a running tap\" and feeling \"agitated and embarrassed\".\n\nCharity Prostate Cancer UK wants legislation to ensure sanitary bins are available in all male toilets.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had already introduced legislation to improve toilet facilities.\n\nMr Starr, a retired public servant from Abergele, Conwy county, was diagnosed in 2017 after a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test offered to over-55s identified abnormal levels.\n\nHe opted for a radical prostatectomy, after which patients are fitted with a catheter which is later removed, commonly followed by urinary incontinence.\n\n\"You're aware of it, but I don't think you really take on board what's likely to happen,\" said Mr Starr.\n\n\"I was literally like a running tap. It was horrendous.\"\n\nProstate Cancer UK said early stages of the disease often had no symptoms, so the side effects of treatments had the biggest effect on people's quality of life.\n\nThe charity said one in eight men got prostate cancer in their lifetime - one in four for black men - and stressed the importance of knowing the risks.\n\nThe incontinence was so bad that Mr Starr said he \"couldn't see a way out\".\n\n\"I thought, 'if I'm going to be like this for the rest of my life, I wish I'd never gone ahead with this'.\n\n\"I got quite agitated about it, I felt embarrassed. Every time I'd get up from a chair there would be leakage. If I tried to go upstairs to the toilet, by the time I got to the top I was wet through.\"\n\nNigel Rowland from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, had a similar experience last year, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and opted for surgery in September.\n\nThe 65-year-old tow boat captain said: \"I was aware that incontinence could well be a side effect, as well as erectile dysfunction, but I thought 'I want it out and that's it, I don't want to be playing around'.\"\n\nMr Rowland said the incontinence was \"sort of OK\" at home, but problematic when he was ready to get out again.\n\n\"Whenever we went out for a walk, or even when I went with my mates for a drink, I had to take a backpack with me.\n\n\"Basically you put the soaking wet nappy into the plastic bag. At the start it might even be two. You'd have to walk around and find a bin somewhere, or take it home with you.\"\n\nMr Rowland recalled one occasion when he visited a National Trust site with his family and ended up rushing to the toilet while his daughter's partner went to retrieve his bag from the car.\n\n\"By the time I got to the toilets, it was so wet it was pouring down the inside of my shorts. I felt so embarrassed, uncomfortable,\" he said.\n\n\"To put it bluntly, I'd drastically wet myself and it's not a nice feeling.\"\n\nNigel Rowland says carrying a \"soaking wet nappy\" around is \"embarrassing\"\n\nProstate Cancer UK's Boys Need Bins campaign hopes to prompt legislation to mandate sanitary disposal bins in all men's toilets.\n\nMr Rowland continued: \"It's psychological as well, you don't want to be walking around with what's just happened inside your bag.\"\n\nMr Starr added that the \"unpleasantness of it all\" put him off leaving his home and the NHS-supplied pads were \"quite a big, bulky thing\".\n\n\"Where do you dispose of that? It's impossible. It takes a toll on mental health and it limits the freedom of actually moving from home.\"\n\nMr Rowland added: \"I made a bit of a joke about it with my friends, because that's the way I dealt with it, eventually.\n\n\"I tried to relate it to cars doing so many miles per gallon, so when I was out with my mates it was how many pints per pad.\"\n\nBoth men have had successful outcomes from their surgeries and no longer suffer from regular incontinence, but hope that speaking out will raise awareness about the need for bins.\n\nMr Starr added: \"It's up to the Senedd to be one of the leaders on this. I hope Wales could be the first to roll it out.\"\n\nNick Ridgman of Prostate Cancer UK said there were hundreds of thousands of men with urinary incontinence and it was \"deeply unfair\" that many men felt anxious about leaving the house.\n\nHe added: \"It's frustrating, it creates worry and it doesn't allow those men or their families to go about their day with dignity.\"\n\nProstate Cancer UK has worked with Phs group to create a suitable sanitary bin for men's toilets\n\nThe awareness raising efforts of charities have recently seen a prostate cancer storyline introduced for Shane Richie's EastEnders character Alfie Moon.\n\nIn May, male incontinence was debated in the Senedd, with Labour's Carolyn Thomas admitting that she had been \"naïve\" to the issue before a \"chance meeting\" with a prostate cancer patient on a train who explained his wife often had to put his used pads in her handbag until they found a bin.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"In Wales, local authorities are legally required to produce local toilet strategies and, in doing so, they should take every opportunity to talk to the public and representative groups about the challenges they face in accessing local toilet facilities, listening to their concerns and delivering potential solutions.\n\n\"We have issued guidance to local authorities and this highlights that accessible toilets are more important for those with conditions such as incontinence, urgency and prostate problems.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Thaksin returns to Thailand after 15 years in exile\n\nThailand's former PM Thaksin Shinawatra has been jailed upon returning to the country after 15 years in exile.\n\nBut many believe he has struck a deal that will keep him from serving more than a short period in prison.\n\nHe arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday morning in a private jet, hours before his Pheu Thai party's candidate Srettha Thavisin was voted the next Thai PM.\n\nThis cements Pheu Thai's coalition with its former military rivals who deposed the party in 2014 in a coup.\n\nMr Thaksin, Thailand's most successful elected leader, has long been feared by conservative royalists, who have backed military coups and contentious court cases to weaken him. He went into self-imposed exile in 2008 after being deposed by a coup two years earlier.\n\nWhile he made no secret of his yearning to be back in Thailand, what kept him away so long was the various criminal cases hanging over him. But now the brash, politically ambitious telecoms tycoon is back - and was almost immediately sentenced to eight years' jail on criminal convictions he says are politically motivated.\n\nHe arrived to cheers from hundreds of loyal \"red shirt\" supporters who had gathered overnight to see him, but he never greeted most of them.\n\nSamniang Kongpolparn, 63, was among those who had travelled from Surin province in the northeast, the stronghold of Mr Thaksin's party in past decades.\n\n\"He's the best prime minister we've ever had. Even though I won't get to see him today, I still wanted to come to show him support,\" she said. \"I'm ok with them reconciling with the pro-military government, or else we're stuck with the senators. We don't want that.\"\n\nFlanked by his two daughters and son, Mr Thaksin emerged briefly from the airport terminal and paid his respects to a portrait of the king and queen. The 74-year-old was then taken to the Supreme Court where he was sentenced and then to Bangkok Remand Prison.\n\nIt has been speculated that Thaksin will seek a royal pardon, and prison authorities on Tuesday said he would be able to submit a petition from jail immediately. The process can take one to two months.\n\nPrison authorities there say he will be kept in a wing with specific medical equipment, given his advanced age. He will also immediately undergo a 10-day quarantine - the first five days of which he will be confined to his room, authorities said.\n\nMr Srettha's win on Tuesday is the result of a byzantine process which in three months has taken Thailand full circle.\n\nIt began with the heady hopes of a new dawn led by the radical young Move Forward party, which won the most seats in the May election.\n\nMove Forward initially formed a partnership with Pheu Thai but the coalition now includes almost everyone but the reformers, including two parties led by former coup-makers - a deal with its sworn enemies that Pheu Thai vowed it would not do.\n\nPheu Thai insists the two developments - Mr Thaksin's return and the coalition that voted for a Pheu Thai PM - are unconnected. Few people believe that.\n\nIt is true that Pheu Thai's hands have been tied by the unelected senate, a 250-seat constitutional landmine planted in Thailand's political landscape by the military junta which ruled for five years after a 2014 coup.\n\nAnd Pheu Thai's bargaining position was weakened by its poorer-than-expected performance in the election, when it lost a lot of support to Move Forward and for the first time was relegated to second place.\n\nThe senators, all appointed under the junta, are allowed to join the 500 elected MPs in voting for the new prime minister. Their thinly-disguised remit is to block any party which might threaten the status quo - the nexus of monarchy, military and big business which has dominated decision-making in Thailand for decades.\n\nUnsurprisingly they refused to back the Move Forward-led coalition with Pheu Thai, despite its commanding majority in the lower house. When it was Pheu Thai's turn to negotiate a new coalition, its need for senate support meant it had to take in some of its former opponents.\n\nMany of the supporters had come from the northeast, a Thaksin stronghold\n\nHowever some Pheu Thai politicians argue that the party should have held out for a better deal, by refusing to be in a government with the most hard-line conservative groups. Any minority administration formed without Pheu Thai and Move Forward would quickly collapse, because the senators cannot join normal parliamentary votes on issues like the budget.\n\nBut the Pheu Thai leadership was not willing to wait. It even invited the ultra-royalist party United Thai Nation to join the coalition, whose leaders have in the past been virulently critical of the Shinawatra family and their supporters. They were instrumental in ousting the last Pheu Thai government led by Mr Thaksin's sister Yingluck. That these two factions will now sit together in the same government is a mark of how far Thai politics has shifted.\n\nIn the end, for the ultra-royalists, the perceived threat posed by Move Forward, and by a younger generation of Thais demanding a conversation about the power and wealth of the monarchy, eclipsed their long feud with the Shinawatra family.\n\nFor the Shinawatras, and Pheu Thai's more conservative, business-minded elements, getting into government again and guaranteeing the deal to bring Mr Thaksin back, have been bigger priorities than worrying about the party's reputation.\n\nBut there are those, even within Pheu Thai, who are horrified by the cynical pragmatism of this deal.\n\nThey are warning that the party will lose even more of its once-passionate grass-roots supporters - and lose, perhaps forever, the dominance it held over electoral politics in Thailand for two decades.", "Protesters call for the water release plan to be called off in a rally outside the Japanese PM's residence in Tokyo on Tuesday\n\nJapan will start releasing treated radioactive water from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, despite opposition from its neighbours.\n\nThe decision comes weeks after the UN's nuclear watchdog approved the plan.\n\nSome 1.34 million tonnes of water - enough to fill 500 Olympic-size pools - have accumulated since the 2011 tsunami destroyed the plant.\n\nThe water will be released over 30 years after being filtered and diluted.\n\nAuthorities will request for the plant's operator to \"promptly prepare\" for the disposal to start on 24 August if weather and sea conditions are appropriate, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday after a Cabinet meeting.\n\nMr Kishida had visited the plant on Sunday, prompting speculation the release was imminent.\n\nThe government has said that releasing the water is a necessary step in the lengthy and costly process of decommissioning the plant, which sits on the country's east coast, about 220km (137 miles) north-east of the capital Tokyo.\n\nJapan has been collecting and storing the contaminated water in tanks for more than a decade, but space is running out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Tokyo correspondent Shaimaa Khalil visits the treatment plant to see how it works\n\nIn 2011, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake flooded three reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The event is regarded as the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.\n\nShortly after, authorities set up an exclusion zone which continued to be expanded as radiation leaked from the plant, forcing more than 150,000 people to evacuate from the area.\n\nThe plan to release water from the plant has caused alarm across Asia and the Pacific since it was approved by the Japanese government two years ago.\n\nIt was signed off by the UN's nuclear watchdog in July, with authorities concluding the impact on people and the environment would be negligible.\n\nBut many people, including fishermen in the region, fear that discharging the treated water will affect their livelihoods.\n\nA crowd of protesters in Tokyo on Tuesday also staged a rally outside the prime minister's official residence, urging the government to stop the release.\n\nPlant operators Tepco have been filtering the water to remove more than 60 radioactive substances but the water will not be entirely radiation-free as it will still contain tritium and carbon-14- radioactive isotopes of hydrogen and carbon that cannot be easily removed from water.\n\nBut experts have said they are not a danger unless consumed in large quantities, because they emit very low levels of radiation.\n\n\"As long as the discharge is carried out as planned, radiation doses to people will be vanishingly small - more than a thousand times less than doses we all get from natural radiation every year,\" says Prof Jim Smith, who teaches environmental science at the University of Portsmouth.\n\nExperts also note that the contaminated water is being released into a massive body of water, the Pacific Ocean.\n\n\"Anything released from the site will therefore be massively diluted,\" says Prof Gerry Thomas, who teaches molecular pathology at the Imperial College London.\n\nTokyo has previously said the water that will be released into the Pacific Ocean, which has been mixed with seawater, has tritium and carbon 14 levels that meet safety standards.\n\nNuclear plants around the world regularly release waste water with tritium levels above that of the treated water from Fukushima.\n\nBut the plan has caused uproar in neighbouring countries, with China the most vocal opponent. It accused Japan of treating the ocean like its \"private sewer.\"\n\nChinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin reiterated Beijing's objection on Tuesday, adding it would take \"necessary measures to safeguard the marine environment, food safety and public health\".\n\nJapan is \"putting its own self-interest over the long-term well-being of all humankind\" with the release of waste water, Mr Wang said.\n\nHong Kong said it would \"immediately activate\" import curbs on some Japanese food products.\n\nBoth South Korea and China have already banned fish imports from around Fukushima.\n\nSouth Korea's government, however, has endorsed the plan, and has accused protesters of scaremongering.", "Letby killed the babies at a Chester hospital in 2015 and 2016\n\nThe government has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind serial killer Lucy Letby's \"horrific\" baby murders.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would look at how clinicians' concerns were handled, as a BBC investigation found hospital bosses ignored doctors' warnings about Letby.\n\nLetby was found guilty of murdering seven babies at a hospital in Chester.\n\nShe was also found guilty of attempting to murder another six babies.\n\nOn two counts of attempted murder, she was found not guilty. The jury could not reach verdicts on six counts of attempted murder.\n\nDetectives are reviewing the care of all babies admitted to hospital while Letby was working as a neonatal nurse. The review includes her work placements at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015, although police say this did not involve any deaths.\n\nDetective superintendent Paul Hughes said: \"We would be foolish if we were to think we have gathered all cases that Lucy Letby could have touched in one go.\n\n\"So we are committed to doing an overarching investigation looking at every single baby's admission into neonatal unit for the entire footprint that Lucy Letby has been employed.\"\n\nCheshire Police stressed that only cases highlighted as medically concerning would be further investigated.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health said the independent inquiry aimed to provide answers to the parents of babies she murdered or attempted to murder, and make sure lessons are learnt.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"I am determined their voices are heard, and they are involved in shaping the scope of the inquiry should they wish to do so.\n\n\"It will help us identify where and how patient safety standards failed to be met and ensure mothers and their partners rightly have faith in our healthcare system.\"\n\nThe inquiry will not have the power to summon evidence or witnesses, as it is not a statutory inquiry, such as the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.\n\nHealth Minister Helen Whately said this meant it could be conducted \"at pace\", adding that there were \"definitely\" questions to be answered around doctors repeatedly raising concerns about Letby.\n\nBut City of Chester MP Samantha Dixon has written to the health secretary asking why the government has skipped a statutory inquiry.\n\nAnd former Crown Prosecution Service chief in north-west England Nazir Afzal, who prosecuted nurse Victorino Chua found guilty of murdering patients in Stockport in 2015, described the decision as \"hugely disappointing\".\n\n\"You have to compel people... I really don't think a non-traditional inquiry has the powers to hold people to account, which is important here,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. \"It's not just a fact-finding [mission] which is what I think this inquiry will do, people need to be held to account for their failures.\"\n\nLord Bichard, who chaired the inquiry into the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by Ian Huntley, said he was surprised the government did not take advantage of the powers of a statutory inquiry.\n\n\"Too many inquiries take too long to make a conclusion and make too many recommendations and don't follow them up,\" he added. \"It's really, really important we start making better use of inquiries in this country and that we follow up their conclusions.\"\n\nIn a statement following the verdict, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said it was \"extremely sorry\" the crimes happened in its hospital and it has since made \"significant changes\" to their services.\n\nMeanwhile, former chief executive of the hospital Tony Chambers and former medical director Ian Harvey, who were in charge at the time Letby was working at Countess of Chester Hospital, have said they will co-operate fully with the inquiry into the case.\n\nA lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked told the BBC hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015. No action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.\n\nLetby, 33, was not in the dock when the final verdicts were given at Manchester Crown Court on Friday. She will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues raised here, there are details of organisations that may be able to offer support on the BBC Action Line.", "Dr Stephen Brearey, lead consultant on the neonatal unit, raised concerns about her in October 2015\n\nHospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against Lucy Letby and tried to silence doctors, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit where she worked has told the BBC.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.\n\nThe unit's lead consultant Dr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015.\n\nNo action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nLetby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others in a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire.\n\nThe first five murders all happened between June and October 2015 and - despite months of warnings - the final two were in June 2016.\n\nBBC Panorama and BBC News have been investigating how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long.\n\nWe spoke to the lead consultant in the unit - who first raised concerns about Letby - and also examined hospital documents. The investigation reveals a catalogue of failures and raises serious questions about how the hospital responded to the deaths.\n\nDr Brearey says he demanded Letby be taken off duty in June 2016, after the final two murders. Hospital management initially refused.\n\nBefore June 2015, there were about two or three baby deaths a year on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. But in the summer of 2015, something unusual was happening.\n\nIn June alone, three babies died within the space of two weeks. The deaths were unexpected, so Dr Stephen Brearey, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit, called a meeting with the unit manager, Eirian Powell, and the hospital's director of nursing Alison Kelly.\n\n\"We tried to be as thorough as possible,\" Dr Brearey says. A staffing analysis revealed Lucy Letby had been on duty for all three deaths. \"I think I can remember saying, 'Oh no, it can't be Lucy. Not nice Lucy,'\" he says.\n\nThe three deaths seemed to have \"nothing in common\". Nobody, including Dr Brearey, suspected foul play.\n\nAfter the first three deaths in summer 2015, Lucy Letby was identified as a common factor but no-one yet suspected foul play\n\nBut by October 2015, things had changed. Two more babies had died and Letby had been on shift for both of them.\n\nBy this point, Dr Brearey had become concerned Letby might be harming babies. He again contacted unit manager Eirian Powell, who didn't seem to share his concerns.\n\nIn an email, from October 2015, she described the association between Letby and the unexpected baby deaths as \"unfortunate\". \"Each cause of death was different,\" she said, and the association with Letby was just a coincidence.\n\nSenior managers didn't appear to be worried. In the same month - October 2015 - Dr Brearey says his concerns about Letby were relayed to director of nursing Alison Kelly. But he heard nothing back.\n\nDr Brearey's fellow consultants were also worried about Letby. And it wasn't just the unexpected deaths. Other babies were suffering non-fatal collapses, meaning they needed emergency resuscitation or help with breathing, with no apparent clinical explanation. Letby was always on duty.\n\nIn February 2016, another consultant, Dr Ravi Jayaram, says he saw Letby standing and watching when a baby - known as Baby K - seemed to have stopped breathing.\n\nDr Brearey contacted Alison Kelly and the hospital's medical director Ian Harvey to request an urgent meeting. In early March, he also wrote to Eirian Powell: \"We still need to talk about Lucy\".\n\nThree months went by, and another two babies almost died, before - in May that year - Dr Brearey got the meeting with senior managers he had been asking for. \"There could be no doubt about my concerns at that meeting,\" he says.\n\nBut others at the meeting appeared to be in denial. Dr Brearey said Mr Harvey and Ms Kelly listened passively as he explained his concerns about Letby. But she was allowed to continue working.\n\nBy early June, yet another baby had collapsed. Then, towards the end of the month, two of three premature triplets died unexpectedly within 24 hours of each other. Letby was on shift for both deaths.\n\nAfter the death of the second triplet, Dr Brearey attended a meeting for traumatised staff.\n\nHe says while others seemed to be \"crumbling before your eyes almost\", Letby brushed off his suggestion that she must be tired or upset. \"No, I'm back on shift tomorrow,\" she told him. \"She was quite happy and confident to come into work,\" he says.\n\nFor Dr Brearey and his fellow consultants, the deaths of the two triplets were a tipping point. That evening, Dr Brearey says he called duty executive Karen Rees and demanded Letby be taken off duty. She refused.\n\nDr Brearey says he challenged her about whether she was making this decision against the wishes of seven consultant paediatricians - and asked if she would take responsibility for anything that might happen to other babies the next day. He says Ms Rees replied \"yes\".\n\nThe following day, another baby - known as Baby Q - almost died, again while Letby was on duty. The nurse still worked another three shifts before she was finally removed from the neonatal unit - more than a year after the first incident.\n\nThe suspicious deaths and collapses then stopped.\n\nInstead, she was moved to the hospital's risk and patient safety office. Here she is believed to have had access to sensitive documents relating to the hospital's neonatal unit. She also had access to some of the senior managers whose job it was to investigate her.\n\nOn 29 June 2016, one of the consultants sent an email under the subject line: \"Should we refer ourselves to external investigation?\"\n\n\"I believe we need help from outside agencies,\" he wrote. \"And the only agency who can investigate all of us, I believe, is the police.\"\n\nBut hospital managers thought otherwise. \"Action is being taken,\" wrote medical director Ian Harvey in his reply. \"All emails cease forthwith.\"\n\nTwo days later, the consultants attended a meeting with senior management. They say the head of corporate affairs and legal services, Stephen Cross, warned that calling the police would be a catastrophe for the hospital and would turn the neonatal unit into a crime scene.\n\nRather than go to the police, Mr Harvey invited the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Heath (RCPCH) to review the level of service on the neonatal unit.\n\nIn early September 2016, a team from the Royal College visited the hospital and met the paediatric consultants.\n\nThe RCPCH completed its report in November 2016. Its recommendations included: \"A thorough external independent review of each unexpected neonatal death.\"\n\nIn October 2016, Ian Harvey also contacted Dr Jane Hawdon, a premature baby specialist in London, and asked her to review the case notes of babies who had died on the neonatal unit.\n\nThe result was a highly caveated report. According to Dr Hawdon, her report was \"intended to inform discussion and learning, and would not necessarily be upheld in a coroner's court or court of law\".\n\nIt was not the thorough review the consultants had wanted - or the thorough external independent review that the RCPCH had recommended. But even the limited case-note report by Dr Hawdon recommended that four of the baby deaths be forensically investigated.\n\nRather than calling police, Ian Harvey asked the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to review the neonatal unit\n\nIn early January 2017, the hospital board met and Mr Harvey presented the findings of the two reviews. Both had recommended further investigation of some of the baby deaths - and yet that message did not reach board members.\n\nRecords of the meeting show Mr Harvey saying the reviews concluded the problems with the neonatal unit were down to issues with leadership and timely intervention.\n\nA few weeks later, in late January 2017, the seven consultants on the neonatal unit were summoned to a meeting with senior managers, including Mr Harvey and the hospital's CEO Tony Chambers.\n\nDr Brearey says the CEO told them he had spent a lot of time with Letby and her father and had apologised to them, saying Letby had done nothing wrong. Mr Chambers denies saying Letby had done nothing wrong. He said he was paraphrasing her father.\n\nAccording to the doctor's account, the CEO also insisted the consultants apologise to Letby and warned them that a line had been drawn and there would be \"consequences\" if they crossed it.\n\nDr Brearey says he felt managers were trying to \"engineer some sort of narrative\" that would mean they did not have to go to the police. \"If you want to call that a cover-up then, that's a cover-up,\" he says now.\n\nManagers also ordered two of the consultants to attend mediation sessions with Letby, in March 2017. One of the doctors did sit down with the nurse to discuss her grievance, but Dr Brearey did not.\n\nYet, the consultants didn't back down. Two months after the apology, the hospital asked the police to investigate. It was the consultants who had pushed them into it.\n\nDr Brearey and his colleagues finally sat down with Cheshire Police a couple of weeks later. \"They were astonished,\" he says.\n\nThe next day, Cheshire Police launched a criminal investigation into the suspicious baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital. It was named Operation Hummingbird.\n\nMr Chambers told the Panorama his comments to consultants had been taken out of context and that prompt action had been taken after he was first told of serious concerns in June 2016 - including reviews of deaths.\n\nLetby had not yet been arrested and was still working at the hospital's risk and patient safety office. But Operation Hummingbird was in full swing and Dr Brearey was helping the police with their investigation.\n\nLate one evening, he was going through some historic medical records when he discovered a blood test from 2015 for one of the babies on his unit. It recorded dangerous levels of insulin in the baby's bloodstream.\n\nThe significance of the test result had been missed at the time.\n\nThe body produces insulin naturally, but when it does, it also produces a substance called C-Peptide. The problem with the insulin reading that Dr Brearey was looking at was that the C-Peptide measurement was almost zero. It was evidence the insulin had not been produced naturally by the baby's body and had instead been administered.\n\n\"It made me feel sick,\" Dr Brearey recalls. \"It was quite clear that this baby had been poisoned by insulin.\"\n\nDr Susan Gilby, who became medical director after Letby's arrest, says files revealed serious issues with the hospital's response\n\nA few months later, Letby was finally arrested and suspended by the hospital. But three years had passed since Dr Brearey had first sounded the alarm.\n\nWhen a new medical director and deputy chief executive, Dr Susan Gilby, began work the month after Letby's arrest, she was shocked at what she found.\n\nShe says her predecessor, Mr Harvey, had warned her she would need to pursue action with the General Medical Council, the doctor's regulator, against the neonatal unit's consultants - those who had raised the alarm. Mr Harvey denies this.\n\nHowever, inside a box of files left in his office, Dr Gilby found evidence the problems lay elsewhere. Marked with the word \"neonates\", the files revealed how a meeting of the executive team in 2015 had agreed to have the first three deaths examined by an external organisation. That never happened.\n\nThe management team had also failed to report the deaths appropriately. It meant the wider NHS system could not spot the high fatality rates. The board of the hospital trust was also unaware of the deaths until July 2016.\n\nDr Gilby says the trust's refusal to call police appeared to be heavily influenced by how it would look. \"Protecting their reputation was a big factor in how people responded to the concerns raised,\" she says.\n\nLater in 2018, after Tony Chambers resigned, Dr Gilby was appointed chief executive and she stayed in post until 2022. She is now suing the trust for unfair dismissal.\n\nThe rate of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit has now fallen\n\nDr Brearey, says hospital managers had been \"secretive\" and \"judgemental\" throughout the period leading up to the nurse's arrest.\n\n\"There was no credibility given to our opinions. And from January 2017, it was intimidating, and bullying to a certain extent,\" he tells BBC News. \"It just all struck me as the opposite of a hospital you'd expect to be working in, where there's a safe culture and people feel confident in speaking out.\"\n\nLetby would ultimately be charged with seven murders and 15 attempted murders between June 2015 and June 2016. She was found guilty of all seven murders and seven attempted murders.\n\nShe was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder. The jury also failed to reach a verdict on a further six counts of attempted murder, including all charges related to Baby K and Baby Q.\n\nIn a statement, Tony Chambers, the former CEO, said: \"All my thoughts are with the children at the heart of this case and their families and loved ones at this incredibly difficult time. I am truly sorry for what all the families have gone through.\n\n\"The crimes that have been committed are appalling and I am deeply saddened by what has come to light. As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff. I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\"\n\nHe added: \"I will co-operate fully and openly with any post-trial inquiry.\"\n\nIan Harvey said in a statement: \"At this time, my thoughts are with the babies whose treatment has been the focus of the trial and with their parents and relatives who have been through something unimaginable and I am sorry for all their suffering.\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff. I wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children. I believe there should be an inquiry that looks at all events leading up to this trial and I will help it in whatever way I can.\"\n\nThe Countess of Chester Hospital is now under new management and the neonatal unit no longer looks after such sick babies.\n\nThe current medical director at the hospital, Dr Nigel Scawn, said the whole trust was \"deeply saddened and appalled\" by Letby's crimes.\n\nHe said \"significant changes\" had been made at the hospital since Letby worked there and he wanted to \"provide reassurance to every patient who accesses our services that they can have confidence in the care that they will receive\".\n\nSince Letby left the hospital's neonatal unit, there has been only one death in seven years.\n\nWatch the full investigation, Panorama - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed - on BBC iPlayer", "Rescuers have released footage of two children being rescued from a cable car that had been dangling over a ravine in northern Pakistan.\n\nThey were brought to safety along a zip line.\n\nSix children and two adults were trapped for many hours hundreds of metres in the air.\n\nAll eight were successfully rescued.", "Pubs are calling for more flexible licensing laws during national events, such as Sunday's Women's World Cup final.\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) said the current rules were \"far too prescriptive\" when it came to one-off events of national interest.\n\nAs a result, many pubs had to wait until the second half of the game to be able to serve alcohol.\n\nThe government said it keeps licencing laws \"under review\".\n\nAhead of Sunday's match, which saw England's Lionesses defeated by Spain, pubs had called for rules to be relaxed to allow venues to serve drinks from 10:00 BST, before the game began.\n\nThe laws meant many were unable to serve alcoholic drinks until 11:00, with some being restricted until midday, according to the BBPA, which is an industry body.\n\nTemporary blanket tweaks to licensing laws that apply in England and Wales for special events have to be approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords under the Licensing Act 2003.\n\nBut with Parliament in recess, it would've required the government to recall MPs to make the change ahead of Sunday's final.\n\nThe government instead urged councils to speed up applications for temporary notices, allowing individual pubs to vary their hours.\n\nThe BBPA said that while it welcomed the government's efforts, many pubs still faced major restrictions on serving alcohol at the start or even during the game.\n\nIts chief executive, Emma McClarkin, said there needed to be an amendment to the Licensing Act 2003 to reflect the need for blanket licensing changes during national moments like the final.\n\n\"Despite the government's valuable work encouraging local authorities to support pubs on Sunday, we now need the law to reflect the reality that strict, prescriptive licensing cannot easily flex when key events are taking place while Parliament is not sitting,\" she said.\n\nMs McClarkin said the Licensing Act \"was never intended to be so inflexible as to stand in the way of communities coming together to enjoy a beer and celebrate one-off events of national interest\".\n\nShe urged MPs to work with the industry to get an amendment quickly agreed.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The government can already relax licensing hours for an occasion of exceptional international, national, or local significance. \"We keep the law under review and work closely with the licensed sector to ensure the regime remains fit for purpose and meets emerging challenges.\"\n\nDespite the licensing difficulties, pubs still enjoyed a World Cup final boost to sales, the BBPA said.\n\nMillions of people headed to their local pubs to watch the match on Sunday.\n\nThe BBPA said pubs across the country reported trading increases of between 14% and 28%, according to early indications.\n\nClair Preston-Beer, managing director at Greene King pubs, said customers came to its outlets to enjoy the game and soak up the atmosphere.\n\n\"We experienced a 142% increase in total drinks sales compared to this time last year across our Greene King Sport pubs during the match,\" she said.", "I've spent ten months in the presence of Lucy Letby, and I still don't understand her. I'm not sure what you'd expect Britain's most prolific child killer to look like. But I'm pretty sure it's not this.\n\nPhotos on social media chart Letby's old life - nights out with friends, dressed up and goofing about for the camera. She doesn't look like that now - her dyed blonde hair has returned to its natural brown.\n\nBehind the glass screen of the dock she cut a feeble figure, flanked by prison officers and clutching a pink scarf like a comforter. A severe expression replaced the smiles from her photos.\n\nThe families of the murdered babies filled the public gallery. Across the aisle, most of the seats were empty. But the nurse's mother and father, Susan and John, showed up, day after day. They were sometimes joined by one of their daughter's friends - the only one to come.\n\nMy berth on the press bench was no more than five metres away from Letby's seat. Every so often I'd look across at the nurse, to try to catch a glimpse of character. As bereaved parents recounted the horrors of watching their children die, the nurse maintained a neutral expression. No matter how emotionally charged the evidence was, she sat passively.\n\nVery rarely, as she was brought in and out, she'd look up and catch my eye, but just as quickly, she'd look away again. I tried to look into her soul. I drew a blank. I started to question whether we'd ever see the real Lucy Letby.\n\nThe trial began in October and as the court broke up for the holidays, I wondered what sort of Christmas she was having, behind bars in prison in Yorkshire.\n\nIt wasn't until February that I first saw a hint of emotion from Letby. It wasn't prompted by an upsetting piece of evidence, or harrowing testimony. It was the voice of a doctor that caused the nurse to break.\n\nShe couldn't see him - he was hidden behind screens to protect his identity - but she could hear him speak, and his voice seemed to trigger feelings we hadn't seen before.\n\nLater, Letby admitted she had \"loved him like a friend\". We were shown flirty texts between the two, which suggested that although the doctor was married, it might have been more than that. The prosecution painted him as her boyfriend.\n\nI found it interesting that while the nurse remained composed throughout months of evidence relating to the terrible suffering of tiny babies, her first sign of emotion seemed to be borne out of pangs of longing for this doctor.\n\nThere were only a handful of other occasions when tears came to the surface. During evidence about being taken off nursing duty, when excerpts of her post-arrest interviews were read out, and when it was mentioned she'd had suicidal thoughts.\n\nMuch later, when lead prosecutor Nick Johnson KC got to his feet to start cross-examining Letby, his first question was one I'd been wondering too.\n\n\"Is there any reason that you cry when you talk about yourself,\" he asked, \"but you don't cry when talking about these dead and seriously injured children?\"\n\n\"I have cried when talking about some of those babies,\" Letby replied.\n\nThe first buds of spring arrived, and the trial trundled on.\n\nThe dense evidence was hard going. Blood gas records. Fluid balance charts. Clinical notes. The glossary of medical terms handed to the media at the start of the trial had become redundant. By now we were all fluent in the terminology of neonatal medicine.\n\nThe prosecution's case was carefully built on data and documentation, but it wasn't evidence that gave any clue about Letby's character. As the case progressed without any insight into her possible motives, the nurse's personality remained the elephant in the room.\n\nOccasionally, something would cast a shard of light on Letby's life. The jury saw photos of her house taken by police after her arrest. Art covered in clichéd quotes hung on the walls. A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes. Sparkles Wherever You Go. Shine Bright Like A Diamond.\n\nThere were teddy bears on the bed. Artificial flowers. A fluffy pink dressing gown hanging on the back of her bedroom door. Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit. A Mrs Doubtfire DVD.\n\nTwo books sat by Letby's bedside. In Shock, a doctor's memoir about being dangerously ill after a miscarriage, and Never Greener, a novel about a young woman who had an affair with a married man.\n\nIn the autumn, the case had opened with a flourish when the prosecution produced a green post-it note discovered by police after Letby's arrest. Covered in a desperate scrawl, it included phrases like, I AM EVIL I DID THIS, I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough, I don't deserve to live, I am an awful person.\n\nThe prosecution held it up as a confession. The defence argued it was an anguished cri de coeur written by the wrongly accused.\n\nEither way, it was the most significant insight we had into Letby's state of mind. I wrote to the judge to ask for permission to make it public. He agreed.\n\nSeveral months on, the trial returned to the note. It turned out it wasn't the only scribbled memo police had found - Letby had covered all sorts of pieces of paper with her ramblings. Tightly packed lines of handwriting laid bare her mindset as she was taken off duty as a nurse and the net closed in.\n\nPlease help me, I can't do this any more, Hate my life, I want someone to help me but they can't were all scrawled alongside the names of friends, colleagues and the married doctor, whose name was embellished with love heart doodles.\n\nThe names of her cats, Tigger and Smudge, appeared frequently.\n\nOne of the notes was found inside Letby's 2016 diary, a journal with a cartoon bear on its cover and the tagline, \"Have a lovely year!\"\n\nWe were shown a week in which she'd noted a reminder to pay her council tax, and diarised a night out at a Mexican restaurant and a salsa class. This was the same week she murdered two brothers. The baby boys were triplets.\n\nI tried to get my head around the possibility of this double life.\n\nWhatsApp and Facebook messages Letby had sent to friends and colleagues were shown to the court every so often, but it was hard to build up a picture of the nurse's character through individual texts.\n\nI spent time compiling them and started to spot some interesting themes. Quite often she'd text other nurses to tell them about her involvement with babies who had collapsed - it looked like she was fishing for sympathy.\n\nCertain messages hinted at a possible God complex.\n\nOther texts sent a chill down my spine - including one written the night before she returned to work after a holiday.\n\nAnd one she sent about two brothers.\n\nIt was particularly fascinating to read Letby's texts as she began to realise she was under suspicion.\n\nWe were deep into the prosecution case, and I still couldn't marry up Letby's apparent normality with the enormity of the allegations she was facing - but the case against her was beginning to stack up.\n\nDawn didn't feature in the trial, but she and Letby go way back - they grew up together and are still in touch.\n\nDawn was immediately warm and likeable. We went for a drive and she pointed out the cathedral green where she and Letby used to hang out, and their favourite restaurants.\n\n\"That's where we used to spend lunch times, away from all the popular kids,\" Dawn told me as we drove past the geography block of their old school.\n\nShe laughed. \"No, we were the nerdy ones that concentrated on our studies, and didn't mess around in the lessons.\"\n\nThe friends had moved on to sixth form college together, and while most of their circle had no firm career plans, Dawn told me Letby was clear about her path.\n\n\"It was always her aspiration - her dream - to become a nurse and to help babies,\" Dawn said. \"She told me she'd had quite a difficult birth herself and was quite poorly, and I think that's affected a lot of her life.\n\n\"She feels that's what she was called to do - to help children who might have been born in similar circumstances.\"\n\nUnwavering in her loyalty and belief that her friend was incapable of murder, was it possible that Letby had pulled the wool over her eyes?\n\nDawn let out a long sigh, before answering.\n\n\"The only way I'd ever believe that she's guilty is if she tells me she's guilty,\" she said.\n\nI was struck by Dawn's certainty, but my own mind was far less settled. Like Dawn, I needed to hear directly from the nurse herself.\n\nProfessor David Wilson, a criminologist with an interest in healthcare serial killers, told me Letby was facing a \"crucial decision\" about whether to give evidence at the trial - or not.\n\n\"I've seen people do it and they unravel within the first five minutes,\" he said. \"They might be clever, they might actually hold their own, but their entire attitude in the witness box can really prejudice what the jury thinks about them.\"\n\nProfessor Wilson said the outcome of the entire case might hinge on whether or not Letby decided to take the stand herself - which she finally did, at the start of May.\n\nI came into court one morning, and Letby was sitting just in front of me, staring straight ahead. She looked tense and kept her hands clasped below the counter.\n\nShe was asked to stand, gave her name, and swore to tell the truth. I was gripped.\n\nThe nurse's defence barrister, Ben Myers KC, got to his feet. He started gently, with questions about Letby's childhood and school days - benign stuff, but I hung on every word - after seven months it was captivating just to hear her speak.\n\nLetby came across as well-spoken and unflustered, thoughtful and co-operative.\n\nI started to detect certain phrases she had on repeat. Asked about the Facebook searches she made for the babies' parents she replied: \"That was a normal pattern of behaviour for me.\"\n\nAnd asked about taking nursing documents home with her, and storing them? \"That was a normal pattern of behaviour for me,\" she said. It sounded rehearsed.\n\nAfter five days of relatively tame questioning from her own barrister, the prosecutor, Nick Johnson KC, bore down on Letby. The easy ride was over.\n\nWhat followed was the court at its most compelling. At first, Letby coped well. She clearly felt equal to her interrogator, and her knowledge of neonatal medicine was obvious - sometimes it veered on cocky.\n\nShe disagreed with established nursing guidelines, senior doctors, and medical experts. There were even moments when she tried to outsmart Johnson. Those never ended well.\n\nThe prosecutor picked holes in her testimony, pointing out the differences between what she'd told the police after her arrest, and what she was saying in court. He found examples of her disagreeing with herself - highlighting evidence she had previously agreed and was now disputing.\n\n\"You're lying aren't you, Lucy Letby?\" he'd ask her. \"You enjoyed what was going on didn't you, Lucy Letby?\"\n\n\"No,\" she'd answer, meekly. It was clear he was getting to her.\n\nThe defendant's delivery started to change. She became staccato and monosyllabic. Her voice level dropped to a whisper, and even though I was just a few metres away, it was becoming harder and harder to hear her.\n\nAnd then, for the first time, Letby asked to stop.\n\nNick Johnson had been asking her about each baby in the order they appeared on the charge sheet. We were only four babies in - I remember wondering how on earth she was going to manage to get through the remaining 13.\n\nThe jury was asked to leave the room, and we were told Letby's welfare officer had visited her. The court finished early for the day and the prosecution team walked out looking jubilant.\n\nThey had her on the ropes.\n\nIn total, Letby spent 14 days in the witness box and faced nearly 60 hours of questioning - but did I feel any clearer about her true self? No.\n\nShe returned to the glass walled dock for the rest of the trial. June turned to July. The lawyers closed their cases, and the judge summed up the evidence.\n\nNow the nurse's future was in the jury's hands. They had nine months of evidence, and 22 charges to work through. Was Letby evil personified, or a victim herself? How they felt about her would determine the rest of her life.\n\nThe smiling nurse with the sing-song name who went to salsa classes is now Britain's most prolific child murderer. Can anyone make sense of that? I know I can't.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, need help after reading this story, details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment two children were brought to safety along a zip line\n\nAll eight people who were stuck in a cable car dangling hundreds of metres above a ravine in Pakistan's north-west for many hours have now been rescued.\n\nIn a slow and dangerous operation, a military helicopter rescued one child, while teams on the ground recovered the rest of the group after dark.\n\nThey were helped to safety along a zip line, with a huge crowd on top of the hillside celebrating their rescue.\n\nThe group were on their way to school when one of the car's cables snapped.\n\nIt was left hanging precariously across 274m (900ft) above the ground and in high winds.\n\nPakistan's caretaker prime minister, Anwaar ul Haq Kakar, said he was relieved, and thanked all of those who were involved in the rescue.\n\nPakistan's army said the rescue mission had been \"extremely difficult and dangerous\".\n\nThe incident happened at about 07:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Tuesday near the city of Battagram in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.\n\nSix children, aged between 10 and 16 years old, were trapped, along with two adults.\n\nOne of the children, a teenage boy, has a heart condition and was unconscious for several hours, an adult on board named Gulfaraz told local media.\n\nA child also fainted due to \"heat and fear\", a rescue worker told Reuters news agency, although it was unclear if that was the same child.\n\nKnown by locals as \"Dolly\", the cable car links the village of Jangri to Batangi, where the school is located.\n\nThe car is a popular and cheap mode of transport to get across the Allai valley - cutting a two-hour road journey through mountainous terrain to just four minutes.\n\nWhen the cable suddenly snapped, Dolly was making its fifth trip of the day.\n\nResidents used loudspeakers to alert officials to the crisis, but it took at least four hours for the first rescue helicopter to arrive at the remote location, local media outlet Dawn reported.\n\nAnxious crowds, including relatives of those trapped, quickly gathered along the ravine, watching on as military helicopters battled against the strong winds to lower commandos to the stranded car.\n\nSeveral early attempts to reach them failed, however some food and water was successfully delivered.\n\nIn addition to gusty winds, there were concerns that the helicopter's rotor blades could further destabilise the cable car, and as night set in the operation was suspended.\n\nBut rescuers continued their efforts with the help of zip line experts and local people on the ground.\n\nAllai is a mountainous area, located at an altitude of 2000m above sea level. Settlements are spread far and wide and there is little infrastructure like roads and basic facilities.\n\nIn most of the area, makeshift chairlifts and cable cars are used regularly for transportation from one mountain to another.\n\nThe one involved in this incident is believed to be privately operated by residents, local media reported.\n\nPolice said they checked the lift every month, however BBC News has been unable to independently verify this.\n\nAnwaar ul Haq Kakar says he has ordered all privately-operated lifts to be inspected for safety.\n\nAdditional reporting from Zubair Khan, in Abbottabad, and Kelly Ng in Singapore.", "Baggage mishandling rates last year hit the highest in a decade globally as the airline industry scrambled to recover after the pandemic, a report shows.\n\nSome 26 million pieces of luggage were lost, delayed or damaged in 2022 - nearly eight bags in every 1,000.\n\nBut new data seen by the BBC indicates the situation is improving as passenger numbers return to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThis was down to more airport staff and automation technology, said Sita, which handles IT systems for 90% of airlines.\n\nBut that is no consolation to Chloe, whose bag got lost when she flew from the UK to Italy for a friend's wedding.\n\nInstead of sightseeing, the 27-year-old from Croydon said she spent the first hours of her holiday frantically running around the shops in search of emergency toiletries and clothes.\n\nChloe has not seen her suitcase since she checked it in at Gatwick on 1 August and flew to Pisa in Italy\n\n\"It was a lot of stress I didn't particularly want on my first holiday since 2014,\" she said. \"It also tainted the experience of seeing my friend get married... which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.\"\n\nChloe flew from Gatwick to Pisa with EasyJet on 1 August but her suitcase did not arrive on the baggage carousel. She filled in paperwork at the airport but then had to jump on a train to Florence where her friend was getting married.\n\nChloe said she was thankful she had packed her outfit for the wedding in her hand luggage.\n\n\"But there was the rest of my holiday and events around the wedding like a barbecue and a pool party where I didn't really feel comfortable having photos taken with me in the same outfit all the time,\" she said.\n\nChloe said losing her suitcase meant she was wearing the same clothes in every holiday photo\n\nEasyJet has apologised to Chloe and said it will keep looking for her bag for 45 days before changing its status from delayed to lost.\n\n\"That means I'm in limbo because I can't put a claim in for compensation from EasyJet or my travel insurance until they say it's lost,\" she said.\n\nChloe said the total value of her case and its contents was about £1,000. \"Some of it I've already had to buy again because there are things I need on a day-to-day basis so I'm already out of pocket,\" she said.\n\n\"You do get £25 per person per day for up to three days from EasyJet for toiletries and basic clothing. But that doesn't go very far.\"\n\nThe UK watchdog, the Civil Aviation Authority, said the maximum most airlines pay out is about £1,000 but added: \"It would be very rare for you to receive this much.\"\n\nIt also warned that airlines judge the value of an item on its age when lost, not how much it costs to buy new, so it might be better to claim via travel insurance.\n\nAirlines must track every piece of luggage at various points during its journey using the barcode on the luggage tag, according to Sita.\n\nLast year was the first summer that holidaymakers returned in droves after Covid travel restrictions were eased.\n\nBut many airports and airlines that had made cuts during the pandemic struggled to recruit staff including baggage handlers quickly enough.\n\nThe number of bags that were delayed, lost or damaged jumped to 7.6 pieces of luggage per 1,000 passengers in 2022, Sita's latest baggage insights report found.\n\nThis was the highest rate since 2012 when the overall figure was 26.3 million - nearly nine pieces mishandled per 1,000 passengers. The figure before the pandemic in 2019 was nearly six pieces per 1,000 passengers.\n\nThe report found the increase in 2022 was down to issues during transfers from flight to flight, which accounted for 42% of lost, damaged or delayed baggage.\n\nA technical malfunction meant baggage piled up at Heathrow Airport in June 2022\n\nNicole Hogg, Sita's head of baggage said: \"Post-pandemic we've seen staff shortages at the same time as a surge in passenger traffic.\n\n\"People are really anxious about travelling with baggage, we've seen that with the baggage mountains. I think what we want to do is put confidence back into passengers to travel with bags.\"\n\nSita has shared its provisional 2023 data with the BBC although it cannot work out the rate until it has passenger data for the whole of this year.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association (Iata) said there were 4.5 billion air passengers in 2019 and estimates this year will see 4.4 billion.\n\nIn the first half of 2023, the number of mishandled pieces of luggage was 5.7 million, down from 5.8 million in the first half of 2019.\n\n\"The trend started to sharply improve from May to the end of July 2023, with fewer bags being misplaced despite strong growth in passenger numbers going into the summer,\" Sita said.\n\nNicole Hogg said there was a less than 1% chance that you would lose your bag and never be reunited with it\n\nMs Hogg said airlines were using automation to prevent baggage mishandling and reunite people with lost luggage.\n\n\"The system is quite clever. There's an algorithm that basically works out what's the next best available flight, and that bag is then sent directly on that flight without any human intervention.\"\n\nShe said it was very rare that a bag that went missing was not found and sent back to its owner.\n\n\"I think a bag that is lost or never reunited with the passenger is because the tag had come off and there was no name or phone number on it. But it's less than a 1% chance - bags that are mishandled are always more than likely reunited with passengers,\" she said.\n\nA statement from EasyJet said \"incidents of lost luggage are extremely low\" and that it \"has one of the best performances in the industry\".\n\nFor now Chloe can only wait in hope that she is either reunited with her bag or able to claim enough to replace it.\n\nWhat should I do if my luggage is delayed, lost or damaged?", "A child has been rescued via zip line from a cable car dangling above a ravine near Battagram, a city in Pakistan's mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.\n\nDuring daylight hours a child was earlier rescued by a military helicopter.\n\nSix children and two adults had originally been trapped on the cable car but all were eventually rescued during the night.", "Rudy Giuliani, who served as Donald Trump's personal lawyer, in a police booking mugshot released by Fulton County Sheriff's Office\n\nRudy Giuliani, who was Donald Trump's personal lawyer, has surrendered at a jail in Atlanta, Georgia on charges of helping Mr Trump try to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.\n\nMr Giuliani, who was released on a $150,000 (£118,000) bond, faces 13 charges including racketeering.\n\nThe former New York mayor is one of 19 people, including Mr Trump, indicted in the election interference case.\n\nMr Trump has said he will attend jail to be booked on Thursday afternoon.\n\nWhile yet to enter a plea, he denies wrongdoing and has said the charges are politically motivated.\n\nLeaving the Fulton County jail, Mr Giuliani told reporters he was \"honoured\" to be involved in the case.\n\n\"This case is a fight for our way of life,\" he said. \"This indictment is a travesty.\"\n\nMr Giuliani and Mr Trump face the most charges among all those accused.\n\nBefore Mr Giuliani, seven of Mr Trump's other co-defendants had arrived in Atlanta to be processed, including lawyer John Eastman, Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall, and Sidney Powell - another lawyer who allegedly took a central role in efforts to undermine the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.\n\nFormer Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer, Cathy Latham, Ray Smith III and Kenneth Chesebro have also been booked at the jail.\n\nProsecutors in Fulton County have set a deadline of noon local time on Friday for each of the defendants to surrender. They will then appear in court to hear the charges against them at a later date.\n\nThose who were booked on Wednesday had mugshots taken and posted to the Fulton County website within hours. Mr Trump is also expected to get his mugshot taken.\n\n(L-R, top): Former Trump Lawyers Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis had mugshots taken at Fulton County Jail. (L-R, bottom): Fellow co-defendants Kenneth Chesebro, Cathy Latham and Ray Smith\n\nLike Mr Giuliani, the former president faces 13 charges including racketeering and election meddling. Mr Trump is yet to enter a plea, but he denies wrongdoing and has said the charges are politically motivated.\n\nIn a post on Wednesday to his social media site, Truth Social, Mr Trump said he would \"proudly be arrested\" on Thursday afternoon.\n\n\"Nobody has ever fought for election integrity like President Donald J. Trump,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump has already been granted a $200,000 bond and issued with other release conditions, such as being barred from using social media to directly or indirectly threaten alleged co-conspirators or potential witnesses.\n\nThe former president, who Forbes estimates to have a personal wealth of $2.5bn, has drawn criticism for not paying the legal fees of his co-defendants.\n\nOne of them, ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that \"this has became a bigger principle than just one man. So why isn't MAGA, Inc funding everyone's defence?\"\n\nAnother former Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen, now a fierce critic of his former boss, told CNN on Tuesday that Mr Trump was not paying Mr Giuliani's fees. The BBC has contacted Mr Giuliani's lawyer for comment.\n\nFormer White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, another co-defendant, filed court papers asking a judge for an immediate ruling on a bid to move his case from Fulton County to a federal court, or - alternatively - to issue an order shielding him from arrest in Georgia.\n\nThe filing came after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis denied a request to delay Mr Meadows' arrest. An email from Ms Willis included in the filing said Mr Meadows \"is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction\".\n\nA similar request was made by former justice department official Jeffrey Clark. Lawyers for both men have argued that their alleged actions should be handled by the federal court system, as they were federal officials at their time of their alleged involvement in the case.\n\nThe Georgia case is the latest in a series of criminal indictments filed against Mr Trump.\n\nHe faces 78 charges across three other criminal cases, including an investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "John Jackson is excited about the future of video gaming\n\n\"It's massive. This is an opportunity for eSports to overflow into the mainstream media.\"\n\nIt is clear John Jackson is looking forward to the Commonwealth eSports Championships taking place in Birmingham this weekend.\n\nShort for electronic sports - it allows people to compete at video games.\n\nESports is being piloted at the Commonwealth Games for the first time this year, with the tournament taking place on 6 and 7 August.\n\nMr Jackson, who is Wales team manager and chief executive of eSports Wales, hopes the event will showcase new talent.\n\nPeachy Bell, 22, from Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, is part of the team - she has been gaming since 2018 and has completed about 3,000 hours of game time.\n\nIt may sound like a lot, but not when you consider pros have amassed tens of thousands of hours.\n\nVideo gamers hope to one day join the Olympics movement\n\n\"I never though it would be like this. They were like you 'never know one day it might at the Olympics',\" she said.\n\n\"That is so weird. It is a weird concept but it's becoming more normalised now.\n\n\"You used to have events just for eSports and not joining in with more physical activities, it is a bit crazy.\n\n\"I think it's definitely a good thing. People judge you when you say 'I want to play this professionally' but if you have things like the Commonwealth behind you, then it becomes a more viable thing that people want to get into professionally.\"\n\nPeachy Bell is one of the Welsh stars\n\nLooking to the future, Mr Jackson hopes that the eSports pilot will be a success, and that the sport will become a permanent fixture in the sporting calendar.\n\n\"I think it's massive. At the moment this is the first one, the Commonwealth. Hopefully going forward we'll get involved in the Olympics,\" he said.\n\nHe is also known as Slayer John in the eSports world, and believes it is about attracting new players to the sport and giving them something to aim for.\n\n\"It's about building that aspiration, getting players to think they can play for Wales. Like you would have someone doing athletics, and in four years' time, they get to represent their country if they work hard enough. It's a case for having that for the gamers and eSports players and going 'this is the route for us'.\n\n\"One of the things with it being a country, and representing your country, it allows a lot of people to get involved, to get behind your team.\"\n\nHe said it \"Wales, it's England, it's Scotland, it's Ireland\", adding: \"You know these, you've watched the rugby, you've watched the football.\"", "Lucy Letby, 33, targeted babies when she was working as a neonatal nurse\n\nNurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies on a neonatal unit, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.\n\nThe 33-year-old has also been convicted of trying to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nLetby deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin.\n\nShe refused to appear in the dock for the latest verdicts.\n\nThey have been delivered by the jury over several hearings but they were not reportable until jurors were discharged.\n\nLetby broke down in tears as the first set of guilty verdicts were read out by the jury's foreman on 8 August after 76 hours of deliberations.\n\nShe cried with her head bowed as the second set were returned on 11 August.\n\nHer mother sobbed loudly and was heard to say \"this can't be right - you can't be serious\" while the families of the babies cried and gasped.\n\nLetby, originally from Hereford, was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nThe jury was unable to reach verdicts on six further attempted murder charges.\n\nNicholas Johnson KC, prosecuting, asked the court for 28 days to consider whether a retrial would be sought for these remaining six counts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nDuring the trial, which started in October 2022, the prosecution labelled Letby as a \"calculating and devious\" opportunist who \"gaslighted\" colleagues to cover her \"murderous assaults\".\n\nShe was convicted following a lengthy investigation by Cheshire Police into the alarming and unexplained rise in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies at the hospital.\n\nBefore June 2015, there were fewer than three baby deaths per year on the neonatal unit.\n\nHer defence team argued the deaths and collapses were the result of \"serial failures in care\" in the unit and she was the victim of a \"system that wanted to apportion blame when it failed\".\n\nThe trial lasted for more than 10 months and it is believed to be the longest murder trial in the UK.\n\nLetby was charged in November 2020 with murder and attempted murder\n\nOne of the babies' family members left the courtroom when the jury foreman said it was not possible to return verdicts on the remaining six counts, while a couple of jurors appeared upset.\n\nAs the judge discharged the jury, he told the panel of four men and seven women that it had \"been a most distressing and upsetting case\" and they were excused from serving on juries in the future.\n\nLetby will be sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.\n\nShe has indicated - via her legal team - that she does not want to attend her sentencing hearing or follow proceedings via a videolink from prison.\n\nThe reasons for her non-attendance have not yet been disclosed by the judge.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the Lord Chancellor had been clear that he wanted victims to see justice delivered and for all those found guilty to hear society's condemnation at their sentencing hearing.\n\n\"Defendants can already be ordered by a judge to attend court with those who fail facing up to two years in prison,\" the spokesman added.\n\nLegislation to force convicted criminals to appear in court for their sentencing is currently being examined.\n\nThe jury was shown a note, found at her home, which read: \"I am evil I did this\"\n\nThe parents of twin brothers who were among Letby's 13 victims have told the BBC the nurse was a \"hateful human being\" who had taken \"everything\" from them.\n\nLetby murdered one of their baby boys, and tried to kill the other twin the following day.\n\nThey said their child, who is now seven years old, was badly harmed by Letby and has been left with severe learning difficulties and \"a lot of complex needs\".\n\n\"There's a consequence and he's living with it,\" his mother said.\n\nJanet Moore, Cheshire Police's family liaison officer, speaking on behalf of the babies' families, said it had been a \"long, torturous and emotional journey\".\n\n\"We are heartbroken, devastated, angry and feel numb,\" she said.\n\n\"We may never truly know why this has happened.\"\n\nSenior Crown Prosecutor Pascale Jones said the nurse \"did her utmost to conceal her crimes, by varying the ways in which she repeatedly harmed babies in her care\".\n\nShe said Letby \"sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby's existing vulnerability\".\n\n\"She perverted her learning and weaponised her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.\"\n\nDetectives are continuing to review the care of some 4,000 babies admitted to hospital while Letby was working as a neonatal nurse.\n\nThe period covers her spell at the Countess of Chester Hospital from January 2012 to the end of June 2016, and includes two work placements at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015.\n\nCheshire Police emphasised that only those cases highlighted as medically concerning would be investigated further.\n\nThey added that the review at Liverpool Women's Hospital did not involve any deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked has told the BBC that hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against the nurse and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015 but he said no action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nBBC Panorama and BBC News have been investigating how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long.\n\nDr Ravi Jayaram, a consultant paediatrician at the hospital, wrote on social media that the truth of what happened would \"shock you to the core\".\n\n\"There are bad people in all walks of life and many of them are very good at hiding in plain sight,\" he said.\n\n\"There are also people in highly paid positions of responsibility in healthcare whose job it is to ensure patient safety.\"\n\nHe said he felt relief that the \"often-maligned criminal justice system\" had \"properly worked\" this time.\n\nBut he said there were \"things that need to come out about why it took several months from concerns being raised to the top brass before any action was taken to protect babies\".\n\nHe added: \"And why from that time it then took almost a year for those highly-paid senior managers to allow the police to be involved.\"\n\nThe government has since ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind Letby's killing spree following her conviction.\n\nThe Department of Health said the inquiry would investigate the wider circumstances around what happened at the hospital, including the handling of concerns and governance, and would also look at what actions were taken by regulators and the wider NHS.\n\nPrior to the government's announcement, Dr Nigel Scawn, executive medical director from the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said he was \"deeply saddened and appalled\" at Letby's crimes.\n\nHe said the trust was committed to learning lessons and would support its staff who had been \"devastated\" by what happened.\n\n\"We are grateful for the cooperation of our staff, especially those who have maintained the utmost professionalism whilst giving evidence in the trial, sometimes on multiple occasions,\" he added.\n\nIan Harvey, a former medical director at the hospital, said he would help the inquiry \"in whatever way I can\".\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff.\n\nI wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children,\" he said.\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nTony Chambers, former chief executive of the hospital, said he was \"truly sorry\" for what the families had gone through and he would \"co-operate fully and openly\" with any post-trial inquiry.\n\n\"As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff,\" said Mr Chambers, who served six years in his post before he resigned in September 2018.\n\n\"I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\n\n\"The trial, and the lengthy police investigation, have shown the complex nature of the issues raised.\n\n\"There are always lessons to be learnt and the best place for this to be achieved would be through an independent inquiry.\"\n\nOperation Hummingbird was launched in 2017 by Cheshire Police and Letby was first arrested at her home in Chester in July 2018.\n\nDetectives gathered 32,000 pages of evidence, sifting through reams of medical records, and interviewed 2,000 people, with 250 identified as potential witnesses.\n\nDet Supt Paul Hughes, who was the senior investigating officer (SIO) in the case said it had \"been an investigation like no other - in scope, complexity and magnitude\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Nicola Evans, who was the deputy SIO, described the case as \"truly crushing\", adding there were \"no winners\".\n\n\"The compassion and strength shown by the parents - and wider family members - has been overwhelming,\" she said.\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Glasgow City Council has spent almost £100,000 to hire vehicles to replace parts of its fleet that do not comply with its low-emission zone (LEZ).\n\nFigures also reveal the council was fined several times because its vehicles breached the rules.\n\nThe LEZ launched in June in a bid to improve air quality in the city centre.\n\nThe SNP-run council said the cost was mitigated by taking older vehicles out of service. The Tories said the rental outlay was \"farcical\".\n\nThe LEZ covers an area from the M8 motorway to the north and west of Glasgow, the River Clyde to the south, and the Saltmarket/High Street to the east.\n\nIn response to a freedom of information request, the council said that between 12 June and 14 July it had spent £95,344 hiring 131 vehicles to cover fleet vehicles that do not meet LEZ standards.\n\nThis included two eight-tonne DAF trucks, a Skyking cherry picker, a Mercedes refrigeration van, 52 Ford Transit vans and 22 Vauxhall Corsa cars.\n\nThe council said some of the 131 vehicles were hired to replace older non-compliant parts of the fleet that were earmarked for removal as part of a planned process, rather than specifically because they were required in the LEZ zone.\n\nIt said £74,128 was spent in the two months from 1 June on hiring 50 vehicles for LEZ compliance purposes.\n\nEvery non-compliant vehicle detected in the LEZ zone initially faces a fine of £60.\n\nCars and light-goods vehicles face fines of up to £480 per day for repeated breaches of the rules, known as surcharging, with penalties of up to £960 for buses and HGVs.\n\nExemptions are available for blue badge holders, motorbikes, mopeds and emergency vehicles.\n\nBut in general petrol cars made before 2005 and diesels built before September 2014 are not allowed in the zone.\n\nThe council said 21 of its vehicles had been issued penalty charge notices by 27 July.\n\nHowever, nine were subsequently cancelled as the vehicles were found to be LEZ compliant.\n\nScottish Conservative transport spokesman Graham Simpson urged the council to reconsider its LEZ scheme.\n\n\"It is farcical that the SNP-run council have spent these eyewatering sums on hiring vehicles to replace those that did not comply with the new rules,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone wants to improve air quality in our cities but it is high time council bosses started listening to people, businesses and charities over how low emission zones are being imposed.\"\n\nA council spokesperson said only a limited part of its fleet would be required to enter the city-centre LEZ, and those that do will be required to meet the emission standards.\n\n\"New vehicles which meet LEZ requirements are expected to be delivered to us in the near future and we are also retrofitting existing vehicles to improve emissions standards across our fleet,\" they said.\n\n\"LEZ compliant vehicles have been hired in the short term to ensure emissions standards are met.\n\n\"The cost of these hires has been mitigated by taking a number of older vehicles out of service in line with our fleet replacement programme, offsetting their operational costs.\"", "A red-roofed house was spared from the Lahaina fires while many others were reduced to rubble\n\nPictures have gone viral of a single red-roofed home that appears virtually unscathed as the neighbourhood around it has been reduced to piles of ash and rubble from the Maui fires.\n\nThe 100-year-old wood house on Front Street is still standing as most of the town of Lahaina has been destroyed.\n\nIts owners have been left wondering what spared it.\n\nFrom pictures, \"it looks like it was photoshopped in\", owner Trip Millikin told Honolulu Civil Beat.\n\nThe search and recovery efforts are still ongoing in Maui, with 114 confirmed deaths so far.\n\nOfficials say some 850 people are missing, but over 1,200 people who had been on the list have been found safe.\n\nThe blazes destroyed most of the historic Maui town of Lahaina and the fires are now considered the worst natural disaster in Hawaii state history.\n\nPresident Joe Biden arrived in Hawaii on Monday to see the devastation.\n\nThe red-roofed home's owners were on a trip to Massachusetts when they heard news of the fire.\n\nMr Millikin and his wife learnt that the whole neighbourhood had been caught in the blaze and would likely burn down. But the next morning, aerial footage showed their house was intact.\n\n\"We started crying,\" he told Honolulu Civil Beat. \"I felt guilty. We still feel guilty.\"\n\nMr Millikin and his wife said they are unsure exactly what saved their home. Two years ago, the couple purchased the 100-year-old property that used to be a bookkeeper's house for employees of a sugar plantation.\n\nMr Millikin and his wife said the house was in disrepair, so they sought to restore it. It may have been these renovations that saved the home, the pair told US media.\n\nThey switched out the home's asphalt roof for one with heavy-gauge metal, surrounded the house with river stones and removed foliage around it. But none of these actions were meant to stop a blaze, they said.\n\n\"It's a 100% wood house, so it's not like we fireproofed it or anything,\" Dora Atwater Millikin told the Los Angeles Times.\n\nShe said as the fires blazed, large pieces of wood would hit people's roofs. \"If it was an asphalt roof, it would catch on fire. And otherwise, they would fall off the roof and then ignite the foliage around the house,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the home's distance from its neighbours may have also served as a cushion.\n\nThe couple say they hope to return to Lahaina when it's safe, and when they do, they plan to offer up their home for the many who have lost theirs.\n\n\"Many people have died,\" said Ms Atwater Millikin. \"So many people have lost everything, and we need to look out for each other and rebuild. Everybody needs to help rebuild.\"", "The Spanish football team continued to celebrate their Women's World Cup win as they landed in Madrid.\n\nDefender Ivana Andrés held the trophy aloft as they exited the plane.\n\n\"This is amazing, amazing, just amazing,\" said fellow player Irene Paredes, clutching the golden trophy, as she boarded the team's coach.\n\nSpain beat England 1-0 in the World Cup final in Sydney on Sunday.", "The head of Ukraine's Donetsk region Pavlo Kyrylenko posted photos of the damage on Telegram\n\nThree people have been killed in Russian artillery fire near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman, Ukrainian authorities say.\n\nThe three who reportedly died - two women and a man aged 63 to 88 - were sitting on a bench in the village of Torske when shelling hit.\n\nThe area is close to the front line and regularly comes under attack.\n\nMeanwhile a drone attack on the Danube river port of Izmail destroyed 13,000 tons of grain.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the grain had been destined for export to Egypt and Romania and the drone strike had reduced the port's export capacity by 15%.\n\n\"Russia is systematically hitting grain silos and warehouses to stop agricultural exports,\" he said.\n\nOver the past month Russian strikes on its sea and river ports had destroyed 270,000 tons of grain, he said.\n\nElsewhere, there have been reports of explosions in the port city of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea.\n\nThe peninsula's Russian-appointed proxy governor said the fleet was conducting firing exercises.\n\nMeanwhile, four civilians were injured by mortar fire and a residential building was damaged by two drones in Seredyna-Buda, in the Sumy region of north-eastern Ukraine, the regional military administration said on Facebook.", "Bosses at Britain's biggest companies saw their pay rise by almost 16% on average last year as most workers' wages were squeezed by rising prices.\n\nThe High Pay Centre said the median pay of a FTSE 100 chief executive was £3.91m in 2022, up from £3.38m in 2021.\n\nIt added that the average earnings of a FTSE 100 boss was 118 times more than a typical UK worker on £33,000 a year.\n\nCritics called the earnings extreme, but some of the firms argued they were in line with competitors.\n\nAccording to the High Pay Centre - a think tank which tracks executives' pay - the highest paid boss last year was Sir Pascal Soriot, the boss of the drugs giant AstraZeneca, with £15.3m.\n\nThe British-Swedish company became a household name when it teamed up with Oxford University scientists to develop a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nCharles Woodburn of security and aerospace firm BAE Systems was the second highest earner with £10.7m, while Emma Walmsley, boss of GlaxoSmithKline, was the highest female earner with £8.45m.\n\nBen van Beurden, the former boss of energy giant Shell with £9.7m, and BP's Bernard Looney securing £10m featured in the top six biggest earners after both firms reported record profits on soaring energy prices.\n\nThe think tank, which analysed the pay of chief executives of all companies on the UK's blue chip company index through firms' annual reports for 2022, reported median pay was more than £500,000 up on 2021, continuing its upward trend since it dropped to £2.46m in 2020 during the height of the pandemic.\n\nThe High Pay Centre said the rise was in part due to the economic recovery following lockdowns and through bosses having \"strong incentive pay awards tied to profitability and share prices\".\n\nHowever, earnings are still not as high as they were in 2017 when they hit £3.97m.\n\nThe centre said the gap between company executives and other workers' pay had widened further last year.\n\nThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) said the report showed Britain was a \"land of grotesque extremes\".\n\n\"We need an economy that delivers better living standards for all - not just those at the top,\" said Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC.\n\nBut economic think tank the Adam Smith Institute said \"knee-jerk attacks\" on chief executive pay were unhelpful, and said more attention needed to be applied to the benefits for the wider economy.\n\nIn response to the report, AstraZeneca said 12% of Sir Pascal's pay was fixed, while 88% of it was subject to share price and performance. The firm's share price has soared 81% in the past five years.\n\nThe company also pointed out that on a global basis, its chief executive pay was below big pharmaceutical competitors.\n\nAstraZeneca's chief executive Pascal Soriot was the highest paid boss on the FTSE 100\n\nBP, Shell and other energy firms have faced criticism over the extent of their profits at a time when high energy prices have been a big driver in the cost of living rising.\n\nShell told the BBC the £9.7m figure was Mr van Beurden's \"single figure remuneration\", which included a £1.42m salary, £2.59m bonus, Long Term Incentive Payment worth £4.9m, plus pension and other taxable benefits.\n\nA spokesperson said its \"executive remuneration\" was \"benchmarked against a broad range of European multinational companies\", adding that data from the past 10 years showed its senior leaders were \"paid competitively\".\n\nAlthough a single figure is disclosed as the pay package of a chief executive, it typically consists more than just a base salary, with bonuses, incentives and pension pay also included.\n\nBase salary represents only 21% of total FTSE 100 bosses' remuneration on average, the High Pay Centre said - a direct contrast to most UK workers.\n\nGillian Wilmot, who runs remuneration committees at various listed and private companies, told the BBC's Today programme that the companies highlighted were at \"the very top bar\"\n\n\"It's a bit like comparing half a dozen premiership footballers with most people in sport... it gives a very false view of business.\"\n\nShe also said that there was a \"narrow talent pool\" considered appointable to these roles. \"We need to broaden the talent pool. It's very undiverse, very few women.\"\n\nOutside of the biggest firms, workers' wages on average have failed keep up with rising prices, especially for gas, electricity and food during last year and this year so far.\n\nInflation, which is the rate consumer prices rise at, is currently at 6.8% in the year to July. However, the figure was much higher throughout the majority of 2022, peaking at 11.1% last October, meaning back then goods on average were more than 10% more expensive compared to prices the year before.\n\nLatest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show regular pay growth, which excludes bonuses, reached 7.8% over the three months to June compared to a year earlier, but actually dropped by 0.6% once inflation was taken into account.\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey told the BBC last year that workers should not ask for big pay rises to try to stop prices rising out of control, comments which resulted in backlash from unions and the government's distancing itself from the stance.\n\nLuke Hildyard, director at the High Pay Centre, said \"at a time when so many households are struggling with living costs, an economic model that prioritises a half-a-million-pound pay rise for executives who are already multi-millionaires is surely going wrong somewhere\".\n\nThe think tank called for a requirement for companies to include a minimum of two elected workforce representatives on the remuneration committees that set pay.\n\nGary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union, said if the government \"genuinely think high wages are going to cause spiralling inflation, they probably need to think about curbing pay at the top of the tree, rather than everyone else\".\n\n\"While workers in sectors across the board were forced onto picket lines to make ends meet, these top brass were trousering fortunes,\" he added.\n\nBut Duncan Simpson, executive director at the Adam Smith Institute economic think tank, argued that the pay of chief executives was \"all too often\" criticised \"without further thought\".\n\n\"16% is a marked increase. But company leaders provide value to customers with the products and services they sell, to pensioners with dividends from profits they generate and to HMRC through tax receipts,\" he said.\n\n\"Knee-jerk attacks remain an unhelpful way to look at the private sector which employs over 80% of workers in the UK and generates benefits across society.\"\n\nThe BBC also contacted BAE systems, GlaxoSmithKline, and BP for comment in relation to the pay packets of chief executives.", "Lucy Letby was convicted of murder and attempted murder while working as a neonatal nurse\n\nNeonatal nurse Lucy Letby, who is the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern British history, will spend the rest of her life behind bars.\n\nThe 33-year-old was convicted on Friday of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nLetby deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin.\n\nShe refused to appear in the dock for her sentencing hearing.\n\nThe judge proceeded without her and said he was addressing her as if she were in the dock.\n\nLetby was given multiple whole-life terms - one for each offence - becoming only the fourth woman in UK history to receive such a sentence.\n\nWhole-life orders are the most severe punishment available and are reserved for those who commit the most heinous crimes.\n\nMr Justice Goss said the \"cruelty and calculation\" of Letby's actions between June 2015 and June 2016 were \"truly horrific\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"You acted in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies and in gross breach of the trust that all citizens place in those who work in the medical and caring professions,\" he said.\n\nHe added handover sheets relating to all but the first four babies were found when police searched Letby's home, which he was satisfied she kept as \"morbid records\".\n\nPassing sentence, he said: \"There was a malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions.\n\n\"During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing.\n\n\"You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors.\"\n\nHe said Letby, originally from Hereford, would be provided with copies of his remarks and the personal statements of the parents.\n\nLucy Letby pictured during her first interview in police custody in 2018\n\nBen Myers KC, defending Letby, said the neonatal nurse had \"maintained her innocence throughout these proceedings\" so there was nothing he was \"able to add in mitigation that was capable of reducing the sentence\".\n\nAs the hearing began, there was silence, which hung heavy, as those in courtroom seven at Manchester Crown Court waited for the judge to enter the room.\n\nEight of the jurors who tried Letby over 10 months were in attendance. Some were visibly upset as they heard about the grief, loss and distress suffered by each family.\n\nParents cried quietly in the public gallery as victim impact statements were heard. Their words made it clear the effect on their lives would be never-ending.\n\nLetby's parents, who had been present throughout her trial, did not attend her sentence hearing.\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe mother of a baby boy killed by Letby said she was \"horrified that someone so evil exists\".\n\nAddressing an empty dock, the mother of Baby C, who became emotional, told the court that knowing now that her son's murderer had been watching over them throughout those traumatic hours was like \"something out of a horror story\".\n\nThe mother of Baby D, who was holding a toy rabbit as she read her statement, said Letby's \"wicked sense of entitlement and abuse of her role as a trusted nurse\" was a \"scandal\".\n\nBaby E and F's mother described Letby as a \"coward\" for failing to attend the sentencing hearing, adding: \"Our world was shattered when we encountered evil disguised as a caring nurse.\"\n\n\"We have attended court day in and day out, yet she decides she has had enough, and stays in her cell - just one final act of wickedness from a coward,\" she said.\n\nThe parents of Baby G, who was the most premature of all the babies, weighing just 535g (1lb 3oz), and who now requires constant care, told the court: \"God saved her\" but then \"the devil found her\".\n\nThe parents of Baby N, who Letby attempted to murder in June 2016, said the family still had a camera in their now seven-year-old's bedroom so they can check on him while he sleeps.\n\n\"We are extremely protective,\" they said.\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nA total of 70 criminals are serving a whole-life order, four of whom are being held in secure hospitals.\n\nThey will never be considered for release, unless there are exceptional compassionate grounds to warrant it.\n\nThe other women to have been given a whole-life sentence are serial killers Rose West and Joanna Dennehy, as well as Moors murderer Myra Hindley, who died in 2002.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"get on\" and bring forward proposals to force offenders to face their victims after Letby refused to appear in the dock.\n\n\"I want to see action as quickly as possible in this case, because victims' families have been through the most awful ordeal,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope the government will do it because I think it can be done very quickly.\"\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said Letby was \"not just a murderer but a coward, whose failure to face her victims' families, refusing to hear their impact statements and society's condemnation, is the final insult\".\n\n\"We are looking to change the law so offenders can be compelled to attend sentencing hearings,\" he said.\n\nEarlier Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also said it was \"cowardly\" for convicted criminals not to face victims or their families in court.\n\nThe government has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind Letby's killing spree but, as it stands, the inquiry will not have the power to compel witnesses to give evidence.\n\nAs a result of this, concerns have been raised by some about how effective the inquiry will be in examining the case.\n\nAmong them is Labour's City of Chester MP Samantha Dixon who told the BBC the inquiry would have to rely on \"the goodwill of witnesses to attend\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nThe lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked previously said hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015 with hospital managers, including Alison Kelly, who was in charge of nursing at the time.\n\nBut he said no action was taken and Letby went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nMs Kelly has since been suspended as director of nursing for Rochdale Care Organisation, which is part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nNHS England said the decision was made \"in light of information that had emerged during the trial\".\n\nFollowing the verdicts on Friday, the prosecution's lead medical expert in the case, Dr Dewi Evans, said hospital executives who failed to act should be investigated by police.\n\nHe said he intended to write to Cheshire Police to ask the force to investigate bosses for not acting on the concerns of doctors.\n\nTony Chambers, former chief executive of the hospital, previously said he was \"truly sorry\" for what the families had gone through and he would \"co-operate fully and openly\" with any post-trial inquiry.\n\n\"As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff,\" he said.\n\n\"I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\"\n\nIan Harvey, a former medical director at the hospital, also said he would help the inquiry \"in whatever way I can\".\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff,\" he said.\n\n\"I wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Stephen Brearey, lead consultant on the neonatal unit, raised concerns about her in October 2015\n\nHospital managers should be regulated in a similar way to doctors and nurses, the senior doctor who first raised concerns about Lucy Letby has said.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey was the lead consultant on the neonatal unit where serial killer Letby worked and raised the alarm in October 2015.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there was \"no apparent accountability\" for what NHS managers do in trusts.\n\nLetby was handed a whole life sentence on Monday at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nShe murdered seven babies and attempted to murder six others in a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire.\n\nThe first five murders in all happened between June and October 2015 and - despite months of warnings - the final two were in June 2016.\n\nIn an interview, Dr Brearey claimed senior staff at the Countess of Chester Hospital were worried about reputational damage to the organisation.\n\nHe said that instead of acting on his warnings he and his colleagues lives were made very difficult - so much so that they felt under attack. \"You go to senior colleagues with a problem, and you come away confused and anxious,\" Dr Brearey explained.\n\nAnd he claimed his experience was not uncommon in the NHS. Dr Brearey said he had been contacted by clinicians across the UK \"in the last three days\" who tell him \"clinicians raised concerns with senior members of the hospital and their lives were made very difficult by doing that\".\n\n\"I can't emphasise enough how difficult a position this puts the clinician in,\" he went on to say. \"Carrying out your clinical practice in that environment is very difficult.\"\n\nThe consultant added: \"Doctors and nurses all have the regulatory bodies that we have to answer to, and quite often we'll see senior managers who have no apparent accountability for what they do in our trusts and then move to other trusts.\"\n\nHe said he worries about senior managers' future actions, adding that \"there doesn't seem to be any system to make them accountable, and for them to justify their actions in a systematic way\".\n\nDr Brearey also said he did not consider himself a whistleblower, but \"I was simply trying to escalate concerns that all my colleagues shared, of a spike in mortality, an association with a member of staff, the unusual nature of these events, and the unusual timing of these events.\n\n\"We had reviewed all the cases on multiple occasions with an external expert and put all those concerns on paper and I felt really I was following a process rather than speaking out.\"\n\nIn a statement, an NHS spokesperson said: \"It is absolutely vital that everyone working in the NHS feels they can raise concerns and that these are acted on and we have reminded NHS leaders about the importance of this following the verdict last week.\"\n\nThey added that every NHS trust is expected to adopt an updated Freedom To Speak Up policy, and ensure the information is easily accessible to staff.\n\nDr Naru Narayanan, president of the doctors' union the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, told Sky News there should \"better protection for people who raise concerns\".\n\n\"But we see time and again that people who do so face retribution, revenge and retaliation, and they fear for their careers,\" Dr Narayanan added.\n\nThis is not the first time there has been a call for the professional regulation of managers.\n\nA series of reviews over the past decade or so have put forward proposals for greater oversight of managers in the health service, including the Francis Review into the Stafford Hospital scandal.\n\nDoctors and nurses have to measure up to fitness to practice standards and must be registered with a regulatory body that aims to ensure they are safe to care for patients.\n\nBut NHS managers do not. A code of conduct was established in 2002, asking that managers act in the best interest of patients and listen to concerns when they are raised. However, there is no real national mechanism to ensure the code is applied.\n\nIn recent years the government has talked about beefing up regulation, but nothing concrete has happened that has radically changed the approach to NHS management.\n\nSupporters of regulation believe it would also lead to the introduction of consistent training and standards for managers - but there are concerns about cost and introducing more regulation and red-tape. There is already an inspection regime covering all NHS services that is meant to ensure staff including managers are providing safe care and have proper procedures in place to address that when it is not.\n\nOn Friday, the government announced an independent inquiry into the events surrounding the Letby case.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan has said the inquiry should consider whether NHS managers need to be regulated in the same way as doctors.\n\nDr Brearey has said that given the \"magnitude of the events that occurred\" and the impact Letby's crimes have had on so many families, the inquiry should be judge led and have statutory powers - so witnesses can be forced to give evidence if needed. It is \"clearly what the parents deserve,\" he added.\n\nCurrently, the inquiry that has been announced is non-statutory, meaning it has lesser powers.\n\nAsked whether the inquiry should be statutory, Ms Keegan said that option \"is on the table\" and \"can be discussed\".\n\nThe inquiry aims to look into the wider circumstances surrounding what happened, including the handling of clinicians' concerns.\n\nFormer chief executive of the hospital Tony Chambers and former medical director Ian Harvey, who were in charge at the time Letby was working at the hospital, have said they will co-operate fully with the inquiry.\n\nAlison Kelly, who was the senior manager in charge of nursing at the time, is being investigated, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, or NMC, said on Tuesday.\n\nShe had previously been suspended from her current role as director of nursing for Rochdale Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance, \"in light of information\" that emerged during the trial.\n\nNMC, the nursing regulator in the UK, said it will investigate Ms Kelly's role as director of nursing at the Countess of Chester Hospital, a position she left in 2021.\n\nSeparately, calls are growing for the government to change the law to compel convicts to attend sentencing. Letby refused to turn up in the dock at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.\n\nThe judge proceeded without her and addressed her as if she were in the dock.\n\nLetby was given multiple whole-life terms - one for each offence - becoming only the fourth woman in UK history to receive the sentence of whole life order. The trial lasted for more than 10 months and is believed to be the longest murder trial in the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said it was \"cowardly that people who commit such horrendous crimes do not face their victims\".\n\nBBC Panorama and BBC News investigated how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long. The 33-year-old deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin.", "Katie Jackson said at-home smear tests would make people feel more comfortable doing them\n\nAt-home smear tests should be introduced in Wales, campaigners say.\n\nFor women aged 25 to 64 a smear test is an effective way of detecting human papillomavirus (HPV) and preventing cervical cancer.\n\nLove Your Period campaigners said self-sampling at home would encourage more people to have the tests.\n\nThe Welsh government said it followed advice from the UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC), which is yet to make a recommendation on self-sampling.\n\nHowever, it said Public Health Wales (PHW) was considering how the tests could be implemented in Wales.\n\nCurrently, women in Wales are invited for a screening to check for the presence of high-risk HPV every five years.\n\nKatie Jackson is a teacher from Wrexham who lives with endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).\n\nThe 25-year-old uses platforms such as TikTok and Instagram to start conversations about women's health.\n\n\"I've always worried about having my smear test,\" she said.\n\n\"I've heard people saying how because of the trauma they've gone through, they just don't want to go for their smear test because they've got so much fear.\"\n\nKatie Jackson said she always worries about smear tests\n\nKatie said she \"cried in her car for about half an hour\" after having her first smear \"because the pain was so bad\".\n\nTherefore, she said being able to self-sample and recover afterwards \"in the comfort of your own home\" would make her \"feel a lot more comfortable\".\n\nThe primary school teacher said she was confident the ability to self-sample \"would save lives\".\n\nLove Your Period campaigners Molly Fenton and Jess Moultrie, hope self-sampling could increase the number of people being tested.\n\n\"HPV testing itself can be lifesaving, picking up cervical cancer. We just want to make that available to more people,\" said Molly.\n\nShe said the campaign team has heard from many within the LGBTQ+ community, particularly from those who have cervixes but do not identify as women.\n\nShe said many feel they cannot attend their appointments because of stigma.\n\nJess said tests should be made available to those who have experienced trauma and find the process of in-hospital smears triggering.\n\n\"Being able to do it at home gives you that power, you can be a little bit more relaxed, it's not as intimidating,\" she said.\n\nAccording to Public Health Wales data, cervical cancer is the most common cancer in women under the age of 35, with regular screening helping to reduce the risk of getting cervical cancer by 70%.\n\nJess Moultrie says at home tests give you power\n\nDr Helen Munro, a consultant in sexual and reproductive healthcare who has been looking into self-sampling HPV tests, said the development was \"an opportunity\".\n\n\"The key thing is that women have choice,\" said Dr Munro.\n\nShe said any development on the NHS \"has to be equitable\", adding if self-sampling was introduced, it should be alongside traditional in-hospital smear tests, as opposed to replacing them completely.\n\nProf Peter Sasieni is the Academic Director of King College London's Clinical Trials Unit and is heavily involved in the research around cervical screening.\n\nHe said there were concerns changing screening could see \"things going bad\".\n\nHowever, he said it was \"extremely likely\" self-sampling would be on offer in the future for people who have fallen behind on their sampling.\n\n\"A lot of changes are happening at the same time and it's a question of what gets prioritized and how careful people want to be because the last thing you want to do is to is to make things get less good,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We follow expert advice from the UKNSC which is yet to make a recommendation on self-sampling for cervical screening but PHW is considering how this could be implemented in Wales.\n\n\"If recommended by the UKNSC, it is hoped that self-sampling would enable those who currently have difficulty accessing cervical screening to take part in the screening programme.\"", "Karen Alcock, left, and Vince King admitted being in charge of an out-of-control dog\n\nA couple who kept huskies to compete in dog sled teams have been given suspended jail sentences after one of their dogs killed their baby daughter.\n\nThree-month-old Kyra King was attacked on 6 March 2022 in Lincolnshire as her parents exercised 19 dogs in woods.\n\nHer father Vince King, 55, and mother Karen Alcock, 41, admitted being in charge of an out-of-control dog.\n\nThe judge at Lincoln Crown Court said: \"I have no doubt both of you wish every day you could wind the clock back.\"\n\nKing, of Castle Dyke Bank, New York, Lincolnshire, was given a 10-month sentence, suspended for two years, and 100 hours of unpaid work.\n\nAlcock was sentenced to eight months, suspended for two years, and ordered to do 80 hours of unpaid work at the hearing on Monday.\n\nThe court heard the couple had been husky racing for several years, regularly trained with two teams of dogs and had competed nationally.\n\nSocial services had previously raised no concerns about the animals being around the baby.\n\nKyra King was attacked by a husky in the car park at Ostler's Plantation, near Woodhall Spa\n\nOn 6 March 2022 the couple were exercising King's huskies at Ostler's Plantation near Woodhall Spa at about 23:30 GMT, the court was told.\n\nKing and Alcock were giving some of the dogs a drink in their van before putting them back into their cages.\n\nKyra was asleep in her pram next to the open passenger door of the van.\n\nThe court heard that one of the dogs, a female Siberian Husky called Blizzard, jumped into the front of the van and out of the passenger door and mauled the child.\n\nBoth parents tried to resuscitate their daughter but she was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering \"massive injuries,\" the court heard.\n\nThe dogs were usually secured in crates inside Mr King's van, the court heard\n\nJudge Catarina Sjolin Knight said the couple's attempts to save their child would \"undoubtedly haunt them for eternity\".\n\nShe said Kyra was a \"very much wanted and loved baby\" and that the couple had put plans in place to keep their daughter and the dogs apart.\n\n\"There was nothing to trigger [Blizzard's] attack on Kyra, but on this occasion she was dangerously out of control,\" judge Sjolin Knight said.\n\n\"Dog ownership is a privilege and for many a pleasure, but it comes with a heavy burden under the Dangerous Dogs Act.\n\n\"[Blizzard] did an awful thing which neither of you expected and will weigh heavily upon you for the rest of your lives.\"\n\nThe judge questioned whether the attack could have been \"reasonably foreseen\" and said it was the result of a \"tragic conjunction of circumstances\".\n\nKing and his former partner Alcock were not disqualified from keeping dogs, but an order was made for the destruction of the dog.\n\nDet Con Craig Davey from Lincolnshire Police said: \"What happened to that three-month-old baby girl is something that will haunt all of us involved in this investigation, and the wider public who have been so invested in justice for Kyra, as well as her parents, forever.\n\n\"Today's sentencing brings justice for Kyra, but I think I could speak for everyone when I say that the sadness at such a senseless loss will remain.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"They were crying and screaming, I think that was the scariest thing\"\n\nThree people are in hospital after a car crashed into a campsite and injured nine people, police have said.\n\nA Ford Fiesta left the road and hit a tent with people inside at a campsite in Newgale, Pembrokeshire, on Saturday night.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said investigations into the incident were continuing and no arrests had been made.\n\nA baby that was asleep in the tent hit by the car escaped serious injury as it was in a cot, the campsite owner said.\n\nThe car went over a ditch, rolled into a tent and over a group of people.\n\nPolice have said the crash happened just after 22:30 BST, with passengers in the car among the injured.\n\nThe road's speed limit changes from a 60mph (100km/h) to 30mph (50km/h) just beside the entrance to the campsite, with tents just a few feet away from passing cars.\n\nCampsite owner Mike Harris told BBC Radio Wales he reviewed CCTV afterwards to make sense of the situation.\n\nHe said: \"I couldn't believe this car, how it had been speeding so fast down the road from the Roch area through a 30mph zone and then left the road.\"\n\nThe car veered into the campsite just after the point where the speed limit changes from 60mph to 30mph\n\nFern Wilson, who was nearby when the crash happened, said children screaming after the crash was the \"scariest thing\".\n\n\"There was a little girl that got hurt and there was a lot of young girls in the car... they were pretty much in shock so they were crying and screaming,\" she said.\n\nJoshua Tam, a firefighter who was also at the campsite, said he ran over to the scene following the crash and helped lift the car.\n\n\"I was just trying to help do what I could... there were already three or four people there.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAdriana de Pertis was staying at the campsite on Saturday and says she \"heard lots of people yelling and then you could see everyone's little headtorches from the window running towards the incident\".\n\n\"Although there was people screaming, there was blood, there was crying, there were still a lot of people at the incidents that were able to help\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we know about the Newgale Campsite crash?\n\nCouncillor Peter Morgan added: \"It's a miracle that nobody is killed, that's the main thing.\n\n\"It wasn't a very good scene to look at, but the people there were thankfully a couple of medics who were staying on site that night, and thankfully they were there to help.\"\n\nMr Morgan said a planned new road - several years in the making - needed to be looked at \"sooner rather than later\".\n\nHe added: \"I think you can look at things but you can't warrant for a car allegedly speeding and rolling over on a campsite.\"\n\nA cordon was placed around a collapsed tent on Saturday night as investigators surveyed the scene\n\nMr Harris runs the campsite with his wife Clare, who said the car tried to brake as it came down a hill.\n\n\"It flipped and rolled several times, and crashed into the tent,\" she said.\n\n\"There was a young child, a baby, in the tent at the time. Thankfully they are OK.\"\n\nThe car had to be lifted to free casualties beneath according to Mr Harris, who said despite being seriously injured it could have been a \"lot worse\".\n\nHe said it was \"fortunate\" there were firefighters and two surgeons staying on the campsite who were \"able to take charge and make the best of the situation\".\n\nMr Harris added he was \"very impressed\" with the speed and response of the emergency services, with about 15 vehicles on the scene quickly.\n\nOne person was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff by a coastguard rescue helicopter, the Welsh Ambulance Service said.\n\nSix ambulances were sent to the scene, and five other people were taken to hospital by paramedics.\n\nFour of the patients were taken to Glangwili General Hospital in Carmarthen, and another one to Morriston Hospital, Swansea.\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service also sent a crew to the scene.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it was \"continuing to investigate the incident which occurred in Newgale on Saturday evening\".\n\nA mixture of young families and surfers are waking up at Newgale Campsite on a grey rainy morning as the investigation continues into the cause of the accident.\n\nOwner Mike Harris showed me CCTV of the incident - you can see a car apparently travelling at considerable speed before crossing the carriageway, flipping over a ditch and landing on a tent.\n\nMr Harris said he felt blessed that two surgeons and a firefighter were on site at the time of the accident to deal with the wounded.\n\nIn response to concerns about the safety of the road, Mr Harris said he would welcome traffic calming measures such as a sleeping policeman just before the 30mph zone starts next to his campsite.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this incident. We are unable to comment while police investigations continue.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Photos of the aftermath showed a plume of smoke rising from the family's home\n\nA baby aged just 22 days, her 12-year-old brother and their parents were among seven people killed by Russian shells in southern Ukraine on Sunday.\n\nBombs hit their family home in the village of Shyroka Balka in Kherson, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said.\n\nThe dead also included another village resident and two men in neighbouring Stanislav.\n\n\"Terrorists must be stopped. They must be stopped by force,\" said Mr Klymenko. \"They don't understand anything else.\"\n\nThe minister shared photographs of the aftermath of the attack on Shyroka Balka, showing black columns of smoke rising from buildings, and the digitally obscured bodies of some of the dead.\n\nThirteen others were injured in the shelling, he added.\n\nUkraine President Volodymyr Zelensky used his daily address to the nation to condemn the \"brutal\" attack in Shyrokа Balka.\n\n\"Five people were killed,\" he said. \"Among them was a baby girl, only 22 days old. Her brother, just 12 years old. The mother Olesia... only 39, also perished.\"\n\nHe added there had been 17 reports of Russian shelling in Kherson alone, and many more beyond.\n\n\"There is no day when Russian evil does not receive our entirely just response,\" he said.\n\n\"We will not leave any of Russia's crimes unanswered.\"\n\nKherson was one of four regions in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have annexed last year.\n\nUkraine's military reclaimed the western part of the region in November. Russian troops have continued to shell the area from across the Dnipro river.\n\nThe shelling came a day after Moscow accused Kyiv of \"terrorism\" for what it said was an attempted missile strike on the Crimean Bridge linking the peninsula to Russia.\n\nUkraine has not confirmed the attack, although Mr Zelensky has previously said the bridge is used as a military supply route and is a legitimate target.\n\nCrimea has been under Moscow's control since Russian forces annexed the peninsula in 2014 - a move condemned internationally.\n\nIn another development, Moscow said it had fired warning shots at a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea to halt it for an inspection as it made its way to the Ukrainian port of Izmail on the Danube river.\n\nThe Russian claim has not been independently verified. If confirmed, it would be the first time Russia has fired on merchant shipping beyond Ukraine since exiting a landmark UN-brokered grain deal last month.\n\nRussia said that its Vasily Bykov patrol ship had fired automatic weapons toward the Palau-flagged Sukru Okan when it refused to halt, then boarded for an inspection.\n\nMeanwhile, an aide to the exiled Ukrainian mayor of Mariupol reported that several Ukrainian civilians were killed as Russian soldiers fought among themselves on Sunday.\n\nTwo teenage girls, four young men and a woman were among the dead in the \"shoot-out\" in the village of Urzuf, Petro Andryshchenko said in a Telegram post.\n\nHe said the gun battle followed an argument between Chechen troops and personnel from the local commandant's office.\n\nMariupol, a major port on the Sea of Azov, was captured by Russia after months of fierce fighting last year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor those still living inside Hawaii's disaster zone on the western side of the island of Maui, there's one vital lifeline to the outside world: volunteer effort.\n\nStanding at the wheel of the Ocean Spirit, a boat operated by marine conservation charity the Pacific Whale Foundation, is Captain Emily Johnston.\n\nFrom day one, along with her crew of volunteers, she's been making multiple daily trips, taking supplies of food, water, fuel and clothing to the devastated town of Lahaina and the surrounding communities left without power or phone coverage.\n\n\"These islands they go through hurricanes, tsunamis, fires, everything and we're often having to be very self-reliant because we are isolated,\" Emily tells me.\n\n\"But that said, we're all wondering why there was no help sent from Oahu? Pearl Harbour is a twenty-minute flight away.\"\n\n\"Why are the limited resources of the police on this island left alone, where's the support for them? Why are we taking supplies on a boat instead of a helicopter?\"\n\nAn hour into the journey, the devastation along the Maui shoreline comes into view. First the scorched grass and palm trees, then the charred remains of the Lahaina itself and the remnants of the shattered lives and livelihoods.\n\nThe boat beaches a few miles north of the town and a waiting team of local residents is there to meet it.\n\nMaui resident Sergio Martinez is among those who have been helping to provide aid to fire victims\n\nMany of those helping, like 36-year-old Sergio Martinez, have also been affected by the fire.\n\n\"I was fighting for my life with my four-year-old boy in my hands in the water for eight hours,\" he tells me.\n\n\"There was a point in my head when I was thinking that's it, you know, but my boy kept me going to survive.\"\n\nSergio is still struggling, like so many others, to process what he saw that night. He has the same question as Emily.\n\n\"Where is the help?\" he asks. \"We are waiting for it and we need it really bad.\"\n\nDriving through the disaster zone with one of the volunteer relief workers, we see, for the first time, uniformed soldiers helping to man some of the checkpoints. This is a sign perhaps that national assistance is now beginning to arrive.\n\nEither way, the volunteers are certain their relief service will be needed for some time.\n\n\"With the communications down for so many days we haven't been able to coordinate all the supplies that they need,\" says Kristie Wrigglesworth, executive director of the Pacific Whale Foundation.\n\n\"When we do it by word of mouth it's very slow and disorganised. We need communication to coordinate better.\"\n\nKrisite is calling on those who know people in need to get in touch with her organisation to pass on requests for urgent supplies.\n\nMany of the volunteers have deep roots on Maui and know those suffering personally.\n\n\"This community is family,\" Kristie says.\n\n\"The Hawaiian culture has Ohana - which means family - and Aloha. That was what Lahaina was built on.\"", "Victoria Police believe Erin Patterson's guests were fed death cap mushrooms, which are lethal\n\nThe Australian woman who cooked a beef Wellington using mushrooms which killed three relatives and left one critical has told police it was an accident.\n\nErin Patterson, who is not facing charges, has provided a statement of events to police, local media report.\n\nPolice believe the victims had eaten death cap mushrooms, which are lethal if ingested.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Patterson said she had used some dried mushrooms but did not know they were poisonous.\n\n\"I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones,\" said the 48-year old.\n\n\"I really want to repeat that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people, whom I loved.\"\n\nHer statement to Victoria Police has not been publicly released but was reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Nine Newspapers on Monday.\n\nAustralia has been gripped by the mystery over the fatal lunch - held in Ms Patterson's home in the small town of Leongatha, Victoria on 29 July.\n\nMs Patterson had invited her former in-laws Gail and Don Patterson, along with Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson and Heather's husband Ian. Her estranged husband could not attend last minute.\n\nHours after the meal, all four guests fell ill with what they initially thought was severe food poisoning.\n\nWithin days, Heather, 66, Gail, 70, and Don, 70, had died. Ian, 68, is still fighting for his life in a Melbourne hospital as he awaits a liver transplant.\n\nMs Patterson was identified as a suspect after the deaths - as it initially appeared that she and her children were unharmed from the meal. At the time, Australian police also said she could be totally innocent.\n\nIn her statement reported on Monday, Ms Patterson reiterated her innocence and said she herself had been hospitalised after the meal due to stomach pains.\n\nIan (right) is fighting for his life while his wife Heather Wilkinson died days after the meal\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside her home in the immediate aftermath of the incident, Ms Patterson had stated her innocence - but declined to answer questions about what meals were served to which guests, or where the mushrooms had come from.\n\n\"I now very much regret not answering some questions following [my lawyer's] advice, given the nightmare that this process has become,\" she said, in her statement to police.\n\n\"I am now wanting to clear up the record because I have become extremely stressed and overwhelmed by the deaths of my loved ones.\"\n\nMs Patterson said the mushrooms used to prepare the meal were a mixture of button mushrooms bought at a supermarket, and dried mushrooms purchased at an Asian grocery store in Melbourne several months ago.\n\nHer children, who were not present at the lunch, ate some of the leftover beef Wellington the next day. However the mushrooms had been scraped off the dish as they do not like the fungi, she said.\n\nMs Patterson said she herself was hospitalised on 31 July. She said she was put on a saline drip and given medication to guard against liver damage.\n\nShe said she had also saved and given the remainder of the lunch to hospital toxicologists for examination.\n\nIn her statement she also admitted lying to authorities about a food dehydrator seized by police from a local tip during investigations last week.\n\nShe said she had been questioned by her estranged husband as to whether she had poisoned his parents, and so panicked and disposed of the dehydrator as she was worried she might lose custody of their children.", "Two years since the Taliban swept into power in Afghanistan, not a single country has formally recognised their rule.\n\nEven engaging with the Taliban government remains deeply controversial. Some say talking with them will help bring about change, others insist the Taliban will never change so there's no point in talking.\n\nAnd as the world struggles to decide how to deal with Afghanistan's new rulers, women's rights - even their beauty salons - have become frontlines in political battles.\n\nBeautician Sakina - in a dimly lit room, curtains tightly drawn, alongside bunches of lip pencils and gleaming palettes of eye shadow - reflects on why she feels women like her have become a bargaining chip.\n\n\"The Taliban are putting pressure on women because they want to push the international community to recognise their rule,\" she says in her new secret salon in Kabul.\n\nShe was forced underground two weeks ago after the government ordered all women's beauty parlours to shut. It is the latest in a seemingly endless raft of decrees restricting the lives and liberties of Afghan women and girls.\n\nSakina is uncertain what approach to the Taliban will work.\n\n\"If the Taliban are accepted as the government, they might remove restrictions on us, or they could impose even more,\" she says, with the kind of uncertainty and anxiety that plagues this huge, sensitive political issue.\n\nThe Taliban insist issues like women's rights are none of the world's business.\n\n\"Focusing on this one issue is just an excuse\" says Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from the Afghan city of Kandahar - home to the Taliban's supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada - he insists that \"the current government should have been recognised long ago. We have made progress in some areas and we will also sort this issue.\"\n\nWhether to talk or not to the Taliban government sharply splits many communities with a stake in Afghanistan's future.\n\nThis includes a deeply embittered and still shaken Afghan diaspora, forced to flee their own country when the Taliban swept into power - for a second time - on 15 August 2021.\n\n\"Saying don't talk is easy,\" says Fatima Gailani, one of four women who were on the Afghan team that tried to negotiate with the Taliban right up to the moment they seized power.\n\n\"If you don't talk, then what do you do?\"\n\nSince the collapse of the last government, she's been involved in backchannel initiatives.\n\n\"We don't need another war\", she emphasises, in a nod to voices, including former military commanders and old warlords, who still harbour hopes of eventually toppling the current order by force.\n\nAs poverty in Afghanistan increases, more families are forced to wait in Kabul for donated bread\n\nOthers in the diaspora are calling for greater pressure, including more sanctions and additional travel bans, to intensify the isolation.\n\n\"What is the point of engagement?\" demands Zahra Nader, editor-in-chief and founder of Zan Times, a women-led newsroom in exile. \"They have shown who they are and what kind of society they want to build.\"\n\nDiplomats involved in dialogue emphasise that engagement is not recognition, and concede there is little to show so far.\n\nBut signs of dissatisfaction, even among senior Taliban leaders, with the most extreme edicts imposed by the ageing ultra-conservative supreme leader, keep kindling faint hope.\n\n\"If we don't engage Afghans who want to engage, in the smartest possible way, we'll give free reign to those who want to keep a large part of the population essentially imprisoned,\" says a Western diplomat involved in recent meetings with mid-level Taliban representatives.\n\nSources point to a recent unprecedented meeting between the reclusive Akhundzada with Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani - the supreme leader's first with a foreign official. Diplomats briefed on the discussions say they confirmed wide gaps, especially when it comes to education and women's rights, but also indicated a possibility to find a way forward, however slowly.\n\nDiscussions are tough - it's hard to find common ground.\n\n\"There's a lot of distrust, even disdain, between sides who fought each other for years,\" says Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. \"The Taliban think the West still wants to corrupt their nation and the West doesn't like the Taliban policy on women's rights and their authoritarian rule.\"\n\nMs Clark highlights a fundamental disconnect: \"The West may see issues like recognition as concessions, but the Taliban see it as their right, a God-given right to rule after they defeated the US superpower and returned to power, for a second time.\"\n\nOutside powers balance criticism with praise for progress, such as a crackdown on corruption which boosted revenue collection, and some efforts to tackle security threats posed by the Islamic State group. And Western powers look to Islamic countries and scholars to take the lead on shared concerns over the Taliban's extreme interpretations of Islam.\n\nBut there is also a toughening of tactics.\n\nEven the UN now speaks of \"gender apartheid\" as the Taliban tighten the vice around women by even banning them from public parks, women's gyms and beauty parlours. Moves are now underway to develop a legal case for \"crimes against humanity\".\n\nThe Taliban has ordered shop owners in Afghanistan to remove the heads of female mannequins\n\nDespite some mixed messaging and occasional friction between regional and Western countries, so far there's a rare meeting of minds among world powers, including Russia and China on some red lines, including recognition.\n\nThe impasse has devastating consequences for ordinary Afghans.\n\nThe UN's latest report highlights, in bold letters, that their humanitarian appeal is only a quarter funded as of the end of July, as donors turn away. More and more Afghans are going to bed hungry.\n\nSome 84% of households are now borrowing money just to buy food, the UN says.\n\nAnd there is concern too that the footprint of Islamist groups like Islamic State is growing.\n\nThe Taliban government paints a rosy picture. And, even without recognition, their envoys - in signature traditional turbans and tunics - are among the world's most frequent flyers, jetting to meetings in many capitals.\n\nThe acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi receives delegations in Kabul almost daily, with all the usual protocol, including flags and official photographs set in elegant rooms.\n\nWestern embassies in Kabul remain shuttered, except for a small European Union and a Japanese mission. Discussion goes on about whether diplomats now based in the Gulf state of Qatar should at least be in Kabul if they want to exercise any influence at all.\n\nThere's no appetite, in any of the world's capitals, for another bloody chapter in this 40-year war.\n\nAnd despite any discord among Taliban leaders, their unity remains a goal which matters above all else.\n\nThere are no quick or easy solutions.\n\n\"The only thing I could say from my heart is that we are really suffering,\" says the beautician Sakina.\n\n\"Maybe those who are not among us don't understand it, but it's really painful.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nPlay was interrupted briefly on the final day of the Women's Open when protesters with flares made their way on to the 17th green.\n\nEventual winner Lilia Vu and England's Charley Hull were finishing the hole when the incident took place at approximately 18:15 BST.\n\nSecurity and police arrived to remove those involved, some of whom were carrying red and yellow flares, and play resumed within a couple of minutes at Walton Heath in Surrey.\n\nThe protests appeared to be aimed at the tournament's sponsors, insurance company AIG.\n\nSurrey Police later confirmed five people had been arrested for aggravated trespass.\n\nThe police also added that the individuals are believed to belong to the protest group Eko.\n\nA spokesperson for tournament organisers the R&A said: \"Protesters were quickly apprehended on the 17th green during the final group and five arrests were made by the police.\n\n\"Play was not disrupted and we would like to thank the police and marshals for their vigilance and the players and spectators for their understanding.\"\n\nSeveral sporting events in England this year have been disrupted by environmental protesters.\n\nLast month, a smoke flare was set off at the men's Open at Royal Liverpool and orange powder was thrown at a green.\n\nEngland wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow carried a Just Stop Oil protester off Lord's Cricket Ground during the Ashes Test in June.\n\nThree Just Stop Oil protesters ran on to a court at Wimbledon last month, throwing orange paper and jigsaw pieces during a match.\n\nThere was also a protest in April at snooker's World Championship in Sheffield, during which a man jumped on to a table and dropped orange powder.\n\nAfter the Women's Open protesters were removed, Vu went on to finish six shots clear of Hull to claim the final women's major of the year.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRaphael Varane scored the winner 14 minutes from time as Manchester United gained a fortunate win against Wolves in their opening game of the new Premier League season.\n\nErik ten Hag's side hardly created a chance of note until Bruno Fernandes found Aaron Wan-Bissaka with a superb pass inside the area.\n\nThe right-back calmly lifted the bouncing ball to the edge of the six-yard box, where Varane used his height to get above Nelson Semedo and head home.\n\nIt was extremely harsh on Wolves, who made light of last week's change of manager to produce a superb performance in Gary O'Neil's first game in charge.\n\nO'Neil was booked for his protests in claiming for a late penalty as United clung on for a fortunate victory.\n\nUnited's debutant goalkeeper Andre Onana avoided punishment in added time for clattering into Sasa Kalajdzic when he came for a cross without making contact with the ball.\n\nMatheus Cunha should have given Wolves the lead before then as Pablo Sarabia's low cross found him unmarked just beyond the far post but despite steadying himself, the Brazilian hit the outside of the upright.\n\nCunha fizzed a low shot wide just before the break and Pedro Neto fired straight at Onana before Varane's decisive effort while Fabio Silva had two goal-bound efforts saved as Wolves pressed for an equaliser.\n• None How did you rate Manchester United's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Wolves' display? Send us your views here\n\nIn the build-up to the game US broadcaster NBC was given a pitchside interview with Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nThe legendary United boss praised the work Ten Hag is doing and said the situation for his old club would improve markedly once £72m forward Rasmus Hojlund has recovered from the back injury he arrived from Atalanta with.\n\nNot long afterwards, Hojlund took his seat alongside Tom Heaton and Jonny Evans at the back of the directors' box.\n\nSir Alex's words were given added credence when the game started as Marcus Rashford failed to make any impact as the main striker and Alejandro Garnacho and Antony were equally muted on the flanks.\n\nPerhaps it should not have been a surprise given in 11 meetings over the past four years only twice have these two sides managed to produce more than a single goal between them.\n\nUnited's other new outfield recruit Mason Mount also failed to make an impact and in a game where so much of their offensive play was average, Fernandes' inspired pass to create the goal stood out.\n\nThe Old Trafford crowd do have a new hero in Onana though. The Cameroon keeper produced a conservative performance with the ball at his feet and did not venture too far from his goal when the home side pressed forward.\n\nHowever, the saves he made were important and the reception the former Ajax and Inter Milan man received from the stands indicated the home fans are very much on his side.\n\nDefiant Wolves still cannot find the net\n\nThat O'Neil spent the immediate seconds after the final whistle still unable to comprehend that his side were denied a penalty and the Wolves fans bellowed their support for their new manager and his team said everything about how the visitors played.\n\nO'Neil made a point of saying before the game that \"clubs normally get six weeks\" to prepare for their opening game. The former Bournemouth boss got four days.\n\nWhat patterns of play and combinations he could have worked on in that time is debatable and his predecessor Julen Lopetegui must deserve some credit for delivering Wolves' players through their summer uncertainty to be able to perform as well as they did.\n\nCunha was outstanding in all aspects but one. His tracking back, runs from deep, and willingness to make space were all top class - but he is a striker and needs to score, and he wasted Wolves' best chance.\n\nAfter Matheus Nunes' surging run forward, he took up exactly the correct position as Sarabia sent his low cross to the far post.\n\nThe angle was not ideal but Cunha opened his body up to give himself the best chance of converting - yet still missed.\n\nScoring goals has been a problem for Wolves for some time now and amid many issues at Molineux, it is a key one O'Neil needs to solve.\n\nA new season has brought no resolution to two pressing off-field matters at Old Trafford.\n\nThe ownership situation, triggered by the launch of a 'strategic review' last November, remains unresolved.\n\nAnd the future of Mason Greenwood - whose criminal charges were dropped in the spring but which triggered an internal investigation into his conduct - is yet to be finalised.\n\nMost outsiders expected there would be determination to resolve both matters by now and the absence of clarity brought protests surrounding the issues outside the stadium before the game.\n\nThe 'Glazers Out' chants transferred inside the ground and will not go away.\n• None Facundo Pellistri (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Hwang Hee-Chan (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Hugo Bueno with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Hugo Bueno (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mario Lemina (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Craig Dawson.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mario Lemina (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Maximilian Kilman.\n• None Attempt blocked. Hwang Hee-Chan (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Fábio Silva.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sasa Kalajdzic.\n• None Attempt saved. Maximilian Kilman (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Matheus Nunes with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Shares in skincare chain L'Occitane International have jumped on the news its billionaire chairman is considering taking it private.\n\nThe company confirmed late on Friday that its controlling shareholder, Reinold Geiger, is eyeing up a deal for the shares he does not currently own.\n\nMr Geiger already controls almost three-quarters of the firm's shares.\n\nThe retailer has more than 3,000 outlets in 90 countries and has more than 8,500 employees.\n\nIts shares closed more than 8% higher at HK$27.75 in Hong Kong on Monday.\n\nThe L'Occitane en Provence line is well known for its yellow branding and luxury creams, soaps and oils. It has grown massively since its start in a small truck in the markets of Provence, France.\n\nThe group now includes the likes of the Elemis collagen products and Korean skincare brand Erborian and reported profits of €239m (£206m) in the year to 31 March in its latest annual report.\n\nTrading in L'Occitane International's shares were halted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Friday after Bloomberg News reported that Mr Geiger was in advanced talks to take it private.\n\nThe business news channel said that the potential deal could value the firm at around $6.5bn (£5.1bn), or as much as HK$35 ($4.47; £3.53) a share.\n\nBut L'Occitane said in an exchange filing that reports that the buyout price could be that high were \"false and without basis\", but if a deal did go through, the potential offer price would not be less than HK$26 a share.\n\nThe L'Occitane en Provence line is well known for its yellow branding and luxury skincare products\n\nMr Geiger's investment holding company, L'Occitane Groupe, owns more than 70% of the chain.\n\nThe company's shares have risen by more than 40% in the last month.\n\nIts latest annual report showed that it generated €2.13bn ($2.33bn; £1.84bn) in net sales around the world in the last financial year, up nearly 20% on the year before.\n\nPriding itself on the promotion of its recycling and sustainability programmes, it drew criticism last April for its U-turn on closing its Russian stores and websites.\n\nThe firm said the move followed the \"enormous human suffering and escalating military action in Ukraine\".\n\nThe previous week L'Occitane had told the BBC that it was keeping its shops open to protect staff from potential \"retaliation\".\n\nSome customers had criticised the company for its decision and even called for a boycott of the brand.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nParis St-Germain have agreed a deal to sell Brazil forward Neymar to Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal for about 90m euros (£77.6m) plus add-ons.\n\nThe transfer is subject to the 31-year-old completing a medical and all necessary paperwork.\n\nNeymar, who joined PSG for a world-record fee of £200m in 2017, was left out of their squad for the Ligue 1 draw against Lorient on Saturday.\n\nHe was not part of coach Luis Enrique's plans for the new season.\n\nHis exit also fits PSG's strategy of moving away from the 'Galacticos' era of signing high-profile players for big fees and significant wages, with Lionel Messi also leaving the club earlier this summer.\n\nNeymar was understood to be earning in the region of 25m euros (£21.6m) annually at the French side.\n\nHe will reportedly be paid 150m euros (£129.2m) a year in Saudi Arabia - six times the amount he earned at PSG.\n\nThe Brazilian made 173 appearances for PSG, helping the club win 13 trophies, including five Ligue 1 titles, as well as reaching the 2020 Champions League final.\n\nHowever, his time in the French capital has also been hampered by a number of ankle injuries.\n\nThe former Barcelona player had surgery in March that caused him to miss the rest of the season and he only resumed training in July.\n\nHe missed two of Brazil's matches at the 2022 World Cup after being injured in their opening group match.\n\nThe forward also missed the 2019 Copa America after suffering torn ligaments in his right ankle and was out for several weeks in 2021 with a similar injury.\n• None 'The eyes of all are on us' - Saudi Pro League kicks off\n• None Who has gone where in Saudi Pro League\n\nNews of the Neymar deal comes just 24 hours after PSG's Kylian Mbappe was reintegrated back into first-team training after positive talks with the club.\n\nThe France forward, 24, had been in a contract stand-off amid a desire to join Real Madrid but could now extend his contract at PSG, with his current deal due to expire next summer.\n\nMbappe was also left out of the squad for the Lorient game and watched the match from the stands.\n\nLast month, PSG gave Al-Hilal permission to talk to Mbappe after the Saudi side made a world-record £259m bid.\n\nIf completed, the Neymar deal will continue a remarkable summer spending spree by Saudi clubs, underlining the league's ambition to be one of the top competitions in the world in the next few years.\n\nThe likes of Karim Benzema, N'Golo Kante, Jordan Henderson, Ruben Neves, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino have all moved to Saudi Arabia.\n\nAfter Riyad Mahez left Manchester City to join Al-Ahli in July, Pep Guardiola said the Saudi league's financial muscle has \"changed the market\".\n\n\"A few months ago when Cristiano [Ronaldo] was the only one to go, no-one thought this many top, top players would play in the Saudi league,\" the City manager said.\n\n\"In the future there will be more and that's why clubs need to be aware of what is happening.\n\n\"I don't know how long they will sustain it, but the feeling is that they will stay. The players want to take this experience to play in that league and they are able to do it.\"\n\nThis is another big name signing for the Saudi Pro League that a major European club is privately relieved has happened.\n\nIt was Neymar's move to PSG six years ago that triggered the huge hike in transfer fees, but it did not really have the desired effect in delivering the Champions League to the French capital.\n\nIt took them a while but PSG eventually concluded the 'Galacticos' model was not the right one and getting Neymar off their wage bill - following Messi's move to Major League Soccer - is a major plus when it comes to meeting their Financial Fair Play obligations.\n\nIf Neymar is even earning close to the salary being speculated at, it is far more than the 25m euros a year he was on at PSG, so the deal makes sense for him.\n\nIt also keeps the Pro League in the spotlight when it comes to attracting the biggest names, even if injuries mean the Brazilian's best days are probably behind him.\n\nA bit like Messi, who is much older, Neymar tends to play in moments these days. But, just as with Messi, those moments can be magical.\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Will the faithfuls unmask the traitors?: 24 Aussies take on the ultimate game of trust and treachery", "Mining has traditionally been a major industry in Madagascar, contributing to the majority of inbound investment between 2005 and 2013.\n\nThe Madagascan president's chief-of-staff has been charged in the UK with seeking a bribe from a gem mining firm.\n\nRomy Andrianarisoa and an associate are accused of offering the British firm Gemfields licences in Madagascar in return for around £225,000.\n\nShe and her associate, Philippe Tabuteau, have been charged with requesting, agreeing to receive or accepting a bribe.\n\nBoth were remanded in custody after a brief court appearance on Saturday,\n\nMs Andrianarisoa, 46, and French national Mr Tabuteau, 54, are also accused of trying to land a 5% equity stake in any Gemfields Madagascar projects, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA).\n\nThe agency said that the pair were arrested in the Victoria area of central London on Thursday afternoon, at a meeting where they were suspected of having attempted to solicit a bribe.\n\nAndy Kelly, the NCA's head of international corruption, said: \"I am grateful to Gemfields for bringing this matter to our attention and for their ongoing co-operation with the investigation.\"\n\nMs Andrianarisoa and Mr Tabuteau appeared in court on Saturday and have both been remanded in custody to next appear at Southwark Crown Court on 8 September.\n\nThe NCA did not specify what licences the alleged offences related to.", "Farrah-Leigh suffered significant injuries when she was attacked by a dog on Saturday\n\nA five-year-old girl has suffered \"significant\" facial injuries after being attacked by a dog outside a shop.\n\nFarrah-Leigh Nichol was injured near a Nisa shop in Norton Road, Norton, Stockton-on-Tees, at about 18:30 BST on Saturday, Cleveland Police said.\n\nFamily friends have set up a fundraiser to take her to Disneyland once she recovers so she has \"something to look forward to\".\n\nThe dog's owner has spoken to police and the animal has been seized.\n\nThe injured girl's father, Alex Nichol, said the bite happened after Farrah-Leigh asked him and the dog's owner for permission before stroking the pet gently.\n\nHe told The Sun the bite happened during a visit to the store to buy some bread: \"The dog jumped and she jumped back and I thought 'that was lucky'.\n\n\"But then the next minute I saw her curled up on the floor and she said, 'Dad'.\n\n\"She was crying and all her face was off.\"\n\nPlans are afoot to take Farrah-Leigh to Disneyland when she is better\n\nMore than £700 has been donated to an online fundraiser set up by Shauna Rollinson.\n\nShe told the BBC her daughter was friends with Farrah-Leigh and knew the five-year-old really wanted to visit Disneyland.\n\n\"It's something for her to look forward to,\" Ms Rollinson said, adding the response from people had been \"absolutely amazing\".\n\nCleveland Police said the girl suffered \"significant injuries to her face\" and was receiving treatment in hospital.\n\n\"The owner of the dog remained at the scene following the attack and co-operated with police,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe dog has been seized and is being held in kennels.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pubs in England and Wales will be able to continue selling takeaway drinks after the government decided to keep Covid licensing rules.\n\nThey were allowed to serve customers through hatches when they were forced to close under pandemic laws in 2020.\n\nThe rules were due to expire on 30 September, but they will now be continued until March 2025.\n\nThe move - aimed at saving the trade from financial ruin - was previously extended twice during the pandemic.\n\nDuring the temporary extension of the rules the government said it would continue to look for a \"permanent solution\" to best support local pubs and bars.\n\nThe Sun newspaper, which first reported the story, quoted a source as saying the prime minister had \"listened to the industry and heard them loud and clear\".\n\nThe rules, which were granted in July 2020, allow pubs without an off-premises licence to sell takeaway alcohol without having to apply to their local council for permission.\n\nThey are also allowed to sell alcohol on the street within the area covered by any pavement licence they may have - something that will continue post-September as well.\n\nThe changes enabled pubs to keep trading during Covid restrictions.\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, whose members own over 20,000 pubs, welcomed the decision, saying landlords would be pleased not to have to apply for additional licences.\n\n\"This was a measure introduced to support our pubs during difficult times and the prime minister must recognise that these businesses are still under immense pressure,\" she said.\n\nMartin McTague, national chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the move would provide pubs with an \"extra revenue stream to mitigate the rising costs\".\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said many businesses had benefited from so-called pavement licences and had built outdoor areas for takeaway sales and al fresco dining.\n\nShe added the government's decision to continue them was a \"welcome dose of common sense\" and would avoid restaurants, bars and pubs being hit with \"additional bureaucracy\".\n\nWith the rules having been expected to expire at the end September, pubs that wanted to continuing serving takeaway pints would have had to apply to local councils for permission.\n\nBefore its decision to keep the rules in place after all, the Home Office had said that it had sought opinions from councils, residents' groups and drinks retailers - and that the majority of those who responded were in favour of returning to the pre-pandemic rules.\n\nThere were concerns from pub groups that such a move would have forced landlords to go through a lengthy application and approval processes to keep takeaway sales.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"I'm determined to back British pubs and make sure they have all the support they need after weathering the storm of the pandemic as we grow our economy.\n\n\"That's why we're cutting unnecessary red tape so that customers can enjoy a takeaway pint or al fresco drink without businesses facing extra burdens.\"", "Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool: Axel Disasi scores on his debut to secure point for Chelsea Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nAxel Disasi is the 26th different Chelsea player to score on his Premier League debut Chelsea and Liverpool played out a thrilling draw at Stamford Bridge as both sides delivered a prime example of why they are doing battle over £110m Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo. Liverpool agreed a British record deal for the Ecuador player but Caicedo's preference means he is likely to complete a move to Chelsea. A highly entertaining encounter showcased the attacking quality of both sides while the defensive deficiencies illustrated why Caicedo has become a prized target. Liverpool dominated the early stages, Mohamed Salah striking the bar before the Egypt forward delivered a stunning pass for Luis Diaz to slide home the opening goal after 18 minutes. Chelsea, in their first Premier League game under new manager Mauricio Pochettino, rallied and drew level with an equaliser from new signing Axel Disasi, who scored from six yards after Liverpool failed to clear a set-piece. Both sides had further chances - with Liverpool keeper Alisson saving well from Ben Chilwell and Nicolas Jackson - but neither could find a winner. Chelsea's new manager Pochettino will have hoped to start his reign with a victory but there was plenty for him to be satisfied about as his new team recovered from a shaky start to deliver many encouraging signs. There is work to do on making Chelsea more solid, hence the pursuit of Caicedo, but they showed character to overcome a sticky opening to make Alisson the busier goalkeeper in the second half and draw warm applause from their supporters at the final whistle. New striker Jackson was powerful and industrious while left wing-back Chilwell was a threat going forward, not only bringing a save from the Brazil goalkeeper but also having a goal narrowly ruled out for offside following a video assistant referee intervention. Pochettino knows there is work to do but a point against a Liverpool team determined to recapture their old position at the top of the table represents a decent start to the new campaign. \"We feel pleased but at the same time disappointed because we wanted to win and we deserved to win, but it is only the beginning,\" said Pochettino. \"We have created a very good way to work here and that is important. The connection from day one has been fantastic.\"\n• None 'Caicedo perfect for Chelsea but no panic for Liverpool' - analysis\n• None How did you rate Chelsea's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Liverpool's display? Send us your views here When Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp made the surprise decision to replace Salah after 77 minutes the forward made little attempt to disguise his unhappiness. Salah had shown his usual magic in the first half, hitting the bar then producing a brushstroke of genius to set up Diaz's opener. As a result, there were plenty of quizzical looks as he made his way to the technical area, shaking his head and throwing his wrist strapping to the turf as he did so. Klopp said: \"I can understand because if Mo scored it would have been a new record for goals scored in the opening game but I didn't think about that. \"We needed stability and we needed fresh legs. It was super intense for everybody. That's all I can say about it. His reaction was absolutely OK.\" Salah was part of a potent Liverpool attacking display but it was clear in this game why Klopp is keen to add a midfield shield of security in the shape of Caicedo or Southampton's Romeo Lavia. For all Liverpool's threat going forward, and substitute Darwin Nunez almost won it with a deflected shot in the last few seconds, Liverpool looked vulnerable at the back. The visitors will nevertheless be reasonably happy with a point, although they thought they had made it 2-0 when Salah scored in the first half before it was ruled out for offside by VAR. However the flaws Klopp is trying to address remain obvious, and at least one more midfield signing seems certain before the transfer window closes. Liverpool were angry they did not receive a penalty for a handball against Jackson but a point was probably what they deserved. \"We scored a super first goal, scored a sensational second goal that was unfortunately offside,\" said Klopp. \"If you ask me if I was completely happy with the game, then no, but I saw enough that we are a step further in the right direction. \"We had our moments. It was a super intense game, a wild game in moments. We should have controlled it more but couldn't.\" Mohamed Salah has been directly involved in 12 goals in seven opening days of the season in the Premier League BBC Sport app: Download to follow all the latest on your Premier League team\n• None Attempt blocked. Darwin Núñez (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Harvey Elliott tries a through ball, but Dominik Szoboszlai is caught offside.\n• None Malo Gusto (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Darwin Núñez (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andy Robertson tries a through ball, but Curtis Jones is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Universities could be hit by more strike action into the new academic year\n\nUniversity strikes are set to continue in September after negotiations with employers broke down, the University and College Union (UCU) has said.\n\nThe union announced more strike days and a continuation of its marking boycott, on Monday afternoon.\n\nIt also said it was preparing a fresh ballot for strike action to continue into the new academic year.\n\nLast week, education minister Robert Halfon wrote to employers and the UCU calling for an end to the dispute.\n\nThe union said the number of strike days and when they will take place, would be confirmed at a later date.\n\nThe marking boycott, which began in April at 145 universities, has caused disruption to graduations and left some students without their grades.\n\nThe UCU claimed the boycott would affect tens of thousands of students over the summer, but universities said they had been working to minimise its impact.\n\nNow the union has said there will be more disruption in September, if negotiations with the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) do not restart.\n\nIt is also planning to send out a fresh ballot to members to renew its six-month mandate for industrial action, which is due to expire at the beginning of October.\n\nIf members vote in favour, strikes could continue into 2024.\n\nUCU general secretary Jo Grady said: \"The UK higher education sector presents itself as a world leader, but it is riddled with casualisation, insecurity and low pay - our members have no choice but to stand up for themselves.\"\n\nResponding to the announcement, the UCEA's chief executive, Raj Jethwa, said the UCU was forcing its members to \"target students\".\n\nHe said continuing the marking boycott was \"the wrong thing to do\".\n\n\"While UCEA respects the right of workers to take industrial action, the choice of the marking and assessment boycott, described by Jo Grady as a 'tactic', is extremely concerning,\" he added.", "Constable Ronan Kerr was the last PSNI officer to be killed in Omagh in 2011\n\n\"I can't trust anyone here.\"\n\n\"We were looking over our shoulder, but now even more so.\"\n\n\"This has done half the job for the people who want to target officers.\"\n\nThese are some of the remarks from serving and recently retired members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) who spoke to the BBC this week.\n\nThey were articulating the fearful fallout from the unforeseen data breach - in which the names of all 10,000 PSNI staff were published on a website.\n\nThe words of the interviewees were spoken on TV and radio by BBC producers.\n\nThe media is used to taking steps to protect the identities of police officers in this part of the UK - in recognition of the security threat.\n\nPSNI staff themselves are accustomed to checking under their cars every day - in case a bomb has been put there - and they vary their route to work.\n\nPolice everywhere face dangers in the course of doing their job.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, the risk is at a different level - because of the presence of paramilitary organisations who actively aim to take the lives of people in the security forces.\n\nThe potential implications for the safety of PSNI members is of course the most serious issue in the data leak - but there are other important, possible consequences too.\n\nPolicing in Northern Ireland is tied up with the politics of the peace process.\n\nDuring the conflict known as the Troubles, 302 officers were killed over three decades.\n\nMost were murdered by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) - the main paramilitary group which wanted to take Northern Ireland out of the UK by force.\n\nNorthern Ireland had been policed since its foundation in 1922 by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the vast majority of members being Protestants - a marker they were from the community which supported the union with Britain.\n\nThe Good Friday Agreement, which largely ended the violence in 1998, promised reforms to policing.\n\nA commission led by the former Conservative Party chair, Lord Patten, recommended big changes and, in 2001, the PSNI was created - designed to be an organisation which could gain the confidence of Irish nationalists, as well as unionists.\n\nThis involved a policy of '50:50 recruitment', in an effort to substantially increase the number of Catholics - who tended to be from the nationalist community.\n\nIn 2007, the political party linked to the IRA - Sinn Féin - endorsed the PSNI before it went into a power-sharing devolved government.\n\nBut that decision was not accepted by a minority of republicans - referred to as \"dissidents\".\n\nThe splinter groups from the IRA continued to target the police.\n\nPeadar Heffron was captain of the PSNI's Gaelic football team\n\nDissident republicans also wanted to discourage people from the nationalist community from joining the PSNI - to try to disrupt a key aspect of peacebuilding.\n\nIt was acknowledged by nationalist politicians and others that Catholic officers were particularly vulnerable.\n\nIn 2010, Constable Peadar Heffron suffered life-changing injuries and Constable Ronan Kerr was killed in separate bomb attacks.\n\nThey were both keen players of Gaelic football - a sport which is hugely popular within the nationalist community.\n\nIts governing body once banned members of the security forces in Northern Ireland from playing - such was the severity of community divisions.\n\nThe lifting of that ban - and the establishment of a PSNI Gaelic football team, which Constable Heffron captained - was seen as a symbol of progress.\n\nAfter the data leak, the group which represents Catholics in the PSNI has said one officer has decided not to turn out for their Gaelic games club this week because they have kept their job a secret, and they are now worried their occupation may be known.\n\nIt is not uncommon for officers of all backgrounds to decide not to tell people - even family and friends - what they do for a living.\n\nBefore the data leak, recruitment figures were showing the PSNI had challenges attracting applications from people from the nationalist community.\n\nThey now make up about a third of officer ranks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The roots of Northern Ireland’s Troubles lie deep in Irish history\n\nCensus figures last year indicated 45% of the population of Northern Ireland had a Catholic background.\n\nPoliticians and independent members of the Policing Board - an oversight body set up during the policing reforms - have also highlighted concerns about how the data breach could affect undercover officers.\n\nFor such officers, secrecy is all the more important.\n\nPSNI intelligence specialists have links with the security service MI5.\n\nDissident republicans have claimed they have access to the data breach list\n\nThat is one of the reasons why PSNI commanders are discussing the course of action after this week's events with security chiefs and the government in London.\n\nBudgets may come under more pressure, if compensation claims move forward or PSNI staff need to be given extra support with their personal security.\n\nPolice are assessing a claim by dissident republicans that they have the leaked information.\n\nFor the PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne, and his leadership team, this is the most unexpected of crises, with still unpredictable repercussions.", "Elon Musk \"isn't serious\" about holding a cage fight and \"it's time to move on\", Mark Zuckerberg has said.\n\nIn a post on his social media site Threads, the Meta boss said he had offered Mr Musk \"a real date\" but the rival entrepreneur had made excuses.\n\nMr Musk had earlier on Sunday suggested on his own messaging site X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was willing to fight as early as Monday.\n\nThe billionaires agreed to the bout in June, sparking huge media attention.\n\nBut despite egging each other on for months, the rivals have yet to secure a date, raising doubts the fight will ever go ahead.\n\nThe war of words was complicated by the launch of Threads in July, with the rival messaging app to X attracting more than 100 million sign-ups in less than a week.\n\nThat number has fallen back, and X remains comfortably ahead with around 350 million users - but Mr Musk has threatened to sue Facebook for \"unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets\".\n\nLast week, Mr Zuckerberg said he had proposed 26 August for the cage fight. Then in a twist on Friday, Italy's culture minister said that he had spoken to Mr Musk about hosting the showdown in the country as a charity event.\n\nMr Musk suggested it would have \"an ancient Rome theme\".\n\nOn Sunday, however, the Meta boss posted on Threads: \"Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead.\n\n\"If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I'm going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.\"\n\nResponding on X, however, Mr Musk called the Meta boss a \"chicken\".\n\nEarlier, Mr Musk had posted a text message exchange on the messaging platform purportedly between himself and Mr Zuckerberg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn it he tells the Meta boss that he will be in Palo Alto, home to Meta's headquarters, on Monday and that the fight could be held in Mr Zuckerberg's Octagon, which is the eight-sided ring in which cage fights are held.\n\nMr Musk continued: \"I have not been practicing much, apart from a brief bout with Lex Fridman [the computer scientist and podcast host] today.\n\n\"While I think it is very unlikely, l given our size difference, perhaps you are a modern day Bruce Lee and will somehow win.\"\n\nElon Musk, 52, and Mark Zuckerberg, 39 are two of the world's most high-profile technology billionaires.\n\nThe bizarre idea to fight each other started in June, when Mr Musk tweeted that he was \"up for a cage fight\" with Mr Zuckerberg.\n\nThe Meta boss, who already has mixed martial arts (MMA) training and has recently won jiu-jitsu tournaments, simply responded with \"send me location\".", "Tens of thousands of online grooming crimes have been recorded during the wait for updated online safety laws.\n\nCampaigners are urging tech companies and MPs to back the Online Safety Bill and are calling for no more hold-ups.\n\nThe bill, which aims to crack down on illegal content, has faced repeated delays and amendments.\n\nChildren's charity the NPSCC says 34,000 online grooming crimes had been recorded by UK police forces since it first called for tougher laws in 2017.\n\nThe proposed new rules state that tech companies should be able to access the content of private messages if there is a child safety concern.\n\nMany popular apps offer an encrypted messaging service, which means that only the sender and recipient can view the content. The tech firms themselves cannot see it.\n\nHowever, these privacy functions are available to everybody, and the platforms say they offer extra protection to victims of domestic abuse, journalists and political activists, among others.\n\nThey also say that if they build in a backdoor, it will make their services less secure for all.\n\nAoife, 22, from East Kilbride, was targeted on the social network Yubo when she was 15, by an adult male who pretended to be a teenager.\n\nHe convinced her to download a different, secure messaging app, and send him explicit images of herself. He then threatened to publish them onto her social media accounts if she did not do what he said.\n\nHe also demanded photos of her school uniform and timetable. Aoife said she remembered a primary school lesson about a digital \"panic button\" run by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and accessed it.\n\nCEOP contacted her school, who told her parents. They helped her report her abuser to the police.\n\nYubo told the BBC it was \"committed to aggressively fighting threats against our users' safety\" and was \"always working to evaluate and improve our safety tools and policies\".\n\n\"I was petrified,\" Aoife told BBC News. \"It was something silly like two o'clock in the morning that I remember sitting in my room and all I wanted was my mum, but you can't go in then tell your mum that you've just done this, and you're in a lot of trouble.\n\n\"It's scary. I felt like I was the only person in the world at the time.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"guilty\" that no-one else knew what she was going through but also annoyed with herself because she was a \"smart girl\".\n\nAfter an investigation by the National Crime Agency in 2022, Aoife's abuser was jailed for 18 years.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to 65 offences relating to 26 girls and women aged between 12 and 22.\n\nCiting data from 42 UK police forces, the NSPCC said that 6,350 offences related to sexual communication with a child were recorded last year - a record high.\n\nThe new research shows that over the last six years 5,500 offences took place against primary school-age children. This means that under-12s made up a quarter of the over 21,000 known victims over that period.\n\nThe findings also showed that 73% of the crimes involved either Snapchat or Meta-linked websites, where the source was known.\n\nA Snap spokesperson told the BBC the platform had improved their technology over the last year to help identify sexual exploitation of young people.\n\n\"We also have extra protections for under-18s to make it even harder for them to be contacted by people they don't know, and tools so parents know who their teens are talking to,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMeta said that it restricts people over 19 from messaging teens who don't follow them, and uses technology to help prevent potentially suspicious adults from finding and interacting with teens.\n\n\"We've developed over 30 features to support teens and their families, including parental supervision tools that let parents be more involved in how their teens use Instagram.\"\n\nHowever, ministers have recently had to defend the Online Safety Bill against a backlash from some tech companies, who argue the law will undermine the use of encryption to keep online communications private.\n\nSome platforms are threatening to leave the UK altogether rather than comply with the new rules.\n\nKate Robertson, senior research associate at Citizen Lab - an organisation where researchers study security on the internet - told the BBC that \"we shouldn't be drilling more holes in internet safety\".\n\nShe said encryption \"is an important source of safety for vulnerable individuals and it's also an important safety net for privacy itself\".\n\nRani Govender, senior policy officer at the NSPCC, said: \"We don't think there's a trade-off between safety and privacy, we think it's about investing in those technical solutions which we know are out there, that can deliver for the privacy and safety of all users on these services.\"\n\nBut the NSPCC also wants assurances that the legislation will regulate new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nChief executive of the Internet Watch Foundation, Susie Hargreaves, echoed this, calling for robust safety features to be brought in.\n\n\"Without them, end-to-end encryption will be a smokescreen for abusers, helping them hide what they're doing, and enabling them to continue to hurt children and destroy young lives,\" she said.", "Former Home Secretary Dame Priti Patel has accused the government of being \"secretive\" about plans to house asylum seekers at an ex-RAF base.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph has reported there are plans to use the Wethersfield site in Essex for as long as five years.\n\nThe MP for nearby Witham said she had repeatedly asked for a timeframe but the Home Office had been \"evasive\".\n\nThe Home Office said military sites provided cheaper and more orderly accommodation than hotels.\n\nHowever, the plans for the Wethersfield site have been criticised by charities and the local council as inappropriate.\n\nThe first group of migrants moved on to the disused RAF base in July.\n\nThe Home Office eventually wants to place 1,700 people at the site, which would make it the UK's largest asylum accommodation centre.\n\nIn a letter to Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, Dame Priti said no clarity had been provided to her or local partners on how long the Home Office expected to use the site to house asylum seekers.\n\n\"Clear answers now need to be provided by the Home Office and the government must be transparent rather than evasive,\" she wrote. \"The lack of clarity has been alarming and staggering.\"\n\nThe Telegraph reported that an internal Home Office document stated the government was planning to use two former RAF bases - at Wethersfield and Scampton in Lincolnshire - for between three to five years.\n\nIt said a former prison in Bexhill, East Sussex, could be used for a longer timeframe.\n\nThe Home Office said it had obtained planning permission to use the Wethersfield site for 12 months.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"These accommodation sites will house asylum seekers in basic, safe and secure accommodation as they await a decision on their claim.\n\n\"We understand the concerns of local communities and will work closely with councils and key partners to manage the impact of using these sites, including liaising with local police to make sure appropriate arrangements are in place.\"\n\nMDP Wethersfield in Essex is located about 10 miles from the nearest big town of Braintree\n\nCharities have said the Wethersfield site is remote and not appropriate for housing asylum seekers, claiming the buildings are in a state of disrepair.\n\nEarlier this year, Braintree District Council sought an injunction to stop Wethersfield being used to house asylum seekers but it was denied.\n\nLawyers for the council said the Home Office had failed to take into account issues including access to healthcare and the ageing wastewater provision on site.\n\nThe council is now seeking a judicial review to stop the Home Office using the site.\n\nThe government says it wants to move away from using expensive hotels to house asylum seekers, which it says is costing the country £6.2m a day.\n\nThe increasing numbers claiming asylum - and the backlog of unprocessed claims - has led to a growth in the use of hotels as temporary accommodation.\n\nInstead the government is trying to use alternatives, like barges and former military bases.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has also made stopping people crossing the Channel in small boats one of his key priorities, to stem the flow of arrivals.", "The attack took place outside Clapham's Two Brewers nightclub\n\nTwo men were taken to hospital after being stabbed in a homophobic attack outside a south London nightclub.\n\nThe men, in their 20s and 30s, were attacked outside the Two Brewers in Clapham High Street on Sunday night.\n\nThe Met Police said it was treating the stabbings as homophobic. The men have since been sent home from hospital.\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said there was \"no place for hate in London\", adding that he stood with LGBTQI+ Londoners.\n\nNo arrests have been made in connection to the incident.\n\nDet Insp Gary Castle said he was \"aware of the shock this attack will cause members of the LGBT+ community\", adding \"an urgent investigation is ongoing\".\n\nA drag performer at the club praised staff at the venue for their response.\n\nThe Two Brewers has boosted its security after the attack\n\nMary Mac posted: \"The team at The Two Brewers were incredible in dealing with this and keeping us inside the venue safe.\n\n\"It's shocking and disgusting that in 2023 this is becoming frighteningly more frequent.\"\n\nA Two Brewers spokesperson said the venue was \"fully supporting\" the police with their investigation \"regarding this unprovoked attack\", adding, \"our thoughts are with the victims and their families\".\n\n\"We would like to reassure the LGBTQIA+ community that the safety and security of our guests remains our number one priority,\" they said.\n\n\"Our CCTV has been handed over to the police and enhanced security measures have now been put in place.\"\n\nCampaign group Stonewall called on the government to set out a plan to deal with hate crime in the wake of the stabbings.\n\nThe organisation said there had been no government hate crime strategy in place for the past three years.\n\nIn a series of entries on Twitter, now known as X, the LGBT+ charity said: \"We are appalled to hear that two men have been stabbed in an apparent homophobic attack outside a LGBTQ+ venue in Clapham.\n\n\"It is unacceptable for LGBTQ+ people to live in fear. We call on the UK Govt to set out its plan to deal with rising hate crime.\"\n\nThe attack took place outside the Two Brewers in Clapham\n\nIn London, Metropolitan Police figures show a slight decrease in homophobic hate crimes - 3,792 such crimes were recorded in the year to July 2023, compared to 4,131 a year earlier.\n\nHome Office figures for the year ending March 2022 show that sexual orientation hate crimes in England and Wales increased by 41% to 26,152, representing the largest percentage annual increase in these offences since current records began in the year ending March 2012.\n\nTransgender identity hate crimes also rose significantly, by 56% to 4,355, the data shows.\n\nThe Home Office said the overall rise could be due to better recording by police, as well as fewer cases having been recorded under Covid restrictions in 2020/21.\n\nHowever, significant increases of more than 40 and 50% would indicate an upward trend.\n\nA government spokesperson said of the Clapham incident: \"These reports are deeply concerning and our thoughts are with the victims and their families.\n\n\"It's right that we give the police space to investigate this incident and it would be inappropriate to comment further while an investigation is ongoing.\"\n\nSadiq Khan said the incident was \"abhorrent\" and his thoughts were with the victims of this \"appalling attack\".\n\n\"I have always been clear that there is no place for hate in London. I stand with LGBTQI+ Londoners and will do all I can to end hate crime in the capital,\" he added.\n\nMr Khan said his team and the Met Police would invite the LGBTQ+ venues forum and its members to attend an urgent meeting later this week.\n\nFlorence Eshalomi, Labour MP for Vauxhall, said: \"Having spoken to people in the area this afternoon, I know how alarming this shocking attack has been to the LGBTQ+ community in Clapham.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the victims, who I hope will be supported to make a full recovery.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The Health and Safety Executive said it was \"on-site\" making inquiries\n\nA worker has died after being injured at Everton's new football stadium which is being built in Liverpool.\n\nThe 26-year-old was taken to hospital after being hurt at about 12:30 BST on the construction site at Bramley-Moore Dock, Merseyside Police said.\n\nThe force said the man's family had been informed and it was working with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nEverton said everyone at the club was \"heartbroken\" and sent condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.\n\nWork has been suspended at the site until further notice, stadium contractor Laing O'Rourke said, adding it had been \"shocked and saddened\" by the \"tragic incident\".\n\nIt added: \"We can confirm that earlier today a member of our team, who was carrying out work for one of our sub-contractors, was seriously injured in an incident.\n\n\"He was taken to hospital via ambulance, where he sadly died.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the deceased man and our wider project team.\"\n\nThe HSE said it was \"on-site\" making inquiries.\n\nLaing O'Rourke said it would \"cooperate fully with any investigation\".\n\nA statement from the football club said: \"Everyone at Everton Football Club is heartbroken by the news a male worker has died following an incident at the Everton Stadium site at Bramley-Moore Dock.\n\n\"The thoughts and condolences of everyone connected with Everton are with his family, friends, and colleagues at this unimaginably sad time.\"\n\nThe new ground on the banks of the River Mersey is expected to be completed in late 2024, after which the club will leave their current home at Goodison Park, which opened in 1892.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's John Sudworth travels with volunteers delivering supplies by boat to the people of Maui, who have been affected by devastating wildfires.\n\nSupplies of fuel, water and other essentials were brought ashore by people who formed a human chain.\n\nDozens of people on the island have died in the wildfires, with scores of buildings and vehicles also being destroyed.", "Scientists hope to develop an early blood test for Alzheimer's\n\nA research firm in Edinburgh hopes to create a new blood test to identify Alzheimer's disease at an earlier stage.\n\nScottish Brain Sciences has teamed up with global healthcare firm Roche Diagnostics on a series of projects.\n\nThey are investigating the earliest indicators of neurodegenerative disease which, if detected, could help patients get treatment sooner.\n\nIt is hoped that earlier treatment could even prevent late-stage dementia.\n\nScottish Brain Sciences founder Prof Craig Ritchie said the work could have \"big impacts\".\n\nHe said: \"Early detection will be transformative in the way we assess, manage, and conceptualise clinically Alzheimer's disease.\n\n\"It will open the door to interventions used very early in the course of disease that are better targeted than current treatments.\n\nAlzheimer's can cause memory problems, confusion and communication issues. It is the most common cause of dementia.\n\nResearchers will learn more about the early indicators by using blood based bio-markers, which are biological indicators of the body's internal condition.\n\nDr Ashton Harper, director of medical affairs for Roche Diagnostics UK and Ireland, said early diagnosis can help patients manage their symptoms.\n\nDr Harper said: \"Early and accurate diagnosis of this condition has numerous advantages such as appropriate and timely management of symptoms, access to clinical trials and enabling future planning.\n\n\"Earlier diagnosis may also delay the need for residential care and reduce costs for health and social care.\n\nIn July, the global trial of a new drug called donanemab confirmed it slowed cognitive decline of Alzheimer's patients.\n\nThe antibody medicine helps in the early stages of the disease by clearing a protein that builds up in the brain.\n\nThe trial found that those who were in the earlier stages of the disease benefitted the most from the treatment.", "Skelton reached the final of last year's Strictly Come Dancing\n\nHelen Skelton has revealed on air that her BBC Radio 5 Live show on Sunday was her last, saying she wants to spend more time with her children.\n\nSkelton took over the station's Sunday mid-morning slot from Laura Whitmore last year.\n\nShe said she didn't want to go \"but an eight-year-old will be happy about it\".\n\nAsked how she felt, she added: \"I'm not all right about it but you know, needs must. The juggle is real. An eight-year-old with a sideline needs me.\"\n\nThe former Blue Peter host, 40, has three children, aged eight, six and one.\n\nClosing her show, she told listeners: \"That's it for me on Sundays for now. Thank you for your company over the last year, I've loved every minute of our time together on this show...\n\n\"Thank you to all of the team, thank you to all of you. Maybe we'll meet again soon. It's hard to know what to say without getting emotional.\"\n\nSkelton reached the final of last year's Strictly Come Dancing and is also a co-host on BBC One's Morning Live, Channel 5's On the Farm and rugby league coverage on Channel 4.\n\nShe has also co-presented the BBC's Countryfile, while a new Channel 5 series with Dan Walker, Dan & Helen's Pennine Adventure, starts on Tuesday.\n\nLast week, Skelton reportedly removed Instagram posts of herself wearing fashion and jewellery items after being warned about BBC rules prohibiting the promotion of brands by presenters.\n\nFollowing the announcement of her exit, a BBC spokesperson said: \"Helen is an excellent broadcaster who has done a fantastic job hosting Sunday mornings.\n\n\"We respect her decision and look forward to working together with her in the future across 5 Live programming.\n\n\"As for what's next for the Sunday mornings, we will update our listeners with some exciting news in due course.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A 17-year-old hillwalker reported missing overnight on a walking trip in the Highlands has been traced safe and well, say police.\n\nIsaac Johnson had set off at lunchtime on Saturday from Glen Moidart in Lochaber, but did not return as planned.\n\nMountain rescue teams, the coastguard and police were involved in the search.\n\nPolice said on Monday morning the teenager had been found.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A support worker with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said he does not feel safe in his home following a massive data breach.\n\nThe man said he had made changes to his daily life and no longer attended his child's Gaelic football training.\n\nHis name was on a document mistakenly shared by the PSNI that gave details of about 10,000 officers and staff.\n\nHe said it had \"raised security concerns\" and caused \"sleepless nights\".\n\nSome 1,700 staff have reported concerns with police since the data was leaked.\n\nThe worker, who is based outside Belfast, said that many of his colleagues were in \"extreme panic\", especially those with unique surnames.\n\nMany of whom, he added, \"are no longer travelling to work in their own vehicles. They're maybe taking their partner's, their mum's, a close family relative, and varying which car to travel to work in on a daily basis\".\n\nHe also said that since the breach many have changed their names on social media or deleted their accounts entirely.\n\nThe chief constable has apologised for what he called an \"industrial-scale\" breach of internal data.\n\nThe details included the surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence.\n\nA number of PSNI employees have spoken anonymously to BBC News NI about their safety fears following the data breach.\n\nThe civilian staff member said that prior to the leak he had taken steps to conceal his profession.\n\nPolice in Northern Ireland are very conscious of their personal security\n\n\"I would wear a uniform with the PSNI emblem on it,\" the support worker said.\n\n\"When I wash the clothing, I wouldn't be hanging it out on the line like the rest of my clothes, it would be taken to another location and washed and dried or tumble dried or left in the house over the radiator just to ensure that I don't leave with anything, with any emblems on me.\n\n\"There were places before that I was going to and there was people that I would have been in general contact with that would have had suspicions at times that I was an employee of the police service,\" the man told BBC News NI.\n\n\"So it has changed my attendance at a local sports club that I have been attending for maybe 10 or 15 years - or going to a club that my child would also be attending. I've varied my attendance at things I have been doing regularly for years.\"\n\nLaw firms are already making it known that they will represent officers and civilian staff who have had their identities revealed in these data breaches.\n\nAs of Monday morning, 2,834 police officers had signed up to take legal action after the data breaches, according to the Police Federation.\n\nWith more than 10,000 people affected, the potential bill for compensation could run to tens of millions of pounds, according to BBC NI's home affairs correspondent, Julian O'Neill.\n\nIn March, the terrorist threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nIt followed an attack on an off-duty senior detective, who suffered life-changing injuries after being shot several times by dissident republican paramilitaries.\n\nThe civilian worker said the data breach had \"brought on a level of panic that hasn't been around in a lot of years\".\n\n\"It's giving my partner issues as well. She has concerns and is now extremely panicked about me going to work. It has raised the security concerns, I suppose, that were never fully away. There have been a few sleepless nights.\n\n\"With my details being leaked out on this, I'm unsure who has had access to it. I think that although not easily identifiable, a couple of key pieces of information could lead [to people] realising that those details are mine.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne has apologised for what he called a breach on an \"industrial scale\"\n\nThe civilian worker pointed out that support staff only receive about £500 in so-called danger money - while an officer can get up to £3,500.\n\nHe also said he knows of two PSNI employees actively seeking new employment directly because of the breach.\n\nMeanwhile, it emerged on Saturday that 200 PSNI officers and staff of the Police Service of Northern Ireland were not informed of the theft of personal data from a superintendent's car for a month.\n\nThis was in relation to another data breach in Newtownabbey in July.\n\nThe Superintendents' Association of Northern Ireland (SANI) confirmed one of its members was involved, adding that it was giving them \"every possible support in this difficult situation\".", "The survey found the biggest declines in new orders hit construction and retail firms\n\nBusiness activity in Northern Ireland's private sector fell for the first time in six months in July, according to a survey by Ulster Bank.\n\nEvery month the bank asks firms from across different parts of the economy about things like staffing levels, order books and exports.\n\nIt is considered to be a reliable indicator of economic performance.\n\nThe survey found the decrease in activity was caused by weak demand and the impact of inflation.\n\nNew orders fell across all four sectors of the economy, with the biggest declines in construction and retail.\n\nDespite this, companies continued to take on new staff, albeit at the slowest rate in six months.\n\nUlster Bank's chief economist in Northern Ireland, Richard Ramsey, said: \"Just like the summer weather, business conditions took a turn for the worse in July.\n\n\"The near-term outlook is for a further softening in demand with new orders declining for the second month running.\"\n\nHowever, the survey suggested there had been some easing of the inflationary pressures that firms have been facing as well as an improvement in business sentiment about the outlook for the year ahead.\n\nMr Ramsey added: \"While price pressures have hit demand in recent months, it is encouraging to note that inflationary pressures continue to moderate.\n\n\"Business conditions may have taken a turn for the worse in July but sentiment amongst local firms for the year ahead has actually picked up.\n\n\"The interest rate outlook has improved slightly but the dark cloud of no Stormont Executive looks set to remain anchored over the economy for the foreseeable future.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning executive since February 2022 as part of the Democratic Unionist Party's protest against post-Brexit trading arrangements.\n\n\"Whether the new rise in optimism is well founded or misplaced - time will tell,\" Mr Ramsey added.", "A car has crashed into a campsite in Pembrokeshire in South West Wales, injuring a number of people, two of them seriously.\n\nNewgale Campsite owner Mike Harris spoke to the BBC and recalled what the scene was like before emergency services arrived.\n\nPolice said the car crashed into the campsite just after 22:30 BST and that the passengers in the car were among the injured.\n\nMr Harris said there was a baby in a tent hit by the car - but it was protected from injuries by being in a cot, which was a \"miracle\".", "Information mistakenly released in a major data breach is in the hands of dissident republicans, Northern Ireland's police chief has said.\n\nThe data includes the surname and first initial of 10,000 Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) employees.\n\nIt also includes their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit in which they work.\n\nSimon Byrne said the information could be used to \"intimidate or target officers and staff\".\n\n\"We are working round the clock to assess and mitigate this risk,\" he said.\n\nHe said dissident republican paramilitaries could use the list of names to generate \"fear and uncertainty\".\n\nDetails released in what Mr Byrne earlier called a breach of \"industrial scale\" included names of people who work in sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence.\n\nIn March, the terrorist threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nIt followed an attack on a senior officer who suffered life-changing injuries after being shot several times by dissident republican paramilitaries.\n\nThe threat to officers means they must be extremely vigilant about their security.\n\nMany, especially from nationalist communities, keep their employment secret, in some cases even from many family members.\n\nLiam Kelly, the chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland (PFNI), the body that represents police officers, urged all police officers and staff to exercise \"maximum vigilance\".\n\n\"We must do all we can to frustrate and prevent attacks on our colleagues and their families,\" he said.\n\n\"That means varying the routes we take to and from work, changing routines and re-assessing our personal security both on and off duty.\"\n\nMr Byrne said the safety and welfare of officers and staff was his top priority and said an online service had been set up to deal with any staff concerns.\n\nContrary to some reports, there was no evidence of movement of officers and staff outside the organisation and he paid tribute to the \"resilience\" of staff, he added.\n\nMr Byrne said the force was being strongly supported by a range of cyber specialists, and continuing to liaise with the UK government.\n\nHe said that at the beginning of Monday there were 45 members of PSNI staff the organisation \"hadn't caught up with\" to discuss the breach, adding that things were moving quickly.\n\nThe police chief said contact and face-to-face meetings were continuing to be organised and that the details of retired colleagues were not part of the breach.\n\nNI Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said the UK government remained committed to providing specialist support and expertise.\n\n\"I know that PSNI and security partners will continue to take proportionate action to protect officers and staff and their families,\" he added.\n\nA 'sinister' document was posted outside Sinn Féin office, said Gerry Kelly\n\nEarlier, police said they were investigating an incident where a document was posted on a wall in west Belfast, allegedly showing information released in the breach.\n\nNames were redacted from the document, which was found near a Sinn Féin office alongside a photo of the party's policing spokesperson, Gerry Kelly.\n\nThere was also a threatening message which read: \"Gerry we know who your mates are.\"\n\nCCTV cameras by the office had not been working, Sinn Féin said.\n\nDUP MLA Trevor Clarke, a member of the Policing Board, said it reinforced that the threat from the leak would have to be \"monitored potentiality for some years to come.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in a separate development, it emerged on Saturday that 200 officers and staff were not informed of the theft of personal data from a superintendent's car for a month after it was stolen.\n\nA document containing the names of 200 officers and staff was taken along with a police-issue laptop on 6 July.\n\nNearly half of Northern Ireland's police officers, about 3,000, have contacted the Police Federation about a potential damages case after the mass data leak.\n\nAll are likely to be in line for some form of compensation.\n\nIt is thought the bill could run into tens of millions of pounds.", "If dissident republicans have this information, then the obvious question is: What does this mean for staff, officers and civilian personnel?\n\nThe chief constable says they would likely use it to generate fear among officers and staff and also use it, if they can, to target staff.\n\nSimon Byrne says measures will be taken to address the risks.\n\nThe big difficulty the PSNI faces is the sheer enormity of this.\n\nMr Byrne talks about a sort of triage system where the PSNI will assess the safety of individuals.\n\nWe’ve got 10,000 employees, all of whom feel varying degrees of anxiety.\n\nHow do you evaluate that risk to so many people, in real time and as quickly as possible?", "Many Afghan refugees have been \"let down\" by the UK, with some living in hotels for up to two years and now facing eviction, a think tank has said.\n\nMore in Common said lessons needed to be learned so future refugees were better supported.\n\nIt comes on the anniversary of the UK's evacuation programme and the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on 15 August 2021.\n\nMinister Johnny Mercer admitted there had been \"challenges\" but said he was determined to make Afghan schemes work.\n\nOperation Pitting saw the UK airlift around 15,000 people out of Kabul - including British nationals, as well as people who worked with the UK in Afghanistan and their family members.\n\nThose who had nowhere to live were placed in government-funded hotels. This was supposed to be temporary accommodation but by the end of March, there were still around 8,800 Afghans living in hotels.\n\nThe government has imposed a deadline of the end of August for Afghans to be moved out of hotels, but councils have warned some are facing homelessness as they cannot find anywhere else to live.\n\nMore In Common, an organisation founded in the wake of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, surveyed 132 Afghans in the UK.\n\nIt was told of failures in communication with local authorities and the Home Office on housing, rental applications being repeatedly rejected, and unsuitable homes being offered, sometimes hundreds of miles away.\n\nOne example saw a refugee living in temporary accommodation in Bristol, where they had family, offered permanent housing in Northern Ireland.\n\nAmir Hussain Ibrahimi was evacuated from Afghanistan by the UK two years ago and has been living in a hotel in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, ever since.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who was a journalist and photographer in Afghanistan, said he was forced to leave his family behind after he was arrested and attacked by the Taliban.\n\n\"The first days when I was in the hotel we had a lot of promises - the government told us that you're going to stay three months or four months or five months,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It is quite hard because you don't know what is the next step for your life.\"\n\n\"Sometimes you want to feel a place is like a home,\" he said, adding that he had felt depressed at times since coming to the UK.\n\nMr Ibrahimi said he was relieved the council had finally found him a permanent home, after being rejected by more than 10 landlords. He is now waiting to see if this landlord will accept him as a tenant.\n\nHowever, he said he knew many other families who had not managed to find homes.\n\nMr Ibrahimi acknowledged there were challenges as other Afghans did not have experience working in the UK and often had large families. However, he said the government needed to do more to help.\n\nAmir Hussain Ibrahimi now works as a marketing and production assistant in east London\n\nCabinet Office minister Mr Mercer, who served in Afghanistan during his time in the military and is responsible for the resettlement scheme, acknowledged \"things could always have been done differently\" and that Afghan families had been in hotels \"for far too long\".\n\nHe told the PA news agency the deadline for people to leave hotels by the end of August had been \"a controversial move\" but it was done \"with compassion in mind\".\n\nHe said 440 Afghans had been matched to homes in the past week \"and I couldn't have generated that momentum without putting that hard deadline in there\".\n\nThe government said it had provided £285m of funding to help move Afghans into permanent homes, with more than 10,500 people moved from hotels to long-term accommodation so far.\n\nA spokesperson for the Local Government Association said councils had worked \"incredibly hard\" to support Afghan families but had faced challenges including a shortage of housing.\n\nIt accepted there were lessons to be learned but blamed a \"delay in funding and guidance from government for creating a lot of uncertainty\".\n\nSir Laurie Bristow, who was the UK's ambassador to Afghanistan when Kabul fell to the Taliban, said Britain has a responsibility to those who worked for the UK there.\n\n\"There are people in Afghanistan and in refugee camps who worked for us and worked with us and whose lives are in danger as a result of doing so,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nAs debate continues over whether countries should engage with the Taliban, Sir Laurie said that doing so effectively could help to address reasons why Afghans were leaving the country for the UK.\n\nOperation Pitting saw around 15,000 people evacuated from Kabul\n\nMeanwhile, charities have criticised resettlement schemes for being too slow and leaving many people who want to come to the UK stuck in Afghanistan.\n\nSince the original evacuation, the numbers arriving under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) have been low, with only 40 refugees who have fled Afghanistan to neighbouring countries being resettled in the UK up to the end of March, while only 14 members of at-risk groups have been resettled directly from Afghanistan.\n\nA further 9,059 people, who arrived in the UK under Operation Pitting, have also been resettled under the ACRS, while 11,398 have been brought to the UK under a scheme for Afghans who worked for or with the UK government.\n\nIn the meantime others have taken dangerous routes like crossing the Channel in small boats, with Afghan the most common nationality recorded among those arriving this way so far this year.\n\nHuman rights organisation Justice said the schemes had been marked by \"significant delays, lack of transparency and lack of consistency\".\n\nIt called for quicker processing times and better communication with applicants.\n\nMr Mercer acknowledged some people had been left behind after the Taliban takeover and had still not been brought to safety.\n\nHowever, he said he was determined to make resettlement schemes \"work properly\" and that the UK should be \"proud\" of its efforts to rescue people.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the UK had made \"one of the largest commitments of any country to support Afghanistan\" and there was \"no need for Afghans to risk their lives by taking dangerous and illegal journeys\".", "Both teenagers attended an event at SWG3 before they died\n\nPolice are investigating the deaths of two 18-year-olds who attended the same DJ event in Glasgow.\n\nThe first became unwell at Croy train station, North Lanarkshire at about 23:20 on Saturday - he was later pronounced dead in hospital.\n\nThe second took ill at the SWG3 venue at about 02:20 on Sunday. He also died in hospital a short time later.\n\nThe BBC understands officers are looking at whether drugs played a role and whether the deaths are linked.\n\nBoth men had been to the SWG3 venue on Eastvale Place that night to see a performance by DJ Ben Hemsley.\n\nA spokesperson for the venue said: \"We are devastated at the news and our deepest sympathies are with the families. We will continue to assist the police with their inquiries.\"", "At first glance, the federal charges against Trump for 2020 election interference and the Georgia state charges seem to have a lot of overlap.\n\nBoth deal heavily with the actions of Trump and his associates in Georgia, and even zero in on the same actions.\n\nBut the prosecutors in each case have taken a very different strategic approach.\n\nJack Smith, the Justice Department special counsel overseeing the case in Washington DC, indicted only Donald Trump - though the indictment mentions unnamed co-conspirators who allegedly helped carry out election interference.\n\nProsecuting only Trump allows Smith to move much faster, as the government has indicated it would like a speedy trial ahead of the 2024 election.\n\nFani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney in Georgia, did the opposite: she charged Trump along with 18 other co-defendants in a racketeering case.\n\nIt's a sprawling legal strategy that allows her to try multiple figures at once. Willis is trying to hold several people responsible for a wide range of activity in Georgia, all while pointing the finger at Trump.\n\nIn fact, several of the named defendants in the Georgia case - Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Cheseboro - are also unnamed co-conspirtators in the federal indictment.\n\nWillis's case is the first time they are actually being charged for their alleged attemps to help the former president interfere in the 2020 election.", "A Soviet-era MiG-23 fighter has crashed at an air show in Michigan, hitting unoccupied cars as it fell.\n\nThe pilot noticed the plane was losing power, and he and the passenger were able to safely eject just moments before the plane crashed in a plume of smoke.\n\nThe pilot had serious but non-life threatening injuries, while the passenger was left with minor injuries, officials said.\n\n\"It's very fortunate, of course, that nobody on the ground was injured\", said John Brannen, senior air safety investigator at the National Transportation Safety Board.\n\n\"The plane travelled about 500ft (152m) after the initial impact, went through some trees and wound up here next to the apartment building.\" he added.", "Mohamed Bazoum was toppled as president more than two years after he took office\n\nNiger's military junta has announced plans to prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for high treason and undermining national security.\n\nThis is the latest sign that the junta intends to resist international pressure to return power to Mr Bazoum.\n\nThe West African regional bloc Ecowas said it was shocked to learn that the junta wanted to prosecute him.\n\nHe has been held in the basement of his palace since the military staged a coup about three weeks ago.\n\nMr Bazoum was in \"good spirits\" despite being held in \"difficult\" conditions, his doctor said after a visit.\n\nThe US State Department expressed its dismay that the Niger leader had been charged, with spokesperson Vedant Patel describing the charges as \"completely unwarranted and unjustified\".\n\nMr Patel said they would not \"contribute to a peaceful resolution of this crisis\", and said they were a \"further affront, in our opinion, to democracy and justice and to the respect of the rule of law.\"\n\nBut in a sign that it is hardening its position, the junta said in a statement read out on state TV that it had gathered evidence to prosecute \"the deposed president and his local and foreign accomplices for high treason and undermining the internal and external security of Niger\".\n\nIt did not give further details.\n\nMr Bazoum, 63, is being held captive with his wife and son and there were growing concerns about their health.\n\nGen Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of the presidential guards unit, declared himself Niger's new ruler on 26 July after overthrowing him.\n\nEcowas has threatened military action to reverse the coup, but it has so far failed to follow through on its threat.\n\nThe coup leaders have warned they will defend themselves against any intervention.\n\nEcowas has also imposed sanctions on the junta, including cutting electricity to Niger. This has caused blackouts in the capital Niamey, and other major cities.\n\nEcowas said the move to prosecute Mr Bazoum was a new form of provocation which contradicted the military's reported willingness to find a peaceful solution to the crisis.\n\nOn Saturday, a high-powered delegation of Muslim clerics from neighbouring Nigeria met junta leaders in Niamey in a bid to mediate an end to the crisis.\n\nJunta-appointed Prime Minister Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine said he was optimistic that talks with Ecowas would take place in the coming days \"to discuss how the sanctions against us will be lifted\".\n\nThe coup in Niger mirrored similar takeovers in neighbouring Burkina Faso and Mali, amid an Islamist insurgency and a growing Russian influence in the wider Sahel region through its mercenary group Wagner.\n\nDespite his captivity, Mr Bazoum was able to publish an article in The Washington Post stating that he was a hostage and that the coup would have \"devastating consequences for our country, our region and the entire world\".\n\nMr Bazoum is reported to have lost a \"worrying\" amount of weight, while his 20-year-old son, who has a chronic medical condition, was also reportedly denied care.\n\nUN human rights chief Volker Turk described the conditions of the detention as inhumane, degrading and in violation of international human rights law.\n\nHis daughter Zazia, 34, who was on holiday in France during the coup, told the UK-based Guardian newspaper last week that her father, mother and brother had no clean water or electricity and were living on rice and pasta.\n\nFresh food was rotting in the fridge because there was no power, she said.\n\nThe deputy director at Human Rights Watch Africa, Carine Kaneza Nantulya, also told the BBC that they were concerned the charges may be politically motivated.\n\n\"In terms of the potential charge that has been talked about we're also concerned that this might be a politically motivated charge, given the length and the nature of President Bazoum's detention and the other co-detainees\", she added.\n\nMr Bazoum has been seen once since he was overthrown, in a photo released after he met Chad's leader Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno.\n\nMr Déby met both the junta and Mr Bazoum soon after the coup in a failed bid to resolve the crisis.", "Companies vying to buy Wilko have been given until Wednesday to make an offer for the homewares chain which fell into administration last week.\n\nIt is understood that Wilko's administrator PwC has set a deadline to flush out serious bids for the firm.\n\nWilko, which has been trading since 1930, has more than 400 shops and employs 12,500 workers.\n\nThe BBC has previously reported that two retailers are interested in making an offer.\n\nIt has also been reported that private equity firms Alteri and Gordon Brothers may be interested in investing in Wilko.\n\nAlteri Investors declined to comment. Gordon Brothers has been contacted for comment.\n\nIt is not clear how many of Wilko's shops could be rescued or if the Wilko name will be saved.\n\nGordon Brothers bought the Laura Ashley brand in 2020 when the company, famed for its floral designs, went into administration, which was handled by PwC.\n\nAlteri Investors took ownership of Bensons for Beds in 2020 through a deal also overseen by PwC.\n\nWilko was put into administration after failing to secure £75m in funding. The firm's chief executive, Mark Jackson, said last week it had been working for the past six months on a turnaround plan \"to restore confidence and stabilise our business\".\n\n\"We left no stone unturned when it came to preserving this incredible business,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he conceded \"with regret\" that there was \"no choice\" but to put the company into administration.\n\nFor the moment, Wilko's shops remain open and its staff continue to be paid in full.\n\nBut stores have already begun advertising an \"administration sale\" and cutting prices.\n\nAs well as other retailers, turnaround specialists may come forward with offers by the Wednesday deadline, which was first reported by Sky News.\n\nIf an offer does not materialise, Wilko will be placed into liquidation and the business will be wound down.\n\nWilko's administration is the biggest in retail since last year when McColl's, the convenience store chain, filed and left 16,000 staff facing redundancy.\n\nThe company was bought by the supermarket Morrisons, which already had a trading relationship with McColl's and all the jobs were initially saved. However, Morrisons later closed a number of shops, resulting in job losses.\n\nWilko had attempted to reduce costs and in February announced 400 job cuts.\n\nPwC said that Wilko had been hit by \"incredibly challenging trading conditions, both throughout the pandemic and more recently as it has felt the impact of the cost of living crisis, resulting in increasing cashflow pressure and a deterioration in trading\".\n\nHowever, retail analysts said that rival discounters such as B&M, Home Bargains and The Range were able to offer the same products at lower prices.\n\nMeanwhile, competitors had shifted away from the High Street, where Wilko has many shops, to retail parks which some find are more convenient, especially if people are shopping for bulkier products.\n\nSusannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"Rival discounters had focused on more popular retail park sites and had diversified product ranges more into food, which has added extra resilience with consumers seeking out grocery bargains amid the cost of living crisis.\n\n\"Ultimately the fierce headwinds of inflation and thunderous supply chain challenges proved to be the storm which it has been impossible to recover from.\"\n\nMr Jackson said last week that the retailer had received \"a significant level of interest, including indicative offers\" to rescue the cash-strapped business.\n\nBut he said that \"without the surety of being able to complete the deal within the necessary timeframe and given the cash position\", management was \"left with no choice\" other than administration.", "Sicily's Mount Etna, the most active volcano in Europe, erupted on Sunday night, with the spectacle caught on camera.\n\nItalian authorities said that the volcano had entered a \"pre-alert\" phase, moving its warning level from F0 to F1.\n\nThe volcano frequently erupts, but its activity rarely results in significant damage.", "Relocation experts say many of those looking to emigrate are highly-trained professionals, such as Professor Chen Hoffmann\n\nAs tens of thousands of Israelis continue to join weekly protests over the government's highly controversial plans to change the justice system, as many as one in three citizens is thinking of leaving the country, according to a poll.\n\nProfessor Chen Hofmann is one of them. Together with his wife and their children, they start the Jewish Sabbath with a meal together every Friday evening. Nowadays they end it at a huge anti-government rally.\n\n\"It's not our ritual to go and protest in the streets but we're forced to because we're losing our country, that's how we feel,\" says the doctor, while attending the weekly Saturday night demonstration in central Tel Aviv.\n\nThe leading Israeli radiologist is now in the process of moving to a hospital in the UK. Moreover, he is trying to persuade other members of his family, who all have European passports, to consider leaving too.\n\n\"I'm going to London for a sabbatical, and this will be my laboratory to see if I can live outside Israel,\" he explains. \"If the situation will be so bad - and it's worsening every day - we'll find a new place to live.\"\n\nAmong the crowds blowing horns and waving Israeli flags on Tel Aviv's Kaplan Street, there is fury at legislation being passed to limit the power of the Supreme Court.\n\nProtesters believe it endangers democracy. However, Israel's hard-line governing coalition argues that its actions enhance democracy, by fixing a judicial system in which elected politicians are too easily overruled.\n\nIsraeli protesters fear that a weakened Supreme Court will not be able to safeguard civil rights\n\nWhile the demonstrators still hope new laws can be overturned, many admit that emigrating is something they, or those close to them, have thought about.\n\n\"It would be heart-breaking but I will not raise my kids in a country which is not democratic,\" says Sarah, a mother at the protest.\n\n\"If I can't be sure that my daughter's rights as a young woman are guaranteed, we will not stay here\".\n\nIsraeli relocation experts say that in the past few months they have witnessed a spike in business. The expected negative economic fallout of the government's judicial changes and rising living costs are also push factors for those seeking to leave.\n\n\"We have seen a dramatic increase in the demand for information: we want to move to another country, how do we start the process?\" says Shay Obazanek, a manager at one major firm, Ocean Relocation. \"People with foreign passports who are able to move, ask for advice.\"\n\nRuth Nevo, a Portugal-based relocation specialist, has begun to see Israeli customers for the first time. \"It's been absolutely insane, from none for years to, like, 25 enquiries a day,\" she says.\n\n\"And the people who are enquiring are very well-educated. I'm talking about lawyers, judges, policemen, university lecturers, IT people; they're just very concerned about what's going on.\"\n\nChen Hofmann and his family have joined the weekly anti-government rallies in Tel Aviv\n\nInternational trends suggest that most people who look into emigrating for political reasons do not end up following through. Before and after the election of Donald Trump in 2016, many Americans who had initially threatened to move abroad abandoned their efforts.\n\nHowever, in Israel, the recent political turmoil has opened up deep social divisions and raised alarm about shifting demographics.\n\nThe current coalition government relies on ultra-Orthodox Jews and religious nationalists who have socially conservative values and represent fast-growing parts of the population because of their relatively high birth rates.\n\nIncreasingly, as secular Israelis become a minority in the country, they see a threat to their liberal lifestyles. Now they fear the courts will no longer be able to protect their civil rights.\n\n\"What I think happened over the last six months was that a slow, incremental demographic process, all of a sudden, became extremely apparent,\" says Professor Alon Tal, head of the public policy department at Tel Aviv University.\n\nHe points out that secular Jews continue to shoulder the greatest share of the tax burden in Israel and do most of the compulsory military service, often spending years in reserves. The ultra-Orthodox community benefits from decades-old exemptions from the army.\n\nMany of the people protesting consider themselves to be patriots and include military veterans and reservists\n\nProfessor Tal warns that an exodus, if it happens, could be devastating, with a disproportionate impact on key sectors such as hi-tech, medicine and academia.\n\n\"When the truly talented people, who carry on their shoulders the innovation and the economic development that this country is so dependent on, when they decide they've had enough and they don't want to live in a country that no longer represents them, then we could see a collapse, an economic collapse,\" he says.\n\nAt the Sheba Medical Center, just outside Tel Aviv, Professor Hoffmann is poring over the MRI scans of pregnant women. He is one of just four experts on foetal neuroradiology in Israel.\n\nA new survey has just been published in which more than a third of young Israeli doctors and medical students said they planned to leave the country soon. The professor says he also knows a lot of experienced medical personnel, like him, who are looking to head overseas and admits feeling conflicted.\n\n\"Even now we have a shortage of doctors,\" he notes. \"So, if you know, even 5% will not come back, it will be a disaster.\"\n\nBack at the weekly protests in central Tel Aviv, the national anthem plays out.\n\nThe demonstrators see themselves as dedicated patriots. Many are Israeli military veterans or reservists.\n\nSome insist that whatever happens, they will never move away.\n\n\"I'm really worried but I'm staying because I feel solidarity,\" says Ruth, a physician who also comes to the protests each week and has previously worked in other countries.\n\n\"This is my responsibility to fight,\" she goes on. \"This is like a second army service for me. We are like an army now.\"\n\nAmid loud chants of \"democracy\", the fight continues at full volume to try to force the government to change track on its judicial overhaul.\n\nBut at the same time, another challenge is quietly building, with more Israelis drafting their exit plans.", "Donald Trump is expected to face his fourth criminal indictment next week, in the state of Georgia\n\nThe first count in the Georgia indictment charges Donald Trump and 18 others with racketeering for their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state.\n\nAnnouncing the charges, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis implicated the former president in a sprawling election subversion conspiracy, with him as the ringleader.\n\n\"The indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia's legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal, racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia's presidential election results,\" she said.\n\nThese are the fourth set of criminal charges brought against Mr Trump in recent months, but it is the first time a former American president faces charges once used to convict mob bosses like John Gotti and Vincent Gigante.\n\nOrganised criminal activity in the US is routinely prosecuted under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Rico) Act.\n\nRico laws help prosecutors connect the dots between underlings who broke laws and those who gave them marching orders.\n\nMore than 30 US states have implemented their own versions of the federal government's Rico Act and Georgia's adaptation is broader in scope than most.\n\nFederal Rico statutes list 35 crimes that would qualify as evidence of racketeering, but Georgia's Rico laws choose from a list of 65.\n\nProsecutors are required to show that a criminal \"enterprise\" exists and to detail a pattern of racketeering that rests on at least two qualifying crimes.\n\nRudy Giuliani (center) may face charges in any Rico indictment\n\nThe Rico Act is a storytelling tool prosecutors can use \"to really capture what happened here in the aftermath of the election and to prosecute the full scope of the conspiracy,\" says Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University.\n\n\"There were so many different bad actors in Georgia working to undermine the election and to overthrow the vote count. Donald Trump is at the centre of it, but he was working in a broader orbit.\"\n\nPenalties under Georgia's Rico Act are steep - prison terms between five and 20 years, or fines of up to $250,000 (£197,000) - and can help persuade subordinates to cut deals with the prosecution in exchange for lesser sentences.\n\nSuch incidents could generate a wave of never-before-seen evidence and testimony prosecutors can use against the alleged ringleaders, Mr Kreis argues.\n\nBut to convict Mr Trump himself, prosecutors will have to show the former president was \"not some kind of passive participant\" following legal advice, but the man \"driving the bus\", he says.\n\nThe campaign was \"very sloppy, left a paper trail everywhere they went and had no shame in covering up what they did,\" says Mr Kreis. \"That means there are nuggets of information out there.\"\n\nMr Trump is already facing federal charges from the US Department of Justice over his false election claims, in a trial whose evidence could factor into, and overlap with, the case in Georgia.\n\nHe is also awaiting trial over his alleged mishandling of classified documents and his hush-money payments to a porn star.\n\nDistrict Attorney Willis, a Democrat, has used the state's racketeering laws for high-profile prosecutions in the past.\n\nIn 2013, she led the prosecution - on Rico charges - of Atlanta public school teachers and administrators accused of cheating on state-run standardised tests in order to secure bonuses and promotions.\n\n\"You don't, under Rico, have to have a formal, sit-down dinner meeting where you eat spaghetti,\" Ms Willis explained as she indicted nearly three dozen educators about a decade ago.\n\nRico is a tool that helps prosecutors tell the whole story, says Fani Willis\n\n\"But what you do have to do is all be doing the same thing for the same purpose. You all have to be working towards that same goal.\"\n\nEleven of 12 officials were ultimately convicted at trial, the longest in state history, with most other co-conspirators taking guilty pleas.\n\nLast year, Ms Willis leaned on Rico statutes again to allege that Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug and 27 associates at his YSL music label are a \"criminal street gang\".\n\n\"The reason that I am a fan of Rico is, I think jurors are very, very intelligent,\" she said at a news conference to announce the charges.\n\n\"They want to know what happened. They want to make an accurate decision about someone's life. And so Rico is a tool that allows a prosecutor's office and law enforcement to tell the whole story.\"\n\nBut a trial that was set to begin this past January is now eight months into a glacial jury selection process, with thousands of jurors excused and not a single juror seated.\n\nThat has left Young Thug sitting in jail for 15 months, while a handful of his YSL co-defendants have taken plea deals or had their cases separated from the trial.\n\n\"I am hoping Fani Willis has learned from this YSL case when Donald Trump's case finally gets to that level,\" said Keisha Steed, an Atlanta defence attorney. \"The way it's playing out has been a mess!\"\n\nShe said Ms Willis's office did not seem \"prepared for the number of jurors that they had to call in, the logistics of having everybody be in one place, the time it takes for all attorneys to question jurors\".\n\nThe plodding pace of Young Thug's trial has set it on course to beat the record set by the Atlanta educators' trial as the longest in state history.\n\nThat is not unusual for multi-defendant and multi-attorney Rico cases, which can create major backlogs in the legal system.\n\n\"The whole courthouse is basically closed,\" said Meg Strickler, another local defence attorney.\n\n\"I hate the Rico Act,\" she added, saying clients are frequently intimidated by the penalties they could face, and the time and money needed to defend themselves.\n\nAnd, given how lengthy and complicated Rico trials are, she expects the Trump trial will prove a confusing and uncomfortable affair for a jury, if one can eventually be seated.\n\n\"Jurors are going to fall asleep long before they understand it,\" Ms Strickler predicted.\n• None Is Trump running for president mostly to avoid prison?", "A 10-year-old girl found dead at a house in Surrey has been named locally as Sara Sharif.\n\nDetectives are still looking for three people known to the girl and who have left the country. No arrests have been made.\n\nThe girl was alone when found at the property at about 02:50 BST on 10 August.\n\nA post-mortem examination will be held on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nFormal identification has yet to take place, and investigators are still at the property in Hammond Road, Woking.\n\nThe three people detectives wish to speak to are believed to have left the country on 9 August.\n\nSurrey Police said it was working with the international authorities to locate them.\n\nA Surrey Police spokesperson said: \"Detectives have confirmed that no other people were present at the address when they attended in the early hours of Thursday morning.\n\n\"The three people they would like to speak to were known to the victim. Formal identification is yet to take place, but we understand the child has been named locally.\"\n\nThe deceased girl's family have been informed and are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nPolice have maintained a presence outside the house since Thursday\n\nOn Thursday, Det Ch Insp Debbie White said: \"Our officers are working hard to build a picture of what happened.\n\n\"We have no reason to believe there is any risk to the public.\"\n\nSt Mary's Horsell church in Woking was opened on Friday so members of the community could attend for \"prayer, reflection or comfort\".\n\nFloral tributes were left outside the property where Sara's body was found, with messages remembering a \"sweet girl\" whose \"sparkle was put out too soon\".\n\nSpeaking after the discovery, a neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, described the neighbourhood as \"pretty normal\".\n\n\"There is no real activity going on,\" they said.\n\nSara \"appeared to help look after her younger brothers and sisters, and especially the baby\", the neighbour added.\n\nThey \"seemed a happy family who cared for all their children\", they said.\n\nMeanwhile, another local resident said: \"The area is very peaceful. It is busy during term-time with children walking to and from. But it's a lovely, vibrant place, normally.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The scene on Hammond Road in Woking remained taped off on Friday\n\nThree people detectives want to speak to over the death of a 10-year-old girl in Woking are believed to have left the UK, police have said.\n\nThe girl's body was found after police officers were called to an address in Hammond Road, Woking, at about 02:50 BST on Thursday following a safety concern.\n\nDet Ch Insp Debbie White said it was \"a devastating incident\".\n\nThe three people are believed to have left the UK on Wednesday.\n\nDet Ch Insp White said: \"We have identified three people we would like to speak to in connection with our investigation and from our enquiries, we believe that they left the country on Wednesday, 9 August. We are working with our partners, including international authorities, to locate them.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the force said no-one else had been injured, and no arrests had been made. A post-mortem examination will be carried out on Tuesday.\n\nHouse-to-house inquiries were being conducted on Friday, and police said they will maintain a presence at the scene over the coming week.\n\nInsp Sandra Carlier, borough commander for Woking, said: \"I know that the community are shocked and saddened by yesterday's events, and we stand with them in their grief.\"\n\nA neighbour who lives directly opposite the house said a family with six children had lived at the property for less than six months.\n\n\"They were normal children, friendly. They seemed like a decent family,\" he said.\n\nFlowers have been laid at the scene in tribute to the 10-year-old girl\n\nOn Thursday, Det Ch Insp White said: \"Our officers are working hard to build a picture of what happened.\n\n\"We have no reason to believe there is any risk to the public.\"\n\nThere was a significant police presence near the address in Hammond Road, which would remain closed over the coming days, she added.\n\nThe deceased girl's family have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.\n\nAnother neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, described the area as a \"pretty normal\" neighbourhood, adding: \"There is no real activity going on.\"\n\nAnother local added: \"The area is very peaceful. It is busy during term time with children walking to and from. But it's a lovely, vibrant place normally.\"\n\nA spokesperson for St Mary's Horsell in Woking said the church would be open so the community could attend for \"prayer, reflection or comfort\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with our whole community, but especially those who will be so deeply affected by this tragedy,\" they said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clarence Avant worked with everyone from Snoop Dogg and P Diddy to Bill Withers and Michael Jackson\n\nClarence Avant, whose talent as a manager, mentor and deal-maker earned him the nickname 'The Godfather of Black Music', has died aged 92.\n\nA former head of Motown, he worked with everyone from Bill Withers to Michael Jackson, and founded one of America's first Black-owned radio stations.\n\nAvant died at home in Los Angeles on Sunday, his family said in a statement.\n\nIt comes 20 months after his wife, Jacqueline, was shot and killed by an intruder in their Beverly Hills home.\n\n\"Clarence leaves behind a loving family and a sea of friends and associates that have changed the world and will continue to change the world for generations to come,\" said the family.\n\n\"The joy of his legacy eases the sorrow of our loss.\"\n\nLionel Richie helped induct Avant to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021\n\nAvant's list of accomplishments was long and varied. A former nightclub manager, his reputation as a tough negotiator attracted the attention of soul singer Little Willie John, who asked him to become his manager.\n\nThat brought him to the attention of entertainment industry veteran Joe Glaser, who managed the likes of Louis Armstrong and Barbra Streisand.\n\nGlaser took Avant under his wing, handing him some clients - including Mission: Impossible composer Lalo Schifrin - and encouraging him how to close deals.\n\n\"Joe Glaser taught me [to] aim high,\" he told Variety Magazine in 2016. \"You can't walk up the Empire State building - you'll get tired, your knees might give out. But you can ride the elevator and walk down. You always aim up here, and walk down later if you have to.\"\n\nBefore long, he'd negotiated a six-figure deal for jazz producer Creed Taylor at A&M Records, despite the fact he was already contracted to another label.\n\nAvant went on to manage Sarah Vaughan, Freddie Hubbard and Kim Weston - who duetted with Marvin Gaye on It Takes Two.\n\nHe also founded two record labels, Sussex and Tabu, and used the former to launch the career of Bill Withers.\n\nA former aircraft mechanic, Withers had been rejected by virtually every other record company in America - but Avant heard something in his laid-back, ruminative style and steered songs like Ain't No Sunshine and Lean On Me to global success.\n\nThe executive also discovered and signed Sugarman singer Sixto Rodriguez, whose records flopped in the 1970s but became cult classics before his rediscovery through the Oscar-winning documentary Searching For Sugarman in 2012.\n\nIn the 1980s, Tabu Records scored hits with the S.O.S. Band, Cherrelle and Alexander O'Neal while launching the careers of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis as a songwriting team.\n\nThey would go on to score 16 US number one singles, including Usher's U Remind Me, George Michael's Monkey and the Janet Jackson tracks Together Again and That's The Way Love Goes.\n\nIn 1989, Avant also represented songwriters LA Reid and Babyface as they launched LaFace Records - a joint venture with Arista Records that set stars like Toni Braxton, TLC, Outkast and Pink on the road to fame.\n\nHe was also the promoter of Michael Jackson's Bad tour in 1987, which earned $125m/£99m ($336m/£266m in 2023 figures) worldwide.\n\nAvant (second left) pictured with Jay-Z, P Diddy and John Legend in 2020\n\nAvant was named Motown chairman in 1993, overseeing a period of success for artists including Boyz II Men, Johnny Gill and Shanice.\n\nAmong his more colourful escapades, he sabotaged a TV programme that was planned as a rival to Soul Train; brokered peace amongst warring rights holders for an E.T. tie-in album; and arranged safe passage for P Diddy in the aftermath of the Notorious B.I.G.'s murder.\n\nOutside of music, he helped American football player Jim Brown develop a career in acting, and advised several US presidents, including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.\n\n\"The guy's a rock in every way,\" Clinton once commented. \"His advice, per word, is worth more than anyone I ever dealt with.\"\n\nEven so, many people found it hard to pinpoint exactly what Avant did.\n\n\"What he's done is a very unusual story,\" said Bill Withers. \"He puts people together, and they do what they do. How do you put together a life from knowing people?\"\n\nHe preferred to remain behind-the-scenes, remaining humble and hard-working despite his many accolades - including being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 2021.\n\n\"Clarence is our deal-making Renaissance man. Our pope. Our rebel. Our consigliere,\" Epic Records' CEO Sylvia Rhone told Billboard in 2006. \"He's been a great mentor... creating a world of opportunity for others to follow.\"\n\n\"Everyone in this business has been by Clarence's desk, if they're smart,\" added his lifelong friend Quincy Jones. \"He gets things done but doesn't beat his chest or look for credit.\"\n\nThe executive lost his wife in tragic circumstances two years ago\n\nAvant is survived by his daughter, Nicole Avant, a former US ambassador to the Bahamas and the wife of Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos; and his son, Alexander.\n\nHis wife Jacqueline was a prominent philanthropist who had dedicated her life to helping low-income neighbourhoods. She was killed in December 2021 by a man who had broken into the family home.\n\nThe intruder, Aariel Maynor, plead guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to 190 years life in prison.\n\nTributes to Clarence poured in after news of his death was confirmed on Monday.\n\nBill and Hillary Clinton, the former US president and secretary of state, said in a joint statement they were \"saddened by the passing of our friend.\"\n\n\"It was impossible to spend time with him and not come away feeling more positive and wanting to follow his example.\"\n\nJay-Z's company, Roc Nation, added: \"Clarence Avant isn't just the 'Godfather Of Black Music', he is our cultural Godfather.\n\n\"Throughout his life, he burst through doors and tore down ceilings, changing lives and providing opportunities for generations.\n\n\"A true pioneer, a mentor and a champion, Clarence Avant is and always will be a giant among us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four factors that made Maui wildfires so deadly\n\nHawaii is no stranger to wildfires, but those of the past few days are being called some of the worst in the archipelago's history.\n\nTheir toll has been devastating, although what sparked the deadly fires is still under investigation.\n\nHurricane winds and dry weather, however, helped fuel the flames.\n\nDrought or abnormally dry conditions across large parts of Hawaii - including the entire island of Maui - also played a role.\n\nWildfires generally need three ingredients: fuel in the form of biomass like vegetation or trees, a spark, and weather such as winds that drive the flames.\n\nAbout 14% of the state is suffering from severe or moderate drought, according to the US Drought Monitor, while 80% of Hawaii is classed as abnormally dry.\n\nDry weather sucks moisture out of vegetation, meaning it can catch alight more easily and then spread.\n\nScientists have calculated that 90% of Hawaii is getting less rainfall than it did a century ago, with the period since 2008 particularly dry.\n\nMaui itself was also under a red flag alert - meaning warm temperatures, very low humidities and stronger winds were expected to combine to produce an increased risk of fire danger - before the fires broke out.\n\nStrong winds from Hurricane Dora, which passed Hawaii's coast on Tuesday, helped fan the flames even further.\n\nForecasters are expecting a stronger-than-usual Atlantic hurricane season due to record high sea surface temperatures this year, which are adding energy to the atmosphere.\n\nLast month, the National Weather Service noted that brush fires had been reported in Maui and briefly closed a highway. Forecasters warned at the time that \"the risk of fires during this year's dry season is elevated\".\n\nScientists also note that some parts of the Hawaiian islands are covered with non-native grasses that are more flammable than native plants.\n\nThis, coupled with dry conditions, can cause a spark to ignite a fire that can spread quickly.\n\nIn a news conference on Thursday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said that the wildfires were the \"largest natural disaster\" in the state's history.\n\n\"We have never experienced a wildfire that affected a city like this before,\" Mr Green said, adding that the challenges of climate change were putting unprecedented strain on Hawaii.\n\n\"We're seeing this for the first time in many different parts of the world,\" he said.\n\nThe last major fire in Hawaii occurred in 2018, when winds from Hurricane Lane whipped up the flames around Lahaina - the same town ravaged by the fires this week.\n\nFive years ago, the fire destroyed 2,000 acres of land, 31 vehicles and 21 structures - most of which were homes - according to local media.\n\nWildfires were once uncommon in Hawaii, ignited largely through volcanic eruptions or lightning strikes. But in recent decades, human activity has made them more common and extreme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Are wildfires in the US getting worse?\n\nClimate change is increasing the risk of wildfire globally as it drives up temperatures and makes heatwaves longer and more intense.\n\nDrier vegetation and hotter temperatures mean that once a fire is ignited, it can spread more easily.\n\nThe UN expects extreme wildfires to increase in number and spread to areas previously unaffected as a result of climate change and changes in how humans use land.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: ''Thank God that he gave us tears\" - Maui resident\n\nRecovery crews combing through charred homes and vehicles in Hawaii are likely to find 10 to 20 more victims per day, the governor has warned.\n\nThe death toll from the fire now stands at 99, making it the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century.\n\nGovernor Josh Green told CBS News it could take up to 10 days to learn the full death toll.\n\nThe number of missing now stands at around 1,300, he said.\n\nHe later told a press conference that 25% of the area affected by the fire had been searched for bodies.\n\nNearly the entire town of Lahaina was destroyed in the fire.\n\n\"There is nothing to see except full devastation,\" Mr Green told CBS, the BBC's US news partner, on Sunday.\n\nAll residents of Lahaina - home to 12,000 people - probably escaped or perished in the fire, he added. He said crews would probably discover more victims and that it would take time to identify them.\n\n\"It's hard to recognise anybody,\" Mr Green said.\n\nOfficials said 20 dogs trained to search for cadavers had been deployed to the island by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).\n\n\"We've got an area that we have to contain that is at least five square miles, and it is full of our loved ones,\" said Maui Police Chief Jeff Pelletier at a weekend news conference.\n\nOn Monday, Fema Administrator Deanne Criswell declined to give an exact estimate of how long the search and recovery mission would take, calling the situation \"extremely hazardous\".\n\n\"The dogs can only work so long because of how hot the temperatures are,\" said Ms Criswell, participating in the White House daily press briefing remotely from Hawaii.\n\nAt one point, there were more than 2,000 people who had been reported missing since the fire broke out on the island of Maui last week.\n\nThat number went down to 1,300 as people were able to reconnect with one another after access to cell phone service improved.\n\nChief Pelletier has encouraged people with missing family members to submit DNA samples to help with search efforts.\n\nHe also urged patience for those looking to enter the town, as there are still remains that need to be recovered and identified.\n\n\"When we find our family and friends, the remains we're finding is through a fire that melted metal,\" he said. \"We have to do rapid DNA to identify them. Every one of these ... are John and Jane Does.\"\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Monday afternoon, Mr Green said just under 2,000 housing units, including 402 hotel rooms, had been made available for people who had lost their homes.\n\nThe deadly fire in Lahaina is still burning and is about 85% contained, according to Maui County officials. How the fire started remains unconfirmed, though it was fuelled by winds from nearby Hurricane Dora and drought conditions.\n\nA class-action lawsuit was filed on Saturday against Hawaii's largest electricity provider, Hawaii Electric, which alleges the company's downed power lines contributed to the wildfires.\n\nThe lawsuit accuses the company of failing to shut off the downed lines despite advanced warning from the National Weather Service cautioning that Hawaii was under high alert for wildfires.\n\nTemporarily shutting off power to reduce fire risk is a tactic used in western US states, where wildfires are common. In California, power lines have been blamed for half of the state's most destructive wildfires.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the wildfires in Hawaii? You can send your questions to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Video footage captured by a drone shows the destruction caused by wildfires that swept through the historic town of Lahaina, on the Hawaiian island of Maui.\n\nDozens of people on the island have died in the wildfires, with scores of buildings and vehicles also being destroyed.\n\nThe coastal town attracts some two million tourists a year.", "The number of NHS cancer waiting time targets are expected to be reduced in England, in a move the health service says aims to catch cancers earlier.\n\nNHS bosses want to cut the number of targets, most of which have been routinely missed in recent years, from nine to three.\n\nThey say the plan is backed by leading cancer experts and will simplify the \"outdated\" standards.\n\nBut the head of the Radiotherapy UK charity said she is \"deeply worried\".\n\nPat Price, who is also an oncologist and visiting professor at Imperial College London, said current performance was \"shockingly bad\", and while too many targets could be disruptive, \"the clear and simple truth is that we are not investing enough in cancer treatment capacity\".\n\nThe changes have been under consultation since last year, and an outcome is expected within days. NHS leaders are understood to be keen to press on with the plan as first announced - but it is still subject to final approval by Health Secretary Steve Barclay.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Barclay said: \"What we have is a consultation at the moment with leading clinical figures in the cancer world and with the cancer charities asking whether the checks we have got are driving the right outcomes in terms of cancer survival or whether there are better ways of measuring those.\n\n\"This is something led by clinicians working in cancer - it is not something being imposed by the government.\"\n\nThree targets are set to be kept:\n\nSix other targets, such as a two-week wait for a first consultant appointment, will be dropped.\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said: \"By making sure more patients are diagnosed and treated as early as possible following a referral and replacing the outdated two-week wait target with the faster diagnosis standard already being used across the country, hundreds of patients waiting to have cancer ruled out or diagnosed could receive this news faster.\"\n\nThey added the changes will allow more patients to be referred \"straight to test\" and enable the wider use of diagnostic technologies like artificial intelligence.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the Government of \"moving the goalposts\".\n\nAnd he accused ministers of repeatedly failing to hit their existing targets and missing those to be retained.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, 59.2% of cancer patients in England who had their first treatment in June after an urgent GP referral had waited less than two months.\n\nThis was up slightly on the previous month, but still well below the target of 85% which was last met in 2015.\n\nNaser Turabi, Cancer Research UK's director of evidence and implementation, said of the figures last week: \"Despite the best efforts of NHS staff, it's incredibly worrying that cancer waiting times in England are once again amongst the worst on record.\"\n\nHe blamed the missed targets on \"years of underinvestment\" by the government and called for more cancer staff and a clear strategy.\n\n\"Without bold action, more people will miss out on lifesaving services,\" he said.\n\nBut he welcomed the streamlining of targets, saying it could be beneficial for patients. \"The shift to the Faster Diagnosis Standard - moving from nine cancer waiting time targets to three, should set clearer expectations for patients about when they should receive a diagnosis or have their cancer ruled out,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made cutting waiting lists one of his five priorities. His pledge only refers to waiting lists in England, because Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland manage their own health systems.\n\nHowever, the overall number of patients waiting for treatment in England rose from 7.47 million in May to 7.57 million in June.\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea have agreed a deal to sign Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo for a British record fee of £115m.\n\nLiverpool agreed a £111m deal for the 21-year-old Ecuador player on Friday.\n\nBut Caicedo's preference is Chelsea and they have finally succeeded with a bid after having a succession of proposals rejected by Brighton this summer.\n\nThe fee means Chelsea will break the British record twice in 2023, following the £107m purchase of Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez in January.\n\nCaicedo, who was left out of Brighton's squad for their season-opening win at home to Luton Town, is still to have a medical.\n\nIt is understood the initial fee is £100m, with half of the additional payments said to be easily achievable, while Brighton have also negotiated a sell-on clause.\n• None Why Caicedo is perfect for Chelsea - Danny Murphy analysis\n• None 'Signs of hope in Liverpool draw for those wearied by Chelsea chaos'\n\nBrighton had set a fee in excess of £100m for Caicedo this summer and said they felt no-one would reach it. Chelsea are believed to have bid £80m previously.\n\nIn his news conference before the Seagulls' game against Luton, manager Roberto de Zerbi said he had \"already forgotten\" about Caicedo, adding: \"Bigger clubs can buy our players but they can't buy our soul or spirit.\"\n\nCaicedo joined Brighton from Ecuadorian side Independiente del Valle for £4m in February 2021, although he did not make his Premier League debut until April 2022.\n\nHe asked to leave Brighton in the January transfer window earlier this year and Arsenal had multiple offers turned down for the midfielder before he signed a new contract until 2027 in March.\n\nCaicedo will be Chelsea's eighth signing of the summer, following Axel Disasi, Christopher Nkunku, Nicolas Jackson, Lesley Ugochukwu, Angelo Gabriel, Robert Sanchez and Diego Moreira.\n\nNew manager Mauricio Pochettino has been tasked with overhauling the squad and vastly improving on last season's 12th-place finish in the Premier League.\n\nMateo Kovacic, Edouard Mendy, Kalidou Koulibaly, N'Golo Kante, Mason Mount, Kai Havertz, Christian Pulisic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Ethan Ampadu, Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang, Abdul Rahman Baba and former captain Cesar Azpilicueta have all departed so far this summer.\n\nChelsea opened their Premier League season with a 1-1 home draw against Liverpool on Sunday.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "In the past four decades, more than 64,000 people have been killed after stepping on landmines in Cambodia\n\nA high school in north-eastern Cambodia has been forced to close temporarily after thousands of unexploded munitions were discovered.\n\nCambodia remains one of the world's most heavily mined countries, 48 years after the end of its brutal civil war.\n\nAt that time, the Queen Kosomak High School in Kratie province was being used as a military station.\n\nPhotos show tons of rusty explosives neatly stacked in rows, with grenades and anti-tank launchers among them.\n\nIn total, more than 2,000 pieces of ordnance was discovered over three days - Heng Ratana, director general of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre, told AFP news agency.\n\nHe said the munitions were found when the ground was being cleared to expand a garden, and if the whole school was cleared, more would likely be dug up.\n\n\"It is a huge stroke of luck for the students. These explosive devices are easy to explode if someone dug into the ground and hit them,\" Mr Heng said.\n\nStudents were told to stay away from the school until the clean up was complete, which was expected to take two days.\n\nCambodia's eight-year civil war ended in 1975, however it continue to suffer from the aftermath.\n\nLandmines that are scattered across the country have killed more than 64,000 people, while 25,000 amputees have been recorded since 1979, according to The Halo Trust.\n\nThe Cambodian government has vowed to clear all landmines and unexploded artillery by 2025.\n\nA deminer stands next to some of the thousands of unexploded ordnance", "Smoke billows as wildfires destroy a large part of the historic town of Lahaina\n\nLahaina, once Hawaii's royal capital, is now a crematorium.\n\n\"We pick up remains and they fall apart,\" said Maui County police chief John Pelletier on Saturday, four days after a massive wildfire tore downhill through dry brush and grass and engulfed the island's western edge.\n\nClose to 100 deaths have been confirmed, making the Lahaina wildfires the deadliest in the US in more than a century.\n\nBut just 3% of Lahaina's charred ruins have been searched so far, stoking fears that the death toll will continue its sharp climb.\n\n\"None of us really know the size of it yet,\" chief Pelletier warned, growing visibly emotional.\n\nDozens of survivors shared their stories of escape and loss with the BBC, helping to piece together a more complete picture of the tragedy that unfolded on Tuesday, when fires moving at a mile per minute consumed the town.\n\nOne thing seemed to unite their accounts: residents say they had no official warning before they fled for their lives, raising painful questions about the effectiveness of the emergency response and whether more people could have been saved.\n\nWarning: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing\n\nOn Tuesday morning, Lahaina residents woke up to find their power was out. Phones hadn't charged, alarm clocks stayed quiet and air conditioners shut down.\n\nFor Les Munn, a 42-year-old resident, the outage announced itself in a dropped call to the country's east coast. He had woken up at 4:00am that day to accommodate the six-hour time difference. Mid-conversation, the connection was cut.\n\nBut the outage alone wasn't especially concerning, Munn said.\n\n\"I just thought it was going to be another blackout,\" he said, noting the trade winds that frequently hammer the coast.\n\nMunn, like most others, assumed this outage was linked to nearby Hurricane Dora, which authorities had warned could bring gusts of up to 65mph (105kph) to Maui.\n\nAnd at that time, the local fires apparently fuelled by Dora's winds seemed insignificant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBy 9:55am, officials had declared the Lahaina brush fire \"100% contained\". Residents were given no indication it would flare up again.\n\nRichard Tenison, a homeless Lahaina resident, woke up to the rushing winds. Standing up near the door of a pharmacy where he had set up for the night, he watched as his bedding was carried by the wind into the harbour.\n\nThe weather was building, said Lynn Robison, who lived in the heart of the historic town. By 8am she got her first whiff of smoke, an odour that would build throughout the day. But at that point concerns were muted. Hawaii was used to storms.\n\nBy around 3:00pm, things began to turn.\n\nLes Munn fled his home with only the clothes on his back\n\nLes Munn went outside to take out the trash. He chatted with his neighbours about the \"strange wind\", the gusts growing so fast and so loud they could barely hear each other speak.\n\nThey speculated, incorrectly, that the dust and ash in the air was due to construction. The group separated, peeling off into their separate units in the apartment block.\n\nSuddenly, the building's smoke alarms began ringing. Residents emptied out of their apartments. Outside, embers had begun igniting the brush around them.\n\n\"At that point everybody started to panic,\" Munn said.\n\nMunn ran back inside and tried to grab his wallet, but the heat and smoke forced him to flee with nothing but the clothes on his back. Everything went black. Choking on smoke, he fled to the only thing he could see, the blue lights of a police car, and dove into its back seat.\n\nMunn hadn't heard a siren alerting him to the fire, and he hadn't received official notice to evacuate. Of the more than two dozen Lahaina evacuees who spoke to the BBC, no one did.\n\nOn Maui, the second largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, there are 80 outdoor sirens - tested monthly - intended to warn residents of tsunamis and other natural disasters.\n\nBut those early warning sirens had failed to sound, officials have confirmed, a failure now under investigation by Hawaii's attorney general. Some residents told other media outlets they received alerts to their mobile phones early on Tuesday, but the blackout across Maui's west may have limited their reach.\n\nAnd in the absence of a wide-scale warning, residents described a frantic rush to escape a fire that seemed to appear from nowhere.\n\nSome people - both officials and residents - have said the blaze may simply have moved too quickly for any formal response.\n\n\"It was a very fast-moving fire, it was a low to the ground fire,\" said Lori Moore-Merrell of the US Fire Administration on Saturday from Maui. \"It outpaced anything that firefighters could have done in the early hours.\"\n\n\"The firefighters need to be commended for their actions,\" she added. The governor has also noted most resources on Tuesday had been focused on tackling other wildfires on the island.\n\nA firefighter fights flare-ups in Kula, about 58km from Lahaina\n\nTaken together, the accounts from Lahaina residents told of a seemingly instantaneous transformation from a sunny beach town into a site of near-total devastation. Dense black smoke descended as the fire barrelled toward the water, turning day into night.\n\nThe smoke was so thick and so dark residents could not see more than a few feet in front of them, nothing but bright red embers blowing through the air, burning their skin and everything around them.\n\n\"You couldn't see through it, people were crashing into each other trying to drive out,\" said Richard Tenison.\n\nMore than 2,200 buildings were razed, the houses, shops and churches that lined Lahaina's streets reduced to molten metal and ash.\n\nTenison watched as a friend's large home was incinerated. \"His house went up in 10 minutes. Two-storey house, eight bedrooms… poof,\" he said. \"It just levelled the whole town.\"\n\nAs he ran to safety in the town's Safeway grocery store, Tenison saw three bodies. \"People were already dead,\" he said.\n\nFor Tee Dang, a tourist from Kansas, the first clue that her vacation had taken a deadly turn came in the form of an Airbnb host barrelling past her door and telling her family to run.\n\nAs the fire intensified, Dang sat in traffic on Front Street with her husband and three children. \"It was only 3:30pm or 4:00pm and everything was pitch black,\" she said. \"Everywhere was exploding.\"\n\nWhen the cars on the road around them began to catch fire too, Dang and her husband grabbed their children and ran for safety in the ocean where they remained for almost four hours.\n\nThe injured family was rescued by a firefighter, who pulled around 20 people from the Lahaina harbour and told them to run towards the town's sport's complex.\n\nCovered in burns and cuts, it was then that the family would receive their first official order to leave. Of the survivors who spoke to the BBC, many said the same, that the only formal notice from authorities came after they had already begun their escape.\n\nAt 4:29pm, Maui's emergency management agency had publicly announced perhaps its first evacuation order, writing on X (formerly known as Twitter) that residents of Kelawea Mauka, a neighbourhood on the edge of Lahaina, needed to leave.\n\nBut the notice was overtaken by conditions on the ground. By then, photos and video footage of the town show streets mauled by the inferno.\n\nSteve Strode, one of Les Munn's neighbours, was first told to leave town after he had cycled through flames as tall as 10ft, reaching the relative safety of the Safeway grocery store. After a decade in Lahaina, hearing the blaring alarm tested each month, he did not understand why that same system did not push him to leave earlier.\n\nAlong with Strode and Tenison, several more people would arrive at the supermarket, huddling inside the building's metal structure before police came and told them to evacuate for their own safety.\n\nFor many, that evacuation was improvised, an ad hoc effort by both authorities and locals.\n\nResidents like Lynette \"Pinky\" Johnson loaded their cars with as many as could fit, before driving eastward along the Honoapiilani Highway - the only viable route to safety - as flames lapped at their wheels.\n\n\"We saw the flames coming. We smelled the smoke. All of a sudden boom boom!\" she said. \"It was the sound of tyres and cars exploding.\"\n\nBy Sunday, Pinky remained at an emergency shelter at the Maui War Memorial Stadium, a cavernous, echoing gymnasium now filled with rows upon rows of cots and air mattresses, the new home for hundreds of Lahaina's displaced.\n\nA fleet of volunteers have joined medical workers, physiotherapists, counsellors and translators to assist the thousands of displaced residents. Outside the gym, a large pink poster board advertised a designated missing persons tent where Maui residents can add the list of the missing - estimated to be up to 1,000.\n\nIdentification of the dead will not come quickly. Five days after the blaze, just two of the deceased have been named, easily outpaced by the growing list of fatalities.\n\n\"When we find our family and friends, the remains we're finding are from a fire that melted metal,\" police chief John Pelletier said. \"You have to do rapid DNA testing to identify them. Every one of them [the deceased] are John and Jane Doe.\"\n\nSniffer dogs trained to detect bodies have been deployed to search for more victims under the rubble, their barks echoing through the devastated streets, now likened to a warzone.\n\nIn the absence of official identifications, most are learning of their dead neighbours and loved ones through Maui's so-called \"coconut wire\", the small island's robust whisper network.\n\nAnd many who spoke to the BBC are convinced the number of dead will climb significantly in the coming weeks as authorities continue their painstaking search.\n\nOn Friday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said the state's attorney general would be leading an investigation into Maui's emergency response policies. But he has mostly defended his government's response, blaming high winds and drought conditions.\n\n\"That fire travelled one mile every minute, resulting in this tragedy,\" he said in a statement on Sunday. \"A fire hurricane, something new to us in this age of global warming, was the ultimate reason that so many people perished.\"\n\nStill, many evacuees said they felt they were abandoned. In the days since they escaped, the guilt they carry for those left behind in Lahaina has mixed with growing anger at authorities who they claim could have acted earlier.\n\nLiz Germansky, who lost her Lahaina home in the fire, said she blamed both the county and state government for the climbing death toll.\n\n\"Whether it be the prevention of it, or the notifications, they could not have done less,\" she said.\n\nGermansky is now suing the government for gross negligence, property damage and emotional trauma.\n\nHer home, she said, is now a crime scene. \"It was murder\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about the wildfires in Hawaii? You can send your questions to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Hawaiian officials are braced for a significant rise in the death toll from the fast-spreading wildfires, which caused devastation on the island of Maui and destroyed most of the historic town of Lahaina.\n\nHawaii Governor Josh Green said the fires were the \"largest natural disaster in Hawaii state history\" and that 80% of the beach-front town had \"gone\" - satellite images gave an immediate sense of the scale of the damage.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nHundreds of people remain missing almost a week after the disaster, and search teams have only covered a tiny percentage of the area affected.\n\nThe fires are now reported to be under control, but efforts to fully extinguish them continue on some parts of the island.\n\nHundreds of people who fled their homes in Lahaina have been taking cover in an emergency shelter. About 2,700 homes are reported to have been destroyed.\n\nIncredibly strong winds from Hurricane Dora, which passed south of Hawaii on Tuesday 8 August fanned the flames and prevented aircraft from flying over the town during the fire - but once they had passed, pilots were shocked by what they saw.\n\n\"It's horrifying. I've flown here 52 years and I've never seen anything come close to that,\" helicopter pilot Richard Olsten told the Associated Press news agency. \"We had tears in our eyes.\"\n\nThe flames destroyed most of the buildings in front of the port, including the old courthouse.\n\nAnger has grown among the community with many people telling the BBC they were not forewarned about the fires. It is currently unclear if early warning systems were used, or if they malfunctioned.\n\nThe town's lighthouse has survived but most of the surrounding buildings were destroyed, including the oldest hotel in Hawaii - the 122-year-old Pioneer Inn.\n\nThe centre of Lahaina dated back to the 1700s and was on the US National Register of Historic Places - it was once Hawaii's capital.\n\nThe town was home to about 12,000 people - the initial assessments say about 86% of the damaged buildings were residential.\n\nAlice Lee, chair of the Maui County Council, told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme how the fire razed the \"beautiful\" Front Street, the town's main strip.\n\n\"The fire traversed almost the entire street, so all the shops and little restaurants that people visited on their trips to Maui, most of them are burnt down to the ground,\" Lee said, adding: \"So many businesses will have to struggle to recover,\" she said.\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama - who was born in Hawaii - is among those who has expressed his sorrow at the impact of the blaze. He posted on the X social network (formerly known as Twitter): \"It's tough to see some of the images coming out of Hawaii — a place that's so special to so many of us.\"\n\n\"Michelle and I are thinking of everyone who has lost a loved one, or whose life has been turned upside down.\"\n\nThe fires also destroyed many natural features on the island - there are fears for Lahaina's banyan tree, the oldest in Hawaii, and one of the oldest in the US.\n\nThe 60ft-tall (18m) fig tree was planted in 1873, on the place where Hawaiian King Kamehameha's first palace stood, but it was burnt after fires ravaged the area on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to the town's website, if its roots remain healthy it will likely grow back. But at this stage, they say the tree \"looks burned\".\n\nMost of the damage was done on Tuesday as the flames engulfed the town.\n\nThe blaze ripped through the town so quickly that some people jumped into the harbour to escape the flames and smoke.\n\nThe flames were fanned by gusts of wind of up to 65mph (100km/h) that hit the islands last week as Hurricane Dora passed about 700 miles (1,100km) south of Hawaii.\n\nDrought or abnormally dry conditions across large parts of Hawaii - including the entire island of Maui - also played a role.\n\nAbout 14% of the state is suffering from severe or moderate drought, according to the US Drought Monitor, while 80% of Hawaii is classed as abnormally dry.\n\nWildfires were once uncommon in Hawaii, ignited largely through volcanic eruptions or lightning strikes. But in recent decades, human activity has made them more common and extreme.\n\nClimate change is increasing the risk of wildfire globally as it drives up temperatures and makes heatwaves longer and more intense.\n\n\"We have never experienced a wildfire that affected a city like this before,\" Governor Josh Green said, adding that the challenges of climate change were putting unprecedented strain on Hawaii.\n\nHow are you affected by the wildfires? If it is safe to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Messages encouraging UK smokers to quit could be placed inside packets of cigarettes under draft proposals being considered by the government.\n\nThe inserts would list the health and financial benefits of trying to stop and highlight support available, the Department of Health said.\n\nThey are already used in other countries including Canada and Israel,\n\nAccording to the NHS, about 76,000 people in the UK die from smoking every year.\n\nThe numbers of smokers in the UK is at its lowest on record but about six million people, or 13% of the population, are still thought to have the habit, according to a survey carried out for the Office for National Statistics in 2021.\n\nThe government has pledged to end smoking in England by 2030, equating to reducing smoking rates to 5% or less of the population. Earlier this year experts predicted that target would be missed without further action.\n\nWarnings have been printed on the outside of boxes for more than 50 years.\n\nThe Department of Health said inserts inside cigarette packets could include information about the money that could be saved by giving up smoking as well as the potential improvements to health.\n\nIt said an evaluation of the impact in Canada found that smokers exposed to the inserts were significantly more likely to try to give up.\n\nDeborah Arnott, chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health said: \"It takes smokers on average 30 attempts before they succeed in stopping, so encouraging them to keep on trying is vital.\n\n\"Pack inserts do this by backing up the grim messages about death and disease on the outside with the best advice about how to quit on the inside.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"Smoking places a huge burden on the NHS, economy and individuals.\n\n\"By taking action to reduce smoking rates and pursuing our ambition to be smoke free by 2030, we will reduce the pressure on the NHS and help people to live healthier lives.\"\n\nThe consultation runs until October and is seeking views on the government's proposals.\n\nIt comes as the Department of Health publishes an initial report on its Major Conditions Strategy, which aims to improve treatment and prevention for six groups of conditions said to account for 60% of all ill-health and early death in England.\n\nThe conditions include cancer, cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases - all of which have been linked to smoking. Dementia, mental health and musculoskeletal disorders are also being targeted.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Adele recorded a six-song session for Radio 1 at Maida Vale in 2011\n\nThe BBC's historic Maida Vale studios, which have hosted sessions by stars ranging from the Beatles to Adele, have been sold to a group led by Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer.\n\nZimmer, who wrote the scores for films like The Lion King and Dune, has teamed up with Love Actually and Cats movie producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.\n\nThe BBC said the complex would remain a \"centre for pioneering music-making\".\n\nIt was valued at about £10m but the BBC did not disclose the purchase price.\n\nBuilt in 1909 as Britain's largest indoor roller skating rink, the north-west London building was bought by the BBC in 1933.\n\nIt is home to the BBC Symphony Orchestra and has hosted the world's biggest rock and pop stars - from Led Zeppelin to Radiohead and Jay-Z to Little Mix.\n\nIt also played host to John Peel's famous Radio 1 sessions and the BBC's innovative Radiophonic Workshop, famed for its realisation of the Doctor Who theme tune.\n\nThe corporation is planning to move its music studios to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London in 2025, where the BBC Symphony Orchestra will then be based.\n\nThe BBC Radiophonic Workshop was based at Maida Vale until its closure in 1998\n\n\"I still remember the strong pull, the desire to touch the walls, as if that would somehow allow me to connect to the artists whose extraordinary music had resonated against these walls on a daily basis,\" he said.\n\n\"This was a place of revolutionary science in the service of art, this was a place that inspired you to give your best, where music was performed around the clock and art was taken seriously. For the people by the people.\n\n\"This was the place that kept a struggling musician like me from giving up.\"\n\nThe German composer added that he now wants to \"make Maida Vale Studios a place that inspires, teaches, technologically serves the arts and humanity, and gives the next generation the same opportunities I was given: to create and to never give up\".\n\nA multi-million pound refurbishment will keep the building's original façade, refurbish the existing studios and create a not-for-profit educational facility, the BBC said.\n\nIn a statement, Bevan and Fellner said: \"Collectively we are determined to continue the BBC's legacy at Maida Vale by attracting global talent to the UK.\n\n\"Through our redevelopment plans we will future proof the historic site, continuing its presence in the local community with a new education facility, whilst creating a world class studio space for the next generation of composers, producers, editors and engineers.\"\n\nWorking Title's hit films include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Yesterday and Baby Driver. Zimmer's business partner Steve Kofsky is also part of the consortium.\n\nInvestment is needed - as far back as 2007, the BBC said the run-down facility was \"wholly unsuitable for the 21st Century\", with problems including asbestos.\n\nWhen the corporation announced plans to sell the site in 2018, Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich was among those who called for it to be saved, saying it was an \"incredibly important part of our cultural heritage - every bit as important as Abbey Road studios\".\n\nIt was given Grade II listed status in 2020 - but the BBC was criticised for objecting to the decision, which lowered its potential value because it could not be demolished and sold for lucrative housing or flats", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 35 people have been killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a petrol station in southern Russia.\n\nThe blast occurred in the Dagestan regional capital, Makhachkala, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, at 21:40 local time (18:40 GMT) on Monday.\n\nPictures showed a large fire lighting up the night sky and a number of fire engines at the scene.\n\nAccording to local media, the fire began at a car repair centre near the petrol station.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin offered his sincere condolences following the deadly blast.\n\nA state of emergency was introduced in the Kumtorkalinsky district in Dagestan, according to regional head Sergei Melikov.\n\nSome 260 emergency workers have been deployed, while the most seriously injured have been evacuated to Moscow by air, according to the emergencies ministry.\n\nRescue operations are ongoing, the ministry said. As emergency services clear through the rubble, more bodies are being discovered.\n\nRussia's Interfax news agency quoted doctors as saying three children were among the dead.\n\nIt added that the fire had spread over an area of 600 sq m (6,460 sq ft) and that there was a danger of further explosions.\n\nAn unnamed witness quoted by Russian newspaper Izvestia said the fire had started at a car park opposite the petrol station.\n\n\"After the explosion, everything fell on our heads. We couldn't see anything any more,\" the witness said.\n\nRussia's Investigative Committee said the fire had broken out during some car maintenance work and had been \"followed by a bang\".\n\nA criminal case has been opened to establish the circumstances leading up to the incident, the committee said.\n\nThe Republic of Dagestan is one of 83 constituent parts of the Russian Federation and is the southernmost part of the country. Makhachkala is about 1,600km (1,000 miles) from Moscow.", "In a market in central Moscow, I ask shoppers whether the fall in the rouble will affect them.\n\n\"Of course it will affect me, just like everything that’s happening now,\" says Danil.\n\n\"The economy is in the worst possible state. It’s a collapse. Nothing surprises me anymore.”\n\nA lady with bleached-blonde hair tells me: “The prices are going up. But I think the [dollar rate] is a temporary thing. It’ll go down again.”\n\nThen I meet a man called Maxim, who insists that the exchange rate has no impact on him whatsoever.\n\nI ask him whether he has trust in the authorities to manage the economy.\n\n\"Yes of course,” he says, “and I have just signed a contract [with the Russian military],\" he adds.\n\n\"In two weeks I am going to the special military operation [in Ukraine], as a volunteer soldier.”\n\nThere is no panic in Russia. There are no queues outside banks here.\n\nAfter 18 months of war and isolation, Russians are getting used to bad news. This is the most sanctioned country in the world.\n\nBut the economy has not collapsed - as many in the West had predicted. The Kremlin still has sufficient resources to maintain tight control over the country.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChristian Atsu's partner Marie-Claire Rupio says she \"hopes his name will never go away\", six months after his tragic death.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, Rupio has spoken about the former Newcastle United and Ghana midfielder, who lost his life in the earthquakes that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria.\n\nThe earthquakes claimed more than 50,000 lives with Atsu, 31, found dead under the rubble of his home in Antakya on 18 February, almost two weeks after the quakes.\n\nHe and Rupio had three children together, aged nine, six and three at the time of his loss.\n\n\"For me, it's very important that his name is still there, especially for the children, that he was known, that he was loved by everybody,\" she says.\n\n\"I just hope that his name will never go away.\"\n\nSpeaking to media for the first time since his passing, Rubio describes the confusion over whether Atsu was safe, hearing about developments on the radio and the impact his death has had on her and their children.\n\n'I was shocked, it was hard to believe'\n\nAtsu was in Turkey having signed for Hatayspor last September, while his family remained in Newcastle.\n\nRupio last spoke with him on Saturday, 4 February, and because his team were playing Kasimpasa the next day, he planned to speak with her again on the Monday.\n\nAtsu scored the game's only goal in stoppage time and his wife messaged to congratulate him. His reply to thank her would be the last contact they had.\n\nOn the Monday, Rupio heard about the earthquake on the radio while driving.\n\n\"I didn't believe that it could happen in a place [where] he would be,\" she said. \"As a human being, you think this can't happen to you or anybody you love.\n\n\"I was like 'he's fine and he will call'. But then after a while his sister called and told me that his building had totally collapsed. I was shocked, it was hard to believe.\"\n• None Christian Atsu: From fisherman's son to 'one in a million' Black Star\n\nSubsequent news reports created confusion over what had happened with Atsu, who made 121 appearances for Newcastle between 2016 and 2021.\n\nOn 7 February his club's vice-president said he had been \"removed from the wreckage with injuries\".\n\nHowever, the following day his agent Nana Sechere said that his whereabouts were yet to be confirmed.\n\nRupio then told BBC News she believed her husband was still alive and appealed for more equipment to clear the rubble.\n\n\"I didn't really read any news,\" said Rupio. \"I relied on his agent, Nana, and his sister.\n\n\"Our children heard from their school that he has been found and then they came home and heard on the radio again that he hasn't been found. It wasn't nice, but I told them he might be found because you still want to believe [in] the positive outcome.\"\n\nBeing 'the rock' for their children\n\nSechere was in the Hatay province to monitor the search for Atsu and later confirmed he had been found dead, after calling Rupio in the early hours of the morning to inform her.\n\n\"I couldn't really cry because I was in shock,\" she said. \"I didn't want to believe [it was true]. I think my body just shut down.\n\n\"The next morning the children had football and I didn't want to take that from them. After [that] I had to sit them down and explain it to them.\n\n\"It's not easy. It's not something you would wish on anybody.\"\n\nThe pair met while Atsu was playing for Porto and he earned a move to Chelsea in 2013, although he did not make a first-team appearance for the Blues.\n\nHe had loan spells with Everton and Bournemouth before joining Newcastle, who Rupio said have \"helped me in every single way they could help\", for which she is \"very grateful\".\n• None Watch - Christian Atsu: 'You served our country well. Rest in peace'\n\nShe added that the Professional Footballers' Association have helped her find a therapist while her eldest son has had counselling at his school.\n\nRupio said that \"he is the main one who is struggling because he has more memories\" and is \"not really ready to talk about it\".\n\nHer younger son has talked about his father more and has been asking questions that \"sometimes are very hard to answer\".\n\nTheir daughter recently turned four and on her birthday \"she asked when her dad is calling\".\n\n\"You have to be strong,\" she added. \"You're allowed to show emotions, obviously, but you can't fall down.\n\n\"You have to be the rock now for everybody. I do break down a lot of times, so it's not easy to balance everything.\"\n\n'He wasn't just talented, he's been a good person as well'\n\nAtsu made his international debut in 2012 and went on to win 65 caps for Ghana, helping the Black Stars reach the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations final.\n\nGhana's all-time record goalscorer Asamoah Gyan was among the many to pay tribute to his former team-mate, and he is remembered for what he did off the field as much as he did on it.\n\nAtsu supported an orphanage called Becky's Foundation, helping to turn a children's home in the Ghanaian coastal town of Senya Beraku into a school, and he was also a regular visitor, with some of the children calling him \"father\".\n\nA traditional week-long period of mourning was held after his body was returned to Ghana and he was honoured with a state funeral in the capital Accra, with Ghana's president among hundreds of people who paid their last respects.\n\n\"He helped a lot of charities, even in the UK,\" said his widow. \"He's helped a lot of people in Ghana. You can't really talk just about [his] talent, he's been a good person as well.\n\n\"The people who are close do know that, even from the outside as well, they have seen it.\n\n\"He's built a school for children in Ghana and that's something that not everybody would do, if they have money.\"\n• None Listen - Why is Christian Atsu being mourned at an orphanage in Ghana?\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Will the faithfuls unmask the traitors?: 24 Aussies take on the ultimate game of trust and treachery", "Donna Creed, from Leicester, said husband Darren had woken up \"a new person\" after receiving her kidney\n\nA woman who donated a kidney to her seriously-ill husband after they were found to be a match says it was \"the greatest gift\" she could give to a loved one.\n\nDonna Creed sacrificed the organ for her husband Darren who was suffering from polycystic kidney disease.\n\nThe couple are recovering from the transplant, in July, but said it had already transformed their lives.\n\nMrs Creed, a hotel manager, said her husband woke up as \"a new person\".\n\nMr Creed, 51, was diagnosed with the renal condition 12 years ago but had managed the condition until his kidney function fell to just 19%, which left him with chronic tiredness and facing the prospect of long-running dialysis.\n\nSpecialists at Leicester General Hospital urged him to start looking for a donor and several members of Mr Creed's family volunteered to be tested, but it was his wife who emerged as a match.\n\nDarren's friends are now planning a Three Peaks challenge to raise money for charity\n\nThe chef, who works at Loughborough College, said: \"I wasn't very hopeful that I'd find a donor at all because the odds were so long but for Donna to turn out to be a match for me is amazing.\n\n\"Kidney Care UK told us the odds of us being a match were one in 22 million. Honestly, we had more chance of winning the lottery.\"\n\nMrs Creed, 49, said: \"We genuinely didn't think I was going to be a match because the chances are so slim but every test we had came back looking like it was matching.\n\n\"We couldn't believe it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Darren woke up from the transplant a new person.\"\n\n\"He was so well. It was like getting my husband back from 25 years ago. He was laughing and joking where he had been so tired before.\n\n\"His condition was having a real impact, we couldn't do any thing like socialise. Even holding a conversation was a challenge.\n\n\"Now the difference is incredible.\"\n\nMrs Creed is now urging others to consider organ donation.\n\n\"It is great to be able to do this for your husband, a member of your family or even total stranger,\" she said. \"It's such a gift to give for just a week of discomfort.\"\n\nThe University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust's transplant lead specialist nurse Charlotte Crotty said: \"It's fantastic that Donna and Darren were a match.\n\n\"She has given him an amazing gift and you can see it has transformed their lives and the lives of their whole family.\"\n\nFollowing his transplant Mr Creed will be supporting family members who are to take on the Three Peaks Challenge - climbing the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales in 24 hours - in September.\n\nSupporters have already pledged £1,700, which will go to the PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) charity.\n\n\"I'm not walking it myself but I'll be doing some driving and cooking to support,\" Mr Creed said.\n\n\"We just want to give something back to a fantastic charity.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNinety-six people are known to have died in wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, with officials warning that figure is likely to rise.\n\nHawaii Governor Josh Green said more than 2,700 buildings had been destroyed in the historic town of Lahaina.\n\nHundreds of people are still missing and search teams have only covered 3% of the affected area.\n\n\"None of us really understand the size of this yet,\" a visibly emotional Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said.\n\nThe local authorities are focusing their efforts on combing through what is left of the coastal area of the island, as work continues to identify victims.\n\nThe fires that started on Tuesday would \"certainly be the worst natural disaster that Hawaii ever faced\", Mr Green warned, adding that the death toll would likely rise \"significantly\".\n\nMeanwhile, it remains unclear if early warning systems were used or if they malfunctioned, with many people telling the BBC they were not forewarned about the fires.\n\nThe state's attorney general is conducting a \"comprehensive review\" into how the authorities responded.\n\nRepresentative Jill Tokuda of Hawaii's 2nd congressional district told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme on Sunday that \"serious questions\" needed to be addressed.\n\n\"There's every justification for everyone to feel angry in this particular situation, and we all want answers,\" Ms Tokuda said.\n\nShe also described her visit to Lahaina over the weekend as \"heart-breaking\", saying that \"so many of our families and friends lost everything\".\n\nThe fires were fuelled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane.\n\nMr Green said gusts from that storm reached speeds of as high as 81mph (130km/h), fanning the flames to travel at one mile per minute and giving people little time to escape.\n\nWhile the fires are now largely under control, efforts to fully extinguish them are continuing in parts of the island.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Greenberg, a senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told the BBC that extra support was being sent included urban search and rescue, and fire suppression teams.\n\n\"The absolute number one priority is survivor safety,\" he said.\n\nMr Greenberg added that while close to 1,000 people were yet to be contacted, some of these may be safe but out of reach for a number of reasons.\n\nIn the emergency shelter at Maui's War Memorial Complex, hundreds of evacuees continued to gather over the weekend, receiving food, toiletries and medical aid from a still-growing number of volunteers.\n\nLarge whiteboards noted the most pressing needs - batteries, water, and generators - and an all-caps note that no more clothing was needed.\n\nKeapo Bissen, a member of the War Memorial shelter team, said the list of the missing was fluctuating hour to hour as more people reported absent loved ones, and others were found.\n\n\"We've had a lot of great reunions happen in this parking lot,\" she said. \"That's really been the bright side in all of this.\"\n\nAfter flying over Maui, helicopter pilot Richard Olsten told the BBC that even most of the boats in the harbour were burnt and had sunk.\n\n\"The historic buildings, the church, the missionary building and so forth - all gone.\n\n\"The main tourist area where all the shops and restaurants are, the historic Front Street - everything burnt to the ground,\" he said.\n\nFelicia Johnson (right) is among the locals who have been coordinating efforts to help victims of the wildfires\n\nFelicia Johnson, who owns a printing business in the city of Kahului, Maui, is organising a massive grassroots response to the disaster.\n\nHer family is from the Lahaina area. She has amassed hundreds of pounds of donated supplies to bring in, but has been unable to shuttle them through the government checkpoint.\n\nShe said that pleading with authorities to let her enter with her donated goods was the hardest part for her emotionally - not the devastation she witnessed while dropping off supplies.\"That's the part that I'm so wrecked on, is I got to keep begging you to come in to feed people,\" Ms Johnson said.\n\nShe added that many of the docks in the area are too badly damaged or destroyed to bring in supplies by boat. Some people that have made the journey have swum the supplies to the shore.\n\nSome of the young men helping her load supplies blame government mismanagement and bureaucracy.\n\n\"Too many chiefs, not enough warriors,\" said Bradah Young, 25.\n\n\"Everybody is in charge but nobody is moving,\" said another man.\n\nAs they departed in hope of being allowed through the checkpoint, one man threw up a shaka, a traditional hand greeting in Hawaii.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Families on a Rotherham estate say they fear that someone will be badly injured or killed after a spate of crashes.\n\nA lack of markings at junctions has led to numerous crashes in recent months, according to residents on the Waverley estate.\n\nThe developer said it had commissioned a traffic assessment and was now implementing a number of recommendations, including putting in signage and road markings.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk", "BJ Barone, right, and Frankie Nelson welcomed their son Milo in 2014\n\nItaly's far-right ruling party has been ordered to pay damages to a same-sex couple for using a photo of them with their newborn son without their consent in an anti-surrogacy campaign.\n\nBJ Barone and Frankie Nelson welcomed their son Milo with the help of a surrogate mother in 2014.\n\nA photo taken of that moment went viral, but it was then used by Brothers of Italy in 2016.\n\nThe party has been ordered to pay the couple €10,000 (£8,600) each.\n\nBrothers of Italy - Fratelli d'Italia in Italian - were ordered to pay for the \"offensive use of their image\" after Italian LGBT law firm Gay Lex took on the case. The party is appealing the decision.\n\nBrothers of Italy were ordered to pay damages over the 2014 advert\n\nItalian PM Giorgia Meloni leads the most right-wing government since World War Two.\n\nBrothers of Italy is a direct political descendant of the Italian Social Movement, which was formed by members of Mussolini's Fascist Party after the war.\n\nIn March, it instructed Milan's city council to stop registering the children of same-sex parents, leading to protests.\n\n\"This is a small win for us, but it is a huge victory for the LGBTQ+ community in Italy and abroad. To us, our birth photo represents everything what we stand for; family, acceptance and unconditional love,\" the couple told the BBC.\n\n\"This victory against the Fratelli and the Prime Minister allows us to reclaim our photo, and show the world that family is about love.\"\n\nThe photo, taken by Lindsay Foster, was also used without permission by independent Irish politician Mary Fitzgibbons in 2016 to push her platform against surrogacy for same-sex parents.", "The jury has heard the attack was allegedly prompted by a \"one-night stand\" between Mr Smith pictured)and Ms Fulstow\n\nA man who shot and threw acid over a father-of-two has told a court he and his girlfriend decided to \"go down the vigilante route\" after she told him she had been raped.\n\nThe 38-year-old's body was found near his home in Wigan, on 24 November 2022.\n\nMr Hillier described himself as a \"knight in shining armour\" and alleged he plotted the attack with his girlfriend.\n\nHis girlfriend, Rachel Fulstow, 37, who met Mr Smith on a Tinder date in 2019, denies murder and perverting the course of justice.\n\nGiving evidence at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, Mr Hillier said he met Ms Fulstow on the dating app Hinge in November 2020 and became \"completely besotted\" with her.\n\nMr Hillier, who told the jury he was \"concerned in the production and distribution of a large-scale cannabis operation\", said his partner \"confided\" in him in January last year that she had been \"graphically raped\" by Mr Smith at a hotel.\n\nMr Hillier (pictured) alleged he and Ms Fulstow bounced around\" ideas about how to attack Mr Smith\n\nHe said he felt strongly that \"a crime as heinous as rape\" should be reported to the police, but he said Ms Fulstow felt she would not be believed.\n\nHe added: \"We decided jointly between the two of us that we would deal with the matter ourselves and seek justice ourselves and go down the vigilante route.\n\n\"It's not surprising given only 1.6% of all reported rapes make it to court.\"\n\nHe said he asked Ms Fulstow to tell him all the details of the incident if he was to carry out an attack on Mr Smith.\n\n\"I need to know every nitty gritty bit of detail so the attack can be justified,\" he told the court.\n\nLiam Smith was shot and then had acid thrown over him outside his Shevington home\n\nMr Hillier alleged he and Ms Fulstow had \"bounced around\" ideas about how to carry out the attack on Mr Smith.\n\nHe said Ms Fulstow \"most definitely saw me as kind of like her knight in shining armour\".\n\nHe told the court he had modified a blank firing gun, but believed it would only stun rather than seriously injure or kill.\n\nMr Hillier said that on the day of the attack Ms Fulstow packed him a lunchbox full of food supplies, as well as diazepam, hydration tablets and headache tablets.\n\nHe told the court he had driven from his home on Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, to Kilburn Drive in Shevington, where Mr Smith lived, on the morning of 24 November and waited there all day, before the attack at about 18:40 GMT.\n\nMr Hillier said he had approached the house because he was not sure if Mr Smith was at home and, after seeing him inside, returned to his Mitsubishi Shogun vehicle, which Mr Smith approached a few minutes later.\n\nHe said when Mr Smith approached the car, he opened the door and called him a \"vile, disgusting rapist\".\n\nHe added: \"He knew exactly what I was talking about.\"\n\nJudge Maurice Greene ordered the public gallery be cleared as members of Mr Smith's family shouted obscenities at Mr Hillier.\n\nMs Fulstow previously told the trial she met Mr Smith via the dating app Tinder\n\nDescribing the attack, Mr Hillier said: \"I didn't want to let Rachel down. I pulled the trigger.\"\n\nHe claimed he believed Mr Smith to be unconscious and then poured a bottle of drain cleaner over him.\n\nThe court heard that after burning out his car, Mr Hillier returned to Ms Fulstow's home in York where he learnt Mr Smith had died.\n\nHe told the court: \"I said to Rachel 'I know it's not what we planned but are you happy that he's died?'\n\n\"She said 'Of course I'm glad he's died, who wouldn't be after what he did to me'.\"\n\nTurning to the dock, Mr Hillier added: \"Remember saying that, Rachel?\"\n\nThe jury heard Rachel Fulstow and Liam Smith (pictured) met on the dating app Tinder\n\nMr Hillier said his friends knew someone had \"tasked\" him with \"harming a rapist\", although they did not all know Ms Fulstow was involved.\n\nHe described a friend trying to talk him out of it on one occasion, when Ms Fulstow was also present.\n\nHe said: \"Rachel said, I can't remember the exact words, but she was saying she understands why I was doing it, fully supports me, and what I was doing was a just and noble cause.\"\n\nMs Fulstow, of Andrew Drive, York, previously told the trial that she met Mr Smith in September 2019 after they connected through the dating app Tinder.\n\nShe said they had sex, which she said was not consensual but she did not regard it as a rape.\n\nShe denies persuading her partner to carry out the attack.\n\nMr Hillier told the jury he had struggled with mental health issues and was addicted to diazepam and sleeping tablets.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brecon Cathedral is undergoing repairs to it roof because of water damage\n\nHistorical buildings in Wales are threatened by a shortage of workers with the skills to repair and maintain them, a heritage officer has said.\n\nAbout a third of all buildings in Wales were built before 1919, many of those made of stone.\n\nMany could be lost through \"ignorance and a lack of skills\", said Carmarthenshire council's Nell Hellier.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was working with partners to try and address the issue.\n\n\"We have half a million traditional buildings in Wales,\" said Ms Hellier, Carmarthenshire's senior built heritage officer.\n\n\"We need traditional building skills to repair them.\"\n\nShe works at the Tywi Centre, on the Dinefwr estate near Llandeilo, one of the only schools in the UK offering specialist training and advice on skills essential for maintaining historic buildings.\n\n\"We're not just talking about our cathedrals and big, smart architecture, we're also talking about terraced houses and farmsteads across the country,\" she said.\n\n\"Skills as well as materials are needed for all these buildings.\"\n\nNell Hellier says skills to repair and maintain heritage buildings are badly needed\n\nWhen old buildings are maintained and repaired appropriately, Ms Hellier said they added cultural, economical and environmental value.\n\n\"If you are trapping water in walls of buildings through using a plastic paint or cement materials, then timbers will rot and essentially your building will collapse,\" she said.\n\n\"Half a million homes with damp walls [use] a lot more energy to heat those buildings,\" she added.\n\nWater damage can be seen creeping down a wall at Brecon Cathedral\n\nIn Powys, a three-year, multi-million pound project to do essential roof repairs on Brecon's 1,000-year-old cathedral has proven to be challenging.\n\nStone to replace roof tiles has been found in a local quarry, but it has been difficult to find craftspeople to do the job.\n\nTom Jones is a steeplejack and director of the old buildings conservation specialist firm, Jones and Fraser.\n\n\"The knowledge of what processes to use and what materials are most appropriate is really important when renovating heritage buildings,\" he said.\n\nBuilding skills needed to be protected alongside buildings, said Stephen Oliver, a cathedral architect.\n\n\"Sourcing the skills is one of the big challenges,\" he explained.\n\n\"There are loads and loads of historic buildings and if there aren't enough people to repair them, they will fall in to disrepair and our heritage will be lost over a period of time.\"\n\nMs Hellier said there had been encouraging developments, including \"a brief introduction to understanding heritage buildings\" was included on the new Welsh construction curriculum.\n\nBut she said \"it isn't nearly enough\".\n\nDespite Wales having thousands of stone buildings, \"there isn't a single college in Wales teaching stonemasonry. We have an enormous amount to do\".\n\n\"Let's not lose our heritage buildings simply through ignorance and a lack of skills,\" she added.\n\n\"The costs to our environment, our economy and our culture are just too great\".\n\nThe Welsh government said its historic environment service Cadw had been working with partners across the home nations to address the issue.\n\nIt is also working with Qualifications Wales to development new qualifications that will raise the profile of traditional building skills.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called by staff at Bloodstock festival on Saturday night\n\nA man has died after being taken ill at a music festival in Derbyshire.\n\nPolice were called by staff at Bloodstock festival at about 20:55 BST on Saturday to reports the man had been taken ill at the campsite.\n\nAmbulance crews also went to the scene in Catton Park but the man - in his 20s - died shortly afterwards.\n\nA Derbyshire Police spokeswoman says the death is not believed to be suspicious, adding a file is being prepared for the coroner.\n\nA spokesperson for Bloodstock festival added: \"We were all devastated to learn of someone's passing at Bloodstock this year.\n\n\"We send out sincerest condolences to all the family and friends affected by this tragic death. This individual was one of our own, a Bloodstocker, so this has hit us all hard.\"\n\nThe heavy metal festival - which featured headline acts Megadeth, Killswitch Engage and Meshuggah - saw more than 18,000 people camp on site from Thursday.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officials say it is still difficult to determine the true extent of the damage in Lahaina\n\nRaging wildfires fanned by hurricane winds have devastated the historic town of Lahaina on Hawaii's island of Maui.\n\nBrian Schatz, a US senator from the state, said on social media that Lahaina is \"almost totally burnt to the ground\".\n\nAt least six people were killed in Maui County, officials said on Wednesday.\n\nMaui's hospital system has been overwhelmed with burn patients and people suffering from smoke inhalation.\n\n\"Firefighters are still trying to get the fires under control, and our first responders are in search and rescue mode,\" Mr Schatz said.\n\nThere were reports early on Wednesday that some people jumped into the ocean to escape the fast-moving flames. The US Coast Guard said it rescued at least a dozen people from the water.\n\nMaui County Mayor Richard Bissen Jr said in a news conference that many homes and business structures were completely destroyed.\n\nOne resident in the town of some 12,000 people told local media that every boat in the town harbour was burning.\n\n\"It looks like something out of a movie, a war movie,\" Chrissy Lovitt told Hawaii News Now.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOfficials said it is still difficult to determine the true extent of the damage on Maui, and have warned the death toll may rise. Around 2,100 people have been displaced.\n\nSome relatives of people living in Lahaina said they are worried about family members who are missing.\n\n\"I still don't know where my little brother is,\" Tiare Lawrence told Hawaii News Now. \"I don't know where my stepdad is.\"\n\n\"Everyone I know in Lahaina, their homes have burned down,\" Ms Lawrence said.\n\nAlmost 13,000 people were without power on Maui, according to tracking website PowerOutage.us.\n\nThousands were without cell phone service due to the fires, and 911 services in West Maui were down on Wednesday.\n\nOfficials said that three large fires remain active and out of control on Maui.\n\nSeveral blazes are also burning on the Big Island, also known as Hawaii island, a neighbouring island to Maui.\n\nThe fires have reduced homes, businesses and boats on the harbour to rubble\n\nThe National Weather Service said the flames were fanned by Hurricane Dora, which passed Hawaii at a distance but brought with it gusts of above 60 mph (97km/h), coupled with low humidity levels.\n\nPresident Joe Biden said in a statement that the federal government has sent assistance to Hawaii as it battles the flames and continues with rescue efforts.\n\nHe added that the Department of Transportation is working to evacuate tourists from Maui. About 4,000 visitors are trying to leave the island, said state transportation official Ed Sniffen.\n\nThe County of Maui has asked visitors to stay away from Lahaina, as roads into the town are closed except for emergency vehicles.\n\n\"This is not a safe place to be,\" said Hawaii's Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke.\n\n\"Certain parts of Maui, we have shelters that are overrun,\" Ms Luke added. \"We have resources that are being taxed.\"\n\nLahaina is a historic town on the western tip of Maui. Its center dates back to the 1700s and is on the US National Register of Historic Places.\n\nMaui is the second largest island of the Hawaiian archipelago in the northern Central Pacific, located more than 3,200km (2,000 miles) from the US mainland.\n\nIt is popular with tourists thanks to its beautiful beaches and whale watching in the winter months and attracted 2.9 million visitors last year.\n\nThe small island has both dry, sunny microclimates and also rainforests with green and humid areas. Hawaii has a dry and a wet season, with drought conditions becoming more common on its islands.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAre you on Maui or in touch with people who are? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Six dead as wildfires burn in Hawaii", "China has been a major destination for foreign investments\n\nThe US will ban American investment in some areas of China's high-tech sector, including artificial intelligence, adding to strained relations between the two superpowers.\n\nUS firms will also be asked to disclose what investments they make in China in high-tech sectors.\n\nThe much-anticipated move gives the US government new power to screen foreign dealings by private companies.\n\nThe US said the measure would be narrowly targeted.\n\nHowever, it is poised to further chill economic relations between the world's two largest economies.\n\nChina said it was \"very disappointed\".\n\nThe US \"has continuously escalated suppression and restrictions on China,\" said Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington.\n\nHe added that White House claims that the US was not seeking to hurt China's economy or separate the two countries did not match its actions. \"We urge the US side to honour its words.\"\n\nThe order by US President Biden formally kicks off the push to craft rules to bar American businesses from investing in firms from \"countries of concern\" that are active in quantum computing, advanced semiconductors and certain areas of artificial intelligence.\n\nThe government will also require US firms to notify the Treasury Department of investments in firms working on a wider range of artificial intelligence and semiconductor technology.\n\nThe rules are not expected to apply to so-called portfolio investments, in which firms invest passively in companies via the stock market, but are focused on active investments made by private equity, venture capital and other firms.\n\nThey will now enter a public comment period, which is expected to further clarify what kinds of investments are off-limits. The rules are not expected to go into effect for months.\n\nIn a briefing with reporters, senior administration officials said the measure was a \"national security action, not an economic one\". They said the US remained committed to open investment.\n\nSarah Bauerle Danzman, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, said the approach outlined on Wednesday was narrower than some of the other proposals under debate, but still represented an \"unprecedented\" expansion of government oversight.\n\n\"It is definitely a big deal and it certainly represents quite a break from past policy,\" she said.\n\nControls on outbound investment are rare among advanced economies, currently present only in Japan and Korea, according to a 2022 report by the US-China Investment project.\n\nIn the US, prior restrictions on China trade have relied on limiting sales of sensitive technology by US firms and screening Chinese investments in American companies. The Trump administration has also barred investments in firms tied to China's military.\n\nThe latest measure has widespread support in Washington, where it is seen as fixing a regulatory gap concerning financial flows that risks allowing American money and know-how to to flow into China and assist its military ambitions.\n\nChina's He Lifeng welcomes Janet Yellen during a meeting in Beijing\n\nThe US has been trying to build international support for the investment curbs with some signs of success.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak in May said the government would consider curbs on outbound investment; the European Commission put forward a proposal focused on investments in sensitive technologies earlier this summer.\n\nIt is not clear how significantly the order would affect flows of investment.\n\nChina was the number two destination for foreign investment in 2022, behind the US, but many reports suggest money flowing into the country from the US and elsewhere has dropped sharply as geopolitical relations sour.\n\nIn the UK, a recent survey by the Institute of Directors found that one in five UK importers had already switched investments away from the country due to geopolitical tensions.\n\nThe value of US foreign direct investment transactions in China dropped to roughly $8bn last year, the lowest level in nearly two decades, according to the Rhodium Group.\n\nChina has responded to the curbs with its own rules, including limits on exports of some critical minerals used to make computer chips.\n\nTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who visited China in July to try to ease tensions, said last month she did not think the coming curbs would have a fundamental impact on the investment climate in the country.\n\nBut Ms Bauerle Danzman, a professor of international studies at Indiana University, said despite US efforts to target its restrictions, the ill-defined nature of some of the technologies in question, many of which also have consumer uses, means the clampdown risks becoming too broad.\n\nShe warned that could ultimately hurt the US, by raising costs for businesses and isolating the country from technological advances.\n\n\"Whether this is good or bad is going to depend on implementation,\" she said. \"The US government has to be very careful not to allow this to expand and expand and it needs to find ways to have some amount of exchange of information in ways that don't challenge national security so that we're not cutting ourselves off from opportunities for new scientific discoveries.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Light aircraft is moved after making an emergency landing on A40\n\nA light aircraft has made a forced landing on a main commuter road in Gloucestershire after a suspected engine failure.\n\nEmergency services are at the scene on the A40 Golden Valley close to the village of Churchdown, near Cheltenham.\n\nGloucestershire Police are in attendance and confirmed the plane came down shortly before 18:00 BST.\n\nA spokesperson for the force said: \"No-one was injured and it is understood that no other vehicles were involved.\"\n\nIt is understood people got out of the aircraft and made it to safety.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch said an investigation had been launched.\n\nThe plane has been moved to the lay by\n\nGloucestershire Airport director, Jason Ivey, said: \"We are aware that a pilot has had to perform an emergency landing on the public highway due to a suspected engine failure.\n\n\"We are currently investigating to find out what happened and why.\n\n\"Our priority right now is to ensure everyone's well-being.\"\n\nMr Ivey added that the plane was flying to Staverton, where it is normally based, and the airport closed as a result of the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Darren This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe plane, which landed on the central reservation, has been moved to a layby where specialist aircraft recovery service will retrieve it.\n\nGloucestershire Police said: \"We were called shortly before 18:00 BST with a report a light aircraft had landed on the A40 Golden Valley.\n\n\"Police remain at the scene at this time.\"\n\nNational Highways South West said the A40 has reopened in both directions between the A417 and the M5 J11.\n\nThe road was shut for over two hours after the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tom Wade This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWere you on the road when the aircraft landed? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Eyewitnesses filmed intense smoke clouds and fire raging on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The fire, a result of dry conditions and forceful winds brought by Hurricane Dora, has prompted extensive evacuations in the Lahaina area.", "The official allegedly went on his own initiative to the Russian embassy in Berlin\n\nA government official has been arrested in Germany, accused of passing secret information to Russia.\n\nThe man has been named only as Thomas H, in line with German privacy rules.\n\nHe worked for an office dealing with military equipment and information technology.\n\nIt is alleged he went on his own initiative to the Russian embassy in Berlin, and also to its consulate in the city of Bonn, where he offered his services.\n\nHe was brought before a judge on Wednesday and was detained, pending a trial.\n\n\"The federal prosecutor has arrested a German officer on suspicion of working for a foreign secret service,\" wrote Justice Minister Marco Buschmann on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. \"Vigilance is the order of the day.\"\n\nThe man allegedly handed over information obtained during the course of his work with the intention that it be passed to a Russian intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's office said.\n\nHe was arrested in Koblenz in western Germany, and his home and workplace were searched, it added.\n\nThe arrest came after the domestic security agency, the BfV, warned in June against the risk of an \"aggressive Russian espionage operation\" as Moscow wages its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThis is not the first case of its kind since the Russian invasion in February last year.\n\nIn January, a German citizen was arrested on suspicion of treason for alleged involvement in a scheme to pass intelligence to Russia.\n\nThe man, named only as Arthur E, was thought to be linked to a German foreign intelligence service (BND) employee who was arrested in December for allegedly spying for Russia.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nEngland forward Lauren James has been given a two-match ban by Fifa for her red card in the Women's World Cup game with Nigeria.\n\nJames, 21, was sent off for stamping on the back of Michelle Alozie in the last 16-tie, which England won on penalties.\n\nThe dismissal came with an automatic one-game ban which Fifa has increased, meaning she will miss the semi-final if England get there.\n\nThe Lionesses face Colombia in the quarter-finals on Saturday (11:30 BST).\n\nJames is England's top scorer in the tournament, having scored three goals, as well as assisting three more, in the group stages.\n\nThe Chelsea forward apologised to Alozie on social media after the incident and promised to learn from her mistake.\n\nAfter the game, England boss Sarina Wiegman said: \"She is inexperienced on this stage and in a split-second lost her emotions. It isn't something she did on purpose. She apologised and felt really bad.\n\n\"She would never want to hurt someone. She is the sweetest person I know.\"\n\nIf the Lionesses are knocked out of the World Cup on Saturday, James' ban will carry over to England's next international fixture.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None Striker England 'not just happy to be' at Women's World Cup\n• None Why Colombia fans are out in force at World Cup\n• None Ellen White column: 'England bond will be even stronger now'\n• None Will Stephanie Slater's kidnapper be given parole?\n• None A new drug, a new story, a new era: LA's streets are about to get more dangerous...", "Actor and entertainer Les Dennis is the 15th and final celebrity contestant to be announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe said he was \"thrilled\" to join the show, as his 70th birthday approaches.\n\nHe will join Annabel Croft, Nigel Harman, Bobby Brazier, Jody Cundy, Zara McDermott, Ellie Leach, Nikita Kanda, Adam Thomas and Eddie Kadi on the show.\n\nAngela Rippon, Layton Williams, Angela Scanlon, Amanda Abbington and Krishnan Guru-Murthy will also appear.\n\nDennis, whose career spans more than 50 years, was host of ITV's Family Fortunes for 16 years.\n\nHe has also had roles in ITV's Coronation Street, Extras and Death in Paradise; and has appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera, and in such plays and musicals as Hairspray, Legally Blonde The Musical and 42nd Street.\n\n\"In my career I've always gone for challenges outside my comfort zone and this is the ultimate one!\" he said. \"Can't wait.\"\n\nThis year's series will arrive on screens in the autumn and will be judged by Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse.\n\nHere are the other contestants who have been announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing so far:\n\nFormer tennis player and broadcaster Annabel Croft said she was looking forward to \"swapping tennis balls for glitter balls\" and was \"looking forward to finding some joyfulness in the process\".\n\nCroft became the youngest British player to compete at Wimbledon for 95 years when she was just 15 years old.\n\nShe continues to play a role in the coverage of the tournament and other tennis events, as a presenter, commentator and pundit for the BBC, Sky, Amazon Prime, ITV and Discovery.\n\nCroft has also presented entertainment shows such as Treasure Hunt and Inceptor.\n\nEx-EastEnders star Nigel Harman, known for playing Dennis Rickman on the soap, said he was \"amazed, excited, and terrified\" to be joining the line-up.\n\n\"As an armchair fan of the show, I have watched in awe as people have twirled and gyrated across the screen,\" he said. \"And now it's my turn... gulp!\"\n\nScreen and stage actor and director Harman won awards, including most popular newcomer at the National Television Awards, for his role as the roguish Rickman. He has also appeared on TV in Downton Abbey and in the film Blood Diamond, as well as on London's West End in Guys and Dolls and Shrek the Musical - for which he won an Olivier award.\n\nHarman recently joined the cast of the BBC hospital drama Casualty, as clinical lead Max Cristie.\n\nCurrent EastEnders actor and model Bobby Brazier, son of the late Big Brother star Jade Goody, plays Freddie Slater in the BBC soap.\n\nHe said he was \"excited\" to join the Strictly line-up. \"I can't wait to start training like a professional dancer and adding a few moves to my locker,\" he added.\n\nAway from Walford, Brazier has modelled for the major fashion house Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week.\n\nJody Cundy has represented Great Britain at seven Paralympics, winning eight gold medals in swimming and cycling events.\n\n\"[Strictly is] so far away from what I'm used to, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and pushing myself way out of my comfort zone, especially as I'm always last onto the dance floor,\" he said. \"Can't wait to get stuck in, bring on the glitter and sequins!\"\n\nCundy has also competed in multiple World Championships, winning 23 world titles, the most recent of which added at the recent World Cycling Championships in Glasgow.\n\nIn 2021, he became the first man in Paralympics GB history to win medals at seven different games, and was last year made a CBE for services to cycling.\n\nEllie Leach is best known for her 12 years playing Faye Windass on ITV soap Coronation Street.\n\nShe has been nominated for multiple British Soap Awards and Inside Soap Awards for her role in hard-hitting storylines, which have included being pregnant at 13 and later reconnecting with the child she gave up.\n\n\"It still doesn't feel real that I'm going to be doing Strictly!\" she said.\n\n\"It's always been a dream of mine so I guess dreams really do come true!\" added the actress, who left the soap earlier this year.\n\nNikita Kanda hosts the BBC Asian Network radio station's breakfast show, and also reports regularly on TV on the BBC's The One Show.\n\n\"I don't think it will properly sink in until I step on to the dancefloor,\" she said. \"I can't wait to get glammed up and get out there. Throw the glitter on me!\"\n\nIn her day job, the presenter - recently nominated for presenter of the year at the Asian Media Awards - has interviewed stars including Killing Eve's Sandra Oh, Bridgerton's Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran and Marvel actress Awkwafina.\n\nHer TV work has seen her look into the rise of cashless businesses and government support for female sport.\n\nThomas is best known for playing Adam Barton in ITV soap Emmerdale, winning the TV Choice award for best soap newcomer in 2010.\n\n\"I can't dance to save my life but I'm buzzing to learn and have a good laugh with my pro. Get me on that dance floor... I can't wait!\" he said.\n\nAfter appearing the 2016 edition of ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, Thomas went on to co-host the spin-off-I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp, and recently reprised his role as Donte Charles in BBC One drama Waterloo Road.\n\nIn 2020, the soap star teamed up with his brothers and fellow Mancs on the Mic podcasters Ryan and Scott, for six-part ITV travel series Absolutely India: Mancs in Mumbai, where they traced their family heritage alongside their father.\n\nRip-Off Britain presenter Rippon, 78, will be the series' oldest contestant, after Johnny Ball took part in 2012 aged 74.\n\nRippon said: \"Why didn't they ask me 10 years ago? Having been a fan of Strictly since day one, and as a former presenter of Come Dancing, this will be quite an adventure for me.\"\n\nShe was the first female journalist to permanently present the BBC national television news, and was also one of the presenters of the BBC's original Come Dancing series.\n\nShe hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, presented ITV breakfast show TV-am and famously appeared in a dancing sketch with comedy duo Morecambe and Wise.\n\nGuru-Murthy is the lead anchor for Channel 4 News. He joined the programme in 1998 and is its second-longest-serving presenter after Jon Snow.\n\n\"I'm surprised, delighted and slightly confused to find myself taking part in Strictly on the basis of 'you only live once!\" he said.\n\nThe broadcaster has also fronted Channel 4's Paralympics coverage and was one of the original presenters of the BBC News channel, then called BBC News 24, in 1997.\n\nLast year, Guru-Murthy was briefly suspended after he was heard using an expletive to describe a Conservative minister, something for which he apologised \"unreservedly\".\n\nAbbington is known for starring in TV series including Sherlock and Mr Selfridge, as well as stage plays such as The Son.\n\nThe actress said: \"I'm thrilled to have been asked to do Strictly. I'm actually really shy and self-conscious so this will be a great opportunity for me to overcome those things! Plus I get to learn to dance, which I am incredibly excited about.\"\n\nHowever, some fans have claimed they will boycott the show after Abbington stirred controversy earlier this year with comments about drag performances, questioning whether young children should watch or partake in sexually-charged drag shows.\n\nIn a recent Instagram video, Abbington explained she \"loved drag\" and was not transphobic, adding: \"Personally speaking, I don't think 12-year-olds should be performing in drag shows in overtly sexual ways because they're 12 and they need a childhood.\"\n\nWilliams has performed in London's West End in Billy Elliot, Thriller Live and Everyone's Talking About Jamie. He has also appeared in TV series Bad Education and I Hate Suzie.\n\nThe actor said: \"So excited to learn new skills from the best. Bring on the sequins… ALL the sequins!\"\n\nWilliams most recently provided the voiceover for the BBC Three gay dating show I Kissed A Boy.\n\nThe actor said he would be happy as long as he is paired with a male professional dancer so he can be lifted up during the performances.\n\nAngela Scanlon presents Your Home Made Perfect on BBC Two\n\nIrish TV star Angela Scanlon hosts the BBC Two series Your Home Made Perfect as well as a Saturday night chat show on RTÉ.\n\n\"I'm terrified, I'm excited and I have so many questions. Will they make me tan? How itchy are sequins?! Do they do flesh coloured sports bras? Well - there's only one way to find out, right?!\" she said.\n\nScanlon has appeared on TV shows including The One Show and Robot Wars, and presented a Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio 2.\n\nShe previously worked as a print journalist, writing for magazines including Grazia, Tatler and the Sunday Times Style supplement.\n\nKadi is a stand-up comic who became the first black British comedian to headline London's 02 Arena.\n\nHe announced his participation on BBC Radio 1Xtra's Official UK Afrobeats Chart Show on Sunday, which he presents.\n\n\"I'm so unbelievably proud and honoured that Strictly and the BBC have asked me to join the 2023 team,\" Kadi said.\n\n\"I promise you, I'm going to give it everything I've got. This is going to be a vibe.\"\n\nZara McDermott worked as a government policy advisor before joining ITV reality show Love Island in 2018, and since leaving the villa has presented a series of documentaries.\n\n\"I grew up watching Strictly every year with my nan and she was the biggest fan,\" she said. \"We would dance around the house and I have such fond memories of that time in my life.\n\n\"I even remember the first ever series, and being mesmerised by all the beautiful dresses! I can't wait to throw myself into this experience and start training. It's going to be incredible.\"\n\nSince leaving Love Island, McDermott has presented BBC documentaries including Revenge Porn, Uncovering Rape Culture, Disordered Eating, and Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The waiting list for hospital treatment has topped 7.5 million people in England for the first time.\n\nIt means nearly one in seven of the population is on an NHS waiting list for routine treatment, including hip and knee operations.\n\nThe number hit 7.57 million at the end of June - up by 100,000 on the month before.\n\nNHS England said strike action had had an impact - junior doctors walked out for three days during June.\n\nThat led to the cancellation of more than 100,000 appointments.\n\nThe waiting list is now more than three million higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nOf those on a waiting list, more than 383,000 have been waiting for longer than a year.\n\nThe NHS is also continuing to struggle to see cancer patients quickly enough.\n\nOnly 59% started their treatment within 62 days following an urgent GP referral during June.\n\nNHS England said it had been incredibly busy with a record number of tests and checks carried out and the number of people starting cancer treatment - nearly 30,000 - was close to a record high.\n\nThe release of the monthly data comes ahead of the next round of junior doctor strikes with British Medical Association members due to begin their four-day walkout on Friday at 07:00 BST.\n\nNHS England warned patients to expect \"significant disruption\" as junior doctors, who represent nearly half the medical workforce, walk out of both emergency and planned care.\n\nLater in August, consultants will take part in their second walkout.\n\nProf Julian Redhead, from NHS England, said: \"Today's data is a reminder of the significant pressure on staff with this summer currently on trajectory to be the busiest in NHS history, all while industrial action continues to disrupt services.\"\n\nRory Deighton, of the NHS Confederation, which represents hospital managers, said it was \"unsurprising, but regrettable\" that the waiting list had hit such a high.\n\n\"These figures should give further impetus to all sides to find a solution to industrial action.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One man was held down by three officers outside a shop on a side street\n\nThose responsible for the disorder seen in London's Oxford Street area should be \"hunted down and locked up\", Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said.\n\n\"We cannot allow the kind of lawlessness seen in some American cities to come to the streets of the UK,\" Mrs Braverman said on X.\n\nOn Wednesday, baton-wielding police clashed with dozens of people while officers on horseback dispersed crowds.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said nine arrests were made.\n\nThe force said it had handed out 34 dispersal orders, which enable police to exclude people from the area. A wider Section 35 dispersal order covering a large area of the West End is in effect until 07:00 BST on Friday.\n\nTrouble broke out after social media videos urged people to turn up and cause disruption on Oxford Street.\n\n\"The police have my full backing to do whatever necessary to ensure public order. Those responsible must be hunted down and locked up,\" Mrs Braverman said.\n\n\"I expect nothing less from the Metropolitan Police and have requested a full incident report.\"\n\nThe disorder followed recent disturbances near the seafront in Southend, Essex.\n\nPolice have issued similar dispersal orders in the town after social media posts encouraged people to gather there and \"get lit\".\n\nDisorder broke out on Wednesday afternoon and into the evening\n\nThere was a large police presence in Oxford Street on Wednesday afternoon, with mounted officers and police vans on the road and on side streets.\n\nYoung people gathered in groups, mixing in with tourists and shoppers - with some filming or looking on bemused.\n\nSome shops on Oxford Street and Regent Street closed their barriers as attempts were made to get inside. At those that stayed open, security guards stood at the entrances deciding who could go in.\n\nInside Oxford Circus Tube station, officers were stopping young men at the ticket barriers to speak to them.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan had urged people who had seen the videos on social media not to go to Oxford Street, saying: \"Do not allow yourself to be sucked into an area that could be a high-crime area.\"\n\nBy the evening, dozens of young people were seen making their way along Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End.\n\nA McDonald's restaurant and a gift shop were briefly attacked and several fights broke out among those gathered. The owner of a convenience store in Soho fought off about a dozen young people after they stormed his shop allegedly trying to steal items.\n\nAs a result of patrols across the day, the Met Police said one person was arrested on suspicion of going equipped to steal, one on suspicion of assaulting a police officer, one for a public order offence and four others on suspicion of breaching the dispersal order.\n\nThe force added that two people were also arrested in Essex on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery \"following online social media posts\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The design of the new 50 pence coin is based on Westminster Abbey\n\nA special 50 pence coin marking the Coronation of King Charles is going into circulation this week.\n\nThe Royal Mint is issuing five million of the coins, with a design based on Westminster Abbey, where the Coronation was held in May.\n\nIt will allow the public to \"find a piece of history in their change\", said the Royal Mint's Rebecca Morgan.\n\nBut the new King's coins will be outnumbered by 27 billion from the late Queen's reign, still in circulation.\n\nSo far the 50 pence piece has been the most visible sign of change in the coinage. This new Coronation coin follows an earlier 50 pence, released in December, which was the first mass-circulation coin to show the King's head.\n\nThere has been no timetable announced yet for other new coins to be issued, although the first King Charles banknotes are expected to appear next year.\n\nThe intention with coins, banknotes and stamps has been to use up existing stocks from Queen Elizabeth II's era, with new items from the King's reign gradually being introduced.\n\nThe Royal Mint expects the Coronation coin - with the portrait and insignia of King Charles - to be popular among \"members of the public keen to own a piece of British history\".\n\nThe profile of King Charles follows the tradition of looking in the opposite direction to the coins of his predecessor.\n\nWith a strong trend towards cashless payments, it might be a while before some people notice the new coins.\n\nAccording to the banking industry body UK Finance, between 2011 and 2021 the use of cash fell from 55% of payments to 15%, with a further fall to 6% forecast for 2031.\n\nBut the banking body says there are still more than a million people who use cash as their main means of payment.\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the weekly BBC News Royal Watch Newsletter - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "David Hunter was freed from prison after being found guilty of his wife's manslaughter\n\nCypriot prosecutors are appealing against the manslaughter conviction of a British man who killed his seriously ill wife, his lawyers have said.\n\nDavid Hunter, 76, was accused of murdering his wife Janice at their home in Cyprus in 2021 but was convicted of manslaughter and released from prison.\n\nThe retired miner from Northumberland said his 74-year-old wife, who had cancer, begged him to kill her.\n\nIt is understood he could face new charges of premeditated murder.\n\nJustice Abroad, which represents Hunter, said it would work with a \"top team of lawyers to fight for\" him after the Attorney General appealed against both the verdict and sentence.\n\nMichael Polak, from the organisation, said: \"We are obviously very disappointed with the Attorney General's decision to appeal which gets in the way of David getting on with his life.\n\n\"He has spent 19 months in prison and faced legal proceedings over that period that would be difficult for anyone, but especially for someone of his age.\n\n\"This is a very sad matter, however it is difficult to see how the continued pursuit of David assists anyone.\"\n\nDavid Hunter visited his wife Janice's grave the day after being released from prison\n\nMr Polak said his client wanted to thank all those in the UK and abroad who had supported him during his time in custody.\n\nHe said Hunter had initially agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter but \"that resolution was taken away by the prosecutor on the day it was to be entered\" at court.\n\nThe murder trial was then held in Paphos before three judges agreed it was \"not a case of premeditated murder\" - which carries a mandatory life sentence in Cyprus - and Hunter \"acted spontaneously\" to kill his wife after she was \"begging him to do so because of the pain she was under\", Justice Abroad said.\n\nHunter was given a two-year sentence on 31 July but was immediately released.\n\nThe following day he visited his wife's grave for the first time.\n\nMr Polak said it could be months before they were given a Court of Appeal hearing date.\n\nAt that hearing judges will decide if the pensioner will face the original charge of premeditated murder.\n\nHunter is currently not the subject of any bail conditions and is free to stay in Cyprus or travel to the UK.\n\nHunter, from Ashington, Northumberland, was a miner for more than four decades before the couple retired to Cyprus 20 years ago.\n\nThey had been teenage sweethearts and were married for more than 50 years.\n\nThe trial heard Mrs Hunter had blood cancer and begged her husband for several weeks to end her suffering before he finally suffocated her at their home near Paphos.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "From right to left: Lisa Schmidt, Erin Grayson and Brooke Ferguson Image caption: From right to left: Lisa Schmidt, Erin Grayson and Brooke Ferguson\n\nI was speaking to a family of tourists from Portland, Oregon, who were visiting Maui.\n\nStaying at the Westin Ka'anapali – a little way outside the badly-damaged town of Lahaina – grandmother Lisa Schmidt, mother Erin Grayson and daughter Brooke Ferguson were forced to flee from the fires.\n\nSchmidt says she was most emotional when she discovered that the townspeople were not warned of the fires, that it “just took people by surprise that were in downtown Lahaina”.\n\n“It just breaks my heart that people just lost everything. Everything. And with no warning. The warning system didn’t work, that’s just horrible.”\n\nThey drove through Lahaina on their way to the shelter, and saw its devastation first hand.\n\n“It looked like a bomb went off there,” says Ferguson.\n\nThey saw cars that were burned up, and “houses burned to the ground”. Only random, “sporadic” buildings were still left standing, they say.", "A mother complained the information posted on the genealogy website could endanger her adopted child\n\nThe names of thousands of people adopted as children were available on a genealogy website, it has emerged.\n\nSafety and privacy fears were raised after a mother found details of adoptions dating back more than 100 years on the Scotland's People site.\n\nIt is operated by National Records of Scotland (NRS), an official arm of the Scottish government.\n\nNRS removed the information 36 hours after the mother complained it could endanger her adopted child.\n\nIt said it was taking the issue \"extremely seriously\" and has launched an investigation.\n\nScotland's Children and Young People's Commissioner said the information could have resulted in \"a significant risk of harm\".\n\nThe mother who raised the concerns - a public sector worker from Central Scotland who wishes to remain anonymous - contacted BBC Scotland News after discovering her child's details on the site.\n\nShe said she was worried that under certain circumstances, the website could allow people to find out the new surname of an adopted child and track them down.\n\nShe told the BBC that when adopting her son she had been encouraged to keep his first name.\n\n\"I did a search to see how many children with his first name were born in the same year, and to my horror the first entry that came up was his,\" she said.\n\nThe entry included a reference number which revealed he was on the adoption register.\n\n\"I searched for someone else who was adopted and found them too,\" the mother said.\n\n\"The whole adoption register was there online for everybody to see. I was horrified.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's every adoptive parent's worst nightmare that their child's adoptive name, which has been carefully shielded through the court process, could be made public.\n\n\"There's also a massive concern for adults who don't know they've been adopted.\"\n\nThe Scotland's People website is operated by National Records of Scotland (NRS), an official arm of the Scottish government\n\nBefore the information was removed, the Scotland's People website included the names of thousands of people who had been adopted as far back as 1909.\n\nThe most recent entries were from 2022.\n\nNick Hobbs, the acting Children's Commissioner in Scotland, backed the mother's concerns and raised the issue with NRS.\n\n\"This is something that raises really serious concerns for us about children's right to privacy,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a significant risk of harm for some children potentially, by people being able to link their current name with their birth name.\n\n\"It's not straightforward to do that but my biggest concern is that you can do it, that that information is available at all.\"\n\nMr Hobbs believes the information could breach a child's right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.\n\n\"Having your adoption status searchable on a public database clearly engages your right to privacy under both those international conventions,\" he said.\n\nHe welcomed NRS's decision to take the information offline.\n\n\"What we need them to do now is work out a longer-term solution that respects their right to privacy and ensures children are kept safe,\" he said.\n\nAn NRS spokesperson said: \"Relevant records have been removed from the website while we investigate this.\n\n\"We are taking this extremely seriously and will listen to a wide range of views before making decisions for the longer term.\"\n\nThe spokesman said NRS had a statutory responsibility to make its registers open and searchable.\n\nHe said: \"There has been no personal data breach but we have made the Information Commissioner's Office aware of the complaint raised and the action we are taking as a precautionary step while we review the way we make this information available.\"\n\nThe NRS declined to say how long the information had been available through the website but said it had not been the result of a recent change.\n\nAn spokesperson for the Information Commissioner's Office said: \"It's important organisations holding sensitive personal data ensure it is handled in line with data protection law.\n\n\"National Records of Scotland alerted us to the concerns raised and we provided advice on organisations' duty to self-assess and conclude if an incident needs to be formally reported to the ICO.\n\n\"We don't appear to have received a formal breach report regarding this.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 36 people have died as fast-moving wildfires tear through the Hawaiian island of Maui, officials say.\n\nThe deaths in the city of Lahaina, the island's main tourist destination, came as strong winds from a distant hurricane fanned the flames.\n\nThe fire is one of several ongoing blazes that have burnt entire neighbourhoods to the ground.\n\nThousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes and a state of emergency has been declared.\n\nA huge search and rescue operation is under way, with some people still unaccounted for.\n\n\"We barely made it out in time,\" Kamuela Kawaakoa, who fled to an evacuation shelter on Tuesday with his partner and six-year-old son, told the Associated Press.\n\n\"It was so hard to sit there and just watch my town burn to ashes and not be able to do anything,\" he said. \"I was helpless.\"\n\nFive evacuation shelters have been opened on Maui and officials earlier said they were \"overrun\" with people. The island is a popular tourist destination and visitors have been urged to stay away.\n\n\"This is not a safe place to be,\" Hawaii Lt Governor Sylvia Luke told reporters. \"We have resources that are being taxed.\"\n\nFirefighters are still battling active fires, with helicopters dropping water on the blazes from above.\n\nThe western side of the island, which is the second largest of the Hawaiian archipelago, was almost cut off entirely with only one main road open.\n\n\"As the firefighting efforts continue, 36 total fatalities have been discovered today amid the active Lahaina fire,\" the Maui county government said in a statement late on Wednesday.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nDozens of people have been injured since the fires began burning on Tuesday and hospitals on the island are treating patients for burns and smoke inhalation.\n\nLahaina has been devastated by the fire and video showed the blaze tearing through the beachfront resort city.\n\n\"We just had the worst disaster I've ever seen. All of Lahaina is burnt to a crisp. It's like an apocalypse,\" resident Mason Jarvi told Reuters. He showed the news agency images of the city's destroyed and blackened waterfront.\n\nMr Jarvi said he suffered burns after riding through the flames on his bike to save his dog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fires earlier drove people to jump into the city's harbour to escape the flames and smoke. Fourteen people were rescued after jumping in, officials said.\n\nBusinesses around Lahaina have been destroyed, and one senior education official said they were preparing for the possible loss of a century-old elementary school in the city.\n\nOn Wednesday, the strong winds caused by passing Hurricane Dora eased slightly meaning pilots were able to view the full scale of the damage.\n\nImages taken from above showed burnt cars littering the streets and smoke rising high above piles of rubble.\n\n\"It's horrifying. I've flown here 52 years and I've never seen anything come close to that,\" helicopter pilot Richard Olsten told the Associated Press. \"We had tears in our eyes.\"\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nAre you on Maui or in touch with people who are? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Located on a dormant volcano in Hawaii, the Subaru Telescope takes pictures of deep space, to look for interesting or unusual looking galaxies.", "Kupiansk has witnessed some fierce fighting during the ongoing Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine\n\nUkraine has ordered the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from 37 settlements in the north-east as Russia steps up its attacks there.\n\nThe authorities in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region said they had to act because of \"constant Russian shelling\" in the area.\n\nA woman was killed by shelling in the district on Thursday, Ukraine said.\n\nRussia says its troops have gained some ground in the area. Ukraine says Russian attacks have been rebuffed.\n\nThe comments by the two warring sides have not been independently verified.\n\nIn a statement, the Kupiansk district authorities said residents of two towns and 35 villages were being evacuated.\n\n\"Do not neglect your safety and the safety of your loved ones!\" the authorities said.\n\nThey said that civilians were being evacuated to \"safe regions\" of Ukraine.\n\nA resident in Kivsharivka - one of the villages being evacuated - said she was preparing to leave with her children, while her husband wanted to stay to care for his elderly mother.\n\n\"It's hard to leave them behind,\" Anna Koresh, 36, told AFP news agency. \"But since it's getting dangerous it's important to take the kids to a safe place,\" she added.\n\nIn its latest briefing, the Russian defence ministry said its assault units in the Kupiansk direction had \"improved their position along the front line during offensive operations\".\n\nBut on Thursday evening a woman was killed and a man was injured when a Russian shell hit a house in the village of Podoly, Kupiansk district, Ukrainian officials said.\n\nThe evacuation order is not the first for Kupiansk residents.\n\nIn March, children and people \"with limited mobility\" were ordered to evacuate from Kupiansk city because of an increase in Russian shelling.\n\nKupiansk - an important transport and logistics regional hub - has witnessed fierce fighting since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.\n\nRussian troops seized the city in a matter of days - but Ukrainian forces took back control during a rapid counter-attack last September.\n\nThose advances - and the liberation of Ukraine's southern city of Kherson - were the most significant front-line changes since Russia withdrew from areas around the capital Kyiv in April.\n\nAlso on Thursday, one person was killed in a Russian attack on a \"civilian infrastructure\" in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia city, local officials said.\n\nThey said another nine people were injured.", "The teddy has a mohair coat, original boot-button eyes and a stitched smile\n\nA teddy bear found at a car boot sale could sell for up to £6,000 according to auctioneers.\n\nThe antique teddy was spotted at a car boot sale at Monmouth Show Ground by Jeanette Davies, 60, who said she had a \"gut feeling\" it was valuable.\n\nMs Davies and her son paid £130 for the teddy and another toy bear.\n\nThe teddy has been identified as a rare Steiff bear from 1905 and is expected to fetch between £4,000 and £6,000 at an auction later this month.\n\nMs Davies, from near Cwmbran, Torfaen, said she thought it looked like a Steiff bear, a German make which can be valuable.\n\n\"Sometimes you just take a gamble and I'm glad we did,\" she said.\n\nHansons Auctioneers teddy bear consultant Janet Rawnsley described the 1905 cinnamon-coloured bear as \"rare and hard to find\".\n\n\"He has a remarkably handsome face and shaven muzzle. I call him Mr Cinnamon,\" she said.\n\nThe teddy has been identified as a rare Steiff bear from 1905\n\nThe teddy has a mohair coat, original boot-button eyes, stitched smile and cupped ears, one of which has been sewn back on, slightly in the wrong direction, she said.\n\n\"Despite some small repairs, the bear is in good condition for its age,\" said Ms Rawnsley.\n\n\"This is a great teddy bear of exceptional rarity for a serious Steiff collector. Cinnamon teddies were a rare production and an expensive toy from around 1905 to 1908,\" she said.\n\nMs Rawnsley said looking at the material used to stuff soft toys was a good way to spot a valuable teddy bear.\n\n\"Something that's full of wood wool, which has a straw-like feel and indicates it's quite early,\" she said.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if it's in a bit of a state,\" Ms Rawnsley added, adding that anything German tends to have a premium.\n\nThe other toy bear bought at the car boot sale, a pre-World War Two Chad Valley make, has been valued at £80-£120 by Hansons Auctioneers.\n\nMs Davies' son, Kyle Johns, 29, said: \"We've been going to the Monmouth car boot sale every Saturday for years but we've never found anything as valuable as this.\n\n\"Mum was convinced the bear might be special but I wasn't too sure. In fact I was reluctant to spend £130 - she had to persuade me.\"\n\nThe teddy bears were sold by a woman in her 70s who said she was moving to Australia, and the most valuable teddy had belonged to her grandfather for 60 years.\n\nThe Chad Valley bear was valued at £80-£120\n\nMr Johns shared a photo of it on Facebook and started getting messages from people saying it was special.\n\n\"My nan's a big fan of Charles Hanson who runs Hansons Auctioneers. She likes watching him on the TV antique shows and suggested we contact him,\" he said.\n\n\"I messaged Charles on Twitter and it all went from there, pretty quickly really,\" he added.\n\nThe bears will be auctioned by Hansons at Bishton Hall, Wolseley Bridge in Staffordshire on 16 August.", "Rishi Sunak was pictured boarding a Dassault Falcon 900LX before a trip to Leeds this year\n\nRishi Sunak has used RAF jets and helicopters for domestic flights more frequently than the UK's previous three prime ministers, the BBC can reveal.\n\nMinistry of Defence data show he took almost one such flight a week during his first seven months in office.\n\nThe prime minister has been accused of hypocrisy for flying short journeys domestically, given his pledges to curb planet-warming carbon emissions.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has said air travel was the \"most effective use of my time\".\n\nIn response to Freedom of Information requests, the BBC was told the number of domestic flights on Command Support Air Transport aircraft broken down by prime minister between July 2016 and April 2023.\n\nThe RAF division - known as 32 Squadron - operates two Dassault Falcon 900LX jets and a helicopter to transport the PM and other ministers domestically.\n\nIn total, Mr Sunak boarded 23 domestic flights on these aircraft in 187 days, which is one every eight days on average.\n\nTwo caveats to bear in mind are the brevity of Ms Truss's time in Downing Street, and the limitations on Mr Johnson's travel during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe BBC initially requested data on the number of flights each UK prime minister since Tony Blair had taken using a military aircraft to travel domestically. But the MoD rejected the request on cost grounds and advised asking for data on those flights since Mrs May.\n\nThe prime minister sometimes has access to an RAF Voyager plane for overseas trips, and the government also charters private flights on aircraft operated by Titan Airways.\n\nSeparately, Mr Sunak has accepted more than £70,000 worth of private jet and helicopter travel to Conservative Party events from political donors this year.\n\nMr Sunak's use of flights for UK engagements has come under intense scrutiny, with critics questioning why he had not used the train instead of RAF aircraft for relatively short trips to Newquay, Dover and Leeds this year.\n\nLast month, Mr Sunak said those who say \"no one should take a plane\" in their approach to climate change were \"completely, and utterly wrong\".\n\nLabour said the PM was \"developing an expensive habit of swanning around on private jets courtesy of the taxpayer\".\n\nThe party's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, suggested Mr Sunak had breached the ministerial code, which states he is supposed to use scheduled flights, unless \"it is essential to travel by air\".\n\nThe SNP said the flights data showed Mr Sunak was \"completely out of touch\" and \"grossly hypocritical\" after pledging to curb carbon emissions.\n\nIn his speech at the COP27 climate summit last year, Mr Sunak said it was \"morally right to honour\" the UK's promise to reduce carbon emissions.\n\nThe UK has set a legally binding target of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, as part of the global effort to avert the worst effects of climate change.\n\nFlights produce greenhouse gases - mainly carbon dioxide (CO2) - from burning fuel, and these emissions contribute to global warming.\n\nEmissions per kilometre travelled from domestic flights are significantly worse than any other form of transport, and private jets typically produce more CO2 than commercial flights.\n\nBut carbon emissions vary considerably depending on the size of the plane, how efficient its engines are, and how many passengers it carries.\n\nIn 2019, before the pandemic struck, international and domestic UK aviation accounted for 8% of the UK's total greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nAnna Hughes, whose Flight Free UK campaign urges people to fly less for the sake of the climate, said Mr Sunak's transport choices were \"frustrating\".\n\nShe said if leaders demonstrated \"the kind of behaviour that we all need to adopt to avert the climate crisis, it communicates that it's serious and real\".\n\n\"You can't just say I'm the prime minister, I'm too busy and important,\" she added.\n\nOne former official with knowledge of ministerial travel prior to Mr Sunak's premiership said transport choices \"were based on time\", adding the train would be used \"nine times out of ten\".\n\nThe former official, who did not wish to be named, said they \"had access to the PM's diary and every single minute of every day is accounted for\".\n\n\"In order to achieve a long visit, the only way was to use an aircraft,\" they said.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said ministers \"sometimes require the use of non-commercial air travel\".\n\n\"This is a standard practice for governments around the world and this has consistently been the case under successive UK administrations of all political colours,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Value for money, security, and time efficiency is taken into account in all travel decisions and all flights are carbon offset.\"\n\nAlthough we have the number of domestic flights Mr Sunak has taken up to April this year, we don't know the details of all those journeys, and what aircraft he used.\n\nWe did ask for that information, but the MoD said the \"RAF does not retain records for air miles flown by aircraft\", and withheld data on the PM's trips.\n\nThat means we can't calculate the overall carbon footprint of Mr Sunak's domestic flights during his first seven months in office.\n\nWhat we can do is estimate the carbon emissions of some individual flights, using information in the public domain.\n\nFor example, on 19 January, the prime minister flew from RAF Northolt in west London to Blackpool Airport on a Dassault Falcon 900LX.\n\nA number of aviation websites say the Falcon has a fuel consumption of about 260 gallons per hour. The flight from London to Blackpool took 41 minutes, which means approximately 178 gallons, or 805 litres, of fuel was consumed.\n\nBased on the government's fuel-to-emissions conversion rates, the flight would have produced about two tonnes of CO2.\n\nFalcon jets typically have 12 seats. So if we assume the plane was full for the Blackpool trip, two tonnes of CO2 would be 166 kg per person.\n\nTo put that into context, the International Energy Agency estimated that the global average energy-related carbon footprint was about 4.7 tonnes of CO2 per person in 2021.\n\nIn contrast to Mr Sunak's flight, a train journey from London Euston to Blackpool North would produce 14.31kg of CO2 per passenger, according to a LNER carbon calculator..\n\nThe Trainline website says it takes an average of three hours and 43 minutes to travel from London Euston to Blackpool by train.\n\nOf course, the train would be expected to have run regardless of Mr Sunak's personal travel choice. But the private flight, and its resultant emissions, would not have happened had Mr Sunak taken a different mode of transport.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Remains of a primitive human species known as Homo erectus have been found in Europe dating back to 1.4 million years ago.\n\nA big freeze previously unknown to science drove early humans from Europe for 200,000 years, but they adapted and returned, new research shows.\n\nOcean sediments from 1.1 million years ago show temperatures suddenly dropped more than 5C, scientists say.\n\nThey say our early ancestors couldn't have survived as they didn't have heating or warm clothes.\n\nUntil now, the consensus had been that humans had existed in Europe continuously for 1.5 million years.\n\nEvidence for the big freeze is found in sediments in the seabed off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal. Layers are deposited each year which are a record of sea conditions of that period. They also contain pollen grains which are a record of vegetation on the land.\n\nResearchers at the IBS Centre for Climate Physics in Busan, in South Korea, ran computer model simulations using data from the sediments. They found that average winter temperatures plummeted in many areas in Europe well below freezing, even in the otherwise milder Mediterranean.\n\nA drop of this magnitude may not seem too severe by today's standards, where most have access to some heating, warm clothing and food, but that was not the case back then, according to Prof Axel Timmermann, who is director of the group.\n\n\"Early humans were not yet well adapted to cope with such extreme conditions,\" he said. \"There is no direct evidence that they could even control fire at this time. Therefore, the extremely cold and dry conditions over Europe and the corresponding lack of food, must have greatly challenged human survival.\"\n\nThe oldest known human remains in Europe date back to about 1.4 million years ago and were recovered from what is now Spain. They suggest that a species of early humans known as Homo erectus, which originated in Africa, had arrived in Europe via southwest Asia at that time.\n\nProf Chronis Tzedakis of University College London, who led the research, turned to experts in early human settlements to see if the theory that the freeze had pushed them out of Europe was borne out by the fossil and archaeological evidence.\n\nFollowing a thorough review, they found that there were human remains dating back to as recently as 1.1 million years ago in Spain, then a gap until about 900,000 years ago, from which period stone tools and footprints in ancient clays have been found in Happisburgh in Norfolk, England.\n\nBecause of the missing fossil evidence, it is unclear what species of humans were in Happisburgh, but later remains in other parts of Europe suggest they may have been a more advanced species called Homo antecessor.\n\nThe footprints on Happisburgh beach are possibly those of a family in search of food\n\nThe big freeze was over by the time early humans walked in Happisburgh were but it was still cold - cooler than it is in that part of Europe today. According to Prof Nick Ashton of the British Museum, it's thought that those early humans had adapted enough to cope with the colder conditions to be able to come and stay in Europe.\n\n\"It may have triggered evolutionary changes in humans, such as increased body fat as insulation, or increased hair,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It may also have led to technological developments such as improved hunting or scavenging skills, and abilities to create more effective clothing and shelters.\"\n\nIt may have been these advances that enabled humans to cope with succeeding periods of extreme cold and occupy parts of Europe continuously ever since, according to Prof Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum.\n\n\"Europe was a laboratory for human adaptation,\" he said.\n\n\"A more resilient species came back into Europe either because they learned how to survive better, or it was a different species that had more sophisticated behaviours that enabled them to adapt.\"\n\nThe Happisburgh species of humans might have evolved into the Neanderthals, who were well established by 400,000 years ago.\n\nOur own species, Homo sapiens, is believed to have evolved in Africa by about 400,000 years ago. We were established in Europe by 42,000 years ago, co-existing briefly with Neanderthals before they went extinct about 40,000 years ago.", "Nicola Sturgeon took over from Alex Salmond as Scotland's first minister\n\nNicola Sturgeon has ruled out any potential reconciliation with her predecessor Alex Salmond.\n\nThe former first minister told a fringe event with broadcaster Iain Dale that a reunion between the SNP figureheads was not something she could foresee or wanted.\n\nOn Wednesday, Alex Salmond refused to rule out a reconciliation stating \"never say never\".\n\nMs Sturgeon served as deputy first minister to Mr Salmond for seven years.\n\nResponding to a question asked by an audience member, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I was very close to Alex for a long, long time. We achieved great things together and I'll always be proud of that.\n\n\"I'm not trying to re-write history here but over recent years he has revealed himself to be somebody that I don't want to have in my life, I don't particularly want to have a relationship with.\n\n\"We don't have long on this planet, we've got a limited amount of time to spend with people. I want to spend the time I have with people who make me happy and who I like.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added that her opinion of Mr Salmond no longer came from a place of anger, but from a place of indifference.\n\nThe pair had a close working relationship for many years, but they fell out when allegations of sexual harassment were made against Mr Salmond by two female civil servants in 2018.\n\nThe complaints were made after Ms Sturgeon asked for new government policies on sexual harassment to be put in place. Mr Salmond believed the policy was aimed at him.\n\nHe was acquitted of all charges following a court case.\n\nMs Sturgeon was also interviewed by broadcaster Iain Dale at last year's Edinburgh Fringe festival\n\nDuring the interview, Ms Sturgeon said she had \"no idea of what was about to unfold\" when she announced she was stepping down as SNP leader and first minister, and that she \"wouldn't have been able to function in that period\" had she been aware of the next steps in the police investigation.\n\nMs Sturgeon resigned in February and her husband Peter Murrell stood down as chief executive of the SNP a month later, after he took responsibility for misleading the media about party membership numbers.\n\nTheir home in Glasgow was searched just a few weeks later and Mr Murrell was arrested in connection with a long-running investigation into SNP finances. A luxury motorhome which sells for about £110,000 was then seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nThe SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was also later arrested.\n\nThe arrest of Ms Sturgeon in June led to calls from political opponents for her to be suspended from the party.\n\nNone of the three has been charged and Ms Sturgeon has repeatedly said she is innocent.\n\nIn the Fringe interview the former first minister said she recognised that the \"police have a job to do\" adding that she has \"faith\" in them to do so.\n\nShe said the months since her arrest had been \"traumatic\" but had helped her find a new \"depth of resilience\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also revealed that one of turning points leading to her decision to resign came when she heard the news New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden was stepping down.\n\nShe said while it was not a main factor, when watching the announcement on television she had an \"overwhelming emotion\" of envy and remembers thinking \"I wish that was me\".", "Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on the set of the film\n\nHannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armourer and weapons supervisor on the set of the Alec Baldwin film Rust, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and evidence tampering charges.\n\nHer plea comes ahead of a jury trial on 6 December looking into the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.\n\nMs Hutchins was killed, aged 42, after a gun Mr Baldwin had been rehearsing with went off on set in 2021.\n\nProsecutors say Ms Gutierrez-Reed acted recklessly when loading the gun.\n\nThey said she failed to ensure that dummy bullets were loaded into the weapon that killed Ms Hutchins, and that the armourer handed the gun to Baldwin, having not checked that all the bullets were dummies.\n\nCharges relating to the case against actor and producer Alec Baldwin were dropped in April\n\nIn June, prosecutors alleged she was likely to have been hungover on the day of the fatal shooting, accusing her of drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana in the evenings during filming.\n\nIn response, her lawyer said prosecutors had mishandled the case and resorted to \"character assassination\".\n\nMs Gutierrez-Reed submitted her not guilty plea on Wednesday, waiving her right to an arraignment and preliminary hearing which would have decided if there was cause for the case to go to trial.\n\nJudge Mary Sommer last week declined to dismiss the case, rejecting arguments from Ms Gutierrez-Reed's team that prosecutors had tainted the investigation so a fair trial - set to run 6-15 December - was no longer possible and that her due process rights had been violated.\n\nBaldwin, the star and producer of the western, was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter over the incident, but the charges were dropped in April. Filming resumed later that month.\n\nHe can still be charged, however, with prosecutors investigating whether the revolver he was holding was modified to fire without a pull of the trigger.", "Michelle Donelan MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology\n\nThe technology secretary has defended a controversial section of the Online Safety Bill which would force messaging apps to access the content of private messages if requested by the regulator Ofcom.\n\nShe said it was a sensible approach in order to protect children from abuse.\n\nBut some tech firms, including WhatsApp and Signal, have threatened to leave the UK if forced to weaken their messaging security.\n\nThe Bill is due to be passed in autumn.\n\nMichelle Donelan was speaking to the BBC on a visit to University College London where she announced £13m in funding for Artificial Intelligence projects in healthcare.\n\nBoth the tech sector and the cyber security community have criticised the government's proposal that the content of encrypted messages should be made accessible if there is deemed to be a risk to children within them.\n\nCurrently messages sent in this way can only be read by the sender and the recipient, and not by the tech firms themselves.\n\nSeveral popular messaging services including Meta's Whatsapp and Apple's iMessage use this popular security feature by default.\n\nBut once there's a way in, it's not only the good guys who will use it, is the argument, and some firms are saying they will pull their services from the UK altogether rather than compromise on security.\n\nMs Donelan claimed the government was not anti-encryption and access would only be requested as a last resort.\n\n\"I, like you, want my privacy because I don't want people reading my private messages. They'd be very bored but I don't want them to do it,\" she said.\n\n\"However we do know that on some of these platforms, they are hotbeds sometimes for child abuse and sexual exploitation.\n\n\"And we have to be able access that information should that problem occur.\"\n\nShe also said the onus would be on tech companies to invest in technology to solve this issue.\n\n\"Technology is in development to enable you to have encryption as well as to be able to access this particular information and the safety mechanism that we have is very explicit that this can only be used for child exploitation and abuse\".\n\nThe current frontrunner for this is known as Client Side Scanning - it involves installing software onto devices themselves which can scan content and send alerts if triggered. But it has not proved popular: Apple halted a trial of it following a backlash, and it has been dubbed \"the spy in your pocket\".\n\nChildren's charity the NSPCC says its research suggests the public is \"overwhelmingly supportive\" of efforts to tackle child abuse in encrypted platforms.\n\n\"Tech firms should be showing industry leadership by listening to the public and investing in technology that protects both the safety and privacy rights of all users,\" said Richard Collard, head of child safety online policy at the NSPCC\n\nBut Ryan Polk, Director of Internet Policy at the Internet Society, a global charitable non profit focused on Internet policy, technology, and development, is sceptical that this technology is ready.\n\n\"The government's own Safety Tech Challenge Fund, which was supposed to find a magical technical solution to this problem, failed to do so,\" he said.\n\nMr Polk said scientists from the UK's National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online found severe problems with the proposed technologies, \"including that they undermine the end-to-end security and privacy necessary for protecting the security and privacy of UK citizens.\"If the UK government can't see that the Online Safety Bill will in effect ban encryption, then they are wilfully blinding themselves to the dangers ahead.\"\n\nThe legislation is expected back in the House of Commons in September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA fire which ripped through a landmark pub days before it was unexpectedly demolished is being treated as arson, police say.\n\nThe Crooked House, near Dudley in the Black Country, caught fire on Saturday night and was then bulldozed on Monday, prompting anger from local residents.\n\nThe pub, once Britain's \"wonkiest\", was sold by Marston's last month.\n\nStaffordshire Police said on Wednesday investigations were continuing but the blaze was being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn a statement the force said: \"Our investigation into a fire at the Crooked House on Himley Road last Saturday continues as we try to understand the circumstances, which we are now treating as arson.\"\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council said it had not agreed to the total destruction of the site and was investigating whether the demolition of the 18th Century building was unlawful.\n\nIt said it had permitted only part of the building to be demolished for safety reasons and the matter had been referred to its legal team with a view to taking enforcement action.\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact the new owners ATE Farms, from Warwickshire.\n\nFlames ripped through the 18th Century building on Saturday night\n\nThe property was built in 1765 as a farmhouse but, due to mining in the area during the early 19th Century, one side of the building began to sink, causing its distinct, sloping appearance.\n\nIts notoriety - including an illusion of coins and marbles appearing to roll uphill along the bar - attracted visitors and customers from far and wide before the pub closed and was put on the market in March.\n\nBut up to 30 firefighters were called to the Himley area on Saturday evening after the building was spotted alight, however firefighters said they were hampered by mounds of soil prohibiting access to the lane the pub was on.\n\nWithin 48 hours it was reduced to a pile of rubble which led to locals coming to visit the remains and show their support.\n\nAndy Street, the mayor of the West Midlands, has called for it to be rebuilt \"brick by brick\".\n\nOther local politicians, including MPs Sir Gavin Williamson and Jane Stevenson, were among those who also called for a full inquiry.\n\nDudley MP Marco Longhi said earlier on Wednesday he had written to police to clarify details about the demolition process and added that a lack of information from authorities had \"raised animosity\" in the local community.\n\nPeople visited the site on Monday and Tuesday after news spread about the demolition\n\nFormer landlords Tom and Laura Catton who ran and lived in the pub for more than two years were among the hundreds of people who said they were angry and upset by what had happened.\n\nThey visited the site on Tuesday and had one last drink in the rubble.\n\n\"It was the focal point of the community and it brought so many people to the community because people had come from all over the world just to have a look at this marble run up the hill,\" Mrs Catton said.\n\nFormer landlord Tom Catton proposed to wife Laura while working at the pub and had a last drink in the rubble on Tuesday\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The raid took place at Craig Robertson's home in Provo, Utah\n\nA man who posted violent threats against President Joe Biden and other officials online was shot dead during an FBI raid on Wednesday.\n\nAgents were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on Craig Robertson at his home in Utah, just hours ahead of a planned visit to the state by Mr Biden.\n\nA criminal complaint said Robertson posted threats on Facebook against Mr Biden and a prosecutor pursuing criminal charges against Donald Trump.\n\nThe FBI declined to give more details.\n\nThe raid happened at about 06:15 local time in Provo, about 40 miles (65 km) south of Salt Lake City.\n\nA criminal complaint outlined messages that Robertson made on Facebook including pictures of guns and threats to kill Mr Biden and Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney leading an investigation into a hush-money payment by Mr Trump to an adult film star.\n\nAccording to the complaint, other messages targeted US Attorney General Merrick Garland and New York Attorney General Letitia James.\n\nRobertson posted on Facebook: \"I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghillie suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle.\"\n\nIt was just one of dozens of violent messages and photos of weapons posted on two of Robertson's Facebook accounts.\n\nThe complaint said Robertson came to the attention of federal agents in March after he posted a threat against Mr Bragg on Truth Social, the social network owned by Mr Trump. The company alerted the FBI's National Threat Operations Center.\n\nFBI agents then visited the suspect, who told them that the post was a \"dream\" and ended the conversation by saying: \"We're done here! Don't return without a warrant!\"\n\nLater posts by Robertson referenced his encounter with the agents, showed him in camouflage used by snipers, and repeatedly threatened public officials.\n\nThe messages continued as late as Tuesday, when he posted: \"Perhaps Utah will become famous this week as the place a sniper took out Biden the Marxist.\"\n\nMr Biden will make his first visit to Utah as president on Thursday, with a visit to a veterans' hospital and a fundraising event in Park City.", "Beachgoers had a \"lucky escape\" after a cliff collapsed in Dorset's West Bay.\n\nDaniel Knagg captured the moment the rockfall started on Tuesday along the South West Coast Path - with a number of people narrowly avoiding the collapse.\n\nDorset Council has released a warning that \"rockfalls and landslips\" can happen at any time.\n\nThe authority confirmed the South West Coast Path is currently closed due to the incident.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "The US special counsel investigating Donald Trump obtained a secret search warrant for the ex-president's Twitter data in January, unsealed records show.\n\nJack Smith requested \"data and records\" relating to Mr Trump's account which may have included unpublished posts.\n\nAfter initially resisting the warrant, Twitter eventually complied, but missed a court-ordered deadline by three days.\n\nThe delay resulted in the company being handed a $350,000 (£275,000) fine for contempt of court.\n\nThe existence of the search warrant and the legal fight over it was revealed in court documents unsealed on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to the unsealed ruling, which still includes some redactions, Twitter's lawyers did not object to the warrant itself, but disputed the nondisclosure order which kept it secret.\n\nThe company, now known as X under the ownership of Elon Musk, argued that it should be allowed to notify customers whose accounts are subject to search warrants.\n\nX handed over the data in February, but appealed the fine. Its case was rejected by a US appeals court last month.\n\nThere is little indication in the documents about what exactly Mr Smith was seeking, with the court filing noting that only that the warrant directed the company \"to produce data and records\" related to Mr Trump's account.\n\nThe US congressional panel investigating the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot found that Mr Trump had drafted - but never sent - a tweet urging his supporters to come to Washington.\n\nIt said: \"I will be making a Big Speech at 10 a.m. on January 6th at the Ellipse (South of the White House). Please arrive early, massive crowds expected. March to the Capitol after. Stop the steal!\"\n\nThe @realdonaldtrump account, which has 86.5m followers, was suspended after the riot.\n\nIt was reinstated in November 2022 after Mr Musk ran a poll asking users whether the former president should be allowed back on the platform.\n\nMr Trump has not posted on X since being reinstated, instead preferring to use his own Truth Social network.\n\nExperts have noted that his Truth Social business contracts mean he potentially stands to lose millions if he resumes posting on X.\n\nMr Trump responded to news of the search warrant on Truth Social, writing that it was a \"major 'hit' on my civil rights... These are DARK DAYS IN AMERICA!\"\n\nHe has been charged in the two investigations led by Mr Smith, one surrounding events following the 2020 election and the other relating to the handling of classified documents.", "Highly-anticipated Mandalorian spin-off Ahsoka will launch on Disney+ in August\n\nDisney+ plans to launch a new, cheaper streaming option with adverts in the UK in November as profits continue to fall at the business.\n\nThe plan, which is already available in the US, will also be introduced to parts of Europe as well as Canada.\n\nThe new tier will cost £4.99 per month in the UK, but existing customers face a £3 price rise to keep current perks.\n\nIt also plans to crack down on password sharing, following similar action taken by rival Netflix.\n\nDisney is facing a range of issues including lacklustre film performance and a sharp drop in advertising sales in its traditional television business.\n\nOverall, revenue at the company grew by 4% year-on-year in the three months ending 1 July, but it posted a loss of $460m (£361m), compared to a $1.4bn profit in the same period last year.\n\nThere is currently only a single price tier for Disney+ in the UK, which costs £7.99 per month, but come November there will be three new tiers available. These are:\n\nAll UK subscribers currently enjoy the benefits offered by the new premium service, so its introduction will effectively represent a £3 per month price increase for people who want to keep the same features.\n\nThe introduction of Disney's ad-supported service follows a similar move by rival Netflix last year.\n\nIt was among a number of measures brought in by Netflix, the market leader, after growth in subscriber numbers began to falter in 2022.\n\nThe streaming giant also cracked down on account sharing, something Mr Iger said Disney now planned to do.\n\nThe company spotlighted progress in its streaming business, where losses were cut in half from a year ago to about $500m in the three months to 1 July.\n\nSubscriptions to its core Disney+ service grew 1% to 105.7 million, as growth internationally offset a 1% decline in the US.\n\nHowever, Disney acknowledged that the performance of some recent films - which included a new live action Little Mermaid and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 - had been \"disappointing\".\n\nIt also said its Disney Hotstar service in India, which has been struggling since losing the right to show cricket matches, saw subscriptions plunge 24%, while other offerings, including ESPN and Hulu saw little change.\n\nInsider Intelligence analyst Paul Verna said the company's \"mixed results\" would do little to calm investors \"anxious for clarity on the company's strategy for its streaming services and TV networks\".\n\n\"While it's encouraging that Disney narrowed its streaming losses in the past quarter, it did so mostly through massive reductions in workforce and content spending, rather than through organic growth.\"\n\nDisney has produced a swathe of content for its streaming service, including Rennervations - where Jeremy Renner (left) builds vehicles for communities in need\n\nThe company said that visitor numbers had flagged at its amusement park in Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis has been feuding with Disney over what he describes as \"woke\" policies.\n\nBut Disney executives downplayed the decline, saying it reflected wider trends, including a return to normal after the pandemic and a fall in international travel.\n\nChief executive Bob Iger, who recently re-joined the company to help boost growth, said he knew the firm had \"work to do\".\n\n\"I'm incredibly confident in Disney's long-term trajectory,\" he told investors on Wednesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSix people have died and more have been injured by wildfires sweeping the Hawaiian island of Maui, officials say.\n\nThousands are without power or cell phone service due to fires that are being fuelled by winds from a nearby hurricane in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nSeveral blazes are also burning on the Big Island, also known as Hawaii island, a neighbouring island to Maui.\n\nOfficials say search and rescue efforts are still ongoing. But they warn that the death toll may rise.\n\nAuthorities have evacuated neighbourhoods, closed roads, and opened shelters to host thousands of evacuees.\n\nAn emergency order has been signed discouraging people from coming to Maui, which is a popular tourist destination.\n\n\"We have shelters that are overrun, we have resources that are being taxed, we are doing whatever we can\" for local residents, the state Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke said during a news briefing on Wednesday morning local time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Maui, about 4,000 visitors are trying to leave the island, said state transportation official Ed Sniffen.\n\nThousands there are also without cell service, due to about 29 power poles collapsing. The full scale of the damages to homes and businesses is not yet clear, officials say.\n\nMaj Gen Kenneth S Hara, who is in charge of the emergency response, said the priority at the moment is \"saving lives, preventing human suffering, and mitigating great property loss\".\n\nMore than 12,000 people in the state of Hawaii are currently without power, according to PowerOutage.Us.\n\nMuch of the destruction has taken place in the Maui island town of Lahaina. Parts of the town were destroyed or severely damaged by the blaze. One local resident told media that every boat in the town harbour was burning.\n\nThe US Coast Guard said it had rescued 12 people after reports of residents fleeing into the water to escape the fires.\n\nThe fire in the town of Lahaina was still burning on Wednesday\n\nMaui County Mayor Richard Missen confirmed the six fatalities, but said he was not yet able to provide further details.\n\nThere were also at least 20 injuries, including a firefighter who suffered smoke inhalation. Three patients are in critical condition.\n\nHe warned the total number of fatalities could rise as emergency responders conduct search and rescue operations as well as evacuations.\n\nA full assessment of the damage could take \"months,\" Ms Luke said in Wednesday's briefing. She also said that \"there are concerns about potential riots\" in the aftermath.\n\nParts of Lahaina were destroyed or severely damaged by the blaze\n\nThe Lahaina fire is one of at least seven ongoing in Hawaii. About 13,000 people live in the city situated on the western part of the island of Maui.\n\nLocal resident, Dustin Kaleiopu, told Hawaii News Now that his house was among those destroyed in the fire.\n\n\"Everything that we'd ever known was gone. Our church, our schools, every single memory we had on this household,\" he said. \"Everything was gone in the blink of an eye.\"\n\n\"There is no Lahaina,\" resident Kekai Keahi told the Associated Press news agency. \"Lahaina no exist anymore.\"\n\nOfficials say they have yet to determine the full scale of the damage from the wildfires\n\nThat fire is one of several in Hawaii fuelled by strong winds by Hurricane Dora hundreds of miles offshore, low humidity and dry air, according to the National Weather Service's Honolulu office.\n\nLocal officials have said that the winds have complicated efforts to use helicopters for firefighting operations.\n\nThe Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) and the US Marines are assisting in firefighting and search and rescue operations, the White House said on Wednesday.\n\nFema is also working towards providing emergency supplies, including water, food, cots, and blankets.\n\nOn Tuesday night, Ms Luke issued an emergency declaration and activated the state's National Guard.\n\nFires in Hawaii are typically smaller than those which plague California and other parts of the western continental US.\n\nExperts have warned, however, that they are often more damaging, as Hawaii's ecosystem evolved without fires before the arrival of humans.", "The Virgin Galactic launch system is based on a concept called SpaceShipOne.\n\nThis was a small, experimental, privately funded rocket plane that won a $10m prize in 2004 by flying to space twice within two weeks.\n\nThe Virgin system is bigger, and is capable of carrying up to six passengers, something SpaceShipOne could not do.\n\nBut the concept is the same. A carrier aircraft lifts the rocket plane to a launch altitude above 40,000ft. The rocket vehicle is attached securely to a pylon that's mounted between the twin fuselage design of the \"mothership\".\n\nAt the appropriate moment, the rocket plane is released and its two pilots ignite their vehicle's engine. They pull back on the controls and head straight up, reaching three times the speed of sound.\n\nWhen the motor is shut down, the rocket plane continues on upwards for a short period of time, reaching an apogee (a maximum altitude) of around 85km (280,000ft).\n\nIt's as the vehicle approaches and goes over \"the top of the hill\" that weightlessness is experienced by those in the cabin. They can float to a window and enjoy the view.\n\nAs the plane falls rapidly back down through the atmosphere, its stability is controlled by a clever folding tailboom system that acts much like the feathers on a shuttlecock to keep the craft pointing in the right direction for the glide home.\n\nRemember, there is always risk associated with space flight, but one of the reasons Virgin Galactic's system has taken so long to develop is because of the assurance the company has sought to build into a safe design, backed up by extended testing.", "Wilko, the High Street homeware retailer, has collapsed into administration after failing to secure a rescue deal.\n\nThe chain has so far been unable to find enough emergency investment to save its 400 shops and 12,500 workers.\n\nThe stores will stay open for now, without any immediate job losses, and staff will continue to be paid.\n\nPwC has been appointed as administrator and will continue to look for a buyer for all or part of the group.\n\nJane Steer of PwC said that Thursday's announcement is \"an unsettling development for everyone involved with the business - particularly its committed team members - and the communities it serves across the region\".\n\nIn a separate statement, Wilko's boss, Mark Jackson, said management had \"left no stone unturned\" in its attempts to save the company.\n\n\"But we must concede that with regret, we've no choice but to take the difficult decision to enter into administration,\" he said.\n\nIf a firm fails to buy any of the shops or parts of the business out of administration, Wilko, which was founded in 1930, risks becoming the biggest High Street casualty this year.\n\nThe GMB union said the collapse was \"entirely avoidable\".\n\nNational officer Nadine Houghton said: \"GMB has been told time and time again how warnings were made that Wilko was in a prime position to capitalise on the growing bargain retailer market, but simply failed to grasp this opportunity.\"\n\nAlthough the business has been struggling for some time, the depths of its problems emerged last week when it announced its intention to appoint administrators.\n\nThis gave Wilko 10 days to secure a rescue. However, it was unable to strike a deal within that timeframe.\n\nPwC said that it will carry on conversations with investors who may be interested in taking on all, or part of, the business.\n\nIf no resolution is found though, it said that store closures and redundancies could follow.\n\nMr Jackson said Wilko had received a \"significant level of interest\" which he said included \"indicative offers that we believe would meet all our financial criteria to recapitalise the business\".\n\nBut he said: \"Without the surety of being able to complete the deal within the necessary time frame and given the cash position, we've been left with no choice but to take this unfortunate action.\"\n\nWilko has been struggling with sharp losses and a cash shortage.\n\nThe company already borrowed £40m from Hilco, the restructuring specialist. It has previously cut jobs, changed its leadership team and sold off a distribution centre.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by wilko This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThousands of Wilko workers are understood to be members of the firm's pension scheme. The Times recently reported that the scheme has a sizable deficit.\n\nA spokesperson for The Pensions Regulator, said: \"We are in discussions with the employer and scheme in our role to protect members at this challenging time, but will not comment further.\"\n\nMany of Wilko's stores are in High Street locations in traditional town centres, which became an expensive liability as customers shifted to bigger retail parks and out-of-town locations.\n\nThe company has also faced strong competition from rivals such as B&M and The Range as the high cost of living has pushed shoppers to seek out bargains.\n\nMs Steer said: \"It's been a particularly difficult time for many High Street retailers over recent years, as reduced consumer spending, inflationary pressure and increasing costs continue to have an impact.\"\n\nBut retail analyst Catherine Shuttleworth said Wilko had failed to adapt for the future.\n\n\"A lack of investment in systems lacking the sophistication to support a business with shops both on High Streets and out of town retail parks combined with a large estate of over 400 stores has meant that significant investments have been needed over the last 10 years and these have simply not been made,\" said Ms Shuttleworth.\n\nMeanwhile Richard Lim, chief executive at Retail Economics, a consultancy, said: \"Against the backdrop of seismic shifts in consumer behaviour and the intense pressure on margins, the business was too slow to react to these mounting challenges and paid the ultimate price.\"\n\nThe company, founded in Leicester, is still owned by the Wilkinson family.\n\nAfter the collapse of Woolworths in 2008, Wilko stepped up to fill the gaps left on High Streets.\n\nWilko began home deliveries in the 1940s, and stayed open throughout World War Two, helping residents keep their air raid shelters stocked.\n\nOn Wednesday, it announced that it had suspended home deliveries.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Get in touch.\n• None What went wrong at Wilko?", "Steve Wright said it was a \"great privilege\" to present Pick of the Pops\n\nSteve Wright is to present a second show every weekend on BBC Radio 2 - a year after signing off from his weekday afternoon slot after 23 years.\n\nHe will take over Saturday lunchtime show Pick of the Pops from fellow veteran Paul Gambaccini, who is moving to a new show on Sunday evenings.\n\nWright has continued to present his long-running Sunday Love Songs show over the past year.\n\nHe said Pick of the Pops - which runs down past charts - was \"legendary\".\n\nGambaccini's new show will include long-forgotten tracks from the last 80 years, plus his favourite lesser-known records from the 50s onwards.\n\nWright left his afternoon show on Radio 2 in September last year, with Scott Mills taking over.\n\nSpeaking about Pick of the Pops, he said: \"Gambo brilliantly made it his own over the last seven-and-a-half years, and now it's my chance to give it a go!\n\n\"It's a great privilege to present such an iconic show on Radio 2, and Pick of the Pops fans don't worry - it's going be the same and different at the same time.\"\n\nPaul Gambaccini: \" I will have the opportunity to present neglected gems from the past century\"\n\nGambaccini said he was beginning \"chapter three\" of his 25-year career with Radio 2.\n\n\"I am delighted that on the new show I will have the opportunity to present neglected gems from the past century. The show will be live, because live is best. It is a happy presenter who gets to share great music of his choice with loyal long-term listeners.\"\n\nThe station is also going to celebrate his \"50 continuous years as a national broadcaster\" in October.\n\nHelen Thomas, head of Radio 2, said Wright would also continue to broadcast specials across the station, including \"our long-awaited Kylie Minogue listener vote\". She also thanked Gambaccini for \"presenting Pick of the Pops so brilliantly since 2016\".\n\nThe station also has upcoming specials on 100 years of Hollywood, a Prom called Stevie Wonder's Innervisions and Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton.\n\nIt also has plans for Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration, in the autumn and Trevor Nelson's Soul Christmas, for the festive season.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Wright explained in September he would take on new BBC roles", "A rocket plane is due to fly from New Mexico carrying an 80-year-old British former Olympian, an Aberdeen student and her mother into space.\n\nAnastatia Mayers and her mother Keisha Schahaff won the tickets to board the Virgin Galactic flight in a competition.\n\nJon Goodwin, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, will become the second person with Parkinson's disease to go to space.\n\nThe mission will be seen as another test of how viable space tourism is.\n\nThe launch window for the Virgin Galactic 02 flight opens at 08:30 local time (15:30 BST). It is Virgin Galactic's second commercial flight. The first was in June when the Italian Air Force and scientists conducted experiments in weightless conditions on a 70-minute mission.\n\nThe Unity rocket plane is carried on the first stage of its journey slung underneath a carrier jet, known as Eve. Unity will then aim to ignite its engine and travel to an altitude of 279,000ft (85km).\n\nThe advertised price for a place on a Virgin Galactic flight has been as high as $450,000 (£350,000). Mr Goodwin, who competed in the 1972 Olympics as a canoeist, paid $250,000 for his ticket in 2005 but had feared his diagnosis would mean he could not take part.\n\nHe said he wanted to prove that his condition - Parkinson's disease is a condition in which parts of the brain become progressively damaged - did not define him.\n\nAround 100 people will watch him travel into space at a party in Stoke-on-Trent organised by Parkinson's UK.\n\nMs Schahaff, from Antigua, was flying to the UK to sort out her daughter's visa when she entered a competition to join the spaceflight.\n\nShe found out months later that she had won two spaceflight seats in the draw.\n\n\"Suddenly, who's walking into my yard? Richard Branson. The whole team just swarmed into my house saying 'you're the winner, you're going to space',\" she said.\n\nHer daughter Anastatia will become the second-youngest person to go to space, and says she hopes to inspire others.\n\n\"That would be very important to me, both in Scotland and Antigua and anywhere else I have any ties,\" she says.\n\n\"My intention is to just break any barriers that we set for ourselves or that the world sets for us.\"\n\nThe flight will aim to reach the edge of space, around 53 miles (85km) above Earth, where the passengers will have a few minutes to experience weightlessness.\n\nThe spaceship does not have the velocity to complete a full orbit of the globe.\n\nJon Goodwin is the first on a list of 800 or so individuals who have bought tickets for a ride on the Unity rocket.\n\nSome of them have been waiting over a decade to get their chance, and most will have a long wait still.\n\nUS multi-millionaire Dennis Tito became the world's first ever space tourist in 2001, paying a reported $20m.\n\nRecently, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin beat Virgin Galactic in the race to become the first company to take paying passengers into space.\n\nBoth companies say their missions further science as well as catering to the very rich, but space tourism has been criticised for its cost and environmental impact.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Polls in Pakistan may be delayed till 2024\n\nPakistan's parliament has been formally dissolved, but polls meant to be held within 90 days will likely be delayed.\n\nThe electoral commission says electoral boundaries must be redrawn to reflect fresh census data, a months-long process.\n\nHe had openly challenged the powerful military establishment and claimed it was \"petrified\" of elections.\n\nWith President Arif Alvi's order on Wednesday to dissolve the National Assembly, a caretaker government will take charge. Outgoing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his government have been given three days to name an interim leader.\n\nA Election Commission of Pakistan official told the BBC: \"The elections will be held once the census is done, which will take about four months' time. As a result, the elections may be delayed till next year.\"\n\nMr Sharif, who warned that the country cannot progress without \"national unity\", also told reporters recently that polls may not be held this year.\n\nSome feel the election is being delayed as the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) coalition isn't confident about winning at the polls, due to Mr Khan's enduring popularity, as well as the effects of runaway inflation despite a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.\n\nDespite their once close relationship, Mr Khan has rattled the military like no other politician before him. Senior analyst Rasool Bakhsh Raees even reckons that the former cricket star's detention will increase his popularity.\n\nIn May, Mr Khan's arrest on corruption charges sparked nationwide protests that saw at least eight deaths and some 1,400 arrests, amid unprecedented attacks on military property and buildings.\n\nThe 70-year old, who is appealing his conviction on graft charges, has claimed that the military's goal was to \"eventually put me into prison and to crush my party.\"\n\nBut the rule remains the same: anyone who challenges Pakistan's military, even someone with the charisma and international stature of Mr Khan, must go. The former cricket star is simply the latest politician since the 1970s to find this out the hard way.\n\nAs former senator Afrasiab Khattak told the BBC, there are two systems of government operating in parallel. Now, \"the unsanctioned, de facto force wants to take over the parliamentary process,\" said Mr Khattak. \"Pakistan's military has always been powerful, but they want more powers so that their unsanctioned rule is not challenged either by politicians, activists, or journalists.\"\n\nPakistan's military has dominated the country's politics behind the scenes for decades\n\nTwo draconian laws were tabled in the National Assembly last week, in a bid to further enhance the powers of the military and intelligence agencies.\n\nProposed amendments to the century-old Official Secrets Act will broadly empower the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) to arrest citizens over \"suspected breach of official secrets\". In addition, a new bill recommends a three-year jail term for anyone who discloses the identity of an intelligence official.\n\nThe amendments provoked a ruckus in parliament, with both the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and PML-N's coalition partners calling the government out for passing \"draconian laws in haste\" and without discussion.\n\nSenator Mushtaq Ahmed of Jamaat-e-Islami also warned that the Official Secrets Act amendment will grant intelligence agencies \"extraordinary powers\" of arrest and search without warrant. \"This will have an impact on the human rights, individual rights and press freedom across the country.\"\n\nThe Pakistani intelligence services are regularly accused of illegally detaining opposition members, politicians, activists and journalists, with human rights organisations noting the increasing number of enforced disappearances every month.\n\nIn the month of July alone, 157 more cases of enforced disappearances were reported, according to the government-led Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances.\n\nThe bills have been sent to President Alvi, a co-founder of the PTI, and must be signed by him before they can be legislated into law.", "Hawaiian officials are braced for a significant rise in the death toll from the fast-spreading wildfires, which caused devastation on the island of Maui and destroyed most of the historic town of Lahaina.\n\nHawaii Governor Josh Green said the fires were the \"largest natural disaster in Hawaii state history\" and that 80% of the beach-front town had \"gone\" - satellite images gave an immediate sense of the scale of the damage.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nHundreds of people remain missing almost a week after the disaster, and search teams have only covered a tiny percentage of the area affected.\n\nThe fires are now reported to be under control, but efforts to fully extinguish them continue on some parts of the island.\n\nHundreds of people who fled their homes in Lahaina have been taking cover in an emergency shelter. About 2,700 homes are reported to have been destroyed.\n\nIncredibly strong winds from Hurricane Dora, which passed south of Hawaii on Tuesday 8 August fanned the flames and prevented aircraft from flying over the town during the fire - but once they had passed, pilots were shocked by what they saw.\n\n\"It's horrifying. I've flown here 52 years and I've never seen anything come close to that,\" helicopter pilot Richard Olsten told the Associated Press news agency. \"We had tears in our eyes.\"\n\nThe flames destroyed most of the buildings in front of the port, including the old courthouse.\n\nAnger has grown among the community with many people telling the BBC they were not forewarned about the fires. It is currently unclear if early warning systems were used, or if they malfunctioned.\n\nThe town's lighthouse has survived but most of the surrounding buildings were destroyed, including the oldest hotel in Hawaii - the 122-year-old Pioneer Inn.\n\nThe centre of Lahaina dated back to the 1700s and was on the US National Register of Historic Places - it was once Hawaii's capital.\n\nThe town was home to about 12,000 people - the initial assessments say about 86% of the damaged buildings were residential.\n\nAlice Lee, chair of the Maui County Council, told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme how the fire razed the \"beautiful\" Front Street, the town's main strip.\n\n\"The fire traversed almost the entire street, so all the shops and little restaurants that people visited on their trips to Maui, most of them are burnt down to the ground,\" Lee said, adding: \"So many businesses will have to struggle to recover,\" she said.\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama - who was born in Hawaii - is among those who has expressed his sorrow at the impact of the blaze. He posted on the X social network (formerly known as Twitter): \"It's tough to see some of the images coming out of Hawaii — a place that's so special to so many of us.\"\n\n\"Michelle and I are thinking of everyone who has lost a loved one, or whose life has been turned upside down.\"\n\nThe fires also destroyed many natural features on the island - there are fears for Lahaina's banyan tree, the oldest in Hawaii, and one of the oldest in the US.\n\nThe 60ft-tall (18m) fig tree was planted in 1873, on the place where Hawaiian King Kamehameha's first palace stood, but it was burnt after fires ravaged the area on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to the town's website, if its roots remain healthy it will likely grow back. But at this stage, they say the tree \"looks burned\".\n\nMost of the damage was done on Tuesday as the flames engulfed the town.\n\nThe blaze ripped through the town so quickly that some people jumped into the harbour to escape the flames and smoke.\n\nThe flames were fanned by gusts of wind of up to 65mph (100km/h) that hit the islands last week as Hurricane Dora passed about 700 miles (1,100km) south of Hawaii.\n\nDrought or abnormally dry conditions across large parts of Hawaii - including the entire island of Maui - also played a role.\n\nAbout 14% of the state is suffering from severe or moderate drought, according to the US Drought Monitor, while 80% of Hawaii is classed as abnormally dry.\n\nWildfires were once uncommon in Hawaii, ignited largely through volcanic eruptions or lightning strikes. But in recent decades, human activity has made them more common and extreme.\n\nClimate change is increasing the risk of wildfire globally as it drives up temperatures and makes heatwaves longer and more intense.\n\n\"We have never experienced a wildfire that affected a city like this before,\" Governor Josh Green said, adding that the challenges of climate change were putting unprecedented strain on Hawaii.\n\nHow are you affected by the wildfires? If it is safe to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mobile phone video taken near the waterfront of Lahaina reveals the devastation caused by a wildfire on the Hawaiian island of Maui.", "Students will need to be \"quick off the mark\" to get a place at a top university through clearing this year, according to the head of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas).\n\nClare Marchant said \"highly selective courses\" would \"go quite quickly\".\n\nShe has stressed there will be a \"wide range of opportunities\" elsewhere.\n\nClearing allows students who want to go to university to search for courses that still have vacancies.\n\nIt is often used by those who missed the A-level or equivalent grades they needed to take up a university offer.\n\nBut it is also used by applicants who achieved higher grades than they expected, or who have changed their minds.\n\nResults for A-levels, T-levels, BTecs and other Level 3 results will be released on 17 August.\n\nThe number of 18-year-olds in the population is growing, so it could be more competitive to get a place at universities asking for the highest grades, like elite Russell Group universities.\n\nApplications to undergraduate courses from international students are also up slightly on last year.\n\nSpeaking to PA news agency, Ms Marchant said students should be \"pretty quick off the mark\" if they wanted to get to top universities through clearing.\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said \"the vast majority will absolutely get their first choice next week\".\n\nShe said \"any year is competitive\", but added: \"This year we are seeing a rise in the number of 18-year-olds in the population, and so at those highly selective courses at highly selective institutions, it's likely to be more competitive than it was last year.\"\n\nUcas has stressed that there will still be a \"wide range of opportunities\" for students in clearing.\n\nThere are more than 28,000 courses currently available in the online system, she said - about 5,000 of which are at highly selective institutions.\n\nVivienne Stern, the chief executive of Universities UK, told the programme that students should research what is available ahead of results day \"so you've got a plan for if you for some reason, don't get the grades you're expecting\".\n\nThe Russell Group said it was \"not unusual\" for its member universities to have \"fewer courses than other universities in clearing\".\n\n\"The confirmation from Ofqual that grade distributions will return to 2019 levels has given universities more confidence in making offers compared to last year, which may mean universities have less flexibility to offer courses in clearing in some subjects,\" it said.\n\n\"However, most Russell Group universities have courses available in clearing this year, across a range of subjects, as they have done in past years and more courses will become available after results day.\"\n\nLast year, 34,875 18-year-olds secured a university place through the system.\n\nWhat questions do you have about results day? Whether you have queries about A-levels, GCSEs, Highers or vocational courses, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nMs Marchant said last month that while there is a \"small gradual decline in the number of courses\" in clearing, \"we must collectively reassure applicants that there will still be plenty of choices available for those still actively seeking progression to HE [higher education] after results day\".\n\nStudents in Scotland received their exam results on Tuesday. The pass rate fell - but remains higher than before the Covid pandemic.\n\nResults in England are predicted to fall back in line with pre-pandemic levels this year, after three years of higher grades.\n\nHowever, because of the disruption caused by Covid, exam boards will be \"slightly\" more lenient than before the pandemic when deciding grade boundaries. This will protect students who performed slightly less well in these exams than expected.\n\nPupils in Wales and Northern Ireland were given advance information about papers this year - but that was not the case in England.", "The findings come from the US muon g-2 experiment\n\nScientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature.\n\nThey have found more evidence that sub-atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of sub-atomic physics.\n\nScientists believe that an unknown force could be acting on the muons.\n\nMore data will be needed to confirm these results, but if they are verified, it could mark the beginning of a revolution in physics.\n\nAll of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. These four fundamental forces govern how all the objects and particles in the Universe interact with each other.\n\nThe findings have been made at a US particle accelerator facility called Fermilab. They build on results announced in 2021 in which the Fermilab team first suggested the possibility of a fifth force of nature.\n\nSince then, the research team has gathered more data and reduced the uncertainty of their measurements by a factor of two, according to Dr Brendan Casey, a senior scientist at Fermilab.\n\n\"We're really probing new territory. We're determining the (measurements) at a better precision than it has ever been seen before.\"\n\nIn an experiment with the catchy name 'g minus two (g-2)' the researchers accelerate the sub-atomic particles called muons around a 15m-diameter ring, where they are circulated about 1,000 times at nearly the speed of light. The researchers found that they might be behaving in a way that can't be explained by the current theory, which is called the Standard Model, because of the influence of a new force of nature.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scientists say they have found \"strong evidence\" for the existence of a new force of nature\n\nAlthough the evidence is strong, the Fermilab team hasn't yet got conclusive proof.\n\nThey had hoped to have it by now, but uncertainties in what the standard model says the amount of wobbling in muons should be, has increased, because of developments in theoretical physics.\n\nIn essence, the goal posts have been moved for the experimental physicists.\n\nBased on a 2,700-hectare site near Chicago, Fermilab is America's premier particle physics lab\n\nThe researchers believe that they will have the data they need, and that the theoretical uncertainty will have narrowed in two years' time sufficiently for them to get their goal. That said, a rival team at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is hoping to get there first.\n\nDr Mitesh Patel from Imperial College London is among the thousands of physicists at the LHC attempting to find flaws in the Standard Model. He told BBC News that the first people to find experimental results at odds with the standard model would be one of the all time breakthroughs in physics.\n\n\"Measuring behaviour that doesn't agree with the predictions of the Standard Model is the holy grail for particle physics. It would fire the starting-gun for a revolution in our understanding because the model has withstood all experimental tests for more than 50 years.\"\n\nFermilab says that its next set of results will be \"the ultimate showdown\" between theory and experiment that may uncover new particles or forces.\n\nScientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe are also in the race to find inconsistencies with the Standard Model\n\nSo what is the Standard Model and why is getting an experimental result that doesn't quite fit in with its predictions such a big deal?\n\nEverything in the world around us is made from atoms - which in turn are made from even smaller particles. These interact to create the four forces of nature: electricity and magnetism (electromagnetism), two nuclear forces and gravity.\n\nTheir behaviour is predicted by the standard model, and for fifty years it has predicted their behaviour perfectly, with no errors whatsoever.\n\nMuons are similar to electrons which orbit atoms and are responsible for electrical currents, but they are about 200 times as massive.\n\nIn the experiment they were made to wobble, using powerful, superconducting magnets.\n\nGalaxies are accelerating apart from each other faster than predicted by the Standard Model\n\nThe results showed that the muons wobbled faster than the standard model said it should. Prof Graziano Venanzoni, of Liverpool University, who is one of the leading researchers on the project, told BBC News that this might be caused by an unknown new force.\n\n\"We think there could be another force, something that we are not aware of now. It is something different, which we call the 'fifth force'.\n\n\"It is something different, something we don't know about yet, but it should be important, because it says something new about the Universe.\"\n\nIf confirmed, this would represent arguably one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs for a hundred years, since Einstein's theories of relativity. That is because a fifth force and any particles associated with it are not part of the Standard Model of particle physics.\n\nResearchers know that there is what they describe as \"physics beyond the Standard Model\" out there, because the current theory can't explain lots of things that astronomers observe in space.\n\nThese include the fact that galaxies are continuing to accelerate apart after the Big Bang that created the Universe, rather than the expansion slowing down. Scientists say the acceleration is being driven by an unknown force, called dark energy.\n\nGalaxies are also spinning faster than they should, according to our understanding of how much material is in them. Researchers believe it's because of invisible particles called dark matter, which again are not part of the Standard Model.\n\nThe results have been published in the Journal Physical Review Letters.\n• None 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature", "A former environment secretary has revealed she failed to declare tens of thousands of pounds of shares she held in oil giant Shell while in the role.\n\nTory MP Theresa Villiers said she had held a stake in the firm worth over £70,000 since February 2018.\n\nBut she declared it only last month along with similar holdings in drinks giant Diageo and finance firm Experian.\n\nShe \"deeply regrets her failure to monitor the value of shareholdings\", a spokesman said.\n\nMPs are meant to declare all shareholdings worth over £70,000. The story first appeared in the Daily Mirror.\n\nHer spokesman added that it had not occurred to her that any of the stakes would pass the threshold but they did after she received a legacy in 2018.\n\nMs Villiers, MP for the London seat of Chipping Barnet, alerted the Commons authorities \"as soon as she realised this\", the spokesman said.\n\nHer latest declaration reveals she has held a stake worth more than £70,000 in Shell since February 2018.\n\nThis was more than a year before she was appointed to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) under Boris Johnson in July 2019, a role she held until February 2020.\n\nShe registered the stake on 17 July this year, along with stakes over the same amount in Diageo, also from February 2018, and Experian, from July 2019.\n\nOn the same day, she also registered a shareholding over the threshold in RIT Capital Partners, an investment trust.\n\nOn 2 August, she registered a fifth stake over the amount in Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, with records showing she held it between 6 and 20 July this year.\n\nThe spokesman for Ms Villiers said her shares were part of a professionally managed portfolio, for which she had \"never taken day-to-day investment decisions\".\n\nWhen Ms Villiers joined Defra, she told the department about her shares and offered to put them in a \"blind\" trust, where she would not have known how the money was invested, the spokesman said.\n\nHowever the prime minister's ethics adviser at the time, Sir Alex Allan, advised her this was unnecessary because \"the portfolio was managed for her and she did not take investment decisions\", he added.\n\n\"Nothing she did as [environment] secretary was influenced by any of these shareholdings,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe shareholdings she held during her time as environment secretary did not appear on the separate ministerial register of interests published during her time in the job.\n\n\"Nothing she has ever said or done as MP has been influenced by these shareholdings,\" he added, but she was \"taking steps to ensure that this never happens again\".\n\n\"She takes full responsibility for the mistake. She accepts that it should never have happened, and that she should have kept track of the additions to her investment portfolio,\" the spokesman added.\n\nAsked about the omission on Sky News, Chief Secretary to the Treasury John Glen described it as an \"oversight on her part\" and insisted the former minister has been \"very clear\" in apologising.\n\nMs Villiers entered Parliament in 2005 and was a rail minister for just over two years under David Cameron.\n\nShe was promoted to Northern Ireland secretary in 2012, a role she held until Mr Cameron's resignation after the Brexit referendum in 2016.\n\nShe returned to the cabinet in the environment role under Mr Johnson, but was reshuffled out of his cabinet nine months later.", "The Fun Friday Quiz asked people to name famous Ians\n\nA Scottish government agency has apologised for a staff quiz held during work hours which included two pictures of child killers.\n\nSocial Security Scotland staff at the \"Fun Friday Quiz\" were shown images of men called Ian and asked to name them.\n\nOne former member of staff told BBC News he was \"shocked\" when he realised the pair were part of the quiz.\n\nSocial Security Scotland said it immediately recognised the quiz was unacceptable and sincerely apologised to anyone affected.\n\nThe agency is responsible for managing the benefits devolved to Scotland.\n\nMarcus McPeake joined the adult disability payment department in the middle of March 2022.\n\nHe told the BBC that on one Friday the following month staff were taking part in a virtual quiz via Microsoft Teams.\n\nThe picture round involved naming famous Ians including author Ian Rankin, former cricketer Ian Botham and Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith.\n\nWhen Mr McPeake realised two child killers had been included he said he was shocked and enraged.\n\n\"I couldn't believe what I was seeing,\" he said.\n\n\"This needs to be called out because these people are gatekeepers for who qualifies for adult disability payment.\"\n\nBrady tortured and killed five children with Myra Hindley between 1963 and 1965, while Huntley murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002.\n\nMr McPeake - a part-time screenwriter - said he raised concerns with HR but left the job a short time later.\n\nHe said he didn't speak out last year because he was worried doing so might affect job references and future Scottish government funding for creative projects.\n\nHe also said there were lots of \"lovely folk\" in the department doing a great job with compassion and a sense of purpose.\n\nA Social Security Scotland spokesman said: \"This matter was brought to our attention when the incident took place last year and we would like to sincerely apologise to anyone affected.\n\n\"We immediately recognised this was unacceptable and not in line with our values. The issue was dealt with through our internal disciplinary channels at the time.\n\n\"We apologised unreservedly to the people who raised this issue when it happened, assured them an investigation was being carried out, and thanked them for bringing the matter to our attention.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and, in this case, we offered those involved our full support, including counselling services where appropriate.\"", "Simon Carlyle was much respected across the industry\n\nThe creator of BBC One comedy series Two Doors Down, Simon Carlyle, has died aged 48, his manager has confirmed.\n\nThe Scottish sitcom, starring Arabella Weir and Alex Norton, was written with co-creator Gregor Sharp.\n\nCarlyle from Ayr originally wrote the show as a one-off special in 2013 before it was commissioned in 2016.\n\nHe went on to write more than 40 episodes and more recently co-wrote comedian Alan Carr's autobiographical sitcom Changing Ends.\n\nCarlyle's other screen credits include Boy Meets Girl, Psychobitches and No Holds Bard.\n\nCarlyle and Sharp have been writing together for 23 years on shows such as Happy Hollidays and Thin Ice.\n\nHowever, in an interview with The Scottish Sun in 2019, he told how his lack of mainstream success led him to apply for a job as a passenger greeter at Glasgow Airport to make ends meet.\n\nIt was the slow-burn success of Two Doors Down on BBC One Scotland that led to a change of fortunes, with the programme eventually picking up network interest on BBC Two before moving to a primetime slot on BBC One last year.\n\nTwo Doors Down had been commissioned for a seventh series\n\nIn the 2019 interview, Carlyle said Arabella Weir's character Beth was inspired by his own mum Dorothy, and that Beth's son Ian - played by Jamie Quinn - drew on his experience of coming out as gay while growing up in Ayr.\n\nHe said Ian's character was treated like many gay men were in the 80s and 90s.\n\n\"You'd have parents who are accepting of it and don't want to throw you out the family, but are equally not comfortable enough to ask about your boyfriend,\" he said.\n\n\"We tried to reflect the truth of that middle ground, the same as we did with a normal Scottish street.\"\n\nTwo Doors Down, set around the residents of Latimer Crescent, was recommissioned for a seventh series in February.\n\nThe six-episode run is set to transmit later this year and will see the return of Doon Mackichan, who starred as Cathy in the early series of the show.\n\nThe success of Two Doors Down led to Carlyle writing Changing Ends, based on Alan Carr's childhood while growing up in 1980s Northampton as the son of a football manager.\n\nSimon Carlyle on the set of Two Doors Down\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, TV critic Siobhan Synnot said Carlyle's death was a \"sad loss\".\n\nShe said: \"Simon and his writing partner Gregor Sharp reached incredible successes with Two Doors Down.\n\n\"He talked about himself growing up gay in Ayr and feeling a little bit different, and I think that comes through in a lot of the work.\"\n\nLouise Thornton, head of commissioning at BBC Scotland, said staff were \"deeply saddened\" to hear the news.\n\nShe said: \"Simon was a major writing talent, loved for his work on Two Doors Down and many other series.\"\n\nCarlyle's manager, Amanda Davis, said: \"Simon was a wonderful person and a major comedic talent,\" she said. \"He was much respected across the industry both for the quality of his writing and for being a kind, funny, supportive and nurturing collaborator.\"\n\nComedian Jack Whitehall tweeted: \"So sad to wake up to this news. Simon was such a talented and gracious human being. He was my first ever script editor and I learned so much from him. He was so funny and charming and always such a joy to spend time with. RIP.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The court heard that Fernandes attacked the trainee when they were alone\n\nA McDonald's supervisor has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a trainee.\n\nGeary Tolontino Fernandes, 34, of Warneford Close in Toothill, Swindon, was tried at Swindon Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe sexually assaulted the victim in an area near the restaurant's freezer in December 2022, later claiming the contact had not been deliberate.\n\nFernandes is due to be sentenced on 28 September.\n\nHe claimed that the contact was accidental, but the judge dismissed this after powerful testimony from the trainee.\n\nLocal Crime Investigator Tina Willison said: \"I want to commend the victim for coming forward and speaking to us about this incident - and for then speaking about it in court.\n\n\"She has shown remarkable bravery and I'm pleased it has resulted in a guilty verdict for Fernandes today.\n\n\"Fernandes clearly took advantage of his position as supervisor of the branch, abusing his position of trust by preying on a new member of staff.\"\n\nMs Willison said that victims of sexual assault will always be listened to.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anastatia (Ana) Mayers, Jon Goodwin and Keisha Schahaff, boarded the VSS Unity for a 90-minute trip into space\n\nVirgin Galactic has taken a former Olympian, a University of Aberdeen student and her mother to the edge of space on its first flight for tourists.\n\nAna Mayers, 18, and her mother Keisha Schahaff, 46, both from Antigua, won their tickets in a competition.\n\nThey became the first mother-daughter duo to fly to space together.\n\nJon Goodwin, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, became the second person with Parkinson's disease to go to space, a trip he called \"completely surreal\".\n\nMr Goodwin bought his ticket for $250,000 (then £191,000) in 2005.\n\nThe carrier mothership VMS Eve took off from Spaceport America, in the state of New Mexico, at 08:30 local time (15:30 BST).\n\nFifty minutes into the flight, the Unity rocket ship separated from Eve as planned.\n\nA short time later, the passengers were given the all-clear to unbuckle and enjoy zero gravity, at an altitude of around 85km (280,000ft).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Mayers, a second-year philosophy and physics student at the University of Aberdeen, immediately reached for the window to take in the views of Earth and the black of space.\n\nThe three then returned to their seats and strapped themselves back in ahead of the return journey.\n\nThey successfully landed back at Spaceport America just over an hour after taking off.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference after the flight, Ms Schahaff - who won the prize while flying to the UK to visit her daughter in Scotland - said she was still \"up there\" following the experience.\n\n\"Looking at Earth was the most amazing\" part of the trip, she said.\n\nMr Goodwin described his experience as the most exciting day of his life.\n\nDespite being diagnosed with Parkinson's several years ago, he was given the all-clear to fly.\n\n\"I'm hoping that I instil in other people around the world, as well as people with Parkinson's, that it doesn't stop you doing things that's out of the normal if you've got some illness,\" he said.\n\n\"The most impressive thing was looking at Earth from space - the pure clarity was very moving.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a video posted on social media, Sir Richard Branson - Virgin Galactic's founder - shed tears of joy as he celebrated the mission from Ms Schahaff and Ms Mayers' native Antigua.\n\nSir Richard, who completed a similar trip in July 2021, wrote: \"Today we flew three incredible private passengers to space: Keisha Schahaff, Anastatia Mayers and Jon Goodwin.\n\n\"Congratulations Virgin Galactic commercial astronauts 011, 012 and 013 - welcome to the club!\"\n\nMr Goodwin was the first on a list of 800 or so individuals who have bought tickets for a ride on the Unity rocket.\n\nSome of them - including Mr Goodwin - have been waiting over a decade to get their chance, and most still face a long wait.\n\nSir Richard first announced his intention to make a space plane in 2004, with the belief he could start a commercial service by 2007.\n\nBut technical difficulties - including a fatal crash during a development flight in 2014 - have made the space project one of the most challenging ventures of his career.\n\nRecently, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin beat Virgin Galactic in the race to become the first company to take paying passengers into space.\n\nBoth companies say their missions further science as well as catering to the very rich.\n\nBut, space tourism has been criticised for its cost and environmental impact.", "Doreen Mantle also had roles in Coronation Street and Father Brown\n\nActress Doreen Mantle, best known for her role in the BBC comedy One Foot in the Grave, has died aged 97, her agent has announced.\n\nShe died \"peacefully at home\", a statement said.\n\nMantle played Jean Warboys, the annoying friend of Victor Meldrew's wife, Margaret, in the BBC series.\n\nIn 1979, she won an Olivier Award for actress of the year in a supporting role in the stage show Death of A Salesman for the National Theatre.\n\nIn a statement, her agent said: \"It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our beloved client and much-loved stage, screen, and radio actress Doreen Mantle, aged 97.\n\n\"She died peacefully at home. She is survived by her two sons, four grandchildren and one brother.\"\n\nMantle also starred in the BBC detective series Father Brown and played Joy Fishwick in ITV soap Coronation Street.\n\nHer other credits include My Family, Doctors, Dirk Gently, Jam and Jerusalem, Doc Martin, Jonathan Creek and Yentl.", "The four survivors were rescued after their boat capsized\n\nForty-one migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, survivors told local media.\n\nA group of four people who survived the disaster told rescuers that they were on a boat that had set off from Sfax in Tunisia and sank on its way to Italy.\n\nThe four survivors, originally from the Ivory Coast and Guinea, reached Lampedusa on Wednesday.\n\nMore than 1,800 people have lost their lives so far this year in the crossing from North Africa to Europe.\n\nLocal public prosecutor Salvatore Vella said he had opened an investigation into the tragedy.\n\nThe survivors - a 13-year-old boy, two men and a woman - told rescuers that they were on a boat carrying 45 people, including three children.\n\nThey said the boat, which was about 7m (20ft) long, left Sfax on Thursday last week, but sank within hours after being hit by a big wave. Only 15 people are understood to have been wearing lifejackets, but this apparently failed to save their lives.\n\nThe Italian Red Cross and German charity Sea-Watch said the four managed to survive the shipwreck by floating on inner tubes and lifejackets until they found another empty boat at sea, in which they spent several days drifting before being rescued.\n\nThe four survivors arrived in Lampedusa suffering from exhaustion and shock, but the doctor who treated them, Adrian Chiaramonte, said they had only minor injuries.\n\n\"What really struck us was the story of the tragedy,\" he said.\n\n\"They said they had encountered a first ship, which had apparently ignored them.\n\n\"An hour later they were spotted by a helicopter, and an hour after that sighting, they were picked up by an oil tanker.\"\n\nThe Italian coast guard reported two shipwrecks in the area on Sunday, but it is not clear whether this vessel is one of those.\n\nThe United Nations migration agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said the migrants would have had little chance of survival.\n\n\"Sub-Saharan migrants [leaving from Tunisia] are forced to use these low-cost iron boats which break after 20 or 30 hours of navigation. With this kind of sea, these boats capsize easily,\" IOM spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo told AFP.\n\nTunisian authorities say Sfax, a port city about 80 miles (130km) from Lampedusa, is a popular gateway for migrants seeking safety and a better life in Europe.\n\nIn recent days, Italian patrol boats and charity groups have rescued another 2,000 people who have arrived on Lampedusa.\n\nTunisia has seen a wave of racism against black Africans in recent months and attempts to leave the country by boat have increased.\n\nThe United Nations has registered more than 17,000 deaths and disappearances in the central Mediterranean since 2014, making it the most dangerous migrant crossing in the world.\n\nLast month, the EU signed a $118m (£90m) deal with Tunisia in a bid to curb \"irregular\" migration.\n\nThe money is to be spent on efforts to stop smuggling, strengthen borders and return migrants.\n\nItaly's far-right government has adopted a policy that forces rescue ships to dock at ports further away, rather than letting them disembark rescued migrants in Lampedusa or Sicily.\n\nIt says the aim is to spread arrivals across the country, but NGOs say the policy reduces the amount of time they can patrol areas where shipwrecks are more common.", "Wildfires on the Hawaii island of Maui have destroyed homes and businesses and displaced thousands.\n\nThe hardest hit is the historic town of Lahaina. Officials reported at least six people have been killed in the fires.\n\nThe fires continue to rage as of Wednesday afternoon, with firefighting efforts and search and rescue missions underway.\n\nMeanwhile, US President Joe Biden has deployed federal resources to help.\n\nAerial images show several buildings destroyed by the fires in Lahaina, though officials said it is still difficult to determine the true extent of the damage.\n\nThe fires were fanned by a combination of low humidity and winds from a distant Hurricane Dora, the National Weather Service said, which brought with it gusts of above 60 mph (97 kph). The flames spread along Lahaina's coast, burning boats and the town's harbour.\n\nThe path of the flames can be seen by images captured by satellite. Some have reportedly jumped into the ocean to escape the flames, and the US Coast Guard said it rescued at least a dozen people from the water.\n\nLahaina is a historic town on the western tip of Maui. It is home to 12,000 residents and is also a popular destination for tourists. The fires have displaced round 2,100 locals who have been housed in shelters.\n\nThousands remain without power or cell phone service due to the fires, and 911 services in West Maui were down on Wednesday. Roads into Lahaina were closed except for emergency vehicles, as officials warned visitors to stay away for their own safety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobbie Robertson, guitarist and songwriter for Canadian-American group The Band, has died aged 80.\n\nA statement from his manager said he died on Wednesday surrounded by his family after a long illness.\n\nThe Band were an influential act in the late 1960s and also the subjects of The Last Waltz, a 1978 Martin Scorsese film about their farewell concert.\n\nRobertson wrote some of their best-known songs, including The Weight and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.\n\nBorn Jaime Royal Robertson in Toronto in 1943, he left home to pursue a career in music aged 16.\n\nAs well as their own music, The Band were known for a spell touring as Bob Dylan's backing band before the success of their 1968 debut album, Music From Big Pink.\n\nThey released a string of acclaimed albums during the 1970s and, after playing their last show as a full band in 1976, reunited without Robertson for a number of tours and studio releases throughout the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nAlong with keyboardist Garth Hudson, Robertson was one of two surviving members of The Band's classic line-up.\n\nAfter The Last Waltz, he collaborated with Scorsese on the soundtracks to some of the director's best-known films, including 1980 classic Raging Bull and 2019's The Irishman.\n\nRobertson performing with The Band at the Royal Albert Hall in London, June 1971\n\nPaying tribute, Scorsese called Robertson a \"giant\" and \"a constant in my life and work.\"\n\n\"Long before we ever met, his music played a central role in my life - me and millions and millions of other people all over this world,\" he said. \"His effect on the art form was profound and lasting.\"\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood said: \"Such sad news about Robbie Robertson - he was a lovely man, a great friend and will be dearly missed.\"\n\nStevie van Zandt, a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, said Robertson was a \"good friend\" and \"underrated brilliant guitar player\".\n\nCanadian singer Bryan Adams posted a photo of Robertson and wrote: \"Thanks for the amazing music and the great hangs.\"", "Sir Anthony Hopkins, shown here playing Sir Nicholas Winton, will portray the hero in his later years\n\nFor the millions watching at home it was an unforgettable moment in British TV history.\n\nIn February 1988 on BBC's That's Life! a man called Nicholas Winton came face-to-face with some of the 669 Jewish children he had saved from the Nazis prior to World War Two.\n\nA surprise reunion, it brought to light a remarkable story - one which has now been turned into a Hollywood film.\n\nAnd it is set to star Port Talbot's Sir Anthony Hopkins as the Holocaust hero dubbed the British Schindler.\n\nEntitled One Life, the movie will tell of how Sir Nicholas, a London stockbroker who was knighted for his humanitarian accomplishments in 2003, helped get young Jewish refugees out of occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938.\n\nThe Kindertransport (Children's Transport) was a rescue programme of children from Nazi-controlled territory.\n\nApproximately 10,000 children, the majority of whom were Jewish, were sent to Great Britain between November 1938 and September 1939.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Nicholas Winston's story is to be brought to life on the big screen\n\nSir Nicholas convinced the British government to allow Czech children, as well as German and Austrian, into the UK.\n\nParents were not allowed to accompany the children in what was supposed to be a temporary move until it was safe for them return home.\n\nAlongside a few volunteers - including his mother - Sir Nicholas arranged everything the children needed, including finding host families and raising funds to cover travel expenses.\n\nThe last train was scheduled to leave on 1 September 1939 but was cancelled when war broke out.\n\nSir Nicholas believed none of the 250 children onboard were heard of again.\n\nHe was always haunted by the thought of all those he was not able to help and never really talked about his efforts. As a result his tale of heroism would go largely unheard of.\n\nThat was until some 50 years later when Sir Nicholas's wife uncovered a scrapbook in their attic detailing everything her husband had done, including the names of all the children who he had helped escape.\n\nNews of his story spread, and Sir Nicholas was later called to appear on an episode of popular Sunday night consumer affairs programme That's Life!\n\nThere, as the cameras rolled, the host Esther Rantzen asked the studio audience: \"Does anyone here tonight owe their life to Nicholas Winton?\"\n\nIt was at that point dozens sitting around the then 77-year-old stood up, revealing themselves to be grown-up versions of those little ones he had rescued, albeit just a small percentage.\n\nImmortalised in recent years on YouTube, the emotional clip has since been viewed tens of millions of times, thereby reintroducing Sir Nicholas to a whole new generation.\n\nAnd now cinemagoers will soon be able to see his exploits unfold on the big screen, with One Life having its world premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.\n\nIt was shot last year in Prague, from where children were transported by rail and a statue of Sir Nicholas was unveiled in 2009.\n\nMargam-born Sir Anthony will play his elderly incarnation while actor and musician Johnny Flynn while play him as a younger man.\n\nHelena Bonham Carter will also appear as Sir Nicholas's mother, alongside Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce.\n\nThe film was adapted from a 2014 book written by Sir Nicholas's daughter Barbara, entitled If It's Not Impossible… The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton.\n\nOne Life's Oscar-winning production company See-Saw described the drama as \"an inspiring true story\" and \"a race against time\".\n\nIt added that, by appearing on television, Sir Nicholas was finally able make peace with his demons.\n\n\"It wasn't until he was surprised by the survivors on live television that he accepted how, when faced with devastating atrocities, saving even one life is a victory,\" it said.\n\n\"And the British public got to learn the truth about the hero hidden in their midst.\"", "Police officers and staff in Northern Ireland had their personal details shared online on Tuesday\n\nOn 8 August, the names of police officers and staff in Northern Ireland, where they were based and their roles were published on the internet.\n\nA continuing threat against officers from dissident republicans means they must be extremely vigilant about their personal security.\n\nThe data was made public, in error, by police as they responded to a routine freedom of information (FoI) request.\n\nBut what does that mean, and how did it happen?\n\nUnder the Freedom of Information Act 2000, members of the public are entitled to request information held by public authorities.\n\nIn principle, the act allows for people to know about the activities of certain bodies, unless there is a valid reason for withholding that information - in this case, a matter of security.\n\nOn 3 August, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) received a FoI request from a member of the public which asked: \"Could you provide the number of officers at each rank and number of staff at each grade?\"\n\nWhat they got back was not only a numerical table, but, by mistake, a huge Excel spreadsheet.\n\nThis was referred to by the police as \"the source data\" and should not have been released as part of the FoI.\n\nEverything which was provided under the FoI, including the spreadsheet, was then published on an FoI website, What Do They Know, on Tuesday afternoon, making it publicly available.\n\nIt was removed after two-and-a-half hours at the PSNI's request, once they became aware of it.\n\nEach line contained multiple pieces of information from the top of the organisation down.\n\nThis included the surname and initials of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence.\n\nIt also included people on career breaks which could explain why the list exceeded the current size of the PSNI's workforce,.\n\nAccording to the PSNI's website, it currently employs 6,812 full and part-time officers and 2,437 support staff\n\nAttacks on police continue 25 years after the end of the worst of the Troubles\n\nThe Data Protection Act 2018, which is the UK's implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), means employers can hold certain data about their employees without their permission.\n\nHowever, employers must follow a strict set of \"data protection principles\" to ensure that data is handled in an appropriate way.\n\nFirms committing infringements on those regulations can face a maximum fine of £17.5m.\n\nLawyer and data protection expert Ibra-Him Hasan said there were \"serious questions to be asked\" of the PSNI in terms of its procedures for dealing with FoI requests.\n\n\"It's important to bear in mind all public sector organisations receive such requests for information… usually these are routinely dealt with quite easily without disclosing any personal data,\" he told the BBC's Talkback programme.\n\n\"This is about life and limb in this particular case.\"\n\nHe said an FoI response should not rest on a single member of staff, which is what is suspected to have happened on this occasion, and multiple checks were required before publication.\n\n\"When you're attaching Excel spreadsheets you may feel that you've anonymised the information but a few clicks… you could reveal the source data behind the statistics,\" he explained.\n\n\"It's a training issue, it's an awareness issue, but also just people checking each other's work to ensure they haven't inadvertently disclosed the background information.\"", "Harry Kane transfer news: Bayern Munich agree deal in principle with Tottenham for striker Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nBayern Munich and Tottenham have agreed a deal in principle for England captain Harry Kane worth more than 100m euros (£86.4m). Kane, 30, has one year left on his contract with Spurs and must now make a decision about whether or not to leave. The forward is Tottenham's all-time top scorer with 280 goals in 435 appearances. Kane was linked with Manchester United earlier this summer before Bayern made him their main target.\n• None Get Tottenham news, analysis and fan views sent direct to your phone\n• None Go straight to all the best Spurs content The striker's future in London has been uncertain for several seasons while a number of Bayern bids were rejected earlier this summer. Most recently, Spurs turned down an offer on Monday and the Bundesliga champions suggested on that occasion an unsuccessful bid would force them to move on to other targets. Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has repelled interest in Kane numerous times over the years, including in 2021 when Premier League champions Manchester City tried to sign the striker. It was also unclear whether Levy would have been willing to sell Kane to another Premier League team, suggesting earlier this year he would not do business with either of the Manchester clubs. But with Kane unwilling to sign a new deal with Spurs, it seems Levy has decided selling now is the best option for the club rather than losing him for free next year. Kane, who came through Spurs' academy, has played for the club during pre-season while negotiations with Bayern took place, with his last appearance coming against Shakhtar Donetsk on Sunday. New Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou had promised to sell Kane his \"vision\" for the club following his appointment this summer, saying he wanted the striker to stay in north London. Kane has won the Premier League Golden Boot three times - in 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2020-21 - since making his debut for the club in 2012. With 213 goals from 320 Premier League games, Kane needs just 48 more to break Alan Shearer's scoring record. Yet England's all-time leading scorer - with 58 international goals - has never won a major trophy with club or country. Bayern, on the other hand, are regular silverware winners in Germany. Thomas Tuchel's side claimed their 33rd Bundesliga title last season - an 11th in a row - and have won the Champions League six times and German Cup on 20 occasions. We asked on our dedicated Tottenham page for your thoughts on the recent Harry Kane transfer developments. Here are some of your replies: Chris: The ownership of Spurs has let Kane down. First by sacking Mauricio Pochettino, then by their failed experiments after that. If he sadly leaves, I wish him well and hope he wins the Champions League. He is the best all-round forward in world football at the moment and he deserves something to look back on with pride. Dave: Staying at Spurs will enable Kane to beat Alan Shearer's all-time Premier League goals total. This will be a greater legacy than any medals he may get from elsewhere. It could take less than two seasons with Spurs' new attacking style, after two years of drudge. Terry: If Harry doesn't want to sign a new contract, then it's common sense that we sell him and get the cash for him. He will be missed - so were Jimmy Greaves and Teddy Sheringham - but you always find others. It would be crazy to allow Harry to leave on a free after all that he's done for the club! Good luck to the man. Mark: It will be sad to see Kane leave, but Spurs need a couple of seasons to settle in before being ready to challenge for any titles. He has been an amazing player for club and country, and he deserves the right to play out his career earning silverware. A fantastic footballer who has still got more to offer his new club and the England squad. Tamba: I strongly believe Kane should leave if the price is right. The earlier the better so that his absence doesn't interrupt the plans of our new coach. We'll have enough time to scout new players required by the coach to help us compete strongly in the Premier League and all other competitions.\n• None Our coverage of Tottenham Hotspur is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Spurs - go straight to all the best content", "The six-year-old student who shot his teacher in the US earlier this year, boasted about the incident saying \"I shot [her] dead\", unsealed court documents show.\n\nWhile being restrained after the shooting at a Virginia school, the boy is said to have admitted \"I did it\", adding \"I got my mom's gun last night\".\n\nHis teacher, Abigail \"Abby\" Zwerner - who survived - filed a $40m (£31.4m) lawsuit earlier this year.\n\nThe boy has not been charged.\n\nThe boy's mother, however, Deja Taylor, has been charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanour recklessly leaving a loaded firearm as to endanger a child.\n\nIn June, she was also charged with unlawfully using a controlled substance while in possession of a firearm and making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.\n\nMs Taylor will be sentenced in October and could face up to 25 years in prison.\n\nUsing his mother's gun, the boy shot his first-grade teacher, Ms Zwerner, in the hand and chest on 6 January at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter the shooting, Ms Zwerner told police at hospital that she saw the child standing by his desk when he \"pulled a firearm out of his jacket pocket and pointed it\" at her, according to the newly released documents.\n\nBefore he shot the 9mm handgun, she said, \"What are you doing with that?\"\n\nThe primary teacher has undergone surgery four times.\n\nAmy Korvac, a reading specialist at the school, heard the gun shots and restrained the student until police arrived. It was during this time that the boy allegedly confessed to the shooting, using a profanity to refer to Ms Zwerner.\n\nIn an interview with the Washington Post published on Wednesday, Ms Korvac said she went inside the classroom after the shooting, where she found the six-year-old standing next to his desk with his arms crossed and a handgun on the floor next to him.\n\nShe said she then took the boy's hand and walked him to the front of the classroom, where she used a phone to call 911.\n\n\"While I was holding him, he told me he had gotten his mom's gun the night before and put it in his backpack,\" Ms Kovac told the paper. \"He also told me he only had time to load one bullet.\"\n\nThe court documents also mention another incident with the same student while he was in kindergarten. A retired teacher told police he started \"choking her to the point she could not breathe\".\n\nIn Ms Zwerner's lawsuit, filed in April, she accuses school officials of gross negligence for ignoring warning signs and argues the defendants knew the child \"had a history of random violence\".", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nAnthony Joshua says boxing \"clearly has a problem\" with doping after Dillian Whyte failed a voluntary drugs test and was pulled out of Saturday's all-British heavyweight contest.\n\nJoshua, 33, will instead fight Robert Helenius at London's O2 Arena, with the 39-year-old Finn taking the fight at just a week's notice.\n\nAsked by BBC Sport if boxing has an issue with doping, Joshua said: \"I don't know how they're going to sort it out or what their solution is to this problem. But it clearly has a problem.\"\n\nFor the third time in 12 months, boxing is facing serious questions about the sport's credibility and its anti-doping protocols.\n\nIn October last year Conor Benn's bout with Chris Eubank Jr was cancelled in fight week after it emerged Benn had failed two voluntary drug tests. Benn has always protested his innocence, as does Whyte.\n\nAmir Khan was banned for two years after an anti-doping test revealed the presence of a banned substance following his fight against Kell Brook in February 2022.\n\nThe case was not heard by an independent tribunal until January 2023.\n\nOn Tuesday it was confirmed Joshua would instead fight Helenius. It is the second time Joshua has had to pull an opponent from a fight due to an anti-doping violation.\n• None I didn't want to let anyone down - Joshua\n\nIn 2019 Andy Ruiz Jr stepped in on a month's notice when American Jarrell Miller tested positive for several banned substances.\n\nJoshua has paid for extra testing by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association for several years to go hand-in-hand with UK Anti-Doping Agency's (Ukad) testing.\n\nIn their latest report, Ukad carried out 213 in-competition tests and 133 out-of-competition tests on fighters connected to the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC).\n\nHowever, in global boxing there is no standardisation of anti-doping rules, leading to fighters, like Joshua, choosing to insist on additional steps to provide regular testing.\n\nBut Joshua accepts not every fighter has the funds to ensure extra testing and his promoter Eddie Hearn said regular testing below the elite level of boxing is needed.\n\nHearn, CEO of Matchroom, has been involved with both the Whyte and Benn cases. He promotes both fighters.\n\nOther high profile athletes to fail tests and serve suspensions include Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez in 2018 and Tyson Fury in 2015 - with both blaming the consumption of suspect meat.\n\nJoshua, however, says he is not surprised by doping scandals in boxing.\n\n\"The thing is, people do wonder 'how long has this been going on?'.\n\n\"It makes me wonder 'how long has this situation been going on?'. In a way, I'm not shocked anymore in boxing.\"\n\nThe two-time world champion added: \"It's not only the belt you're competing for, it's leaving this game with your faculties. Boxing is a dangerous, dangerous game. Even on the side of it where anti-doping is involved, people do take it for granted.\"\n\nWelterweight Benn failed two voluntary tests for female fertility drug clomifene before October's cancelled bout with Chris Eubank Jr.\n\nBenn was suspended by Ukad pending their investigation before his suspension was lifted on 28 July.\n\nThe case may not be fully resolved - the body said it had 21 days to assess whether it wanted to appeal against the decision, which was taken by the independent National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP).\n\nBenn and Whyte say they are innocent of intentional doping. Both cases, however, highlight the confusion around drugs testing in British boxing and raise questions on punishments for fighters who fail voluntary drug tests.\n\nBoth Britons returned \"adverse findings\" in tests carried out by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada), but the BBBoC is guided by Ukad testing.\n\nMatchroom and Benn were unsure if the BBBoC had jurisdiction when it came to Vada testing and so didn't immediately cancel the fight. Eubank Jr was happy to proceed with the bout, before the board's decision to unsanction the fight forced it to be cancelled two days before the event.\n\nIn Whyte's case, the fight with Joshua was cancelled immediately after Matchroom were notified by Vada.\n\nHearn says this was down to Joshua's refusal to fight Whyte after learning of the results at 07:00 BST on Saturday morning, but also said they had learned from the mistakes made regarding Benn's tests.\n\nBut confusion remains regarding what happens to a fighter who fails voluntary drug tests. The BBBoC argue they do have jurisdiction and suspended Benn on that basis. But an independent NADP lifted Benn's suspension after hearing the case.\n\nThe details of their decision is unknown and Ukad could yet appeal the ruling.\n\nFor a failed Ukad test, a fighter is given a two-year ban, regardless of intent - as seen with Khan's case earlier this year where the tribunal ruled out \"deliberate or reckless conduct.\"\n\n\"Vada's a reporting agency. So from here, how does Dillian Whyte clear his name or attempt to do so?\" Hearn asked.\n\n\"I don't know the answer to that. He's not licensed by the BBBoC, he's licensed by Portugal where he lives. What are they going to do about it?\"\n\nThere is no global independent body that sets standards across the sport - something Hearn says needs to change.\n\nA universal body that could oversee consistent testing, rules and punishments for doping offences.\n\n\"There are governing bodies in each state in America which have their own set of rules,\" he says. \"The British board have rules and even that isn't clear.\n\n\"I think we need a clear set of rules for the sport globally - which is easier said than done\".", "Cinemagoers queue to have their photos taken in Dubai - Barbie has taken over $1bn globally since its debut last month\n\nThe Barbie film has been banned in Kuwait and faces calls for a ban in Lebanon amid criticism in the Arab world of the movie's social values.\n\nKuwait acted to protect \"public ethics\", the state news agency said. Lebanon's culture minister accused the film of \"promoting homosexuality\".\n\nThe blockbuster is however being shown in conservative countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe film has grossed over $1bn worldwide within weeks of its release.\n\nLafi al-Subaiei, the head of Kuwait's board of film classification, said that usually the board asks for movie scenes deemed to flout his country's culture to be cut.\n\nBut when they promote behaviour the state thinks is unacceptable, they are banned outright.\n\nThe film \"promulgate[s] ideas and beliefs that are alien to Kuwaiti society and public order\", a spokesman for the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information said.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Lebanese Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada asked the interior ministry to \"take all necessary measures to ban\" Barbie.\n\nHe said the film \"promotes homosexuality and transsexuality… supports rejecting a father's guardianship, undermines and ridicules the role of the mother, and questions the necessity of marriage and having a family\".\n\nFollowing Mr Mortada's call, the Lebanese interior minister and state judge Bassam Mawlawi asked the country's censorship committee to review the film.\n\nThe minister is supported by the Shia Islamist movement Hezbollah. Last month its leader said homosexuality posed an \"imminent danger\" to Lebanese society and called on authorities to ban events that are seen the promote it.\n\nThe move comes amid \"a wave of bigotry\" in the country, Ayman Mhanna, executive director of the Samir Kassir Foundation, a Lebanese rights organisation, told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"This is part of a broader campaign that is bringing together Hezbollah, the Christian far right, and other top religious leaders in a focused campaign against LGBT people,\" Ms Mhanna said.\n\nThe film has also fallen foul of censors elsewhere, including in Vietnam for featuring a map showing a contested Chinese territorial claim in the South China Sea.\n\nStarring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken, the movie tells a coming-of-age story of the children's character where she explores her identity and encourages fellow Mattel Inc dolls to express individuality.", "Captain Jason Chambers from Australian reality series Below Deck Down Under has addressed sexual misconduct on the show's set.\n\nHe thanked the production crew for \"breaking the fourth wall and stepping in\" during two incidents during filming for the new series.\n\nTwo cast members were seen making unwanted sexual advances in recent episodes of the yacht-based production.\n\nBoth cast members, Luke Jones and Laura Bileskalne, were fired on the show.\n\nThe popular series is in the spotlight after two incidents were featured in the sixth and seventh episodes, which both aired on Australian TV station Bravo on 7 August.\n\nCapt Chambers said the \"not acceptable\" incidents took place a year ago, when he was not personally present, after cast members had been drinking together.\n\nIn an Instagram video, he said \"I don't know what goes on\" when the show's crew socialise together, but added: \"If it's inadequate behaviour, you've seen that production would inform me.\"\n\nLuke Jones, who has featured in 11 episodes of the series, was shown entering the cabin of fellow cast member Margot Sisson without consent.\n\nAt the time, she was asleep after drinking alcohol and Mr Jones was undressed.\n\nMr Jones was shown climbing into her bed, which prompted the production crew to intervene to make Mr Jones leave the room, saying that Ms Sisson had \"said no\".\n\nMr Jones then attempted to close the cabin door and proceeded to hold it shut, before eventually leaving.\n\nWriting on Instagram after the episode aired, Ms Sisson thanked producers for stepping in during the incident and said it was \"vital\" for the incident to feature in the episode because \"this issue is all too real and far too frequent\".\n\nMr Jones has not commented on the incident publicly.\n\nDuring the same episode Ms Bileskalne was shown entering the room of another cast member, Adam Kodra, and attempting to massage and kiss him without consent.\n\nThe episode showed Cpt Chambers dismissing both from the yacht where the series is filmed and both have left the production altogether.\n\nIn an Instagram post after the show aired, Ms Bileskalne apologised, saying: \"I made [Mr Kodra] feel uncomfortable and no one should be put in that position\".\n\nUK domestic abuse charity Refuge has praised the show's producers for how the incidents were handled.\n\nIt said the episodes had \"sparked vital conversations around consent\", adding: \"We're pleased to see that action was quickly taken to ensure a safe environment.\"\n\nBravo has not commented on the incidents. BBC News has contacted the production company.\n\nBelow Deck Down Under first aired in March 2022. It is a spin-off the American series Below Deck.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Coal extraction at Merthyr Tydfil's Ffos-y-Fran mine began in 2007 on a 15-year licence\n\nClimate campaigners are taking legal action to try and force the closure of the UK's largest opencast coalmine.\n\nPlanning permission at Ffos-y-Fran near Merthyr Tydfil ran out last September but the mine's operators have kept digging for coal.\n\nCampaigners want Merthyr Tydfil council and the Welsh government to take action to prevent further mining.\n\nThe Welsh government declined to comment in case it jeopardised any future decision it made.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil council has been asked to comment.\n\nFigures showed more than 300,000 tonnes of coal have been produced at Ffos-y-Fran since planning permission expired last September.\n\nThe operators - Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd - are in the process of appealing an enforcement notice from the local authority issued at the start of June.\n\nThe company has since been handed a separate notice from the UK Coal Authority after it was revealed mining was happening outside the permitted area.\n\nCampaigners have said both Merthyr Tydfil council and the Welsh government have the power to go further and issue a \"stop notice\" to prevent further mining.\n\nPeople living close to Ffos-y-Fran have objected to the scheme since its inception\n\nOn Wednesday, lawyers on behalf of campaign groups Coal Action Network and the Good Law Project filed proceedings for a judicial review in the High Court.\n\nThey argued council officials and Welsh ministers have not acted quickly enough in their decision-making around what to do about the mine's actions.\n\nCoal Action Network campaigner Daniel Therkelsen said the council had \"betrayed\" residents and the Welsh government had \"stubbornly refused to step in and put its climate policies into practice\".\n\nGood Law Legal Manager Jennine Walker added it was \"hard to believe\" the company had been allowed to carry on mining \"in broad daylight, for over 11 months\" past the expiry of their planning permission.\n\nMerthyr (South Wales) Ltd has been asked to respond.\n\nIn the past it has said \"it would not be appropriate to comment whilst the appeal process is ongoing\".", "It's been a busy day for PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne as he faced the public on the force's data breach crisis for the first time.\n\nIt came after a mammoth four-hour meeting of the NI Policing Board, where he was questioned by board members.\n\nHe apologised and revealed that there are unverified claims dissident republicans have the information leaked in the data breaches.\n\nWith that we're bringing our live coverage to a close, but you can follow all the latest on this story on the BBC News website.\n\nToday's live page was written by Jess Lawrence, Emily McGarvey, Amy Stewart and Jake Wood.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fernando Villavicencio was shot as he left a rally in Quito\n\nA candidate in Ecuador's forthcoming presidential election who campaigned against corruption and gangs has been shot dead at a campaign rally.\n\nFernando Villavicencio, a member of the country's national assembly, was attacked as he left the event in the capital, Quito, on Wednesday.\n\nHe is one of the few candidates to allege links between organised crime and government officials in Ecuador.\n\nPresident Guillermo Lasso said organised crime was behind the killing.\n\nEcuador has historically been a relatively safe and stable country in Latin America, but crime has shot up in recent years, fuelled by the growing presence of Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, which have infiltrated local criminal gangs.\n\nFernando Villavicencio had received threats from a gang calling itself Los Choneros last month and had been given a security detail.\n\nFollowing his murder, a video appeared on social media in which heavily armed men wearing balaclavas claimed responsibility for the murder. The men claim to belong to Los Lobos (The Wolves), who are rivals of Los Choneros.\n\nBut hours later, another video appeared online in which another group of men - this time not wearing masks - claimed they were Los Lobos and denied they had played a role in the assassination, claiming the other video was an attempt by their rivals to set them up for the murder.\n\nBoth gangs wield considerable power and the violence they have sowed has been one of the key concerns of Ecuadoreans ahead of presidential elections on 20 August.\n\nMr Villavicencio, who was married and had five children, was one of eight candidates in the first round of the election - although he was not the frontrunner and was polling around the middle of the pack.\n\nIt's the smallest of the Andean nations in South America, sitting on the equator (hence the name) between Colombia and Peru.\n\nHe was one of eight candidates in the running for the first round of the election with a focus on fighting corruption - and he and his team had been threatened by the leader of a gang linked to drug-trafficking.\n\nOnce a relatively peaceful nation, Ecuador has been ravaged by the arrival of international drug cartels profiting from a boom in cocaine trafficking - and the issue can only grow in importance in the presidential election campaign.\n\nMr Villavicencio, a serving congressman and former journalist, had condemned what he said was the lenient approach to the gangs, saying that were he to come to power, there would be a crackdown.\n\nHe is not the first politician to be assassinated. Last month, the mayor of the city of Manta was shot dead, while in February, a candidate for mayor in the city of Puerto López was killed.\n\nBut the shooting of a presidential candidate at a public event in the capital is the most brazen attack so far and shocking testimony to the strength of the gangs.\n\nWitnesses say Mr Villavicencio was attacked as he was leaving a campaign event at about 18:20 (00:20 GMT) local time.\n\nPolice officers work outside the rally site where Mr Villavicencio was killed\n\nThe event was held in Quito's financial district, in a building which had previously housed a school.\n\nA burst of gunfire could be heard as the 59-year-old was getting into a car outside the building where, just moments before, he had been meeting voters.\n\nMr Villavicencio's uncle, Galo Valencia, described the moment his nephew was killed: \"We were just a few metres from the school when we were hit by a hail of about 40 bullets.\"\n\nMr Valencia said his nephew had been hit by three bullets in the head.\n\nCarlos Figueroa, another witness, said that \"30 seconds after he [Fernando Villavicencio] left through the main door, the shots started\".\n\nVideo from inside the building shows panicked supporters diving for cover. In the chaos, nine other people were injured, including a candidate for the country's assembly and two police officers, prosecutors said.\n\nThe suspect was also shot in an exchange of bullets with security and later died from his injuries, the country's attorney general said on social media. Six people have been detained by police in connection with the assassination after raids in Quito, they added.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared and current President Guillermo Lasso has vowed the \"crime will not go unpunished\".\n\nMr Lasso, who will not be on the ballot, said he was \"outraged and shocked\" by the killing, adding: \"Organised crime has come a long way, but the full weight of the law is going to fall on them.\"\n\nThe frontrunner in the polls, Luisa González shared her \"solidarity\" with Mr Villavicencio's family, adding: \"This vile act will not go unpunished.\"\n\nFormer vice-president and fellow candidate Otto Sonnenholzner also sent his \"deepest condolences and deep solidarity\" to Mr Villavicencio's family. \"May God keep him in his glory,\" he wrote. \"Our country has got out of hand.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The original graphic (left) was reposted 45 minutes later, saying \"any EU country\" instead of \"any other EU country\"\n\nDowning Street has had to correct a tweet, after it suggested the UK is still a member of the European Union.\n\nIn a post on X, the new name for Twitter, the official No 10 account used a graphic saying the UK \"is home to twice as many AI companies as any other EU country\".\n\nIt was deleted and a new graphic, saying \"any EU country\" instead, was reposted 45 minutes later.\n\nThe UK left the trading bloc in January 2020, after the 2016 referendum.\n\nThe post was promoting the government's investment in artificial intelligence, including an announcement of £13m for use of the technology in healthcare such as surgical robotics.\n\nThe thread also highlighted the appointment of experts Matt Clifford and Jonathan Black, tasked with leading the preparations for the first major international summit on the responsible use of AI, which the UK is set to host later this year.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he wants the UK to lead efforts to ensure the benefits of AI are \"harnessed for the good of humanity\".\n\nHe has pledged £1bn in funding over the next 10 years to help the UK become a global hub for AI, and founded a UK taskforce with a remit of maximising the benefits of the tech while keeping it safe.\n\nBut some experts have questioned the UK's leadership credentials in the field.\n\nDowning Street's post pointed out that leading AI firm DeepMind was founded in the UK more than a decade ago, while OpenAI and Anthropic AI both opened their first international office here.\n\nHowever, DeepMind was sold in 2014 to US giant Google and some experts have suggested it is easier for tech start-ups to grow in the US.\n\nThe term AI covers computer systems able to do tasks that would normally need human intelligence.\n\nThis includes chatbots able to understand questions and respond with human-like answers, and systems capable of recognising objects in pictures.", "Fernando Villavicencio's campaign slogan was: \"It's time for the brave\"\n\n\"Here, we pay for democracy with our lives.\"\n\nThe words Fernando Villavicencio shouted into a microphone at a campaign rally just moments before he died in a hail of bullets could, just a few years ago, have been dismissed as an exaggeration, a rhetorical flourish.\n\nBut on Wednesday, they proved all too prophetic. Villavicencio, a candidate in the upcoming presidential election, was gunned down as he left the rally in the capital, Quito.\n\nHis assassination is not an isolated incident.\n\nA mayor shot as he was inspecting public works, bodies strung from bridges, gang leaders publishing videos in which they threaten to kill politicians unless they do their bidding - a seemingly endless litany of violence has dominated the headlines in this country previously known for its safety.\n\nIn 2018, the murder rate stood at 5.8 per 100,000 inhabitants. A majority of its population told a Gallup poll they felt safe walking alone at night.\n\nBy 2022, Ecuador's homicide rate had more than quadrupled and Ecuadoreans' perception of safety had plummeted, along with their confidence in police to keep them secure.\n\nIt is safe to assume that, were a poll to be conducted now, the percentage of those who feel safe would be even lower.\n\nHow did Ecuador, a country which until so recently was considered a safe oasis for tourists and locals alike, become a nation where democratically elected politicians are gunned down?\n\nThe answer is gangs - and geography.\n\nEcuador is sandwiched between Colombia and Peru, the two largest producers of cocaine in the world.\n\nCocaine production recently reached a record high, according to the United Nations Global Report on Cocaine 2023.\n\nColombia and Peru, where the coca leaf - the raw material used to make cocaine - is grown, are at the centre of this illegal trade spanning large parts of the globe.\n\nAnd while production is up, so are the seizures of the drug made by police worldwide.\n\nColombia, in particular, has spent decades trying to stem the flow of cocaine and its police have received training and support from the US.\n\nBut just as police forces have pooled resources in order to disrupt the flow of cocaine, the gangs doing the trafficking have also become more international.\n\nFollowing the demobilisation of Colombia's Farc rebel group - once a major player in the cocaine trade - new players have emerged which have forged alliances far beyond Colombia's borders.\n\nMexican drug cartels and criminal groups from the Balkans have gained a foothold in South America.\n\nThese groups were keen to explore new ways to transport the cocaine produced in Colombia to its buyers in Europe and the United States.\n\nAs formerly lawless areas in Colombia came under control of the state forces following the peace deal signed between the Colombian government and the Farc rebels in 2016, the need for new routes became more pressing.\n\nThese transnational crime groups increasingly eyed Ecuador as an attractive transit country for their drug shipments.\n\nEcuador has become a transit country for cocaine\n\nIts porous border with Colombia, its good infrastructure and its large ports on the Pacific coast - such as Guayaquil - made Ecuador geographically convenient for these gangs.\n\nEcuador's security forces also had little experience of dealing with powerful cartels, meaning they were not prepared for the influx of heavily armed criminals.\n\nIt did not take long for transnational crime syndicates to infiltrate local gangs, which up until then had dedicated themselves to lesser crimes such as extortion.\n\nMany of these new alliances were forged inside Ecuador's jails and it was behind bars that the surge of violence and brutality which has since spread to Ecuador's cities first erupted.\n\nGangs with ties to rival cartels in Mexico confronted each other in jails, mutilating each other with home-made weapons and displaying the decapitated heads of their enemies.\n\nHundreds of inmates have been killed in deadly fights in Ecuador's overcrowded prisons over the past years. Some of the deadliest incidents happened in El Litoral prison in Guayaquil.\n\nEfforts to quell the violence by transferring prisoners to different jails seem merely to have spread the problem nationwide.\n\nViolent inmates have been transferred in an effort to separate rival gangs but the move appears to have spread the problem wider\n\nLast month, 136 guards were held hostage by inmates who staged simultaneous riots in jails across the country.\n\nAnd while many of the leaders of the gangs which have emerged in Ecuador are behind bars, the violence they have unleashed has not been confined to the prisons.\n\nThrough mobile phones smuggled into the jails, they run their criminal enterprises on the outside and order the killings of those perceived as standing in their way.\n\nFernando Villavicencio had been threatened the week before he died by members of Los Choneros, a gang named after the city of Chone, in western Ecuador.\n\nLos Choneros has ties to the Sinaloa cartel, whose former leader, Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán is in jail in the US.\n\nBuoyed by the money channelled to them from their new allies abroad and their firepower boosted by high-powered weapons smuggled in from the US via Mexico, these gangs have become a formidable enemy.\n\nSoldiers have been drafted in to restore order in jails after deadly fights broke out between rival gangs\n\nFew are willing to confront them. Fernando Villavicencio was one of them.\n\nEven after having been warned by Los Choneros not to defy the gang or even mention its name, Villavicencio remained true to his campaign slogan: \"It's time for the brave\".\n\n\"They [the gangs] said they would break me, but I don't fear them,\" he said in a video uploaded to the internet shortly after he was threatened.\n\nVillavicencio was given police protection, but he continued to campaign. Just moments before his death, he was shaking the hands of voters.\n\nShortly after his brutal killing, a video appeared showing masked men admitting carrying out his assassination and threatening another presidential candidate.\n\nThe masked men say they belong not to Los Choneros, but to a gang calling itself Los Lobos (The Wolves), which has links to another powerful Mexican criminal organisation, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.\n\nAnother video appeared hours later, in which men who claiming to be Los Lobos denied having played any role in the killing. \"We don't cover our faces (...) the video in which masked men with assault rifles pretend to be members of our organisation is totally false.\"\n\nThe group of men in the second video said the first video was uploaded in order to \"destabilise the country and blame Los Lobos for this tragedy which is happening in our country\".\n\nWhile police have not yet said who they think is behind Fernando Villavicencio's assassination, the fact that a presidential candidate could be killed while under police protection at a public event in the capital will leave Ecuadoreans who do not enjoy such levels of protection fearing for their safety.", "Agustín Intriago had been re-elected in February\n\nAn Ecuadorean mayor has been shot dead and a bystander killed in an attack while he toured his city.\n\nAgustín Intriago was hit several times by a gunman in Manta on Sunday. Ariana Estefanía Chancay, a local female footballer, also died.\n\nIntriago's wife, Rosita Saldarriaga, said her heart and that of her children had been \"torn out\" by the murder.\n\nPolice have yet to confirm a motive but said that Mr Intriago had reported receiving threats.\n\nMs Saldarriaga wrote on Twitter that \"all Agustín did was to work for Manta, with devotion and total determination\". \"He wanted our children and all the children of Manta to live in a better city and that's why he gave all,\" she added.\n\nThe mayor was shot several times by a gunman who had arrived in a stolen pick-up truck, officials said. He was pronounced dead in hospital.\n\nThe truck's driver was injured in a pursuit and arrested, police commander Edwin Noguera told reporters. However, the gunman escaped.\n\nMr Intriago had been re-elected in February to a second four-year-term. He was inspecting a building site where a new sewer is being built when he was killed.\n\nHe had just been approached by Ms Chancay, a 29-year-old footballer for local club Las Dragonas, when the gunman opened fire.\n\nLocal media said Ms Chancay had wanted to ask the mayor for support for her amateur team.\n\nThe murder has shocked Ecuador, where attacks on elected officials had until recently been rare.\n\nIn February, a politician running for mayor in Puerto López was murdered just hours before polls opened.\n\nWeeks earlier, the mayoral candidate in Salinas, another coastal town, had also been shot dead.\n\nPort cities, such as Manta where Mr Intriago governed, have been worst hit by the surge in violence as rival gangs seek to control the ports to smuggle cocaine out of Ecuador to destinations as far away as the US and Europe.\n\nTransnational crime gangs from Colombia and Mexico have infiltrated local Ecuadorean gangs and brought their violent tactics with them, security analysts say.", "'I'm not fussy, as long as it's hot', says Kate who is planning a last-minute getaway\n\nRecord rain in the UK is leading to a rise in last-minute holiday bookings, travel agencies report.\n\nBookings in July for travel in August more than quadrupled, according to Advantage Travel Partnership, which represents about 20% of travel agents.\n\nThe BBC spoke to 11 major travel agencies and most had seen a rise in bookings during the UK's rainy summer.\n\nOne last-minute booker is hairdresser Kate Lodge, who said she will \"pay whatever\" for a holiday abroad.\n\nThe mum from Eastbourne said she just wants to have a holiday where she and her son can get some sun.\n\n\"You can't really get cheap last minute holidays any more,\" she said.\n\n\"But I don't want to book time off for my holiday and for it to be raining all week. I'm wearing winter clothes and it's August. I don't mind what it takes, I'll be getting on the plane.\"\n\nLucy Hancock, a customer at the salon, said she did the same in July, taking a last-minute trip to Italy.\n\n\"The weather was looking pretty iffy that week. My daughter was off school, so rather than her just lying around being on her phone all day we decided to do a quick five-day trip,\" she said.\n\nAs Lucy gets her hair done, she explains she would never have considered having a UK summer holiday this July. Covid prevented her from going away in the previous years, and this year the weather was too temperamental.\n\nEastbourne, a sunny UK beachside town, is not seeing the typical August sun\n\nFor some people, travelling now may be out of the question. The cost-of-living crisis has hit families hard, and package holidays, flights and hotels are more expensive this year than ever. Some holiday makers are opting for all-inclusive deals in a bid to keep costs under control.\n\nFirefighters are battling to control wildfires in Portugal, after fires in Greece ruined many people's holidays in July. Concern over climate change has also raised questions over how often we should fly.\n\nPrices are up on last year, and Sean Tipton from the travel association Abta said many destinations didn't have much availability left. That means less choice for people searching for short notice deals.\n\n\"You can get them if you are flexible, not too fussed about which country, which destination - but I'd also recommend thinking about going in September, October, even November,\" he said.\n\nOther travel agents said intense heat and wildfires were already making some customers consider autumn getaways instead.\n\nJulia Lo Bue-Said runs Advantage Travel Partnership, a network of independent travel agents. She told the BBC 18% of bookings within the last month have been for travel in August, a much higher proportion than the 4% she would normally expect.\n\nThe end of travel restrictions following the pandemic means this year bookings are higher than last year. But the BBC spoke to 11 major travel agencies, and most said they have also noticed a peak in last-minute bookings specifically during the rainy summer months.\n\nOnTheBeach told the BBC that fewer people had booked holidays during June when the UK was enjoying a mini-heatwave. \"But as soon as we experienced a wet July, bookings increased,\" the operator said.\n\nA spokesperson for Jet2 said the weather led their customers to become more flexible over their holiday destination. \"More people are simply looking to get away this summer and swap the UK weather for some sunshine, regardless of the destination,\" they said.\n\n'[Finding] out we're not going to get the summer we hoped for has been a big driver [for holiday bookings]'\n\nTrevor Ridler, regional manager for Fred Olsen Travel Agent in Eastbourne, said he had seen last-minute bookings rise 25% compared to pre-pandemic levels, despite cost-of-living pressures.\n\n\"People are still wanting that holiday and they are willing to make sacrifices to get that.\n\n\"For many clients, the holiday is the most important thing. Maybe over that bit of decorating.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Junior doctors in England are starting their fifth round of strike action with no sign of a breakthrough in their bitter pay dispute with the government.\n\nThe doctors' union, the BMA, made headlines earlier this year when it said pay had fallen so far behind inflation that its members would be better off serving coffee than treating patients. The government described that as misleading and said the average junior doctor earns between £20 and £30 an hour.\n\nIn reality, that term - junior doctor - covers someone fresh out of medical school right up to those with a decade or more of experience. And pay is complicated, with salaries varying massively as medics move up grades when they become more skilled and start to specialise.\n\nBBC News asked two junior doctors, at different stages of their careers, to show us their wage slips and explain exactly how much they earn.\n\nDr Robert Gittings graduated from medical school in Liverpool after studying for a master's in infectious disease biology.\n\nLast summer, he started his first, or FY1, year as a junior doctor in London and is currently working on the infectious diseases ward as part of his rotation - where doctors get experience in different types of medicine.\n\n\"In my hospital, we have a lot of tuberculosis patients, patients with uncontrolled HIV, and we also get pneumonias and, sometimes, we get a tropical infection coming in,\" he says.\n\nRobert is paid a basic salary before tax of about £2,450 a month for a standard 40-hour week - or just over £14 an hour. Then there are additional roster hours - which are compulsory - taking his average working week to 48 hours.\n\nUnder what the government calls a \"final offer\", his pay will go up in October in two ways: a straight 6% pay rise and £1,250 permanently added to annual salaries - both backdated to April.\n\nBut that falls well short of the 35% increase for which the BMA has been asking to make up for years of below-inflation rises.\n\nFor Robert, the latest pay offer would be worth roughly £250 a month before tax.\n\nHe also receives extra payments each month:\n\n\"Sometimes night shifts can be really busy,\" he says. \"There have been times when I've had to manage a patient by myself who is deteriorating, and I have to do everything for them, just with advice over text message.\"\n\nJunior doctors like Robert typically spend five or six years in medical school before starting their jobs.\n\nHe says he graduated with about £50,000 of debt including tuition fees and - in June - paid back £75 in student loans from his salary.\n\nThere are other deductions including £257 - or 9.8% of his wages - for a pension, with the NHS contributing 20.6% under the latest career average scheme, more than most private sector pensions.\n\nIn June, Robert took home a total of £2,164 after tax and deductions. That works out as a total annual salary of roughly £37,000.\n\nHe says he is now looking to take a year out to work abroad - probably in Australia. \"I'm not confident the pay here is going to improve as much as I'd like it to,\" he says. \"I would really quite strongly consider staying [there].\"\n\nDr Kiran Rahim qualified from medical school in 2011 and now treats sick children as a paediatric registrar - one of the most experienced junior doctor grades.\n\n\"I was at work yesterday and it was really, really busy,\" she says. \"I was managing A&E - so taking in all the paediatric referrals, all the sick kids who needed to be seen.\n\n\"And then managing the acute stay ward, making sure the children were getting their treatment, accessing and booking scans for them.\"\n\nKiran has taken three years out to have children herself, and is now working part-time while she looks after her young family, meaning her training - and her time as a junior doctor - has been \"elongated\".\n\nFor an average three-day week, she is paid a basic salary before tax of roughly £3,315 a month - or just under £28 an hour - which is the same rate as a full-time doctor. Like Robert, she also receives London weighting.\n\nIn July, she was paid another £292 for night shifts and £132 for working one weekend in every six or seven.\n\nShe says the \"vast majority\" of junior doctors at her level end up working extra unpaid hours before they can go home at the end of the day.\n\n\"I can't just leave a sick patient because it's unsafe, and it's not fair on the people who are already fighting fire on the next shift,\" she adds.\n\nAs evidenced by her payslip, Kiran did pay more tax than usual in July after she says she worked extra shifts earlier this year to cover staff sickness - that money should be refunded later by HMRC.\n\nShe has just finished paying off her student loan, although she says - like other junior doctors - there are unavoidable costs which do not show up on her payslip.\n\nShe pays £433 a year to the GMC to be on the doctors' register. There are charges to be a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and she has had to pay thousands of pounds in exam fees.\n\nPlus there is the cost of personal indemnity insurance - just under £700 a year - to protect her in case she is sued for medical negligence.\n\nIn a typical month, Kiran says she takes home around £2,400 after tax and deductions for a 27-hour week. If she was working full-time then she would earn a total annual salary of roughly £69,000.\n\n\"Pay is important but so are all the other things that make you want to go to work,\" she says. \"This is not the job I signed up to do 10 years ago and I have seen a decline in morale, in our working environment and in our working conditions.\"\n\nThe government says it has accepted the latest recommendations made by an independent pay review body and its most recent offer represents an 8.8% annual pay rise for the average junior doctor in England.\n\n\"Our award balances the need to keep inflation in check while recognising the important work they do,\" says Health Secretary Steve Barclay.\n\nAre you a doctor with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The poster was on display behind the till at Farrants in Cobham, Surrey\n\nA shop that faced racism allegations over a poster showing \"broken black men\" on a tobacco plantation has removed the image.\n\nIn a video shared on social media on Tuesday, Misan Harriman said the signage behind the counter at Farrants in Cobham, Surrey, was \"triggering and racist\".\n\n\"There is no conceivable reason it should be there,\" he said.\n\nThe shop has since apologised for displaying the image.\n\nFarrants sells a selection of confectionery, greetings cards, newspapers and toys, as well as hosting its own tobacco room, which offers cigars and tobacco.\n\nThe image appeared to show black people working on a tobacco plantation overseen by white men, which the store said was taken at Pinar del Rio plantation in Cuba in 1907 - 21 years after the abolition of slavery in the country.\n\nA poster next to the image explains why the shop chose to display the picture\n\nBut Mr Harriman, the chairman of London's Southbank Centre and a photographer who has taken portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, said that it was irrelevant if the image actually displayed indentured servants or slaves.\n\n\"This is in a family store. This imagery is massively triggering and racist,\" he said.\n\n\"It's an image of black men, broken black men, at a tobacco plantation with their overseers next to them. I kid you not.\"\n\nIn a statement released on Instagram, Farrants said: \"The image that has caused offence has been removed.\n\n\"We apologise unreservedly for any and all distress that it caused.\"\n\nA statement previously displayed next to the image in the shop said it was displayed to \"honour, respect and recognise\" those involved in the development of Havana cigars.\n\nSurrey Police said while no formal reports had been made, officers had spoken with the shop's owner.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk", "Four new pieces will join the comedian's \"Born on a Rainy Day\" collection\n\nSir Billy Connolly has released four limited edition art prints as part of his \"Born on a Rainy Day\" series.\n\nThe comedian was inspired to take up art while touring Canada in 2012 and now has an \"idyllic life\" drawing.\n\nLike his comedy, the tongue-in-cheek titles of the drawings such as \"Pontius Tries Pilates\" and \"Drunk Donkey\" were inspired by his life.\n\nSir Billy said his Drunk Donkey piece was inspired by two pet donkeys he kept while living in Scotland.\n\nSir Billy was inspired to create Drunk Donkey by his own family pets who would escape into a nearby village\n\n\"Our donkeys used to escape over the wall of the garden, run down to the village and the villagers would bring them back,\" he said.\n\n\"Donkeys always look drunk and behave drunk. This one's a friendly looking guy and I think he's been drunk a few times because he's got a beer belly on him. And he's got the drunk legs!\n\n\"Donkeys are funny animals but it's an endearing kind of funny.\n\n\"They're lovely, they're friendly, they're like dogs. They cling to you, they've got a real tie to human beings.\"\n\nThe Glasgow-born comedian - named the UK's most influential stand-up comedian of all time - now lives in Florida but continues to find humour and inspiration from his everyday life.\n\n\"Pontius Tries Pilates\"' is just a guy at the gym \"trying his best\", said Sir Billy\n\n\"The Big Yin\" found name inspiration for his piece \"Pontius Tries Pilates\" when his wife, Dr Pamela Stephenson-Connolly, joined a pilates gym.\n\n\"He didn't get a name until years after I had drawn him,\" Connolly recalled\n\n\"I said it would be funny to call it Pontius Pilates, then I thought people would be offended by that, so I fiddled around and I got Pontius Tries Pilates.\"\n\n\"He's just a guy trying at the gym, trying his best. I don't understand the whole gymnasium culture, but he's he does and he's good.\"\n\nConnolly said that although he goes to the gym and does Tai Chi nothing seems to change his body.\n\n\"I keep hoping that one day I'll wake up and everything will work; I'll be slim and muscular. I think I can forget it!\"\n\nThe 80-year-old comedian began his artistic career while touring in Canada where he picked up paper and pens in a Montreal art shop and started drawing \"weird islands\".\n\nHe said: \"One-Armed Juggler is an example of the fact that most of the figures in my work are doing things that don't matter.\n\n\"Just doing the things they do, thinking they'll do you good - I've spent my life doing that.\n\n\"Nightmare\" was inspired by The Big Yin's own dreams where he sings, laughs and even directs plays.\n\nNow a respected artist, Connolly said it \"blows me sideways\" that people want to buy his art.\n\n\"My manager sent them to the gallery, and now I make pictures and they're lovely to me,\" he said.\n\n\"And the fact that other people like them and want to live with them in their homes blows me sideways.\n\n\"To have somebody who wants a part of your mind in their life - I thought my wife had been the only one to fall for that, but it turns out that she's not alone.\"\n\nThe collection of prints are available through gallery Castle Fine Art, alongside art by Bob Dylan and Johnny Depp.", "Drone and helicopter footage shows neighbourhoods burnt to the ground, after fast-moving wildfires tore through the Hawaiian island of Maui.\n\nThe deaths in the city of Lahaina, the island's main tourist destination, came as strong winds from a distant hurricane fanned the flames.\n\nThousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes and a state of emergency has been declared.", "The six people who have been arrested in connection with the killing of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio are Colombian, police say.\n\nA seventh suspect, who died from wounds in a shootout with police on Thursday, was also Colombian.\n\nMr Villavicencio was killed leaving a campaign event in the capital Quito.\n\nThe interior minister said a police investigation into the \"abominable event\" was under way.\n\nInterior Minister Juan Zapata said officers would work to \"discover the motive of this crime and its intellectual authors\".\n\nThe six detainees have been identified as Andres M, Jose N, Eddy G, Camilo R, Jules C, and Jhon Rodriguez, Mr Zapata told a press conference on Thursday.\n\nHe added that during the police raid that resulted in their arrest, officers found a rifle, a submachine gun, four pistols, three grenades, four boxes of ammunition, two motorbikes, and a vehicle that had been reported stolen in the group's possession.\n\nA vocal critic of organized crime, Mr Villavicencio was one of the few presidential candidates to allege links between corruption and government officials.\n\nPresident Guillermo Lasso said the assassination was an attempt to sabotage the election.\n\nHe added that voting would go ahead as planned on 20 August, despite a national state of emergency.\n\nHe said organised crime was behind the killing and has asked US federal agents to help investigate, with FBI agents due to arrive shortly.\n\nMr Villavicencio, a member of the country's national assembly, had received threats from a gang calling itself Los Choneros last month and had been given a security detail.\n\nFollowing his murder, a video appeared on social media in which heavily armed men wearing balaclavas claimed responsibility for the murder. The men claimed to belong to Los Lobos (The Wolves), who are rivals of Los Choneros.\n\nHowever another video appeared online just hours later, in which another group of men - this time not wearing masks - claimed they were Los Lobos members and denied any role in the assassination, claiming the other video was an attempt by their rivals to set them up for the murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fernando Villavicencio was shot as he left a rally in Quito\n\nIt's the smallest of the Andean nations in South America, sitting on the equator (hence the name) between Colombia and Peru.\n\nHe was one of eight candidates in the running for the first round of the election with a focus on fighting corruption - and he and his team had been threatened by the leader of a gang linked to drug-trafficking.\n\nOnce a relatively peaceful nation, Ecuador has been ravaged by the arrival of international drug cartels profiting from a boom in cocaine trafficking - and the issue can only grow in importance in the presidential election campaign.", "Officers had their body-worn video cameras activated during the incident\n\nPolice have received a complaint after a woman said her autistic daughter was arrested for saying a female officer \"looked like her lesbian nana\".\n\nA video uploaded to TikTok by her mother showed the girl being detained by seven officers outside her home in Leeds early on Monday 7 August.\n\nOfficers said she was taken home after reports that she was intoxicated and at risk in Leeds city centre.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the video showed a \"limited snapshot\" of events.\n\nThe incident was filmed by the teenager's mother and posted with the caption: \"This is what police do when dealing with autistic children.\n\n\"My daughter told me the police officer looked like her nana, who is a lesbian.\n\n\"The officer took it the wrong way and said it was a homophobic comment (it wasn't). The officer then entered my home.\n\n\"My daughter was having panic attacks from being touched by them and they still continued to manhandle her.\"\n\nA West Yorkshire Police spokesman said a 16-year-old had been arrested on suspicion of a homophobic public order offence but said the footage \"only provides a very limited snapshot of the circumstances of this incident\".\n\nThe video shows two officers in the hallway of the family's home, while the girl sits in a corner next to a cupboard.\n\nThe mother is heard saying: \"It's not a homophobic remark, she said 'I think she's a lesbian, like my nana'.\"\n\nShe later says: \"You're going to remove her for what, you're bothered she said the word lesbian? Her nana is a lesbian, she's married to a woman.\n\nMore officers arrive and the girl is seen screaming as she is taken away.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Oz Khan said: \"West Yorkshire Police takes its responsibilities around the welfare of young people taken into custody and around neurodiversity very seriously.\n\n\"We also maintain that our officers and staff should not have to face abuse while working to keep our communities safe.\n\n\"We are fully reviewing the circumstances of this incident and ask that people avoid reaching any conclusions about it solely on the basis of the social media video.\"\n\nThe force added that the girl was subsequently interviewed with an appropriate adult and had been released on bail pending further nquiries.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The scene on Hammond Road in Woking remained taped off on Friday\n\nThree people detectives want to speak to over the death of a 10-year-old girl in Woking are believed to have left the UK, police have said.\n\nThe girl's body was found after police officers were called to an address in Hammond Road, Woking, at about 02:50 BST on Thursday following a safety concern.\n\nDet Ch Insp Debbie White said it was \"a devastating incident\".\n\nThe three people are believed to have left the UK on Wednesday.\n\nDet Ch Insp White said: \"We have identified three people we would like to speak to in connection with our investigation and from our enquiries, we believe that they left the country on Wednesday, 9 August. We are working with our partners, including international authorities, to locate them.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the force said no-one else had been injured, and no arrests had been made. A post-mortem examination will be carried out on Tuesday.\n\nHouse-to-house inquiries were being conducted on Friday, and police said they will maintain a presence at the scene over the coming week.\n\nInsp Sandra Carlier, borough commander for Woking, said: \"I know that the community are shocked and saddened by yesterday's events, and we stand with them in their grief.\"\n\nA neighbour who lives directly opposite the house said a family with six children had lived at the property for less than six months.\n\n\"They were normal children, friendly. They seemed like a decent family,\" he said.\n\nFlowers have been laid at the scene in tribute to the 10-year-old girl\n\nOn Thursday, Det Ch Insp White said: \"Our officers are working hard to build a picture of what happened.\n\n\"We have no reason to believe there is any risk to the public.\"\n\nThere was a significant police presence near the address in Hammond Road, which would remain closed over the coming days, she added.\n\nThe deceased girl's family have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.\n\nAnother neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, described the area as a \"pretty normal\" neighbourhood, adding: \"There is no real activity going on.\"\n\nAnother local added: \"The area is very peaceful. It is busy during term time with children walking to and from. But it's a lovely, vibrant place normally.\"\n\nA spokesperson for St Mary's Horsell in Woking said the church would be open so the community could attend for \"prayer, reflection or comfort\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with our whole community, but especially those who will be so deeply affected by this tragedy,\" they said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors have warned cocaine is often mixed with other harmful substances\n\nGlobal cocaine production has reached record levels as demand rebounds following Covid lockdowns, a new report has found.\n\nThe UN Office on Drugs and Crime said coca cultivation rose by 35% between 2020 and 2021 to record levels.\n\nFindings suggest new hubs for trafficking have emerged in West and Central Africa.\n\nThe report also said traffickers were using international postal services more often to get drugs to consumers.\n\n\"Globally, the use of parcel and courier services increased significantly during the Covid-related lockdown due to restrictions on passenger flights,\" the Global Report on Cocaine report said.\n\nIt noted a rise in West African countries in the use of \"well established, globally operating postal services as well as smaller shopping companies\" used to smuggle quantities of cocaine to Europe and beyond.\n\nOverall, the the report found Europe and North America are the largest markets for cocaine, followed by South and Central America and the Caribbean.\n\nWhile the report said the markets in Africa and Asia were \"still limited\", the UN's Ghada Waly said the potential for the market to expand there was a dangerous reality.\n\nProduction increase was the result of an expansion in the cultivation of coca bush, as well as improvements in converting coca into powdered cocaine, the report found.\n\nIt added the outbreak of Covid-19 had a \"disruptive\" effect on drug markets as international travel was severely curtailed.\n\nDemand for cocaine slumped as nightclubs and bars were shut during the pandemic lockdowns.\n\n\"However, the most recent data suggests this slump has had little impact on longer-term trends,\" the report says. \"The global supply of cocaine is at record levels.\"\n\nIn the UK, the report says there has been a \"significant increase\" in seizures of cocaine in the \"fast parcel and postal modes\".\n\nInterceptions by law enforcement have also been on the rise - at a higher speed than production, the report outlines.\n\nReacting to the report, UN's chief of research and trend Angela Me said the supply of cocaine has risen in South America as criminal groups have taken control of areas previously run by Colombia's largest rebel group - Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).\n\nShe said this has led to competition among groups - including some foreign groups - which has increased the production.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Nick Beake investigates how Antwerp became the cocaine gateway to Europe", "The Welsh Ambulance Service conducted an audit and staff surveys to tackle a culture of misogyny\n\nA female paramedic has said she \"expects to be sexualised\" by her colleagues when she goes to work.\n\nVictoria, not her real name, said she feared her career prospects could be ruined by speaking about the culture at the Welsh Ambulance Service.\n\nShe is one of three ambulance workers who have spoken to BBC Wales as the service aims to tackle misogyny and sexual harassment head on.\n\nThe ambulance service has supported the women in sharing their stories.\n\nIt carried out its own audit and staff surveys after damning reports into other uniformed services such as the Metropolitan Police, fire service and armed forces.\n\nThe results made for uncomfortable, but unsurprising, reading.\n\nEach of the women made it clear that they work with incredible colleagues - they do not feel \"all men are bad\" - and there was a feeling that management is now taking the problem seriously.\n\nVictoria said it was a \"weird revelation\" that she was seen as something to be objectified by colleagues rather than as a paramedic.\n\nShe said she had been warned about several colleagues and told she should be careful about how she acted around them.\n\nBut on the occasions she made it clear approaches were unwanted or inappropriate, some simply \"doubled down\".\n\n\"They said 'if I work hard enough on you, you'll cave eventually'. And these comments were made out in the open,\" she said.\n\n\"They're not said behind closed doors because they're so unafraid of consequence.\"\n\nVictoria said the responsibility to prevent this kind of behaviour was usually on the victim.\n\nShe said she had taken on more laddish behaviour in order to be perceived as less feminine to be objectified less.\n\nBut she also feared she would be ruining her own career prospects by speaking about it, and would be known \"as the one that tried to get rid of banter\".\n\nShe said it \"feels like you are at the hands of a game when you're on the road or in a crew room with three other men who you do not feel safe with, because they're making comments that you feel obliged to go along with, for the sake of keeping yourself safe\".\n\n\"It can be quite a scary place to be.\n\n\"I'll make sure that I'm not on my own with specific male colleagues - I realise how terrifying that sounds.\n\n\"We've got a lot of young female colleagues coming in and they shouldn't have to make those sacrifices in their working day.\n\n\"They shouldn't have to be making those adjustments just to keep themselves safe, psychologically and physically, in the workplace.\"\n\nTamara Williams has taken part in \"reverse mentoring\" to explain the impact of sexual harassment to senior leaders\n\nTamara Williams, health board clinical lead for the Welsh Ambulance Trust, said she also experienced unwanted attention when she started with the service 12 years ago.\n\nShe said: \"Despite being clear how I felt, that escalated over time to a place where I began to feel very uncomfortable about coming to work.\n\n\"I was fearful of what might happen when I did come to work.\n\n\"It's hard enough trying to work out whether it's your behaviour that's attracted this attention.\"\n\nShe said she was worried if she would be believed and supported if she reported the harassment - and would still have been working alongside friends of the individual.\n\nShe said she \"downplayed\" the way it made her feel, and though dark humour is used as a coping mechanism, adding: \"It's important we distinguish the difference between a joke and being made to feel unsafe.\"\n\nShe is part of the Voices Network that has been established, which provides a platform for people to share their harassment experiences.\n\n\"What was the most surprising thing for me was the huge numbers of people who have come forward. We thought it might be rare - it's much more common than we realised.\"\n\nShe said she still feels an internal conflict about how she would be perceived in calling out inappropriate behaviour - whether colleagues would no longer include her in office conversations and banter.\n\n\"But the need for this to be talked about is far greater than my concern about how I'm being perceived.\"\n\nBron Biddle has been leading the work for Welsh Ambulance Service to tackle a culture of misogyny and sexual harassment\n\nBron Biddle, who has been leading the work for the Welsh Ambulance Service, said: \"Accepting the problem in its entirety, no matter how uncomfortable that might feel, is the starting point for change.\n\n\"Workplaces will always reflect society and sadly this is a much broader problem. I wasn't surprised by what I heard, but was taken back by the scale of it.\"\n\nAs chief executive of the service in Wales, Jason Killens said the results of the survey, and \"reverse mentoring\" sessions with colleagues who have lived-experience of harassment revealed \"deeply uncomfortable things\".\n\n\"I don't think I'd fully grasped how isolating it is for individuals when they are subject to this inappropriate behaviour in the workplace.\"\n\nHe added it also highlighted his own \"white, male privilege\" and \"what I now need to do to help people feel safe at work\".\n\nHe acknowledged revealing this work could be reputationally damaging for the service, but the culture needed to be confronted.\n\nChief executive of the Welsh Ambulance Service, Jason Killens, says while a minority were behaving inappropriately, it's important to confront that culture\n\nHe said he would have favoured rooting out perpetrators and parting ways 18 months ago, but now the aim was to change the way people think and behave in the workplace.\n\nWhere disciplinary action is required, it will be taken, but Ms Biddle said the language used by other organisations around \"stamping it out\" or \"zero tolerance\" does not work as it fails to change the culture and empower people to come forward with complaints.\n\n\"There's a cycle you see with sexual harassment of, 'if I point out the problem I become the problem'.\n\n\"We have a really strong sense of belonging and identity in our organisation - we all want to fit in, of course we do, but we may be missing what's becoming so normal that unfortunately is escalating to examples of behaviour we don't want to be happening.\"", "The first 50 asylum seekers had been expected to move into the barge on Tuesday\n\nPolice are investigating threatening letters warning of \"punishment\" for firms working with those set to board the UK's first migrant housing barge.\n\nThe letters, addressed to taxi firms, a security company, the barge management firm and Dorset Council, threaten that \"collaborators\" will be followed home.\n\nDorset police said it would not tolerate \"hateful actions\" intended to \"put others in fear\".\n\nThe first group of asylum seekers is due to board the barge next week.\n\nThe Bibby Stockholm is seen as a key part of the government's strategy to deter migrants from arriving on Britain's shores in small boats.\n\nMinisters say it will help cut the £6m-a-day cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels while their claims are processed.\n\nBut there has been considerable local opposition in the Dorset community of Portland Port, amid concerns about the impact hundreds of migrants will have on local services.\n\nThe letter threatens those working with asylum seekers and uses vile language to describe them\n\nThe threatening letters warn: \"For the sake of your conscience, finances... families, pets, house and cars, do not in any way work on the barge or assist.\"\n\nThey are purportedly signed \"Britain First\", but the far-right political party of the same name said it had nothing to do with them and told the BBC it \"repudiated [their] contents and intent\".\n\nCh Supt Richard Bell from Dorset Police told the BBC in a statement the force was aware of a \"small number\" of letters being sent out, adding: \"The content of the letters appears to be linked to the planned use of the Bibby Stockholm to house asylum seekers at Portland Port.\"\n\nHe added: \"We understand everyone will have a different viewpoint and opinion on the housing of asylum seekers in our communities, but we will not tolerate action that is hateful or intended to put others in fear of going about their day-to-day business.\n\n\"The investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made at this time. If you receive such a letter, please contact Dorset Police.\"\n\nIan Ferguson of Weyline Taxis, who received one of the letters, said he \"had never seen anything like it\" since starting the business in 2009.\n\nHe said: \"I don't worry about people who write nasty things, but if somebody wants to turn up, and you know, stand in front of me and say something that's totally different.\"\n\nHe admitted he was \"concerned\" for staff and would \"take any due measures\" possible, \"but at the end of the day every day is a risk\".\n\nNo asylum seekers are yet being housed on the barge. The arrival of the first group of around 50 people has been delayed several times by safety concerns.\n\nEarlier this week, the Fire Brigades Union described the vessel as a \"potential death trap\" and sought a meeting with Home Secretary Suella Braverman.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden told the BBC on Thursday he was \"confident\" any remaining issues with the vessel would be resolved and that migrants would be aboard \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nA Home Office source said later that the government was still expecting the first migrants on the Bibby Stockholm next week.\n\nThe 222-room, three-storey barge will house adult males, aged from 18 to 65, who are in the latter stages of their asylum applications.\n\nIt will be the first time migrants have been housed in a berthed vessel in the UK.\n\nHuman rights groups have described the decision to house migrants on a barge as \"inhumane\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Recovery vehicles were called to the A5 over the bank holiday weekend\n\nThere have been calls for a \"better visitor experience\" at a popular beauty spot over long waits for buses and illegally parked cars causing hold-ups.\n\nAlmost 40 vehicles were towed on Good Friday for parking on double yellow lines or obstructing roads in Eryri National Park, also known as Snowdonia.\n\nThere have also been complaints about long queues for buses which are scheduled to run every 30 minutes.\n\nA park official said a review would be held following events over the weekend.\n\nOn Good Friday, the A5 was shut after scores of drivers parked illegally on the road.\n\nOn Saturday North Wales Police said drivers in breach of parking rules would have their vehicles removed \"at their own expense\".\n\nMeanwhile, some motorists complained it took them 90 minutes to find a parking space.\n\nMountain leader Gemma Davies said she and her party decided to use a 30-minute park and ride bus service but faced a longer wait in a queue of about 80 people.\n\n\"The first bus that turned up was full so we waited 40 minutes for the second bus which could only let eight passengers on,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday.\n\n\"The buses are just not frequent enough.\"\n\nShe also said that motorists had \"parked in the path blocking buses coming down and going up\".\n\n\"It's just not acceptable. We need to provide a better visitor experience.\"\n\nOf the vehicles removed from mountain routes this Easter, 29 were recovered from Llyn Ogwen and nine at Pen y Pass\n\nAbout four million people visit Eryri every year with the most popular time between April and September.\n\nCouncillor June Jones, who represents the Glaslyn ward which covers parts of the national park, said it had \"got much worse over the last seven years\".\n\n\"It's good that the buses are full but there are lots of lessons to be learned,\" she added.\n\nNational park partnerships manager Angela Jones said public transport provision was the \"best it has ever been this year\" but officials would be \"reviewing this weekend\" on Tuesday.\n\nShe added that while the Welsh government had provided \"huge investment to get buses every half an hour\" and \"there are other options\".\n\n\"There are other car parks around the area,\" she said.\n\n\"If people did plan in advance... of where they're going to park, what time the buses are running, then we really hope to avoid the situation in the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor and entertainer Les Dennis is the 15th and final celebrity contestant to be announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe said he was \"thrilled\" to join the show, as his 70th birthday approaches.\n\nHe will join Annabel Croft, Nigel Harman, Bobby Brazier, Jody Cundy, Zara McDermott, Ellie Leach, Nikita Kanda, Adam Thomas and Eddie Kadi on the show.\n\nAngela Rippon, Layton Williams, Angela Scanlon, Amanda Abbington and Krishnan Guru-Murthy will also appear.\n\nDennis, whose career spans more than 50 years, was host of ITV's Family Fortunes for 16 years.\n\nHe has also had roles in ITV's Coronation Street, Extras and Death in Paradise; and has appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera, and in such plays and musicals as Hairspray, Legally Blonde The Musical and 42nd Street.\n\n\"In my career I've always gone for challenges outside my comfort zone and this is the ultimate one!\" he said. \"Can't wait.\"\n\nThis year's series will arrive on screens in the autumn and will be judged by Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse.\n\nHere are the other contestants who have been announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing so far:\n\nFormer tennis player and broadcaster Annabel Croft said she was looking forward to \"swapping tennis balls for glitter balls\" and was \"looking forward to finding some joyfulness in the process\".\n\nCroft became the youngest British player to compete at Wimbledon for 95 years when she was just 15 years old.\n\nShe continues to play a role in the coverage of the tournament and other tennis events, as a presenter, commentator and pundit for the BBC, Sky, Amazon Prime, ITV and Discovery.\n\nCroft has also presented entertainment shows such as Treasure Hunt and Inceptor.\n\nEx-EastEnders star Nigel Harman, known for playing Dennis Rickman on the soap, said he was \"amazed, excited, and terrified\" to be joining the line-up.\n\n\"As an armchair fan of the show, I have watched in awe as people have twirled and gyrated across the screen,\" he said. \"And now it's my turn... gulp!\"\n\nScreen and stage actor and director Harman won awards, including most popular newcomer at the National Television Awards, for his role as the roguish Rickman. He has also appeared on TV in Downton Abbey and in the film Blood Diamond, as well as on London's West End in Guys and Dolls and Shrek the Musical - for which he won an Olivier award.\n\nHarman recently joined the cast of the BBC hospital drama Casualty, as clinical lead Max Cristie.\n\nCurrent EastEnders actor and model Bobby Brazier, son of the late Big Brother star Jade Goody, plays Freddie Slater in the BBC soap.\n\nHe said he was \"excited\" to join the Strictly line-up. \"I can't wait to start training like a professional dancer and adding a few moves to my locker,\" he added.\n\nAway from Walford, Brazier has modelled for the major fashion house Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week.\n\nJody Cundy has represented Great Britain at seven Paralympics, winning eight gold medals in swimming and cycling events.\n\n\"[Strictly is] so far away from what I'm used to, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and pushing myself way out of my comfort zone, especially as I'm always last onto the dance floor,\" he said. \"Can't wait to get stuck in, bring on the glitter and sequins!\"\n\nCundy has also competed in multiple World Championships, winning 23 world titles, the most recent of which added at the recent World Cycling Championships in Glasgow.\n\nIn 2021, he became the first man in Paralympics GB history to win medals at seven different games, and was last year made a CBE for services to cycling.\n\nEllie Leach is best known for her 12 years playing Faye Windass on ITV soap Coronation Street.\n\nShe has been nominated for multiple British Soap Awards and Inside Soap Awards for her role in hard-hitting storylines, which have included being pregnant at 13 and later reconnecting with the child she gave up.\n\n\"It still doesn't feel real that I'm going to be doing Strictly!\" she said.\n\n\"It's always been a dream of mine so I guess dreams really do come true!\" added the actress, who left the soap earlier this year.\n\nNikita Kanda hosts the BBC Asian Network radio station's breakfast show, and also reports regularly on TV on the BBC's The One Show.\n\n\"I don't think it will properly sink in until I step on to the dancefloor,\" she said. \"I can't wait to get glammed up and get out there. Throw the glitter on me!\"\n\nIn her day job, the presenter - recently nominated for presenter of the year at the Asian Media Awards - has interviewed stars including Killing Eve's Sandra Oh, Bridgerton's Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran and Marvel actress Awkwafina.\n\nHer TV work has seen her look into the rise of cashless businesses and government support for female sport.\n\nThomas is best known for playing Adam Barton in ITV soap Emmerdale, winning the TV Choice award for best soap newcomer in 2010.\n\n\"I can't dance to save my life but I'm buzzing to learn and have a good laugh with my pro. Get me on that dance floor... I can't wait!\" he said.\n\nAfter appearing the 2016 edition of ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, Thomas went on to co-host the spin-off-I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp, and recently reprised his role as Donte Charles in BBC One drama Waterloo Road.\n\nIn 2020, the soap star teamed up with his brothers and fellow Mancs on the Mic podcasters Ryan and Scott, for six-part ITV travel series Absolutely India: Mancs in Mumbai, where they traced their family heritage alongside their father.\n\nRip-Off Britain presenter Rippon, 78, will be the series' oldest contestant, after Johnny Ball took part in 2012 aged 74.\n\nRippon said: \"Why didn't they ask me 10 years ago? Having been a fan of Strictly since day one, and as a former presenter of Come Dancing, this will be quite an adventure for me.\"\n\nShe was the first female journalist to permanently present the BBC national television news, and was also one of the presenters of the BBC's original Come Dancing series.\n\nShe hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, presented ITV breakfast show TV-am and famously appeared in a dancing sketch with comedy duo Morecambe and Wise.\n\nGuru-Murthy is the lead anchor for Channel 4 News. He joined the programme in 1998 and is its second-longest-serving presenter after Jon Snow.\n\n\"I'm surprised, delighted and slightly confused to find myself taking part in Strictly on the basis of 'you only live once!\" he said.\n\nThe broadcaster has also fronted Channel 4's Paralympics coverage and was one of the original presenters of the BBC News channel, then called BBC News 24, in 1997.\n\nLast year, Guru-Murthy was briefly suspended after he was heard using an expletive to describe a Conservative minister, something for which he apologised \"unreservedly\".\n\nAbbington is known for starring in TV series including Sherlock and Mr Selfridge, as well as stage plays such as The Son.\n\nThe actress said: \"I'm thrilled to have been asked to do Strictly. I'm actually really shy and self-conscious so this will be a great opportunity for me to overcome those things! Plus I get to learn to dance, which I am incredibly excited about.\"\n\nHowever, some fans have claimed they will boycott the show after Abbington stirred controversy earlier this year with comments about drag performances, questioning whether young children should watch or partake in sexually-charged drag shows.\n\nIn a recent Instagram video, Abbington explained she \"loved drag\" and was not transphobic, adding: \"Personally speaking, I don't think 12-year-olds should be performing in drag shows in overtly sexual ways because they're 12 and they need a childhood.\"\n\nWilliams has performed in London's West End in Billy Elliot, Thriller Live and Everyone's Talking About Jamie. He has also appeared in TV series Bad Education and I Hate Suzie.\n\nThe actor said: \"So excited to learn new skills from the best. Bring on the sequins… ALL the sequins!\"\n\nWilliams most recently provided the voiceover for the BBC Three gay dating show I Kissed A Boy.\n\nThe actor said he would be happy as long as he is paired with a male professional dancer so he can be lifted up during the performances.\n\nAngela Scanlon presents Your Home Made Perfect on BBC Two\n\nIrish TV star Angela Scanlon hosts the BBC Two series Your Home Made Perfect as well as a Saturday night chat show on RTÉ.\n\n\"I'm terrified, I'm excited and I have so many questions. Will they make me tan? How itchy are sequins?! Do they do flesh coloured sports bras? Well - there's only one way to find out, right?!\" she said.\n\nScanlon has appeared on TV shows including The One Show and Robot Wars, and presented a Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio 2.\n\nShe previously worked as a print journalist, writing for magazines including Grazia, Tatler and the Sunday Times Style supplement.\n\nKadi is a stand-up comic who became the first black British comedian to headline London's 02 Arena.\n\nHe announced his participation on BBC Radio 1Xtra's Official UK Afrobeats Chart Show on Sunday, which he presents.\n\n\"I'm so unbelievably proud and honoured that Strictly and the BBC have asked me to join the 2023 team,\" Kadi said.\n\n\"I promise you, I'm going to give it everything I've got. This is going to be a vibe.\"\n\nZara McDermott worked as a government policy advisor before joining ITV reality show Love Island in 2018, and since leaving the villa has presented a series of documentaries.\n\n\"I grew up watching Strictly every year with my nan and she was the biggest fan,\" she said. \"We would dance around the house and I have such fond memories of that time in my life.\n\n\"I even remember the first ever series, and being mesmerised by all the beautiful dresses! I can't wait to throw myself into this experience and start training. It's going to be incredible.\"\n\nSince leaving Love Island, McDermott has presented BBC documentaries including Revenge Porn, Uncovering Rape Culture, Disordered Eating, and Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA YouTuber's announcement of a video games console giveaway sparked chaos and a major police response in the heart of New York City on Friday.\n\nA crowd of roughly 2,000 converged at Union Square Park in anticipation of free PlayStation 5 devices from celebrity Twitch streamer Kai Cenat.\n\nPolice said the influencer was among a number of people detained and he could be charged with inciting a riot.\n\nPeople were seen hurling fireworks, bottles and toppling barricades.\n\nThe scene outside Union Square station in New York\n\nSubway trains passed the Union Square stop during the incident, the BBC's US partner CBS reported, as police urged people to avoid the area.\n\nPeople first gathered at around 13:00 local time (17:00 GMT) after Mr Cenat posted on social media - where he has more than 10 million followers and subscribers - that he would be handing out 300 PlayStations.\n\nBy 15:00, hundreds had piled on to streets surrounding one of New York City's busiest train stops.\n\nThey climbed cars and the train station entrance's roof and threw bottles at responding police officers.\n\nNew York Police Department declared a \"level four\" mobilisation, meaning roughly 1,000 officers were deployed to the scene.\n\nDuring a livestream inside a vehicle near Union Square as the disorder was unfolding, Mr Cenat said: \"They're throwing tear gas out there.\n\n\"We're not going to do nothing until it's safe. Everybody for themselves, because it's a war out there man.\"\n\nMr Cenat was taken into police custody at around 17:00. The crowd was finally dispersed about an hour later.\n\nAccording to a CBS affiliate, Mr Cenat did not have a permit for the event, which was reportedly a collaboration with Bronx YouTube star Fanum.\n\nNYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said: \"We have encountered things like this before, but never to this level of dangerousness, where young people would not listen to our commands.\"\n\nHe added: \"You had people walking around with shovels, axes, and other tools from the construction trade.\n\n\"In addition, individuals were also lighting fireworks. They were throwing them towards police, and they were throwing them at each other.\"\n\nMr Cenat made headlines in March after he broke the record for attracting the most Twitch subscribers by reaching 300,000.\n\nTwitch is a livestreaming platform, where people typically play video games while chatting to viewers.\n\nIn the build-up to breaking the record, Mr Cenat launched a round-the-clock drive to boost his subscribers - chatting, gaming and interviewing guests, as well as sleeping, all on camera - for 30 days.", "The Welsh government said it was \"disappointed\" negotiations had halted\n\nIt would have covered consultants, junior doctors, and specialist doctors on contracts dating to 2008.\n\nThe British Medical Association Cymru said those on 2021 specialist contracts would get no increase other than that already in their multi-year pay deal.\n\nThe BMA's Iona Collins called it the \"worst offer in the UK\", but the Welsh government said there were limits without more UK government money.\n\nBMA committees will meet within the next fortnight to decide whether to enter a dispute with the Welsh government and ballot for industrial action.\n\n\"A 5% uplift represents yet another pay cut in real terms and serves only to increase the losses faced by doctors, after more than a decade's worth of sub-inflation pay awards,\" said Dr Collins, who chairs the BMA's Welsh council.\n\nThe offer, she said, did \"not comply with Welsh government's formal commitment to the principle of full pay restoration\".\n\nDr Iona Collins said the offer was less than in England or Scotland\n\n\"5% is less than what is being offered in England or Scotland and it is less than the DDRB (Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body) recommendation.\n\n\"It is the worst offer in the UK.\"\n\nIn England doctors were offered a 6% rise in July while in Scotland junior doctors have been offered a pay increase of 17.5% over two years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"disappointing\" negotiations had halted but said it understood the strength of feeling among doctors.\n\nIt said there were limits to what it could offer without extra UK government funding.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We continue to press it to pass on the funding necessary for full and fair pay rises for public sector workers\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesperson Mabon ap Gwynfor said: \"The reality of this pay offer is that doctors were being asked to accept a further fall in living standards.\n\n\"BMA Cymru Wales has rejected an offer that was little more than a sticking plaster over the deep wound caused by years of underfunding.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives described the rejected offer as \"disheartening\".\n\n\"Labour need to seriously look at their costly vanity projects like sending more politicians to Cardiff Bay and prioritise our Welsh NHS instead,\" said the party's health spokesperson Russel George.", "The use of the private sector to tackle the NHS backlog in England is to be expanded, the government says.\n\nMinisters say they want to unlock spare capacity to get more people the treatment and operations they need.\n\nThis includes opening eight privately-run diagnostic centres and using new rules to make it easier for the NHS to purchase care in the private sector.\n\nBut health minister Maria Caulfield warned NHS waiting lists were likely to get worse before getting better.\n\nSpeaking on LBC she said: \"We are almost at the peak but we think it will go slightly higher, but it will then start to come down, and that is why we are making announcements like this now, so that we are getting that capacity and that infrastructure so that patients can get their treatments more quickly.\n\n\"But yes, we are being honest with people that the total number is likely to rise a little bit more before it starts to come down.\"\n\nThe measures form part of a recently published \"system-wide recovery plan\" designed to tackle the growing backlog of people waiting for care.\n\nMeasures already announced include more choice for patients on where they have appointments.\n\nFrom October 2023 the government has pledged that patients waiting more than 40 weeks for their first outpatient appointment or treatment can request switching to somewhere else for care.\n\nIt comes as a record 7.5 million people are waiting for treatment - three million more than before the pandemic.\n\nMaking greater use of the private sector is something Labour has called for, and that the government has been looking at since late 2022 after setting up the Elective Recovery Taskforce.\n\nThe private sector already carries out hundreds of thousands of treatments and appointments for the NHS every year.\n\nBut it has said it has the capacity to carry out about 30% more than it is.\n\nMinisters are hoping a relaxation of the rules governing the award of contracts by the NHS will create more flexibility for local health bosses to use the private sector when needed.\n\nIn these circumstances, the private sector is asked to do the work at NHS prices.\n\nThe rule change - known as the provider selection regime - will come in before the end of the year and means there will be greater freedom to award contracts without tendering.\n\nAs well as this, the government has announced 13 new community diagnostic centres - eight of which will be run by the private sector in:\n\nThe five NHS centres are in:\n\nThese will be open by the end of the year and are part of a commitment to set up a network of 160 clinics by 2025.\n\nThere are currently 114 open, allowing patients to access a range of tests and scans outside of hospital.\n\nDespite this, the NHS is still struggling to carry out diagnostic tests quickly enough, with a quarter of patients waiting more than six weeks, compared to 3-4% before the pandemic.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"We must use every available resource to ease the pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nSaffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers which represents trusts in England, welcomed the announcement.\n\n\"At a time when resources are significantly constrained, looking beyond NHS resources in order to support trusts is very important,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said the NHS had long used different types of providers, adding: \"What we do need to see is desperately needed additional capacity.\"\n\nHelen Buckingham, director of strategy at the Nuffield Trust think thank, said collaboration between the NHS and the private sector was necessary but \"unintended consequences\" needed to be considered.\n\nShe said: \"This scheme will need to be carefully designed to make sure that the NHS is not simply left with the most complex cases without the right staff or capacity to deal with them.\"\n\nShe added: \"Waiting times for tests, scans and results were growing before the backlogs caused by the pandemic, fuelled by growing demand, lack of investment in new equipment and shortages of trained specialists.\n\n\"While more independent sector involvement will help boost capacity quicker, it does not fix the root of the issue or provide the NHS with the resources it needs to meet the demand on it for the longer-term.\"\n\nRachel Power, of the Patients Association, welcomed the policy. She said that coupled with previous guidance to help people exercise more choice over having treatment, patients should get an option of five different hospitals and clinics when they are referred. This should help them get the quickest treatment they can, she added.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the government should have acted sooner to make more use of the private sector.\n\n\"Patients face record waiting times while the Tories dither and delay,\" he said.", "This is the moment a sea drone heads directly towards a Russian ship near the port of Novorossiysk, where explosions have been heard overnight.\n\nFootage shared by a source at Ukraine's security service shows the drone moving across the Black Sea, as it approaches the Russian vessel.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said it had repelled a Ukrainian attack on its naval base there with two sea drones.\n\nWhile the ministry did not comment on any damage, Ukrainian intelligence sources have told various news outlets the Olenegorsky Gornyak, a \"landing ship\" designed to carry equipment and personnel for beach landings, was hit.", "The late Queen also used to spend the anniversary of her accession as a day of private reflection\n\nThere will be no official public event to mark the first anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a royal spokesman has said.\n\nKing Charles is to spend 8 September \"quietly and privately\". The day also marks his own accession to the throne.\n\nNor are there any plans for a private gathering of the Royal Family on the anniversary of the late Queen's death.\n\nSenior royals will be in Balmoral in Aberdeenshire over the summer, the place where the Queen died last year.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's death, at the age of 96, followed the longest reign of any British monarch.\n\nThe King is following his mother's tradition - the late monarch spent the anniversaries of her father's death, and the start of her reign, in what used to be termed \"private reflection\" - with no planned official events.\n\nIf there are other commemorative events in the week of the anniversary, King Charles and Queen Camilla are not expected to attend.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family have also followed in the late Queen's tradition of spending the summer in Scotland, with King Charles having a home, Birkhall, on the Balmoral estate, as well as Balmoral Castle.\n\nIt is expected that family members will be there at various times over the summer, but a Buckingham Palace spokesman has suggested they will not hold any formal, private gathering to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has said a national memorial to the late Queen will be commissioned \"in due course\".\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the weekly BBC News Royal Watch Newsletter - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "John Stringer denied five charges of sexual offences against a girl\n\nA jury has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict in the case of a police officer accused of sexually abusing a girl.\n\nGwent Police's John Stringer, 41, from Cardiff, denied five counts of sexually abusing a girl under 13.\n\nAt Cardiff Crown Court Judge Daniel Williams asked prosecutors to make a decision by next Friday about whether they will seek a retrial.\n\nMr Stringer has been bailed until Friday.\n\nThe jury of seven women and five men spent three-and-a-quarter hours considering evidence before the judge said he would accept a majority verdict.\n\nTwo-and-a-quarter hours later they said they could not reach a verdict.\n\nThe judge thanked them for their duty and discharged them.\n\nThe jury in John Stringer's case was discharged after failing to reach a verdict\n\nIn total Mr Stringer pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault by touching; two of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity; and one of causing a child to watch a sexual act.", "Donald Trump has been criminally indicted four times, and will have a series of trials to attend in 2024 as he runs again for the White House.\n\nHis candidacy now also faces a challenge from the Colorado Supreme Court, which has ruled Mr Trump cannot run for president because he engaged in an insurrection with his actions in the days leading to the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021.\n\nHere's a guide to the five cases and what they could mean for the former president and current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.\n\nThe Colorado Supreme Court declared Mr Trump ineligible for the presidency under the US Constitution's insurrection clause - Section 3 of the 14th Amendment - which disqualifies anyone who engages in insurrection from holding office.\n\nVoting 4-3, the state's top court found Mr Trump had incited an insurrection in his role in the 6 January 2021 storming of the Capitol by his supporters. Mr Trump has repeatedly denied responsibility for the riot.\n\nThe bombshell ruling directs the Colorado secretary of state to exclude Mr Trump from the state's Republican primary on 5 March, where registered party members vote on their preferred candidate for president. But it could also affect the general election in Colorado next November.\n\nIt does not stop Mr Trump running in other states.\n\nSimilar lawsuits to to remove the Republican from the ballot in Minnesota, New Hampshire and Michigan have failed.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nDuring a one-week trial in Colorado in November, the former president's lawyers argued Mr Trump should not be disqualified because he did not bear responsibility for the riot.\n\nFollowing the Colorado Supreme Court's decision Mr Trump's campaign said immediately it would appeal the decision to the US Supreme Court, where it's likely a similar argument would be made.\n\nHis legal spokeswoman Alina Habba said the ruling \"attacks the very heart of this nation's democracy.\"\n\n\"It will not stand, and we trust that the Supreme Court will reverse this unconstitutional order,\" she said.\n\nThe Colorado Supreme Court put its ruling on hold until at least 4 January. If Mr Trump appeals, that pause will continue until the country's top court weighs in.\n\nIf the Supreme Court does take up the case, which experts say is likely, it could be forced to decide Mr Trump's eligibility beyond Colorado to all 50 states.\n\nThat court has a 6-3 conservative majority with three justices appointed by the former president himself.\n\nWhat are the charges in Georgia 2020 election investigation?\n\nThis is the most recent indictment, the one that saw the first ever mugshot of a former US president after Donald Trump turned himself in at the Fulton County Jail on 24 August. The charges for Mr Trump - listed now as inmate no. P01135809 on Fulton County Jail records - were unsealed last month.\n\nMr Trump and 18 others are named in a 41-count indictment for alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.\n\nThe investigation was sparked in part by a leaked phone call in which the former president asked Georgia's top election official to \"find 11,780 votes\".\n\nMr Trump was hit with 13 criminal counts including an alleged violation of Georgia's Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (Rico).\n\nHis other charges include solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, conspiring to commit impersonating a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery, conspiring to commit false statements, and writing and conspiring to file false documents.\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nThe racketeering charge, which is mostly used in organised crime cases, carries a maximum 20-year jail sentence.\n\nGeorgia prosecutor Fani Willis would need to prove that there was a pattern of corruption from Mr Trump and his allies aimed at overturning the election result in order to bring a conviction.\n\nAs for making false statements, that carries a penalty of between one to five years in prison or a fine.\n\nAnd a person convicted of first-degree criminal solicitation to commit election fraud will face between one to three years in jail.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing in the case and has entered a plea of not guilty.\n\nHe has defended the phone call in question as \"perfect\" and accused Ms Willis of launching a politically motivated inquiry.\n\nThere is no confirmed date for the trial yet.\n\nWhat are the charges in 2020 election investigation?\n\nDonald Trump has been criminally charged in a separate federal investigation into efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nThe 45-page indictment contains four counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.\n\nThey stem from the former president's actions in the wake of the 2020 election, including around the 6 January Capitol riot, which occurred while Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden's victory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nBut there are logistical, security and political questions around whether Mr Trump would serve time even if charged and convicted.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump was formally charged in court in Washington DC on 3 August. A tentative trial date is scheduled for 4 March 2024.\n\nHe argues that the charges are an attempt to prevent him from winning the 2024 presidential election. Before leaving Washington after his arraignment hearing, he told journalists the case \"is a persecution of a political opponent\".\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied responsibility for the riot on 6 January 2021.\n\nHis legal team is also likely to argue that the former president is not directly responsible for the violence that unfolded that day because he told supporters to march \"peacefully\" on the Capitol and is protected by First Amendment free speech rights.\n\nWhat are the charges in classified documents case?\n\nMr Trump is facing 40 criminal charges over his alleged mishandling of classified material after he left the White House.\n\nThousands of documents were seized in an FBI search at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago last year, including about 100 that were marked as classified.\n\nThe charges are related to both his handling of the documents and his alleged efforts to obstruct the FBI's attempts to retrieve them.\n\nThe majority of the counts, are for the wilful retention of national defence information, which falls under the Espionage Act.\n\nThere are then eight individual counts which include conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record and making false statements.\n\nWill Donald Trump go to jail?\n\nThese charges could - in theory - lead to substantial prison time if Mr Trump is convicted.\n\nBut the logistics, security and politics of jailing a former president mean a conventional prison sentence is seen as unlikely by many experts.\n\nLooking at the letter of the law, the counts under the Espionage Act, for example, each carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.\n\nOther counts, related to conspiracy and withholding or concealing documents, each carry maximum sentences of 20 years.\n\nCounts relating to a scheme to conceal, and false statements and representations carry sentences of five years each.\n\nBut while there is no doubt the charges are serious, many questions remain unanswered about the potential penalties should he be convicted.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and the trial is set to begin on 20 May 2024.\n\nThe former president has offered shifting defences for the material found at his property, mostly arguing that he declassified it. No evidence has been provided that this was possible or is true.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump supporters outside court: 'They're afraid of him'\n\nHis lawyers may argue in court that Mr Trump was unfairly targeted and that other politicians, namely Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence and current President Joe Biden, were never charged for their handling of classified documents.\n\nBut experts say the former president's case is different in a number of ways. For one, other politicians were willing to return whatever documents they had, while prosecutors allege Mr Trump resisted.\n\nWhat are the charges in New York hush money case?\n\nMr Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.\n\nThe charges stem from a hush-money payment made before the 2016 election to the adult film star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an adulterous affair with Mr Trump.\n\nWhile such a payment is not illegal, spending money to help a presidential campaign but not disclosing it violates federal campaign finance law.\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nEach of the charges carries a maximum of four years in prison, although a judge could sentence Mr Trump to probation if he is convicted.\n\nLegal experts have told BBC News they think it is unlikely Mr Trump will be jailed if convicted in this case and a fine is the more likely outcome.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial in the case on 25 March 2024.\n\nHe denies ever having sexual relations with Ms Daniels and says the payment was made to protect his family from false allegations, not to sway the election.\n\nDo you have any questions relating to Donald Trump's legal cases?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt's impossible to know how genuinely worried Donald Trump may be about the prospect of going to jail for any of the criminal offences he has been charged with.\n\nHe claims he could be facing a combined 561 years in prison thanks to the \"Left's witch hunts\". That may be an exaggeration, but if he is convicted in any of the three court cases he faces, a jail sentence may well follow.\n\nSo whilst Mr Trump says almost nothing during his court appearances, he is voluble outside when he is appealing to the court of public opinion. Looking for a verdict that will come from tens of millions of voters, not a jury of 12. Delivered at the ballot box, not in a courtroom.\n\nThe lesser-known former congressman Will Hurd was booed off stage at a Republican dinner in Iowa last week when he said the only reason Mr Trump is running for the White House is to stay out of jail. But is he completely wrong?\n\nThe former president has already woven his election campaign and legal problems tightly together.\n\nHe uses the charges against him as a major plank of his campaign. In speeches he tells his supporters that he is being prosecuted because the establishment - or the \"deep state\"- fear him being re-elected as president.\n\nHe sends out fundraising emails that say: \"If these illegal persecutions succeed, if they're allowed to set fire to the law, then it will not stop with me. Their grip will close even tighter around YOU.\"\n\nAnd he has already used at least $40m (£31m) in campaign donations to pay his legal fees.\n\nMr Trump has made clear that no verdict or sentence will halt his campaign. That he will carry on running for president from behind bars if he has to.\n\nAnd that if elected he will use the power of his office to either quash any ongoing prosecutions or pardon himself for any convictions.\n\nBut trying to escape his legal difficulties by running for president will soon become a scheduling nightmare.\n\nMr Trump has already announced a campaign event in New Hampshire next week, a long way from the court hearing that takes place in Florida two days later.\n\nHe doesn't have to appear on that date to hear the additional charges that have been filed against him in the case of the classified documents he took from the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut when the trials get started, in New York in March, in Florida in May and in Washington at a date yet to be determined, he will be required to sit through the proceedings in person.\n\nEven for someone with a private plane at his disposal that will make it hard to be hitting the campaign trail whilst on trial.\n\nSo far each indictment against Mr Trump has increased his poll ratings and tightened his grip on the Republican Party.\n\nIt may be a different story when we are in a general election and Mr Trump is running against Joe Biden rather than his rivals for the Republican nomination.\n\nAnd when evidence against Mr Trump is being aired in court daily.\n\nYet it is once again Mr Trump who is defining the terms of the debate.\n\nAnd making it all about him.\n\nWho's listening to arguments about economic policy when the Trump trial cavalcade is in town?\n\nYou can hear more of Sarah's analysis by tuning into Americast, the BBC's US politics and culture podcast, on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts\n\nAnd you can follow Sarah on Twitter", "Tracey Valentine works in a food van outside the Racecourse Ground\n\nAs Wrexham prepare for their first EFL match for 15 years, businesses say they have experienced soaring sales and a new buzz alongside the club's success.\n\nWrexham face MK Dons at the Racecourse Ground in their League Two season opener on Saturday.\n\nOne business owner said customers were travelling from as far afield as the US, Canada and Australia.\n\nA leading economist said the club's recent success had put a spotlight on all businesses across north Wales.\n\nTracey Valentine's food van outside the ground has been busier since the club's takeover by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, and subsequent success on the field.\n\nShe said: \"Everybody asks about the club when they come here.\"\n\nMs Valentine said she thought the result of the takeover had been \"brilliant\" for the town.\n\nMark Roberts, owner of Wrexham Lager, is now travelling the world to promote his beer\n\nMs Valentine's food van is not the only business to benefit from Wrexham's football frenzy.\n\nMark Roberts took over Wrexham Lager in 2011 when it was \"down in the dumps.\"\n\nAfter reviving the brand, and sponsoring a stand at Wrexham's ground, he is now travelling the world to promote a beer that has become synonymous with the football club.\n\n\"It has certainly made a difference to sales,\" Mr Roberts said of the club's success.\n\nHe has just returned from the US, where viewers of Welcome to Wrexham on Disney+ have noticed the beer on screen.\n\nMr Roberts said he hoped to expand his sales to the US soon to \"take it to the next level.\"\n\nMr Roberts's nephew, Joss Roberts said people are wanting to try their beer because of the Welcome to Wrexham documentary\n\nMr Roberts's nephew Joss Roberts said the club's achievements were great for local sponsors.\n\n\"It has been during the last year in particular, and since January, that we have noticed an increase in sales, and in social media traffic,\" he said.\n\n\"I think that's the positivity created by winning the league. In north Wales in particular, pubs are coming on board now.\"\n\nAcross Wales, Wrexham is becoming people's second team, said Mr Roberts, which had in turn led to more people wanting to try Wrexham Lager.\n\nSam Williams is sales manager at Net World Sports, which stocks and sells the club's shirts worldwide\n\nNet World Sports, based in a £25m towering warehouse on the edge of the city, acts as distributor for the club's shop, posting football shirts to fans around the world.\n\nIts tangible increase in business can only be attributed to the change in the club's fortunes.\n\n\"The buzz since Rob and Ryan have come into Wrexham has been enormous,\" said Sam Williams, the sales assistant manager at Net World Sports.\n\nHe said the positive attitude had contributed to \"a pickup in terms of morale and motivation in the workplace,\" especially since the club gained promotion to League Two.\n\nWith the success, and celebrity owners, has come great demand for merchandise from a global audience of overnight Wrexham fans.\n\n\"The distribution that they've got to do, from a retail perspective, has obviously been enormous,\" Mr Williams said.\n\nLaura Evison, a florist in Wrexham, said there had been an \"electric in the air\" since the football club's recent success\n\nLaura Evison has worked as a florist at Regent House of Flowers since she was 16 years old.\n\nShe has owned the business since 2006 and said there had been \"electric in the air\" since the club's fortunes improved.\n\n\"It's deep in the roots of the town, it really is. Especially when you talk to the diehard fans, it's really big. It's lovely,\" she said.\n\nWhile not every business can secure a lucrative contract with Wrexham AFC, Ms Evison said the club seemed committed to supporting local firms.\n\n\"We had the parade which was fabulous, because there were thousands of people down this street and all through the town.\n\n\"And it's lovely. It does involve all the businesses, and we all work together and network, so it's great.\"\n\nDr Edward Thomas Jones says all of north Wales could benefit from the attention the club is receiving\n\nOther businesses in north Wales could also benefit, according to a Bangor University economist.\n\nDr Edward Thomas Jones said: \"There is now an opportunity for businesses across the region to take advantage of this free marketing in order to sell their products and services to new markets.\n\n\"When people feel positive, that has a positive impact on the economy. People who are feeling more confident will generally spend more in the local economy.\n\n\"There is this relationship between the success we have seen on the field, and the success in the general area.\"", "Harry Blake was a follower of neo-Nazi and Satanic ideologies, the Old Bailey heard\n\nA neo-Nazi paedophile who previously avoided a prison term has been jailed after committing further offences.\n\nHarry Blake, from south-west London, was given a suspended sentence in 2020 after admitting 14 terror charges.\n\nOn Thursday, the 21-year-old was sentenced to three years and two months in jail after pleading guilty to a counter-terror order breach, as well as making an indecent image of a child.\n\nPassing sentence, an Old Bailey judge said he posed a \"significant risk\".\n\nBlake also pleaded guilty to possessing extreme pornography, and breaching a crime prevention order and the terms of his suspended prison sentence.\n\nPreviously known as Harry Vaughan, he is the son of a House of Lords clerk and achieved high grades at his prestigious grammar school.\n\nAfter he was arrested again last year, detectives found a laptop and a mobile phone that he was barred from owning.\n\nMaterial recovered from the devices showed Blake's \"continued interest\" in right-wing extremism, prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds told the court.\n\nMr Pawson-Pounds said Blake had searched online for the banned terrorist groups Sonnenkrieg Division and Atomwaffen Division. He also had a book in which Adolf Hitler is revered as a god.\n\nBlake's phone contained videos of the \"violent forcing\" of a sex act on women, and a film of a young boy being sexually abused by a man.\n\nIn mitigation, defence barrister Arthur Kendrick said Blake had been exposed to a \"toxic online community\" at a young age, and, while the views instilled in him may take time to diminish, there were some \"green shoots\" of change.\n\nIn 2020, Blake admitted 12 counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist, one count of encouraging terrorism and one of disseminating terrorist publications. He also admitted having videos of young boys being raped.\n\nThe judge decided against sending Blake to prison, despite concluding he was dangerous. Expert evidence had stated Blake's ideology was a \"hybrid\" of neo-Nazism and a violent form of Satanism.\n\nOn Thursday, Judge Sarah Munro KC said that when he was sentenced in 2020, Blake had \"falsely asserted\" that his \"mindset had changed\" since committing his initial crimes.\n\nAs well as sentencing him to a 38-month prison term, she made him the subject of a five-year serious crime prevention order.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tristan (L) and Andrew Tate (C) are still restricted to their home area and the Romanian capital\n\nControversial influencer Andrew Tate has been freed from house arrest in Romania pending his trial on rape and human trafficking charges.\n\nAndrew and his brother Tristan were arrested in March and charged in June. They deny the charges.\n\nThe pair can move freely around the capital, Bucharest, and the surrounding Ilfov district where they live.\n\nThey must report to police when ordered to, and inform them of any change of address.\n\nThey are also banned from contacting the two Romanian associates accused alongside them, the witnesses, or the alleged victims or their families.\n\nBreaking these rules could lead to them returning to house arrest, or preventative detention.\n\nA judge will check compliance with the conditions for the next 60 days.\n\n\"We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the Romanian judicial system for their fair consideration,\" a spokesperson for the brothers said in a statement after the ruling.\n\n\"This positive outcome gives us confidence that more favourable developments are on the horizon.\"\n\nTate, a Muslim convert, also tweeted in response to the ruling, condemning charges that were \"based on nothing\" and which a judge had deemed \"weak and circumstantial\".\n\nThe brothers were first arrested at their home in December and moved to house arrest three months later.\n\nThe indictment says they and two female Romanian associates formed an organised criminal group in 2021 to commit human trafficking in Romania, but also in other countries including the US and the UK.\n\nIt names seven alleged victims who it says were recruited by the Tate brothers through false promises of love and marriage.\n\nIn 2016, Tate, a British-American former kickboxer, was removed from British TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman.\n\nHe went on to gain notoriety online, with Twitter banning him for saying women should \"bear some responsibility\" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Police video shows the lead-up to the crash in which two men died, when their car was rammed off the road by a social media influencer and her mother.\n\nSaqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21, from Oxfordshire, died on the A46 near Leicester in February 2022.\n\nAnsreen Bukhari, 46, and her influencer daughter Mahek Bukhari, 24, were convicted after 28 hours of deliberations.\n\nThe jurors also found fellow defendants Rekhan Karwan and Raees Jamal guilty of the men's murder. Natasha Akhtar, 23, from Birmingham, Ameer Jamal, 28, and Sanaf Gulamustafa, 23, both from Leicester, were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.\n\nThe video shows the two men driving into a car park to meet up with the mother and daughter. Shortly afterwards they leave and a chase ensues.\n\nRead more: TikTok influencer and mother guilty of murdering men in crash", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nBy Emma Smith & Neil Johnston & Emma Sanders BBC Sport in Australia and New Zealand\n\nThe Women's World Cup has served up plenty of upsets, some shock early exits and a number of thrilling matches in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThree of the world's top 10 are out after the group stages, including two-time champions Germany, who failed to qualify for the last 16 for the first time in their history.\n\nIt means the tournament is wide open with several teams starting to impose themselves. But which of the 'bigger' nations have impressed so far?\n• None What do you remember about the World Cup group stages?\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\nJapan are blowing teams away and have arguably been the standout team of the tournament so far, having scored more goals than anyone else, while they have yet to concede in 270 minutes.\n\nIn Hinata Miyazawa, who has four goals in two starts, they possess the tournament's joint-leading scorer but the talent runs deep in this squad, which includes eight players aged 23 or under.\n\nBoss Futoshi Ikeda started 17 players in the three group games with only goalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita, captain Saki Kumagai, defender Moeka Minami and full-back Risa Shimizu starting all three games.\n\nThey were a joy to watch in the 4-0 demolition of Spain despite having only five attempts on goal. It was a masterclass in precision finishing as they scored three goals from their first three touches in the box.\n\nNext for the Nadeshiko are Norway in what will be a battle between two former world champions.\n\nMeanwhile, one of the biggest surprises of this tournament has been to see the USA, so dominant and powerful over the years, splutter and stumble in the group stage.\n\nIt is a very different squad to the one that conquered the world in 2015 and 2019. Fourteen of the 23-player squad are at a World Cup for the first time - and it shows.\n\nBut it is not just the debutants who are struggling to deliver - World Cup veteran Alex Morgan has yet to really impress while Megan Rapinoe has had to be content with the odd substitute appearance.\n\nThe United States survived an almighty scare against debutants Portugal before scraping into the last 16, and a showdown with Sweden in Melbourne.\n\nPortugal substitute Ana Capeta hit a first-time shot past Alyssa Naeher in the 91st minute but the ball hit the post.\n\nThe number one team in the world were inches away from going out, prompting criticism from Carli Lloyd, who helped the USA win back-to-back World Cups in 2015 and 2019.\n\nThe USA have lacked the form required to win an unprecedented third World Cup in a row - but one thing you never do is write them off.\n\nWhile Japan have raised eyebrows, European champions England produced arguably the most impressive performance of the group stages in their 6-1 thrashing of China.\n\nLauren James, 21, has been the star of the show, scoring three goals and providing three assists in two starts at her debut World Cup.\n\nShe spearheaded England's slick display in Adelaide as Sarina Wiegman's side shrugged off suggestions they would struggle following an injury to instrumental midfielder Keira Walsh.\n\nGermany's early exit has opened up England's side of the draw and they may not have to face a side ranked inside the top 10 until the semi-finals, should they get that far.\n\nThe Lionesses had underwhelmed in wins over Haiti and Denmark but comfortably progressed to the last 16 in the end and have now sent a message to their challengers that they mean business in Australia.\n\nSweden ease through as Spain and France have mixed bag\n\nSpain, whose off-field issues have been well documented, were able to put those distractions behind them to record comfortable wins over Costa Rica and Zambia, qualifying with a game to spare.\n\nBut the defeat by Japan has brought them down to earth. Despite dominating possession, they were open at the back and were picked off constantly by the clinical Japanese.\n\nIt raises further questions about their off-field harmony, given that 15 players previously refused to play for the team in protest of manager Jorge Vilda's coaching methods (three of those players have since returned to the squad for this tournament).\n\nHowever, Spain could have a favourable draw, facing Switzerland in the last 16, followed by the Netherlands or South Africa in the quarter-finals.\n\nElsewhere Sweden, ranked third in the world, had perhaps the smoothest passage through the group stages of any pre-tournament favourites, winning all three games and scoring nine goals in the process.\n\nThey did leave it late to beat South Africa in their opener, but showed their danger from set-pieces in thrashing Italy 5-0 before seeing off Argentina to seal top spot in Group G.\n\nFacing world champions the USA in the last 16 should hold no fear - they beat the Americans 3-0 at the 2020 Olympics.\n\nMeanwhile after a false start in their goalless draw with Jamaica, France look to be a growing threat in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThey outfought Brazil in a crucial win in Brisbane, before sharing nine goals with Panama in a remarkable game which confirmed first place in Group F.\n\nConceding three goals to Panama does raise some concerns about their defensive stability - although centre-back and captain Wendie Renard was rested for that match - and their squad depth, with manager Herve Renard criticising his players for losing concentration.\n\nBut having seen plenty of the world's biggest teams struggle at this World Cup, France will be relieved they were able to progress with relative ease.", "In June, Chris Heaton-Harris asked Stormont departments to look at money raising options\n\nThe secretary of state has reiterated that he intends to push ahead with options for raising more public revenue in Northern Ireland.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris was speaking after he met the head of the civil service, Jayne Brady.\n\nHe said he had received some 350 pages of information from Stormont civil servants this week over areas such as water charges and higher tuition fees.\n\nHe said he was \"minded\" to push ahead with public consultations.\n\nHowever, Mr Heaton-Harris said he would need to read the detail first.\n\nThe secretary of state also confirmed that a major trade conference planned for Northern Ireland in September will go ahead, despite a request from UUP leader Doug Beattie to delay it in order to allow more time for Stormont to be restored.\n\nAsked where talks were between the government and the DUP on issues relating to the Windsor framework, he said \"we're half way there\".\n\nJayne Brady has previously said Stormont departments have made all the cuts they can\n\nMonths ago he said he did not know what the DUP wanted but on Friday he said while finding a legislative fix the DUP has asked for had been \"difficult\", progress was being made.\n\nUnder current legislation Mr Heaton-Harris does not have the powers to unilaterally implement revenue-raising measures but he did not rule out taking the powers at some stage.\n\nHe set a budget for Stormont in April for this financial year.\n\nSince then, he has held out the prospect of introducing things such as water charges but has said he wants finances on a \"surer footing\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Russian naval ship has been damaged in a Ukrainian naval drone attack in the Black Sea, Ukrainian sources say.\n\nThe assault reportedly occurred near the Russian port of Novorossiysk, which is a major hub for Russian exports.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said it had repelled a Ukrainian attack on its naval base there which involved two sea drones, but did not admit any damage.\n\nBut Ukrainian security service sources say the Olenegorsky Gornyak was hit and suffered a serious breach.\n\nThey told the BBC a sea drone was carrying 450kg (992lb) of dynamite when it hit the ship.\n\nRussia made no mention of any damage in its report of the incident.\n\nSea drones are small, unmanned vessels which operate on or below the water's surface.\n\nA video sent to the BBC by a source with Ukraine's security service appears to show the drone approaching a ship thought to be the Olenegorsky Gornyak.\n\nThe footage shows a vessel travelling right up to the side of a ship before the feed cuts out, apparently on impact.\n\nAnother video is thought to show the ship listing to one side.\n\nThe Olenegorsky Gornyak is a landing ship, designed to launch amphibious forces close to shore for beach landings but also to dock and quickly unload cargo at ports.\n\nAny damage to it may interfere with Russia's efforts to resupply forces fighting in occupied southern Ukraine, although the Russian fleet is unlikely to be significantly impacted.\n\nThe Novorossiysk port temporarily suspended any movement of ships following the assault, according to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which loads oil on to tankers at the port.\n\nResearch by BBC Verify suggests Ukraine has carried out at least 11 attacks with sea drones - targeting military ships and Russia's naval base in Sevastopol, as well as Novorossiysk harbour in a previous attack.\n\nThis is based on announcements by Russian and Ukrainian authorities, and local media reports. Ukrainian defence sources have told CNN that sea drones had also been used in an attack on the Kerch Bridge in Crimea in July.\n\nFriday's attack comes just a few days after Ukraine revealed the external appearance and some details of what they have described as their \"new\" weapon - unmanned naval drones.\n\nIn fact, Ukraine has been using these drones to attack Russian ships since last year.\n\nThe vessels represent a new stage in the evolution of naval warfare, where small, unmanned boats can inflict damage on large ships with powerful weaponry.\n\nThis is not the first time Ukraine has tried to hit the Novorossiysk port, and the reasons are obvious.\n\nAround 1.8 million barrels of oil are exported from there every day - around 2% of the global supply.\n\nIt is also an important naval base for Moscow.\n\nClashes in the sea have increased in recent weeks, after Russia abandoned a UN deal that enabled grain to be safely exported between Russia and Ukraine across the water.\n\nUkrainian ports have been pummelled by Russian drones and Kyiv seems to have been keen to respond.\n\nIt is also more willing to admit to strikes involving sea drones than the attacks seen further inside Russia.\n\nFriday's incident shows \"it is possible to effectively carry out some operations which will decrease Russia's maritime influence, military influence on the Black Sea,\" President Zelensky's adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak told the BBC.\n\nPresident Zelensky has warned of the war \"coming to Russia\", despite suggesting a peace summit could happen \"as early as the autumn\".\n\nNeither side appears overly keen to set the conditions for that.\n\nEarlier this week, Russia attacked big Black Sea ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk, where authorities said 60,000 tonnes of grain were destroyed, as well as ports on the River Danube.\n\nSeparately on Friday, Russia also said it had downed 10 Ukrainian aerial drones over Crimea.", "Welsh language campaigner Toni Schiavone refused to pay a £70 parking fined because it was issued in English\n\nA lawsuit has been thrown out against a Welsh-language campaigner who refused to pay a parking ticket because it was written in English.\n\nToni Schiavone was fined £70 by One Parking Solution in Llangrannog, Ceredigion, in September 2020.\n\nThe penalty was thrown out in May 2022 when the company failed to appear in court.\n\nAt a new hearing on Friday, the judge at Aberystwyth Justice Centre called the company's application flawed.\n\nMr Schiavone, who is a member of Welsh language campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith, refused to pay the fine because the penalty notice and following letters from the company were not in Welsh.\n\nHe was forced to make a third appearance in court as One Parking Solution continued attempts to get the payment from him through a lawsuit.\n\nIn a bilingual hearing, Deputy District Judge Owen Williams said the application had been made on the basis of a rule that did not apply to small claims.\n\nHe told Richard Mullan, One Parking Solution's barrister, that he had been badly advised by the company's lawyer.\n\nThe court ordered One Parking Solution to pay Mr Schiavone's travel expenses of £27.90, which he said he would donate to a cancer charity.\n\n\"It's a shame that I have to go to court to fight something as petty as this,\" he said after the hearing.\n\n\"It costs less to translate a letter into Welsh than it cost the prosecution to come here to fight this case,\" he added.\n\n\"The fact that this company is so keen to chase me... instead of preparing something completely simple like giving a letter in Welsh shows a lack of respect for the Welsh language and to Wales.\"\n\nCymdeithas yr Iaith launched a campaign in response to the case, encouraging people not to pay parking fees in car parks that do not display bilingual signs.\n\nThe group's chair, Sian Howys, said: \"There are hundreds of these private car parks throughout Wales and on the whole these companies are not willing to use the Welsh language.\"\n\n\"Welsh is an official language in Wales, and these companies make a big profit,\" she said. \"They are happy enough to take the money of the people of Wales but they refuse to use our language.\n\n\"So we are launching a campaign where people will be able to put a warning in the car saying that they are not going to pay for parking until the company operates in Welsh.\"\n\nShe called on the Welsh government to set Welsh language standards that apply to all companies operating in Wales, including banks and supermarkets.\n\nAfter the hearing, a Welsh government spokesperson said: \"We are keen to see all sectors increase the use of Welsh and supporting businesses to develop their Welsh language services is a priority for us.\n\n\"As a government, we are focused on action that has a meaningful and practical effect on promoting the Welsh language and ensuring that people are able to use Welsh in their everyday lives.\n\n\"As part of this, we are currently following a programme of work for the introduction of Welsh language standards to more sectors over the coming years.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty in a Washington DC court to conspiring to overturn his 2020 election defeat.\n\nDuring a short arraignment, he spoke softly to confirm his not-guilty plea, name and age, and that he was not under the influence of any substances.\n\nHe later told reporters the case was \"persecution of a political opponent\".\n\nIt marks the former president's third appearance in four months as a criminal defendant.\n\nMr Trump entered through a backdoor of the courthouse on Thursday afternoon in the centre of the nation's capital, just yards from the scene of the US Capitol riot that is central to the prosecution's case.\n\nAbout 1,000 defendants charged with participating in the storming of Congress on 6 January 2021 have appeared in the same court building.\n\nThe former president seemed to exchange glances across the court with Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the investigation.\n\nMr Trump was seen twiddling his thumbs as he sat waiting for the hearing to begin, and he shook his head as the clerk read out the case number.\n\nHis not-guilty plea covered the four charges in this latest indictment:\n\nThe judge told the former president not to communicate about the facts of the case.\n\nShe warned him that failure to comply could result in an arrest warrant, revoked release conditions and contempt of court charges.\n\nProsecutors told the hearing the case would benefit from a speedy trial.\n\nMr Trump spoke to reporters at Reagan airport standing near his aide Walt Nauta (left), his co-defendant in a separate case\n\nBut Trump defence attorney John Lauro said they would need more time to prepare. He said the prosecution's timeline was \"somewhat absurd\" given that the investigation itself had taken three years.\n\nThe allegations laid out on Tuesday in an indictment, or charge sheet, include a count of \"conspiracy to impair, obstruct, and defeat the federal government function through dishonesty, fraud and deceit\".\n\nMr Trump lost the 2020 election to his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, but he refused to concede and mounted weeks of challenges across several US states.\n\nHe is currently the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican White House nomination and may face a rematch with Mr Biden.\n\nSpeaking to reporters before flying home to New Jersey in his private plane, Mr Trump said his arraignment was a \"very sad day for America\".\n\nHe told reporters he was sad to see \"the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti\" in Washington DC.\n\nOutside court, one of his lawyers previewed a possible defence strategy.\n\nAlina Habba argued that the former president had been given bad guidance by his team in the aftermath of the election.\n\n\"I think that everybody was made aware that he lost the election, but that doesn't mean that that was the only advice he was given,\" said Ms Habba.\n\nShe added: \"He may not agree with Mike Pence. He may not agree with one of his lawyers.\n\n\"But that doesn't mean there weren't other people advising him exactly the opposite. And the president has a right, as every one of us do, to listen to several opinions and make a decision.\"\n\nThe indictment lists six unnamed co-conspirators who allegedly helped Mr Trump plot to quash his election loss.\n\nThree police officers who testified to Congress about their battle with Trump supporters during the US Capitol riot attended Thursday's court hearing. Several off-duty judges were also in the room.\n\nA group of supporters waving Trump campaign flags assembled outside, along with anti-Trump demonstrators.\n\nThe next hearing will take place on 28 August and is expected to be procedural. However, the judge may set a trial date.\n\nThe Republican has already been charged in two other cases: with mishandling classified files and falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to a porn star.\n\nMr Trump now faces five upcoming trials - three in New York, over the hush-money payment, and civil trials over business practices and alleged defamation of a woman who accused him of rape.\n\nThe fourth trial will take place in Florida relating to the alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Selling pick 'n' mix, stationery and even garden tools: Wilko has styled itself as a budget UK homeware chain for more than 90 years.\n\nWith 400 stores across the UK, the chain is well-known for its affordable everyday items.\n\nBut in early August, the High Street stalwart collapsed into administration and put 12,500 jobs at risk.\n\nDiscount chain B&M said in September that it would take on up to 51 of Wilko's 400 stores in a deal worth £13m. And the owner of Poundland has agreed to take on the leases of 71 Wilko shops.\n\nThere had been hope that a further 300 stores could be rescued by the billionaire owner of HMV, Doug Putman. But the failure of his bid means the Wilko name will disappear from the High Street in the next few weeks.\n\nThe business was founded in 1930 when JK Wilkinson opened his first store in Leicester. It expanded across the Midlands initially and by the 1990s became one of Britain's fastest-growing retailers.\n\nIn 2012, Wilkinson began rebranding its stores as Wilko, and by 2014, most stores had emblazoned the new name on storefronts.\n\nWhen we first heard the chain was struggling, we spoke to Wilko customers in stores and on social media.\n\nJames, a construction professional, remembered the first Wilko store in Leeds: \"My dad loved it - a brilliant location at the Arndale Centre in Headingley. It sold such a wide range of things.\"\n\nBut Stephen from North Tyneside said it didn't have everything he wanted.\n\n\"We only go in for specific items. It's good for washing up powder. It's not what it was, I don't think,\" he said.\n\nWilko stepped into the High Street gap left by the collapse of Woolworths in late 2008, but has struggled over the past decade partly due to growing competition from the likes of Poundland and B&M.\n\nWilko's sales were larger than B&M's a decade ago, but recently its sales had also fallen below Poundland, Home Bargains and The Range.\n\nSome analysts have pointed out that rivals seem to offer similar goods at lower prices - which made Wilko's business less appealing for potential suitors.\n\nShoppers had also noticed gaps on shelves after Wilko struggled to pay suppliers and at least one credit insurer withdrew trade cover, prompting some companies to pause deliveries.\n\nRichard Lim, boss of the Retail Economics consultancy, said the level of investment needed to get the retailer back on its feet and regain the trust of their suppliers was \"a significant stumbling point\".\n\n\"While some of the stores have been acquired, the core business needs emergency surgery and the acquisition risks appear too high for most,\" he told the BBC.\n\nWhen Wilko fell into administration it had 408 stores across the UK, many of them in High Street locations in traditional town centres.\n\nWhile these locations are convenient for shoppers without cars, since the pandemic there's been a shift to bigger retail parks and out-of-town options with more space.\n\n\"The purchase of 51 Wilko stores by B&M may have left the remainder of the estate less attractive for any purchaser,\" said Charles Allen, retail analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.\n\n\"It seems likely that poor, or outdated locations, were one reason for Wilko's demise, so if some of the better ones were no longer available, a deal to rescue the remainder may have become more difficult.\"\n\nRichard Lim said Wilko's focus on the High Street had not helped it keep up with its rivals.\n\n\"B&M and Home Bargains have really invested in their stores and since the lockdowns in the UK, customers are really after that shopping experience.\n\n\"Wilko also struggled to join up their online and in-store operations,\" he added.\n\nRetail analyst Catherine Shuttleworth said Wilko's problems were a result of bad decision-making by the owners.\n\n\"There were simply too many stores in the Wilko estate,\" she said.\n\n\"A cut to 250 stores would have been a sensible move by the owners of the business - tough decisions were needed but they simply weren't made.\n\n\"As the market became more competitive post-Covid and the shopper changed their shopping habits permanently, Wilko failed to act and this ultimately led to the position they are in today.\"\n\nBut nevertheless, many customers told the BBC they would be upset if their local Wilko closed.\n\n\"It's a bit like the old Woolworths,\" one said. \"It would be a huge loss - not everyone likes online shopping.\"\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The RAF has released footage and photographs of fighter jets from RAF Lossiemouth intercepting Russian aircraft.\n\nAir force crews were deployed to Estonia to help patrol Nato airspace over the course of four months, during which they intercepted 50 Russian aircraft.\n\nThe RAF personnel used \"zombie\" as their codeword for a Russian plane acting suspiciously.\n\nThe mission, called Operation Azotie, came amid heightened tensions between Nato-member countries and Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.", "Members of the Belgian road cycling team go for a ride in the city centre of Glasgow\n\nTop cyclists from around the world are in Scotland for a \"first-of-its-kind mega event\".\n\nThe UCI Cycling World Championships begins on Thursday and runs until 13 August.\n\nRoad racing, time trials, track, BMX, mountain bike, indoor cycling and para-cycling will all take place at venues across Scotland.\n\nChampionships chairman Paul Bush said it would showcase Scotland's status as a world-class events destination.\n\nSix times Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme it would be the single biggest cycling event in history.\n\n\"It's going to be great for the country, it's going to be great for Glasgow and it's also going to be great for the sport,\" he said.\n\nSir Chris said Scotland already had world class cyclists such as Katie Archibald, Neah Evans, Jack Carlin and Neil Fachie.\n\n\"Hopefully these championships are going to propel these names to the front of your mind,\" he said.\n\nKT Tunstall performs during the opening ceremony for the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships\n\nRoad cycling commentator Phil Liggett told the BBC it was the \"pinnacle of the world of cycling\" to win a UCI world championship.\n\n\"You win a rainbow jersey if you win the title which you get to wear for one year afterward.\n\n\"The Tour De France is for the multi-day cyclist and the world championship is for the one-day expert. They are the two highest rewards in the world of cycling.\"\n\nAbout 2,700 riders will compete for rainbow jerseys across seven disciplines with more than 200 world titles on the line.\n\nThe events range from mountain biking in the Tweed Valley to elite track cycling in Glasgow's Sir Chris Hoy velodrome.\n\nA giant penny farthing bike leads the procession during the opening ceremony for the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in George Squar\n\nThere will also be time trials on roads around Stirling; para-cycling road races in Dumfries; and a special Gran Fondo event in Perth and Dundee.\n\nReigning champion Remco Evenepoel will compete in the men's elite road race which takes place over a 271.1km (168 mile) route from Edinburgh to Glasgow on Sunday 6 August.\n\nThe Women's Elite race follows a route from Loch Lomond to Glasgow on the last day of the championship - Sunday 13 August.\n\nMost events are ticketed but all the road races and time trials are free to attend. So too are the BMX Flatland Freestyle and Mountain Bike Cross-Country Marathon.\n\nThe BBC will also have full coverage of the events on TV and online.\n\nTeam Great Britain at the start of their race in the Women's Elite Team Sprint qualification\n\nEight of the 13 championships will take place in Glasgow and the city's George Square will become the official fan zone, hosting the culmination of road races and their medal ceremonies.\n\nIt will have the most extensive road closures, with a city centre circuit being shut over seven full days.\n\nThe Road Race Circuit covers large parts of Glasgow city centre and the west end of the city.\n\nRoads will be closed from Friday 4 to Tuesday 8 August and then again on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 August.\n\nThe biggest road race event takes place on Sunday 6 August when the Men's Elite Race completes 10 laps of the Glasgow circuit after its journey from Edinburgh via Fife.\n\nThe race will see road closures along the route from Edinburgh on a rolling basis, most notably on the M9 at Junctions 1A (Newbridge) and 7 (Kinnaird House Interchange) to allow the race to pass over the Queensferry Crossing.\n\nThe following Sunday (13 August) the Women's Elite Race will see similar restrictions in Glasgow as well as closures and movements on the A82 to Balloch, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nOther events around the country will see the following road closures:\n\nTraffic Scotland has a dedicated page for the UCI Cycling World Championships and can offer support on journey planning.\n\nTransport Minister Fiona Hyslop said: \"We have worked closely with organisers, Police Scotland, local authorities and many others to test travel arrangements, however given the complex nature and scale of this operation road users should expect delays at certain points and on the busier days.\"\n\nHugh Gillies, director at Transport Scotland, said: \"Traffic modelling shows that we are set for a number of days where queues and congestion are likely, and that's before we factor in any incidents on the network.\n\n\"We really need the public and spectators to play their part and check before they travel, to maximise their enjoyment and ensure Scotland is on the global map for all the right reasons.\"\n\nTeam Great Britain in action in the Men's Elite Team Pursuit", "Schools inspectorate Estyn found that pupils are pressured regularly to send nudes\n\nCases of sexual harassment among pupils has \"become the norm\", according to Wales' lead schools police officer.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Claire Parmenter said she had written to headteachers encouraging them to report cases.\n\nIt comes after about half of secondary pupils said they had experienced sexual harassment from fellow students.\n\nIn evidence to a Senedd committee on Thursday, Colleges Wales said it had seen a \"phenomenal increase in terms of reporting\".\n\nMs Parmenter, from Dyfed Powys Police, said schools were sometimes reluctant to report cases of sexual harassment involving pupils in case they were judged for \"not coping\" or \"breeding the wrong culture\".\n\n\"It [sexual harassment] is prevalent - part of our challenge is to encourage schools to be comfortable in reporting,\" she said.\n\nShe added there was a \"fine balance\" between encouraging people to report cases and dealing with them, versus \"unnecessarily criminalising\" young people.\n\nTwice as many girls said they had faced sexual harassment than boys, Estyn's December 2021 report found\n\nMs Parmenter said most cases of sexual harassment between pupils were \"low level\" and they were not seeing many high risk cases.\n\nBut Deputy Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman said campaigns such as Everyone's Invited suggested that incidence among children and young people was increasing.\n\n\"The prevalence is there but we do have a situation where young people don't want to tell their teachers in respect of it - they certainly don't want to identify that to parents\", said Ms Blakeman, Wales' lead officer for children.\n\nMaxine Thomas, from Pembrokeshire College, representing Colleges Wales, said cases including stalking, inappropriate touching and online bullying had all been recognised.\n\n\"The colleges are experiencing things which we have never experienced before and we are seeing phenomenal increases in terms of reporting,\" she said.\n\nChildren's Commissioner Sally Holland told members of the Senedd that increased prevalence of peer-on-peer sexual harassment was \"likely\" and more reporting of it was welcome.\n\nProf Holland referred to uniform as a \"battleground about girls' bodies and discussions about them\" and said there was the problem of 'upskirting along with more \"old-fashioned\" issues such as using rulers to lift skirts.\n\nShe said young people should be involved in developing \"sensible policies\" about uniform.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Navalny appears on a screen via a video link from his penal colony during court hearings in Moscow, 22 June 2023\n\nImprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has told supporters not to lose the will to resist, after his jail term was extended to 19 years.\n\nMr Navalny was found guilty of founding and funding an extremist organisation. He denies the charges.\n\nHe was already serving a nine-year term for parole violations, fraud and contempt of court. The charges are widely viewed as politically motivated.\n\nThe trial was held in a remote penal colony, where he has been since 2021.\n\nThe Kremlin's most vocal critic will serve his time in a \"special regime colony\", which Russian state prosecutors had been calling for.\n\nEven more restrictive than a high security colony, such prisons are normally reserved for dangerous criminals, re-offenders and those with life imprisonment.\n\nThere he is likely to face greater isolation, with further restrictions on communications with the outside world.\n\nHe could also receive fewer visitors than he is used to, including his family and defence team, and may face longer periods of solitary confinement.\n\nAfter the verdict, in a message to supporters posted for him on X (formerly known as Twitter) Mr Navalny remained defiant. \"You, not me, are being frightened and deprived of the will to resist. Putin must not achieve his goal. Do not lose the will to resist,\" he wrote.\n\nFor this court case the phrase \"behind closed doors\" felt like an understatement.\n\nAlexei Navalny was tried in the high security prison in which he's currently incarcerated; the proceedings were closed to the press and the public.\n\nBut for the verdict the BBC was allowed into Penal Colony Number 6 in the town of Melekhovo, 150 miles east of Moscow, where a hall was turned into a makeshift courtroom.\n\nAlong with other journalists we crammed into a small room dubbed the \"press centre\" to watch events on a video screen. We weren't allowed into the makeshift courtroom itself (a prison hall) where the verdict would be announced.\n\nAs he entered the courtroom and sat down at a table, Alexei Navalny looked relaxed. For him there was no drama about this situation: in a message posted for him yesterday on social media Russia's most prominent opposition figure had made it clear he'd been fully expecting a \"Stalinist\" sentence.\n\nThere was a picture on the video screen. But the audio feed from the courtroom was of poor quality and intermittent.\n\nWhen the judge pronounced Mr Navalny guilty and passed sentence, it wasn't immediately clear to the journalists watching and listening how long the new prison sentence was.\n\nLater, Mr Navalny himself confirmed the figure, in the social media message posted for him.\n\n\"Nineteen years in a special regime colony. The figure doesn't mean anything. I fully understand that, like many political prisoners my sentence is for life. Life is measured either by my lifespan or that of the regime.\"\n\nThe new sentence \"raises serious concerns about judicial harassment and instrumentalisation of the court system for political purposes in Russia,\" UN human rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement.\n\n\"Putin is trying to frighten as many Alexei supporters as he can\", Mr Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh said of his sentencing.\n\n\"We have to put all our efforts in trying to get rid of Putin, and this will mean that Alexei will be free,\" she added.\n\nFor more than a decade, Mr Navalny sought to expose corruption at the heart of Russian power. His video investigations have received tens of millions of views online.\n\nA charismatic campaigner, he seemed to be the only Russian opposition leader capable of mobilising people in large numbers across Russia to take part in anti-government protests.\n\nBut in 2020, he was poisoned in Siberia by what Western laboratories later confirmed to be a nerve agent.\n\nA later report by the investigative outlet Bellingcat and Russian news site The Insider implicated several agents of Russia's internal security service, the FSB, in the attack.\n\nAfter recovering from the attack, Mr Navalny returned to Russia in 2021 despite warnings that he could face arrest. He was immediately arrested upon arrival at an airport in Moscow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife in 2021 and then being led away by authorities", "The space agency had expected a regular reset of the probe in October to fix the error\n\nNasa is back in full contact with its lost Voyager 2 probe months earlier than expected, the space agency said.\n\nIn July a wrong command was made to the spacecraft, sent to explore space in 1977, changing its position and severing contact.\n\nA signal was picked up on Tuesday but thanks to an \"interstellar shout\" - a powerful instruction - its antenna is now back facing Earth.\n\nNasa had originally pinned hopes on the spacecraft resetting itself in October.\n\nIt took 37 hours for mission controllers to figure out if the interstellar command had worked as Voyager 2 is billions of miles away from Earth.\n\nStaff used the \"highest-power transmitter\" to send a message to the spacecraft and timed it to be sent during \"the best conditions\" so the antenna lined up with the command, Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd told AFP.\n\nAfter communications were lost, the probe had been unable to receive commands or send back data to Nasa's Deep Space Network - an array of giant radio antennas across the world.\n\nBut the space agency confirmed on 4 August that data had been received from the spacecraft and it was operating normally.\n\nNasa expects the spacecraft laden with science instruments to remain on its planned trajectory through the universe.\n\nOn Monday, the space agency said its huge dish in Australia's capital, Canberra, was trying to detect any stray signals from Voyager 2. This was when the first faint \"heartbeat\" signal was heard.\n\nThe antenna had been bombarding Voyager 2's area with the correct command, in the hope of somehow making contact, Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the Voyager missions, said.\n\nThe probe is programmed to reset its position multiple times each year to keep its antenna pointing at Earth. The next reset is due on 15 October, which Nasa had rested its hopes on if all other attempts had failed.\n\nVoyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 are the only spacecraft ever to operate outside the heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields generated by the Sun. They reached interstellar space in 2018 and 2012 respectively.\n\nThe probes were designed to take advantage of a rare alignment of outer planets, which occurs about every 176 years, to explore Jupiter and Saturn.\n\nVoyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to fly by Neptune and Uranus, while Voyager 1 is now nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, making it humanity's most distant spacecraft.\n\nOnce both spacecraft run out of power - expected sometime after 2025 - they will continue roaming through space.", "Activists covered the front of the property in black sheeting on Thursday morning\n\nFive people arrested following an anti-fossil fuels protest at the home of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have been released on bail pending further inquiries, police said.\n\nGreenpeace activists unfurled \"oil-black fabric\" on the house in a North Yorkshire village on Thursday.\n\nTwo men and two women were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage and public nuisance.\n\nA third man was also arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.\n\nRishi Sunak's office confirmed neither the prime minister nor his family were present at the time, as they are on holiday in the US.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said the force had been made aware of the incident at Mr Sunak's constituency home at about 08:05 BST on Thursday.\n\nOfficers \"contained the area\" and no-one entered the building, a spokesperson said.\n\nA large cordon was put in place and specialist police liaison officers were used to bring the protesters down from the roof of the property, they added.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Elliot Foskett said: \"There was no threat to the wider public throughout this incident which has now been brought to a safe conclusion.\"\n\nRishi Sunak and his family are on holiday in the US\n\nMr Sunak purchased the house after becoming the MP for the rural Richmond constituency in 2015.\n\nThe Grade II listed property was built in 1826 and has extensive gardens.\n\nIn 2021, planning permission was granted for an annex with a swimming pool, gym and tennis court.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Five arrested after rooftop protest at PM's house", "The publisher of MailOnline, DMG Media, has confirmed it has paused Dan Wootton's column, while it considers \"a series of allegations\" against him, which he denies.\n\nWootton has a twice-weekly column with MailOnline, the last of which was published on 29 June.\n\nHe has previously admitted making \"errors of judgement\" but strongly denied any criminality in relation to claims made against him.\n\nThe disputed allegations include that he used a fake online identity to offer money to individuals for sexually explicit images.\n\nFollowing the claims last month, the publishers of MailOnline and his previous employers at the Sun newspaper - where he worked between 2013 and 2021 - immediately made separate statements saying they were looking into allegations made against him.\n\nIn a new statement, a DMG Media spokesperson said: \"The allegations are obviously serious but also complex and historic and there is an independent investigation under way at the media group which employed him during the relevant period.\n\n\"In the meantime, his freelance column with MailOnline has been paused.\"\n\nLast month, the TV presenter and columnist used his self-titled GB News programme to admit he had made \"errors of judgement\" in the past but branded the \"criminal allegations\" as \"simply untrue\".\n\nHe said he was the victim of a \"witchhunt\" by \"nefarious players\", and that the allegations had been spread by a \"race to the bottom\" on social media.\n\nDuring his time at the Sun, Wootton edited the paper's showbiz column Bizarre, and became the paper's executive editor.\n\nHe was also previously showbiz editor at the News of the World and appeared on ITV's Lorraine as the programme's showbiz correspondent. He was named showbiz reporter of the year at the British Press Awards three times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Donaldson has completed the Oceans Seven challenge in record time.\n\nA Scottish swimmer has become the first person to swim the world's seven most dangerous channels in less than a year.\n\nAndy Donaldson, from West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, also set the fastest ever cumulative time for the 200km (124-mile) Oceans Seven challenge.\n\nThe 32-year-old completed the final 19.5km (12.1 mile) stage in Japan last month, having started the journey in August 2022.\n\nHe said he was both \"delighted\" and \"shattered\".\n\nThe Oceans Seven features the toughest and most iconic channel swims in the world, ranging in distance from 20km (12 mile) to 44km (27 mile).\n\nAndy said crossing the Tsugaru Strait in Japan, which left him requiring hospital treatment, was the toughest leg despite being the second shortest of the challenge.\n\n\"I knew it was going to be a long day at the office when within 30 minutes I had already thrown up,\" he told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme.\n\nHe described conditions as \"terrible\" due to strong winds and and 10km per hour currents.\n\nAndy added: \"It was like trying to swim across a raging river.\"\n\nAndy Donaldson has completed the Oceans Seven challenge in record time\n\nHe faced his toughest challenged in Japan's Tsugaru Strait\n\nAndy began the challenge by breaking the British record for swimming the English Channel before becoming the first Scottish male to swim from Ireland to Scotland.\n\nIn March, he set a new world record for the fastest swim across the Cook Strait - the waters between New Zealand's North and South Islands.\n\nThe next four crossings - the Molokai Channel in Hawaii, the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco, the Catalina channel from Santa Catalina to Los Angeles and the Tsugaru Strait - were crammed into three months between April and July.\n\nAndy set British records in the 14.4km (8.9 mile) Gibraltar swim as well as in the 32km (19.9 mile) Catalina Channel.\n\nDuring his epic challenge he had to contend with ocean swells, currents, temperature changes and even sharks.\n\nAndy also had to cope with a lack of light during night-time swims - which included a \"bone-chilling\" 34km (21 mile) journey from Ireland to Scotland.\n\nRemarkably he completed the entire race within 355 days, shattering the previous record of two years and 60 days.\n\nAndy's cumulative swim time of 63 hours 2 minutes also beat the previous best of 64 hours 35 minutes.\n\nAndy was followed by a support crew in each of the legs\n\nThe Scot swam the Strait of Gibraltar in record British time\n\nThe swimmer's safety was in the hands of a support team which travelled alongside him in a boat on each leg, aiding with navigation.\n\n\"There are the physical challenges, but there are mental adversities too [like] when you're really going at a snail's pace, swimming into head-on currents,\" he said.\n\n\"With the help of my team, we've managed to come through each of them unscathed and give away a few records along the way.\"\n\nAs an ex-professional pool swimmer, Andy won national titles at 200m freestyle but switched to open-water swimming after moving to Perth, Australia, 10 years ago.\n\nAndy, a proud Scot, won national titles in the pool before switching to open water events\n\nAndy, who has suffered from depression and been inspired by his grandfather's struggle with the illness, raised funds for Australian-based mental health organisation the Black Dog Institute.\n\nAmid dire warnings about rising sea temperatures and the implications for the planet, Andy hinted his next challenge could help raise awareness of the climate crisis.\n\nThe Ayrshire man said there had been a noticeable change in water temperatures in recent years.\n\n\"Swimmers are having to adapt to these changing oceans and weather patterns,\" he told BBC Scotland News.\n\n\"But in terms of the bigger picture, and the impact on the environment, ecosystems, and livelihood, it certainly is an issue for concern.\"", "The classic science fiction novel was last borrowed from a library in Scunthorpe on 11 October 1969\n\nA library copy of the classic sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey has been returned more than 50 years late.\n\nThe first edition of the ground-breaking Sir Arthur C. Clarke title was last date-stamped in Scunthorpe on 11 October 1969.\n\nNorth Lincolnshire Council said it could technically have incurred a late return fine equivalent to about £4,500.\n\nHowever, the local authority recently decided to permanently abolish late return fees.\n\nThe book, which was created concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's hit 1968 film, was found in a bag alongside library-owned sheet music of Elizabethan love songs and blues numbers.\n\nThe novel is finally back on a shelf at Scunthorpe Central Library for others to enjoy once again.\n\nLibrarian Tim Davies says he'd be interested in hearing further details of what happened to the book\n\nNotable events in the year the book was taken out include The Beatles' final public performance, the Concorde supersonic airliner's first flight and US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin becoming the first people to walk on the Moon.\n\nNorth Lincolnshire Council said the book was initially borrowed from Scunthorpe's Riddings Library and was dropped off at the town's Central Library more than half a century later.\n\nThe date the book was last borrowed predates the opening of the town's Central Library by five years.\n\nTim Davies, a librarian for the local authority, told the BBC: \"We don't know an awful lot about it.\n\n\"Someone had been clearing out a shop they had taken over and they found it in a bag along with three books of sheet music which were also ours.\"\n\nThe book was a popular title to borrow in Scunthorpe, judging by the number of stamps in the late 1960s\n\nIn a similar move to many local authorities, overdue book fines were permanently scrapped in July across North Lincolnshire's 14 public libraries to encourage people to use the service.\n\nMr Davies added: \"It'd be nice to meet them if the person who borrowed the book is still with us, certainly if any light could be shed on the story that'd be nice.\n\n\"If anyone has any more information we'd be very happy to find out about it.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eddie Izzard has previously tried to become a Labour MP in Sheffield\n\nComedian Eddie Izzard has said she will stand for one of Brighton's parliamentary seats.\n\nMaking the announcement on her website, Izzard said she wanted to stand for Labour in the Brighton Pavilion seat currently held by the only Green MP, Caroline Lucas.\n\nMs Lucas has announced she will stand down at the next election.\n\nThe Labour Party said it would not comment on Izzard's announcement.\n\nOn her website Izzard, who was brought up in Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex, said she wanted to become an MP for Brighton \"to support this brilliant city and its diverse and vibrant community.\"\n\nShe said: \"Labour needs a candidate that can inspire many thousands to become our friends and allies in the fight for a fairer, greener, cleaner planet.\"\n\nIn 2022, Izzard tried unsuccessfully to secure the Labour candidacy in Sheffield Central.\n\nIn the 2019 general election the Green Party increased its majority in Brighton Pavilion, beating Labour by nearly 20,000 votes, with the Conservatives finishing third.\n\nLondon Assembly member and former Green Party co-leader Sian Berry has been selected as the Green candidate to replace Ms Lucas.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said they would begin the selection process for their candidate in September.\n\nMeanwhile, the Conservatives have yet to comment on their selection process.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Greater Manchester Police has made two referrals to IOPC over the case\n\nThe police watchdog has begun an investigation after a woman claimed she was stripped and sexually assaulted while in custody.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had received two referrals from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) linked to her complaints.\n\nThey related to the 38-year-old's detention at Pendleton police station in February 2021.\n\nSky News reported she was held for 40 hours in custody.\n\nBut it was claimed three hours of footage taken of her was missing and medical records showed evidence of sexual injuries.\n\nThe complainant is one of three women who have accused GMP of unjustified strip searches after arrest, with Mayor Andy Burnham describing the allegations as \"serious and distressing\".\n\nGMP has denied any wrongdoing by its staff.\n\nThe IOPC said it initially received a re-referral of matters received in May 2022 which they instructed GMP to investigate locally, while the other referral contained new allegations regarding the woman's treatment in custody that had not previously been brought to their attention.\n\nRegional director Catherine Bates said: \"These very serious allegations will have undoubtedly unsettled the local community and the wider public.\n\n\"Their severity raises understandable concern and has the potential to undermine confidence in policing.\n\n\"In light of the new information we recently received and the significant media attention generated, as well as a request from GMP, we have taken the decision that an independent investigation is required into the allegations.\n\n\"We are aware of footage of the woman's detention, which has been widely shared, and will be requesting a copy of all available video evidence to assist with our inquiries.\n\n\"Our investigation, which will be thorough and independent of the police, will look at the nature of the interaction the woman had with police while in custody and allow us to understand what happened on the night in question.\n\n\"We have made contact with the woman to explain our role and we will update her as our inquiries progress.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe partner of a pregnant woman killed by a driver who filmed himself speeding at 123mph has branded her killer's sentence \"insulting\".\n\nAdil Iqbal, 22, was jailed for 12 years after admitting causing the death of Frankie Jules-Hough, 38, on the M66 in Bury, Greater Manchester, on 13 May.\n\nShe had pulled over on the hard shoulder with a tyre puncture.\n\nMs Jules-Hough's partner Calvin Buckley said the \"lenient\" sentence did not reflect the harm to the family.\n\n\"It's not just about giving him a tougher sentence because we want to punish him and it's not that we want revenge for what's happened,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"It's like if people aren't getting tough sentences for this they're going to keep doing it and it's just disappointing and insulting to the family.\"\n\nMr Buckley said people do not see speeding as a crime and do not see how dangerous it can be.\n\n\"For him to be doing that, filming for a thrill, for his ego, the devastation and the impact that can cause, how is that worth it?\"\n\nMr Buckley said when he arrived at the crash scene it was like a \"horror movie\", adding: \"I was stood there in the chaos while they treated Frankie at the roadside.\"\n\nIt felt like a \"miracle\" her two sons and nephew, who were also in the car, had even got out as \"the back of the car was totally crushed\", he said.\n\nHe said he was thankful he had been able to tell Ms Jules-Hough he loved her, and the pair had had \"a proper goodbye\" about half an hour before the crash before they all headed out for a \"celebration\".\n\nManchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard how Iqbal, from Accrington, Lancashire, was driving his father's BMW with one hand and holding his phone with the other to film himself, possibly to upload to Facebook, as he tailgated and undertook other vehicles and swerved across lanes.\n\nMs Jules-Hough had pulled over on the hard shoulder when the BMW 140i undertook a motorbike then swerved, over-compensated and hit a crash barrier before spinning around and ploughing into Ms Jules-Hough's Skoda Fabia at an estimated 92mph.\n\nShe was 17 weeks pregnant with her first daughter and suffered unsurvivable brain injuries.\n\nThey both died two days later in hospital surrounded by family, with Ms Jules-Hough having never regained consciousness.\n\nHer son and nephew were left in a coma suffering serious brain injuries with their long-term outcomes remaining uncertain, the court heard.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adil Iqbal filmed himself speeding at 123mph before ploughing into Ms Jules-Hough's car\n\nMr Buckley said: \"We were going out for a celebration that day, that's the reason Frankie was on the road.\n\n\"I saw Frankie before the incident and said goodbye, I said I love her which I'm really happy that I managed to do. We did get a proper goodbye.\"\n\nHe said within 20 - 30 minutes he had got a phone call saying she had been in a crash.\n\nHe said: \"My first thought was the baby. I just kept thinking she's lost the baby and I just wanted to get to the crash scene.\"\n\nEmergency services attended the crash scene on 13 May\n\nHe said he initially thought Ms Jules-Hough's injuries were not not life-threatening before medics told him she had a serious brain injury and \"they basically said we don't think she's going to pull though\".\n\nMr Buckley said the family was able to spend time with her in critical care for two days until she died.\n\nLast year, judges were given the power to hand down greater sentences to those convicted of death by dangerous driving.\n\nPreviously, the maximum tariff was 14 years but it was increased to life imprisonment.\n\nSolicitor Polly Herbert said she was disappointed Iqbal did not receive a longer sentence because this was not \"heat of the moment\", it was \"prolonged dangerous, deliberately dangerous driving over a prolonged period of time\".\n\n\"We were all hoping that this was an opportunity for the judicial system to say this kind of crime is real crime and the sentencing that was available should have been utilised in this particular case due to the horrendous aggravating features,\" she said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Andy Cox said this was not an accident, it was a \"choice\" to be \"selfish, dangerous, and reckless\" which \"absolutely devastates people\".\n\nMr Buckley said he wanted to \"make a difference\" by sharing his story and would go into schools, colleges and do talks, adding: \"I'd like to see something being done about it. It needs a campaign where there's adverts raising awareness.\n\n\"What happened to me I don't want to happen to other people.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The trial heard Jacob suffered \"repeated physical abuse\" in the days before he died in Linton, Derbyshire\n\nA man who murdered his 10-month-old stepson in a \"brutal\" assault has been given a life sentence and told he must serve a minimum of 28 years in prison.\n\nJacob Crouch was assaulted numerous times in the months leading up to his death, before the final fatal attack by Craig Crouch.\n\nJacob's mother Gemma Barton was cleared of murder but found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nThe pair were sentenced at Derby Crown Court earlier.\n\nBarton - who was coerced and controlled by Crouch, according to the judge, and had also been treated for breast cancer since being arrested - was given a 10-year prison sentence.\n\nThe seven-week trial heard Jacob died alone in his cot on 30 December 2020, having suffered a \"living hell\" at his home in Linton, Derbyshire.\n\nThe prosecution said neither parent had given him the care he \"needed or deserved\".\n\nProsecution barrister Mary Prior KC said Jacob had suffered at least 39 fractures of the ribs, with 22 of these occurring in the week of his death.\n\nHe also had \"significant\" bruising, including to his cheeks, ear and left thigh.\n\nShe said Jacob was eventually killed by a \"brutal blow or blows to his abdomen\", which caused a tear to his bowel, and, in turn, peritonitis.\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Michael Biggs, who gave evidence at the trial, said he would normally expect to see such injuries in car crash victims or those who had suffered a multi-storey fall.\n\nMr Justice Kerr said Crouch, 39, had caused Jacob \"acute physical and mental suffering\".\n\n\"He was a happy, smiling, bubbly baby who never complained about the horrific treatment he was receiving,\" the judge said.\n\n\"He had to put up with it and he did, often with a smile and laughter in defiance of his tormentor.\"\n\nHe added that Crouch had \"not shown any remorse\".\n\nBarton, 33, wept in the dock as she was sentenced.\n\n\"You either knew or should have known the risk to Jacob from Mr Crouch, and did nothing to protect him from it,\" said the judge.\n\n\"I am sure you knew that Jacob's plight was serious. You failed to take such steps that you reasonably should have been expected to have undertaken.\n\n\"The evidence was there to see, but you failed to face up to it.\"\n\nCraig Crouch was convicted of murder while co-accused Gemma Barton was acquitted of murder but found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child\n\nBarton had met Crouch in September 2019 when she was four months pregnant with Jacob.\n\nThe court heard she had previously been assaulted by Jacob's biological father.\n\nCrouch told Barton multiple lies about himself and was described by police as a \"fantasist\".\n\n\"He claimed to be a director at JCB, he claimed to be on six-figure salary, where actually he was driving a forklift truck in the warehouse,\" said Det Insp Paul Bullock, of Derbyshire Police.\n\nCrouch even told Barton that he met Boris Johnson and was \"flying around in the JCB helicopter\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBarton and Crouch became \"very close, very quickly\", according to the prosecution, calling Jacob \"our little boy\" only a month after getting together.\n\nJacob was then born on 17 February 2020, with Crouch named as his father on the birth certificate.\n\nThe judge said he had taken into account the fact that Barton had a history of mental health problems, including depression, and this may have made her \"more susceptible to manipulation and coercion\".\n\n\"Mr Crouch did exert such influence and did manipulate you in a manner amounting to what is commonly called coercive and controlling behaviour,\" said the judge.\n\n\"Of that there is ample evidence in many text messages that were read to the jury during the trial.\"\n\nThe trial heard Crouch told Barton in June 2020 to be \"more regimental\" with her son.\n\nIn another text the pair referred to Jacob as the \"devil\".\n\nIn September, when Barton told Crouch she was bathing Jacob, he replied: \"3 foot deep, just hot water and some bleach xxxx\".\n\nMrs Prior said Jacob could have survived the final, fatal assault had either defendant called for medical help sooner.\n\nThey did call 999, claiming they had found Jacob unresponsive in his cot.\n\nHowever, there were already signs of rigor mortis when paramedics arrived, suggesting Jacob had been dead for much longer than his parents claimed.\n\nCrouch was also convicted of three counts of child cruelty.\n\nHe was jailed for eight years, six years, and one year respectively for these, to be served concurrently to his life sentence.\n\nBarton was found guilty of one count of child cruelty, in addition to causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nHowever, she was cleared of two further counts of child cruelty, and of manslaughter, an alternative charge to the murder allegation.\n\nOutside court, Det Insp Bullock said: \"While no sentence can bring Jacob back, I hope that today brings the family some closure on what has been a horrific two and a half years.\n\n\"I would also like to thank them all for the respectful and dignified manner in which they have conducted themselves throughout the trial.\n\n\"My condolences remain with them all.\"\n\nAndrew Baxter, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Jacob's short life was one of pain and suffering, all the result of these defendants' intolerance of his basic needs and Craig Crouch's inexplicable desire for 'discipline'.\n\n\"Both of them completely neglected their legal and moral duty to protect a child in their care. Instead of nurturing Jacob, Crouch murdered him and Barton knew what was happening but did nothing to protect him from harm.\n\n\"The fact they behaved in this way towards a child so young makes their conduct all the more horrifying.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former US President Donald Trump has been charged over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the run up to the 6 January riot. We asked people on our US voters panel for their reaction to the news, and how it makes them feel about Mr Trump's campaign to run again in 2024.\n\nLuke Gordon grew up in a liberal-leaning part of the north east. He voted for Donald Trump in 2020, but he wants someone else to win the Republican nomination for 2024.\n\nJanuary 6 will always have a splintered legacy: Those who despise Trump will gleefully remember it as a \"sombre\" day and those who voted for him will remember it as the day after January 5.\n\nThere is nothing to celebrate with this indictment. It fuels both the Democrats who want to use the justice system for political gain, and the Trump-leaning Republicans who already view the system as against them. It serves only as another force pulling us apart as a country.\n\nAt least these charges are somewhat believable. The other charges, for mishandling documents and an improperly recorded business expense, were laughable and an undeniable abuse of prosecutorial power.\n\nTrump's base is big enough that no amount of indictments can tank his road to the Republican nomination. Whether or not there are enough voters still willing to put up with his baggage to return him to the Oval Office remains to be seen. I tend to think there aren't.\n\nKathleen McClellan is a strong anti-abortion voter and backed Donald Trump twice.\n\nIt seems as though they'll never stop trying to keep Donald Trump from running. I don't think it will end until Mr Trump is made ineligible to run for office. If this fails, they'll try something else. That's what makes this indictment look bad for America.\n\nI think January 6 will be remembered as a riot, not an insurrection. I had family living in Haiti years ago, so I know what a real insurrection looks like. I think January 6 served a perfect device to smear Donald Trump and his supporters.\n\nI don't feel any differently about the 2024 election. If Mr Trump becomes the Republican candidate I will vote for him, but I still think we need some younger faces. We currently have two candidates who would be in their 80s in office.\n\nNuha Nazy says democracy, women's rights and gay rights are her top priorities.\n\nI remember doing a tour of the Philadelphia Senate building where George Washington peacefully shook hands with his successor, got on his horse, and returned to his farm, even as his soldiers were lined up outside waiting for his orders to fight to keep him in power. I am upset that Donald Trump could tarnish that.\n\nI think an indictment is a great step. It gives Donald Trump a chance to clear his name, if he is in fact not guilty as he claims. It allows the justice system to reinforce that no-one is above the law.\n\nFor those, like me, who found January 6 to be antithetical to the peaceful transfer of power, we get to see him held to account. We may be challenged to accept a result other than guilty, but that's OK. We still have to give the system a chance to prove that law and order is still a fact in this country.\n\nThe indictment just builds on the already simmering belief that our justice system is corrupt and politicised.\n\nThey say the victors write the history books, so I suspect how 6 January will ultimately be remembered depends on who wins these cultural wars between the left and the right. I doubt anyone will look back on 6 January and speak fondly of it, though.\n\nI do believe that Trump will gain voters from all of this. The indictment and all these investigations only helps to boost Trump. It solidifies his base. It sucks the oxygen out of the room for all of his rivals - see how far Ron DeSantis has fallen now - and it sets Trump up as something like the messiah figure that he portrays himself to be. That perspective resonates especially so now with his base, given the Biden scandals that appear to be bubbling up.\n\nThis country appears to be at a real turning point. I am not hopeful. I hate to say that. We're headed to very dark place.\n\nI don't think this indictment is bad for America at all. I'm surprised it took two-and-a-half years. I believe these charges are more severe than the [other cases] because it had actual ramifications on the country and threatened to have a terrible detriment to the rule of law and transfer of power.\n\nThis doesn't make me feel any different whatsoever about the next election. I didn't like him before, I thought he was a bad candidate, bad president, and bad person. I don't think that he will actually face any real consequences for his actions, and he will certainly become the Republican nominee.", "The new lights are expected to improve Blackpool Tower's overall lighting display\n\nPlans to replace ageing lights at the top of Blackpool Tower have been given the go ahead.\n\nListed building consent has been approved by Blackpool Council to remove bulbs on the crow's nest of the Grade I listed landmark and install LED lights.\n\nRecent surveys of the Tower found thin steel plates used for lighting strips are badly corroded.\n\nSeven strips have already been removed but the remainder now need to be taken off using specialist equipment.\n\nOnce the new lights are in place, they are expected to improve the overall lighting display on the Tower which is owned by Blackpool Council, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nThey would be replaced with new fittings, each holding an LED lighting unit.\n\nSurveys have found the Tower's thin steel plates used for lighting strips are badly corroded\n\nThe current lights also obscure some of the decorative detail of the steelwork.\n\nBlackpool Civic Trust and the Victorian Society were both consulted over the plan but no objections were received.\n\nA council report said measures would be taken to protect the fabric of the Tower while the lights were upgraded.\n\nIt said work \"would be carried out by using a reciprocating saw to carefully cut through the welded connection points and leave the supporting structure smooth and flush\".\n\n\"Operatives experienced in the use of the specific tools involved, and in similar conditions\" would be used, it said, \"in order to minimise the risk of damage to adjacent surfaces\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Texan rapper Travis Scott has two children with Kylie Jenner\n\nTravis Scott has fended off Anne-Marie to secure his first UK number one album for his digital-only release, Utopia.\n\nFellow rappers Dave and Central Cee remained at the top of the singles chart, claiming the longest-running UK rap number one with Sprinter.\n\nSinéad O'Connor's biggest hit, Nothing Compares 2 U, re-entered the top 40 on Friday for the first time since 1990, following her death last week.\n\nLizzo's song Pink shot up 12 places to 27, amid allegations of misconduct.\n\nThe singer, whose latest offering features on the Barbie movie soundtrack, is being sued by three of her former dancers over claims of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment, which she denies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Crystal Williams, Arianna Davis and Noelle Rodriguez say Lizzo \"needs to be held accountable\"\n\nLike Lizzo, Travis Scott, 32, was raised in Houston, and his first UK number one album also saw the biggest streaming week for an LP so far this year.\n\nDespite narrowly landing in second place, Essex pop singer Anne-Marie's LP, Unhealthy, still claimed the fastest-selling album of the year so far by a UK female solo artist.\n\nScott's album arrived a week after he told fans that his cancelled live show in front of Egypt's pyramids will one day go ahead. The sold-out desert gig - timed to coincide with the record's release - was cancelled at the last minute due to \"complex production issues\", organisers said.\n\nTravis Scott has performed a handful of live shows since his Astroworld tour in 2021\n\nHis new concept album includes the singles K-pop - featuring Bad Bunny and The Weeknd, as well as Delresto (Echoes) and Meltdown - this week's highest new entry at number 10. Two more Utopia tracks, FE!N ft. Playboi Carti and HYAENA also charted on Friday.\n\nThe album dropped last week, accompanied by a film called Circus Maximus. The Roman chariot-racing stadium of the same name is now set to play host to Scott next week in lieu of the planned Pyramids of Giza concert.\n\nMusic critics agreed his new album was far from perfect, however, with the Guardian's Shaad D'Souza saying the \"rap superstar\" was \"lost amid sublime soundworld\".\n\n\"Scott's rhyming isn't strong enough to distinguish him from his A-list guests,\" D'Souza noted in a two-star review.\n\nAndre Gee, reviewing the album for Rolling Stone magazine, described it as an \"empty paradise\". \"He's a brilliant curator, but doesn't have anything interesting to say.\"\n\n\"In an attempt to give the world a true blockbuster rap album, the Houston rapper delivers a shiny, empty spectacle loaded with pop superstars who rarely make an impact,\" said Pitchfork's Alphonse Pierre.\n\nMeanwhile, the NME's Nathan Evans offered three-stars, saying it was a \"lofty concept\" but with \"shaky execution\".\n\n\"The Houston rapper's first album since 2018 teases a brave new sonic world, but has little to say about what might happen if we get there,\" he said.\n\nGoing the distance: Sprinter is the first number one for Central Cee (left) and the third by Mercury Prize-winner Dave\n\nElsewhere on Friday, Scott's fellow rappers Dave and Central Cee remained at the top of the UK singles chart for a ninth straight week, setting a new record for the longest-running UK rap number one in the process with their collaboration Sprinter.\n\nIf the Londoners can keep up the pace at the top for another week, they will equal Miley Cyrus's 10-week run with Flowers - 2023's longest-running number one single overall.\n\nThis is the second time Dave has entered the chart record books, after last year's track Starlight became the country's longest-running solo rap number one, with four weeks at the summit.\n\nCharli XCX's appearance on the Barbie soundtrack - alongside the likes of Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj - helped her to race to her first top 10 finish in nearly a decade with the song Speed Drive.", "British Scouts have started arriving at a hotel in Seoul after being taken by coach from the campsite\n\nUK Scouts are being moved to hotels in Seoul after an international event in South Korea was hit by extreme heat.\n\nHundreds have fallen ill at the outdoor World Scout Jamboree, which is attended by more than 40,000 young people from around the world, amid 35C (95F) heat.\n\nThe British group of 4,500, the largest in attendance, is moving from a camp site at Saemangeum to Seoul, the Scout Association confirmed.\n\nThe US and Singaporean teams are also pulling their members out of the event.\n\nSouth Korea's government said it was sending 60 more medics and 700 service workers to maintain the toilets and showers, with many countries staying at the site for the next week.\n\nThe jamboree, described as the world's largest youth camp, gathers Scouts from around the world every four years, each time in a different country.\n\nMost of those attending are aged between 14 and 18, and 155 countries are represented in South Korea.\n\nThis is the first jamboree since the pandemic and is due to run until 12 August.\n\nCoaches of British teenagers have started arriving back in Seoul - about 120 miles (197km) from the campsite - and they will spend the next week in hotels.\n\nThe UK Scout Association said young people and adult volunteers had begun \"settling into their accommodation\" and the Jamboree experience would continue in the city before returning to the UK on 13 August as planned.\n\nThe BBC has been told that some scouts are sharing five to a room, while up to 250 are sleeping in the ballroom of one Seoul hotel due to a lack of available accommodation.\n\nOne of the UK team told BBC's Seoul correspondent Jean Mackenzie the decision to pull out was not based just on the extreme heat but was also down to the facilities and food.\n\nThey described the campsite toilets as a \"health risk\" and said children's dietary needs were not being met.\n\nThe UK team monitored conditions for a number of days, they said, giving the organisers the opportunity to improve them, but had lost confidence they could keep everyone safe.\n\nMany of the parents the BBC has spoken to have said their children spent years preparing to attend the event, often raising thousands of pounds to do so.\n\nThunderstorms are forecast for the region in which it is taking place, while temperatures will feel hotter than 40C due to high humidity, according to AccuWeather.\n\nThe World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), the largest international Scouting organisation, said it had asked the Korean Scout Association, which is hosting the event, to consider ending early.\n\nThe movement said that the host \"decided to go ahead with the event\" and assured participants that it was doing \"everything possible to address the issues caused by the heatwave\".\n\nUK Scouts, the country's largest scouting organisation, said its volunteers and others had worked to give members \"enough food and water... shelter from the unusually hot weather... and toilets and washing facilities appropriate for an event of this scale.\"\n\nThe UK and US teams have the money and resources to relocate thousands of people at short notice but there are plenty of countries at the event which do not.\n\nBuses at the camp site of the 25th World Scout Jamboree in Buan, South Korea\n\nThe US is taking its participants to Camp Humphreys army base in Pyeongtaek, citing safety concerns.\n\nParents of children at the campsite told the BBC that no activities were taking place due to the heat.\n\nOthers have defended the event, saying their children were disappointed that they had to leave.\n\nOne mother from north-east England said what was meant to be a \"great life experience\" had turned into a \"survival mission\" for her 16-year-old daughter.\n\n\"She knew it would be hot but not as hot as it is. They cannot cool down, their tents are too hot,\" said the mother, who did not wish to be named.\n\nHer daughter had told her that the showers and toilets were \"appalling and unsafe\", with \"floating rubbish, plasters and hair\" blocking drains.\n\nAnother parent said the situation was so bad they put their daughter on a plane back to the UK on Friday.\n\nHowever Peter Naldrett told the BBC that his two children were \"frustrated, upset and angry\" about having to leave.\n\n\"My kids have said that the toilets are a bit grim but it's manageable,\" he said.\n\nShannon Swaffer, whose 15-year-old daughter is at the event, said the children were \"all devastated that it's ended early\".\n\n\"By all accounts the heat is intolerable and adults and kids alike can't continue there,\" she said, adding that her family were \"lifelong Scout people\" and that the leaders had been \"absolutely phenomenal\".\n\nRebecca Coldwell said her 17-year-old daughter had received \"outstanding\" medical care for an infected wound, and that she was \"heartbroken\" about having to move to hotels.\n\nKristin Sayers from Virginia in the US, paid $6,500 (£5,100) for her 17-year-old son Corey to go to the jamboree but said his dream had turned into a \"nightmare\".\n\n\"He's very aware of how much money that is and the sacrifices we made as a family to send him. We could've done so much with that money,\" she told Reuters news agency.\n\nSome Scouts from Spain, Belgium, and France, told the BBC they were happy to still be at the campsite and disappointed the British had left.\n\nBlanca, a 16-year-old from Spain, said her sister was taken to hospital on the first day because of the heat, but she has recovered and so have the conditions.\n\n\"Now the situation is better. They give us cold water and fans and let us go inside places to get shade,\" she said.\n\n\"I am sad the British didn't stay. They're really cool people and I enjoyed spending time with them,\" she added.\n\nThe event has been described as the world's biggest youth camp\n\nSouth Korea's authorities have issued the country's highest hot weather warning for the first time in four years.\n\nSouth Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo announced that aid was being sent to the site amid criticism from some that authorities failed to plan for extreme heat.\n\n\"The government will use all its resources to ensure that the jamboree can end safely amid the heatwave,\" he said.\n\nAir-conditioned buses, water trucks and medical staff were being dispatched.\n\nAre you or your relative at the World Scout Jamboree? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This year has been the worst on record for wildfires in Canada\n\nOn a Friday night in early July, Nikki Skuce heard from a neighbour the news she had been dreading: her small community of Smithers, British Columbia was on an evacuation alert due to an encroaching fire that was only 4km (2.4 miles) away.\n\n\"My daughter quickly acted and packed a to-go bag and the rest of us followed suit,\" says the 51-year-old director of a non-profit. \"Then we tried to sleep but I was up most of the night.\"\n\nThe next day she was constantly trying to get accurate information, while people nearby checked to see if the family was okay.\n\nIn the end, Ms Skuce and her family didn't need to evacuate, but the acrid smoke from the wildfire irritated her lungs enough to force them inside their home, windows shut tight.\n\nWildfires came alarmingly close to Nikki Skuce's home in British Columbia\n\nBritish Columbia is just one of many provinces in Canada enduring a scary season of raging wildfires.\n\nAlmost 900 forest fires were active in Canada during the week of July 17, burning a total of 10 million hectares and making it the worst fire season on record. Those wildfires also released more planet-warming carbon dioxide in the first six months of 2023 than in any full year on record.\n\nThis destruction has spurred investment in technology that might help detect wildfires before they become serious.\n\nBased in Germany with a Vancouver office, OroraTech has two satellites in low-earth orbit with special infrared sensors that monitor temperatures in grids of four-by-four meters, and plans to have eight in orbit next year.\n\nCombined with data from other satellites, their system can quickly spot temperature anomalies and report them to clients, which include forestry and firefighting services.\n\nThe system can also analyse the data and forecast how fires might develop.\n\n\"Our software can tell you which fire out of the many on the ground will grow faster than others,\" says Thomas Grübler, chief executive of OroraTech.\n\nBy 2026 their system should be able to scan the earth 48 times a day.\n\nAnother company, New York-based Cornea, harnesses AI to feed geographical and topographical data into its maps that can lay out potential fire behaviour, says chief executive Josh Mendelsohn.\n\n\"We want to optimize how we give those forest management personnel a clearer ability to communicate to communities what the wildfires risks are,\" he says.\n\nIn a large wildfire outbreak, it's not always possible to suppress every fire. So Cornea's mapping system also identifies positions with a higher probability of success in battling a fire.\n\nSensaioTech, based in Toronto and Brazil, has developed a device about the size of a smartphone, which can monitor 14 different variables on a forest floor, including soil temperature, humidity and salinity.\n\nThose readings, taken every minute, are then shuttled to a dashboard for clients to review and can also alert mobile devices when those variables reach dangerous levels.\n\n\"The best satellite data is 30 minutes old,\" says chief executive João Lopes, \"but our sensors provide real-time data of what's happening within a forest floor.\"\n\nDrones are also getting an upgrade to help firefighters. FireDrone, an experimental drone developed by scientists from Imperial College London and Switzerland's Empa research institute, can withstand temperatures of up to 200C for as long as 10 minutes at a time.\n\nThe Firedrone can survive temperature of 200C\n\nUsed more for battling fires than detecting them, the idea is that this drone can swoop into burning buildings on its own and then relay information to firefighters such as the distribution of fire sources and the location of trapped people.\n\nDespite all the new tech, figuring out which forests will be the home for the next fire is a guessing game, says Michael Flannigan, BC Research Chair for Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science at Thompson Rivers University.\n\nSensors can find dry soil and high heat but they can't often predict one of the main causes of wildfires: lightning, which Mr Flanigan says has caused four times more fires in the Western US since the 1970s.\n\n\"And let's be honest, too, we're living in a warmer world, so climate change is a factor we can't ignore,\" Prof Flannigan adds.\n\nBut of all the breakthrough technologies in the past half-century that have contributed to detecting wildfires, he points to a reasonably unassuming device.\n\n\"Cellphones have allowed the public to locate fires and alert fire management, and we're seeing more fire agencies coming out with their own apps to make that easier for the public,\" Prof Flannigan says.", "Mr Navalny is recovering after weeks in intensive care\n\nRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny duped a Russian FSB state agent into revealing details of an attack on him with the nerve agent Novichok, the investigative group Bellingcat reports.\n\nMr Navalny reportedly impersonated a security official to call the agent.\n\nThe agent, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, told him the Novichok had been placed in a pair of Mr Navalny's underpants.\n\nMr Navalny, who is still recovering in Berlin, posted a recording of the long conversation on his YouTube channel.\n\nHe collapsed on board a Russian airliner in August in the attack, which nearly proved fatal.\n\nAs part of Mr Navalny's ruse to elicit more details of the assassination attempt, Bellingcat says the call to Mr Kudryavtsev was set up to indicate it was coming from a Federal Security Service (FSB) landline.\n\nIn the conversation, Mr Navalny posed as a senior official seeking details for a report on the FSB operation.\n\nMr Kudryavtsev told him the swift response of the airline pilot and the emergency medical team in Omsk, Siberia - where Mr Navalny was first treated - could have been the reason for the failure to kill him.\n\nMr Kudryavtsev said he had been sent to Omsk later to seize Mr Navalny's clothes and remove all traces of Novichok from them.\n\nThe BBC's Steven Rosenberg, in Moscow, says publication of the recording will be a huge embarrassment for the Kremlin, which continues to deny any link between the Russian state and poisoning of President Putin's most vocal critic.\n\nLast week Mr Putin told a huge TV audience that the Bellingcat investigation - carried out with other Western media partners - was a \"trick\" invented by US intelligence.\n\nBut he added that it was right for the FSB to be shadowing Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Bellingcat report last week named several FSB agents - chemical weapons specialists - who, it alleged, had been tailing him for years before the attempt on his life.\n\nMr Navalny has millions of followers on social media, where he denounces Mr Putin's United Russia party as deeply corrupt and full of \"crooks and thieves\". He says Mr Putin runs a \"feudal\" system of patronage \"sucking the blood out of Russia\".\n\nIn the summer, before the August poisoning, Mr Navalny campaigned to get several of his supporters elected to councils in Siberia.", "Households should be given cash if they live in the path of new large electricity pylons, a government-commissioned report says.\n\nThe recommendation is among several to speed up the building of new infrastructure in Great Britain to better connect with new renewable energy.\n\nKey is a fast-track planning system to help halve the 12 to 14 years it currently takes to build new lines.\n\nThe government has welcomed the report.\n\nEnergy Security Secretary Grant Shapps will now consider the recommendations and is expected to present a plan later this year.\n\nHowever, the construction of new lines could open fresh rifts with Conservative MPs campaigning against planned pylons in their area.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Therese Coffey and former Home Secretary Dame Priti Patel are among high-profile MPs opposing plans for new lines affecting their constituencies.\n\nThe government ordered the review in July last year as part of plans to improve the transmission of renewable energy, including from wind farms and new nuclear stations, to homes and businesses.\n\nThe report, by energy industry veteran Nick Winser, said the push to decarbonise was being held back by the slow pace of new pylon projects.\n\nIt has recommended a streamlined planning process as part of plans to reduce the time it takes to around seven years, and closer alignment between planning rules in Scotland and the separate system for England and Wales.\n\nIt said people living near transmission pylons, the larger lines that connect electricity from where it is generated to regional substations, should get lump sum payments from operators.\n\nThe report does not recommend specific levels of compensation or qualification criteria. It says a further consultation may be needed to work out a formula, which would need to be approved by the energy watchdog Ofgem.\n\nIt also supported community payments for areas where new \"visible infrastructure\", including substations, is built, to pay for local programmes such as energy efficiency schemes or electric vehicle charging points.\n\nThe cost of compensation would be lower than building cables underground, it added, which it said was between five and 10 times more than overhead lines. Offshore cables were even more expensive, it noted.\n\nBut Rosie Pearson, founder of the Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk Pylons Action Group, said the idea of community payments was \"very worrying\".\n\n\"It sounds like they might be intending to essentially pay off communities with nominal sums instead of actually getting the right projects,\" she told the BBC.\n\nDame Priti Patel recently took part in a protest against proposed pylons in her Essex constituency\n\nThe National Grid says it needs five times more power lines to be built in the next seven years than in the past 30, as part of the transition towards greener forms of energy.\n\nMinisters are consulting on new rules for compensation schemes designed to persuade local areas they are \"positively benefitting\" from living near the new infrastructure.\n\nCurrently, these are struck project-by-project, with community compensation schemes paid through consumer bills on a nationwide basis.\n\nThe three companies that maintain the transmission grid in Britain - National Grid in England and Wales, and Scottish Power and SSE in Scotland - do not offer payments to households at present.\n\nBut the government has signalled it is open to the idea, saying it would prefer a \"blended approach\" of community and direct payments, where this is supported locally.\n\nIt is also exploring whether people living near new onshore wind farms in England could get discounts off their energy bills.\n\nMinisters have backed the current voluntary approach to payments, arguing it is quicker and allows for more flexibility, but are \"retaining the option to move to a mandatory approach if necessary\".\n\nSome campaign groups have backed a mandatory compensation scheme, arguing it would ensure payments are fairer.\n\nIn the Irish Republic, people in rural areas living within 200m of a new overhead line or transmission station qualify for payments of €2,000-30,000 from EirGrid, the state-owned operator, depending on how close they are and the capacity of the line.\n\nNew pylon schemes have encountered opposition from some Conservative MPs, particularly in East Anglia, where a number of large projects are under way to bring clean power onshore.\n\nMr Winser told the BBC that frustration with new schemes was \"understandable\", adding that there was often \"very little context provided\" on the benefits and trade-offs of new projects.\n\nHe added that better nationwide planning, coupled with community benefits, would make new schemes more attractive and ensure local debates on schemes are \"far less heated\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said his recommendations would make debates within communities \"open and transparent so people will be able to understand why something is being proposed\".\n\nHis review also called for a government-led publicity campaign on \"the need for a grid refresh\", along with a review to tackle a shortage of qualified engineers and technicians.", "Scientists are researching ways of preventing mosquitoes spreading malaria at a lab in Spain\n\nScientists have found a naturally occurring strain of bacteria which can help stop the transmission of malaria from mosquitoes to humans.\n\nThey found it by chance, after a colony of mosquitoes in one experiment did not develop the malaria parasite.\n\nThe researchers say the bacteria could be a new tool for fighting one of the world's oldest diseases, which kills 600,000 people every year.\n\nTrials assessing its safety in the real world are now taking place.\n\nScientists at a research facility in Spain, run by the GSK pharmaceutical company, made the discovery after noticing that a colony of mosquitoes being used for drug development had stopped carrying malaria.\n\n\"The infection rate in the mosquitoes started dwindling and so by the end of the year the mosquitoes just would not be infected with the malaria parasite,\" says Dr Janneth Rodrigues, who led the programme.\n\nThe team froze the samples from their 2014 experiment and went back to them two years later to explore what had happened.\n\nFurther studies revealed that a specific strain of bacteria - TC1 - which is naturally present in the environment, had stopped the development of the malaria parasites in the gut of the mosquitoes.\n\n\"Once it colonises the mosquito, it lasts for the entire lifespan,\" says Dr Rodrigues.\n\n\"And we found out that, yes, it is the bacteria which was responsible for reducing transmission in those mosquitoes.\"\n\nSafety trials are being conducted in Burkina Faso\n\nNew data published in Science magazine suggests the bacteria can reduce a mosquito's parasite load by up to 73%.\n\nThe bacteria works by secreting a small molecule, known as harmane, which inhibits the early stages of the malaria parasite growing in the mosquito's gut.\n\nIn conjunction with Johns Hopkins University, the GSK scientists discovered that harmane can either be ingested orally by the mosquito, if mixed with sugar, or absorbed through its cuticle on contact.\n\nThis lays open the possibility of treating surfaces in areas where the insects rest with the active compound.\n\nMore trials are now taking place at a contained field research facility called MosquitoSphere in Burkina Faso to assess how effective and safe it would be to use harmane at scale in the real world.\n\nThe hope is that by developing this bacteria-based intervention into a product, scientists may soon have another tool in the box against one of the world's oldest diseases.\n\nMalaria kills about 620,000 people a year - often children under the age of five. Vaccines have now been developed, but they are still in the early stages of being rolled out in Africa.\n\nGareth Jenkins, from the charity Malaria No More, said the new discovery was promising.\n\n\"Malaria kills a child every minute. Significant progress has been made in reducing the global burden of malaria, but to get us back on track we need new and innovative tools in the arsenal.\n\n\"With a strong innovation pipeline, it is possible to end the threat of malaria in our lifetimes.\"", "Donald Trump is not a man used to waiting.\n\nBut at a court hearing in the nation's capital, the former US president found himself fidgeting in his seat while he waited 20 minutes for the judge to arrive.\n\nIn the meantime, he also stole furtive glances at Special Counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor who has now indicted him in two separate federal cases.\n\nIn recent days, Mr Trump has raged on social media against what he calls a continuing \"witch hunt\" led by a \"deranged\" and \"wild\" Mr Smith.\n\nBut in the courtroom, he had to stay silent.\n\nThe latest indictment stems from his alleged role in plotting to overturn the 2020 election results. He faces four counts: conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.\n\nFederal prosecutors allege he knowingly and repeatedly spread false claims about the 2020 election, and, along with several unnamed co-conspirators, took unlawful measures in a bid to stay in power.\n\nAhead of this latest arraignment - his third in four months - he wrote to his supporters in an all-caps post on his Truth Social platform that his voluntary surrender was \"a great honor, because I am being arrested for you\".\n\nBut inside the small, second-floor courtroom, Mr Trump listened carefully and answered politely, save for the occasional noticeable shake of the head in dismay.\n\nIn one moment, unprompted by the judge, he stood up to answer her question and was told he could sit back down.\n\nStanding up later, he affirmed that his lawyers were entering a plea of not guilty on his behalf.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Smith said he will seek a speedy trial in this case, and his prosecutors reiterated that request on Thursday.\n\nBut Mr Trump's attorney John Lauro argued that the government has had three years to prepare their case and said that the judge must ensure the trial was fair and protected his client's rights.\n\nThe federal courthouse is in the shadow of the US Capitol, where his supporters rioted in January 2021 to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory.\n\nThursday's court appearance was the latest in a growing list of legal woes, including charges stemming from allegations he paid hush money to a porn star, and federal charges over the alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nThe latter case also involved Mr Smith. When they last met in Miami, the federal prosecutor reportedly did not stop staring at Mr Trump.\n\nBut in Washington, Mr Smith was careful to avoid the former president's gaze.\n\nAs he launches a third consecutive bid for the White House, the 77-year-old now faces 78 felony charges in total.\n\nHis legal bills are mounting and his court dates are adding up - but Mr Trump remains the firm frontrunner for the Republican Party's nomination for president in 2024.\n\nThis court date marked only his second trip back to Washington since he left office, but he was barely here for two hours before flying back to his New Jersey residence.\n\n\"This is a very sad day for America,\" he said, as he boarded Trump Force One.\n\nAnd with a parting shot at \"the filth and decay\" of the city in which he was once commander-in-chief, he added: \"This is not the place that I left.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Dramatic bodycam footage captured a deputy in Clearwater, Florida taking on a thrilling chase to stop a runaway boat, culminating in a daring leap to halt the out-of-control vessel.\n\nThe boat's driver had fallen overboard but was safely rescued.\n\nAfter preliminary efforts to stop the boat failed, the officers matched the speed of the vessel and leapt aboard.", "The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, has named her left breast \"Derek\" after a single mastectomy surgery\n\nThe Duchess of York has named her reconstructed breast \"Derek\" after her single mastectomy surgery to treat breast cancer.\n\nSarah, 63, had the operation in June after she was diagnosed with breast cancer following a routine mammogram screening.\n\nShe explained in her own podcast that personalising her new breast was a positive move to help her move forward.\n\nAsked why she chose the name, she said: \"I don't know. It just made me laugh.\"\n\nThe mum-of-two said she is still coming to terms with \"new best friend\" Derek.\n\n\"He is very important; he saved my life,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking on the latest episode from her podcast Tea Talks, with co-host Sarah Thomson, she discussed work-life balance, balancing parenthood and finding happiness.\n\n\"Now I have a friend, Derek, with me all the time who is protecting me with his shield of armour,\" she said.\n\nSarah Ferguson was married to Prince Andrew for 10 years before they divorced in 1996. They continue to share a home at Royal Lodge - a property owned by the Crown Estate at Windsor Great Park.\n\nThey have two daughters - Princess Beatrice, 34, and Princess Eugenie, 33 - and three grandchildren.\n\nThe duchess said she is feeling much better a few weeks on from surgery and will start travelling again soon.\n\nShe has urged other people to take advantage of cancer screening programmes.\n\nReferring to her breast that underwent surgery, she said: \"I think it's balancing the fact I've got a new model, a new wheel and new engine.\"\n\nJoking about her \"perky\" friend on the left-hand side of her chest, she said: \"Poor Eric on the right is feeling rather sad because he is not as perky.\"\n\nShe praised the work of the surgeons, nurses, doctors and everybody at King Edward VII hospital, a private clinic in central London that previously treated the late Queen Elizabeth II and other senior royals.\n\nThe podcast also covered a range of other positive subjects - such as leading by example, taking responsibility for one's actions, and setting boundaries.\n\nThe duchess also talked about the importance of hobbies, which she said were a form of escapism for her as a child. She said she loved collecting stamps when she was little.\n\nThe duchess revealed that as an adult she still has the collecting bug but nowadays it is fountain pens and watches that she favours.\n\nOn achieving balance, the duchess said: \"its important to step back, see the big picture and not to sweat the small things.\"\n\nQuoting American actor Sidney Poitier's documentary, she said: \"Every day I promise to be a better person,\" emphasising it is important to be more kind, grateful and listen more.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Suliman Altaf was stopped by a lifeboat on the English Channel\n\nA killer who fled the UK in a dinghy after murdering his ex-partner's teenage son has been jailed.\n\nSuliman Altaf, 45, was caught in the English Channel a day after he fatally stabbed Jakub Szymanski in Manchester in June 2022.\n\nThe 15-year-old had been trying to protect his mother, Katarzyna Bastek, who Altaf also stabbed 13 times.\n\nAltaf was given a life sentence at Manchester Crown Court and told he must serve a minimum of 30 years in prison.\n\nPaying tribute to her son, Ms Bastek described Jakub as \"a special hero\" with a \"special smile and a special face\".\n\nShe added: \"Kuba, we can't and will never replace you.\n\n\"You gave your love that day, your whole life through. God bless you Jakub, we love you.\"\n\nAltaf, of Slough, turned up at the family's home in Miles Platting on 9 June 2022 armed with a knife and wearing a surgical mask and latex gloves, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nHe let himself into the house and stabbed Ms Bastek repeatedly, before fatally wounding Jakub as he tried to protect his mother.\n\nThe teenager sustained injuries to his neck and arms and was pronounced dead an hour after the attack.\n\nJakub Szymanski (left) was stabbed while trying to defend his mother from Altaf\n\nMs Bastek suffered multiple knife wounds, including to her head, and sustained fractures in her face and ribs and a collapsed lung.\n\nCCTV footage showed Altaf was only in the house for two minutes before he was seen running away with blood on his face.\n\nHe then spent £350 on a taxi to take him to Slough, before heading to the coast to attempt the crossing in a dinghy.\n\nThe CPS said he was intercepted by an RLNI lifeboat crew on the evening of 10 June.\n\nHe told the crew that he had intended to sail to France before travelling to Portugal.\n\nAfter an hour of negotiation, Altaf eventually agreed to leave the dinghy and was taken back to shore where he was arrested.\n\nAltaf was only in the house for two minutes to carry out the \"savage\" murder, police say\n\nIn a police interview, Altaf said he had been acting in self-defence after being attacked by the boy and his mother.\n\nAt trial, he was found guilty of murder, attempted murder and possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nSenior investigating officer Philip Reade, said it was an \"extremely vicious, frenzied and targeted attack\" and Jakub was \"savagely murdered whilst trying to defend his mum from certain death\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US Attorney General Merrick Garland said the officers \"egregiously violated the civil rights of citizens who they were supposed to protect\"\n\nSix former Mississippi police officers have pleaded guilty to civil rights violations after assaulting two black men during a home raid in January.\n\nAuthorities said the two men, Michael Jenkins, 32, and Eddie Parker, 35, had been beaten and shocked with Tasers and one of them was also shot in the mouth.\n\nAttorney General Merrick Garland said the officers 'tortured and inflicted unspeakable harm on their victims'.\n\nAll six officers had either resigned or been fired in June.\n\nThe civil rights charges were unveiled against the six officers on Thursday by the US Department of Justice (DoJ). All appeared in federal court and entered a guilty plea.\n\nThe officers were charged with 16 counts, including civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights, discharging of a firearm and obstruction of justice.\n\nProsecutors said the officers entered the two men's home in Braxton, Mississippi on 24 January. They then handcuffed them and assaulted them for more than two hours.\n\nThe officers used a stun gun on the two men, beat them repeatedly and called them racial slurs. One deputy officer shot Mr Jenkins in the mouth, firing a bullet that cut his tongue and broke his jaw, prosecutors said.\n\nOfficers then failed to provide medical aid to Mr Jenkins as he was bleeding, prosecutors said, and instead gathered outside the home to come up with a \"false cover story\".\n\nThree of the officers said they were members of the \"The Goon Squad\" - a group of Rankin County officers who are known for using excessive force and not reporting it.\n\n\"These former law enforcement officers have committed heinous and wanton acts of violence disgracing the badge which so many others have worn with pride and honor,\" said US attorney Darren J LaMarca for the Southern District of Mississippi. \"They violated their oaths and have become the criminals they were sworn to protect us from.\"\n\nThey also face state charges connected to the same incident.\n\nThe justice department identified five of the Rankin county former officers as: Chief Investigator Brett McAlpin, 52, Narcotics Investigator Christian Dedmon, 28, Lieutenant Jeffrey Middleton, 46, Deputy Hunter Elward, 31, and Deputy Daniel Opdyke, 27.\n\nThe sixth, Narcotics Investigator Joshua Hartfield, 31, is a former officer of the Richland, Mississippi, Police Department.", "Ukraine's electronic warfare units are fighting invisible battles against the Russians\n\nIn the early days of the invasion of Ukraine, experts were surprised at how poorly the Russian army's electronic warfare units performed. But nearly 18 months later they are causing significant problems for Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\n\"Use single rounds,\" whispers a Ukrainian soldier hiding behind a wall near the eastern front line. \"This way we will be able to last till the morning [if they come closer].\"\n\nThe soldier's call-sign is Alain Delon, like the famous French film star of the 1970s. And like something from a spy movie, he is part of a lightly armed team of electronic intelligence officers - a high-priority target for the Russian army.\n\nAlain fears Russian troops may have spotted their antenna and started heading for their base. He decides to change position. The key in electronic warfare is being invisible to the enemy.\n\nTheir job is to detect electronic signals from all kinds of Russian weapons - including drones, air defence systems, jammers, artillery, and multiple rocket launchers. They work out where the signals originate and the type of weapon, then pass on coordinates to other units that will aim to destroy the target.\n\nThis is a war of technologies\n\nThe information also helps commanders build up a picture of the battlefield.\n\n\"This is a war of technologies,\" Col Ivan Pavlenko, chief of the Ukrainian General Staff's electronic and cyber warfare department, tells the BBC.\n\n\"If I see a number of radio stations in the same place, I understand it's a command post. If I see some radio stations begin to move forward, I understand it could be a counter-offensive or an offensive.\"\n\nThis is an invisible conflict carrying on in parallel with the explosions, missile strikes and trench warfare that dominate the news.\n\nAlmost every modern weapon - from artillery installations to high precision missiles - uses radio waves, microwaves, infrared or other frequencies to receive data. This makes them vulnerable to electronic warfare, which aims to intercept and suppress those signals.\n\n\"If you're losing in electronic warfare, your forces will turn into a 19th century army,\" says Yaroslav Kalinin, chief executive of Infozahyst, a company that produces electronic warfare systems for the Ukrainian army. \"You will be 10 steps behind your enemy.\"\n\nJust like the Russians, the Ukrainians are trying to electronically jam their enemies' communications and weaponry\n\nIn recent years Russia has developed a range of jamming technology. This includes:\n\nBy the time of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia had 18,000 electronic warfare troops, Col Pavlenko says.\n\nBut the effect was less impressive than many had expected.\n\n\"They were trying to break down our radars, to penetrate our air defence systems,\" says Yaroslav Kalinin. \"They were partially successful at this, but not completely.\"\n\nUkrainian air defence systems were still able to shoot down Russian jets. Russia's lack of air supremacy contributed to its failure to capture Kyiv quickly.\n\nRussian forces also failed to shut down communications, which allowed the Ukrainian military to organise their defences. Although some military satellite networks were jammed, cellular and internet communications were largely unaffected.\n\nWhen Russian troops were advancing towards Mykolaiv in February 2022, villagers used mobile phones to tip off the Ukrainian military about the movement of Russian columns.\n\nThe unit's soldiers cannot show their faces, to protect their identity\n\nExpecting a walkover, Moscow may have thought they wouldn't need to fully deploy electronic warfare systems. But Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, a US think tank, says another problem was that electronic warfare units couldn't keep up with the rest of the troops.\n\n\"Russian systems are large unwieldy, vehicle-borne systems that are designed to be on the defensive,\" he says. \"And as a result, their electronic warfare systems weren't very agile, they weren't very fast and they weren't very numerous.\"\n\nBut Russia has learned from its mistakes, he says. Instead of using large equipment that can be easily spotted and destroyed, it is now increasingly relying on smaller, more mobile devices.\n\nBryan Clark says Russia has managed to deploy hundreds of mobile electronic warfare units along the front line in an attempt to slow down Ukraine's counter-offensive. These range from GPS jammers to systems that suppress radar and prevent US aircraft identifying targets for Ukraine to attack.\n\nRussian systems such as Zhitel and Pole-21 are proving to be particularly effective to jam GPS and other satellite links. They can disable drones that direct artillery fire and carry out kamikaze attacks on Russian troops.\n\nMany of the sophisticated weapons provided to Ukraine by Nato countries are vulnerable to such jamming too because they use a GPS signal for navigation.\n\nThese hidden units go out in the field to track down Russian jammers so they can be destroyed\n\n\"Zhitel can jam a GPS signal within 30km of the jammer,\" says Mr Clark. \"For weapons like [US-made] JDAM bombs, which use just a GPS receiver to guide it to the target, that's sufficient to lose its geolocation and go off target.\"\n\nThe same applies to the guided rockets fired by the Himars multiple rocket system, which made a big contribution to Ukraine's successful offensives last autumn.\n\nBoth sides have been trying to develop counter-measures against each other's jamming, including reprogramming weapons.\n\nBryan Clarke describes it as an intense competition of \"move and counter-move\".\n\nCol Pavlenko does not deny that Russian systems can reduce the efficiency and accuracy of the weapons Ukraine has received from its Western partners. This just makes targeting Russian electronic warfare systems even more important, he says.\n\n\"Before we strike with a precision-guided munition, we have to provide intelligence. Is there any suppression in that area? If that area is affected by a jamming signal, we have to find the jammer and destroy it, and only then use this weapon.\"\n\nSince February 2022 Ukraine has destroyed more than 100 major Russian electronic warfare systems, he says. The BBC cannot independently verify these numbers.\n\nIntelligence units like Alain's work relentlessly to increase this number, by locating them.\n\nNow at a new location, his team has intercepted radio communications between Russian soldiers, and they are listening in. It's a conversation between Russian artillerymen. Alain's team is now working to get their coordinates. In a war, he says, every bit of information can be important.", "The oceans have hit their hottest ever recorded temperature as they soak up warmth from climate change, with dire implications for our planet's health.\n\nThe average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU's climate change service Copernicus.\n\nIt reached 20.96C (69.73F) - far above the average for this time of year.\n\nOceans are a vital climate regulator. They soak up heat, produce half Earth's oxygen and drive weather patterns.\n\nWarmer waters have less ability to absorb carbon dioxide, meaning more of that planet-warming gas will stay in the atmosphere. And it can also accelerate the melting of glaciers that flow into the ocean, leading to more sea level rise.\n\nHotter oceans and heatwaves disturb marine species like fish and whales as they move in search of cooler waters, upsetting the food chain. Experts warn that fish stocks could be affected.\n\nSome predatory animals including sharks can become aggressive as they get confused in hotter temperatures.\n\n\"The water feels like a bath when you jump in,\" says Dr Kathryn Lesneski, who is monitoring a marine heatwave in the Gulf of Mexico for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. \"There is widespread coral bleaching at shallow reefs in Florida and many corals have already died.\"\n\n\"We are putting oceans under more stress than we have done at any point in history,\" says Dr Matt Frost, from the Plymouth Marine Lab in the UK, referring to the fact pollution and overfishing also change the oceans.\n\nScientists are worried about the timing of this broken record.\n\nDr Samantha Burgess, from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, says March should be when the oceans globally are warmest, not August.\n\n\"The fact that we've seen the record now makes me nervous about how much warmer the ocean may get between now and next March,\" she says.\n\n\"It is sobering to see this change happening so quickly,\" says Prof Mike Burrows, who is monitoring impacts on Scottish sea shores with the Scottish Association for Marine Science.\n\nScientists are investigating why the oceans are so hot right now but say that climate change is making the seas warmer as they absorb most of the heating from greenhouse gas emissions.\n\n\"The more we burn fossil fuels, the more excess heat will be taken out by the oceans, which means the longer it will take to stabilize them and get them back to where they were,\" explains Dr Burgess.\n\nThe new average temperature record beats one set in 2016 when the naturally occurring climate fluctuation El Niño was in full swing and at its most powerful.\n\nEl Niño happens when warm water rises to the surface off the west coast of South America, pushing up global temperatures.\n\nAnother El Niño has now started but scientists say it is still weak - meaning ocean temperatures are expected to rise further above average in the coming months.\n\nThe broken temperature record follows a series of marine heatwaves this year including in the UK, the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Mexico.\n\n\"The marine heatwaves that we're seeing are happening in unusual locations where we haven't expected them,\" says Prof Burgess.\n\nIn June, temperatures in UK waters were 3C to 5C higher than average, according to the Met Office and the European Space Agency.\n\nIn Florida, sea surface temperatures hit 38.44C (101F) last week - comparable to a hot tub.\n\nNormally temperatures should be between 23C and 31C, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).\n\nMarine heatwaves doubled in frequency between 1982 and 2016, and have become more intense and longer since the 1980s, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).\n\nWhile air temperatures have seen some dramatic increases in recent years, the oceans take longer to heat up, even though they have absorbed 90% of the Earth's warming from greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nBut there are signs now that ocean temperatures may be catching up. One theory is a lot of the heat has been stored in ocean depths, which is now coming to the surface, possibly linked to El Niño, says Dr Karina von Schuckmann at Mercator Ocean International.\n\nWhile scientists have known that the sea surface would continue to warm up because of greenhouse gas emissions, they are still investigating exactly why temperatures have surged so far above previous years.", "John Stringer is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court\n\nA serving Gwent police officer sexually assaulted a young girl and showed her pornography, a jury has heard.\n\nJohn Stringer, 41, from Cardiff, who denies the charges, had told the young girl not to tell anyone and \"it would be her fault\" if his offending was discovered, Cardiff Crown Court heard.\n\nThe accused is alleged to have committed the offences while he was off-duty.\n\nHe denies five counts of sexual offences against a child under 13.\n\nOpening the case, Ian Wright, prosecuting, told a jury of five men and seven women: \"At the time of these alleged offences this defendant was a serving police officer with Gwent constabulary.\"\n\nMr Wright said the the defendant's alleged abuse came to light after the girl, who was known to him, made a disclosure to her primary school teaching assistant.\n\nShe subsequently told a staff member at her school of the officer's alleged actions and the police were alerted.\n\nThe primary school immediately notified her parents and South Wales Police, who then interviewed her on 15 July 2021.\n\nJohn Stringer denies five counts of sexual offences against a child under 13\n\nMr Wright said: \"(The girl) disclosed to the police in that video interview that she was being sexually assaulted by this defendant.\"\n\nThe prosecutor said the victim had told the police that the accused had touched her inappropriately and would show her pornographic videos with half-naked women in it and ask her to \"mimic\" the actions of the performers.\n\nThe victim told police that Mr Stringer told her that if her parents found out \"it would be her fault\".\n\nThe court heard how there was a break in the alleged offending due to the Covid-19 lockdowns and that when restrictions eased the sexual abuse resumed.\n\nThe jury was shown a video of the child giving a witness statement to the police four days after the final time he assaulted her.\n\nIn it she gave an account of different instances of abuse and times that Mr Stringer had touched her or tried to get her to mimic the actions in the pornographic video.\n\nShe described how she \"didn't feel like doing it, but of course he forced me to do it\"\n\nShe also added that Mr Stringer had told her \"not to tell my parents or else he'd get in a lot of trouble\".\n\nOf the abuse, she said it was like \"when people tell you to like do something that you know is wrong but they say it is right\".\n\nOn a number of occasions as the video was played Mr Stringer shook his head.\n\nDuring the recording the girl also said Mr Stringer had asked her \"weird questions\" about her relationships and sexuality education in school \"about how to make babies or like what I showed you in the video\" but that she had told him she was too young.\n\nThe court also heard he'd asked her if during a Covid-19 lockdown period when they hadn't seen one another she had copied the actions in the pornographic video he'd shown her.\n\nWhen she said no she said he'd told her to do it and she felt \"forced\".\n\nThe victim was also cross-examined by the prosecution and defence in a separate, recorded court hearing which was played to the jury.\n\nIt was put to her by the defence that Mr Stringer had refuted her account of events, and said she had learned about sex from older girls instead, but she insisted she was telling the truth.\n\nThe court heard the offences are not related to his activities as a police officer.\n\nThe accused was arrested on 12 July 2021 and, after being cautioned, told the arresting officers: \"It's a shock.\"\n\nHe was interviewed and, despite denying the girl's account, he was later charged.\n\nMr Stringer faces two counts of assaulting a girl under 13 by touching, two counts of causing or inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity, and one count of causing a child to watch or look at an image of sexual activity under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Fringe has 3,535 shows registered in 248 venues during the 2023 programme\n\nThe Edinburgh Fringe was the sort of last-minute decision which could easily have fizzled out before it even began.\n\nEight companies, mainly Scottish, turned up uninvited to the first Edinburgh International Festival in 1947.\n\nThey set up wherever they could find a space, and hoped their fresh, rebellious approach would appeal to an audience starved of culture during World War Two.\n\nThe name - taken to signify their place on the edge of the main event - is possibly the only thing unchanged in the 76 years since.\n\nNow, launching on Friday with 3,535 shows registered in 248 venues, it is the Fringe which dominates the city each year and nothing seems to stand in its way.\n\nFrom a complete dearth of shows during the pandemic in 2020, the Fringe has returned to close to the numbers seen in 2019 - the highest on record.\n\nAnd that's despite increased costs and a squeeze on affordable accommodation.\n\nSo why will performers do anything to get to Edinburgh?\n\nFor New York-based playwrights and performers Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey, it was about following their heroes.\n\n\"The Mighty Boosh started here,\" says Leah. \"Even going back to Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Rowan Atkinson.\n\n\"These are the people that make us want to do comedy so knowing they all started here and that this was the place which fostered that anarchic, clever comedy makes us want to be here too.\"\n\nSo determined were they to get to the Fringe, they launched a Crowdfunder at the Tribeca Festival to raise the money they needed to bring their show - Slash - to Edinburgh this summer.\n\nNew York-based playwrights and performers Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey\n\nLeah added: \"As amazing as New York is, and as many opportunities as we have there, for our passions and taste there's nowhere like the Fringe.\"\n\nThe bulk of their costs have gone on travel and accommodation, which they've deliberately taken on the outskirts of the city to keep costs low.\n\nEven then, they think breaking even is the best outcome they can hope for.\n\nHarley Mann, and the Melbourne-based Na Djinang Circus, have the support of a venue devoted to Australian culture.\n\nThey use circus and physical theatre to explore modern Australian identity and for Harley, raising the profile of his own culture on an international stage is paramount.\n\n\"My family are Waaka Waaka from Queensland, Australia,\" he says.\n\n\"I've known about the Fringe for a long time. We've done Adelaide which is the second largest and when the opportunity came along we couldn't shy away from it.\n\n\"It's an opportunity as First Nation Australians to represent our Aboriginal culture on an international platform and represent a story which is growing in Australia but isn't quite heard around the world yet.\"\n\nSarah de Nordwall is a performance poet who first came to the Fringe as a teenager almost 40 years ago.\n\nShe said: \"I used to think the Fringe was just for young people, as it was when I first came here, but I decided to give it a go. And then Covid came along.\"\n\nSarah De Nordwall holds hopes of being \"discovered\" at the Fringe\n\nBut she persevered and has secured a slot for a two-week run in the second half of the festival.\n\nSarah agrees that non-performers often wonder why anyone comes to the Fringe.\n\n\"Why put yourself through the agony? Because everything's fresh,\" she said.\n\n\"Everything's new and if I bring philosophical poetry, it'll find an audience. And you just get refreshed by everyone else and their enthusiasm as well.\"\n\nAlthough, like many performers, Sarah does harbour a desire to be \"spotted\" just as Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in 2013 when she first performed her show Fleabag.\n\n\"I have this dream that I'd really like to be a bard in residence in some kind of philosophical environment and this is the sort of place where that sort of thing might happen. Anything can happen at the Fringe.\"\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge is now honorary president of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society\n\nSo the stage is set, and the shows are ready. But will the audiences return in those pre-pandemic numbers?\n\nShe said: \"We've no growth agenda for the Fringe at all in terms of the scale of the offer or the number of shows, but the way we want the festival to grow and the best way to support the artists who've taken the risk to bring work here is by going to see the shows.\n\n\"It's a message I'll be repeating. Go see the shows. Enjoy this creative explosion which is happening on our own doorstep.\"", "A husband and wife cyber-crime team have pleaded guilty to trying to launder $4.5bn (£3.5bn) of Bitcoin that he had stolen in a hack in 2016.\n\nHeather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested last year in New York after police traced their riches back to the crypto heist.\n\nWhile evading police, Morgan masqueraded as a rapper and tech entrepreneur.\n\nAs part of a plea deal, Lichtenstein admitted he was behind the hack.\n\nThe couple both pleaded guilty to money laundering, but Morgan pleaded guilty to an additional count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.\n\nIn spite of attempting to cover up her crimes, Morgan published dozens of expletive-filled music videos and rap songs filmed in locations around New York, under the name Razzlekhan.\n\nIn her lyrics she called herself a \"bad-ass money maker\" and \"the crocodile of Wall Street\".\n\nIlya Lichtenstein kept meticulous records of how the couple were laundering the stolen Bitcoin\n\nIn articles published in Forbes, Morgan also claimed to be a successful tech businesswoman, calling herself an \"economist, serial entrepreneur, software investor and rapper\".\n\nBut while developing her rapping and tech persona, she and her computer programmer husband were attempting to cash out their fortune stolen from the crypto firm Bitfinex.\n\nThe couple now face prison sentences with Lichtenstein in line for a possible maximum 20 years in prison and Morgan a possible 10.\n\nAt the time of their arrest in February 2022, the stash of 119,000 Bitcoins was worth about $4.5bn - making it the US Department of Justice's largest single financial seizure in its history.\n\nWhen the hack was carried out, the Bitcoins were worth about $71m.\n\nHeather Morgan was a regular contributor to Forbes magazine as a tech entrepreneur\n\nCourt documents showed in detail how the couple cashed out millions of dollars of the Bitfinex Bitcoins into traditional money using sophisticated techniques to try to stay under the radar.\n\nThe successful police operation is the latest case to utilise tools able to analyse transactions on Bitcoin's public blockchain ledger.\n\nOne of the couple's key mistakes was shopping with Walmart supermarket vouchers paid for with the stolen funds.\n\nPolice used advanced techniques to track the stolen Bitcoin across the public records of transactions\n\n\"Police were able to link the Walmart gift cards back to some of the proceeds of the Bitfinex hack, which then opened up the further investigation,\" said Jonathan Levin, founder of cryptocurrency investigators Chainalysis which was involved in the investigation.\n\n\"Buying gift cards and moving between different exchanges and different cryptocurrency never actually created this sort of break in provenance that the couple intended,\" he said.\n\nWhen police raided the couple's Manhattan apartment, they found hollowed-out books created to conceal mobile phones.\n\nThey also discovered dozens of burner handsets, several USB sticks and $40,000 in cash.\n\nPolice say the couple tried to hide burner phones in their apartment\n\nPolice successfully decrypted a spreadsheet meticulously detailing the couple's intricate methods for laundering the stash, allowing them to recover nearly the full amount.\n\nIn court documents, prosecutors say they uncovered communication records that indicate Morgan and Lichtenstein were planning to flee the US for Russia - his country of birth.\n\nIf successful, they would have probably lived a billionaire lifestyle, safe from arrest by the US.\n\nWhen the hack happened, Bitfinex customers took an enforced \"haircut\", losing 36% of their assets held by the crypto exchange. By 2019, the company had reimbursed the victims, so now the Hong Kong-based firm and some customers who exchanged their losses for shares are in line for a windfall once the recovered Bitcoins are returned.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nBayern Munich are still waiting to hear from Tottenham Hotspur about whether they are prepared to sell England captain Harry Kane.\n\nThe German champions have reportedly made at least one offer for Kane, who Bild says has already agreed personal terms with the 30-year-old striker.\n\nBayern are playing down reports they set a deadline of Friday for a Spurs decision, but are growing frustrated with the situation.\n\nKane is Spurs' all-time top scorer but has only one year left on his contract.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n\nThere has been no suggestion Kane would be willing to extend his contract, so if Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy opts to keep the England striker it would effectively be ending the club's last chance to cash in on their talisman.\n\nBayern officials met Levy earlier this week but no agreement was reached.\n\nTottenham open their Premier League campaign at Brentford on 13 August. Bayern begin their season with a German Super Cup meeting with RB Leipzig a day earlier.\n\nThe transfer window does not close until 1 September, but it is felt all sides would prefer a resolution before the new season begins.\n• None Our coverage of Tottenham Hotspur is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Spurs - go straight to all the best content", "Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul veteran actor Mark Margolis has died at the age of 83, according to his family.\n\nBest known in the role of Hector Salamanca on both series, he played a drug cartel member who uses a wheelchair after a stroke.\n\nHe passed away in a New York City hospital on Thursday after a short illness, his son said in a statement.\n\nMargolis also had acting credits in films such Scarface, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and HBO series Oz.\n\nIn the Emmy-nominated role of Salamanca, Margolis portrayed a hyper-violent gangster who is unable to speak and uses only a bell and facial expressions to communicate.\n\nThe Breaking Bad Facebook account paid tribute to him, posting: \"We join millions of fans in mourning the passing of the immensely talented Mark Margolis, who - with his eyes, a bell, and very few words - turned Hector Salamanca into one of the most unforgettable characters in the history of television.\n\nMr Margolis, who grew up in Philadelphia, also featured in films such as Going in Style, Dressed to Kill, and Arthur.\n\nHe also had roles in six films by director Darren Aronofsky.\n\n\"I am just a journeyman actor,\" he said in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.\n\nHe moved to New York at a young age and studied under famous acting coach Stella Adler.\n\nDespite having over 70 film credits - spanning five decades - he said that there were times when he struggled as a performer in his earlier years.\n\n\"Truth to tell, six months after Scarface,\" he once said, \"I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by.\"\n\nHe said that the Salamanca character was in part inspired by his mother-in-law, who also was unable to speak after a stroke.\n\n\"We used to visit her, and she couldn't speak. But she'd get excited when we came in the room, and the left side of her mouth would always do these contortions where the lips would push out, almost like she was chewing tobacco. So I kind of stole that from her.\"\n\nIn a 2013 interview, he told Time magazine that he enjoyed the challenge of acting without speaking.\n\n\"It was a marvellous creature! The fact that he didn't have any words was not an issue for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I was delighted not to have to learn any lines. I mean, I had to know what was going on, I had my cues, but the fact that I didn't have to master lines was great. I got to fly out to New Mexico and not worry about memorising anything.\"\n\nColleagues of his also paid tribute online.\n\n\"Mark made me laugh every time we were together on set,\" wrote writer Thomas Schnauz, who worked with him on both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.\n\n\"My love to his family and many, many friends,\" he added.\n\nPeter Gould, one of the co-creators of Better Call Saul, tweeted: \"Absolutely devastated to hear that we've lost Mark Margolis.\n\n\"Mark was brilliant, funny, a raconteur with a million stories. I miss him already.\"", "Around 24,000 staff at British Airways will get a pay rise worth more than 13% over 18 months from September, the Unite union has said.\n\nWorkers will also get a one-off payment of £1,000, but pilots and management are excluded from the deal, it said.\n\nThe deal, after months of negotiations, eases the threat of disruption as demand for air travel soars.\n\nWorkers are pushing for higher pay in a number of sectors as inflation continues to be high.\n\nThe pace of general price rises in the UK has been persistently high.\n\nInflation, while it has declined a little, is still running at 7.9%, well above the Bank of England's target of 2%.\n\nUnite's pay negotiations were focused on easing the effects of inflation on workers.\n\nThe union said the deal also reversed pay cuts from 2020.\n\nThe \"sizable pay increase\" came after \"detailed negotiations\", Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said.\n\nIt comes as the aviation industry enters one of it's busiest months for travel in the year, with families booked to go away during the school summer holidays in the UK.\n\nAirlines are keen not to repeat the chaos seen last summer at airports as the sector grappled with a surge in demand following the pandemic.\n\nSince then there have been further challenges, as walkouts across the industry have triggered delays in flight schedules.\n\nStrikes by air traffic controllers in France have added to airspace congestion across the continent forcing budget carriers like Ryanair and EasyJet to cancel thousands of flights.\n\nMore recently, British Airways was able to dodge disruption after a wave of industrial action by ground handlers was called off.\n\nIt marks a turnaround for the airline which cut more than 10,000 employees during the pandemic.\n\nBritish Airways has since taken on thousands more staff as demand for travel approaches 2019 levels.\n\nLast week, IAG, the company that owns British Airways, said it made record half-year profits of £1.1bn, helped by higher fares and a continued rebound in travel.\n\nBritish Airways declined to comment on the pay deal.", "The Commonwealth Games are a multi-sport tournament that take place every four years\n\nThe government of Alberta has pulled its support for a bid to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games due to rising costs.\n\nTourism and Sport Minister Joseph Schow said the bill was estimated at C$2.7bn (£1.5bn; $2bn) - a burden \"too high for the province to bear\".\n\nThe organiser of the Games has said it is \"sorry to hear that Alberta is no longer developing its bid proposal\".\n\nLast month Australia pulled out of hosting the 2026 Games in Victoria due to budget blowouts.\n\nAlberta's withdrawal means there are currently no other firm bids to host the 2030 Games.\n\nIn a statement, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) thanked all of those who worked on the application and said it believed the Canadian province \"could be a fantastic host\" for the Commonwealth Games in the future.\n\nAlberta's initial plan was to host the games over 11 days in August 2030 with competitions and events spread between Calgary and Edmonton, as well as the Tsuut'ina Nation and Enoch Cree Nation.\n\nThe CGF said dialogue with other potential hosts was \"on-going\".\n\nIn a statement on Alberta's withdrawal, Mr Schow suggested the corporate sponsorship model and limited broadcast revenues would have put 93% of costs and risks on taxpayers.\n\nHe insisted the authorities wanted to be transparent about funding and demonstrating a return on investment.\n\n\"That is why we have made the decision not to continue pursuing the bid for the 2030 Commonwealth Games.\"\n\nAlberta's provincial government said it had committed up to C$2m (£1.2m) to explore the feasibility of hosting the Games - and the city of Edmonton another C$1m (£590,000), according to Reuters.\n\nCommonwealth Sport Canada had been expected to complete a feasibility study this month ahead of a formal bid.\n\nCalgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek's office told Canada's national public broadcaster CBC the bid was finished without support from the province.\n\n\"The provincial government's decision to withdraw from Alberta's 2030 Commonwealth Games bid process effectively terminates the bid and the City of Calgary's participation,\" the statement said.\n\nThe Commonwealth Games are a multi-sport tournament that take place every four years and have only ever been cancelled during World War Two.\n\nTo be eligible to participate in the games, competitors must be from one of over 70 nations or territories - many of which were once part of the British Empire.\n\nEarlier this year, Hamilton, Ontario, which hosted the inaugural Games in 1930, suspended its bid after the group behind the push failed to secure government commitments.\n\nOn 18 July, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the 2026 event was supposed to be a massive boost for the regional cities hosting it, at a cost of A$2.6bn (£1.4bn; $1.8bn).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson says it is 'important we do not lose' the Commonwealth Games after the 2026 host pulled out.\n\nBut he told reporters the cost of staging the 12-day games had ballooned to more than A$6bn.\n\n\"I've made a lot of difficult calls, a lot of very difficult decisions in this job. This is not one of them,\" Mr Andrews said.\n\nThe CGF called Victoria's decision \"hugely disappointing\" and added it was \"committed to finding a solution\".\n\nScottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has said he is willing to consider proposals for Scotland to host at least part of the 2026 Commonwealth Games.\n\nGlasgow hosted the event in 2014, and government figures suggest the total cost was around £543m ($691m).\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has said he would support a bid for the capital to host in 2026, but said any final decision would need to be made by the government.\n\nUpdate 24 September 2023: This article was amended to make clear competitors must come from one of more than 70 nations or territories.", "Stranded rail passengers at London's King's Cross station during the July 2022 heatwave\n\nTravel disruption will be worsened by climate change unless more money is spent on the UK's transport networks, a government advisor has warned.\n\nIntense rainfall and heatwaves have hit road and rail travel with flash floods, landslips and equipment failures.\n\nSir John Armitt said the UK must either accept more travel disruption or spend more money on maintenance and upgrades.\n\nNetwork Rail's safety and engineering director Martin Frobisher said companies were \"racing to catch up\".\n\nHe insisted more was being spent than ever and technology was improving, but \"every year we...break records on heat, on rain, on wind\".\n\nSir John, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, said leaders including himself may previously have \"underestimated the impact of climate change and the rate at which we're seeing those changes\".\n\nThe former chief executive of Network Rail also believes there are societal and political choices ahead, when it comes to keeping our transport networks running as reliably.\n\nClimate change is already affecting how we get around. Transport bosses are trying to react, to keep things running smoothly.\n\nLast summer's heatwaves caused widespread train cancellations, caused by issues including buckled rails and fallen overhead power lines.\n\nRailway tracks are engineered to cope with a certain range of temperatures, but when it gets very hot they can bend. When overhead power lines sag in the heat, they can get snagged in train equipment and be pulled down.\n\nHot, dry weather followed by heavy rain can trigger landslips, or flash flooding.\n\nNetwork Rail, which is responsible for maintaining thousands of miles of railway across Britain, is trying to adapt.\n\nSpending on drainage has increased, and technology is being deployed to remotely monitor rail temperature. Simple measures like painting rails white are still used to try and prevent over-heating.\n\nA huge section of embankment in Hook, Hampshire, collapsed earlier this year\n\nAfter three people died in August 2020 when a train hit a landslip near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, Network Rail has developed new software to predict sudden, torrential rainfall.\n\nNicola Morgan, who works for Network Rail in its Wales and Borders region, said there had been \"significant changes in recent years\", with stronger weather fronts and powerful storms.\n\nHer colleagues in the Cardiff operations centre use heat sensors and cameras to keep track of conditions around the region. This won't necessarily prevent disruption to services, but can flag anything unsafe.\n\nMeasures like speed restrictions can be introduced, and maintenance teams alerted. Drones can now be sent to see what's going on.\n\nMajor roads can also be severely affected by extreme weather.\n\nAngela Halliwell, who works for National Highways, said \"we had some instances last year where some pockets of the road did soften or in some cases melt.\"\n\nAt the same time, \"we have noticed an increase in surface water flooding through the intense rainfall\".\n\nOn the M4 motorway, drainage is being improved as part of roadworks to update the central reservation\n\nNew drainage standards have been brought in \"in line with future climate projections\", Ms Halliwell said.\n\nTo try and make roads more resilient to heat, different surfacing is being introduced which would not \"melt or rut, potentially crack or joint\",\n\nSir John Armitt says ultimately, \"we get the infrastructure we pay for\".\n\nWhile Network Rail's Martin Frobisher thinks the changing climate will be \"the biggest challenge for this century\".", "Cardi B is known for hits such as I Like It, Up, Bodak Yellow and WAP\n\nLas Vegas Police have dropped their criminal battery investigation into an incident which saw rapper Cardi B throw a microphone at someone in the crowd.\n\nThe incident occurred last weekend after a member of the audience appeared to throw water at the performer.\n\nA video of the WAP star taking matters into her own hands at Drai's Beachclub was widely shared on social media at the time.\n\nBut she will now face no charges due to \"insufficient evidence\", police said.\n\n\"After a thorough review of this case and with the consultation from the Clark County District Attorney's Office, this case has been closed as having insufficient evidence,\" the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement shared the PA news agency.\n\n\"No charges will be filed in relation to this case.\"\n\nLawyers for the the Grammy Award-winner responded by thanking the police for their \"diligent and prompt resolution of this matter\", in a statement reported by multiple outlets.\n\nIn the footage, caught on camera from multiple angles by several fans, security staff are seen surrounding the perpetrator at the front of the crowd while recovering the rapper's microphone.\n\nFootage from earlier in the concert showed Cardi B asking a different member of the audience to spray her from behind, as she turned her back to the crowd.\n\nLater in the show, the 30-year-old explained the earlier spray had been done on her back and under her own instruction, whereas she objected to the other member of the crowd unexpectedly throwing water which hit her face.\n\nLas Vegas police later confirmed that a show attendee had come forward to \"report a battery\", but have now concluded that no crime was committed.\n\nThe microphone in question is now reportedly being auctioned off on eBay - reaching more than $99,000 so far - by the owner of an audio company.\n\nCardi B is best known for hits such as I Like It, Up, Bodak Yellow and WAP - her sexually-charged bass-heavy rap duet with Megan Thee Stallion.\n\nShe is the latest performer to have had items thrown at them while onstage in recent months, following similar incidents involving Harry Styles, Pink and Bebe Rexha.\n\nRexha was taken to hospital after being hit by a phone while performing. The man charged with the incident said he thought \"it would be funny\".\n\nStyles was hit in the eye with a sweet at a gig in November and more recently Pink looked stunned when a bag of human ashes was thrown on stage.\n\nSweet but Psycho singer Ava Max has also been slapped on stage of late, while somebody else threw a bracelet at country singer Kelsea Ballerini.\n\nAdele recently joked with her Las Vegas audience that she would \"kill\" anyone who tried to chuck something at her.", "A supporter of the coup wears a hat in the colours of the Russian flag during a rally in the capital on Thursday\n\nNiger's ousted leader has urged the US and \"entire international community\" to help \"restore... constitutional order\" after last week's coup.\n\nIn an opinion piece in the Washington Post, President Mohamed Bazoum said he was writing \"as a hostage\".\n\nHe also warned that the region could fall further under Russian influence, via the Wagner Group which already operates in neighbouring countries.\n\nDefence chiefs from the region finished a three-day meeting in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, on Friday saying they had drawn up a detailed plan for the use of force for leaders from the regional bloc Ecowas to consider.\n\n\"All the elements that will go into any eventual intervention have been worked out here, including the resources needed, the how and when we are going deploy the force,\" Abdel-Fatau Musah, Ecowas commissioner for political affairs, peace and security said.\n\nNigeria's President Bola Tinubu on Friday wrote to lawmakers seeking their support for the sanctions and military action. His letter included a reference to a \"military build-up and deployment of personnel\".\n\nOn Thursday, the coup leaders announced they were withdrawing the country's ambassadors from France, the US, Nigeria and Togo.\n\nIn a statement read out on national television, they said the functions of the four ambassadors had been \"terminated\".\n\nThe junta also announced it was cutting bilateral military ties with former colonial power France. The country currently has around 1,500 troops in Niger and has been part of a force combating Islamist militancy.\n\nFrance has responded by saying that only \"legitimate\" governments could alter agreements.\n\nEcowas has imposed sanctions and given the junta until the end of the weekend to reinstate the president or face the possibility of military intervention.\n\nThe regional bloc is also trying to pursue a diplomatic solution, but a delegation that arrived in Niger on Thursday left after just a few hours without any sign of progress.\n\nNiger is a significant uranium producer - a fuel that is vital for nuclear power - and under Mr Bazoum was a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa's Sahel region.\n\nWhere is Niger? It's a vast country in West Africa, and one of the poorest countries in the world, but has been a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants.\n\nWhy was there a coup? The military said it seized power because of insecurity and the economic situation, but there have been suggestions it came after reports the coup leader was about to be sacked.\n\nWhat next? It's feared the military may seek to switch allegiance to Russia and close French and US bases there; for their part, Niger's neighbours have threatened to use force to end the coup.\n\nIn his newspaper article, Mr Bazoum warned the coup, if it succeeded, would have \"devastating consequences for our country, our region and the entire world\".\n\n\"Fighting for our shared values, including democratic pluralism and respect for the rule of law, is the only way to make sustainable progress against poverty and terrorism,\" Mr Bazoum wrote.\n\n\"The Nigerien people will never forget your support at this pivotal moment in our history.\"\n\nMr Bazoum also warned of the coup leaders' links to Russian mercenary group Wagner, which operates elsewhere in the region and has been seen by many as exercising a malign influence in Niger.\n\n\"The entire central Sahel region could fall to Russian influence via the Wagner group, whose brutal terrorism has been on full display in Ukraine,\" wrote Mr Bazoum.\n\nMany supporters of the coup in Niger have been chanting pro-Russian slogans and wearing the colours of the Russian flag.\n\nOn Thursday, thousands of people took to the streets of Niger's capital, Niamey, in a peaceful demonstration backing the coup and criticising other West African countries for imposing financial and trade sanctions on Niger.\n\nThere is no indication that Wagner was involved in the overthrow of Mr Bazoum, according to the US - but Wagner's leader has reportedly described the coup as a triumph. The Russian government, however, has called for the ousted president to be returned to power but stressed this should be done peacefully.\n\nThe military takeover has also been internationally condemned, including by the EU, UN and the US.\n\nEarlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Mr Bazoum on the phone, with the US saying afterwards it was committed to the restoration of Niger's democratically elected government.\n\nMr Bazoum, the first democratically elected president to succeed another in Niger, was detained by his own guards last week. Coup leader Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani has been installed as head of state.\n\nNiger is a key part of the African region known as the Sahel, an area plagued by jihadists and beset by military regimes. In recent years it had been seen as an example of relative stability, while its neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso succumbed to military coups.\n\nIt hosts both French and US military bases which are used to fight Islamist insurgents.\n\nPresident Bazoum's government has been a partner to European countries trying to stop the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea, agreeing to take back hundreds of migrants from detention centres in Libya. He has also cracked down on human traffickers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Niger coup: More trouble for the Sahel region?\n• None Africa Daily podcast: What’s behind the coup in Niger?", "Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin (left) and Saqib Hussain died at the scene\n\nA TikTok influencer \"set a trap\" that led to a man who was blackmailing her mother with a sex tape being rammed off the road and killed, a court has heard.\n\nSaqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin died in a crash on the A46 near Leicester in February 2022.\n\nMahek Bukhari, her mother Ansreen and six others are charged with murder.\n\nProsecutors told Leicester Crown Court on Monday it was a case of \"love, obsession, extortion and ultimately cold-blooded murder\".\n\nAnsreen Bukhari (left) and her daughter Mahek are on trial with six others\n\nThe court heard Mr Hussain, 21, from Oxfordshire, and 46-year-old Ansreen Bukhari, of George Eardley Close, Stoke-on-Trent, began an affair in 2019 but she ended it in January 2022.\n\nCollingwood Thompson KC, opening the retrial for the prosecution, said Mr Hussain had in his possession sexual videos and images of Ansreen and made repeated attempts to contact her after she broke it off.\n\nThe court heard Mr Hussain was becoming \"increasingly obsessive\" while \"professing his love for her\" and \"begging her\" to continue the relationship.\n\nThe barrister said: \"This anger manifested itself in an attempt to blackmail Ansreen Bukhari in order to persuade her to contact him.\n\n\"Messages show that sexually explicit material of her, which had obviously been taken some time before, and he threatened to send it to her husband and son.\"\n\n(From front left) Ansreen Bukhari, Mahek Bukari, Rekan Karwan, Raees Jamal, (from top left) Ameer Jamal, Sanaf Gulammustafa, Natasha Akhtar and Mohammed Patel\n\nThe court heard her 23-year-old daughter - who was aware of the affair - was told of the blackmail plot and, fearful of the impact on her family, as well as her social media following, sent Mr Hussain a message saying: \"Carry [on] speaking to her now, you'll see movements soon.\"\n\nShe also sent her mother a WhatsApp message afterwards saying: \"I'll soon get him jumped by guys and he won't know what day it is.\"\n\nThe jury was told Mr Hussain was demanding up to £3,000 he had spent on dates with Ansreen Bukhari during their affair and a meeting was arranged in Leicester to hand it over.\n\nBut rather than handing over the money, the court heard the mother and daughter were plotting to seize Mr Hussain's phone containing the explicit material.\n\nMahek Bukhari had posted on social media about being close to her mother\n\nThe Crown's KC told how \"other defendants, we say, then became involved in what happened\", claiming it became clear the Bukharis needed to \"silence\" Mr Hussain.\n\nMr Thompson said: \"Common sense would suggest the idea was to lure him [Mr Hussain] into a meeting, promising him his money.\"\n\nHe said the group \"no doubt hoped when confronted with numerical superiority, he might just hand the phone over\".\n\n\"And that if he did not - cause Mr Hussain really serious harm to achieve their ends, if not to silence him permanently as will become apparent,\" he added.\n\nMr Hussain and his 21-year-old friend Mr Ijazuddin, who had agreed to drive him to the meeting, died in the crash shortly after midnight on 11 February.\n\nThe prosecution claims the car carrying the two men was rammed off the road\n\nThe court was played the distressed 999 call made by Mr Hussain as he travelled in the passenger seat.\n\nIn the call, Mr Hussain said: \"There's guys following me, they have balaclavas on… they're trying to ram me off the road.\n\n\"They're trying to kill me, I'm going to die… please sir, I just need help.\n\n\"They're hitting the back of the car, really fast… please I'm begging you. I'm going to die.\"\n\nA scream was heard on the line before it abruptly ended.\n\n\"It explains why the police knew that this was no ordinary traffic accident but cold-blooded murder and it led to of course a major investigation,\" Mr Thompson KC said.\n\n\"That investigation revealed a story of love, obsession, extortion and ultimately cold-blooded murder,\" he told the court.\n\nMahek Bukhari has denied two counts of murder\n\nPolice footage was shown to the jury of the crash scene showing the Skoda Fabia in flames against a tree in the central reservation of the A46 dual carriageway, close to the Six Hills junction near Leicester.\n\nPolice and firefighters discovered the remains of two bodies after extinguishing the blaze.\n\nThe court was told Mr Ijazuddin, from Oxfordshire, was \"in the wrong place at the wrong time\", with the favour to his friend turning out \"to be a tragic and fatal mistake\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fewer students taking vocational qualifications are expected to face delays to their results this year, England's exams regulator Ofqual says.\n\nMore than 20,500 students had to wait for BTec, Cambridge National and Cambridge Technical grades in 2022.\n\nSome pupils told BBC News it meant they lost out on university places.\n\nOfqual's boss Jo Saxton said she expects the number of delays to be \"significantly lower\" - but not zero - this year.\n\nThe qualifications are all types of vocational technical qualification (VTQ). Level 3 VTQs are taken alongside or instead of A-levels, and Level 2 VTQs are taken alongside or instead of GCSEs.\n\nLevel 3 VTQ students will get their results on or before 17 August - which is also A-level results day. Level 2 students will receive theirs on or before GCSE results day, on 24 August.\n\nPearson, the awarding body responsible for BTecs, said some students are not currently eligible for a result because schools and colleges did not meet the submission deadline of 5 July.\n\nAs of 13 July, it said 2,881 Level 3 qualifications were ineligible for receiving a grade, but it hopes that number will be much lower by results day.\n\n\"We are giving those schools and colleges a wide range of support to urgently address challenges and help them to provide us with the information we need to award an overall grade for their students. This work will continue... until every outstanding case is resolved,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nOCR, which manages Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals, said it was \"on track\" to release results on time to eligible students.\n\nA spokesperson said it had worked closely with Ofqual, schools and colleges to introduce checkpoints to help avoid unexpected delays.\n\nPearson and OCR have both apologised directly to last year's students.\n\nReasons they gave for the 2022 delays included communication issues, as well as complexities resulting from adaptations brought in to help support students after disruption to education during the Covid pandemic.\n\nDr Saxton said reviewing what happened last year was \"a step towards parity of treatment\" between VTQ students and those taking GCSEs and A-levels.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb added: \"We have done everything, the regulator has done everything they can to make sure that there aren't those delays [this year] because they were unacceptable last year.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Gibb said GCSE and A-level grades needed to drop back to pre-pandemic levels to ensure they carry \"weight and credibility\" with employers, universities and colleges.\n\nTop grades hit record levels in 2020 and 2021, when results were based on teacher assessments instead of exams, which were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nGrades dropped down in 2022, but were still higher than before the pandemic. They are expected to drop back to normal this year.\n\nIn an interview with the PA news agency, Mr Gibb said: \"A typical student in 2019 - given the same level of ability, the same level of diligence - the likelihood is that same student would get the same grades in 2023 as they would have done in 2019.\"\n\nHowever, grades will continue to have some protection.\n\nDr Saxton said that for England, grade protections had been \"built in to reflect that performance is likely to be a little weaker, because of the disruption that students experienced\".\n\nThis year, exams and grading mostly returned to what they were like pre-Covid, but there was still some support, which varied across the four UK nations.\n\nAdvance information on the focus of some exam questions was given to students in Northern Ireland, and some students in Wales, to help them revise. Exam regulators in both nations say they do not expect grades to return to pre-Covid levels until 2024.\n\nIn Scotland, some exams or elements of coursework were removed or reduced, and the Scottish Qualifications Authority plans to take \"a sensitive approach\" to grading this year.\n\nIn England, no advance information was released but there was some additional support - such as formulae and equation sheets in maths, physics, and combined science GCSE exams.\n\nMr Gibb said he expected such exam aids would not be offered to students in England next year, but that a final decision would be taken \"in due course\".\n\nOur experts will be on hand to answer your questions on exam results days. What would you like to ask? You can email us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "UK homeware retailer Wilko has warned that it is on the brink of collapse, putting some 12,000 jobs at risk.\n\nThe privately owned company said it had filed a \"notice of intention\" to appoint administrators after failing to find enough emergency investment.\n\nWilko, which has 400 UK stores across the UK, is well-known for its affordable everyday items.\n\nChief executive Mark Jackson said it would continue to talk with interested parties about options for the business.\n\nHe said the company was left with \"no choice but to take this action\", but hopes to find a solution as quickly as possible to \"preserve the business\".\n\nWilko did not confirm in the announcement on Thursday whether or not any jobs would be affected.\n\nAndy Prendergast, national secretary at the GMB union, said: \"This is extremely concerning but we remain hopeful that a buyer can be found.\n\n\"Wilko's staff deserve reassurance that their jobs are safe. We hope this is the number one priority going forward.\"\n\nWilko added that it had received \"significant interest\" from investors and some offers, but none of them would have provided enough cash within the time needed.\n\nRising interest rates, higher energy costs and squeezed consumer spending have all been weighing on retailers.\n\nShops including furniture retailer Made.com and clothing group Joules collapsed into administration last year, although both were offered rescue deals by High Street giant Next.\n\nBut Wilko's boss said on Thursday that the company, which has an annual turnover of about £1.2bn, had a \"robust turnaround plan\" in place.\n\nThe discount chain has been struggling for months and had been considering a company voluntary arrangement, under which some of its landlords would have received no rent for three years.\n\nAfter Mr Jackson joined the retailer late last year, the retailer announced that it would cut 400 jobs in an attempt to cut costs.\n\nAt the time, the GMB union said the company was in a \"fight for survival\".\n\nWilko has about 400 stores across the UK, with its head office in Worksop\n\nCatherine Shuttleworth, founder of retail analysis firm Savvy Marketing, told the BBC that the announcement marked a sad day for a \"stalwart of the UK High Street\".\n\n\"It should have been Wilko's time to shine, with the Cost of Living crisis going on and shoppers looking for a bargain\".\n\nBut she added that customers had been going to rivals such as Home Bargains, B&M and the Range as they looked for discounted food, household goods and garden items.\n\nLonger-term problems at Wilko have been exposed, she said, with a lack of investment over time and issues with stock in recent months.\n\nThe latest announcement by Wilko gives it breathing space of up to 10 working days to come up with a rescue deal.\n\nThe company, which was founded in 1930 in Leicester, is still owned by the Wilkinson family.\n\nIt has already borrowed £40m from Hilco, a specialist retail investor and the owner of Homebase, and has even been exploring the potential sale of a stake in business, according to reports by Sky News.\n\nMs Shuttleworth added: \"I don't think we'll see Wilko disappear from the High Street, because it's such a well-loved brand and shoppers hold it in high regard.\n\n\"But, it could look very different in the future.\"", "A driver who filmed himself speeding at 123mph before hitting and killing a pregnant mother-of-two has been jailed for 12 years.\n\nAdil Iqbal admitted causing the death of Frankie Jules-Hough, 38, by dangerous driving on the M66 in Bury, Greater Manchester, on 13 May.\n\nThe 22-year-old also admitted causing serious injury to her son, aged nine, and nephew, aged four.\n\nThe family's solicitor described the sentence as \"insulting\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "When an intruder broke into the home of retired 87-year-old Marjorie Perkins, he might have thought an older woman would not put up much of a fight.\n\n\"That was the worst part - to wake up in the dark and have this man standing over you,\" the former primary school teacher of 35 years told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm going to cut you,\" the young burglar said to her during the break-in at Brunswick, Maine.\n\nThough she was terrified, Ms Perkins leapt into action and fought back.\n\nThe 17-year-old suspect has been charged with burglary, criminal threatening, assault and consuming liquor as a minor and is being held at a juvenile detention centre.\n\n\"I thought if I'm going to be cut,\" Ms Perkins told the BBC, \"I'm going to kick. So I jumped into my shoes as fast as I could.\"\n\nShe used a lawn chair that was near her bed to defend herself as he came towards her.\n\nHe punched her cheek and forehead and kept knocking her against the wall.\n\nThough it's a quiet neighbourhood, she said, Ms Perkins' house is situated on an intersection where people are often coming and going, so she \"hollered out the window for help\".\n\nHer town has about 21,000 residents.\n\nThey \"had the chair fight for quite a while\" before \"he got tired and headed for the kitchen\", she said.\n\n\"I kept telling him to get out,\" Ms Perkins recalled.\n\nSuddenly he became \"limp looking\" and said he was \"awfully hungry\".\n\nWhen she told him he needed help, he said: \"I've had help before but it hasn't done much good.\"\n\nSo Ms Perkins gave him a box of crackers with peanut butter and honey, two protein shakes and two tangerines.\n\n\"He didn't touch any of those - he ate one cracker,\" she said.\n\nWhile he was eating, she called the emergency line 911 on her old rotary phone.\n\nHe fled the scene, out the front door.\n\nBy the time police arrived at Ms Perkins' home they told her they already had the unidentified teenager in custody.\n\nA police sniffer dog had tracked him to a nearby street where his grandmother lives.\n\nAll of the doors and windows of her mobile home were locked, but they discovered he had managed to break in near a window unit air conditioner.\n\nDuring the altercation, he told her he had mowed her lawn \"a long time ago\".\n\nShe remembers a \"little boy coming here\" maybe eight years ago, she said.\n\nIn another odd twist of fate, Ms Perkins was eating at a diner following the incident when a waitress sat down at her booth and said: \"I know who the boy was, who did this to you - he's my nephew.\"\n\nAccording to the woman, he has committed previous offences.\n\nSince the break-in happened, she has received a lot of support from her neighbours, those in her line-dancing group and even reunited with half-sisters she has not spoken to in half a century.\n\nHer story has been widely picked up by other international outlets.\n\nMs Perkins is surprised that people have taken such an interest in her story when there is so much else going on in the world.\n\nBut she said: \"I think it does bring some hope or positivity.\n\n\"A lot of people have been quite amazed that I was brave enough to pick up a chair and fend him off.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are six unnamed co-conspirators in the latest indictment against former President Donald Trump, including a Department of Justice official, four attorneys and a political consultant.\n\nThey have not been named by prosecutors because they are not charged with a crime, but quotes, anecdotes and other context in charging documents and previous investigations have allowed most to be identified.\n\nProsecutors say the group worked together and with Mr Trump to overturn the election result by pushing officials to ignore the vote count, to disenfranchise millions of voters and to replace legitimate electors with fake ones.\n\nThe former New York mayor and lawyer for Mr Trump played a very public role in the aftermath of the election when he toured the US speaking to Republican legislatures in states Mr Trump lost about unfounded claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMr Giuliani is described in the indictment as \"Co-Conspirator 1\". Without using his name, it says he is a lawyer \"who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies\" that Mr Trump's campaign did not pursue itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump charged with conspiracy to defraud US\n\nThe charging document references meetings, testimony to lawmakers and political events that have previously been attributed to Mr Giuliani.\n\nTed Goodman, a spokesman for Mr Giuliani, said that it \"appears\" the indictment is referring to Mr Giuliani, and accused the prosecution of violating the First Amendment right to free speech.\n\nCo-Conspirator 2 has been identified as John Eastman, a White House lawyer who helped develop the Trump team's plan to invalidate the election result and instead choose a slate of \"fake electors\" to keep Mr Trump in power.\n\nHe is described in the indictment as the man \"who devised and attempted to implement a strategy to leverage the Vice-President's ceremonial role overseeing the certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election\".\n\nVice-President Mike Pence resisted pressure from Mr Trump to try to halt Joe Biden's certification on 6 January 2021, leading rioters inside the US Capitol to chant calls for Mr Pence to be hanged.\n\nMr Eastman's lawyer Charles Burnham said in a statement that the new indictment used a \"misleading presentation of the record to contrive criminal charges against Presidential candidate Trump and to cast ominous aspersions on his close advisors\".\n\nMost known for her vow to \"release the Kraken\" after Mr Trump's defeat, Sidney Powell is a lawyer that embraced the unfounded theory that that the election had not been conducted fairly.\n\nThe indictment describes Co-Conspirator 3 as \"an attorney whose unfounded claims of election fraud the Defendant [Mr Trump] privately acknowledged to others sounded 'crazy'\".\n\nIt goes on to say that Mr Trump, despite describing her views as crazy, \"embraced and publicly amplified\" her disinformation.\n\nMrs Powell spoke publicly about a lawsuit she filed against Georgia's governor, which is mentioned in the indictment.\n\nIn testimony to the congressional committee examining the 6 January riot, Mrs Powell said she did not review all of the many claims of election fraud she made, telling them that \"no reasonable person\" would view her claims as fact. Neither she nor her representatives have commented.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch dramatic footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot\n\nCo-Conspirator 4 is described by prosecutors as a Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer who tried to \"use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud\".\n\nIt says the person \"worked on civil matters\" at the DOJ, making it clear that it is Jeffrey Clark, who Mr Trump named as acting head of the Justice Department Civil Division weeks before the election.\n\nThe indictment says he met secretly with Mr Trump several times in the days before the 6 January riot, and \"tried to coerce\" top DOJ officials to sign a letter falsely declaring that voting irregularities had been discovered in multiple states.\n\nMr Trump even considered appointing him as acting attorney general, the indictment says, but abandoned the plan on 3 January 2021 after DOJ officials threatened to resign en masse.\n\nAfter one DOJ official said there would be \"riots in every major city in the United States\" if Mr Trump did not leave office after Joe Biden's inauguration, the person responded: \"That's why there's an Insurrection Act.\"\n\nHe has not commented to media on the reports.\n\nThe indictment calls Co-Conspirator 5 \"an attorney who assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding\".\n\nMr Chesebro is an appellate lawyer who first became involved in the Trump campaign's post-election efforts in Wisconsin before expanding into other states lost by Mr Trump.\n\nThe indictment cites a memo by the fourth co-conspirator in which they present a plan to send a slate of fake electors to Washington for Congress to approve.\n\nHe has not commented on the reports.\n\nThe identity of co-conspirator six remains unclear.\n\nThe indictment describes the person as a \"political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding\".\n\nIt says the person worked to identify lawyers that could aid the Trump campaign in six swing states, and on the night of the riot, tried to find senators' phone numbers for Mr Giuliani to call in an attempt to delay the election certification.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "John Stringer denies five counts of sexual offences against a child under 13\n\nA police officer accused of sexually abusing a girl told a court he had an \"an immaculate record\" in law enforcement.\n\nGwent officer John Stringer, 41, from Cardiff, denies five counts of sexually abusing of a girl under 13.\n\nHe denied indecently touching her, showing her porn or asking her to mimic what she saw in adult films.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard Mr Stringer's iPhone's search history showed 18% of what he was looking for was porn.\n\nThe jury was told that of 21,670 records found on his phone, 4,000 were for adult content, but prosecutor Ian Wright told the court that were no indecent images of children.\n\nIeuan Bennett, defending, asked Mr Stringer whether the child he is alleged to have assaulted could access adult material in his home.\n\n\"Absolutely not,\" said Mr Stringer, who told the court he had been a police officer for almost 14 years.\n\nMr Stringer, who has been suspended by Gwent Police, told the court the child did not have access in his home to anything she should not have and he had \"absolutely\" told police the truth.\n\nQuizzed about his porn habits, he conceded he watched porn \"fairly\" regularly.\n\nThe court was told he searched for information about the effects of masturbation on stress, anxiety, focus, concentration, mood, sleep and hormones.\n\nA total of 4,000 porn searches were found on the policeman's phone\n\nMr Wright asked if it was \"coincidence\" that the girl said in her police interview he had told her \"masturbation would help her calm down and help with her sleep\" - he told the court it was.\n\nMr Stringer denied ever telling the girl he was lonely or wanted a girlfriend and said he could think of no reason she would make that up.\n\nThe charges against him, said to have happened between December 2019 and July 2021, include two of sexual assault by touching, two of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and one of causing a child to watch a sexual act.", "A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is unprecedented.\n\nDangerous heatwaves in Europe could break further records, the UN says.\n\nIt is hard to immediately link these events to climate change because weather - and oceans - are so complex.\n\nStudies are under way, but scientists already fear some worst-case scenarios are unfolding.\n\n\"I'm not aware of a similar period when all parts of the climate system were in record-breaking or abnormal territory,\" Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at London School of Economics, says.\n\n\"The Earth is in uncharted territory\" now due to global warming from burning fossil fuels, as well as heat from the first El Niño - a warming natural weather system - since 2018, says Imperial College London climate science lecturer Dr Paulo Ceppi.\n\nHere are four climate records broken so far this summer - the hottest day on record, the hottest June on record globally, extreme marine heatwaves, record-low Antarctic sea-ice - and what they tell us.\n\nThe world experienced its hottest day ever recorded in July, breaking the global average temperature record set in 2016.\n\nAverage global temperature topped 17C for the first time, reaching 17.08C on 6 July, according to EU climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nOngoing emissions from burning fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas are behind the planet's warming trend.\n\nThis is exactly what was forecast to happen in a world warmed by more greenhouse gases, says climate scientist Dr Friederike Otto, from Imperial College London.\n\n\"Humans are 100% behind the upward trend,\" she says.\n\n\"If I'm surprised by anything, it's that we're seeing the records broken in June, so earlier in the year. El Niño normally doesn't really have a global impact until five or six months into the phase,\" Dr Smith says.\n\nEl Niño is the world's most powerful naturally occurring climate fluctuation. It brings warmer water to the surface in the tropical Pacific, pushing warmer air into the atmosphere. It normally increases global air temperatures.\n\nThe average global temperature in June this year was 1.47C above the typical June in the pre-industrial period. Humans started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere when the Industrial Revolution started around 1800.\n\nAsked if summer 2023 is what he would have forecasted a decade ago, Dr Smith says that climate models are good at predicting long-term trends but less good at forecasting the next 10 years.\n\n\"Models from the 1990s pretty much put us where we are today. But to have an idea about what the next 10 years would look like exactly would be very difficult,\" he says.\n\n\"Things aren't going to cool down,\" he adds.\n\nThe average global ocean temperature has smashed records for May, June and July. It is approaching the highest sea surface temperature ever recorded, which was in 2016.\n\nBut it is extreme heat in the North Atlantic ocean that is particularly alarming scientists.\n\n\"We've never ever had a marine heatwave in this part of Atlantic. I had not expected this,\" says Daniela Schmidt, Prof of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.\n\nPress play to see the map animated.\n\nIn June temperatures off the west coast of Ireland were between 4C and 5C above average, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration classified as a category 5 heatwave, or \"beyond extreme\".\n\nDirectly attributing this heatwave to climate change is complex, but that work is ongoing, Prof Schmidt says.\n\nWhat is clear is that the world has warmed and the oceans have absorbed most of that heat from the atmosphere, she explains.\n\n\"Our models have natural variability in them, and there are still things appearing that we had not envisaged, or at least not yet,\" she adds.\n\nShe emphasises the impact of this heat on marine ecosystems, which produce 50% of the world's oxygen.\n\n\"People tend to think about trees and grasses dying when we talk about heatwaves. The Atlantic is 5C warmer than it should be - that means organisms need 50% more food just to function as normal,\" she says.\n\nThe area covered by sea-ice in the Antarctic is at record lows for July. There is an area around 10 times the size of the UK missing, compared with the 1981-2010 average.\n\nAlarm bells are ringing for scientists as they try to unpick the exact link to climate change.\n\nA warming world could reduce levels of Antarctic sea-ice, but the current dramatic reduction could also be due to local weather conditions or ocean currents, explains Dr Caroline Holmes at the British Antarctic Survey.\n\nShe emphasises it is not just a record being broken - it is being smashed by a long way.\n\n\"This is nothing like anything we've seen before in July. It's 10% lower than the previous low, which is huge.\"\n\nShe calls it \"another sign that we don't really understand the pace of change\".\n\nScientists believed that global warming would affect Antarctic sea-ice at some point, but until 2015 it bucked the global trend for other oceans, Dr Holmes says.\n\n\"You can say that we've fallen off a cliff, but we don't know what's at the bottom of the cliff here,\" she says.\n\n\"I think this has taken us by surprise in terms of the speed of which has happened. It's definitely not the best case scenario that we were looking at - it's closer to the worst case,\" she says.\n\nWe can certainly expect more and more of these records to break as the year goes on and we enter 2024, scientists say.\n\nBut it would be wrong to call what is happening a \"climate collapse\" or \"runaway warming\", cautions Dr Otto.\n\nWe are in a new era, but \"we still have time to secure a liveable future for many\", she explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about COP28?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Jacob Crouch died in his cot on 30 December 2020 following months of abuse by his stepfather Image caption: Jacob Crouch died in his cot on 30 December 2020 following months of abuse by his stepfather\n\nWe're going to end our live coverage there. If you want to read more about today's hearing - or the seven-week trial of Craig Crouch and Gemma Barton - we suggest heading to today's main news story as a starting point.\n• Jacob Crouch's stepfather Craig - convicted of the 10-month-old's murder - was jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years\n• Jacob's mother Barton - convicted of allowing his death to happen - received a sentence of 10 years\n• Mr Justice Kerr, the judge, described Jacob as a \"happy, smiley, bubbly baby\", and said it was \"nothing less than tragic that he will never become a boy, and then a man\"\n\nOnce again, if you or someone you know needs help after reading this page, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nThis page was edited by myself, Jamie Whitehead and James FitzGerald. It was written by Phil Mackie, Alex Homer, Adam Durbin, Gem O'Reilly, Andre Rhoden-Paul, Jacqueline Howard, Ben Morris and Anna Boyd - with video produced by James Harness.", "Adil Iqbal was told he was guilty of \"the most indescribable reckless driving\"\n\nA driver who filmed himself speeding at 123mph before hitting and killing a pregnant mother-of-two has been jailed for 12 years.\n\nAdil Iqbal admitted causing the death of Frankie Jules-Hough, 38, by dangerous driving on the M66 in Bury, Greater Manchester, on 13 May.\n\nThe 22-year-old also admitted causing serious injury to her son, aged nine, and nephew, aged four.\n\nThe family's solicitor described the sentence as \"insulting\".\n\nManchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard how Iqbal, from Accrington, Lancashire, was driving his father's BMW with one hand and holding his phone with the other to film himself, possibly to upload to Facebook, as he tailgated and undertook other vehicles and swerved across lanes.\n\nMs Jules-Hough had pulled over on the hard shoulder with a tyre puncture, with her two sons and nephew in the car.\n\nShe was making a call to say she would be late when she let out a \"blood-curdling scream\", the court heard.\n\nThe BMW 140i undertook a motorbike then swerved, over-compensated and hit a crash barrier before spinning around and ploughing into Ms Jules-Hough's Skoda Fabia at an estimated 92mph.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adil Iqbal filmed himself speeding at 123mph before ploughing into Ms Jules-Hough's car\n\nShe was 17 weeks pregnant with her first daughter, Neeve, and suffered unsurvivable brain injuries.\n\nThey both died two days later in hospital surrounded by family, with Ms Jules-Hough having never regained consciousness.\n\nHer son and nephew were left in a coma suffering serious brain injuries with their long-term outcomes remaining uncertain, the court heard.\n\nBoth spent weeks in intensive care in hospital. Her youngest son, who was also in the car, was relatively unscathed.\n\nDashcam footage and film from Iqbal's phone was shown to the court, watched by relatives of Ms Jules-Hough, some of whom gave emotional victim impact statements before the defendant was jailed.\n\nThe court heard from drivers who had seen Iqbal on the motorway, including Johnathan Hoyle who saw him six minutes before the crash and thought he was \"an accident waiting to happen\".\n\nAnother driver, Sophie Dodswell, was said to \"scream out\" as he came within inches of her car at about 120mph.\n\nFrankie Jules-Hough was taken to hospital after the crash but later died\n\nFrank Hough, Ms Jules-Hough's father, said his family had been devastated \"all because a young man wanted to show off, wanted to show his friends on social media how daring and cool he thought he was\".\n\nHe added: \"Our worlds have been torn apart and for what? So this boy could try to make himself feel like a big man.\"\n\nCalvin Buckley, Ms Jules-Hough's partner, said in a victim impact statement: \"What I witnessed that day, that weekend, those hours of desperation, those minutes praying for a miracle or those seconds watching my partner take her last breaths, will stay with me for a lifetime.\"\n\nTom Spencer, her nine-year-old son's father, described arriving at the scene. \"Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw,\" he said.\n\nThe court was told Iqbal had been convicted of driving without insurance in 2019 and in December 2021 posted a video to Facebook after filming himself speeding in a Lamborghini Huracan in Dubai.\n\nTwo months before the M66 crash, he was given a warning by police after being stopped while racing an Audi on public roads.\n\nEmergency services attended the crash scene on 13 May\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Maurice Greene told him: \"She was killed as a result of the most indescribable reckless driving by you Adil Iqbal, leading to the devastation of a family.\"\n\nHe was also banned from driving for 14 years.\n\nSolicitor Rose Gibson-Harper, who represents the victim's family, said the sentence was \"insulting and an injustice\" due to \"an act of sheer stupidity\".\n\n\"Last year, judges were given the power to hand down greater sentences to those convicted of death by dangerous driving,\" she said.\n\n\"Previously, the maximum tariff was 14 years but it was increased to life imprisonment.\n\n\"This case stands as one of the worst examples of dangerous driving I have witnessed in my 27-year career as a catastrophic injury lawyer, and we expected the justice system to fulfil its duty and utilise its new-found powers.\"\n\nFollowing Ms Jules-Hough's death, a GoFundMe appeal was set up by a friend and has raised more than £50,000 for her family.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rico Burton, 31, died in hospital after he was stabbed in Altrincham\n\nA man who murdered the cousin of world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury during a bar brawl has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years.\n\nLiam O'Pray, 22, was convicted of fatally stabbing Rico Burton, 31, in Altrincham, on 22 August 2022.\n\nManchester Crown Court heard the seven-inch blade almost completely severed a major artery in Mr Burton's neck causing massive blood loss.\n\nHis mother said \"Rico will never be forgotten\" by the traveller community.\n\nThe trouble had begun after a fight between the defendant's friends and Mr Burton's family and friends at a courtyard of bars called Goose Green, the court heard.\n\nDoor staff and witnesses told the trial that O'Pray, of Salford, had been a \"loose cannon\" and was \"very erratic\" that night.\n\nJailing O'Pray, who had denied murder, Judge Alan Conrad KC said: \"You were a stabbing waiting to happen.\n\n\"Yet again this court has to deal with the death, injury and devastation as a result of a knife being taken out.\"\n\nLiam O'Pray was found guilty following a three-week trial at Manchester Crown Court\n\nJurors were told that shortly after 03:00 BST \"absolute chaos\" broke out after O'Pray's friend, Malachi Hewitt-Brown, was punched by Mr Burton's cousin, Chasiah Burton.\n\nSoon after, O'Pray struck the fatal blow with the lock knife to the left side of Mr Burton's neck.\n\nMr Burton's mother, Deborah Burton, described him as her \"golden boy\" in a victim impact statement read in court.\n\n\"Throughout the whole traveller community Rico will never be forgotten,\" she said.\n\n\"On the day he died, a piece of me died inside. I have had my heart ripped out and cut into pieces.\"\n\nThe fight broke out at a courtyard of bars on Railway Street\n\nMichael Brady KC, prosecuting, told the jury it was \"standard\" behaviour for O'Pray to go out drinking, causing trouble while armed with a knife.\n\nThe court heard he had a previous conviction for having a knife in public in 2019.\n\nBut O'Pray told the jury he was \"not a violent person\" and carried the knife \"to defend myself\".\n\nCannabis, cocaine and ketamine were found in the defendant's blood stream, tests later showed, and he had three wraps of cocaine on him when arrested shortly after the incident.\n\nO'Pray was also found guilty of wounding with intent by slashing and stabbing Harvey Reilly, who was 17 at the time, during the same incident.\n\nPolice at the scene were \"instrumental\" in saving the life of Mr Reilly, but the injuries to Mr Burton, a father-of-one, were so severe he died shortly after in hospital.\n\n\"You can blame all manner of things but the fact it is you, and others like you who chose to carry knives, that's the problem,\" the judge told O'Pray.\n\nTyson Fury posted an impassioned plea to stop carrying knives on social media following his cousin's death\n\nMr Burton's death prompted his boxing champion cousin to post an impassioned plea on social media about knife crime, declaring that \"this needs to stop\".\n\nIn his Instagram post, Fury said: \"Life is very precious and it can be taken away very quick enjoy every moment... RIP Rico Burton may the lord God grant you a good place in heaven. see you soon.\"\n\nPaying tribute, his family said Mr Burton \"was a friendly, kind soul with humour of a comedian, his smile would and could light up any room\".\n\n\"We cannot see how life can go on without him,\" they said.\n\n\"The images in our minds will never be forgotten as the family and friends that were there that fatal night are scarred and traumatised.\n\n\"No parent should have to witness their child bloodied and murdered. No parent should have to bury a child.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Gina Brennand, from GMP, described O'Pray as an \"extremely dangerous individual\" who lacked remorse.\n\n\"Anyone who carries a knife is a danger to themselves and others and I hope this investigation will serve as a deterrent to carrying knives,\" she added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Challenging budgets and the lack of a functioning executive are said to be impacting the publicly-funded construction sector\n\nStormont budget problems and the lack of devolved government are having a negative impact on the local construction sector, a survey suggests.\n\nThe Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) indicated workloads fell in the second quarter of 2023.\n\nThe biggest falls were in sectors dependent on public spending.\n\nThe survey suggests some wider economic challenges appear to be easing, but the lack of a functioning executive is the one challenge that is not improving.\n\nThe institute's construction spokesman, Jim Sammon, added the lack of devolved government is \"impacting on decision-making and ultimately industry activity\".\n\nNorthern Ireland is without a functioning executive or assembly because of the DUP's protest against post-Brexit trade arrangements..\n\n\"This is weighing on market conditions with public sector projects playing such an important and vital role in the construction industry in NI,\" Mr Sammon said.\n\n\"We very much need a working NI Executive to ensure that necessary investment in the economy and infrastructure can be delivered efficiently and in a timely way.\"\n\nStormont has been without a functioning executive or assembly since last February\n\nRespondents to the survey indicated that profit margins will be squeezed over the next year, although this may be eased by falling inflation.\n\nThey also highlighted a \"key challenge\" would be a skills shortage, according to RICS.\n\nHowever, this appeared to be \"less severe\" that recorded in the previous quarter.\n\nRICS chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said: \"Infrastructure number remain solid, but the survey provides further evidence of the challenges in delivering residential developments at the current time.\"", "Greta Thunberg had been due to appear at the Edinburgh Playhouse on 13 August\n\nClimate activist Greta Thunberg has pulled out of an appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival over its links to the fossil fuel industry.\n\nShe had been due to attend an event at the annual festival on 13 August.\n\nBut she said she would now not do so because the festival receives sponsorship from the Baillie Gifford investment firm.\n\nShe claimed Baillie Gifford \"invests heavily in the fossil fuel industry\".\n\nMs Thunberg accused the industry of \"greenwashing\" by sponsoring cultural events, and said she did not want to be associated with it.\n\nShe added: \"Greenwashing efforts by the fossil fuel industry, including sponsorship of cultural events, allow them to keep the social license to continue operating.\n\n\"I cannot and do not want to be associated with events that accept this kind of sponsorship.\"\n\nBaillie Gifford, which has sponsored the book festival for 19 years, said it was not a significant fossil fuel investor, with 2% of its clients' money invested in companies with some business related to fossil fuels compared to a market average of 11%.\n\nThe Ferret news service reported last month that Baillie Gifford had billions invested in firms that profit from fossil fuels.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said: \"Of those companies, some have already moved most of their business away from fossil fuels, and many are helping to drive the transition to clean energy.\n\n\"Currently, 5% of our clients' money is invested in companies whose sole purpose is to develop clean energy solutions.\"\n\nMs Thunberg had been due to speak at an event called It's Not Too Late To Change The World at the Edinburgh Playhouse.\n\nIt would have been her first public appearance in Scotland since her visit to Glasgow during COP26 in 2021.\n\nShe had also been expected to discuss her activism and her book, The Climate Book, during the event.\n\nMs Thunberg appeared at a demonstration during the first day of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow in November 2021\n\nNick Barley, the director of the book festival, said he applauded Ms Thunberg for standing by her principles - but the festival had to also stand by its principles.\n\nMr Barley said: \"The Book Festival exists to give a platform for debate and discussion around key issues affecting humanity today - including the climate emergency.\n\n\"We would not be in a position to provide that platform without the long-term support of organisations such as Baillie Gifford.\n\n\"We strongly believe that Baillie Gifford are part of the solution to the climate emergency. They are early investors in progressive climate positive companies, providing funds to help them grow\".\n\nHe apologised to people who bought tickets for the event, who will be refunded in full, and \"especially to the hundreds of young climate campaigners who we had invited to come along because of their hard work to change the system in Scotland\".\n\nMs Thunberg began protesting about climate change outside Sweden's parliament in 2018 when she was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, which inspired similar \"school strikes\" across Europe, the US and Australia.\n\nShe has frequently berated world leaders for what she believes is a lack of action over the climate emergency, and was detained by police in Germany earlier this year at a protest against coal.", "Mahek Bukhari (left) and her mother Ansreen wanted to silence Saqib Hussain who had threatened to reveal an affair he was having with the older woman, the trial heard\n\nA social media influencer and her mother have been found guilty of murdering two men who died when their car was rammed off the road.\n\nSaqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21, died when the car \"split in two\" near Leicester in February 2022.\n\nIt happened after Mr Hussain threatened to reveal an affair he and Ansreen Bukhari had been having, jurors heard.\n\nMrs Bukhari, 46, and her influencer daughter Mahek Bukhari were convicted after 28 hours of deliberations.\n\nThe TikTok influencer, 24, and her mother, both from Tunstall in Stoke-on-Trent, broke down in tears as the jury's verdicts were read out.\n\nDuring the trial, the jury at Leicester Crown Court - which heard that Mr Hussain had threatened to use sexually explicit material to expose the long-running affair - listened to a panicked 999 call he made in the moments before the crash.\n\nThe jurors also found fellow defendants Rekhan Karwan and Raees Jamal guilty of the men's murder. Natasha Akhtar, 23, from Birmingham, Ameer Jamal, 28, and Sanaf Gulamustafa, 23, both from Leicester, were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.\n\nCo-accused Mohammed Patel, 21, from Leicester, was found not guilty of murder or manslaughter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police video shows the moments leading up to the crash\n\nMahek Bukhari - who has nearly 129,000 followers on TikTok where she posted about fashion and beauty - \"set a trap\" for Mr Hussain on the night he died, the three-month retrial heard.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Hussain, from Banbury in Oxfordshire, had been \"lured\" into meeting with the Bukharis on the pretence he would be given back £3,000 he said he had spent on taking his lover out during their relationship.\n\nInstead, Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin, who had driven his friend to the meeting in a Tesco car park in Hamilton in Leicester as a \"favour\", were ambushed and then chased by two cars.\n\nThe court was told Mr Ijazuddin's car split in two and caught fire after hitting a tree at the Six Hills junction on the A46, in the early hours of 11 February 2022.\n\nKarwan, 29, from Leicester, and Jamal, 23, from Loughborough, were driving the vehicles used to pursue the victims.\n\nHashim Ijazuddin (left) and Saqib Hussain, both from Banbury, died at the scene\n\nIn a 999 call made by front-seat passenger Mr Hussain moments before his death, he said their car was being \"rammed off the road\" by balaclava-wearing assailants in two pursuing cars.\n\nIn the call, a distressed Mr Hussain said: \"There's guys following me, they have balaclavas on… they're trying to ram me off the road.\n\n\"They're trying to kill me, I'm going to die… please sir, I just need help. They're hitting the back of the car, really fast… please I'm begging you. I'm going to die.\"\n\nA scream was heard on the line before the call abruptly ended.\n\nAnsreen Bukhari (left) and her daughter Mahek stood trial alongside six other people\n\nBefore remanding the convicted defendants into custody, Judge Timothy Spencer KC said: \"You know the sentence will be very serious.\" Sentencing is due to take place on 1 September.\n\nFollowing the verdicts, Mr Hussain's family said he was a \"much-loved young man\" who was \"kind, compassionate, caring and sensible\".\n\nHis loved ones said they had been \"shattered by this senseless act\" and were still struggling to come to terms with the enormity of their loss.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"Saqib's death has brought so much sadness, not just to his family, but to the many people that knew him.\n\n\"We have hope and confidence that Saqib has found eternal rest with Our Lord, and that we will get to be with him again when we pass.\n\n\"We also pray that no family will have to go through our experience.\"\n\nClockwise from top left: Rekan Karwan and Raees Jamal, who were found guilty of murder, Ameer Jamal, Sanaf Gulamustafa and Natasha Akhtar, who were convicted of manslaughter\n\nMr Ijazuddin's relatives said he was the \"superstar\" of their family and their world had come \"crashing down\" after his death.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"Everyone who knew Hashim, loved him. His death is not just a massive loss to our family but also to our whole community.\n\n\"Hashim was a cheeky young man who was always smiling, a handsome man who was beautiful both on the inside and out.\n\n\"He would do anything for anyone, was very caring and had a very kind heart.\n\n\"Hashim would always put others first and wouldn't hesitate to help others if they needed it.\n\n\"On that tragic day, he was simply helping his friend and this resulted in his death.\n\n\"It has been extremely painful not only losing Hashim at such a young age but also in the circumstances in which we lost him.\"\n\nSaqib's father Sajad Hussain (centre) and Hashim Ijazuddin's uncle Anser Hussain (right) paid tribute to the young men after the verdicts\n\nAfter the verdicts, Det Insp Mark Parish of Leicestershire Police said: \"This was a callous and cold-blooded attack which ultimately cost two men their lives.\n\n\"After setting Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin up, chasing them at high speed and then ultimately ramming their car off the road, none of the defendants made any attempt to help the victims or to call for help.\n\n\"Instead, they drove on and then even drove back past the collision site.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sea swimmers have been advised against bathing at a number of County Down beaches due to poor water quality.\n\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) said during routine monitoring, sites breached action levels for the bacteria Escherichia coli (E.Coli).\n\nWarning signage is in place at the affected sites at Brompton, Ballyholme, Donaghadee and Crawfordsburn.\n\nThere was a sign at Helen's Bay, but Daera said this was put up in error.\n\nIt added that heavy rainfall is known to impact water quality, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) Emergency Pollution team is investigating the bathing water failures.\n\nNorthern Ireland had its wettest July on record, with figures going back to 1836, according to the Met Office.\n\nOn Thursday evening, a steady stream of bathers enjoyed the water at Helen's Bay\n\nTests will be carried out on a further sample of water taken on Thursday, Daera confirmed, with an update on water quality along the north Down coast expected on Friday.\n\nArds and North Down Borough Council said it had been notified of the water quality failures at Ballyholme, Brompton and Donaghadee.\n\nIt said there had also been a failure at Crawfordsburn, an area which does not fall under council management,\n\n\"Signage has been erected advising members of the public not to swim in the affected areas and our environmental health section will review the situation and update signage after further water samples have been taken and analysed,\" the council said.\n\nIt added that weekly results for bathing water quality were posted on the council website.\n\nThe warnings about water quality on some north Down beaches come during one of the most popular times of the year for swimming.\n\nThe water temperature rises throughout the summer and most beaches have hundreds of swimmers every day in August.\n\nMost swimmers have heeded the warning not to go into the water at Bangor, Brompton, Crawfordsburn and Donaghadee.\n\nOn Thursday evening, the beaches were virtually deserted.\n\nHowever, at Helen's Bay swimmers were still going into the water.\n\nAlthough situated next to Crawfordsburn, where swimming has been discouraged, there was a steady stream of bathers during the evening in Helen's Bay.\n\nAlliance North Down MLA Connie Egan said: \"We're so lucky in north Down to have the natural resources that we do, with so many beautiful beaches both locals and visitors alike make use of for activities like sea swimming, kayaking, and paddle boarding, among many others.\n\n\"It's a real shame to see any of them out of action for any length of time, but for a number to be affected at once is very worrying indeed.\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) MLA Stephen Dunne said it was an alarming development and urged locals to take necessary precautions.\n\n\"Whilst the outcome is disappointing for regular sea swimmers and users, it is important that regular monitoring of water quality takes place in popular locations,\" he added.", "Andriana, pictured at a rehabilitation centre in Ukraine, where she is training to return to the front line\n\nUkrainian women have been signing up in growing numbers to serve as combat troops against Russia. The BBC spoke to three of the 5,000 female front-line soldiers who are fighting both the enemy, and sexist attitudes within their own ranks.\n\nA slim, blue-eyed, brunette woman is working out in a gym. This might be unremarkable were it not for the fact that, according to the Russian media, she is dead.\n\nAndriana Arekhta is a special unit sergeant in the Ukrainian armed forces, preparing to return to the front line.\n\nThe BBC found Andriana in a rehabilitation centre in Ukraine - in a location we cannot name for her safety - after she was injured by a landmine in the Kherson region in December.\n\nNumerous text and video reports in Russian celebrate her \"death\" in graphic detail.\n\n\"They published that I am without legs and without hands, and that I was killed by them,\" says Andriana. \"They are professionals in propaganda.\"\n\nThe reports include lurid descriptions of her - such as \"executioner\" and \"eliminated Nazi\".\n\nAccusing her of cruelty and sadism without any proof, they appeared shortly after the Ukrainian army had liberated Kherson.\n\n\"It's funny to me. I am alive and I will protect my country,\" she says.\n\nEighteen months on from Russia's invasion, there are 60,000 women serving in the nation's armed forces. More than 42,000 are in military positions - including 5,000 female soldiers on the front line, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine told us.\n\nIt added that no woman could be conscripted under Ukrainian law against her will.\n\nBut there are particular combat roles which some believe are better performed by women.\n\n\"I came to my commander and I asked him, 'what can I do the best?' He said: 'You will be a sniper,'\" recalls Evgeniya Emerald - who carried out the role on the front line until recently.\n\nEvgeniya Emerald, pictured with her three-month-old baby, ran a jewellery business before the war\n\nShe says female snipers have been romanticised since World War Two, adding there is a very practical reason for this reputation.\n\n\"If a man hesitates whether to make a shot or not, a woman will never.\n\n\"Maybe that's why women are the ones giving birth, not men,\" she adds, cradling her three-month old daughter.\n\nThe 31 year old, who had military training after Russia invaded Crimea but only joined the army in 2022, was the owner of a jewellery business before the full-scale war.\n\nShe has used her entrepreneurial experience to build a strong social media following, to help raise the profile of Ukrainian female soldiers.\n\nLike Andriana, Evgeniya has been widely referred to as \"a punisher\" and \"Nazi\" by Russian media, with hundreds of reports discussing her front line role as a female sniper, and her private life.\n\nWorking as a sniper is particularly brutal - says Evgeniya - both physically and mentally.\n\n\"Because you can see what is going on. You can see hitting a target. This is a personal hell for everyone who sees that in a [sniper's] scope.\"\n\nEvgeniya, and the other front-line women we have spoken to, cannot reveal the number of targets they have hit. But Evgeniya remembers the heightened emotion she felt when she realised she was probably going to have to kill someone.\n\n\"For 30 seconds I was shaking - my whole body - and I couldn't stop it. That realisation that now you'll do something that will be a point of no return.\n\n\"But we didn't come to them with a war. They came to us.\"\n\nEvgeniya Emerald says working as a sniper is a particularly brutal form of warfare\n\nThe percentage of women in the Ukrainian military has been growing since the first Russian invasion in 2014, reaching over 15% in 2020.\n\nBut while many female troops are serving in combat roles against Russia, they say there is another battle within their own ranks - against sexist attitudes.\n\nEvgeniya says she faced this before she established her authority and confidence as a front-line sniper.\n\n\"When I had just joined the special forces, one of the fighters came to me and said: 'Girl, what are you doing here? Go and cook borshch [Ukrainian traditional soup].' I felt so offended at that moment I thought, 'are you kidding me? I can be in the kitchen, but I can also knock you out'!\"\n\nAnother Evgeniya, Evgeniya Velyka from the Arm Women Now charity - which provides help to the Ukrainian female soldiers - agrees: \"In society [there] exists a strong opinion that girls go to the army to find a husband.\"\n\nShe says women have also told her about cases of physical abuse.\n\n\"We can't imagine the scale of the problem because not every female soldier wants to talk about this,\" she says.\n\nUkraine's deputy defence minister, Hanna Malyar, told the BBC those were just a \"few cases\" in contrast to the \"hundreds of thousands\" mobilised.\n\nIn 2021, the Ukrainian military released pictures of female soldiers practising for a parade in heels - sparking outrage\n\nWomen in the Ukrainian army do not have gender-appropriate uniforms. They are issued with ill-fitting male fatigues, including male underwear, and outsized shoes and bulletproof vests.\n\nEven the deputy defence minister, Hanna Malyar, says her field uniform is designed for a man - which she has had to alter as she has \"a small height\". She adds the ceremonial uniform includes shoes with heels.\n\nIf women in the army want to wear female fatigues, they must currently either buy their own generic kit online, or rely on charities or crowdfunding.\n\nThis is why Andriana co-founded a charity called Veteranka [Ukrainian Women Veteran's Movement], which campaigns for equal rights for female military personnel, and for reforming Ukrainian army legislation to bring it in line with Nato legislation.\n\nBut Ms Malyar says the government has made progress. A uniform for women has been developed, tested and will enter mass production in the near future - although she could not specify when.\n\nSniper Evgenya Emerald says that despite such issues, \"war doesn't have a gender\".\n\n\"A war doesn't care whether you are a man or a woman. When a missile hits a house, it doesn't care if there are women, men, children - everyone dies.\n\n\"And it's the same on the front line - if you can be effective and you're a woman, why wouldn't you defend your country, your people?\"\n\nIryna says a sniper's role in war has been romanticised\n\nIn the eastern Donbas region, sniper Iryna is involved in the counter-offensive right now. We secure a brief connection with her during a moment of peace on the battlefield.\n\nShe could be held up as an example of the reforms so many combat women have been working hard for - she is acting-up as a female commander of an all-male unit.\n\n\"A sniper's image is romanticised… and is beautiful due to the movies. In reality, it's hard work.\"\n\nShe describes how snipers lie still on the ground for up to six hours to fire a shot, followed by a rapid change in position.\n\n\"It's like playing with death,\" she adds.\n\nThe thousands of women serving have left behind careers, as well as their families.\n\nAndriana left her job as the UN consultant on gender equality, under the Ukrainian Ministry of Veterans' Affairs, to join the Ukrainian military when Russia invaded last year.\n\n\"They took the best years of my life,\" the 35-year-old says. Thinking back to a time before the war, she adds: \"I could travel and be happy, build a career and have a dream.\"\n\nThe mother of a primary school-aged boy, Andriana tearfully tells me she has not held her son for more than seven months. As she shows me pictures of him on her phone, a smile appears on her face, replacing her tears.\n\nShe is driven by the desire to secure him a peaceful future in his native country - not having to risk his life by fighting like his parents.\n\nAndriana first joined the armed forces when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014\n\nUnlike Evgeniya Emerald, who joined up after Russia's full invasion last year, Andriana has previous military experience.\n\nIn 2014 when Russia first attacked Ukraine, annexing Crimea and invading Donbas, she left her job as a brand manager and joined one of the first volunteer battalions - along with thousands of other Ukrainians. At the time, the military was smaller than it is now and was struggling.\n\nAidar battalion, where Andriana was serving, was accused by the Kremlin and Amnesty International of human rights violations - but the Ukrainian army told the BBC no substantive evidence to support such claims had been provided.\n\nAmnesty also urged Ukrainian authorities to bring the volunteer battalions under effective lines of command and control, which they did.\n\nDespite Andriana never being linked to any acts of misconduct, and her leaving Aidar eight years ago, Russian media continually accused her of \"sadism\", providing no evidence.\n\nIn Ukraine, she has been awarded medals for her service - one \"for courage\", another for being a \"people's hero\"\n\nAndriana, who told the BBC she is no longer part of Aidar, said she felt obliged to re-join the army on the front line in 2022, as she already had much-needed combat experience.\n\nAndriana working out in preparation to return to the front line\n\nWhile Ukraine's Ministry of Defence said it could not provide the number of combat casualties - due to sensitivities of such information during wartime - the BBC has obtained data suggesting 93 Ukrainian servicewomen have been killed in action since the recent Russian invasion.\n\nThe data, from charity Arm Women Now, says more than 500 have been injured.\n\nAndriana's phone book has turned into a list of the dead.\n\n\"I lost more than 100 friends. I don't even know how many phone numbers I need to delete.\"\n\nBut the price already paid was too high to give up, she said - as she turns to finish her rehabilitation training in the gym.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The owner of Bud Light took a hit to its sales after a US boycott of the brand sparked by its work with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.\n\nBrewing giant AB Inbev said sales in the US fell more than 10% this spring, as demand for Bud Light lager plunged.\n\nThe brand faced a wave of attacks after it sent a personalised can of beer to Ms Mulvaney for an online post.\n\nHowever, Belgium-based AB Inbev said performance overall was better than many analysts had expected.\n\nOutside of the US, Budweiser sales jumped nearly 17% compared with last year.\n\nAB Inbev - whose other brands include Stella Artois and Leffe - makes about a quarter of all beer sold globally and continues to claim more than a third of the market in the US.\n\nIn its update to investors on Thursday, it said its share of the US market has dropped more than 5% since last year.\n\nIt is showing few signs of recovery since April, when the Bud Light controversy reached its peak.\n\nFollowing Ms Mulvaney's social media post promoting the beer with her personalised can, many on the right criticised the company for going \"woke\".\n\nWoke is an informal term from the US, meaning alert to injustice and discrimination in society, particularly racism and sexism. It is often used by the right in a derogatory way towards left-leaning views on topics from climate change to support for minorities.\n\nMusician Kid Rock, NFL player Trae Waynes and model Bri Teresi all shared videos of themselves shooting Bud Light cans.\n\nThe company's response to the criticism - which included putting two executives blamed for the relationship on leave - was subsequently decried by many on the left.\n\nWithin weeks, industry analysts reported that Modelo - sold in the US by a rival firm - had replaced Bud Light as the top-selling beer in the US, and rivals such as Coors Light and Miller Light were gaining fast.\n\nThe parent company of those beers, Molson-Coors, reported its best US sales since the two firms merged in 2005 this week.\n\nAb Inbev said its own internal data showed about 80% of consumers in the US remain favourable or neutral toward the Bud Light brand.\n\nBut its recovery efforts - including an advertising blitz and support for stores and distributors - weighed heavily on the firm's core profits in the US, which dropped more than 28% in the quarter.\n\nThe company earlier this month said it was cutting about 2% of its US workforce.\n\nOverall Ab Inbev performed better than many analysts expected.\n\nIt said global revenue rose 7.2% year-on-year in the April-June period to $15.1bn, as higher prices and growth in China made up for the decline in sales volume in the US.\n\nThe company said its underlying profits dipped only about 1% year-on-year and stood by its full-year forecast.", "Last month's strike saw many looking for alternative transport - expect similar scenes this weekend\n\nPassengers across England have faced Bank Holiday weekend disruption as 20,000 rail staff staged their latest strike on Saturday.\n\nMick Lynch, head of the RMT union, said strikes would continue until a new pay settlement for workers is reached.\n\nThe Department for Transport said rail staff have received \"fair and reasonable\" pay offers.\n\nWorkers from 14 train operators are taking part in Saturday's strike, which is its 24th since last summer.\n\nThe action has seen a reduced timetable in place in much of England, with some journeys into Scotland and Wales also affected.\n\nAround half the usual services were running on Saturday and trains started later than usual and will finish earlier, while some areas have had no services all day.\n\nFurther action by the RMT is planned for 2 September, while member of the train drivers union, Aslef, are set to walk out on 1 September.\n\nAs well as a new pay deal, the RMT is demanding an end to job losses resulting from the closure of hundreds of ticket offices.\n\nLeeds festival is already in full swing, with thousands already on site - but many more have day tickets for Saturday and Sunday\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Lynch said the union would not accept a pay offer which requires job cuts, adding that ticket office closures would make the railways inaccessible to vulnerable people.\n\nDespite the disruption caused by the strike campaign, he said the RMT has support among passengers, adding: \"The public don't want to go where this Conservative government is taking them in terms of the railway.\"\n\nMr Lynch said 2,300 staff members would face redundancy under the pay offers it has received so far.\n\n\"We want a decent pay rise, we're not greedy, we haven't had an offer of a clean pay rise without strings attached,\" he said.\n\n\"And we're not willing to fund these very modest pay rises through jobs cuts, and cuts to the services, that will affect our members and also the travelling public.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with the BBC, Mr Lynch said that \"there will be more strikes if there's no change\".\n\nEarlier this year, the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents the train operators, made an offer that would have seen rail workers receive a backdated pay rise of 5% for 2022.\n\nA further pay rise for 2023 would then have been conditional on reforms to services.\n\nOn 5 May, RMT members voted to extend the strike mandate for another six months.\n\nThe rail industry was badly impacted by the pandemic, and industry figures have argued changes to ways of working will be necessary in order to finance any pay rise.\n\nAhead of Saturday's strike, the RDG said the action had been \"designed to deliberately target passengers who want to enjoy various sporting events, festivals, and the end of the summer holidays\".\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"The government has played its part to try and end these disputes by facilitating fair and reasonable pay offers, but union leaders refuse to allow their members to vote on them.\n\n\"By cynically targeting the bank holiday weekend, and driving more passengers away from train travel when our railways are already losing £10m a day even without industrial action, the RMT's strikes are damaging its own industry's future.\"\n\nAre you a striking rail worker? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nJenni Hermoso says she did not consent to be kissed by Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales - as 81 players confirm they will not play for Spain's women's team until he is removed from his post.\n\nRubiales has refused to resign after kissing forward Hermoso on the lips following Spain's Women's World Cup final win over England in Sydney.\n\nThe Spanish government started legal proceedings seeking to suspend the 46-year-old, while Fifa has also launched disciplinary proceedings.\n\nRubiales had been widely expected to resign at an extraordinary general assembly called by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), but instead said \"I don't deserve this manhunt\".\n\nHe added: \"Jenni was the one who lifted me up. I told her to 'forget about the penalty [that Mary Earps saved]' and I said to her 'a little peck?' and she said 'OK'.\n\n\"It was a spontaneous kiss. Mutual, euphoric and consensual. That's the key. A consensual 'peck' is enough to get me out of here?\"\n\nPachuca player Hermoso released a long statement on social media, saying: \"I want to make clear that at no time did the conversation to which Mr Luis Rubiales refers to in his address take place and, above all, was his kiss ever consensual.\"\n\nShe added his claims were \"categorically false and part of the manipulative culture that he has generated\".\n\n\"I feel the need to report this incident because I believe no person, in any work, sports or social setting should be a victim of these types of non-consensual behaviours. I felt vulnerable and a victim of impulsive-driven, sexist, out-of-place act, without any consent on my part,\" she continued.\n\n\"Quite simply, I was not respected.\"\n\nShe added that she was put \"under continuous pressure\" to help with a \"statement that could justify\" Rubiales' actions - and so were her family, friends and team-mates.\n\n\"These types of incidents add to a long list of situations that the players have been denouncing. This incident is the final straw and what everyone has been able to witness on live television also comes with attitudes like the one we saw this morning [Friday] and have been part of our team's daily life for years,\" she added.\n\nA statement from England's Lionesses, who lost to Spain in the final, said the incident was \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt added: \"The behaviour of those who think they are invincible must not be tolerated and people shouldn't take any convincing to take action against any form of harassment.\n\n\"We stand with you, Jenni Hermoso.\"\n\nA statement by players' union Futpro was signed by a host of players, including all 23 members of the Spain squad which just won the World Cup.\n\nIt read: \"After everything that happened during the delivery of medals of the Women's World Cup, we want to state that all the players who sign this letter will not return to a call for the national team if the current leaders continue.\"\n\nSpain's next game is against Sweden in the Nations League on 22 September.\n\nBorja Iglesias, who plays for Real Betis, said earlier on Friday he would not play for the men's national team again while Rubiales is in charge.\n\nThe Spanish government will ask Rubiales to explain himself to a Spanish court as soon as possible, secretary of sport Victor Francos said earlier on Friday.\n\nIf the administrative court deems he violated the professional sports code, he could then be suspended.\n\nMeanwhile, Fifa will look at whether his actions constitute violations of Article 13 in its disciplinary code, concerning offensive behaviour and fair play.", "The UK's second-largest vape company took down social media accounts after sending vapes to reporters in an online giveaway without age verification.\n\nChinese government-owned SKE has seen rapid growth in sales of its Crystal Bar disposable vapes, which have been criticised for appealing to children.\n\nIn an exclusive interview SKE marketing director Serge Davies said the accounts were taken down for a \"review\".\n\nSKE also apologised for not signing up to government recycling schemes.\n\nIn supermarkets, newsagents and vape shops, Crystal Bar disposable vapes are everywhere in the UK. Designed to deliver a few hundred puffs of nicotine-containing vapour and then be thrown away, disposable vapes have seen astonishing growth in recent years.\n\nSKE, the partly state-owned Chinese company which makes Crystal Bar, is now the second biggest seller of vapes in the UK, according to new figures from data provider NielsenIQ, selling more than 30 million in the past year. Nielsen's figures don't include independent retailers and vape shops - SKE's true sales figure is thought to be over 100 million.\n\nGiving away free samples has been a key part of its rise - last month it ran an online giveaway on the Discord instant messaging platform, promoted via its Instagram feed. Discord began as a platform for gamers, and has a large number of under-18 users.\n\nBBC reporters entered the competition. They were asked to state that they were over 18, but no further verification was required. Two vapes were then sent in the post.\n\nIt is illegal to sell vapes to anyone under 18.\n\nAfter the BBC contacted SKE, some of its social media accounts were taken down pending a \"review\", including its YouTube and TikTok channels.\n\n\"We're looking to relaunch them with a local social media company that has more of an understanding of the local laws, the local customs,\" Serge Davies, SKE's European communications director, told the BBC.\n\nSKE's two biggest rivals, the Chinese company Elfbar and UK-listed BAT, which makes Vuse vapes, both say they don't publish on TikTok. That's partly because the risk of appearing on children's phones is too great.\n\nSKE, however, is committed to the platform. \"We will be looking to relaunch with an exciting new strategy on TikTok,\" said Mr Davies. It is also committed to continuing with vape giveaways. \"It does seem to create a lot of interest in the brand and a lot of excitement for all,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked whether he could defend one particular video from SKE's TikTok feeds, which saw a Crystal Bar being opened to a soundtrack saying, \"I wish that I could be like the cool kids,\" Mr Davies said: \"None of our policies are geared towards marketing to children. So what we try and do with the [social] media accounts is just try and build up a bit of a buzz really.\"\n\nSKE's Serge Davies said the firm was looking to relaunch some of its social media accounts\n\nMP Steve Brine, chair of the health select committee, said: \"It is extremely concerning to hear that vapes could easily fall into the hands of children because proper checks are not being made.\n\n\"Responsible manufacturers should not be using giveaway schemes that can act as a green light to children to begin vaping when what they need is protection from potentially harmful effects.\"\n\nDisposable vapes contain electronics, including a small battery, which are difficult and expensive to recycle. Discarded vapes are a common sight, and local councils have called for them to be banned.\n\nLike all makers of electronic goods, vape companies are legally obliged to register with recycling schemes under which producers contribute to the cost of recycling. Until this month, SKE had not registered with these schemes, or paid the contributions, estimated at about £100,000.\n\nMr Davies said the firm apologised for this, which he blamed on a \"communications issue\".\n\n\"We're glad you highlighted that and we have now signed up to the relevant schemes,\" he said.\n\nSKE set up a UK company for the first time this month, and the paperwork at Companies House shows that the Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision And Administration Commission (SASAC) has \"significant control\". The SASAC administers investments on behalf of the Chinese state.\n\nSKE is owned by Shenzhen Yinghe Technology Co, whose largest shareholder is Shanghai Electric Co, which is in turn more than 50% owned by entities linked to the Chinese state, according to its annual report.\n\nIn a report to shareholders last year, Yinghe said it had missed vape sales targets due to a government crackdown in China, and was focusing on international expansion to make up the gap. The UK is now its largest market in Europe.\n\nIn China, only tobacco or menthol flavoured vapes are legal, but in the UK SKE sells a dazzling variety or flavours. In the Discord giveaway BBC reporters were sent Watermelon Ice and Vimbull Ice - combining the tastes of Red Bull and Vimto.\n\nSome flavours, such as Gummy Bear, are named after sweets, which have been criticised as likely to appeal to children. Mr Davies said SKE would continue to sell them. \"You've got to consider that many Gummy Bears are sold to adults,\" he said. It was down to enforcement to prevent vapes being sold to children, he added.\n\nHealth committee chair Mr Brine said: \"We've taken evidence from the vaping industry and do not believe it has gone far enough to ensure that its products don't appeal to children.\n\n\"Marketing is designed to target exactly this age group with the bright colours and flavours that refer to unicorns, sweets or popular fizzy drinks. We want to see restrictions on packaging and marketing practices in line with those that apply to tobacco products.\"\n\nDespite many who believe that disposable vapes will be banned, Mr Davies said SKE had set up a headquarters in Manchester, was hiring new staff and expanding.\n\n\"We are here to stay,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA kiss on the lips, a growing backlash and mass resignations among coaching staff: BBC Sport's Spanish football expert Guillem Balague reflects on a tumultuous week for the sport and for Spain's society as a whole.\n\nThis is the Spanish MeToo moment.\n\nIt's an opportunity to focus everybody's attention on the treatment of women in football - and on the frustration at what many see as systemic blindness at the top of an elite organisation, the Spanish football federation.\n\nJenni Hermoso is being backed not just by female players, but male players too - although perhaps not as much as hoped.\n\nIt's caused a storm in football, which has turned into a social tsunami. It feels like wherever you are, everyone is talking about it, and in Spain it's the number one story every day.\n\nIt's a story about a man - Luis Rubiales - who appears completely out of touch with reality, a man long followed by acolytes and surrounded by supporters with an apparently identical world view.\n\nBut now, this influential group has become a minority.\n\nTheir defiance on this issue has left many people incredulous - and in Spain, they are looking exposed.\n\nThe coaching staff of the women's national side has resigned, but notably not the manager Jorge Vilda, who was - alongside other senior figures in Spanish football - spotted clapping when Rubiales was talking yesterday.\n\nThis has not gone unnoticed by the Spanish public.\n\nRemember that the players were not just asking for Rubiales to go, but for other members of the federation to go too. These women who have conquered the world see this moment as an opportunity to move aside anyone they think is standing in the way of their mission to achieve unflinching respect and equality.\n\nFor many people, this is about how discrimination against women functions. It not just done by one person; it is done by a system.\n\nAnd in Spain, this episode shows how the battle lines have been drawn.\n\nIt's a battle being taken up at the very highest level.\n\nPrime Minister Pedro Sánchez has no fear proclaiming himself a feminist. In the Spanish sporting groups I circulate in, people feel they must intervene - that action must be taken.\n\nAnd beyond that, the feeling is Spain must take advantage of this moment, which has intensified so quickly and is capturing headlines around the world.\n\nOne week ago, we were celebrating a historic World Cup victory. That has quickly soured, some say. It's been a whirlwind of success and recrimination, of holding to account - and of sheer defiance.\n\nBut there is one thing people on every side agree on: this is one of the most important weeks for Spain in living memory.\n\nFor many people, it's an opportunity to move into a better place. For others it's a chance to set the record straight - as they see it.\n\nIt's difficult to exaggerate how influential Rubiales was. His defiance suggests he may have felt safety in that influence.\n\nBut the voices against him have multiplied, starting with Jenni Hermoso and her fellow players and then snowballing into their coaching staff, the men's game and the newspapers. Now, this is being talked about around almost every single dinner table in Spain.\n\nHe may not feel so safe any more.", "Formula 1 enthusiasts have been flocking to Zandvoort for the weekend by bike and bus\n\nThe Dutch Grand Prix is a petrolhead event minus the petrol - but with plenty of bicycles.\n\nThe Formula One (F1) event is taking place in a tiny coastal town which is locked down to visitors' cars for the entire weekend, with many fans arriving by bicycle.\n\nPerched atop a ladder on the edge of the train platform, a man dressed head to toe in orange directs processions of F1 enthusiasts arriving in Zandvoort.\n\nWe're funnelled up steps and through a narrow walkway.\n\nStreets leading from the train to the track are decked out with orange bunting and many of the residents have set up makeshift bars, providing tunes and cold drinks from their verandas.\n\nThis weekend, Zandvoort, with its modest 17,000 inhabitants, is welcoming approximately 300,000 visitors.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen is the big draw for the home crowd\n\nA self-proclaimed orange army trundles through the streets and dunes, propelled by pedal power and the prospect of seeing homegrown hero Max Verstappen in action.\n\nThe only driving within the boundaries of the small seaside community this weekend will be done by residents and authorised event-related traffic. Even the police, paramedics and security are patrolling on bicycles.\n\nThe Dutch event aspires to be the most sustainable on the F1 calendar. Almost a third of supporters are expected to arrive by public transport, a third by bicycle or scooter, and the rest will travel by foot, coach or cab.\n\nA train every five minutes is running between Amsterdam Central and Zandvoort, and a fleet of electric buses ferries fans to stops just outside the paddock.\n\nI caught the \"Max Express\" into the town from Haarlem.\n\nThousands of bike parking spaces have also been provided, and even officials from the top F1 teams are hopping on the saddle to whiz around the periphery.\n\nOutside the entrance, friends Zoë and Amber are leaning against railings, cameras poised, hoping to catch a glimpse of local legend Verstappen.\n\n\"It's mostly for Max,\" Amber explains. \"But I also just love the feeling here, it's like a big party... a festival and we all are one.\"\n\n\"And the noise, so loud,\" her friend Zoë chips in. \"You're almost deaf afterwards but it's worth it.\"\n\nAmber attempts an impression of an F1 car passing, the distinctive roar of an internal combustion engine evokes an emotion and energy that drives supporters' love of the sport.\n\nBut the teenage fans recognise the need for the sport to clean up its act.\n\nAmber travelled to the event by train. \"No matter where you are in the Netherlands, you can travel here by bike. Having green credentials is making people aware, we are trying to make things better.\"\n\n\"Orange is the new green,\" she adds.\n\nZandvoort has been praised by F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali for delivering \"fresh air\", and helping to set a precedent for modern era Grand Prix events.\n\nThe sport is under pressure to cut its climate impact. According to the industry's own statistics, in 2019 it accounted for approximately 256,000 tons of CO2 emissions - the equivalent of a small nation.\n\nThere's a goal, to achieve climate neutrality by 2030, but many, including the German driver Sebastian Vettel, have claimed the fast-paced industry could afford to accelerate on the sustainability front.\n\nEfforts are being made to reuse, repurpose and recycle race materials, provide solar panels and water refill stations in the paddock. Fans in Zandvoort show me a token the size of a coin: if you bring the empty can or bottle back to be recycled, you get a token to secure a discount on your next drink.\n\nBut the real challenge lies with travel logistics beyond the racecourse, which account for two-thirds of F1's carbon footprint. A crammed calendar featuring 23 races in the 2023 slate won't help to curb those figures.\n\nIn terms of switching to electric vehicles or alternative biofuels, initial experiments have proved promising but limited.\n\nAnd one part of Zandvoort that won't be green is the race itself.\n\nGallons of petrol will be burned on the track, nestled between the Dutch North Sea coast and an expansive nature reserve, some 15 miles (25km) west of Amsterdam.\n\nEnvironmentalists recently lost a lawsuit to stop races at the picturesque circuit. In a plethora of cases, activists demanded that permits for the expansion be overturned, asserting that builders had destroyed sensitive dune reserves where the rare natterjack toad and sand lizard live and breed. They also said that activities at the track throughout the year caused considerably more pollution than the organisers acknowledged in their applications for permits.\n\nTheir cases had been dismissed by a lower court in 2021, and in July, the Supreme Court ruled that there was no legal justification to reverse this ruling. However, the court recommended that provincial authorities reassess the concerns of the activists in considering whether the circuit would need a new environmental permit in the future.\n\nA sea of orange, punctuated by black and white chequered leggings, and the colours of the Dutch flag pave the route back to the train station.\n\nConsidering an estimated 95,000 fans attended on Friday, the fact there seemed to be a seat for everyone on the train suggests the mobility plan is working.\n\nSustainability measures promoted by the Dutch prove that tracks can do more to preserve the environment without sacrificing profits or pleasure. And that may encourage countries without an existing embedded cycling culture and infrastructure to accelerate investment to support greener ambitions.\n• None Verstappen quickest in first practice at Zandvoort", "Thanks for joining us, that's all for today\n\nAfter a particularly busy day, we're going to pause our coverage of the Hermoso kiss row. It was a busy day, with major developments including that Luis Rubiales was suspended by Fifa pending the outcome of its disciplinary proceedings. Spain's entire coaching staff from their World Cup win - except for the manager - also resigned over the controversy. If you want to read more about what happened, head to our story here. Today's page was brought to you by Jamie Whitehead, Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Antoinette Radford and Nathan Williams.", "Some trains were brought to a standstill for a few hours\n\nPolish intelligence services are investigating a hacking attack on the country's railways, Polish media say.\n\nHackers broke into railway frequencies to disrupt traffic in the north-west of the country overnight, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported on Saturday.\n\nThe signals were interspersed with recording of Russia's national anthem and a speech by President Vladimir Putin, the report says.\n\nPoland is a major transit hub for Western weapons being sent to Ukraine.\n\nSaturday's incident occurred when hackers transmitted a signal that triggered an emergency stoppage of trains near the city of Szczecin, PAP reported.\n\nAbout 20 trains were brought to a standstill, but services were restored within hours.\n\nStanislaw Zaryn, a senior security official, said Poland's internal security service ABW was investigating. \"For the moment, we are ruling nothing out,\" he told PAP.\n\n\"We know that for some months there have been attempts to destabilise the Polish state,\" Mr Zaryn added. \"Such attempts have been undertaken by the Russian Federation in conjunction with Belarus.\"\n\nA number of Western countries have called for increased cyber-security precautions as the Ukraine conflict unfolds.\n\nSome experts have said Russia is carrying out cyberattacks in Ukraine in an apparent attempt to test its hacking tools.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 18 and 25 August.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nJonathan Kerr captured this incredible shot of a sparrowhawk feeding in his East Renfrewshire garden.\n\nHelen Pratt took this picture of the Red Arrows flypast over Edinburgh for the Tattoo.\n\nMichael McConville took this incredible shot of Scottish internationalist Karolina Wroblewska at Darnhall Beach Volleyball Courts in Perth during a European Small Countries event.\n\nJay Kimber took this image of rain falling on Loch Carron.\n\nGraham Christie took this photo of a lesser black backed gull with hungry chick on Low Road at the Isle of May.\n\nStephen Archer liked the patterns the light made on this bridge in Stonehaven.\n\nMatthew Boyle said he was 'gifted' with this view from what is considered by many as the remotest Munro in Scotland, A' Mhaighdean, after a long day.\n\nHugh Maxwell said he was lucky to be in the right place at the right time to capture a nice sunrise at Dunure Castle in South Ayrshire.\n\nIan Smith said he almost fell asleep counting these sheep on the A93 between Breamar and Glenshee.\n\nMhairi Mackinnon took this picture of a Highland Cow while on a night stroll in Drinan, on the Isle Skye.\n\nAlan Maclennan was looking over Findhorn Bay at what he believes are Asperitus clouds over Culbin Forest.\n\nStuart McMillan said Achmelvich Bay was basking in sunshine was perfect for his wife, Laura's birthday.\n\nSarah Metcalfe took this photo of freshly caught langoustine getting ready for the BBQ in Leverburgh on the Isle of Harris.\n\nNeil Lea captured Toward Lighthouse in Cowal at night.\n\nJohn Forsyth said Shared Parenting Scotland walkers raised over £2,000 for the charity at Dundee's Kiltwalk.\n\nRob Barrie caught Corsewall lighthouse above the fog at sunrise.\n\nPaul Dimmock loved seeing the Idle salmon boats sitting in the slow moving river Tay at Dunkeld.\n\nDanny Thomas said he was out for a walk in Glenbuchat near Strathdon when he came across an Albino Stoat (might be a mink or escaped ferret!). He said: 'At first it took shelter in its burrow but very soon came out looking curious and performed for the camera.'\n\nGerry Murdoch caught this sunset at Ailsa Craig from Gibran shoreline.\n\n17-year-old Jay Kimber took this wonderful picture of a highland cow near Loch Carron,\n\nTom McDonnell captured this white tailed eagle on the Isle of Mull.\n\nMary Ferguson captured the sunrise over the ocean going superyacht Adele moored in Rothesay Bay.\n\nCatherine Munro took this photo of her son and his catch while he was fishing on the rocks in north Skye with the hills of Harris in the background.\n\nSusan Walker said this is her local fox catching some rays in a neighbour's garden in Edinburgh.\n\nCatriona Ranson said her grandaughter, Eleanor, got to take a sunflower home in Stirling.\n\nJohn Dewar captured all the action of the farriers at Thrumster Game Fair.\n\nKaren McGibbons took this photo of the sunset reflection on the beach at Lendalfoot.\n\nBernie Boyle took this picture of a Robin on an old tree stump at the River Leven near Balloch.\n\nJacqueline Dawson waiting on Sunrise at her favourite hidden beach at Seacliff in the East of Scotland.\n\nScott Torbett snapped this picture of two Edinburgh Fringe street performers chatting and comparing notes.\n\nElise Schwarz took this picture of her daughter jumping off a bollard on the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Festival\n\nGary Cantwell took this amazing Ninja-style shot of a red squirrel jumping through the trees at Penny Hedge hide north of Bridge of Cally.\n\nJim Miller took this incredible picture of a paddleboarder in whitewater on the River Garry .\n\nAndy McManus snapped this picture of his partner Maria, kayaking in a lumpy sea beside the Dore Holm in Shetland.\n\nJohn Hamilton said this picture was taken at sunset on Yesnaby Point in Orkney.\n\nCarol Ann McNaughton snapped this artist capturing the GOMA and the Duke of wellington in Glasgow.\n\nGraham Farley took this picture of his wife Karen on a lovely evening in Findhorn.\n\nHelen Baird said this little stonechat was on the beach at Bennane shore enjoying lunch - unfortunately for the caterpillar.\n\nPeter Wilkinson said he was in the fields around The Carse of Gowrie, in the early morning with sunflowers stretching out all around him.\n\nWill Brown took this shot at the wedding of Craig and Ashley Gormley in Kirkwall, Orkney.\n\nPat Christie took Dobby to admire the glorious sunrise in North Berwick.\n\nEllie Williams captured the rut in a garden while staying with family on Mull.\n\nCharlotte Grant took this picture of her grandson on Dornoch beach.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "President Vladimir Putin has called on all employees of Wagner and other Russian private military contractors to take an oath of allegiance to the Russian state.\n\nThe decree applies to anyone participating in military activities in Ukraine, assisting the army and serving in territorial defence units.\n\nHe signed the decree on Friday, with immediate effect.\n\nIt comes two days after Wagner leaders were presumed killed in a plane crash.\n\nIn a separate development on Saturday, a far-right subunit of Wagner, known as Rusich, said it was stopping military operations in Ukraine.\n\nIn a Telegram post, Rusich accused Russia's foreign ministry of failing to protect a founding member of the group, Yan Petrovsky, who has been arrested in Finland for visa violations and is facing extradition to Ukraine.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Putin's decree is part of attempts to reassert his authority following Wagner's mutiny in June.\n\n\"Putin wants to have tighter control on Wagner to make sure he won't be facing another crisis in the future,\" Natia Seskuria of Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank, told the BBC.\n\nThe decree comes as Wagner mercenaries are lacking an obvious leader, after a plane presumed to be carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin and other leaders crashed on Wednesday, killing all 10 people on board.\n\nDescribed in the decree as a step to build the spiritual and moral foundations of Russia's defence, the oath includes a promise to strictly follow the orders of commanders.\n\n\"It is a concealed message to military intelligence to find and prosecute Wagner fighters,\" Petro Burkovskyi, who heads the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, a think tank based in Ukraine, told the BBC.\n\nAnd it is a clear message to the fighters, too, he suggests: \"Either take the oath and keep your arms or disarm yourself. You obey or you go to prison.\"\n\nA few weeks before Prigozhin's failed uprising in June, the Russian defence ministry gave mercenary groups until 1 July to sign army contracts.\n\nPrigozhin refused to sign, because he did not want Wagner to operate under the ministry. Mr Putin backed the ministry's contract scheme, which was the first public blow against his long-term ally Prigozhin.\n\nBut what effect will the decree have on the Wagner fighters without an obvious leader?\n\nMr Burkovskyi thinks that as experienced servicemen, they are good assets for the Russian army.\n\n\"They chose Wagner because Wagner gave them special treatment, without the bureaucracy of the huge Russian army. If they get special treatment under Putin's orders, I don't think they care about where, to whom and for whom they will fight.\"\n\nMs Seskuria believes that although the decree may have an effect in the short term, there are loyal Prigozhin supporters who will not take the oath.\n\n\"This can potentially create problems for Putin in a longer term-perspective,\" he says.\n\nMeanwhile Russian air defences prevented drone attacks on Moscow and Belgorod regions on Saturday morning, officials said.\n\nIn the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, four people were wounded by shelling, the local governor said.\n\nThe Ukrainian government almost never publicly admits carrying out attacks inside Russia.\n\nAnd in Ukraine, two people were killed and one wounded as Russia shelled a Ukrainian village near the north-eastern town of Kupiansk, Kharkiv's regional governor said.", "The French government is allocating €200m (£171.6m) to destroy surplus wine and support producers.\n\nIt comes amid a cocktail of problems for the industry, including a falling demand for wine as more people drink craft beer.\n\nOverproduction and the cost of living crisis are also hitting the industry.\n\nMost of the €200m will be used to buy excess stock, with the alcohol sold for use in items such as hand sanitiser, cleaning products and perfume.\n\nIn a bid to cut back on the overproduction, money will also be available for winegrowers to change to other products, such as olives.\n\nIn funnelling the money into the industry, the French government aims to stop \"prices collapsing... so that wine-makers can find sources of revenue again\", Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau said.\n\nDespite the financial help - an initial EU fund of €160m which the French government topped up to €200m - the wine industry needs to \"look to the future, think about consumer changes ... and adapt\", he added.\n\nEuropean Commission data for the year to June shows that wine consumption has fallen 7% in Italy, 10% in Spain, 15% in France, 22% in Germany and 34% in Portugal, while wine production across the bloc - the world's biggest wine-making area - rose 4%.", "Bob Barker, who hosted the US game show The Price Is Right for 35 years, has died at the age of 99.\n\nThe Price is Right is the longest-running game show on US television and is watched every weekday by audiences in other countries.\n\nBarker was its smiling face from the first series in 1972 until 2007. He won 19 Emmy awards during a radio and TV career that spanned six decades.\n\nHe died of natural causes at his home near Los Angeles, his agent said.\n\n\"The World's Greatest MC [Master of Ceremonies] who ever lived, Bob Barker, has left us,\" publicist Roger Neal said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nBarker was born in December 1923 in Washington State and joined the US Navy during World War Two, before starting a career in radio, and later TV.\n\nIn CBS's The Price Is Right, excited contestants were famously invited to \"come on down\" before Barker tested their knowledge of the price of consumer items in return for prizes.\n\nIn 2007, aged 83, he was succeeded as host by comedian Drew Carey.\n\nWhen Barker's death was first reported, Carey tweeted: \"There hasn't been a day on set that I didn't think of Bob Barker and thank him. I will carry his memory in my heart forever.\"\n\nHollywood actor Adam Sandler also paid tribute to his Happy Gilmore co-star, saying Barker was \"The man. The myth. The best\" and that he would be \"missed by everyone\".\n\nFellow actor James Woods also praised Barker, highlighting his \"greatest contribution\" as an advocate for animal rights.\n\nWoods said as well as being a world famous game show host, Barker's \"love for our furry friends inspired compassionate movements all over the world\".\n\nAnimal rights group Peta said Barker would be remembered for his \"lifelong work for animals\" and that he was committed to pushing for the end of animal exploitation in \"every way\".\n\nBarker was a vegetarian for more than 40 years, and repeatedly spoke out about animal cruelty and donated money to animal rights work.", "Watch highlights as Great Britain's women win 4x100m relay bronze behind winners the United States at the World Athletics Championships.\n\nFollow the World Athletics Championships across BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer.\n\nAvailable to UK users only", "Charlie Gladstone read an apology to the people of Guyana on behalf of his family\n\nThe descendants of former Prime Minister William Gladstone are facing calls to pay reparations to Jamaica for an ancestor's role in slavery.\n\nThe Gladstone family apologised for its slaveholding past in Guyana and pledged to fund research into slavery and other projects at a ceremony on Friday.\n\nBut the family has been accused of failing to acknowledge the case for paying slavery reparations in Jamaica.\n\nThe family told the BBC: \"At the moment we are solely focused on Guyana.\"\n\n\"There is a huge amount to do here [in Guyana],\" the Gladstones said.\n\nJohn Gladstone - the father of William Gladstone, one of the UK's most revered prime ministers - was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.\n\nThe University of London's (UCL) Legacies of British Slavery database shows John Gladstone owned or held mortgages over 2,508 enslaved Africans in Guyana and Jamaica in the 19th Century.\n\nHe was paid more than £100,000 in compensation after the British Parliament passed a law to abolish slavery in most British colonies in 1833, receiving £15,052 for 806 enslaved people in Jamaica.\n\nReading the family's apology to Guyana, Charlie Gladstone, the great-great-grandson of William Gladstone, condemned slavery as \"a crime against humanity\" and acknowledged \"slavery's continuing impact on the daily lives of many\".\n\nHe said the family supported a 10-point reparations plan proposed by Caribbean nations.\n\nBut there was no mention of John Gladstone's slave ownership in Jamaica at the ceremony in Guyana on Friday, nor in the family's statement announcing their intention to apologise and make donations last week.\n\nJohn Gladstone owned \"significant properties\" in Jamaica, said Verene Shepherd, director of the Centre for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies.\n\nShe said the Gladstone family \"must come to the scene of the crime and apologise to the people who live in those neighbourhoods\".\n\nThe Jamaican academic and professor of social history urged the Gladstone family to \"commit to reparations, as they're doing in Guyana\".\n\nReparations are broadly recognised as compensation given for something that was deemed wrong or unfair, and can take many forms.\n\nLast week, the Gladstones said they would aim to donate £100,000 to the University of Guyana's International Institute for Migration and Diaspora Studies, which was launched on Friday.\n\nIn Guyana, the family also pledged funding \"to assist various projects in Guyana\" and UCL's Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery for five years.\n\nProf Shepherd said: \"Now that we realise that we've been ignored, I think Jamaica should make an approach.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told that Jamaica's National Council on Reparations is discussing the Gladstone case and considering what action to take.\n\nThe council has not had any contact with the Gladstone family to date.\n\nJohn Gladstone was a Scottish merchant who made a fortune from his ownership of sugar plantations and enslaved workers in the decade before abolition.\n\nHis prominent involvement in the industry shaped the political career and legacy of his son, William Gladstone, whose attitude towards slavery changed over his life.\n\nIn his first speech to Parliament, the Liberal prime minister defended the rights of plantation owners, but later branded slavery the \"foulest crime\" in history.\n\nWilliam Gladstone was Liberal prime minister on four occasions in the 19th Century\n\nThe Gladstones are the latest British descendants of slave owners to attempt to atone for the actions of their ancestors in recent years.\n\nThe family's historic link to slavery came into sharper focus during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.\n\nSince then, some members of the family have joined the Heirs of Slavery, a group of British people whose families profited from the transatlantic slave trade and want to make amends.\n\nOther members include former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan and her family, who apologised to Grenada and promised £100,000 in reparations in February this year.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC earlier this week, United Nations Judge Patrick Robinson said he had \"some scepticism about these families\".\n\nHe said the reparations paid should be based on the number of slaves John Gladstone owned and the extent to which the family benefited from this economically.\n\nHe said he would be willing to ask for a calculation from the Brattle Group, an economic consulting firm that produced a report on the reparations states owe for their involvement in slavery.\n\n\"If it's not to be seen as a tokenistic exercise, if it is to be taken seriously, they must ascertain the reparations that are owed,\" Mr Robinson said.\n\nThe Brattle Group Report, which was co-authored by Mr Robinson, said the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries.\n\nThe Gladstones should undertake a similar calculation to \"demonstrate how much is really owed\", said Robert Beckford, professor of climate and social justice at the University of Winchester.\n\nThe professor said that rather than giving money to a university for further research, he would have \"preferred them to talk to community organisers or reparations groups, to explore what is the best way forward\".\n\nAlthough he welcomed the Gladstone apology in Guyana, he said the failure to acknowledge Jamaica hinted at \"an unwillingness to face up to the full brutal, bestial horror of chattel slavery\" in the country.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne of Ukraine's most celebrated fighter pilots and two other airmen have been killed in a mid-air crash.\n\nAndrii Pilshchykov won fame taking part in dogfights over Kyiv during the early phase of Russia's invasion.\n\nThe Ukrainian military called the airmen's deaths \"painful and irreparable\" losses, and paid tribute to Pilshchykov as a pilot with \"mega knowledge and mega talent\".\n\nThe crash involved two L-39 training planes flying over northern Ukraine.\n\nAn investigation is under way into whether flight preparation rules were not correctly followed, resulting in Friday's crash in Zhytomyr Oblast. The region is west of the capital, Kyiv, and hundreds of miles from the frontline.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the deaths in his nightly video address, saying that his country would \"never forget anyone who defended the free skies of Ukraine\".\n\nLast autumn, as Russia launched hundreds of cruise missiles and drones at Ukraine, Pilshchykov - who flew under the call-sign \"Juice\" - spoke to the BBC about the pressure he felt as a MiG-29 fighter pilot tasked with trying to intercept the deadly weapons before they struck.\n\n\"Intercepting the cruise missiles, your mission is to save the lives on the ground, to save the city. If you are not able, it's a terrible feeling that somebody will die. Somebody will die in minutes and you didn't prevent that,\" he said.\n\nHe also spoke of his lifelong \"dream\" to join the Ukrainian air force which he saw as his \"mission\".\n\nMelaniya Podolyak, a friend of Pilshchykov, also confirmed his death, posting an image of his air force badge on social media.\n\nThe crash and deaths are a major upset for Ukraine as it prepares to receive up to 61 F-16 fighter jets from its allies, in a bid to step up its counteroffensive.\n\nOn Thursday, the Pentagon confirmed that English-language training for Ukrainians on operating F-16s would begin in Texas in September, with flight training expected to begin in October in Arizona. Meanwhile, other Western allies are preparing to start training Ukrainians later this month.\n\nThe training to fly F-16s is expected to take around five months.\n\nThe American decision earlier this year to supply F-16 jets represented an about-turn. This is because the US and its Nato allies - who had earlier ruled out the move - had feared this would lead to further escalation with nuclear-armed Russia.\n\nA spokesman for Ukraine's Air Force, Yurii Ihnat, paid tribute to Pilshchykov in a statement posted on his Facebook page.\n\n\"A year ago in the USA, Andrii met with American government officials, brought up the urgent needs of the Air Force, was in constant contact with Californian pilots, and was the main driver of an advocacy group promoting many decisions on the F-16s [supply],\" Ihnat said.\n\n\"During the war, he gave dozens of interviews to Western media because he knew English well, and the most important was the topic of conversation: what can and should be talked about for Ukraine!\n\n\"You can't even imagine how he wanted to fly on an F-16... but now that American planes are actually on the horizon, he will not fly them.\n\n\"Andrii Pilshchykov was not just a pilot, he was a young officer with great knowledge and great talent.\n\n\"He was an excellent communicator, the driver of reforms in Air Force aircraft, a participant in many projects. I often supported his crazy ideas, which gave incredible results!\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nBriton Daniel Dubois said he felt \"cheated out of victory\" after his heavyweight world-title challenge ended in defeat by Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk on a dramatic night in front of 40,000 boisterous fans in Poland.\n\nDubois, a huge underdog, floored the champion in a controversial fifth round. With Usyk wincing in pain on the canvas, the referee ruled the shot - which appeared to land on the belt line - a low blow.\n\nUsyk, 36, regained control and dropped Dubois, 25, with a flurry of shots in the eighth round at Tarczynski Arena, Wroclaw, before the referee halted the contest following another knockdown in the ninth.\n\n\"I didn't think that was a low blow, I thought it landed,\" Dubois said after the fight.\n\nHis promoter Frank Warren agreed, calling it a \"complete home decision\" as he criticised referee Luis Pabon and said he planned to appeal.\n\n\"I like Usyk, but he was not fit to go on and they gave him a couple of minutes to recover,\" added Warren.\n\nIn fact, Usyk took three minutes and 45 seconds before declaring he was fit to resume - fighters are allowed five minutes when caught with a low blow, although Dubois was not deducted a point by the referee.\n\nUsyk, a former undisputed cruiserweight champion, responded well towards the end of the fifth round and reasserted his dominance in rounds seven and eight as he made a successful second defence of his WBA 'Super', IBF and WBO belts.\n\nHe also retained his undefeated record, winning a 21st professional bout, to keep hopes of a blockbuster fight with Tyson Fury alive.\n\n\"I feel good. I am grateful for my team, my family, my children. I love you. I'm grateful for my country and the Ukrainian army. Thank you so much.\"\n\nBriton Fury - the WBC world champion - and Usyk have previously failed to agree terms on a historic bout for all four heavyweight belts.\n\nThe gulf in boxing fundamentals was clear to see as early as round one with Usyk winning the battle of the jabs.\n\nBut Dubois, whose only career loss came against Briton Joe Joyce in 2020, responded by landing an uppercut in the second.\n\nHowever, Usyk, light on his feet and working at a high intensity, was clearly superior, dancing around the ring, picking Dubois apart in the early rounds.\n\nLightning lit up the night sky above the open-air stadium in the fifth, seconds later Dubois landed that thunderous right to the body. The crowd gasped, their hero rolling on the floor.\n\nReplays showed the shot was borderline, on the belt. Usyk remained on the floor. He took his time to recover, and had no interest in touching gloves as the contest continued. The dramatic round ended with both men landing punches after the bell.\n\nUsyk then sensed blood as Dubois tired, landing with a flurry of shots in the eighth to floor Dubois.\n\nThe challenger bravely got up as the count reached nine, but a straight right in the ninth brought an end to the contest.\n\nMany gave Dubois a puncher's chance heading into the fight, and that may have just been the punch in the fifth round.\n\n\"We will order an appeal after what's happened here,\" Warren said.\n\n\"It's all about a legitimate punch that stopped him and he should have won. Everyone wants to see the unification [with Fury, who is in Warren's stable of fighters]. If Daniel had got the result then it would have been easy to do. We will see now.\"\n\nUsyk was fighting in front of a 'home' crowd for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine; a third of those attending had travelled from Ukraine or were refugees now living in Poland or neighbouring countries.\n\nSeven Ukrainian boxers featured on the undercard for the event dedicated to and celebrating a country torn apart through war.\n\nAs the rain fell, with the ringside press scrambling for cover, a video message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was played on the big screen to a rapturous reception.\n\nDubois had cut a serious figure throughout fight week, but the challenger made his ring walk grinning and singing along to Bob Marley's 'So Much Things To Say'.\n\nThe roaring, ear-splitting noise for Usyk's entrance was something else. He strode to the ring with purpose, not even allowing himself a slight moment to soak in the electric atmosphere.\n\nOn an emotionally-charged night, not even the heavy rain could dampen the jubilant Ukrainian fans.\n\nThere were wins for British middleweight Hamzah Sheeraz, who beat Dmytro Mytrofanov, and debutant Aadam Hamed - son of boxing legend Prince Naseem Hamed - on the undercard.\n\nBut Dubois' hopes of tearing up the script and etching his name into the history books ended in failure, although he will leave Poland with his stock high, while plenty of fans feel he should be a world champion.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nSpanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has been provisionally suspended by world governing body Fifa.\n\nRubiales has refused to resign after kissing forward Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain's Women's World Cup final win over England in Sydney.\n\nThe federation also says it will take legal action over Hermoso's \"lies\".\n\nBut Fifa has opted to \"provisionally suspend Mr Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities at national and international level\".\n\nIn response the Spanish football federation (RFEF) said Rubiales would \"legally defend himself\"\n\n\"He fully trusts Fifa and reiterates that, in this way, he is given the opportunity to begin his defence so that the truth prevails and his complete innocence is proven,\" the RFEF said.\n\nThe statement added that vice president Pedro Rocha Junco has taken on the role of interim president while Rubiales is suspended.\n\nFifa opened disciplinary proceedings against the 46-year-old on Thursday.\n\n\"This suspension, which will be effective as of today, is for an initial period of 90 days, pending the disciplinary proceedings,\" Fifa added.\n\nFifa has also ordered Rubiales or any representative of the federation (RFEF) to refrain from attempting to contact Hermoso, 33.\n\nThe RFEF said in an earlier statement it had tried to contact Hermoso, who is Spain's leading women's goalscorer with 51 from 101 appearances, but had \"been unsuccessful at all times\".\n\nEarlier, a senior figure at the RFEF said he has stepped down from his position.\n\n\"I have presented my resignation after seeing that Luis Rubiales continues to head the Spanish federation,\" said vice-president Rafael del Amo.\n\n\"I owe a lot of things to Luis but what happened in the final is unacceptable.\"\n• None Hermoso 'didn't consent' to Rubiales kiss as players refuse to play\n• None Spanish secretary of sport 'wants this to be Spanish football's MeToo moment'\n• None Rubiales row stirs up long-standing tensions in Spain over women's rights\n• None Luis Rubiales: Who is the controversial Spanish FA chief?\n\nAnti-discrimination body Kick It Out said it welcomed Fifa's action but COO Hollie Varney added: \"There has been a complete lack of accountability and it is now up to international bodies such as Fifa and Uefa, or the Spanish government, to try and resolve these issues and ask whether those in charge at the Spanish FA are fit to lead.\"\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, who played for Spanish club Barcelona, said it was a \"disgrace\" that Rubiales has \"taken all the attention away from the Spanish women's wonderful achievement\".\n\nFellow Match of the Day pundit Ian Wright, meanwhile, was critical of the lack of comment from European football's governing body Uefa, where Rubiales is a vice-president.\n\n\"[Fifa's action is] good. But still silence from Uefa. No solidarity. No comment on the behaviour of their vice-president,\" he said.\n\n\"Same Uefa whose president did not attend the Women's World Cup final where both teams represented the region. These are the same people in charge of leading the future of women's football.\"\n\nAintzane Encinas, who played for Spanish club Real Sociedad for 13 seasons and is now a coach, told the BBC it was time that things changed.\n\n\"I think it's a very, very important moment for Spanish football, and also for world football,\" she said.\n\n\"Football is an incredible tool for transforming society, to showcase values like respect, ability and equality - we must use it.\n\n\"We all stand with Jenni Hermoso - the whole world is speaking out about what's happening. We are united in this, and that makes me very proud.\"\n\nBarcelona manger Xavi Hernandez is among those speaking out. He posted on social media: \"I want to give my unconditional support to Jennifer Hermoso and the players. I condemn the behaviour of the president of the Spanish Football Federation.\"\n\n20 August - During the ceremony following the World Cup final, Spanish forward Jenni Hermoso is first embraced and then kissed on the lips by Luis Rubiales.\n\nHermoso later reacts to the kiss during a live stream and says she \"did not enjoy\" it.\n\n21 August - Rubiales issues an apology saying he is \"sorry for those who were offended\" after being fiercely criticised by other footballers, the media and even by the Spanish prime minister, some of whom called on him to step down.\n\n25 August - A defiant Rubiales insists at a RFEF emergency meeting that he will not resign, and calls the kiss \"consensual\".\n\n25 August - The Spanish government says it is beginning legal proceedings seeking to suspend Rubiales, with the Spanish secretary of sport saying he \"wants this to be Spanish football's MeToo moment\".\n\n25 August - Later that day, Hermoso releases a statement on Instagram rebuffing Rubiales' claims, saying that \"at no time... was his kiss ever consensual\".\n\n25 August - 81 Spanish players - including all 23 players who went to the Women's World Cup - announce they will not play for Spain's women's team until Rubiales is removed from his position.\n\n26 August - The Spanish football federation says it will take legal action against Hermoso over her \"lies\" about the kiss.\n\n26 August - Fifa announces it is provisionally suspending Rubiales pending the outcome of its disciplinary proceedings.\n\nNo comment from Uefa but insiders 'incredulous' - Analysis\n\nIn addition to his post as Spanish FA president, Luis Rubiales is also a member of the powerful executive committee of European football's governing body, Uefa.\n\nEven if Rubiales is eventually removed from his position with the Spanish FA, there is a possibility that he could remain on Uefa's executive committee until his run is due to end in 2027.\n\nUefa has offered no public comment about the present situation, but speaking to people who are part of the organisation, there is incredulity from some that Rubiales has not resigned.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Kleenex facial tissues will soon be leaving Canada\n\nCanadians with runny noses and teary eyes will soon have to part with their Kleenex after the company announced it was pulling its famous facial wipes from the country.\n\nKimberly-Clark, the company behind Kleenex, said the decision was based on \"unique complexities\".\n\nOther Kimberly Clark products like Huggies and Cottonnelle will remain on Canadian shelves.\n\n\"The decision was incredibly difficult for us to make,\" the statement said.\n\nThe news of Kleenex's exit is \"shocking\" in a country where the brand is so well known, said David Soberman, a marketing professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.\n\n\"In Canada, the word Kleenex is almost synonymous with a facial tissue,\" he said.\n\nSo why the sudden goodbye? Experts like Mr Soberman told the BBC the decision almost certainly came down to the bottom line.\n\n\"No company pulls out of a market if they're making money,\" Mr Soberman said. \"Whatever they want to say, they could have just said 'we're not making any money in Canada, that's why we're pulling out of facial tissues'.\"\n\nPart of Kleenex's problem, Mr Soberman said, was likely the popularity of Scotties, the facial tissue produced by the Canadian company Kruger.\n\n\"They [Kleenex] really are the second place brand in Canada to Scotties,\" he said, noting Scotties' major Canadian sponsorship deals, like its presence in women's curling.\n\nBut this is not the first time a big brand name has abandoned Canada. Beloved American snacks like Bugles, Bagel Bites and Little Debbie products have also said goodbye in recent years.\n\nEconomists told the BBC that may be because Canada's market is not all that friendly to foreign business.\n\nAccording to the World Economic Forum's competitiveness index, CEOs most frequently complain about Canada's inefficient government bureaucracy and high taxes - at least compared to the US.\n\n\"The US market is easier than Canada's for a variety of reasons,\" said Walid Hejazi, an economics professor also at the Rotman School.\n\nFirst, Mr Hejazi said, is the sheer size of the US - almost 10 times as many people to buy, sell and manufacture products.\n\nMore readily available credit, less government regulation and more investment in research and development are other reasons the US can be a more attractive market than Canada.\n\n\"Another huge one is in Canada is there's so much protectionism, I think this is the biggest one,\" Mr Hejazi said. In Canada, all three of the biggest industries - airlines, telecom and finance - are heavily protected by the federal government, he said.\n\nWhile Canadian companies may benefit, that home court advantage may help drive out US and other foreign companies from travelling up north.\n\nAnd now, it means, Canadians will have to save their tears - at least for another brand of facial tissue.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nThe Spanish football federation says it will take legal action over Jenni Hermoso's comments about its president Luis Rubiales.\n\nRubiales has refused to resign after kissing forward Hermoso on the lips following Spain's Women's World Cup final win over England in Sydney.\n\nHermoso said on Friday she did not consent, but the federation has questioned her version of events.\n\n\"The evidence is conclusive,\" it said. \"Mr President has not lied.\"\n\nIn a statement by players' union Futpro, which is representing 33-year-old Hermoso, she is quoted as saying \"in no case did I seek to raise (lift) the president\" while they embraced on the podium.\n\nThe Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) said: \"The RFEF and Mr President will demonstrate each of the lies that are spread either by someone on behalf of the player or, if applicable, by the player herself.\n\n\"The RFEF and the President, given the seriousness of the content of the press release from the Futpro union, will initiate the corresponding legal actions.\"\n• None Spanish secretary of sport 'wants this to be Spanish football's MeToo moment'\n• None Rubiales row stirs up long-standing tensions in Spain over women's rights\n• None Luis Rubiales: Who is the controversial Spanish FA chief?\n\nThe federation also said that, if selected, players have \"an obligation\" to play for the national team, after 81 female players said they will not represent Spain until Rubiales is removed from his post.\n\nReal Betis striker Borja Iglesias has also said he will not play for the men's national team again while Rubiales is in charge.\n\nIn its statement, the RFEF provided four images of Hermoso's embrace with Rubiales, with an analysis of each, which it claims demonstrates that she applied the force to lift Rubiales' feet off the ground.\n\nThe federation says it has tried to contact Hermoso, who is Spain's leading women's goalscorer with 51 from 101 appearances, but have \"been unsuccessful at all times\".\n\nHow did the situation get to this point?\n\nRubiales' behaviour at the Women's World Cup final has drawn international criticism, with government ministers demanding his resignation.\n\nThe 46-year-old watched Spain's 1-0 win over England from the VIP area of Stadium Australia in Sydney.\n\nAs he celebrated at the final whistle he grabbed his crotch, with Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter standing nearby.\n\nThen came the kiss with Hermoso, who plays her club football in Mexico for Pachuca, during the presentation ceremony.\n\nShe initially said on Instagram she \"didn't like\" Rubiales' actions but a later statement released on her behalf defended him.\n\nRubiales apologised for the kiss on Monday, but Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that was \"not enough\" and second deputy prime minister Yolanda Diaz joined those calling for him to resign.\n\nOn Wednesday, Hermoso said Futpro would \"defend my interests\" and the union said the kiss should not go unpunished.\n\nOn Thursday, football's world governing body Fifa said it had opened disciplinary proceedings against Rubiales, and the RFEF called an extraordinary general assembly on Friday, where Rubiales was expected to resign - but insisted he would not.\n\nAlthough he apologised for grabbing his crotch, he vowed to \"fight until the end\" and said the kiss was \"mutual, euphoric and consensual\".\n\nThe Spanish government later began legal proceedings seeking to suspend Rubiales, before statements by Hermoso and Futpro on social media led to the latest response by the RFEF.\n\n'His ego is greater than his dignity' - reaction\n\nRubiales' defiant stance has been met with widespread condemnation - while a senior figure at the RFEF says he has stepped down from his position.\n\n\"I have presented my resignation after seeing that Luis Rubiales continues to head the Spanish federation,\" said vice-president Rafael del Amo.\n\n\"I owe a lot of things to Luis but what happened in the final is unacceptable.\"\n\nBeatriz Alvarez, president of Liga F, Spain's top women's league, said: \"His ego is greater than his dignity and honour.\n\n\"I think more people are going to join in but given the lack of determination of Luis Rubiales, other people are beginning to speak out.\"\n\nDuring Saturday's game between Orlando Pride and San Diego Wave in the National Women's Soccer League in the United States, all players wore wristbands featuring the message 'Contigo Jenni' [With you Jenni].\n\nThey included USA striker Alex Morgan, who said on Friday: \"I'm disgusted by the public actions of Luis Rubiales. I stand by Jenni Hermoso and the Spanish players.\n\n\"Winning a World Cup should be one of the best moments in these players' lives but instead it's overshadowed by assault, misogyny and failures by the Spanish federation.\"\n• None Look at the actions taken as the Third Reich faces collapse in the final weeks of World War Two\n• None Where would he like to go for his next food journey? Stanley Tucci spills the beans in his chat with Lauren Laverne", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman filmed kicking and striking a pony during a hunt has been cleared of animal cruelty charges.\n\nThe RSPCA brought a private prosecution after Sarah Moulds, 39, disciplined the animal in Lincolnshire in 2021.\n\nMrs Moulds and supporters wept as she was cleared of two charges at Lincoln Crown Court.\n\nAfterwards, she criticised the RSPCA, saying it had been \"pressured\" to act by \"online bullies and ill-informed high-profile individuals\".\n\nIn response, the RSPCA said it respected the jury's decision but denied it had been pressured.\n\nSpeaking outside court on Friday, Mrs Moulds said the verdict was \"a testament to the importance of due process\" and showed \"there are two sides to every story\".\n\nShe said: \"The jury's decision today has vindicated me, however, the damage from the last 20 months' trial by social media is irreversible.\"\n\nShe said death threats sent to her and her family included one in a Christmas card delivered to her home.\n\nSarah Moulds spoke outside court after she was cleared of animal cruelty offences\n\nMrs Moulds faced charges under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, namely causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.\n\nThe court heard differing veterinary opinions about how much pain and fear the pony might have suffered.\n\nMrs Moulds, from Somerby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, said she intended to \"briefly shock\" the animal but denied losing her temper and insisted the force used was appropriate.\n\nShe told the court her life had been \"torn to pieces\" by the case, having lost her job as a teacher, and that she had received death threats.\n\nThe court had heard Mrs Moulds had made \"minimal contact\" with the pony, which she still owned, and that there were no signs of external or internal injury following the incident, which took place in The Drift, Gunby, on 6 November 2021.\n\nMrs Moulds had been riding with children as part of the Cottesmore Hunt - one of Britain's oldest foxhound packs.\n\nOne of her own animals, called Bruce Almighty, pulled away from a child but quickly returned.\n\nAs the pony returned, the court was told Mrs Moulds \"immediately chastised him\".\n\nMrs Moulds denied two offences on the basis her actions were proportionate\n\nA hunt saboteur filmed Mrs Moulds kicking the pony in the chest and slapping him four times in the face before returning him to the horse box.\n\nGiving evidence, Mrs Moulds said: \"In that moment [Bruce] has done something incredibly dangerous and, in that exact moment, I decided that the right thing to do was discipline him quickly.\n\n\"In reality, in that moment, it was four seconds. My intention was then, and always was, to discipline Bruce in the moment so that he does not do it again.\n\n\"There was minimal contact and it was so quick and so short.\"\n\nAfter a three-day trial and just over five hours of deliberation, the jury of 11 men and one woman cleared Mrs Moulds.\n\nRecorder Graham Huston, addressing the jury, said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. I know it was not an easy case, no case is easy, but some cases are more difficult than others.\n\n\"What is obvious is you gave this case the utmost attention and you proceeded with your deliberations carefully and thoroughly and I am very grateful to you.\"\n\nIn a statement outside the court, Mrs Moulds said: \"It is profoundly troubling that, in this digital age, misinformation can spread like wildfire, leading to premature judgments and jeopardising the lives and careers of innocent individuals.\n\n\"A snippet of video was taken out of context, and manipulated to paint a picture of me that is entirely at odds with who I am.\n\n\"I adore my animals and have dedicated my life to teaching and nurturing young minds; it was heart-wrenching to be so wrongly and publicly maligned.\n\n\"The loss of my career, the hand-delivered death threats to me and my children, and the distress caused to my family cannot be undone.\"\n\nOn the RSPCA, she said: \"They are an animal charity, whose concern is animal welfare. They are the only charity in the UK with the power to prosecute.\n\n\"They have been pressured to be seen to be doing something by online bullies and ill-informed high-profile individuals, wasting a phenomenal amount of public donations to bring a politically-charged case.\"\n\nShe said the charity had never asked to examine the pony or see the environment in which he was being looked after.\n\n\"If they had visited Bruce on the day after this incident, or indeed any day in the last year and a half, they would have met a perfectly healthy, well-cared-for and happy pony - as verified by an independent veterinary practice at our request,\" she added.\n\nAn RSPCA spokesperson said: \"An independent vet watched the video evidence and in their expert opinion stated it was clear that suffering had been caused to Bruce by his reaction and therefore there was no need to examine him. This was backed by a second vet who is an equine specialist.\n\n\"The vets we consulted felt in their expert view that Bruce suffered pain and also psychological suffering by the fear and distress caused.\n\n\"The RSPCA will always look into concerns that are raised about animal welfare. This case was treated no differently to any other case, all of our prosecution decisions follow the same guidance as the CPS - that is the Code for Crown Prosecutors.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Volunteer Caroline McNamara in front of a yellow fibreglass submarine that was used in a search of Loch Ness in 1969\n\nA search for the Loch Ness Monster, billed as the biggest Nessie hunt in more than 50 years, has been taking place in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nA hundred volunteers helped record natural - and any unusual - sights on Loch Ness from vantage points on land.\n\nAlmost 300 have signed up to monitor a live stream from the search, which is taking place on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nStories of a monster have existed for centuries but it is 90 years since the modern myth of Nessie began.\n\nIn April 1933, hotel manageress Aldie Mackay said she had seen a whale-like creature in the loch.\n\nThe Inverness Courier newspaper reported the sighting and the editor at the time, Evan Barron, suggested the creature be described as a \"monster\".\n\nSince then the mystery of Nessie has inspired books, TV shows and films, as well as sustaining a major tourism industry.\n\nThis weekend's search has been organised by the Loch Ness Centre in Drumnadrochit and a volunteer research team called Loch Ness Exploration.\n\nBoats carrying acoustic listening equipment were taking part in the search\n\nLoch Ness Centre general manager Paul Nixon insisted it was more than a PR stunt.\n\n\"There are a hundred volunteers lining the banks of Loch Ness today, all on a quest to find some answers to what is the Loch Ness Monster,\" he said.\n\n\"Some of the more recent sightings that I've seen are sonar contacts - showing objects in the water at depth.\n\n\"The biggest one I've seen is an object the size of a transit van, which hasn't been explained to me what that was. It wasn't there when we went back.\"\n\nDrones fitted with infrared cameras have been flown over the loch, and a hydrophone is being used to detect unusual underwater sounds.\n\nA study of the loch in 1968\n\nThe sheer size of the loch which extends over 36km (23 miles)and is more than 200m (650ft) deep in places makes exploration a challenge.\n\nIt can hold more water - 7,452 million cubic metres - than all English and Welsh lakes together.\n\nAlan McKenna, of Loch Ness Exploration, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We are looking for breaks in the surface and asking volunteers to record all manner of natural behaviour on the loch.\"\n\nHe said the loch could play tricks on people's eyes and mind.\n\n\"Not every ripple or wave is a beastie. Some of those can be explained, but there are handful that cannot,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The famous \"surgeon's photo\"of the monster is now thought to be a hoax but the fascination with Nessie endures\n\nThe Loch Ness Centre documents some of the best known monster \"sightings\"\n\nOrganisers said the effort was the biggest search for the monster since the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau carried out a study in 1972.\n\nThe bureau was set up in the 1960s to find proof of a large beast in the waters.\n\nIt was wound up in 1977 after it was unsuccessful in uncovering any significant evidence for or against the existence of a monster.\n\nThe legend of Nessie dates back to the Middle Ages when Irish monk St Columba is said to have encountered a beast in the Ness, a river that flows from Loch Ness.\n\nPrevious attempts to find the monster included 1987's Operation Deepscan, when 24 boats equipped with echo sounders swept the entire length of the loch.\n\nOn three occasions something was detected that could not be immediately explained. Large debris was one of the explanations offered for the \"contacts\".\n\nLoch Ness can hold more water than all the lakes in England and Wales together\n\nIn 2019, scientists said the creatures behind repeated sightings of the fabled Loch Ness Monster may be giant eels.\n\nResearchers from New Zealand tried to catalogue all living species in the loch by extracting DNA from water samples.\n\nFollowing analysis, the scientists ruled out the presence of large animals which were said to be behind reports of a monster.\n\nNo evidence of a prehistoric marine reptile called a plesiosaur or a large fish such as a sturgeon were found.\n\nThe Loch Ness Monster myth is surrounded by claims and confirmed hoaxes. Ninety years on from the first \"sighting\" here is a rundown of 10 weird and wonderful headline-making moments.", "Nadine Dorries resigned as Conservative MP from her Mid Bedfordshire seat with a blistering attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nHere is her resignation letter in full:\n\nIt has been the greatest honour and privilege of my life to have served the good people of Mid Bedfordshire as their MP for 18 years and I count myself blessed to have worked in Westminster for almost a quarter of a century. Despite what some in the media and you yourself have implied, my team of caseworkers and I have continued to work for my constituents faithfully and diligently to this day.\n\nWhen I arrived in Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, I inherited a Conservative majority of 8,000. Over five elections this has increased to almost 25,000, making it one of the safest seats in the country. A legacy I am proud of.\n\nDuring my time as a Member of Parliament, I have served as a back bencher, a bill Committee Chair, a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State before becoming Minister of State in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) during the Covid crisis, after which I was appointed as Secretary of State at the department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS). The offer to continue in my Cabinet role was extended to me by your predecessor, Liz Truss, and I am grateful for your personal phone call on the morning you appointed your cabinet in October, even if I declined to take the call.\n\nAs politicians, one of the greatest things we can do is to empower people to have opportunities to achieve their aspirations and to help them to change their lives for the better. In DHSC I championed meaningful improvements to maternity and neonatal safety. I launched the women's health strategy and pushed forward a national evidence-based trial for Group B Strep testing in pregnant women with the aim to reduce infant deaths. When I resigned as Secretary of State for DCMS I was able to thank the professional, dedicated and hard-working civil servants for making our department the highest performing in Whitehall. We worked tirelessly to strengthen the Online Safety Bill to protect young people, froze the BBC licence fee, included the sale of Channel 4 into the Media Bill to protect its long-term future and led the world in imposing cultural sanctions when Putin invaded Ukraine.\n\nI worked with and encouraged the tech sector, to search out untaught talents such as creative and critical thinking in deprived communities offering those who faced a life on low unskilled pay or benefits, access to higher paid employment and social mobility. What many of the CEOs I spoke to in the tech sector and business leaders really wanted was meaningful regulatory reform from you as chancellor to enable companies not only to establish in the UK, but to list on the London Stock Exchange rather than New York. You flashed your gleaming smile in your Prada shoes and Savile Row suit from behind a camera, but you just weren't listening. All they received in return were platitudes and a speech illustrating how wonderful life was in California. London is now losing its appeal as more UK-based companies seek better listing opportunities in the US. That, Prime Minister, is entirely down to you.\n\nLong before my resignation announcement, in July 2022, I had advised the cabinet secretary, Simon Case, of my intention to step down. Senior figures in the party, close allies of yours, have continued to this day to implore me to wait until the next general election rather than inflict yet another damaging by-election on the party at a time when we are consistently twenty points behind in the polls.\n\nHaving witnessed first-hand, as Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss were taken down, I decided that the British people had a right to know what was happening in their name. Why is it that we have had five Conservative prime ministers since 2010, with not one of the previous four having left office as the result of losing a general election? That is a democratic deficit which the mother of parliaments should be deeply ashamed of and which, as you and I know, is the result of the machinations of a small group of individuals embedded deep at the centre of the party and Downing Street.\n\nTo start with, my investigations focused on the political assassination of Boris Johnson, but as I spoke to more and more people - and I have spoken to a lot of people, from ex-prime ministers, cabinet ministers both ex and current through all levels of government and Westminster and even journalists - a dark story emerged which grew ever more disturbing with each person I spoke to.\n\nIt became clear to me as I worked that remaining as a back bencher was incompatible with publishing a book which exposes how the democratic process at the heart of our party has been corrupted. As I uncovered this alarming situation I knew, such were the forces ranged against me, that I was grateful to retain my parliamentary privilege until today. And, as you also know Prime Minister, those forces are today the most powerful figures in the land. The onslaught against me even included the bizarre spectacle of the Cabinet Secretary claiming (without evidence) to a select committee that he had reported me to the Whips and Speakers office (not only have neither office been able to confirm this was true, but they have no power to act, as he well knows). It is surely as clear a breach of Civil Service impartiality as you could wish to see.\n\nBut worst of all has been the spectacle of a prime minister demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy against one of his own MPs. You failed to mention in your public comments that there could be no writ moved for a by-election over summer. And that the earliest any by-election could take place is at the end of September. The clearly orchestrated and almost daily personal attacks demonstrates the pitifully low level your Government has descended to.\n\nNadine Dorries last spoke in the House of Commons in June 2022\n\nIt is a modus operandi established by your allies which has targeted Boris Johnson, transferred to Liz Truss and now moved on to me. But I have not been a prime minister. I do not have security or protection. Attacks from people, led by you, declared open season on myself and the past weeks have resulted in the police having to visit my home and contact me on a number of occasions due to threats to my person.\n\nSince you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened. What exactly has been done or have you achieved? You hold the office of prime minister unelected, without a single vote, not even from your own MPs. You have no mandate from the people and the government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?\n\nAnd what a difference it is now since 2019, when Boris Johnson won an eighty-seat majority and a greater percentage of the vote share than Tony Blair in the Labour landslide victory of 1997. We were a mere five points behind on the day he was removed from office. Since you became prime minister, his manifesto has been completely abandoned. We cannot simply disregard the democratic choice of the electorate, remove both the prime minister and the manifesto commitments they voted for and then expect to return to the people in the hope that they will continue to unquestioningly support us. They have agency, they will use it.\n\nLevelling up has been discarded and with it, those deprived communities it sought to serve. Social care, ready to be launched, abandoned along with the hope of all of those who care for the elderly and the vulnerable. The Online Safety Bill has been watered down. BBC funding reform, the clock run down. The Mental Health Act, timed out. Defence spending, reduced. Our commitment to net zero, animal welfare and the green issues so relevant to the planet and voters under 40, squandered. As Lord Goldsmith wrote in his own resignation letter, because you simply do not care about the environment or the natural world. What exactly is it you do stand for?\n\nYou have increased Corporation tax to 25%, taking us to the level of the highest tax take since World War Two at 75% of GDP, and you have completely failed in reducing illegal immigration or delivering on the benefits of Brexit. The bonfire of EU legislation, swerved. The Windsor framework agreement, a dead duck, brought into existence by shady promises of future preferment with grubby rewards and potential gongs to MPs. Stormont is still not sitting.\n\nDisregarding your own chancellor, last week you took credit for reducing inflation, citing your \"plan\". There has been no budget, no new fiscal measures, no debate, there is no plan. Such statements take the British public for fools. The decline in the price of commodities such as oil and gas, the eased pressure on the supply of wheat and the increase in interest rates by the Bank of England are what has taken the heat out of the economy and reduced inflation. For you to personally claim credit for this was disingenuous at the very least.\n\nIt is a fact that there is no affection for Keir Starmer out on the doorstep. He does not have the winning X factor qualities of a Thatcher, a Blair, or a Boris Johnson, and sadly, prime minister, neither do you. Your actions have left some 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods, because in your impatience to become prime minister you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economy. Bewildered, we look in vain for the grand political vision for the people of this great country to hold on to, that would make all this disruption and subsequent inertia worthwhile, and we find absolutely nothing.\n\nI shall take some comfort from explaining to people exactly how you and your allies achieved this undemocratic upheaval in my book. I am a proud working-class Conservative which is why the Levelling Up agenda was so important to me. I know personally how effective a strong and helping hand can be to lift someone out of poverty and how vision, hope and opportunity can change lives. You have abandoned the fundamental principles of Conservatism. History will not judge you kindly.\n\nI shall today inform the chancellor of my intention to take the Chiltern Hundreds, enabling the writ to be moved on 4 September for the by-election you are so desperately seeking to take place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia says 10 bodies and flight recorders have been recovered from the scene of a jet crash presumed to have killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.\n\n\"Molecular-genetic tests are now being carried out,\" investigators say.\n\nThe plane crashed near Moscow on Wednesday, prompting speculation that a bomb or a missile was to blame.\n\nClaims that the Kremlin gave an order to kill Prigozhin were a \"complete lie\", Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman told the BBC earlier.\n\nPrigozhin - once a Putin loyalist - led an aborted armed revolt by his mercenary fighters in June.\n\nMr Putin at the time described the mutiny as \"treachery\", but a deal was later struck for Wagner mercenaries to either join Russia's regular army or go to Belarus - Moscow's ally.\n\nEven so, in the wake of the rebellion, many observers described Prigozhin, 62, as a \"dead man walking\", arguing that the Russian president would never forgive the Wagner boss.\n\nDuring Friday's conference call with journalists, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the BBC there was \"lots of speculation\" around the \"tragic\" deaths of all 10 people in Wednesday's air crash in the Tver region, north-west of the Russian capital.\n\nPrigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitry Utkin, as well as five other passengers and three crew members, were on board of the Embraer Legacy 600 jet, according to the passenger list.\n\n\"In the West, of course, this speculation comes from a certain angle. It's all a complete lie,\" Mr Peskov went on.\n\n\"We don't have many facts at the moment, the facts need to be clarified during the official investigation which is being carried out now,\" he added.\n\nAnd despite the jet's manifest, Mr Peskov refused to be drawn on whether the Kremlin had confirmation that Prigozhin was definitely on board the downed plane.\n\nThe future of Wagner itself has also been thrown further into doubt by Prigozhin's presumed death.\n\nOn Friday, Belarus' leader Aleksander Lukashenko said that up to 10,000 Wagner fighters would continue to be based in the country.\n\nHowever, many experts believe that Mr Lukashenko takes orders from the Kremlin.\n\nPresident Putin stayed silent over the crash for almost 24 hours, before expressing condolences to all the victims' families.\n\nHe also described Prigozhin as a \"talented person\" who \"made serious mistakes in life\".\n\nBut from the moment the plane came down, there has been frenzied speculation about what caused the crash.\n\nThe Pentagon says it believed the Wagner chief was probably killed, while a US official told CBS News that the most likely cause of the crash was an explosion on board the plane.\n\nPresident Joe Biden said on Friday that the US was still trying to \"nail down\" precisely what brought down the plane.", "Scotland's biggest council union is planning strikes that could close schools across the country next month.\n\nUnison members backed action in 24 of the 32 council areas after rejecting an average pay increase of 5.5%.\n\nThe strikes will involve catering, cleaning, pupil support, administration and janitorial staff in schools and early years centres.\n\nUnison Scotland secretary Lilian Macer said workers had been put in an \"untenable\" position by Cosla.\n\nThe union later confirmed the action will take place in every local authority with the exception of Midlothian, Falkirk, Scottish Borders, Argyll and Bute, North Lanarkshire, East Lothian, West Lothian and East Ayrshire.\n\nGlasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee will be among the areas affected.\n\nNo dates have been confirmed yet but Unison's local government committee will meet on Monday to prepare for the strikes.\n\nCosla said the \"strong\" pay offer represented a 7% rise on average, with the lowest paid council workers receiving a more than 9% increase.\n\nThe two other largest council unions, GMB and Unite, also have mandates for action in several parts of the country.\n\nCouncil leaders have agreed to hold a special meeting to discuss whether the pay offer could be improved to try to settle the dispute.\n\nMs Macer said Unison had received the \"strongest ever\" strike mandate from local government workers and said they would go for \"maximum disruption\" if no deal is reached.\n\nThe eight local authorities where no action will be taken all overwhelmingly backed the strikes but fell short of the required 50% turnout.\n\nShe accused Cosla of \"delaying tactics\" over pay negotiations but said the union would be open to further talks.\n\n\"The last thing we want to do is disrupt children's education,\" she told BBC Scotland News: \"We have been placed with no option.\n\n\"The Scottish government's public sector pay policy makes no reference to inflation, makes no reference to the cost of living increase that members are facing.\n\n\"We'll engage with both Unite and GMB and will make all attempts to have a co-ordinated approach to the action within schools.\n\n\"But make no doubt about it, Unison Scotland will be taking strike action up and down the country.\"\n\nThere is now the risk of widespread school closures because of strikes for the second time in a year.\n\nIf staff including janitors are on strike, it may be impossible to open school buildings.\n\nUnison and the two other unions hope the mere threat of strikes will be enough to lead to a better pay offer.\n\nThe question is whether councils can afford a better pay offer without more cash from the Scottish government to help.\n\nSome council leaders believe more government money is needed.\n\nLast year, a strike over council pay led to the rubbish piling up in city centres. The Scottish government helped fund a new pay offer to end the dispute. The unions believe this could have happened earlier.\n\nWill a solution be found in time this year?\n\nCouncillor Katie Hagmann, Cosla resources spokeswoman, said a special leaders meeting had been called to find a \"swift\" resolution to strike action.\n\n\"Cosla leaders are confident this is a strong offer,\" she told BBC Scotland News. \"However, they recognise that the unions have rejected this so we have to absolutely listen to those concerns and respect the outcome of any ballot.\"\n\nShe said the Scottish government had previously given Cosla additional funds to boost the pay offer, and that discussions over funding were ongoing.\n\nGMB Scotland last week confirmed its members in 10 Scottish councils would go on strike on 13 and 14 September.\n\nThe areas affected are Aberdeen, Clackmannanshire, Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar, Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Glasgow, Orkney, Renfrewshire and South Ayrshire.\n\nUnite members in 10 local authorities also voted to strike over pay after the summer break but it has yet to announce dates.\n\nThe 10 areas are Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Fife, Glasgow City, Inverclyde and Orkney.", "Billie Eilish brought Barbie to life at Leeds Festival on Friday, performing her latest celluloid hit in the middle of a cathartic and career-spanning set.\n\nIt saw her become the event's youngest solo headliner, surpassing London rapper Dave from last year.\n\nAt the age of 21, Eilish - who also has a hit Bond song under her belt - has now headlined both of the UK's biggest festivals, following her headline slot at Glastonbury last year.\n\nThis latest set was one for the ages.\n\nBacked by her big brother and producer Finneas on keys and guitars, Eilish bursts out on stage in a baggy LA sports outfit and woolly hat combo, bouncing and bounding her way through the opening strains of Bury a Friend.\n\n\"You feel good England?\" she asks with a smile. \"Are you ready to have some fun?\" Duh!\n\nSince last performing here as a teenager four years ago, Eilish has gone on to pop megastardom and it shows. Swaggering, running and at-times sliding and humping down the runway, she conducts the adoring crowd at will.\n\nA sea of camera phones capture her performing one of her earlier songs, idontwannabeyouanymore.\n\nEilish has spoken recently about feeling most at home channelling what she says is her more powerful, masculine side and she clearly revels in the role on her darker, more upbeat and playful material from her 2019 debut album, When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go?\n\nOn a chilly Yorkshire summer evening, she leads fans in an early set warm-up exercise of sorts, that involves jumping around, stretching and screaming.\n\n\"I'm giving you permission right now to lose your minds,\" she commands, before playing You Should See Me in a Crown.\n\nBut it's often the softer, slower songs, some of which cribbed from her more reflective and introspective follow-up album Happier Than Ever, that show her in a different, more vulnerable light, and also truly show off her rich vocal range.\n\nBillie Eilish has two UK number one albums and two number one singles\n\nThe keyboard introduction to What Was I Made For?, made for the recent Barbie soundtrack, draws gasps and \"awws\" from around the field. As well as being a new fans' favourite, it's a song that Eilish recently admitted to interviewer Zane Lowe had helped her and her brother out of a creative slump.\n\nThe star was able to briefly break away from the emotion of what was a powerful moment to mimic a TikTok meme - of a woman singing the song in her own unique way - before bursting into laughter and composing herself once again for a tender finish. It's her all over; the joker and the queen of hearts, all wrapped into one.\n\nFlipping effortlessly back into full party mode she then urges the crowd to get low, all the way to the floor, then back up for a dance.\n\nSettling down to join her brother on guitar for a quieter acoustic segment, she introduces him as \"my best friend in the world\".\n\n\"We write all these songs together and I hope we get to do that forever because it's wonderful,\" she says. \"I love you dude.\" \"I love you guys too,\" she adds, not forgetting their adoring onlookers, before playing a poignant version of Your Power, a song about older men who abuse their position.\n\nAnother very early career track, Bellyache, follows, and she tells the audience to light their phones up. Being the headliner these days - usually a night-time slot - she can no longer see their faces, she notes.\n\nHaving swapped into a cap bearing the words: \"I love being me it [angers] all the right people\", the star asks if anyone had been at her last Leeds show, drawing more loud cheers. \"Can you believe what my life turned into, because I can't,\" shrugs the now-Brit, Grammy and Oscar-winner.\n\nProdigious musical talents aside, Eilish's appeal lies also in her unapologetically progressive attitudes around modern issues such as mental health, identity and the environment.\n\nAn impromptu meditation session is called for, as she tells fans to now put down their phones and look around and check in on their concert neighbours. \"I want us to be really grateful of what we have,\" she says, before shifting the focus back on the fans whose adoration has helped her to to the top at warp speed.\n\n\"I'm so grateful for you.\"\n\nFollowing faultless renditions of When the Party is Over, and All the Good Girls Go To Hell, Eilish - who will bring an edition of her climate change conference to London on Wednesday - finishes with a final thought. She tells fans \"we all need to do a much better job of protecting our planet\", starting with each other.\n\n\"I hope you feel comfortable to be yourself here tonight.\"\n\nAfter performing Everything I Wanted, she thanks almost everyone in the entire field before pouring them all a double singalong of Bad Guy - her signature, whispered, trap-pop first US number one earworm- and her more recent power ballad, Happier than Ever. Two songs that perfectly showcase the singer's inner devil and angel.\n\nHaving collected so many musical accolades before her 22nd birthday, it's exciting to see where she will go next.\n\nBefore Billie, second headliners, Las Vegas rock band Imagine Dragons made an explosive impression firing out paper streamers into the crowd while belting out their hit Believer, Spotify's ninth most-streamed song ever.\n\nThere were slight groans when frontman Dan Reynolds committed the cardinal northern sin of announcing it was great to be back at Reading, Leeds' sister festival, where they'll play on Sunday.\n\nBut he soon won the crowd back, first by referencing the city he was actually in, before removing his shirt to bare his stacked torso and then dedicating another singalong for Thunder to a young girl in the crowd. All was forgiven.\n\nBefore that Steve Lacy, who you may have seen in/on The Internet, brought his California neo-soul vibes as the sun set in a \"magical\" way, as he noted, over the main stage east.\n\nEarlier Becky Hill drew scores of people for an old school rave (with added string section), while almost everyone else headed over to see singer-songwriter Tom Odell pack out the Festival Republic tent.\n\nRina Sawayama saw her profile rocket this summer, thanks to appearing alongside Sir Elton John at Glastonbury (in the Kiki Dee role on Don't Go Breaking My Heart).\n\nShe provided the first big call-and-response singalong of the weekend on Friday afternoon, on her track This Hell.\n\nAfter declaring she was \"a proud queer woman\" she invited all of the \"sinners\" in the crowd to \"revel in eternal damnation\" with her.\n\nLos Angeles Indie pop-rockers Muna got things going at Bramham Park with a lunchtime performance of their track Silk Chiffon, which features fellow US singer Phoebe Bridgers but alas, there was no surprise guest appearance.\n\nLead singer Katie Gavin urged fans to have safe sex and be careful with drugs.\n\nThe father of a teenager who died after taking drugs at last year's event told the BBC the event was \"on probation\" this year, and the increased presence of sniffer dogs was noticeable on arrival.\n\nThe festival which, as always, kicks off with GCSE results celebrations/commiserations, remains a right of passage for teenagers across the country . The southern leg of the festival at Reading also got under way on Friday.\n\nRapper TS Lagga marked the occasion by opening his results live on the BBC Introducing Stage.\n\nLeeds Festival continues tomorrow with performances from Sam Fender, Loyle Carner, Wet Leg and Foals.", "Steve Westover waited more than two months for biopsy results despite being \"high priority\"\n\nA man with skin cancer says \"cruel\" waits for biopsy results left him fearing a possible death sentence.\n\nSteve Westover, 73, from Ystalyfera, Neath Port Talbot, noticed a pimple on his head which was growing and turning black. He had the lump removed and was told it was probably cancer.\n\nBut Steve waited more than two months for biopsy results, despite being told he was high priority.\n\nSwansea Bay Health Board said it was unable to comment on individual cases.\n\nWarning: This article contains a graphic image of a soft tissue wound\n\nCancer charities in Wales said existing technologies could be better used to reduce unnecessary waits.\n\nSteve was told his sample should be returned within two to four weeks, but despite calling every week he struggled to obtain his results.\n\n\"I was told there's a backlog delay and it will be there in one to two weeks, ring back next week,\" he said.\n\n\"You ring back the next week and you get the same answer.\"\n\nSteve has been told he has a soft tissue sarcoma, but is waiting for further tests to confirm the treatment he needs\n\nSteve said he would much rather hospitals were honest about how long results could take.\n\n\"If you think the average for a patient on a particular priority is three months, tell them that,\" he said.\n\nHe called the process of waiting for results \"hard to live with\".\n\n\"You don't know whether you're on a death sentence, or whether you've been given the all-clear.\n\n\"You could get a diagnosis that you need for the treatment and you haven't got very long to live, so it makes it very stressful.\"\n\nJust over half of patients suspected to have cancer saw their treatment start within the 62-day target in June\n\nSteve Westover has now been told that he has a soft tissue sarcoma, a form of cancer.\n\nHe said the consultant was \"really caring\" and front line staff had been communicative and helpful.\n\nBut in order to get the correct diagnosis to determine if he needs more treatment, his sample has been sent off for further testing.\n\nOnce again, Steve finds himself phoning every two weeks to see if his results have come back.\n\nHe is a member of a cancer support group where he said people from around the UK share stories of delays and is concerned patients are falling through the cracks.\n\nSteve said patients should be given an app where they could track their tests as they move through the NHS system.\n\n\"All I want is honesty to cancer patients about the maximum wait time they can expect for their biopsy results,\" he said.\n\n\"The front line staff are really good and caring but are locked into a system which doesn't let them give meaningful information.\"\n\nOver a third of consultant pathologists in Wales are approaching retirement age, according to Cancer Research Wales\n\nDr Lee Campbell, Head of Research at Cancer Research Wales, said staff shortages compounded pressures.\n\n\"Health boards struggle to fill vacancies, with up to 1 in 6 positions filled with locum pathologists,\" he said.\n\n\"This is likely to worsen, as over a third of consultant pathologists in Wales are approaching retirement age.\"\n\nHe said more investment in resources was vital if the service was to keep up with demand, attract new trainees and stop waits getting worse.\n\nLowri Griffiths from Tenovus Cancer Care said there was a real challenge in different cancer diagnostic services, including pathology, endoscopy and radiology.\n\n\"It's a really complex picture that health boards are trying to unpick and patients are kind of falling through the cracks,\" she said.\n\nShe pointed to positive developments in Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board where AI technologies have been introduced to read pathology reports much more quickly.\n\n\"There are innovations out there that we need to adopt at pace. What we can't do is dither and dally around waiting for health boards to ponder whether or not these are going to be good interventions.\n\n\"What we need to do is remove the bureaucracy.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government have said the public will feel the impact of cuts on the NHS\n\nIn June, just over half of patients (53.4%) in Wales suspected to have cancer started treatment within the 62-day target.\n\nIn January the figure stood at 51.9% - the lowest proportion since the target was introduced two years ago.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said a response to Mr Westover's case would be provided \"once the investigation has concluded\" but added that it was \"in direct contact with him\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said it welcomed \"any initiative that helps with the earlier diagnosis of cancer\" and said it was \"using new technologies to speed up cancer diagnosis and reduce the need for invasive biopsies\".\n\nThey spokesperson said the Welsh government also had strategies to \"invest in and support pathology services both now and in the future\".", "Carbisdale Castle was built in the early 20th Century\n\n\"Everything looked like it would fall apart,\" says Samantha Kane of her first viewing of cliff-top Carbisdale Castle.\n\nThere was a problem with water seeping into parts of the country house, and some of the rooms were in a serious state of disrepair.\n\nWhen the London-based barrister made her viewing last year, the Highland property had been placed on the market for the third time in six years.\n\nSignificant maintenance costs, or maybe tales of the castle being haunted by a ghostly white lady, appeared to have scared off some potential buyers.\n\nBut the lawyer - who refers to herself as Lady Samantha Kane of Carbisdale Castle - was intrigued.\n\nShe says: \"I had heard it had been sold, but then the sale fell through and it was back on the market.\n\n\"I thought I should at least go and see it.\n\n\"So I took a last-minute flight to Inverness and made my first trip to that far north in the Highlands.\"\n\nShe added: \"I arrived at Carbisdale Castle and it was so atmospheric. It's a magnificent building.\n\n\"When they opened the door and I went in there were grandiose rooms, but all sadly had gone to ruin. There was a lot of ingress of water.\n\n\"But I thought somebody ought to save this iconic building and landmark for future generations. I immediately made an offer unconditionally and I said: 'I must buy this castle'.\"\n\nHer interest in the property near Ardgay, in Sutherland, began when she first learned of its history.\n\nFor 60 years from 1945 the castle was a youth hostel, but during World War Two it had served as a sanctuary for members of the Norwegian royal family after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.\n\nAt the end of the war, Carbisdale hosted the signing of an agreement that required Russian troops, who had captured Norwegian villages while fighting German soldiers, to peacefully withdraw from Norway.\n\nAnd then there was the castle's original resident, Mary Caroline Blair. Ms Kane was fascinated by her story.\n\nThe castle was built for Mary Caroline Blair\n\nIn Victorian London, the Oxford-born Army captain's wife found herself at the centre of a high-society scandal.\n\nShe was having an affair with George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, a married man and the third Duke of Sutherland.\n\nThe duke's family owned huge swathes of land in the Highlands and played a part in Sutherland's notorious Clearances which saw families moved, often forcibly, off land to make way for large-scale farming.\n\nA bitter family feud ensued when Mary Caroline became the duke's second wife just months after the death of his first wife. Mary Caroline's own husband had earlier died in a shooting accident.\n\nThe new duchess' in-laws were unhappy at how quickly the marriage had happened.\n\nQueen Victoria, a close friend of the duke's first wife, was among those who had appealed to the duke to wait longer before remarrying.\n\nThough her formal title was the Duchess of Sutherland, Mary Caroline was disparagingly nicknamed Duchess Blair.\n\nTensions escalated when the duke himself died and the duchess' inheritance was contested by her stepson.\n\nShe was later jailed for six weeks in London's Holloway Prison after being accused of destroying documents related to the will.\n\nCarbisdale Castle has undergone restoration work over the past year\n\nThe dispute was eventually settled, with the Duke of Sutherland's family agreeing to build the duchess a new home - provided it was on a site outside the boundaries of the family's Sutherland Estate.\n\nThe duchess selected a hillside plot close to - and visible from - the estate.\n\nIts clock tower was built with only three faces, with the side facing Sutherland Estate blank because the duchess did not want to give her former in-laws the time of day.\n\nThe architectural details would lead to Carbisdale becoming known as the Castle of Spite.\n\nMs Kane says: \"This was a woman who built a castle in the Victorian era, a time when women didn't have many rights.\n\n\"That touched a chord with me because in my life I have faced discrimination, that has driven me to try my hardest to succeed - to prove to the world that no-one can bring me down.\"\n\nThe property dates from the early 20th Century\n\nIn the year since her purchase, major renovations have started at the castle and Ms Kane has further plans.\n\nThe property is her private residence, but she proposes opening up parts as a museum telling the story of the castle and the local area, and hopes to use other areas for \"quality tourism\".\n\nShe also plans for a distillery and 12 eco-tourism huts powered by renewable energy schemes. The projects would support local jobs.\n\nHer other ideas include inviting Norway's royal family to see where their ancestors were kept safe in wartime.\n\nAnd what of the castle's ghost?\n\n\"Personally, I think it's Duchess Blair,\" she says, suggesting that unexplained sounds in undeveloped parts of the property could be caused by the resident spook.\n• None 'Haunted Castle of Spite' back on the market", "One Direction singer Payne had solo hits with Strip That Down, For You and Familiar\n\nSinger Liam Payne has cancelled his forthcoming tour after suffering a serious kidney infection.\n\nThe One Direction star has pulled out of performances in South America after being taken to hospital.\n\nThe 29-year-old said that he was following doctor's orders and planning to \"rest and recover\" following his scare.\n\nHe apologised to fans who had bought tickets and said he hoped to reschedule the live dates.\n\nIn a statement posted on Instagram on Friday, Payne said: \"It's with a heavy heart I have to tell you that we have no other choice but to postpone my upcoming tour of South America.\n\n\"Over the past week, I've been in hospital with a serious kidney infection, it's something I wouldn't wish on anyone, and doctor's orders are that I now need to rest and recover.\"\n\nHe continued: \"I was beyond excited to come play for you guys. To all of you who have bought tickets: I'm so sorry.\"\n\nFans who had bought tickets would be refunded, Payne said, adding that he was \"working to reschedule the tour\".\n\n\"Please look out for updates from your point of purchase,\" he said. \"Thanks as always for the love and support, and look forward to seeing you soon.\"\n\nIn an accompanying video addressing fans, Payne told fans: \"This really is the last news I want to be telling you... We started rehearsals and I've been advised that now is really not the right time to be travelling on the road while I recover from this.\n\n\"I've got the best people around me at home trying to help me recover as we speak.\"\n\nPayne joined One Direction in 2010, when he was put together with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson on ITV talent competition the X Factor.\n\nThe group went on to score hits with Best Song Ever, What Makes You Beautiful, Kiss You, Steal My Girl and Live While We're Young.\n\nAfter going on hiatus in 2015, Payne launched a solo career and enjoyed chart success with Strip That Down, Get Low, Familiar (featuring J Balvin) and For You (with Rita Ora).\n\nPayne had been due to play dates in Peru, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Colombia on the tour.", "It is the only known photograph of Capt Francis Crozier\n\nAn original portrait photograph of a famous Arctic explorer, taken shortly before the doomed Franklin expedition, will be auctioned in London next month.\n\nCapt Francis Crozier and 13 other senior officers were photographed in May of 1845.\n\nThe complete set of 14 portraits will be auctioned by Sotheby's.\n\nTwo images in the set, including Capt Crozier's, are missing from the only other original collection of these portraits known to exist.\n\nSir John Franklin's expedition to find a Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic became one of the best-known maritime mysteries of all time after the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror disappeared without a trace in the summer of 1845.\n\nAt the request of Sir John's wife Jane, Lady Franklin, at least two sets of 14 daguerreotypes, or early photographs, were taken on board HMS Erebus in the days before the ships' departure. The portraits were made by the Beard Studio, founded by pioneering photographer Richard Beard.\n\nOne of the sets is currently held by the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in Cambridge, but it lacks images of Capt Crozier, commander of HMS Terror, and Robert Sargent, a mate on HMS Erebus. To date, historians have only had access to copies of these two men's daguerreotypes.\n\nFranklin researchers had long speculated as to whether the second, complete, set of original daguerreotypes survived.\n\nThe 14 portraits that have now emerged for auction were owned by Franklin's descendants.\n\nThe sale is estimated to fetch between £150,000 and £200,000.\n\nAll of the daguerreotypes will be exhibited in public together, for the first time ever, at Sotheby's this September.\n\nCapt Francis Crozier is pictured in the second row down, the far right photo, as part of a 14-portrait set\n\n\"These images are absolutely astonishing, the clarity is wonderful,\" says Michael Smith, biographer of Capt Crozier. He notes that Capt Crozier was the only crew member from HMS Terror to be photographed and that this daguerreotype is the only known original photograph of him in existence.\n\nNeil Arnold, director of the SPRI, says some of the daguerreotypes in the Sotheby's set show \"substantial\" differences to those in SPRI's collection - such as the portrait of Charles Des Voeux, who is wearing different clothes and striking a slightly different pose.\n\nAlthough known to the Franklin family, the set of daguerreotypes was, for all intents and purposes, \"lost\" to the wider world until now, says Emily Bierman, global head of photographs at Sotheby's: \"Certainly, the hope was that they would be uncovered or come to light one day.\"\n\nHMS Erebus and HMS Terror became trapped in ice floes in September 1846 and were deserted in April 1848.\n\nA note left by members of the expedition on King William Island, and found by explorers in 1859, revealed that Sir John Franklin died on 11 June 1847. After this date, Capt Crozier was in charge of the 105 then surviving members of the mission - all of whom are ultimately thought to have perished.\n\nHMS Terror, originally a Royal Navy warship, was built in 1813. Coincidentally, the wreck of the vessel was discovered in Terror Bay in 2016. The wreck of HMS Erebus was located in 2014.\n\nThe Franklin explorers brought their daguerreotype camera with them. Mr Smith says that marine archaeologists are hopeful that images taken during the expedition could be recovered from the device, if it were ever found.\n\nThat would be \"an amazing historical development\", he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from the wreck of HMS Terror", "Alexander McKellar (left) killed Tony Parsons and, along with his twin brother Robert, disposed of his body\n\nA drink-driver who killed a charity cyclist then hid his body in a shallow grave on a remote Scottish estate has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.\n\nAlexander McKellar, 31, was speeding when he hit 63-year-old Tony Parsons, then left him to die on the A82 near Bridge of Orchy in September 2017.\n\nMcKellar and his twin brother Robert later hid Mr Parsons' body. His remains were not found for three years.\n\nRobert McKellar was jailed for five years and three months.\n\nAlexander McKellar admitted culpable homicide, while both brothers pled guilty to defeating the ends of justice.\n\nMr Parsons was last seen alive in September 2017\n\nJudge Lord Armstrong said the brothers had caused Mr Parsons' family \"devastating loss and emotional ongoing harm\".\n\nHe added: \"I suspect no sentence will ever be regarded as sufficient.\"\n\nMr Parsons' body was buried in a shallow grave on the Auch Estate, near Bridge of Orchy in the southern Highlands, in September 2017.\n\nIt was not found until Alexander McKellar confided in his girlfriend and showed her the grave.\n\nMr Parsons, a grandfather from Tillicoultry, in Clackmannanshire, had gone missing during a 104-mile (167km) charity bike ride from Fort William back to his home town.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While passing sentence, Lord Armstrong spoke about the devastation felt by Mr Parsons' family.\n\nHe had previously been treated for prostate cancer and wanted to do the ride to raise money for charity to \"give something back.\"\n\nPolice knew he passed through Glencoe Village at about 18:00 before going on to the Bridge of Orchy Hotel in Argyll.\n\nThe last known sighting of him was at the hotel at 23:30 that night, and he headed south on the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum.\n\nAppeals about his whereabouts drew a blank. His disappearance was a complete mystery.\n\nExtensive searches were made for the former navy officer over the following years, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nThere were numerous police appeals and the release of CCTV showing some of the last known sightings of him. The case also featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme.\n\nThe car driven by Alexander McKellar when he struck Mr Parsons\n\nThen in January 2021 police confirmed that his body had been found and that two men, both aged 29, had been arrested.\n\nAfter the McKellar twins' guilty pleas last month, the court heard that on the day of the incident they had dinner and had been drinking with a shooting party at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nAs Alexander McKellar drove home to the Auch Estate, where the brothers were self-employed farm workers, he hit Mr Parsons. He did not seek any medical assistance.\n\nThe court heard that the cyclist's injuries were so bad that he would only have survived for 20 or 30 minutes without help but it was unlikely that he had died instantly.\n\nThe twins left the area and came back to the site in another car before transporting Mr Parson's body to the Auch Estate, where they buried him.\n\nHis body remained undiscovered for three years until 2020 when Alexander McKellar led his former girlfriend to the shallow grave.\n\nAlexander McKellar's girlfriend left a Red Bull can at the site of the grave\n\nShe left a Red Bull can to mark the location before contacting police.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Parsons' body would probably never have been found without her revelation.\n\nDuring the police dig investigators initially discovered a segment of red material, which matched the jacket Mr Parsons had been wearing.\n\nHis body was gradually exposed over the course of two days before being carefully recovered.\n\nMr Parsons was found to have suffered \"catastrophic\" rib, pelvic and spine fractures following the collision.\n\nThe rib injuries were considered to be \"the most immediate cause of death\" due the effect it would have had on his breathing. He may also have suffered a collapsed lung.\n\nMr Parsons' body was buried by the twins on the remote Auch Estate\n\nBrian McConnachie KC, the defence lawyer for Alexander McKellar, told the court that his client wanted to apologise for the trauma that he had caused to Mr Parsons' relatives.\n\nHe added: \"He is not an evil man. He acknowledges that he has done a terrible thing which has caused untold distress to the Parsons family.\n\n\"He would do anything he could to alter the decision he took in September 2017, but he cannot rewind the clock.\"\n\nJohn Scullion KC, defending Robert McKellar, said he had \"misplaced loyalty\" towards his brother in trying to cover up the death.\n\nMr Scullion said: \"He bitterly regrets his callous and cowardly actions.\"\n\nThe McKellars showed no emotion as they were taken handcuffed to the cells.\n\nA police watchdog is currently looking into Police Scotland's handling of the investigation.\n\nThe Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (Pirc) is investigating \"allegations of criminality\" after a complaint against the police by Mr McKellar's former girlfriend.\n\nShe had been due to appear as a key witness in the case but did not turn up to court.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nWest Ham United \"executed their game plan perfectly\" to continue an unbeaten start and stun Brighton with a clinical counter-attacking display, according to goalscorer James Ward-Prowse.\n\nThe win means West Ham ended Saturday top of the Premier League on goals scored, although Manchester City and Liverpool could both leap above them with wins on Sunday.\n\nWard-Prowse opened the scoring with his first Hammers goal when he tapped in from two yards out in the 19th minute after good work from Michail Antonio.\n\nJarrod Bowen added a second for the visitors in the 58th minute, bringing down Said Benrahma's cross before poking the ball into the corner.\n\nAnd though Brighton continually dominated possession and territory, Bowen set up Antonio to drill a shot into the corner for the away side's third in the 63rd minute.\n\nThe Seagulls scored a late consolation goal when Pascal Gross' drive effort found the far corner, but David Moyes' men survived a late surge of Brighton pressure to go on to victory.\n\n\"A lot of effort went in to the game plan, you have to respect Brighton,\" Ward-Prowse told BBC Match of the Day.\n\n\"We denied Brighton space and were compact and clinical. We had the composure to make the most of our chances when we had them - we executed our game plan perfectly.\"\n• None How did you rate Brighton's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of West Ham's display? Send us your views here\n• None Football Daily podcast: West Ham go top & Man Utd come from two down\n\nWest Ham have made an excellent start, backing up their win over Chelsea last weekend with a ruthless display in Sussex.\n\nIncredibly, the visitors' 31 successful passes in the first half was the lowest total reached by a Premier League side since November 2006, when Watford had 30 against Portsmouth.\n\nBut they still went ahead through Ward-Prowse, who bundled Antonio's cross over the line after Adam Webster was caught in possession.\n\nIt was Ward-Prowse's third goal involvement in just his second game for the Hammers having joined from boyhood club Southampton this summer for around £30m.\n\n\"It's been fantastic. I can't speak highly enough of the fans and the people that have helped me settle,\" the England midfielder added.\n\nAs Brighton pushed after the restart West Ham exploited the space their players left behind, and Bowen brilliantly controlled Benrahma's cross-field ball in a counter-attack before finding the bottom corner.\n\nFive minutes later the three points were wrapped up thanks to Antonio's fine finish after creating space for himself. The Jamaica international almost added a fourth in the closing stages but prodded a shot over when through on goal.\n\nWard-Prowse also had a chance to add a fourth late on, but his shot from a tight-angle was saved before the rebound off a Brighton defender hit the cross bar.\n\n\"Today was a well-deserved three points,\" Moyes told BBC Match of the Day. \"All the forward players had a really good contribution.\"\n• None Go straight to the best West Ham content\n\nBrighton finished the match with 79% of possession but, despite scoring four goals in each of their last two matches, initially struggled to trouble West Ham keeper Alphonse Areola.\n\n\"It can happen in football. I am really frustrated for the result but not for the performance,\" said Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi to BBC Match of the Day.\n\n\"We made some crucial and important mistakes for the first and third goals. We could be more clinical but when you concede the first goal, the space becomes smaller and it is more difficult.\"\n\nBrighton's best chance at finding a way back into the game came just after the restart when Areola dived to his left to keep out an Evan Ferguson header with Brighton one goal down.\n\nThe Seagulls rallied after going three down and scored in the 81st minute as Gross' driven shot from the edge of the box found the bottom corner.\n\nThat sparked a flurry of chances for De Zerbi's men, with Joel Veltman's volley forcing a fine save from Areola and the hosts having a penalty shout turned down after the ball was deemed to have accidentally struck West Ham's Vladimir Coufal's arm in the box.\n\nIn injury time Ferguson blasted a fierce shot which was only just tipped on to the bar by Areola, but by that stage defeat was inevitable and Brighton fell to their first loss to West Ham in 13 Premier League matches.\n• None Attempt saved. Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Emerson with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Pascal Groß with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Evan Ferguson (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. João Pedro (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Thilo Kehrer (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.\n• None Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Joël Veltman (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by João Pedro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 2,000 treasures are thought to have been stolen from the British Museum, but recovery has begun of some of them, chairman George Osborne has said.\n\nThe ex-chancellor accepted the museum's reputation has suffered but said \"it is a mess we are going to clear up\".\n\nA leading expert in looted antiquities told the BBC the number of objects lost from the museum was \"mind-blowing\".\n\nA staff member the museum suspects of involvement has been sacked.\n\nAnd it was announced on Friday that Hartwig Fischer, the museum's director, will step down immediately after accepting a 2021 investigation was mishandled.\n\nThe museum, one of the UK's most prestigious cultural institutions, has been under pressure since revealing earlier this month that a number of treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nThe items involved dated from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD and had been kept primarily for academic and research purposes.\n\nMr Osborne - who was appointed as chair in June 2021 - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We believe we have been the victim of thefts over a long period of time and frankly more could have been done to prevent them.\"\n\nAsked where the missing items were located, he said: \"Some members of the antiquarian community are actively co-operating with us\" and that recoveries so far were a \"silver lining to a dark cloud\".\n\nHe said he was confident that \"honest people\" would return items found to have been stolen, but acknowledged that \"others may not\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: British Museum has started to recover items, says chairman George Osborne\n\nFounded in 1753, the British Museum has amassed a collection of around eight million items, but as of 2019 only around 80,000 were on public display, with the rest held in storage.\n\nMr Osborne said that not all of the items were \"properly catalogued and registered\" and suggested \"someone with knowledge of what is not registered has a big advantage in removing\" them.\n\nThe museum is working closely with the police, Mr Osborne said, adding that a \"forensic job\" is under way to establish precisely what is missing. He said security at the museum needed to be improved.\n\n\"It has certainly been damaging to the British Museum's reputation, that is a statement of the obvious, and that is why I'm apologising on its behalf,\" Mr Osborne added.\n\nA man has been interviewed by Metropolitan Police detectives over the missing items but no arrests have been made.\n\nSenior figures at the museum have scrambled to address how they handled the discovery of missing items after it emerged concerns about potential thefts were first raised two years ago.\n\nMr Osborne said \"more could have been done\" after theft concerns were first raised in February 2021.\n\nAsked why they were not taken seriously, he said he did not believe there was a \"cover-up\" at the top of the museum, but said it was \"possible\" that \"groupthink\" among senior staff meant they \"could not believe that there was an insider\" stealing treasures.\n\nChristos Tsirogiannis, a forensic archaeologist who chairs a Unesco group dedicated to illicit antiquities trafficking, described the thefts as the worst in modern history.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"It is by far the biggest theft that I know about from a museum, especially for one of this calibre.\n\n\"It's a massive amount for any museum, but this happening at the British Museum makes it even worse.\"\n\nDr Tsirogiannis called on the museum to immediately publish a list of what is missing to help experts assist with the search.\n\nHe said: \"I don't have any evidence to start checking. By not publishing a list of what is missing, they are tying the hands of experts who should be helping. I would love to help but I can't.\"\n\nMr Osborne told the BBC the museum was working very closely with the police - who were \"the only people\" who could put a list of stolen items on Interpol - and with the Art Loss Register, a register of stolen items.\n\nProfessor Dan Hicks, a curator at Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum, criticised the quality of the British Museum record keeping in the Guardian, saying \"this was a disaster waiting to happen\".\n\nMr Osborne admitted not all the objects in the British Museum's possession have been formally recorded.\n\nHe insisted it was \"not unique\" for a large museum to not fully catalogue its whole collection and that it \"was ahead of many of the big museums in doing this work\".\n\nDr Tsirogiannis said recording objects was the \"primary responsibility of a museum\". He claimed the British Museum had made \"a deliberate choice to put money into glossy catalogues and events without recording their objects\".\n\nMr Fischer, who has held the position of director since 2016, confirmed on Friday that he would leave his role once an interim replacement had been appointed.\n\nThe museum director was previously due to step down in 2024.\n\nHe also apologised for \"misjudged\" remarks alleging the antiques dealer who first raised concerns in 2021 had withheld information about the missing items.\n\nDeputy director Jonathan Williams - who was involved with the 2021 investigation - will step back from his normal duties until an independent review launched by the museum concludes.\n\nThe scandal has prompted questions about the British Museum's wider role as an institution housing objects from around the world.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nAmerican pole vaulter Katie Moon has defended her decision to share world gold after criticism on social media.\n\nDefending champion Moon and Australia's Nina Kennedy agreed to share the title rather than continue with a jump-off after each missed three goes at 4.95m.\n\nIt is the first time a gold has been shared in the competition's history.\n\nMoon said she wanted to enlighten critics who had called them \"cowards, shameful, pathetic\", explaining that fatigue was a key factor.\n\n\"To say I have seen mixed reviews about our decision to share the win would be an understatement,\" Olympic champion Moon wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"I know you can't make everyone happy in this world but, in an effort to help people understand the sport that I love so much, I would like to explain the mentality in that moment.\n\n\"The pole vault is not an endurance event. Once the fatigue sets in it not only becomes more difficult but dangerous.\n\n\"The sport has seen everything from athletes just landing funny with minor tweaks to horrific accidents.\"\n\nThe decision of high jumpers Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi to share gold was one of the standout moments at the Tokyo Olympics two years ago.\n• None Hudson Smith goes from 'absolute hell' to world silver\n\nMoon and Kennedy's shared gold was celebrated at Budapest's National Athletics Centre following a thrilling pole vault final.\n\nBoth athletes had cleared 4.90m but neither could make the 4.95m mark.\n\nMoon said the fatigue from such a long competition had led her to move her take off step further from the pit, making further attempts riskier.\n\n\"To walk away healthy and with a gold medal while celebrating with my friend that had jumped just as well was a no-brainer,\" Moon added.\n\n\"I understand that people want to see a clear winner but in this instance it was without a doubt the right decision, and one that I will never regret.\n\n\"Contrary to popular belief, you do not need a 'win at all cost' mindset to have a champion's mentality.\n\n\"Part of the reason we've reached the highest level is by listening to our bodies.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSpain's Women's World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda has criticised suspended football federation president Luis Rubiales, calling the moment he kissed squad member Jennifer Hermoso \"inappropriate and unacceptable\".\n\nRubiales was suspended by Fifa on Saturday after Hermoso said the kiss prior to the team lifting the trophy was not consensual.\n\nVilda's entire coaching staff have resigned in protests against Rubiales, but Vilda himself has not stepped down despite his latest comments.\n\nThe coach was spotted applauding at the Spanish federation's extraordinary general assembly on Friday, when Rubiales gave an emphatic speech in which he repeatedly insisted he would not resign and claimed to be the victim of \"social assassination\".\n\nThe two had been allies after Rubiales stood by Vilda in September 2022 when 15 national-team players pulled out of the squad, saying that the manager's management was affecting their emotional state and health.\n\nOf those 15, only three opted to return to the Spain squad which went on to beat England in the final in Sydney.\n\nVilda released a statement on Saturday night, saying: \"I regret deeply that the victory of Spanish women's football has been harmed by the inappropriate behaviour that our until now top leader, Luis Rubiales, has carried out and that he himself has recognised.\n\n\"There is no doubt that it is unacceptable and does not reflect at all the principles and values that I defend in my life, in sport in general and in football in particular.\n\n\"I condemn without doubt any macho attitude, [which should be] far from an advanced and developed society.\n\n\"A clearly undesirable climate has been generated, far from what should have been a great celebration of Spanish sport and women's sport.\n\n\"I reiterate my unwavering commitment to promoting a sport that is a model of equality and respect in our society.\"\n\nFifa has provisionally suspended 46-year-old Rubiales, a former La Liga player for Levante, from any football-related activities for an initial 90 days.\n\nSpain's government has also started legal proceedings as they aim to suspend him.\n\nVilda is now the only coach from the women's national team who remains in place, with assistant managers Montse Tome, Javier Lerga and Eugenio Gonzalo Martin, physio Blanca Romero Moraleda and goalkeeping coach Carlos Sanchez all having quit their posts earlier on Saturday.\n\nSome 81 Spain players, including all 23 World Cup winners, said they would not play for the team again while Rubiales was in charge.\n\nRubiales had claimed the kiss with Pachuca forward Hermoso, 33, was consensual, something she strongly denied in a statement.\n\nThe RFEF then launched a remarkable statement on Friday night threatening legal action against Hermoso for her \"lies\".\n\nThat statement was later altered following Rubiales' suspension but still carries the threat of legal action against \"each falsehood that is spread\".\n\nLike Vilda, the men's national team boss, Luis de la Fuente, also applauded Rubiales' speech on Friday before issuing a statement criticising him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWithin hours of releasing the names of 388 people unaccounted for following the Maui wildfires, 100 were reported safe, the FBI confirmed.\n\nAuthorities released the names on Thursday and asked survivors to come forward, so they could focus their efforts on locating any others.\n\nThe official death toll from the fires currently stands at 115.\n\nSearch teams are still combing through the charred remains of the historic town of Lahaina and other areas.\n\nThe devastating fires spread on 8 August and blazed through the oceanside town of Lahaina, home to 12,000 people.\n\nIn a press conference, the FBI's special agent in charge in Honolulu, Steven Merril, said they were \"very thankful for the people who have reached out by phone or email\".\n\n\"As we get someone off of a list, this has enabled us to devote more resources to those who are still on the list.\"\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Maui's police chief John Pellettier said the names were released in an effort to narrow down who remains unaccounted for.\n\n\"We know that it will help with the investigation,\" Chief Pelletier said.\n\nOfficials also asked residents to come forward if they see a name of a person they know to be safe.\n\nEarlier in the week, authorities said more than 1,000 people were still unaccounted for.\n\nAs of Thursday, Chief Pelletier said that an additional 1,732 people who were believed to be missing have since been found safe. Officials have been able to narrow down the list of missing by cross referencing it with names of people staying at shelters.\n\n\"We also know that once those names come out, it can and will cause pain for folks whose loved ones are listed,\" Chief Pelletier added in his statement.\n\n\"This is not an easy thing to do, but we want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to make this investigation as complete and thorough as possible.\"\n\nThe wildfires are among the deadliest in US history, and officials have said that they anticipate the death toll may rise.\n\nThe official death toll from the Maui wildfire is 115, though officials have cautioned it may rise\n\nMaui officials have publicly identified 46 people who died in the fire. The latest names, released on Thursday, include a family of four whose remains were found in a burnt car near their home.\n\nThey were identified as: 7-year-old Tony Takafua; his mother Salote Tone, 39; and his grandparents Faaoso Tone, 70, and Maluifonua Tone, 73.\n\nTony is the first confirmed child victim of the wildfire.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least two people died and 56 were injured after two blasts at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) station in Romania.\n\nThe injured included 39 firefighters who went to the scene following the first explosion near the capital Bucharest on Saturday evening.\n\nShortly after, a second blast sent a mushroom cloud billowing into the sky, rocking the forecourt in Crevedia.\n\nSeveral people are in critical condition with severe burns, authorities said.\n\nThe two people who died were a couple, Raed Arafat, the head of Romania's emergency department, told reporters on Sunday.\n\nThey sent four people who were injured, including two firefighters, to hospitals abroad and said others would follow.\n\nTwo police officers and two gendarmes are among the injured.\n\nAuthorities do not yet know what caused the blast. Mr Arafat said the station was no longer in use and \"did not have a permit to function\", according to quotes reported by the Agence France-Presse news agency.\n\nPeople within a 700-metre (almost half a mile) radius were initially evacuated from the area, with Mr Arafat warning there was a risk of another explosion.\n\nBut by mid-morning, the fires had been contained.\n\nRomania's President Klaus Iohannis described the explosions as a \"tragedy\" and said he was \"profoundly saddened\" by what had happened.\n\n\"An investigation must quickly be launched to see if rules were broken. I ask the authorities to take urgent measures for the injured so that these tragedies won't happen again,\" he wrote on Facebook.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nLuis Rubiales has made global headlines for kissing Jenni Hermoso - so who is the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president who has been suspended by Fifa?\n\nThere was overwhelming pressure on the 46-year-old - who once played three games in the Scottish top flight - to resign after the incident following Spain's win in the Women's World Cup.\n\nHermoso confirmed she did not consent to the kiss, with the entire World Cup-winning squad refusing to play again until his removal, and all of the team's coaches bar manager Jorge Vilda resigning.\n\nSpain's government started legal proceedings seeking to remove him after he emphatically refused to resign in a poorly-received speech on Friday.\n\nAnd Fifa suspended him on Saturday for an initial 90 days from any football-related activity.\n\nBut who is Rubiales?\n\nBorn in 1977 in the Canary Islands, Rubiales - who grew up in the Spanish mainland - had moderate success in his playing career as a defender.\n\nHe played lower-league football in Spain for Mallorca B, Lleida and Xerez before helping Levante to promotion and playing 53 La Liga games for them between 2004-05 and 2007-08.\n\nHe would lead a players' strike at Levante over unpaid wages.\n\nRubiales then played a season for Alicante in the second tier before moving to Scottish side Hamilton Academical.\n\nThe full-back, then 32, played three Scottish Premier League matches and one League Cup game for Accies in August 2009, all defeats, and left the club just two weeks after signing. Family reasons were cited in the BBC news story at the time but he in fact retired.\n\nHis career ended with a 4-1 defeat at Rangers, with Rubiales setting up Mark McLaughlin's header with a corner in the final three minutes.\n\n\"Billy Reid, the manager, said: 'Why do you want to leave?'\" Rubiales told the Daily Mail in 2018.\n\n\"They expected me to ask them to pay up my contract but I told them to just pay me for what I had played, nothing more. They were surprised. They offered me to stay as a scout or on the coaching staff. It was a lovely club.\n\n\"Physically I was still in good shape but I left because in Spain there were lots of footballers going through a situation like the one I had gone through [at Levante and Alicante] where clubs were in administration and players were not being paid.\n\n\"Every day there were more and more players calling. Xavi Oliva, who was a goalkeeper at Villarreal, told me: 'Luis, you have to come and be our leader, we need you.'\"\n\nRubiales, who would get a law degree after retiring, became the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) president in March 2010.\n\nHis time there was relatively controversy free.\n\nHowever, Tamara Ramos, a marketing and commercial director at the AFE during Rubiales' reign, recently claimed she left the organisation and sued Rubiales after being humiliated on several occasions.\n\nThe RFEF released a statement criticising Ramos and accusing her of \"taking advantage of the current media\" climate.\n\nRubiales held that players' union role until standing down in November 2017 when he decided to go for the top job at the football federation, where he had been on the board of directors for six years.\n\nHe got that job in May 2018 - and made headlines just weeks later.\n\nRubiales sacked Spain boss Julen Lopetegui just two days before their 2018 men's World Cup opener after discovering he had agreed to take over as Real Madrid boss after the tournament.\n\n\"I know there's going to be criticism whatever I do,\" he said at the time.\n\n\"I'm sure this will, in time, make us stronger. I admire Julen very much, I respect him very much. He seems a top trainer and that makes it harder to make the decision.\"\n\nSpain, with Fernando Hierro in charge, lost to hosts Russia in the last 16.\n\nAt the time that was seen as a political power play, with newly-appointed Rubiales seizing the first opportunity to show that the federation would not be pushed around by anyone - including their most decorated club.\n\nRubiales would have repeated run-ins with La Liga boss Javier Tebas in another power struggle.\n\nIn August 2018, La Liga announced that a Spanish top-flight game would be played in the USA, later decided to be Girona v Barcelona in Miami, as part of a 15-year partnership.\n\nBut Rubiales said the deal was done without the permission of the RFEF and refused to authorise it. Barca withdrew the plans.\n\nA year later a bid to have Villarreal v Atletico Madrid in Miami went to the courts, with La Liga losing.\n\nEarlier this year they were locked in another dispute over the repeated racist abuse towards Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr.\n\nTebas said in a social media message to the Brazil international: \"Before you criticise and slander La Liga, you need to inform yourself properly. Neither Spain nor La Liga are racist, it is very unfair to say that.\"\n\nBut Rubiales told his Brazilian counterpart Ednaldo Rodrigues \"to ignore the irresponsible behaviour of the president of La Liga\".\n\nHe said \"we have a serious behavioural problem, of education, of racism\" which requires \"a firm response from the federation, but they must let us apply it and so far it has not been the case\".\n\nIn February 2019, Rubiales joined Uefa's executive committee and in May became a vice-president.\n\nIn 2021, he was acquitted in a legal case after architect Yasmina Eid-Macchet accused him of assault and non-payment.\n\nLast year, Rubiales would say there was a \"campaign to discredit me\" and blamed the \"mafia\", adding: \"I cannot guarantee that one day they will put a bag of cocaine in the boot of my car.\"\n\nThat came after hackers released stolen audio recordings from Rubiales and other officials, accusing them of a conflict of interest with then Barcelona defender Gerard Pique's company in a deal to play the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia - something the Spanish FA chief denies.\n\nOf the human rights controversies about hosting the games in Saudi Arabia, Rubiales said: \"We are doing a lot here on an ethical level, helping women in football.\n\n\"The other questions are political questions, outside football. Some critics invent things, sitting at home, without knowing what really happens here. We can't expect a society to change overnight - but girls can play football here in Saudi Arabia, and that is thanks to the Spanish federation.\"\n\nAnd in September 2022 he backed coach Vilda and not the players in a huge dispute that has never really ended.\n\nThe RFEF released a statement saying 15 players submitted emails saying they would not play for Vilda unless \"significant\" concerns over their \"emotional state\" and \"health\" were addressed.\n\nBut the players denied asking for him to be sacked. Rubiales stood by the coach, though, and only three of those 15 players were in the World Cup squad.\n\nAfter Spain's semi-final win over Sweden this summer, Vilda said: \"The support of Luis Rubiales and everyone at the federation means so much and will always stay with me.\"\n\nRubiales said on Friday: \"Jorge Vilda, they wanted to do to you the same thing that they are doing to me now. We've been through a lot, but we've been together.\"\n\nVilda may have survived a players' revolt - and led them to World Cup glory this summer - but Rubiales' time looks numbered with a total of 81 players saying they will not play for Spain while he remains in charge.\n\nAnd now even Vilda appears to have turned on him, calling Rubiales' behaviour \"inappropriate and unacceptable\" in a critical statement on Saturday.", "Protesters rallied at the Spanish Football Federation HQ to demand the resignation of Luis Rubiales after he kissed Jenni Hermoso on the lips, following Spain's World Cup win.\n\nHermoso, a midfielder, has said the kiss was not consensual. But Rubiales, who is president of the Spanish Football Federation, denies this and says it was \"spontaneous\" and \"mutual\".\n\nThe incident has sparked a flurry of 81 players stating they will not play for Spain's women's team until Rubiales is removed from his post.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland lost to Fiji for the first time ever and slumped to a fifth defeat in six games as their Rugby World Cup preparations ended with another blow.\n\nThe Pacific Islanders scored three second-half tries at Twickenham as England's fragile defence struggled to contend with their power.\n\nEngland salvaged hope late on when Joe Marchant's try and George Ford's conversion brought them within a point.\n\nBut Selestino Ravutaumada set up Simione Kuruvoli to seal victory.\n\nThe day began with a sense of optimism for England as Courtney Lawes led out the hosts to mark his 100th cap.\n\nBy the time the full-time whistle sounded, the gloom around English rugby had deepened even further with their first defeat by a side from outside the Six Nations and the Rugby Championship, two weeks before the start of their World Cup campaign against Argentina.\n• None 'England do not have a prayer of winning World Cup playing how they are now' - Matt Dawson column\n• None Borthwick has 'no doubt' England will move forward\n\nDisappointing preparations come to an end\n\nEngland's warm-up campaign has been underpinned by discipline issues, key injuries and poor form.\n\nAs many fans stayed away, the entire top section of Twickenham was closed apart from a small section of seating occupied by England's players not involved in the matchday squad, including banned duo Owen Farrell and Billy Vunipola.\n\nCaptain Farrell and Vunipola, the only specialist number eight in the squad, are serving bans for high tackles which will see them both miss the World Cup opener with Argentina.\n\nJack van Poortvliet (ankle) and Anthony Watson (calf) have also withdrawn from England's 33-man squad with injuries.\n\nCoach Steve Borthwick has named Alex Mitchell as Van Poortvliet's replacement and has until Monday to confirm his final squad, which is likely to include Jonny May after his try-scoring return to the international fold, while one of England's standout performers in the 2019 World Cup, Tom Curry, has not played all summer.\n\nEngland's defence is a big concern and they have conceded 12 tries in their four summer warm-up matches. The attack is not a point of strength either with only five tries in those four matches, of which they have lost three.\n\nMay ended their wait for a back to score since Freddie Steward's consolation try in the Six Nations humiliation by France in March, but utility backs Marcus Smith and Marchant also got on the scoresheet in the second half against Fiji.\n\nPreparation for the World Cup has not been smooth but the dress rehearsals are over and the real thing begins for Borthwick's team on 9 September in Marseille.\n\nFor the opening 20 minutes England played on the front foot as Manu Tuilagi's direct running proved to be a threat in midfield.\n\nThey were rewarded when May, who appeared to be conducting a final audition for a place in the World Cup squad after Watson's injury, handed off Ravutaumada to score in the corner and end England's wait of more than six hours for a try from the backline.\n\nBut as the rain began to fall England's dominance waned, though the conditions should in theory have favoured the hosts and hampered the visitors' free-flowing off-load game.\n\nWaisea Nayacalevu had a try chalked off in the first half for a forward pass in the build-up, but three minutes after the break he went over legally after Ravutaumada did to May what May had done to him in the opening exchanges.\n\nVinaya Habosi scored Fiji's second try as he nonchalantly picked up the ball from the base of a ruck and raced clear to send the small pocket of travelling fans into delirium.\n\nSmith's introduction at full-back off the bench was an attempt offer England a spark in attack, and for the second time in as many games at Twickenham the hosts rallied after going behind, as they did in the narrow win over Wales two weeks earlier.\n\nFord chipped over the onrushing Fijian defence for Smith to gather the loose ball and score under the posts, but Caleb Muntz's boot kept England at arm's length.\n\nMarchant's finish late on handed Borthwick's side hope but the elusive Ravutaumada skipped back inside and freed his arms to offload for Kuruvoli to dive over and extinguish any hopes of an England comeback.", "Marsden, photographed at his home in Buckinghamshire in May 2014, played with some of the world's greatest musicians\n\nGuitarist Bernie Marsden, who performed with the British rock group Whitesnake in the 1970s and 80s has died, aged 72.\n\nThe musician, from Buckingham, died \"peacefully\" on Thursday surrounded by his wife and daughters.\n\nAlong with David Coverdale, Marsden co-founded Whitesnake and co-wrote hits including Here I Go Again and Fool For Your Loving, and had a solo career.\n\n\"Bernie never lost his passion for music, writing and recording until the end,\" a family statement said.\n\nWhitesnake lead vocalist Coverdale - the former lead singer with Deep Purple - said he had been \"honoured\" to share the stage with Marsden.\n\n\"Good Morning...I've just woken up to the awful news that my old friend & former Snake Bernie Marsden has passed,\" he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\n\"My sincere thoughts & prayers to his beloved family, friends & fans.\n\n\"A genuinely funny, gifted man, whom I was honored to know & share a stage with. RIP, Bernie.\"\n\nAn early Whitesnake line-up, pictured in 1978, with Marsden (second left) next to Coverdale (centre)\n\nCoverdale also shared other tributes to Marsden on social media.\n\nMarsden performed in several Buckingham bands as a teenager before turning professional with UFO in 1972.\n\nHe and Coverdale formed Whitesnake in 1978, playing on the band's debut EP and first five albums.\n\nDuring that time, he recorded two solo albums: And About Time Too and Look At Me Now.\n\nAfter leaving Whitesnake in 1981, Marsden formed Alaska, making two albums in the 1980s, before briefly forming MGM with Neil Murray and Mel Galley.\n\nIn 2011, he reunited with Whitesnake for the first time since 1981 at the Sweden Rock Festival, becoming the only original member of the band to play with a later line-up.\n\nThree years ago, Marsden sold off a collection of amplifiers and speakers, saying it was \"time to pass them on to someone else\".\n\nAccording to the University of Buckingham, which made him an honorary Master of the Arts in 2015, Marsden's first \"real\" jobs were at Buckingham Borough Council, a local dairy and with builders merchants.\n\nHe is survived by his wife, Fran, and daughters Charlotte and Olivia.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "The family of Claire Knights, missing from Upstreet, have been told about the discovery\n\nPolice searching for a missing woman have found a body near a Kent beach.\n\nFormal identification is yet to take place but the family of 54-year-old Claire Knights, who was missing from Upstreet, has been informed.\n\nThe discovery was made by a member of the public near Minnis Bay, just after 19:00 BST on Friday, Kent Police said.\n\nDetectives are treating the death as suspicious and a man in his 20s from Margate was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe body was found in an area popular with dog walkers near Minnis Bay\n\nThere will be an increased police presence in the area while investigations take place, the force added.\n\nMs Knights' spaniel, called Zebulon, was found on Minnis Bay on Wednesday - the day she was last seen.\n\nPolice found Ms Knights' spaniel Zebulon on Minnis Bay on the day she was last seen\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The body of Donald Patience was found by police called to reports of a dog being stolen\n\nA man has been charged with murder after a body was discovered by police called to reports of a dog being stolen from a house.\n\nDonald Patience, 45, \"had been dead for several days\" when officers found him at the property in Bury on Tuesday, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nThe cause of his death remains unknown and is being investigated.\n\nIan Connell, 39, of Duke Street, Bolton, has been charged with the murder of Mr Patience.\n\nHe will appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court later.\n\nA 27-year-old man and a 41-year-old man, who were also arrested, have been bailed pending further inquiries.\n\nThe labradoodle dog was reported stolen from the house in Ainsworth Road, Radcliffe\n\nAlso known as Prentice, Mr Patience was originally from Alness in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nHe was described by his family as \"a much-loved son, brother and father and will be sorely missed by many\".\n\nPolice were called on Tuesday morning to the suspected theft of a labradoodle in Ainsworth Road, Radcliffe.\n\nThe back window of the house was smashed and officers have continued to appeal for information.\n\nGMP added that the dog was being looked after.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The stone was commissioned to mark Northern Ireland's centenary\n\nUnionist party leaders have asked for help to cover the cost of installing a stone at Stormont to mark Northern Ireland's centenary.\n\nIf the request is accepted, it could cost the public purse up to £14,000.\n\nThe stone, carved in the shape of Northern Ireland, was set to be unveiled in Parliament Building's east Belfast grounds this summer.\n\nBut the plans have stalled due to issues including costs and deciding where to place the stone.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Traditional Unionist Voice previously said the stone would be \"paid for by unionist MLAs and therefore will not cost the public purse\".\n\nIn a joint letter seen by BBC News NI, the party leaders said it would be \"problematic\" to require them to cover the \"full installation costs\".\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, UUP leader Doug Beattie and TUV leader Jim Allister instead proposed contributing £4,000 and for Stormont to \"bear the balance costs\".\n\nThey said that was a \"fair and equitable way forward\" as the planned location for the stone to the east of Parliament Buildings was a \"more elaborate and costly setting\" than the western site unionist parties had proposed.\n\nIt is understood that officials have estimated the installation costs for the eastern site at about £18,000, whereas the western site could cost £4,000.\n\nThe unionist leaders wrote: \"We also think that requiring a donor to undertake the full installation costs, as suggested, is problematic not just in this instance but in respect of the practicalities and the precedent going forward.\n\n\"Is it now to be policy that if any further memorials or structures are requested at Parliament Buildings, then, those seeking such will have to bear the full costs of production and installation, or is the centenary stone project alone to be treated in this way?\"\n\nThey requested a meeting with officials \"so that our respective parties can clarify and agree on an acceptable way forward\".\n\nThe stone sparked a political row in 2021 - the year of the centenary - when Sinn Féin blocked the proposal.\n\nUnionist leaders said the veto caused \"great hurt\" but Sinn Féin said it \"opposed a stone to celebrate partition\".\n\nSinn Féin said it opposed the stone as it \"reflects only one political perspective\"\n\nThis year the stone was passed by the Assembly Commission in the absence of a Sinn Féin representative on the body.\n\nThe Assembly Commission manages Stormont's property, staff and services. It currently consists of representatives of the DUP, the UUP, the Alliance Party and Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and is chaired by Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey.\n\nSinn Féin MLA John O'Dowd stood down from the commission last year after he was appointed as Stormont's infrastructure minister.\n\nThe party has not been able to nominate a replacement due to the collapse of the devolved institutions.\n\nAn SDLP spokesman said: \"This is clear cut. The proposers agreed to cover the costs of the installation and they should honour their commitment to the full amount at the location agreed by the Assembly Commission.\"\n\nTUV leader Jim Allister told BBC News NI that it was \"quite staggering\" that Northern Ireland's centenary had passed and Stormont \"has nothing to mark that occasion for future generations\".\n\nHe said the Assembly Commission had originally accepted unionists' proposal to place the stone to the west of Parliament Buildings but in June it \"unilaterally\" decided it should be erected to the east.\n\nHe said that because the eastern location near Lord Craigavon's tomb would be a more \"elaborate construction\" it was a \"reasonable proposition\" to share the costs.\n\nAn Assembly spokeswoman said the commission received a report in June \"on the detail of issues to give effect to its previous decision to agree to erect a centenary stone donated by the unionist parties\".\n\n\"These issues included environmental heritage and planning permission, equality and good relations and associated costs,\" she added.\n\n\"Discussions have not yet concluded on this matter.\"", "Hartwig Fischer has been director of the British Museum since 2016\n\nBritish Museum director Hartwig Fischer has said he will step down from his role, after treasures were stolen from the London institution.\n\nIn a statement, he said it was evident the museum \"did not respond as comprehensively as it should have\" when it was told about the thefts in 2021.\n\nMr Fischer also withdrew remarks he made earlier this week about the art dealer who first alerted museum bosses.\n\nHe said he expressed \"sincere regret\" over the \"misjudged\" comments.\n\nThe museum announced last week that it had sacked a member of staff after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Fischer defended the museum's investigation in 2021, when it had told antiques dealer Ittai Gradel that \"all objects were accounted for\".\n\nMr Fischer said he had \"reason to believe\" Dr Gradel had withheld information on other missing items, a comment Dr Gradel said was \"an outright lie\".\n\nDr Gradel told BBC News on Friday that Mr Fischer's resignation was \"the right thing to do, I think he should have done it sooner but I do accept his apology\".\n\nMr Fischer, who has held the position since 2016, said he would step down as soon as the museum's board had found an replacement.\n\nHe had previously announced he would leave the position, but he was not due to depart until 2024.\n\nDeputy Director Jonathan Williams has also agreed to step back from his normal duties until an independent review into the thefts at the Museum has concluded.\n\n\"Over the last few days I have been reviewing in detail the events around the thefts from the British Museum and the investigation into them.\n\n\"It is evident that the British Museum did not respond as comprehensively as it should have in response to the warnings in 2021, and to the problem that has now fully emerged. The responsibility for that failure must ultimately rest with the director.\n\n\"I also misjudged the remarks I made earlier this week about Dr Gradel. I wish to express my sincere regret and withdraw those remarks.\n\n\"I have offered my resignation to the chairman of the trustees, and will step down as soon as the board have established an interim leadership arrangement. This will remain in place until a new director is chosen.\n\n\"The situation facing the Museum is of the utmost seriousness. I sincerely believe it will come through this moment and emerge stronger, but sadly I have come to the conclusion that my presence is proving a distraction.\n\n\"That is the last thing I would want. Over the last seven years I have been privileged to work with some of the most talented and dedicated public servants.\n\n\"The British Museum is an amazing institution, and it has been the honour of my life to lead it.\"\n\nGeorge Osborne, the former chancellor who is now the chairman of the museum's trustees, said Mr Fischer's resignation had been accepted.\n\nHe added that Mr Fischer had acted \"honourably in confronting the mistakes that have been made\".\n\n\"No one has ever doubted Hartwig's integrity, his dedication to his job, or his love for the museum,\" Mr Osborne said.\n\nHe added the trustees would ensure the museum had the \"necessary leadership to take it through this turbulent period as we learn the lessons of what went wrong\".\n\n\"I am clear about this: we are going to fix what has gone wrong,\" he added. \"We will learn, restore confidence and deserve to be admired once again.\"\n\nA man was interviewed by police earlier this week in connection with the thefts from the museum\n\nThe museum was first warned by Dr Gradel of thefts from its collection two years ago.\n\nEmails seen by the BBC suggest he had become suspicious when he \"stumbled\" upon a photo of a Roman cameo fragment that he said had been put up for sale online.\n\nHe suggested the item had previously been listed on the museum's website but had since been removed.\n\nThe museum said it would investigate, but when Dr Gradel sent emails to follow up on progress, he accused Mr Fischer of \"sweeping it all under the carpet\".\n\nEarlier this week, a man was interviewed by the Metropolitan Police in connection with the thefts. No one has been arrested.\n\nAccording to the PA news agency, the missing items are believed to have been taken over a \"significant\" period of time.\n\nSome of them reportedly ended up on eBay, being sold for considerably less than their actual estimated value.\n\nNone of the treasures, which dated from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD, had recently been on display and had been kept primarily for academic and research purposes, the museum said.\n\nThe majority were kept in a storeroom.", "A man traverses the ferrata on the Gemmi pass\n\nThieves in Switzerland have conquered one of the country's most challenging protected climbing routes.\n\nThey ascended to an altitude of 2,350m and traversed gorges on narrow steel cables - all to rob a collection box.\n\nThe box belongs to a local climbing club, which maintains Switzerland's longest protected climbing route on the Gemmi pass above Leukerbad village.\n\nWhat has caused the biggest shock is that the donation box is accessible only to the most experienced climbers.\n\nThe route, known as a via ferrata, is classed as level 5, the most difficult, and involves serious climbing as well as ascending ladders bolted into the vertical rock face, and traversing gorges on narrow steel cables.\n\n\"What kind of people are these?\" wrote the climbing club on its Facebook page.\n\n\"The climbing club looks after the via ferrata for no salary, we don't ask for anything, and now someone has stolen the money donated to maintain it.\"\n\nThose who discovered the theft believe it was carefully planned well in advance.\n\nThe donation box was found smashed open and empty. The thieves were not only good climbers, equipped with all the necessary mountaineering kit, they took the tools with them to break open the donation box \"with brute force\" the climbing club said.\n\nAstonishingly, it appears they then continued their ascent, with the money, to the top of the Dauberhorn, at 2941 metres.\n\nTrying to find out exactly who committed the crime may be difficult though - the last few days have been perfect climbing weather, and there were many mountaineers enjoying the via ferrata.\n\nThe climbing club is not sure exactly how much money was stolen; but club member and mountain guide Richard Werlen told the BBC it was likely to be at least 400-500 Swiss francs (£359-449; €420-520; $450-560).\n\nSwitzerland is still a country where cash is used on a regular basis, and the Swiss are proud of their voluntary work maintaining hiking paths and climbing routes. A donation for such effort is expected, and gladly given, by large parts of the population.\n\nBut now organisations like the climbing club may wonder if they need to change the way they seek donations.\n\nThe pervasiveness of cash in Switzerland has already led to a spate of robberies of far better protected ATM machines.\n\nMillions of francs have been stolen in the last three years alone, causing the Swiss Federal Police to warn that the regularly filled and often poorly monitored machines are becoming a magnet for thieves from across Europe.\n\nFor the moment, the climbing club is hoping that whoever stole the money will suffer from \"a guilty conscience\", and quietly return it.\n\nAnd Richard Werlen has some consolation to report. This morning, a local benefactor sent in 500 francs to replace the stolen donations.", "Thomas McCabe was given a life sentence after killing a teenager in London in 1990\n\nA convicted murderer serving a life sentence is at large after going on the run for the second time.\n\nThomas McCabe, 59, failed to return to prison from day release on 23 August, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said.\n\nHe was given a life sentence after killing a teenager in London in 1990.\n\nMcCabe was previously on the run for more than two years before being arrested by gardaí (Irish police) in 2020.\n\nOn that occasion he had been released from prison on licence, which was then revoked after several breaches.\n\nHe is described as being 5ft 8ins (173cm) tall, of medium build and with short grey hair.\n\nHe was last seen wearing a grey top, blue jeans and grey trainers.\n\nPolice believe McCabe has connections to Dublin, Newry and Newtownabbey, and has appealed to anyone who has seen McCabe to contact them or Crimestoppers.\n\nThey also appealed to McCabe directly to turn himself in.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe Spanish secretary of sport says he \"wants this to be Spanish football's MeToo moment\" after the government started legal proceedings seeking to suspend football federation president Luis Rubiales for kissing World Cup star Jenni Hermoso on the lips.\n\nRubiales has refused to resign despite overwhelming pressure after the incident following Spain's Women's World Cup final win over England.\n\nFifa opened disciplinary proceedings against the 46-year-old former player on Thursday.\n\nThe Me Too movement seeks to end violence against women and shot into mainstream consciousness in 2017 after film producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of numerous sexual offences - he was subsequently found guilty and jailed.\n\n\"The government starts today the procedure so that Mr Rubiales has to give explanations before the Sport Court and if the Sport Court agrees, I can announce that we will suspend Mr Rubiales from his functions,\" Victor Francos, secretary of sport and head of the state-run National Sports Council said.\n\n\"There has to be a change. The government wants to warn, to be very clear and say that there are things that can't happen again.\"\n\nThe sports council cannot suspend Rubiales unless the court rules that the kiss is in violation of the professional sports code.\n\nRubiales kissed the Spain forward during the presentation ceremony after the final in Sydney. She later said on social media \"I didn't like it\".\n\nHe apologised earlier in the week and had been expected to announce his resignation at an extraordinary general assembly called by the federation, but instead vowed to \"fight until the end\".\n\nOn Friday he said sorry for grabbing his crotch while celebrating in the VIP area in Stadium Australia, with Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter standing nearby.\n\nSpain's acting labour minister Yolanda Diaz said: \"What we have seen today in the Federation Assembly is unacceptable. The Government must act and take urgent measures. Impunity for macho actions is over. Rubiales cannot continue in office.\"\n\nActing social rights minister Ione Belarra added: \"Consent is not decided by the aggressor, it is decided by the woman. Mr Rubiales' violent, mafia-like discourse will not work against a country that has already changed. Everyone already knows what kind of man he is.\"\n\nSpanish players, clubs and organisations have all spoken out - largely against Rubiales.\n\nAlexia Putellas, a Ballon d'Or winner and another member of the World Cup-winning team team, said: \"This is unacceptable. It is over. With you partner Jenni Hermoso.\"\n\nAnother team-mate, Aitana Bonmati, wrote: \"There are limits that cannot be crossed and we cannot tolerate this. We are with you partner.\"\n\nReal Betis striker Borja Iglesias, who has won two caps for the Spain men's team, said: \"As a footballer and as a person I do not feel represented by what happened today...\n\n\"I have made the decision not to return to the national team until things change and these types of acts do not go unpunished.\"\n\nSeveral Spanish football clubs, including Barcelona, Sevilla, Espanyol and Racing Santander, have also released statements critical of Rubiales.\n\nHermoso played for Barcelona from 2013 to 2017 and from 2019 until last year when she joined Mexican side Pachuca.\n\nA club statement read: \"FC Barcelona wishes to make clear that it considers totally improper and inappropriate the RFEF president's behaviour during the celebrations for the World Cup victory achieved by the Spanish women's team. The incident we consider to be deplorable.\"\n\nEngland forward Beth Mead wrote on social media: \"The game, the Spanish players deserve more, no players should have to endure this. It's unacceptable, and also laughable that these men still are allowed so much power.\"\n• None Go here for all the Women's World Cup news", "About 200 elected representatives from 44 legislatures across the United States visited Stormont on Thursday\n\nNot much usually happens at Stormont in August - or ever, come to think of it.\n\nIn the good old days this was recess when assembly members took their summer holidays.\n\nBut because of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) boycott of the institutions there hasn't been a proper sitting of the assembly since 24 March 2022.\n\nThere's little sign of that changing any time soon.\n\nSo the prospect of a visit by almost 200 elected representatives from 44 legislatures across the US, who none of us had ever heard of, turned us almost giddy with excitement.\n\nMaybe, but Stormont can't afford to be choosy these days and at least this was something.\n\nThe delegation, delivered in four large coaches, was led by Robin Vos, the president of the National Conference of State Legislators.\n\nA Republican politician, he's the 79th Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, a man best known for sacking a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice he once hired to investigate electoral fraud.\n\nHe said the US politicians were at Stormont to \"listen and learn\".\n\nPart of that learning was to hear from members of the five main Stormont parties who took questions from their guests in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings.\n\nOne of their inquisitors wondered aloud how their constituents were being served by not being there to do the jobs they were elected for.\n\nDUP assembly member Emma Little Pengelly said it was the only way to address the problems caused by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework.\n\nBut Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy called it \"a failed strategy\", \"reprehensible\" and \"unforgivable\".\n\nThe Alliance Party's Kellie Armstrong, warming to the task, described the situation at Stormont as \"the political equivalent of the seventh circle of hell\".\n\nMatthew O'Toole of the Social Democratic and Labour Party said: \"If you'd have told me we'd have lots of middle aged legislators sitting in the Great Hall I'd have been delighted but sadly we had to bring them in from America.\"\n\nThe politicians, plus about 100 more spouses and guests, then headed to the members' dining room for a three-course lunch from a menu boasting Young Buck blue cheese, panna cotta and spiced pear chutney, County Armagh beef cheek pie topped with buttery mash, Stormont lime mousse with raspberry gel, Jawbox gin syrup and yellowman.\n\n\"This is a junket for Americans and their families,\" said one cynical voice, thankfully not loudly enough to be heard.\n\nNon-event? Maybe. But as we trudged away from Stormont none of us could think of when, and for what purpose, any of us may be back.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA gunman killed three black people in a racially motivated attack then killed himself in Jacksonville, Florida, the city's sheriff said.\n\nThe man, described as white and in his early 20s, entered a Dollar General store and opened fire, triggering a standoff with police.\n\nSheriff T K Waters said two men and a woman were killed by the gunman, who wore body armour and left manifestos.\n\nMayor Donna Deegan said it was a \"hate-filled crime\" driven by racist hatred.\n\nThe sheriff said the shooter - who has not yet been officially named - carried a lightweight semi-automatic rifle and a handgun.\n\nHe is believed to have acted alone and allegedly wanted to kill himself. He lived in Jacksonville's Clay County with his parents and left several messages about his intentions, Sheriff Waters said, including one to his parents and another to the media. The sheriff added that at least one of the guns had a swastika drawn on it.\n\nThe standoff took place at this Dollar General store\n\nThe FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting, which it is treating as a hate crime.\n\nThe attack happened less than a mile from the historically black Edwards Waters University.\n\nThe shooter first went to the university campus, where he was asked to identify himself by a security officer, the university said in a statement. When he refused, he was asked to leave.\n\n\"The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident,\" the statement added.\n\nSheriff Waters said the gunman was then seen putting on a bullet-resistant vest and a mask before leaving the campus.\n\nThe university went into lockdown after the shooting.\n\nJacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan told local TV channel WJXT: \"One shooting is too much but these mass shootings are really hard to take.\"\n\nFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis called the gunman a \"scumbag\" and described the shooting as \"horrific\".\n\n\"He [the gunman] was targeting people based on their race, that is totally unacceptable,\" said Mr DeSantis, who is competing to be the Republican party's presidential candidate.\n\n\"This guy killed himself rather than face the music and accept responsibility for his actions and so he took the coward's way out.\"\n\nThe White House said President Joe Biden had been briefed on the shooting.\n\nIn a statement provided to the BBC's US partner, CBS News, Dollar General said it was \"heartbroken by the senseless act of violence that occurred at our Kings Road store\", adding that \"supporting our Jacksonville employees and the DG family impacted by this tragedy is a top priority as we work closely with law enforcement\".\n\nThere have been over 28,000 gun deaths in the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.\n\nThe Jacksonville attack comes on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr's famous \"I have a dream\" speech. Tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital on Saturday to mark the historic milestone in the civil rights movement.\n• None The numbers behind the rise in US mass shootings", "Nadine Dorries has not spoken in the House of Commons for more than a year\n\nNadine Dorries has resigned from the Commons, more than two months after pledging to go \"with immediate effect\".\n\nShe launched a blistering attack on Rishi Sunak in her resignation statement, telling the prime minister \"history will not judge you kindly\".\n\nThe Mid Bedfordshire MP first announced her intention to quit on 9 June.\n\nShe accused Mr Sunak of abandoning \"the fundamental principles of Conservatism\" and said the country was now run by a \"zombie Parliament\".\n\nMs Dorries, whose salary as an MP is £86,584, had come under increasing pressure to act on her promise to resign as she had not spoken in the Commons since June 2022.\n\nThe former nurse said she had submitted her resignation letter to the prime minister and published the eviscerating text on Mail Online.\n\nThe Treasury confirmed it had been notified of her intention to formally step down.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt is expected to appoint Ms Dorries to the historical position of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern on Tuesday - the arcane mechanism by which MPs can leave the Commons before an election.\n\nThis will enable the Conservative Party to call a by-election in Mid Bedfordshire.\n\nDespite saying in June that she would quit with immediate effect, Ms Dorries subsequently said she wanted to find out why she was refused a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nIt was widely thought she would be made a peer by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his resignation honours list.\n\nIn a lengthy statement Ms Dorries accused Mr Sunak of \"demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy\" against her.\n\nThis, she said, resulted in \"the police having to visit my home and contact me on a number of occasions due to threats to my person\".\n\nBorn in Liverpool, the mother of three says her childhood was warm and loving but she told the Guardian she also remembers having to \"hide from the rent man as we couldn't pay him. Some days there would be no food.\"\n\nAfter school she trained as a nurse and her profession frequently informed the political issues she took up - from Group B Strep testing for pregnant women to pushing for the time limit on abortions to be reduced.\n\nShe came late to politics and had considered joining Labour, but her views were swung by the Right to Buy scheme which had allowed her mother to buy her council house.\n\nShe was elected MP for Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, although her decision to go on ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here in 2012 led to her suspension from the parliamentary Conservative party.\n\nShe would later serve as a health minister before being appointed to the cabinet in 2021 when Boris Johnson made her culture secretary.\n\nHaving written a series of novels, her latest book The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson is due out in September.\n\nIn a criticism of Mr Sunak's leadership, she said: \"Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened.\n\n\"You have no mandate from the people and the government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?\"\n\nShe continued: \"It is a fact that there is no affection for [Labour leader] Keir Starmer out on the doorstep. He does not have the winning X factor qualities of a Thatcher, Blair or a Boris Johnson, and sadly, prime minister, neither do you.\"\n\nShe added: \"Your actions have left some 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods, because in your impatience to become prime minister you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economy.\n\n\"Bewildered, we look in vain for the grand political vision for the people of this great country to hold on to, that would make all this disruption and subsequent inertia worthwhile, and we find absolutely nothing.\"\n\nShe accused the prime minister of failing to work with UK companies to boost opportunities.\n\n\"You flashed your gleaming smile in your Prada shoes and Savile Row suit from behind a camera, but you just weren't listening,\" she said.\n\nA banner appeared on railings near Flitwick railway station, in Ms Dorries' constituency\n\nFlitwick and Shefford town councils in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency had both urged Ms Dorries to stand down immediately, saying she had \"abandoned the local area\".\n\nShefford's mayor, Ken Pollard, told the BBC her constituency office had closed a few years ago and was now a dance studio.\n\n\"It got to the point where it was difficult to contact Nadine on any level,\" he said.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Dorries disputes this, saying: \"My team of caseworkers and I have continued to work for my constituents faithfully and diligently to this day.\"\n\nBut Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the people of Mid Bedfordshire \"deserve better than this circus act that has followed the Conservatives these past few months.\"\n\nSir Ed, along with Labour's Anneliese Dodds, ruled out any election pact. He said the people of Mid Bedfordshire \"deserve a choice\".\n\nMs Dodds told BBC Breakfast: \"Labour won't be cooking up any deals.\"\n\n\"I think it is a real relief for the people of Mid Bedfordshire,\" she added when asked for her reaction to Ms Dorries' resignation. \"They desperately need an MP who will be focused on them full-time.\"\n\nRishi Sunak's political opponents haven't waited for Nadine Dorries's formal resignation to begin campaigning in her Mid-Bedfordshire seat.\n\nHad the former culture secretary actually resigned in June, the by-election would have been and gone before Parliament rose for its summer recess.\n\nBut because she delayed her departure, Mr Sunak now faces a difficult contest in the autumn - possibly around the time of his party's conference, placing him under renewed pressure.\n\nNadine Dorries has a majority of nearly 25,000, but Conservative majorities almost as large have been overturned in the past year.\n\nAs a close ally of the former PM Boris Johnson, Ms Dorries's criticism of Rishi Sunak is unsurprising - but it is also unrelenting.\n\nIf the opposition parties haven't yet written their by-election literature, they now have plenty of material.", "A fire at a business centre broke out with 15 fire engines tackling the blaze\n\nSeveral homes have been \"severely damaged\" in a blaze at a building in east London, firefighters have said.\n\nFlames took hold at the property, consisting of flats and a business centre, on Fairfield Road, Bow, at 18:04 BST on Friday.\n\nCrews spent nearly three hours tackling the fire which destroyed flats on the fifth and sixth floors.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said 15 people were removed from the building but nobody was reported injured.\n\nOne resident told the PA Media news agency the fire alarm did not sound during the fire. This claim has yet to be confirmed.\n\nThe resident, who gave his name as Drew, said: \"The flats at the top are two floors, I saw people through the windows as the fire was going on.\n\n\"The fire alarm wasn't going off, they had absolutely no idea.\n\n\"The first thing I did was call the fire service, then I ran downstairs to make sure that the building was evacuated and told the fire warden the flats hadn't been evacuated.\n\n\"It was quite clear the fire was coming from the roof, it wasn't coming from the flats.\n\n\"I ran back upstairs and grabbed my bag then ran down my corridor and banged on the doors shouting 'fire'.\"\n\nFirefighters at the scene at the business centre in Fairfield Road, Bow\n\nAt the height of the fire, 123 calls were made to the brigade's 999 control centre alerting them to the blaze.\n\nFifteen fire engines and 100 firefighters were despatched to the scene.\n\nThick black smoke could be seen billowing into the air as crews arrived on the scene.\n\nAffected residents were told they might not be allowed back into the building until Sunday.\n\nTwo of the Brigade's 32m (104ft) turntable ladders were deployed as water towers to tackle the flames from height, the fire brigade said in a statement.\n\nCrews from Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Homerton, Shadwell, Islington, Plaistow, Shoreditch, Lewisham and surrounding fire stations were called in to help.\n\nThe brigade said the cause of the fire was now under investigation.\n\nA fire at a business centre broke out with about 15 fire engines tackling the blaze\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Nottinghamshire Police officer was trying to save a distressed man on the railway lines, the force said\n\nA police officer is in a critical condition in hospital after being hit by a train as he attempted to save a distressed man on the tracks.\n\nNottinghamshire Police were called to a residential area in Balderton at about 19:00 BST on Thursday over concerns for a man's safety.\n\nThe force said one of its officers was hit by the train during the incident, while a man suffered non life-threatening electrocution injuries.\n\nThey both remain in hospital.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP), which is leading the investigation, said it happened on the line near Newark Northgate station.\n\n\"Officers attended alongside paramedics, where one man was found to have sustained non life-threatening electrocution injuries, and another man, a Nottinghamshire police officer, had sustained life-changing injuries and sadly remains in a critical condition,\" a BTP spokesperson said.\n\n\"British Transport Police is continuing to make inquiries into the incident.\"\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the injured officer had been taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.\n\nChief Constable Kate Meynell said: \"This is a truly devastating incident that has left one of our officers very poorly in hospital. We are supporting his family and ensuring that he gets all the care and support he needs.\n\n\"This was also extremely traumatic for all those who attended the scene, some of whom provided immediate medical assistance while the ambulance was on its way.\n\n\"I would like to personally thank them for their quick and dedicated response to this incident.\"\n\nSimon Riley, chair of the Nottinghamshire Police Federation, said the organisation's thoughts were \"very much with our injured colleague and his family\".\n\nHe added: \"We are supporting a number of officers involved in the incident and will continue to do everything we can to support all of our members at this time.\"\n\nNottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service also expressed sympathy for the officer.\n\nIn a post on X - formerly Twitter - a spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with the family, friends, and colleagues of our fellow emergency responder.\"\n\nNewark MP Robert Jenrick added: \"Risking your life to save someone else is the epitome of public service.\n\n\"I'm humbled by the bravery and self-sacrifice of the police officer who was critically injured at Newark station today, in the line of duty.\n\n\"He is a true hero and I know the whole community will join me in sending our thoughts and prayers to him and his family.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shauna and Derry Girls character Michelle who she’s based on, at the recent opening of the series exhibition at the Tower Museum in Derry\n\nMichelle was one of the breakout characters from the award-winning series Derry Girls - now, after more than twenty years, her real-life inspiration is returning to her first love of acting.\n\nShauna Bray studied drama and trod the boards with her best friend, Derry Girls creator and writer Lisa McGee, during their student days at Queen's University in Belfast.\n\nTwo decades after turning down a place at the prestigious Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Shauna has been accepted for an advanced acting course there.\n\nThe mum-of-four said it was McGee who encouraged her to return to acting, after giving it up back in 2003.\n\nThe writer herself came to widespread acclaim thanks to her comedy Derry Girls, which first aired in 2018.\n\nIt followed four teenage girls and \"a wee English fella\" growing up in Derry during the 1990s, tracking the group as they navigate the ups and downs of teenage life, all in the shadow of the final years of the Troubles.\n\nShauna and the Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee first met while still at school\n\nFor Shauna, the acting bug bit early - she started at the age of nine after her father spotted an advertisement for an amateur drama society in the Derry Journal.\n\n\"I was doing pantomimes from the age of nine right up until I was 17,\" Shauna told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme.\n\n\"It fostered a real love in me for comedy acting.\"\n\nWhen Shauna repeated her lower sixth year at school, she first met Lisa McGee who was in her form class.\n\nThey performed together, including in plays penned by McGee, and eventually went to Queen's University to study drama.\n\nShauna said that when she finished the degree, she knew she wanted to pursue acting.\n\n\"I auditioned for the Gaiety School of Acting for their full-time course. There was about 1,500 people who applied, and only 20 places. I was accepted so it was a big deal.\n\n\"But then I met someone, and fell in love. I would have had to move away so I just decided to put acting on the backburner. I put it away at the back of my mind.\n\n\"It was too painful for me to go near it, but it was always there\" she said.\n\nShauna's last acting role was in 2003 and she said her focus was on being a mum.\n\nBut some words of encouragement from her childhood best friend and Bafta-award winning writer has now led her back to the stage.\n\n\"It was Lisa who cornered me really and said I should go back to acting.\n\n\"I just thought you're in your forties, you've no self-confidence and my family are the focus.\n\n\"Lisa said that female parts are not simply the young love interests any more because people like her are writing the scripts.\n\n\"When your friend has two Baftas you have to take her seriously.\"\n\nIn that spirit, Shauna returned to the Gaiety Acting School for coaching.\n\nShauna beleives her connection to the hit show will be helpful but she wants to \"forge her own identity\"\n\nShe has since been accepted on a part-time acting course, which she will start in the autumn.\n\nDoes she think her Derry Girls connection will help in her acting career?\n\n\"It will be helpful\" she said.\n\n\"But at the same time I need to make my own way, and forge my own identity in the acting world.\n\n\"It does help though when you have people like (director) Martin Scorsese saying he watches Derry Girls. It's crazy.\n\n\"Saoirse-Monica Jackson, who plays Erin, also contacted me on social media. She was really encouraging and wished me well.\n\n\"Whatever happens, I will welcome it with open arms. Acting lights me up inside and it's something for me. I hope to be coming to a TV screen soon.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt started out a routine Tuesday morning. Car mechanic Gulfaraz had planned to accompany his nephew to school and then go home.\n\nThey made the journey as they had done for years - on a makeshift cable car that would take them across the steep Allai valley in the northwest of Pakistan.\n\nBut minutes into their ride, two cables supporting their car snapped.\n\nThey were trapped in the car with six other passengers, dangling hundreds of metres above the ground, buffeted by gusty winds.\n\n\"It felt like we were standing right at the edge of our own graves,\" Gulfaraz, 20, told BBC Urdu the next day. \"We had little to no hope that we could be saved.\"\n\nThe cable wires snapped at about 07:30 local time (02:30 GMT), but it was not until 14 hours later that all eight people - six teenagers among them - were pulled to safety in a complex operation involving at least four helicopters and a team of zip wire experts.\n\nMany of the trapped passengers did not think they would survive.\n\n\"I thought it was my last day and I will be no more,\" one of the rescued boys, Attaullah Shah, told AFP.\n\n\"God has granted me a second life,\" the 15-year-old said.\n\nGulfaraz, a survivor, said he had little hope of surviving after the cables snapped\n\nCable chair lifts are often used for commuting in this area, deep in the mountains of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.\n\nFor students, the cable cars cut a two-hour road journey through mountainous terrain - from their village homes in Jhangra to school in Batangi - to just five minutes.\n\nIt was Gulfaraz who raised the alarm on Tuesday morning. Suspended in the air, he used his mobile phone to inform his family and friends about what had happened.\n\nResidents used loudspeakers to alert officials, but it took at least four hours for the first rescue helicopter to arrive.\n\nIt was a delicate operation for the choppers. They could not approach the cable car too closely, fearing their rotor blades might destabilise it further.\n\nEach time a rescuer was lowered towards the car, it would shake, leading the children to scream in fear, eyewitnesses told local media.\n\nRecalling the agony of the situation, Gulfaraz said: \"Once when the helicopter came close to rescue the kids, the rescuer's rope got stuck with the cable car.\n\n\"And it started swaying with the helicopter, we toppled upside down, the ones who were sitting fell off their seats, the ones who were standing fell down.\n\n\"I was really stressed out myself and I had to take care of the kids too. They were very scared, some were screaming, others were crying,\" he said.\n\nA child said to have a heart condition had fainted, he added.\n\nResidents used loudspeakers to alert officials to the mishap, but it took at least four hours for the first rescue helicopter to arrive\n\nDrone footage obtained by the BBC shows passengers piled on top of one another, clinging to their seats, many looking visibly distressed. The car was suspended lopsided with its doors flung open.\n\nBy then, anxious crowds, including relatives of those trapped, had gathered on both sides of the ravine. Parents begged officials to save their children while other onlookers watched with bated breath as military choppers attempted the rescue.\n\nLocal police officers described the scene as a \"complete chaos\".\n\nAfter several failed attempts, a helicopter finally lifted one child off the car. Footage online shows the child clinging on to a rope suspended from the chopper, swinging mid-air for 20 seconds before being pulled into the helicopter.\n\nBy then, it was about 19:00 local time and the rescue mission hit another hurdle: helicopter operations had to be suspended because of poor weather and darkness.\n\nAs night fell, hopes faded of rescuing the rest of the group.\n\nEnter the cable and zip line experts from the neighbouring town of Naran, which is a popular destination for adventure tourism.\n\nMuhammad Ali Swati, one of the experts, said they were approached by the military and airlifted to the scene to help.\n\nThe 31-year-old, who on a normal day runs a zip line company, found himself executing a far more complex operation.\n\nSupported by army officers and local rescuers, his team installed a chairlift and inched toward the cable car using its last remaining cable.\n\nThe team later managed to help bring the rest of the group to safety along a zip line.\n\n\"They were clinging to me as children cling to their mothers. Their condition was bad. They in such a state of extreme distress as they didn't think they could survive,\" Ali said.\n\nVideos show huge crowds erupting in cheers close to midnight, as the rest of the group was brought onto land near a thicket of trees.\n\nPakistan's military, which concluded the rescue operation close to 23:00 local time, described the rescue as \"an operation of unprecedented difficulty\".\n\nIt remains unclear how the cables on the stranded cable car broke, but this mishap has drawn scrutiny to the makeshift cable car system widely used in Pakistan.\n\nIn most of the country's mountainous regions, makeshift chairlifts and cable cars are born of necessity, because there are few roads.\n\nIn the Allai valley, settlements are spread far and wide and located up to 2,000m (6,562ft) above sea level.\n\nResidents in Jhangra village told the BBC they only had access to one school, a basic health unit with one doctor, and just a handful of shops - all on the other side of the mountain.\n\nNasrullah, who teaches at the school, said they used to carry people who were sick over their shoulders while walking to find medical help on the other side of the mountain.\n\n\"It used to take us at least two hours on foot. They often die on the way. But three years ago some people came and installed this cable car, which cut the distance we had to cover significantly,\" Nasrullah told the BBC.\n\n\"We have connectivity issues, we don't have bridges. It is inevitable that people are dependent on these means of travel,\" said Molvi Ghulam Ullah, another villager.\n\nIn most of Pakistan's mountainous regions, makeshift chairlifts and cable cars are born of necessity\n\nOften thrown together with scrap metal, these cars are typically built by local communities - mostly illegally, because it is faster and cheaper.\n\nWhile the fare varies depending on the distance being travelled, it begins from as little as 20 PKR (£0.053; $0.067).\n\nBut that efficiency and affordability come at the cost of safety. Tuesday's incident, unfortunately, was not unprecedented.\n\nIn June, a woman and her infant daughter drowned when the cable supporting the chair lift they were travelling in broke across the Swat valley, also in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.\n\nLast December, 12 students were stuck mid-air in northern Pakistan during a similar incident. They were rescued after two hours. And in 2017, 10 people died after a cable car they were riding fell into a ravine in the mountain resort city of Murree.\n\nPakistani authorities have arrested the owner and operator of the cable car that broke on Tuesday. They said a substandard rope had endangered the lives of passengers.\n\nBut villagers say developing transport infrastructure in the area will be a more sustainable solution.\n\n\"We request the government to construct a road as soon as possible so we do not have to rely on cable cars to get to the other side,\" said Nasrullah, the teacher.\n\nAs of now, some concerned parents are reconsidering this makeshift form of transport.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Gulfaraz's nephew said: \"My parents have forbidden me from taking the cable car now, even if it means walking all the way.\n\n\"They said God saved me this time, but it is too dangerous.\"", "Tony Bundy was healthy and active but suffered a stroke in June\n\nA devastated family wants a review of medical advice on strokes to raise awareness of less well-known symptoms.\n\nTony Bundy died from a stroke in June after his condition was not picked up using routine tests.\n\nThe most-known symptoms such as a drooping face, arm weakness and difficulty speaking were not there.\n\nNow the Bundys, from Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, want to make more people aware of other signs to stop their tragedy happening to others.\n\nFather-of-four Tony was just 53 when he died. His widow, Selena said he was active and healthy, but had started to feel unwell over a period of several weeks.\n\nThe symptoms got worse until one day, he collapsed.\n\n\"He couldn't stand up,\" said Selena. \"He couldn't take weight on his legs at all and he was really sick and dizzy.\n\n\"He just felt different - he had cold sweats and really bad colour. Those were the main things that were happening.\n\nTony's wife Selena said the family was devastated about his death\n\nBecause his symptoms were not the ones most people associate with stroke, he was not treated for it straight away.\n\nTony collapsed while out shopping and was taken to hospital. He died after having a Basilar Artery Ischaemic Stroke - which has different symptoms to more common types of stroke.\n\nSelena said losing her husband was a huge and sudden shock.\n\n\"Everybody that knew Tony liked him, and we are just all devastated he is not there any more. We just don't want other people to go through this.\n\nThe Stroke Association says a stroke will strike someone in the UK every five minutes.\n\nIt can happen to anyone, of any age, at any time, so it is vital to know how to spot the signs of a stroke in yourself or someone else.\n\nThe standard checklist for identifying if someone is having a stroke is called the \"Fast\" test, an acronym that highlights certain symptoms:\n\nThe association says in most cases this is a good indicator of stroke and it is an easy acronym for people to remember.\n\nTony Bundy was a much-loved father of four\n\nJohn Watson, who is the charity's Scottish spokesman, says in all cases, speed is the key.\n\n\"Always our messaging is about getting help quickly. If that is through the Fast test then great, but if it is somebody turning up at hospital with some difficult symptoms, it could be a headache, it could be nausea, dizziness.\n\n\"We need to make sure people who are receiving at the hospital have the time and resources to treat people and examine quickly every patient that turns up, and also have access to scanners - which is the best way of identifying if a stroke is actually happening.\"\n\nTony Bundy's son James, who is a Conservative councillor with Falkirk Council, would now like to see the Fast test being extended to include the less familiar symptoms.\n\nHe said it does not have to be complicated.\n\n\"I am looking at other countries around the world, particularly in some states in the US and they use \"Be Fast\" with 'b' standing for balance, 'e' standing for eyes and 't' standing for throwing up rather than time.\n\n\"It is keeping that message of acting fast whilst incorporating a lot of the symptoms that my dad had.\"\n\nTony Bundy and his daughter Anthea who is now fundraising for the Stroke Association\n\nAs the family come to terms with their loss, daughter Anthea is fund-raising for the Stroke association.\n\nShe said the family was shattered by what happened, and wants to push for changes that will save other lives.\n\n\"That is why we are trying to get the different symptoms out into the public - the inability to stand, the vertigo, the dizziness and sickness the lack of focus in the eyes.\n\n\"We knew something wasn't right we just didn't know what it was.\n\n\"Maybe by getting this message out there - it won't help my dad - but it will maybe save someone else in the future.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said its condolences went out to the family on their \"immeasurable loss\".\n\nThey said: \"The Scottish government is committed to ensuring that people who have had a stroke receive the best possible care as quickly as possible to enable them to live longer, healthier and more independent lives.\n\n\"We published our refreshed Stroke Improvement Plan in June 2023, which sets out our vision for minimising preventable strokes and ensuring timely and equitable access to life-saving treatment. NHS Boards are also required to demonstrate how they are actively upskilling and maintaining the knowledge of their stroke workforce.\n\n\"The plan commits us to establishing current public understanding of stroke symptoms and whether certain groups require different messaging. We will work with third sector organisations to consider the most effective way of raising public awareness of stroke symptoms.\"", "Banks face fines if they fail to provide free access to cash withdrawals for consumers and businesses, the Treasury has confirmed.\n\nA new policy will state that free cash withdrawals and deposits must be available within one mile for people living in urban areas.\n\nIn rural areas, where there are concerns over \"cash deserts\", the maximum distance is three miles.\n\nThe move is unlikely to halt branch closures and the decline in cash use.\n\nThe Treasury said the distances were chosen to maintain the current level of coverage of free access to cash, through ATMs or face-to-face services. Those limits could be extended if cash use declines in the future.\n\nUnder the new guidance, if a service such as an ATM or branch is withdrawn and a replacement service is needed in the area, then this should be done before the closure takes place.\n\nA voluntary arrangement is currently in place which means every High Street should have free access to cash within 1km. The detail of the new policy will come under the microscope, including the starting point and practicalities of the distances that have been stipulated.\n\nAn average of more than 50 UK bank branches have closed each month since 2015. Campaigners fear some retailers could stop accepting cash if it becomes too burdensome to process.\n\nCash remains a necessity for millions of people, research has found, with the elderly and those with disabilities among those likely to struggle. Branches have been more likely to close in disadvantaged areas.\n\nBanks have pointed to the large reduction in branch use - a trend accelerated by the Covid pandemic - and the popularity of managing money via smartphones, as good reason for diluting their branch network.\n\nBut a recent survey by Age UK suggested that, among those who were uncomfortable about digital banking, the key concerns were fraud and scams, a lack of trust in online banking services, and a lack of computer skills.\n\nShare your experiences. Get in touch.\n\nMeanwhile, some small businesses are concerned about the declining use of cash, which accelerated during the Covid pandemic.\n\nNina Narramore, who runs the Norfolk Cheese Company in Downham Market, said that when customers pay by card it creates additional costs for her business.\n\nNina Narramore says card payments add to her costs\n\n\"I think post-Covid people have got used to using and paying with cards,\" she said. \"I would say about 10% of our shop sales are only cash payments now. We're just about to see the closure of our last bank in the town so that is only going to get worse.\n\n\"The impact that has on a small business is that we get charged per transaction rather than one deposit that we put in the bank per week.\"\n\nAndrew Griffith, economic secretary to the Treasury, said that \"cash is here to stay\".\n\n\"People shouldn't have to trek for hours to withdraw a tenner to put in someone's birthday card - nor should businesses have to travel large distances to deposit cash takings,\" he said.\n\n\"These are measures which benefit everyone who uses cash but particularly those living in rural areas, the elderly and those with disabilities.\"\n\nThe City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), will be given the power to police the provision of cash access, including the power to order fines. Legislation was voted through earlier in the summer.\n\n\"The government's new law has made it a legal requirement for the banking industry to protect the current levels of cash access and cash deposits, and to support the specific needs of different communities,\" said Natalie Ceeney, who authored a major report on the issue.\n\n\"That doesn't mean that nothing will change, but it does mean that where services plan to close, there need to be appropriate alternatives in place before they do so,\" Ms Ceeney added.\n\nAmong the alternatives are bank hubs, which are spaces shared by several different High Street banks and are meant to help communities that have seen all their bank branches close.\n\nSo far, only seven permanent hubs have opened in various areas across the UK. Another 10 leases have been signed, and organisers suggest more than 100 will be open over the next few years - a number dwarfed by the amount of branch closures.\n\nMs Ceeney told the BBC's Today programme that the advantage of hubs is that all banks are covered \"which in many ways it actually a better service than relying on one brand in that town\".\n\nJenny Ross, of Which? - the consumer group that has campaigned on the issue, said: \"The Financial Conduct Authority must make use of its new powers to ensure banks meet their obligations and stand ready to direct them to address any gaps.\"\n\nHowever, cash machine operators have criticised the Treasury for failing to address funding issues for the sector.\n\n\"The network remains under significant cost pressures due to successive cuts to the funding paid to ATM operators for every customer withdrawal, with rising interest rates making this picture even worse,\" said Charlie Evans, sales director at NoteMachine.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nAny approaches for England manager Sarina Wiegman would be \"100% rejected\", says Football Association chief executive Mark Bullingham.\n\nWiegman, appointed in 2021, has led England to the Women's World Cup final a year after they won Euro 2022.\n\nShe is the first coach to take two countries to a World Cup final, having led the Netherlands there in 2019.\n\n\"It is not about money. We are very happy with her and feel she is happy,\" Bullingham said.\n\nUSA manager Vlatko Andonovski resigned on Thursday following their last-16 exit from the World Cup, with Wiegman listed as a potential candidate to replace him.\n\n\"We've seen lots of rumours, and she is a special talent - we know that. From our side, she's contracted through until 2025,\" said Bullingham.\n\n\"She's doing a great job. We're obviously huge supporters of her and hopefully she feels the same way. She's someone we'd like to have with us for a very long time.\"\n• None How England crashed Australia's party to reach the final\n\nEngland meet Spain in the final at Stadium Australia in Sydney on Sunday at 11:00 BST, a match which will be shown live on the BBC.\n\nAsked whether there had been discussions with Wiegman over a new contract, Bullingham said: \"We've always said we'd get to it after a tournament. We had good conversations after the Euros.\n\n\"There will be an appropriate time to do it. We've got a bit of time. She'll want to have a decent holiday after this.\"\n\nFA women's technical director Kay Cossington said Wiegman and assistant coach Arjan Veurink have had \"a fantastic impact\" and have \"embraced the England DNA across all of our teams\".\n\nPlans to build a statue of Wiegman outside Wembley Stadium have been looked at by the FA and Brent Council since England's European triumph.\n\n\"We've made progress on that and it would be right to have something to commemorate that success outside Wembley. It's more the whole team,\" said Bullingham.\n\n\"You have to go through various permissions - we've gone through that. The next stage is working on the design.\"\n\nBullingham went on to say Wiegman \"could do anything she wants in football\" when pressed if she could potentially take over from men's boss Gareth Southgate.\n\n\"Firstly, I think it's a bit disrespectful to the Lionesses to project it as a step up,\" said Bullingham.\n\n\"People always say it is 'the best man for the job'. Why does it have to be a man? Our answer is always 'it's the best person for the job'.\"\n\n'There's a discussion to be had about player bonuses'\n\nBefore flying to Australia, England players said they were frustrated with the FA over its stance on performance-related bonuses.\n\nThe Lionesses, who are not set to receive bonuses, halted discussions during the tournament but are set to renew them after returning from Australia.\n\n\"We're sorting it after the tournament,\" said Bullingham. \"They had a very strong case before the World Cup and a very strong case after, but the reality is there's a discussion to be had.\"\n\nAsked why those discussions were not resolved, he told BBC sports editor Dan Roan: \"Fifa were relatively late in announcing the prize money for the tournament and the bonuses always come off that.\n\n\"That meant we didn't get the chance to finalise the agreement with the players before we came out here. They then asked to park it until after the tournament, so that's what we've done.\n\n\"It hasn't affected anything. We've got a brilliant morale in the camp, got a brilliant relationship and the two most important things are we're all aligned in winning the tournament and in growing the women's game.\"\n\nSunday's World Cup-winning team will be awarded £3,357,000 in prize money by Fifa, with the runners-up receiving £2,359,000.\n\nThe champions' players will each pocket £211,277 and the runners-up £152,600 each.\n\nBullingham said the \"commercial disparity is still huge\" between men's and women's players but the FA is \"committed to investing ahead of revenue\" to try to bridge the gap.\n\n'Wiegman well paid in market she operates'\n\nThere have also been questions asked as to why Wiegman's salary is not on parity with men's boss Southgate despite her recent success.\n\n\"I understand the question. If you look at the disparity in the market and the income coming in, that's why you've got a difference,\" said Bullingham.\n\n\"We don't talk about people's remuneration but I would say that Sarina is, within the market she operates, well paid. If you look at the comparison in the men's game, it's a different market.\n\n\"I really want those markets to merge over time but we're not there yet. That is the long-term objective and where we have got to get.\"\n\nMeanwhile, England goalkeeper Mary Earps said it was \"hurtful\" that fans cannot buy a replica of her shirt.\n\nAsked if the FA had discussed the issue with kit manufacturers Nike, Bullingham said: \"It's not something we're going to get into now. But it will be something that is addressed quite soon after the tournament.\n\n\"Mary spoke passionately about it and we want to grow goalkeeping - it's building role models. It's something we're getting to but it's not anything we're going to announce now.\"\n\nThe Lionesses are set to leave Australia on Monday and there could be plans to celebrate in London on Tuesday or Wednesday should they beat Spain.\n\nEngland's Euro 2022 captain Leah Williamson, who missed the World Cup through injury, is set to be in Sydney to watch the final, but Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and FA president Prince William will not be present.\n\nLucy Frazer, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will attend.", "Between 1 April and 16 August, the Met received 339 reports of camera cables being damaged, or cameras being stolen or obscured\n\nMore than 300 cameras installed for London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) were vandalised or stolen between April and mid-August, the BBC can reveal.\n\nOver four months, the Met received 339 reports of camera cables being damaged, or cameras being stolen or obscured.\n\nThe actual number of cameras affected is likely to be even higher as one report can represent multiple cameras.\n\nUnofficial data mapping the location of disabled cameras suggests that almost 500 cameras could have been affected.\n\nIt also suggests that the vast majority have been in outer London where the zone is being expanded.\n\nSome 1,900 cameras have been installed in outer London so far.\n\nDespite so much damage being caused, one man has so far been charged by police.\n\nThe Met is trying to trace a man in connection with four offences in Hillingdon, Harrow and Uxbridge\n\nScotland Yard has now released an image of a man detectives are trying to trace in connection with four offences in Hillingdon, Harrow and Uxbridge on 17 June.\n\nCdr Owain Richards said the Met had \"a team of officers investigating and identifying those responsible\" and was working with TfL to \"identify new ways to prevent further cameras from being damaged or stolen\".\n\nThe force has not revealed the locations of any of the disabled cameras but a group of people calling themselves Julie's Ulez map, who are opposed to the Ulez expansion, worked to track the locations and damage caused to cameras.\n\nThe map shows there are 1,619 cameras outside the North and South circular roads with 461 of those reported as vandalised or stolen - equating to 28% of the Transport for London's (TfL) network cameras.\n\nKingsley Hamilton, who runs one of most popular anti-Ulez social media groups, told the BBC he could see why \"if someone is in a desperate situation and has no way out\" they may turn to vandalism.\n\n\"I don't condone it but I won't explicitly say you can't do that. It would be wrong for me to say you're a bad person for doing that (vandalising cameras),\" he added.\n\nTfL is planning to install a total of 2,750 cameras before the expansion comes into force at the end of August.\n\nSpeaking at Mayor's Question Time on 20 July, Sadiq Khan said transport bosses were confident \"there will be the same number of cameras up on 29 August that they had originally planned\" and that \"there is no need for Plan Bs, Cs or anything else\".\n\nThe BBC visited one area in south-east London where seven cameras had recently been damaged. Residents there had mixed views.\n\nAbbie Mires, who works in the area, said the \"harsh action\" of targeting Ulez cameras was justified.\n\n\"It is criminal, but at the end of the day people are trying to prove a point and no one is listening. Old people who've been using their cars for years and years now have to stop driving because they can't afford it,\" she said.\n\nAbbie Mires said transport bosses were not listening to criticism of the Ulez expansion plans\n\nOther residents like Sam Lockwood said damaging Ulez cameras was a \"step too far\".\n\n\"Maybe they think they are Robin Hood characters trying to help others and if they want to risk it that's fair enough. But I think there are better ways to fight the system,\" he said.\n\nHusband and wife, Roy and Linda McKensie had to get rid of two cars ahead of the Ulez expansion, but said disabling cameras was \"criminal activity whichever way you look at it\" which they \"don't agree with\".\n\nLinda added: \"I know things are awkward. I know things are frustrating. But if it all ends up getting lawless it's not going to work.\"\n\nRoy McKensie said he was concerned that if people choose to pay £12.50 instead of changing their cars air pollution levels would not improve\n\nA spokesperson for TfL said: \"Criminal damage to the cameras puts the perpetrators at risk of prosecution and life-changing injuries, while simultaneously risking the safety of the public.\"\n\nWhen the BBC asked TfL and the mayor's office about the costs of vandalism it was told that \"due to commercial and confidentiality reasons, it cannot share the unit cost of cameras, or for repair of cameras\".\n\nThe only figure the BBC has seen was an estimate cost of the planned expansion from November 2022, which was about £159.5m based on assumptions at that time.\n\nThis includes spend for systems design, development and testing; on-street infrastructure design, procurement and delivery including camera installation and signage; marketing and media campaign; and legal and consultation costs.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cheshire police has released video of the moment Lucy Letby was arrested at her home and taken away in a police car.\n\nThe nurse has been found guilty of seven murders and the attempted murder of another six babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nShe was was acquitted of two attempted murder charges and the jury was undecided on the attempted murder of a further four babies.", "The blocking feature will be removed for users of X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk has announced, claiming the feature \"makes no sense\".\n\nThe X boss said users will still be able to block people from directly messaging them, however.\n\nBut many people on social media said it will make it hard for people to remove abusive posts from their timeline.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of changes Mr Musk has made since taking over the site in a $44bn deal last year.\n\nCurrently, when users \"block\" an account, it stops that account's posts from appearing in the blocker's timeline, and vice versa.\n\nAn account that is blocked can no longer send messages to the blocker, nor can it view their posts.\n\nFormer Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, seemed to agree with Mr Musk's decision, posting: \"100%. Mute only\".\n\nBut there are concerns that muting an account would not be sufficient protection from cases of harassment, abuse or stalking.\n\nThe mute function currently only stops notifications about an account's posts. An account that is muted can still view the muter's posts and reply to them.\n\nOne user called Mr Musk's decision a \"huge mistake\", saying there are \"toxic people\" on the platform whom users simply did not want to interact with in any way.\n\nRemoving a blocking feature could also potentially violate the terms and conditions of stores like Apple's App Store and Google Play.\n\nBoth stores have conditions stating that social media apps should allow users facilities to filter harassment or bullying.\n\nIt could mean X is no longer downloadable from those stores.\n\nIf the policy goes ahead, it is not clear if all those accounts which are blocked will automatically become unblocked.\n\nUsers do however have the option to make their account private, hiding their tweets from the public and only allowing accepted followers to view their posts.\n\nElon Musk, the richest man in the world, made a series of changes when he took over the social media site, including sacking the company's top executive team and introducing a charge for the site's \"blue tick\" - or verification - feature.\n\nElon Musk is a prolific poster on X, and he's well known for not always being serious or following through on the many ideas he throws out to his 153 million followers.\n\nX itself rarely responds to journalist queries so it's difficult to verify anything he states on behalf of the firm. But, as its owner, he's by default a significant, if unreliable, source.\n\nThe block button is an established tool for those who feel attacked, bullied or simply want to shut out an account with whom they have a strong disagreement (and X is full of those).\n\nReport an account and one of the first bits of advice you get is to either block or mute it while it is investigated. That's not unique to X.\n\nMuting an account means you don't see it - but it still sees you. And being forced to remain visible to someone you are trying to avoid or feel afraid of seems like an unusual move.\n\nMusk has been clear that he wants his \"digital town square\" to be a platform where all voices are heard, but he's running the risk of bumping up against both app store terms and conditions and social media regulations around protecting users from online harms.", "The man is a crew member for Viking Cruises\n\nA man is being treated in hospital after falling from a cruise ship at a port in the Highlands.\n\nThe Viking Mars crew member, understood to be in his 40s, was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the incident at the Port of Cromarty Firth in Invergordon.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said two ambulances, a helicopter and trauma team were sent to the scene at 11:00.\n\nViking Cruises said no other people were involved in the incident.\n\nThe man's condition in hospital is not known.\n\nA Viking spokesperson said: \"Our hearts, thoughts and prayers are with our crew member and his family.\n\n\"We are focused on ensuring that all involved have the support they need at this time.\n\n\"Our operations team is working with local officials to determine how this occurred.\"\n\nPolice Scotland they received reports of the man having fallen from the ship at Saltburn Pier.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Emergency services attended and the man was taken by air ambulance to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"The Health and Safety Executive has been made aware.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nTelevision presenter Rachel Riley says she will stop supporting Manchester United if forward Mason Greenwood stays at the club.\n\nUnited say no decision has been made about his future, which is the \"subject of intensive internal deliberation\".\n\nForward Greenwood, 21, had criminal charges against him, including attempted rape and assault, dropped.\n\n\"I won't be able to support United if Greenwood remains at the club,\" Riley said on Thursday.\n\nWriting on social media, Countdown co-presenter Riley added: \"We've all seen and heard enough. Pretending this is OK would be a huge part of the problem.\n\n\"It would be devastating for my club to contribute to a culture that brushes this under the carpet. I really hope they do the right thing.\"\n\nAn announcement from United on Greenwood was expected before Monday's Premier League opener against Wolves but was delayed.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, United said the \"fact-finding phase\" of their investigation was now complete.\n\nThey added a decision about Greenwood's future - which \"ultimately rests\" with chief executive officer Richard Arnold - was in the final stages.\n\nIt is thought United's direction of travel was for Greenwood to return in some form, but the fierceness of debate around his future, among other things, has made them pause.\n\nUnited said they had gathered \"extensive evidence and context not in the public domain\" and spoke to \"numerous people with direct involvement or knowledge of the case\".\n\nFans protested outside Old Trafford against Greenwood's potential return before the Wolves game and a group of female United supporters said they want the club to \"demonstrate a zero tolerance approach\" towards violence against women.\n\nFemale Fans Against Greenwood's Return put out a lengthy statement to say Greenwood's reintegration \"tells us, as women, that we don't matter\".\n\nBBC Sport contacted Greenwood's lawyers for a response to the planned protest, but they declined to comment.\n\nGreenwood has been unavailable for selection since his arrest in January 2022 and has not been involved at the club's Carrington training ground.\n• None Listen to the latest The Devils' Advocate podcast\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Peter Wilby carried out the crime while the editor of \"prominent national news outlets\", the National Crime Agency said\n\nA man who formerly edited both the Independent on Sunday and New Statesman has been sentenced for making indecent images of children.\n\nPeter Wilby, 78, was arrested by the National Crime Agency (NCA) at his home in Essex in October.\n\nWilby admitted to officers he had a sexual interest in children and had been viewing indecent images since the 90s, while employed by national titles.\n\nHe was given a 10-month jail sentence, suspended for two years.\n\nInvestigators found 167 indecent images of children, 22 of which were Category A images, the most serious.\n\nHe admitted three charges of making indecent images of children at Chelmsford Crown Court.\n\nPeter Wilby was charged after National Crime Agency officers found more than 100 indecent images on his computer\n\nAdam Sprague, operations manager at the NCA, said: \"The material accessed by Wilby and recovered from his computer showed real children being cruelly and sexually abused.\n\n\"He was viewing this content while working as the editor of prominent national news outlets, a role in which he was entrusted to form the news agenda for the British public. A trust which he has greatly betrayed.\"\n\nWilby was also given a rehabilitation requirement of 40 hours is subject to a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and was placed on the sex offenders register for five years.\n\nA New Statesman spokesperson said: \"The New Statesman staff and management had no knowledge of Wilby's arrest or charges before they were reported and are shocked and appalled to learn of these horrifying crimes.\n\n\"Wilby was New Statesman editor from 1998 to 2005, and remained a contributor.\"\n\nWilby joined The Independent on Sunday in 1990 and served as editor from 1995 to 1996.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "James Cleverly flew to Qatar to attend the men's World Cup last November\n\nUK foreign secretary James Cleverly will travel to Australia to watch England in the Women's World Cup final this Sunday.\n\nHe will join Lucy Frazer, the cabinet minister responsible for sports policy, as the Lionesses take on Spain.\n\nRishi Sunak, however, will not be attending the match in Sydney.\n\nHealth minister Neil O'Brien said the prime minister would \"love to be there\", but had unavoidable diary commitments.\n\nHe blamed the war in Ukraine and \"some of the other things that are happening with the wider economy\".\n\n\"The prime minister has a lot of crucial things in his diary, and some of those things he can't always move,\" he told broadcasters.\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that Spain's Queen Letizia will fly to Australia to attend the final with her 16-year-old daughter Infanta Sofia - but no British royals will be present.\n\nThe Royal Spanish Football Federation said King Felipe would not be attending, as he would be busy carrying out other official duties.\n\nKensington Palace said Prince William, the president of the Football Association, would be cheering on the England team from the UK.\n\nIt is understood he made the decision to avoid making long-distance flights for a very short stay in Australia. He is believed to be concerned about the climate impact of making the journey.\n\nThe Foreign Office confirmed Mr Cleverly's attendance on Friday, following confirmation of Ms Frazer's plans to travel on Wednesday.\n\nThe government has said it has no plans for a bank holiday to celebrate an England victory in the final, despite calls from Labour and the Liberal Democrats. There has never been one held to mark a sporting occasion.\n\nMinisters have called on local councils to do their best to allow pubs to open early ahead of the game.\n\nAccording to an industry body, most pubs are likely to be unable to serve alcohol until 11:00 BST, the time the match begins, with some being restricted until midday.\n\nPubs can apply to their council for a temporary event notice (TEN) to vary their hours - but that requires five working days to process.\n\nThere have been calls to relax licensing laws in England and Wales on Sunday - but signing off such a move would require the consent of Parliament, which is currently in its summer recess.\n\nHave you changed your plans in order to watch the World Cup final on Sunday? Do you have tickets to see the game at Stadium Australia? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Train drivers at more than a dozen companies will strike on Friday, 1 September and refuse to work overtime on Saturday, 2 September, their union Aslef has said.\n\nIt marks the latest industrial action in Aslef's long-running pay dispute.\n\nThe overtime ban will coincide with a strike by other rail workers such as guards and station staff in the RMT union, in a separate dispute.\n\nThe RMT also has a strike on Saturday, 26 August.\n\nAslef's latest action follows a series of six-day overtime bans this summer, which have caused reductions in services and cancellations.\n\nAslef's general secretary Mick Whelan said the train companies and the government had \"forced us into this place because they refuse to sit down and talk to us and have not made a fair and sensible pay offer to train drivers\".\n\nHe added: \"Train drivers at these companies have not had a pay rise for four years - since 2019 - while inflation has rocketed.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) called further strike action \"unnecessary\", adding: \"The union leadership has its head in the sand and refuses to put our fair and reasonable offer to their members.\"\n\nThe offer to Aslef presented a series of changes to working practices which would enable pay rises of 4% for one year and 4% the next.\n\nProgress in both disputes with Aslef and the RMT ground to a halt in the spring, when union bosses rejected the latest proposals from industry negotiators in the RDG.\n\nThe government and the train companies continue to urge unions to give their members a vote on those offers.\n\nUnions have called for improved proposals to be put forward.\n\nThe RDG said: \"We want to give our staff a pay increase, but it has always been linked to implementing necessary, sensible reforms that would enhance services for our customers.\"\n\nBut Mr Whelan said: \"We haven't heard a word from the employers. We haven't had a meeting, a phone call, a text message, or an email since Wednesday, 26 April, and we haven't had any contact with the government since Friday, 6 January.\n\n\"This shows how the contempt in which the companies, and the government, hold passengers and staff and public transport in Britain.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport suggested that unions were \"deliberately targeting the Bank Holiday weekend\", which for many is the last weekend of the school summer holidays.\n\n\"The government has played its part to try and end these disputes by facilitating fair and reasonable pay offers, taking train drivers' average salaries from £60,000 to £65,000, but union leaders refuse to give their members a vote,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app from 10:00 BST; commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live with build-up from 10:00 BST; live text & highlights on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino says women who \"pick the right fights\" can \"convince us men what we have to do\" to bring progress in women's football.\n\nThe month-long Women's World Cup concludes on Sunday when England face Spain in the final at Stadium Australia in Sydney (11:00 BST kick-off).\n\nSpeaking in Sydney, Infantino said women must \"push the door\" to equality.\n\n\"With men, with Fifa, you will find open doors. Just push the doors,\" he added.\n\nWith two matches still to play, including Saturday's third place play-off between Sweden and Australia (09:00 BST), the Women's World Cup has been watched by a tournament record 1.85m fans inside stadiums.\n\n\"This World Cup generated over $570m (£447m) in revenues, and so we broke even,\" said Infantino.\n\n\"We didn't lose any money and we generated the second highest income of any sport, besides of course the men's World Cup, at a global stage.\"\n\nThere remains a huge discrepancy in prize money between the men's and women's tournaments, with the record $110m (£86.1m) for this World Cup some way short of the $440m (£346m) on offer to teams at last year's men's finals in Qatar, where 3.4m fans were in attendance.\n\n\"Equal pay in the World Cup? We are going in that direction already,\" said Infantino.\n\n\"But that would not solve anything. It might be a symbol but it would not solve anything, because it's one month every four years and it's a few players out of the thousands and thousands of players.\n\n\"We need to keep the momentum.\"\n\nHe added: \"And I say to all the women - and you know I have four daughters, so I have a few at home - that you have the power to change. Pick the right battles. Pick the right fights.\n\n\"You have the power to convince us men what we have to do and what we don't have to do. You do it. Just do it.\"\n\nNorway striker Ada Hegerberg responded to Infantino's comments on Twitter, writing: \"Working on a little presentation to convince men. Who's in?\"\n• None Watch the Women's World Cup final between Spain and England live on BBC One\n• None All the build-up to Sunday's Women's World Cup final between Spain and England\n\nInfantino said the success of the Women's World Cup had silenced critics who questioned expanding the tournament to 32 nations.\n\nConcerns were raised that increasing the number of teams from 24 would lead to more one-sided games in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nHowever, Nigeria, South Africa, Jamaica and Morocco - nations ranked no higher than 40th in the world - advanced past the group stage.\n\n\"We invested one billion US dollars in developing the game all over the world and the women's game was specifically targeted,\" he added.\n\n\"We did that in spite of Covid, which impacted us all. Women's football remained alive even in the most difficult of times. We decided to increase the number of teams at the World Cup to 32.\n\n\"I remember when we decided to do [it] that the usual critics, which are less and less, were saying it's not going to work and the level is too different.\n\n\"[They said] there would be 15-0 scores, and it will be bad for women's football.\n\n\"As it happens quite often in the last years, Fifa was right once more. We had eight debutants. We had many countries around the world who thought suddenly they had a chance to participate.\"", "Some essential workers have yet to evacuate out of Yellowknife. Among them is Doctor Lori Regenstreif, who is based out of Ontario but has been working in the Northwest Territories for the last week.\n\nShe says it has been surreal watching Yellowknife enter this state of emergency, as the city has been a hub for evacuees fleeing other fires elsewhere in the Northwest Territories earlier this week.\n\n“Yellowknife is the go-to,” Regenstreif says of the largest city in the Northwest Territories. “Now Yellowknife is vulnerable.”\n\n“It’s like the mothership has gone down.”\n\nShe says the streets are deserted as thousands evacuate out of the city, with restaurants and businesses shuttering doors.\n\nThose who remain are mostly firefighters, police officers, doctors and nurses. One pharmacy in town remains open, Regenstreif says, as its owner refuses to close it.\n\nShe has also noticed a handful of others who remain in the city.\n\n“I can’t really speculate on why,” Regenstreif says, adding later that “If my home were up here, I probably wouldn’t want to go either.”\n\nAs the weekend nears, Regenstreif says the smoke in the air has cleared up. But there is a sense of unease as the wildfire continues to burn.\n\n“It is a bit nerve-wracking that you know something’s going to come, but you don’t see any of it now.”", "Swarms of the tiny biting insects torment hikers and campers during the summer months\n\nA firm that makes midge repellent is seeking candidates to stand outside for eight hours to test a new product.\n\nThe trial will see 10 brave people paid to put repellent on one arm, while leaving the other exposed to count the number of midges that land.\n\nThe tiny biting insects can swarm in massive numbers around Scottish hikers and campers in the summer months.\n\nThe test by APS biocontrol, who make the repellent brand Smidge, will be held in Minard or Inveraray in Argyll.\n\nDr Allison Blackwell of APS biocontrol, said that while the candidates would certainly get bitten, it should not be too bad.\n\n\"When a midge lands on your skin, it kind of wanders around before it starts to bite,\" she said.\n\n\"So at that point, one of the staff running the project will take that insect off, so you get very few bites to be honest.\"\n\nThe firm also runs the Scottish Midge Forecast which predicts numbers from data collected by midge traps and mini-weather stations across Scotland.\n\nMidges thrive in wet and warm conditions and usually have two hatchings during the Scottish summer.\n\nDr Blackwell said that numbers have fallen recently because of the drier warmer summer earlier in the year.\n\nBut last week, while camping in the Highlands, professional wildlife photographer James Roddie, 34, came under attack from a swarm and captured it on video.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wildlife photographer James Roddie reveals the moment he was swarmed by midges\n\nHe said: \"I personally wouldn't want to take part in a test, simply as I spend a lot of my working life dealing with midges anyway.\n\n\"Midges can add an extra layer of complication for outdoor photography shoots and jobs.\n\n\"They can make things quite uncomfortable, even whilst wearing a midge net and using repellent.\"\n\nSmidge is testing the new repellent for another firm for product labelling.\n\nDr Blackwell added: \"If you buy a product from the chemist and it says it protects for 8 hours, there has to be data to back up that claim.\"\n\nThe firm is looking for men and women over the age of 18 to take part in the trial.\n\nDr Blackwell said there has been lot of interest.\n\n\"It's probably because we are paying people,\" she said.\n\n\"But a lot of people are actually fascinated by midges anyway, so people will come out because they want to see what's going on.\"", "The disappearance of Renee and Andrew MacRae is one of the UK's longest murder inquiries\n\nPolice say they have not given up hope of finding the bodies of a mother and son who were murdered almost 50 years ago.\n\nWilliam MacDowell, 81, was convicted last year of killing his lover Renee MacRae and their three-year-old son Andrew in the Highlands in 1976.\n\nMacDowell died in prison in February without revealing where he disposed of their bodies.\n\nPolice hope a BBC Scotland documentary might lead to new information.\n\nMurder Trial: The Disappearance of Renee and Andrew MacRae will feature footage of MacDowell's trial in Inverness and interviews with key figures in the case.\n\nThe discovery of Renee MacRae's BMW on fire in a lay-by south of Inverness on Friday 12 November 1976 sparked one of the UK's longest murder inquiries.\n\nThere was a spot of blood in the car's boot, but no other sign of the 36-year-old mother-of-two or her youngest son, Andrew.\n\nRenee MacRae, pictured with MacDowell, believed they were to be starting a new life in Shetland\n\nAn extensive police investigation at the time involved searches of moorland and a flooded quarry. The case has been reinvestigated several times over the last four decades.\n\nIn 2019, MacDowell was arrested at this home in Penrith, Cumbria. In September last year he was found guilty of the murders and disposing of Renee and Andrew's bodies.\n\nThe trial judge, Lord Armstrong, described the killings as \"executions\". MacDowell, whose lawyers said he was experiencing ill-health during the trial, denied all the charges against him.\n\nHe died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital less than five months after his conviction.\n\n\"The fact he served so little time in jail does rankle me,\" said Det Ch Insp Brian Geddes, who led the reinvestigation that resulted in the case being brought to court.\n\n\"He had his whole life as a free man having taken the lives of Renee and Andrew.\"\n\nWilliam MacDowell died in prison just months after he was convicted at the High Court in Inverness\n\nThe detective said the new documentary offered the possibility of new information or witnesses coming forward.\n\nMr Geddes said: \"Do I believe that anyone else knows where the remains are?\n\n\"I personally don't believe they do and none of the evidence contained within the reinvestigation would suggest that either.\n\n\"However, that doesn't stop us from trying to find out where they are.\n\n\"Hopefully the TV production will prompt further clues from people who may have an idea of where they might be, or any other information about the case.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Geddes said the case was unresolved until the remains of Renee and Andrew were found\n\nThe senior officer said a review of investigative material was already ongoing in an effort to identify any opportunities for a fresh search to be conducted.\n\n\"Because we have not recovered two bodies it remains unresolved as far as I am concerned,\" he said.\n\nMacDowell, who was married, had been the company secretary at a building firm owned by Mrs MacRae's estranged husband, Gordon.\n\nHis trial heard how the discovery of the burning car led to the affair being exposed. It was alleged he had told Renee they would start a new life with Andrew in Shetland.\n\nThe court heard that on the night of their disappearance, Mrs MacRae left her home in Inverness with Andrew in the belief they would be meeting with MacDowell.\n\nHer sister, Morag Govans, said she found the murders harder to deal with as she got older.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe told the BBC Scotland documentary that Renee had been very clever.\n\n\"She was meant to go to university, but none of her friends were going so she didn't go.\n\n\"I wish her life had taken that path. Her life might have been different for her today.\"\n\nMrs Govans added: \"As you get older it gets harder.\n\n\"Our families have grown up and we could have gone for a coffee, gone shopping.\n\n\"I don't have that and I miss that.\"\n\nMade by Firecrest Films, the two-part Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Renee and Andrew MacRae will be shown on BBC Scotland on 22 and 29 August and BBC Two on 28 August and 4 September. Both episodes will be available on BBC iPlayer from 22 August.", "Lucy Letby has been convicted of killing babies on the neonatal unit where she worked\n\nEarly one morning in July 2018, Lucy Letby was led away from her home in handcuffs after being arrested for the first time.\n\nThe neonatal nurse, 28 at the time, was to be questioned about truly unthinkable crimes that, upon conviction, would make her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.\n\nHer arrest followed a painstaking investigation by Cheshire Police that, at its height, involved nearly 70 officers and civilian staff.\n\nThe sole focus of Operation Hummingbird was to investigate the alarming and unexplained rise in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies in the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit.\n\nWithin hours, news of Letby's arrest was making headlines around the world.\n\nShe was initially released on police bail but was subsequently arrested twice more and then ultimately charged in November 2020.\n\nSince October, the now 33-year-old has been on trial at Manchester Crown Court, accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nShe steadfastly denied all of the 22 charges against her but was found guilty of seven counts of murder and seven of attempted murder, involving six babies.\n\nLetby was acquitted on two counts of attempted murder while jurors were unable to reach verdicts on six further attempted murder charges.\n\nThe jury of seven women and four men had deliberated for more than 110 hours after hearing nine months of harrowing evidence.\n\nBut what have we learned about the woman who murdered and attempted to kill babies she was trusted to care for?\n\nLucy Letby wiped away tears as she gave evidence for the first time during her trial\n\nLetby was born on 4 January 1990 and grew up in Hereford with her mother and father, John and Susan, who since October have watched their daughter's trial unfold from the public gallery.\n\nShe attended a local school and sixth-form college, selecting subjects she believed would help her achieve her goals and aspirations.\n\n\"I have always wanted to work with children,\" she told the jury, adding she had chosen A-levels \"which would best support that career\".\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nLetby, who was the first person in her family to go to university, studied nursing for three years at the University of Chester.\n\nDuring her studies, she completed numerous work placements. The majority were based at the Countess of Chester Hospital, either on the children's ward or the neonatal unit.\n\nShe qualified as a Band 5 nurse in September 2011 and went on to start working full-time at the hospital from January 2012 before qualifying to work with intensive care babies in the spring of 2015.\n\nLetby told the court her workload from that time was \"predominately\" spent looking after the sickest babies on the unit.\n\nShe also revealed how she mentored five or six student nurses and estimated that she had cared for hundreds of new-born babies during 2015 and 2016.\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nIn September 2016, Letby was officially informed in a letter from the Royal College of Nursing that she was under investigation over the deaths of babies.\n\nEarlier that year, she had been removed from clinical duties and given a clerical role in the risk and patient safety office by hospital management.\n\nAt the time, she believed this was to check staff were competent to do their jobs and hoped to return to the job she loved.\n\nBut six years later Letby - who had no previous convictions, reprimands or cautions recorded against her - found herself sitting in the dock behind a glass screen as the prosecution labelled her a \"calculating and devious\" opportunist who \"gaslighted\" colleagues to cover her \"murderous assaults\".\n\nLetby spent 14 days in the witness box giving evidence during her trial\n\nHer defence team argued the deaths and collapses were due to \"serial failures in care\" in the unit and she was the victim of a \"system that wanted to apportion blame when it failed\".\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a glimpse into Letby's life outside of work, with her once-private WhatsApp and social media messages read to the court.\n\n\"I had quite an active social life,\" she told the jury.\n\n\"I used to regularly attend salsa class, go out with friends, go on holidays with friends. Gym.\"\n\nShe started to cry as pictures of her home - where she was first arrested - were shown to the jury.\n\nHer home in Chester was searched following her first arrest\n\nLetby lived in staff accommodation at Ash House before moving to a flat in Chester for about six months.\n\nShe moved back into Ash House in June 2015 before moving into the house she bought on Westbourne Road, Chester, in April 2016.\n\nA photo of a noticeboard in the kitchen was covered in pictures and letters and featured a poster, drawn by her godson, which read: \"No.1 Godmother awarded to Lucy Letby\".\n\nOn her bed, she had Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore cuddly toys while a drawer in the living room contained various documents and medical notes for her two cats, named Tigger and Smudge.\n\nLetby has been remanded in custody since November 2020 and has spent time in four different prisons.\n\nHer trial has gripped readers from around the world, many unable to fathom how a neonatal nurse could carry out such heinous acts.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coleen Rooney has branded the \"Wagatha Christie\" trial \"horrible\", in her first public comments since the case.\n\nIn an interview with British Vogue, she suggested she could not forgive Rebekah Vardy for her libel claim, but said \"the relief was everything\" to win.\n\nRooney, the wife of ex-England captain Wayne Rooney, had accused Vardy of leaking stories about her.\n\nThe High Court decision which found the comments \"substantially true\" was criticised by Vardy.\n\nIn the interview for Vogue's September edition, Rooney opened up about \"dreading\" going to court - and said she \"sticks to\" the original claims.\n\nAsked if she could forgive Vardy, who is married to her husband's former team-mate Jamie Vardy, she added: \"I'm a forgive-and-forget person, I can't be bothered with things going on and on...\n\n\"But this is obviously totally different.\"\n\nRooney, 37, continued: \"You see social media people calling people out in such nasty ways and I was thinking I wasn't that nasty.\n\n\"I've never been in a legal case before, so for me it was scary.\n\nShe also criticised Vardy, 41, for taking the case to court, but did voice sympathy for her \"obviously going through it\".\n\n\"I just thought, 'Why have you put yourself in this position?' It was not nice to watch,\" Rooney said.\n\nThe July 2022 trial came after Rooney conducted a sting operation in 2019, accusing Mrs Vardy of leaking private information to The Sun.\n\nThe sleuthing caused a social media sensation and led to the case being dubbed \"Wagatha Christie\" - in reference to Wags (footballers' wives and girlfriends) and the writer Agatha Christie.\n\nVardy has always denied the allegations but was expected to pay an estimated £1.5m towards Rooney's legal costs following the ruling.\n\nRooney told Vogue that she took her son Kai indoor skydiving after initially posting the infamous \"It's……….Rebekah Vardy's account\" accusation.\n\nAnd then \"her phone exploded\".\n\n\"All these messages of support [were] coming in... Then I thought, 'Oh, my God, this has gone extreme.'\"\n\nAnd she said \"the relief was everything\" after the judgement.\n\nAsked about her previous relationship with Vardy, Rooney said the pair would \"associate\" but were not friends and did not socialise. She says she now wonders if invitations to events might have been part of a \"plan to get closer to me\".\n\nResponding to comments about Rooney's interview, Vardy wrote on Instagram: \"I don't get why you would want to keep bringing it up. It's boring now!\n\n\"The public doesn't care and neither do I. She won that's the end of it!\n\n\"Be happy move on... because I know I have.\"\n\nThe BBC has also contacted representatives for Vardy for comment.\n\nThe September issue of British Vogue is available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday 22 August.", "About six million in Tigray are dependent on aid\n\nAt least 1,400 people have starved to death in Ethiopia's northern Tigray since food aid was suspended because it was being stolen, an official has said.\n\nThe UN's World Food Programme (WFP) and the US's leading aid agency halted food aid to Tigray about four months ago.\n\nA subsequent investigation by Tigrayan authorities found that almost 500 people were involved in the theft, the official told the BBC.\n\nTigray was hit by a brutal conflict in 2020, causing famine-like conditions.\n\nThe conflict ended last November after the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a peace deal brokered by the African Union (AU).\n\nEritrean troops fought in the conflict on the side of the Ethiopian army.\n\nFor much of the war the region was under blockade, which largely halted humanitarian aid.\n\nAU envoy, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, said around 600,000 people died in the two-year conflict. Researchers put the hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths down to fighting, starvation and lack of health care.\n\nWFP and USAid rallied to assist some six million Tigrayans, but announced a \"pause\" in food aid after discovering in April that their donations were being diverted to local markets. They did not say who was behind the diversion.\n\n\"We simply could not turn a blind eye to the criminal activity and continue to deliver,\" a WFP spokesperson told the BBC this week.\n\nMebrhit Hailay told the BBC she begs for food at a local market to feed her children, who often go to bed hungry\n\nThe BBC has seen food with emblems of aid agencies such as the WFP and USAid on packaging at markets in cities and towns in Tigray, including the capital, Mekelle.\n\nHowever, it is unclear whether the food aid was corruptly \"diverted\" or whether it had been sold to market owners by aid recipients who were in desperate need of cash.\n\nWFP and USAid also announced a suspension of food aid to the rest of Ethiopia in June.\n\nUSAid is the country's largest food donor, helping millions of people struggling because of conflict, drought and the high cost of living.\n\nA leaked memo by an independent donor group, quoted by several media outlets in June, said there had been a \"co-ordinated and criminal scheme\" apparently orchestrated by federal and regional government entities, with military units across the country benefiting.\n\nEthiopia's government has said it is investigating the allegations, but its findings have not yet been released.\n\nEthiopia's army has denied its troops benefited from any stolen food aid.\n\nThe Tigray interim government's commissioner for disaster risk management, Gebrehiwet Gebrezgabher, told the BBC that since food aid had been halted, 1,411 people had starved to death in three zones alone - the east, north-west and south-east.\n\nData from Tigray's other three zones had not yet been collated, and the death toll would prove to be much higher once this was done, Dr Gebrehiwet said.\n\nHe added that 492 suspects were under investigation, and 198 had so far been charged for their alleged involvement in the scam.\n\nAmong the suspects were government officials, staff of non-governmental organisations, co-ordinators at camps built for people displaced by conflict, and \"partners who are distributors of the food aid\", Dr Gebrehiwet said.\n\n\"Business people, especially those who own food store and mills, are also involved,\" he added, pointing out that their investigation had almost concluded.\n\nThe mother of this eight-year-old blames corruption for the food aid suspension\n\nThe BBC visited Shire, one of the biggest towns in Tigray, to see the effects of hunger.\n\nAn anaemic mother of three, Mebrhit Hailay, said she was now forced to beg because of a lack of food.\n\n\"Most days, we eat injera [a pancake-like fermented bread] with salt. The doctors advise me to have a balanced diet, but from where do I get it?\" the 28-year-old said.\n\nHer two children, aged five and two-and-a-half years, looked thin, their eyes sunken and their bony limbs stuck out from their clothes.\n\nIf lucky, they ate one meal a day, but on other days they went to bed hungry, Ms Mebrhit said.\n\nMs Mebrhit was heavily pregnant when the BBC met her. A few days later, she told the BBC she had given birth to a baby girl who, fortunately, was healthy.\n\nAt the local hospital, nurse Kibra Mebrahtu said that many mothers could not breastfeed because of hunger, and \"many children are near death when they are brought to this hospital\".\n\n\"We lost four this month only. The effects of the conflict, lack of food, lack of transport, are quite evident,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC saw eight-year-old Rahel Tewelde, with ribs exposed, at the hospital. She weighed only 10kg (22lb), the weight of an average one-year-old.\n\nHer mother, Hiwet Lebasi, said she believed that corruption led to the suspension of food aid.\n\n\"Had it been distributed properly, it wouldn't have stopped,\" she said.\n\nIn June, USAid said it would resume food aid only when it was \"confident that assistance will reach the intended vulnerable populations\".\n\nThe WFP spokesperson said the agency was speeding up efforts to resume food aid. It had, in fact, started distributing a limited amount of food in some areas to test stringent new measures being put in place to \"make sure food will not fall into the wrong hands again\".\n\n\"WFP is deeply concerned about the impact any pause in assistance may have on the lives of the families it assists. Therefore, we're putting every practical safeguard in place to ensure food assistance reaches and is used by the intended beneficiaries,\" the spokesperson added.", "Residents gather outside a military base demanding help after fleeing Carrefour Feuilles\n\nThousands of Haitians have fled their homes in Port-au-Prince amid soaring gang violence that has killed more than 2,400 people so far this year.\n\nThe UN said 5,000 fled the Carrefour-Feuilles district of the capital this week after gang members took control.\n\nLocal aid groups have stopped vital services as government attempts to quell the violence fell flat.\n\nThe UN Security Council will decide soon whether to send a multinational force to help restore order.\n\nIn Carrefour-Feuilles and surrounding areas where there has been months of gang warfare, a stream of residents were seen carrying suitcases or leaving with belongings strapped to their cars.\n\nVideo recorded by Reuters news agency showed women weeping beside the body of a man who gang members had killed.\n\nReuters said that many of those who managed to escape had gathered at a local military base demanding help against the gangs.\n\nDecades of instability, disasters and economic woes have left Haiti one of the poorest and most-violent countries in the world.\n\nGang violence has soared since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, which led to much of the country's territory falling out of government control.\n\nTurf wars have since driven a surge in refugees, severe food shortages, murders, kidnappings and sexual violence.\n\nUN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said on Friday that at least 2,439 Haitians had been killed, 902 injured and 951 kidnapped this year.\n\n\"Reports from Haiti this week have underscored the extreme brutality of the violence being inflicted on the population,\" she said.\n\nShe added that vigilante groups set up to counter the gangs had led to 350 people being lynched since April. Of those, 310 were alleged gang members and one was a police officer.\n\nAccording to provisional figures released by one local rights group, 30 people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in attacks in the capital on Thursday.\n\nThe US embassy, which has already been evacuated of non-essential staff, closed down on Thursday due to sustained gunfire in the area.\n\nHaiti's government said it would deploy \"all its forces\" to restore order to Carrefour-Feuilles. However, its poorly equipped police have struggled against heavily armed gangs.\n\nThe International Red Cross said that \"in a matter of days, violence escalated dramatically\", particularly in areas where it worked with local groups.\n\nRoadblocks installed by warring gangs were stopping residents from getting help, it added.\n\nAnn Lee, co-founder of US-based crisis response group CORE, which is still operating in the capital, said that many international groups had left due to increasing intimidation and violence against staff.\n\n\"We have a staff member who lost her daughter because she was having a seizure and couldn't get to the hospital,\" she said. \"We have an employee whose brother was beheaded.\"\n\nMs Lee said there was not a single member of CORE's 100-strong Haiti team who did not know a victim of the violence.\n\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in a report on Tuesday that a \"robust use of force\" by a multinational deployment was needed to restore order and disarm the gangs.\n\nKenya has expressed willingness to lead such a force. The council is due to consider the matter in the coming weeks.", "At 10 months, the Lucy Letby trial is thought to be Britain’s longest ever murder case.\n\nIts length, and the complexity of the evidence have made it heavy going for all involved.\n\nMost especially, of course, for the parents of the babies.\n\nSome came to court to give harrowing accounts of their experiences, and many sat through hours of upsetting testimony from witnesses.\n\nAll remained dignified throughout, and the atmosphere in the courtroom was intense as the verdicts started to come in over the course of several hearings. Some couples held hands, others clutched babies’ toys.\n\nIt was striking that Letby’s seat in the dock remained empty at the end, and her parents - who’ve been present throughout - were also absent then.\n\nThe judge praised the jurors for their service, and acknowledged that the gruelling process has been difficult for them.\n\nThey deliberated for more than 100 hours before confirming that they were unable to deliver any more verdicts.\n\nIt was clear that some of them were emotional at the end too. They will be offered support, if they want it, to help them come to terms with the experience of sitting on this jury.", "Firefighters in Lahaina are working to save the ancient banyan tree that is a landmark in the town. But some experts fear it is already too damaged from the deadly wildfires.", "The International Chess Federation (FIDE) says it is temporarily banning transgender women from competing in its women's events.\n\nThe FIDE said individual cases would require \"further analysis\" and that a decision could take up to two years.\n\nThe move has been criticised by some players and enthusiasts.\n\nMany sports governing bodies have been working on policies towards transgender athletes, but chess does not involve comparable levels of physical activity.\n\nHowever the FIDE told the BBC it wanted to analyse the impact of these policies and did not want to rush this process.\n\n\"The transgender legislation is rapidly developing in many countries and many sport bodies are adopting their own policies,\" it said.\n\n\"FIDE will be monitoring these developments and see how we can apply them to the world of chess. Two years is a scope of sight that seemed reasonable for the thorough analyses of such developments.\"\n\nIt added that transgender players could still compete in the open section of its tournaments.\n\nYosha Iglesias, a trans woman professional chess player with the FIDE rank of chess master, said the policy would lead to \"unnecessary harm\" for trans players and women.\n\nWoman Grandmaster and two-time US Women's Champion Jennifer Shahade also criticised the FIDE decision, saying the policy was \"ridiculous and dangerous\".\n\n\"It's obvious they didn't consult with any transgender players in constructing it... I strongly urge FIDE to reverse course on this and start from scratch with better consultants,\" Ms Shahade said.\n\nUK MP Angela Eagle, who was a joint winner of the 1976 British Girls' Under-18 chess championship, said: \"There is no physical advantage in chess unless you believe men are inherently more able to play than women - I spent my chess career being told women's brains were smaller than men's and we shouldn't even be playing.\"\n\n\"This ban is ridiculous and offensive to women,\" she added.\n\nIn its policy decision, FIDE also said that trans men who had won women's titles before transitioning would see their titles abolished.\n\nChess is classified as a sport by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).\n\nLast month, the world's cycling governing body ruled that transgender women would be prevented from competing in female events.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday World Aquatics said it would debut a new open category for transgender athletes at this year's Swimming World Cup event in Berlin after it voted last year to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues raised in this story you can access help and support via the BBC Actionline.\n\nUpdate 31st August: We have updated this story to amend a quote.\n• None What is the new trans guidance for schools?", "Sara Sharif suffered extensive injuries over an extended period of time, police said\n\nPolice have named the father, step mother and uncle of a 10-year-old girl found dead in a house in Woking as the three people they want to talk to in connection with their murder inquiry.\n\nA global search is under way for Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28.\n\nThey left the UK for Pakistan on Wednesday 9 August, the day before Sara Sharif's body was discovered.\n\nIt was that call which led officers to the house in Woking where they found Sara's body with \"multiple and extensive injuries\", which were likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nThe 10-year-old has now been formally identified.\n\nA post-mortem examination carried out on Tuesday concluded the cause of death was \"still to be established\" and further tests were needed.\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nPolice previously said they were called to the address in Hammond Road at about 02:50 BST on Thursday 10 August \"following a concern for safety\".\n\nThere was no-one else in the house when the 10-year-old's body was discovered.\n\nUrfan Sharif rang the emergency services in the UK shortly after landing in Islamabad with his partner, his brother and five children.\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman, from Surrey Police and Sussex Police Major Crime Team, said the five children were aged between one and 13.\n\nHe added: \"We are working with the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service), Interpol, the National Crime Agency, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to progress our inquiries with the Pakistan authorities.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene where Sara Sharif was found\n\nBBC News has spoken to a travel agent in Woking who said he was contacted by Sara Sharif's father, Urfan Sharif, at about 22:00 BST on Tuesday 8 August who said he wanted to book tickets to Pakistan as soon as possible.\n\n\"After that I ask him what is the reason, why you booking as soon as possible, so he said my cousin has died so that why we going Pakistan,\" Nadeem Riaz told BBC News.\n\nThe travel agent said Urfan Sharif booked eight one-way tickets for himself, his brother, his wife and five children.\n\nThe flights booked were from the UK on Wednesday 9 August, via Bahrain, and arriving in Islamabad at 05:35 local time on Thursday 10 August.\n\nMr Riaz confirmed the tickets were used.\n\nSurrey County Council leader Tim Oliver said a \"rapid review\" would be carried out to determine whether a local child safeguarding practice review should be held, which would bring together police, social care and education to review the practice of the agencies involved in the case.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n• None More tests to confirm Sara Sharif’s cause of death\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cheryl Hole said abuse she received for being on the BBC show proved her point about hate towards the LGBTQ+ community\n\nDrag artist Cheryl Hole said the online abuse she had received for appearing on Celebrity MasterChef highlighted the \"hate\" directed at LGBTQ+ people.\n\nEarlier this week, she told the BBC in an interview that representation on high-profile TV shows was important.\n\nShe has since posted on X, formerly Twitter, that people have claimed her drag name and act was misogynistic and spoke of other abuse.\n\nThe BBC said MasterChef was \"proud of its diverse and inclusive cast\".\n\nA spokesperson for Cheryl said drag had \"a long successful history in British mainstream entertainment\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC ahead of Wednesday's show, Cheryl, who rose to fame on RuPaul's Drag Race UK, said participating in shows like MasterChef was a way to \"have our voices and stories heard and show we're nothing to be feared\".\n\nShe said it felt like \"the movement is going a bit backwards\" and pointed to a homophobic stabbing in Clapham on Sunday and bans on drag performers in parts of the US.\n\nAfter being targeted with abusive comments, Cheryl, from Essex, said on X: \"All I will say is people clearly don't understand the art form of drag and it's a celebration of women.\n\n\"Women shaped me into the person I am today either through music, their words of wisdom or support.\"\n\nShe said people could \"hurl abuse\" but it all \"stemmed from me speaking up and using my platform on the hate that is directed to our community and you've proved everyone right\".\n\nShe added that Celebrity MasterChef, presented on BBC One by John Torode and Gregg Wallace, was \"a light hearted entertainment cooking show. I'm not doing anything other than using a few pots and pans & an oven\".\n\nOn Instagram, she said the \"haters\" did not \"faze\" her.\n\nCheryl shot into the public eye when she joined the queens in season one of Drag Race UK\n\nThe BBC said: \"MasterChef is proud of its diverse and inclusive cast across all its series. Drag artists have featured twice before in the Celebrity series.\"\n\nKitty Scott Claus came fifth in Celebrity MasterChef 2022 and Baga Chipz appeared on the show in 2020.\n\nCheryl's spokesperson said: \"Having a drag star on the show is nothing newsworthy in 2023.\n\n\"Drag has always appeared on prime-time family television as both Dame Edna and Lily Savage's careers show.\n\n\"Drag has a long successful history in British mainstream entertainment, so any attempt to whip up controversy around this appearance is another effort to create an unnecessary culture war.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ronnia filmed his neighbourhood moments before his family home was destroyed by flames\n\nMaui's emergency management chief has quit a day after defending his agency's failure to activate its alarm system in last week's fatal wildfire.\n\nHerman Andaya, who had no prior experience in emergency management, cited \"health reasons\" for resigning.\n\nIn the days since, residents of the Hawaii island have told the BBC a stronger emergency response could have saved more lives.\n\nAt least 111 people have been declared dead. More than 1,000 remain missing.\n\nMaui's sophisticated system, which includes 80 sirens around the island, is tested on the first of every month, its 60-second tone a normal part of life in Lahaina. But on the day of the fire, they remained silent.\n\nOn Wednesday, Maui Emergency Management Agency boss Mr Andaya insisted he did not regret that decision.\n\nHe said he had feared the sirens - most often sounded for tsunamis - would have sent some in Lahaina running to higher ground, potentially into the path of the fast-moving blaze.\n\nBut in Lahaina on Thursday, none of the residents who spoke to the BBC accepted this explanation, saying the siren would have provided a crucial warning of the approaching danger.\n\nOn the day of the fire, many in Lahaina were home, without power, because of the strong winds caused by nearby Hurricane Dora. And a text alert sent by the county was missed by many residents who had lost service.\n\nProtesters in Maui have been asking why sirens did not sound\n\n\"The sirens should have been sounded,\" said Sherlyn Pedroza in Lahaina. Ms Pedroza, 20, lost her family home in the fire last week.\n\n\"It would have alerted at least some people stuck at their house - work was off, school was off - it would have alerted them to get out.\"\n\nAs she finished speaking, Ms Pedroza and her friend, Heather Tabilin spotted a neighbour from Lahaina, Alfred \"Uncle Al\" Dasugo, who they had not seen or heard from since the fires. They ran to him crying and hugged him. \"We didn't know if you made it,\" Tabilin said. Uncle Al just smiled.\n\nDriving to Lahaina on Thursday along Maui's scenic Honoapiʻilani Highway, signs of the town's destruction were gradual.\n\nTraffic lights went dark about 5 miles from the town's centre. Another mile along, the charred shell of a car sat off the side of the road, facing out towards the sea, the first real clue of what lay ahead.\n\nMilitary and police patrolled the streets, guarding checkpoints surrounding the hardest-hit areas of the historic town.\n\nTabilin and Pedroza see their neighbour and friend Uncle Al for the first time since the fire\n\nWhat was once a bustling strip mall, complete with a nail salon, a hairdresser and an ice cream shop, is now a makeshift operations centre, its car park filled with tents of aid - 8ft tall piles of nappies, 6ft tall stacks of bread.\n\nLahaina residents like Ms Pedroza were among the volunteers.\n\nStanding among the crowd was Ronnia Pilapil, a resident of Lahaina, loaded down with clothes, rice and toilet paper for his family, now staying in a nearby hotel.\n\nLast Tuesday, Mr Pilapil, 38, watched as his family home - a light blue bungalow with a wide front yard - was consumed by fire.\n\nHe had stayed behind, sending his wife and nine-year-old daughter away while he tried to fight the flames himself using a garden hose. But the wind became so strong the water started to fly back into his face. \"That's when I knew it was going to be bad,\" he said. \"So I just ran.\"\n\nRonnia Pilapil had everything he owned in Lahaina. He said he was lucky to be alive\n\nHe looked back once he reached higher ground to see his house destroyed. But Mr Pilapil said he felt lucky just to be alive.\n\n\"People died trapped in their homes. That's all I'm thinking about,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked about US President Joe Biden's visit scheduled for Monday, most residents who spoke to the BBC simply shrugged. One said he worried Mr Biden and his entourage would be \"disruptive\" to ongoing emergency operations. Others, like Ms Pedroza, said they wished it had been sooner.\n\nNine days after the disaster, many in Lahaina seem focused on the future, rebuilding their homes and their town.\n\nDespite the timeline - many said they expected the reconstruction to take several years - none said they had any plans to leave, to try life somewhere new.\n\n\"This is all I've ever known, this is my home,\" said Ms Pedroza. \"Nobody's selling. We want Lahaina back, and we're going to get it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Twins' parents: \"They passed him to us and he died\"\n\nThe parents of twin brothers who were among Lucy Letby's 13 victims have told the BBC the nurse is a \"hateful human being\" who has taken \"everything\" from them. Letby murdered one of their baby boys, and tried to kill the other twin the following day.\n\nLetby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies, and trying to kill six others, at the Countess of Chester Hospital. There were six more attempted murder charges. She was found not guilty of two and the jury was undecided on the remaining four.\n\nTo protect the identities of the babies and their parents, the twins are referred to as Baby E and Baby F.\n\n\"We were actually told we would never have our own children,\" the babies' mother says, speaking to BBC Panorama. She found out she was having twins on Valentine's Day, in 2015, after several failed IVF attempts.\n\nIt had not been the plan to have the babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where Letby worked. It wasn't their nearest hospital, but when the time came that was where there was space.\n\nThe twins were born prematurely, in the summer of 2015, and despite them needing specialist care in the neonatal unit, their father remembers the joy he felt as a new dad.\n\n\"There was just a sheer elation and happiness that I'd never felt before, or since,\" he says now.\n\nWarning: This article contains details some readers may find upsetting\n\nAfter the birth, the babies' mother would come down from the maternity ward where she was recovering from a Caesarean section to drop off breast milk.\n\nHer babies, who lay side-by-side in incubators, were doing well and the family was waiting to be transferred to a hospital closer to home. But as she approached their room one evening, she could hear intense crying that sounded like screaming.\n\n\"I've never heard anything like it since,\" the mother says. \"I was like, 'What's the matter with him?'\"\n\n\"It was a sound that should not come from a tiny baby,\" she said while giving evidence at Letby's trial, in November.\n\nWalking into the room she discovered it was one of her babies - Baby E - making the noise. He had blood around his mouth. Rushing to comfort him, she gently put her hand on his tummy to give him a reassuring sign that she was there.\n\nShe'd been taught this in hospital - and normally it worked. But the baby continued screaming and she could feel her panic rising.\n\nLetby was the only other person in the room. The child's mother remembers she wasn't near her baby and didn't look at him while she was in there.\n\n\"You know when it feels like somebody wants to look busy, but they're not actually doing anything?\" she says now.\n\nShe asked Letby what was wrong with her son. The nurse told her the baby's feeding tube must have been rubbing the back of his throat. She said she had already called a registrar, who would be there soon.\n\nLetby, an experienced nurse who the mother trusted, told her not to worry, to go back to her ward and that she'd be contacted if there was a problem. \"She has this really calm demeanour about her,\" the mother told the BBC. \"She's very softly spoken.\"\n\nThe parents had struck up a rapport with Letby - they were all on first name terms. They'd shared their story with the neonatal staff; their journey to starting a family, and the obstacles they'd faced. Letby had told them about her life. She was happy being single, she told them, and was hoping to buy a house.\n\nWhen the baby's condition deteriorated later on, his mother rushed back to the unit, where she watched through the glass as medics crowded around his incubator, attempting to resuscitate her son.\n\nShe remembers Letby was there but didn't make eye contact with them.\n\nBy the time the baby's father arrived, a priest had been called, and the parents were taken to be with their child. \"We were told to talk to him, and hold his hand,\" says the mother, \"and then he was christened.\"\n\nEventually, the consultant told them there was nothing more that could be done. \"She said: 'It's no good. We want him to die in your arms rather than being worked on',\" she says through tears.\n\n\"And they passed him to us, and he died.\"\n\nThe parents remember Letby looking visibly upset. The nurse then took control of the situation.\n\n\"She bathed him and then she dressed him in a little woollen gown and gave him back to us,\" says the mother, \"and we held him for a little bit longer.\"\n\nDoctors decided the cause of Baby E's death was a bowel condition, and that his premature birth was a factor. The death wasn't initially considered suspicious, so no post-mortem examination was carried out.\n\nIn court, the mother said she had been \"totally surprised\" when Letby presented her and her husband with a memory box containing a lock of the baby's hair and his hand and footprints. Letby had also taken photos of him, without their knowledge, and presented those to the parents too.\n\nThe mother said the nurse had given both twins a cuddly toy and later showed her a photo of her surviving baby, Baby F, holding his twin brother's teddy.\n\n\"She said: 'He rolled over and hugged his bear - I thought it was so amazing I took a picture for you,'\" the mother remembers Letby saying.\n\nAt the time, this anecdote was comforting to the parents. But soon they realised new born babies can't roll over - their neck and arm muscles aren't strong enough - and it became one of many disturbing things they now view very differently.\n\nDuring the trial, medical experts concluded that Baby E had not died as a result of his premature birth or a bowel condition, as previously thought.\n\nHis cause of death was internal bleeding and an injection of air into his bloodstream.\n\nHe was the fourth of seven babies murdered by Lucy Letby between June 2015 and June 2016. She attempted to murder another six infants - including Baby E's twin brother, Baby F, who suddenly deteriorated and became critically ill within 24-hours of his sibling's death.\n\nHaving just lost one child, the parents did not want to leave the side of their surviving baby. They were told his heart rate had become dangerously high.\n\n\"I said to my husband: 'Please, not again, we - we can't do this again, this can't be happening.'\" She remained by his cot all night.\n\nMedics managed to save Baby F and the parents were told their son had an infection. It was only two years later that they learned that his intravenous feedbag had been poisoned with insulin.\n\nThey say their child, who is now seven years old, was badly harmed by Letby and has been left with severe learning difficulties and \"a lot of complex needs\". \"There's a consequence,\" his mother says, \"and he's living with it.\"\n\nLetby has \"taken everything from us - absolutely everything,\" she says. \"I think she's a hateful human being.\"\n\nIn 2018, when Letby was first arrested, Baby E and F's parents found it difficult to believe that she was the suspect. \"Never in a million years did I think it would be someone that we felt we had a connection with,\" says the mother now.\n\n\"She had everything going for her, and then starts killing babies. What happened?\" she asks. \"It's something that we'll never know.\"\n\nIn court, the couple discovered the nurse had repeatedly searched their names on Facebook - including on Christmas Day.\n\nLetby maintained she was simply checking how Baby F was doing - the baby whose heart she'd deliberately sent soaring with dangerous amounts of insulin, and whose twin brother she had killed just 24 hours before.\n\nThe babies' mother now believes Letby should spend the rest of her life behind bars. \"What she's done has changed the course of our life forever.\"\n\nWatch Panorama's full investigation - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed - on BBC iPlayer\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues raised here, there are details of organisations that may be able to offer support on the BBC Action Line", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStars who were interviewed by Sir Michael Parkinson over the years - from Sir David Attenborough to David Beckham - have paid tribute to the \"TV legend\" following his death at the age of 88.\n\nSir Michael interviewed many of the world's biggest stars on his long-running self-titled chat show.\n\nSir Elton John said he was \"a TV legend who was one of the greats\", and Beckham wrote: \"We say goodbye to the best.\"\n\n\"I don't remember being frightened of being interviewed by Michael, because it was just like talking to a really good friend,\" she said.\n\n\"His enjoyment and love of doing it, it was a complete joy to watch. He never shunned asking a direct question.\"\n\nIn his tribute, Sir Elton added: \"I loved his company and his incredible knowledge of cricket and Barnsley Football Club. A real icon who brought out the very best in his guests.\"\n\nBeckham appeared on Parkinson with wife Victoria in 2001, when she famously revealed his Goldenballs nickname.\n\nThe former footballer wrote: \"I was so lucky to not just be interviewed by Michael but to be able to spend precious time talking about football and family, our 2 passions. Plus the GoldenBalls moment…\"\n\nActor Sir Michael Caine said: \"Michael Parkinson was irreplaceable, he was charming, always wanted to have a good laugh. He brought the best of everyone he met. Always looked forward to be interviewed by him.\"\n\nA statement from the chat show host's family on Thursday said: \"After a brief illness Sir Michael Parkinson passed away peacefully at home last night in the company of his family.\n\n\"The family request that they are given privacy and time to grieve.\"\n\nAs told to BBC Radio 4's The World At One\n\nAs a viewer, you knew if Michael was asking the questions, there were going to be good questions, and they would elicit good answers.\n\nAs a network controller, I thought he was the best freelance interviewer in the business. He was always knowledgeable, he was absolutely classless. You knew he was not a southerner, you knew he was a northerner, and that was a very refreshing voice in those days.\n\nYou knew that he would do his homework, and that he would ask questions that didn't occur to you, as well as those that did. I thought he was the best interviewer in the business at that time.\n\nHe was extremely generous. He wanted you to shine, and not particularly himself. He would always laugh at your jokes, and give you an opportunity to make them sound funnier than in fact they were. When you were told that he was going to be the interviewer, it was like meeting a friend. Though in fact we didn't meet very often, but you knew that he was on your side as much as on his own.\n\nHe was Saturday night television, and there's nobody like him doing the sort of things that he did when his career was at its height. Television doesn't give that kind of space to interviews these days, to its loss, and of course Michael did it better than anybody.\n\nI remember he was interviewing me and Billy Connolly together, and of course Billy Connolly made both of us laugh a lot but he laughed even at my jokes, and my stories, and, as it were, looked after me to make sure I wasn't swamped by Billy Connolly, who is after all a very big character.\n\nWith Michael, it was always friendly, always thorough, always intelligent, always a pleasure to do it, and I think that came over no matter who his interviewee was.\n\nHe always knew what the interesting bits were, and he steered you through that sort of thing. He was always generous in the way he framed his questions. He wanted you, his interviewee, to shine.\n\nI didn't ever see him uncomfortable, he was unflappable. It didn't matter what you did, whether it was a puppet that tried to consume him, or if he was interviewing a great intellect, he was always in charge, but not dominantly so.\n\nComedian and travel presenter Sir Michael Palin described the broadcaster as \"incisive and very sharp\".\n\nSir Michael told The World At One: \"He wanted to get people on his show who entertained him and therefore who he thought would entertain the audience. He was not picky. He was not trying to diss anybody. He was an enthusiast and he was very positive.\n\n\"It didn't always work,\" he noted. \"In some cases, [interviewees] suspected what they saw as the difficult questions he might ask in among all the fun and the enjoyment.\n\n\"Because he was a very good journalist, and a very proud journalist, and it was very important for him not to give people an easy ride. But he did basically choose people he liked, because he liked to be entertained himself.\"\n\nOn social media, TV presenter Davina McCall described Sir Michael as \"unique and always so well researched\".\n\n\"[He was] loved by all the biggest stars in the world and they were all desperate to be interviewed by him,\" she continued. \"Funny, self deprecating, sharp, charming, strong, honest and a fantastic listener. His legacy is enormous.\"\n\nFormer prime minister Theresa May said she and Sir Michael shared a passion for cricket (the pair pictured at Lord's cricket ground in 2018)\n\nFormer prime minister Theresa May said Sir Michael was \"a remarkable man and an outstanding broadcaster\".\n\n\"We knew each other well through his charitable work in my constituency and our mutual passion for cricket. My thoughts and prayers are with his family,\" she added.\n\nMatch of the Day host Gary Lineker described Sir Michael a \"a truly brilliant broadcaster and wonderful interviewer\", while presenter Dermot O'Leary said he was \"one of the greats\".\n\n\"But above all else he listened… in a world full of noise,\" O'Leary added. \"RIP Michael, thanks for the education.\"\n\nBoxer Frank Bruno praised Sir Michael's ability \"to frame and gift wrap the guest to deliver to the TV viewer\".\n\nTV presenter Piers Morgan said Sir Michael was the greatest of TV interviewers. \"Wonderful character, great writer, sublimely talented broadcaster, and hilarious lunch partner. Loved him,\" he said.\n\nSir Michael Parkinson was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008\n\nSir Michael was described as a \"giant\" by comic and impressionist Rory Bremner.\n\nGood Morning Britain host Susanna Reid said Sir Michael \"was the King of Interviewers\".\n\n\"He also enjoyed being interviewed. [I'm] lucky to have had that pleasure. He was authentic, funny and charming. Thank you for being the best.\"\n\nOfcom chairman and former TV executive Sir Michael Grade described the chat show host as \"a master of his craft\".\n\n\"He was charming, not aggressive, not looking for a cheap soundbite,\" he told BBC News. \"He prodded and probed, but he wanted to give the stars the opportunity to express themselves, tell us who they were.\n\n\"The show was about who was on, it wasn't about Michael, he saw his role really as a journalist, to get the best out of his subject. His library of interviews is like a popular history of the 20th Century.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer cricket umpire Dickie Bird has paid tribute in an emotional interview to his \"dearest friend\".\n\nThe pair became friends when they opened the batting together for Barnsley Cricket Club as youngsters, and Bird said they remained \"so, so close\".\n\n\"I only spoke to him yesterday morning,\".\n\n\"His voice sounded weak to me and he said 'you know Dickie, I've got a feeling I'm getting towards the end'.\n\n\"And I said 'no, come on, keep going, you've got to keep your chin up, keep going'.\n\n\"And we shed a few tears, and we said our goodbyes.\"\n\nHe added: \"He always had a smile on his face. And every time we met, of course, we always talked about cricket.\"\n\nSir Michael introduced the first Parkinson show in 1971 on BBC television. The series ran initially for 11 years and spanned hundreds of episodes in which Sir Michael combined an avuncular style with a journalistic background.\n\nHe returned to the BBC in 1998 for another run of the show. Sir Michael estimated he had interviewed more than 2,000 guests in total. Of the many celebrities he interviewed, Sir Michael said Ali was his favourite.\n\nHis TV career also included ITV's TV-am breakfast show, Give Us a Clue and BBC One's Going For a Song, while he had a three-year stint hosting Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s.\n\nHe was made a CBE in 2000 and was knighted in 2008.\n\nThe presenter revealed he was receiving radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer in 2013, and said he got the all-clear from doctors two years later.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane scored and set up a goal on his Bundesliga debut as champions Bayern Munich recorded a thumping win at Werder Bremen.\n\nHe had earlier assisted the first of Leroy Sane's two goals with a deft clip over the top inside four minutes.\n\nMathys Tel rounded off a comfortable victory for Thomas Tuchel's side late on.\n\n\"I was a little bit nervous [and] excited to play the game of course,\" Kane told broadcaster DAZN after the match.\n\n\"We started well with a goal in the first few minutes. For sure there were a few butterflies, but as always when I get on the pitch, instinct takes over.\"\n\nIt was a fine evening for Bayern and the club's record signing Kane, who arrived in Bavaria to great fanfare but had a disappointing start with a 3-0 defeat to RB Leipzig in the German Super Cup.\n\nBilled as the man to finally fill Robert Lewandowski's boots over a year on from the prolific Poland striker's switch to Barcelona, Kane expertly laid on the first goal for Sane.\n\nHis quick thinking sent the former Manchester City winger racing clear to roll a low effort into the bottom left corner.\n\nA much-improved Bremen threatened after the break, but Kane dispatched the visitors' second goal of the night, collecting Alphonso Davies' precise pass before picking his spot and placing a low shot into the bottom left corner.\n\nWith Kane struggling with cramp, Bayern made several changes.\n\nSubstitute Thomas Muller teed up Sane's second goal before Kane's replacement, French teenager Tel, drove in a late fourth.\n\nBayern have won the previous 11 Bundesliga titles, but their points total of 71 last term, when they only just pipped a faltering Borussia Dortmund, was their lowest since 2010-11 when they finished third.\n\nHowever, they have sought to remedy that close call with several new signings, including South Korea defender Kim Min-jae from Napoli.\n\nKane's arrival has undoubtedly caught the imagination the most and provides the greatest cause for optimism they will be able to retain their domestic dominance while challenging again for the Champions League.\n\nPrior to kick-off Tuchel had claimed the \"Kane effect\" would increase his team's \"chances of winning massively\" and it is easy to understand why.\n\nWhile England's all-time top scorer was not at his sharpest, he still provided Bayern with a valuable focal point up front and interchanged superbly with the likes of Sane, Kingsley Coman and Jamal Musiala.\n\nAnd despite being unable to convert several earlier opportunities to score, in trademark fashion he continued to drop deep, find spaces between defenders and finished unerringly when presented with the ball by Davies.\n• None Goal! SV Werder Bremen 0, FC Bayern München 4. Mathys Tel (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Alphonso Davies.\n• None Attempt missed. Romano Schmid (SV Werder Bremen) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Dawid Kownacki.\n• None Goal! SV Werder Bremen 0, FC Bayern München 3. Leroy Sané (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Thomas Müller.\n• None Attempt blocked. Matthijs de Ligt (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mathys Tel (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Noussair Mazraoui (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Thomas Müller.\n• None Substitution, FC Bayern München. Mathys Tel replaces Harry Kane because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The RSPCA identified ear cropping \"hotspots\" in the West Midlands, London and West Yorkshire\n\nMore than 1,000 dogs are reported to have undergone the illegal procedure of ear cropping in the past three years, new figures from the RSPCA show.\n\nThe practice involves removing skin at the tops of dogs' ears to reshape them and make them stand more upright.\n\nThe \"painful and unnecessary\" procedure is illegal in the UK under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2006.\n\nThe West Midlands, London and West Yorkshire recorded the highest numbers of cases in England and Wales.\n\nThe West Midlands has recorded 93 incidents since 2020 while Greater London and West Yorkshire each recorded 75 cases.\n\nThe RSPCA condemned the practice as a \"growing fashion trend\"\n\nNext on the list was Greater Manchester with 64 cases and South Yorkshire with 53. The total number of cases reported to the RSPCA in England and Wales in that period was 1,191.\n\nThe practice has been called \"cruel\" and \"mutilation\" by welfare organisations and is often carried out in people's homes without anaesthetic.\n\nIt is increasingly popular in certain breeds and types of dogs - including Cane Corsos and American bullies, where part or all of the ear flap is commonly removed.\n\nDr Samantha Gaines, dog welfare expert at the RSPCA, said: \"Ear cropping is a painful and unnecessary practice in which a dog's ears are removed or surgically altered and sadly many owners who do this do it because they think the look is glamorous or it makes their pet look tough.\n\n\"But it can be detrimental, in the short and long term, to their health, behaviour and welfare - they do not benefit from having it done, and the way it is illegally carried out in the UK - by people who are not vet professionals - is highly likely to lead them to suffer.\"\n\nThe charity said there were social media accounts which promoted the practice. Dr Gaines added: \"We are concerned that it is a growing fashion trend and it needs to be stopped.\"\n\nIan Muttitt, chief inspector in the RSPCA's Special Operations Unit, said: \"It's done purely for cosmetic purposes and sadly can lead to puppies being sold for much more money.\n\n\"We'd urge the public and anyone looking to buy a puppy to remember that this is an illegal procedure which has hugely negative impacts for the dogs themselves.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Volunteers organise supplies for a trip to Lahaina. \"Everyone's in survival mode,\" one said\n\nWhen deadly fires torched the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, improvised groups of volunteers raced to respond. In convoys of trucks, they delivered supplies and were some of the first to witness the devastation in the place many of them called home.\n\nAlong an industrial road in Kahului, not far from Maui's northern shore, Auntie Lehua Kekahuna sat in the back office of a nondescript single storey building. A handful of men stood around her - tall and broad, half wore bright yellow construction vests, with dirt caked on their faces and under their nails. When Kekahuna spoke, they stayed quiet.\n\nIt was Tuesday, one week after a fast-moving fire tore through Lahaina, levelling most of the historic town and killing more than 100. In the last few days, efforts from local, state and federal agencies have come into focus - with hundreds of emergency personnel deployed and $2.3m (£1.81m) in assistance to families disbursed so far.\n\nBut in the immediate aftermath of the fires, before official forces had mobilised, Kekahuna already had. She and her friend, Duke Sparks, devised their own response within hours. Sparks shut down his central Maui restaurant, calling in staff to make hot meals for shelters and emergency responders, and the two collected donations for evacuees. And - within a day - they had organised an impromptu team of truck drivers to transport that aid to Lahaina, moving in and out of the devastated town more than a dozen times even when official routes were closed.\n\n\"Auntie says it all the time, when the kāhea comes, we'll be there,\" said Koa Gomes, a nephew of Kekahuna, using the Hawaiian word for 'call'. \"We're our own soldiers.\"\n\nTheir efforts are part of a wider network of support run by locals outside the formal channels of government agencies and NGOs. According to dozens of people here, that grassroots aid has been crucial in the face of governmental bureaucracy and delays.\n\n\"Honestly we don't disrespect our government,\" Kekahuna said. \"But we're not waiting.\"\n\n\"We don't disrespect our government,\" Auntie Lehua Kekahuna said. \"But we're not waiting\"\n\nThe group's headquarters are now at Shaka Detailing, an auto detailing company owned by Kekahuna's son, Sonny, that is around 25 miles from Lahaina. The short hallway to Kekahuna's office was lined with donations, neatly ordered piles of nappies, food, water and batteries.\n\nKekahuna's authority was clear, her low voice silencing entire rooms. \"She's our auntie, she's a mother, she's a grandmother,\" Gomes said. \"When she speaks we keep our mouths shut.\"\n\nPassing through the small building was an assortment of drivers, most stopping on their way to or from Lahaina. For days they have filled their trucks, owned or borrowed, before setting off to the frontlines and using connections with local police to pass through checkpoints designed to keep non-official personnel away.\n\nMost of these men are from Lahaina, meaning that some of the first to see the town after it was destroyed were those who call it home.\n\n\"It's survival, everyone's in survival mode,\" said Casey Smythe, from Lahaina, who drove in the first convoy to West Maui. \"You're in disbelief. How could this happen?\". During his first trip in, he said, he cried the entire time.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nSome supplies are deposited at makeshift hubs, dubbed Kanaka [Hawaiian] Costcos. Others are delivered door to door, to the few homes still standing.\n\n\"Before FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] and Red Cross was there, don't take it in the wrong way, but Kanaka Costco was there,\" Smythe said. \"We were there.\"\n\n\"Lahaina itself, it looks like hell,\" said Eddie Iniba in Kekahuna's office, stopping in after an overnight shift in the levelled town, with mud and sweat streaking his shirt. Streetlights in Lahaina were still down, he said, and the only visible sights at night were of police barricades and military personnel.\n\n\"It's like watching an apocalypse movie,\" he said. \"It hurts.\"\n\nEddie Iniba has made several trips to Lahaina. \"It looks like hell,\" he said\n\nIniba and several others spoke of a different kind of horror inside Lahaina - the looting of both vacant homes and of the bodies of the dead.\n\nOne man, Chaymen Enomoto, said he was forced to stop a friend from assaulting someone who they found pillaging in Lahaina.\n\n\"He found someone looting the body of an elderly woman who was charred up. She had gold and jewellery everywhere.\" His friend \"broke\" at the sight, Enomoto said, and used a knife to attack the looter.\n\n\"It took every ounce of me to stop him from killing this guy, because I felt the same anger he was going through.\"\n\nOfficials have denied claims of violence or looting in Lahaina. At a press conference last week, Hawaii's Governor Josh Green said there had been \"virtually no conflicts between the residents of Maui that have survived\".\n\nAsked about these comments, Enomoto replied: \"We're catching it before they get there.\"\n\nFEMA, the behemoth federal agency tasked with handling natural disasters, has provided $2.3m in assistance to more than 1,300 households so far and sent more than 190 search and rescue team members as well as hundreds more of its own personnel. The agency has urged survivors to register online to receive housing and other assistance - including an immediate payment of $700 for food and water - but with limited power in West Maui, this aid remains out of reach for some.\n\nThe agency cannot offer direct assistance for a recovery operation until a state requests a disaster declaration from the president. In Hawaii, this did not come until Thursday - two days after the fires began.\n\nTaken together, the accounts from Lahaina suggest improvised volunteer groups have acted as a substitute for aid workers, demolition crews and law enforcement. And while neither Kekahuna or Sparks criticised the government explicitly, their story reflects a common sentiment in Maui - that locals have stepped in to fill the void of a slow official response.\n\n\"All those Red Cross people, bless their hearts, flying in from out of state,\" Kekahuna said. \"Do you think they're going to pick up the bodies? You think they can pick up metal? You think they can pick up cars?\"\n\nShe continued: \"Our locals are going to be the people to clean up this mess.\"\n\nRefrigerated trucks sit at the Maui forensic facility. Most on the island expect the death toll to continue its climb\n\nSome West Maui residents have said they received more help from unofficial supply chains than from government channels. Inside Shaka Detailing this week, a man dropping off donations said of the volunteer group: \"They're the only ones doing anything.\"\n\nAnd the alienation between locals and their government has deepened due to a widespread belief that the precise scale of destruction has been downplayed. On Tuesday, Hawaii's governor said he expects the death toll to grow significantly, suggesting it may double as the search progresses.\n\n\"We live by the forensic facility,\" said Gomes, Kekahuna's nephew. \"There are four reefers [refrigerated trucks]. One container, easy, 100 bodies in there. They don't even have enough body bags.\"\n\nAnd from that same view, Gomes has watched families be called in to identify the remains. \"All you can hear is crying, screaming, wailing,\" Gomes said. \"But we can't call on anybody, we get nothing.\"", "Graham Linehan appeared on a small stage outside the Scottish Parliament\n\nFather Ted writer Graham Linehan has appeared at a comedy show outside the Scottish Parliament, after it was cancelled twice by Edinburgh venues.\n\nComedy Unleashed moved the gig to Holyrood on Thursday when a second venue declined to host the show.\n\nThe original venue, Leith Arches, had pulled out amid concern about Mr Linehan's views on transgender issues.\n\nMr Linehan has threatened legal action if the venue refuses to reverse its decision and apologise.\n\nThe cancellation of the show had sparked a wider debate on freedom of speech.\n\nA small temporary stage was erected near the main entrance to the Holyrood building, where Mr Linehan appeared as part of the bill. About 100 people were in the audience.\n\nHis eyes were said to have welled up with tears as he closed the act, telling his audience: \"Comedy is my first love, it's the thing I love to do, but I have not been allowed to do that for five years.\"\n\nAfter the show he told BBC Scotland News: \"It is important to make a stand. It is important to at least stand in front of a microphone, even if it's just for a second, and show that these people don't get to push the rest of us around.\"\n\nHis appearance in the comedy showcase was initially kept under wraps with organisers only describing him as a \"surprise famous cancelled comedian\" on the bill.\n\nBut the venue called off the entire show within hours of his identity being confirmed on Tuesday, saying they had not been made aware of the line-up in advance.\n\nGraham Linehan received an International Emmy Comedy Award for The IT Crowd in 2008\n\n\"We have made the decision to cancel this show as we are an inclusive venue and this does not align with our overall values,\" they said in a post on Instagram.\n\n\"We work very closely with the LGBT+ community, it is a considerable part of our revenue, we believe hosting this one off show would have a negative effect on future bookings,\" they later added.\n\nMr Linehan, who also wrote TV sitcoms The IT Crowd and Black Books, is often at the centre of heated rows over trans issues and women's rights on social media, with opponents accusing him of transphobia.\n\nIn a BBC Newsnight interview in 2020 he compared the medical treatment of transgender teenagers with puberty blockers to Nazi human experimentation.\n\nHe told TalkTV on Wednesday: \"The most important view I have is that it is a crime against humanity to tell children they may have been born in the wrong body.\"\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry, who was at the centre of a free speech row earlier this year, said the efforts to cancel Mr Linehan's show was a pattern of \"all-too familiar discrimination against people... who don't subscribe to gender identity ideology.\"\n\n\"That is Graham holds a view like me that a man can't become a woman and someone's gender identity, somebody's feelings about their gender should not trump the realist of the sex that they are born into,\" she told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime.\n\nJoanna Cherry appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last week\n\nMs Cherry added: \"It's astonishing that a comedy night in Edinburgh, during the largest arts festival in the world, should be prevented from going ahead simply because some people are offended by the views of the comedian and how he expresses himself.\n\n\"Free speech is freedom from consequences so long as the speech does not break the law and it's not against the law to be offensive or to say things which other people don't agree with.\"\n\nMr Linehan co-created the Channel 4 comedy Father Ted and later wrote Black Books and the Emmy-award winning The IT Crowd.\n\nA 2008 episode of The IT Crowd which involved a transgender storyline was pulled from Chanel 4's streaming service in 2020.\n\nHe was suspended from Twitter shortly afterwards, with the social media giant claiming he breached rules on \"hateful content\".\n\nIn an emotional BBC interview last year, the Dublin-born writer told Nolan Live he had been unfairly targeted over his views, losing him work and contributing to the break-up of his marriage.", "BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness (left) and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lucy Frazer (right) are on the sanctions list\n\nRussia has banned 54 British nationals and people working for UK organisations from entering the country in retaliation for UK sanctions on its citizens, its foreign ministry says.\n\nA number of journalists from the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian are also on the list.\n\nThe BBC said it would \"continue to report independently and fairly\".\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said the move was in response to \"the aggressive implementation by London of a hostile anti-Russian course\".\n\nMs Frazer was sanctioned for \"actively lobbying for the international sports isolation of Russia\", while Minister of State for Defence Annabel Goldie was described as being \"responsible for the supply of weapons to Ukraine\".\n\nIn March the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting children from Ukraine, which Moscow denies.\n\nMr Khan told the BBC at the time: \"Children can't be treated as the spoils of war, they can't be deported.\"\n\nThe BBC journalists include chief executive Deborah Turness, presenter and analysis editor Ros Atkins and disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said it would continue to expand its \"stop list\".\n\nRussia has already barred a number of British journalists and defence figures as well as hundreds of elected British MPs.\n\nIn June last year, the BBC's Clive Myrie and Orla Guerin were among journalists who have reported from Ukraine to be banned. BBC director general Tim Davie was also on the list.\n\nThe UK is among Western countries to have sanctioned Russia in response to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nThese include a ban on the import of goods from Russia such as diamonds, oil and gas.\n\nEarlier this month, the British government announced what it described as the \"largest ever UK action\" targeting Russia's access to foreign military supplies..\n\nMore than 1,000 Russian businesses and individuals have been sanctioned by the US, EU, UK and other countries.", "A model of the face of Bonnie Prince Charlie had been created using hundreds of images taken from death masks.\n\nA team at the University of Dundee's Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification used the masks to recreate the Scottish prince's looks.\n\nAfter his death in 1788, a cast of the prince's face was taken, which was common for notable figures at the time.\n\nThis was painstakingly photographed and mapped along with software allowing the experts to \"de-age\" the prince to the year 1745, the time of the Jacobite rising.", "Officials in the US state of Georgia are investigating online threats made against members of the grand jury that indicted Donald Trump on Monday.\n\nPersonal information, including the addresses and photos of the jurors, were shared on right-wing platforms.\n\nFulton County Sheriff's Office said it was aware of the threats, and was trying to track down those behind them.\n\nThe names of the jurors were published in the indictment, a routine practice in Georgia.\n\nBut after their identities emerged in that document, supporters of former President Trump seemingly compiled further information available online and posted photographs and addresses to forums, including the social media site Telegram.\n\nIt comes just days after the jury voted to indict Mr Trump on 13 charges, which include racketeering and election meddling. He has said the charges are politically motivated.\n\nOfficials said that along with jurors' personal information, threats against them were also shared. Police say the threats could amount to jury intimidation.\n\n\"Our investigators are working closely with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to track down the origin of threats in Fulton County and other jurisdictions,\" the Fulton County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.\n\nIt said they took the matter very seriously and would respond quickly to ensure the safety of jurors.\n\nIn one message shared on Facebook a user wrote: \"I thought it only fair to share a few names from that grand jury.\"\n\nThe post, which included possible addresses and phone numbers for several jurors, was later removed.\n\nOther messages posted by users to Truth Social, the site owned by Mr Trump, urged his supporters to \"make sure [the jurors] can't walk down the street\" and to make them \"infamous\".\n\nMedia Matters, a non-profit organisation that monitors conservative media bodies, reported that one user called the information a \"hit list\".\n\nSome posts reportedly include violent rhetoric against Fani Willis, the prosecutor who is overseeing Mr Trump's case in Georgia.\n\nTwo NBC News reporters who wrote about the grand jury incident also had their own purported addresses posted online, the Reuters news agency reported.\n\nGeorgia is an outlier in the US legal system as it shares the identity of the jurors, which it says is to allow the public to have a greater faith in the legal system.\n\nBut they do not make their addresses or any other personal information public.\n\nMr Trump, who is the front-runner for the Republican nomination to run for president in the 2024 election, has consistently hit out at those leading cases against him.\n\nEarlier this month, US prosecutors reported a post that he wrote on Truth Social to a judge, claiming it was intended to intimidate people involved in a case against him.\n\nMeanwhile, a woman in Texas has been charged for threatening to kill a judge overseeing another case against Mr Trump.\n\nLast week, FBI agents killed an armed man in Utah who reportedly made death threats against Joe Biden, a few hours before the president landed in the state. He came to the attention of federal agents after posting a threat on Truth Social, which then alerted the FBI.\n\nOn Thursday, a Canadian woman was jailed in the US for 22 years for sending a letter laced with ricin to Donald Trump when he was president.", "The Gwent Levels are home to numerous species of protected animals\n\nTwo solar farm developers are taking legal action after a Welsh government minister refused planning permission.\n\nRural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths blocked the schemes on the Gwent Levels on biodiversity grounds, despite planning inspectors recommending they get the go-ahead.\n\nOne developer warned it cast doubt on the prospect of creating new energy projects in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government said it could not comment on the High Court challenges.\n\nThe move was praised by others who said tackling climate change could not be at the expense of wildlife.\n\nThe low-lying coastal landscape, which stretches from the east of Cardiff into Newport and Monmouthshire, is made up of saltmarshes and fields marked by drainage ditches, known in the area as reens.\n\nIt is home to a wide variety of protected species, including the great crested newt, water vole, bats, otters and grass snakes.\n\nBecause of the nature of the landscape, conservation groups have called for the Welsh government to have a moratorium on major developments there. One major solar farm already exists, near Llanwern.\n\nPylons run across the levels' landscape and the sites for both schemes were picked in part because they could be connected to the National Grid, a problem that has proved a stumbling block to other energy projects.\n\nThe largest of the two proposed schemes, between Marshfield and St Brides in Newport, would have seen a 122-hectare solar farm with capacity to generate 125MW, enough for 37,500 homes.\n\nA similar, larger scheme was previously refused by the minister.\n\nAn inspection report said the environmental benefits outweighed the impact of the carbon footprint of manufacturing the panels, but the entire site was located within a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).\n\nA large solar farm already exists in the Gwent Levels, near Goldcliff\n\nInspectors said they believed the scheme would cause \"no unacceptable impacts on national statutory designated sites for nature conservation... or protected habitats and species\".\n\nBut the minister said the applicants had not fully considered alternative sites and had not demonstrated \"how damage to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been avoided\".\n\nThe applicant, Wentlooge Farmers Solar Scheme Ltd, said it was \"dismayed and exasperated\".\n\n\"The refusal by Welsh ministers is now indicative of an emerging trend where the professional recommendations of the independent planning inspector is ignored, thus casting huge doubt over the prospects of developing new energy projects in Wales and tackling the declared climate emergency,\" it added.\n\nThe other scheme - Rush Wall - was smaller, with a capacity of 75MW at a site near Redwick, enough to power 18,755 homes.\n\nIt was also on a SSSI and the inspection report said the great crested newt and common pipistrelle bats were among the species identified on or around the site.\n\nRecommending the scheme goes ahead, inspectors said plans would benefit the aquatic environments of the SSSI and the species that depended on the habitats.\n\nBut the minister made similar objections to the Rush Wall plans, saying alternative sites had not been fully considered.\n\nThe developer, BSR Energy, said: \"The project's ability to connect to the UK's national electricity grid is the most significant benefit of the site.\n\n\"An energy generation project of this scale is not achievable in most other locations within the regional area or even at the national level.\"\n\nRoss Evans said renewable energy could not be at the expense of nature\n\nRoss Evans, of the Welsh Countryside Charity, said: \"Rapid transition to renewable energy has a critical role to play in addressing climate change. However, this cannot be at the expense of nature, the landscape and wildlife of the levels.\"\n\nHe disputed the claim the decision cast doubt on the future of renewables, saying his charity's map of applications going through the Welsh government's developments of national significance planning scheme showed a \"shocking\" scale of planned developments.\n\nCatherine Linstrum, co-chairwoman of Friends of the Gwent Levels, said it was the right decision, and said there had been \"a rush on the Gwent Levels, because of the need to increase renewable energy, and commercial interests have seen that as an opportunity to make a lot of money\".\n\nGwent Wildlife Trust's planning manager, Mike Webb, said while the charity supported renewable energy, there were \"tens of thousands of acres of land throughout Wales which are much more suited to solar farms\".\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"I can confirm challenges have been made against the decisions to refuse planning permission for the Wentlooge Solar Farm and the Rush Wall Solar Farm.\n\n\"We cannot comment further as both decisions are subject to ongoing legal proceeding.\"", "Non-teaching staff such as learning support and janitorial workers will go on strike next month\n\nNon-teaching school staff in 10 council areas will go on strike on 13 and 14 September, GMB Scotland has announced.\n\nThe areas affected are Aberdeen, Clackmannanshire, Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar, Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Glasgow, Orkney, Renfrewshire and South Ayrshire.\n\nThe union said the offer \"does not come close\" to matching the cost of living and warned of disruption in schools.\n\nStaff in schools and early years working across catering, cleaning, pupil support, administration and janitorial services will take part in the action.\n\nGMB Scotland said Cosla, the body which represents local authorities, had refused to revise the pay offer or ask the Scottish government for support.\n\nCosla previously said the \"strong offer\" raised the local government living wage by 99p to £11.84 per hour.\n\nAbout 20,000 GMB members voted against the deal in April.\n\nUnite members in 10 Scottish councils also voted to strike over pay after the summer break - although dates have not yet been confirmed.\n\nUnison has yet to announce the results of its strike ballot to members.\n\nGMB Scotland senior organiser Keir Greenaway said: \"Scotland stands on the shoulders of our local authority workers and the value of their work must be reflected in their salaries.\n\n\"Cosla has refused to seriously engage with our members during what has been a protracted, frustrating process. If they had, parents and pupils would not now be facing disruption.\n\n\"Cosla and Scottish ministers need to engage now or risk turning a crisis into a calamity.\"\n\nA Cosla spokeswoman said council leaders had made a \"strong offer\" which clearly illustrates the value they place on their workforce.\n\nShe said: \"While the offer value in year is 5.5%, the average uplift on salaries going into the next financial year is 7%. Those on the Scottish Local Government Living Wage would get 9.12% and those at higher grades, where councils are experiencing severe recruitment challenges, would see 6.05%.\"\n\nHundreds of striking teachers joined a rally outside the Scottish Parliament in November last year\n\nSchools closures were expected across Scotland this time last year due to planned council strikes which included non-teaching staff. This was called off after a new pay offer was accepted.\n\nIn November teachers joined mass rallies in the first national schools strike in over a decade - resulting in the closure of nearly every primary and secondary school in the country, and many council nurseries.\n\nThis escalated when teachers took part in rolling strikes across every council area earlier this year. Action was eventually called off in March following a new pay offer.\n\nThe GMB union is giving councils plenty of warning of possible strike dates.\n\nIt insists there is still plenty of time to resolve the pay dispute.\n\nBut it knows that even the possibility of strikes which may close schools is a powerful weapon.\n\nLast year, a council pay dispute led to rubbish building up in Edinburgh and other cities. A settlement was made possible after the Scottish government gave councils more money to help them increase their pay offer.\n\nSo far, council body Cosla has not asked the government for more money for pay.\n\nSome council leaders believe a bigger pay offer may only be possible if the government helps to finance it.\n\nWithout a bigger pay offer, however it is financed, strikes would seem inevitable.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf is proud of the fact that strikes in the NHS in Scotland were avoided.\n\nBut could he soon be facing the second council strike within barely a year? And although teachers are not involved, it would also be the second time in recent months when education has been affected by industrial action.", "The incident happened in the historic city of Berat\n\nIn a unique act of diplomacy, Italy's government has settled the restaurant bill of four Italian tourists in Albania who left without paying.\n\nThe dine and dash in the city of Berat made headlines in both countries.\n\nThe chatter prompted Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama to raise it with his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, while she was visiting the country.\n\nShe responded by telling her ambassador to \"go and pay the bill for these idiots,\" he told La Stampa newspaper.\n\nItaly's embassy in Albania confirmed in a statement that it had paid the bill, reportedly around €80 (£68), on behalf of its citizens.\n\n\"The Italians respect the rules and pay off their debts and we hope that episodes of this kind will not happen again,\" it said.\n\nItaly's agriculture minister and Ms Meloni's brother-in-law, Francesco Lollobrigida, was also on the trip to Albania and told the Reuters news agency that paying the bill was a matter of pride.\n\n\"A few dishonest individuals cannot embarrass a nation of decent people,\" he said.\n\nIt is unclear when the incident happened but security video of the group walking out of the restaurant and wandering into the night has gone viral on social media.\n\nThe restaurant owner told Albania's Report TV that it was the first time customers had left his establishment without paying and said the four Italians had even complimented the food.\n• None Italians run from the bill in Pamplona", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLike many in Canada's Northwest Territories, Poul Osted has been relying on social media to keep in touch with loved ones as they scramble to evacuate from nearby wildfires.\n\nBut Mr Osted said he has been left frustrated by his inability to share news articles on Facebook during the active emergency situation, due to Meta's ban on news content for Canadian users.\n\n\"Instead we have to screenshot parts of a news story and post that as a picture,\" Mr Osted told the BBC.\n\n\"Oftentimes this means you don't get the whole story, or have to go searching the web for verification.\"\n\nA Canadian government minister has demanded that Meta - the company that owns Facebook and Instagram - \"reverse its decision\" as what it was doing was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"Due to this ban, people do not have access to information that is absolutely crucial,\" Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez told a briefing on Friday.\n\nPoul Osted, who lives in the small hamlet of Fort Resolution, said the ban had affected his family members who were forced to flee Hay River, which is threatened by a wildfire is burning nearby.\n\n\"The state of the highway system is one example,\" he told the BBC via Facebook messenger.\n\nSeveral people were inquiring on the platform whether it was safe to drive out of town but couldn't share that information on the social network.\n\nMeta began blocking access to news for its Canadian users on 1 August, not long after Canada's parliament passed an online news bill that will require platforms like Google and Meta to negotiate deals with news publishers for content.\n\nIt has called the law \"fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work\".\n\nIn response to questions from the BBC, a Meta spokesperson declined to comment on the ban and its impact on evacuees. On Thursday, the company added a safety check-in feature on the platform.\n\nAs Meta rolls out the ban as part of its campaign against the legislation, a growing number of Canadian users have found themselves unable to view news shared by media organisations on its platforms.\n\nThey are also unable to view articles shared by friends, instead seeing a message that reads: \"This content isn't available in Canada.\"\n\nThis has raised concern about people's access to information, especially during the wildfire evacuations.\n\n\"The timing could not have been worse for this,\" said Shawna Bruce, an instructor at the disaster and emergency management program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.\n\nAbout 77% of Canadians use Facebook, she said, and one in four of them rely on the platform as their primary source of news.\n\n\"I am wondering if we have a bit of an information void there because of this decision,\" Ms Bruce said.\n\nCanada's Minister of Heritage, Pascale St-Onge, called Meta's decision to continue to block news for Canadians \"irresponsible and unreasonable\".\n\nShe too called on the tech giant to resume talks over the law and to restore access to news.\n\nResidents in Yellowknife, the territory's largest city with 20,000 people, have been ordered by officials to leave by Friday afternoon over fears a wildfire burning about 16 km (10 miles) could reach the city limits by the weekend.\n\nOther towns in the Northwest Territories, including Hay River and Fort Smith, are also under evacuation orders.\n\nMany evacuees have been using Facebook groups like NWT Wildfires Safety Check to mark themselves safe from the fires and to ask about updates.\n\nOfficials have also relied on Facebook to share evacuation information and updates on the fires directly to their official pages and websites.\n\n\"Some of them have really stepped up in the absence of not being able to use Facebook in a way they could before,\" Ms Bruce said.\n\nMeta's restriction on news has forced other jurisdictions in Canada to rethink how they disseminate essential information.\n\nPolice in Manitoba, for example, told the Canadian Press earlier this summer that it will rely on direct posts through social media accounts to get news out to the public.\n\nNearly 240 wildfires are active across the Northwest Territories as of Thursday, part of what has been Canada's worst forest fire season on record.\n\nMore than 1,000 wildfires are burning across Canada, including in British Columbia and Quebec.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason.\n\nScientists say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.", "Property giant Evergrande has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US as the real estate crisis in China deepens.\n\nIt will allow the heavily-indebted company to protect its assets in the US as it works on a multi-billion dollar deal with creditors.\n\nEvergrande defaulted on its huge debts in 2021, which sent shockwaves through global financial markets.\n\nThe move comes as problems in China's property market add to concerns about the world's second largest economy.\n\nChina Evergrande Group made the Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection filing in a New York court on Thursday.\n\nChapter 15 protects the US assets of a foreign company while it works on restructuring its debts.\n\nEvergrande did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the the BBC.\n\nThe group's real estate unit has more than 1,300 projects in more than 280 Chinese cities, according to its website.\n\nIts other businesses include an electric car maker and a football club.\n\nEvergrande has been working to renegotiate its agreements with creditors after defaulting on its debt repayments.\n\nWith debts estimated to total more than $300bn (£235bn), it was the world's most heavily indebted property developer.\n\nIts shares have been suspended from trading since last year.\n\nEvergrande revealed last month that it lost a combined 581.9bn yuan ($80bn; £62.7bn) over the last two years.\n\nLast week, another major Chinese property giant, Country Garden, warned that it could see a loss of up to $7.6bn for the first six months of the year.\n\nSome of the biggest companies in China's real estate market are struggling to find the money to complete developments.\n\n\"The key to this issue is to complete unfinished projects because this will at least keep some of the financing flowing,\" said Steven Cochrane of economics research firm Moody's Analytics.\n\nHe added that many homes are pre-sold but if construction stops, buyers no longer make mortgage payments, which puts more strain on developers' finances.\n\nEarlier this month, Beijing said that China's economy had slipped into deflation as consumer prices declined in July for the first time in more than two years.\n\nWeak growth means China is not facing the rising prices that have rattled many other countries and prompted central bankers elsewhere to sharply increase borrowing costs.\n\nThe country's imports and exports also fell sharply last month as weaker global demand threatened the recovery prospects of the world's second-largest economy.\n\nOfficial figures showed exports fell by 14.5% in July compared with a year earlier, while imports dropped 12.4%.\n\nEarlier this week, China's central bank unexpectedly cut key interest rates for the second time in three months, in a bid to boost the economy.", "Russian officials have accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on a building in Moscow, causing an explosion that was heard across the city's business district.\n\nMayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defences had shot down the drone with its debris falling on the city's Expo Center.\n\nIt marks the latest in a series of such attacks on the Russian capital.\n\nUnverified footage on social media appeared to show thick grey smoke rising into the night sky over Moscow.\n\nThere was no immediate comment from Ukraine, but officials in Kyiv have never formally acknowledged launching attacks on targets in Moscow.\n\nThe attack occurred at around 04:00 local time (01:00 GMT), Russia's defence ministry said on Telegram.\n\nIt said that, after activating the city's air defence systems, the drone had \"changed its flight path\", falling on a non-residential building on the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, an area of Moscow which hosts a number of government buildings.\n\nIt added that there were no initial reports of casualties.\n\nThe Expo Center is a large exhibition space used for conferences and conventions and is situated less than 5km (3.1 miles) from the Kremlin.\n\nA witness who was in the area told Reuters news agency the attack had caused \"a powerful explosion\".\n\nThe Russian defence ministry said the debris had not caused a fire, while Mr Sobyanin said the drone had caused \"no significant damage\" to the building.\n\nOne Russian state-owned news agency, Tass, reported that one of the outer walls of the centre had partially collapsed, citing emergency services. It said the affected area was around 30 sq m (323 sq ft).\n\nMoscow's Vnukovo Airport also closed following the incident, Tass said, but reopened a short time later.\n\nUntil earlier this year, Moscow remained untouched by the war in Ukraine, but in recent months has been targeted by drone strikes.\n\nOn 30 May, several buildings were reported damaged in a wave of strikes.\n\nOn 30 and 31 July, two separate drones crashed into the glass facade of a skyscraper just a few hundred metres from the Expo Center.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the time that the war was \"returning to the territory of Russia\" and that this was an \"inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process\".\n\nHours before the latest strike in Moscow, a Ukrainian sea drone was destroyed during an attempted attack on Russia's naval fleet in the Black Sea, Russia's defence ministry said.", "An avid musician, loving grandmothers, and an inspiring father are among the victims of the devastating Hawaii wildfires identified and named by Maui officials.\n\nAt least 115 people have died and authorities have warned the death toll could climb in the coming days.\n\nOfficials say identifying those lost in the wildfires is expected to be painstakingly long.\n\nTo date, they have publicly identified 46 people who died in the blaze.\n\nBefore families were notified, they spent days posting on social media in hopes of finding loved ones.\n\nHere's what we know so far about those who were lost.\n\nJoe Schilling, a 67-year-old Lahaina resident, went by many names: \"Joe, Maui Joe, Uncle Joe, Funkle\", according to a Facebook post from his sister, Penny Schilling.\n\n\"He had the hugest heart and was ready to assist anyone in need,\" she wrote. \"The last two weeks of my husband's life, Joe took off work and came over to help me during a most difficult time. I wouldn't have made it through without him.\"\n\nMs Schilling told local news her brother died while trying to help his elderly neighbours to safety amid the blaze.\n\nJoe Schilling's friend Corie Bluh told ABC News the two were texting as wildfires reached his Lahaina residence, the Hale Mahaolu Eono apartment complex.\n\n\"We are trapped can't see a thing plus when you try to breathe it burns your lungs,\" Mr Schilling wrote.\n\nHe is survived by his brother Dan Schilling and sister Penny.\n\n\"His family and his music was everything\" to Buddy Jantoc (in the centre)\n\nHis eldest granddaughter, Keshia Alakai, told a local ABC station that \"his family and his music was everything\" to him.\n\nHis family said he toured on the US mainland with Carlos Santana, percussionist Pete Escovedo and guitarist George Benson. Dubbed \"Mr Aloha\", he would play bass guitar at hula competitions. His flat, filled with instruments, resembled a music store.\n\nMr Jantoc lived at Hale Mahaolu Eono, a low-income senior housing complex. He was legally blind and had difficulty hearing.\n\nThe family started to worry when they did not hear from him. Ms Alakai told The New York Times \"I had a bad feeling\".\n\n\"I'm hoping he was asleep,\" Shari Jantoc, his daughter-in-law, told the newspaper. \"I hope to God he did not suffer.\"\n\nMr Jantoc is survived by two sons, multiple grandchildren and great-grandchildren.\n\nBefore authorities identified 72-year-old Lahaina resident Melva Benjamin as one of the victims, her family and friends had been posting a \"missing\" photo of her and her boyfriend on social media.\n\nHer daughter-in-law, Janell Benjamin, shared photos of Ms Benjamin with her grandchildren, writing on Facebook: \"Can someone please wake me up from this nightmare…still holding on to hope.\"\n\nMs Benjamin was last seen evacuating from her home.\n\nOnline tributes poured in after her death was confirmed. Friend Bernadette Garces Kaai wrote: \"thank you for the memories and beautiful heart\".\n\nAlfredo Galinato was reported missing 9 August, a day after the deadly blaze swept through the historic town of Lahaina.\n\nHis son, Joshua Galinato, posted pictures seeking information about the 79-year-old Lahaina resident.\n\n\"We are still searching for my father and hoping for his safe return,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Galinato's last known location was the family's home which, along with his vehicle, went up in flames, according to his son.\n\nA GoFundMe page for the family now says: \"We are grateful to finally hear about our father's remains but saddened that he has not joined us in safety.\"\n\nMr Galinato's other son, John Galinato, posted a tribute saying: \"I love you and I thank you for everything you did for the family you are inspiration.\"\n\nDonna Gomes (third from left) with her family\n\nThe family of Donna Gomes remembers the 71-year-old matriarch as a strong and independent woman.\n\nMs Gomes grew up in Lahaina and was trying to flee her home of 15 years when the wildfire took her life.\n\n\"Not only have we lost our homes, but our family is also grieving the loss of our family backbone,\" wrote her oldest grandchild, Tehani Kuhaulua.\n\nMs Gomes had the biggest heart - full of tough love, her grandchild wrote.\n\n\"Some of her oldest friends know her as 'the bull' - no one could tell her what to do,\" she said.\n\nShe would have turned 72 on 15 August.\n\nTony Takafua was just seven years old when he died, trapped in a car with his mother and his mother's parents, all of whom died with him.\n\nTheir bodies were discovered in a burnt car near their Lahaina home, Hawaii News Now reported.\n\nThe family issued a statement: \"On behalf of our family, we bid aloha to our beloved parents, Faaso and Malui Fonua Tone, as well as our dear sister Salote Takafua and her son, Tony Takafua. The magnitude of our grief is indescribable, and their memories will forever remain etched in our hearts.\"\n\nOn 10 August, Jona Arafiles shared a post on social media requesting people to get in touch if they see \"Grandma Virginia Dofa\".\n\nThe County of Maui and Maui Police Department later confirmed she was one of the wildfire victims.", "Surgeons say they have successfully transplanted a donor liver kept warm and alive outside the body for three days, using a special machine.\n\nThe normothermic perfusion method gives the organ a continuous blood supply, which experts say is better than the traditional way of putting it on ice.\n\nIt might even be possible to stretch viability to 10 days, the Swiss team told the journal Nature Biotechnology.\n\nThe patient who received the warm liver is doing well a year on.\n\nExperts hope the advance could help reduce the number of donor organs that have to be discarded, since preserving tissues and organs at low temperatures can cause substantial cell damage.\n\nExtending how long a donor liver can be kept would allow more flexibility in the timing of the transplant operation too. Cooled livers only keep for up to 12 hours.\n\nThe machine can also deliver drugs or other nutrients, as well as blood, to make sure the organ is in the best condition ahead of the transplant.\n\nThe man who received the liver - which was plumbed into the perfusion machine for 68 hours - needed a new one because he had cancer.\n\nHis transplant operation was done four days after the donor organ was removed from its original owner - a 29-year-old woman who died in May 2021.\n\nThe man was able to go home from hospital 12 days after the surgery.\n\nHis doctors say more research - with more patients and longer observation periods - is still needed, but the results so far look very promising.\n\n\"We think that this first transplantation success...can open new horizons in the treatment of many liver disorders,\" they told Nature Biotechnology journal.\n\nSome of the UK's seven liver transplant units have also started using the same type of technology, and experts at Oxford University plan to assess the outcomes as part of a trial called the PLUS study.", "Cologne Cathedral, the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne\n\nClergy and staff of the Archdiocese of Cologne tried to browse pornography on work PCs, its archbishop has confirmed.\n\nGerman media said around 1,000 attempts to view restricted sites were logged when the organisation ran a month of tests on its IT security systems.\n\nAt least one senior clergy member was among 15 people identified, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper reported.\n\nThe archbishop, Rainer Maria Woelki, said he had ordered an investigation that would deal with those responsible.\n\nWatching pornography on archdiocese computers is strictly prohibited, as is accessing material on drugs and violence.\n\nThe majority of the suspicious activity concerned pornographic sites, according to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.\n\nIn a statement supplied to the BBC by the archdiocese, Cardinal Woelki said he was \"disappointed... that employees attempted to access pornographic sites\".\n\nAn investigation had been launched so those responsible would be dealt with, as it was \"important to me that not everyone be placed under general suspicion now\", he added.\n\nThe archdiocese said the information referred to in the German press report was collated during a check of its IT security's ability to block access to sites that \"pose a risk (violence, pornography, drugs, etc)\".\n\nIt added there was \"no evaluation of the specific content behind the URLs\" in question, but there were \"no indications of criminally relevant conduct\".\n\nThe tests, conducted between May and June of last year, were not specifically aimed at investigating the behaviour of staff or clergy, it said.\n\nGuido Assmann, the vicar-general of Cologne, said his organisation was \"very aware\" of the problem, but that he was \"pleased that our security systems were effective\".\n\nMeanwhile, a website for the Catholic Church in Germany, Katholisch.de, reported that public prosecutors were investigating a layman identified among the 15 separately on suspicion of possessing \"criminal content\".\n\nThe archdiocese told the BBC it was co-operating \"fully with the state authorities\", and that the person concerned was \"no longer active\" in the organisation.\n\nThe reports come after a series of scandals that have engulfed the archdiocese, the largest in Germany with more than two million members.\n\nA report in 2021 found there had been more than 200 abusers and more than 300 victims - mostly under the age of 14 - between 1975 and 2018 in the Cologne archdiocese area.\n\nWoelki last year offered his resignation to the Pope due to poor communication during the 2021 report on abuse. Rome has not yet made a decision on whether to accept it.", "Graham Linehan appeared on a small stage outside the Scottish Parliament\n\nGraham Linehan said it was \"extremely important\" for him to \"make a stand\" and perform at the Edinburgh Fringe after his show was cancelled twice.\n\nThe Father Ted writer gave an impromptu performance outside the Scottish Parliament on Thursday after two venues refused to host the performance.\n\nThe original venue, Leith Arches, had pulled out amid concern about Mr Linehan's views on transgender issues.\n\nThe show's organiser said they \"refuse to be cancelled\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland News after the show, Mr Linehan said: \"It is important to make a stand. It is important to at least stand in front of a microphone, even if it's just for a second, and show that these people don't get to push the rest of us around.\"\n\nHe added that he knew it was going to be a \"weird\" show so told himself \"do what you can and try and get out with your dignity intact\".\n\nMr Linehan, who also wrote TV sitcoms The IT Crowd and Black Books, has been involved in a number of acrimonious social media disputes with trans activists, with opponents accusing him of transphobia.\n\nHe was suspended from Twitter in 2020 after it ruled he had breached its rules on \"hateful content\", although his account was reinstated last year.\n\nThe comedian said: \"I heard someone say today I disagree with Graham Linehan on many things, it's like what? What do you disagree with me on?\"\n\nHe said it was \"extraordinary\" to find that his beliefs were being cast as bigotry.\n\nMr Linehan said it was important for his performance to go ahead\n\nLeith Arches said earlier this week that it had cancelled the show because it did not support the comedian or his views.\n\nThat stance was backed by NUS Scotland president Ellie Gomersall, who has campaigned for changes to gender laws.\n\nShe said the way Mr Linehan expressed his views was \"pretty deplorable\" and that it was right for the comedy club to reject him.\n\nMr Linehan performed on Thursday as part of a five-piece comedy group organised by Comedy Unleashed.\n\nCo-founder Andy Shaw told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme it was probably the \"hardest gig\" he had ever had to organise.\n\nHe said: \"Graham's views on other matters are Graham's views on other matters and really it's a big, big pity that all the attention has been on Graham's views around the trans issue and not around the principle of free expression in the art and free speech which is actually what has happened here.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've had a gig cancelled and very few people have come forward to say this is wrong - in Edinburgh, the home of the enlightenment and during the biggest comedy festival in the world.\n\n\"The principle here is we're not going to stop, we won't be cancelled, we will make sure this gig goes on and the artists can focus on their comedy.\"\n\nHe said holding the show outside the Scottish Parliament was \"utterly surreal\" but was not to make a political statement. Other last-minute options included a church, a community hall and the City of Edinburgh council's debating chamber.\n\n\"Does fate lead you in a certain direction? I'm not a big believer in fate but it took us to almost making a political point,\" he added.\n\nThe question of whether Mr Linehan or Comedy Unleashed will take legal action against the original venue remains, but Mr Shaw added that \"an apology would be nice.\"", "While recording the annual Perseid meteor shower from Hawaii, this camera happened to capture a parade of satellites. The group of 15 dots moving through the sky are SpaceX's Starlink satellites.", "Cars were bumper to bumper as people scrambled to evacuate\n\nResidents of Yellowknife are scrambling to leave the northern Canadian city by air and road ahead of a noon Friday evacuation deadline.\n\nEvacuation flights were leaving hourly and passengers were being processed quickly, officials said.\n\nThe main highway has long traffic queues with officials fearing the road could be cut off as the fire nears.\n\nIt is one of 240 fires in the Northwest Territories and was about 15km (9 miles) from Yellowknife on Thursday.\n\nThe outskirts of the city, home to 20,000 people, could be under threat on Saturday.\n\n\"I'm really anxious and I'm scared, I'm emotional,\" Angela Canning told Associated Press after packing her camper van with her important belongings and her two dogs.\n\n\"I don't know what I'm coming home to or if I'm coming home. There's just so much unknowns here.\"\n\nThe evacuation was ordered on Wednesday because authorities fear the main road in and out of the city could be cut off well before the fire reaches the city.\n\nReception areas have been set up in Calgary, Alberta, to take evacuees arriving by air or road.\n\nNearly 7,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes in other parts of the territory and other parts of western Canada are also battling fires in the country's worst season on record.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in the city of Kelowna in British Columbia, where officials warn the coming days could be the \"most challenging of the summer\".\n\nCity officials said firefighters continued to work overnight to protect property and infrastructure and some \"structural loss\" is confirmed in West Kelowna.\n\n\"The fire remains very active and unpredictable,\" officials said in a statement.\n\nIn Yellowknife, a massive queue of people waiting to register for evacuation flights out of the city had formed outside a local high school on Thursday.\n\nAmid light rainfall, police and military personnel moved down the line, handing out snacks, water and chairs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the treacherous journeys out of wildfire-hit Canada\n\nIn a briefing on Thursday evening, officials said 21 evacuation flights with nearly 2,000 seats available were scheduled for Friday, and depending on turnaround of flights and need, additional flights could be organised for Saturday.\n\nEvacuees were advised to bring no more than five days' worth of clothing in standard carry-on bags.They said about 5,000 people need to leave Yellowknife by air.\n\nLocals have accused Air Canada and WestJet of inflating prices for flights out of the city as well as change fees for travellers with upcoming flights into Yellowknife.\n\nIn a statement to CBC News, an Air Canada spokesman said fares for direct flights had been capped and the airline was currently doubling its regular operations in the city.\n\nBut he noted there were \"limitations being imposed on flying due to the fires\" and that Air Canada had cancelled flights on Saturday.\n\nWestJet told the outlet it had adjusted fares to avoid \"price escalation\" and was also waiving reschedule fees for people travelling to Yellowknife in the next five days.\n\nOther airlines have also been asked to help people flee the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dramatic helicopter rescue for three hikers trapped by wildfire in Canada\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had \"touched base\" with the city's mayor to discuss the situation on the ground.\n\n\"I reaffirmed our government's commitment to providing support both now and in the days and weeks ahead,\" he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nAbout 46,000 people live in the Northwest Territories, and Canada's military has been co-ordinating the largest airlift evacuation effort in the region's history.\n\nThe communities of Fort Smith, K'atl'odeeche First Nation, Hay River, Enterprise, and Jean Marie River are all also under evacuation orders.\n\nKakisa, a community of about 40 people some 130km from Hay River, received an evacuation order on Thursday.\n\nCanada is having its worst wildfire season on record, with nearly 1,100 active fires burning across the country.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason.\n\nScientists say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nAre you a resident of Yellowknife? Are you leaving the city? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The MAC employs more than 100 people\n\nThe future of the MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre) in Belfast is in question amid concerns that the Arts Council could cut its funding.\n\nThe Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) is the principal funder of the MAC, giving the centre more than £1m annually over the past three years.\n\nBut BBC News NI understands this money could be at risk after ACNI conducted a funding review.\n\nThe MAC said it was \"engaged in ongoing discussions with funders\".\n\nMore than 100 people are employed at the centre.\n\nThe MAC has recently been funded by ACNI on a quarterly basis while the review, due to be completed at the end of July, was carried out, BBC News NI understands.\n\nThe BBC has also been made aware that two external audits of financial management at the MAC have been conducted.\n\nWhen contacted, a spokesperson for the venue said discussions with funders \"around the most efficient way to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the MAC\" were under way.\n\n\"We are confident of a positive outcome in the very near future,\" they added.\n\n\"In the meantime our shows, exhibitions and events all continue as usual.\"\n\nACNI declined to comment on its funding of the venue.\n\nSDLP councillor Séamas de Faoite said Belfast City Council wants to ensure the Mac has \"long-term viability\", adding it is \"worth saving\".\n\nSéamas de Faoite said it was really important for Belfast not to lose places such as the MAC\n\nHe criticised \"sustained\" budget cuts within the arts, warning of a \"devastating impact\" that will \"take years to rebuild\".\n\n\"We have a lot of concerns about making sure we protect Belfast's cultural and arts spaces and the MAC is one of those,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to make sure it has long-term viability to keep the doors open. I think it's really, really important that we don't lose any of those types of spaces.\"\n\nHe added: \"We know that for every pound you put into cultural and arts funding here there's a £13 return for the local economy.\n\n\"It not only provides that kind of arts and culture and entertainment value to people, but there's also a real value in terms of the jobs it creates.\"\n\nIn the most recent accounts for the MAC, filed on 1 January 2023 and available via Companies House, an independent auditor said there was \"a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt about the group and the parent charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nThe accounts also said the MAC board was forecasting a deficit of £150,028 for the year ending 31 March 2023.\n\nSince opening at the heart of Belfast's Cathedral Quarter in 2012, the state-of-the-art facility has had almost 2.5 million visitors, hosting more than 3,000 live performances and 45 visual art exhibitions.\n\nBut it is not the first time the MAC, which contains two theatres, three visual art galleries, a dance studio, workshops, a café and a bar, has run into financial difficulty.\n\nIt cost more than £17m to build - nearly twice the projected cost before construction began.\n\nIn 2016, almost £1m of public money was spent to repair the façade of the building.\n\nThe facility, which also receives £75,000 annually from Belfast City Council, asked for £300,000 of public money in 2017 in order to \"keep the doors open\".\n\nIt then asked for an additional £50,000 from the council in 2018/19 and £220,000 from the Department for Communities and the Arts Council.\n\nThe MAC's current programme of advertised events runs until April 2024.", "Police responded to the scene of the glider crash in Melton Mowbray on Thursday\n\nA glider pilot has died following a mid-air collision over Leicestershire.\n\nPolice said they were called shortly before 15:00 BST on Thursday to reports a glider had crashed after being involved in a mid-air collision with a second glider over Melton Mowbray.\n\nThe aircraft was found in a field in Alderman Road with the pilot pronounced dead at the scene, police said.\n\nThe second glider landed safely nearby, with the pilot suffering minor injuries.\n\nPolice officers attended, along with East Midlands Ambulance Service and Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nInvestigation work is being carried out at the crash site\n\nLeicestershire Police said it was continuing to support the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), which is leading the investigation into the crash.\n\nThe AAIB confirmed it had deployed a team to the site.\n\nThe glider in which the pilot was killed is understood to have taken off from The Gliding Centre at Husbands Bosworth Airfield, Leicestershire, which has this week been hosting the Hus Bos Challenge Cup competition.\n\nOnline flight data shows it took off shortly after 12:30 BST, making a number of turns over Melton Mowbray before crashing.\n\nThe second glider landed safely, police said\n\nEyewitnesses reported seeing the gliders collide in mid-air.\n\nDavid Leach, who lives on Marigold Crescent in the town, told the BBC: \"I came out and we just looked up watching them circle right above us and then, all of a sudden, there was a mighty bang.\n\n\"I think the end of the wing of one clipped the back end of one glider, chopping his tail end off and one of them just came crashing down like a rocket.\n\n\"The noise was terrible. It was just so bad to see and it happened so quick.\"\n\nHis wife, Joy Leach, added: \"It was horrific to see a plane crash like that. It was so close.\n\n\"When you're in your garden you don't expect that sort of thing to happen.\"\n\nA resident of nearby village Burton Lazars, who has asked to remain anonymous, said she spoke to one of the pilots involved after the crash.\n\n\"He walked across the field where he landed and knocked on our door to use the phone,\" she said.\n\nHe was \"very shaken and concerned about the other pilot\", she added.\n\nAnyone with information or footage of the incident is asked to contact police on 101, quoting incident 422 of 17 August.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Sarah Meredith: \"I would be lying if I said that I don't get really down about it because I do\"\n\nA woman in need of a liver transplant has been waiting almost 10 times the average wait for the operation.\n\nSarah Meredith, 30, from Totnes, Devon has waited for 640 days, while the average wait for an adult is 65 days.\n\nShe has now moved to Cambridgeshire to be close to a specialist facility at Addenbrooke's Hospital when a liver becomes available.\n\nThe NHS said a shortage of donors could lead to long delays.\n\nCatherine Meredith: \"We're wondering if she's going to get transplanting at all\"\n\nMs Meredith's family fear she could become too poorly to have the transplant at all.\n\nThey believe the way organs are prioritised for transplant leads to younger people having to wait longer.\n\nMs Meredith, who has cystic fibrosis, said: \"I would be lying if I said that I don't get really down about it, because I do.\n\n\"But you've got to carry on as best you can.\"\n\nMs Meredith and her mother Catherine highlighted the importance of families talking about organ donation.\n\nAlmost 7,000 people are currently waiting for a transplant in the UK.\n\n\"Every time the phone rings you're thinking that it might be the call, but it hasn't been for nearly two years now,\" said Catherine.\n\n\"So we're wondering if she's going to get transplanting at all.\"\n\nDerek Manas, associate medical director for organ and tissue transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant, said: \"All patients waiting for a transplant face a great deal of uncertainty.\n\n\"Due to a shortage of potential donors, it can take a long time for a call to come and specialist clinical teams must individually assess the suitability of each patient waiting for a liver transplant.\"\n\nHe said eligibility criteria was \"based on nationally agreed guidelines\" and surgeons \"evaluate each donor, organ and recipient carefully\".\n\nThe transplant team may decide the organ is not suitable for transplantation or the organ could prove to be a better match with better outcomes for another waiting patient, Mr Manas explained.\n\n\"The more people who agree to support donation, the better the chances are for these patients who are desperately awaiting these life-saving calls,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 11 and 18 August.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nChris Curry took this action shot of winner Arron White, who completed 17 laps of Scottish Canoe's three-hour lap enduro race on the river Moriston.\n\nWearing your heart on your calf: Mark Coles took this picture of a volunteer at the Lang Way Doon 24hr Endurance cycling ride from Tongue to Coldstream, via Braemar, during the UCI Women's Elite Road Race.\n\nSteven Crozier took this shot of the Red Arrows doing a fly-past over Edinburgh Castle at the start of the first of two evening Tattoo performances.\n\nThis picture of beautiful Kearvaig beach on Cape Wrath was snapped by Jeremy Morris just as the light was fading.\n\nPaul Steven took this stunning picture of Suilven, a mountain that lies west of Sutherland.\n\nThis photo of Ailsa Craig was taken by Phil Thompson en route back to Balfron from the Larne - Cairnryan Ferry.\n\nAmy Reynolds snapped a shot of the Red Arrows as they flew over the Edinburgh rooftops ahead of that evening's Tattoo.\n\nSimon Ridge took this photo of some angry sky above Monkton in Ayrshire.\n\nGavin Watson said: \"A spider welcomes orange spot butterfly to its home on the River Teith in Deanston.\"\n\nSteven Turner took this picture at his coffee shop on London Road in Glasgow during the UCI Cycling World Championships.\n\nStewart Kerr said it was a colourful end to the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.\n\nElizabeth Whyte made this montage from pictures she took at the UCI men's elite time trial which passed by her road end in Gargunnock, Stirlingshire.\n\nThis photo of the last concert of the \"Summer Nights\" gigs in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, was taken by Paul Climie. He said: 'Despite the incessant rain, The Delgados were fantastic.\"\n\nRosie the Highland Cow taking a dip in Glen Douglas, Argyll and Bute, was snapped by Charlie McGinn.\n\nKevin English took this picture of his daughter Freya on a day trip to Lossiemouth beach.\n\nThe Rwandan road cycling team posing behind Cara McGuigan's car at a red light in Kirkintilloch.\n\nJohn Quinn took this picture of his brother holding up a pot they put in the middle of Loch Slappin on Skye. He said: \"No Lobster but a myriad of crabs. All released.\"\n\nDerek McRonald took this photo of a moody Chandlers Lane Dundee with the Tay Bridge in the distance.\n\nJanina Dolny was at the Fringe by the Sea festival in North Berwick, where the Dudendance Theatre Company performed a piece entitled Alien Species.\n\nRuprecht Pohsib took this shot of rapeseed being harvested near Tannadice, Angus.\n\nRobert Booth took this picture of an actress from the YAT theatre group in the play, The School For Scandal, in the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Fringe.\n\nHazel Thomson captured this curlew searching out the rock pools for a tasty snack in Elgin.\n\nEuan Campbell caught this sunset over the rosebay willowherb in Newmachar, Aberdeenshire.\n\nLindsey Mainds went to see the amazing fields of sunflowers at Balgone Barns by North Berwick Law in East Lothian.\n\nEilidh Kerr captured personality in this frog in Granny's pond in Ochiltree.\n\nMichael Rieley took this picture of his granddaughter while on a visit to the Sunflower Walk at Gloagburn Farm on the last day of the school holidays.\n\nColin Little took this picture of a young swallow preparing to have lunch in Elgin while out for a morning walk.\n\nMark Williamson said it was a joy to have these sparrows wrecking one of his flowerbeds in Fochabers, because they are his favourite small bird.\n\nCatherine Leckie took this photo from her garden in Spean Bridge. \"We planted marigolds for green manure this year and they looked lovely in the sunset, almost matching the colour of the sky,\" she said.\n\nSarah Conway captured this Highland Cow on Allermuir Hill in The Pentland Hills keeping an eye on Edinburgh.\n\nStuart Lee snapped this short-eared owl gliding past his office on the West coast of Kintyre (near Muasdale).\n\nPat Christie spotted this mural on the side of a building just beside Pittenweem Harbour during a trip to the East Neuk in Fife.\n\nColin Mackie said this wee lizard was one of many he saw sunbathing on the boardwalks at Flanders Moss. \"Most of them scuttled away when you got close, but this one seemed happy to pose for the camera,\" he said.\n\nAileen Gillies made a last minute decision to go out in the evening and was rewarded with this beautiful sight at Crinan Canal.\n\nGraham Christie took this photo of a bull in a Field at Ardmore Point, near Helensburgh.\n\nEelco Zwart said he was very lucky with the weather on the Isle of Harris.\n\nJanice Galloway took this shot of moody skies on a bike ride to Corrour Station\n\nLinda McColgan said she had a lovely time exploring Dunnottar Castle with her husband, Marc.\n\nEelco Zwart says he loves this second hand book shop in Edinburgh.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "The Bibby Stockholm barge was evacuated last week after the discovery of legionella bacteria in the on-board water system\n\nThe government's Bibby Stockholm barge for asylum seekers has appeared as a hoax listing on a travel website.\n\nThe barge, in Portland Port, Dorset, was advertised on Booking.com a week after it was evacuated following the discovery of Legionella bacteria on board the craft.\n\nThe man behind the listing, which has since been removed from the site, told the BBC he had done it \"as a joke\".\n\nBooking.com has been contacted for a comment.\n\nLast week, 39 asylum seekers were taken off the barge after Legionella bacteria was found in its water system.\n\nThe barge, moored in Portland Port, was advertised on Booking.com before later being removed\n\nThe hoax listing on the website described the Bibby Stockholm as having a garden and offering views of Dorset's Jurassic coast.\n\nIt also said towels and bed linen were included on board the craft, as well as a continental, American or vegetarian breakfast \"every morning at the property\".\n\nIt added that residents had access to a sauna and swimming pool.\n\nA BBC journalist was able to book a double room on the barge for Monday night for a total of £93.78, though that payment has yet to be processed.\n\nThe Home Office confirmed it had not made the vessel available for public bookings.\n\nThe man who made the listing on Booking.com, who did not give his name, told the BBC it was \"definitely a joke\" and he \"did not think they would take it seriously\".\n\nThe floating hotel, intended to hold 500 men, remains empty while further tests are carried out on its water system.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Known as the Gypsy King, heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury retired from boxing last year\n\nCritics have praised Tyson Fury's new docu-series for shining a light on his mental health issues.\n\nWhile most reviews agreed Netflix's At Home With The Furys was lightweight overall, many highlighted its depiction of the boxer's day-to-day struggles.\n\nIn a four-star review, the Evening Standard said: \"There are too many silly moments to count, but there are also unexpectedly profound ones.\"\n\nThe Times said it was \"multi-layered, flipping between light and dark\".\n\nThe nine-episode reality series, released earlier this week, follows the heavyweight world champion as he retires from boxing and embraces family life.\n\nFilmed primarily in Fury's flashy family home in Morecambe, it's an often-revealing look at the sportsman, his wife Paris and their six children.\n\nFury was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder in 2017, and has struggled with depression, anxiety, alcohol addiction and cocaine abuse.\n\nThe show follows Fury, his wife Paris (pictured) and their six children\n\nThe Independent's Rachel McGrath awarded the series three stars, writing: \"Netflix don't seem to have realised that the lead star being bored isn't the best starting point for a series about family life.\n\n\"And yet, as At Home With The Furys unfolds, I found myself unexpectedly empathising with Fury. But the show has a long way to go before reaching the dramatic heights of its reality TV predecessors.\"\n\nShe continued: \"His existence is one of wild juxtapositions. Fury likes taking the kids camping near his house. When he travels on a budget airline, he's mobbed by fans within seconds of stepping off a plane. But Netflix's focus is on the banal; between Selling Sunset-style shots of Morecambe, the boxer picks up dog poo, works out with dad John, and unwraps socks on his birthday.\n\n\"Bubbling below every scene are Fury's mental health struggles... His issues were at their peak when he had suicidal thoughts during his first retirement in 2015, and the show documents the underlying fear that this could happen again.\"\n\nFury's brother Tommy and his influencer partner Molly-Mae Hague, who he met on Love Island, also make appearances in the show.\n\nLove Island stars Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury, Tyson's brother, also appear in the series\n\nThere was less enthusiasm for the series from the Guardian's Jack Seale, who described it as \"sappingly dull\" in a two-star review.\n\n\"Like a middling journeyman boxer, the series suffers on account of its sluggish reaction time,\" he suggested. \"Two of the later episodes focus on Tyson's attempt to lure Anthony Joshua into an all-British title fight, in a rehash of what was a major boxing story when it happened.\n\n\"The long time lag and the known outcome - a deal will never be struck - make those scenes stale, but they come after the halfway point in the season, by which point At Home With the Furys is starting to run out of material.\"\n\nBut Carol Midgley of the Times praised the docu-series, writing: \"One of the reasons it works is because it is multi-layered, flipping between light and dark, with no one taking themselves too seriously.\n\n\"But at the same time there is a serious point: Tyson's mental health.\"\n\nIn her four-star review Midgley suggested the show occasionally \"feels scripted\", noting the Furys know that \"the cameras are on them and perhaps act up for them\".\n\nThe show follows Tyson as he adapts to family life at home following his retirement from boxing\n\n\"Apparently there were points when he wanted to cancel the documentary. But ultimately they are an extraordinary family who have managed to remain ordinary. Fury has a net worth of £51 million and they're still drinking Echo Falls. I like them for that.\"\n\nGenerally, the Furys \"come across as a likeable couple\", according to the Telegraph's Anita Singh.\n\n\"There are flashes of something deeper when Paris talks about her husband's mental health,\" she wrote in her three-star review.\n\n\"The series doesn't shy away from his mood swings and sometimes erratic behaviour - Paris refers to him as 'a giant 6 foot 9 child' - but the show prefers to keep things light.\n\n\"Occasionally, scenarios feel manufactured. Fury proposes to his wife in a restaurant in the South of France but they're already married, and you suspect this is simply a ruse to give the programme-makers something to film.\"\n\nElsewhere, the series was described as \"nine episodes of absolute gold\" by the Evening Standard's Vicky Jessop.\n\n\"That is mostly because every member of said family is absolutely bonkers,\" she said in her four-star review.\n\n\"The six kids (three of whom are named Prince) swear like absolute troupers, long-suffering wife Paris is left to keep everything on the road and there's more gilt on the family casa than the Sistine Chapel.\"\n\nAt Home With the Furys was released on Netflix earlier this week\n\nShe said some of the footage is \"both howl-inducingly funny and wincingly awkward\".\n\n\"The show intersperses the action with straight-to-camera pieces where the family open up about the effect Tyson's mental health has had on them, and on him.\n\n\"This isn't the Kardashians, but it's arguably more compelling: Fame with the varnish stripped off, rough and unfiltered. It's the perfect type of trash: Give it to me straight. I love it.\"\n\nFury, 35, is also known as the Gypsy King and was born in Manchester to an Irish Traveller family.\n\nLast year, the boxer called on the government to introduce stronger punishments for knife crime after his cousin was killed in a stabbing.\n\nAhead of the 2022 World Cup, Fury released his debut single, a cover of Neil Diamond's classic Sweet Caroline, to raise money for men's mental health charity Talk Club.\n\nWriting about his Netflix series, Emily Watkins of iNews concluded: \"In ancient Rome, Tyson might have been a gladiator; in 6th-century Britain, someone like Beowulf.\n\n\"In 2023, whether he's helping his kids on the monkey bars or training to knock out a nemesis, Tyson is as complex as he is charismatic - just the way we've always liked our heroes.\"", "Cheshire police has released a clip from nurse Lucy Letby's first police interview which took place on 3 July 2018.\n\nThe nurse has been found guilty of seven murders and the attempted murder of another six babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nShe was was acquitted of two attempted murder charges and the jury was undecided on the attempted murder of a further four babies.", "What do we know about the case so far?\n\nMore details about Sara's death are emerging as police have named the father, step-mother and uncle as the three people they want to speak to in connection with their murder inquiry. Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik left the UK for Pakistan on Wednesday 9 August. They had booked the tickets the previous evening. Sara's body was then discovered in a house in Woking, Surrey in the early hours of Thursday. Surrey police say that Sharif also made a call to police from Pakistan shortly after his flight landed. This call led officers to the house in Woking, where Sara was then found.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Death masks were mapped and then technology de-aged the facial features\n\nResearchers say they have created the \"most lifelike\" reconstruction of the face of Bonnie Prince Charlie.\n\nA team at the University of Dundee's Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification used death masks to recreate the Scottish prince's looks.\n\nAfter his death in 1788, a cast of the prince's face was taken, which was common for notable figures at the time.\n\nThis was painstakingly photographed and mapped along with software allowing the experts to \"de-age\" the prince.\n\nCharles Edward Stuart was renowned for his good looks and has captivated a new generation of audiences through the TV show Outlander.\n\nThe resulting images show the prince with blond ringlets, wearing a white shirt, and with blotchy patches on his skin.\n\nIt recreates how he could have looked at the time of the Jacobite rising, where he was unsuccessful in his attempt to restore his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, to the British throne.\n\nBarbora Vesela, a masters student who initiated the project, said: \"I have looked at previous reconstructions of historical figures and was interested as to how these could be done differently.\n\n\"I wanted to create an image of what he would have looked like during the Jacobite rising.\n\n\"There are death masks of Bonnie Prince Charlie that are accessible, while some are in private collections.\n\n\"We also know that he suffered a stroke before he died, so that made the process of age regression even more interesting to me.\"\n\nPortraits of Bonnie Prince Charlie have depicted the prince as a handsome man\n\nIn 1745, Prince Charles Edward Stuart sought to regain the British throne for his father when he was aged just 24.\n\nDespite some initial successes on the battlefield, his army was defeated at the Battle of Culloden, near Inverness, in April 1746.\n\nBonnie Prince Charlie spent the next five months as a fugitive before fleeing to France and living on the continent for the rest of his life.\n\nHe died in Palazzo Muti in Rome, at the age of 67, after suffering a stroke.\n\nAfter his death, a cast of the prince's face was taken, which was common for notable figures at the time.\n\nResearchers examined copies of the masks, at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, and The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, creating a composite over several months.\n\nMs Vesela took photographs from all around the masks and used software to make a 3D model using almost 500 images.\n\nShe said: \"It has been a pleasure to work with these artefacts. The access I have been given has been incredible.\n\n\"There are moments, when you are working with the masks, that it suddenly strikes you that this was once a living person.\n\n\"We don't tend to think about the age of people when we study history, but Prince Charlie was just 24 years old when he landed in Scotland and to visualise how young he was at this pivotal moment in history is fascinating.\n\n\"Hopefully this recreation encourages people to think about him as a person, instead of just a legend.\"\n\nThe work will feature as part of the University of Dundee's annual Masters Show, which opens to the public on Saturday.", "Dr Stephen Brearey, lead consultant on the neonatal unit, raised concerns about her in October 2015\n\nHospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against Lucy Letby and tried to silence doctors, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit where she worked has told the BBC.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.\n\nThe unit's lead consultant Dr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015.\n\nNo action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nLetby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others in a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire.\n\nThe first five murders all happened between June and October 2015 and - despite months of warnings - the final two were in June 2016.\n\nBBC Panorama and BBC News have been investigating how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long.\n\nWe spoke to the lead consultant in the unit - who first raised concerns about Letby - and also examined hospital documents. The investigation reveals a catalogue of failures and raises serious questions about how the hospital responded to the deaths.\n\nDr Brearey says he demanded Letby be taken off duty in June 2016, after the final two murders. Hospital management initially refused.\n\nBefore June 2015, there were about two or three baby deaths a year on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. But in the summer of 2015, something unusual was happening.\n\nIn June alone, three babies died within the space of two weeks. The deaths were unexpected, so Dr Stephen Brearey, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit, called a meeting with the unit manager, Eirian Powell, and the hospital's director of nursing Alison Kelly.\n\n\"We tried to be as thorough as possible,\" Dr Brearey says. A staffing analysis revealed Lucy Letby had been on duty for all three deaths. \"I think I can remember saying, 'Oh no, it can't be Lucy. Not nice Lucy,'\" he says.\n\nThe three deaths seemed to have \"nothing in common\". Nobody, including Dr Brearey, suspected foul play.\n\nAfter the first three deaths in summer 2015, Lucy Letby was identified as a common factor but no-one yet suspected foul play\n\nBut by October 2015, things had changed. Two more babies had died and Letby had been on shift for both of them.\n\nBy this point, Dr Brearey had become concerned Letby might be harming babies. He again contacted unit manager Eirian Powell, who didn't seem to share his concerns.\n\nIn an email, from October 2015, she described the association between Letby and the unexpected baby deaths as \"unfortunate\". \"Each cause of death was different,\" she said, and the association with Letby was just a coincidence.\n\nSenior managers didn't appear to be worried. In the same month - October 2015 - Dr Brearey says his concerns about Letby were relayed to director of nursing Alison Kelly. But he heard nothing back.\n\nDr Brearey's fellow consultants were also worried about Letby. And it wasn't just the unexpected deaths. Other babies were suffering non-fatal collapses, meaning they needed emergency resuscitation or help with breathing, with no apparent clinical explanation. Letby was always on duty.\n\nIn February 2016, another consultant, Dr Ravi Jayaram, says he saw Letby standing and watching when a baby - known as Baby K - seemed to have stopped breathing.\n\nDr Brearey contacted Alison Kelly and the hospital's medical director Ian Harvey to request an urgent meeting. In early March, he also wrote to Eirian Powell: \"We still need to talk about Lucy\".\n\nThree months went by, and another two babies almost died, before - in May that year - Dr Brearey got the meeting with senior managers he had been asking for. \"There could be no doubt about my concerns at that meeting,\" he says.\n\nBut others at the meeting appeared to be in denial. Dr Brearey said Mr Harvey and Ms Kelly listened passively as he explained his concerns about Letby. But she was allowed to continue working.\n\nBy early June, yet another baby had collapsed. Then, towards the end of the month, two of three premature triplets died unexpectedly within 24 hours of each other. Letby was on shift for both deaths.\n\nAfter the death of the second triplet, Dr Brearey attended a meeting for traumatised staff.\n\nHe says while others seemed to be \"crumbling before your eyes almost\", Letby brushed off his suggestion that she must be tired or upset. \"No, I'm back on shift tomorrow,\" she told him. \"She was quite happy and confident to come into work,\" he says.\n\nFor Dr Brearey and his fellow consultants, the deaths of the two triplets were a tipping point. That evening, Dr Brearey says he called duty executive Karen Rees and demanded Letby be taken off duty. She refused.\n\nDr Brearey says he challenged her about whether she was making this decision against the wishes of seven consultant paediatricians - and asked if she would take responsibility for anything that might happen to other babies the next day. He says Ms Rees replied \"yes\".\n\nThe following day, another baby - known as Baby Q - almost died, again while Letby was on duty. The nurse still worked another three shifts before she was finally removed from the neonatal unit - more than a year after the first incident.\n\nThe suspicious deaths and collapses then stopped.\n\nInstead, she was moved to the hospital's risk and patient safety office. Here she is believed to have had access to sensitive documents relating to the hospital's neonatal unit. She also had access to some of the senior managers whose job it was to investigate her.\n\nOn 29 June 2016, one of the consultants sent an email under the subject line: \"Should we refer ourselves to external investigation?\"\n\n\"I believe we need help from outside agencies,\" he wrote. \"And the only agency who can investigate all of us, I believe, is the police.\"\n\nBut hospital managers thought otherwise. \"Action is being taken,\" wrote medical director Ian Harvey in his reply. \"All emails cease forthwith.\"\n\nTwo days later, the consultants attended a meeting with senior management. They say the head of corporate affairs and legal services, Stephen Cross, warned that calling the police would be a catastrophe for the hospital and would turn the neonatal unit into a crime scene.\n\nRather than go to the police, Mr Harvey invited the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Heath (RCPCH) to review the level of service on the neonatal unit.\n\nIn early September 2016, a team from the Royal College visited the hospital and met the paediatric consultants.\n\nThe RCPCH completed its report in November 2016. Its recommendations included: \"A thorough external independent review of each unexpected neonatal death.\"\n\nIn October 2016, Ian Harvey also contacted Dr Jane Hawdon, a premature baby specialist in London, and asked her to review the case notes of babies who had died on the neonatal unit.\n\nThe result was a highly caveated report. According to Dr Hawdon, her report was \"intended to inform discussion and learning, and would not necessarily be upheld in a coroner's court or court of law\".\n\nIt was not the thorough review the consultants had wanted - or the thorough external independent review that the RCPCH had recommended. But even the limited case-note report by Dr Hawdon recommended that four of the baby deaths be forensically investigated.\n\nRather than calling police, Ian Harvey asked the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to review the neonatal unit\n\nIn early January 2017, the hospital board met and Mr Harvey presented the findings of the two reviews. Both had recommended further investigation of some of the baby deaths - and yet that message did not reach board members.\n\nRecords of the meeting show Mr Harvey saying the reviews concluded the problems with the neonatal unit were down to issues with leadership and timely intervention.\n\nA few weeks later, in late January 2017, the seven consultants on the neonatal unit were summoned to a meeting with senior managers, including Mr Harvey and the hospital's CEO Tony Chambers.\n\nDr Brearey says the CEO told them he had spent a lot of time with Letby and her father and had apologised to them, saying Letby had done nothing wrong. Mr Chambers denies saying Letby had done nothing wrong. He said he was paraphrasing her father.\n\nAccording to the doctor's account, the CEO also insisted the consultants apologise to Letby and warned them that a line had been drawn and there would be \"consequences\" if they crossed it.\n\nDr Brearey says he felt managers were trying to \"engineer some sort of narrative\" that would mean they did not have to go to the police. \"If you want to call that a cover-up then, that's a cover-up,\" he says now.\n\nManagers also ordered two of the consultants to attend mediation sessions with Letby, in March 2017. One of the doctors did sit down with the nurse to discuss her grievance, but Dr Brearey did not.\n\nYet, the consultants didn't back down. Two months after the apology, the hospital asked the police to investigate. It was the consultants who had pushed them into it.\n\nDr Brearey and his colleagues finally sat down with Cheshire Police a couple of weeks later. \"They were astonished,\" he says.\n\nThe next day, Cheshire Police launched a criminal investigation into the suspicious baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital. It was named Operation Hummingbird.\n\nMr Chambers told the Panorama his comments to consultants had been taken out of context and that prompt action had been taken after he was first told of serious concerns in June 2016 - including reviews of deaths.\n\nLetby had not yet been arrested and was still working at the hospital's risk and patient safety office. But Operation Hummingbird was in full swing and Dr Brearey was helping the police with their investigation.\n\nLate one evening, he was going through some historic medical records when he discovered a blood test from 2015 for one of the babies on his unit. It recorded dangerous levels of insulin in the baby's bloodstream.\n\nThe significance of the test result had been missed at the time.\n\nThe body produces insulin naturally, but when it does, it also produces a substance called C-Peptide. The problem with the insulin reading that Dr Brearey was looking at was that the C-Peptide measurement was almost zero. It was evidence the insulin had not been produced naturally by the baby's body and had instead been administered.\n\n\"It made me feel sick,\" Dr Brearey recalls. \"It was quite clear that this baby had been poisoned by insulin.\"\n\nDr Susan Gilby, who became medical director after Letby's arrest, says files revealed serious issues with the hospital's response\n\nA few months later, Letby was finally arrested and suspended by the hospital. But three years had passed since Dr Brearey had first sounded the alarm.\n\nWhen a new medical director and deputy chief executive, Dr Susan Gilby, began work the month after Letby's arrest, she was shocked at what she found.\n\nShe says her predecessor, Mr Harvey, had warned her she would need to pursue action with the General Medical Council, the doctor's regulator, against the neonatal unit's consultants - those who had raised the alarm. Mr Harvey denies this.\n\nHowever, inside a box of files left in his office, Dr Gilby found evidence the problems lay elsewhere. Marked with the word \"neonates\", the files revealed how a meeting of the executive team in 2015 had agreed to have the first three deaths examined by an external organisation. That never happened.\n\nThe management team had also failed to report the deaths appropriately. It meant the wider NHS system could not spot the high fatality rates. The board of the hospital trust was also unaware of the deaths until July 2016.\n\nDr Gilby says the trust's refusal to call police appeared to be heavily influenced by how it would look. \"Protecting their reputation was a big factor in how people responded to the concerns raised,\" she says.\n\nLater in 2018, after Tony Chambers resigned, Dr Gilby was appointed chief executive and she stayed in post until 2022. She is now suing the trust for unfair dismissal.\n\nThe rate of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit has now fallen\n\nDr Brearey, says hospital managers had been \"secretive\" and \"judgemental\" throughout the period leading up to the nurse's arrest.\n\n\"There was no credibility given to our opinions. And from January 2017, it was intimidating, and bullying to a certain extent,\" he tells BBC News. \"It just all struck me as the opposite of a hospital you'd expect to be working in, where there's a safe culture and people feel confident in speaking out.\"\n\nLetby would ultimately be charged with seven murders and 15 attempted murders between June 2015 and June 2016. She was found guilty of all seven murders and seven attempted murders.\n\nShe was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder. The jury also failed to reach a verdict on a further six counts of attempted murder, including all charges related to Baby K and Baby Q.\n\nIn a statement, Tony Chambers, the former CEO, said: \"All my thoughts are with the children at the heart of this case and their families and loved ones at this incredibly difficult time. I am truly sorry for what all the families have gone through.\n\n\"The crimes that have been committed are appalling and I am deeply saddened by what has come to light. As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff. I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\"\n\nHe added: \"I will co-operate fully and openly with any post-trial inquiry.\"\n\nIan Harvey said in a statement: \"At this time, my thoughts are with the babies whose treatment has been the focus of the trial and with their parents and relatives who have been through something unimaginable and I am sorry for all their suffering.\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff. I wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children. I believe there should be an inquiry that looks at all events leading up to this trial and I will help it in whatever way I can.\"\n\nThe Countess of Chester Hospital is now under new management and the neonatal unit no longer looks after such sick babies.\n\nThe current medical director at the hospital, Dr Nigel Scawn, said the whole trust was \"deeply saddened and appalled\" by Letby's crimes.\n\nHe said \"significant changes\" had been made at the hospital since Letby worked there and he wanted to \"provide reassurance to every patient who accesses our services that they can have confidence in the care that they will receive\".\n\nSince Letby left the hospital's neonatal unit, there has been only one death in seven years.\n\nWatch the full investigation, Panorama - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed - on BBC iPlayer", "Letby killed the babies at a Chester hospital in 2015 and 2016\n\nThe government has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind serial killer Lucy Letby's \"horrific\" baby murders.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would look at how clinicians' concerns were handled, as a BBC investigation found hospital bosses ignored doctors' warnings about Letby.\n\nLetby was found guilty of murdering seven babies at a hospital in Chester.\n\nShe was also found guilty of attempting to murder another six babies.\n\nOn two counts of attempted murder, she was found not guilty. The jury could not reach verdicts on six counts of attempted murder.\n\nDetectives are reviewing the care of all babies admitted to hospital while Letby was working as a neonatal nurse. The review includes her work placements at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015, although police say this did not involve any deaths.\n\nDetective superintendent Paul Hughes said: \"We would be foolish if we were to think we have gathered all cases that Lucy Letby could have touched in one go.\n\n\"So we are committed to doing an overarching investigation looking at every single baby's admission into neonatal unit for the entire footprint that Lucy Letby has been employed.\"\n\nCheshire Police stressed that only cases highlighted as medically concerning would be further investigated.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health said the independent inquiry aimed to provide answers to the parents of babies she murdered or attempted to murder, and make sure lessons are learnt.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"I am determined their voices are heard, and they are involved in shaping the scope of the inquiry should they wish to do so.\n\n\"It will help us identify where and how patient safety standards failed to be met and ensure mothers and their partners rightly have faith in our healthcare system.\"\n\nThe inquiry will not have the power to summon evidence or witnesses, as it is not a statutory inquiry, such as the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.\n\nHealth Minister Helen Whately said this meant it could be conducted \"at pace\", adding that there were \"definitely\" questions to be answered around doctors repeatedly raising concerns about Letby.\n\nBut City of Chester MP Samantha Dixon has written to the health secretary asking why the government has skipped a statutory inquiry.\n\nAnd former Crown Prosecution Service chief in north-west England Nazir Afzal, who prosecuted nurse Victorino Chua found guilty of murdering patients in Stockport in 2015, described the decision as \"hugely disappointing\".\n\n\"You have to compel people... I really don't think a non-traditional inquiry has the powers to hold people to account, which is important here,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. \"It's not just a fact-finding [mission] which is what I think this inquiry will do, people need to be held to account for their failures.\"\n\nLord Bichard, who chaired the inquiry into the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by Ian Huntley, said he was surprised the government did not take advantage of the powers of a statutory inquiry.\n\n\"Too many inquiries take too long to make a conclusion and make too many recommendations and don't follow them up,\" he added. \"It's really, really important we start making better use of inquiries in this country and that we follow up their conclusions.\"\n\nIn a statement following the verdict, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said it was \"extremely sorry\" the crimes happened in its hospital and it has since made \"significant changes\" to their services.\n\nMeanwhile, former chief executive of the hospital Tony Chambers and former medical director Ian Harvey, who were in charge at the time Letby was working at Countess of Chester Hospital, have said they will co-operate fully with the inquiry into the case.\n\nA lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked told the BBC hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015. No action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.\n\nLetby, 33, was not in the dock when the final verdicts were given at Manchester Crown Court on Friday. She will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues raised here, there are details of organisations that may be able to offer support on the BBC Action Line.", "Dozens of people were rescued following the fatal sinking of a migrant boat in the Channel\n\nFour people have been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter in France following the fatal sinking of a migrant boat in the Channel.\n\nSix men died after the vessel they were aboard got into difficulty near Calais on Saturday.\n\nMore than 50 other people were rescued by French and British coastguards.\n\nFrench judges are also reportedly considering further charges against the Iraqi and Sudanese suspects.\n\nAt least two of those detained are thought to have links to human trafficking networks, according to French media.\n\nThe people on board were reported to be mainly Afghan, with some Sudanese also present.\n\nKarim was one of about 10 people who was turned away from boarding the vessel due to overcrowding, despite paying people smugglers €2,000 ($2,200; £1,700) for a place.\n\nHe told the BBC the smugglers promised him a \"good boat\" - something at least 10m (32ft) long - but what they were given was only 3m long.\n\nTwo of his friends were allowed aboard and Karim thinks they were among those who died.\n\nAnother man, Idris, managed to survive the journey but has ended up back in France.\n\n\"There were far too many passengers,\" the 22-year-old told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"The waves were very strong, and the boat split up.\n\n\"Half the passengers fell into the water and were swallowed up by the sea. Those who were left in the boat tried to stay alive with the help of their lifebuoys.\"\n\nRescue workers on Saturday said it was the seventh time that week that they had pulled people from the water, raising concerns that the smugglers organising the crossings may be using a defective batch of boats.\n\nThe English Channel is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, with 600 tankers and 200 ferries passing through it every day.\n\nDespite this, many people are willing to take the risk.\n\nFigures released on Thursday show more than 17,000 migrants have arrived in the UK so far this year after crossing the Channel.\n\nMore than 400 people arrived in small boats on Wednesday alone.\n\nThe BBC also spoke to Zhala in Calais, who said she was fleeing gun attacks in Iraq with her young family. They have repeatedly tried to get on a boat.\n\n\"It's fate,\" she said when asked what she thought about Saturday's sinking.\n\n\"It's not dangerous for us. We've come across so many difficulties in my country.\"\n\nA migrant from South Sudan, who has set up a camp hidden in the bushes on the coastline, told the BBC he was adamant to get to the UK to make a success of himself.\n\nHe said: \"[The UK} colonised me in Sudan, that's why. It's like my father.\"\n\nExplaining why he wants to leave Sudan, he explained he was leaving because of war and corruption.\n\nBut French authorities have threatened to move him and his fellow countryman from their makeshift camp, he added.\n\nKarim said he is also still looking to try and make it across into the UK.\n\nAid workers in Calais say more migrants have been arriving in recent weeks and have been living rough on the coastline. They say many of them are determined to get to the UK, despite warnings over the dangers of the crossing.", "BBC presenter Stephen Nolan has apologised after a newspaper published allegations he sent sexually explicit photographs of a potential guest.\n\nThe Irish News listed claims concerning Mr Nolan including an allegation that he sent images of Stephen Bear to his television production team in 2016.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Nolan said an image had been widely available on the internet and he had been \"talking to a long-term friend and peer outside of work\".\n\nHe said that he was \"deeply sorry\".\n\nBBC News NI has not been able to independently verify the claims published by the Irish News.\n\nThe paper alleged that in 2016, while the production team on Nolan Live were attempting to book the reality TV contestant Stephen Bear for the programme, Mr Nolan had sent them two sexually explicit images of Bear.\n\nAccording to the Irish News, the BBC subsequently carried out an investigation in 2018 following a complaint by a member of staff about the images.\n\nAmong the other allegations reported in the Irish News were that a BBC staff member had separately made a formal complaint of bullying against Mr Nolan.\n\nHowever, according to the paper, that complaint was not upheld.\n\nMr Nolan addressed the allegations at the beginning of his Radio Ulster programme this morning.\n\n\"We have had days, as you probably know, of headlines about me and the Nolan team in the papers this week and I am not ignoring the story,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just that the BBC has processes in place to deal with staff complaints and I do, and need to, totally respect those processes. They have got to be confidential for them to work.\n\n\"I can say one thing though and that is that I'm sorry.\n\n\"There was a photograph, it was widely available on the internet and I was talking to a long-term friend and peer outside of work. I am deeply sorry.\"\n\nIn December 2022, Bear was found guilty of disclosing a private sexual film after a video of him having sex with a woman was published online.\n\nMeanwhile, on Friday Mr Nolan also addressed allegations that members of BBC staff were placed in the audience of the Nolan Live TV show and said they were \"completely, categorically false\".\n\n\"There have been other headlines, too, including a suggestion that we manipulate programmes by planting staff in the studio audience,\" he said in a statement on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.\n\n\"I can speak about that on the record.\n\n\"We don't do that in the Nolan team.\n\n\"We value our relationship with you far too much to compromise it.\"\n\nAdam Smyth has sent an email to the Irish News about its Nolan story\n\nThe director of BBC Northern Ireland, Adam Smyth, has also contacted the Irish News about that specific allegation.\n\nIn an email sent to the paper's editor Noel Doran, Mr Smyth said he was writing \"formally to request an immediate apology and retraction\" for the paper's claim staff posed as audience members.\n\nIn a strongly-worded email, Mr Smyth said he \"did not wish to play down any of the allegations made\" by the Irish News this week and \"it is right that, as a publicly-funded broadcaster, the BBC is scrutinised and held accountable\".\n\nHowever, Mr Smyth wrote that on Tuesday the paper had reported that members of staff on Nolan Live would \"be placed in the audience either to raise their hands and make a controversial point or to relay to the production team if they spotted 'someone feisty'\".\n\nMr Smyth said this implied that \"at best, that we [the BBC] manipulated the debate from the studio floor and, at worst, that we attempted to deceive viewers by passing off staff members as members of the public\" and he called on the paper to retract those claims.\n\nIn statement Mr Doran said: \"The Irish News has firm evidence setting out the circumstances in which junior members of staff were placed in the audience of Nolan Live.\n\n\"At no stage did we suggest that senior BBC executives were involved in this process.\"", "\"Good evening Franki, this is the Jalisco New Generation [Mexican drugs cartel],\" the message read, in barely legible Spanish. \"If you block me, you'll get into problems. I need $6,000 [£4,710] - I'm watching you, your wife and kids.\"\n\nFranklin Torres, a banana producer, ignored it - then, a few days later, another message arrived, this time sent to Franklin's wife: \"Tell your husband to get his act together, we are writing from prison and there are people watching at the window.\"\n\nWhile he reported the threats, Franklin has little faith things will get better.\n\nAs president of Ecuador's National Federation of banana growers, he is pressuring the government to allow them to carry weapons to protect themselves.\n\n\"In the country it's hard, we don't have 911, or police patrol,\" he says. \"It's better for good people to have weapons, not just those who are bad.\"\n\nFranklin Torres, a banana producer, has received threats from one of the drug cartels that have moved into Ecuador in recent years\n\nEcuador is the world's biggest banana exporter and the industry is a lucrative one - banana crates are a favourite mode of transporting cocaine among drugs cartels, from Ecuador's ports and on to Europe and beyond.\n\nMexican and Colombian cartels have infiltrated local gangs in Ecuador as they vie for lucrative drugs routes. Once one of the most peaceful countries in South America, Ecuador was hit hard by Covid and cartels have taken advantage of a country broken by the pandemic - and by corrupt politics.\n\nIn the first six months of the year, there were 3,568 violent deaths in the country, according to the National Police. That was up more than 70% on last year.\n\nAnd as the country heads to the polls in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, crime is at the forefront of everyone's minds, especially after last week's assassination of one of the candidates, Fernando Villavicencio.\n\n\"[Villavicencio's murder] was a terrifying tragedy,\" says political consultant Oswaldo Moreno. \"It marks an inflection point in which the politics of death is now very much part of the culture here.\"\n\nThere's no more powerful example of that than Guayaquil, Ecuador's biggest city and home to the country's largest port. It's become the epicentre of the country's crime problems as cartels take advantage of its location and logistics to move drugs out of the country.\n\nPresidential candidate Daniel Noboa chose Durán, one of the worst-hit areas of Guayaquil, for his final campaign event on Thursday. But he did so wearing a bullet-proof vest. Along the way, there was a nearby shoot-out which sent everyone into a panic - such is daily life in this crime-ridden city.\n\n\"We need to change the state of security in Ecuador,\" he told the BBC ahead of the event, adding that his priority if he became president would be tackling unemployment. \"The problem is that by not giving people opportunities, we're feeding these organisations with young new members.\"\n\nA woman holds a candle while wearing a t-shirt bearing the face of assassinated presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio\n\nBut it's a mammoth task for a poor country like Ecuador - and it's a losing battle against the lucrative drug trade.\n\nIn Durán, a curfew has been introduced after a surge in crime. Police checkpoints are set up along routes popular with drug traffickers but police are poorly equipped compared with the drugs gangs.\n\nIn some parts of the city, it feels like a war zone. In one district, a police station has sandbags piled up in the windows, put in place after gangs attacked them. In another, nearly 20 patrol cars are sat rusting in the car park. Captain Victor Quespás Valencia explains they just don't have the money to fix them.\n\n\"Gangs want to win territory. We're dealing with very violent deaths - people being found hanging from bridges or cut into pieces,\" he explains. \"International criminal organisations are recruiting people here - but they have lots of money. There's a total imbalance between organised crime and the police trying to stop it.\"\n\nSo will these elections make a difference to Ecuador's future? This vote is being held a year and a half earlier than planned after President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the National Assembly by decree to avoid an impeachment vote. The fear is that amid political chaos, violence could get in the way of democracy.\n\n\"Cartels are criminal organisations that don't have an ideology,\" says organised crime expert Pedro Granja. \"They are criminal organisations moving illicit goods, they follow the same logic as a company. They are doing a market study at the moment - then we'll see whether if they want to, they can paralyse the elections.\"\n\nAngie Fuentes, a resident of the city of Durán, with her four children\n\nRegardless of elections, they're paralysing people's lives. Angie Fuentes lives with her four children in Durán. The bars on all the windows in this neighbourhood tell you all you need to know about the lack of security.\n\nThe past few years have been tough for Angie - her father died from Covid and Guayaquil was hit hard. Bodies were piled up in the streets with authorities unable to deal with the huge numbers dying.\n\nBut while the Covid vaccine helped curb the spread of the virus, criminal gangs are now offering a new type of vacuna as they call it - hand over money that the criminals demand and in return for being extorted, you get immunity from the violence.\n\nNot that it's so straightforward. Last month a neighbour was shot dead outside his daughter's school so Angie pulled her children from having to attend - but authorities refuse to offer virtual lessons from home despite the dangers.\n\n\"All I want is security,\" says Angie. \"That's the only thing that will allow us to take our children to school without running the risk of being hit by a stray bullet.\"\n\nIt's a war that experts say has no end, especially when demand for cocaine in Europe and as far afield as Australia has soared.\n\n\"You can end civil war and war between countries,\" says Pedro Granja. \"But putting an end to drug-trafficking is totally impossible - people will carry on taking drugs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fernando Villavicencio was shot as he left a rally in Quito", "Lucy Letby, 33, targeted babies when she was working as a neonatal nurse\n\nNurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies on a neonatal unit, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.\n\nThe 33-year-old has also been convicted of trying to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nLetby deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin.\n\nShe refused to appear in the dock for the latest verdicts.\n\nThey have been delivered by the jury over several hearings but they were not reportable until jurors were discharged.\n\nLetby broke down in tears as the first set of guilty verdicts were read out by the jury's foreman on 8 August after 76 hours of deliberations.\n\nShe cried with her head bowed as the second set were returned on 11 August.\n\nHer mother sobbed loudly and was heard to say \"this can't be right - you can't be serious\" while the families of the babies cried and gasped.\n\nLetby, originally from Hereford, was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nThe jury was unable to reach verdicts on six further attempted murder charges.\n\nNicholas Johnson KC, prosecuting, asked the court for 28 days to consider whether a retrial would be sought for these remaining six counts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nDuring the trial, which started in October 2022, the prosecution labelled Letby as a \"calculating and devious\" opportunist who \"gaslighted\" colleagues to cover her \"murderous assaults\".\n\nShe was convicted following a lengthy investigation by Cheshire Police into the alarming and unexplained rise in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies at the hospital.\n\nBefore June 2015, there were fewer than three baby deaths per year on the neonatal unit.\n\nHer defence team argued the deaths and collapses were the result of \"serial failures in care\" in the unit and she was the victim of a \"system that wanted to apportion blame when it failed\".\n\nThe trial lasted for more than 10 months and it is believed to be the longest murder trial in the UK.\n\nLetby was charged in November 2020 with murder and attempted murder\n\nOne of the babies' family members left the courtroom when the jury foreman said it was not possible to return verdicts on the remaining six counts, while a couple of jurors appeared upset.\n\nAs the judge discharged the jury, he told the panel of four men and seven women that it had \"been a most distressing and upsetting case\" and they were excused from serving on juries in the future.\n\nLetby will be sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.\n\nShe has indicated - via her legal team - that she does not want to attend her sentencing hearing or follow proceedings via a videolink from prison.\n\nThe reasons for her non-attendance have not yet been disclosed by the judge.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the Lord Chancellor had been clear that he wanted victims to see justice delivered and for all those found guilty to hear society's condemnation at their sentencing hearing.\n\n\"Defendants can already be ordered by a judge to attend court with those who fail facing up to two years in prison,\" the spokesman added.\n\nLegislation to force convicted criminals to appear in court for their sentencing is currently being examined.\n\nThe jury was shown a note, found at her home, which read: \"I am evil I did this\"\n\nThe parents of twin brothers who were among Letby's 13 victims have told the BBC the nurse was a \"hateful human being\" who had taken \"everything\" from them.\n\nLetby murdered one of their baby boys, and tried to kill the other twin the following day.\n\nThey said their child, who is now seven years old, was badly harmed by Letby and has been left with severe learning difficulties and \"a lot of complex needs\".\n\n\"There's a consequence and he's living with it,\" his mother said.\n\nJanet Moore, Cheshire Police's family liaison officer, speaking on behalf of the babies' families, said it had been a \"long, torturous and emotional journey\".\n\n\"We are heartbroken, devastated, angry and feel numb,\" she said.\n\n\"We may never truly know why this has happened.\"\n\nSenior Crown Prosecutor Pascale Jones said the nurse \"did her utmost to conceal her crimes, by varying the ways in which she repeatedly harmed babies in her care\".\n\nShe said Letby \"sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby's existing vulnerability\".\n\n\"She perverted her learning and weaponised her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.\"\n\nDetectives are continuing to review the care of some 4,000 babies admitted to hospital while Letby was working as a neonatal nurse.\n\nThe period covers her spell at the Countess of Chester Hospital from January 2012 to the end of June 2016, and includes two work placements at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015.\n\nCheshire Police emphasised that only those cases highlighted as medically concerning would be investigated further.\n\nThey added that the review at Liverpool Women's Hospital did not involve any deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked has told the BBC that hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against the nurse and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015 but he said no action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nBBC Panorama and BBC News have been investigating how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long.\n\nDr Ravi Jayaram, a consultant paediatrician at the hospital, wrote on social media that the truth of what happened would \"shock you to the core\".\n\n\"There are bad people in all walks of life and many of them are very good at hiding in plain sight,\" he said.\n\n\"There are also people in highly paid positions of responsibility in healthcare whose job it is to ensure patient safety.\"\n\nHe said he felt relief that the \"often-maligned criminal justice system\" had \"properly worked\" this time.\n\nBut he said there were \"things that need to come out about why it took several months from concerns being raised to the top brass before any action was taken to protect babies\".\n\nHe added: \"And why from that time it then took almost a year for those highly-paid senior managers to allow the police to be involved.\"\n\nThe government has since ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind Letby's killing spree following her conviction.\n\nThe Department of Health said the inquiry would investigate the wider circumstances around what happened at the hospital, including the handling of concerns and governance, and would also look at what actions were taken by regulators and the wider NHS.\n\nPrior to the government's announcement, Dr Nigel Scawn, executive medical director from the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said he was \"deeply saddened and appalled\" at Letby's crimes.\n\nHe said the trust was committed to learning lessons and would support its staff who had been \"devastated\" by what happened.\n\n\"We are grateful for the cooperation of our staff, especially those who have maintained the utmost professionalism whilst giving evidence in the trial, sometimes on multiple occasions,\" he added.\n\nIan Harvey, a former medical director at the hospital, said he would help the inquiry \"in whatever way I can\".\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff.\n\nI wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children,\" he said.\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nTony Chambers, former chief executive of the hospital, said he was \"truly sorry\" for what the families had gone through and he would \"co-operate fully and openly\" with any post-trial inquiry.\n\n\"As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff,\" said Mr Chambers, who served six years in his post before he resigned in September 2018.\n\n\"I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\n\n\"The trial, and the lengthy police investigation, have shown the complex nature of the issues raised.\n\n\"There are always lessons to be learnt and the best place for this to be achieved would be through an independent inquiry.\"\n\nOperation Hummingbird was launched in 2017 by Cheshire Police and Letby was first arrested at her home in Chester in July 2018.\n\nDetectives gathered 32,000 pages of evidence, sifting through reams of medical records, and interviewed 2,000 people, with 250 identified as potential witnesses.\n\nDet Supt Paul Hughes, who was the senior investigating officer (SIO) in the case said it had \"been an investigation like no other - in scope, complexity and magnitude\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Nicola Evans, who was the deputy SIO, described the case as \"truly crushing\", adding there were \"no winners\".\n\n\"The compassion and strength shown by the parents - and wider family members - has been overwhelming,\" she said.\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Zelensky has described seaborne drones as Ukraine's \"eyes and protection on the frontline\", with claims of a series of successful strikes against Russian ships in the Black Sea and on a key bridge to Crimea.\n\nThese remote-controlled devices are playing an increasingly prominent role, with both sides ramping up their use for attacks and reconnaissance.\n\nThe BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner and BBC Verify assess their influence on the conflict.", "Residents of Seal Beach, California, filling up sand bags to help fortify their homes on Saturday\n\nHurricane Hilary has weakened as it heads towards Mexico's Pacific coast and California but could still cause \"life-threatening\" flooding, US meteorologists warn.\n\nWith winds of 85 mph (140 km/h), it has been downgraded to a Category 1 storm.\n\nHeavy rain lashed parts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and the south-western US overnight.\n\nOne man died after being swept away while crossing a stream in Baja California, an official said.\n\nThe man had been travelling in a car with his three children and a woman. The others all survived, local media reported.\n\nHilary is expected to weaken further to a tropical storm before it reaches southern California. Even still, it would be the first tropical storm to hit the US state in more than 80 years.\n\nIn its latest update at 06:00 GMT on Sunday, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Hilary was roughly 90 miles (145km) south of Baja California's westernmost point of Punta Eugenia.\n\nIts centre will \"move close to the west-central coast of the Baja California peninsula\" on Sunday morning and will then move across southern California on Sunday afternoon, the NHC said.\n\n\"Hilary appears to be weakening quickly,\" John Cangialosi, a senior hurricane specialist at the NHC, told the Associated Press news agency on Saturday.\n\n\"The eye is filling and the cloud tops in the eyewall and rainbands have been warming during the past several hours,\" he added.\n\nHilary was earlier a powerful Category 4 storm with winds up to 130mph.\n\nRainfall could reach 10in (25cm) in some areas of southern California and southern Nevada, the NHC said it Sunday morning's update. \"Dangerous to catastrophic flooding is expected.\"\n\nHeavy rain and winds hit Cabo San Lucas in Baja California, Mexico, on Saturday\n\nIn San Diego, the National Weather Service (NWS) earlier issued a warning for the \"high potential\" of flash flooding. Nearly 26 million people in the south-western US were under flood watch.\n\nOn Friday, US President Joe Biden said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) had \"pre-positioned personnel and supplies in the region\".\n\n\"I urge everyone in the path of the storm to take precautions and listen to the guidance from state and local officials,\" he said.\n\nParts of Mexico are under a tropical storm watch and its government has placed 18,000 soldiers on standby to assist in rescue efforts.\n\nAs the storm approached, Major League Baseball rescheduled three games in southern California, while SpaceX delayed the launch of a rocket from its base on the central California coast until at least Monday.\n\nThe National Park Service also closed Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve, both in California, to prevent visitors from being stranded in the event of flooding.\n\nLocal officials in cities across the region, including in Arizona, have offered sandbags to residents seeking to safeguard their properties against potential floodwaters.\n\nHurricanes and tropical storms are reasonably common in Mexico. But the last time a tropical storm made landfall in southern California was in Long Beach in 1939.\n\nExperts say the abnormal weather events plaguing the US - and several areas across the globe - are being influenced by human-caused climate change.\n\nIn the wake July 2023 - the hottest month on record according to Nasa - the deadliest wildfire in modern US history spread across Hawaii on 8 August, killing at least 111 people.\n\nThe damage was escalated by hurricane winds passing through the area.", "Martin Conway says the couple were eventually helped by a taxi driver who was \"outraged\" at the lack of help\n\nA blind man has said Easyjet staff at an airport would not sell him a ticket in person and told him to use an app instead.\n\nMartin Conway and his wife, who are both blind, wanted to buy flights from Liverpool to Belfast after missing an earlier plane due to traffic.\n\nHe said he was told he must book online but no-one was able to assist him.\n\nEasyjet said it was \"sorry to hear\" that the couple did not receive the service they expected.\n\nMr Conway said they had missed their previously-booked flight after being delayed by two hours after congestion on the motorway.\n\nThe couple who are from Merseyside wanted to book available seats on a later Easyjet flight but staff at the check-in desk \"told us they couldn't help us\", he said.\n\nLiverpool John Lennon Airport says it wants to \"ensure situations like this don't occur again\"\n\nMr Conway added: \"When we asked them how would we [book online], there was absolutely no answer to that question.\n\n\"It was basically you need to sort that out yourself and come back to us.\"\n\nWhen the couple approached the airport's assistance team for help using the smartphone app \"they were busy with various passengers coming in and out\".\n\n\"They didn't offer to help us, they could see we were struggling but to be honest I didn't really expect that they could,\" he told BBC Radio Merseyside.\n\nHe said they ended up getting help to book online from an \"outraged\" taxi driver, who \"couldn't believe that there was no-one actually willing to assist\".\n\nIt \"took some considerable time\", he added.\n\nThe couple were trying to fly from Liverpool to Northern Ireland\n\nMr Conway said: \"In a busy, noisy airport, it's not the easiest thing to try to listen to a phone and navigate your way through an app or a website in order to book a ticket.\n\n\"That's where people really do need a bit of assistance.\"\n\nThe couple managed to fly out in the end but Mr Conway felt \"there wasn't one person whose job it was to actually assist us\" who did, and \"there wasn't one person who felt able to think outside the box to take five minutes to assist\".\n\nAn Easyjet spokeswoman said: \"We are very sorry to hear that Mr and Mrs Conway felt they did not receive the level of service they expected when they booked an Easyjet flight at the airport after they missed their flight with another carrier.\"\n\nThey said the staff who would usually be able to assist with the booking were \"serving other customers so were not immediately available\".\n\nA statement from Liverpool John Lennon Airport read: \"The handling agent Swissport, who represent Easyjet at the airport, and ABM, who provide the passenger assistance service, are both looking into this.\n\n\"We'll be working with both to ensure situations like this don't occur again, so that assistance is available to help make a flight booking on site, for people who are unable to make a booking themselves due to their disability.\"\n\nMr Conway said this \"absolute total reliance on everything being done online\" was excluding people.\n\n\"Mainstream technology moves faster than specialist technology so we're always kind of running behind and there is often that deficit but it does seem to be getting wider.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are \"genuine grounds for hope\" that at least parts of Wilko will be taken over, according to the GMB union.\n\nNational secretary Andy Prendergast said he had met PwC, the firm overseeing the sale of the retailer.\n\nHe confirmed there had been expressions of interest in the business, adding that talks with potential buyers were \"still at an early stage\".\n\nWilko announced last week that it was going into administration, putting 12,500 jobs at risk.\n\n\"We can confirm there have been expressions of interest from organisations who are considering taking over at least some parts of the business,\" Mr Prendergast said.\n\n\"These are still at an early stage, but means there are genuine grounds for hope.\"\n\nAt the moment, all 400 Wilko shops remain open and staff continue to be paid in full.\n\nHowever, it is unlikely that all the shops will be saved and thousands of workers are facing the threat of redundancy.\n\nWilko also employs people at its head office in Worksop in Nottinghamshire. In addition, it has distribution centres, in Worksop and Newport in Wales.\n\nThe chain is set to launch an \"everything must go\" sale on Friday but shelves will be replenished when new stock arrives at the beginning of next week.\n\nIt is not clear as yet which companies are bidding for Wilko.\n\nThere is speculation that rival discounters such as B&M and Poundland could be among possible buyers. Both firms declined to comment when contacted by the BBC on Thursday.\n\nThe Sun reported that The Range and Home Bargains could be among the bidders for Wilko. Home Bargains declined to comment and The Range did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nPrivate equity firms Alteri and Gordon Brothers may be interested in investing in Wilko, according to reports.\n\nAlteri declined to comment. Gordon Brothers did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nPwC set a deadline of Wednesday to receive expressions of interest for Wilko, which has been trading since 1930.\n\nPart of its task as administrator is to secure the best possible deal for the retailer's creditors.\n\nOne of Wilko's largest investors is Hilco, the specialist firm, which has provided millions of pounds in loans to the company.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn official deadline to evacuate Yellowknife as a wildfire looms on its outskirts has lapsed, as residents scramble to leave by air and road.\n\nAbout 22,000 people - or roughly half the population in Canada's Northwest Territories - are now displaced in the country's worst fire season on record.\n\nA separate blaze in the west, that threatens Kelowna, British Columbia, has grown one hundredfold in 24 hours.\n\nOfficials have warned the fires \"are very active and very unpredictable\".\n\n\"The stress of leaving your home not knowing if it will be there when you return is now a reality faced by thousands,\" Harjit Sajjan, Canada's minister of emergency preparedness, said at a news conference on Friday.\n\nHe said the federal government did not yet know the full extent of the damage wrought in what has been an \"incredibly challenging week for Canadians\".\n\nThe McDougall Creek Wildfire in Kelowna, in the western province of British Columbia, poses a particularly concerning threat to lives and properties after it grew significantly overnight.\n\nThe BC Wildfire Service said the fire, which had been mapped at 1,100 hectares early on Thursday evening, was now estimated at 6,800 hectares.\n\nOne Kelowna resident told the BBC the fires came over the mountainside like an 'ominous cloud of destruction'\n\n\"The winds were very concerning and we didn't know where things are going,\" Mr Sarjjan told reporters.\n\nLocal BC officials declared a state of emergency on Friday morning. More than 2,500 properties have since been evacuated, with thousands more on alert to leave on short notice.\n\nThe fast-moving fire is bearing down on a city with a population of about 150,000 people, and officials are already reporting \"significant structural loss\", including in Trader's Cove in the Okanagan Valley.\n\n\"We fought hard last night to protect our community,\" West Kelowna fire chief Jason Brolund said at a news conference.\n\nHe said the actions taken to rescue members of the public and save homes in the area had been akin to \"a hundred years of firefighting all at once in one night\".\n\nNo deaths have yet been reported, but Mr Brolund said the fire remains \"dynamic\" and \"as significant today as it was last night\", a preview of what may come in the days ahead.\n\nJuliana Loewen, a Kelowna resident who is not currently under evacuation orders, is huddling with more than a dozen other people at her home on Okanagan Lake as they await updates.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe told the BBC how locals had watched a plume of smoke coming over the mountainside like an \"ominous cloud of destruction\" and how some on the Trader's Cove side jumped into the lake as the fire spread and exit routes were blocked.\n\nHer brother and grandmother evacuated and came to her house after \"the fire jumped very quickly from one tree to an entire area, threatening an entire residential community\".\n\nRoads are jammed up, businesses have shut down and neighbours are on their lawns tossing valuables into their vehicles. \"It's very apocalyptic,\" she said.\n\nResidents are used to the fires because of Kelowna's \"California-style climate\" but the heat, dryness and wind seen in recent days had created the \"perfect conditions for a firestorm\", Ms Loewen added.\n\nThe airspace around Kelowna International Airport has now been closed to everything other than aerial firefighters.\n\nSome 2,000km (1,240 miles) north-east, winds blowing in the Northwest Territories on Friday and Saturday could push the blaze outside Yellowknife closer towards the city and one of its highways, the Ingraham Trail.\n\nSuccessful firefighting efforts have made meaningful progress in holding back the fire over the last two days, and it remains about 15km (9 miles) north-west of the city's municipal boundary.\n\nAir tankers are flying missions day and night in an effort to further slow the fire.\n\nThe Canadian government has said enough pilots will be made available to man the evacuation flights leaving the city.\n\nAmid accusations that some airlines are inflating prices for evacuation flights, officials have warned there will be zero tolerance on price gouging.\n\nSome essential workers have yet to evacuate the city. Among them is Dr Lori Regenstreif, usually based out of Ontario but who has been working in the Northwest Territories over the last week.\n\nShe said it has been surreal watching the territory's capital city go from being a hub for wildfire evacuees from other parts of the Northwest Territories earlier this week to being under its own state of emergency.\n\n\"Yellowknife is the go-to. Now Yellowknife is vulnerable,\" said Dr Regenstreif. \"It's like their mothership has gone down.\"\n\nThe streets have been left deserted, and restaurants and businesses have shuttered their doors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the treacherous journeys out of wildfire-hit Canada\n\nPatients continue to be airlifted out of hospitals as of Friday. Some of the wards are so empty, according to the doctor, that staff have been sleeping in them overnight as they wait their turn to leave.\n\nThose who remain in the city are mostly firefighters, police officers, doctors and nurses. One pharmacy in town remains open, Dr Regenstreif said, as its owner refuses to close it.\n\nShe has also noticed a handful of others who remain in the city. \"I can't really speculate on why,\" she said, adding: \"If my home were up here, I probably wouldn't want to go either.\"\n\nAs the weekend nears, the smoke in the air has cleared up, but there is a sense of unease as the wildfire continues to burn nearby.\n\n\"There's this calm before the storm,\" said Dr Regenstreif. \"It is a bit nerve-wracking that you know something's going to come, but you don't see any of it now.\"\n\nNearly 1,100 active fires are burning across the country.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason.\n\nScientists say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.", "Labour has denied rowing back on pledges to strengthen employment rights, after it emerged it plans to consult on the proposals.\n\nThe party announced plans in 2021 to align protections for different types of worker, including those in the so-called gig economy.\n\nFollowing a policy meeting last month, this will be subject to a consultation.\n\nThe Unite union, a major financial backer, has accused the party of watering down its commitments.\n\nDeputy leader Angela Rayner denied this, saying the party remained committed to enacting its blueprint within 100 days if it won power.\n\n\"Far from watering it down, we will now set out in detail how we will implement it,\" she wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nUnder the 2021 proposals, Labour said it would create a single legal category of \"worker\" to create \"base level of protection\" for all employees.\n\nThis would apply to employees on all contract types, save for those deemed to be \"genuinely self-employed\".\n\nIt would mean all workers would automatically be entitled to rights including statutory sick pay, minimum notice periods, and the right to request flexible working patterns.\n\nIt would also end the two-year qualifying period for protection against unfair dismissal, with workers entitled to the right from day one.\n\nThe Financial Times has reported that, following a party policy forum in Nottingham last month, the party has agreed it will consult on the policy in government if it wins the next general election, expected next year.\n\nA document agreed at the event stated it would explore how the new status could \"properly capture the breadth of employment relationships in the UK,\" the newspaper reported.\n\nThe text also clarified that bosses will still be able to fairly and transparently dismiss workers during probation periods.\n\nThe document agreed at the event, at which trade unions, MPs and party members discuss future policy ideas, has not been published by the party.\n\nHowever, it is expected to be made public before the party's annual conference in October.\n\nUnite, which did not support the document at the event, accused Labour of watering down its plans to \"curry favour with big business\".\n\n\"They need to stop wavering and make a clear signal that they are truly the voice for working people,\" added general secretary Sharon Graham.\n\nMomentum, a left-wing group set up to support Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the party, said the text was \"alarming\".\n\nOther Labour-affiliated unions, including GMB and shop workers' union Usdaw, backed the policy document.\n\nPosting on X, Ms Rayner - who is also the party's shadow future of work secretary - said Labour's plan to strengthen workers' rights would be a \"core part of our manifesto\" ahead of the next election.\n\n\"Tackling bogus self-employment is a key priority for a Labour government, and stronger protections against unfair dismissal will mean workers can no longer be sacked without reason from day one,\" she added.", "A pair shelter from the rain near Big Ben. with further downpours expected on Friday night\n\nParts of the UK and Ireland are being lashed by Storm Betty, which has brought heavy rain, storms and winds.\n\nTrain services in Cornwall have been disrupted and flooding has hit roads in County Cork.\n\nThe storm, named by the Irish meteorological service, is set to bring more severe weather as it moves in from the Atlantic.\n\nHalf a month's rain is expected in some areas, with other instances of flooding reported on Friday evening.\n\nThe forecast is expected to improve as the weekend continues and many areas can expect sunny spells and showers.\n\nA yellow warning alert for wind came into effect at 18:00 on Friday, with Betty expected to bring very strong gusts lasting until midday on Saturday.\n\nThe strongest, of around 60mph-70mph (97kmh-113kmh), are expected along the south-western coasts of England and Wales. Gusts of 40-50mph could also affect much of south-west England, Wales, the east of Northern Ireland, south-west Scotland and the Cumbrian coast.\n\nA second thunderstorm warning, covering the East Midlands, the east and south-east of England and London, came into effect at 20:00 on Friday and will last until 05:00 on Saturday.\n\nOn Friday, flooding caused disruption for drivers in County Cork, while a boat in Dungarvan, County Waterford, broke free from its berth and crashed into the harbour.\n\nHeavy and thundery rain will spread across many parts of the UK on Friday night with the potential for some large hail, especially in East Anglia, Kent and East Sussex.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The latest UK weather forecast for where you are\n\nSignificant rainfall is also expected in Northern Ireland. A weather warning is in place from 21:00 on Friday until 06:00 on Saturday. Around a months' worth of rain - 40mm-80mm - could fall in hilly areas and around 15mm-25mm elsewhere.\n\nOn Friday morning, a yellow warning for thunderstorms was in place from 06:00 BST until 12:00 across the West Midlands and the south of England, with commuters told to expect travel disruption and possible flooding.\n\nAround 20mm-30mm (0.8in-1.1in) fell in some areas. The average monthly rainfall in August is usually around 63mm (2.5in) of rain falls across south-east England.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Tom Morgan told the BBC that although there had been some heavy rain on Friday morning, he was not aware of any significant flooding at that time.\n\nHe said Storm Betty was \"more likely to bring frequent lightning and flooding overnight\".\n\nMr Morgan warned that \"potentially severe gales\" were possible but stressed: \"for the weekend as a whole, for many its a fine weekend with a small chance of a shower.\"\n\nThe Coast Guard inspect the damage to a boat in Dungarvan.\n\nWaves crash against the sea wall in Tramore, south-east Ireland, on Friday evening\n\nWomen purchased umbrellas in Westminster to shelter from the rain\n\nBBC meteorologist Simon King also advised anyone holidaying in unfamiliar areas to check local reports.\n\nAmong events cancelled due to Friday's forecast is the Tall Ships parade of sail in Falmouth, Cornwall.\n\nOrganisers said the safety and welfare of the vessel crews were the \"foremost considerations\".\n\nThe Met Office has warned people living and working on the coast to take extra care during windy and stormy weather, and to be prepared for the weather changing quickly.\n\nIt added that there is a \"small chance\" of damage to homes and businesses from flooding, lightning and hail.\n\nStorm Betty, named by Met Eireann, is the second named storm in August following Storm Antoni earlier this month. It is only the second time since naming was introduced in 2015 that two storms have been named in August.\n\nForecasters expects Saturday to see the remnants of Storm Betty move north and bring some showers in western parts of the UK, and more persistent rain in western Scotland.\n\nFor Sunday and next week, the main theme of the forecast is expected to be sunshine and showers.\n\nHave you been affected by torrential rain? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Britney Spears' husband Sam Asghari has said the pair have decided to end their \"journey together\" after 14 months of marriage.\n\nA divorce petition filed on Wednesday and seen by BBC News cited \"irreconcilable differences\" between Mr Asghari, 29, and Ms Spears, 41.\n\nThe couple got engaged in September 2021 and were married in a small but star-studded ceremony in June 2022.\n\nRumours of their marital struggles were reported in US tabloids this year.\n\nMs Spears became a global superstar after her song ...Baby One More Time was released when she was just 16. She went on to have hits including Toxic, Womanizer and Oops!...I Did It Again.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Mr Asghari said: \"After 6 years of love and commitment to each other my wife and I have decided to end our journey together.\n\n\"We will hold onto the love and respect we have for each other and I wish her the best always.\n\n\"Asking for privacy seems rediculous [sic] so I will just ask for everyone including media to be kind and thoughtful.\"\n\nRepresentatives for Ms Spears have not yet commented.\n\nThe musician did not address the divorce in a Wednesday night post to her 42 million Instagram followers, instead writing that she was \"buying a horse soon\".\n\nAccording to the dissolution of marriage petition filed by Mr Asghari in Los Angeles County Superior Court, he asks that spousal support and attorneys' fees be paid by Ms Spears.\n\nThe Iranian-American actor, model and fitness trainer met Ms Spears while she was shooting the video for her song Slumber Party in 2016.\n\nHe was a vocal supporter of her efforts to end her father Jamie's conservatorship, a fight she won just months before their marriage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTheir wedding last year, at the superstar's home in Thousand Oaks, California, was an intimate and lavish affair attended by celebrities including Paris Hilton, Madonna and Drew Barrymore.\n\nThe two had recently been seen without their wedding rings in public.\n\nThe separation comes as Ms Spears prepares to publish her memoir - The Woman in Me - this October.\n\nIt marks the end of her third marriage.\n\nIn 2004, she married childhood friend Jason Alexander for 55 hours in Las Vegas, before she annulled the nuptials at the urging of her management team.\n\nMr Alexander, who was seen participating in the pro-Trump riot at the US Capitol in Washington DC in January 2021, attempted to crash Ms Spears' wedding to Mr Asghari hours before they tied the knot.\n\nHe was charged with trespassing, vandalism and two counts of battery, and has been court-ordered to stay away from her.\n\nMs Spears' second marriage - to rapper Kevin Federline - lasted from 2004 to 2007. Mr Federline retains sole custody of their two children, Jayden James and Sean Preston.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWilliam Friedkin, director of the classic horror film The Exorcist, died on Monday at the age of 87.\n\nHis widow Sherry Lansing told the BBC through tears: \"He had a wonderful life. He was almost 88 - he has a new movie coming out.\n\n\"He was the most wonderful husband in the world. He was the most wonderful father in the world. He had a big wonderful, life. There was no dream unfulfilled.\"\n\nNo cause of death has yet been confirmed. The director was said to have suffered health issues in recent years.\n\nHis other famous films included crime thriller The French Connection, which won five Academy Awards including best director.\n\nTributes from celebrities and fans began pouring in over social media.\n\nOn X, formerly known as Twitter, actor Elijah Wood wrote: \"Aww man…a true cinematic master whose influence will continue to extend forever. So long, William Friedkin.\"\n\nFriedkin died before his latest movie, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, could hit screens at the Venice Film Festival beginning on 30 August.\n\nThough his career started in the early 1960s, his most notable success came in the following decade with the release of 1971's The French Connection.\n\nThe film's five Oscars included best picture, and best actor for Gene Hackman.\n\nThe Exorcist, released in 1973, had audiences horrified and entranced by the story of a 12-year-old girl possessed by the devil.\n\nNews media at the time reported cinemagoers fainting and vomiting in their seats, and people leaving the theatre shaking and screaming.\n\nWilliam Friedkin on set alongside lead actress from The Exorcist, Linda Blair\n\nThe film is reported to have grossed $500m (£391m) worldwide. It was nominated for 10 Oscars, winning two, and spawned multiple sequels.\n\nThe latest, titled The Exorcist: The Believer, is scheduled for release in October this year. It was directed by David Gordon Green, who helmed the most recent three films in the Halloween franchise.\n\nFriedkin, for his part, was historically not a fan of remakes of the film.\n\nAt one point he said: \"All of them are ridiculous... what I've seen of them, they want to make me vomit as the little girl vomits in the movie.\"\n\nWhen told by the interviewer that his version of The Exorcist was the best, Friedkin replied: \"By far the best? The others don't even exist.\"\n\nFriedkin suffered a decline in form just a few years after The Exorcist, his biggest box office success.\n\nSorcerer, released in 1977, had an estimated budget of $22m but drew barely $6m in box office sales. US media called it a \"flop\".\n\nStill, his wider filmmaking legacy remains cherished by critics and audiences alike.\n\nSimpsons producer Mike Reiss remembered how the show made \"a parody of his film Sorcerer\", and that Friedkin \"charmed everyone, and even wound up as a guest star\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mike Reiss This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe director is survived by his widow, Ms Lansing - a former studio chief at Paramount Pictures who was his fourth wife - and two sons.\n\n\"The family is obviously very upset,\" Stephen Galloway, a friend of Friedkin's and the dean of Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, told the BBC. \"He literally just finished making a new movie.\"\n\n\"His mind was just so sharp, always. And mixed with a kind of wicked mischievous humour. The films that he made in the 70s, they still stand out.\"", "Indigenous people of different ethnic groups marched in Belém for land demarcation ahead of the summit\n\nThis week, delegates arriving in Belém's international airport are being welcomed with a lively \"Boi de mascara\" folkloric dance routine. In fact, the whole city is celebrating being in the spotlight, playing host to the Amazon Summit.\n\nIt also feels like a bit of a warm-up for 2025 when the city will host COP30. These two events are a big deal for this part of Brazil - a region that often feels forgotten. Belém is well placed too, as the capital of Pará, the state with the highest deforestation rate in Brazil.\n\nPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called this summit to bring together the eight South American countries who share a slice of the Amazon.\n\nAs it opened, he asked those nations to resume cooperation and agree on common policies to tackle deforestation and illegal mining.\n\nMeanwhile Colombian president Gustavo Petro called for the creation of an international court to punish environmental crimes committed in the Amazon. He also defended a total ban on oil exploration in the region - a proposal backed by indigenous leaders.\n\nRepresentatives from the eight countries which share the Amazon will attend\n\nIt is the first time in years that there has been a meeting like this, ensuring a regional response to combat crime and deforestation as well as climate change.\n\n\"I think the world needs to look at this meeting in Belém as a milestone,\" President Lula told the BBC last week.\n\n\"I've participated in several meetings and many times they talk, talk, talk, approve a document and nothing happens. This meeting is the first great opportunity for people to show the world what we want to do.\"\n\nPresident Lula has promised to reverse rising deforestation seen under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. In July this year, deforestation fell 66% compared with the same month in 2022, and Lula says he is committed to zero deforestation by 2030.\n\n\"You have no idea how much pressure there was in our community from the Bolsonaro government,\" says Robson Gonçalves Machado, a resident of a community by the Acangatá river. \"Landowners circling in planes, soya farmers wanting to buy the land to deforest it.\"\n\nRobson lives on the banks of one of hundreds of waterways that wind their way through Ilha do Marajó.\n\nMarajó is the world's largest river island and sits on the northern coast of Brazil near Belém - the easternmost part of the Amazon.\n\nThe only way to get to Robson's community is by boat - 13 hours overnight from Belém. It may feel isolated, but he is definitely aware of the demand there is for their land from outsiders.\n\nWhile Pará is well known as the epicentre of Brazil's deforestation, more recently it has also become an appealing prospect for another burgeoning forest industry - carbon credits.\n\nThe way it works is this: an organisation that pollutes can buy a credit which is worth one tonne of carbon dioxide.\n\nThe money paid by the organisation is meant to go towards carbon-lowering schemes, so for every tonne of CO2 emitted, the credit represents a tonne of CO2 that was captured.\n\nThose credits are bought and sold and their prices are determined like any other market. With the World Bank estimating the carbon credit market in the forest is worth $210bn (£165bn) a year, there is huge potential.\n\nWhile the summit is a diplomatic event, the run-up to the meeting included several days of discussions on issues including the carbon market.\n\nRobson's community of Acangatá recently signed a statement of intent with one of the carbon credit companies working in the area.\n\nIt has not kicked off in earnest, but the community has agreed to undertake courses that include sustainable forestry management, chicken rearing and biogas projects.\n\nRobson Gonçalves Machado lives on the banks of the River Acangatá\n\n\"At the beginning there were lots of doubts,\" says Robson. \"In the municipality there was a huge land grab worth millions of reais [Brazilian currency] of carbon that was sold and that didn't get passed down to the community.\"\n\nCarbon credit companies operating in Ilha do Marajó have been accused of harassing people into contracts, pressuring people to be a part of their projects, without actually giving them much detail about the investment they will receive in return.\n\nPará's public prosecutor has since got involved to halt projects that have caused concern. The market still remains unregulated although President Lula has promised to address this.\n\nTeacher Bianca Teles and her family make their living from cassava flour in a community which is a two-hours' boat ride from Robson's. The $200 (£157) they earn a week is not enough.\n\nWhen a carbon credit company offered to help build a school and health centre, even that was not enough to convince her.\n\n\"It's not that transparent,\" she said. \"We can't see how it would give us a secure life. We're always on the back foot, fearing the consequences. Because of these stories we heard, we decided not to sign a contract.\"\n\nMany of the problems arise because the state is so absent in the Amazon - public services are weak, people feel abandoned. And that is when companies often come in to fill that gap - for good and bad.\n\n\"When the state isn't there, it creates a no man's land where anything can happen,\" says prosecutor Eliane Moreira.\n\nOn the other side of Ilha do Marajó, Hernandez Pantoja proudly shows off his açai and cacao plantation. The machinery and training were provided for by Carbonext, a Brazilian carbon credit company that has received investment funding from Shell. The community will also get a share of the credits.\n\n\"Just last year we chucked out five illegal sawmills from our land,\" Mr Pantoja says.\n\nThe community knows that defending their territory from illegal logging is a challenge on their own. But partnering with a company with the funds behind it, and a plan to ensure sustainable forestry, is the only way forward, he argues.\n\n\"We want support to look after our forest - we don't want to cut down trees anymore.\"\n\nFor Carbonext, empowering the communities to look after their land is important. So, too, is empowering the region as a whole.\n\nJanaína Dallan is CEO of Carbonext, which works on carbon capture projects\n\n\"When the global north comes to the global south and says, 'I have the solution,' we're like, 'Really? Have you been to the Amazon?'\" says CEO Janaína Dallan.\n\n\"How can you solve that problem if you've never been there? You don't have your boots on the ground. So it's very easy to say, 'I have the solution.'\"\n\nPeople on the ground in the Amazon - and those at the summit this week - are determined to make South America's voice heard when it comes to climate change.", "Publishing giant Simon & Schuster is to be sold to a private equity giant for $1.6bn (£1.27bn) in cash.\n\nThe deal with investor KKR marks the likely end of a years-long saga for owner Paramount Global, which had been looking for a buyer for the book company since 2020.\n\nCompetition concerns had scuppered a previous deal, which valued the firm at more than $2bn.\n\nKKR said the publisher would continue to operate independently.\n\nSimon & Schuster, founded in the US in 1924, employs more than 1,600 people globally.\n\nIts first book was filled with crossword puzzles. Titles released since include Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People; Joseph Heller's military satire Catch-22 and best-selling mysteries by Stephen King.\n\nKKR, which counts digital books platform Overdrive among its earlier investments, said it saw an opportunity to expand the company's distribution \"across mediums and markets\".\n\nIt said it would also create a plan to provide employees shares of the firm, to help create an \"ownership culture\".\n\nSimon & Schuster's roster of writers includes former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton\n\nSimon & Schuster is the fourth largest of the US's \"big five\" publishing companies, which also include HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group USA, Penguin Random House and Macmillan Publishers.\n\nA tentative deal to sell the company to Penguin Random House for $2.2bn was blocked due to regulatory concerns late last year.\n\nA US judge ruled in favour of the US government, which had attempted to block the takeover, arguing that the tie-up would reduce pay and opportunities for writers.\n\nAuthor Stephen King was among the big names to testify against the sale on behalf of the US government, which has taken a harder line on competition under US President Joe Biden.\n\nBut on Monday, the boss of Paramount Global, Bob Bakish, said in a statement that the money raised by Simon & Schuster's sale would give the entertainment firm greater \"financial flexibility\".\n\nIt will also boost the cash available for content on its streaming service Paramount+ as competition from the likes of Disney and Netflix shows no sign of slowing.\n\nOn Monday, Paramount reported sales of $7.62bn in the three months to 30 June - down compared to $7.8bn in the same period a year before.\n\nIt reported an overall loss after ad sales at its TV networks fell by 10% and the firm couldn't follow up with a film that was as big as Top Gun: Maverick last year.", "Actor and entertainer Les Dennis is the 15th and final celebrity contestant to be announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe said he was \"thrilled\" to join the show, as his 70th birthday approaches.\n\nHe will join Annabel Croft, Nigel Harman, Bobby Brazier, Jody Cundy, Zara McDermott, Ellie Leach, Nikita Kanda, Adam Thomas and Eddie Kadi on the show.\n\nAngela Rippon, Layton Williams, Angela Scanlon, Amanda Abbington and Krishnan Guru-Murthy will also appear.\n\nDennis, whose career spans more than 50 years, was host of ITV's Family Fortunes for 16 years.\n\nHe has also had roles in ITV's Coronation Street, Extras and Death in Paradise; and has appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera, and in such plays and musicals as Hairspray, Legally Blonde The Musical and 42nd Street.\n\n\"In my career I've always gone for challenges outside my comfort zone and this is the ultimate one!\" he said. \"Can't wait.\"\n\nThis year's series will arrive on screens in the autumn and will be judged by Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse.\n\nHere are the other contestants who have been announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing so far:\n\nFormer tennis player and broadcaster Annabel Croft said she was looking forward to \"swapping tennis balls for glitter balls\" and was \"looking forward to finding some joyfulness in the process\".\n\nCroft became the youngest British player to compete at Wimbledon for 95 years when she was just 15 years old.\n\nShe continues to play a role in the coverage of the tournament and other tennis events, as a presenter, commentator and pundit for the BBC, Sky, Amazon Prime, ITV and Discovery.\n\nCroft has also presented entertainment shows such as Treasure Hunt and Inceptor.\n\nEx-EastEnders star Nigel Harman, known for playing Dennis Rickman on the soap, said he was \"amazed, excited, and terrified\" to be joining the line-up.\n\n\"As an armchair fan of the show, I have watched in awe as people have twirled and gyrated across the screen,\" he said. \"And now it's my turn... gulp!\"\n\nScreen and stage actor and director Harman won awards, including most popular newcomer at the National Television Awards, for his role as the roguish Rickman. He has also appeared on TV in Downton Abbey and in the film Blood Diamond, as well as on London's West End in Guys and Dolls and Shrek the Musical - for which he won an Olivier award.\n\nHarman recently joined the cast of the BBC hospital drama Casualty, as clinical lead Max Cristie.\n\nCurrent EastEnders actor and model Bobby Brazier, son of the late Big Brother star Jade Goody, plays Freddie Slater in the BBC soap.\n\nHe said he was \"excited\" to join the Strictly line-up. \"I can't wait to start training like a professional dancer and adding a few moves to my locker,\" he added.\n\nAway from Walford, Brazier has modelled for the major fashion house Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week.\n\nJody Cundy has represented Great Britain at seven Paralympics, winning eight gold medals in swimming and cycling events.\n\n\"[Strictly is] so far away from what I'm used to, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and pushing myself way out of my comfort zone, especially as I'm always last onto the dance floor,\" he said. \"Can't wait to get stuck in, bring on the glitter and sequins!\"\n\nCundy has also competed in multiple World Championships, winning 23 world titles, the most recent of which added at the recent World Cycling Championships in Glasgow.\n\nIn 2021, he became the first man in Paralympics GB history to win medals at seven different games, and was last year made a CBE for services to cycling.\n\nEllie Leach is best known for her 12 years playing Faye Windass on ITV soap Coronation Street.\n\nShe has been nominated for multiple British Soap Awards and Inside Soap Awards for her role in hard-hitting storylines, which have included being pregnant at 13 and later reconnecting with the child she gave up.\n\n\"It still doesn't feel real that I'm going to be doing Strictly!\" she said.\n\n\"It's always been a dream of mine so I guess dreams really do come true!\" added the actress, who left the soap earlier this year.\n\nNikita Kanda hosts the BBC Asian Network radio station's breakfast show, and also reports regularly on TV on the BBC's The One Show.\n\n\"I don't think it will properly sink in until I step on to the dancefloor,\" she said. \"I can't wait to get glammed up and get out there. Throw the glitter on me!\"\n\nIn her day job, the presenter - recently nominated for presenter of the year at the Asian Media Awards - has interviewed stars including Killing Eve's Sandra Oh, Bridgerton's Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran and Marvel actress Awkwafina.\n\nHer TV work has seen her look into the rise of cashless businesses and government support for female sport.\n\nThomas is best known for playing Adam Barton in ITV soap Emmerdale, winning the TV Choice award for best soap newcomer in 2010.\n\n\"I can't dance to save my life but I'm buzzing to learn and have a good laugh with my pro. Get me on that dance floor... I can't wait!\" he said.\n\nAfter appearing the 2016 edition of ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, Thomas went on to co-host the spin-off-I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp, and recently reprised his role as Donte Charles in BBC One drama Waterloo Road.\n\nIn 2020, the soap star teamed up with his brothers and fellow Mancs on the Mic podcasters Ryan and Scott, for six-part ITV travel series Absolutely India: Mancs in Mumbai, where they traced their family heritage alongside their father.\n\nRip-Off Britain presenter Rippon, 78, will be the series' oldest contestant, after Johnny Ball took part in 2012 aged 74.\n\nRippon said: \"Why didn't they ask me 10 years ago? Having been a fan of Strictly since day one, and as a former presenter of Come Dancing, this will be quite an adventure for me.\"\n\nShe was the first female journalist to permanently present the BBC national television news, and was also one of the presenters of the BBC's original Come Dancing series.\n\nShe hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, presented ITV breakfast show TV-am and famously appeared in a dancing sketch with comedy duo Morecambe and Wise.\n\nGuru-Murthy is the lead anchor for Channel 4 News. He joined the programme in 1998 and is its second-longest-serving presenter after Jon Snow.\n\n\"I'm surprised, delighted and slightly confused to find myself taking part in Strictly on the basis of 'you only live once!\" he said.\n\nThe broadcaster has also fronted Channel 4's Paralympics coverage and was one of the original presenters of the BBC News channel, then called BBC News 24, in 1997.\n\nLast year, Guru-Murthy was briefly suspended after he was heard using an expletive to describe a Conservative minister, something for which he apologised \"unreservedly\".\n\nAbbington is known for starring in TV series including Sherlock and Mr Selfridge, as well as stage plays such as The Son.\n\nThe actress said: \"I'm thrilled to have been asked to do Strictly. I'm actually really shy and self-conscious so this will be a great opportunity for me to overcome those things! Plus I get to learn to dance, which I am incredibly excited about.\"\n\nHowever, some fans have claimed they will boycott the show after Abbington stirred controversy earlier this year with comments about drag performances, questioning whether young children should watch or partake in sexually-charged drag shows.\n\nIn a recent Instagram video, Abbington explained she \"loved drag\" and was not transphobic, adding: \"Personally speaking, I don't think 12-year-olds should be performing in drag shows in overtly sexual ways because they're 12 and they need a childhood.\"\n\nWilliams has performed in London's West End in Billy Elliot, Thriller Live and Everyone's Talking About Jamie. He has also appeared in TV series Bad Education and I Hate Suzie.\n\nThe actor said: \"So excited to learn new skills from the best. Bring on the sequins… ALL the sequins!\"\n\nWilliams most recently provided the voiceover for the BBC Three gay dating show I Kissed A Boy.\n\nThe actor said he would be happy as long as he is paired with a male professional dancer so he can be lifted up during the performances.\n\nAngela Scanlon presents Your Home Made Perfect on BBC Two\n\nIrish TV star Angela Scanlon hosts the BBC Two series Your Home Made Perfect as well as a Saturday night chat show on RTÉ.\n\n\"I'm terrified, I'm excited and I have so many questions. Will they make me tan? How itchy are sequins?! Do they do flesh coloured sports bras? Well - there's only one way to find out, right?!\" she said.\n\nScanlon has appeared on TV shows including The One Show and Robot Wars, and presented a Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio 2.\n\nShe previously worked as a print journalist, writing for magazines including Grazia, Tatler and the Sunday Times Style supplement.\n\nKadi is a stand-up comic who became the first black British comedian to headline London's 02 Arena.\n\nHe announced his participation on BBC Radio 1Xtra's Official UK Afrobeats Chart Show on Sunday, which he presents.\n\n\"I'm so unbelievably proud and honoured that Strictly and the BBC have asked me to join the 2023 team,\" Kadi said.\n\n\"I promise you, I'm going to give it everything I've got. This is going to be a vibe.\"\n\nZara McDermott worked as a government policy advisor before joining ITV reality show Love Island in 2018, and since leaving the villa has presented a series of documentaries.\n\n\"I grew up watching Strictly every year with my nan and she was the biggest fan,\" she said. \"We would dance around the house and I have such fond memories of that time in my life.\n\n\"I even remember the first ever series, and being mesmerised by all the beautiful dresses! I can't wait to throw myself into this experience and start training. It's going to be incredible.\"\n\nSince leaving Love Island, McDermott has presented BBC documentaries including Revenge Porn, Uncovering Rape Culture, Disordered Eating, and Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Flaming debris was seen blazing across the night sky in Melbourne on Monday, sparking a flurry of social media posts questioning if it was a meteor.\n\nThe Australian Space Agency said in a statement that the flashes of light were probably remnants of a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.\n\nThe rocket had been used to launch a satellite earlier in the evening.", "China's exports and imports have fallen sharply\n\nChina's imports and exports fell more sharply than expected last month as weaker global demand threatened the recovery prospects of the world's second-largest economy.\n\nOfficial figures show that exports fell by 14.5% in July compared with a year earlier, while imports dropped 12.4%.\n\nThe grim trade figures reinforce concerns that the country's economic growth could slow further this year.\n\nIt will increase pressure on Beijing to help boost the post-pandemic recovery.\n\nChina's economy grew just 3% last year - apart from the slowdown when Covid struck, the weakest rate since 1976 - reflecting the toll from coronavirus restrictions that remained some of the most stringent in the world, long after many other countries had resumed more normal patterns.\n\nA full lockdown was imposed for two full months from March 2022 in the financial hub of Shanghai, home to around 25 million people, with the government delivering food packages to residents confined in their home.\n\nThough officials loosened restrictions in November, recovery has remained lacklustre.\n\nThe unemployment rate among China's youth exceeded 20% in May and a crisis in the housing sector has damaged confidence.\n\nWeaker economic growth overseas has also reduced foreign demand for Chinese goods, while geopolitical tensions between China and the US and others have taken a further toll on trade, encouraging international firms to shift investments out of the country.\n\nJuly was the third month in a row that China's shipments overseas have declined, marking the sharpest fall since February 2020 at the height of the pandemic.\n\nExports to the US, one of China's biggest buyers, fell 23.1% year-on-year.\n\nThe European Union also bought 20.6% less from China.\n\nLouise Loo from Oxford Economics warned that the pressures on foreign trade will linger, as higher borrowing costs and rising living costs weigh on economic activity in other parts of the world, eroding demand for goods.\n\n\"The backdrop for China's external demand could become considerably more challenging in the coming quarters,\" she said.\n\nChina's position as a major importer also means its sluggish trade performance is likely to have a knock-on effect on the global economy, said Steve Clayton, head of equity funds for investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nPrices for commodities from oil to copper slipped in response to the news, while shares in luxury goods producers such as LVMH - which have long looked to China for growth - also dropped.\n\n\"A weaker China means lower demand in the wider global economy too,\" Mr Clayton said. \"China's woes may well be felt beyond its own shores, underlining the interlinkage of the world's leading economies.\"\n\nChina's central bank has cut interest rates in recent months in a bid to boost the economy and regulators have also relaxed their scrutiny of key sectors such as the tech industry. But officials have so far resisted major measures to stimulate the economy.\n\nWeak growth means China is not facing the rising prices that have rattled many other countries and prompted central bankers elsewhere to sharply increase borrowing costs.", "Asylum seekers have been told boarding the Bibby Stockholm barge is \"not a choice\" and those who refuse will no longer receive government support.\n\nThe first group of 15 people boarded the vessel on Monday, but 20 refused.\n\nIf they do not move on to the accommodation barge by the end of Tuesday, their housing assistance could be withdrawn, government sources said.\n\nTreasury minister Andrew Griffiths said they would \"effectively take themselves out of the asylum support system\".\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said the threat to withdraw state-funded support was \"unlikely\" to be illegal.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"That is something that the courts would have to consider but I think it's unlikely, bluntly, that it would be illegal to do so but all cases are considered on their facts.\n\n\"What is perfectly legal is for the British people to say this is what we are offering and it's not four-star accommodation but it is perfectly safe, it's perfectly decent and it complies with the fire safety checks and goodness knows what.\n\n\"It is sparse and it is a bit austere but, frankly, that is not unreasonable.\"\n\nMonday saw the first asylum seekers board the Bibby Stockholm - moored in Portland Port in Dorset - after a series of delays over safety concerns.\n\nIt is the flagship of the government's latest plan to \"stop the boats\" and deter dangerous Channel crossings by migrants and up to 500 men aged 18-65 will eventually live on the vessel while they await the outcome of asylum applications.\n\nSome human rights groups have called the scheme \"inhumane\", but ministers insist it is safe and will save money.\n\nOne migrant who boarded the vessel on Monday told the BBC he had arrived in the UK on an aircraft, had a wife still in Iran and had been in Britain for six months.\n\nThe man - who the BBC is not identifying - gave no reply to the question of whether he was scared aboard the barge, but when asked said he had eaten a \"good\" breakfast aboard including \"eggs, cheese, jam and butter\".\n\nThere has been considerable local opposition to the barge coming to Portland\n\nCheryl Avery, Director for Asylum Accommodation at the Home Office, said some 15 people had boarded the barge on Monday, but a group of about 20 people had refused to board.\n\n\"There have been some challenges - some minor legal challenges - and I can't go into the detail of those, but accommodation is offered to individuals on a no-choice basis,\" she said.\n\nSky News quoted a letter to one of the group of 20 as saying that if they failed to travel to Portland on Tuesday \"arrangements for ceasing the support that you are receiving from the Home Office may commence\".\n\n\"Where asylum seekers fail to take up an offer of suitable accommodation without a reasonable explanation, there should be no expectation that alternative accommodation will be offered,\" the letter added.\n\nHeather Jones of the Portland Global Friendship Group, set up to provide support for those moved to the barge, said she had been in touch with eight asylum seekers who did not want to leave their Bournemouth hotel.\n\n\"They were worried about moving - they have a community in Bournemouth that supports and looks out for them and they have friends. To be moved again would have been so unsettling,\" she said.\n\nThe Care4Calais charity said it was providing legal support to 20 asylum seekers wanting to challenge being moved to Portland.\n\n\"Housing people fleeing threats and persecution on an overcrowded barge is appalling, and in itself likely to cause extreme distress.\n\n\"These are people who have endured horrific and often life-threatening journeys; being trapped in small, cell-like rooms behind the high metal fences will induce fear, anxiety and panic,\" it said.\n\nThe 222-room, three-storey barge arrived in Portland Port more than three weeks ago, chartered by the government to reduce what it says is the £6m-a-day cost of placing asylum seekers in hotels.\n\nMinisters plan to increase the numbers aboard up to 500, despite safety warnings from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) which has raised concerns over narrow exits and possible overcrowding.\n\nMigrants will be free to leave on hourly buses to Weymouth and Portland, although they are encouraged to return by 23:00 each night.\n\nThe Home Office has said the barge occupants will undergo security screening and Dorset Police has said it does not expect any impact on the local community.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "The chances of winning some of the biggest Premium Bonds prizes have increased to their highest level for more than 15 years.\n\nGreater competition to attract savers has led National Savings and Investments (NS&I), to improve the odds to 21,000 to one.\n\nThere will be 90 prizes of £100,000 compared with 77 at present, and up from just six in May last year.\n\nHowever, there will still only be two winners each month of the £1m jackpots.\n\n\"These rate increases will help ensure that our savings products remain attractive to customers, whilst ensuring that we continue to balance the needs of savers, taxpayers and the broader financial services sector,\" said Dax Harkins, chief executive of NS&I, which is entirely owned by the Treasury.\n\nRising interest rates have fed through to better returns for savers, although providers remain under pressure from regulators and MPs to offer better rates.\n\nPremium Bonds offer the chance of winning tax-free money through monthly prize draws instead of regular interest. It is the UK's most popular savings product, with about 22 million investors.\n\nHowever, savers have been drawn towards better returns from other savings providers recently, despite eight increases in the generosity of Premium Bonds in the last year.\n\nThe effective interest rate of 4.65% is still lower than than leading rate of 5% on easy-access accounts, and even better returns on other deals which lock-in savers' money.\n\n\"It was inevitable that NS&I would increase rates as rising competition in the savings market means it has fallen out of favour with savers who would prefer guaranteed rates elsewhere,\" said Laura Suter, head of personal finance at investment platform AJ Bell.\n\nThe changes mean there will be an estimated 181 Premium Bonds prizes of £50,000 given in September, up from 154 in August.\n\nWhile there will be more big money prizes on offer, the estimated number of £25 prizes will go down from 1.7 million in August to 1.03 million in September.\n\nOverall, there will be 5.79 million prizes in September, an increase of more than 269,000 when compared with August. and up from 3.4 million in May last year.\n\nThe returns on other NS&I products are also improving.", "Five people have died in violent protests relating to a taxi strike in Cape Town, South Africa, officials say.\n\nThe victims include a 40-year-old British national whose family is being supported by the UK Foreign Office.\n\nThe week-long strike was called in response to what drivers said was \"heavy-handed tactics\" by law enforcement authorities.\n\nThe taxi drivers and owners said their vehicles were being targeted and impounded for minor offences.\n\nInfringements included not wearing a seatbelt and illegally driving in the emergency lane, drivers said. They claimed others doing the same only faced fines.\n\nMinibus taxi operators across Cape Town also aired frustrations that the government was impounding taxis they claimed were not roadworthy.\n\nOn Tuesday, South Africa's transport minister Sindisiwe Chikunga ordered the immediate release of the minibus taxis impounded by the City of Cape Town.\n\nMs Chikunga said the legislation used by the city had been \"executed and implemented wrongly\" and added that \"it doesn't exist\" under current laws.\n\nThe South African Ministry of Police said 120 people had been arrested since the strikes began on 3 August and they were aware of incidents of looting, stone throwing and arson.\n\nPolice Minister Bheki Cele also confirmed a police officer was among those who died.\n\nOn Tuesday, residents in the Masiphumelele township set up barricades, preventing other residents from leaving. Many of those barricades were set alight.\n\nSpeaking to the press on Tuesday, Mr Cele called for co-operation between the Cape Town government and taxi operators. He said those affected by the strike included children who could no longer get to school.\n\n\"People must swallow their pride, come together and resolve this issue\", he said.\n\nThe UK has issued a travel warning after the strike was listed as a high security threat for tourists visiting South Africa.", "Emotional crowds of people gathered to see the funeral cortege for Sinead O'Connor, as it passed through the town of Bray, Ireland.\n\nThe Irish singer died in July at the age of 56.", "Callum Rycroft was \"unique, great fun and larger than life\", his mother said\n\nA man has appeared in court over the death of a 12-year-old boy who was hit by a car while crossing a motorway.\n\nCallum Rycroft, from Leeds, died after being hit on the M62 near Cleckheaton at about 21:50 BST on Saturday.\n\nMatthew Rycroft, 36, appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, dangerous driving and failing to provide a specimen.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 5 September.\n\nDuring a short hearing, Mr Rycroft, of Nowell View, Leeds, spoke only to confirm his name and address.\n\nHe was not asked to enter a plea to any of the three charges and an application for bail was denied.\n\nThe crash happened on the eastbound carriageway of the M62 following a separate collision on the slip road to Hartshead Moor services, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nInvestigators said they did not believe any other vehicles were involved in the first crash.\n\nAnother man, 47, from Bolton, who was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, had been released on bail pending further inquiries, West Yorkshire Police previously said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "During the trial, the jury heard that during the drive home from Kylie Jenner’s pool party on the night of July 11, 2020, Megan Thee Stallion insulted Tory Lanez‘s musical talent.\n\nAs the argument escalated, she demanded to be let out of the car. Megan testified that she heard Lanez shout “dance\" before he fired five rounds at her.\n\nThe court heard she left a trail of blood at the scene, before getting back into the vehicle, which was stopped minutes later by police.\n\nA gun that was still warm to the touch was found near where Lanez had been sitting.\n\nMegan testified Lanez had offered her $1m (£780,000) to keep quiet about the attack because he claimed to be on probation for a weapons offence.\n\nMinutes after the shooting, another passenger texted Megan Thee Stallion's security detail, saying: \"Help... Tory shot meg.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA landmark pub in the Black Country has been demolished two days after fire ripped through the building.\n\nThe Crooked House in Himley near Dudley, once known as \"Britain's wonkiest pub\", caught fire on Saturday night.\n\nStaffordshire Police and the fire service are trying to establish the cause.\n\nIn the meantime, the mayor of the West Midlands has called for it to be rebuilt \"brick by brick\".\n\nThe mayor of the West Midlands has called for the pub to be rebuilt\n\nBefore it was felled, campaigners were petitioning for the damaged building to be restored as a pub, as while the fire had gutted the property, the exterior was largely left standing.\n\nBut on Monday afternoon, shocked local residents and former customers gathered at the site to see the large pile of rubble where the pub once stood.\n\nIt is not yet clear who demolished the building, which was sold by previous owner Marston's to a private buyer in March.\n\nThe property was built in 1765 as a farmhouse but, due to mining in the area during the early 19th Century, one side of the building began to sink, causing its distinct, sloping appearance.\n\nMayor Andy Street said he had asked South Staffordshire Council to ensure the pub was rebuilt \"and any attempt to change its use blocked\".\n\n\"We will not let the Crooked House be consigned to history,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe that great pubs have immense cultural and historical value here in the West Midlands and we should be taking steps to protect and preserve their heritage.\"\n\nFlowers and sympathy cards have been left at the scene\n\nMr Street's letter to council leader Roger Lees, was also signed by West Midlands night-time economy adviser Alex Claridge.\n\n\"Whilst we do not yet know the cause of the fire or the outcome of any investigation being conducted by Staffordshire Police or Staffordshire Fire and Rescue, it is clear that we should not allow such a tragic act to be the end of The Crooked House,\" the correspondence said.\n\nFormer Labour MP for Dudley North, Lord Ian Austin, an independent peer, called the destruction of the landmark a tragedy.\n\n\"Set on fire and now demolished,\" he wrote on social media. \"Very interested to see what happens to the site now.\"\n\nHe had earlier highlighted how lanes leading up to the pub were found blocked on Saturday, hampering efforts of firefighters to reach the flames.\n\nStation commander Liam Hilton of Staffordshire Fire Service said on Monday \"[there were] mounds of mud and soil placed in the centre of the road and covering the whole of [it]\".\n\nWhat remained of the building had been deemed unsafe, the fire service said.\n\nA second letter from Mr Street and Mr Claridge has been sent to Staffordshire Police's chief constable Chris Noble and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue chief fire officer Rob Barber.\n\nIt repeated Mr Street's concerns of Monday, stating \"clearly there are major questions to be answered\" as to what had happened on Saturday, and also raised the issue of dirt mounds hampering firefighters' efforts.\n\nOn Sunday, the exterior of the building was left standing, but within 24 hours, it was reduced to rubble\n\nThe property was a popular attraction for decades after Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries bought it and converted it into a pub in the 1940s.\n\nVisitors flocked to see the distinctive building and witness the illusion of coins and marbles appearing to roll uphill along the bar.\n\nMarston's listed it for sale with a guide price of £675,000 - a move that was met with a petition to keep the site as a pub.\n\nThe new owners would be spoken to as part of inquiries, police said.\n\nLord Austin said he did not understand why the owners were yet to identify themselves, adding the information would become public eventually via the Land Registry.\n\nThere are calls to rebuild the site brick by brick\n\nMarston's said it was \"shocked and disappointed\" to learn about the fire.\n\nA spokesperson explained: \"We know the significance that the building has within the local community and we are working alongside our colleagues in the police to investigate what happened.\"\n\nDet Insp Richard Dancey, of Staffordshire Police, said on Monday: \"This incident has caused a great deal of speculation locally and we understand the significance of the building within the local community.\"\n\nThe force encouraged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Nationwide programme spent an afternoon inside The Crooked House in 1974\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Anyone who spots the pelican has been asked to contact the zoo\n\nA pelican has gone missing from a zoo after taking to the air when it was scared by a flock of gulls.\n\nBlackpool Zoo said the 14-week-old fledgling flew on to the flamingo house on Friday afternoon after being startled by the squawking birds.\n\nIt said the pelican was then \"taken on a gust of wind\" and keepers lost sight of it at about 16:00 BST as it headed towards South Shore.\n\nA representative said anyone who spots it should contact the zoo.\n\nThey said the brown-feathered bird was about 4ft (1.2m) tall with a 5ft (1.5m) wingspan and had been \"seen in the area\" since it flew off.\n\nThey said keepers were \"following up all sightings\" and searches were \"continuing from dawn to dusk every day\".\n\n\"We remain hopeful that it will be found,\" they said.\n\nIn April, the zoo advertised for people to dress in bird costumes and scare gulls\n\nThey said pelicans were \"beautiful, docile creatures\" and there was \"no threat to the public\", but anyone who spots it should not approach it.\n\nThey added that the zoo had \"housed this magnificent species for many years\" and had the only collection that had \"successfully bred... which makes the youngster very special\".\n\n\"This is the first time we have had an incident like this, which was down to the ever-growing problems we, and the town, continue to have with seagulls,\" they said.\n\nIn April, the zoo advertised for \"seagull deterrents\", a role which would see successful applicants dressed up in bird costumes to scare away the nuisance birds.\n\nIt later said almost 200 people had applied for the roles.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Buses wait in a long line to transport participants leaving the campsite\n\nMore than 1,000 buses have begun ferrying scouts at an international event in South Korea out of a campsite due to an incoming tropical storm.\n\nHelicopters and police cars were escorting the buses from the disaster-hit jamboree.\n\nThe threat of the storm comes just days after hundreds at the camp fell ill in temperatures of 35C (95F).\n\nSouth Korea's president has cut short his holiday to help manage the fallout from the gathering.\n\nAttended by more than 40,000 young people from 155 countries, the World Scout Jamboree in Saemangeum has been marred by illness and criticism of its organisation and facilities from the start.\n\n\"This is the first time in more than 100 years of World Scout Jamborees that we have had to face such compounded challenges,\" Ahmad Alhendawi of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, said in a statement.\n\nScouts board a bus to leave the campsite in Saemangeum\n\nThe massive event had been \"very unlucky with the unprecedented heatwave\" and the incoming storm, he said.\n\nThe bus convoy began moving the scouts from Saemangeum at 09:00 local time (01:00 BST) on Tuesday to inland locations, including Seoul and its surrounding province of Gyeonggi.\n\nScout groups from the UK, Singapore and the US had left the event early - with the British group citing poor sanitation and food quality among their reasons for leaving.\n\nMost of the remaining scouts will be ferried from the camp to 128 accommodation sites across eight provinces and cities around Seoul, interior minister Lee Sang-min on Tuesday morning.\n\nHe said the government would ensure participants could be \"safe and comfortable\" at their new lodgings, which include university halls and hotels.\n\nHe vowed the Jamboree would continue and said he hoped the scouts could \"finish their schedules with a happy heart\".\n\nMore than 1,000 buses are being used to transport the scouts\n\nIn an effort to mitigate the national embarrassment surrounding the event, a South Korean lawmaker has appealed to the military to give three members of seven-strong super K-pop group BTS leave from their mandatory military service so as to entertain the stranded scouts.\n\nThe now-empty schedules of these \"precious guests\" needed filling with \"the power of Korean culture,\" Sung Il-jong wrote on his Facebook page.\n\nA closing ceremony will now be held on Saturday at the Seoul World Cup Stadium, followed by the K-pop concert, South Korea's culture ministry said on Tuesday.\n\nKorean media have described the event as \"a national disgrace,\" saying authorities had six years to prepare for a site plagued by poor drainage, rudimentary showers and toilets.\n\nGovernment organisers admitted there had been \"shortcomings\" in the area of hygiene, with the scout chief acknowledging the event had a \"bumpy start with... services and facilities\" in a LinkedIn post.\n\nSevere Tropical Storm Khanun, which has already forced evacuations and cut off power to thousands in Japan, is forecast to reach South Korea's southern Jeolla province on Thursday.\n\nOriginally classified as a typhoon, the weather system has weakened but is still bringing high winds and torrential rain to the region.\n\nHeatwaves like the one that hit the campsite become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change. Increased sea surface temperatures also mean storms are likely to be more intense and bring more extreme rainfall.\n\nThe jamboree's organisers had insisted the event would continue despite the weather forecast, but on Monday they confirmed the scouts would be evacuated and the campsite closed due to the approaching typhoon.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Covid vaccines will not be offered routinely to healthy under-65s this winter, following advice from UK immunisation experts.\n\nLast autumn, all over-50s were invited for a booster jab to protect them during the winter months.\n\nBut only the over-65s should get the option this year, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said.\n\nYounger people with health problems, along with a number of other specific groups, should remain eligible.\n\nCommittee chair Professor Wei Shen Lim said the move was about focusing on those at greatest risk of getting seriously ill: \"These persons will benefit the most from a booster vaccination.\n\n\"It is important that everyone who is eligible takes up a booster this autumn - helping to prevent them from hospitalisations and deaths arising from the virus over the winter months.\"\n\nIt had previously been announced that the age cut-off for routine eligibility of the flu jab was also to be set at 65, after that too was reduced to 50 during the pandemic.\n\nThe full list of those eligible for a Covid vaccine are:\n\nEngland's Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, said he had accepted the advice, and NHS England would soon confirm details of the rollout, which aims to be finished by December.\n\n\"I would urge anyone invited to come forward as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe other UK nations are expected to follow suit.\n• None Who can get another Covid jab this winter?", "The outcome was testament to the resilience England have built under Sarina Wiegman's management, but the European champions were also reliant on a whole load of luck in their last-16 victory over Nigeria.\n\nTwenty-four hours earlier, England supporters watched on eagerly as back-to-back champions and long-standing rivals the USA were stunned in a shootout defeat by Sweden, blowing the Women's World Cup wide open.\n\nThat result put the Lionesses right up there as one of the heavy favourites to go all the way. Therefore, few would have imagined the excruciating experience that was to come in Brisbane against a Nigeria side who had battled the odds to reach the knockout round.\n\nEngland came agonisingly close to following the USA on a plane home but clung on to their World Cup dreams by the skin of their teeth, doing what some of their rivals could not and managing to find a way - even if it did involve penalties.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\n\"A win is a win\" was the motto from England's players as they moved through the group stages with 1-0 victories over Haiti and Denmark to open proceedings.\n\nThey had underwhelmed and stumbled along, not really imposing themselves on their opponents or the competition itself.\n\nAn injury to instrumental midfielder Keira Walsh cast further doubts until England finally turned up, thrashing China 6-1 in their final match of Group D, cementing their status as Europe's best.\n\nAll of a sudden, concerns over England's slow start evaporated and instead praise was showered on Wiegman's tactical masterclass, where a rarely seen back three allowed England to express themselves in a free-flowing and highly entertaining display.\n\nLauren James was the star of the show, netting twice and assisting three goals as England's stature grew overnight in the competition.\n\nBut six days later when they made their second appearance in Brisbane, it was not the China performance that was reproduced but the one we have become accustomed to seeing in recent months.\n\nWiegman had warned her players of complacency and defender Alex Greenwood had made it clear in a media conference they would ignore any external noise.\n\nNigeria, aiming to become the first African team to win a knockout match at the Women's World Cup, were certainly no easy opponents.\n\nThe nine-time African champions had beaten co-hosts Australia and finished above Olympic gold medallists Canada in the group stages. They were here for a giant-killing and almost succeeded.\n\nEngland were lacklustre and predictable, struggling to create chances and growing frustrated as each minute passed, feeling as if they were repeating the same things to no avail.\n\nThey had been there before against Haiti and Denmark, but this time it was even more noticeable given how much of a drop-off in performance it was from the one that sliced open China.\n\nBy half-time England had faced more shots (nine) than they had ever done in an opening 45 minutes under Wiegman.\n\nAfter 120 minutes, Nigeria had attempted 405 passes - their highest in this year's tournament - while England only had 12 shots, their lowest since arriving in Australia.\n\nBut nothing was more unexpected during England's struggling performance than the lack of perceived ideas from Wiegman, a coach who usually has an answer to everything but did not seem to come up with anything to counteract Nigeria's growing control on the game.\n\nFrustration was building, the drums brought by Nigeria's faithful in the stands were getting louder, and audible groans from England fans behind the goal were becoming more frequent.\n\nGeorgia Stanway's corner floated straight out for a goal kick after an hour, summing up England's performance, and then a moment of wild emotion saw James sent off. After the latest instance of her being dispossessed, the Chelsea forward snapped - standing on Michelle Alozie's back.\n\nIt was a deserved red card and it made England's job a whole lot tougher as they faced extra time a player down.\n\nHowever, it was from this moment that the real England - Wiegman's England - turned up.\n\nFaced with adversity, the odds stacked up against them given Nigeria's stranglehold on the game and a player advantage, England seemed to spark into gear and Wiegman finally found an answer.\n\nThe Dutchwoman took off striker Alessia Russo and introduced Chloe Kelly as part of a reshuffle as England returned to a back four with one up front.\n\nIt worked. Nigeria's momentum faded and England ground out half an hour of unattractive hardball to take it to a deciding shootout.\n\nStanway stepped up first and struck wide. Surely England had not just pushed through 30 minutes of extra time with 10 players to lose now?\n\nThen Nigeria missed... twice. Goalkeeper Mary Earps did not need to make a save as the rest of England's chosen penalty takers delivered.\n\n\"I don't know what my heart rate is, I just know I'm 10 years older,\" Wiegman said afterwards.\n\n\"I have never experienced so many problems, but of course that's my job to think of things that can happen. You try to turn every stone and today we got totally tested on those stones!\"\n\nThis game was perhaps the scare England needed. They got one in Euro 2022 when Spain took them to extra time having outplayed them for large periods in the quarter-final.\n\nEngland do not always make it easy and they may not be so lucky next time.\n\nBut they are three games from glory now, and as the theory goes, the best teams find a way to win, even when they don't play well.", "The ridge in Glen Coe is popular with climbers\n\nThree climbers have been found dead after failing to return from a trip into Glen Coe.\n\nPolice Scotland said the bodies of two men and a woman were discovered during a search of Aonach Eagach, a ridge popular with climbers.\n\nA spokeswoman confirmed the alarm was raised shortly after 21:05 on Saturday.\n\nAn initial search involving Inverness coastguard helicopter was made in mist and fog in difficult terrain, before the bodies were found on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice said Glencoe and RAF mountain rescue teams also assisted with the search and recovery operation.\n\nThe police spokeswoman added: \"There do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances. A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.\"\n\nThe coastguard said it was alerted at 22:50 on Saturday, and its Inverness search and rescue helicopter assisted in a search of the ridge.\n\nA spokeswoman said a coastguard helicopter from Prestwick provided further support to police and mountain rescue teams on Sunday morning.\n\nKate Forbes, SNP MSP for MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, described the deaths as \"horrendous news\".\n\nShe said: \"My thoughts are with the families. My sincere appreciation to mountain rescue, as always, and the emergency services.\"\n\nAngus MacDonald, a local Highland councillor who grew up in the Clachaig Inn below the ridge, said: \"This is a tragedy for those who died and their families.\n\n\"I know everyone in the area will feel for them.\"\n\nThe high, narrow, exposed ridge runs almost the length of Glen Coe and links two summits - 953m (3,127ft) Meall Dearg and 967m (3,172ft) Sgòrr nam Fiannaidh.\n\nIts name means \"notched ridge\", a reference to its jagged, rocky terrain.\n\nTraversing - crossing - Aonach Eagach involves about six miles (9km) and can take up to nine hours to complete, according to mountaineering guides.\n\nMuch of the route involves scrambling - a mountaineering term meaning climbers using their hands to help keep their balance on steep, difficult terrain.\n\nThe ridge is popular with keen and experienced climbers and many traverse Aonach Eagach safely every year.\n\nBut it has been the site of fatalities, and recent previous deaths in the area have included a 63-year-old woman in September 2014 and a 44-year-old man in July 2016.\n\nLast September, the body of Alan Taylor, from Dundee, was found in a gully near the ridge. The 57-year-old had been missing since September 2021.\n\nDavid Whalley, a veteran mountaineer and former RAF mountain rescue team leader known in the climbing community by his nickname \"Heavy\", said conditions could change quickly on Aonach Eagach.\n\nHe told BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"It is one of the best ridges in Scotland. It's a wonderful thing and I have done it quite a few times, and done quite a few rescues on it.\n\n\"There are a few tricky bits, with greasy rocks. The weather is always changing - one minute it is clear and the next the mist is down.\n\n\"The big problem is if it all goes wrong there are very few places to get off, so you have to keep going or go back the way you came.\"\n\nMr Whalley added: \"We mustn't forget we are talking about people and grief going on in (families') lives.\"\n\n\"Mountaineering is wonderful but it is a risk sport and we all live with that when we are out in the mountains.\"\n\n\"The Glencoe is an extremely professional team with a great history,\" he said.\n\n\"They are unpaid volunteers and have to go back to work the next day, but someone has to do it and they do a wonderful job.\"", "Officers put up a tent on Great Russell Street next to the British Museum\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) after a man was stabbed close to the British Museum.\n\nThe man was stabbed in the arm at the junction of Great Russell Street and Museum Street at about 10:00 BST. He was taken to hospital by paramedics.\n\nAn eyewitness told the BBC he had seen an \"angry man\" taking out a knife \"like a machete\" and \"hitting a young man\".\n\nThe museum was evacuated but has reopened with \"raised\" security.\n\nPolice said there was \"no outstanding risk to the public\" and it was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nA Metropolitan Police cordon includes streets close to the museum, and tape was seen blocking off The Plough pub on the junction of Little Russell Street and Museum Street.\n\nPeople stand behind a police cordon at the museum\n\nThe building was evacuated of visitors who filed out of the exit\n\nThe eyewitness said: \"All the people there started to run scared.\n\n\"We started to run to the museum gate to tell the people there what was happening and to call the police.\n\n\"Everybody was telling them 'call the police, call the police, a man is stabbing a man'.\"\n\nVisitors stood outside the museum during the police response\n\nA 27-year-old American woman said she was about to enter the queue at the British Museum when she was told to leave by police because someone had been stabbed.\n\nThe visitor, from New York, was leaving a Starbucks directly across from the museum on Great Russell Street when police approached her.\n\n\"A cop directly in front of us told us we needed to leave and that the crime scene was large,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police closed the road outside the famous attraction following the attack\n\n\"I heard that someone was stabbed and the ambulance was parked inside, near the grass area, and then rushed down the street, right by me, with police following behind,\" she added.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said: \"We treated a man at the scene for an arm injury before taking him to a major trauma centre as a priority.\"\n\nA police cordon was seen around The Plough pub on Little Russell Street\n\nThe museum spokesperson added: \"The museum was closed this morning due to an incident following a member of the public being attacked nearby.\n\n\"Visitors were evacuated as a precaution, and we wish the victim a swift recovery.\"\n\nThey added the museum's security team had supported people until emergency services arrived.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nDid you witness the incident? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Members of the military attend a rally in Niamey on 6 August\n\nA senior US official has held face-to-face talks with Niger's military leaders following last month's coup.\n\nActing Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said the conversations had been \"extremely frank and at times quite difficult\".\n\nWashington has said the coup can still be ended diplomatically and President Mohamed Bazoum reinstated, but has suspended aid payments in the meantime.\n\nWest African countries are set to meet on Thursday to discuss the crisis.\n\nEcowas - a trading bloc of 15 West African states - had issued a 23:00 GMT Sunday deadline to Niger's junta leaders to stand down and restore the elected president.\n\nThe coup leaders responded to a threat of military action from the bloc by closing Niger's airspace.\n\nSpeaking to reporters from capital Niamey, Ms Nuland said that, in talks lasting more than two hours, the US had offered its help \"if there is a desire on the part of the people who are responsible for this to return to the constitutional order\".\n\n\"I would not say that we were in any way taken up on that offer,\" she said.\n\nMs Nuland said she had met the new military chief of staff, Brigadier General Moussa Salaou Barmou, but not with Niger's self-proclaimed new leader, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, or with Mr Bazoum.\n\nMr Bazoum remains in detention but has previously spoken to US officials by phone.\n\nMs Nuland said she also raised concerns over claims the coup leaders had asked Russia's Wagner mercenary group for help in maintaining control of the country.\n\n\"The people who have taken this action here understand very well the risks to their sovereignty when Wagner is invited in,\" she said.\n\nGen Tchiani, a former chief of the presidential guard to Mr Bazoum, seized power on 26 July, saying he wanted to avert \"the gradual and inevitable demise\" of Niger.\n\nThe growing instability in the region compelled former colonial power France on Monday to warn its citizens against travelling to the Sahel region, and for those still there to be cautious due to anti-France sentiment.\n\n\"It is essential to limit travel, to stay away from any gatherings and to keep themselves regularly informed of the situation,\" read a statement from the foreign ministry.\n\nThe junta in Niger on Sunday said it had information that \"a foreign power\" was preparing to attack the country, following reports that military chiefs from Ecowas had drawn up a detailed plan for use of force.\n\nEarlier, Abdel-Fatau Musah, Ecowas' commissioner for political affairs, peace and security, said that while \"all the elements\" had been worked out about an \"eventual intervention\", the body wanted \"diplomacy to work\".\n\nOver the weekend Nigeria's Senate discussed the situation in Niger after President Bola Tinubu wrote to it about the Ecowas resolutions imposing sanctions and the possible use of military force.\n\nLocal media report there was strong opposition to military intervention, especially from senators representing states near the long border the two countries share.\n\nPresident Tinubu has been especially vocal in demanding that the Niger military leave power and has threatened to use force if they do not - but he needs approval from the National Assembly for any foreign military intervention.\n\nThe coup leaders seem to be showing no sign of willingness to cede power, and on Sunday thousands of their supporters rallied defiantly at a stadium in the capital Niamey.\n\nNiger is a significant uranium producer - a fuel that is vital for nuclear power - and under Mr Bazoum was a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa's Sahel region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Niger coup: More trouble for the Sahel region?\n\nWhere is Niger? It's a vast country in West Africa, and one of the poorest countries in the world.\n\nWhy was there a coup? The military said it seized power because of insecurity and the economic situation, but there have been suggestions it came after reports the coup leader was about to be sacked.\n\nWhat next? It's feared the military may seek to switch allegiance to Russia and close French and US bases there; for their part, Niger's neighbours have threatened to use force to end the coup.\n\nAre you in the region? If it is safe to do so, email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Africa Daily podcast: What’s behind the coup in Niger?", "Callum Rycroft, 12, was \"unique, great fun and larger than life\", his mother says\n\nA man is due in court over the death of a \"beautiful happy\" boy who was hit by a car while crossing a motorway.\n\nThe mother of Callum Rycroft, from Leeds, has paid tribute following his death on the M62 near Cleckheaton at 21:50 BST on Saturday.\n\nHe and a man were walking on the road after an earlier crash, police believe.\n\nMatthew Rycroft, 36, of Leeds, will appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Tuesday charged with causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nHe has also been charged with failing to provide a specimen.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police previously said it believed Callum was trying to make his way from the central reservation to the hard shoulder when he was hit.\n\nThe fatal crash happened on the eastbound carriageway after a separate crash on the slip road to Hartshead Moor services.\n\nInvestigators said they did not believe any other vehicles were involved in the first crash.\n\nIn a statement released by West Yorkshire Police, the boy's mother said: \"Callum was a beautiful happy soul who was unique, great fun and larger than life.\n\n\"He brought light, laughter and noise into any room.\n\n\"Callum had a massive impact on everyone who met him. The house is so quiet without him here.\n\n\"We are devastated at what has happened and request that people respect our wish for privacy at this difficult time.\n\n\"We are very grateful for the support and kind comments we have received.\"\n\nAnother man, 47, from Bolton, who had previously been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, had been released on bail pending further inquiries, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A file photo of Imran Khan before his arrest in Lahore, Pakistan, March 2023.\n\nThe former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has been barred from holding public office for five years by the country's electoral authorities.\n\nThe decision was announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan three days after Mr Khan was sentenced to three years in prison for corruption.\n\nTuesday's announcement also means Mr Khan will be dismissed as an MP.\n\nHe maintains the charges are politically motivated, but the Pakistani government denies this.\n\nMarriyum Aurangzeb, Pakistan's minister of information and broadcasting, told the BBC before the announcement: \"You have to be accountable for your deeds in law. This has nothing to do with politics. A person who has been proven guilty by the court has to be arrested.\"\n\nMr Khan, 70, was elected as Pakistan's leader in 2018, but was ousted in a no-confidence vote last year after falling out with the country's powerful military.\n\nHis guilty verdict on Saturday was centred on charges he incorrectly declared details of presents from foreign dignitaries and proceeds from their alleged sale.\n\nThe gifts - reported to be worth more than 140m Pakistani rupees ($635,000; £500,000) - included Rolex watches, a ring and a pair of cufflinks.\n\nLocal media reported that Mr Khan's disqualification from running in any elections for five years was in line with that guilty ruling.\n\nUnder Pakistani laws, a convicted person cannot run for public office for a period set out by the Election Commission of Pakistan.\n\nHis legal team has challenged the guilty verdict and the case will be heard in the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday.\n\nThe former prime minister is currently being held in a prison near Islamabad.", "Megan Thee Stallion said she had been \"tormented and terrorised\"\n\nMegan Thee Stallion has said she will \"never be the same\" after being shot in the feet by fellow rap star Tory Lanez, as a judge prepares to sentence him.\n\nMegan, a triple Grammy Award winner, wrote a victim impact statement that was read in court on the first day of the sentencing hearing on Monday.\n\nShe told his trial last year that Lanez shot her in an argument while leaving a party at Kylie Jenner's home in 2020.\n\nProsecutors have asked the judge to give Lanez a 13-year jail sentence.\n\nHis lawyers argued he should just get probation and a drug treatment programme. He is expected to be sentenced later on Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, Megan's statement was read in court by Los Angeles County's deputy district attorney. \"Since I was viciously shot by the defendant, I have not experienced a single day of peace,\" it said, according to US media.\n\n\"Slowly but surely, I'm healing and coming back, but I will never be the same.\"\n\nThe star said she struggled with whether to give the statement in person, but \"simply could not bring myself to be in a room with Tory again\".\n\nTory Lanez's lawyers plan to appeal against his conviction\n\nMegan, 28, said she had been \"tormented and terrorised\", adding that she \"spiralled to a dark, angry place\" when Lanez mocked her trauma. \"His crime warrants the full weight of the law,\" she said.\n\nLanez, real name Daystar Peterson, has had seven US top 10 albums in the past seven years. Megan told the trial that Lanez opened fire after she mocked his musical talents.\n\nOther witnesses who spoke on Monday included Lanez's father, who talked emotionally about the effect on his son of the death of his mother when he was 11, and a prison chaplain, who said Lanez had been leading daily prayer groups.\n\nThe 31-year-old has been in custody since being found guilty in December of assault with a semi-automatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle; and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.\n\nThe judge said he had received more than 70 letters in support of Lanez from his family and friends, including rapper Iggy Azalea, who called for a sentence that would be \"transformative, not life-destroying\".\n\nThe shooting happened when the pair left Jenner's home with his bodyguard and her friend and assistant Kelsey Harris in an SUV in the early hours of 12 July 2020.\n\nMegan, real name Megan Pete, told the court she got into an argument with Lanez over their previous sexual relationship. The row escalated and led to the pair insulting each other's careers.\n\nShe said she demanded to be let out of the vehicle, at which point Lanez started shooting at the ground and shouted at her to \"dance\".\n\nBut Lanez has maintained his innocence, with his lawyers suggesting Ms Harris may have shot her friend after discovering the relationship because she had a \"crush\" on him and was jealous.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Harris denied that. However, on the witness stand she backtracked on previous statements that Lanez was the shooter, instead telling the trial she did not see who shot Megan.\n\nMegan initially told police she injured her feet by stepping on broken glass but later revealed she had been shot, and the dispute continued on social media and in the pair's songs.\n\nFans of the two stars - and some famous names in the hip-hop world - also took sides as they disagreed about who was telling the truth.\n\nIn Elle magazine in April, Megan called the guilty verdict \"a victory for every woman who has ever been shamed, dismissed, and blamed for a violent crime committed against them\".\n\n\"We can't control what others think, especially when the lies are juicier than the truth,\" she said.", "The taxi was hit on the B921 towards Kinglassie in Fife\n\nTwo people have been taken to hospital after a concrete slab was thrown from a pedestrian flyover and struck a moving taxi.\n\nThe slab struck the car on the B921 towards Kinglassie, Fife, at about 00:30 on Sunday.\n\nA man and a woman, both 37-years-old, were taken to Glenrothes Hospital.\n\nIn July, two vehicles were struck by wheelie bins from the same flyover. No one was injured in either incident but both cars were damaged.\n\nThe first incident was at about 01:00 on Sunday 16 July and the second happened at about 03:55 on Wednesday 19 July.\n\nPolice have urged anyone with information to contact them.\n\nInsp Kirk Donnelly from Glenrothes Police Station said: \"Two people have suffered injuries as a result of these reckless actions and there could easily have been far more serious consequences.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Amazon contains between 90 and 140 billion metric tons of carbon\n\nThe Amazon rainforest is moving towards a \"tipping point\" where trees may die off en masse, say researchers.\n\nA study suggests the world's largest rainforest is losing its ability to bounce back from damage caused by droughts, fires and deforestation.\n\nLarge swathes could become sparsely forested savannah, which is much less efficient than tropical forest at sucking carbon dioxide from the air.\n\nThe giant forest traps carbon that would otherwise add to global warming.\n\nBut previous studies have shown that parts of the Amazon are now emitting more carbon dioxide than can be absorbed.\n\n\"The trees are losing health and could be approaching a tipping point - basically, a mass loss of trees,\" said Dr Chris Boulton of the University of Exeter.\n\nThe findings, based on three decades of satellite data, show alarming trends in the \"health\" of the Amazon rainforest.\n\nThere are signs of a loss of resilience in more than 75% of the forest, with trees taking longer to recover from the effects of droughts largely driven by climate change as well as human impacts such as deforestation and fires.\n\nA vicious cycle of damage could trigger \"dieback\", the scientists said.\n\nAnd while it's not clear when that critical point might be reached, the implications for climate change, biodiversity and the local community would be \"devastating\".\n\nThe more trees cut down, the less the forest can soak up emissions\n\nOnce the process begins they predict it could be a matter of decades before a \"significant chunk\" of the Amazon is transformed into savannah - a vastly different ecosystem made up of a mixture of grassland and trees.\n\n\"The Amazon stores lots of carbon and all of that would be released into the atmosphere, which would then further contribute to increasing temperatures and have future effects on global mean temperatures,\" Dr Boulton said, adding that stopping deforestation would go some way to addressing the problem.\n\nAround a fifth of the rainforest has already been lost, compared to pre-industrial levels, they said.\n\nThe research was carried out by the University of Exeter, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Technical University of Munich.\n\n\"Deforestation and climate change are likely to be the main drivers of this decline,\" said Prof Niklas Boers of PIK and the Technical University of Munich.\n\nCommenting, Dr Bonnie Waring of the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London, said: \"These latest findings are consistent with the accumulating evidence that the twin pressures of climate change and human exploitation of tropical forests are endangering the world's largest rainforest, which is home to one out of every 10 species known to science.\"\n\nThe findings, based on satellite data from 1991 to 2016, are published in the journal Nature Climate Change.", "Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit\n\nThe justice secretary said he was considering backdating new rules which mean wrongly convicted people will no longer have prison living costs deducted from compensation.\n\nAlex Chalk said he was looking into three cases \"very carefully\" after the rule was scrapped.\n\nIt comes after Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit, was cleared.\n\nMr Chalk said his \"blood ran cold\" when he heard about what had happened.\n\n\"It's appalling to think of an injustice in that way,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nPeople who are wrongly jailed for more than 10 years can be paid up to £1m under a government compensation scheme.\n\nUnder previous rules, savings made on living costs such as food and housing while in prison could be deducted from compensation.\n\nThis rule was scrapped on Sunday, however, the government has not committed to reimbursing wrongly convicted people who have previously had the deduction applied to their compensation.\n\nMr Chalk said he was looking at three previous cases \"very carefully\"\n\n\"Certainly since 2006, there have been three cases where deductions have been made and none in the last 10 years. I am looking at it,\" said Mr Chalk.\n\n\"Although of those three cases, the reductions from their compensation reward have been 3%, 3% and 6% so it's important to get some perspective.\n\n\"There is also issues in the public interest about retrospectivity - there is normally a rule that you shouldn't make rules retrospective - but I'm considering this all in the round.\"\n\nMr Malkinson, who has always maintained his innocence, was jailed in 2004 for an attack on a woman in Salford, Greater Manchester.\n\nThe prosecution case against him was based only on identification evidence.\n\nHe was cleared last month after new DNA evidence linking another suspect to the crime emerged.\n\nCourt of Appeal judges have since called the original conviction \"unsafe\" because Greater Manchester Police did not disclose images during his trial.\n\nMr Chalk also said he would be willing to meet Mr Malkinson \"in principle\" to discuss the case.\n\nBut he added: \"There has been some talk of potential litigation so of course - as is normal - you have to consider whether you can meet in the context of litigation.\"\n\n\"If it went wrong, as appears in this case, then we absolutely have to get to the bottom of who got it wrong,\" he added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "If you're just joining us here's a reminder that the pass rate for exams in Scotland has fallen - but it remains higher than before the Covid pandemic.\n\nMore than 144,000 young people across Scotland are receiving their grades for National 4s and 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nThe proportion of pupils awarded an A, B or C at Higher has fallen from 78.9% in 2022 and 89.3% in 2020 to 77.1% this year. The pass rate was 74.8% in 2019.\n\nIt was a similar picture for National 4s and 5s and for Advanced Highers.\n\nThe pass rate for National 5 qualifications was 78.8%, which was down from 80.8% in 2022 and 85.8% in 2021 but up from 78.2% in 2019.\n\nAt Advanced Higher level, 79.8% passed. That was down from 81.3% in 2022 and 93.1% in 2020. The pass rate was 79.4% in 2019.\n\nThank you for joining us during our live coverage of Scottish results day.\n\nThis page was edited by Jamie Whitehead and Craig Hutchison, and written by Sam Hancock and Andre Rhoden-Paul.\n\nYou can read more on Scottish results day in our main story that will continue to be updated.", "Lucy Letby, 33, is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others\n\nJurors deliberating in the murder trial of nurse Lucy Letby can return majority verdicts, a judge has ruled.\n\nMs Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others at Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nThe jury has heard nine months of evidence, including claims Ms Letby deliberately injected babies with air and poisoned some with insulin.\n\nThe seven women and four men have been deliberating for 15 days.\n\nJudge Mr Justice James Goss said the new direction means they will have to agree by 10-1 on any counts that are not unanimous.\n\nA 12th juror was previously unable to continue and discharged for \"good personal reasons\".\n\nMs Letby, 33, originally from Hereford, has denied all the charges against her.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US Secretary of State warned that \"every single place that this Wagner group has gone, death, destruction and exploitation have followed\"\n\nRussia's Wagner mercenary group is \"taking advantage\" of instability in Niger, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told the BBC.\n\nThe country has been ruled by a junta following the ousting of President Mohamed Bazoum nearly two weeks ago.\n\nThere have been suggestions the coup leaders have asked for help from Wagner, which is known to be present in neighbouring Mali.\n\nMr Blinken said he did not think Russia or Wagner instigated Niger's coup.\n\nHowever the US was worried about the group \"possibly manifesting itself\" in parts of the Sahel region, he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme\n\n\"I think what happened, and what continues to happen in Niger was not instigated by Russia or by Wagner, but... they tried to take advantage of it.\n\n\"Every single place that this Wagner group has gone, death, destruction and exploitation have followed,\" said Mr Blinken.\n\n\"Insecurity has gone up, not down\".\n\nHe added that there was a \"repeat of what's happened in other countries, where they brought nothing but bad things in their wake\".\n\nBoth the US and France operate military bases in Niger as part of operations to disrupt jihadist groups operating in the wider region. Niger became the main base for French troops after they were told to leave Mali following a coup there.\n\nWagner is believed to have thousands of fighters in countries including the Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali, where it has lucrative business interests but also bolsters Russia's diplomatic and economic relations.\n\nThe group's fighters have been accused of widespread human rights abuses in several African countries.\n\nDespite this, there has been speculation Niger's army has asked Wagner for assistance as the country faces the possibility of military intervention.\n\nOn Monday, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland held what she described as \"difficult and frank\" talks with the coup leaders, whom she said understood the risks of working with the mercenaries.\n\nMr Bazoum, who is currently being detained, has also spoken of his concerns about Wagner's influence in Africa.\n\n\"With an open invitation from the coup plotters and their regional allies, the entire central Sahel region could fall to Russian influence via the Wagner Group, whose brutal terrorism has been on full display in Ukraine,\" he wrote in an opinion piece for the Washington Post published last week.\n\nIt is currently unclear if Wagner fighters have entered the country but the prominent Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel Grey Zone said on Monday that some 1,500 of its fighters had recently been sent to Africa.\n\nIt did not specify where on the continent they had allegedly been deployed.\n\nWagner's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin has urged the junta to \"give us a call\" in a voice message uploaded to Telegram on Tuesday.\n\n\"We are always on the side of the good, on the side of justice, and on the side of those who fight for their sovereignty and for the rights of their people,\" he said.\n\nNiger is a former French colony and the coup has led to a wave of anti-France and pro-Russian sentiment in the country - similar to that experienced by neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso, which have both pivoted towards Moscow since their own coups.\n\nThe two countries, which are both suspended from West African regional bloc Ecowas, sent a delegation to Niamey to reassure the coup leaders they will come to their defence against the other West African nations and their Western allies if needed.\n\n\"I would like to remind you that Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have been dealing for over 10 years with the negative... consequences of Nato's hazardous adventure in Libya,\" Mali government spokesperson Abdoulaye Maiga said during the visit.\n\n\"One thing is certain, [Mali's] President Goita and [Burkina Faso's] President Traoré have clearly said no, no and no. We will not accept military intervention in Niger. They are coming for our survival.\"\n\nMeanwhile Niger's junta has refused to receive a delegation of representatives from West African regional bloc Ecowas, the African Union and UN, which was due to arrive in the capital Niamey on Tuesday.\n\nIn a letter seen by AFP on Tuesday, the coup leaders said the group's security could not be guaranteed because of \"public anger and revolt\" over sanctions imposed by Ecowas.\n\nEcowas had given Niger's coup leaders until Sunday to stand down and restore Mr Bazoum to the presidency and are now due to meet on Thursday to decide what to do next.\n\nNiger's junta has appointed the country's former finance minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, as the country's new prime minister following the coup.\n\nMr Zeine replaces Mahamadou Ouhoumoudou, who was in Europe during the coup.", "Retailers are ramping up promotions to try to persuade shoppers to spend more after July's wet weather hit business.\n\nSales of clothing and shoes declined last month, which is usually a busy month for fashion, as shoppers held back from updating their summer wardrobes.\n\nBut a report on retail sales said there was a \"big rise\" in offers designed to persuade shoppers back.\n\nThe higher cost of living and rising interest rates are squeezing spending.\n\n\"We are starting to see a big rise in the number of promotions that retailers are putting in place in order to get shoppers through the door, as they battle to keep market share,\" said Paul Martin, UK head of retail at consultancy firm KPMG.\n\n\"Price conscious consumers are shopping more carefully, more aware of where bargains can be found and what they are getting for their money.\"\n\nAccording to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG, spending in July was dented by the damp weather, which \"did no favours\" to sales of clothing, and other seasonal goods.\n\nThe value of retail sales was 1.5% higher in July compared to a year ago, but volumes were lower once inflation, which is currently 7.9%, was taken into account.\n\n\"Both consumers and retailers are finding that they are having to get used to doing more with less as conditions remain incredibly challenging,\" Mr Martin added.\n\nIt was not just High Streets impacted last month, online sales also continued to slide, falling nearly 7% year-on-year, the report said.\n\nHowever, sales of furniture, health and beauty goods held up.\n\n\"While consumer confidence is generally improving, it remains below longer-term levels,\" said Helen Dickinson, boss of the BRC, which represents some 5,000 businesses.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - fell to 7.9% in June, which is its lowest level in more than a year but still high by historical standards.\n\nThis is due to energy bills and food prices starting to fall, official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest.\n\nThe BRC-KPMG retail statistics are not as extensive as the ONS figures. However, reports of larger-than-usual summer discounts still suggest there could be an impact on inflation when the July data is released next week.\n\nEconomists are predicting inflation to drop to 6.8% due to energy prices falling.\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the 17% fall in households' energy bills will have \"boosted disposable incomes\", adding it appeared the cost of goods was now rising less quickly than wages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Is this it for summer in the UK?\n\nLast week, the Bank of England put up interest rates for the 14th time in a row in a bid to make borrowing more expensive, dampen demand and therefore slow price rises.\n\nThis is driving up mortgage rates, something Ms Dickinson said was squeezing household budgets.\n\nEconomist Michael Hewson from CMC Markets said the slowdown in the pace of consumer spending was \"not surprising\", considering interest rate rises.\n\n\"This is what rate hikes are designed to do,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Hewson said there was a \"looming cliff edge\" as there is a lag before the effect of such rises is fully felt in the economy.\n\nHe said consumers were now saving more to mitigate a sharp rise in mortgage costs as their fixed rate deals come up for renewal.\n\nNew figures from Barclays, which monitors about half of credit and debit card spend in Britain, also suggest there has been an overall slowdown in spending.\n\nBut there were a few bright spots, with more being spent on takeaways and streaming services as people stayed indoors away from the rain.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCoverage : Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nColombia set up a Women's World Cup quarter-final against England with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Jamaica.\n\nCatalina Usme, who captained Colombia in Melbourne, curled home the decisive strike in the 51st minute.\n\nIt was the first goal Jamaica had conceded at the tournament after 321 minutes of play, but they could not find a response.\n\nThis is the first time Colombia have reached the last eight of the Women's World Cup.\n\nThey will face European champions England at Stadium Australia in Sydney on Saturday, kick-off at 11.30 BST.\n• None Women's World Cup quiz: What do you know about the past 24 hours?\n• None World Football podcast at the World Cup: Colombia and France end Jamaica and Morocco's dreams\n\nThis was the final match in Melbourne at this World Cup, and the Rectangular Stadium has claimed many traditional names of women's football as victims.\n\nOlympic champions Canada were eliminated by hosts Australia, Brazil icon Marta saw her World Cup dreams dashed, and the once unbeatable four-time world champions the United States were humbled.\n\nThis game was about the new generation, two sides re-writing their football history.\n\nBoth seemed weighed down by the opportunity early on, with a first half more about fouls than shots.\n\nThe clearest first-half chance came on 38 minutes, as Linda Caicedo shot over on the turn from six yards.\n\nBut this young, vibrant Colombia side is near impossible to contain. And, while Caicedo has made the headlines this tournament, it was another 18-year-old who set the winner in motion.\n\nAna Maria Guzman was making her first World Cup start in place of suspended full-back Manuela Vanegas.\n\nThe absence of Vanegas, who scored the winner in the victory over Germany, was the cause of much pre-match worry among Colombian media.\n\nBut they need not have worried as Guzman produced a moment of magic, a brilliant deep cross from the left which Usme brought down and buried in the far corner.\n\nColombia should have made the game safe but Caicedo was denied by Jamaica keeper Becky Spencer following a counter-attack before Leicy Santos hit the post late on.\n\nBut they saw the job through - and face the Lionesses next.\n\nWhile much attention has been placed on Colombia and Caicedo and co, Jamaica's impressive World Cup has been built on their watertight defence.\n\nOn debut in 2019, they let in 12 goals in three matches. In 2023, they went into this match as the only side yet to concede.\n\nThe first Caribbean nation to play in the knock-outs of any Fifa World Cup since Cuba in 1938 and the sole remaining Concacaf representative after the eliminations of Canada and USA, they did not allow Colombia to easily build any attacking tempo.\n\nDrew Spence drew the ire of the partisan Colombia fans, who made up the vast majority of the crowd in Melbourne, when she threw Caicedo to the ground late in the first half, the former England international getting a yellow card.\n\nBut Jamaica struggled to create, with striker Khadija Shaw - scorer of 31 goals in 30 games for Manchester City last season - feeding off scraps.\n\nTheir best chance came almost immediately after Usme's goal, Jody Brown striking the post with a close-range header. They also came close with eight minutes remaining as Spence headed narrowly wide.\n• None Offside, Jamaica. Deneisha Blackwood tries a through ball, but Atlanta Primus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Diana Ospina (Colombia) right footed shot from long range on the right is high and wide to the right.\n• None Leicy Santos (Colombia) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Catalina Usme with a cross following a corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Catalina Pérez (Colombia).\n• None Attempt missed. Drew Spence (Jamaica) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Tiffany Cameron with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Dot Slater has been told to take the shed down\n\nA woman who had a shed built near her flat for her mobility scooter has been told to take it down after complaints.\n\nDot Slater, 83, had the storage unit placed in the corner of a car park at a block of flats in Colwyn Bay, Conwy.\n\nShe said it would store her mobility scooter and that of another resident.\n\nBut now Emeritus Homes plc, which runs the block, has told her in writing that it has had complaints and she did not have advance permission, so it must go. The company has been asked to comment.\n\nThe former nurse said she had a verbal agreement from a member of site staff that she was allowed to install the 8ft x 6ft (2.43m x 1.83m) shed on her parking bay.\n\nThe company, which operates the site as an independent living facility for the over-55s, said she could have a replacement structure if plans are formally submitted and approved, according to the letter.\n\nMrs Slater, who worked at Llandudno Hospital, has three children and three grandchildren\n\nShe said: \"I was told verbally I could put the shed there but then they denied saying it and I got a letter asking me to remove it.\n\n\"I'm 83 and I need it there.\n\n\"My scooter had been under a sheet outside for 12 months before then and this shed has been up for five weeks.\n\n\"Two of us use it and it has a padlock.\"", "Home Secretary Suella Braverman says a minority of lawyers are helping illegal migrants game the system\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman has vowed to step up efforts to bring \"crooked\" immigration lawyers to justice.\n\nIt comes after reports some firms are offering to submit false asylum claims for a fee.\n\nA new taskforce, which has been carrying out preliminary work for a few months, has officially been launched.\n\nThe Home Office said it would help build stronger evidence bases to support prosecutions.\n\nBut the Law Society said the Home Office was focusing on \"a tiny minority of lawyers\" rather than the \"significant backlogs in asylum claims\".\n\nThe organisation, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, said the necessary powers were already in place to deal with immigration advisers engaged in misconduct.\n\nDavid McNeill, from the Law Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the taskforce has existed for months and the announcement \"looks like a bit of lawyer-bashing\".\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary Steve Reed said the announcement was \"too little too late\" and the \"buck stops\" with the Conservatives, accusing them of having \"sat idly by for 13 years while illegal migration has spun out of control\".\n\nThe Home Office said the Professional Enablers Taskforce, for which there is no new funding, brought together regulatory bodies, law enforcement teams and other government departments.\n\nIt said there had already been referrals to the police where criminal activity was suspected.\n\nThe department gave the example of a case where an immigration firm was linked to one of the most wanted human traffickers, which had now been referred to police.\n\nLast week the legal watchdog, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, suspended three legal firms who were caught offering to submit fake asylum claims.\n\nIt came after an investigation by the Daily Mail alleged some companies agreed to help an undercover reporter posing as an economic migrant submit a false application, using a fabricated backstory of trafficking or torture, in exchange for thousands of pounds.\n\nThose found guilty of helping people remain in the country by fraudulent means could face life imprisonment, the government says.\n\nThe maximum sentence for assisting unlawful migration is already life imprisonment under the Immigration Act 1971.\n\nLast year there were five successful criminal prosecutions of solicitors related to their professional duties, while in 2021 there were seven.\n\nThe Solicitors Regulation Authority prohibits lawyers from deceiving courts, and any act of dishonesty or lack of integrity may result in them being struck off.\n\nThe Home Office said the taskforce had also developed new training for staff who work in the immigration system to help them identify and report suspect activity.\n\nThe home secretary is chairing a roundtable meeting with the lord chancellor, Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner later to reiterate the government's focus on prosecuting lawyers who help submit false claims.\n\nMs Braverman said: \"Crooked immigration lawyers must be rooted out and brought to justice.\n\n\"While the majority of lawyers act with integrity - we know that some are lying to help illegal migrants game the system. It is not right or fair on those who play by the rules.\"\n\nThe announcement came after the first 15 migrants boarded the Bibby Stockholm barge, while 20 others refused to move from hotels to the vessel.\n\nConservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson used an expletive to say that if they did not like barges they should go back to France, the Daily Express reported.\n\nAsked about the language, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Lee has expressed himself in his own way but the central point he's making is not unreasonable.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Inside the housing barge after first asylum seekers board\n\nSome of the first group of men to board the Bibby Stockholm have described their first days on the barge.\n\nOne asylum seeker told the BBC it was like a prison and felt there was not enough room to accommodate up to 500 people onboard, as the government plans.\n\nAnother person on board praised the food and called the barge \"quite a nice place\" with small but \"clean and tidy rooms\".\n\nThe Home Office says the barge will provide better value for the taxpayer as pressure on the asylum system from small boats arrivals continues to grow.\n\nMoored in Portland Port, Dorset, it is the first barge secured under the government's plans to reduce the cost of asylum accommodation.\n\nMonday saw the first 15 asylum seekers board the Bibby Stockholm after a series of delays over safety concerns. It will house men aged 18 to 65 while they await the outcome of their asylum applications.\n\nAn Afghan asylum seeker, whom the BBC is not identifying, said: \"The sound of locks and security checks gives me the feeling of entering Alcatraz prison.\n\n\"My roommate panicked in the middle of the night and felt like he was drowning. There are people among us who have been given heavy drugs for depression by the doctor here.\"\n\nHe said he had been given a small room, and the dining hall had capacity for fewer than 150 people.\n\n\"Like a prison, it [the barge] has entrance and exit gates, and at some specific hours, we have to take a bus, and after driving a long distance, we go to a place where we can walk. We feel very bad,\" the man added.\n\nThere is 24/7 security in place on board the Bibby Stockholm and asylum seekers are issued with ID swipe cards and have to pass through airport-style security scans to get on and off.\n\nAsylum seekers are expected to take a shuttle bus to the port exit for security reasons. There is no curfew, but if they aren't back there will be a \"welfare call\".\n\nThe Home Office has said it would support their welfare by providing basic healthcare, organised activities and recreation.\n\nThe first group of men arrived on Monday. The Care4Calais charity said it was providing legal support to a further 20 asylum seekers who refused to move to Portland and are challenging the decision.\n\nOn Tuesday, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffiths, said that moving to the barge was \"not a choice\" and if people choose not to comply \"they will be taken outside of the asylum support system\".\n\n\"Many of us entered Britain nine to 11 months ago, by airplane. Some of us applied for asylum at the airport. We did not come by boat,\" the Afghan man said.\n\n\"It has been two weeks since we received a letter in which they threatened that if we do not agree to go, our aid and NHS will be cut off.\n\n\"There are people among us who take medicine. We accepted. We waited for two weeks and didn't even have time to bring clean clothes.\"\n\nTwo other asylum seekers on board the barge said the \"food is good\" and described the rooms as \"small, but nice, clean and tidy\".\n\nThe men, aged 19 and 25, said they had arrived in the UK earlier this year by plane, not on a small boat crossing the Channel.\n\nThey said they faced religious persecution in their home country, which the BBC is not identifying to protect their anonymity.\n\nThey also described a gym and a TV lounge on board.\n\n\"The food is good, much better than the hotel,\" the 25-year-old told BBC News.\n\nThe 19-year-old added there is an IT centre inside but they can only use it at allocated times.\n\n\"We have indoor games. We have a football ground, small basketball hoops and some board games - it's quite a nice place.\"\n\nHowever he said he was not happy on board because he had been removed from a religious community where he had previously been housed.\n\n\"I don't say I am happy. But it's okay because I have to be here. I was happy when I was with my people, with my community,\" he said.\n\n\"Our main purpose is to practice our religion.\"\n\nHe added he had requested not to be moved from his hotel on the south coast to the barge, but his request was refused.\n\n\"They said that you have to go to the barge. It's basically on a no-choice basis, so you have to come here.\"\n\nThe 19-year-old said he hoped to complete his studies in the UK and become a software developer. The 25-year-old said he wanted to work in international relations.\n\nThe government says it is spending £6m per day housing more than 50,000 migrants in hotels.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"This marks a further step forward in the government's work to bring forward alternative accommodation options as part of its pledge to reduce the use of expensive hotels and move to a more orderly, sustainable system which is more manageable for local communities.\"\n\n\"This is a tried-and-tested approach that mirrors that taken by our European neighbours, the Scottish government and offers better value for the British taxpayer,\" they added.\n\nThe Home Office says that by the autumn, they aim to house about 3,000 asylum seekers in places that aren't hotels - such as the barge, and former military sites Wethersfield, in Essex, and Scampton, in Lincolnshire.", "A Beyond Meat burger is prepared at COP25 in Madrid, Spain in 2019\n\nVegan food firm Beyond Meat has seen its sales plunge by almost a third as the rising cost of living squeezes shoppers.\n\nThe plant-based meat substitute maker says net revenues fell by 30.5% for the three months to the end of June, compared to a year earlier.\n\nShares of the company fell by almost 12% in extended trading in New York.\n\nLast year, it announced plans to cut almost a fifth of its workforce to save around $39m (£30.6m) of costs.\n\nOn Monday, the company said it had been affected by \"softer demand in the plant-based meat category, high inflation, rising interest rates, and ongoing concerns about the likelihood of a recession\".\n\nIt added that it now expected annual revenue of between $360m to $380m, down from earlier estimates of as much as $415m.\n\nDemand has also been hit by an increased scrutiny of the health benefits of vegan products, Beyond Meat's chief executive Ethan Brown said.\n\n\"This change in perception is not without encouragement from interest groups who have succeeded in seeding doubt and fear around the ingredients and process used to create our and other plant-based meats,\" Mr Brown added during an earnings call.\n\nFor the same three-month period Beyond Meat's net loss narrowed to $53.5m, down from $97.1m a year earlier.\n\nIn October, the company said it would cut around 200 jobs to save an estimated $39m in costs over 12 months.\n\nBeyond Meat - which makes plant-based burgers, sausages and nuggets - made its stock market debut on New York's Nasdaq exchange in May 2019.\n\nIts shares ended their first day of trading up by more than 160%, making it one of the most successful initial public offerings (IPOs) in recent years.\n\nHowever, the company now faces competition from the likes of food giants Kellogg and Tyson Foods.\n\nIt is not alone in its struggles, with other food makers seeing falling demand for meat alternatives.\n\nIn June, vegan food company Meatless Farm stopped trading and let its staff go, while sausage producer Heck recently reduced its vegan range citing lack of consumer demand.\n\nThe Vegan Society has said the cost-of-living crisis in the UK is having a \"big impact\" on people's purchasing choices, while Meatless Farm said the market for alternative meat had become crowded.\n\nBeyond Meat's shares are currently valued at around $15 each, well below its $25 IPO price.", "Two Saturdays ago, five people sat down for a family meal in a tiny Australian town.\n\nWithin a week, three would be dead, a fourth fighting for life, and the fifth under investigation for potentially poisoning her guests with wild mushrooms.\n\nBut the 48-year-old woman who cooked the lunch says she has no idea what happened, and that she loved her family and wouldn't hurt them.\n\nThe peculiar case has captured national attention, puzzled police, and left a tight-knit community reeling.\n\nThe unusual tale began when Gail and Don Patterson stopped for lunch at their daughter-in-law Erin Patterson's home in Leongatha - a two-hour drive south-east of Melbourne.\n\nWith them were the Wilkinsons - Heather, Gail's sister, and her husband Ian.\n\nAll four were much-loved members of the nearby town of Korumburra, where Ian was the local Baptist church pastor.\n\nBut it was no ordinary lunch. Hours after the meal, all four guests took themselves to the local hospital with what they first believed was severe gastro.\n\nIt quickly became clear it was something far worse, and they were transferred to a hospital in Melbourne to receive the best medical care the state had to offer.\n\nDespite that, Heather, 66, and Gail, 70, died on Friday, and Don, 70, on Saturday. Ian, 68, remains in a critical condition in hospital, awaiting a liver transplant.\n\nIan and Heather Wilkinson are among those who became sick\n\nPolice say they believe the four ate death cap mushrooms - which are highly lethal if ingested. Oddly, Erin is fine.\n\nBut beyond that, little is clear.\n\nInvestigators say they are unsure if Erin ate the same food as her guests, or even if the mushrooms were in the dish that she served.\n\nThey also pointed out that she was separated from her husband - who is the Pattersons' son - but described it as an \"amicable\" split.\n\n\"Nefarious activity\" has not yet been ruled out though.\n\n\"At this point in time, the deaths are unexplained,\" the homicide squad's Dean Thomas told reporters on Monday.\n\n\"It could be very innocent, but we just don't know.\"\n\nMs Patterson says she \"can't fathom what has happened\".\n\nCrying as she spoke to reporters outside of her home, she declined to answer questions about what meals were served to which guests or where the mushrooms had come from.\n\nBut she did profess her innocence.\n\n\"I didn't do anything; I loved them.\"\n\nAs news of the incident spread through the local area, so did horror.\n\n\"No-one would ever expect that to happen here,\" the regional mayor Nathan Hersey told the BBC.\n\n\"Who in their right mind would expect that they would lose... people who contribute and give so much... in such a way?\n\nIn a statement, the victims' families paid tribute to them as \"pillars of faith\" within the community.\n\n\"Their love, steadfast faith, and selfless service have left an indelible mark on our families, the Korumburra Baptist Church, the local community, and indeed, people around the globe,\" the statement published in the South Gippsland Sentinel Times said.\n\nBut also distraught, is Erin.\n\n\"Gail was the mum I didn't have,\" she said.\n\n\"They were some of the best people I've ever known... I'm devastated they are gone.\"\n\nIt isn't the first time the state of Victoria has been rocked by mushroom poisonings, and as foraging expands in popularity, death caps are increasingly mistaken for edible fungus.\n\nThey are found in cool, humid climates all over the world, and look far more innocent than a lot of other deadly varieties. Responsible for 90% of lethal mushroom poisoning globally, a piece the size of a coin is enough to kill an adult if eaten.\n\nIn 2020 a spate of poisonings in Victoria put eight people in hospital, one of whom died.\n\nAuthorities have again asked people not to eat wild mushrooms they have foraged.\n\n\"If you haven't purchased them from a supermarket, perhaps stay clear of them,\" said Dean Thomas, of the homicide squad.", "BBC Arabic went undercover to find out just how prevalent such abuse is\n\nA hidden world of sex abuse and exploitation by men working as \"spiritual healers\" has been uncovered by BBC Arabic.\n\nSpiritual healing, also known as \"Quranic healing\", is a popular practice in the Arab and Muslim world. It is mostly women who visit healers - believing that they can solve problems and cure illness by expelling evil spirits known as \"jinn\".\n\nTestimonies gathered by the BBC from 85 women, over a period of more than a year, named 65 so-called healers in Morocco and Sudan - two countries where such practices are particularly popular - with accusations ranging from harassment to rape.\n\nWe spent months speaking to NGOs, courts, lawyers and women, gathering and verifying stories of abuse. An undercover reporter who underwent treatment with one such healer for our investigation, was herself inappropriately touched before fleeing the scene.\n\nWarning: Readers may find some of the details below distressing.\n\nDalal (not her real name) sought treatment for depression from a spiritual healer in a town near Casablanca a few years ago, when she was in her mid-20s. She says the healer told her the depression was caused by a \"jinn lover\" who had possessed her.\n\nAt a one-to-one session he asked her to smell a scent he said was musk - but which she now believes to have been some kind of drug, because she lost consciousness.\n\nDalal, who had never had any sexual experience before, says she woke to find her underwear had been removed, and realised she had been raped. She says she began screaming at the raqi (Quranic healer), asking him what he had done to her.\n\n\"I said: 'Shame on you! Why did you do this to me?' He said: 'To make the jinn leave your body.'\"\n\nShe says she didn't tell anyone what happened, as she was so ashamed and was sure she would be blamed. When she discovered a few weeks later that she was pregnant, she was terrified.\n\nShe even thought about taking her own life.\n\nWhen she told the healer about the pregnancy, he replied that the jinn must have impregnated her. Dalal says she was so traumatised by her experience that when her baby was born, she refused to look at her, hold her, or even give her a name, and gave her up for adoption.\n\nShe told us that if her family found out what had happened to her, they would kill her.\n\nMany of the women we spoke to said they feared they themselves would be blamed if they reported their abuse, and therefore very few had told their families, let alone the police. Some said they also worried that reporting what had happened might provoke the jinn to take revenge on them.\n\nIn Sudan, a woman named Sawsan told us that when her husband left the family home to live with a second wife - as is his right under Sharia (Islamic law) - she found herself destitute, and approached a healer for help. She said she hoped he could give her some kind of medicine for her husband which would make him treat her better.\n\nBut she was not expecting his suggested treatment.\n\n\"He said he would have sex with me and use the resulting body fluids to concoct a potion I should feed to my husband.\"\n\nHis recommendation suggested he was \"fearless\", she said.\n\n\"He was confident I would not report him to the police or the courts or even my husband.\"\n\nSawsan, a woman in Sudan, said the healer suggested sex with him would help her reconcile with her husband\n\nSawsan says she left the session immediately and never returned. She did not report his behaviour.\n\nThree of the 50 women we spoke to in Sudan about exploitation or abuse named the same religious leader - Sheikh Ibrahim. One of the women, who we are not naming, said he manipulated her into having sex with him. Another, Afaf, told us she had to push him off her when he asked to have sex with her. She said she felt powerless.\n\n\"People don't accept that sheikhs say and do these things. They don't believe it. How can I find witnesses? No-one saw me in the room with him.\"\n\nSo, an undercover journalist working with our team agreed to visit Sheikh Ibrahim in a bid to collect more evidence.\n\nThe reporter, who we are calling Reem, posed as a client suffering from infertility.\n\nSheikh Ibrahim said he would say a prayer for her, and prepared a bottle of \"healing water\" - known as \"mahayya\" - for her to take home and drink.\n\nReem says he then moved to sit extremely close to her, and put his hand on her stomach. When she asked him to take his hand away, she says, he simply moved it down her body, over her clothes, to her genitals. She ran from the room.\n\n\"I was really shaken by him,\" she told us afterwards. \"He had a worrying look about him.\"\n\nShe says she felt that his manner suggested this was not the first time he had behaved in this way.\n\nThe BBC questioned Sheikh Ibrahim about what had happened to Reem. He denied that he sexually harassed or assaulted women seeking his help, and abruptly ended our interview.\n\nOne woman who is offering an alternative to those who would like spiritual healing, without the risk of exploitation, is Sheikha Fatima.\n\nBased near Khartoum, she has opened a female-only healing centre. For 30 years, this has been one of the few places where women can experience ruqyah or healing from other women.\n\nWe were given unique access to this private space. During our visit, it was intense watching women around me losing all awareness of their surroundings. Sheikha Fatima tells me how women can be vulnerable in this state, which allows other healers to take advantage of them.\n\n\"Many women told us that they believed the sheikh is extracting the devil by touching them. They thought it was part of the treatment,\" she says. \"It's shocking what you hear from these women.\"\n\nWe approached political authorities in both Morocco and Sudan with our evidence.\n\nIn Sudan, Dr Alaa Abu Zeid, head of the family and society department at the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, was initially reluctant to believe that so many women had reported experiences of abuse to us. But he did admit that the lack of regulation in spiritual healing meant that it was \"causing chaos\", and that the role was being used as \"a profession for those who have no job\".\n\nHe told the BBC that he had explored its regulation in the past, but that the country's political instability meant it was not currently a priority.\n\nIn Morocco, Minister of Islamic Affairs Ahmed Toufiq said he did not believe there was a need for any separate legislation regarding spiritual healers.\n\n\"It is hard to intervene legally in these matters. The solution lies in religious education and preaching,\" he told us.\n\nDespite all the evidence we have gathered, Moroccan and Sudanese authorities are reluctant to take action. So the burden remains on women to speak up against those hiding behind a healing profession.\n• None The playboy who got away with $242m", "You could have heard a pin drop when Sinéad O’Connor’s funeral cortege first stopped outside her former home.\n\nThen people clapped for more than a minute, many crying, rubbing each other’s backs.\n\nThousands of people walked behind the hearse, some throwing flowers, some with their heads bowed.\n\nChoruses of her iconic hit Nothing Compares 2 U could be heard all around.\n\nShortly after the vehicles passed, the applause continued with Strand Road was eight deep in parts.\n\nThe busiest area was outside O’Connor’s former home, which overlooks the seafront.\n\nOne man told the BBC she could often be seen outside her house, watching the waves from one of her pink chairs.\n\nHe says the rumour in Bray is that, in recent days, a pink chair washed up on the beach and that's the one which is now outside her former home.\n\nPeople have been bobbing along to music played from phones and speakers, singing, crying and embracing each other.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has apologised for mistakenly revealing details of all its 10,000 staff.\n\nNI's Police Federation said the breach could cause \"incalculable damage\".\n\nIn response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, the PSNI had shared names of all police and civilian personnel, where they were based and their roles.\n\nThe details were then published online, before being removed.\n\nApologising to officers, Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said the error was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"We operate in an environment, at the moment, where there is a severe threat to our colleagues from Northern Ireland-related terrorism and this is the last thing that anybody in the organisation wants to be hearing this evening.\n\n\"I owe it to all of my colleagues to investigate this thoroughly and we've initiated that.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland police have been the targets of republican paramilitaries - the latest attack was in February.\n\nThe threat to officers means they must be extremely vigilant about their security.\n\nMany, especially from nationalist communities, keep their employment secret, in some cases even from many family members.\n\nThe FoI request had asked the PSNI for a breakdown of all staff rank and grades.\n\nBut as well as releasing a table containing the number of people holding positions such as constable, the PSNI included a spreadsheet.\n\nThis contained the surnames of more than 10,000 individuals, their initials and other data.\n\nIt appears to cover everyone within the PSNI, from Chief Constable Simon Byrne down.\n\nIt does not include any private addresses.\n\nThe scale of this error is enormous.\n\nIt is probably the worst data breach in the organisation's 22-year history.\n\nThe consequences are a little more difficult to evaluate.\n\nHad this contained addresses, it would have been catastrophic in terms of assisting terrorist groups to target officers.\n\nBut the release of employee names could still expose individuals, many of whom take great care to keep who they work for a secret, even, in some cases, from friends and family.\n\nThat the information was published on a website for more than two hours will add to concerns within the workforce.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said he was \"deeply concerned\" by the data breach and that senior PSNI officers were keeping him updated.\n\nThe Police Federation of Northern Ireland, which represents officers' interests, expressed dismay and anger at the incident, calling it a \"breach of monumental proportions\".\n\nPolice officers in Northern Ireland were regularly attacked by republican paramilitary groups during the Troubles and members of the PSNI have also been targeted in gun and bomb attacks in the years following the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nIn February this year, senior PSNI officer Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was seriously injured in a shooting in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThe following month, the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nThe Police Federation has called for an urgent inquiry.\n\nIts chairman Liam Kelly said: \"Rigorous safeguards ought to have been in place to protect this valuable information which, if in the wrong hands, could do incalculable damage.\n\n\"The men and women I represent are appalled by this breach. They are shocked, dismayed and justifiably angry. Like me, they are demanding action to address this unprecedented disclosure of sensitive information.\"\n\nMr Kelly added that it was fortunate that the PSNI spreadsheet had not given home addresses, saying that would have been a \"potentially calamitous situation\".\n\nBBC News NI understands the contents of the FoI have been seen by current and former PSNI staff.\n\nIt is understood the sensitive information was published online, on the What Do They Know website, before being removed.\n\nSenior police personnel have been meeting to discuss the breach, which is being attributed to human error.\n\nOne person briefed told BBC News NI they were \"very alarmed\" by what had happened, describing it as \"a major breach\".\n\nStormont politicians will attend an emergency meeting on Thursday of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, which oversees the work of the PSNI.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Gerry Kelly confirmed the meeting, at which he said he would be \"asking why safeguards were not in place to prevent such a breach happening and how quickly measures can be put in place to ensure it won't happen again\".\n\n\"In circumstances where the level of threat is at severe after the attempted murder of DCI John Caldwell there will be huge concern among members of the PSNI and their families and the wider community at this revelation,\" Mr Kelly added.\n\nTrevor Clarke from the Democratic Unionist Party said: \"Any data breach is unacceptable but more so when it discloses personal information identifying rank-and-file officers.\n\n\"This not only jeopardises the safety of officers but will further undermine morale within the organisation at a time when staff are holding the line amid unprecedented budget cuts.\"\n\nThe Alliance Party leader and former Justice Minister Naomi Long said: \"This level of data breach is clearly of profound concern, not least to police officers, civilian staff and their families, who will be feeling incredibly vulnerable and exposed tonight and in the days ahead.\n\n\"That such sensitive information could ever have been held in a manner open to such a breach is unconscionable and will require serious investigation; however, the most urgent issue is supporting those whose security has been compromised.\"\n\nMike Nesbitt from the Ulster Unionist Party, who sits on the Policing Board, asked why there was \"no 'fail safe' mechanism to prevent this information being uploaded\".\n\nHe added that his \"thoughts are with those whose names have been released into the public domain, who had a reasonable expectation this would never happen\".\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party leader Colum Eastwood tweeted: \"The level of incompetence involved here is staggering. So dangerous.\"", "Police said a male driver was dragged from his car before it was set on fire.\n\nA mother has said her daughter now has a \"hole in her face\" after debris from a car fire struck her in Londonderry.\n\nMolly was walking near the burning car on her way to a friends house in the Galliagh area when she was injured.\n\nThe trouble in the area followed the removal of wood and other materials from a bonfire site earlier on Monday.\n\nThe 19-year-old's mother said those responsible for Molly's injury need to think of the serious consequences that their actions have had on their family.\n\n\"Her jaw is broken in two places and she had to get two plates put in her face,\" Patricia - who, like her daughter, only wanted her first name used - told BBC News NI.\n\n\"She has a hole in her face on her cheek and she needs plastic surgery - they couldn't even operate today because there was so much swelling around her face.\"\n\nThe police have said Molly was injured around the same time a man was dragged out of his car, beaten and the vehicle set alight in Galliagh.\n\nThey said buses and a delivery driver's van also came under attack and attempts were made to burn a van during the disorder.\n\nPatricia said her daughter described the car being on fire and making a sort of hissing noise before she was struck by the debris.\n\n\"Whatever it was, it must have hit her at some force because her jaw was broken in two places,\" she said.\n\nPatricia said Molly spent the night in hospital and remains there awaiting further surgery.\n\nSpeaking directly to those who caused her injury, Patricia appealed for calm and said that she does not want to to see any other family go through what they are going through.\n\nContractors removed the material from the site of the bonfire on Monday morning\n\nFor several months, young people in Galliagh have been collecting material for a bonfire on 15 August - a date when bonfires have been lit for a number of years in nationalist areas of Derry.\n\nOn Monday, Stormont's Department for Communities (DfC) said it had cleared the site due to \"public safety concerns\".\n\nThe material was being gathered close to homes on a large green space owned by the department.\n\nBins, tyres and pallets were dragged onto roads in Galliagh and set on fire throughout the evening, police said.\n\nPolice said the man was dragged from his vehicle at about 22:30 BST on Monday.\n\nHe was struck on the head before his car was set on fire.\n\nEarlier in the day, at about 16:30, a delivery driver's van was attacked by two masked men in Knockalla Park.\n\nAt about 17:50, a brick was thrown at a bus on the Upper Galliagh Road, damaging a window, while at 19:15 petrol bombs were thrown at a bus parked at a community centre in Bracken Park.\n\nAt about the same time, police said, there was an attempt by a group of young people to set fire to a van that was parked at a local playschool.\n\nBins, tyres and pallets were dragged onto roads in Galliagh and set on fire throughout the evening.\n\nShe said she was disappointed by the \"unacceptable scenes\" and appealed to those responsible \"to bring it to an end now before they cause any more damage and upset to their community\".\n\nSinn Féin councillor for Galliagh Sandra Duffy told BBC News NI that the same issues occurred in the area last year when an \"unregulated fire\" caused major safety concerns,\n\n\"An illegal fire can't be regulated, so once it's lit, the behaviour is - well, it's no man's land,\" she said. \"So we had young people assaulted, we had a young person that nearly died from falling in the fire, we had another young person who nearly died from an overdose. We couldn't get ambulances into the area because of the crowds that were here.\n\n\"All of these things just added to the issues that were already there and residents here were very afraid if this fire went ahead this year we were going to be faced with the same issues and we could be possibly facing a loss of life.\"\n\nIn 2012 the removal of material at a bonfire site in Galliagh sparked three nights of riots.\n\nThe previous year Father Michael Canny, a senior priest in Derry, condemned bonfires across the city, including in the Galliagh area, as \"a nuisance\".\n\nThis month it was announced that a controversial bonfire in the city's Bogside on 15 August could be cancelled and replaced with a music event.", "Forty years ago \"the man with the rubber face\" was caught in rural west Wales after misjudging the power of local curiosity.\n\nOperation Seal Bay in 1983 broke up an international drug smuggling ring after discovering a secret bunker.\n\nThe ringleaders were Robin Boswell, and a Danish actor, Soeren Berg-Arnbak. The Dane had been on the run for 11 years.\n\nKnown as a master of disguise, Berg-Arnbak was one of Europe's most wanted drug dealers.\n\nHis arrest followed reports from farmers and fishermen of unusual activity at the bay.\n\nIn 1983, the 35-year-old lived a millionaire lifestyle on a luxury yacht, and owned villas in Italy and Switzerland. But on the run, he relocated to Pembrokeshire.\n\nDon Evans was a detective chief inspector with Dyfed-Powys Police, and jointly led the incident room for Operation Seal Bay - the code name given to the investigation - with Det Supt Derek Davies.\n\nSpeaking 40 years later, Mr Evans said the the gang's downfall came from the inquisitive nature of the people of the Pembrokeshire coastal town of Newport.\n\n\"These villains totally underestimated the local people and how observant they were,\" he said. \"In all we took 540 statements from people living in the area.\"\n\nSoeren Berg-Arnbak was one of Europe's most wanted drug dealers\n\nSue Warner and her parents, who lived on a farm overlooking the coast near Newport, informed police of suspicious activity close to the bay, as the gang first drew attention to themselves by spending large amounts of money in a local pub.\n\n\"There were guys staying in Dinas Cross and spending an awful lot of money,\" she said.\n\n\"Paying for drinks with £50 notes and lots of partying going on. Lots of money and nice big cars - people just started to put things together.\n\nSue Warner and her family informed the police of suspicious activity close to the bay\n\n\"So, one night my dad decided to camp on the cliff top with neighbours. They found two men sleeping close to the site of where the gang were planning on keeping the drugs and then things started to unravel.\"\n\nLobster fishermen also spotted activity at the bay, and informed the Newport inshore rescue crew, fearing the people on the beach might be poachers.\n\nThe drug gang members told the boat crew they were training for an expedition to Greenland to film whales and seals. But when the crew did not believe them, they returned with Dyfed-Powys Police officers.\n\nThe police carried out a search of the bay with a farmer, who picked up a stone and threw it into the cave. It hit the ground and made a hollow sound.\n\nOfficers cleared the ground of pebbles and rocks, and discovered a hatch leading to an underground bunker.\n\nDon Evans could not believe what they had found.\n\nThe hatch leading to the underground bunker\n\n\"It had obviously taken a long time to build. It was held up with timber and totally lined with fibre glass resin,\" he said.\n\n\"It would have taken ages to dig out the sand and rock and build and they would have brought all the materials in by boat.\"\n\nAt first officers thought it could have been linked to the IRA and gun running, but months earlier a large bale of cannabis resin had washed up on the beach in Newport.\n\nTherefore, police believed it must be linked to the bunker.\n\nThe Operation Seal Bay team believed the waterproof bunker would be able to store about £7m-worth of drugs.\n\nWorking alongside Berg-Arnbak was Robin Boswell, from London, who was described as the mastermind of the drugs ring.\n\nPolice caught Boswell after a stranger matching his description was spotted by two young boys and their mother.\n\n\"Robin Boswell was arrested: a man who gave us 17 false names and addresses, he was a mystery man and clearly not up to any good,\" said retired detective Mr Evans.\n\n\"It transpired after arresting Boswell, that he wasn't going to tell us anything. But what was unique, he was wearing walking boots with specks of fibre glass resin.\n\n\"We thought that's what we needed to link him to the bunker at the cave.\"\n\nBerg-Arnbak was also arrested the next day after being spotted by police officers on patrol near Fishguard.\n\nWhen he spotted the police, he ditched his rucksack and fled across fields. He then jumped over a hedge and barbed wire fence, without realising there was a 70ft (21m) drop into a quarry on the other side.\n\nHe only survived by grabbing a protruding tree root to break his fall and was arrested at the bottom of the old quarry. This ended his 11 years on the run.\n\nPolice seized his rucksack, containing a high-powered radio which was being used as part of the huge drug smuggling operation.\n\nOn a hunch, officers then set up the radio on a cliff top that night. After hours of waiting, they finally heard a communication.\n\n\"The radio equipment came to life and the words 'Mother, mother. I want to come in to get the dirt off my hands' were heard,\" said Mr Evans.\n\n\"That communication was enough. We knew there was a vessel out in the bay wanting to come in to get rid of the drugs that were on board.\"\n\nPolice officers said they never thought Operation Seal Bay would stretch so far.\n\n\"It was a global operation. From the findings on the beach, it became a tapestry that spread from Newport, across London, across France, Spain, and Scandinavia,\" said former Det Sgt John Daniels.\n\n\"It was clear we had netted the major drugs trafficking team operating at that time.\n\n\"We didn't get to the yacht but it's like the classic case of solving a murder without a body. To prove something when you haven't got the physical evidence.\n\n\"It was a coup for the smallest police force in the country to take on the biggest drugs gang at the time.\"\n\nDon Evans said he is \"honoured and privileged\" to have been part of the drugs bust\n\nThe Operation Seal Bay team followed the money Boswell had been banking all the way to the Isle of Man.\n\n\"In December 1982, Boswell carried two suitcases into a bank on the Isle of Man and banked £757,000, all in notes,\" recalled Mr Evans.\n\n\"We asked the bank manager why didn't he think of reporting it to the authorities? His face reddened and he said, 'Mr Evans it's not unusual for people to come in carrying a shopping bag with £50,000 in cash.'\"\n\nPolice also seized cars worth £100,000 in 1983 including a Ferrari, a Range Rover, and a Rolls-Royce.\n\nBerg-Arnbak was sentenced to eight years and Boswell to 10 years in prison. Six other members of the gang were also jailed.\n\nThe trial judge commended the police and the people of Newport for bringing the gang to justice.\n\nAnd keeping a keen eye out for unusual goings on was praised by the prosecution, who said: \"These greedy schemes were brought to light because of the neighbourliness or nosiness of local people, the interest and curiosity shown by decent people.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe demolition of a landmark pub following a fire was unacceptable and possibly unlawful, a council has said.\n\nThe 18th Century Crooked House, near Dudley, once known as \"Britain's wonkiest pub\", was gutted by fire on Saturday and demolished on Monday.\n\nPotential breaches of the Town and Planning Act are being investigated, said South Staffordshire Council.\n\nThe local authority has referred the matter to its legal team with a view to taking enforcement action.\n\nThe Crooked House pub was reduced to rubble on Monday\n\nOn Tuesday evening between 200 and 250 people gathered at the site to see for themselves what had happened to the pub, with some collecting bricks to take away with them.\n\nFormer landlord Tom Catton, who ran it for two-and-a-half years with his wife Laura before they left in 2008, said he was \"absolutely gutted\" when he heard about the fire on Saturday night.\n\n\"But Sunday morning - it's not what you want to see when you're having your morning coffee,\" Mr Catton said.\n\n\"To go from a standing pub to a pile of rubble within less than 48 hours is just crazy because surely if there's a fire it needs to be investigated and looked at.\"\n\nCouncil officers visited the site on Monday and agreed a programme of works with the land-owner's representative, council leader Roger Lees said.\n\n\"At no point did the council agree the demolition of the whole structure nor was this deemed necessary,\" he added.\n\nTom and Laura Catton went to see what was left of the pub they ran for over two years on Tuesday evening\n\nMr Lees said the way the situation was managed following the fire was \"completely unacceptable and contrary to instructions provided by our officers\", adding the Health and Safety Executive had been notified.\n\nHe said the authority's investigation was at an early stage and asked for time to ensure any future actions were \"meaningful and proportionate\".\n\n\"The council is incredibly saddened by the loss of the building which, whilst not listed, was a heritage asset and important landmark to the local area and community,\" he said.\n\nFire gutted the celebrated leaning building on Saturday night, leaving just the exterior standing.\n\nStaffordshire Police and the fire service are trying to establish the cause.\n\nIt was built as a farmhouse but started to subside during the early 19th Century, due to mining in the area.\n\nLater it became a pub people often went to to witness the illusion of coins and marbles appearing to roll uphill along the bar.\n\nBut on Monday afternoon, residents and former customers gathered at the site to see a large pile of rubble where the inn once stood.\n\nA video shared on social media showed a digger knocking down the building.\n\nOver 200 people visited the site on Tuesday night to see what had happened to the pub\n\nAmong the crowds that visited the land on Tuesday evening were Emma Smith, Kerry Anne Goodman and Jack Gosnall from Kingswinford who said they felt like they had lost a family member.\n\n\"I was brought here as a child by all of my family,\" Ms Goodman said.\n\n\"I've brought my children here, but my youngest - I just lost the opportunity to bring him as they locked the doors.\n\n\"Why should people come and knock it down?\n\n\"It's like a murder more than anything else. It's like a huge loss.\"\n\nMs Smith added: \"It's a part of our history. Everybody feels the same, I think, that's why they've all come down here tonight.\"\n\nIn March, previous owner Marston's listed the building for sale with a guide price of £675,000.\n\nThe sale of the property \"as a going concern\" was completed two weeks ago, said the company.\n\nThe identity of the buyer, based in Warwickshire, has not been revealed.\n\nEmma Smith, who saw the remains on Tuesday evening with Jack Gosnall, said people wanted answers\n\nSpeculation into the cause of the fire was \"not helpful at this time\", said Staffordshire Police.\n\n\"We understand the strength of feeling in the community is high at this moment and the sadness felt amongst those who have a strong emotional attachment to this place,\" said Ch Insp Chris Cotton.\n\nOn Monday a police cordon was put in place. But due to the \"unsafe structure\" of the building, officers were told to leave the site, he said.\n\n\"Since then, the area has been in the care of the landowners and the building has since been demolished.\"\n\nThe force encouraged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nConservative MP for South Staffordshire Sir Gavin Williamson said he shared concerns and frustrations of residents regarding the demolition.\n\nHe tweeted he had called for a meeting for police, fire and council representatives to update him.\n\nRubble and debris remain at the site of the now former pub\n\nIn the meantime, the mayor of the West Midlands has called for the building to be rebuilt \"brick by brick\".\n\nAndy Street said he had asked South Staffordshire Council to ensure the pub was rebuilt \"and any attempt to change its use blocked\".\n\n\"We will not let the Crooked House be consigned to history,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe that great pubs have immense cultural and historical value here in the West Midlands and we should be taking steps to protect and preserve their heritage.\"\n\nA community gathering to mourn the loss of the pub is due to be held at the site later on Tuesday.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "New York City's Rockaway Beach will remain closed to surfers and swimmers on Tuesday\n\nNew York City closed its popular Rockaway Beach on Tuesday after a 50-year-old woman was bitten by a shark Monday evening, officials said.\n\nThe woman was swimming near Beach 59th Street when a shark bit her leg, New York City Parks officials said.\n\nLifeguards took the woman out of the water and gave her first aid before she was taken to the hospital.\n\nOfficials said she is in critical but stable condition, with a deep cut in her thigh.\n\nThe incident marks the first confirmed shark bite on Rockaway Beach in recent memory, the parks department said.\n\n\"We hope for a full recovery for this swimmer,\" the parks department said in a statement. \"Though this was a frightening event, we want to remind New Yorkers that shark bites in Rockaway are extremely rare.\"\n\nThe state of New York has seen a spate of human encounters with sharks off its Long Island beaches this summer. Experts say more sharks are swimming closer to the shore due to warming waters from climate change and a recent law in New York protecting sharks' primary food source, bunker fish.\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul has been sending more drones to local officials to scan for sharks near the shore so lifeguards can take precautions if needed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Joanna Steidle's footage reveals an underwater world hidden just out of sight.\n\nAfter the shark bite on Monday, helicopters searched the waters for sharks but did not find any, the parks department said. New York City's fire and police departments will continue to search the waters, and the beach will remain closed to both surfers and swimmers on Tuesday.\n\nExperts say shark attacks are extremely infrequent. According to the International Shark Attack File, New York state had only 8 unprovoked bites in 2022, and none proved fatal.", "Staff working in education and early years could take targeted industrial action as early as September, a union has warned.\n\nUnite members in 10 Scottish councils have voted to strike over pay when schools resume after the summer break.\n\nIt will involve thousands of workers including janitors, cleaners, caterers, classroom assistants and admin staff.\n\nCouncil body Cosla said the \"strong offer\" raised the local government living wage by 99p to £11.84 per hour.\n\nThe 10 councils affected are: Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Fife, Glasgow City, Inverclyde and Orkney.\n\nThe development follows talks with Cosla last week. No improved pay offer was put on the table.\n\nThe current 5% offer for 2023 was rejected by 84% in a consultative ballot held by Unite in May. The current rate of broader inflation (RPI) stands at 10.7%.\n\nUnite has also called for First Minister Humza Yousaf to intervene directly in the pay dispute following what it describes as a \"collapse\" in negotiations.\n\nThe trade union has repeatedly criticised Cosla for failing to approach the Scottish government to financially support a fairer pay offer for council workers, saying that both bodies are in danger of repeating the \"same mistakes\" of last summer's pay dispute.\n\nLast week, support staff in GMB Scotland also voted for strike action.\n\nThis will affect councils in Aberdeen, Clackmannanshire, Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar, Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Glasgow City, Orkney, Renfrewshire and South Ayrshire.\n\nUnison has yet to announce the results of its strike ballot to members.\n\nGraham McNab, regional officer for Unite in Scotland, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that it was awaiting the outcome of Unison's strike ballet before confirming dates.\n\n\"Along with our sister unions, It could potentially be thousands of union members taking action on this,\" he said.\n\nHe claimed that some members were forced to turn to foodbanks and universal credit.\n\nThe union is pushing for a £2,000 uplift for its lowest paid members - the same offer that was made last year.\n\n\"I don't think they are taking us seriously enough,\" he said. \"We're treated like second class citizens.\n\n\"We had a meeting last week with Cosla and I said to them it's just like groundhog day, it's going back to when they made the original offer to us.\n\n\"Nothing has changed, nothing has improved.\"\n\nMr McNab urged the Scottish government and Cosla to get back to negotiations and make an improved offer.\n\nThe union representative added: \"There's an offer been made down south to our colleagues in England and Wales by a Conservative government that puts this Scottish government to shame and that's just not right.\"\n\nA Cosla spokesman said the offer compared favourably to other sectors, responded to the cost of living crisis and would help to protect jobs and services.\n\n\"While the offer value in-year is 5.5%, the average uplift on salaries going into the next financial year is 7%,\" he said.\n\n\"Those on the Scottish local government living wage would get 9.12% and those at higher grades, where councils are experiencing severe recruitment challenges, would see 6.05%.\n\n\"It is an offer which recognises both the vital role of the people who deliver our essential services across councils every day and the value that we, as employers, place on them.\"\n\nThe spokesman added that the offer would also raise the Scottish local government living wage by 99p to £11.84 per hour and included a commitment to working towards a £15 per hour pay deal.\n\nThe Scottish government said it had provided a further £155m to support a \"meaningful pay rise for local government workers\".\n\nEducation secretary Jenny Gilruth told BBC Scotland News that the Scottish government would continue to work with Cosla to reach a \"suitable and an affordable deal for the dispute\".\n\nWhen asked if school support staff were valued, she said: \"Absolutely. In every school I've ever worked in, school janitors, classroom assistants, people who work in our office are all hugely valued and schools can't operate without them - they are absolutely pivotal to our school communities.\n\n\"It's really important that we secure a pay deal that is recognised by the trade unions and by Cosla as one that is fair and affordable.\n\n\"And of course we'd continue to support efforts in that endeavour, making sure that we can hopefully avert further strike action in our schools.\"\n\nThere is a real possibility of strikes closing schools in the new term.\n\nMembers of Unite and the GMB working in schools could strike in 14 of Scotland's 32 council areas between them.\n\nAlthough teachers would not be on strike, action involving staff like janitors could mean schools would be unable to open.\n\nThe largest council union Unison is currently balloting its members on possible action.\n\nNo strike dates have been announced and action is unlikely before September.\n\nBut this also means there is time to avoid action.\n\nLast year, action by council workers led to rubbish piling up in Edinburgh and some other towns and cities. The action was set to spread to school staff.\n\nThe Scottish government made money available to help councils fund an improved pay offer to resolve the dispute.\n\nAfter the disruption of the pandemic and the teachers strike, some parents and students will be nervous about the possibility of further school closures.\n\nThe unions will be hoping that even the prospect of disruption will lead to an improved pay offer.", "The fines imposed on illegal logging have increased since President Lula came into office\n\nThe rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon has dropped to its lowest in six years, space agency data suggests.\n\nIn July of this year, 500 sq km (193 sq miles) of rainforest were cleared in Brazil - 66% less than in July of last year, national space agency Inpe said.\n\nThe drop is a welcome boost for the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who pledged to end deforestation by 2030 when he took office in January.\n\nRainforest destruction had surged under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.\n\nThe far-right leader promoted mining in indigenous lands in the Amazon and forest clearances soared at the same time as resources to protect the forest were cut.\n\nThe Amazon rainforest is a crucial buffer in the global fight against climate change and 60% of it is located in Brazil.\n\nLula came to power promising to halt the damage done during Mr Bolsonaro's four-year term and the figures released by the satellite agency show that things are improving.\n\nInpe said that the area of forest cut down in the first seven months of 2023 was smaller than that razed in the same period in 2022.\n\nThe drop is substantial and makes for an impressive turnaround just days before an Amazon summit with leaders from countries that share the world's largest rainforest.\n\nOn Wednesday, Lula told the BBC that the meeting next week was something the whole world should watch.\n\nHe argued that all too often, promises made at global summits were not met, but he insisted that \"where there's a will, there's a way\".\n\nData released by Inpe also shows that the authorities are going after those engaging in illegal logging.\n\nThe fines imposed in the first seven months of this year have topped $400m (£315m), a rise of almost 150%.\n\nReversing the damage done in the Amazon remains challenging but the deforestation drop announced by Inpe on Thursday will send a reassuring message to the world that progress has been made in a relatively short time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate activist: The Earth tells us we have no more time", "People were seen boarding the vessel on Monday\n\nThe first small group of asylum seekers has boarded the controversial Bibby Stockholm housing barge after a series of delays over safety concerns.\n\nUp to 500 men will eventually live on the vessel in Dorset while they await the outcome of asylum applications.\n\nSome human rights groups have called the scheme \"inhumane\", but ministers insist it is safe and will save money.\n\nThe Home Office said 15 people had successfully got on to the vessel, but a group of about 20 refused to board.\n\nAsked about the refusal, the department's director for asylum accommodation Cheryl Avery said she could not go into details \"of the legal proceedings for each individual\".\n\n\"But we are continuing to bring people on board... later this week and then over the coming weeks as well,\" she added.\n\nThere has been considerable local opposition to the barge coming to Portland\n\nVideo footage showed people carrying bags being escorted on to the barge by staff in high-vis jackets and coaches were also seen arriving at Portland Port.\n\nHowever a number of asylum seekers due to be sent on to the vessel did not board following legal challenges, refugee charity Care4Calais said.\n\nSome had been expected to be transferred from a Bournemouth hotel, but a BBC reporter at the scene saw a large blue coach leave at about 12:40 BST with just one - or possibly two - passengers on board.\n\nCare4Calais chief executive Steve Smith said: \"None of the asylum seekers we are supporting have gone to the Bibby Stockholm today as legal representatives have had their transfers cancelled.\"\n\nAmong them were people who are \"disabled, who have survived torture and modern slavery and who have had traumatic experiences at sea\", he added.\n\nBibby Stockholm is the flagship of the government's latest plan to \"stop the boats\" and deter dangerous Channel crossings by migrants.\n\nHome Office minister Sarah Dines said it would provide \"basic but proper accommodation\" and would send \"a forceful message that there will be proper accommodation but not luxurious\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels has gone up by 3,000 since the end of March. Interim figures released by the Home Office show a record 50,546 were in so-called contingency accommodation at the end of June.\n\nThe 222-room, three-storey barge arrived in Portland Port three weeks ago, chartered by the government to reduce what it says is the £6m-a-day cost of placing asylum seekers in hotels.\n\nMinisters plan to increase the numbers aboard up to 500, despite safety warnings from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) which has raised concerns over narrow exits and possible overcrowding.\n\nThe Home Office says the men aged 18-65, from various countries, could spend nine months on board the barge, which it views as safe and has previously been used to accommodate homeless people and asylum seekers in Germany and the Netherlands.\n\nAt the end of July the number of asylum decision-makers employed by the Home Office was 1,729, up from 1,556 a month earlier. The backlog of cases awaiting an initial decision is at 136,779, slightly down on the previous month when it was 138,700.\n\nMs Dines also said \"all possibilities\" were being examined on tackling the migrant crisis amid reports the government is looking at flying illegal migrants to the British overseas territory Ascension Island, in the middle of the southern Atlantic.\n\nAmnesty International compared the Bibby Stockholm to \"prison hulks from the Victorian era\", saying it was an \"utterly shameful way to house people who've fled terror, conflict and persecution\".\n\nTV crews film as a coach believed to be carrying asylum seekers arrives at Portland Port\n\nFreedom from Torture, which provides therapeutic care for survivors of torture seeking protection in the UK, said the government should stop \"forcing refugees to live in unsafe and undignified accommodation\".\n\nSenior ministers hope to confirm the use of further barges in the coming months but they have struggled to find ports prepared to host them so far.\n\nA site next to London City airport and another on the River Mersey in Wirral were among those rejected.\n\nHowever, the government believes a successful scheme in Dorset will help encourage other areas to sign up.\n\nIt said there were currently about 51,000 \"destitute migrants\" in hotels across the UK, costing the taxpayer more than £6m a day.\n\nThe Home Office said its plans for alternative accommodation - including two more barges and three ex-military bases in East Sussex, Essex and Lincolnshire - offered better value.\n\nA spokesman said it had produced a factsheet to answer common questions about the Bibby Stockholm.\n\nHowever, the full costs of the barge have not been disclosed, with refugee campaign group Reclaim The Sea claiming it would cost more than hotels.\n\nThe vessel - chartered for an initial 18-month trial - includes catering, a TV room, a multi-faith prayer room and a gym.\n\nMigrants will be free to leave on hourly buses to Weymouth and Portland, although they are encouraged to return by 23:00 each night.\n\nThe Home Office said the barge occupants would undergo security screening and Dorset Police has said it does not expect any impact.\n\nDorset Council is receiving £3,500 per occupied bedspace on the barge, with additional funding provided to the local NHS and police.\n\nThe council has also received almost £380,000 in a one-off grant to help support local charity and voluntary organisations provide services, it is understood.\n\nThe Labour Party has been repeatedly pressed on whether it would continue to use the barge to house asylum seekers if it was in power.\n\nShadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said barges would continue to be used in the short term due to what he described as \"the complete and utter chaos and shambles of the Tory asylum crisis\".\n\nOn Tuesday the government is formally launching a new team tasked with tackling what Home Secretary Suella Braverman described as \"crooked immigration lawyers\", a small minority of law firms accused of encouraging illegal migrants to make false asylum claims.\n\nThe Home Office said the Professional Enablers Taskforce had begun \"preliminary work\" in recent months and featured representatives of legal regulatory bodies, law enforcement and government departments.\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said it would \"hold to account unscrupulous lawyers who aid and abet\" people making false asylum claims.\n\nSeparately, it said the Solicitors Regulation Authority had suspended three law firms last week who were offering to help with bogus claims.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary, Steve Reed, said the government was \"setting up a talking shop instead of cracking down on those who abuse our immigration system\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Amber Gibson's body was found in Caddo Glen in Hamilton days after she was last seen\n\nA man who raped a teenager five months before she was murdered by her brother has been jailed.\n\nJamie Starrs, 20, assaulted and raped Amber Gibson while she was asleep or unconscious at a property in Bothwell in June 2021.\n\nHe was found guilty at the High Court in Lanark in July, and on Tuesday he was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison.\n\nHe was also convicted of raping another teenage girl in Bothwell in May 2021.\n\nAmber, 16, was sexually assaulted and murdered in November 2021 by her brother Connor Gibson.\n\nHe was convicted last month following a separate trial at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nDet Con Ross McCaig told the jury at Starrs' trial he had taken a statement from Amber about the attack.\n\nShe said she met Starrs, who was a stranger to her, and two others before heading to Bothwell.\n\nThe court heard that Amber revealed she had been attacked while in a supported accommodation unit in Blantyre.\n\nJamie Starrs has been sentenced to ten and a half years\n\nAmber told officers: \"The reason I think I was raped was that I woke up in a bed with no clothes on my bottom half with a boy I had only met naked under the covers.\n\n\"I can't remember hugging him or kissing him at all.\"\n\nAmber identified her attacker after being shown a board of photographs by police.\n\nDet Insp Lorraine Wilson, of Lanarkshire division's rape investigation unit, said Amber's evidence was \"key in securing his conviction\".\n\nThe other victim told the court she had been attacked by Starrs while she was drunk and unable to give consent.\n\nThe court heard that Starrs attempted to pervert the course of justice by sending threatening messages on Facebook to a boy linked to the second girl.\n\nHe tried to get this boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to pressure the female into withdrawing her evidence.\n\nAs well as his prison sentence, Judge Thomas Welsh ordered Starrs to be supervised for two years on release.\n\nAt the High Court in Edinburgh the judge said: \"You have been convicted of appalling crimes against two innocent teenage girls and you have been assessed as being of very high risk of sexual violence on release.\n\n\"I am required to take into account your age and difficult upbringing - however, the crimes remain serious and grave, and I will impose an extended sentence.\"\n\nHe said he would have ordered 11 years to be served in custody but reduced this to 10-and-a-half years to take into account the time that Starrs had spent on remand.\n\nStarrs, who appeared via video link from custody, has been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.\n\nHe was also found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice and a breach of bail conditions.\n\nMichael Meehan KC, who represented Starrs, highlighted that the sentence must take into account sentencing guidelines for under-25s.\n\nThe guidelines state that people aged under 25 in Scotland should be given lesser sentences because of their emotional immaturity and the fact that that they have a greater chance of rehabilitation.\n\nMr Meehan said a report identified that Starrs showed \"cognitive and emotional immaturity\".\n\nMr Meehan also urged the judge to consider his client's adverse childhood experiences.\n\nHe told the court that Starrs was removed from parental care at the age of three and developed addiction issues from the age of nine.\n\n\"He has a traumatic background from a young age which perhaps gives some degree of explanation,\" the lawyer said.\n\nHe added that Starrs was \"vulnerable to negative influences\" and had a \"chaotic lifestyle\".\n\nThe sentencing comes a fortnight after Connor Gibson, 20, was convicted of attacking his sister Amber in Caddo Glen, Hamilton in November 2021.\n\nHe was found guilty of removing her clothes, sexually assaulting her with the intention of raping her, inflicting blunt force trauma to her head and body, and strangling her.\n\nAmber was reported missing on the evening of Friday 26 November and her body was discovered in Caddo Glen on 28 November.\n\nStephen Corrigan - who was unknown to both Amber and Connor Gibson - found her body, but rather than alert police, he inappropriately touched her and then concealed her remains.\n\nThe 45-year-old was found guilty of attempting to defeat the ends of justice and breach of the peace.\n\nThe two men will be sentenced on 4 September at the High Court in Livingston.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least seven people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, officials say.\n\nTwo missiles hit the town - the second as rescuers were searching for victims of the first.\n\nDozens of people were injured, including police officers and rescuers. Two children were among more than 30 civilians who were hurt.\n\nPokrovsk lies about 70km (43 miles) north-west of Donetsk city, which is occupied by Russian forces. Before the war it had a population of around 60,000 people.\n\nPavlo Krylenko, the head of the Donetsk region, said the first strike killed five civilians, and that an official from the emergency services was killed in the second strike. A person who works in the military also died.\n\nHe added that the buildings which were \"destroyed and damaged\" were \"high-rise buildings, private houses, administrative buildings, catering establishments [and] a hotel\".\n\n\"Russia is a terrorist state. And she must be punished for her crimes!\" he added in a post on Telegram.\n\nAccording to other Ukrainian officials, the second missile struck 40 minutes after the first, killing and wounding rescuers as they searched for survivors in the ruins of what Mr Zelensky described as an \"ordinary residential building\".\n\nHe publishing a video of a five-storey building that had its top floor destroyed.\n\nAmid scenes of general chaos and confusion it showed civilians clearing away rubble, and rescuers helping people into ambulances.\n\nA day after the strikes, Russia claimed that its forces had also hit a Ukrainian military command post in Pokrovsk. Ukraine offered no comment on Tuesday's reported strike.\n\nKateryna, a resident who who was injured in the first attack, told the Reuters news agency she was at home when the missile struck.\n\n\"The flame filled up my eyes. I fell down on the floor, on the ground. My eyes (hurt) a lot, otherwise I am ok, just the shrapnel in my neck.\"\n\nAndriy Yermak, head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, said at least two civilians were also killed when Russian guided bombs hit \"private houses\" in the Kharkiv Region on Monday evening.\n\nFive people were injured in those strikes, he said.\n\nWe were in Pokrovsk in May reporting on the thousands of people returning there to live close to the front line.\n\nThey continue to ignore warnings from local authorities to stay away because of the real risks.\n\nThe sights of rescue teams sifting through rubble are a reminder of how enduring those hazards are.\n\nIt is a town constantly on a war footing, where civilians mingle with soldiers. Our team have stayed in the Hotel Druzbha and eaten in the mafia-themed Corleone restaurant.\n\nBoth are prominent hubs in this eastern community. Both are now gutted from the impact of a Russian missile.\n\nThe attacks came a day after a Russian \"guided bomb\" hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing two people, according to Ukrainian officials.\n\nUkraine has been trying to regain territory occupied by Russia but has made modest gains since launching a counter-offensive two months ago.\n\nOn Sunday Mr Zelensky sought to justify attacks on Russian ships in the Black Sea, telling Argentine newspaper La Nacion that Ukraine \"has to find another method to end the blockade of our water\".\n\n\"If Russia continues to dominate its territory in the Black Sea and blockading, firing missiles, then Ukraine will do the same, which is a fair protection of our chances,\" he said.\n\nRussia withdrew from a deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain and warned ships in the Black Sea they could face military action, prompting Ukraine to issue a similar declaration.\n\nLast week, a Russian tanker with 11 crew members was hit by what Moscow said was a Ukrainian attack in the Black Sea. Although Ukraine did not comment publicly, a security service source told the BBC a sea drone had been used.\n\nThat followed a similar sea drone attack on a Russian naval ship near the Russian port of Novorossiysk, which is a major hub for Russian exports.\n\nNaval drones, or sea drones, are small, unmanned vessels which operate on or below the water's surface. Research by BBC Verify suggests Ukraine has carried out several attacks with sea drones.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at three key pieces of video evidence", "Firefighters worked to contain the flames in Odemira on Monday\n\nFirefighters in Portugal are battling to contain wildfires engulfing thousands of hectares amid soaring temperatures.\n\nAround 800 personnel attended a fire near the southern town of Odemira overnight on Monday, with more than 1,400 people having to evacuate.\n\nAt least nine firefighters have been injured tackling the fires.\n\nTemperatures in excess of 40C (104F) are expected to hit much of the Iberian peninsula this week.\n\nThree major fires that scorched hundreds of hectares in Spain over the weekend have been brought under control, but weather alerts remain in place across much of the country.\n\nIn Portugal, Monday saw a temperature of 46.4C (116F), the hottest of the year so far, recorded in Santarém.\n\nThe fire near Odemira began on Saturday and was driven south into the hilly interior of the Algarve, Portugal's main tourism region, by strong winds.\n\nIt has so far destroyed some 6,700 hectares (16,600 acres) of land, while a total of 19 villages, four tourist accommodations and a camping site have been evacuated.\n\nThe town's mayor, Helder Guerreiro, has said the situation is \"critical, difficult, and complex\".\n\nFormer BBC correspondent Alastair Leithead, who lives around 16km (10 miles) south of Odemira in São Teotónio, knows how dangerous and fast-moving wildfires in Portugal's countryside can be.\n\nLast year he had just an hour's notice to load up his car with some luggage and his dogs to escape a fire which burnt part of his house.\n\nWith the flames once again raging minutes from his home, he told Radio 4's World at One programme the fires sent \"everybody in this area into a real panic\" on Monday but that things had calmed \"a little\" on Tuesday \"simply because the wind has dropped.\"\n\n\"We had a very fast wind, a very hot and very dry wind, coming from the east... yesterday and that doubled the size of the fire in just a few hours,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of people were evacuated from their homes, a few of the hotels here had to send guests elsewhere and we've had since yesterday more than 800 firefighters, as well as about 280-odd vehicles.\"\n\nHe said commercial eucalyptus and pine forests in the area have been engulfed, adding: \"It's wild country, there aren't roads going through them, so when the fires get into the valleys they burn fast and hard, and when the wind... gets going, it's a very dangerous thing to deal with.\n\n\"The firefighters really can only direct it, try to push it to a place where there are not many trees and hope it naturally runs out of fuel.\"\n\nIn the centre of the country, other major fires prompted the closure of several stretches of motorway, including parts of the A1 between Lisbon and Porto.\n\nSixteen waterbombing aircraft have been deployed to support firefighting efforts across the two areas.\n\nAuthorities have declared more than 120 municipalities across Portugal at maximum risk of wildfires.\n\nIn Spain, fires near the south-western coastal cities of Cadiz and Huelva and in the northern Catalonia region scorched more than 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) in total on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThis week's heatwave will mark the third to hit the Iberian peninsula this summer.\n\nRuben del Campo of Spain's State Meteorological Agency told Reuters it was being caused by a large mass of hot, dry air from North Africa and would be \"generally more intense, more widespread and a little longer-lasting\" than the two that hit in July.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow have you been affected by the wildfires in Portugal? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sandra Bullock and Bryan Randall pictured at the Ocean's 8 premiere in 2018\n\nActress Sandra Bullock has been praised for the \"amazing\" way she cared for her long-term partner in his final years.\n\nBryan Randall died aged 57 after being diagnosed three years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).\n\nIn a statement, Randall's family said they were \"immensely grateful to the tireless doctors who navigated the landscape of this illness\".\n\nBullock was also praised for her care by her sister Gesine Bullock-Brado in a tribute she posted on Instagram.\n\n\"ALS is a cruel disease,\" she wrote, \"but there is some comfort in knowing he had the best of caretakers in my amazing sister and the band of nurses she assembled who helped her look after him in their home.\"\n\n\"I'm convinced that Bry has found the best fishing spot in heaven and is already casting his lure into rushing rivers teaming [sic] with salmon.\"\n\nRandall's death was first announced in a statement his family released to People.\n\nThe family said the photographer \"chose early to keep his journey with ALS private\", adding: \"Those of us who cared for him did our best to honour his request.\"\n\nALS is the most common form of motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nBullock was praised by her sister for the \"amazing\" way she cared for Randall in his final years\n\nThe family's statement continued: \"We are immensely grateful to the tireless doctors who navigated the landscape of this illness with us and to the astounding nurses who became our roommates, often sacrificing their own families to be with ours.\n\n\"At this time we ask for privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the impossibility of saying goodbye to Bryan.\"\n\nSandra Bullock is best-known for films such as Speed, Gravity and Miss Congeniality, and won an Oscar in 2010 for her performance in The Blind Side.\n\nAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease after a famous New York baseball player who died from it, is a progressive disease for which there is no cure.\n\nIt is caused by the death of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control the movement of muscles that we control consciously.\n\nThe disease often begins with muscle twitching and weakness in an arm or leg, trouble swallowing or slurred speech, but as it progresses it profoundly impacts on the ability to move, talk and even breathe.\n\nMost people die within two years of being diagnosed.\n\nThe exact cause of the disease is still not known. A small number of cases are inherited.", "Emergency services at the scene of the alert in Shettleston, Glasgow\n\nAbout 80 residents were evacuated and four roads closed after police discovered \"potentially hazardous substances\" in a Glasgow flat.\n\nEmergency services were called to a property on Altyre Street, Shettleston, just after 17:00 on Monday.\n\nExplosive Ordnance Disposal officers were called to the scene.\n\nEvacuated residents were taken to an emergency rest centre at Tollcross International Swimming Centre but have now been allowed to return home.\n\nAltyre Street, Dalness Street, Ard Street and Trainard Avenue were all closed while investigations were carried out but have since reopened.\n\nCh Supt Alan Waddell of Police Scotland said: \"Our enquiries into the incident are ongoing, and there will be a continued police presence in the area. We are working closely with our partners.\n\n\"I would like to thank residents and motorists for their patience whilst we dealt with this incident. There was no danger to the wider public.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said a hazmat unit and three appliances were sent to the incident.", "The big red Chinese characters appeared overnight at the start of the weekend\n\nLondon's Brick Lane, well known for its street art, has become a talking point after one of its walls was covered by slogans extolling Chinese Communist Party ideology.\n\nOnline videos showed a group of people had spray painted the big red Chinese characters on a white background overnight at the weekend.\n\nThe \"core socialist values\", composed of 12 two-character words, are some of the most common political slogans under President Xi Jinping's rule. Political propaganda in the form of red block characters on a white wall are a familiar sight in China.\n\nThe Brick Lane slogans have sparked debate online over whether they count as street art and how freedom of expression and political propaganda interact.\n\nThe wall has also become an arena for competing narratives - people swiftly added new graffiti criticising the Chinese government.\n\nSome added \"no\" in front, or posted other messages or images taking issue with the spray-painted words. One picture shows an £800 fine issued on Saturday, citing \"graffiti & flyposting\" as offences.\n\nOthers were upset that the slogans covered up older works, including a tribute to a well-known street artist who died.\n\nThe socialist slogans, first revealed by President Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao in 2012, include prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, the rule of law, patriotism, dedication, integrity and friendship.\n\nAlthough the slogans have attracted negative comment, it's not clear if the people who painted them were being serious or ironic.\n\nWang Hanzheng, one of the creators who also goes by the name Yi Que for his art works, claimed the piece \"didn't have much political meaning\".\n\nIn an Instagram photo post, Mr Wang wrote in Chinese saying the group used the political elements as a coat \"to discuss different environments\".\n\n\"In the name of freedom and democracy, it illustrates the cultural centre of the West, this is London's freedom… Decolonize the false freedom of the West with the construction of socialism, let's see what happens,\" the post reads.\n\n\"Needless to say what's the situation on the other side,\" he added.\n\nMr Wang told the BBC \"there is no question\" that the 24 characters are \"not only goals of China, but common goals for the world\".\n\nPictures of the wall immediately sparked strong reactions among Chinese speakers on social media.\n\nMany inside China, mostly those who also defend the government, argued that what had been done in Brick Lane was freedom of expression and should be protected. Some said they were proud of this kind of \"cultural export\".\n\nBut some nationalists also questioned whether it was a form of \"high-level black\", a term often used by state media and social media users to describe people who use veiled language to criticise and satirise the Communist Party regime.\n\nOutside China, the work has seen a flood of criticism.\n\n\"Obstructing freedom of speech is not a part of freedom of speech. The jargons you used cannot justify your brutal destruction of other people's art,\" a top-liked comment under Mr Wang's Instagram post reads.\n\n\"Do you dare to go to Beijing and write democracy and freedom? If you dare, the home country you love will dare to arrest you,\" another top comment wrote.\n\nMr Wang admitted the reaction had been more intense than he expected. He told the BBC he had been doxed and his parents harassed. \"More and more people are using this subject for their own purposes and displaying maliciousness, this is not my intention,\" he added.\n\nComments under his Instagram post of the work were no longer visible on Monday morning.\n\n\"This piece is not finished yet,\" wrote another creator Gino Huang on Instagram.\n\n\"Like any other graffiti, being covered and discussed will be this wall's final ending. We wish it… to turn into a part of this neighbourhood that can be seen every day when people pass it by, and to be included into a bigger narrative.\"", "Kanye West has not performed in public since sharing antisemitic posts online\n\nKanye West made a surprise appearance on stage when he joined Travis Scott at his concert in Rome.\n\nIt's Kanye's first public performance since he caused controversy by posting a series of antisemitic remarks online.\n\nFellow US rapper Travis was performing the first gig since his Utopia album - which is currently top of the album charts - was released.\n\nHe said his music had been inspired by Kanye, telling the crowd: \"There is no Travis Scott without Kanye West.\"\n\nKanye, who's legally changed his name to Ye, was dropped by brands and banned from social media in October over a string of antisemitic posts.\n\nHe had accused rapper Diddy of being controlled by Jewish people on Instagram, appearing to reference an antisemitic conspiracy theory that a secret cabal of Jewish people is trying to control governments, banks and the media.\n\nKanye then tweeted he would go \"death con 3 Oon Jewish people\", getting him banned there too.\n\nBrands like Adidas also sought to distance themselves from him - although last week they revealed they had made millions selling his Yeezy trainers.\n\nKanye has previously spoken about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and his mental health struggles.\n\nHis account was re-instated on X, formerly known as Twitter, last week - but he hasn't posted yet.\n\nTravis Scott's new album Utopia has recently topped the charts\n\nKanye's surprise appearance with Travis at the Circus Maximus stadium on Monday night marked his first on-stage performance since the controversy.\n\nThe pair performed Kanye's songs Praise God and Can't Tell Me Nothing together.\n\nIn footage shared from the concert on social media, Travis told the 60,000 fans: \"It's been a long journey before we could get here.\n\n\"There is no Utopia without Kanye West. There is no Travis Scott without Kanye West. There is no Rome without Kanye West. Make some noise for Ye.\"\n\nThe concert followed a last-minute cancellation of Travis' planned live show in front of the pyramids in Egypt.\n\nEgyptian authorities said they had safety concerns about the concert following the death of 10 fans in a crowd surge at his 2021 Astroworld gig in Houston in the United States.\n\nTravis has insisted the Egypt gig will still go ahead, promising to share a new date soon.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The number of people heading out to the shops fell for the first July in 14 years as the UK grappled with one of the wettest months on record.\n\nOverall footfall was down by 0.3% in the first drop in July since 2009, said retail analysis firm Springboard.\n\nHigh Streets were hit hardest but shopping centres and retail parks got a boost in visitor numbers.\n\nAside from the rain, the rising cost of living and rail disruption were also behind the fall, Springboard said.\n\nIt warned that shoppers could continue to stay away even if the weather picked up.\n\n\"It is inevitable that consumers' attention will now turn towards planning for Christmas spending, which may well dampen footfall further in the latter part of the summer,\" said Springboard's Diane Wehrle.\n\nShoppers have been battling with one of the wettest Julys on record, according to provisional data.\n\nMs Wehrle said High Street footfall declined in part \"due to the rain, as shoppers tend to gravitate towards either the covered environments of shopping centres or retail parks as they are easier to access by car.\"\n\nShe added that High Streets in coastal towns were especially hard hit, with footfall dropping 4.6%, as the rain kept people away from beaches.\n\nMs Wehrle said July's figures also appeared to \"demonstrate the harsh reality of the impact of interest rate rises on consumers, combined with rain and a rail overtime ban\".\n\nThe Bank of England has been raising interest rates to cool down the economy amidst record rises in consumer costs.\n\nA rise in mortgage rates has begun to \"seep into people's finances\", she added, \"putting a serious squeeze on everyone\".\n\nThe Bank is tomorrow expected to raise interest rates for the 14th time since December 2021 in an effort to squeeze spending and slow price rises.\n\nBut the wet weather appears to have benefited other sectors, including cinemas which saw a spike in sales in July.\n\nVue Box Office revenue is up 36% on the same month in 2022, and 56% on June 2023.\n\nMuch of the gain was due to the success of the Barbie and Oppenheimer films but a spokesman from the cinema chain said the \"wet weather had undoubtedly played its part\".\n\nSylvie, assistant manager at Rio, an independent cinema in Hackney, London, said: \"When it's sunny in the UK everyone wants to be outside and so the rain is good for us\", adding that Barbie and Oppenheimer contributed to a \"big\" boost in visitors.\n\nPete Terry, managing director of Disco Bowl, which owns a chain of bowling alleys across the UK, including in Nottingham and Worcester, said: \"July was an excellent month for us. This time last year we were struggling with 40-degree heat, which meant no one wanted to go bowling, but this year that's all changed and we've had a much better July than I can remember. Rain is good for business.\"\n\nMeanwhile Jon Skelding, the owner of two indoor play centres in the West Midlands called Scallywags, told the BBC that July had been their busiest month since the first site opened 19 years ago.\n\n\"Customers have said the wet weather has been driving them inside,\" he said, with some reportedly making bookings online after checking the weather forecast for the week.\n\nWith admission ranging between £2.50 and £5.25 per child, he adds that he is conscious of parents' budgets being stretched when looking for weather-proof activities.\n\n\"We are trying to keep it affordable for parents because of the cost of living and summer holidays can be expensive as well - we are trying to be mindful,\" Mr Skelding added.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Do you have any questions about interest rates? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nHere are five suggestions for rainy-day activities during the summer holidays if you are looking to keep costs down:\n\n1. Visit a museum or gallery: There are lots of brilliant, free, attractions across the UK, with many activities aimed at children. Check out the newly-renovated National Portrait Gallery in London, the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, or St Fagan's National Museum of History in Cardiff.\n\n2. Watch a movie: Instead of venturing out, why not settle into the sofa with your favourite film? Many streaming services offer free trials if you're looking for something new.\n\n3. Board game fun: Dig out old games for some traditional fun.\n\n4. Indoor work-out: On YouTube and other video platforms, there are all kinds of work-outs available for free no matter your ability.\n\n5. Go to the library: Look up your local library and pay a visit. Many host activities such as craft sessions for kids too.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Relatives of the five men held photographs of them outside a court in Belfast after the announcement of the new inquests\n\nNew inquests are to be held into the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) murders of five Catholic men in Mid-Ulster more than 30 years ago.\n\nThe move was ordered by Attorney General Dame Brenda King, who took account of \"deficiencies\" in the original investigations and inquests.\n\nSean Anderson, Thomas Armstrong, Dwayne O'Donnell, Thomas Casey and Phelim McNally died in four separate attacks.\n\nTheir families suspect soldiers were involved in the killings.\n\nIn a letter to their solicitor, the attorney general's office stated there was new information not considered at the first inquests.\n\nThat included intelligence \"as to whether state agents/bodies played a role in the deaths\" and \"wider evidence suggestive of collusion\".\n\nGavin Booth, the solicitor acting for the men's families, said the cases were linked \"through suspects, geography and ballistics\".\n\nThomas Armstrong and Dwayne O'Donnell were killed in a gun attack at a bar in Cappagh\n\nUnder the government's Troubles legacy bill which is going through Parliament, inquests linked to the conflict must reach a conclusion by May of next year.\n\nThose which have not reached that stage will be ended.\n\nMr Booth said the cases had to be listed for hearing \"urgently\" and he called for Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris to ensure the inquests can go ahead.\n\n\"We are under the pressure of the legacy bill - that bill is pending, we believe it's going to come into law,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe that all these inquests should take place and should take place before April.\n\n\"For too long these families have sought answers as to what happened.\n\n\"New evidence raises serious questions, not only about the 8th Battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment, but also the failure of the police to prosecute these individuals.\"\n\nThe UK government said its plan to end Troubles-era inquests next year would provide \"better outcomes for families\" and allow police and the judicial system could \"focus on contemporary issues\".\n\nDozens of families have good reason to fear their relatives' inquests may never be heard due to a UK government deadline.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill will end all Troubles-related inquests in May unless they have reached the point of delivering findings.\n\nBut more than 20 others have yet to be heard, including the shooting of eight IRA men by the SAS at Loughgall in 1987.\n\nThe latest cases referred by the attorney general, and several others recently, are joining a lengthy queue.\n\nThey have just seven months to be dealt with.\n\nThat is a very tall order - and one which may ultimately deprive bereaved families of a long-awaited day in court.\n\nSeventeen-year-old Mr O'Donnell, a member of the IRA, was killed at Boyle's Bar in Cappagh, County Tyrone, in 1991.\n\nMr Armstrong, who was 52, died in the same incident.\n\nMr McNally, 28, was murdered in a gun attack on the home of his brother, a Sinn Féin councillor, near Coagh, County Tyrone, in 1988.\n\nMr Casey, 57, was shot at a friend's house in Cookstown, County Tyrone, in 1990.\n\nMr Anderson, who was 32 and had served a prison sentence for IRA offences, was killed behind the wheel of his car in Pomeroy, County Tyrone, in 1991.\n\nPhelim McNally's daughter said she was robbed of her father\n\nPhelim McNally's daughter Davina Bolton said it was an important day for the families as they were finally getting closer to the truth.\n\n\"We've been waiting a long time for this - 35 years is a long time - and we just need the truth and justice,\" she said.\n\nShe said it was \"heart-breaking\" trying to explain to her children why their grandfather had died.\n\n\"They only go to a grave, that's all they know,\" she said.\n\n\"For us as a family, we were robbed of a father; our mother was robbed of a husband; our children were robbed of a grandfather.\n\n\"It's about closure for us and the truth and justice for Daddy.\"\n\nDwayne O'Donnell's sister Shauna Quinn said she did not expect to ever see anyone prosecuted in relation to her brother's death.\n\n\"However, what I'm looking [for] is that there is an acknowledgement that there was collusion - and a very high level of collusion - within the Cappagh case.\n\n\"If that's the result we get, that will satisfy us. We deserve the truth.\n\n\"Dwayne would have [turned] 50 last week. He died at 17 years of age. My mum was 39 when he passed away, her eldest child, and my daddy was 41.\n\n\"We just really all deserve the truth… all of the families that have been granted inquests today.\"", "Labour says reforms are needed to bring more criminals to justice\n\nLabour is setting up an expert commission tasked with drawing up reforms to increase the number of crimes solved.\n\nThe Charging Commission will propose ways to help police and prosecutors bring more criminals to justice.\n\nHome Office data show 2.4 million cases were dropped over evidential difficulties in the year ending March 2023.\n\nThe government said it was determined to bring all offenders to justice.\n\nBut shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the Conservative government's record on law and order was one of \"damaging decline and collapsing confidence in the criminal justice system\".\n\nMs Cooper said Labour's expert commission would help \"turn things around\" and \"deliver on our pledge to make Britain safer\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the partnership between the police and the prosecution had \"crumbled\", with each side blaming the other instead of working together.\n\n\"We've got to cut some of the excess bureaucracy the police are facing and that prosecutors are facing and properly get new partnerships in place,\" she added.\n\nLabour said the commission would be chaired by the former Victims' Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird, and include former chief constable Stephen Otter, former chief crown prosecutor Drusilla Sharpling, and West Yorkshire Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Alison Lowe, on the panel.\n\nThe party said the panel would make recommendations in key areas for improvement across the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nThe panel would seek to find ways to cut paperwork, boost digital forensics, and speed up the work of police and prosecutors.\n\nLabour said the commission will meet for the first time in September this year.\n\nThe party is concerned about the number of suspects not being identified, victims not wanting to press charges, increasing difficulties getting evidence, and the speed of cases slowing.\n\nIt pointed to recent Home Office figures showing that, in the year to March 2023, there were \"evidential difficulties\" with 2.4 million out of 5.4 million recorded crimes.\n\nLabour says this amounts to \"a decade of dereliction\" by the Tory government on crime.\n\nDame Vera said the \"woeful collapse in charging rates\" meant victims were \"giving up on the criminal justice system altogether\".\n\n\"This Commission will bring together voices from across policing and prosecutions to forensically investigate the causes of this charging crisis, and set out robust recommendations for recovery,\" Dame Vera said.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson claimed \"communities are safer\" since the Conservatives took power 13 years ago.\n\nThey said \"neighbourhood crime including burglary, robbery and theft down 51% and serious violent crime down 46%\".\n\n\"The government has also delivered more police officers than ever before in England and Wales and the home secretary has been clear she expects the police to improve public confidence by getting the basics right - catching more criminals and delivering justice for victims,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nBut they also acknowledged the criminal justice system \"needs to work better together - including the current levels of cases being investigated and converted into charges and subsequent prosecutions\".", "Some principals have received messages from concerned parents during the summer holidays\n\nA \"false information campaign\" is circulating about relationship and sex education (RSE) in Northern Ireland, the Department of Education has said.\n\nThe department has taken the highly unusual step of writing to principals during the school holidays about RSE.\n\nBBC News NI understands some principals have received a number of messages from concerned parents over the summer.\n\nSome concerns were in response to a leaflet recently circulated about changes to the RSE curriculum.\n\nThe leaflet was also seen by BBC News NI.\n\nIn June, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris laid new regulations in Parliament on RSE.\n\nThey will make it compulsory for all post-primary schools in Northern Ireland to teach pupils about access to abortion and prevention of early pregnancy.\n\nThe legislation was introduced by the Northern Ireland Secretary in June\n\nEach school in Northern Ireland is currently required by the department to develop its own RSE policy and to teach RSE.\n\nHowever what is actually taught to pupils about RSE has been a matter for each school to decide, based on their school ethos.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris's move, though, meant post-primaries would have to teach pupils about issues such as how to prevent a pregnancy, the legal right to an abortion in Northern Ireland, and how relevant services may be accessed.\n\nThe change is due to come into effect in schools from 1 January, but the department has now written to principals to clarify some matters about RSE and the new regulations.\n\n\"I appreciate that schools are currently closed for the summer, but that you may be receiving communications from a false information campaign that is circulating to parents in relation to RSE,\" the department's letter said.\n\n\"The change to legislation brought in by the secretary of state does not apply to primary schools.\n\n\"It applies only to specific elements of the RSE curriculum at post-primary.\"\n\nThe letter also said the new regulations \"make provision for, at the request of a parent, a pupil to be excused from RSE lessons\".\n\n\"In keeping with the design principles of the Northern Ireland curriculum, schools have flexibility to decide on the content of their taught RSE programme and how to deliver it,\" the letter continued.\n\nThe letter also said that the department would hold a \"full public consultation that will address specifically the secretary of state's regulations.\"\n\nThe consultation will also reflect recent reports into RSE from the Education and Training Inspectorate and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC).\n\nBoth of those reports were critical of aspects of the RSE curriculum and how it was taught in some schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe department said that it would write again to principals at the end of August to advise them when the consultation would be launched and would publish new guidance on RSE following that process.", "The UK's elections watchdog has revealed it has been the victim of a \"complex cyber-attack\" potentially affecting millions of voters.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said unspecified \"hostile actors\" had managed to gain access to copies of the electoral registers, from August 2021.\n\nHackers also broke into its emails and \"control systems\" but the attack was not discovered until October last year.\n\nThe watchdog has warned people to watch out for unauthorised use of their data.\n\nIn a public notice, the commission said hackers accessed copies of the registers it was holding for research purposes, and for conducting checks on political donors.\n\nChief executive officer Shaun McNally said the commission knew which of its systems were accessible to the hackers, but could not \"conclusively\" identify which files may have been accessed.\n\nThe watchdog said the information it held at the time of the attack included the names and addresses of people in the UK who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022.\n\nThis includes those who opted to keep their details off the open register - which is not accessible to the public but can be purchased, for example by credit reference agencies.\n\nThe data accessed also included the names - but not the addresses - of overseas voters, it added.\n\nHowever, the data of people who qualified to register anonymously - for safety or security reasons - was not accessed, the watchdog said.\n\nThe commission says it is difficult to predict exactly how many people could be affected, but it estimates the register for each year contains the details of around 40 million people.\n\nThe personal data held on the registers - name and address - did not itself present a \"high risk\" to individuals, it added, although it is possible it could be combined with other public information to \"identify and profile individuals\".\n\nIt has not said when exactly the hackers' access to its systems was stopped, but said they were secured as soon as possible after the attack was identified in October 2022.\n\nExplaining why it had not made the attack public before now, the commission said it first needed to stop the hackers' access, examine the extent of the incident and put additional security measures in place.\n\nDefending the delay, commission chair John Pullinger said: \"If you go public on a vulnerability before you have sealed it off, then you are risking more vulnerabilities.\"\n\nHe said the \"very sophisticated\" attack involved using \"software to try and get in and evade our systems\".\n\nHe added that the hackers were not able to alter or delete any information on the electoral registers themselves, which are maintained by registration officers around the country.\n\nInformation about donations and loans to political parties and registered campaigners is held in a system that is not affected by this incident, the notice added.\n\nMr McNally said he understood public concern, and would like to apologise to those affected.\n\nThe commission added that it had taken steps to secure its systems against future attacks, including by updating its login requirements, alert system and firewall policies.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office, which is responsible for data protection in the UK, said it was urgently investigating.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"This serious incident must be fully and thoroughly investigated so lessons can be learned.\"\n\nOn paper, this is about as serious as it gets.\n\nHackers interfering in elections is one of the biggest fears of the democratic world.\n\nLuckily, the commission says in this case the cyber intruders did not have an impact on any elections, or anyone's registration status.\n\nBut make no mistake - this is still a serious breach and the nature of the attack is telling.\n\nFor supporters of the UK's manual voting system, the attack will bolster the case against using e-voting in future.\n\n\"Pen and paper can't be hacked\" is often what supporters say when debates about modernisation come about.\n\nThe fact the hackers were inside the Electoral Commission systems from August 2021 indicates this was not a criminal hacking operation looking to make a quick buck through extortion.\n\nThis was a patient and skilled adversary to have been inside undetected for so long.\n\nThis operation looks like a probing one seeking out information about the UK's democratic process to search for weaknesses.\n\nThe Electoral Commission isn't saying who it was (if they know).", "Zoom, the video communications company whose name became synonymous with remote work during the pandemic, has ordered staff back to the office.\n\nThe firm said it believed a \"structured hybrid approach\" was most effective and people living within 50 miles (80km) of an office should work in person at least twice a week.\n\nIt is the latest push by a major firm to row back flexible working policies.\n\nAmazon and Disney are among the firms that have reduced remote work days.\n\nSurveys suggest that workers are still holding onto the ability to work from home to some degree.\n\nAbout 12% of workers in the US, where Zoom is headquartered, were fully remote in July, while another 29% had hybrid policies, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford University and others that has been conducted monthly since the pandemic.\n\nThat is similar to patterns recorded by the Office for National Statistics in the UK earlier this year.\n\nEarlier research by the Stanford team has found remote work is more common in English-speaking countries, and far less common in Asia and Europe.\n\nBefore the pandemic, the share of days worked from home in the US was only about 5%. Globally, workers consistently desire more flexible working arrangements than employers see as optimal.\n\nZoom at one point said staff would be able to work remotely indefinitely.\n\nThe tech firm said the new policy would be rolled out in August and September, on a staggered timeline that varied by country.\n\nIt said it would continue to \"hire the best talent, regardless of location\". At the end of January, the company employed about 8,400 people, more than half of whom were based in the US.\n\nAbout 200 people currently work for Zoom in the UK, where it just opened a new London office.\n\nZoom said that the new policy, which was first reported by Business Insider, would put the company in a \"better position to use our own technologies, continue to innovate, and support our global customers\".\n\n\"We'll continue to leverage the entire Zoom platform to keep our employees and dispersed teams connected and working efficiently,\" Zoom said.\n\nOnly about 1% of the company's workers had \"regular office presences\" in September 2022, while 75% lived remotely and the remainder had hybrid arrangements, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.\n\nBut Zoom is under mounting pressure as the expansion of remote work prompts rivals, such as Microsoft, to upgrade their video offerings.\n\nGrowth has slowed sharply since the pandemic. Earlier this year, it announced it was cutting 15% of its staff and top executives would take major pay cuts.\n\nIts shares are worth about $68 apiece today, down from more than $500 at the peak in October 2020.", "Morpheus will allow commanders to view and direct their forces on the battlefield\n\nThere are fears over jobs at a defence manufacturer in Wales after it emerged a project to develop a new military communications system has been delayed.\n\nThe £330m Morpheus programme is being designed at General Dynamics in Oakdale, in Caerphilly county.\n\nMinistry of Defence (MoD) officials admitted progress on the scheme has \"fallen short\" and was under review.\n\nLocal Labour MP Chris Evans said he was \"extremely worried\" about jobs at the valleys company.\n\nGeneral Dynamics said it is \"proud of the capability we deliver\".\n\nMorpheus was supposed to be operational by 2025, but does not have a new date.\n\nIt created 125 highly-skilled engineering jobs and secured a further 125 when the contract was awarded to the American-owned firm in April 2017.\n\nMorpheus will allow commanders to view and direct their forces on the battlefield and for their vehicles to communicate with each other. It integrates radios, apps and other systems.\n\nMr Evans is calling for reassurance from both the MoD and the company.\n\n\"I am extremely worried about the jobs,\" the shadow defence minister and MP for Islwyn said.Welsh job fears over delayed defence radio project\n\n\"I am also extremely worried about whether the MoD is going to be reticent about further contracts. If they don't award further contracts those jobs are not going to be here.\"\n\nMr Evans has submitted a series of written questions in Parliament to defence ministers, but has been told that the information is commercially sensitive and that it would be inappropriate to comment.\n\n\"I have spoken to the company, they told me there were problems and that they were dealing with them,\" he said.\n\n\"Yes it is commercially sensitive, but for those workers there - very motivated workers - to be labelled as failing to meet targets it is a real concern for them as well.\"\n\nIt's a company that many would not have heard of which employs hundreds in the kind of highly skilled roles vital to its base in the south Wales valleys.\n\nBut General Dynamics has been in the headlines lately for the wrong reasons after its multi-million defence equipment projects for the UK government hit delays.\n\nGDUK employs 900 people across its sites in Merthyr Tydfil and Oakdale, and a further 200 at Hastings.\n\nIts history dates back decades to the merger of two firms in North America that made submarines - Electric Boat - and military aircraft - Canadair.\n\nThe American company bought the firm that became its UK subsidiary, a company called Computing Devices which made electronic systems for fighter jets, in the 1990s.\n\nIt opened its huge Oakdale site by the early 2000s, having been awarded a £1.9 billion contract for Bowman - an Army radio system and the predecessor to the Morpheus project.\n\nIts most controversial project came later, in 2010, when it was commissioned to build a new generation of armoured vehicles.\n\nThe vehicles, assembled in Merthyr, were meant to be first delivered by 2017 but it was hit with serious noise and vibration issues. More than 300 soldiers had to to assessed for hearing loss.\n\nIt has been beset by delays, and is now due to deliver 589 vehicles by 2029.\n\nA review of the troubled £5.5bn armoured vehicle programme highlighted \"systemic, cultural and institutional problems\" at the Ministry of Defence.\n\nMr Evans said he was worried about the implications for the armed forces at a time of increased global threat, especially since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"My concern about this is that our equipment is ageing,\" he said.\n\n\"Most importantly is the soldier on the ground getting what they need to stay protected? The last thing we want is for our soldiers to have out of date equipment.\"\n\nThe delay means the armed forces' existing Bowman system - which is also a product of the Oakdale site - will have to continue in operation.\n\nThe Ajax vehicle programme was previously at serious risk.\n\nAlthough the Morpheus project is struggling, there could be hope from another General Dynamics project in Merthyr Tydfil, which at one point was at serious risk.\n\nThe Ajax armoured vehicle programme struggled for years after soldiers were injured by noise and vibration problems during testing, and at one stage there was intense speculation that it might be scrapped.\n\nBut despite lengthy delays and several critical reports from MPs and the National Audit Office, Ajax is now back on track.\n\nIn a statement a MoD spokesperson said: \"As ministers have made clear, we remain committed to the Morpheus project.\n\n\"While we continue to meet all operational requirements, progress on the Morpheus project has fallen short and we are reviewing next steps on how to best achieve our objectives.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for General Dynamics UK (GDUK) said it is \"working collaboratively with the MoD on the continued support and delivery of the highly regarded Bowman capability, the system Morpheus will supersede\".\n\n\"The first phase of Morpheus is underway, where we are delivering the foundations for the subsequent phase which the MoD is expected to complete (the details of which are yet to be published).\n\n\"We are proud of the capability we deliver and the significant advantage it will give to the British Army.\"", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland forward Lauren James has apologised for her red card during the Women's World Cup last-16 win over Nigeria and says she will learn from the experience.\n\nShe was sent off following a VAR review for stamping on Michelle Alozie's back in a tie England won on penalties.\n\nJames will be suspended for Saturday's quarter-final against Colombia.\n\n\"All my love and respect to you. I am sorry for what happened,\" she said on social media to Alozie.\n\n\"Also, for our England fans and my team-mates, playing with and for you is my greatest honour and I promise to learn from my experience.\"\n\nThe 21-year-old was one of the stars of England's group games, with three goals and three assists.\n\nEngland also released a statement: \"Lauren is really sorry for her actions which led to the red card and is full of remorse. It is wholly out of character for her. \"\n\nFifa has not put a time frame on when a decision will be made but could extend her ban to more than one game - which could see her miss the rest of the tournament even if England go all the way.\n\nEngland added: \"We will be supporting Lauren throughout and will be putting forward representation on her behalf.\n\n\"We fully respect Fifa's disciplinary process and will not be making any further comment until after any decision has been made.\"\n• None 'England's bond will be even stronger now' - Ellen White column\n• None All the latest news from the Women's World Cup\n\nNigeria's Alozie, who plays for Houston Dash in the US, had posted: \"We are playing on the world's stage.\n\n\"This game is one of passion, insurmountable emotions, and moments. All respect for Lauren James.\"\n\nAfter the game, England boss Sarina Wiegman said: \"She is inexperienced on this stage and in a split-second lost her emotions. It isn't something she did on purpose. She apologised and felt really bad.\n\n\"She would never want to hurt someone. She is the sweetest person I know.\"", "The case between Donna Traynor and the BBC in Northern Ireland and its director Adam Smyth was settled in June with no admission of liability\n\nThe BBC has paid a legal bill of more than £450,000 in high-profile disputes with two former employees.\n\nThe corporation disclosed the figures following a freedom of information request from the Belfast Telegraph.\n\nBoth cases, involving Donna Traynor and Lena Ferguson, were settled without any admission of liability.\n\nBBC NI said that the legal expenditure was \"only incurred to the extent that is necessary and after careful consideration\".\n\nThe employment tribunal case between Ms Traynor and the BBC in Northern Ireland and its director Adam Smyth was settled in June with no admission of liability.\n\nMs Traynor, a former BBC Newsline presenter, had claimed she was discriminated against on the basis of age, sex and disability.\n\nIn an agreed joint statement following the settlement, Ms Traynor acknowledged \"the BBC and Adam Smyth continue to refute strongly all the allegations made against them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Smyth was asked to comment on the Donna Traynor case after it had been settled\n\nLater in June, Ms Ferguson, who had sued the BBC over alleged bullying, also settled her case.\n\nMs Ferguson was an experienced journalist who had worked on the Spotlight programme for BBC Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC paid Ms Ferguson's legal costs as part of agreed terms, which involved no admission of liability.\n\nThe financial terms of the settlements in both cases were undisclosed.\n\nThe Belfast Telegraph subsequently submitted a freedom of information (FoI) request to BBC Northern Ireland asking for the BBC's legal costs in both cases.\n\nIn response, the BBC provided \"the fees incurred on legal advice and counsel fees which have been invoiced to and paid by the BBC to date\" for both Ms Traynor's and Ms Ferguson's cases.\n\nThe figures also included \"amounts which have been invoiced but not yet verified and paid,\" according to the BBC response, and do not include VAT.\n\nIn Ms Traynor's case, the BBC said the total legal costs it incurred in respect of claims in both the Industrial Tribunal and High Court were £256,231.\n\nThose costs were incurred between April 2020 and the date of the Belfast Telegraph's FoI request on 16 June 2023.\n\nIn Ms Ferguson's case, the BBC said that the legal costs it had incurred since April 2020 to the date of the FoI request were £207,884.\n\nThat meant the BBC's total legal bill to date for the two cases came to £464,115.\n\nIn a statement, a BBC spokesperson said that the corporation was \"committed to resolving employee relations issues without external legal support, whenever that is possible\".\n\n\"When legal actions are initiated by others against the BBC or important considerations of law are engaged, we may decide to draw on external legal advice and representation to ensure that the BBC's position is properly protected,\" they added.\n\n\"Such expenditure is only incurred to the extent that is necessary and after careful consideration.\n\n\"It may also, in a local context, reflect the requirements of Northern Irish law and the absence of in-house legal expertise in this area.\"", "Border Patrol agents found seven spider monkeys in a backpack when they detained a man trying to smuggle the animals into the US from Mexico.\n\nAt least six spider monkey species living in Central and South America are considered endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.\n\nThe monkeys were handed over to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.", "A weight-loss drug has been proven to also reduce the risk of a stroke or heart attack, according to a new trial.\n\nThe makers of Wegovy, Novo Nordisk, say its latest study shows it cuts risk of a cardiovascular event in overweight people with heart disease by a fifth.\n\nThe firm hailed it a \"landmark trial\", saying it would change the way obesity is regarded and treated.\n\nWhile the findings still have to be fully reviewed, experts agreed the results were potentially significant.\n\nThe injection is popular in places like the US, and was approved for weight loss in the NHS in England in June.\n\nThe drug would need to be passed by regulators again before it could be prescribed in a new capacity.\n\nNovo Nordisk executive vice-president Martin Holst Lange said the injection had a clear medical benefit, as well as being able to help people lose weight.\n\n\"People living with obesity have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but to date there are no approved weight management medications proven to deliver effective weight management while also reducing the risk of heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death.\"\n\nWegovy is a weight-loss injection that is taken once a week.\n\nIt tricks people into thinking they're already full, so they end up eating less and losing weight.\n\nWegovy was approved for NHS use after research suggested users could shed more than 10% of their body weight.\n\nBut in trials, users often put weight back on after stopping treatment.\n\nThis new study, which looked at more than 17,600 adults aged 45 and older, took place over a five-year period.\n\nEach patient had a body mass index of 27 or over and established cardiovascular disease, with no history of diabetes.\n\nThe trial found that patients given a 2.4mg once-weekly dose of Wegovy, plus standard care for the prevention of heart attacks or strokes, saw their risk of a heart attack or a stroke reduce by 20% compared with those given a placebo drug.\n\nThe full details of the trial won't be released until later this year, making it difficult to fully assess the claims being made.\n\nBut Prof Stephen O'Rahilly, from the University of Cambridge, said the long-awaited results \"do not disappoint\".\n\n\"The obvious conclusion of these findings is that we should view obesity as a medical condition, like high blood pressure, where effective and safe drug therapy can contribute to reducing serious adverse health outcomes.\"\n\nDr Simon Cork, senior lecturer in physiology at Anglia Ruskin University, said the results offer hope when it comes to dealing with a growing and costly public health problem.\n\n\"Obesity and its associated health impacts cost the NHS over £6bn per year,\" he said.\n\n\"Effective and long-term support with losing weight with Wegovy, the results of which are unattainable for most people living with obesity to achieve through diet and exercise alone, results in significant improvements in health outcomes.\n\n\"This will not only provide significant financial savings for health bodies but provide people with a greater quality of life.\"\n\nNovo Nordisk says it plans to take its new research to regulators in the US and the European Union before the end of the year.\n\nIt would also need to be approved by regulators in the UK, and then experts would decide whether it is something that should be offered on the NHS beyond its current use.", "The Porta Nuova business district seen from the terrace of Duomo Cathedral in Milan\n\nItaly has passed a one-off 40% tax on the profits banks earn from higher interest rates, in a shock move that has seen shares plummet.\n\nA hike in official interest rates has resulted in record profits for Italian banks, prompting the government's move.\n\nProceeds will be used to help mortgage holders and to cut taxes, the government says.\n\nBut Italian banks have said the tax on their profits will be \"substantially negative\" for the sector.\n\nThe surprise move was agreed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's ministers at a cabinet meeting late on Monday. They vowed to invest the funds raised into helping households and businesses struggling with the cost of borrowing.\n\n\"One has only to look at banks' first-half profits to realise that we are not talking about a few millions, but of billions,\" Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini told a news conference in Rome late on Monday.\n\nThe tax will apply to the net interest income that comes from the gap between the banks' lending and deposit rates.\n\nAround €2bn (£1.7bn) is reportedly expected to be generated from the levy, which will be used to fund support for families hit by higher interest rates.\n\nItaly's parliament now has 60 days to pass the tax decree into law.\n\nForeign Minister Antonio Tajani told the Corriere della Sera newspaper the tax was not against the banks, \"but a measure to protect families\" and those struggling to pay mortgages.\n\nBut some European banks have said the surprise move is bad news for the sector.\n\nEquity Research Analyst at Citi, Azzurra Guelfi, said: \"We see this tax as substantially negative for banks given both the impact on capital and profit as well as for cost of equity of bank shares.\"\n\nShares in the country's two largest banks, Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit, dropped by 8% and 6.5% respectively on Tuesday morning following the announcement.\n\nShares in Banco BPM, the country's third-largest bank dropped 8.2%, while the state-owned Monte dei Paschi di Siena dipped by 7.4%. Other banks including BPER Banca, Banca Generali and Mediobanca were also down.\n\nThe fallout has had ramifications for other banks, with shares dropping at Germany's Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, and France's BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole.\n\n\"The tax that Italy has levied on the excess profits that banks are perceived to be making has come as a surprise and is likely raising concerns that other countries could follow Italy's example,\" said Stuart Cole, chief macro economist at Equiti Capital.\n\nOther European countries including Hungary and Spain have imposed similar windfall taxes on banks.\n\nIn May, Lithuanian lawmakers backed a temporary windfall tax on banks to fund defence spending, while Estonia is planning to raise the tax level on banks to 18%, up from 14% this year.\n\nA windfall tax is a levy imposed by a government on companies that have benefited from something they were not responsible for - in other words, a windfall.", "Michael O'Brien has continued to campaign over the miscarriage of justice\n\nA wrongly jailed man who had £37,500 cut from his compensation to pay for lodgings is planning legal action to get his money back.\n\nMichael O'Brien was one of three men wrongly convicted for the 1987 killing of Cardiff newsagent Phillip Saunders.\n\nThe UK government has removed a rule that meant the wrongly imprisoned could be made to pay for their living costs.\n\nThat follows Andrew Malkinson's release after serving 17 years for a rape he did not commit.\n\nMr O'Brien, who spent 11 years in prison for murder, said a solicitor had agreed to to try and recover the money.\n\nHe said \"We're going to write to the Ministry of Justice to ask if it's retrospective, and if not why not?\"\n\nMr O'Brien believed, if necessary, he had grounds for a judicial review.\n\nThe UK government said the change would apply to \"all future payments made under the miscarriage of justice compensation scheme\".\n\nMr O'Brien said: \"It's wrong in principle. Guilty people don't get charged. It's degrading, it feels like the final insult.\"\n\nHe said he intended to approach others wrongly imprisoned to join the case if they were charged for their living costs.\n\nThe killers of Cardiff newsagent Phillip Saunders have never been caught\n\nPeople wrongly jailed for more than 10 years can be paid up to £1m under a government compensation scheme.\n\nBut since a House of Lords ruling involving the case of Mr O'Brien and others in 2007, that total figure could be reduced to take into account \"savings\" individuals made on things like housing and food while imprisoned.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said its independent assessors who make the deductions have not done this in the past 10 years.\n\nIt was initially ruled in 2003 that Mr O'Brien would have the £37,000 taken from his compensation refunded to him.\n\nBut that decision was reversed the following year when judges upheld a Home Office claim for his \"saved living expenses\".", "Sinéad O'Connor saw music as the therapy to escape a turbulent childhood.\n\nHer rebellious nature was mainly driven by resentment at the abuse she suffered as a child and her experience in a Dublin reformatory.\n\nIt was music that rescued her, unleashing a creative talent that made her a worldwide music star - but also a rebel prepared to be controversial and never play the game of being an image-led pop star.\n\nWith her elfin features and skinhead look she was one of pop music's most recognisable figures.\n\nSinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor was born on 8 December 1966 in the affluent Glenageary suburb of Dublin.\n\nShe was the third of five children of Sean O'Connor and his wife Marie. The couple had married young and their relationship, often stormy, ended when O'Connor was eight.\n\nHer brother, Joseph, once described their mother as deeply unhappy and disturbed and prone to physical and emotional abuse of her children.\n\nO'Connor eventually moved out to go and live with her father but she often played truant to go shoplifting.\n\nEventually she was placed in Dublin's An Grianan Training Centre, once one of the notorious Magdalene laundries, originally set up to incarcerate young girls deemed to be promiscuous.\n\nOne nun discovered that the only way to keep this rebellious teenager in check was by buying her a guitar and setting her up with a music teacher. It was to be the saving of her.\n\nThe success of her first album made her a huge concert draw\n\nA volunteer at the institution had a brother who played in the Irish band In Tua Nua. She did record a song with them but they felt she was too young to become a full-time member.\n\nAt 16 her father moved her to a boarding school in Waterford where a teacher recognised her talent and helped her produce a demo tape featuring two of her own compositions.\n\nA meeting with the producer and composer Colm Farrelly saw them come together with other musicians to form the band Ton Ton Macoute.\n\nThey made an immediate impact and, when they relocated to Dublin, O'Connor dropped out of school to go with them.\n\nHer second album won her a Grammy\n\nEventually she moved to London and found herself an experienced manager in Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh, who had previously worked for U2.\n\nAs well as guiding her musically, Ó Ceallaigh imbued her with his own brand of republican politics. She caused a stir when she praised the Provisional IRA, although she later apologised.\n\nEver the rebel, she firmly rejected attempts by her record company to change her punk look and become more girly.\n\n\"What they were describing,\" O'Connor later told the Daily Telegraph, \"was actually their mistresses. I pointed that out to them which they didn't take terribly well.\"\n\nShe also fell out with the producer who had been brought in to mastermind her first album. After much persuasion, the record company allowed her to produce it herself. By this time she was seven months pregnant by her session drummer, John Reynolds, whom she went on to marry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinéad O'Connor: In her own words\n\nThe Lion and the Cobra, released in 1987, was a storming success. It featured what would become the typical O'Connor sound, overdubbed harmonies and atmospheric backgrounds held together by her distinctive voice. It earned a Grammy nomination for best female rock vocal performance.\n\nOne single, Mandinka, did well in the US and was the song she chose to sing on Late Night with David Letterman, her first American primetime TV appearance.\n\nShe topped this with her follow-up album, the Grammy-winning I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, which featured her most successful single, a cover of the Prince song Nothing Compares 2 U.\n\nIt was helped to the top of the charts in the UK, Ireland and the US by a striking video that largely featured a close-up of her face as she sang.\n\nShe cried during the making of the video and later said she found it difficult to sing the song because it reminded her of the loss of her mother, who had died in a car accident in 1985.\n\nBut controversy was never far away. She refused to perform at a concert venue in New Jersey unless it dropped its normal practice of playing the US national anthem before she went on.\n\nThe venue reluctantly agreed but it led to a boycott of her songs by a number of US radio stations.\n\nA month after the release of I'm Not Your Girl, a collection of jazz standards, O'Connor performed a version of Bob Marley's War on NBC's Saturday Night Live, substituting some of the words so it became a protest against child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.\n\nTo the horror of the producers she held up a photo of Pope John Paul II to the camera and tore it in half. NBC received more than 4,000 complaints from viewers and many destroyed copies of her records.\n\nAt a subsequent live appearance she was booed so much she couldn't perform. At the end of 1992 she returned to live in Dublin.\n\nHer fourth album, Universal Mother, featuring writing contributions from Germaine Greer and Kurt Cobain, failed to emulate the success of her earlier work. It was to be her last studio album for six years.\n\nHaving split from her husband, she found herself locked in a long custody battle with the journalist John Waters, who had fathered her second child, a daughter named Roisin. The stress caused her to attempt suicide in 1999.\n\nIn one of the stranger turns of her life she was ordained a priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, an independent Catholic church, not in communion with Rome. Despite her disdain for the Church hierarchy, O'Connor always maintained she was a practising Christian and a devout Catholic.\n\nShe went back into the studio in 2000 to record the album Faith and Courage. Largely self-penned, it failed to break into the Top 20 in all but the Australian album charts.\n\nThere was a brief second marriage with the journalist Nick Sommerlad before she had a third child, Shane, with the musician Donal Lunny.\n\nShe surprised many by being ordained as a priest\n\nThe 2002 album Sean-Nos Nua featured a reworking of traditional Irish folk songs. A year later she released a compilation of previously unheard tracks and demos before announcing she was retiring from music.\n\nBoth her mental and physical health were suffering, Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she was also battling the painful condition of fibromyalgia.\n\nA spell in Jamaica resulted in her seventh studio album, Throw Down Your Arms, a collection of reggae-flavoured covers that met with positive reviews.\n\nShe gave birth to her fourth child, Yeshua Francis Bonadio in 2006, fathered by her then partner Frank Bonadio. The following year she released yet another album, Theology. It failed to ignite the charts.\n\nA third marriage in 2010 to long-time friend Steve Cooney lasted less than a year.\n\nShe came back to musical form with How About I Be Me (and You Be You) released in 2012, which reached number five in Ireland and 33 in the UK charts.\n\nThere was a very public spat with the singer Miley Cyrus in 2013 after O'Connor published a letter on her website, criticising Cyrus for her overtly sexual videos. Cyrus responded by describing O'Connor as \"crazy\".\n\nAt her best she was an artist of real talent\n\nO'Connor proved she could still deliver the goods with the release of her 2014 album I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss. She appeared on the cover wearing a wig and figure-hugging black dress while caressing a guitar.\n\nBut her mental health was still precarious. In November 2015, after recovering from a hysterectomy, she posted a message on Facebook announcing she was staying at a hotel and contemplating suicide. She was found safe and well and received medical treatment.\n\nConverting to Islam in 2018, she changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat, but continued to perform under her birth name.\n\nShe released a memoir, Rememberings, in June 2021 and took part in media interviews to promote it, some of them fraught. The singer said she felt \"badly triggered\" by an interview on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her mental health struggles and the media's coverage of it.\n\nMore trauma came in January 2022, when her 17-year-old son Shane took his own life. The musician posted a series of concerning tweets in the wake of his death, indicating she was considering suicide and telling followers she had been admitted to hospital.\n\nSinéad O'Connor was a precocious talent who used music as a means of dealing with the demons inside her. A contradictory figure in many ways, she always refused to toe the establishment line, something that saw her achieve less success than she deserved.\n\nThe singer though was unapologetic and unrepentant for those life choices. \"I always say, if you live with the devil, you find out there's a god.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can visit the BBC Action Line for help.", "The spending power of workers in some parts of the UK will still be below the level it was before the pandemic by the end of 2024, a think tank has warned.\n\nPay, after accounting for rising prices, is set to fall between 2019 and 2024 in regions like the West Midlands and East of England, said Niesr.\n\nBy contrast, it said London and parts of the South were \"steaming ahead\".\n\nThe Treasury said the UK economy had \"proven resilient... heading off predictions of a recession this year\".\n\nOver the last few years inflation - the rate at which prices rise - has soared, driving up the cost of living for millions.\n\nWages have also climbed, but not as fast as prices, leaving households across the UK feeling squeezed.\n\nThe National Institute for Economic and Social Research (Niesr), which is one of the UK's oldest economic forecasting bodies, said that Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine war had badly affected the economy, resulting in five years of \"lost\" growth.\n\nIt added that the surging cost of living meant people's spending power in some parts of the UK would still not be back to 2019 levels by late next year.\n\nThe regions set to see the biggest squeeze are the East of England, parts of the South East and the West Midlands, where pay, when inflation is accounted for, is forecast to fall by between 0.5% and 5% in the period.\n\nBy contrast, people's \"real wages\" in London are forecast to jump by 7%, while in Wales they will rise by 4.6% and in Northern Ireland by 4%. However, the think tank said there were disparities within these regions.\n\nProf Stephen Millard, deputy director for macroeconomic modelling and forecasting at Niesr, told the BBC's Today programme that London was \"steaming ahead\" but added the capital was \"lucky\".\n\n\"It's full of industries that are traded, highly competitive, where productivity growth has been high, whereas other areas of country have been much more affected by Brexit,\" he added.\n\n\"The industries there are either struggling to import and export or they are non-traded industries in the first place so they don't tend to grow as fast.\"\n\nNiesr said the UK's \"stuttering\" economic growth had widened the gap between the wealthier and poorer parts of the country.\n\nIt forecast the amount of money made by the UK economy - its gross domestic product (GDP) - is not forecast to return to 2019 levels until the second half of next year.\n\nIt predicted that inflation, the rate at which prices rise, will remain continually above the Bank of England's 2% target until early 2025, meaning the cost of living will also continue to rise. Inflation is currently 7.9% annually.\n\nThe Bank, which is tasked with keeping inflation under control, said last week it expected to meet its own target of 2% by early 2025.\n\nIn its efforts to bring down inflation, it has put up interest rates 14 times in a row. It hopes that by increasing borrowing costs, people will spend less money, prices for goods will not rise as fast and the inflation rate will come down.\n\nHowever, higher rates are also driving up the cost of loans and mortgages, putting further pressure on households.\n\nLast week, the Bank signalled it would keep interest rates higher for longer to get inflation under control. But some economists warn raising rates too aggressively could push the UK into recession, which is defined typically as when the economy shrinks for two three-month periods - or quarters - in a row.\n\nNiesr said it expected the UK to avoid going into a recession this year, but said there was a \"60% risk\" of one by the end of 2024.\n\nThe Bank of England, by contrast, does not expect the UK to enter a recession, but has forecast that growth will be limited and unemployment will rise over the next few years.\n\nProf Millard said the answer to the UK's economic woes was \"public investment\".\n\n\"The government needs to think beyond next few years by investing in public infrastructure, education, healthcare, in the green transition. The result will eventually be higher growth, but it takes a while, at least a couple of parliaments,\" he added.\n\nIn response to the report, the Treasury said the UK economy had \"proven resilient in the face of global challenges, heading off predictions of a recession this year unlike some of our neighbours in Europe\".\n\nIt said the Bank of England's forecast for falling inflation would \"create the right conditions for growth\".\n\n\"That's alongside record investment in infrastructure and major reforms to bring more than 100,000 people into the workforce while driving further business investment,\" it added.", "Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko is suing New York City's Metropolitan Opera, after she was dropped following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe internationally renowned soprano is suing the opera house and its manager for $360,000 in damages.\n\nMs Netrebko has previously supported President Vladimir Putin - but did condemn the invasion after pressure from the Met.\n\nThe opera has responded in a statement, saying the lawsuit had no merit.\n\nOpera star Ms Netrebko's lawsuit - against both the Met and its manager, Peter Gelb - was filed in the US District Court in Manhattan on Friday.\n\nShe is alleging defamation, breach of contract and other violations, and is demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for lost performance and rehearsal fees.\n\nThe 51-year-old claims the Met caused her \"severe mental anguish and emotional distress\", including \"depression, humiliation, embarrassment, stress and anxiety, and emotional pain and suffering\".\n\nMs Netrebko, who also has Austrian citizenship, has previously expressed support for President Putin. In 2014, she donated money to a theatre in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, and was pictured holding a pro-Russian rebel flag.\n\nAfter Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, she was urged to speak out against Mr Putin and the war.\n\nShe did eventually accede to the demands to condemn the conflict - but stopped short of denouncing the Russian president and was dropped by the Met in all future performances a month after the invasion.\n\nHer lawsuit alleges that the Met and Mr Gelb \"harmed Netrebko's relationship among audiences, including by encouraging protests against her performances\", and that her criticism of the war lost her contracts with Russian theatre companies, AP news agency reported.\n\nThe Met said in a statement: \"Ms Netrebko's lawsuit has no merit.\"\n\nMs Netrebko posed next to rebel leaders and held a rebel flag\n\nEarlier this year, Ms Netrebko filed a separate complaint through the union representing opera performers, the American Guild of Musical Artists.\n\nAn arbitrator in that dispute ruled in February that the Met had violated a contractual agreement when it cancelled some performances, and awarded her compensation more than $200,000.\n\nSince being dropped by the Met - who she had been singing with for 20 years - Ms Netrebko has performed elsewhere including in Italy in June, and is scheduled for upcoming performances in Buenos Aires, Berlin, Vienna, Milan and Paris.\n\nShe is also due to perform in Prague in October, but last month the city's deputy mayor urged the concert hall to cancel the show.\n\nJiri Pospisil said he had met with Ukrainian officials and said Ms Netrebko was on Ukraine's sanctions list. The producer organising the event said Ms Netrebko had condemned the war and she did not understand efforts to cancel the event, which is almost sold out.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nBayern Munich are still waiting to hear from Tottenham Hotspur about whether they are prepared to sell England captain Harry Kane.\n\nThe German champions have reportedly made at least one offer for Kane, who Bild says has already agreed personal terms with the 30-year-old striker.\n\nBayern are playing down reports they set a deadline of Friday for a Spurs decision, but are growing frustrated with the situation.\n\nKane is Spurs' all-time top scorer but has only one year left on his contract.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n\nThere has been no suggestion Kane would be willing to extend his contract, so if Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy opts to keep the England striker it would effectively be ending the club's last chance to cash in on their talisman.\n\nBayern officials met Levy earlier this week but no agreement was reached.\n\nTottenham open their Premier League campaign at Brentford on 13 August. Bayern begin their season with a German Super Cup meeting with RB Leipzig a day earlier.\n\nThe transfer window does not close until 1 September, but it is felt all sides would prefer a resolution before the new season begins.\n• None Our coverage of Tottenham Hotspur is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Spurs - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the sea drone hitting the tanker, according to Ukraine security sources\n\nA Russian tanker with 11 crew members has been hit in a Ukrainian attack in the Black Sea, Russian officials say.\n\nThey said the vessel's engine room was damaged in the overnight strike in the Kerch Strait. No-one was hurt.\n\nUkraine has not publicly commented. But a Ukrainian security service source told the BBC a sea drone had been used.\n\nSaturday's attack is the second in as many days involving such weapons. Russia, however, has not admitted any damage during Friday's attack.\n\nNaval drones, or sea drones, are small, unmanned vessels which operate on or below the water's surface. Research by BBC Verify suggests Ukraine has carried out several attacks with sea drones.\n\nThe Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating Crimea - Ukraine's peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014 - and Russia's Taman peninsula.\n\nThe Ukrainian security service source told the BBC Saturday's operation was also conducted jointly with the Ukrainian navy and that 450kg of TNT explosive had been used.\n\nThe tanker was loaded with fuel, they said so the \"fireworks\" were visible from afar.\n\nRussia's maritime transport agency says the Sig tanker was located 17 miles (27km) south of the Crimean Bridge.\n\nRussia's state-run Tass news agency quoted an official from the country's regional Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) as saying that two tugs had already arrived at the scene of the attack - just to the south of the Kerch Strait.\n\n\"The engine room was damaged. Not much, but it was damaged,\" the official said.\n\nRussia's maritime transport agency RosMorRechFlot later said the vessel had a hole \"in the area of [the] engine room near the waterline from the starboard side, presumably as a result of an attack by a sea drone\".\n\n\"The ship is afloat,\" it added.\n\nRussian state-run media also reported that lights on the Crimean Bridge - further north - were turned off and all traffic halted amid warnings of an imminent attack.\n\nOn Saturday, Ukraine said it had designated six Russian black sea ports as being in \"war risk\" areas, indicating that it could be preparing further attacks on Moscow's territory.\n\nOleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, warned that Kyiv was preparing to the expand the \"scale\" and \"range of combat operations\" in Russia.\n\nOn Friday, a Russian naval ship suffered a serious breach in a Ukrainian naval drone strike near Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Ukrainian security sources told the BBC.\n\nFootage later emerged purportedly showing the drone hitting the Olenegorsky Gornyak large landing ship. Another unverified video showed a heavily listing vessel being towed to port.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said it had repelled a Ukrainian attack on its naval base in Novorossiysk which involved two sea drones, but did not admit any damage.\n\nNovorossiysk, a major hub for Russian exports, lies to the south-east of the Kerch Strait.\n\nClashes in the sea have increased in recent weeks, after Russia abandoned a major UN deal that enabled grain to be safely exported across the Black Sea.\n\nUkrainian ports have been pummelled by Russian drones and missiles, and Kyiv has threatened to retaliate.\n\n\"It is clear that it is impossible to win the war if you are not actively attacking,\" said Ukraine's presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, when asked about Western allies who may be becoming nervous about this war spilling well beyond its borders.\n\nHe believes the apparent images of damaged Russian vessels will make Moscow \"think twice about using the Black Sea for blackmail\".\n\nWhile Kyiv denies drone strikes deeper inside Russia, it says it sees threats on occupied territories and surrounding waters as fair game.\n\nRussia enjoys complete control of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov and two reportedly damaged ships are unlikely to change that.\n\nBut previous Ukrainian counter-offensives have been fuelled by their ability to cut off major Russian supply lines.\n\nIf it has indeed been able to immobilise a large Russian warship and oil tanker in two days, it will hope more will follow.\n\nThis war's footprint seems to be getting bigger.\n\nIn a separate development, talks started in Saudi Arabia on Saturday on ways to end the war in Ukraine. Invitations have been sent to about 40 countries - but not Russia - to attend the meeting in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.\n\nWestern leaders have been keen to downplay to potential for any major breakthrough at the conference, but China has agreed to send its special representative for Eurasian affairs, Li Hui.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS YouTuber Kai Cenat has been charged by police after a video games console giveaway event he organised sparked mayhem in New York.\n\nThousands of people rampaged through Union Square in anticipation of free PlayStation 5 devices, hurling bottles, stones and tins of paint.\n\nMr Cenat has been charged with at least two counts of inciting a riot and unlawful assembly, police confirmed to the BBC's partner CBS News.\n\nMr Cenat has been given a notice to appear in court, CBS reported.\n\nPeople first gathered at about 13:00 local time (17:00 GMT) after Mr Cenat posted on social media - where he has more than 10 million followers and subscribers - that he would be handing out 300 PlayStations.\n\nBy 15:00, hundreds had piled on to streets surrounding one of New York's busiest train stops.\n\nThey climbed cars and the train station entrance's roof and threw bottles at responding police officers.\n\nNew York Police Department declared a \"level four\" mobilisation, meaning roughly 1,000 officers were deployed to the scene.\n\nDuring a livestream inside a vehicle near Union Square as the disorder was unfolding, Mr Cenat said: \"They're throwing tear gas out there.\n\n\"We're not going to do nothing until it's safe. Everybody for themselves, because it's a war out there man.\"\n\nMr Cenat was taken into police custody at around 17:00. The crowd was finally dispersed about an hour later.\n\nAccording to a CBS affiliate, Mr Cenat did not have a permit for the event, which was reportedly a collaboration with Bronx YouTube star Fanum.\n\nNYPD chief of department Jeffrey Maddrey said: \"We have encountered things like this before, but never to this level of dangerousness, where young people would not listen to our commands.\"\n\nHe added: \"You had people walking around with shovels, axes and other tools from the construction trade.\n\n\"In addition, individuals were also lighting fireworks. They were throwing them towards police and they were throwing them at each other.\"\n\nMr Cenat made headlines in March after he broke the record for attracting the most Twitch subscribers by reaching 300,000.\n\nTwitch is a livestreaming platform, where people typically play video games while chatting to viewers.\n\nIn the build-up to breaking the record, Mr Cenat launched a round-the-clock drive to boost his subscribers - chatting, gaming and interviewing guests, as well as sleeping, all on camera - for 30 days.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWinds and heavy rain are set to ease across the UK as the first Met Office-named storm of the year clears.\n\nStorm Antoni hit several parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland between Friday and Saturday.\n\nSome residents were evacuated due to flooding and events such as Brighton's Pride were also hit.\n\nYellow rain warnings in Northern Ireland and amber wind warnings in Wales and southwest England ended on Saturday.\n\nThe yellow warnings for thunderstorms in south-east England, including Brighton and London, ended at 22:00 BST, along with the yellow wind warnings in western areas including Cardiff and Bath.\n\nThe Met Office said winds would continue to ease overnight into Sunday, with \"a few showers\" persisting near coasts.\n\nStorm Antoni hit late on Friday, with gusts of up to 65mph affecting exposed coastal areas.\n\nThe Met Office issued warnings for affecting areas encompassing Plymouth, Bristol and Bath in England and Swansea, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire in Wales.\n\nIt warned that danger to life from flying debris were possible and \"large waves and beach material being thrown on to sea fronts, coastal roads and properties\".\n\nOn Saturday, Cleveland Police said residents in Loftus and Carlin How, North Yorkshire were evacuated due to flooding. The force warned people not drive to the homes of relatives or make unnecessary journeys.\n\nTrees fell on the road to Veryan on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall on Saturday\n\nMet Office chief meteorologist Steve Willington previously said the storm has the potential to bring \"potentially disruptive\" weather as it moved from west to east.\n\nMr Willington said Northern Ireland would see some of the highest rainfall totals, with 40-60mm falling in some spots.\n\nMeanwhile, Brighton's Pride still went ahead, despite the challenges from the weather and industrial action on the railways.\n\nThis person braved the wind and rain to head down to Brighton seafront\n\nHowever, a Pride festival in Devon was scaled back due to concerns over strong winds.\n\nPlymouth Pride 2023 said a \"rainbow village\" featuring up to 80 traders would be cancelled because of the potential for \"flying gazebos\".\n\nStorm worries have seen the annual Stompin' on the Quomps festival cancelled for the first time in its 30-year history in Christchurch. Around 10,000 people had been expected to attend on Saturday.\n\nWaves crashed against the shore in Portland, Dorset\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor and entertainer Les Dennis is the 15th and final celebrity contestant to be announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe said he was \"thrilled\" to join the show, as his 70th birthday approaches.\n\nHe will join Annabel Croft, Nigel Harman, Bobby Brazier, Jody Cundy, Zara McDermott, Ellie Leach, Nikita Kanda, Adam Thomas and Eddie Kadi on the show.\n\nAngela Rippon, Layton Williams, Angela Scanlon, Amanda Abbington and Krishnan Guru-Murthy will also appear.\n\nDennis, whose career spans more than 50 years, was host of ITV's Family Fortunes for 16 years.\n\nHe has also had roles in ITV's Coronation Street, Extras and Death in Paradise; and has appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera, and in such plays and musicals as Hairspray, Legally Blonde The Musical and 42nd Street.\n\n\"In my career I've always gone for challenges outside my comfort zone and this is the ultimate one!\" he said. \"Can't wait.\"\n\nThis year's series will arrive on screens in the autumn and will be judged by Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse.\n\nHere are the other contestants who have been announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing so far:\n\nFormer tennis player and broadcaster Annabel Croft said she was looking forward to \"swapping tennis balls for glitter balls\" and was \"looking forward to finding some joyfulness in the process\".\n\nCroft became the youngest British player to compete at Wimbledon for 95 years when she was just 15 years old.\n\nShe continues to play a role in the coverage of the tournament and other tennis events, as a presenter, commentator and pundit for the BBC, Sky, Amazon Prime, ITV and Discovery.\n\nCroft has also presented entertainment shows such as Treasure Hunt and Inceptor.\n\nEx-EastEnders star Nigel Harman, known for playing Dennis Rickman on the soap, said he was \"amazed, excited, and terrified\" to be joining the line-up.\n\n\"As an armchair fan of the show, I have watched in awe as people have twirled and gyrated across the screen,\" he said. \"And now it's my turn... gulp!\"\n\nScreen and stage actor and director Harman won awards, including most popular newcomer at the National Television Awards, for his role as the roguish Rickman. He has also appeared on TV in Downton Abbey and in the film Blood Diamond, as well as on London's West End in Guys and Dolls and Shrek the Musical - for which he won an Olivier award.\n\nHarman recently joined the cast of the BBC hospital drama Casualty, as clinical lead Max Cristie.\n\nCurrent EastEnders actor and model Bobby Brazier, son of the late Big Brother star Jade Goody, plays Freddie Slater in the BBC soap.\n\nHe said he was \"excited\" to join the Strictly line-up. \"I can't wait to start training like a professional dancer and adding a few moves to my locker,\" he added.\n\nAway from Walford, Brazier has modelled for the major fashion house Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week.\n\nJody Cundy has represented Great Britain at seven Paralympics, winning eight gold medals in swimming and cycling events.\n\n\"[Strictly is] so far away from what I'm used to, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and pushing myself way out of my comfort zone, especially as I'm always last onto the dance floor,\" he said. \"Can't wait to get stuck in, bring on the glitter and sequins!\"\n\nCundy has also competed in multiple World Championships, winning 23 world titles, the most recent of which added at the recent World Cycling Championships in Glasgow.\n\nIn 2021, he became the first man in Paralympics GB history to win medals at seven different games, and was last year made a CBE for services to cycling.\n\nEllie Leach is best known for her 12 years playing Faye Windass on ITV soap Coronation Street.\n\nShe has been nominated for multiple British Soap Awards and Inside Soap Awards for her role in hard-hitting storylines, which have included being pregnant at 13 and later reconnecting with the child she gave up.\n\n\"It still doesn't feel real that I'm going to be doing Strictly!\" she said.\n\n\"It's always been a dream of mine so I guess dreams really do come true!\" added the actress, who left the soap earlier this year.\n\nNikita Kanda hosts the BBC Asian Network radio station's breakfast show, and also reports regularly on TV on the BBC's The One Show.\n\n\"I don't think it will properly sink in until I step on to the dancefloor,\" she said. \"I can't wait to get glammed up and get out there. Throw the glitter on me!\"\n\nIn her day job, the presenter - recently nominated for presenter of the year at the Asian Media Awards - has interviewed stars including Killing Eve's Sandra Oh, Bridgerton's Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran and Marvel actress Awkwafina.\n\nHer TV work has seen her look into the rise of cashless businesses and government support for female sport.\n\nThomas is best known for playing Adam Barton in ITV soap Emmerdale, winning the TV Choice award for best soap newcomer in 2010.\n\n\"I can't dance to save my life but I'm buzzing to learn and have a good laugh with my pro. Get me on that dance floor... I can't wait!\" he said.\n\nAfter appearing the 2016 edition of ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, Thomas went on to co-host the spin-off-I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp, and recently reprised his role as Donte Charles in BBC One drama Waterloo Road.\n\nIn 2020, the soap star teamed up with his brothers and fellow Mancs on the Mic podcasters Ryan and Scott, for six-part ITV travel series Absolutely India: Mancs in Mumbai, where they traced their family heritage alongside their father.\n\nRip-Off Britain presenter Rippon, 78, will be the series' oldest contestant, after Johnny Ball took part in 2012 aged 74.\n\nRippon said: \"Why didn't they ask me 10 years ago? Having been a fan of Strictly since day one, and as a former presenter of Come Dancing, this will be quite an adventure for me.\"\n\nShe was the first female journalist to permanently present the BBC national television news, and was also one of the presenters of the BBC's original Come Dancing series.\n\nShe hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, presented ITV breakfast show TV-am and famously appeared in a dancing sketch with comedy duo Morecambe and Wise.\n\nGuru-Murthy is the lead anchor for Channel 4 News. He joined the programme in 1998 and is its second-longest-serving presenter after Jon Snow.\n\n\"I'm surprised, delighted and slightly confused to find myself taking part in Strictly on the basis of 'you only live once!\" he said.\n\nThe broadcaster has also fronted Channel 4's Paralympics coverage and was one of the original presenters of the BBC News channel, then called BBC News 24, in 1997.\n\nLast year, Guru-Murthy was briefly suspended after he was heard using an expletive to describe a Conservative minister, something for which he apologised \"unreservedly\".\n\nAbbington is known for starring in TV series including Sherlock and Mr Selfridge, as well as stage plays such as The Son.\n\nThe actress said: \"I'm thrilled to have been asked to do Strictly. I'm actually really shy and self-conscious so this will be a great opportunity for me to overcome those things! Plus I get to learn to dance, which I am incredibly excited about.\"\n\nHowever, some fans have claimed they will boycott the show after Abbington stirred controversy earlier this year with comments about drag performances, questioning whether young children should watch or partake in sexually-charged drag shows.\n\nIn a recent Instagram video, Abbington explained she \"loved drag\" and was not transphobic, adding: \"Personally speaking, I don't think 12-year-olds should be performing in drag shows in overtly sexual ways because they're 12 and they need a childhood.\"\n\nWilliams has performed in London's West End in Billy Elliot, Thriller Live and Everyone's Talking About Jamie. He has also appeared in TV series Bad Education and I Hate Suzie.\n\nThe actor said: \"So excited to learn new skills from the best. Bring on the sequins… ALL the sequins!\"\n\nWilliams most recently provided the voiceover for the BBC Three gay dating show I Kissed A Boy.\n\nThe actor said he would be happy as long as he is paired with a male professional dancer so he can be lifted up during the performances.\n\nAngela Scanlon presents Your Home Made Perfect on BBC Two\n\nIrish TV star Angela Scanlon hosts the BBC Two series Your Home Made Perfect as well as a Saturday night chat show on RTÉ.\n\n\"I'm terrified, I'm excited and I have so many questions. Will they make me tan? How itchy are sequins?! Do they do flesh coloured sports bras? Well - there's only one way to find out, right?!\" she said.\n\nScanlon has appeared on TV shows including The One Show and Robot Wars, and presented a Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio 2.\n\nShe previously worked as a print journalist, writing for magazines including Grazia, Tatler and the Sunday Times Style supplement.\n\nKadi is a stand-up comic who became the first black British comedian to headline London's 02 Arena.\n\nHe announced his participation on BBC Radio 1Xtra's Official UK Afrobeats Chart Show on Sunday, which he presents.\n\n\"I'm so unbelievably proud and honoured that Strictly and the BBC have asked me to join the 2023 team,\" Kadi said.\n\n\"I promise you, I'm going to give it everything I've got. This is going to be a vibe.\"\n\nZara McDermott worked as a government policy advisor before joining ITV reality show Love Island in 2018, and since leaving the villa has presented a series of documentaries.\n\n\"I grew up watching Strictly every year with my nan and she was the biggest fan,\" she said. \"We would dance around the house and I have such fond memories of that time in my life.\n\n\"I even remember the first ever series, and being mesmerised by all the beautiful dresses! I can't wait to throw myself into this experience and start training. It's going to be incredible.\"\n\nSince leaving Love Island, McDermott has presented BBC documentaries including Revenge Porn, Uncovering Rape Culture, Disordered Eating, and Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Imran Khan is a former international cricket star turned politician who became the first prime minister in Pakistan's history to be ousted in a vote of no confidence.\n\nHe was elected in July 2018 promising to fight corruption and fix the economy. But those pledges went unmet and the world's second largest Muslim country was gripped by financial crisis.\n\nJust under four years after being elected, he was ousted as prime minister by his opponents in parliament. As well as the economy tanking, reports said he had fallen out of favour with the powerful military, a crucial behind-the-scenes player in nuclear-armed Pakistan.\n\nMr Khan, 70, shows no signs of wanting to leave politics and has spent his time out of power addressing large rallies of supporters angry at his removal from office. He still commands considerable support - tens of thousands took to the streets in cities across Pakistan on the night he was ejected from power.\n\nIn November 2022, he was shot and wounded in an attack on a protest rally he was leading in the eastern city of Wazirabad. Aides said it was an attempt on his life, but police did not immediately confirm he had been the target.\n\nThe former PM had been leading a march on the capital, Islamabad, to demand snap elections.\n\nThe previous month, he'd suffered another setback when the election commission disqualified him from holding public office in a case he described as politically motivated. He'd been accused of incorrectly declaring details of presents from foreign dignitaries and proceeds from their alleged sale.\n\nIn May, Mr Khan was arrested on corruption charges, sparking widespread protests that plunged Pakistan deeper into political turmoil at a time when its economy is on life support and food prices are soaring.\n\nThe arrest was declared illegal, but in August he was taken into custody again after being found guilty of not declaring money earned from selling gifts he received in office.\n\nHe was sentenced to three years in jail, but denies the charges and says he will appeal.\n\nMr Khan's conviction has diminished any chance of a resolution between the former PM and the establishment, be it the government or the army.\n\nImran Khan had hoped to see out a full, five-year term, something no other prime minister had ever done in Pakistan - which has a history of coups and military rule.\n\nBut by late March 2022, a series of defections had deprived him of his parliamentary majority and the opposition pounced, tabling a motion of no confidence.\n\nMr Khan sought to circumvent the move by having parliament dissolved and calling a snap election, but the Supreme Court ruled this was in breach of the constitution. On 10 April the vote of no confidence took place and Imran Khan lost, his opponents having secured 174 votes in the 342-member house.\n\nOpposition supporters celebrated outside the Supreme Court after the court ruled the move to block a no-confidence vote was unconstitutional\n\nHe claimed that his political opponents were colluding with the US to bring about regime change because of his policies on Afghanistan, Russia and China. But he provided no evidence of this and Washington strongly denied any foreign interference.\n\nBack in 2018 the populist Mr Khan had painted a vision of a \"new Pakistan\" as he swept to power after years playing second fiddle to more established parties.\n\nThe former cricket captain, now styling himself as a pious anti-poverty reformer, spoke of his dream of building an \"Islamic welfare state\" where wealth was shared. He made ambitious promises that included reforming the country's tax system and bureaucracy.\n\nInstead, inflation soared, the rupee plummeted and the country became crippled by debt, stoking anger and criticism that Mr Khan had mishandled the economy.\n\nHe vowed not to seek International Monetary Fund (IMF) help but ended up negotiating a $6bn (£4.75bn) rescue bailout to address a balance of payments crisis. However, the first payment of $1.1bn (£872m) has not been released, pending the passage of what the Pakistani government called \"painful reforms\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things to know about Imran Khan (from 2018)\n\nLong one of Pakistan's best-known faces internationally, Mr Khan struggled for years to turn popular support into electoral gains.\n\nHe launched his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1996 but it wasn't until the 2013 general election that it emerged as a serious player nationally.\n\nFive years later a swing of epic proportions propelled him to power.\n\nThe PTI made huge gains in his rivals' Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif's bastion, Punjab province, which holds more than half of the 272 directly-elected National Assembly seats.\n\nMr Khan was seen as a \"change\" candidate, whose promise to raise a whole new class of clean politicians chimed with voters disillusioned with the old political order.\n\nMilitary chief Gen Bajwa (left) and Imran Khan were reportedly at odds over Russia's invasion of Ukraine\n\nBut he was also widely viewed as the favoured candidate of the military which - despite denials from both sides - was accused of meddling to turn opinion against his rivals.\n\nMany observers now say his biggest problem is that he has lost the support of the generals who have dominated Pakistan since independence in 1947.\n\nCivilian leaders who have sought to tackle some of Pakistan's root problems have found themselves on a collision course with the establishment in the past.\n\nThe PTI leader also found himself short of political friends. Far from cleaning up \"dynastic politics\", he is accused of sidelining opponents, with many jailed on corruption charges during his tenure. His enemies united to remove him.\n\nImran Khan was born in 1952, the son of a civil engineer. He and his four sisters had a privileged upbringing in Lahore where he was schooled, before he studied at Oxford University.\n\nHis talent for cricket emerged during these years and led to an illustrious international career which spanned two decades, culminating in World Cup victory in 1992.\n\nImran Khan led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 cricket World Cup\n\nIn his youth he also developed a reputation as a playboy on the London nightclub circuit, although he denies he ever drank alcohol.\n\nAfter he led Pakistan to victory in 1992 he retired from cricket and went on to raise millions of dollars to fund a cancer hospital in his mother's memory.\n\nThat foray into philanthropy spawned a career in politics - and he shed his celebrity image.\n\nHis pin-up looks and private life have made him a favourite of the world's media for decades.\n\nImran Khan married Jemima Goldsmith, seen here with Princess Diana, in 1995\n\nIn 1995, at the age of 43, he married the 21-year-old British heiress, Jemima Goldsmith - the daughter of one of the world's richest men at the time, Sir James Goldsmith. The marriage produced two boys but was dissolved in 2004.\n\nA second marriage in 2015, to journalist Reham Khan, lasted less than a year. The former BBC weather presenter alleges she was bullied by his supporters and wrote a tell-all memoir.\n\nMr Khan married again in a low-profile ceremony in 2018. His third wife Bushra Watto, a mother of five, was described as his spiritual adviser, and observers say the match plays well with his public shows of devotion to Islam.\n\nMs Watto later set up a trust that allegedly received land as a bribe from one of Pakistan's top real estate developers. This eventually led to the corruption charge that saw Mr Khan arrested this year.\n\nMr Khan was so conscious of reforming his playboy image that during his 2018 campaign, he cancelled an interview with a female Pakistani journalist on his jet. This was in order to avoid being seen with her when he disembarked.\n\nAs a politician Imran Khan publicly upholds liberalism, but at the same time appeals to Islamic values and anti-West sentiment.\n\nOn his watch, there was a significant rise in Islamist militancy in Pakistan, and religious extremists strengthened their position.\n\nHe has been criticised as sympathetic towards the Taliban, and branded \"Taliban Khan\" by opponents. In 2020 there was an outcry after he called Osama Bin Laden a martyr.\n\nPakistan - a long-time ally of the West, however reluctant in the \"war on terror\" - continued strengthening ties with China under his leadership. It abstained in the UN vote on Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.\n\nTense relations with neighbouring India, Pakistan's historic rival, did not improve during his tenure.\n\nMr Khan can point to some successes.\n\nPakistan's Covid record has been the best in South Asia, and a poverty-alleviation programme made progress. He has also provided universal healthcare in two provinces - perhaps his most notable achievement.\n\nWhile this could help Mr Khan in elections due by late this year, all eyes are on the corruption allegations against him. A conviction could disqualify him from running for public office, possibly for life.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA YouTuber's announcement of a video games console giveaway sparked chaos and a major police response in the heart of New York City on Friday.\n\nA crowd of roughly 2,000 converged at Union Square Park in anticipation of free PlayStation 5 devices from celebrity Twitch streamer Kai Cenat.\n\nPolice said the influencer was among a number of people detained and he could be charged with inciting a riot.\n\nPeople were seen hurling fireworks, bottles and toppling barricades.\n\nThe scene outside Union Square station in New York\n\nSubway trains passed the Union Square stop during the incident, the BBC's US partner CBS reported, as police urged people to avoid the area.\n\nPeople first gathered at around 13:00 local time (17:00 GMT) after Mr Cenat posted on social media - where he has more than 10 million followers and subscribers - that he would be handing out 300 PlayStations.\n\nBy 15:00, hundreds had piled on to streets surrounding one of New York City's busiest train stops.\n\nThey climbed cars and the train station entrance's roof and threw bottles at responding police officers.\n\nNew York Police Department declared a \"level four\" mobilisation, meaning roughly 1,000 officers were deployed to the scene.\n\nDuring a livestream inside a vehicle near Union Square as the disorder was unfolding, Mr Cenat said: \"They're throwing tear gas out there.\n\n\"We're not going to do nothing until it's safe. Everybody for themselves, because it's a war out there man.\"\n\nMr Cenat was taken into police custody at around 17:00. The crowd was finally dispersed about an hour later.\n\nAccording to a CBS affiliate, Mr Cenat did not have a permit for the event, which was reportedly a collaboration with Bronx YouTube star Fanum.\n\nNYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said: \"We have encountered things like this before, but never to this level of dangerousness, where young people would not listen to our commands.\"\n\nHe added: \"You had people walking around with shovels, axes, and other tools from the construction trade.\n\n\"In addition, individuals were also lighting fireworks. They were throwing them towards police, and they were throwing them at each other.\"\n\nMr Cenat made headlines in March after he broke the record for attracting the most Twitch subscribers by reaching 300,000.\n\nTwitch is a livestreaming platform, where people typically play video games while chatting to viewers.\n\nIn the build-up to breaking the record, Mr Cenat launched a round-the-clock drive to boost his subscribers - chatting, gaming and interviewing guests, as well as sleeping, all on camera - for 30 days.", "This is the moment a naval drone purportedly heads directly towards a Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait, south of the Crimean Bridge.\n\nUnverified footage shared by a source at Ukraine's security service shows what they say is the drone moving across the Black Sea, as it approaches the Russian vessel.\n\nRussian maritime officials said the Sig tanker's engine room was damaged in an attack, but no-one on board was injured.\n\nA Ukrainian security service source told the BBC the operation was conducted jointly with the Ukrainian navy and that 450kg of TNT explosive had been used.", "Mr Navalny appears on a screen via a video link from his penal colony during court hearings in Moscow, 22 June 2023\n\nImprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has told supporters not to lose the will to resist, after his jail term was extended to 19 years.\n\nMr Navalny was found guilty of founding and funding an extremist organisation. He denies the charges.\n\nHe was already serving a nine-year term for parole violations, fraud and contempt of court. The charges are widely viewed as politically motivated.\n\nThe trial was held in a remote penal colony, where he has been since 2021.\n\nThe Kremlin's most vocal critic will serve his time in a \"special regime colony\", which Russian state prosecutors had been calling for.\n\nEven more restrictive than a high security colony, such prisons are normally reserved for dangerous criminals, re-offenders and those with life imprisonment.\n\nThere he is likely to face greater isolation, with further restrictions on communications with the outside world.\n\nHe could also receive fewer visitors than he is used to, including his family and defence team, and may face longer periods of solitary confinement.\n\nAfter the verdict, in a message to supporters posted for him on X (formerly known as Twitter) Mr Navalny remained defiant. \"You, not me, are being frightened and deprived of the will to resist. Putin must not achieve his goal. Do not lose the will to resist,\" he wrote.\n\nFor this court case the phrase \"behind closed doors\" felt like an understatement.\n\nAlexei Navalny was tried in the high security prison in which he's currently incarcerated; the proceedings were closed to the press and the public.\n\nBut for the verdict the BBC was allowed into Penal Colony Number 6 in the town of Melekhovo, 150 miles east of Moscow, where a hall was turned into a makeshift courtroom.\n\nAlong with other journalists we crammed into a small room dubbed the \"press centre\" to watch events on a video screen. We weren't allowed into the makeshift courtroom itself (a prison hall) where the verdict would be announced.\n\nAs he entered the courtroom and sat down at a table, Alexei Navalny looked relaxed. For him there was no drama about this situation: in a message posted for him yesterday on social media Russia's most prominent opposition figure had made it clear he'd been fully expecting a \"Stalinist\" sentence.\n\nThere was a picture on the video screen. But the audio feed from the courtroom was of poor quality and intermittent.\n\nWhen the judge pronounced Mr Navalny guilty and passed sentence, it wasn't immediately clear to the journalists watching and listening how long the new prison sentence was.\n\nLater, Mr Navalny himself confirmed the figure, in the social media message posted for him.\n\n\"Nineteen years in a special regime colony. The figure doesn't mean anything. I fully understand that, like many political prisoners my sentence is for life. Life is measured either by my lifespan or that of the regime.\"\n\nThe new sentence \"raises serious concerns about judicial harassment and instrumentalisation of the court system for political purposes in Russia,\" UN human rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement.\n\n\"Putin is trying to frighten as many Alexei supporters as he can\", Mr Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh said of his sentencing.\n\n\"We have to put all our efforts in trying to get rid of Putin, and this will mean that Alexei will be free,\" she added.\n\nFor more than a decade, Mr Navalny sought to expose corruption at the heart of Russian power. His video investigations have received tens of millions of views online.\n\nA charismatic campaigner, he seemed to be the only Russian opposition leader capable of mobilising people in large numbers across Russia to take part in anti-government protests.\n\nBut in 2020, he was poisoned in Siberia by what Western laboratories later confirmed to be a nerve agent.\n\nA later report by the investigative outlet Bellingcat and Russian news site The Insider implicated several agents of Russia's internal security service, the FSB, in the attack.\n\nAfter recovering from the attack, Mr Navalny returned to Russia in 2021 despite warnings that he could face arrest. He was immediately arrested upon arrival at an airport in Moscow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife in 2021 and then being led away by authorities", "President Zelensky posted a photo purportedly showing Kupiansk's blood transfusion centre on fire after the Russian attack\n\nA Russian \"guided bomb\" has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing two people and injuring four, Ukrainian officials say.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky posted an image of the building on fire as a result of Saturday night's attack around Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region.\n\n\"This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression,\" he said.\n\nRussia has not commented. It has previously denied all allegations of targeting civilians - or war crimes.\n\nThe city of Kupiansk and nearby settlements were seized by Russian troops in the first few days of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022.\n\nThe area was liberated during a Ukrainian counter-offensive last September, but comes under missiles and shelling daily.\n\nIn a post on social media, Mr Zelensky described the perpetrators as \"beasts\".\n\n\"Defeating terrorists is a matter of honour for everyone who values life,\" he added.\n\nMr Zelensky did not give details of the casualties. But local officials later posted the same image adding details about the attack on what they described as a non-residential building.\n\nPresident Zelensky also said that on Saturday Russia separately carried out a missile attack, targeting an aeronautical company run by group Motor Sich in the western Khmelnytskyi region.\n\nOn Sunday, Russia's air defences destroyed a drone as it approached Moscow, the city's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said.\n\nLast week, an office block on a Moscow skyscraper was hit two days in a row by Ukrainian drones, Russian authorities said.\n\nUkraine has not publicly admitted carrying out such attacks.\n\nMoscow has also accused Ukraine on Saturday of hitting a Russian tanker with 11 crew members in the Black Sea - the second such sea drone attack in as many days.\n\nRussian maritime officials said the engine room of the Sig tanker was damaged in the attack in the Kerch Strait. No-one was injured.\n\nThe Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating Crimea - Ukraine's peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014 - and Russia's Taman peninsula.\n\nUkraine has not publicly commented. But a Ukrainian security service source told the BBC a sea drone had been used.\n\nIn another development, the Chonhar road bridge linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea was hit by a Ukrainian missile strike on Sunday, according to Russia's RIA news agency.\n\nThis is the second time Ukrainian missiles have hit the bridge after an earlier attack in June forced it to close for repairs.\n\nMoscow-installed Kherson regional governor Vladimir Saldo wrote on Telegram that another small bridge, connecting the port city of Henichesk and the narrow Arabat Spit on Crimea's north-east coast, had been shelled.\n\nA civilian driver was hurt and a gas pipeline was damaged, leaving 20,000 people without gas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the sea drone hitting the tanker, according to Ukraine security sources", "Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul veteran actor Mark Margolis has died at the age of 83, according to his family.\n\nBest known in the role of Hector Salamanca on both series, he played a drug cartel member who uses a wheelchair after a stroke.\n\nHe passed away in a New York City hospital on Thursday after a short illness, his son said in a statement.\n\nMargolis also had acting credits in films such Scarface, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and HBO series Oz.\n\nIn the Emmy-nominated role of Salamanca, Margolis portrayed a hyper-violent gangster who is unable to speak and uses only a bell and facial expressions to communicate.\n\nThe Breaking Bad Facebook account paid tribute to him, posting: \"We join millions of fans in mourning the passing of the immensely talented Mark Margolis, who - with his eyes, a bell, and very few words - turned Hector Salamanca into one of the most unforgettable characters in the history of television.\n\nMr Margolis, who grew up in Philadelphia, also featured in films such as Going in Style, Dressed to Kill, and Arthur.\n\nHe also had roles in six films by director Darren Aronofsky.\n\n\"I am just a journeyman actor,\" he said in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.\n\nHe moved to New York at a young age and studied under famous acting coach Stella Adler.\n\nDespite having over 70 film credits - spanning five decades - he said that there were times when he struggled as a performer in his earlier years.\n\n\"Truth to tell, six months after Scarface,\" he once said, \"I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by.\"\n\nHe said that the Salamanca character was in part inspired by his mother-in-law, who also was unable to speak after a stroke.\n\n\"We used to visit her, and she couldn't speak. But she'd get excited when we came in the room, and the left side of her mouth would always do these contortions where the lips would push out, almost like she was chewing tobacco. So I kind of stole that from her.\"\n\nIn a 2013 interview, he told Time magazine that he enjoyed the challenge of acting without speaking.\n\n\"It was a marvellous creature! The fact that he didn't have any words was not an issue for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I was delighted not to have to learn any lines. I mean, I had to know what was going on, I had my cues, but the fact that I didn't have to master lines was great. I got to fly out to New Mexico and not worry about memorising anything.\"\n\nColleagues of his also paid tribute online.\n\n\"Mark made me laugh every time we were together on set,\" wrote writer Thomas Schnauz, who worked with him on both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.\n\n\"My love to his family and many, many friends,\" he added.\n\nPeter Gould, one of the co-creators of Better Call Saul, tweeted: \"Absolutely devastated to hear that we've lost Mark Margolis.\n\n\"Mark was brilliant, funny, a raconteur with a million stories. I miss him already.\"", "This is the moment a sea drone heads directly towards a Russian ship near the port of Novorossiysk, where explosions have been heard overnight.\n\nFootage shared by a source at Ukraine's security service shows the drone moving across the Black Sea, as it approaches the Russian vessel.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said it had repelled a Ukrainian attack on its naval base there with two sea drones.\n\nWhile the ministry did not comment on any damage, Ukrainian intelligence sources have told various news outlets the Olenegorsky Gornyak, a \"landing ship\" designed to carry equipment and personnel for beach landings, was hit.", "Napoli won their first Serie A title for 33 years in May as they drew with Udinese - stock photo from match\n\nOne of Italy's most dangerous fugitives has been caught in Greece after a photo of him cheering on his football team gave away his whereabouts.\n\nVincenzo La Porta, 60, is thought to have close ties to the Camorra organised crime gang in Naples.\n\nHe has been on the run for 11 years - but earlier this year was spotted in a photo of fans celebrating in Greece.\n\nThe Naples Carabinieri police said: \"What betrayed him was his passion for football and for the Napoli.\"\n\nOfficers said the photos were taken after Napoli won its first Italian championship in over three decades earlier this year.\n\n\"With the championship victory, La Porta couldn't resist celebrating,\" police said.\n\nLa Porta has already been convicted in absentia in Italy for criminal association, tax evasion and fraud.\n\nPolice finally arrested him on Friday while he was riding his moped on the Greek island of Corfu and he is now currently in a jail awaiting extradition to Italy.\n\nIf he is extradited to Italy, he is due serve a prison sentence of 14 years and four months.\n\nLa Porta's lawyer told AP news agency: \"He has started a new family in Greece... He has a nine-year-old boy and is working as a cook to get by. He suffers from heart ailments. If he's extradited, he and his family will be ruined.\"\n\nThe authorities were relentless in their pursuit of La Porta, tracking his financial and online movements closely and \"waited for him to make a misstep\".\n\nBack in May, La Porta could not contain his excitement when Napoli won its first Serie A title after 33 years.\n\nThe police spotted him in a photo outside a Corfu restaurant among Napoli fans donning a baseball cap and waving the team's sky blue and white colours.\n\nThe investigators knew they had their man and followed him to Greece.\n\nWith a little help from their Greek colleagues, they arrested him on Friday, the Greek police said.\n\nIn January, this year, an Italian mafia boss who was on the run for decades was arrested after a Google Maps sighting.", "\"I cried for joy when I heard the news,\" says lead plaintiff Amanda Zurawski\n\nWomen in Texas with serious pregnancy complications will be temporarily exempted from the southern US state's abortion ban, a judge has ruled.\n\nJudge Jessica Mangrum said there was a lack of clarity in the legislation, siding with women and doctors who had sued Texas over the ban in March.\n\nDoctors would not be prosecuted when exercising their \"good faith judgement\" for provision of abortions, she added.\n\nThe temporary injunction will be in force until the lawsuit is decided.\n\nFriday's ruling is expected to be appealed by the state.\n\nThe Texas law that bans all abortions except in dire medical circumstances is seen as one of the strictest in the US.\n\nBreaking the ban can carry a $100,000 (£78,000) fine and up to life in prison.\n\nThe legislation was introduced in 2022 - shortly after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision, meaning that millions of women across the country lost the constitutional right to abortion.\n\nThis case is the first brought on behalf of women who have been denied abortions since then.\n\nThe group of women and doctors are suing the state of Texas in the hope of changing the ban, to give doctors more leeway in determining when an abortion is necessary.\n\nIn her ruling in the city of Austin, Judge Mangrum wrote that women were \"delayed or denied access to abortion care because of the widespread uncertainty regarding physicians' level of discretion under the medical exception to Texas's abortion bans\".\n\nShe also said that doctors must be allowed to determine what constituted medical emergencies that would risk a woman's health or even life.\n\nThe temporary injunction is intended to last until the lawsuit is decided. But under Texas law, a ruling is automatically stayed as soon as it is appealed, so it could be blocked once the state appeals.\n\nThe Center for Reproductive Rights, which is suing Texas, hailed the ruling.\n\n\"Today's ruling alleviates months of confusion around what conditions qualify as medical emergencies under Texas' abortion bans, giving doctors permission to use their own medical judgment in determining when abortion care is needed,\" the group said.\n\nLead plaintiff Amanda Zurawski said that \"for the first time in a long time, I cried for joy when I heard the news\".\n\nMs Zurawski says her life was put at risk last year when she was denied an abortion.\n\nThe lawsuit filed last March against Texas presses for a binding interpretation of the medical emergencies in the current law.\n\nThe Texas attorney general's office argues that the exceptions being pushed by the plaintiffs would effectively allow ways of bypassing the ban.\n\n\"It would, for example, permit abortions for pregnant females with medical conditions ranging from a headache to feelings of depression,\" office lawyers say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Texas abortion law: 'I waited for my daughter to die so I wouldn't die'", "The space agency had expected a regular reset of the probe in October to fix the error\n\nNasa is back in full contact with its lost Voyager 2 probe months earlier than expected, the space agency said.\n\nIn July a wrong command was made to the spacecraft, sent to explore space in 1977, changing its position and severing contact.\n\nA signal was picked up on Tuesday but thanks to an \"interstellar shout\" - a powerful instruction - its antenna is now back facing Earth.\n\nNasa had originally pinned hopes on the spacecraft resetting itself in October.\n\nIt took 37 hours for mission controllers to figure out if the interstellar command had worked as Voyager 2 is billions of miles away from Earth.\n\nStaff used the \"highest-power transmitter\" to send a message to the spacecraft and timed it to be sent during \"the best conditions\" so the antenna lined up with the command, Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd told AFP.\n\nAfter communications were lost, the probe had been unable to receive commands or send back data to Nasa's Deep Space Network - an array of giant radio antennas across the world.\n\nBut the space agency confirmed on 4 August that data had been received from the spacecraft and it was operating normally.\n\nNasa expects the spacecraft laden with science instruments to remain on its planned trajectory through the universe.\n\nOn Monday, the space agency said its huge dish in Australia's capital, Canberra, was trying to detect any stray signals from Voyager 2. This was when the first faint \"heartbeat\" signal was heard.\n\nThe antenna had been bombarding Voyager 2's area with the correct command, in the hope of somehow making contact, Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the Voyager missions, said.\n\nThe probe is programmed to reset its position multiple times each year to keep its antenna pointing at Earth. The next reset is due on 15 October, which Nasa had rested its hopes on if all other attempts had failed.\n\nVoyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 are the only spacecraft ever to operate outside the heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields generated by the Sun. They reached interstellar space in 2018 and 2012 respectively.\n\nThe probes were designed to take advantage of a rare alignment of outer planets, which occurs about every 176 years, to explore Jupiter and Saturn.\n\nVoyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to fly by Neptune and Uranus, while Voyager 1 is now nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, making it humanity's most distant spacecraft.\n\nOnce both spacecraft run out of power - expected sometime after 2025 - they will continue roaming through space.", "Former PM Imran Khan says the army is afraid of elections because he would win\n\nPakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has told BBC HARDtalk the military is petrified of an election, which is expected to take place later this year.\n\nHe said Pakistan was under \"undeclared martial law\" and alleged \"fascists\" were leading it into the \"dark ages\".\n\nMr Khan was elected in 2018, ruled for just under four years, and was then ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote last year.\n\nHe said only free and fair elections would restore stability.\n\nHARDtalk presenter Stephen Sackur asked the former Prime Minister if his current criticism of the military \"meddling\" in politics had arisen only since his relationship with the military cooled.\n\nMr Khan denied this, insisting his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is \"the only party that was not created by military dictators\". He alleges that this is why there has been a campaign to dismantle it.\n\nMany critics argue that Mr Khan had the backing of the army during his rise to power, an allegation both sides reject. The military has heavily influenced Pakistan for most of its existence and is a crucial behind-the-scenes player in the country's politics.\n\nIn the last few months, the PTI has seen significant defections, and arrests of key members. But Mr Khan insists it is intact.\n\n\"How come, despite the establishment openly going against us, trying to dismantle us, how come after we are out of government, we won 30 out of 37 by-elections?\"\n\nHe said the establishment had hoped that his removal from power would weaken his party. \"Normally, it happens when you're out of power for quite a while. But instead, what happened was the party's popularity kept growing,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"They have tried everything. They have put 10,000 people in jail, including women and peaceful protesters.\"\n\nMr Khan's supporters have viewed him as a political outsider since the former Pakistan cricket captain founded his party 27 years ago.\n\nHe says he faces almost 200 charges including sedition, terrorism and abetting murder which he said has seen him shuttling between his tightly guarded home and the courts.\n\nMr Khan's arrest in May sparked nationwide protests that led to at least eight deaths\n\nHis arrest from inside a court in May sparked nationwide protests, some involving violence.\n\nWhen questioned by HARDTalk as to whether he had created an atmosphere of hostility to the military resulting in violence, the former international cricket star-turned-politician said he and his party had never advocated the use of violence and had a record of peaceful protest.\n\nHe said they had no involvement in the instances of attacks on military buildings, and said those cases need to be investigated separately.\n\nMr Khan has insisted that it was the military's actions which provoked the unrest when they sent soldiers instead of police officers to arrest him.\n\n\"What did you think the supporters would do when they saw the army, the commander, was picking me up from there? Was there not going to be a protest?\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from Lahore, Mr Khan said: \"The fact is that the country is on the brink of a major disaster. We are heading [into] what I feel like are the dark ages.\n\n\"The only solution to Pakistan is free and fair elections. That's the only way we will get out of this mess.\"\n\nHe expressed concern at proposed new legislation which he said would give widespread undemocratic power to the intelligence agencies.\n\nSince being ousted Mr Khan has become a vocal critic of the new government.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the country has been taken over by fascists, and they are petrified of elections. The reason why I'm suffering is because they know that [in the] elections, we would win hands down. And because of that, they're dismantling a democracy,\" he said.\n\nYou can find out more in the full HARDtalk interview on BBC News TV, World Service radio and on podcast via BBC Sounds.", "Last updated on .From the section Netball\n\nCoverage: Watch live coverage on BBC TV and BBC iPlayer, listen to commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, 5 Sports Extra & BBC Sounds and follow text commentary of selected matches on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nEngland will face Australia in their first Netball World Cup final after their historic victory over defending champions New Zealand.\n\nThe match was level after every quarter but England pulled away in dramatic fashion in the last to win 46-40.\n\nThere were jubilant scenes on the court as England wound down the clock to edge out the Silver Ferns and reach Sunday's showpiece in Cape Town.\n\nAustralia, who lost to England in the group stage, beat Jamaica 57-54.\n\nThe final takes place at 17:00 BST and will be live on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nThere has never been a World Cup final without 11-time world champions Australia, who also won Commonwealth gold in Birmingham last year.\n\nHowever, they will face a stern test in England, who overcame some shaky shooting with solid defence against New Zealand.\n\nThey will now compete for their biggest title since the 2018 Commonwealth Games, when they beat Australia to win gold.\n\nAn emotional Layla Guscoth, Roses defender and co-captain, told BBC Sport: \"I can't believe it.\n\n\"We've had so much criticism over the last year [after no medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games].\n\n\"We are so grateful to get the chance to play in a World Cup final. We celebrate, we rest and we come back tomorrow.\"\n• None How to follow the Netball World Cup on the BBC\n\nEngland have faced a year of criticism after they failed to follow up on gold in 2018 and did not win a medal at the Games in Birmingham last year.\n\nWhen Jess Thirlby took the reins from former coach Tracey Neville after England had won World Cup bronze in 2019, having been beaten in the semi-final by New Zealand, she said some things would need to change.\n\nFocus went on developing a full squad of 12 dependable players and at this tournament England are getting their just reward.\n\n\"I know it is predictable but I just feel just pride,\" Thirlby said after the win.\n\n\"Sometimes you just have to sit tight through the ups and downs, the wins and the losses, and we have done that.\n\n\"I think the mental side of our game has massively shifted. Sometimes it takes 58 minutes before you get the reward but they kept at it and got it in the end.\"\n\nCo-captain Natalie Metcalf agreed, saying it had been a \"tough year\" but they had \"left no stone unturned\" in pursuit of World Cup glory.\n\n\"It is just pure pride to wear the red dress and line up alongside the girls every day,\" she said.\n\n\"We've got to celebrate and enjoy the moment, what a moment it is for England netball. But we need to make sure we stick to the processes and remain consistent as we have done the entire tournament.\"\n\nUntil their final group match against Australia, England had gone under the radar - securing wins but with plenty still to work on.\n\nHowever, they have now beaten the top two sides at the tournament, having defeated world number one-ranked Australia on Thursday and the Silver Ferns in the last four.\n\nAn evenly contested and low-scoring match saw momentum shifts in both directions as two impenetrable defences faced off.\n\nRoses' stalwarts Geva Mentor and Guscoth worked tirelessly in defence to win the ball as England's attackers were made to look hesitant and static against an equally impressive Kelly Jury and Phoenix Karaka in the other circle.\n\nEngland's shooters also struggled at times, with Helen Housby and Eleanor Cardwell uncharacteristically missing eight of their 54 shots.\n\nPatience was key as neither side could break the deadlock and, with the score poised at 32-32 going into the final quarter, it was clear a moment of brilliance would be required to prevent extra time.\n\nThat came when Fran Williams, who also produced the game-changing moment against Australia, leapt from nowhere to snatch the ball away from Gina Crampton, setting up Housby to score and give England a slender lead.\n\nEngland's bench were on their feet with a minute remaining after Imogen Allison produced another superb intercept and the wheels came off for New Zealand.\n\nFans in the crowd sensed a place in the final was England's and as the buzzer sounded the players flooded the court, with many in tears as they processed their historic achievement.\n\nLater on Saturday, Australia overcame Jamaica to give themselves a chance of winning a record-extending 12th world title on Sunday.\n\nA tense first half ended in stalemate before Australia garnered a slim lead in the third, pulling away by just two goals.\n\nJamaica clawed back an advantage in the final quarter but a crucial tip from defender Courtney Bruce provided the Diamonds with enough momentum to go on and take victory, setting up a mouth-watering final against England.", "Ali and Machaella braving the weather on the seafront in Brighton\n\nBrighton's Pride event celebrates its 50th birthday this weekend, with revellers facing challenges from transport and the weather.\n\nGovia Thameslink (GTR) has cancelled all trains to and from Brighton on Saturday.\n\nThe event, which attracts hundreds of thousands of people, is also set to be hit by wind and rain from Storm Antoni.\n\nOrganisers said the weather \"wouldn't stop us from having a great celebration\".\n\nThe parade went ahead from 11:00 BST despite forecasts of strong winds and rain across the UK, with amber warnings for gusts of up to 65mph (105km/h) in coastal areas.\n\nPaul Kemp, managing director of Brighton Pride, said: \"We've encouraged people to wear ponchos so it might be a little bit Glastonbury.\n\n\"That wouldn't stop us from having a great celebration and a great Pride in our city.\"\n\nRevellers vowed the wet weather would not stop them celebrating\n\nThe annual celebration is the city's largest single event, expected to boost the economy by more than £20m over the weekend.\n\nThe headliners at this year's event are the Black Eyed Peas on Saturday and Steps on Sunday.\n\nThe theme of 2023 was Dare to be Different\n\nAli and Jo Hood-Green made the seven-hour drive from Bolton, Lancashire, to be in Brighton, but said: \"It was worth it\".\n\nConnor Charles, 30, and Alex Fire drove down from London and stayed overnight.\n\nMr Charles refused to allow the murky conditions to dampen his spirits, saying: \"It's good the weather, it hasn't been as bad as what the forecast said. It's been showering.\"\n\nThe parade was full of colourful floats\n\nJamie Sanders, 36, travelled from Hastings, East Sussex, as one of the organisers for Sainsbury's parade group.\n\nWhile he was able to book a hotel overnight, out of 100 colleagues expecting to take part in the company's parade, only 60 were able to make it due to the travel disruption.\n\nBut he said the buses \"were brilliant\", picking people up across other locations to help them get there.\n\nLeo Gonzales, 54, an NHS nurse, said despite getting \"drenched\" everybody was having fun.\n\nBrighton Pride was hit by wet and windy weather from Storm Antoni\n\nAn overtime ban by the drivers union Aslef meant fewer trains could run, raising safety concerns because of the extra passengers expected.\n\nGTR said it had previously relied on train drivers volunteering to run extra services to cope with the huge crowds travelling to and from Brighton on Pride weekend, which can total 85,000 extra passengers in a day, with up to 20,000 in the busiest hours of the evening.\n\nThis year marks half a century of Pride marches in Brighton\n\nThe company said, without extra drivers, there was \"a clear risk of stranding tens of thousands of people overnight without accommodation\".\n\nIts statement added: \"We have looked at every available option but ultimately the safety of customers and our colleagues must come first. This has been an exceptionally difficult decision to make.\"\n\nThe trains cancellation was condemned by the leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, Bella Sankey.\n\nShe said: \"I think this is an appalling decision not to run any services at all.\"\n\nCoach operator National Express has laid on extra services to Brighton for Saturday.\n\nEnrico Dannunzio was taking the coach to get to Brighton Pride this year\n\nAustralian Enrico Dannunzio, who lives in South London, usually travels to Brighton Pride from London Bridge, but was able to book a coach from Victoria.\n\n\"We had to get up earlier,\" he said, \"because it's three and a half hours compared to the hour and a bit.\n\n\"We booked the coach early but it's changed timings because there's more people, so we're arriving two hours later than planned. Hopefully we still get there in time for the parade.\"\n\nKeiron Pearce travelled from Barcelona but nearly did not make it because of the train disruption\n\nKeiron Pearce travelled from Barcelona for the event but nearly cancelled because of the industrial action.\n\n\"I almost didn't go, but because I knew a coach was available I booked a ticket,\" he said.\n\nHe believes train drivers should have run services this weekend.\n\n\"The public do understand, they've certainly made their point\" Mr Pearce, who is originally from Maidenhead, said.\n\n\"But enough is enough, they're ruining people's lives. The argument's with the government, not with us.\"\n\nPride events are continuing despite wet and windy weather in Brighton\n\nThe trains cancellation have also created problems for Sussex Police.\n\n\"The big challenge for a big change like that is it introduces an unknown,\" said Ch Supt Jerry Westerman.\n\n\"We adapt and learn every year, and get better and better as we do it, now a significant change is going to change the dynamic of the event and that brings an element of risk to us.\"\n\nThis year's Pride, which has the theme of Dare to be Different. is celebrating 50 years since the first gay liberation protest march in the city in 1973.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for nationwide protests after he was handed a three-year jail sentence over corruption allegations.\n\nMr Khan was found guilty of not declaring money earned from selling gifts he received in office. He denies the charges and says he will appeal.\n\nAfter the verdict, Mr Khan was taken into custody from his home in Lahore.\n\nIn a pre-recorded statement posted after the verdict, he urged supporters to fight against the ruling.\n\n\"I have only one appeal, don't sit at home silently,\" he said in a video address posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. \"I am struggling for you and the country and your children's future,\" he added.\n\nThe former cricketer-turned-politician, 70, was elected in 2018, but was ousted in a no-confidence vote last year after falling out with Pakistan's powerful military.\n\nMr Khan is facing more than 100 cases brought against him since his removal - charges he says are politically motivated.\n\nHowever, the government has adamantly denied that there was any political motivation in Mr Khan's arrest or disqualification. Marriyum Aurangzeb, Pakistan's minister of information and broadcasting, told the BBC: \"You have to be accountable for your deeds in law. This has nothing to do with politics. A person who has been proven guilty by the court has to be arrested.\"\n\nSaturday's verdict centred on charges that Mr Khan incorrectly declared details of presents from foreign dignitaries and proceeds from their alleged sale.\n\nThe gifts - reported to be worth more than 140m Pakistani rupees ($635,000; £500,000) - included Rolex watches, a ring and a pair of cuff links.\n\n\"His dishonesty has been established beyond doubt,\" Judge Humayun Dilawar wrote in his ruling. Outside the courthouse, some pro-government demonstrators chanted \"your show is over Khan\".\n\nJudge Dilawar said police had been instructed to arrest Mr Khan immediately. Within 15 minutes of the verdict, footage began to circulate on social media showing a line of police cars and trucks taking him away.\n\nImran Khan's lawyer, Intazar Hussain Panjutha, told the BBC the trial had been conducted by \"a kangaroo-type court\" in which \"the accused was never given the opportunity to defend himself\".\n\nPolice officers outside Mr Khan's home after he was handed a three-year jail sentence\n\n\"As a consequence of today's conviction, he has been barred to take part in the politics for five years,\" Mr Panjutha said.\n\n\"But if the sentence and the conviction is suspended as we are hoping by the superior courts, he will then be able to come back to politics.\"\n\nMr Khan has been sent to Attock jail, a small facility in Punjab province with historical ties to the military, about 85km (52 miles) from the capital Islamabad. A number of members of Mr Khan's party have previously been held at the compound, local media reported.\n\nFor months he had avoided arrest, with his supporters at times fighting pitched battles with police to keep him out of custody.\n\nIn May, Mr Khan was arrested for not appearing at court as requested. He was then released, with the arrest declared illegal.\n\nWhen he was last arrested on 9 May, there were protests across Pakistan. Thousands of his supporters arrested were alleged to have been involved in the protests.\n\nSince then, Mr Khan and his political party have faced a dramatic crackdown, with many of his senior leadership arrested, before announcing they were leaving the party. Many vocal supporters of Mr Khan - who would previously post regularly about him on social media - now feel nervous to express their opinion or even have quietly deleted their previous comments.\n\nSome of those arrested supporting Mr Khan will face trial in military courts, despite an outcry from many in human rights groups.\n\nIndeed, several hours after Mr Khan's arrest, there had not been the kind of mass political protests seen in May. In Lahore, the BBC Urdu team saw some supporters who had gathered outside his home chanting and waving flags picked up by police. Around Islamabad, there's no evidence of increased security.\n\nWhen questioned by BBC HARDTalk as to whether he had created an atmosphere of hostility to the military resulting in violence, Mr Khan said he and his party had never advocated the use of violence and had a record of peaceful protest.\n\nMr Khan said the army in Pakistan was \"petrified\" of elections which his party would win \"hands down\" and, for that reason, \"they're dismantling a democracy\".\n\nPakistan's army plays a prominent role in politics, sometimes seizing power in military coups and, on other occasions, pulling levers behind the scenes.\n\nMany analysts believe Mr Khan's election win in 2018 happened with the help of the military.\n\nIn opposition, he has been one of its most vocal critics, and analysts say the army's popularity has fallen.\n\nSince being ousted, Mr Khan has been campaigning for early elections, but Saturday's ruling means he will be disqualified from running in the much anticipated poll.\n\nMs Aurangzeb insisted that there was \"no correlation\" between Saturday's ruling and he prospect of elections.\n\n\"Just because there are elections down the road doesn't mean that you can't arrest him,\" she told the BBC. She accused Mr Khan of sidestepping and evading the law.\n\nPakistan's parliament will be dissolved on August 9, leaving a caretaker government to take over in the run up to the elections.\n\nNo election date has been announced, although constitutionally they should take place by early November.\n\nHowever, on Saturday the country's law minister said the new elections would have to take place after the results of a new census were implemented.\n\nAzam Nazeer Tarar told Geo News TV that it could take about four months to produce new constituency boundaries based from the count, potentially delaying the election by several months.", "A storm with hail and heavy rain has hit the southwest German city of Reutlingen.\n\nCity officials have said the hail formed 30cm (12 inches) drifts in some areas and snowploughs were deployed.\n\nAbout 250 firefighters took part in the clean up, in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.", "Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie star as Ken and Barbie in the blockbuster film\n\nWhen Liam Riddick was six, he dreamed of dancing in movie sequences like those from the Hollywood classic Singing in the Rain.\n\nNearly 30 years on, the dancer got his dream when he was picked to be one of the Kens in this summer's biggest film sensation, Barbie.\n\nThe big-screen reinvention of the plastic doll's life by director Greta Gerwig, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as her would-be boyfriend Ken, is currently the most popular film worldwide and has already broken a number of movie industry records.\n\nLiam, 34, originally from Brynna, Rhondda Cynon Taf, got a phone call from the film's \"incredible\" choreographer Jennifer White who he already knew, saying she \"needed some bodies\" and asking if he was free.\n\nLiam Riddick as one of the Kens in Barbie\n\nHe had been a professional contemporary dancer for over a decade after studying at Coleg Gwent and London Contemporary Dance School before touring the world.\n\nHe also performed in the West End and on screen with ensembles such as the Richard Alston Dance Company and Ballet Boyz.\n\n\"I didn't really have the time,\" he said. \"I was doing something else. But I kind of worked it out, and I made it happen. I'm so glad I did because it was so much fun.\"\n\nLiam and about 40 other dancers were cast to perform in a vast dance sequence while Gosling sings I'm Just Ken - the irony being, of course, that they are all Kens, including Simu Liu's character who is Gosling's rival for Barbie's affections.\n\nThe rehearsals and filming process were both done at the Warner Brother studios (known by many for the Harry Potter studio tour on the same site) north of London, where Liam now lives, and took about three weeks last year.\n\n\"The one great thing about Barbie is it's not CGI. Everything is built. All the sets, the dream houses, everything is made. That's why the film is so fantastic,\" he said.\n\nLiam on the Barbie set at Warner Brothers' studios\n\n\"My sister used to have dolls and I think my cousin had the dreamhouse so you know the whole set-up of opening it up and seeing the slide. It's exactly as it is in the film. They've done such an incredible job with it.\n\n\"I knew what to expect in the world of [Barbie], but when you're on set and you see the dreamhouse or you see the actual real life-size one, like you're the doll almost, it's mind-blowing. Very, very cool.\"\n\nThe rehearsals process was demanding because everything in the scene had to be very specific.\n\n\"We would do rehearsals and then footage would be sent off to the director, to Greta. She would have a look and then come back and say right, we need to change this, we need to think about this direction. So that was a bit of toing and froing,\" he said.\n\n\"You'd spend so much time rehearsing a really set structure or piece of choreography, and then come back and go, oh no, I've only just got that and now we have to change it.\"\n\nThe work was hard, but there was a lot of enjoyment along the way, Liam remembers.\n\n\"The rehearsal process was really good fun. I think the whole project was fun because of the Kens that were on it - the other dancers.\n\n\"It was just a laugh, you know. You go into work and you're just so excited because everyone's really great and being part of the whole thing was just magical.\"\n\nGosling did not attend rehearsals with the dancers but Liu did rehearse his part with them.\n\n\"It was nice to share the studio with him,\" Liam said.\n\nAll the Kens: The leads and the dancers pictured with director Greta Gerwig and choreographer Jennifer White\n\nOnce the dancers went onto the set for filming, anticipation was running high. \"It was a bit of a shock. Everyone's very excited because on set was amazing.\n\n\"In the film it's a big open white space so there's no actual set but they have these stairs that go up either side. So very vast, and it was all done with lighting,\" Liam explained.\n\n\"But then Ryan Gosling walks in the room and you just go - 'that's Ryan Gosling!'\n\n\"Once you get over the initial 'oh my god', everyone's human. Everyone's the scene, and it that scene we're all Kens dancing about being Ken, so you're on the same level in that sense. So that was nice.\"\n\nAlthough Liam knew the film was going to be big because of the roster of stars both starring in and producing it, he was unprepared for the exact extent of the phenomenon Barbie has become since its release.\n\nLiam's favourite type of dancing remains contemporary in front of a live audience\n\n\"I didn't expect the amount of hype that it was getting. It's the biggest film in the world right now and it's just bonkers.\n\n\"Covid hit cinemas as well as dance and arts and all that. But to have a film that's completely sold out still and it's been maybe a week, maybe two now since it got released, it's just incredible.\n\n\"It's really lovely to be a part of that hype. Even if it is just a small smidge of that, my name is still in that credit.\"\n\nLiam was expecting the film to a \"fun, silly kind of film - being Barbie you just expect it, but it's a really great film.\n\n\"It's very funny, it's got a lot of heart and it's not just for children. I think it's split 50:50, if not more projected towards adults.\"\n\nAnd taking part fulfilled a long-held ambition for him.\n\n\"I was a big fan when I was younger of the big Hollywood films like Singing in the Rain and they do the dream sequence, the big vast open space.\n\n\"When we were on set and we were doing a take and they'd shout 'action', I'd have that small moment of pure joy just living my little six-year-old boy's fantasy of being in Singing in the Rain and doing these dream sequences,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel like the whole project and being a part of it was my little gift to my six-year-old self to say, look at you now, look what you've done.\"\n\nLiam is not the only Welshman who made an appearance in the film, with Gavin and Stacey actor Rob Brydon playing Sugar Daddy Ken.\n\nIt also features stars of Wales-filmed Sex Education, Ncuti Gatwa and Emma Mackey, who play one of the Kens and Barbies respectively, and Connor Swindells, who plays a Mattel employee.\n\nThere are several Barbies in the film, including Issa Rae, Hari Nef, Scottish actress Sharon Rooney, Alexandra Shipp, popstar Dua Lipa, whose song Dance The Night features on the soundtrack, and Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie.\n\nWill Ferrell, Helen Mirren, Rhea Pearlman and Michael Cera also have roles, while Kingsley Ben-Adir, who recently looked to Butetown in Cardiff for inspiration for his part in Marvel's Secret Invasion, plays another Ken.", "Wrex-Men: Club co-owner Ryan Reynolds and guest Hugh Jackman - who play superheroes in Marvel movies - helped cheer on Wrexham's own on-pitch heroes\n\nHollywood actor Hugh Jackman joined Wrexham fans to watch the club's return to the Football League after 15 years.\n\nThe Wolverine star joined celebrity owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney at Wrexham AFC's first game in football's fourth tier since 2008.\n\nThe return has been a dream come true for long-suffering fans.\n\nHowever, celebrations were short-lived as the club was on the receiving end of a 5-3 defeat to MK Dons.\n\nSpeaking before the match, Sandy Domingos-Shipley, from Toronto in Canada, said: \"I'm continuing the party I had at the last game in Wrexham and ended at 4am.\"\n\nShe added: \"We're here for the first game of the season and I wanted to party with some of the locals again - we've been here a few times last season so hopefully it will be a good win today and we can do some more partying later.\"\n\nWrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds posed for pictures with fans before kick-off\n\nSandy said she had lived in the UK for a few years and liked to \"get some Canadians together and use Wrexham as a meeting place\".\n\nShe said the group started with about 60 people and now has 180, with members from \"around the world\".\n\n\"The community have been very welcoming,\" she said.\n\nWrexham won the National League title last season with 111 points, while Saturday's opponents, MK Dons, were relegated from League One.\n\nFans gathered outside the gates at Wrexham's ground early to try to get a glimpse of any celebrity rivals - and they weren't disappointed with Jackman pausing to wave to them.\n\nHugh Jackman was also at the Wrexham game with Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney\n\nIn February, Jackman told the BBC that many of Wrexham's rival teams offered him co-ownership when Ryan Reynolds bought the Welsh club.\n\nThe two celebrities have had a comedic feud for several years.\n\nSandy Domingos-Shipley (second left) is one of Wrexham's many international fans\n\nMandy and Harry Robinson, from Wrexham, have been coming to the stadium for in excess of 20 years.\n\nMandy said she had seen \"really bad times\" to the point where die-hard fans had to hold bucket collections in town to save the club.\n\n\"It was a bit upsetting but hey, we're here now.\"\n\nLong-time Wrexham fans the Collins family said they hoped to get a glimpse of the club's celebrity owners at Saturday's game\n\nThe Collins family are season ticket holders and have been revelling in Wrexham's success since the take over by Reynolds and McElhenney.\n\n\"I think they've done an astonishing thing in terms of unlocking the potential of the club and the town and it all started with their investment,\" said Dan Collins.\n\nCommunity groups have also been given plenty to shout about too as many have been given free tickets to matches to make the club as accessible as possible.\n\nSam Jones from Dynamic Wrexham, a charity that works with young people with disabilities, said: \"It's absolutely fantastic. I think it's 56 different community groups that they've reached with the ticket scheme, so that's about 5,000 tickets in total.\"\n\nCelebrations were short-lived for Wrexham as the team suffered a 5-3 defeat in their league opener\n\nThe \"Wrex-factor\" has encouraged fans to look back at the city's footballing history.\n\nThe Football Museum for Wales has launched a guided heritage tour to highlight the places in Wrexham where significant sporting moments occurred, including the founding of the FAW in 1876.\n\nIt also looks at the impact women and diverse communities have had on the sport.\n\nFootball coach Anne-Marie Withers, who has taken part in the tour, said: \"I found it all really interesting and it gave me a massive insight into the history of football in Wrexham.\"\n\nDelwyn Derrick, one of the tour guides, said re-joining the Football League was another huge moment for Wrexham fans.\n\n\"I think that's a huge point of pride for everyone who supports the club or just generally from the town to see Wrexham back in the Football League where we have always believed they belong.\"", "What has been described as the biggest search for the Loch Ness Monster since the early 1970s is due to be held later this month.\n\nDrones fitted with infrared cameras are to be flown over the loch, and a hydrophone is to be used to detect unusual underwater sounds.\n\nOrganisers said volunteers would also look for possible signs of a creature from safe vantage points on land.\n\nThe search is to be held on 26 and 27 August.\n\nThe Loch Ness Centre in Drumnadrochit and a volunteer research team called Loch Ness Exploration are organising the effort.\n\nThey said it would be the biggest search for the monster since the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau studied the loch in 1972.\n\nThe bureau was set up in the 1960s to uncover the existence of a large beast in the waters.\n\nPeople can pay for trips on the loch during this month's search.\n\nAlan McKenna, of Loch Ness Exploration, said: \"It's our hope to inspire a new generation of Loch Ness enthusiasts and by joining this large scale surface watch, you'll have a real opportunity to personally contribute towards this fascinating mystery that has captivated so many people from around the world.\"\n\nPaul Nixon, general manager of the Loch Ness Centre, said the search would involve technology not previously used before.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Volunteers' safety is of course a priority during the quest.\n\n\"All viewing points are on land, and volunteers will be briefed by organisers each morning on suitable viewing points to ensure their safety.\"\n\nA member of the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau during a search for the creature\n\nIn 2019, scientists said the creatures behind repeated sightings of the fabled Loch Ness Monster may be giant eels.\n\nResearchers from New Zealand tried to catalogue all living species in the loch by extracting DNA from water samples.\n\nFollowing analysis, the scientists ruled out the presence of large animals said to be behind reports of a monster.\n\nNo evidence of a prehistoric marine reptile called a plesiosaur or a large fish such as a sturgeon were found.\n\nIn April 1933, hotel manageress Aldie Mackay told of seeing a whale-like creature and the loch's water \"cascading and churning\".\n\nThe Inverness Courier newspaper reported the sighting and the editor at the time, Evan Barron, suggested the beast be described as a \"monster\" - kick-starting the modern myth of Nessie.\n\nIn an interview years later, Mrs Mackay said she had seen something \"black, wet, with the water rolling off it\" moving in a circle. She described it as a \"beast\" to her husband.\n\nThe legend dates back to the Middle Ages when Irish monk St Columba is said to have encountered a creature in the Ness, a river that flows from Loch Ness.", "Stranded rail passengers at London's King's Cross station during the July 2022 heatwave\n\nTravel disruption will be worsened by climate change unless more money is spent on the UK's transport networks, a government advisor has warned.\n\nIntense rainfall and heatwaves have hit road and rail travel with flash floods, landslips and equipment failures.\n\nSir John Armitt said the UK must either accept more travel disruption or spend more money on maintenance and upgrades.\n\nNetwork Rail's safety and engineering director Martin Frobisher said companies were \"racing to catch up\".\n\nHe insisted more was being spent than ever and technology was improving, but \"every year we...break records on heat, on rain, on wind\".\n\nSir John, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, said leaders including himself may previously have \"underestimated the impact of climate change and the rate at which we're seeing those changes\".\n\nThe former chief executive of Network Rail also believes there are societal and political choices ahead, when it comes to keeping our transport networks running as reliably.\n\nClimate change is already affecting how we get around. Transport bosses are trying to react, to keep things running smoothly.\n\nLast summer's heatwaves caused widespread train cancellations, caused by issues including buckled rails and fallen overhead power lines.\n\nRailway tracks are engineered to cope with a certain range of temperatures, but when it gets very hot they can bend. When overhead power lines sag in the heat, they can get snagged in train equipment and be pulled down.\n\nHot, dry weather followed by heavy rain can trigger landslips, or flash flooding.\n\nNetwork Rail, which is responsible for maintaining thousands of miles of railway across Britain, is trying to adapt.\n\nSpending on drainage has increased, and technology is being deployed to remotely monitor rail temperature. Simple measures like painting rails white are still used to try and prevent over-heating.\n\nA huge section of embankment in Hook, Hampshire, collapsed earlier this year\n\nAfter three people died in August 2020 when a train hit a landslip near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, Network Rail has developed new software to predict sudden, torrential rainfall.\n\nNicola Morgan, who works for Network Rail in its Wales and Borders region, said there had been \"significant changes in recent years\", with stronger weather fronts and powerful storms.\n\nHer colleagues in the Cardiff operations centre use heat sensors and cameras to keep track of conditions around the region. This won't necessarily prevent disruption to services, but can flag anything unsafe.\n\nMeasures like speed restrictions can be introduced, and maintenance teams alerted. Drones can now be sent to see what's going on.\n\nMajor roads can also be severely affected by extreme weather.\n\nAngela Halliwell, who works for National Highways, said \"we had some instances last year where some pockets of the road did soften or in some cases melt.\"\n\nAt the same time, \"we have noticed an increase in surface water flooding through the intense rainfall\".\n\nOn the M4 motorway, drainage is being improved as part of roadworks to update the central reservation\n\nNew drainage standards have been brought in \"in line with future climate projections\", Ms Halliwell said.\n\nTo try and make roads more resilient to heat, different surfacing is being introduced which would not \"melt or rut, potentially crack or joint\",\n\nSir John Armitt says ultimately, \"we get the infrastructure we pay for\".\n\nWhile Network Rail's Martin Frobisher thinks the changing climate will be \"the biggest challenge for this century\".", "Prosecutors in Donald Trump's upcoming trial have asked for limits on what the ex-president can publicly say about the case, after he shared a threatening message online.\n\nIn a filing late on Friday night, the prosecutors said they feared Mr Trump might disclose confidential evidence.\n\nThey justified the move citing a post by Mr Trump shared on Friday, saying it targeted people involved in the case.\n\nBut Mr Trump's team insisted the post was directed at political opponents.\n\nOn the Truth social network Mr Trump wrote \"IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!\" on Friday afternoon, just a day after he pleaded not guilty to four charges in the alleged election fraud case.\n\nThe charges - which include conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens - stem from the former president's actions in the wake of the 2020 election, including around the 6 January Capitol riot.\n\nIn their filing, the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith said the post raised concerns that Mr Trump could publicly reveal secret material, including grand jury transcripts obtained from prosecutors.\n\nNoting that Mr Trump has a history of attacking judges, attorneys and witnesses against him, Mr Smith's office warned that his behaviour could have \"a harmful chilling effect on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case\".\n\nThe Republican has already hit out against the special counsel, telling a crowd of supporters in Alabama on Friday that Mr Smith was a \"deranged human being\" and \"a bad guy\".\n\nThe filing added that Friday's post \"specifically or by implication\" referred to those involved in the criminal case against him.\n\nIt added the order which they are seeking - known as a protective order - would not be \"overly restrictive\", saying that it did not prevent Mr Trump and his team discussing the case in the media and would allow him to access discovery materials for use in his defence.\n\n\"All the proposed order seeks to prevent is the improper dissemination or use of discovery materials, including to the public,\" the filing said.\n\nJudge Tanya Chutkan gave Mr Trump's legal team until 17:00 local time on Monday to respond to the submission. Mr Trump's lawyers asked for three more days, but the judge denied their request.\n\nIn a statement shortly after the filing, a spokesperson for Mr Trump defended the social media post and insisted that he had been targeting political opponents.\n\n\"The Truth post cited is the definition of political speech,\" the statement said, adding that it was in response to \"dishonest special interest groups\" and political action committees attacking him.\n\nSpeaking later at a campaign rally in South Carolina, Mr Trump said he regards his indictment as a \"great badge of honour\".\n\nHe told the event that he was being indicted \"because they're afraid of all of us\", and wanted to silence him and his supporters - but America would be free again if he returned to the White House.\n\nJudge Chutkan, a noted hardliner on cases against those accused of participation in the Capitol riots, is expected to call in attorneys from both sides on 28 August to discuss setting a trial date.\n\nProsecutors have already said that the case would benefit from a speedy trial.\n\nBut Mr Trump's defence attorney John Lauro has said his team will need more time to prepare. He said the prosecution's timeline was \"somewhat absurd\" given that the investigation itself had taken three years.\n\nMr Trump now faces five upcoming trials - three criminal trials which include the classified documents case, the hush money case, and these election charges; and two civil trials over business practices and alleged defamation of a woman who accused him of rape.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nSpain reached the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup for the first time after producing an outstanding display of firepower to send Switzerland out.\n\nLa Roja were beaten 4-0 in their final group game by Japan five days earlier in Wellington but bounced back in style to score four times during a dominant first half showing in front of 43,217 - a record crowd for a football match in New Zealand.\n\nAitana Bonmati swept the Spanish ahead before Switzerland equalised when Laia Codina, without looking up, hit a back pass past her own keeper and into the net from 10 yards inside her own half.\n\nSpain soon restored their lead through Alba Redondo's header before Barcelona midfielder Bonmati produced a classy finish to make it 3-1.\n\nIn an incredible opening half, Codina made up for her own goal by adding Spain's fourth after a scramble inside the box.\n\nThey added another after half-time through Jennifer Hermoso's clinical finish - her third goal of this tournament.\n\nJorge Vilda's side are the first to reach the last eight and will play the winners of Sunday's match between the Netherlands and South Africa in the quarter-finals in Wellington next Friday (02:00 BST).\n• None Reaction and analysis as Spain hammer Switzerland to reach the quarter-finals\n\nSpain produced the perfect response after being written off following the 4-0 hammering against Japan.\n\nBoss Vilda promised a response from his players after that comprehensive defeat and he got one as the side ranked sixth in the world got the job done before half-time in Auckland.\n\nVilda responded to the Japan defeat by making five changes, giving a debut to goalkeeper Cata Coll in place of first-choice Misa Rodriguez, who had started the previous three games in New Zealand.\n\nColl will not have appreciated the wild back pass by her Barcelona team-mate Codina.\n\nThat aside, this was a highly impressive performance from a team that came into this World Cup with a cloud of doubt hanging over the squad after a feud between Vilda and many senior players.\n\nThose differences have been put aside for now and Spain look like a team playing in harmony. This was their third win in four games in New Zealand.\n\nOne step too far for Switzerland\n\nThis was one game too many for Group A winners Switzerland, who had qualified for the knockout stage despite winning one game out of the three and scoring two goals in 270 minutes.\n\nTen of the starting XI at Eden Park were starting their fourth game after three successive clean sheets yet they were overwhelmed by their opponents.\n\nSwiss boss Inka Grings had said that finding goals was a priority in training yet they struggled to trouble Spain's defence and registered just one attempt on target.\n\nThey head home from their second Fifa Women's World Cup having topped a group containing Norway, co-hosts New Zealand and the Philippines.\n\nHaving required a 121st minute winner in a play-off against Wales in Zurich to qualify, their World Cup ended in disappointing fashion, with their players looking crestfallen as they walked around the pitch applauding fans after full time.\n\n\"My team has invested everything at this tournament and I am very proud of them,\" said Grings.\n\n\"There is nothing I would change and I would select the same players again. There is nothing my players did wrong. They played a really good tournament. Maybe we should have been more defensive against Spain.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Fabienne Humm (Switzerland) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Sandrine Mauron.\n• None Noëlle Maritz (Switzerland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Ona Batlle (Spain) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Alexia Putellas.\n• None Attempt saved. Eva Navarro (Spain) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Luke just went up in flames and I started screaming\"\n\nA teenager has told how she saw her boyfriend go up in flames following a gas explosion at her home.\n\nHollie Lawrence, 19, and Luke Cresswell, 20, were both severely burned in the blast in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil on 1 February.\n\nHollie's father, Nial Lawrence, 54, claims he reported the smell of gas to housing association Merthyr Housing twice in the days before the blast.\n\nMerthyr Housing has declined to respond to this claim.\n\nThis article contains some upsetting language and images\n\nFollowing the explosion Hollie suffered a collapsed lung, was in a coma for eight days and her family was told she may not survive.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive has found the explosion was caused by a leak from a gas pipe behind the units in the kitchen of the property.\n\nGas company Wales & West Utilities said it has received no reports of the smell of gas prior to the explosion and that the blast was unrelated to the gas mains network.\n\nHollie was burnt on 30% of her body, suffered a collapsed lung and was in a coma for eight days following the blast\n\nMr Lawrence has claimed he first complained of an \"unusual gas smell\" to Merthyr Housing on 24 January.\n\nAfter nobody came out he said he called back to report the matter again on 30 January, two days before the explosion.\n\nHollie, who was in the kitchen with Luke at the time of the blast, said she was making a cup of tea when it happened.\n\n\"I looked at Luke and he just went up in flames and I started screaming,\" she said.\n\n\"One moment I'm on my chair and the next I'm by the back door… I just couldn't move. I felt like it was going on for about three minutes, I was screaming in pain.\"\n\nThe family were housed in a hotel for four months before being moved into sheltered accommodation\n\nLuke added: \"Everything just went up in flames, I felt like I was on fire. It was a horrendous feeling, I've never felt anything like it in my life.\"\n\n\"I ran out and tried to turn the shower on because I felt like I was on fire, but nothing. Then I was just calling Hollie, I just wouldn't leave the house without her.\"\n\nMr Lawrence, who had been watching a film in bed with his wife Sarah at the time of the blast, said the bed was lifted into the air and the bedroom doorframe was blown off the wall.\n\n\"It seemed like a plane just crashed into the house,\" he said. \"That was the first thing I thought of but then straight away went 'no, gas explosion, because of the smell'.\n\n\"I just grabbed my wife... 'get out quick now'. Got onto the landing and my 13-year-old daughter was coming out of her bedroom, bawling in tears, screaming,\" he said.\n\nHollie was in a coma for eight days in hospital\n\nHollie said after she and Luke were out of the house with the rest of the family she began to feel numb.\n\n\"I remember looking at my hands and they were just dripping off with skin, it was all coming off.\"\n\nHollie and Luke were then taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea, where Hollie was in a coma for eight days.\n\n\"I thought I was awake the entire time, it was horrible. It was a really painful experience,\" she said.\n\nHollie has had to end her apprenticeship as a tattoo artist due to her burns\n\nMr Lawrence said he Sarah were taken aside by hospital staff and told it was \"minute by minute\" as to whether Hollie would make it.\n\n\"Her life was in the balance for the first 72 hours,\" he said.\n\nLuke said after asking doctors about Hollie's condition he was told it was not certain she was going to be ok.\n\n\"It was the most terrible news I'd ever received, because she means so much to me,\" he said.\n\nHe said that the first time he saw Hollie after she gained consciousness he \"just couldn't stop smiling.\"\n\nHollie Lawrence and her boyfriend Luke were in hospital for about three weeks and her father Nial says he was told by doctors that she may not survive\n\nHollie, who was training to be a tattoo artist before the explosion, said she \"can't even pick up the gun anymore\".\n\n\"I feel that I've let down the people that I worked with, but they've been really good to me,\" she said.\n\n\"My legs are in agony all of the time, I have to have a walking stick which is a nightmare, my hands - I used to be very good at makeup, I can't do that any more.\n\n\"I had to learn how to walk again, learn how to grab stuff, I had to do everything all over again like I did as a kid.\"\n\nHollie says she has had to learn to walk again\n\nMerthyr Housing has declined to respond to the family's claims that the smell of gas was reported to them before the explosion.\n\nWales & West Utilities said: \"We had not been called to the property prior to 1 February, and no reports of a smell of gas in the area had been made to us. We can confirm that the incident was not related to the gas mains network.\n\n\"The pipes inside a property, such as the pipes leading into a home appliance like a cooker, are not part of the gas network that we manage.\"\n\n\"If anyone ever smells gas, thinks they have a gas leak, or suspects carbon monoxide poisoning, they should call us on 0800 111 999.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said in February that the explosion was the result of a \"leak of natural gas\", and that no gas safety breaches were identified.\n\nSouth Wales Police announced on Wednesday it had found \"no element of criminality connected to the explosion, and we will not be conducting any further enquiries into this incident\".\n\nA spokesperson for the force said: \"This is now a matter for the housing association and the gas supplier.\"", "Ukraine's electronic warfare units are fighting invisible battles against the Russians\n\nIn the early days of the invasion of Ukraine, experts were surprised at how poorly the Russian army's electronic warfare units performed. But nearly 18 months later they are causing significant problems for Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\n\"Use single rounds,\" whispers a Ukrainian soldier hiding behind a wall near the eastern front line. \"This way we will be able to last till the morning [if they come closer].\"\n\nThe soldier's call-sign is Alain Delon, like the famous French film star of the 1970s. And like something from a spy movie, he is part of a lightly armed team of electronic intelligence officers - a high-priority target for the Russian army.\n\nAlain fears Russian troops may have spotted their antenna and started heading for their base. He decides to change position. The key in electronic warfare is being invisible to the enemy.\n\nTheir job is to detect electronic signals from all kinds of Russian weapons - including drones, air defence systems, jammers, artillery, and multiple rocket launchers. They work out where the signals originate and the type of weapon, then pass on coordinates to other units that will aim to destroy the target.\n\nThis is a war of technologies\n\nThe information also helps commanders build up a picture of the battlefield.\n\n\"This is a war of technologies,\" Col Ivan Pavlenko, chief of the Ukrainian General Staff's electronic and cyber warfare department, tells the BBC.\n\n\"If I see a number of radio stations in the same place, I understand it's a command post. If I see some radio stations begin to move forward, I understand it could be a counter-offensive or an offensive.\"\n\nThis is an invisible conflict carrying on in parallel with the explosions, missile strikes and trench warfare that dominate the news.\n\nAlmost every modern weapon - from artillery installations to high precision missiles - uses radio waves, microwaves, infrared or other frequencies to receive data. This makes them vulnerable to electronic warfare, which aims to intercept and suppress those signals.\n\n\"If you're losing in electronic warfare, your forces will turn into a 19th century army,\" says Yaroslav Kalinin, chief executive of Infozahyst, a company that produces electronic warfare systems for the Ukrainian army. \"You will be 10 steps behind your enemy.\"\n\nJust like the Russians, the Ukrainians are trying to electronically jam their enemies' communications and weaponry\n\nIn recent years Russia has developed a range of jamming technology. This includes:\n\nBy the time of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia had 18,000 electronic warfare troops, Col Pavlenko says.\n\nBut the effect was less impressive than many had expected.\n\n\"They were trying to break down our radars, to penetrate our air defence systems,\" says Yaroslav Kalinin. \"They were partially successful at this, but not completely.\"\n\nUkrainian air defence systems were still able to shoot down Russian jets. Russia's lack of air supremacy contributed to its failure to capture Kyiv quickly.\n\nRussian forces also failed to shut down communications, which allowed the Ukrainian military to organise their defences. Although some military satellite networks were jammed, cellular and internet communications were largely unaffected.\n\nWhen Russian troops were advancing towards Mykolaiv in February 2022, villagers used mobile phones to tip off the Ukrainian military about the movement of Russian columns.\n\nThe unit's soldiers cannot show their faces, to protect their identity\n\nExpecting a walkover, Moscow may have thought they wouldn't need to fully deploy electronic warfare systems. But Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, a US think tank, says another problem was that electronic warfare units couldn't keep up with the rest of the troops.\n\n\"Russian systems are large unwieldy, vehicle-borne systems that are designed to be on the defensive,\" he says. \"And as a result, their electronic warfare systems weren't very agile, they weren't very fast and they weren't very numerous.\"\n\nBut Russia has learned from its mistakes, he says. Instead of using large equipment that can be easily spotted and destroyed, it is now increasingly relying on smaller, more mobile devices.\n\nBryan Clark says Russia has managed to deploy hundreds of mobile electronic warfare units along the front line in an attempt to slow down Ukraine's counter-offensive. These range from GPS jammers to systems that suppress radar and prevent US aircraft identifying targets for Ukraine to attack.\n\nRussian systems such as Zhitel and Pole-21 are proving to be particularly effective to jam GPS and other satellite links. They can disable drones that direct artillery fire and carry out kamikaze attacks on Russian troops.\n\nMany of the sophisticated weapons provided to Ukraine by Nato countries are vulnerable to such jamming too because they use a GPS signal for navigation.\n\nThese hidden units go out in the field to track down Russian jammers so they can be destroyed\n\n\"Zhitel can jam a GPS signal within 30km of the jammer,\" says Mr Clark. \"For weapons like [US-made] JDAM bombs, which use just a GPS receiver to guide it to the target, that's sufficient to lose its geolocation and go off target.\"\n\nThe same applies to the guided rockets fired by the Himars multiple rocket system, which made a big contribution to Ukraine's successful offensives last autumn.\n\nBoth sides have been trying to develop counter-measures against each other's jamming, including reprogramming weapons.\n\nBryan Clarke describes it as an intense competition of \"move and counter-move\".\n\nCol Pavlenko does not deny that Russian systems can reduce the efficiency and accuracy of the weapons Ukraine has received from its Western partners. This just makes targeting Russian electronic warfare systems even more important, he says.\n\n\"Before we strike with a precision-guided munition, we have to provide intelligence. Is there any suppression in that area? If that area is affected by a jamming signal, we have to find the jammer and destroy it, and only then use this weapon.\"\n\nSince February 2022 Ukraine has destroyed more than 100 major Russian electronic warfare systems, he says. The BBC cannot independently verify these numbers.\n\nIntelligence units like Alain's work relentlessly to increase this number, by locating them.\n\nNow at a new location, his team has intercepted radio communications between Russian soldiers, and they are listening in. It's a conversation between Russian artillerymen. Alain's team is now working to get their coordinates. In a war, he says, every bit of information can be important.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA controversial rule which deducted living costs from compensation paid to wrongly jailed people has been scrapped.\n\nThe government rethink follows the case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit.\n\nHe welcomed the move but said he still faces a two-year wait for his payment.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Malkinson said: \"It's a step in the right direction. But there's much more that needs changing too.\n\n\"You know, you don't want to just put a sticking plaster on something that's mortally wounded.\"\n\nHe has described it as \"sickening, abhorrent, repugnant\" that a percentage of his compensation could have been reduced before Sunday's announcement.\n\nPeople who are wrongly jailed for more than 10 years can be paid up to £1m under a government compensation scheme.\n\nBut since a House of Lords ruling in 2007, that total figure can be reduced to take into account \"savings\" individuals made on things like housing and food while imprisoned.\n\nHowever, the Ministry of Justice said its independent assessors who make the deductions have not done this in the last 10 years.\n\nMPs said individuals whose payments were reduced should now be reimbursed.\n\nMr Malkinson has been calling for the living costs rule to be removed since the Court of Appeal cleared him last month of a 2003 rape in Salford.\n\nHe was convicted by a jury on the basis of a prosecution which relied solely on identification evidence but a new DNA investigation has now linked another suspect to the crime.\n\nMr Malkinson was originally sentenced with a seven-year minimum term but was held for much longer because he refused to admit to a crime he knew he did not commit.\n\nHe was released in 2020 having always maintained his innocence and could now be in line for compensation after his conviction was formally quashed after his latest appeal.\n\nGreater Manchester Police apologised to him last month and admitted their investigation resulted in a \"grave miscarriage of justice\".\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk confirmed the rule would be scrapped, calling it a \"common sense change which will ensure victims do not face paying twice for crimes they did not commit\".\n\nHe said: \"Fairness is a core pillar of our justice system and it is not right that victims of devastating miscarriages of justice can have deductions made for saved living expenses.\"\n\nBut the government has not committed to reimbursing wrongly convicted people who have had the deduction applied to their compensation since the rule was introduced.\n\nMr Malkinson called for an overhaul of the jury and appeals system to give wrongly convicted people more protections, and said he believes \"there should be consequences\" for those who secured his imprisonment.\n\nHe said even with the living costs rule removed, he expects to wait two years for any compensation while the independent board which determines how much he is entitled to makes its decision.\n\nHe continued: \"I'm struggling. I'm living on benefits. I'm jobless, I'm homeless pretty much... I'm pretty much bereft of everything.\"\n\nCalling for the system to be speeded up and requirements to be simplified, he said: \"It's a silly barrier that's been artificially erected... it's inexcusable. It's not justified.\"\n\nA House of Commons library document from 2015 describes compensation as \"the exception rather than the rule\" in miscarriage of justice cases.\n\nEmily Bolton, director of the charity Appeal and Mr Malkinson's solicitor, said some wrongly convicted people are \"denied compensation altogether because of a restrictive test which flies in the face of the presumption of innocence\".\n\nShe added: \"The state robbed [Mr Malkinson] of the best years of his life. Changing this one rule is not an adequate response.\n\n\"We need a complete overhaul of the appeals system, which took two decades to acknowledge this obvious miscarriage of justice.\"\n\nThere have been calls from some MPs for the government to review cases where compensation payments have had living costs deducted, and to reimburse those individuals if necessary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson speaks to Radio 4's Today programme about his first night of freedom\n\nThe chair of the Commons Justice Committee, Conservative MP Sir Bob Neill, told the BBC: \"I'm very glad that the government have listened to what I think was the overwhelming reaction from the public and politicians about this.\"\n\nHe continued: \"There is a bigger piece of work that needs to be done about reforming compensation, both for victims of crime and for victims of miscarriages of justice, because the process is long-winded.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with the PA news agency, Sir Bob said: \"I wonder if the government could consider ex-gratia payments on a case-by-case basis to make up for that if people can demonstrate they fulfil all the criteria.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat justice spokesman Alistair Carmichael echoed that sentiment, calling on the government to review past cases and \"compensate these individuals fully\".", "Clinical trials showed the pill helped to significantly reduce depressive symptoms within three days\n\nThe US has approved the first pill for postpartum depression.\n\nThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said zuranolone, sold under the brand name Zurzuvae, has been approved as a once-daily pill taken for two weeks.\n\nUntil now, treatment for postpartum depression (PPD) was available only as an intravenous injection, the FDA said.\n\nDrug manufacturers Sage Therapeutics and Biogen said the pill is expected to be available later this year. No price has yet been announced.\n\nSimilar to other forms of depression, symptoms of postpartum depression (PPD) can include sadness, loss of energy, suicidal thoughts, decreased ability to feel pleasure, or cognitive impairment, according to the FDA.\n\nIt is estimated that one in seven women experience symptoms of PPD in the US, research has found.\n\n\"Postpartum depression is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition in which women experience sadness, guilt, worthlessness—even, in severe cases, thoughts of harming themselves or their child,\" said Tiffany Farchione, head of psychiatry in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.\n\n\"And, because postpartum depression can disrupt the maternal-infant bond, it can also have consequences for the child's physical and emotional development.\"\n\nAccess to an oral medication will be beneficial for many women \"coping with extreme, and sometimes life-threatening, feelings\", she added.\n\nClinical trials showed the pill helped to significantly reduce depressive symptoms within three days. The effect of the medication was maintained at four weeks after the last dose, the FDA said.\n\nIt noted that the most common side-effects from taking Zurzuvae can include drowsiness, dizziness, diarrhoea, fatigue, the common cold, and urinary tract infection.\n\nThe agency said labelling contains a boxed warning noting that Zurzuvae can affect a person's ability to drive and perform other potentially hazardous activities. It recommends patients should not drive or operate heavy machinery for at least 12 hours after taking it.\n\nSage Therapeutics and Biogen had also sought approval to use zuranolone for major depressive disorder (MDD), or clinical depression. However, the FDA said the medication did not provide substantial evidence of effectiveness and said an additional study or studies would be needed.\n\nThe companies said they were evaluating their next steps.\n\nSage Therapeutic said it was \"highly disappointed for patients, particularly amid the current mental health crisis and millions of people with MDD struggling to find symptom relief.\"", "When an intruder broke into the home of retired 87-year-old Marjorie Perkins, he might have thought an older woman would not put up much of a fight.\n\n\"That was the worst part - to wake up in the dark and have this man standing over you,\" the former primary school teacher of 35 years told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm going to cut you,\" the young burglar said to her during the break-in at Brunswick, Maine.\n\nThough she was terrified, Ms Perkins leapt into action and fought back.\n\nThe 17-year-old suspect has been charged with burglary, criminal threatening, assault and consuming liquor as a minor and is being held at a juvenile detention centre.\n\n\"I thought if I'm going to be cut,\" Ms Perkins told the BBC, \"I'm going to kick. So I jumped into my shoes as fast as I could.\"\n\nShe used a lawn chair that was near her bed to defend herself as he came towards her.\n\nHe punched her cheek and forehead and kept knocking her against the wall.\n\nThough it's a quiet neighbourhood, she said, Ms Perkins' house is situated on an intersection where people are often coming and going, so she \"hollered out the window for help\".\n\nHer town has about 21,000 residents.\n\nThey \"had the chair fight for quite a while\" before \"he got tired and headed for the kitchen\", she said.\n\n\"I kept telling him to get out,\" Ms Perkins recalled.\n\nSuddenly he became \"limp looking\" and said he was \"awfully hungry\".\n\nWhen she told him he needed help, he said: \"I've had help before but it hasn't done much good.\"\n\nSo Ms Perkins gave him a box of crackers with peanut butter and honey, two protein shakes and two tangerines.\n\n\"He didn't touch any of those - he ate one cracker,\" she said.\n\nWhile he was eating, she called the emergency line 911 on her old rotary phone.\n\nHe fled the scene, out the front door.\n\nBy the time police arrived at Ms Perkins' home they told her they already had the unidentified teenager in custody.\n\nA police sniffer dog had tracked him to a nearby street where his grandmother lives.\n\nAll of the doors and windows of her mobile home were locked, but they discovered he had managed to break in near a window unit air conditioner.\n\nDuring the altercation, he told her he had mowed her lawn \"a long time ago\".\n\nShe remembers a \"little boy coming here\" maybe eight years ago, she said.\n\nIn another odd twist of fate, Ms Perkins was eating at a diner following the incident when a waitress sat down at her booth and said: \"I know who the boy was, who did this to you - he's my nephew.\"\n\nAccording to the woman, he has committed previous offences.\n\nSince the break-in happened, she has received a lot of support from her neighbours, those in her line-dancing group and even reunited with half-sisters she has not spoken to in half a century.\n\nHer story has been widely picked up by other international outlets.\n\nMs Perkins is surprised that people have taken such an interest in her story when there is so much else going on in the world.\n\nBut she said: \"I think it does bring some hope or positivity.\n\n\"A lot of people have been quite amazed that I was brave enough to pick up a chair and fend him off.\"", "Texan rapper Travis Scott has two children with Kylie Jenner\n\nTravis Scott has fended off Anne-Marie to secure his first UK number one album for his digital-only release, Utopia.\n\nFellow rappers Dave and Central Cee remained at the top of the singles chart, claiming the longest-running UK rap number one with Sprinter.\n\nSinéad O'Connor's biggest hit, Nothing Compares 2 U, re-entered the top 40 on Friday for the first time since 1990, following her death last week.\n\nLizzo's song Pink shot up 12 places to 27, amid allegations of misconduct.\n\nThe singer, whose latest offering features on the Barbie movie soundtrack, is being sued by three of her former dancers over claims of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment, which she denies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Crystal Williams, Arianna Davis and Noelle Rodriguez say Lizzo \"needs to be held accountable\"\n\nLike Lizzo, Travis Scott, 32, was raised in Houston, and his first UK number one album also saw the biggest streaming week for an LP so far this year.\n\nDespite narrowly landing in second place, Essex pop singer Anne-Marie's LP, Unhealthy, still claimed the fastest-selling album of the year so far by a UK female solo artist.\n\nScott's album arrived a week after he told fans that his cancelled live show in front of Egypt's pyramids will one day go ahead. The sold-out desert gig - timed to coincide with the record's release - was cancelled at the last minute due to \"complex production issues\", organisers said.\n\nTravis Scott has performed a handful of live shows since his Astroworld tour in 2021\n\nHis new concept album includes the singles K-pop - featuring Bad Bunny and The Weeknd, as well as Delresto (Echoes) and Meltdown - this week's highest new entry at number 10. Two more Utopia tracks, FE!N ft. Playboi Carti and HYAENA also charted on Friday.\n\nThe album dropped last week, accompanied by a film called Circus Maximus. The Roman chariot-racing stadium of the same name is now set to play host to Scott next week in lieu of the planned Pyramids of Giza concert.\n\nMusic critics agreed his new album was far from perfect, however, with the Guardian's Shaad D'Souza saying the \"rap superstar\" was \"lost amid sublime soundworld\".\n\n\"Scott's rhyming isn't strong enough to distinguish him from his A-list guests,\" D'Souza noted in a two-star review.\n\nAndre Gee, reviewing the album for Rolling Stone magazine, described it as an \"empty paradise\". \"He's a brilliant curator, but doesn't have anything interesting to say.\"\n\n\"In an attempt to give the world a true blockbuster rap album, the Houston rapper delivers a shiny, empty spectacle loaded with pop superstars who rarely make an impact,\" said Pitchfork's Alphonse Pierre.\n\nMeanwhile, the NME's Nathan Evans offered three-stars, saying it was a \"lofty concept\" but with \"shaky execution\".\n\n\"The Houston rapper's first album since 2018 teases a brave new sonic world, but has little to say about what might happen if we get there,\" he said.\n\nGoing the distance: Sprinter is the first number one for Central Cee (left) and the third by Mercury Prize-winner Dave\n\nElsewhere on Friday, Scott's fellow rappers Dave and Central Cee remained at the top of the UK singles chart for a ninth straight week, setting a new record for the longest-running UK rap number one in the process with their collaboration Sprinter.\n\nIf the Londoners can keep up the pace at the top for another week, they will equal Miley Cyrus's 10-week run with Flowers - 2023's longest-running number one single overall.\n\nThis is the second time Dave has entered the chart record books, after last year's track Starlight became the country's longest-running solo rap number one, with four weeks at the summit.\n\nCharli XCX's appearance on the Barbie soundtrack - alongside the likes of Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj - helped her to race to her first top 10 finish in nearly a decade with the song Speed Drive.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nHojlund was unveiled to fans at Old Trafford before Manchester United's friendly against French side Lens on Saturday Manchester United have completed the £72m signing of Denmark striker Rasmus Hojlund from Atalanta. The 20-year-old, who joined the Serie A side in 2022 and scored 10 goals in 34 appearances last season, moves to Old Trafford on a five-year deal. \"It is no secret I have been a fan of this great club since I was a small boy,\" Hojlund said. \"I dreamed of walking out at Old Trafford as a Manchester United player.\" He is United manager Erik ten Hag's third summer signing after Mason Mount joined from Chelsea for £55m and Inter Milan goalkeeper Andre Onana arrived for £47.2m. Ten Hag said of the new addition: \"He is a real frontman. Very direct to the goal, very good presser, a physical presence. I think in the balance of this squad, we needed that, alongside Rashford, another player who is direct and can score a goal. That is all in his mind: he wants to score goals. \"I think he has huge potential. And now it's up to him first, to explore that and we will support him, all the coaches, the team. The team was waiting for a type like him. They will integrate him in the dressing room and in the pitch; they will help him. \"Finally, the player has to prove it. That is the character we need; we need hungry players and he is a player who is so determined to score goals, winning games and winning trophies.\" Ligue 1 champions Paris St-Germain were also reportedly interested in Hojlund as a potential replacement for France captain Kylian Mbappe, whose immediate future is unclear.\n• None Rasmus Hojlund - all you need to know about Man Utd striker Hojlund will miss the opening weeks of the 2023-24 season, which United begin against Wolves on Monday, 14 August, after suffering a small injury during pre-season training with Atalanta. \"I am incredibly excited by this opportunity to turn a dream into a reality, and I am determined to repay the faith the club has shown in me,\" Hojlund added. \"It is still early in my career, but I know I am ready to make this step up and play with this group of world-class players. \"Once I had spoken to the manager, I knew this environment would be perfect for my development; I am relishing the opportunity to work with one of the best coaches in the world. \"Under his guidance and support I know that I am capable of achieving great things together with my new team-mates at this special club.\" Hojlund began his senior career at Copenhagen, making his Danish Superliga debut aged 17 in 2020 before switching to Austrian side Sturm Graz less than two years later. He spent only six months in the Austrian Bundesliga after joining Sturm in January 2022 but scored 12 goals in 21 games for the club.\n• Find all the latest football transfers on our That impressive form led to his move to Atalanta for a reported £15m, some 10 times what Sturm Graz had paid for him. He made his international debut in 2022 and has scored six goals in six games in qualifying for Euro 2024. \"Rasmus is a truly exceptional talent; he possesses technical and physical attributes which rank him among the best players in the world for his age group,\" said Manchester United football director John Murtough. \"Throughout the summer we have acted quickly and decisively to secure our primary targets. This will ensure Erik and his coaches have the best opportunity to prepare the squad to push for further success.\" Hojlund received a rapturous reception as he made his way out of the players' tunnel to the centre circle, where he held up a shirt bearing his name - but no number - before Manchester United's friendly with Lens, which ended in a 3-1 victory for the Red Devils. His presence has generated a huge amount of attention, with a Danish TV crew flying in solely to cover the moment. The transfer represents something of a gamble for United, who were heavily linked with a move for Harry Kane. In the recent past, they have gone for experienced forwards in the form of Radamel Falcao, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and, most recently, Cristiano Ronaldo. Hojlund is at the other end of the age and development stage. It will be fascinating to see whether manager Ten Hag can develop him the same way he brought through so many excellent Ajax players who he guided to the semi-final of the Champions League in 2019. One game a week for the first four weeks of the Premier League season allows time for Hojlund, once fit, to settle in. It promises to be a fascinating period for this self-confessed United fan, whose reputation has grown considerably since he cost Sturm Graz £1.3m 18 months ago.\n• None Listen to the latest The Devils' Advocate podcast\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "British Scouts have started arriving at a hotel in Seoul after being taken by coach from the campsite\n\nUK Scouts are being moved to hotels in Seoul after an international event in South Korea was hit by extreme heat.\n\nHundreds have fallen ill at the outdoor World Scout Jamboree, which is attended by more than 40,000 young people from around the world, amid 35C (95F) heat.\n\nThe British group of 4,500, the largest in attendance, is moving from a camp site at Saemangeum to Seoul, the Scout Association confirmed.\n\nThe US and Singaporean teams are also pulling their members out of the event.\n\nSouth Korea's government said it was sending 60 more medics and 700 service workers to maintain the toilets and showers, with many countries staying at the site for the next week.\n\nThe jamboree, described as the world's largest youth camp, gathers Scouts from around the world every four years, each time in a different country.\n\nMost of those attending are aged between 14 and 18, and 155 countries are represented in South Korea.\n\nThis is the first jamboree since the pandemic and is due to run until 12 August.\n\nCoaches of British teenagers have started arriving back in Seoul - about 120 miles (197km) from the campsite - and they will spend the next week in hotels.\n\nThe UK Scout Association said young people and adult volunteers had begun \"settling into their accommodation\" and the Jamboree experience would continue in the city before returning to the UK on 13 August as planned.\n\nThe BBC has been told that some scouts are sharing five to a room, while up to 250 are sleeping in the ballroom of one Seoul hotel due to a lack of available accommodation.\n\nOne of the UK team told BBC's Seoul correspondent Jean Mackenzie the decision to pull out was not based just on the extreme heat but was also down to the facilities and food.\n\nThey described the campsite toilets as a \"health risk\" and said children's dietary needs were not being met.\n\nThe UK team monitored conditions for a number of days, they said, giving the organisers the opportunity to improve them, but had lost confidence they could keep everyone safe.\n\nMany of the parents the BBC has spoken to have said their children spent years preparing to attend the event, often raising thousands of pounds to do so.\n\nThunderstorms are forecast for the region in which it is taking place, while temperatures will feel hotter than 40C due to high humidity, according to AccuWeather.\n\nThe World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), the largest international Scouting organisation, said it had asked the Korean Scout Association, which is hosting the event, to consider ending early.\n\nThe movement said that the host \"decided to go ahead with the event\" and assured participants that it was doing \"everything possible to address the issues caused by the heatwave\".\n\nUK Scouts, the country's largest scouting organisation, said its volunteers and others had worked to give members \"enough food and water... shelter from the unusually hot weather... and toilets and washing facilities appropriate for an event of this scale.\"\n\nThe UK and US teams have the money and resources to relocate thousands of people at short notice but there are plenty of countries at the event which do not.\n\nBuses at the camp site of the 25th World Scout Jamboree in Buan, South Korea\n\nThe US is taking its participants to Camp Humphreys army base in Pyeongtaek, citing safety concerns.\n\nParents of children at the campsite told the BBC that no activities were taking place due to the heat.\n\nOthers have defended the event, saying their children were disappointed that they had to leave.\n\nOne mother from north-east England said what was meant to be a \"great life experience\" had turned into a \"survival mission\" for her 16-year-old daughter.\n\n\"She knew it would be hot but not as hot as it is. They cannot cool down, their tents are too hot,\" said the mother, who did not wish to be named.\n\nHer daughter had told her that the showers and toilets were \"appalling and unsafe\", with \"floating rubbish, plasters and hair\" blocking drains.\n\nAnother parent said the situation was so bad they put their daughter on a plane back to the UK on Friday.\n\nHowever Peter Naldrett told the BBC that his two children were \"frustrated, upset and angry\" about having to leave.\n\n\"My kids have said that the toilets are a bit grim but it's manageable,\" he said.\n\nShannon Swaffer, whose 15-year-old daughter is at the event, said the children were \"all devastated that it's ended early\".\n\n\"By all accounts the heat is intolerable and adults and kids alike can't continue there,\" she said, adding that her family were \"lifelong Scout people\" and that the leaders had been \"absolutely phenomenal\".\n\nRebecca Coldwell said her 17-year-old daughter had received \"outstanding\" medical care for an infected wound, and that she was \"heartbroken\" about having to move to hotels.\n\nKristin Sayers from Virginia in the US, paid $6,500 (£5,100) for her 17-year-old son Corey to go to the jamboree but said his dream had turned into a \"nightmare\".\n\n\"He's very aware of how much money that is and the sacrifices we made as a family to send him. We could've done so much with that money,\" she told Reuters news agency.\n\nSome Scouts from Spain, Belgium, and France, told the BBC they were happy to still be at the campsite and disappointed the British had left.\n\nBlanca, a 16-year-old from Spain, said her sister was taken to hospital on the first day because of the heat, but she has recovered and so have the conditions.\n\n\"Now the situation is better. They give us cold water and fans and let us go inside places to get shade,\" she said.\n\n\"I am sad the British didn't stay. They're really cool people and I enjoyed spending time with them,\" she added.\n\nThe event has been described as the world's biggest youth camp\n\nSouth Korea's authorities have issued the country's highest hot weather warning for the first time in four years.\n\nSouth Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo announced that aid was being sent to the site amid criticism from some that authorities failed to plan for extreme heat.\n\n\"The government will use all its resources to ensure that the jamboree can end safely amid the heatwave,\" he said.\n\nAir-conditioned buses, water trucks and medical staff were being dispatched.\n\nAre you or your relative at the World Scout Jamboree? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nDillian Whyte has returned \"an adverse finding\" from a doping test, causing his heavyweight rematch against Anthony Joshua on 12 August to be cancelled.\n\nThe Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada) informed promoters Matchroom and boxing authorities of the test result.\n\n\"In light of this news, the fight will be cancelled and a full investigation will be conducted,\" said a Matchroom statement.\n\nA \"devastated\" Whyte, 35, says he is \"completely innocent\".\n\nJoshua, 33, could still fight at London's O2 Arena if a new opponent can be found.\n\n\"I am shocked and devastated to learn of a report by Vada of adverse findings relating to me,\" Whyte wrote in a statement released on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\n\"I only learned of it this morning and am still reacting to it.\n\n\"I have also just seen that the fight is being cancelled without having any chance to demonstrate my innocence before the decision was taken.\n\n\"I can confirm without a shadow of doubt that I have not taken the reported substance, in this camp or at any point in my life.\n\n\"I am completely innocent and ask to be given the time to go through the process of proving this without anybody jumping to conclusions or a trial by media.\"\n\nThe fight between Joshua and Whyte, a rematch of their 2015 bout, was announced a month ago.\n\nJoshua knocked out Whyte in the seventh round of their heated British title fight eight years ago, which also took place at the O2, as he avenged a loss to his rival on the amateur circuit.\n\nWhyte, who lost his only world title challenge to Tyson Fury in 2022, beat Joshua by decision as an amateur in 2009 to start what became a bitter rivalry.\n\nOlympic gold medallist Joshua went on to become a two-time world champion.\n\nJoshua gained revenge when the pair met again as professionals in December 2015, being rocked in the second round but recovering to force a stoppage in the seventh.\n\nWhyte had a doping violation charge dropped in 2019 after UK Anti-Doping said the levels of a banned steroid were \"very low\" and he was not at fault.\n\nHe served a two-year suspension from 2012 to 2014 for taking an illegal supplement.\n\nA tribunal accepted Whyte's claim he did not knowingly take methylhexaneamine (MHA) but said he did not do enough to check the supplement's ingredients.\n• None Enjoy a selection of classic songs and new tunes from the iconic band\n• None Why would you want to avoid red ropes? Take a journey back to Ancient Greece to find out...", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nGareth Davies and George North scored tries, with Leigh Halfpenny kicking 10 points on his 100th Wales appearance.\n\nVictory was the perfect start for new captain Jac Morgan, while Marcus Smith kicked three penalties for England.\n\nHead coach Steve Borthwick will name his final 33-man World Cup squad on Monday, while Wales' Warren Gatland will wait a couple more weeks.\n\nAfter a poor year, Gatland had promised Wales would \"surprise people\" and \"do something special\" at the World Cup.\n\nIt is early days but this performance provided some optimism before the return warm-up fixture at Twickenham next Saturday.\n\nWales' first-half display will be remembered for a dogged defensive effort with centre North proving crucial in denying England two tries and Aaron Wainwright shining at number eight.\n\nBorthwick will be concerned with England's inability to profit on their first-half dominance and the manner in which they allowed a second-half revival from the hosts as the visitors conceded 22 turnovers.\n• None Defeat will be a positive in long term - Borthwick\n• None Gatland pleased with win but 'still lots to work on'\n\nThis was the last chance for England players to shine before Borthwick announces his final selection - and not many will have made an impression.\n\nThe England coach indicated the majority of his squad has been finalised with only \"one or two places\" still to be decided.\n\nBorthwick chose to rest key personnel and gave opportunities to new faces, with flanker Tom Pearson making his debut and uncapped forwards Theo Dan and Tom Willis coming off the bench.\n\nWith Borthwick indicating he will take three scrum-halves and three fly-halves to France, Harlequins half-backs Danny Care and Marcus Smith started in the knowledge they are almost certain to travel, while wing Joe Cokanasiga and centre Joe Marchant were looking to impress.\n\nBorthwick will be concerned at how England failed to convert a couple of chances and spurned two attacking line-outs.\n\nThey might have a settled World Cup squad earlier than most but they will have to develop a distinctive style of play before the tournament starts in France.\n\nFull-back Freddie Steward at least proved imperious again in Cardiff under the high ball just as he had in the Six Nations match in February.\n\nIn contrast to England, Wales have three warm-up matches. Gatland is due to announce his squad after the final game against South Africa, having said this week he only knew one of his squad and places were up for grabs.\n\nA turbulent 12 months had seen Wales lose nine out of 12 games as Gatland returned for a second stint in place of Wayne Pivac.\n\nA fifth-placed finish in the Six Nations was followed by the loss of the experienced Alun Wyn Jones, Justin Tipuric, Rhys Webb and Ken Owens and off-the-field controversy with players threatening to strike over contractual injuries.\n\nGatland has spoken about changing the negative narrative surrounding Welsh rugby and he will hope this win starts that process.\n\nAfter tough training camps in Switzerland and Turkey, there were Test debuts for centre Max Llewellyn and Cardiff props Corey Domachowski and Keiron Assiratti.\n\nThe prop duo struggled in the scrums in the first half with three set-piece penalties conceded between them, but they will have learned from the experience and Gatland believes some of the decisions against them were unjustified.\n\nFlanker Taine Plumtree and former England prop Henry Thomas also impressed as they made their Wales debuts off the replacements bench.\n\nFly-half Sam Costelow made his first start and provided a threat to the English defence typified by almost releasing Louis Rees-Zammit for a first half try. Wing Rees-Zammit was also denied a late try after almost creating a brilliant individual score for himself.\n\nCostelow's clever cross-kick also set up a try for Scarlets scrum-half Davies. Aaron Wainwright gathered possession before feeding Morgan who released Davies to score.\n\nThe fly-half might have proved suspect under the high ball on a couple of occasions, but that will be balanced by his attacking ability that will offer extra options to the experience of Dan Biggar and Gareth Anscombe.\n\nWales honoured legend Clive Rowlands, who died at the age of 85 last Sunday, with a minute's applause at the start of the game. He was the only man to coach, captain and manage Wales and made his debut against England in 1963.\n\nSixty years on, flanker Morgan - who played junior rugby for Rowlands' home village of Cwmtwrch -captained Wales for the first time in what was effectively the first of three World Cup leadership auditions.\n\nWith Jones, Tipuric and Owens unavailable, Gatland is looking for a new leader and planning to appoint a different skipper for each warm-up Test before announcing his final squad and captain.\n\nOthers in the captaincy frame include Biggar, Dewi Lake, Will Rowlands and Adam Beard, but 23-year-old Morgan impressed against England, especially in the second half along with Wainwright, who demonstrated there is a number eight alternative to the currently injured Taulupe Faletau.\n\nHe played a crucial part in Wales' opening try for North and produced a crunching second-half tackle on opposite number Pearson.\n\nIt was not Morgan who led the side out though. That honour fell to full-back Halfpenny who, almost 15 years after his debut, became the ninth man to play 100 internationals for Wales.\n\nHe followed in the footsteps of Alun Wyn Jones, Gethin Jenkins, North, Biggar, Stephen Jones, Gareth Thomas, Martyn Williams and Faletau.\n\nInjuries were always going to create problems and Wales hooker Ryan Elias and lock Dafydd Jenkins will provide Gatland with some concern.\n\nElias was forced off the field after just six minutes with a hamstring injury. He had already missed the Six Nations because of an Achilles problem.\n\nAnother Scarlets hooker, Owens, has already been ruled out of at least the tournament group stages with a back problem leaving Elliot Dee, Lake and Sam Parry as the three remaining hookers in the squad.\n\nJenkins limped off in the second half which forced a major reshuffle with centre Mason Grady slipping into the back row because all forward replacements had been used before North later switched to the flank.\n\nWales were not hampered, though, and Grady almost scored with his first touch before being denied by England captain Ellis Genge in the corner.\n\nThat resourcefulness typified Wales' second-half display and set up their success.", "William Burdett-Coutts is the founder and artistic director of Edinburgh's Assembly Festival\n\nThe boss of one of the Edinburgh Fringe's biggest venue operators has warned the company may not survive another year due to a £1.5m debt.\n\nWilliam Burdett-Coutts said the Assembly Festival was surviving on a short-term loan.\n\nHe said Assembly organised a festival for Coventry's City of Culture year in 2021, but it has still not been paid by the trust in charge.\n\nThe Coventry City of Culture Trust went into liquidation in February.\n\nUK City of Culture is a competition run by UK government's Department for Digital, Culture and Sport (DCMS).\n\nMr Burdett-Coutts, Assembly's founder and artistic director, criticised Coventry City Council and the DCMS for trying to \"wash their hands of the situation\".\n\nAnd he said Assembly could be \"dragged down in the trust's wake unless those responsible take action.\"\n\nIt comes as the Edinburgh Fringe launched on Friday.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland, Mr Burdett-Coutts said: \"Assembly has been presenting shows since 1981 and is an integral part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.\n\n\"The company is of local, national and international significance working with arts organisations from around the world.\n\n\"We have played a significant role in the development of many world-class shows throughout the years and have helped launch the careers of countless household names, from Graham Norton to French and Saunders and many more.\n\n\"Assembly on its own plays to an audience equivalent to the live audience of Wimbledon and larger than Glastonbury - to lose that presence would be disastrous for the Fringe.\"\n\nA DCMS spokesman said Coventry had delivered a successful City of Culture programme that had helped the city secure £172.6 million of investment.\n\nHe said: \"We continue to back Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and at the spring budget we announced an additional £7m of support for this iconic event, which a number of partners, including Assembly, play an important role in delivering.\"\n\nCoventry City Council has been contacted for a response.\n\nAssembly Festival Garden returned to Coventry in 2022 for the City of Culture finale\n\nMr Burdett-Coutts said Assembly's short-term loan would run out at the end of the year.\n\nHe said the Coventry festival - Assembly Festival Garden - had been very successful and the city had campaigned to have the event return in 2022.\n\nHowever, he said that the trust had still not paid Assembly for months after the second festival ended.\n\n\"They kept on reassuring us that they would pay their bills and the money was coming,\" he said.\n\n\"But then come January or February we found out that the trust that ran the Coventry City of Culture went into liquidation owing us about £1.5m.\n\n\"So it's caused a massive hole in our finances - we're a small organisation so it's not something we can absorb. So we've got to find some way and somebody has to take responsibility.\"\n\nCrowds flocked to the Royal Mile to welcome the start of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival\n\nMr Burdett-Coutts added Assembly was in a \"very precarious\" position for future events. He said the Scottish government had written to DCMS urging it to step in.\n\n\"We're in a position where we basically run out of money at the end of the year,\" he said.\n\n\"We can get through this festival and look after everybody from this festival, but the next festival is in question. It depends on if we can find a solution.\"\n\nHe urged stakeholders to support the Fringe as it faced financial challenges from Covid, rising inflation, accommodation costs, and ticket prices struggling to cover outgoing costs.\n\nThe DCMS spokesman said it would respond to the Scottish government in due course.\n\nCoventry City Council said it agreed to be the accountable body for the City of Culture 2021, but this did not commit the Council to meet any financial liabilities as it was not a guarantor.\n\nIt said the council was the largest creditor of the trust, which was set up as an independent charity.", "The cost of living was previously blamed for a rise in the number of children needing foster care\n\nMinisters have been urged to \"rocket boost\" fostering to tackle a shortage of carers.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza, the Children's Commissioner for England, has warned that 71% of people who complete a fostering form subsequently drop out.\n\nShe fears bureaucracy may be putting people off and has suggested ministers could learn from the success of the Homes from Ukraine scheme.\n\nThe government has said it is investing £27m in the foster care system.\n\nDame Rachel raised her concerns during a special episode of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, which was guest edited by listeners.\n\nNearly 70,000 children live with almost 55,000 foster families across the UK each day, according to the Fostering Network charity.\n\nThis is nearly three-quarters of the 98,000 children in care away from home on any one day in the UK, the charity has said.\n\nDame Rachel said the Homes for Ukraine scheme, which found homes for 100,000 Ukrainian refugees last year, showed there was an \"untapped well\" of people who can foster.\n\nShe told the BBC the number of people who enquired about foster care and then did not go ahead with their applications seemed \"very high\".\n\n\"We need to make sure that bureaucracy doesn't get in the way,\" she said.\n\nShe urged the government to run a national fostering campaign.\n\nDame Rachel said it was \"really important that we rocket boost fostering\"\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said it had increased the national minimum allowance for foster carers by 12.5% and was piloting a foster care recruitment hub in the north east.\n\nEarlier this year government figures showed there were 4,500 in West Yorkshire alone.\n\nRising costs and a fallout from Covid were blamed for the increase in the number of children going into foster care and for the shortage of foster families.\n\nChildren's minister Claire Coutinho told the BBC the pilot programme in the north east put together local hubs guiding families who wanted to foster.\n\n\"You can't just fund a system with money, you do need to make sure the reforms work properly,\" she said.\n\nShe explained that last year 138,000 people made enquiries to become a foster carer but only six per cent of them became one.\n\n\"People call up and say they want to be a foster carer and then they don't necessarily get that hand-holding to make what is ultimately a big decision in your life,\" she added.\n\nMs Coutinho said £11bn was being spent on the children's social care system overall.\n\nMs Coutinho said the government had plans in place\n\nLast year the MacAlister review of children's social care in England called for £2.6bn of new spending over four years.\n\nThe government later faced criticisms for announcing £200m of investment in response.\n\nBut Ms Coutinho said the funding was not falling short.\n\nShe said the £200m was for testing out \"really ambitious\" plans to respond to the MacAlister review.\n\n\"We have got two years to make sure that the plans we have got in place work well on the ground,\" she added.\n\nYou can listen to the Messy Fostering Guest Edit of Today on BBC Sounds.\n• None Early help for families urged in social care reset", "Mahek Bukhari (left) and her mother Ansreen wanted to silence Saqib Hussain who had threatened to reveal an affair he was having with the older woman, the trial heard\n\nA social media influencer and her mother have been found guilty of murdering two men who died when their car was rammed off the road.\n\nSaqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21, died when the car \"split in two\" near Leicester in February 2022.\n\nIt happened after Mr Hussain threatened to reveal an affair he and Ansreen Bukhari had been having, jurors heard.\n\nMrs Bukhari, 46, and her influencer daughter Mahek Bukhari were convicted after 28 hours of deliberations.\n\nThe TikTok influencer, 24, and her mother, both from Tunstall in Stoke-on-Trent, broke down in tears as the jury's verdicts were read out.\n\nDuring the trial, the jury at Leicester Crown Court - which heard that Mr Hussain had threatened to use sexually explicit material to expose the long-running affair - listened to a panicked 999 call he made in the moments before the crash.\n\nThe jurors also found fellow defendants Rekhan Karwan and Raees Jamal guilty of the men's murder. Natasha Akhtar, 23, from Birmingham, Ameer Jamal, 28, and Sanaf Gulamustafa, 23, both from Leicester, were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.\n\nCo-accused Mohammed Patel, 21, from Leicester, was found not guilty of murder or manslaughter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police video shows the moments leading up to the crash\n\nMahek Bukhari - who has nearly 129,000 followers on TikTok where she posted about fashion and beauty - \"set a trap\" for Mr Hussain on the night he died, the three-month retrial heard.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Hussain, from Banbury in Oxfordshire, had been \"lured\" into meeting with the Bukharis on the pretence he would be given back £3,000 he said he had spent on taking his lover out during their relationship.\n\nInstead, Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin, who had driven his friend to the meeting in a Tesco car park in Hamilton in Leicester as a \"favour\", were ambushed and then chased by two cars.\n\nThe court was told Mr Ijazuddin's car split in two and caught fire after hitting a tree at the Six Hills junction on the A46, in the early hours of 11 February 2022.\n\nKarwan, 29, from Leicester, and Jamal, 23, from Loughborough, were driving the vehicles used to pursue the victims.\n\nHashim Ijazuddin (left) and Saqib Hussain, both from Banbury, died at the scene\n\nIn a 999 call made by front-seat passenger Mr Hussain moments before his death, he said their car was being \"rammed off the road\" by balaclava-wearing assailants in two pursuing cars.\n\nIn the call, a distressed Mr Hussain said: \"There's guys following me, they have balaclavas on… they're trying to ram me off the road.\n\n\"They're trying to kill me, I'm going to die… please sir, I just need help. They're hitting the back of the car, really fast… please I'm begging you. I'm going to die.\"\n\nA scream was heard on the line before the call abruptly ended.\n\nAnsreen Bukhari (left) and her daughter Mahek stood trial alongside six other people\n\nBefore remanding the convicted defendants into custody, Judge Timothy Spencer KC said: \"You know the sentence will be very serious.\" Sentencing is due to take place on 1 September.\n\nFollowing the verdicts, Mr Hussain's family said he was a \"much-loved young man\" who was \"kind, compassionate, caring and sensible\".\n\nHis loved ones said they had been \"shattered by this senseless act\" and were still struggling to come to terms with the enormity of their loss.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"Saqib's death has brought so much sadness, not just to his family, but to the many people that knew him.\n\n\"We have hope and confidence that Saqib has found eternal rest with Our Lord, and that we will get to be with him again when we pass.\n\n\"We also pray that no family will have to go through our experience.\"\n\nClockwise from top left: Rekan Karwan and Raees Jamal, who were found guilty of murder, Ameer Jamal, Sanaf Gulamustafa and Natasha Akhtar, who were convicted of manslaughter\n\nMr Ijazuddin's relatives said he was the \"superstar\" of their family and their world had come \"crashing down\" after his death.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"Everyone who knew Hashim, loved him. His death is not just a massive loss to our family but also to our whole community.\n\n\"Hashim was a cheeky young man who was always smiling, a handsome man who was beautiful both on the inside and out.\n\n\"He would do anything for anyone, was very caring and had a very kind heart.\n\n\"Hashim would always put others first and wouldn't hesitate to help others if they needed it.\n\n\"On that tragic day, he was simply helping his friend and this resulted in his death.\n\n\"It has been extremely painful not only losing Hashim at such a young age but also in the circumstances in which we lost him.\"\n\nSaqib's father Sajad Hussain (centre) and Hashim Ijazuddin's uncle Anser Hussain (right) paid tribute to the young men after the verdicts\n\nAfter the verdicts, Det Insp Mark Parish of Leicestershire Police said: \"This was a callous and cold-blooded attack which ultimately cost two men their lives.\n\n\"After setting Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin up, chasing them at high speed and then ultimately ramming their car off the road, none of the defendants made any attempt to help the victims or to call for help.\n\n\"Instead, they drove on and then even drove back past the collision site.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andriana, pictured at a rehabilitation centre in Ukraine, where she is training to return to the front line\n\nUkrainian women have been signing up in growing numbers to serve as combat troops against Russia. The BBC spoke to three of the 5,000 female front-line soldiers who are fighting both the enemy, and sexist attitudes within their own ranks.\n\nA slim, blue-eyed, brunette woman is working out in a gym. This might be unremarkable were it not for the fact that, according to the Russian media, she is dead.\n\nAndriana Arekhta is a special unit sergeant in the Ukrainian armed forces, preparing to return to the front line.\n\nThe BBC found Andriana in a rehabilitation centre in Ukraine - in a location we cannot name for her safety - after she was injured by a landmine in the Kherson region in December.\n\nNumerous text and video reports in Russian celebrate her \"death\" in graphic detail.\n\n\"They published that I am without legs and without hands, and that I was killed by them,\" says Andriana. \"They are professionals in propaganda.\"\n\nThe reports include lurid descriptions of her - such as \"executioner\" and \"eliminated Nazi\".\n\nAccusing her of cruelty and sadism without any proof, they appeared shortly after the Ukrainian army had liberated Kherson.\n\n\"It's funny to me. I am alive and I will protect my country,\" she says.\n\nEighteen months on from Russia's invasion, there are 60,000 women serving in the nation's armed forces. More than 42,000 are in military positions - including 5,000 female soldiers on the front line, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine told us.\n\nIt added that no woman could be conscripted under Ukrainian law against her will.\n\nBut there are particular combat roles which some believe are better performed by women.\n\n\"I came to my commander and I asked him, 'what can I do the best?' He said: 'You will be a sniper,'\" recalls Evgeniya Emerald - who carried out the role on the front line until recently.\n\nEvgeniya Emerald, pictured with her three-month-old baby, ran a jewellery business before the war\n\nShe says female snipers have been romanticised since World War Two, adding there is a very practical reason for this reputation.\n\n\"If a man hesitates whether to make a shot or not, a woman will never.\n\n\"Maybe that's why women are the ones giving birth, not men,\" she adds, cradling her three-month old daughter.\n\nThe 31 year old, who had military training after Russia invaded Crimea but only joined the army in 2022, was the owner of a jewellery business before the full-scale war.\n\nShe has used her entrepreneurial experience to build a strong social media following, to help raise the profile of Ukrainian female soldiers.\n\nLike Andriana, Evgeniya has been widely referred to as \"a punisher\" and \"Nazi\" by Russian media, with hundreds of reports discussing her front line role as a female sniper, and her private life.\n\nWorking as a sniper is particularly brutal - says Evgeniya - both physically and mentally.\n\n\"Because you can see what is going on. You can see hitting a target. This is a personal hell for everyone who sees that in a [sniper's] scope.\"\n\nEvgeniya, and the other front-line women we have spoken to, cannot reveal the number of targets they have hit. But Evgeniya remembers the heightened emotion she felt when she realised she was probably going to have to kill someone.\n\n\"For 30 seconds I was shaking - my whole body - and I couldn't stop it. That realisation that now you'll do something that will be a point of no return.\n\n\"But we didn't come to them with a war. They came to us.\"\n\nEvgeniya Emerald says working as a sniper is a particularly brutal form of warfare\n\nThe percentage of women in the Ukrainian military has been growing since the first Russian invasion in 2014, reaching over 15% in 2020.\n\nBut while many female troops are serving in combat roles against Russia, they say there is another battle within their own ranks - against sexist attitudes.\n\nEvgeniya says she faced this before she established her authority and confidence as a front-line sniper.\n\n\"When I had just joined the special forces, one of the fighters came to me and said: 'Girl, what are you doing here? Go and cook borshch [Ukrainian traditional soup].' I felt so offended at that moment I thought, 'are you kidding me? I can be in the kitchen, but I can also knock you out'!\"\n\nAnother Evgeniya, Evgeniya Velyka from the Arm Women Now charity - which provides help to the Ukrainian female soldiers - agrees: \"In society [there] exists a strong opinion that girls go to the army to find a husband.\"\n\nShe says women have also told her about cases of physical abuse.\n\n\"We can't imagine the scale of the problem because not every female soldier wants to talk about this,\" she says.\n\nUkraine's deputy defence minister, Hanna Malyar, told the BBC those were just a \"few cases\" in contrast to the \"hundreds of thousands\" mobilised.\n\nIn 2021, the Ukrainian military released pictures of female soldiers practising for a parade in heels - sparking outrage\n\nWomen in the Ukrainian army do not have gender-appropriate uniforms. They are issued with ill-fitting male fatigues, including male underwear, and outsized shoes and bulletproof vests.\n\nEven the deputy defence minister, Hanna Malyar, says her field uniform is designed for a man - which she has had to alter as she has \"a small height\". She adds the ceremonial uniform includes shoes with heels.\n\nIf women in the army want to wear female fatigues, they must currently either buy their own generic kit online, or rely on charities or crowdfunding.\n\nThis is why Andriana co-founded a charity called Veteranka [Ukrainian Women Veteran's Movement], which campaigns for equal rights for female military personnel, and for reforming Ukrainian army legislation to bring it in line with Nato legislation.\n\nBut Ms Malyar says the government has made progress. A uniform for women has been developed, tested and will enter mass production in the near future - although she could not specify when.\n\nSniper Evgenya Emerald says that despite such issues, \"war doesn't have a gender\".\n\n\"A war doesn't care whether you are a man or a woman. When a missile hits a house, it doesn't care if there are women, men, children - everyone dies.\n\n\"And it's the same on the front line - if you can be effective and you're a woman, why wouldn't you defend your country, your people?\"\n\nIryna says a sniper's role in war has been romanticised\n\nIn the eastern Donbas region, sniper Iryna is involved in the counter-offensive right now. We secure a brief connection with her during a moment of peace on the battlefield.\n\nShe could be held up as an example of the reforms so many combat women have been working hard for - she is acting-up as a female commander of an all-male unit.\n\n\"A sniper's image is romanticised… and is beautiful due to the movies. In reality, it's hard work.\"\n\nShe describes how snipers lie still on the ground for up to six hours to fire a shot, followed by a rapid change in position.\n\n\"It's like playing with death,\" she adds.\n\nThe thousands of women serving have left behind careers, as well as their families.\n\nAndriana left her job as the UN consultant on gender equality, under the Ukrainian Ministry of Veterans' Affairs, to join the Ukrainian military when Russia invaded last year.\n\n\"They took the best years of my life,\" the 35-year-old says. Thinking back to a time before the war, she adds: \"I could travel and be happy, build a career and have a dream.\"\n\nThe mother of a primary school-aged boy, Andriana tearfully tells me she has not held her son for more than seven months. As she shows me pictures of him on her phone, a smile appears on her face, replacing her tears.\n\nShe is driven by the desire to secure him a peaceful future in his native country - not having to risk his life by fighting like his parents.\n\nAndriana first joined the armed forces when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014\n\nUnlike Evgeniya Emerald, who joined up after Russia's full invasion last year, Andriana has previous military experience.\n\nIn 2014 when Russia first attacked Ukraine, annexing Crimea and invading Donbas, she left her job as a brand manager and joined one of the first volunteer battalions - along with thousands of other Ukrainians. At the time, the military was smaller than it is now and was struggling.\n\nAidar battalion, where Andriana was serving, was accused by the Kremlin and Amnesty International of human rights violations - but the Ukrainian army told the BBC no substantive evidence to support such claims had been provided.\n\nAmnesty also urged Ukrainian authorities to bring the volunteer battalions under effective lines of command and control, which they did.\n\nDespite Andriana never being linked to any acts of misconduct, and her leaving Aidar eight years ago, Russian media continually accused her of \"sadism\", providing no evidence.\n\nIn Ukraine, she has been awarded medals for her service - one \"for courage\", another for being a \"people's hero\"\n\nAndriana, who told the BBC she is no longer part of Aidar, said she felt obliged to re-join the army on the front line in 2022, as she already had much-needed combat experience.\n\nAndriana working out in preparation to return to the front line\n\nWhile Ukraine's Ministry of Defence said it could not provide the number of combat casualties - due to sensitivities of such information during wartime - the BBC has obtained data suggesting 93 Ukrainian servicewomen have been killed in action since the recent Russian invasion.\n\nThe data, from charity Arm Women Now, says more than 500 have been injured.\n\nAndriana's phone book has turned into a list of the dead.\n\n\"I lost more than 100 friends. I don't even know how many phone numbers I need to delete.\"\n\nBut the price already paid was too high to give up, she said - as she turns to finish her rehabilitation training in the gym.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The weather warning is in place until 11:00 on Saturday\n\nStorm Antoni has brought some unseasonably wet and windy weather to parts of Northern Ireland on Saturday.\n\nA Met Office yellow weather warning for rain was in place overnight and ended at 11:00 BST.\n\nUp to 30mm of rain had been expected to fall widely, with areas to the south and east expected to get even more.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, some homes and cars were damaged by flash flooding in Clontarf in Dublin.\n\nThe Met Office said Belfast and parts of County Down were expected to get up to 60mm of rain.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt added up to 70mm of rain could fall over the Mourne Mountains.\n\nAs well as the rain there were some unseasonably strong winds with gusts up to 55km/h (35mph).\n\nThere was a risk in some areas, especially along the east coast, with gusts of up to 80km/h (50mph).\n\nThe latest warning comes after Northern Ireland had its wettest July on record\n\nThe heaviest and most persistent rain was through the early hours of Saturday morning but gradually improved later in the morning.\n\nIt is expected to stay unsettled through the day with sunny spells and some heavy, and blustery showers.\n\nThe Met Office has issued guidance on what people can expect during Storm Antoni, including:\n\nMet Éireann also issued a status yellow weather warning for parts of the Republic of Ireland as the Irish bank holiday weekend begins.\n\nIt ended at 13:00 local time on Saturday for counties in the south and west.\n\nHeavy rain fell in parts of Connacht and counties Tipperary, Clare, Leinster, Monaghan and Cavan.\n\nIn Clontarf, eight people had to be taken from their homes by the fire service with inflatable rescue sleds after 17 houses in one development flooded.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorthern Ireland had its wettest July on record, with figures going back to 1836, according to the Met Office.\n\nProvisional figures showed more than double the normal amount of rain fell during the month, with 185.4mm recorded.\n\nThe previous record was 185.2mm, set back in July 1936.\n\nThe bad weather has already contributed to a drop in footfall according to business owners on the north coast.\n\nSean McLaughlin said the wet weather and rising cost of living hit trade on the north coast in July\n\nSean McLaughlin owns a fish and chip restaurant and said the weather had added to a \"perfect storm\".\n\n\"We've just come off the back of a really tough winter with price increases, energy costs, all those things,\" he said.\n\n\"We were expecting a bumper summer with decent weather and more people coming around, but sadly we've hit the wettest July we've ever seen.\"\n\nTanya Gillen, who owns a café in the seaside hotspot, said she also experienced a particularly poor season.\n\n\"Where we're located, people are not coming off the main drag to the Arcadia if the weather's not good,\" she said.\n\n\"Maybe it is a combination of the weather and the cost-of-living crisis everyone is talking about.\"\n\nTanya Gillen said businesses in the north coast normally relied on a busy July\n\nShe said seasonable businesses on the north coast normally rely on a busy July but this year has been different.\n\n\"July is normally the month we see our tills go up, but our tills are down by 50%,\" Ms Gillen continued.\n\n\"Our problem is we guarantee our workers so many hours a week so regardless of whether we're busy or not, we're still paying for staff.\"", "The little boy was taken unresponsive to Blackpool Victoria Hospital\n\nTwo men have been arrested after the death of a baby boy, police have said.\n\nOfficers were called after the child was taken unresponsive to a Blackpool hospital on 27 July, where he later died, Lancashire Police said.\n\nA 34-year-old man was held on suspicion of murder while another man, aged 30, was held on suspicion of causing the death of a child and child neglect.\n\nBoth men, from Blackpool, have since been released on conditional bail pending further inquiries.\n\nA spokeswoman from Lancashire Police said post-mortem tests had been carried out and further investigations were being undertaken into the cause of the baby's death.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC News Arabic visited Roma Numismatics to capture images of an Alexander decadrachm coin that was put up for sale\n\nA British auctioneer who was at the centre of a BBC investigation has pleaded guilty at a New York court to a series of charges in connection with unlawful sales of rare ancient coins.\n\nRichard Beale, director of London-based auction house Roma Numismatics, admitted two counts of conspiracy and three counts of criminal possession of stolen property, court documents show.\n\nHe was accused of falsifying the provenance of one of the most expensive ancient coins ever auctioned - the gold Eid Mar, which fetched $4.19m (£3.29m) in 2020 - and an ancient silver Sicily Naxos Coin, which sold at the same time for $292,000.\n\nHe has also admitted to falsifying the provenance of a number of silver Alexander the Great decadrachms from the \"Gaza Hoard\", which were sold by Roma Numismatics and whose suspicious origin was brought to light by a BBC News Arabic documentary in 2020.\n\nThe investigation documented how, three years earlier, fishermen in the Palestinian territory had discovered dozens of the coins, which date back to the 4th Century BC. Soon after the coins were found, they disappeared.\n\n\"They are in the hands of people who don't know what these [coins] are, why they are here and what they represent for our country. It's very painful,\" Fadel Alatol, a local archaeologist who had identified the coins found by the fishermen before they were presumably sold on, told the BBC in 2019.\n\nIn Alexander the Great's time, Blakhiya (Anthedon) in Gaza was the main trading port in the south-east Mediterranean\n\nBefore the Gaza discovery, only 20 Alexander decadrachms were known to be in existence. A few months later, the same type of coins started to appear for sale at auction houses around the world.\n\nIn September 2017, one Alexander decadrachm sold for £100,000 ($127,300) at Roma Numismatics.\n\nBut in total 19 of these, formerly very rare, Alexander decadrachms were sold - 11 of them by Roma Numismatics - with the provenance of the coins listed as either \"from a private Canadian collection\" or \"ex-private European collection\".\n\nIn 2019, the BBC approached Beale at his office in London and challenged him directly about the provenances for the decadrachms listed on Roma Numismatics' auction site.\n\nThe Roma Numismatics catalogue advertising an Alexander decadrachm that sold for £100,000 in 2017\n\nThe BBC informed Beale that it suspected the coins had come from the \"Gaza Hoard\", which meant that it was illegal to sell them.\n\nAuction houses are expected to carry out due diligence to establish a coin's provenance. However, they are also permitted to rely only on what they are told by a trusted consignor - the technical term for a sender.\n\nIn a statement provided to the BBC by Beale at the time, he said: \"We were satisfied that the consignor(s) were known to us, and had an established record of professionalism and trust. Furthermore, we were provided with information that the items had entered the UK from an origin country that raised no concern.\"\n\nFollowing the meeting with BBC producers, Roma Numismatics went on to sell more Alexander decadrachms.\n\nAppearing before the New York Supreme Criminal Court on 14 August, Beale admitted that he had known the provenances of the decadrachms were false when they were sold and meant to disguise the fact that they came from the Gaza Hoard, court documents show.\n\nHe also admitted that he decided to continue selling the coins despite the producers of the BBC documentary challenging directly about the false provenances on Roma Numismatics' auction site.\n\nAccording to the court documents, Beale also admitted that in 2015 he entered into an agreement with an Italian coin dealer to sell the Eid Mar coin, which was minted in 42BC to commemorate the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March.\n\nThe two men travelled to Munich and paid €450,000 ($490,000; £385,000) in cash for the coin, despite it having no provenance paperwork or any other form of documentation.\n\nIn August 2020, Beale shipped the coin to the US to be authenticated and listed its country of origin as \"Turkey\", because any ancient items from Italy or Greece were more likely to be seized by US Customs for checks.\n\nThe gold Eid Mar, which was sold unlawfully for $4.19m at auction, was repatriated earlier this year\n\nThe following month, the coin was listed for sale by Roma Numismatics and described as coming \"from the collection of the Baron Dominique de Chambrier, original attestation of provenance included\".\n\nIn October 2020, Beale received an email and letter from the baron asking him to withdraw the false provenance. But he proceeded with the sale of the coin and an American buyer paid $4.19m.\n\nJudge Althea Drysdale called Beale's actions \"woefully wrong and illegal\", as well as \"harmful to both the buyers and the nations whose cultural property [was] illegally acquired\".\n\nThe maximum sentence for these criminal offences is 25 years in prison, but this could be reduced under a plea and sentence agreement with prosecutors.\n\nBeale is next due to appear before the New York Supreme Criminal Court in March.\n\nBoth the Eid Mar and Sicily Naxos coins were seized by US authorities and repatriated earlier this year to their countries of origin - Greece and Italy.\n\nCorrection 5 September 2023: This story has been updated to say that the Eid Mar coin was one of the most expensive ancient coins ever auctioned, and not the most expensive coin ever auctioned.", "Revered police detective RH Fabian caused \"ripples of excitement\" in the town when he arrived from London to try cracking the case\n\nIt was a frenzied murder which left locals too scared to leave their homes.\n\nThe victim was brutally stabbed 44 times, robbed, and his body dumped in the flowerbeds at Aberdare park one evening in April 1948.\n\nScotland Yard would send in their top man to investigate, but even he would fail to find the killer.\n\nMeanwhile, the shocked south Wales valleys community abounded with rumours that the slaying might have been connected to Hitler and his Nazis.\n\nThe dead man's name was Jerzy Strzadala, although many who grew to know the well-liked Polish immigrant would simply refer to him as George.\n\nHe arrived from his homeland after WWII ended and began working at a colliery in Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSaid to have been friendly and polite to all, the 33-year-old was discovered in rhododendron shrubbery the following morning by three young boys on their way to school.\n\nThe coroner was alerted and police barricades quickly set up around the grisly scene.\n\nAs a result, those living in the area started bolting their doors in fear.\n\nOthers vowed to stay well away from the popular park altogether.\n\nNews of the murder eventually attracted the attention of Scotland Yard, whose famed chief inspector Robert Honey Fabian set up a base at one of the town's hotels to investigate.\n\nJerzy Strzadala was found by a group of school boys having been brutally murdered\n\nFabian, or RH as he was known, was something of a celebrity due to his cracking of some recent high profile crimes in London - one of which was a murder case so controversial it would eventually lead to the death penalty being abolished.\n\nHowever, despite the excitement caused by his arrival, progress in finding the murderer proved painfully slow.\n\nEven the use of ground breaking new technology - a top of the range metal detector - failed to uncover the discarded murder weapon.\n\nThe park's lake was also dredged in the hope a clue would lie buried in the silt beneath its surface, but with no luck.\n\nMeanwhile, hundreds of door-to-door inquiries proved equally fruitless, despite some purporting to have seen a \"short and thick set man aged in his late 20s\" in the park around the time Strzadala had been set upon.\n\nIndeed, Fabian's investigation would be dogged by all manner of frustrating dead-ends.\n\nHow local paper The Aberdare Leader reported the crime\n\nThe area's large contingent of eastern European mine workers - some of whom had been staying at the same hostel as Strzadala - spoke little English, making police interviews difficult.\n\nMeanwhile, clothing found near the pit where the victim had worked - a waistcoat and trousers - would prove briefly tantalising.\n\nBut instead of having been dumped by the killer, as hoped, the garments were deemed in too good a state to have been involved in such a vicious attack.\n\nSimilarly the ace detective's spirits were buoyed when some blood-stained banknotes were stumbled upon.\n\nYet again though, nothing came of it.\n\nSome doubted the blood had been Strzadala's at all, instead suggesting that the cash had simply passed through the unwashed hands of staff at the local butcher shop.\n\nNevertheless, there is no record of what happened after the money was sent off for forensic testing.\n\nWhat some did believe, however, was that the conflict in Europe had some part to play in Strzadala's death.\n\nWhispers at the time suggested that the other man seen in Aberdare Park on that fateful night had also been Polish.\n\nSome with relatives who had been alive in the area during the 40s remember talk of how the two had somehow recognised each other from the war.\n\nThe inference was that Strzadala possibly colluded with the Nazis during the fighting and had been recognised and approached by his countryman.\n\nThe main entrance to Aberdare park photographed in the 1980s\n\nThat said, there are those who believe it was the other man who had been confronted by Strzadala for having sided with Hitler's fascists.\n\nPosting on the A Bit of Old Aberdare Facebook page one person said: \"There was a theory it was espionage-related, or an old grudge carried over from Poland.\"\n\nAnother said they had spoken to their elderly father about the murder and he remembered the door to door inquiries and the rumours of how either Strzadala or his killer had worked as \"a guard in a POW camp\".\n\nSo was it a revenge killing?\n\nUnfortunately we may never know the truth, the murder having gone unsolved to this day - despite South Wales Police announcing in 2009 that the cold case was one of several being kept open for review.\n\nBut for RH Fabian it would prove among the few times in a long and glittering career in which he failed to get his man.\n\nHe would retire from the force the following year knowing Jerzy Strzadala's killer was still out there somewhere.\n\nAnd while that man's identity remains unknown, the motive behind the crime seems to offer up an even darker mystery.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA kiss on the lips, a growing backlash and mass resignations among coaching staff: BBC Sport's Spanish football expert Guillem Balague reflects on a tumultuous week for the sport and for Spain's society as a whole.\n\nThis is the Spanish MeToo moment.\n\nIt's an opportunity to focus everybody's attention on the treatment of women in football - and on the frustration at what many see as systemic blindness at the top of an elite organisation, the Spanish football federation.\n\nJenni Hermoso is being backed not just by female players, but male players too - although perhaps not as much as hoped.\n\nIt's caused a storm in football, which has turned into a social tsunami. It feels like wherever you are, everyone is talking about it, and in Spain it's the number one story every day.\n\nIt's a story about a man - Luis Rubiales - who appears completely out of touch with reality, a man long followed by acolytes and surrounded by supporters with an apparently identical world view.\n\nBut now, this influential group has become a minority.\n\nTheir defiance on this issue has left many people incredulous - and in Spain, they are looking exposed.\n\nThe coaching staff of the women's national side has resigned, but notably not the manager Jorge Vilda, who was - alongside other senior figures in Spanish football - spotted clapping when Rubiales was talking yesterday.\n\nThis has not gone unnoticed by the Spanish public.\n\nRemember that the players were not just asking for Rubiales to go, but for other members of the federation to go too. These women who have conquered the world see this moment as an opportunity to move aside anyone they think is standing in the way of their mission to achieve unflinching respect and equality.\n\nFor many people, this is about how discrimination against women functions. It not just done by one person; it is done by a system.\n\nAnd in Spain, this episode shows how the battle lines have been drawn.\n\nIt's a battle being taken up at the very highest level.\n\nPrime Minister Pedro Sánchez has no fear proclaiming himself a feminist. In the Spanish sporting groups I circulate in, people feel they must intervene - that action must be taken.\n\nAnd beyond that, the feeling is Spain must take advantage of this moment, which has intensified so quickly and is capturing headlines around the world.\n\nOne week ago, we were celebrating a historic World Cup victory. That has quickly soured, some say. It's been a whirlwind of success and recrimination, of holding to account - and of sheer defiance.\n\nBut there is one thing people on every side agree on: this is one of the most important weeks for Spain in living memory.\n\nFor many people, it's an opportunity to move into a better place. For others it's a chance to set the record straight - as they see it.\n\nIt's difficult to exaggerate how influential Rubiales was. His defiance suggests he may have felt safety in that influence.\n\nBut the voices against him have multiplied, starting with Jenni Hermoso and her fellow players and then snowballing into their coaching staff, the men's game and the newspapers. Now, this is being talked about around almost every single dinner table in Spain.\n\nHe may not feel so safe any more.", "The site where the Germans were killed, near the town of Meymac\n\nArchaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by the French Resistance a few days after D-Day, during World War Two.\n\nFrench and German teams discovered bullets and cartridges, as well as coins, at a remote site in central France identified by the last surviving witness.\n\nAfter France surrendered to Hitler's Germany in 1940, the underground Resistance movement gathered force over years of occupation and by June 1944 was poised to help the Allied invasion in Normandy.\n\nThe eight-day excavation in wooded hills near the town of Meymac failed to unearth human remains.\n\n\"The bodies are definitely there somewhere. We are not going to stop now,\" said Xavier Kompa, head of the French Veterans' Affairs Office in the Corrèze department.\n\nKompa was speaking at the police checkpoint at the start of the track leading to the site. The site itself remains off-limits to press and public.\n\nThe dig has been suspended, but will be resumed after more analysis of the ground and of the finds.\n\nThe search follows the recent revelations of 98-year-old former Resistance fighter Edmond Réveil, who broke nearly 80 years of silence to speak about the killings for the first time.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Réveil recalled the reaction of the German prisoners when they were told they were to be shot.\n\n\"They knew what was coming…. They got out their wallets and looked at (photographs of) their families. There was no crying out. They were soldiers,\" he said.\n\n\"They were shot in the chest from a distance of four or five metres.\"\n\nThe prisoners - 46 German soldiers and one French woman collaborator - had been ordered to dig their own graves in the form of a long trench.\n\nFollowing Réveil's account, French and German officials focused their search on a section of woods near the hamlet of Encaux. Ground-penetrating radar perceived what appeared to be a trench that fitted the description.\n\nHowever when a 45- by 10-metre area was excavated, it proved fruitless. The teams then switched their attention to an adjacent zone, which had not been analysed with the radar.\n\nIn this area - not yet cleared of trees - they discovered the artefacts that apparently confirmed they were in the right place.\n\nTwenty bullets as well as bullet-casings are of French, German, American and Swiss manufacture - which would reflect the variety of weaponry used by the Resistance.\n\nAll date from before 1944, as do five coins.\n\nArchaeologists found 20 bullets as well as bullet-casings of French, German, American and Swiss manufacture\n\nTwo of the pre-1944 coins found at the excavation site near Meymac\n\nThe Corrèze prefecture said that more studies would now be carried out, and \"when new elements allow us to pinpoint the remains, a new effort will be made to exhume them\".\n\n\"It is extremely hard to find the exact spot, because the terrain has changed so much,\" said Kompa.\n\n\"Back in 1944, this was heathland. The pine trees were planted by the Americans after the war. And the configuration of the paths has changed too.\"\n\nRéveil's story triggered massive media interest when it was reported in May.\n\n\"We had no idea the world would focus so much attention,\" said Kompa. \"That's another reason why we are going to keep looking.\"\n\nAuthorities plan to return to the dig site when they have more information\n\nAs an 18-year-old member of the Francs Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) Resistance group, Réveil had taken part in an anti-German uprising in the Corrèze capital of Tulle just after the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.\n\nThe Normandy landings - often referred to as D-Day - saw the Allied forces of the US, UK and Canada begin an attack that lasted for 11 months. It eventually led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and the liberation of occupied Europe.\n\nDays after D-Day, French fighters captured between 50 and 60 German soldiers. But the fighters were then forced to flee into the mountains by the arrival of German reinforcements.\n\nIn retaliation for the uprising, on 9 June the SS Das Reich division hanged 99 hostages on the streets of Tulle.\n\nThe next day they massacred 643 people in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, which has remained an empty monument ever since.\n\nThe ruins of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane have been preserved just as they were after the massacre\n\nRéveil was part of the Resistance escort moving north-east with their captives, taking mountain paths to avoid German patrols.\n\nAfter three days walking, on 12 June, the commander radioed to headquarters for orders. This was when he was told to have the prisoners shot. Some Czechoslovakian and Polish nationals were spared.\n\nRéveil says that he did not personally take part in the killing.\n\nAfter the execution, a cloak of silence descended. There was a tacit oath taken by the 30 or so Resistance fighters never to mention it again.\n\nRéveil decided to speak out only because he was the last person alive to have been a witness.\n\n\"It needs to be told. It's been a secret long enough,\" he said to the BBC.\n\nIn 1967 - in circumstances that have never been fully explained - there was actually a first excavation at the scene. This unearthed 11 bodies. But the dig seems to have been abruptly stopped, and all official records expunged.\n\nThe likely reason is that former members of the Resistance - who were still numerous and influential in French politics - did not wish the episode to be resuscitated for fear of sullying their heroic image.\n\nAccording to Meymac's mayor Philippe Brugère, such considerations are now long gone.\n\n\"The guardians of the memory of the Resistance were fearful it would harm their name. But today no-one wants to cast judgment. People understand that in war all acts become possible.\n\n\"You can be on the side of the righteous, and still carry out what is morally wrong.\"", "The mystery of the fabled Loch Ness monster endures despite a weekend of mass-participation Nessie hunting.\n\nAbout 200 volunteers kept a lookout for mysterious events from the shoreline, but spotted nothing unusual.\n\nObservers on a boat using acoustic equipment reported four unidentified \"gloops\" but then realised their recording device wasn't plugged in.\n\nOrganisers said visitors from around the world joined the hunt despite appalling weather.\n\nAlan McKenna, from volunteer research group Loch Ness Exploration, was on a boat using a hydrophone system to capture the underwater sounds of the Highlands loch.\n\nHe said when they were testing the system on Friday, they heard four distinctive \"gloops\".\n\n\"We all got a bit excited, ran to go make sure the recorder was on and it wasn't plugged in,\" he sheepishly admitted.\n\nThe first written records of monster date from the 7th Century when a chronicler told how many years before, the Irish monk St Columba had banished a water beast from the River Ness.\n\nThe modern legend began in 1933 when hotel manageress Aldie Mackay claimed to have seen a whale-like creature in the loch.\n\nFact or fiction, the legend of the monster is an important driver of tourism\n\nThe following year the famous \"surgeon's photo\" captured what looked like a prehistoric beast in the water, though 60 years later it was exposed as hoax involving modelling clay and a clockwork submarine.\n\nThe old hotel building at Drumnadrochit where Aldie Mackay reported her famous sighting is now home to newly-revamped Loch Ness Centre which jointly organised this weekend's hunt with Loch Ness Exploration.\n\nAs well as bedraggled volunteers on the shore, hundreds more monster hunters took part from more comfortable surroundings, by watching webcams trained on the loch.\n\n\"We've had people from Spain, France, Germany and we had a Finnish couple. We've had news teams from Japan, Australia, America and it has been really good,\" said Mr McKenna.\n\n\"We've all kind of banded together. It's been fantastic.\"\n\nLoch Ness Centre manager Paul Nixon was adamant the event - billed as the biggest Nessie hunt in 50 years - was more than a publicity stunt, and said it showed that fascination with Nessie was as strong as ever.\n\n\"I believe there is something big lurking in the depths of Loch Ness,\" he said.\n\n\"Now I don't know whether it's a monster - I don't know what it is but I reckon there's something down there.\"", "Watch highlights as Great Britain's women win 4x100m relay bronze behind winners the United States at the World Athletics Championships.\n\nFollow the World Athletics Championships across BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer.\n\nAvailable to UK users only", "Bob Barker, who hosted the US game show The Price Is Right for 35 years, has died at the age of 99.\n\nThe Price is Right is the longest-running game show on US television and is watched every weekday by audiences in other countries.\n\nBarker was its smiling face from the first series in 1972 until 2007. He won 19 Emmy awards during a radio and TV career that spanned six decades.\n\nHe died of natural causes at his home near Los Angeles, his agent said.\n\n\"The World's Greatest MC [Master of Ceremonies] who ever lived, Bob Barker, has left us,\" publicist Roger Neal said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nBarker was born in December 1923 in Washington State and joined the US Navy during World War Two, before starting a career in radio, and later TV.\n\nIn CBS's The Price Is Right, excited contestants were famously invited to \"come on down\" before Barker tested their knowledge of the price of consumer items in return for prizes.\n\nIn 2007, aged 83, he was succeeded as host by comedian Drew Carey.\n\nWhen Barker's death was first reported, Carey tweeted: \"There hasn't been a day on set that I didn't think of Bob Barker and thank him. I will carry his memory in my heart forever.\"\n\nHollywood actor Adam Sandler also paid tribute to his Happy Gilmore co-star, saying Barker was \"The man. The myth. The best\" and that he would be \"missed by everyone\".\n\nFellow actor James Woods also praised Barker, highlighting his \"greatest contribution\" as an advocate for animal rights.\n\nWoods said as well as being a world famous game show host, Barker's \"love for our furry friends inspired compassionate movements all over the world\".\n\nAnimal rights group Peta said Barker would be remembered for his \"lifelong work for animals\" and that he was committed to pushing for the end of animal exploitation in \"every way\".\n\nBarker was a vegetarian for more than 40 years, and repeatedly spoke out about animal cruelty and donated money to animal rights work.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne of Ukraine's most celebrated fighter pilots and two other airmen have been killed in a mid-air crash.\n\nAndrii Pilshchykov won fame taking part in dogfights over Kyiv during the early phase of Russia's invasion.\n\nThe Ukrainian military called the airmen's deaths \"painful and irreparable\" losses, and paid tribute to Pilshchykov as a pilot with \"mega knowledge and mega talent\".\n\nThe crash involved two L-39 training planes flying over northern Ukraine.\n\nAn investigation is under way into whether flight preparation rules were not correctly followed, resulting in Friday's crash in Zhytomyr Oblast. The region is west of the capital, Kyiv, and hundreds of miles from the frontline.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the deaths in his nightly video address, saying that his country would \"never forget anyone who defended the free skies of Ukraine\".\n\nLast autumn, as Russia launched hundreds of cruise missiles and drones at Ukraine, Pilshchykov - who flew under the call-sign \"Juice\" - spoke to the BBC about the pressure he felt as a MiG-29 fighter pilot tasked with trying to intercept the deadly weapons before they struck.\n\n\"Intercepting the cruise missiles, your mission is to save the lives on the ground, to save the city. If you are not able, it's a terrible feeling that somebody will die. Somebody will die in minutes and you didn't prevent that,\" he said.\n\nHe also spoke of his lifelong \"dream\" to join the Ukrainian air force which he saw as his \"mission\".\n\nMelaniya Podolyak, a friend of Pilshchykov, also confirmed his death, posting an image of his air force badge on social media.\n\nThe crash and deaths are a major upset for Ukraine as it prepares to receive up to 61 F-16 fighter jets from its allies, in a bid to step up its counteroffensive.\n\nOn Thursday, the Pentagon confirmed that English-language training for Ukrainians on operating F-16s would begin in Texas in September, with flight training expected to begin in October in Arizona. Meanwhile, other Western allies are preparing to start training Ukrainians later this month.\n\nThe training to fly F-16s is expected to take around five months.\n\nThe American decision earlier this year to supply F-16 jets represented an about-turn. This is because the US and its Nato allies - who had earlier ruled out the move - had feared this would lead to further escalation with nuclear-armed Russia.\n\nA spokesman for Ukraine's Air Force, Yurii Ihnat, paid tribute to Pilshchykov in a statement posted on his Facebook page.\n\n\"A year ago in the USA, Andrii met with American government officials, brought up the urgent needs of the Air Force, was in constant contact with Californian pilots, and was the main driver of an advocacy group promoting many decisions on the F-16s [supply],\" Ihnat said.\n\n\"During the war, he gave dozens of interviews to Western media because he knew English well, and the most important was the topic of conversation: what can and should be talked about for Ukraine!\n\n\"You can't even imagine how he wanted to fly on an F-16... but now that American planes are actually on the horizon, he will not fly them.\n\n\"Andrii Pilshchykov was not just a pilot, he was a young officer with great knowledge and great talent.\n\n\"He was an excellent communicator, the driver of reforms in Air Force aircraft, a participant in many projects. I often supported his crazy ideas, which gave incredible results!\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nBriton Daniel Dubois said he felt \"cheated out of victory\" after his heavyweight world-title challenge ended in defeat by Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk on a dramatic night in front of 40,000 boisterous fans in Poland.\n\nDubois, a huge underdog, floored the champion in a controversial fifth round. With Usyk wincing in pain on the canvas, the referee ruled the shot - which appeared to land on the belt line - a low blow.\n\nUsyk, 36, regained control and dropped Dubois, 25, with a flurry of shots in the eighth round at Tarczynski Arena, Wroclaw, before the referee halted the contest following another knockdown in the ninth.\n\n\"I didn't think that was a low blow, I thought it landed,\" Dubois said after the fight.\n\nHis promoter Frank Warren agreed, calling it a \"complete home decision\" as he criticised referee Luis Pabon and said he planned to appeal.\n\n\"I like Usyk, but he was not fit to go on and they gave him a couple of minutes to recover,\" added Warren.\n\nIn fact, Usyk took three minutes and 45 seconds before declaring he was fit to resume - fighters are allowed five minutes when caught with a low blow, although Dubois was not deducted a point by the referee.\n\nUsyk, a former undisputed cruiserweight champion, responded well towards the end of the fifth round and reasserted his dominance in rounds seven and eight as he made a successful second defence of his WBA 'Super', IBF and WBO belts.\n\nHe also retained his undefeated record, winning a 21st professional bout, to keep hopes of a blockbuster fight with Tyson Fury alive.\n\n\"I feel good. I am grateful for my team, my family, my children. I love you. I'm grateful for my country and the Ukrainian army. Thank you so much.\"\n\nBriton Fury - the WBC world champion - and Usyk have previously failed to agree terms on a historic bout for all four heavyweight belts.\n\nThe gulf in boxing fundamentals was clear to see as early as round one with Usyk winning the battle of the jabs.\n\nBut Dubois, whose only career loss came against Briton Joe Joyce in 2020, responded by landing an uppercut in the second.\n\nHowever, Usyk, light on his feet and working at a high intensity, was clearly superior, dancing around the ring, picking Dubois apart in the early rounds.\n\nLightning lit up the night sky above the open-air stadium in the fifth, seconds later Dubois landed that thunderous right to the body. The crowd gasped, their hero rolling on the floor.\n\nReplays showed the shot was borderline, on the belt. Usyk remained on the floor. He took his time to recover, and had no interest in touching gloves as the contest continued. The dramatic round ended with both men landing punches after the bell.\n\nUsyk then sensed blood as Dubois tired, landing with a flurry of shots in the eighth to floor Dubois.\n\nThe challenger bravely got up as the count reached nine, but a straight right in the ninth brought an end to the contest.\n\nMany gave Dubois a puncher's chance heading into the fight, and that may have just been the punch in the fifth round.\n\n\"We will order an appeal after what's happened here,\" Warren said.\n\n\"It's all about a legitimate punch that stopped him and he should have won. Everyone wants to see the unification [with Fury, who is in Warren's stable of fighters]. If Daniel had got the result then it would have been easy to do. We will see now.\"\n\nUsyk was fighting in front of a 'home' crowd for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine; a third of those attending had travelled from Ukraine or were refugees now living in Poland or neighbouring countries.\n\nSeven Ukrainian boxers featured on the undercard for the event dedicated to and celebrating a country torn apart through war.\n\nAs the rain fell, with the ringside press scrambling for cover, a video message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was played on the big screen to a rapturous reception.\n\nDubois had cut a serious figure throughout fight week, but the challenger made his ring walk grinning and singing along to Bob Marley's 'So Much Things To Say'.\n\nThe roaring, ear-splitting noise for Usyk's entrance was something else. He strode to the ring with purpose, not even allowing himself a slight moment to soak in the electric atmosphere.\n\nOn an emotionally-charged night, not even the heavy rain could dampen the jubilant Ukrainian fans.\n\nThere were wins for British middleweight Hamzah Sheeraz, who beat Dmytro Mytrofanov, and debutant Aadam Hamed - son of boxing legend Prince Naseem Hamed - on the undercard.\n\nBut Dubois' hopes of tearing up the script and etching his name into the history books ended in failure, although he will leave Poland with his stock high, while plenty of fans feel he should be a world champion.", "Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been elected to a second term with 52.6% of the vote, the electoral commission says.\n\nBut the opposition also claimed to have won, saying there was widespread vote-rigging, and observers said the vote fell short of democratic standards.\n\nMr Mnangagwa is only Zimbabwe's third president. A 2017 coup against veteran ruler Robert Mugabe put him in charge.\n\nZimbabweans still face high inflation, poverty and a climate of fear.\n\nWhen he first became president, Mr Mnangagwa - known as \"The Crocodile\" for his ruthlessness - promised a new start for his country's people.\n\nBut Zimbabwe had one of the highest inflation rates in the world last month - prices in July had rocketed by 101.3% since the previous year. Unemployment also remains rife, with only 25% of Zimbabweans holding formal jobs.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's vow to guarantee human rights also appears hollow, with little changing in this regard since Mr Mugabe's departure.\n\nHis supporters still bring out a cuddly crocodile toy during Zanu-PF rallies\n\nCritics say the 80-year-old silenced dissent and clamped down on the opposition in the run-up to the vote, which he had been widely-expected to win.\n\nThe Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said Mr Mnangagwa's main challenger, Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate Nelson Chamisa, secured 44% of the vote.\n\nMr Mnangagwa received more than 2.3m votes, while Mr Chamisa took 1.9m, according to the ZEC. Voter turnout in the country of almost 16m was 69%, the electoral body said.\n\nBut Mr Chamisa said that the opposition had the \"real results\" and that there had been many irregularities.\n\n\"We have won this election. We are the leaders. We are even surprised why Mnangagwa has been declared a leader,\" he told journalists in Harare.\n\nA spokesperson for the CCC posted on X - formerly known as Twitter - that the party rejected \"any result hastily assembled without proper verification\".\n\nObserver missions from the EU, Commonwealth and 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) said they had a number of concerns with the vote, including the banning of opposition rallies, issues with the electoral register, biased state media coverage and voter intimidation.\n\n\"The elections were fraught with irregularities and aggrieved the people of Zimbabwe,\" political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya told AFP.\n\nThe run-up to the election was largely free of violence, but CCC members were convicted on what they describe as fabricated charges aimed at weakening the party. The party says the police have banned several of its meetings since July, and nearly 100 gatherings since it was formed in January last year.\n\nEarlier this month, 40 CCC members, including a parliamentary candidate, were arrested while campaigning in the capital Harare.\n\nThe recent killing of a CCC backer, allegedly by supporters of Mr Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party, further raised concerns about rights.\n\nCritics continue to be arrested and taken to court for insulting the president - an offence punishable by one year in jail or a fine or both. A man in Harare was charged in April after allegedly being overheard by a police officer saying that Mr Mnangagwa would lose the next election.\n\n\"The Crocodile\", as he is known, has a fearsome reputation that was cemented after independence during the civil war that broke out in the 1980s between Mr Mugabe's Zanu party and the Zapu party of Joshua Nkomo.\n\nAs national security minister, Mr Mnangagwa was in charge of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which worked hand in glove with the army to suppress Zapu.\n\nThousands of civilians - mainly ethnic Ndebeles, seen as Zapu supporters - were killed in a campaign known as Gukurahundi, before the two parties merged to form Zanu-PF.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has denied any role in the massacres. As president he has tried to broach reconciliation. Some have felt his comments glib given the deep wounds in Matabeleland, but an initiative to allow exhumations and reburials has been agreed.\n\nVoting in the presidential and parliamentary elections was meant to take place on Wednesday, but was extended into Thursday in some areas due to the late distribution of ballot papers.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's election means Zanu-PF has ruled Zimbabwe for 43 years, since the country gained independence from British rule in 1980.\n\nThe party was also declared the winner in the parliamentary race, securing 136 of 210 seats, with the CCC taking 73. A further 60 seats are reserved for women and are appointed through proportional representation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA cruise ship broke free from moorings and collided with a freight vessel during a storm in Mallorca, Spain.\n\nPassengers on Britannia, a P&O Cruises ship based in Southampton, described how after it broke loose the ship \"floated away like a paper boat\". A walkway also fell into the sea.\n\nA small number of people are being cared for onboard after sustaining minor injuries, P&O said.\n\nIt said the ship will stay in Palma to allow for a technical assessment.\n\nThe captain earlier told passengers there was \"no structural compromise\".\n\nPeople aboard the ship recorded videos and images of the incident, showing an emergency response and debris floating in the sea.\n\nThe \"unexpected drama\" happened at the same time as an emergency drill, a passenger said\n\nPassenger Gavin McCoy said the \"unexpected drama\" happened while \"the local fire service and crew were carrying out an emergency drill\".\n\nHe said that at about 11:00 BST \"a sudden rain and wind storm ripped us away from our dockside moorings, breaking tethering lines, water hoses, and causing the walkway to fall into the sea\".\n\nHe said he was \"sitting by the window in the coffee shop, and the first thing we saw were the blue dockside reception marquee tents blowing through the air,\" Mr McCoy added.\n\n\"We've drifted well away from the berth and collided into a nearby freight/cargo ship.\"\n\nAnother passenger, Dale Hopkin said it was \"madness\" on board as sunbeds \"were starting to flip\".\n\nMr Hopkin, from Blackpool, said the rain was so heavy he could not see out of the ship's windows.\n\nHe added that after the vessel broke free from its moorings \"it floated away like a paper boat. The staff couldn't do anything more\".\n\nHis wife, Tracey Hopkin, described it all as \"a bit of drama\" and said the ship came close to the breakwater rocks in the harbour.\n\nShe said she heard \"a really loud noise, a grating sound\" and \"couldn't believe what I was seeing\".\n\nShe praised the actions of the staff and said there were regular updates from the ship's captain.\n\nAnother holidaymaker, Tilley Eve, said for around two hours \"things were really bad\", adding: \"I felt like I was in the Wizard of Oz.\"\n\nShe said some families had put life jackets on their children.\n\nThe storm is likely to be one of the severe thunderstorms, affecting the Balearic Islands.\n\nMr McCoy could see debris in the water from one of their lifeboats which was hit\n\nTorrential outbreaks of rain and gusts of up to 120km (75 miles) per hour have hit the islands. The conditions led to the cancellation of over 20 flights, Spain's airport operator said.\n\nWeather warnings for parts of the archipelago have been extended until Monday.\n\nThe captain informed passengers that \"there's no structural compromise, but deck five has sustained a small amount of damage\" on the PA system.\n\nP&O Cruises spokesperson said they were \"aware of an incident involving Britannia on Sunday morning\" and were \"working to assess the situation\".\n\nMr McCoy said that everyone was safe and there was \"no problem on the ship apart from a few scrapes and bumps to one or more lifeboats that project from the ship\".\n\n\"The many people on coach excursions will be able to get back on again,\" he added.\n\nPassengers will have access to onboard entertainment and activities while technical teams make an assessment of the ship, P&O said.\n\nThe cruise started in Southampton and is due back on 1 September.\n\nThis is the second time an emergency has happened on a Southampton ship due to bad weather in recent weeks, with the Queen Mary 2 breaking free from its bow mooring line and drifting off the quay on 4 August.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nWere you on the Britannia cruise ship? You can share your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAn internal investigation has been launched by Spain's football federation after its sexual violence protocol was activated.\n\nFederation president Luis Rubiales has been suspended by Fifa after kissing forward Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain's Women's World Cup win.\n\nHermoso, 33, has said the kiss after last Sunday's game was not consensual.\n\nMaria Dolores Martinez Madrona, the protocol's protection delegate, said the matter is now being investigated.\n\n\"Our protocol is currently activated and in the midst of investigating the events, thus we demand the utmost respect for the right to privacy and dignity of all individuals involved,\" she said in a letter published by the federation (RFEF).\n\n\"As the protection delegate for sexual violence, my duty is to adhere to the protocol and safeguard the privacy of those affected by this incident and of the Sexual Violence Advisory Committee.\"\n\nThe protocol is activated once a complaint is submitted and means the protection delegate, a position currently held by female referee Madrona, will investigate and send her findings to the Sexual Violence Advisory Committee.\n\nThe RFEF has also called regional federations to an \"extraordinary and urgent\" meeting on Monday \"to evaluate the situation in which the federation finds itself\".\n\nWhen it announced it had suspended Rubiales on Saturday, Fifa ordered him, the RFEF and its officials or employees to not attempt to contact Hermoso, who the REFF had threatened with legal action earlier that day.\n\nDespite widespread criticism and pressure to resign, 46-year-old Rubiales vowed to \"fight until the end\" while addressing an extraordinary general assembly called by the RFEF on Friday.\n\nVictor Francos, Spain's secretary of sport and head of the state-run National Sports Council, then said the government had started legal proceedings seeking to suspend Rubiales, \"so that he has to give explanations before the Sport Court (TAD)\".\n\nSpanish sports minister Miquel Iceta told newspaper El Pais: \"We are going to ask the TAD to meet on Monday. If the TAD accepts the government's complaint, we will immediately proceed with the suspension of the functions of president.\"\n\nHow did the situation get to this point?\n\n20 August - During the ceremony following the World Cup final, Spanish forward Jenni Hermoso is first embraced and then kissed on the lips by Luis Rubiales.\n\nHermoso later reacts to the kiss during a live stream and says she \"did not enjoy\" it.\n\n21 August - Rubiales issues an apology saying he is \"sorry for those who were offended\" after being fiercely criticised by other footballers, the media and even by the Spanish prime minister, some of whom called on him to step down.\n\n25 August - A defiant Rubiales insists at a RFEF emergency meeting that he will not resign, and calls the kiss \"consensual\".\n\n25 August - The Spanish government says it is beginning legal proceedings seeking to suspend Rubiales, with the Spanish secretary of sport saying he \"wants this to be Spanish football's MeToo moment\".\n\n25 August - Later that day, Hermoso releases a statement on Instagram rebuffing Rubiales' claims, saying that \"at no time... was his kiss ever consensual\".\n\n25 August - 81 Spanish players - including all 23 players who went to the Women's World Cup - announce they will not play for Spain's women's team until Rubiales is removed from his position.\n\n26 August - The Spanish football federation says it will take legal action over \"each falsehood that is spread\".\n\n26 August - Fifa announces it is provisionally suspending Rubiales pending the outcome of its disciplinary proceedings.\n\n26 August - World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda criticises Rubiales while his entire coaching staff resigns in protest against the federation president.\n\n27 August - Federation's delegate for sexual violence protocol confirms an internal investigation into events is under way.", "A man who shot dead three people in a racially motivated attack in Florida wrote of his hatred of black people, police say.\n\nTwenty-one year old Ryan Christopher Palmeter fired eleven rounds at one woman sitting in her car in Jacksonville, before entering a shop and shooting another two people.\n\nSheriff T K Waters said he then turned the gun on himself.\n\nMayor Donna Deegan said the attack was driven by racist hatred.\n\nAt a news conference on Sunday, Sheriff Waters confirmed the gunman had no previous criminal history and had lived with his parents in Clay County.\n\nThe three victims were identified as Anolt Laguerre Jr, 19, Jerrald De'Shaun Gallion, 29 and 52 year-old Angela Carr.\n\nMr Laguerre worked at the Dollar General store where the attack happened, the company said.\n\nThe gunman had written messages detailing his hatred of black people, police said.\n\n\"Finely put: this shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people.\" Sheriff Waters said.\n\n\"He knew what he was doing. He was 100% lucid,\" he added. \"He knew what he was doing and again, it's disappointing that anyone would go to these lengths to hurt someone else.\"\n\nMr Waters said the gunman had been detained for 72 hours in 2017 under the Baker Act, mental health legislation that allows the involuntary detainment of an individual for treatment.\n\nBut the sheriff said his weapons had been acquired legally, telling reporters the problem was not with the availability of guns, but with the killer being \"a bad guy\".\n\nHe urged people not to \"look for sense in a senseless act of violence\".\n\nJacksonville police played CCTV video at the news conference showing the moment the attacker walked up to the car where he killed the first woman. It then cut to video of him entering the shop.\n\nMr Waters also confirmed that the gunman let some people out of the shop without injuring them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Why? I don't know. Some of them were white, but I do believe there was a couple that were not,\" he said.\n\nUS Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Sunday the Justice Department was \"investigating this attack as a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism\".\n\n\"No person in this country should have to live in fear of hate-fuelled violence and no family should have to grieve the loss of a loved one to bigotry and hate,\" he said.\n\nThe attack happened less than a mile from the historically black Edwards Waters University.\n\nThe gunman first went to the university campus, where he was asked to identify himself by a security officer, the university said in a statement. When he refused, he was asked to leave.\n\n\"The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident,\" the statement added.\n\nSheriff Waters said the gunman was then seen putting on a bullet-resistant vest and a mask before leaving the campus.\n\nThe university went into lockdown after the shooting.", "Russia has launched hundreds of cruise missiles and drones at Ukraine in the past few weeks, killing dozens of civilians and causing power blackouts across the country.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to one of the MiG-29 fighter pilots tasked with trying to intercept the deadly weapons before they hit Ukraine's cities.\n\nKnown by his callsign “Juice”, he has been asked by authorities to remain anonymous.", "Great Britain won 10 medals in Budapest to equal their best-ever haul at a World Athletics Championships.\n\nKeely Hodgkinson and the 4x400m relay teams won medals on the final day to help Britain finish seventh in the final medal table.\n\nBritain recorded a haul of two golds, three silver and five bronze medals after nine days of competition.\n\nBritain won 10 medals in Stuttgart in 1993 when Linford Christie, Colin Jackson and Sally Gunnell took golds.\n• None after edging out American Anna Hall by 20 points in the heptathlon.\n• None won by the United States in world record time.\n• None Matthew Hudson-Smith went on to\n• None to claim Britain's first medal in the event since Darren Campbell in 2003.\n• None to earn his first global medal.\n• None of Asha Philip, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Bianca Williams and Daryll Neita also won bronze.\n• None Quiz: Can you name every GB world champion?\n• None How does Penn Badgley define himself?: The Gossip Girl and You star reveals it all to Dua Lipa\n• None Should ultra-processed food be treated like cigarettes?: Dr Chris van Tulleken investigates what non-natural foods are doing to our bodies", "Last updated on .From the section The Hundred\n\nOval Invincibles staged a remarkable fightback to beat Manchester Originals and win the men's Hundred at Lord's.\n\nOutstanding fast bowling from the Originals reduced the Invincibles to 34-5 and risked turning the showpiece into an anti-climax.\n\nBut Tom Curran and Jimmy Neesham launched a stirring counter-attack and shared an unbroken partnership of 127, the highest for any wicket in the short history of the men's Hundred.\n\nCurran blasted five sixes in his 67 not out from 34 balls, while Neesham added an unbeaten 57 from 33 to lift the Invincibles to 161-5.\n\nOriginals had comfortably chased 197 to beat Southern Brave in the eliminator on Saturday, but this time the dismissal of opener Phil Salt for 25 heralded the fall of four wickets for 17 runs.\n\nThe loss of captain Jos Buttler, bowled for 11 swiping at spinner Danny Briggs, was a hammer blow, while Nathan Sowter held a magnificent catch tiptoeing around the boundary to dismiss Laurie Evans.\n\nMax Holden kept faint hopes alive with 37, leaving the Originals needing an unlikely 32 from the final 10 balls.\n\nTom Curran continued his fine day by conceding only nine from the first five, then brother Sam closed out the game to leave Originals on 147-6 and the Invincibles victors by 14 runs.\n\nThis marks a second successive final defeat for the Originals, while Invincibles take the men's title for the first time, joining Southern Brave women as the champions of 2023.\n• None 'Hundred's best year shows it may have something'\n• None Who did the BBC Sport readers' pick in their team of the men's Hundred?\n\nInvincibles had been the dominant team on the way to topping the group table, but injuries and international call-ups meant they were missing five players that had got them to the final - Jordan Cox, Sunil Narine, Heinrich Klaasen, Adam Zampa and Spencer Johnson.\n\nBriggs was playing his first game of the tournament, Ireland batter Paul Stirling was signed just for the final and New Zealand's Neesham had played only once before.\n\nAnd the patched-up team came close to being overwhelmed by the Originals onslaught - the five wickets fell in the space of 36 balls.\n\nThe rescue act came through all-rounders Tom Curran and Neesham. For Curran, it is a continuation of some good form with the bat after his summer as a bowler has been limited by a back injury. For Neesham, it is a taste of glory at Lord's four years on from batting in the super over as New Zealand were agonisingly beaten in the World Cup final by England.\n\nCurran muscled the ball over the leg-side rope and hit one outrageous cut for six off the left-arm pace of Josh Little. Neesham's only six went in the same direction as his maximum off Jofra Archer in the 2019 super over.\n\nNeesham gave one half-chance on 16, but his miscue evaded the hands of spinner Tom Hartley as he tried to run back and take the catch off his own bowling.\n\nTheir century partnership came up in only 49 balls and Curran hit the final ball of the innings, bowled by Zaman Khan, for a mighty straight maximum to surpass the previous best men's stand of 124 between Dawid Malan and Darcy Short for Trent Rockets against Southern Brave in 2021.\n\nBeaten by Trent Rockets in the final 12 months ago, Originals looked to have the momentum this time around thanks to the breathtaking way they pulled off the highest chase in Hundred history against the Brave on Saturday.\n\nIndeed, the way they tore into the Invincibles top order had them on course for a rampant victory.\n\nRichard Gleeson took the inside edge of Jason Roy and persuaded Stirling to hit a full toss to mid-on. Little had Sam Curran edge behind for a golden duck, the Irishman bowling 15 of the 25 balls in the powerplay for figures of 1-7 - four of those runs came from a misfield.\n\nCaptain Sam Billings tickled down the leg side off Paul Walter and Will Jacks holed out from the spin of Hartley. Invincibles were in tatters, only for Tom Curran and Neesham to change the complexion of the game. Originals barely recovered.\n\nSalt and Buttler, the tournament's leading run-scorer, have formed a formidable opening partnership and Salt raced to 25 from 16 balls. However, when he miscued Tom Curran to the running Sam Curran at mid-off, the Invincibles squeezed.\n\nButtler, starved of the strike, played a frustrated hack at Briggs to depart for 11 from 15 balls, Wayne Madsen was bowled by Sowter before the same man pulled off his superb catch off Evans. Aware of the presence of the boundary, he took the catch, threw the ball up, hopped off the field and back on, then completed the catch all while avoiding the rope.\n\nHolden battled hard, but when he was lbw on review to Sam Curran, Invincibles had the title in the bag.\n\n'Every game a different person has stood up' - what they said\n\nMatch Hero, Oval Invincibles' Tom Curran on BBC Two: \"Everyone keeps saying that I've improved my batting but I don't see it that way. It's a compliment and it's nice to hear. But I have worked very hard on it, yes I came in to Surrey primarily as a bowler but it's pleasing to show what I can do.\n\n\"Jimmy was unbelievable. It was a crucial partnership for us and we really fed off each other out there. He's a class player and I think the left and right-hand combo helped us out.\n\n\"It has been a rollercoaster but I'm so pleased.\"\n\nOval Invincibles all-rounder Sam Curran on BBC Two: \"I think at 34-5 it all comes down to Tom [Curran] and Jimmy [Neesham] and the way they played in a pressure situation. Every game, a different person has stood up, and that's the key to winning trophies.\n\n\"I am pleased for Tom, because he's had a hard season with injury and has been batting brilliantly. I am so happy. I think we are born to play and win trophies.\n\n\"The Hundred is going to get bigger and better. To get that trophy is brilliant. The group has been pretty similar and the celebrations tonight are going to be pretty special.\"\n\nOval Invincibles batter Will Jacks on BBC Two: \"Buzzing! We worked hard for that. It was a crazy start to this game so to get to this position is still quite hard to believe.\n\n\"We've won close games before in this competition and that helped us.\"", "Nadine Dorries resigned as Conservative MP from her Mid Bedfordshire seat with a blistering attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nHere is her resignation letter in full:\n\nIt has been the greatest honour and privilege of my life to have served the good people of Mid Bedfordshire as their MP for 18 years and I count myself blessed to have worked in Westminster for almost a quarter of a century. Despite what some in the media and you yourself have implied, my team of caseworkers and I have continued to work for my constituents faithfully and diligently to this day.\n\nWhen I arrived in Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, I inherited a Conservative majority of 8,000. Over five elections this has increased to almost 25,000, making it one of the safest seats in the country. A legacy I am proud of.\n\nDuring my time as a Member of Parliament, I have served as a back bencher, a bill Committee Chair, a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State before becoming Minister of State in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) during the Covid crisis, after which I was appointed as Secretary of State at the department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS). The offer to continue in my Cabinet role was extended to me by your predecessor, Liz Truss, and I am grateful for your personal phone call on the morning you appointed your cabinet in October, even if I declined to take the call.\n\nAs politicians, one of the greatest things we can do is to empower people to have opportunities to achieve their aspirations and to help them to change their lives for the better. In DHSC I championed meaningful improvements to maternity and neonatal safety. I launched the women's health strategy and pushed forward a national evidence-based trial for Group B Strep testing in pregnant women with the aim to reduce infant deaths. When I resigned as Secretary of State for DCMS I was able to thank the professional, dedicated and hard-working civil servants for making our department the highest performing in Whitehall. We worked tirelessly to strengthen the Online Safety Bill to protect young people, froze the BBC licence fee, included the sale of Channel 4 into the Media Bill to protect its long-term future and led the world in imposing cultural sanctions when Putin invaded Ukraine.\n\nI worked with and encouraged the tech sector, to search out untaught talents such as creative and critical thinking in deprived communities offering those who faced a life on low unskilled pay or benefits, access to higher paid employment and social mobility. What many of the CEOs I spoke to in the tech sector and business leaders really wanted was meaningful regulatory reform from you as chancellor to enable companies not only to establish in the UK, but to list on the London Stock Exchange rather than New York. You flashed your gleaming smile in your Prada shoes and Savile Row suit from behind a camera, but you just weren't listening. All they received in return were platitudes and a speech illustrating how wonderful life was in California. London is now losing its appeal as more UK-based companies seek better listing opportunities in the US. That, Prime Minister, is entirely down to you.\n\nLong before my resignation announcement, in July 2022, I had advised the cabinet secretary, Simon Case, of my intention to step down. Senior figures in the party, close allies of yours, have continued to this day to implore me to wait until the next general election rather than inflict yet another damaging by-election on the party at a time when we are consistently twenty points behind in the polls.\n\nHaving witnessed first-hand, as Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss were taken down, I decided that the British people had a right to know what was happening in their name. Why is it that we have had five Conservative prime ministers since 2010, with not one of the previous four having left office as the result of losing a general election? That is a democratic deficit which the mother of parliaments should be deeply ashamed of and which, as you and I know, is the result of the machinations of a small group of individuals embedded deep at the centre of the party and Downing Street.\n\nTo start with, my investigations focused on the political assassination of Boris Johnson, but as I spoke to more and more people - and I have spoken to a lot of people, from ex-prime ministers, cabinet ministers both ex and current through all levels of government and Westminster and even journalists - a dark story emerged which grew ever more disturbing with each person I spoke to.\n\nIt became clear to me as I worked that remaining as a back bencher was incompatible with publishing a book which exposes how the democratic process at the heart of our party has been corrupted. As I uncovered this alarming situation I knew, such were the forces ranged against me, that I was grateful to retain my parliamentary privilege until today. And, as you also know Prime Minister, those forces are today the most powerful figures in the land. The onslaught against me even included the bizarre spectacle of the Cabinet Secretary claiming (without evidence) to a select committee that he had reported me to the Whips and Speakers office (not only have neither office been able to confirm this was true, but they have no power to act, as he well knows). It is surely as clear a breach of Civil Service impartiality as you could wish to see.\n\nBut worst of all has been the spectacle of a prime minister demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy against one of his own MPs. You failed to mention in your public comments that there could be no writ moved for a by-election over summer. And that the earliest any by-election could take place is at the end of September. The clearly orchestrated and almost daily personal attacks demonstrates the pitifully low level your Government has descended to.\n\nNadine Dorries last spoke in the House of Commons in June 2022\n\nIt is a modus operandi established by your allies which has targeted Boris Johnson, transferred to Liz Truss and now moved on to me. But I have not been a prime minister. I do not have security or protection. Attacks from people, led by you, declared open season on myself and the past weeks have resulted in the police having to visit my home and contact me on a number of occasions due to threats to my person.\n\nSince you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened. What exactly has been done or have you achieved? You hold the office of prime minister unelected, without a single vote, not even from your own MPs. You have no mandate from the people and the government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?\n\nAnd what a difference it is now since 2019, when Boris Johnson won an eighty-seat majority and a greater percentage of the vote share than Tony Blair in the Labour landslide victory of 1997. We were a mere five points behind on the day he was removed from office. Since you became prime minister, his manifesto has been completely abandoned. We cannot simply disregard the democratic choice of the electorate, remove both the prime minister and the manifesto commitments they voted for and then expect to return to the people in the hope that they will continue to unquestioningly support us. They have agency, they will use it.\n\nLevelling up has been discarded and with it, those deprived communities it sought to serve. Social care, ready to be launched, abandoned along with the hope of all of those who care for the elderly and the vulnerable. The Online Safety Bill has been watered down. BBC funding reform, the clock run down. The Mental Health Act, timed out. Defence spending, reduced. Our commitment to net zero, animal welfare and the green issues so relevant to the planet and voters under 40, squandered. As Lord Goldsmith wrote in his own resignation letter, because you simply do not care about the environment or the natural world. What exactly is it you do stand for?\n\nYou have increased Corporation tax to 25%, taking us to the level of the highest tax take since World War Two at 75% of GDP, and you have completely failed in reducing illegal immigration or delivering on the benefits of Brexit. The bonfire of EU legislation, swerved. The Windsor framework agreement, a dead duck, brought into existence by shady promises of future preferment with grubby rewards and potential gongs to MPs. Stormont is still not sitting.\n\nDisregarding your own chancellor, last week you took credit for reducing inflation, citing your \"plan\". There has been no budget, no new fiscal measures, no debate, there is no plan. Such statements take the British public for fools. The decline in the price of commodities such as oil and gas, the eased pressure on the supply of wheat and the increase in interest rates by the Bank of England are what has taken the heat out of the economy and reduced inflation. For you to personally claim credit for this was disingenuous at the very least.\n\nIt is a fact that there is no affection for Keir Starmer out on the doorstep. He does not have the winning X factor qualities of a Thatcher, a Blair, or a Boris Johnson, and sadly, prime minister, neither do you. Your actions have left some 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods, because in your impatience to become prime minister you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economy. Bewildered, we look in vain for the grand political vision for the people of this great country to hold on to, that would make all this disruption and subsequent inertia worthwhile, and we find absolutely nothing.\n\nI shall take some comfort from explaining to people exactly how you and your allies achieved this undemocratic upheaval in my book. I am a proud working-class Conservative which is why the Levelling Up agenda was so important to me. I know personally how effective a strong and helping hand can be to lift someone out of poverty and how vision, hope and opportunity can change lives. You have abandoned the fundamental principles of Conservatism. History will not judge you kindly.\n\nI shall today inform the chancellor of my intention to take the Chiltern Hundreds, enabling the writ to be moved on 4 September for the by-election you are so desperately seeking to take place.", "Pupils will be banned from wearing abayas, loose-fitting full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in France's state-run schools, the education minister has said.\n\nThe rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September.\n\nFrance has a strict ban on religious signs in state schools and government buildings, arguing that they violate secular laws.\n\nWearing a headscarf has been banned since 2004 in state-run schools.\n\n\"When you walk into a classroom, you shouldn't be able to identify the pupils' religion just by looking at them,\" Education Minister Gabriel Attal told France's TF1 TV, adding: \"I have decided that the abaya could no longer be worn in schools.\"\n\nThe move comes after months of debate over the wearing of abayas in French schools.\n\nThe garment is being increasingly worn in schools, leading to a political divide over them, with right-wing parties pushing for a ban while those on the left have voiced concerns for the rights of Muslim women and girls.\n\n\"Secularism means the freedom to emancipate oneself through school,\" Mr Attal told TF1, arguing the abaya is \"a religious gesture, aimed at testing the resistance of the republic toward the secular sanctuary that school must constitute.\"\n\nHe said that he would give clear rules at the national level before schools open after the summer break.\n\nIn 2010, France banned the wearing of full face veils in public which provoked anger in France's five million-strong Muslim community.\n\nFrance has enforced a strict ban on religious signs at schools since the 19th Century, including Christian symbols such as large crosses, in an effort to curb any Catholic influence from public education.\n\nIt has been updating the law over the years to reflect its changing population, which now includes the Muslim headscarf and Jewish kippa, but abayas have not been banned outright.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe debate on Islamic symbols has intensified since a Chechen refugee beheaded teacher Samuel Paty, who had shown students caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, near his school in a Paris suburb in 2020.\n\nThe announcement is the first major policy decision by Mr Attal, who was appointed France's education minister by President Emmanuel Macron this summer at the age of 34.\n\nThe CFCM, a national body representing many Muslim associations, has said items of clothing alone were not \"a religious sign\".", "Officers were called to Queens Drive on Saturday night\n\nA man and woman have died after becoming trapped in their car in a flooded road in Liverpool.\n\nIt happened in Queens Drive in the Mossley Hill area shortly before 21:00 BST on Saturday night, police said.\n\nPassers-by fought to help the pair, named locally as married couple Philip and Elaine Marco, who were stuck inside a black Mercedes in deep floodwater.\n\nEmergency workers took them to hospital, but they were pronounced dead.\n\nAmateur footage filmed in the area appears to show water gushing on to the road - which dips under a bridge.\n\nMet Office data shows heavy rain at more than 32mm (1.25 inches) an hour was falling close to where it happened.\n\nMerseyside Police said the pair's next of kin have been informed and formal identification has been made.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mike Dalton said: \"Our thoughts go out to the family of the man and woman who sadly lost their lives in this tragic incident, despite the best efforts of passing members of the public, our officers and Merseyside Fire and Rescue Services.\n\n\"We are at the early stages of an ongoing investigation to establish the circumstances.\n\n\"Road closures remain in the area and motorists are advised to avoid the road.\"\n\nPeople living in the area told the Liverpool Echo Queens Drive has been problematic for some time\n\nA Liverpool City Council spokesman said highways staff had assisted the police, adding: \"Our thoughts are with those involved and their families.\"\n\nThe authority reiterated a plea for motorists to continue to avoid the area while the investigation takes place.\n\nPeople living in the area told the BBC the road has been problematic for decades with cars and buses getting stuck in deep water there.\n\nFifty-four-year-old Mike Sims said he regularly got stuck in flood water when he cycled to school more than 40 years ago.\n\n\"Often when it rained it would be up to my waist and I had to get off my bike and walk,\" he said.\n\n\"My mother was stranded in her car in waist high water whilst dropping us of at school. Her mini van was flooded and pushed by passers-by.\"\n\nHe said buses also used to get trapped when it rained.\n\nLiverpool's deputy lord mayor Richard Kemp said he had raised concerns about flooding in the area for about 20 years.\n\nIn a letter to the council, he said short-term measures had been carried out, such as flushing out the drains, but \"this has never been enough\".\n\n\"The major problem is that the core of the drainage system is more than 150 years old and is clearly inadequate,\" he said.\n\nHe called for action including a better drainage system, better lighting and an electric warning system for drivers.\n\nRebecca Wilson, who was in a taxi in Queens Drive around the time, told the Liverpool Echo she thought the flooding might have been caused by a burst pipe.\n\nShe described her experience as \"terrifying\", saying the water was \"gushing down like waterfall\" and that it looked like a burst dam.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone who was in Queens Drive and saw what happened, or stopped to try and help, to come forward.\n\nA file has been passed to the coroner.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Nadine Dorries has not spoken in the House of Commons for more than a year\n\nLabour and the Liberal Democrats are vying to snap up Nadine Dorries' seat in a by-election this autumn, triggered after she quit on Saturday.\n\nThe two parties ruled out any election pact as they look to contest the vacated Mid Bedfordshire seat.\n\nIn her blistering resignation letter, Ms Dorries accused Rishi Sunak of running a \"zombie Parliament\".\n\nGovernment minister Johnny Mercer dismissed her scathing criticism, but said she was \"entitled to that view\".\n\n\"I think people are tired of raking over the coals of the Boris Johnson government,\" said Mr Mercer, who is the government's veteran affairs minister.\n\nHe told reporters on Sunday that he looked forward to the by-election campaign, but the Conservative Party would have to \"work hard to get\" constituents' votes, adding: \"We've got work to do but we've got a good candidate.\"\n\nMs Dorries - who was a Johnson loyalist - announced she would stand down on Saturday evening, 11 weeks after originally pledging to quit \"with immediate effect\" on 9 June.\n\nLabour's Anneliese Dodds said Ms Dorries' resignation was \"a real relief for the people of Mid Bedfordshire\" and that Labour was in \"pole position\" for the seat, despite not winning there before.\n\n\"I think it really is all to play for for Labour with this by-election,\" she told BBC Breakfast. \"They desperately need an MP who will be focused on them full-time.\"\n\nShe added that \"Labour won't be cooking up any deals\".\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said he was \"increasingly confident we have a really good chance\" of overturning Ms Dorries' huge 25,000 majority in the constituency, following the party's victory in Somerton and Frome last month.\n\nHe said the Lib Dems had already been campaigning there, adding: \"It's clear that the people of Mid Bedfordshire feel the Conservative Party is out of trust and they see the Liberal Democrats as the main challenger.\"\n\nMs Dorries, whose salary as an MP is £86,584, had come under increasing pressure to act on her promise to resign, as she had not spoken in the Commons since June 2022.\n\nShe submitted her resignation letter to the prime minister and published the eviscerating text on Mail Online.\n\nSenior Tory Caroline Nokes was left unimpressed by her remarks, telling BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House: \"I am not planning on wasting a second more of my life thinking about Nadine Dorries.\n\n\"Nadine has turned her resignation into a psychodrama and sadly this seems more about gathering column inches for Nadine rather than a Conservative Party she claimed to be a loyal member of a few weeks ago.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer, Labour candidate Alistair Strathern, deputy Labour Party leader Angela Rayner and shadow Northern Ireland secretary Peter Kyle visited the Mid Bedfordshire constituency in July\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt is expected to appoint Ms Dorries to the historical position of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern on Tuesday - the arcane mechanism by which MPs can leave the Commons before an election.\n\nThis will enable the Conservative Party to call a by-election in Mid Bedfordshire.\n\nBlake Stephenson, the chair of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservatives, told the BBC constituents had been \"looking for clarity\" over Ms Dorries.\n\n\"I'm certain that [the Conservative candidate] can win this campaign,\" he said. \"But the circumstances in which we go into this by-election do make that more tricky.\"\n\nDespite saying in June that she would quit with immediate effect, Ms Dorries subsequently said she wanted to find out why she was refused a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nIt was widely thought she would be made a peer by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his resignation honours list.\n\nIn a lengthy statement Ms Dorries accused Mr Sunak of \"demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy\" against her.\n\nThis, she said, resulted in \"the police having to visit my home and contact me on a number of occasions due to threats to my person\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey says he's confident they can win the by-election\n\nIn a criticism of Mr Sunak's leadership, she said: \"Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened.\n\n\"You have no mandate from the people and the government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?\"\n\nShe continued: \"It is a fact that there is no affection for [Labour leader] Keir Starmer out on the doorstep. He does not have the winning X factor qualities of a Thatcher, Blair or a Boris Johnson, and sadly, prime minister, neither do you.\"\n\nBorn in Liverpool, the mother of three says her childhood was warm and loving but she told the Guardian she also remembers having to \"hide from the rent man as we couldn't pay him. Some days there would be no food.\"\n\nAfter school she trained as a nurse and her profession frequently informed the political issues she took up - from Group B Strep testing for pregnant women to pushing for the time limit on abortions to be reduced.\n\nShe came late to politics and had considered joining Labour, but her views were swung by the Right to Buy scheme which had allowed her mother to buy her council house.\n\nMs Dorries was elected MP for Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, although her decision to go on ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here in 2012 led to her suspension from the parliamentary Conservative party.\n\nShe would later serve as a health minister before being appointed to the cabinet in 2021 when Boris Johnson made her culture secretary.\n\nHaving written a series of novels, her latest book The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson is due out in September.", "Dorset Police is treating the death as suspicious\n\nA murder probe has been launched after human remains were discovered off a cliff-side path in Bournemouth.\n\nThe partial remains were found by a member of the public near Manor Steps Zig Zag, off Boscombe Overcliff Drive in Dorset, at 13:10 BST on Saturday.\n\nDorset Police is treating the death as suspicious.\n\nThe force said it was trying to establish the identity of the victim and the circumstances surrounding their death.\n\nThe partial remains were found near Manor Steps Zig Zag, off Boscombe Overcliff Drive in Dorset on Saturday\n\nDet Insp Neil Third said: \"We are treating this as a murder investigation and our inquiries are ongoing to establish the identity of the deceased and the circumstances surrounding their death.\n\n\"I am appealing to anyone with any information regarding this matter, or who has seen any suspicious activity around the area of the Manor Steps Zig Zag in Boscombe in recent days, to please inform police.\n\n\"A cordon remains in place at the scene while further detailed inquiries are conducted and I would like to thank members of the public for their patience and understanding while this is in place.\n\n\"There will continue to be an increased police presence in the vicinity and officers can be approached by members of the public with any information or concerns.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain's Keely Hodgkinson had to settle for silver as Mary Moraa triumphed in a thrilling 800m final at the World Championships in Budapest.\n\nTargeting a first global title, the 21-year-old Hodgkinson clocked one minute 56.34 seconds to match her 2022 medal.\n\nKenyan Moraa won with a personal best 1:56.03 as defending champion Athing Mu took bronze in a captivating battle.\n\nGB added bronze in both the men's and women's 4x400m relays to equal their best medal haul at a championships.\n\nThe men's quartet of Alex Haydock-Wilson, Charlie Dobson, Lewis Davey and Rio Mitcham finished in 2:58.71, behind the USA (2:57.31) and France (2:58.45).\n\nLaviai Nielsen, Amber Anning, Ama Pipi and Nicole Yeargin ran 3:21.04 to make the final podium of the championships, as Femke Bol completed a stunning personal story by leading the Netherlands to gold in 3:20.72.\n\nBol, who suffered a dramatic fall in the closing stages of the mixed 4x400m relay on the opening day, overhauled Jamaica (3:20.88) to deliver a sensational finale.\n\nThose third-place finishes took GB to 10 medals - securing the team's best performance for 30 years.\n\nThere was so very nearly a final day gold medal for the British team to celebrate.\n\nOlympic silver medallist Hodgkinson, who missed out on last year's 800m world title to Athing Mu by an agonising 0.08secs in Eugene, found space on the inside as she attempted to catch the fast-finishing Moraa in the closing stages.\n\nBut as Moraa skipped in delight after upgrading her 2022 bronze to gold, Hodgkinson initially looked disheartened before proudly celebrating her third global medal.\n\nMu took bronze as the expected medal race between the three main contenders unfolded, while Jemma Reekie finished fifth (1:57.72) in her first world final.\n\nIt was yet another outstanding performance by Hodgkinson, who will again target gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics following another significant year of progress at the start of her career.\n\n\"To be consistently at the top with the best of the world is all I want with my career,\" Hodgkinson said.\n\n\"Another podium. Another medal. So that's definitely a positive.\"\n\nShe added: \"I did think I was going to come through on the inside and then the line just came quicker than I thought it would.\n\n\"I gave it my all like I always do. I don't really think I put a foot wrong.\"\n\nSilver again for Hodgkinson in latest 'big three' chapter\n\nOne of the most anticipated showdowns of the championships, the women's 800m final pitted Hodgkinson against two athletes who, between them, had denied the European champion three further major golds in a sensational start to her professional career.\n\nAmerican phenomenon Mu, also 21, repeated her Tokyo Olympics triumph over Hodgkinson by the narrowest of margins in Eugene last year, before 23-year-old Moraa inflicted Commonwealth Games heartbreak.\n\nBut those experiences have only made Hodgkinson more determined in her pursuit of glory.\n\nResponding to the setbacks, Hodgkinson won her first major outdoor gold at the European Championships last August and improved her British record to 1:55.77 this season - still the fastest time in the world this year.\n\nOnly Moraa, at the Lausanne Diamond League, had denied the Leigh athlete victory in 12 races over 800m this year - the Kenyan's unpredictable racing style once again frustrating in an otherwise flawless build-up.\n\nAnd it was Moraa, renowned for her devastating closing speed, who powered on to victory in Budapest as Hodgkinson moved past the fading Mu but could not overhaul the Kenyan.\n\n\"I was really looking forward to today. I was really up for it. I really did believe I was going to win,\" Hodgkinson said.\n\n\"You've got to believe, that's half the battle. Who knows what the order will be next year.\n\n\"One of these days I will get the top spot. Today, it's just not meant to be.\n\n\"I think [going into an] Olympic year, everyone brings even more of their A-game than they usually do. There's no stone left unturned this year. We'll just aim for gold again and see what happens.\"\n\nGreat Britain matched their 2022 bronze in the women's 4x400m - Yeargin clinching a podium place as Bol successfully chased down Jamaica.\n\nIt was 400m champion Bol who was firmly in the spotlight, adding her second gold medal and bringing the crowd to their feet.\n\nBronze represented significant progress for the British men's quartet, who did not participate last year.\n\nIn the absence of 400m silver medallist Matthew Hudson-Smith, who has been managing a foot injury this year, Mitcham held on to keep the Jamaican quartet at bay.\n\nThere was a fourth-placed finish for Morgan Lake in the women's high jump final with a clearance at 1.97m as Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh won her first global outdoor title following world silvers in 2019 and 2022.\n\nNorway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen bounced back from his shock loss to Britain's Josh Kerr in the 1500m final to defend his title in the men's 5,000m, winning in 13:11.30.\n\nOlympic champion Neeraj Chopra won India's first ever World Championship gold as he took the javelin title with a best throw of 88.17m.\n\nMeanwhile, Bahrain's Winfred Yavi took victory in the women's 3,000m steeplechase as the last of 49 golds were decided on Sunday.", "A fresh rescue bid for Wilko has emerged as efforts to save the retail chain continue.\n\nPrivate equity firm M2 Capital has confirmed it has made a £90m bid for the business, and has pledged to retain all employees' jobs for two years.\n\nThe bid by M2, first reported by the Guardian, is one of several offers being considered by administrators.\n\nWilko fell into administration earlier this month, putting 12,500 jobs and 400 stores at risk.\n\nThe administrators for Wilko, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), set a deadline of Friday last week for bids for the chain, and are understood to be reviewing offers over the weekend.\n\nM2 managing director Robert Mantse told the BBC that if the firm's rescue bid was accepted, M2 would \"guarantee all employees' jobs for two years\".\n\nIn response, the national secretary of the GMB union, Andy Prendergast, said that while \"the devil is always in the detail... any bid that guarantees jobs has to be prioritised\".\n\nLast week, it also emerged that the owner of HMV, Canadian businessman Doug Putman, is also interested in salvaging some of the Wilko business.\n\nIt is understood his bid would seek to keep the majority of the chain's stores open.\n\nA spokesperson for PwC said talks were \"continuing with a number of parties\".\n\n\"As administrators we're intent on achieving the best outcome for everyone involved while preserving as many jobs as possible and adhering to our statutory duty to act in the best interests of the creditors as a whole.\"It would be inappropriate to comment on individual bidders or interested parties at this stage in the process.\"\n\nWilko has been struggling with sharp losses and a cash shortage.\n\nIt has also been criticised for falling behind rivals such as B&M, Poundland, The Range and Home Bargains, as the high cost of living has pushed shoppers to seek out bargains.\n\nWilko had already borrowed £40m from restructuring specialist Hilco, cut jobs, rejigged its leadership team and sold off a distribution centre as it faced a cash squeeze.\n\nShoppers had also noticed gaps on shelves after Wilko struggled to pay suppliers and at least one credit insurer withdrew trade cover, prompting some companies to pause deliveries.\n\nHowever, Lisa Wilkinson, the retailer's chairwoman until January this year and the granddaughter of the firm's founder, has said \"everybody has thrown everything\" at trying to save the business.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Times, she said: \"The team members, the suppliers, the landlords... everybody has thrown their soul and heart at it.\"\n\nThe company has been criticised for paying dividends in recent years, but Ms Wilkinson said the firm would have collapsed even if it had not made these payments.\n\n\"Hindsight is a great bedfellow and I like to think we did all the things we should do when we paid dividends,\" she told the paper.\n\n\"The board checked that we'd got profits or reserved profits, there was sufficient cash, we went through the right governance, the auditors checked it off.\"\n\nAn \"everything must go\" sale began at Wilko stores soon after it entered administration\n\nShe added that if they had not paid any dividends \"it might have made us survive a couple of months longer. What we have taken out really wouldn't have made a difference\".\n\nBut the GMB union's Andy Prendergast said: \"12,500 workers are facing redundancy - through no fault of their own.\"\n\nHe criticised Ms Wilkinson for her comments, saying she did not \"address her workers and face their concerns\". He added that her remarks were \"in poor taste when workers don't know how they're going to make ends meet in a few weeks' time\".\n\nThe business was founded in 1930 when JK Wilkinson opened his first store in Leicester. It expanded across the Midlands initially and by the 1990s became one of Britain's fastest-growing retailers.\n\nIn 2012, Wilkinson began rebranding its stores as Wilko, after its own-brand products marketed under the Wilko name.\n\nAre you a Wilko staff member? You can share your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "ECT involves passing electric currents through the brain to treat conditions such as depression\n\nA number of health trusts in Northern Ireland are reviewing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) leaflets that are made available to patients.\n\nIt comes as a new study has indicated some patients are being misled about the risks associated with ECT.\n\nThe treatment involves passing electric currents through a patient's brain to cause seizures or fits.\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrists says ECT offers \"life-saving treatment\" and should be considered in severe cases.\n\nBut new research has raised questions about the accuracy of patient information leaflets being offered in some hospitals across the UK, including Northern Ireland.\n\nBBC News NI previously reported concerns about the oversight of ECT in Northern Ireland after it emerged that only half of its clinics had the recommended accreditation.\n\nAll ECT clinics in Northern Ireland have since become accredited.\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrists says most people treated with ECT see an improvement in their symptoms.\n\nBut critics of ECT point to a long-expressed body of evidence from patients unhappy with side effects such as severe memory loss and headaches.\n\nThe use of electricity to treat mental illness started out as an experiment in the 1930s when psychiatrists noticed some heavily distressed patients would suddenly improve after an epileptic fit.\n\nBy the 1960s, passing a strong electric current through the brain was being widely used to treat conditions such as severe depression.\n\nIts use became increasingly controversial, particularly after new anti-depressant drugs introduced in the 1970s gave doctors new ways to treat long-term mental illness.\n\nThe use of electricity to treat mental illness started as an experiment in the 1930s\n\nNo-one is certain how ECT works.\n\nSome medics believe it causes the release of certain brain chemicals, which seem to stimulate the growth of some areas in the brain that tend to shrink with depression.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) currently recommends the use of ECT if the patient's depression is life-threatening and other treatments have been unsuccessful.\n\nNICE also recommends that patients are fully informed of the risks.\n\nNew peer-reviewed research published in the scientific journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy has raised concerns around ECT and informed consent.\n\nIt found patients and families across the UK are \"systematically being misled about the risks of ECT\".\n\nIn 2021 a research team led by Dr John Read, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of East London, undertook an audit of patient leaflets in ECT clinics in England.\n\nIt raised concerns about the principle of informed consent and concluded that a high number of leaflets did not outline \"the limited nature of ECT's benefits\" and minimised the risk of memory loss and mortality.\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrist's (RCPsych) leaflet, which was available in many clinics in England, rated very low in the audit.\n\nFollowing this study, the Royal College of Psychiatrists reviewed its leaflet and it was updated in 2022.\n\nA new study published this year by the research team examined leaflets for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt concluded that the information available in these three nations was no more accurate than those in England and \"did not comply with the ethical principle of informed consent\".\n\nSome health trusts in Northern Ireland were still using the outdated RCPsych leaflet.\n\nFurther criticism of information available to patients in Northern Ireland included a failure to mention that memory loss is more common in women and older people, the two groups to which ECT is most commonly administered.\n\nOthers made no reference to the fact that medical experts don't know how ECT works.\n\nLisa Morrison, who was treated with ECT in Northern Ireland, raised concerns about the impact the treatment had on her memory.\n\nShe has since undertaken a post-graduate diploma on the co-production of healthcare and is part of the research team that audited ECT leaflets in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Morrison has had a number of courses of ECT over the years\n\n\"This is not about whether people have had a positive or negative experience of ECT, it's about people's right to be given accurate information,\" she said.\n\n\"It really is an issue of informed consent and a complete picture around a serious treatment and unfortunately the study has found this isn't always happening.\"\n\nShe added: \"People who are going to be at their most distressed during a time when ECT is being considered need to be given all information in an accessible way.\"\n\nIn response to the study, the Northern Trust - one of Northern Ireland's five health trusts - confirmed it had been using the outdated RCPsych leaflet.\n\n\"The trust will now undertake a review of its current position, with a view to co-producing a new leaflet as part of our commitment to involving our patients and ensuring that they are kept well informed about their care and treatment options,\" a spokesperson told BBC News NI.\n\nMeanwhile the Southern and Western Trusts said they would be reviewing the findings of the study regarding their current ECT patient information leaflets.\n\nECT involves passing electric currents through a patient's brain to cause seizures or fits.\n\nThe Belfast and South Eastern Trust both confirmed they used the updated 2022 RCPsych leaflet and that their psychiatrists also have individual conversations with patients before ECT treatment.\n\nBoth trusts confirmed they would take time to review the findings of the latest study.\n\nThe authors of the latest study also concluded that RCPsych's updated 2022 leaflet was only of \"marginal\" improvement.\n\nA spokesperson for the Royal College of Psychiatrists said: \"Our ECT resource, like our other patient and carer information resources, meets health information standards, meaning it is based on reliable, up-to-date evidence and developed with experts in the field of ECT and those with personal experience of the treatment.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEver since he led a mutinous march on Moscow in late June Yevgeny Prigozhin was described by Russia watchers as \"a dead man walking\".\n\nCommenting recently on the mercenary boss's life expectancy the CIA Director William Burns even said: \"If I were Prigozhin I wouldn't fire my food taster\".\n\nIf it is ever proven that the mid-air destruction of a plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin was an act of deliberate, cold-blooded revenge by the Kremlin, this will go down in Russian history as the ultimate \"special military operation\".\n\nPrigozhin, a former convict, chef and hot dog salesman-turned mercenary boss, had a lot of admirers amongst the ranks of his Wagner mercenary army and beyond. Many will have witnessed his warm reception by the public in Rostov-on-Don when he turned up there exactly two months ago in the throes of his aborted one-day rebellion.\n\nBut he also had a lot of enemies in Moscow, most notably in the upper ranks of the Russian military whose leaders he frequently and publicly criticised.\n\nWhat has probably turned out to have been his fatal mistake was crossing President Putin when he launched that march on Moscow on 23 June. Although he did not mention Putin by name at the time, Prigozhin infuriated the Kremlin by very publicly criticising the official reasons given for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He told Russians they had been deceived and that their sons were dying in the Ukraine war due to poor leadership. This was heresy and Putin's video message on that day was sizzling with vitriol. He called Prigozhin's march on Moscow a betrayal and a stab in the back.\n\nAlexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who became a British citizen, was fatally poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006\n\nVladimir Putin does not forgive traitors nor those who challenge him.\n\nThe former Russian intelligence officer-turned defector, Alexander Litvinenko, died a slow and agonising death in a London hospital in 2006 after he was poisoned with radioactive Polonium-210.\n\nA subsequent investigation concluded that this assassins brought the lethal substance with them from Russia and that it could only have been sourced from a Russian government laboratory. Moscow denied any involvement but refused to surrender the two suspects for trial.\n\nThen there was Sergei Skripal, a former Russian KGB officer and again a defector to Britain.\n\nIn 2018 he and his daughter Yulia narrowly escaped death when GRU Russian military intelligence officers allegedly put Novichok nerve agent on the door handle of his house in Salisbury.\n\nA discarded perfume bottle containing the lethal agent was later found by a local Wiltshire resident, Dawn Sturgess, who died after applying it to her wrists.\n\nSergei Skripal survived being poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in 2018\n\nInside Russia there is a long list of people, including both critics and businessmen, who have met with sudden death, in some cases \"falling out of upper floor windows\". President Putin's most vocal opponent, Alexei Navalny, is now languishing in a penal colony on what are said to be politically-motivated fraud charges. He too survived assassination by Novichok nerve agent poisoning after nearly dying onboard a flight across Siberia in 2020.\n\nBut Prigozhin was a very different case, which makes his demise all the more controversial for Russians. Here was a man who was extremely useful to the Kremlin and seen by some Russians as a national hero.\n\nHis Wagner group of mercenaries, founded in 2014, was formed from a hard core of former Russian Speznaz (Special Forces) operatives and other soldiers. It has been highly active in eastern Ukraine where it drove the Ukrainian army out of Bakhmut, acquiring a fearsome reputation not shared by the often decrepit and poorly-led regular Russian army. Wagner bolstered its ranks when Prigozhin personally toured Russian penal colonies to recruit thousands of convicts, including rapists and murderers. These were effectively used as cannon fodder in eastern Ukraine where commanders ordered them to advance into withering fire in repeated attempts to overwhelm the enemy lines.\n\nWagner have also been operating in Syria for years but it is in Africa where they have achieved strategic success for the Kremlin. There they have developed a brutally effective business model that is proving popular with undemocratic regimes. By providing a range of \"security services\", from VIP protection to influencing elections, silencing critics, they have received in return mineral rights and access to gold and other precious metals in several African states. Money flows back to Moscow and everyone gets rich - except the actual populations of those countries.\n\nWagner troops have been accused of numerous human rights abuses including the massacre of civilians in Mali and Central African Republic. Yet they have succeeded in supplanting French and other western forces across a huge swathe of the African continent. Only this week Prigozhin popped up on a Telegram channel in a video presumed to have been filmed at a base in Mali, promising an expansion of Wagner's activities in Africa and \"freedom\" for its people.\n\nDespite all this, there are certainly some back in Moscow, notably in military intelligence, who viewed him as a liability, a loose cannon and a potential future threat to Putin's rule and the system around him.", "Many had spent weeks preparing for the carnival, which added lots of colour to the streets\n\nIt is hoped an event can reinvigorate a community and become a carnival of Wales.\n\nOver the Bank Holiday weekend, thousands of people are expected in Cardiff for the Butetown Carnival.\n\nOrganisers believe people are increasingly shunning huge events such as the Notting Hill Carnival - also taking place this weekend - for smaller gatherings.\n\nThey also think the event in Butetown can help change the area's image.\n\nColourful costumes and performers flooded on to the streets on Sunday as the parade took over the area.\n\n\"Over the years the Butetown community has been viewed in various lights - by producing carnival we're reintroducing ourselves into Welsh public life,\" said organiser Keith Murrell.\n\n\"As a result of being excluded, we create something inclusive.\"\n\nCommonly known as Tiger Bay in the past, one of Wales' most multi-cultural areas developed in the early 1900s, with people from more than 50 countries making the area their home.\n\nMany of these worked in the docks area, which later became Cardiff Bay.\n\nThousands of people were at the carnival enjoying the atmosphere\n\nMore recently, it has become one of the poorest areas in the city.\n\nHowever, Mr Murrell believes a vibrant annual event could give it a new lease of life, outlining his hopes to make it the \"carnival of Wales\".\n\n\"There are so many people in Notting Hill they can afford to lose a few and not notice, so there is no impact on that,\" he said.\n\n\"Here, they can come and have a bit of carnival, more of a bitesize carnival, and they can manage it and enjoy it and still talk to people.\n\n\"It's not a criticism at all, but I think Notting Hill Carnival has kind of outgrown what it was originally - the scale has taken over.\"\n\nThis year the Butetown carnival will mark the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving in the UK carrying passengers from the Caribbean.\n\nThe event has been running since the 1960s and has been advertised all over the world, including in Ghana, Nigeria and Jamaica.\n\nNow it consists of two separate but nearby events in Butetown and Cardiff Bay.\n\nColourful costumes were seen on the streets of Cardiff Bay\n\nIt began as a hybrid of Cardiff Mardi Gras, then in the 1970s Caribbean themed floats were introduced before youth workers began their own carnival in Canal Park in Butetown attracting 25,000 people.\n\nOrganiser Hilary Brown said carnivals flourished when the Windrush generation arrived in the UK.\n\n\"Who brought carnival to the UK? It was the Windrush generation,\" she said.\n\n\"What's the legacy they leave? They leave behind an opportunity and a fun environment to understand that carnival is just one of many many amazing things brought to the UK by the Windrush generation.\"\n\nCarnival-making workshops and dance rehearsals have been taking place across Cardiff, with a parade from Loudon Square, Bute Street down to Cardiff Bay taking place on Sunday.\n\nLewis Dedas, 29 and Harold Barbar, 30, have travelled from Ghana to support the reggae artist, Capone, who now lives in Wales and makes his music here.\n\nHarold said: \"We've received a very warm welcome in Wales.\n\n\"This has created an opportunity for other people to exhibit their talent, it will make Wales a better place.\n\nHe believes everyone in Ghana will now hear about the carnival, and Hilary added: \"I think it's putting Wales on the map, and rightly so.\"", "Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out any version of a wealth tax on the richest in society should Labour win the next general election.\n\nShe told the Sunday Telegraph extra money for public services would have to come from economic growth.\n\nMs Reeves confirmed Labour would not target expensive houses, increase capital gains tax or put up the top rate of income tax.\n\n\"I don't see the way to prosperity as being through taxation,\" she said.\n\nThe shadow chancellor told the newspaper Labour would instead do \"whatever it takes\" to attract business investment into the UK.\n\nThe interview comes as Labour steps up efforts to demonstrate it can be trusted with the economy - and further distance itself from the policies of former leader Jeremy Corbyn - ahead of an election that is expected next year.\n\nMs Reeves also told the Sunday Telegraph her preparations for government include \"spending an awful lot of time with businesses\".\n\nLabour says it has it has attracted a surge of interest from businesses at its key party conference, which takes place in October. The party said the number of attendees at its business forum has gone up by 50% in a year.\n\nThe party's leadership has been insisting for some time that it will not make unfunded spending commitments.\n\nBut the left has said Labour should instead raise taxes, rather than lower its sights - and left-wing campaign group Momentum described the latest move as \"shameful\".\n\nThe group said in a post on X, formerly Twitter: \"Wealth taxes are hugely popular. This is a Labour Leadership in hock to corporate interests.\"\n\nLabour's strategists are content to provoke the ire of the left, partly as a way to emphasise how far the party has changed since the Corbyn era.\n\nBut they are also trying to insulate Labour from anticipated Conservative attacks at the next election.\n\nBy explicitly ruling out tax options, they believe this will blunt Tory warnings of a Labour tax bombshell to come.\n\nThe Conservatives, though, have accused Labour of taking people for fools, arguing that even the party's existing policies would push taxes up.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds defended Labour's decision to rule out a wealth tax, telling BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme the party wanted to be \"very careful with tax policy\".\n\nMs Dodds said Labour wanted to avoid what she said was \"economic chaos\" under the Conservatives, \"particularly following the mini-budget\" under Liz Truss. She said Labour wanted to \"rebuild\" investors' confidence in the UK economy.\n\nLabour would make \"different choices from the Conservatives\", Ms Dodds said, as she highlighted the party's plans to raise funds by replacing the so-called \"non-dom\" taxpayer status and ending the charitable status of private schools.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The new Californian home for St Mungo Vintners\n\nAn old Scottish pub has been given a new life in California, at the hi-tech headquarters of a US health firm.\n\nThe Art Nouveau interior of St Mungo Vintners - with its dark wood, stained glass and brass fittings - was saved by an antiques dealer when the pub closed its doors in Glasgow in 1974.\n\nIt was shipped to the US where it gathered dust in a warehouse for years.\n\nThe bar and its fittings have now been bought by medical app firm GoodRx and used to build a \"speakeasy\" for staff.\n\nCalifornia antiques dealer Mitchell Litt said St Mungo Vintners was \"beautiful\" when he first saw it on Glasgow's Queen Street in the 1970s.\n\nDesigned by architects MacWhannell & Rogerson, it was built in 1904 in the style of the Glasgow School - inspired by architect Charles Rennie Macintosh.\n\nSt Mungo Vintners closed its doors in Glasgow in 1974\n\nMitchell said: \"I had no idea at that time who Charles Rennie Mackintosh or that school of architecture was, or anything else of that nature.\n\n\"What mostly attracted us was the leaded glass windows, there were quite a few throughout the pub.\n\n\"It was just basically the art nouveau interior and the way the whole thing looked.\"\n\nMitchell had set up an antiques firm with his wife in 1973, importing items from Europe to sell in the United States.\n\nOn their second or third trip to Glasgow they visited St Mungo Vintners and decided to buy the pub.\n\n\"I forget the price we paid,\" he said.\n\n\"I could envision it in a place in Southern California where I was from.\"\n\nFrom the industrial streets of 1970s Glasgow, Mitchell shipped the entire pub interior in a 40ft container to the sunshine of Long Beach, California.\n\nBut with his new company mainly focused on buying and selling furniture, it ended up tucked away at the very back of Mitchell's warehouse.\n\nDoug Hirsch is co-founder of US health firm GoodRx\n\nIt remained there for almost 50 years, until Mitchell's son sent a friend, Doug Hirsch, an old newspaper clipping about the pub.\n\nDoug was the co-founder and chief mission officer of GoodRx.\n\nHe wanted to create an old-time \"speakeasy\" bar at his company's gleaming new headquarters in Santa Monica - where his staff could gather and relax.\n\nLocated in a former Santa Monica pen factory, the open-plan offices are seamlessly modern, with plenty of natural light.\n\nBut nestled in the building's computer server room is a door that leads to another era, that might feel strangely familiar for anyone that ever drank at St Mungo Vintners.\n\nFixtures and fittings from St Mungo Vintners in their polished new setting\n\nThe long curving bar, stained glass windows and mirrored gantry are now polished and shining in their new setting - a Californian homage to an old British pub.\n\n\"I've always been in love with English and Scottish pubs,\" said Doug Hirsch.\n\n\"When I was in college I studied abroad in England and of course, I spent time in Scotland.\"\n\nDoug said the pub installation took almost two years from start to finish, but the Covid pandemic delayed GoodRx employees being able to enjoy it.\n\nHe said his \"speakeasy\" was now a key part of attracting people to work for the company and bringing employees back into the office.\n\nSome parts of the pub have been adapted for modern use, including part of the bar that was cut and lowered for wheelchair accessibility.\n\nDoug wanted some fun new touches for his speakeasy\n\n\"It was a big project, said Doug. \"Everything else around it was a pretty significant budget, not to mention the building of this room itself.\n\n\"There's some also modern fun touches, which you might not notice, like these lights above.\n\n\"Those are actually old LA streetlights, but we refashioned them by hand to make them look more period appropriate.\"\n\nMitchell Litt admits he had initially been \"somewhat reluctant\" to sell St Mungo Vintners.\n\n\"I always had a fond place when I thought of that pub and how beautiful it was, so I wasn't in any hurry to move it,\" he said.\n\nBut Doug believes his headquarters has become the perfect home for an old Glasgow bar.\n\nHe said: \"Gathering people together in a social environment to get to know each other - especially again in a world of remote learning and people staring at computers - this is sorely needed for us all.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSpain's Women's World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda has criticised suspended football federation president Luis Rubiales, calling the moment he kissed squad member Jennifer Hermoso \"inappropriate and unacceptable\".\n\nRubiales was suspended by Fifa on Saturday after Hermoso said the kiss prior to the team lifting the trophy was not consensual.\n\nVilda's entire coaching staff have resigned in protests against Rubiales, but Vilda himself has not stepped down despite his latest comments.\n\nThe coach was spotted applauding at the Spanish federation's extraordinary general assembly on Friday, when Rubiales gave an emphatic speech in which he repeatedly insisted he would not resign and claimed to be the victim of \"social assassination\".\n\nThe two had been allies after Rubiales stood by Vilda in September 2022 when 15 national-team players pulled out of the squad, saying that the manager's management was affecting their emotional state and health.\n\nOf those 15, only three opted to return to the Spain squad which went on to beat England in the final in Sydney.\n\nVilda released a statement on Saturday night, saying: \"I regret deeply that the victory of Spanish women's football has been harmed by the inappropriate behaviour that our until now top leader, Luis Rubiales, has carried out and that he himself has recognised.\n\n\"There is no doubt that it is unacceptable and does not reflect at all the principles and values that I defend in my life, in sport in general and in football in particular.\n\n\"I condemn without doubt any macho attitude, [which should be] far from an advanced and developed society.\n\n\"A clearly undesirable climate has been generated, far from what should have been a great celebration of Spanish sport and women's sport.\n\n\"I reiterate my unwavering commitment to promoting a sport that is a model of equality and respect in our society.\"\n\nFifa has provisionally suspended 46-year-old Rubiales, a former La Liga player for Levante, from any football-related activities for an initial 90 days.\n\nSpain's government has also started legal proceedings as they aim to suspend him.\n\nVilda is now the only coach from the women's national team who remains in place, with assistant managers Montse Tome, Javier Lerga and Eugenio Gonzalo Martin, physio Blanca Romero Moraleda and goalkeeping coach Carlos Sanchez all having quit their posts earlier on Saturday.\n\nSome 81 Spain players, including all 23 World Cup winners, said they would not play for the team again while Rubiales was in charge.\n\nRubiales had claimed the kiss with Pachuca forward Hermoso, 33, was consensual, something she strongly denied in a statement.\n\nThe RFEF then launched a remarkable statement on Friday night threatening legal action against Hermoso for her \"lies\".\n\nThat statement was later altered following Rubiales' suspension but still carries the threat of legal action against \"each falsehood that is spread\".\n\nLike Vilda, the men's national team boss, Luis de la Fuente, also applauded Rubiales' speech on Friday before issuing a statement criticising him.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales fly-half Dan Biggar has announced he will retire from international duty after the 2023 Rugby World Cup.\n\nThe 33-year-old is expected to continue to play for his French club Toulon, whom he joined in November 2022.\n\nBiggar has played 109 Tests for Wales since making his debut as a 19-year-old against Canada in 2008, and is preparing for a third World Cup.\n\nHe has also been on two British and Irish Lions tours, making three Test appearances in South Africa in 2021.\n\nBiggar announced his decision on international retirement in his newspaper column.\n\nHe has won three Six Nations titles and a Grand Slam with Wales.\n\nHe was made captain by Wayne Pivac for the 2022 championship and the summer Test series in South Africa, where the Wales men's team enjoyed their first victory against the Springboks on South African soil.\n\nWales begin their World Cup campaign against Fiji in Bordeaux on 10 September.\n\nLock Alun Wyn Jones, flanker Justin Tipuric and scrum-half Rhys Webb retired from international rugby before the World Cup.\n\nFull-back Liam Williams and fly-half Gareth Anscombe will miss the 2024 Six Nations because the tournament clashes with the Japan domestic season.\n• None The latest news, views and interviews ahead of the Rugby World Cup\n• None One golden chance to chase their dream of going pro", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least two people died and 56 were injured after two blasts at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) station in Romania.\n\nThe injured included 39 firefighters who went to the scene following the first explosion near the capital Bucharest on Saturday evening.\n\nShortly after, a second blast sent a mushroom cloud billowing into the sky, rocking the forecourt in Crevedia.\n\nSeveral people are in critical condition with severe burns, authorities said.\n\nThe two people who died were a couple, Raed Arafat, the head of Romania's emergency department, told reporters on Sunday.\n\nThey sent four people who were injured, including two firefighters, to hospitals abroad and said others would follow.\n\nTwo police officers and two gendarmes are among the injured.\n\nAuthorities do not yet know what caused the blast. Mr Arafat said the station was no longer in use and \"did not have a permit to function\", according to quotes reported by the Agence France-Presse news agency.\n\nPeople within a 700-metre (almost half a mile) radius were initially evacuated from the area, with Mr Arafat warning there was a risk of another explosion.\n\nBut by mid-morning, the fires had been contained.\n\nRomania's President Klaus Iohannis described the explosions as a \"tragedy\" and said he was \"profoundly saddened\" by what had happened.\n\n\"An investigation must quickly be launched to see if rules were broken. I ask the authorities to take urgent measures for the injured so that these tragedies won't happen again,\" he wrote on Facebook.", "Band-e-Amir, seen here in May this year, was Afghanistan's first national park\n\nThe Taliban government have banned women from visiting the Band-e-Amir national park in Bamiyan province.\n\nAfghanistan's acting minister of virtue and vice, Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, said women had not been observing hijab inside the park.\n\nHe called on religious clerics and security agencies to forbid women from entering until a solution was found.\n\nBand-e-Amir is a significant tourist attraction, becoming Afghanistan's first national park in 2009.\n\nIt is a popular destination for families and the ban on women attending will prevent many from being able to enjoy the park.\n\nUnesco describes the park as a \"naturally created group of lakes with special geological formations and structure, as well as natural and unique beauty\".\n\nHowever, Mr Hanafi said going to the park to sightsee \"was not obligatory\", Afghan agency Tolo News reported.\n\nReligious clerics in Bamiyan said the women who were visiting the park and not following the rules were visitors to the area.\n\n\"There are complaints about lack of hijab or bad hijab, these are not Bamiyan residents. They come here from other places,\" Sayed Nasrullah Waezi, head of the Bamiyan Shia Ulema Council told Tolo news.\n\nAfghan former MP Mariam Solaimankhil shared a poem she had written on X, formerly known as Twitter, about the ban and wrote \"we'll return, I'm sure of it\".\n\nFereshta Abbasi, of Human Rights Watch, noted women had been banned from visiting the park on Women's Equality Day and wrote it was a \"total disrespect to the women of Afghanistan\".\n\nBand-e-Amir, seen here last year, was popular with female visitors, who have been banned from most education and work\n\nMeanwhile Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, asked why stopping women from visiting Band-e-Amir \"is necessary to comply with Sharia and Afghan culture?\".\n\nThe Taliban have a history of implementing bans on women doing certain activities on what it insists is a temporary basis, including preventing them from attending schools in December 2022.\n\nThe ban on visiting the Band-E-Amir national park is the latest in a long list of activities that women have been prevented from doing since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.\n\nMost recently, the Taliban ordered hair and beauty salons in Afghanistan to shut and in mid-July stopped women from sitting the national university entrance exams.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland lost to Fiji for the first time ever and slumped to a fifth defeat in six games as their Rugby World Cup preparations ended with another blow.\n\nThe Pacific Islanders scored three second-half tries at Twickenham as England's fragile defence struggled to contend with their power.\n\nEngland salvaged hope late on when Joe Marchant's try and George Ford's conversion brought them within a point.\n\nBut Selestino Ravutaumada set up Simione Kuruvoli to seal victory.\n\nThe day began with a sense of optimism for England as Courtney Lawes led out the hosts to mark his 100th cap.\n\nBy the time the full-time whistle sounded, the gloom around English rugby had deepened even further with their first defeat by a side from outside the Six Nations and the Rugby Championship, two weeks before the start of their World Cup campaign against Argentina.\n• None 'England do not have a prayer of winning World Cup playing how they are now' - Matt Dawson column\n• None Borthwick has 'no doubt' England will move forward\n\nDisappointing preparations come to an end\n\nEngland's warm-up campaign has been underpinned by discipline issues, key injuries and poor form.\n\nAs many fans stayed away, the entire top section of Twickenham was closed apart from a small section of seating occupied by England's players not involved in the matchday squad, including banned duo Owen Farrell and Billy Vunipola.\n\nCaptain Farrell and Vunipola, the only specialist number eight in the squad, are serving bans for high tackles which will see them both miss the World Cup opener with Argentina.\n\nJack van Poortvliet (ankle) and Anthony Watson (calf) have also withdrawn from England's 33-man squad with injuries.\n\nCoach Steve Borthwick has named Alex Mitchell as Van Poortvliet's replacement and has until Monday to confirm his final squad, which is likely to include Jonny May after his try-scoring return to the international fold, while one of England's standout performers in the 2019 World Cup, Tom Curry, has not played all summer.\n\nEngland's defence is a big concern and they have conceded 12 tries in their four summer warm-up matches. The attack is not a point of strength either with only five tries in those four matches, of which they have lost three.\n\nMay ended their wait for a back to score since Freddie Steward's consolation try in the Six Nations humiliation by France in March, but utility backs Marcus Smith and Marchant also got on the scoresheet in the second half against Fiji.\n\nPreparation for the World Cup has not been smooth but the dress rehearsals are over and the real thing begins for Borthwick's team on 9 September in Marseille.\n\nFor the opening 20 minutes England played on the front foot as Manu Tuilagi's direct running proved to be a threat in midfield.\n\nThey were rewarded when May, who appeared to be conducting a final audition for a place in the World Cup squad after Watson's injury, handed off Ravutaumada to score in the corner and end England's wait of more than six hours for a try from the backline.\n\nBut as the rain began to fall England's dominance waned, though the conditions should in theory have favoured the hosts and hampered the visitors' free-flowing off-load game.\n\nWaisea Nayacalevu had a try chalked off in the first half for a forward pass in the build-up, but three minutes after the break he went over legally after Ravutaumada did to May what May had done to him in the opening exchanges.\n\nVinaya Habosi scored Fiji's second try as he nonchalantly picked up the ball from the base of a ruck and raced clear to send the small pocket of travelling fans into delirium.\n\nSmith's introduction at full-back off the bench was an attempt offer England a spark in attack, and for the second time in as many games at Twickenham the hosts rallied after going behind, as they did in the narrow win over Wales two weeks earlier.\n\nFord chipped over the onrushing Fijian defence for Smith to gather the loose ball and score under the posts, but Caleb Muntz's boot kept England at arm's length.\n\nMarchant's finish late on handed Borthwick's side hope but the elusive Ravutaumada skipped back inside and freed his arms to offload for Kuruvoli to dive over and extinguish any hopes of an England comeback.", "Newport, pictured here, is a small town and ancient port on Pembrokeshire's north coast\n\nWith its otters, puffins, castles, miles of golden sands and dark starry skies there can be few counties more photogenic than Pembrokeshire.\n\nPhotographer Drew Buckley has spent his career capturing the varied landscapes and wildlife along Britain's only coastal national park and can't imagine living anywhere else.\n\n\"It's one of those places that I think is deeply set in a lot of people's hearts,\" said Drew, who lives in Pembroke.\n\n\"There's just so much to see around here... lots and lots of variety.\"\n\nDuring the Covid lockdown when the area was closed to visitors, Drew realised many people who usually holiday in Pembrokeshire were missing it - so he decided to do something about it.\n\nHe gave his followers on Twitter, now X, \"their daily fill of Pembrokeshire\" by posting a photo every day.\n\nHis photos took in all parts of the 186-mile stretch that makes up Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, ranging from the bustling seaside resort of Tenby to lesser-known bays and coves.\n\nSoon people started suggesting he should turn it into a book - the result is Pembrokeshire: Discovering the Coast Path.\n\nMore than 38,000 Atlantic puffins visit Skomer to breed each year\n\nFor years, Drew has been capturing puffin breeding season on Skomer, an island off the coast of Pembrokeshire.\n\nEach March more than 38,000 Atlantic puffins begin to arrive on the 720-acre island to breed and leave towards the end of July.\n\nCommon dolphins off the west coast near Grassholm Island\n\nHe also loves capturing the country's seals.\n\n\"There are coves up on the north coast and this time of year there'll be seal pups there,\" he said.\n\n\"Along the coast we tend to get quite a lot of kestrels and peregrines hunting a lot of the seabirds and the small birds.\n\n\"Lately it's been quite good at Bosherston with the otters. Last winter they were really, really good to photograph - there was a little family down there with three cubs and they were pretty much like clockwork so you could see them every day.\"\n\nChurch Door Cove is small amphitheatre-shaped beach with a colossal door shaped archway that has been cut into the cliffs by the forces of the ocean\n\nThe national park boasts eight nationally recognised Dark Sky Discovery Sites and several of Drew's night time images capture the milky way.\n\n\"Night sky shots are all about the conditions and how clear it is,\" he said.\n\n\"On the south coast all you're looking over is the sea towards Cornwall so there's no land there, there are no towns or or cities that are going to destroy the the seeing with light pollution.\"\n\nSome shots still take multiple attempts and the images in his book have been built up over a 10-year period.\n\nThe park is home to 286 scheduled ancient monuments, ranging from castles to burial chambers, hillforts and mills.\n\n\"Pembroke Castle is one of the highlights on the route,\" said Drew.\n\nBroad Haven South is a large expanse of sandy beach which stretches along a craggy coastline\n\n\"It's such a fantastic big building... some days you just stop and look at it and you think 'well, that's pretty special'.\n\n\"We're blessed to have so many castles in Pembrokeshire.\"\n\nSolva is a harbour village in the heart of Pembrokeshire\n\nPembrokeshire is also home to Britain's smallest city - St Davids.\n\n\"The cathedral is unbelievable with the stained glass windows,\" said Drew.\n\nSo where are his favourite places to photograph?\n\nCeibwr Bay is a tiny inlet of rocks and sand surrounded by tall cliffs\n\n\"Tenby is a bit manic this time of year but you can be sometimes the only person on the beach for sunrise or near to the twilight,\" he said.\n\n\"There's Whitesands on a windswept day or if you get the right conditions at Freshwater West it is just a magic place.\"\n\nDespite the thousands of hours he must have spent photographing the coastline, it is clear he is still inspired by what he sees.\n\n\"It's very privileged job,\" said Drew.\n\n\"Living here, growing up here, I say the waves are in your soul.\"\n\nTenby, seen here at twilight, is a bustling seaside town and a popular spot for visiting families\n\nPembrokeshire Coast National Park is one of Wales' three national parks, the others being Eryri (also known as Snowdonia) and Bannau Brycheiniog (also known as the Brecon Beacons).\n\nThe national park covers almost all the Pembrokeshire coast, every offshore island, the Daugleddau estuary and large areas of the Preseli Hills and the Gwaun Valley.\n\nNowhere in the national park is more than 10 miles from the sea.\n\nIt is ecologically one of the richest and most diverse parts of Wales and is recognised as of international importance for a wide range of high quality habitats and rare species.\n\nPembrokeshire Coast Path was officially opened on 16 May 1970.\n\nLandscape and wildlife photographer Drew Buckley has made a career photographing his local area\n\nA church-shaped rock off Broad Haven beach is lit by the moon", "Sam Fender was crowned king of the north with a career-defining headline set at Leeds Festival on Saturday.\n\nThe Geordie rocker's set came a night after his performance at the Reading leg of the event.\n\nBut the sheer volume of fans from the North East on site - many visible via a sea of Newcastle United tops - made it extra special for the humbled singer.\n\n\"This is the biggest milestone for us\", beamed the 29-year-old, whose set pulled from his two number one albums.\n\nComing on stage to an old Frank Sinatra number, the \"Geordie Springsteen\" howls out the opener, The Kitchen, backed by his trusted band's big guitars, keys and booming brass section.\n\n\"Leeds, come on!\" he cries.\n\nNext up, his ode to pre-coital promises, Will We Talk?, brings a first big chorus from the crowd, encouraged by Fender, and phones are held aloft.\n\n\"It's good to be back up North,\" he declares, while dressed in a white Angel of the North T-shirt. \"This is party night tonight. I see there's a few Geordies in tonight, always nice to see.\"\n\nPlugging in his black-and-white striped Fender electric guitar for the occasion, he continues: \"I came to Leeds when I was 18, me and [bandmate] Dean and I got black-out drunk watching Kasabian.\n\n\"And I got lost and I couldn't find my mates and started doing the [sings] black and white army chant, and that's how I found my mates! So if you get lost tonight do that.\"\n\nThe next song, Dead Boys, which tackles the topic of suicide, is dedicated to \"the lads\" in his hometown in North Shields \"who aren't with us anymore\".\n\nThe band then throw in a slowie, or \"cruiser\" as Fender puts it, called Mantra, encouraging fans to get close to their partners. Those whose relationships have made it through the weekend, that is, he adds jokingly.\n\nDespite some impressive fretwork from the star, the revved up audience's attention drifts somewhat. \"Right, that's all the chill for the rest of the set,\" he reassures them.\n\n\"I wanna see you move for this one,\" says Fender, before ripping into Borders, which sees bucket hat-wearing saxophonist Johnny \"Blue Hat\" Davis take his first solo of the night.\n\nThe introduction of the track Spice sees Fender declare that the time has come \"for the famous Leeds mosh pit\".\n\n\"If anyone goes down pick them up, if you're squeezed down the front let us know,\" he says, setting out the rules.\n\nThis move is reminiscent of how Friday's headliner Billie Eilish looked out for her fans the previous night.\n\nThe big chorus of \"Spice up your life\" is more a reference to the perils of cheap street drugs rather than the 1990s girl group.\n\nPausing briefly to pay homage to the efforts of the fired-up crowd, Fender declares: \"This is why they [TV producers] should film up here instead of at Reading!\"\n\nIt's all too much for one fan, after a long hot day of music, and the singer has to stop the gig to help them out of the packed crowd.\n\nChloe, Alfie, Will and David from Gateshead came to see Sam Fender\n\nFender, who once admitted to being in a bad way himself on the BBC Breakfast sofa due to booze, is a most relatable modern rock star. He had to take a break himself from touring last year to look after his own mental health.\n\nHe calls for a round of applause for the security staff - \"legends\" - for helping out before the gig gets back under way with a thrashy song \"about going to Aldi in Howdon the middle of the pandemic\". Surely a festival first?\n\nWith \"the punk ones out the way\" he promises to provide a few more singalongs, explaining that \"any idiot\" could write the simple chorus to the next song, Get You Down.\n\nAnother fan is helped from the crowd, with Fender again acting as de facto head steward on the mic.\n\nHe introduces Spit of You as \"a song about my dad\". \"I can talk to anyone / I can't talk to you,\" he belts out, as family photographs are beamed on the big screens.\n\nDuring the \"one of the most monumental days of my life\" as the star describes it, he takes a moment to recall Leeds festivals of yore as a punter. \"I remember watching bands [on this stage] and thinking I wish I could do that as a job, how do I do that?\"\n\nEnter \"Deano\", his aforementioned bandmate who he credits with having explained that the answer was to record a song - the next song in fact, Alright.\n\n\"We always have felt like the underdogs and perhaps that's a good thing,\" says Fender. \"But thanks for letting us be a headliner for once.\"\n\nHis grin while performing another oldie, That Sound, is as wide as the river Tyne before a third stoppage threatens to really derail the momentum of the gig.\n\nAll is not lost though as the best is yet to come. \"I hope you're having as good a time as I am?\" Fender asks. He needn't have bothered.\n\nA ticker tape explosion at the end of The Dying Light brings his set to a close. But then returning for more, on his own initially to test the vocal capabilities of the crowd, a big finish ensues.\n\nFirst a fitting singalong for his song Saturday, then comes the big one. Fender's modern anthem for doomed youth, Seventeen Going Under.\n\n\"Does anyone remember being 17?\" he asks, drawing loud cheers. \"Is anyone 17 here right now? God bless you, this one is for you.\"\n\nThe rendition ends with the singer leading the crowd in a big round of a Capella \"wo-oh-oh-oh-oaaahs\", which he could probably milk further in future but we're already into injury time following several stoppages.\n\nIt caps a remarkable summer for Fender and co who performed at their beloved St James' Park earlier this summer. There's now only really one bigger festival stage for them to perform on.\n\nBefore the final offering of Hypersonic Missiles, a song about finding love in a hopeless, dystopian place, the singer thanks his merry band of men, which includes his \"brother\" Joe.\n\n\"It might be my name on the tin but I'm just the [bloke] at the front.\"\n\nFestival-goer Alfie from Gateshead told us that Fender was an artist who was \"true to himself\" and with a lot of loyalty for his \"hometown\", noting how he had brought a Brit Award trophy back to a pub in North Shields to use as a pump head handle.\n\nMusically he says his songs \"range in emotion\" and \"people can relate to them\".\n\nEsme from nearby Hexham, Northumberland was also excited to see Fender perform, saying: \"It's nice to see someone from near us do well, it's an inspiration.\"\n\nFender's namesake, young Sam from Lincoln, whose whole family were resplendent in their dad's old Newcastle United shirts, added it was great that they \"finally have got a great team and Sam Fender representing them\".\n\nThe rest of the country was well represented across the site earlier on Saturday.\n\nIsle of Wight band Wet Leg played earlier in the day\n\nRepresenting Oxford today were co-headliners Foals. Frontman Yannis Philippakis told the crowd they were \"loving every minute of it\" out there, mixing danceable grooves with endless hard riffs.\n\n\"We want to see end-of-times mosh pits out there,\" he demanded near the end.\n\nThey dedicated one of their last tunes, Black Bull, to the main man Fender - renaming it black and white bull for the occasion - as well as any other budding musicians out there. \"One of you in that mosh pit might be up here [in five years]\" he declared.\n\nBelfast's Bicep brought an early evening electro rave, before Mercury Prize-nominated rapper Loyle Carner, from South London, called on the audience to \"forget about toxic masculinity\" and leave all their personal nonsense \"in yesterday\", just as he had done to emotive effect at Glastonbury.\n\nIsle of Wight band Wet Leg rocked out so hard that frontwoman Rhian Teasdale's bonnet fell out at one point. She soldiered on sans bonnet in the searing sun as they belted out a crowd-pleasing version of their innuendo-filled indie anthem Chaise Longue.\n\nLocal Leeds post-punk act Yard Act got the day going with some angular dance moves from frontman James Smith, joined by dancers who had appeared at first to be merely mannequins. Proving the old adage that you can't judge a doll by its cover.\n\nLeeds Festival culminates on Sunday with performances from the likes of the Killers, Central Cee and the 1975.", "The family of Claire Knights, missing from Upstreet, have been told about the discovery\n\nPolice searching for a missing woman have found a body near a Kent beach.\n\nFormal identification is yet to take place but the family of 54-year-old Claire Knights, who was missing from Upstreet, has been informed.\n\nThe discovery was made by a member of the public near Minnis Bay, just after 19:00 BST on Friday, Kent Police said.\n\nDetectives are treating the death as suspicious and a man in his 20s from Margate was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe body was found in an area popular with dog walkers near Minnis Bay\n\nThere will be an increased police presence in the area while investigations take place, the force added.\n\nMs Knights' spaniel, called Zebulon, was found on Minnis Bay on Wednesday - the day she was last seen.\n\nPolice found Ms Knights' spaniel Zebulon on Minnis Bay on the day she was last seen\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"I had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the 1990s,\" Vladimir Putin recalled this week\n\nTheirs was a relationship borne out of the murky world where Russia's state security services mingled with the criminal underworld.\n\nWhile Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner military company grew into one of the most influential structures in Russia, Vladimir Putin became increasingly dependent on its battlefield successes in Ukraine.\n\nBut it was in the seedy scene of early 1990s St Petersburg that their paths first met, during the politically fraught years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.\n\nBoth men originate from Russia's second city and cultural capital.\n\nHome to the Hermitage art museum and Imperial Winter Palace, it is also considered the crime capital of Russia and a base for powerful gangs.\n\nThe exact circumstances of their first encounter are unknown, but Prigozhin was fresh out of jail and Mr Putin had recently returned from a mission in East Germany as an officer with the Soviet security service, the KGB, and was looking for a way into politics.\n\nConvicted for the first time at 17, Prigozhin was no stranger to crime. After a suspended sentence for theft in the late 1970s, he was given a lengthy jail term for robbery in 1981.\n\nHe and two others had grabbed a woman by the neck in the street and tried to strangle her, before running off with her winter boots and earrings.\n\nWhen he left prison in 1990, Russia was a very different place. Instead of the old Soviet chief, Leonid Brezhnev, reformist leader Mikhail Gorbachev was in power, the Berlin Wall had fallen and perestroika (restructuring) was well under way.\n\nPrigozhin started out as a St Petersburg hot-dog salesman, but by the mid-1990s he had opened a restaurant. The Old Custom House is most likely the place the two men first met.\n\nThe menu of foie gras and oysters attracted local crime bosses as well as the city's powerful mayor, Anatoly Sobchak. Vladimir Putin, then aged 40, went there too as Sobchak's deputy.\n\nPrigozhin's single restaurant became a chain and his clientele included politicians from far beyond St Petersburg.\n\nBy the turn of the century, when Mr Putin became president, the two men had become close associates and Prigozhin's nickname, Putin's chef, dates back to this time.\n\nA photo shows Prigozhin serving dinner to him and President George W Bush.\n\nVladimir Putin liked to entertain leaders like President George W Bush in St Petersburg\n\nFor a man such as Russia's new leader, it was imperative to have a personal chef to ensure his food was safe to consume.\n\nEver the suspicious KGB mind, he had also served as the head of its successor, the FSB.\n\nIt was also convenient to have a man whose innermost secrets he would have known and whom he could influence.\n\nWith Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, Russia's security services slowly began to take back control. Prigozhin took on a variety of Kremlin tasks, particularly those beyond the security services' reach.\n\nTheir association was now at arm's length, so the man in the Kremlin could plausibly deny involvement.\n\nPrigozhin set up a media empire focused on spreading disinformation within Russia and abroad. The stories it invented were often so fantastical that no state propaganda apparatus would dare to spread them.\n\nAs social media began to gain influence, he set up a \"troll factory\" whose main effect was to leave Russians with the feeling there was no such thing as truth and no point looking for it.\n\nIt took another decade before he admitted to being the brains behind the \"Internet Research Agency\".\n\nAfter the Ukrainian Maidan Revolution in 2013-14 and Russia's annexation of Crimea, the first reports of the Wagner private military company surfaced. Wagner supported pro-Russian separatists in Crimea and in the east of Ukraine.\n\nMercenary organisations are banned by Russian law, even though Prigozhin and his mercenaries had become increasingly important for stamping President Putin's authority.\n\nSo until as late as spring 2022, the Kremlin maintained that it had no connection to him.\n\nWagner also played a prominent role in Syria - and this is when its ruthless commander, Dmitry Utkin, first came into view as Prigozhin's close associate. The mercenary group has for years been active in a number of African countries, from Libya and Mali to Central African Republic.\n\nBut officially, Prigozhin had no special relationship with the president.\n\nMr Putin or his press secretary Dmitry Peskov would say merely that they were aware of the existence of a Russian \"private businessman\" who was involved in those activities. But it was clear such operations couldn't be conducted without Kremlin consent.\n\nPresident Putin only admitted in June that Wagner had received enormous state funding for years and that its mercenaries had fought valiantly in battle. And yet because private military companies were illegal, he said that as a group, they did not exist.\n\nPrigozhin became most vocal in a series of video statements from Bakhmut where he criticised the defence establishment\n\nIt was not until the summer of 2022 that reports emerged of Wagner fighting in Ukraine.\n\nWithin weeks, Prigozhin was touring Russian prisons, recruiting inmates for the war effort.\n\nThe Kremlin spokesman spoke of him as a man \"whose heart aches for what's happening\" and one who was \"making a big contribution\".\n\nPrigozhin opened a Wagner Centre in St Petersburg in November and his criticisms of the Russian army and the defence ministry became more vocal.\n\nAs Russian forces were forced into a series of retreats in Ukraine, his criticism reached a peak.\n\nHe complained that the army command was refusing to recognise the mercenaries' contribution to the war effort.\n\nLater, he openly accused Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, of \"starving\" Wagner of ammunition while the group was losing thousands of men in the fight for Bakhmut in the east of Ukraine.\n\nPrigozhin was filmed talking to Russian military figures in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don as his mutiny unfolded\n\nAt one point, Prigozhin even aimed his criticism at the president, referring to him with the Russian word for grandad.\n\n\"How can we win a war when dedushka is a moron?\"\n\nHe did not name Putin, but Russians were left in no doubt he was directly implicating him.\n\nThe Kremlin steered clear of commenting on the escalating feud, but it was a row that would shake Russia's leadership to its core and ultimately bring down Prigozhin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe refused a defence ministry demand to bring all mercenary groups under its control. As the situation reached boiling point, he dared to question the very goals of the war.\n\nOn 23 June, he announced a \"march for justice\" on the road to Moscow.\n\nSources have told the BBC that his mutiny was a sign of Prigozhin's desperation and an attempt to attract President Putin's attention to his conflict with the Russian military.\n\n\"He was worried about losing his autonomy,\" one source who knew Prigozhin explained.\n\nWagner mercenaries shot down two military helicopters and a plane and killed up to 15 Russian soldiers.\n\nWithout naming him personally, President Putin described Prigozhin as a traitor who \"drove a knife in the back of the country\".\n\nThis botched revolt was to be the final rupture between them.\n\nOne of the last images of Prigozhin showed him purportedly in Africa\n\nDays after the rebellion had ended in failure, Vladimir Putin met his former ally at the Kremlin for three hours, along with more than 30 Wagner commanders.\n\nVladimir Putin had no more need of him, but there were still questions over the fate of his men.\n\nPrigozhin clearly believed his future lay in Africa and his final online video was purportedly filmed in an African field where he claimed: \"Here we are, putting God's fear into Isis, al-Qaeda and other bandits.\"\n\nBut his story appears to have come to an end soon afterwards, following a trajectory similar to other examples in Russian history. A man handed the task of executing the Kremlin's cruellest policies was himself brutally punished and ultimately destroyed.\n\nOr in Vladimir Putin's own assessment: \"He was a man with a difficult fate and he made serious mistakes in life.\"", "Donald Trump has seen a marketing opportunity in the release of his mugshot\n\nDonald Trump's election campaign says it has raised $7.1m (£5.6m) since his police mugshot was taken at a prison in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday.\n\nMuch of the money comes from merchandise such as mugs, T-shirts and drink coolers bearing the former president's scowling face.\n\nMr Trump was released on bail, charged with plotting to overturn the state's 2020 election results.\n\nHe faces three other indictments as he campaigns for the 2024 US election.\n\nThey include two related to his false claims that the election was stolen and the attack by his followers on the Capitol in Washington.\n\nMr Trump denies all the charges and argues the cases against him are politically motivated because he is leading the race for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Party incumbent President Joe Biden.\n\nThe attention seems to have galvanised his supporters, and he has raised almost $20m in three weeks, since his indictments in the Georgia and Capitol riots cases.\n\nOn Friday, immediately after his arrest in Georgia, he raised $4.18m, said to be his highest figure in a 24-hour period in the campaign so far.\n\nAs well as selling merchandise from its online store, the campaign has been messaging supporters asking for help.\n\nAnd on Thursday, Mr Trump himself posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, for the first time since January 2021, sharing the mugshot with the caption \"Election interference. Never surrender!\" and the address of his website.\n\nThis came after the former president was photographed at Fulton County jail, where he surrendered to law enforcement and paid $200,000 to be released as he awaits trial.", "A box with a photo of Japan PM Kishida is seen during a protest in Hong Kong against the release of treated water from Fukushima\n\nJapan has complained to China after local businesses and institutions were inundated with abusive phone calls over the Fukushima nuclear plant discharge.\n\nThe calls come from numbers with Chinese dialling codes. One restaurant chain in Fukushima reported more than 1,000 calls since last Thursday.\n\nTokyo has also warned citizens visiting China to take precautions and avoid speaking Japanese loudly.\n\nBeijing has led criticism of last week's release of treated wastewater.\n\nTokyo has made daily reports, saying the seawater around the nuclear plant is showing no detectable levels of radioactivity.\n\nJapanese authorities say the calls from Chinese numbers began after the release of water and they were made to government departments, schools and even an aquarium.\n\nThe callers speak in Chinese, Japanese and English - and sometimes use abusive language. They speak about their opposition to Japan's decision to release the treated nuclear water.\n\nChina has described the discharge as an \"extremely selfish and irresponsible act\".\n\nOn Thursday it said it would ban Japanese seafood imports.\n\nMeanwhile, Tokyo is hoping regular radiation testing in the waters near the plant will allay concerns from neighbouring countries and fishing groups.\n\nWeekly test results will be published for the next three months.\n\nMore than a million tonnes of water stored at the nuclear plant will be discharged over the next 30 years.\n\nThere have been oppositions in China and South Korea to Japan's release of the contaminated water\n\nIt has been accumulating since 2011 when the plant was badly damaged by a tsunami.\n\nJapan says the water is safe, and the UN's nuclear watchdog has approved the plan, but critics say the release should be halted.\n\nThe water is being filtered to remove most radioactive elements then diluted to reduce levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen which is difficult to separate from water.\n\nThe Environment Ministry said samples from 11 locations near the plant showed tritium levels below 7-8 becquerels per litre, the lower limit of detection.\n\nThe water \"would have no adverse impact on human health and the environment\", it added.\n\nThere has also been opposition to the release of water in South Korea, and on Thursday protesters in the capital Seoul attempted to storm the Japanese embassy.\n\nOn Sunday, South Korea said it had sent nuclear experts to Fukushima to monitor the discharge process.", "A man traverses the ferrata on the Gemmi pass\n\nThieves in Switzerland have conquered one of the country's most challenging protected climbing routes.\n\nThey ascended to an altitude of 2,350m and traversed gorges on narrow steel cables - all to rob a collection box.\n\nThe box belongs to a local climbing club, which maintains Switzerland's longest protected climbing route on the Gemmi pass above Leukerbad village.\n\nWhat has caused the biggest shock is that the donation box is accessible only to the most experienced climbers.\n\nThe route, known as a via ferrata, is classed as level 5, the most difficult, and involves serious climbing as well as ascending ladders bolted into the vertical rock face, and traversing gorges on narrow steel cables.\n\n\"What kind of people are these?\" wrote the climbing club on its Facebook page.\n\n\"The climbing club looks after the via ferrata for no salary, we don't ask for anything, and now someone has stolen the money donated to maintain it.\"\n\nThose who discovered the theft believe it was carefully planned well in advance.\n\nThe donation box was found smashed open and empty. The thieves were not only good climbers, equipped with all the necessary mountaineering kit, they took the tools with them to break open the donation box \"with brute force\" the climbing club said.\n\nAstonishingly, it appears they then continued their ascent, with the money, to the top of the Dauberhorn, at 2941 metres.\n\nTrying to find out exactly who committed the crime may be difficult though - the last few days have been perfect climbing weather, and there were many mountaineers enjoying the via ferrata.\n\nThe climbing club is not sure exactly how much money was stolen; but club member and mountain guide Richard Werlen told the BBC it was likely to be at least 400-500 Swiss francs (£359-449; €420-520; $450-560).\n\nSwitzerland is still a country where cash is used on a regular basis, and the Swiss are proud of their voluntary work maintaining hiking paths and climbing routes. A donation for such effort is expected, and gladly given, by large parts of the population.\n\nBut now organisations like the climbing club may wonder if they need to change the way they seek donations.\n\nThe pervasiveness of cash in Switzerland has already led to a spate of robberies of far better protected ATM machines.\n\nMillions of francs have been stolen in the last three years alone, causing the Swiss Federal Police to warn that the regularly filled and often poorly monitored machines are becoming a magnet for thieves from across Europe.\n\nFor the moment, the climbing club is hoping that whoever stole the money will suffer from \"a guilty conscience\", and quietly return it.\n\nAnd Richard Werlen has some consolation to report. This morning, a local benefactor sent in 500 francs to replace the stolen donations.", "Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed dead after genetic analysis of bodies found in Wednesday's plane crash, Russian officials say.\n\nThe Investigative Committee (SK) said the identities of all 10 victims had been established and corresponded to those on the flight's passenger list.\n\nPrigozhin's private jet came down north-west of Moscow on 23 August, killing all those on board.\n\nThe Kremlin has denied speculation it was to blame for the crash.\n\nThe SK said it was continuing a criminal investigation.\n\n\"Molecular-genetic testing has been completed,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"According to its results, the identities of all 10 deceased have been established, and they correspond to the list published in the flight manifest.\"\n\nThe victims include several senior figures in Wagner, a Russian mercenary group set up by Prigozhin and involved in military operations in Ukraine, Syria and parts of Africa.\n\nAmong them was Dmitry Utkin, who managed Wagner's military operations.\n\nThe others on the Embraer Legacy plane - flying from Moscow to St Petersburg - included Wagner members Valery Chekalov, Sergei Propustin, Yevgeny Makaryan, Alexander Totmin and Nikolay Matuseyev.\n\nThe plane was flown by pilot Alexei Levshin and co-pilot Rustam Karimov, and there was one flight attendant, Kristina Raspopova.\n\nThe crash came two months after Prigozhin led a Wagner mutiny against the Russian armed forces, seizing the southern city of Rostov and threatening to march on Moscow.\n\nThe standoff was defused after a deal was reached which led to Prigozhin and Wagner fighters relocating to Belarus.\n\nHowever, Russian President Vladimir Putin described the mutiny as a \"stab in the back\" and there has been speculation that Russian security forces were somehow involved in the crash.\n\nUS officials quoted by CBS have said that the most likely cause of the crash was an explosion on board the plane, and the Pentagon said Prigozhin was probably killed.\n\nOn Friday Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said rumours of foul play were an \"absolute lie\".\n\nMr Putin has sent his condolences to the families of the victims.\n\nHe described Prigozhin as a \"talented person\" who \"made serious mistakes in life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA gunman killed three black people in a racially motivated attack then killed himself in Jacksonville, Florida, the city's sheriff said.\n\nThe man, described as white and in his early 20s, entered a Dollar General store and opened fire, triggering a standoff with police.\n\nSheriff T K Waters said two men and a woman were killed by the gunman, who wore body armour and left manifestos.\n\nMayor Donna Deegan said it was a \"hate-filled crime\" driven by racist hatred.\n\nThe sheriff said the shooter - who has not yet been officially named - carried a lightweight semi-automatic rifle and a handgun.\n\nHe is believed to have acted alone and allegedly wanted to kill himself. He lived in Jacksonville's Clay County with his parents and left several messages about his intentions, Sheriff Waters said, including one to his parents and another to the media. The sheriff added that at least one of the guns had a swastika drawn on it.\n\nThe standoff took place at this Dollar General store\n\nThe FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting, which it is treating as a hate crime.\n\nThe attack happened less than a mile from the historically black Edwards Waters University.\n\nThe shooter first went to the university campus, where he was asked to identify himself by a security officer, the university said in a statement. When he refused, he was asked to leave.\n\n\"The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident,\" the statement added.\n\nSheriff Waters said the gunman was then seen putting on a bullet-resistant vest and a mask before leaving the campus.\n\nThe university went into lockdown after the shooting.\n\nJacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan told local TV channel WJXT: \"One shooting is too much but these mass shootings are really hard to take.\"\n\nFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis called the gunman a \"scumbag\" and described the shooting as \"horrific\".\n\n\"He [the gunman] was targeting people based on their race, that is totally unacceptable,\" said Mr DeSantis, who is competing to be the Republican party's presidential candidate.\n\n\"This guy killed himself rather than face the music and accept responsibility for his actions and so he took the coward's way out.\"\n\nThe White House said President Joe Biden had been briefed on the shooting.\n\nIn a statement provided to the BBC's US partner, CBS News, Dollar General said it was \"heartbroken by the senseless act of violence that occurred at our Kings Road store\", adding that \"supporting our Jacksonville employees and the DG family impacted by this tragedy is a top priority as we work closely with law enforcement\".\n\nThere have been over 28,000 gun deaths in the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.\n\nThe Jacksonville attack comes on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr's famous \"I have a dream\" speech. Tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital on Saturday to mark the historic milestone in the civil rights movement.\n• None The numbers behind the rise in US mass shootings", "Nadine Dorries has not spoken in the House of Commons for more than a year\n\nNadine Dorries has resigned from the Commons, more than two months after pledging to go \"with immediate effect\".\n\nShe launched a blistering attack on Rishi Sunak in her resignation statement, telling the prime minister \"history will not judge you kindly\".\n\nThe Mid Bedfordshire MP first announced her intention to quit on 9 June.\n\nShe accused Mr Sunak of abandoning \"the fundamental principles of Conservatism\" and said the country was now run by a \"zombie Parliament\".\n\nMs Dorries, whose salary as an MP is £86,584, had come under increasing pressure to act on her promise to resign as she had not spoken in the Commons since June 2022.\n\nThe former nurse said she had submitted her resignation letter to the prime minister and published the eviscerating text on Mail Online.\n\nThe Treasury confirmed it had been notified of her intention to formally step down.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt is expected to appoint Ms Dorries to the historical position of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern on Tuesday - the arcane mechanism by which MPs can leave the Commons before an election.\n\nThis will enable the Conservative Party to call a by-election in Mid Bedfordshire.\n\nDespite saying in June that she would quit with immediate effect, Ms Dorries subsequently said she wanted to find out why she was refused a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nIt was widely thought she would be made a peer by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his resignation honours list.\n\nIn a lengthy statement Ms Dorries accused Mr Sunak of \"demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy\" against her.\n\nThis, she said, resulted in \"the police having to visit my home and contact me on a number of occasions due to threats to my person\".\n\nBorn in Liverpool, the mother of three says her childhood was warm and loving but she told the Guardian she also remembers having to \"hide from the rent man as we couldn't pay him. Some days there would be no food.\"\n\nAfter school she trained as a nurse and her profession frequently informed the political issues she took up - from Group B Strep testing for pregnant women to pushing for the time limit on abortions to be reduced.\n\nShe came late to politics and had considered joining Labour, but her views were swung by the Right to Buy scheme which had allowed her mother to buy her council house.\n\nShe was elected MP for Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, although her decision to go on ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here in 2012 led to her suspension from the parliamentary Conservative party.\n\nShe would later serve as a health minister before being appointed to the cabinet in 2021 when Boris Johnson made her culture secretary.\n\nHaving written a series of novels, her latest book The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson is due out in September.\n\nIn a criticism of Mr Sunak's leadership, she said: \"Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened.\n\n\"You have no mandate from the people and the government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?\"\n\nShe continued: \"It is a fact that there is no affection for [Labour leader] Keir Starmer out on the doorstep. He does not have the winning X factor qualities of a Thatcher, Blair or a Boris Johnson, and sadly, prime minister, neither do you.\"\n\nShe added: \"Your actions have left some 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods, because in your impatience to become prime minister you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economy.\n\n\"Bewildered, we look in vain for the grand political vision for the people of this great country to hold on to, that would make all this disruption and subsequent inertia worthwhile, and we find absolutely nothing.\"\n\nShe accused the prime minister of failing to work with UK companies to boost opportunities.\n\n\"You flashed your gleaming smile in your Prada shoes and Savile Row suit from behind a camera, but you just weren't listening,\" she said.\n\nA banner appeared on railings near Flitwick railway station, in Ms Dorries' constituency\n\nFlitwick and Shefford town councils in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency had both urged Ms Dorries to stand down immediately, saying she had \"abandoned the local area\".\n\nShefford's mayor, Ken Pollard, told the BBC her constituency office had closed a few years ago and was now a dance studio.\n\n\"It got to the point where it was difficult to contact Nadine on any level,\" he said.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Dorries disputes this, saying: \"My team of caseworkers and I have continued to work for my constituents faithfully and diligently to this day.\"\n\nBut Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the people of Mid Bedfordshire \"deserve better than this circus act that has followed the Conservatives these past few months.\"\n\nSir Ed, along with Labour's Anneliese Dodds, ruled out any election pact. He said the people of Mid Bedfordshire \"deserve a choice\".\n\nMs Dodds told BBC Breakfast: \"Labour won't be cooking up any deals.\"\n\n\"I think it is a real relief for the people of Mid Bedfordshire,\" she added when asked for her reaction to Ms Dorries' resignation. \"They desperately need an MP who will be focused on them full-time.\"\n\nRishi Sunak's political opponents haven't waited for Nadine Dorries's formal resignation to begin campaigning in her Mid-Bedfordshire seat.\n\nHad the former culture secretary actually resigned in June, the by-election would have been and gone before Parliament rose for its summer recess.\n\nBut because she delayed her departure, Mr Sunak now faces a difficult contest in the autumn - possibly around the time of his party's conference, placing him under renewed pressure.\n\nNadine Dorries has a majority of nearly 25,000, but Conservative majorities almost as large have been overturned in the past year.\n\nAs a close ally of the former PM Boris Johnson, Ms Dorries's criticism of Rishi Sunak is unsurprising - but it is also unrelenting.\n\nIf the opposition parties haven't yet written their by-election literature, they now have plenty of material.", "Hundreds of redheads from around the world have gathered in the southern Dutch town of Tilburg for an annual festival celebrating their amber locks.\n\nNatural redheads from countries including the UK, Israel, Germany, Italy and New Zealand made the trip for the three-day event, which organisers Redhead Days say is all about \"connection, pride and recognition\".\n\nInternet personality Peet Montzingo, who describes himself on Instagram as a \"ginger with a soul\", was seen surfing through the crowd at the event\n\nThe festival was founded in 2005 by Bart Rouwenhorst who, rather surprisingly, is blond.\n\nThe amateur painter found himself drawn to the aesthetic qualities of redheads, so advertised for 15 ginger models to paint - only to be deluged with 150 responses.\n\nThey were all photographed - but when many of those who did not get selected voiced their disappointment, Mr Rouwenhorst decided to make an annual event of it.\n\nIn 2013, Redhead Days festival-goers made it into the Guinness Book of World Records when 1,672 people got together in the largest recorded gathering of people with natural red hair.\n\nFestival-goers were able to compare their hair against a wall of colour, from \"pumpkin\" to \"Vincent\" to \"guinea pig\"", "\"I had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the 1990s,\" Vladimir Putin recalled this week\n\nTheirs was a relationship borne out of the murky world where Russia's state security services mingled with the criminal underworld.\n\nWhile Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner military company grew into one of the most influential structures in Russia, Vladimir Putin became increasingly dependent on its battlefield successes in Ukraine.\n\nBut it was in the seedy scene of early 1990s St Petersburg that their paths first met, during the politically fraught years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.\n\nBoth men originate from Russia's second city and cultural capital.\n\nHome to the Hermitage art museum and Imperial Winter Palace, it is also considered the crime capital of Russia and a base for powerful gangs.\n\nThe exact circumstances of their first encounter are unknown, but Prigozhin was fresh out of jail and Mr Putin had recently returned from a mission in East Germany as an officer with the Soviet security service, the KGB, and was looking for a way into politics.\n\nConvicted for the first time at 17, Prigozhin was no stranger to crime. After a suspended sentence for theft in the late 1970s, he was given a lengthy jail term for robbery in 1981.\n\nHe and two others had grabbed a woman by the neck in the street and tried to strangle her, before running off with her winter boots and earrings.\n\nWhen he left prison in 1990, Russia was a very different place. Instead of the old Soviet chief, Leonid Brezhnev, reformist leader Mikhail Gorbachev was in power, the Berlin Wall had fallen and perestroika (restructuring) was well under way.\n\nPrigozhin started out as a St Petersburg hot-dog salesman, but by the mid-1990s he had opened a restaurant. The Old Custom House is most likely the place the two men first met.\n\nThe menu of foie gras and oysters attracted local crime bosses as well as the city's powerful mayor, Anatoly Sobchak. Vladimir Putin, then aged 40, went there too as Sobchak's deputy.\n\nPrigozhin's single restaurant became a chain and his clientele included politicians from far beyond St Petersburg.\n\nBy the turn of the century, when Mr Putin became president, the two men had become close associates and Prigozhin's nickname, Putin's chef, dates back to this time.\n\nA photo shows Prigozhin serving dinner to him and President George W Bush.\n\nVladimir Putin liked to entertain leaders like President George W Bush in St Petersburg\n\nFor a man such as Russia's new leader, it was imperative to have a personal chef to ensure his food was safe to consume.\n\nEver the suspicious KGB mind, he had also served as the head of its successor, the FSB.\n\nIt was also convenient to have a man whose innermost secrets he would have known and whom he could influence.\n\nWith Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, Russia's security services slowly began to take back control. Prigozhin took on a variety of Kremlin tasks, particularly those beyond the security services' reach.\n\nTheir association was now at arm's length, so the man in the Kremlin could plausibly deny involvement.\n\nPrigozhin set up a media empire focused on spreading disinformation within Russia and abroad. The stories it invented were often so fantastical that no state propaganda apparatus would dare to spread them.\n\nAs social media began to gain influence, he set up a \"troll factory\" whose main effect was to leave Russians with the feeling there was no such thing as truth and no point looking for it.\n\nIt took another decade before he admitted to being the brains behind the \"Internet Research Agency\".\n\nAfter the Ukrainian Maidan Revolution in 2013-14 and Russia's annexation of Crimea, the first reports of the Wagner private military company surfaced. Wagner supported pro-Russian separatists in Crimea and in the east of Ukraine.\n\nMercenary organisations are banned by Russian law, even though Prigozhin and his mercenaries had become increasingly important for stamping President Putin's authority.\n\nSo until as late as spring 2022, the Kremlin maintained that it had no connection to him.\n\nWagner also played a prominent role in Syria - and this is when its ruthless commander, Dmitry Utkin, first came into view as Prigozhin's close associate. The mercenary group has for years been active in a number of African countries, from Libya and Mali to Central African Republic.\n\nBut officially, Prigozhin had no special relationship with the president.\n\nMr Putin or his press secretary Dmitry Peskov would say merely that they were aware of the existence of a Russian \"private businessman\" who was involved in those activities. But it was clear such operations couldn't be conducted without Kremlin consent.\n\nPresident Putin only admitted in June that Wagner had received enormous state funding for years and that its mercenaries had fought valiantly in battle. And yet because private military companies were illegal, he said that as a group, they did not exist.\n\nPrigozhin became most vocal in a series of video statements from Bakhmut where he criticised the defence establishment\n\nIt was not until the summer of 2022 that reports emerged of Wagner fighting in Ukraine.\n\nWithin weeks, Prigozhin was touring Russian prisons, recruiting inmates for the war effort.\n\nThe Kremlin spokesman spoke of him as a man \"whose heart aches for what's happening\" and one who was \"making a big contribution\".\n\nPrigozhin opened a Wagner Centre in St Petersburg in November and his criticisms of the Russian army and the defence ministry became more vocal.\n\nAs Russian forces were forced into a series of retreats in Ukraine, his criticism reached a peak.\n\nHe complained that the army command was refusing to recognise the mercenaries' contribution to the war effort.\n\nLater, he openly accused Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, of \"starving\" Wagner of ammunition while the group was losing thousands of men in the fight for Bakhmut in the east of Ukraine.\n\nPrigozhin was filmed talking to Russian military figures in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don as his mutiny unfolded\n\nAt one point, Prigozhin even aimed his criticism at the president, referring to him with the Russian word for grandad.\n\n\"How can we win a war when dedushka is a moron?\"\n\nHe did not name Putin, but Russians were left in no doubt he was directly implicating him.\n\nThe Kremlin steered clear of commenting on the escalating feud, but it was a row that would shake Russia's leadership to its core and ultimately bring down Prigozhin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe refused a defence ministry demand to bring all mercenary groups under its control. As the situation reached boiling point, he dared to question the very goals of the war.\n\nOn 23 June, he announced a \"march for justice\" on the road to Moscow.\n\nSources have told the BBC that his mutiny was a sign of Prigozhin's desperation and an attempt to attract President Putin's attention to his conflict with the Russian military.\n\n\"He was worried about losing his autonomy,\" one source who knew Prigozhin explained.\n\nWagner mercenaries shot down two military helicopters and a plane and killed up to 15 Russian soldiers.\n\nWithout naming him personally, President Putin described Prigozhin as a traitor who \"drove a knife in the back of the country\".\n\nThis botched revolt was to be the final rupture between them.\n\nOne of the last images of Prigozhin showed him purportedly in Africa\n\nDays after the rebellion had ended in failure, Vladimir Putin met his former ally at the Kremlin for three hours, along with more than 30 Wagner commanders.\n\nVladimir Putin had no more need of him, but there were still questions over the fate of his men.\n\nPrigozhin clearly believed his future lay in Africa and his final online video was purportedly filmed in an African field where he claimed: \"Here we are, putting God's fear into Isis, al-Qaeda and other bandits.\"\n\nBut his story appears to have come to an end soon afterwards, following a trajectory similar to other examples in Russian history. A man handed the task of executing the Kremlin's cruellest policies was himself brutally punished and ultimately destroyed.\n\nOr in Vladimir Putin's own assessment: \"He was a man with a difficult fate and he made serious mistakes in life.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nThe windscreen of Aston Villa's team bus was hit by a brick as the side were travelling back to the Midlands following their victory at Burnley.\n\nThe incident took place at junction 10 of the M65 after Sunday's Premier League match, which Villa won 3-1.\n\nPolice said the brick was thrown from a footbridge as the bus travelled along the motorway at around 17:15 BST.\n\nIn a statement Burnley said the club are \"relieved to hear nobody was hurt in the incident\".\n\n\"We strongly condemn this behaviour and will support Lancashire Police in their efforts to find whoever was responsible,\" the statement added.\n\nSupt Melita Worswick, of Lancashire Police, said: \"This incident occurred when a great deal of traffic was leaving the area following the football match between Burnley and Aston Villa.\n\n\"It is nothing but good fortune that the brick didn't cause more damage, or result in somebody being seriously injured or even killed.\"\n\nThe incident happened around two miles away from Burnley's Turf Moor ground.\n\nThe match was Burnley's second home game of the season. After their opening match against Premier League champions Manchester City, Burnley issued a statement condemning the \"unacceptable behaviour\" of some supporters for incidents including items being thrown and fans getting on to the pitch.\n\nCity defender Rico Lewis was struck by a lighter thrown from the crowd while a fan was restrained when they tried to get on to the playing area.", "There have been several fatal crashes involving Ospreys in recent years\n\nThree US marines have been killed and 20 injured after a military helicopter crashed during exercises in Australia.\n\nThe MV-22B Osprey came down on its way to the remote Tiwi islands north of Darwin. Five of the marines are said to be in a serious condition.\n\nThey were taking part in Predators Run, involving 2,500 troops from the US, Australia, the Philippines, East Timor and Indonesia.\n\nOnly US personnel were on board the aircraft.\n\nThe incident took place on Melville Island north of the Northern Territory capital Darwin on Sunday.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the incident as tragic and said every assistance would be given to the injured.\n\n\"Five marines have been returned to Darwin for treatment with the remaining being triaged at the scene,\" said local police commissioner Michael Murphy.\n\n\"Additional police and defence personnel have been deployed to Melville Island to support operations, triage injured people and return them to Darwin and also maintain the crash scene while investigations continue.\"\n\nThe incident is the second fatal helicopter crash during joint exercises in northern Australia in less than a month.\n\nOn 29 July four Australian soldiers were presumed dead after their 45 MRH-90 Taipan crashed off the coast of Queensland while participating in Exercise Talisman Sabre, the largest bilateral military training exercise between Australia and the US.\n\nThe Osprey is a hybrid combining features of helicopters and turbo-prop planes which can travel much faster than a conventional helicopter.\n\nBut it has a troubled history, with a fatal crash in Norway last year killing four marines. Three others died in 2017 when their aircraft clipped the back of a transport ship off northern Australia.", "The Metropolitan Police is investigating a possible data breach after \"unauthorised access\" was gained to the systems of one of its suppliers.\n\nThe force said the company held names, ranks, photos, vetting levels, and pay numbers for officers and staff, and that it was working to understand what data, if any, had been accessed.\n\nIt said it had also taken additional \"security measures\".\n\nThe force's staff association said the breach will cause \"concern and anger\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Met was unable to say when the breach occurred or how many personnel might have been affected, but added that the company in question did not hold personal information such as addresses, phone numbers, or financial details.\n\nThe incident has been reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the information commissioner.\n\nRick Prior, vice chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents more than 30,000 officers in the force, said that any compromised information could, in the wrong hands, \"do incalculable damage\".\n\n\"Metropolitan Police officers are - as we speak - out on the streets of London undertaking some of the most difficult and dangerous roles imaginable to catch criminals and keep the public safe,\" he said.\n\n\"To have their personal details potentially leaked out into the public domain in this manner - for all to possibly see - will cause colleagues incredible concern and anger.\n\n\"We will be working with the force to mitigate the dangers and risks that this disclosure could have on our colleagues.\n\n\"And [we] will be holding the Metropolitan Police to account for what has happened.\"\n\nFormer Met Ch Supt Dal Babu told BBC News the breach could be more of a concern for ethnic minority officers.\n\n\"If you're from a minority background and your name has been obtained by a criminal network, they're more likely to be able to find you because those names are unusual and it's easier to find on the internet where you are, what you're doing,\" said Mr Babu, who was one of the UK's most senior ethnic minority police officers.\n\n\"Whereas if you've got a name, for example John Smith, then you could be one of the thousands of John Smiths,\" he added.\n\nHe went on to say that some officers would be concerned by the data breach, and gave the theoretical example of an ethnic minority officer with an unusual name - who could be in counter terrorism or working undercover - and could potentially be more easily identified.\n\nA spokesperson for the NCA said the agency was \"aware of the cyber incident\" and \"working with law enforcement partners to understand the impact\".\n\nThe breach comes just weeks after the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) admitted it had mistakenly published personal information about all its 10,000 staff.\n\nThe force said the surname and first initial of all police and civilian personnel, their rank or grade, where they were based, and their unit was released in response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request.\n\nNorfolk and Suffolk Police later announced it had mistakenly released information about more than 1,200 people, including victims and witnesses of crime, also following an FoI request.\n\nLast week, South Yorkshire Police referred itself to the information commissioner after \"a significant and unexplained reduction\" in data such as bodycam footage stored on its systems, a loss which it said could affect some 69 cases.", "A group of 17 migrants were rescued in the English Channel on Thursday\n\nMore than 100,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel on small boats in the last five years.\n\nThe milestone was reached on Thursday as 755 people crossed in 14 boats, according to the Home Office - the highest daily number so far this year.\n\nIt also confirmed 17 individuals were rescued from the water who had gone overboard on Thursday morning.\n\nThe government said the crossings were \"placing an unprecedented strain on our asylum system\".\n\nThe RNLI said lifeboats from Dover, Ramsgate, Dungeness and Littlestone were called out on Thursday morning to assist with the coastguard rescue.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said the migrants were all taken ashore for routine health and safety checks.\n\nThe Border Force also reported on Friday that one of its cutters broke down and a £400,000 drone used to monitor activity in the Channel crashed into the sea.\n\nMore than 15,000 migrants have now crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2023\n\nMigrant crossings across the Channel started to become regular in 2018.\n\nSince current records began on 1 January 2018 a total of 100,715 people have arrived in the UK after making the journey, according to analysis of Government data.\n\nThe latest crossings come just weeks after sweeping asylum reforms became law and while the Government fends off legal challenges in the courts over its Rwanda deal and decisions to house migrants on former military sites in Essex and Lincolnshire.\n\nMeanwhile, asylum seekers were finally moved onto the Bibby Stockholm barge on the Dorset coast after the plans were beset by delays.\n\nThe 100,000 figure is clearly an unwelcome milestone for a government which has vowed to stop the boats. But the boats keep coming.\n\nThis week was supposed to be an opportunity for ministers to trumpet some of their new initiatives - more cooperation with social-media companies to prevent smugglers advertising journeys online, a new deal with Turkey to prevent boat parts reaching France, and asylum seekers moving onto the barge in Dorset.\n\nBut that risks being overshadowed by the latest figures.\n\nThe government will take some comfort in the fact crossings so far this year have fallen by 15% compared with the same period last year.\n\nCritics though say the fall is more down to the bad weather we've been having in recent weeks than government policy, as summer is usually the peak period for crossings.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Act, central to the Prime Minister's pledge to \"stop the boats\" crossing the Channel, will prevent people from claiming asylum in the UK if they arrive through unauthorised means.\n\nOfficials are still working on when the legislation will come into force, and it is anticipated elements of the new laws may be implemented in stages over the coming months.\n\nIn 2022, more than 89,000 people requested asylum in the UK.\n\nIt reached that figure after applications rose throughout the 2010s, as refugees fled Syria.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Our priority is to stop the boats and we are working alongside our French partners and other agencies to disrupt the people smugglers.\n\n\"The government is going even further through our Illegal Migration Act which will mean that people arriving in the UK illegally are detained and promptly removed to their country of origin or a safe third country.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tee Dang and her family suffered burns as they sat in the ocean for nearly four hours to escape the wildfire in Lahaina\n\nTee Dang was in a rental car with her three children and husband on Lahaina's Front Street when she saw the flames inching closer and closer towards them.\n\nBut when the vehicles around them began catching fire they decided to grab their food, water and phones and run for the waves.\n\nThey had already watched others trying to flee the rapidly moving flames do the same, including an elderly woman who was helped into the ocean.\n\n\"We have to get to the ocean,\" the Kansas mother told BBC News on Thursday. \"There was nothing else because we were cornered in.\"\n\nWith their children - ages five, 13 and 20 - they at first stayed close to shore. But as evening approached, and the tide rose, the water started smashing her into the rock wall of the harbour, severely cutting her leg.\n\nWhen the line of cars on Front Street - \"at least 50\" of them - started exploding, they were forced to move into deeper water to seek shelter from the \"shooting debris\".\n\nThey were in the water for nearly four hours, she said.\n\nIt was a Tuesday afternoon, but the sky behind them was pitch black from the wildfire smoke.\n\nIt was a harrowing ordeal for the family, who wondered if they were going to make it out alive. At one point, one of Mrs Dang's children fainted in the water.\n\nThey were eventually rescued by a firefighter who directed them through the burning streets.\n\nLeading a group of about 15 survivors, she recalls the firefighter telling them: \"I don't even know if we're gonna make it at this point. Just do everything I say. If I say jump, jump. If I tell you to run, run.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oprah hands out supplies in Hawaii: ‘It’s a little overwhelming'\n\nAfter reaching shelter at the Maui Prep School, the family was forced to move twice more, including once because one shelter came under threat from flames.\n\nSeventeen more people were confirmed to be dead on Thursday afternoon, bringing the death toll to at least 53, after a series of fires broke out across the Hawaiian island of Maui earlier this week. Thousands others have been displaced.\n\nThe hardest hit is the historic town of Lahaina, home to 12,000 residents and a popular destination for tourists.\n\nAt a news conference on Thursday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said this is \"the largest natural disaster in Hawaii's state history\".\n\n\"We will continue to see loss of life,\" Gov Green said. Officials said they do not know how people are missing at this point as they continue to survey the damage.\n\nNone of the fires are 100% contained.\n\nGov Green added the state is struggling to house thousands of displaced people. He has called on Hawaiians elsewhere in the state to offer rooms and shelter for those in need.\n\nMany have lost their homes, including Bryce Baraoidan, who was forced to flee with his family.\n\nMr Baraoidan said they left nearly all of their possessions behind, thinking their house would be still standing when they returned, but it did not survive.\n\n\"When we found out… my mother burst into tears,\" he told the BBC. \"Not just the whole street, but the whole neighbourhood is gone.\"\n\nBryce Baraoidan and his family had to leave most of their belongings behind\n\n\"The thing I am saddest about leaving behind was my five pet chameleons,\" the 26-year-old said. \"I was very attached to them and I regret not taking them with us when we left.\"\n\nSteve Kemper, a photographer, lost a gallery that he managed on Front Street in Lahaina, his sister, Susanne Kemper, told the BBC.\n\nBecause only one road leads in and out of the town, it took him three hours to escape and drive east to the Maui town of Haiku, where his son is living.\n\n\"It was a close call,\" she said. \"He was absolutely exhausted when he got to my nephew's. He was shattered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Kemper, who has spent time in Maui and other Hawaiian islands, explained that many of the buildings in the old town of Lahaina are made of wood, a legacy from when the town served as a major whaling port. This likely facilitated the spread of the fire in the town, she said.\n\n\"It just went up like a torch,\" she said. \"They were like matchsticks on the ground.\"\n\nShe and others have struggled to get in touch with friends and family living in the area, as the blaze has cut power to thousands on the island.\n\nOne woman who spoke to the BBC said she could not get in contact with her parents who were staying at a hotel in Lahaina for their honeymoon. She registered their names with the Red Cross, but hadn't heard from them in 24 hours.\n\nAfter escaping and moving from shelter to shelter, Mrs Dang and her family managed to get to the airport in Maui, where they planned to board a flight back to Kansas.\n\nSome 14,000 tourists were moved off Maui on Wednesday, officials say, with a further 14,500 set to be moved on Thursday.\n\nAs for the 26-year-old Mr Baraoidan, he and his parents have been staying with family on the other side of Maui since they evacuated their home. All they managed to take were some important documents, a bag of clothes and their two dogs.\n\n\"We are all in shock,\" he said. But, he added: \"My dad told me that everything in the house is replaceable and we are lucky to have each other.\"\n\nHow are you affected by the wildfires? If it is safe to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Barry Waterfront development is due to have community benefits such as a children's play area alongside its 2,000 homes\n\nThree major housebuilders may face legal action over claims they failed to provide parks and green spaces.\n\nPersimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Barratt Homes are selling houses with little progress on elements such as play areas, Vale of Glamorgan council said.\n\nThe authority may seek an injunction which could stop buyers moving into the Barry Waterfront development until amenities are built.\n\nBut the firms said they were committed to delivering \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nPersimmon Homes, Taylor Wimpey and Barratt Homes make up the Waterfront Consortium and are behind plans for 2,000 new homes, as well as retail units, offices and a new primary school around the old Barry Dock.\n\nHowever, a proposed park is currently a mound of earth surrounded by wooden pallets and skips.\n\nNatalie Tanner was one of the first people to move into the development, and said she was promised sculptured gardens, which are yet to materialise.\n\n\"I feel disappointed because I do feel that it's really become quite slow.\n\n\"I know obviously they're rushing the houses but you don't see any movement on the green spaces.\"\n\n\"I feel disappointed because I do feel that it's really become quite slow,\" says Natalie Tanner\n\nCouncil leader Lis Burnett said, despite holding a series of meetings with the consortium, there had been little progress on the benefits for the community.\n\nThe council is considering seeking a High Court injunction which could prevent any new residents occupying their homes before the extra amenities are provided.\n\n\"There has been a catalogue of broken promises and weak excuses for the lack of progress, yet remarkably, these issues do not seem to be affecting the developers' housebuilding programme,\" said Ms Burnett.\n\nShe concluded that the companies were \"interested in profit not people\" and insisted the council would \"do everything in our power to hold developers to account\".\n\nAs part of the planning permission granted by the council, the developers are supposed to provide a series of amenities to mitigate the impact of a new development, known as Section 106 agreements.\n\nThese can include new schools, shops, parks and green spaces.\n\nIn response, the consortium confirmed it met the council in June to discuss the issues and \"reassure them of our commitment to deliver these facilities as quickly as possible\".\n\nIt added: \"We have since devised and commenced a detailed programme of works, which has been shared in full with the Vale of Glamorgan council.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the Vale council to complete these areas and the Barry Waterfront regeneration project to the highest standard.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"important that developments promised are delivered\" and that it would expect \"companies to follow contractual obligations when working on spaces for people to live and enjoy\".\n\nThe council leader claims the developers have given \"weak excuses\" for a lack of progress\n\nVale of Glamorgan is not the only local authority considering legal action against developers.\n\nHarlow council in Essex said it was seeking a High Court injunction against Persimmon, Barratt David Wilson and Taylor Wimpey over a lack of community facilities, including sports pitches, allotments, a community centre and retail units at Gilden Park.\n\nIt aims to stop anyone moving into the development until the works are complete.\n\nThe developers apologised for the delay in Harlow and said they were \"fully committed\" to completing the work.", "The 48-year-old actor visited the seaside town of Margate in an attempt to visit an exhibition dedicated to him\n\nHollywood star Pedro Pascal turned up at an art exhibition in Kent that was dedicated to him - but it was closed.\n\nThe display, called ADHD Hyperfixation & Why It Looks Like I Love Pedro Pascal, is currently on show at the Rhodes Art Gallery in Margate.\n\nThe actor, who starred in The Last of Us and The Mandalorian, visited on Sunday with fellow actor Russell Tovey.\n\nThe gallery said they were \"mortified\" he couldn't get in, and they will send a gift to apologise.\n\nThe exhibition is composed of roughly 14 pieces - a mix of paintings and sketches - by artist Heidi Gentle Burrell.\n\nA selfie outside the art gallery was shared on Instagram of the Chilean-American actor, along with Tovey and gallery director Robert Diament.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJessica Rhodes Robb, who owns and operates the gallery with her partner Gavin Blake, said: \"Heidi's show is absolutely phenomenal and we're so proud that it's received the publicity it deserves.\n\n\"We're mortified that they couldn't get in and our Sunday opening policy is most definitely under review.\n\n\"We'll be sending Pedro a gift from the show by way of apology.\"\n\nThe exhibition will run until 1 September.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Light aircraft is moved after making an emergency landing on A40\n\nA light aircraft has made a forced landing on a main commuter road in Gloucestershire after a suspected engine failure.\n\nEmergency services are at the scene on the A40 Golden Valley close to the village of Churchdown, near Cheltenham.\n\nGloucestershire Police are in attendance and confirmed the plane came down shortly before 18:00 BST.\n\nA spokesperson for the force said: \"No-one was injured and it is understood that no other vehicles were involved.\"\n\nIt is understood people got out of the aircraft and made it to safety.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch said an investigation had been launched.\n\nThe plane has been moved to the lay by\n\nGloucestershire Airport director, Jason Ivey, said: \"We are aware that a pilot has had to perform an emergency landing on the public highway due to a suspected engine failure.\n\n\"We are currently investigating to find out what happened and why.\n\n\"Our priority right now is to ensure everyone's well-being.\"\n\nMr Ivey added that the plane was flying to Staverton, where it is normally based, and the airport closed as a result of the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe plane, which landed on the central reservation, has been moved to a layby where specialist aircraft recovery service will retrieve it.\n\nGloucestershire Police said: \"We were called shortly before 18:00 BST with a report a light aircraft had landed on the A40 Golden Valley.\n\n\"Police remain at the scene at this time.\"\n\nNational Highways South West said the A40 has reopened in both directions between the A417 and the M5 J11.\n\nThe road was shut for over two hours after the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tom Wade This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWere you on the road when the aircraft landed? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Kupiansk has witnessed some fierce fighting during the ongoing Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine\n\nUkraine has ordered the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from 37 settlements in the north-east as Russia steps up its attacks there.\n\nThe authorities in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region said they had to act because of \"constant Russian shelling\" in the area.\n\nA woman was killed by shelling in the district on Thursday, Ukraine said.\n\nRussia says its troops have gained some ground in the area. Ukraine says Russian attacks have been rebuffed.\n\nThe comments by the two warring sides have not been independently verified.\n\nIn a statement, the Kupiansk district authorities said residents of two towns and 35 villages were being evacuated.\n\n\"Do not neglect your safety and the safety of your loved ones!\" the authorities said.\n\nThey said that civilians were being evacuated to \"safe regions\" of Ukraine.\n\nA resident in Kivsharivka - one of the villages being evacuated - said she was preparing to leave with her children, while her husband wanted to stay to care for his elderly mother.\n\n\"It's hard to leave them behind,\" Anna Koresh, 36, told AFP news agency. \"But since it's getting dangerous it's important to take the kids to a safe place,\" she added.\n\nIn its latest briefing, the Russian defence ministry said its assault units in the Kupiansk direction had \"improved their position along the front line during offensive operations\".\n\nBut on Thursday evening a woman was killed and a man was injured when a Russian shell hit a house in the village of Podoly, Kupiansk district, Ukrainian officials said.\n\nThe evacuation order is not the first for Kupiansk residents.\n\nIn March, children and people \"with limited mobility\" were ordered to evacuate from Kupiansk city because of an increase in Russian shelling.\n\nKupiansk - an important transport and logistics regional hub - has witnessed fierce fighting since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.\n\nRussian troops seized the city in a matter of days - but Ukrainian forces took back control during a rapid counter-attack last September.\n\nThose advances - and the liberation of Ukraine's southern city of Kherson - were the most significant front-line changes since Russia withdrew from areas around the capital Kyiv in April.\n\nAlso on Thursday, one person was killed in a Russian attack on a \"civilian infrastructure\" in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia city, local officials said.\n\nThey said another nine people were injured.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Western Isles MP said the SNP are 'not being serious about independence'\n\nMP Angus MacNeil has been expelled from the SNP after he was suspended from its Westminster group last month.\n\nThe Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles) MP had been suspended after reportedly clashing with party chief whip Brendan O'Hara.\n\nThe SNP conduct committee met on Thursday after he refused to rejoin the group at the end of his suspension.\n\nThe party confirmed that Mr MacNeil was expelled after a breach of their code of conduct.\n\nMr MacNeil said he would stand as an independent candidate at the next general election.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland News, Mr MacNeil reiterated that he had not left the SNP and that he had been expelled in an \"ad hoc\" manner by a committee on Thursday night.\n\nHe said the party had \"lost its way quite badly\" and criticised a number of policies championed by the Scottish Greens, including gender reform and Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs).\n\nHowever he said the SNP's main problem was \"not personalities\", adding: \"The real problem the SNP have got is not being serious about independence and believably serious about independence.\n\n\"Jobs at Holyrood are far more important than creating an election that might give the people the chance to get away from… anything that's associated with the difficulties in Westminster.\n\n\"It's in the SNP's gift to do something about it and it's chosen not to take that opportunity and that's what I find very frustrating.\"\n\nDuring an event at the Edinburgh Fringe, First Minister Humza Yousaf told broadcaster Iain Dale that Mr MacNeil's expulsion was the correct move.\n\nHe said: \"The party did not leave him. He left the party. He wrote a statement to say he left the party.\n\n\"Regardless of length of service as a politician, you were elected on party ticket and you can't pick and choose when you are in or out of party. We should all be held to same standard.\n\n\"Joanna Cherry demonstrates how we can have differences and remain within party.\"\n\nAngus MacNeil was one of the SNP's longest-serving MPs, having first been elected in 2005, but has been a vocal critic of the party leadership in recent years, particularly over its independence strategy.\n\nHe was involved in a row with chief whip Mr O'Hara in July over missing votes in the House of Commons.\n\nIt was alleged he had threatened Mr O'Hara during a confrontation - an allegation Mr MacNeil denies - and he had the whip removed for a week.\n\nFollowing the falling-out, he announced he would sit as an independent MP until at least October.\n\nHis membership of the party was suspended as he refused to immediately rejoin the SNP group.\n\nHe then released a statement attacking the SNP leadership's approach to independence, accusing it of a lack of urgency. \"I will only seek the SNP whip again if it is clear that the SNP are pursuing independence,\" he wrote.The SNP's code of conduct requires members who resign from a party group - at any level of government - to also resign as a member of the parliament they were elected to.\n\nA party spokesperson said: \"Following his decision to resign from the SNP Westminster Parliamentary Group, and therefore no longer sit as an SNP MP, the unanimous decision of the SNP's Member Conduct Committee is that a breach of the code of conduct has occurred and Angus MacNeil MP has been expelled from the Party.\n\n\"Mr MacNeil was given the opportunity to rejoin the group, and subsequently chose not to attend the hearing.\"\n\nScottish Conservative deputy leader Meghan Gallacher said Mr MacNeil's expulsion was evidence of \"civil war engulfing\" the SNP and questioned the first minister's ability to manage party conflicts.\n\nShe said: \"Humza Yousaf cuts a weak, inconsistent figure - a leader in name only, being buffeted by events rather than shaping them.\"\n\nThis saga brings to an end Angus MacNeil's 18-year SNP representation of the Western Isles at Westminster.\n\nA colourful character and well-liked across the political divide, he's not made any secret of his frustrations about the party's independence strategy. Things have now come to a head.\n\nMr MacNeil will stand as an independent candidate at the next general election, after a year languishing on the green benches as an independent.\n\nThis will cause another headache in the constituency for the SNP - possibly splitting the pro-independence vote against a Labour candidate that is said to be liked and respected locally. He is Torcuil Crichton, the Daily Record's former Westminster editor.\n\nMore fundamentally for SNP leader Humza Yousaf, this expulsion further tears open divides in the party that had been almost masked under the Sturgeon leadership.\n\nThe SNP already faces a by-election following the recall of Rutherglen MP, Margaret Ferrier\n\nFurthermore, Mr Yousaf could face internal dissent at SNP conference in October. We've already heard this week rumblings against the SNP's deal with the Greens.\n\nAngus MacNeil is said to have been an SNP member for almost 30 years. For the first time in a generation, he will not be able to attend the conference now he's been expelled from the party.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nErling Haaland was back in the old routine with a devastating display of finishing as Manchester City opened the defence of their Premier League title with a comfortable victory at Burnley.\n\nThe goalscoring phenomenon, who hit 52 goals as City won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League last season, took only 185 seconds to open his account for the new campaign, striking a blow from which the newly promoted Clarets never recovered.\n\nHaaland pounced in the area when Rodri headed down Kevin de Bruyne's cross, then curled in a magnificent left-foot strike into the top corner beyond Burnley keeper James Trafford after 36 minutes to effectively end the contest.\n\nBurnley, roared on by a passionate home crowd, never gave up but City's control grew more emphatic as the game went on, Rodri turning home the third with 15 minutes left after the home defence failed to clear a free-kick.\n\nIt all ended very comfortably for City, their night only marred by another injury for De Bruyne, who limped off after only 23 minutes to be replaced by summer signing Mateo Kovacic.\n\nBurnley had Anass Zaroury sent off in injury time, after a the video assistant referee review, for a dangerous lunge on Kyle Walker.\n• None How did you rate Burnley's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Manchester City's display? Send us your views here\n\nMan City have just too much\n\nManchester City showed inevitable signs of rust even though they started their campaign with a win - as was proved by the animated behaviour of perfectionist manager Pep Guardiola.\n\nIf goal machine Haaland was expecting a congratulatory arm around the shoulder from his manager as he walked off at half-time, he received a rude awakening when he received an intense lecture from Guardiola, who demanded a cameraman move out of range as he spoke to the striker.\n\nHe clearly wanted even more from Haaland, who showed his lethal economy by scoring twice from only six touches in the first half.\n\nIt sounds ludicrous to suggest Haaland was often on the periphery of the action but such is his brilliance in front of goal that he still makes the decisive contribution and built the platform for what turned into a routine victory for the champions.\n\nKovacic slipped smoothly into the action as replacement for De Bruyne but the Belgian's recurring injury problems will be a real source of concern for Guardiola and City. He spent the summer recovering from the serious hamstring injury that forced him out of the Champions League final win over Inter Milan after only 36 minutes and looked crestfallen as he walked off here.\n\nCity will hope the injury to such a key player, who had already created the opening goal for Haaland, is not serious - as the rest of their opening Premier League night played out satisfactorily.\n\nBurnley can take heart despite defeat\n\nBurnley were presented with the toughest possible start to life back in the Premier League as manager Vincent Kompany tried to plot the downfall of the Treble winners and the club where he became an iconic figure as the inspirational captain during their glory years.\n\nThe result was locked in after City went ahead early but Burnley showed real spirit and character, even creating anxious moments for Guardiola's side as Lyle Foster and Zeki Amdouni threatened.\n\nIn the end, they were undone by some loose defending but more specifically by the predatory instincts and natural goalscoring prowess of Haaland - and they will not be the last to suffer that fate this season.\n\nBurnley stuck to Kompany's passing methods, which made them such impressive winners of the Championship last season, while Trafford, the goalkeeping hero of England's European Under-21 Championship triumph in July, made an impressive debut against his former club.\n\nKompany's players got an early taste of what will be required this season but this was the most exacting examination of all and, even though they lost, there will still be plenty to encourage them.\n\nSome booing was heard when the players took the knee before kick-off and Burnley removed a fan from Turf Moor after City defender Rico Lewis was struck with an object.\n• None Attempt saved. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Julián Álvarez with a cross.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. James McAtee replaces Kyle Walker because of an injury.\n• None Kyle Walker (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Julián Álvarez following a set piece situation.\n• None Mateo Kovacic (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt saved. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Phil Foden. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The multi-award winning, best-selling novelist Zadie Smith is among the writers who signed the letter\n\nOver 50 authors have called on the Edinburgh International Book festival to cut ties with one of its sponsors over climate concerns.\n\nA joint letter urges organisers to put pressure on Baillie Gifford over its investment in fossil fuels.\n\nThe festival director later called for an \"open discussion\" about the issue during the event, which starts on Saturday.\n\nBaillie Gifford has said it is not a significant investor in the sector.\n\nZadie Smith, Ali Smith and Gary Younge are among those who have signed the open letter ahead of the literary festival.\n\nIt comes after climate activist Greta Thunberg last week cancelled an appearance at the event.\n\nThe authors of the letter expressed solidarity with those harmed by the climate crisis, including people in the global south and in the UK, who have lost their homes, livelihoods and been forced to migrate.\n\nThey also highlighted the injustice of corporate greed and profit from the fossil fuel industry at a time when millions across the UK suffer from fuel poverty and the cost of living crisis.\n\nEdinburgh-based author Mikaela Loach, who is due to appear at the event, said organisers \"must stand by their 'climate positive' commitment and drop Baillie Gifford as a sponsor.\"\n\nShe added: \"Edinburgh International Book Festival wouldn't burn books, so why are they ok with burning the planet?\"\n\nNovelist Yara Rodrigues Fowler added recent global wildfires, flooding and extreme heat showed the destruction being caused by the fossil fuel industry.\n\nShe said the book festival was giving companies like Baillie Gifford a \"social licence\" to continue funding \"the destruction of our only home\".\n\nGreta Thunberg had been due to appear at the Edinburgh Playhouse on 13 August\n\nFestival director Nick Barley thanked the writers for the letter and described them as \"the lifeblood of this festival\".\n\nHe added: \"We fully acknowledge your concerns about the devastating impact of fossil fuel exploitation on the climate: as individuals and as a charity we firmly agree.\n\n\"For these reasons we promise to think about your letter carefully. The last thing we want is to let anyone give the impression we are on opposite sides.\"\n\nHowever Mr Barley warned the arts organisation would not have enough funds to operate without private sponsorship.\n\nHe also said Baillie Gifford was investing in companies that were seeking to resolve the crisis, such as Danish windfarm specialist, Ørsted.\n\nThe International Book Festival is due to kick off on Friday 12 August\n\nMr Barley urged the writers to discuss their concerns during the festival and vowed he would \"keep a open mind\" about how to proceed.\n\nHe added: \"Let's talk in the Authors' Yurt, in the bookshop, in the cafe and in the festival courtyard.\n\n\"Let's talk in our theatres too: I'd like to find a time when we can invite representatives from across the spectrum of opinion to come on stage and have a discussion which will be open to the public.\n\n\"We'll find a date when that's possible and you'd be more than welcome to join us.\"\n\nGreta Thunberg had been due to speak at an event called It's Not Too Late To Change The World at the Edinburgh Playhouse but pulled out after accusing the sponsors of \"greenwashing\".\n\nBaillie Gifford, which has sponsored the book festival for 19 years, said 2% of its clients' money invested in companies with some business related to fossil fuels compared to a market average of 11%.\n\nThe Ferret reported last month that Baillie Gifford had billions invested in firms that profit from fossil fuels.\n\nA spokesperson for the firm previously said: \"Of those companies, some have already moved most of their business away from fossil fuels, and many are helping to drive the transition to clean energy.\n\n\"Currently, 5% of our clients' money is invested in companies whose sole purpose is to develop clean energy solutions.\"\n\nThe Edinburgh International Book Festival runs from 12-28 August, alongside the Fringe.\n\nThe 2023 event will feature over 500 events and 550 authors.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJoe Biden's son Hunter will now be investigated by a special counsel with additional powers, the US attorney general has announced.\n\nMerrick Garland has elevated the status of David Weiss, the federal prosecutor who has already filed criminal charges in the case.\n\nA plea deal on tax and gun charges against the president's son collapsed earlier this month.\n\nRepublicans are pushing for an inquiry into Hunter Biden's business dealings.\n\nIn a surprise announcement at the Department of Justice on Friday, Mr Garland explained that he was making the move after a request by Mr Weiss earlier this week.\n\nThe new designation will provide the prosecutor with extra resources to pursue the investigation and to potentially bring further charges beyond the state of Delaware.\n\nMr Garland said the special counsel would produce a report when his work was done, and that the justice department would make as much of it public as was possible.\n\n\"The appointment of Mr Weiss reinforces for the American people the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters,\" Mr Garland said at a news conference.\n\nHunter Biden's lawyer, Chris Clark, responded in a statement: \"We are confident when all of these manoeuvrings are at an end my client will have resolution and will be moving on with his life successfully.\"\n\nMr Clark pointed out that the investigation has already gone on for five years.\n\nMr Weiss was appointed by former President Donald Trump to become the US attorney in Delaware in 2018. Not long after, in 2019, he opened an investigation into allegations of criminal conduct by Hunter Biden.\n\nHunter Biden has since been charged with two misdemeanour tax offenses for allegedly not paying income taxes in 2017 and 2018, years in which he earned in excess of $1.5m (£1.1m), according to the US Attorney's Office in Delaware.\n\nHe faces an additional felony charge for allegedly possessing a firearm while addicted to and using illegal drugs.\n\nHunter Biden had previously reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to the tax charges and admit the gun offence to spare himself prison time.\n\nHowever, US District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika squashed the deal due to \"non standard terms\" and the \"unusual\" nature of the proposed resolution for the gun charge.\n\nSince then, Hunter Biden and prosecutors have engaged in further plea negotiations but remain at an impasse. In a court filing on Friday, Mr Weiss's team said they now expect the case to go to trial - and could potentially file new, more serious charges in Washington DC or California.\n\nRepublicans want to see the younger Mr Biden further criminally charged, along with the president. They allege that Mr Biden has profited from his son's business dealings in Ukraine and China.\n\nHouse of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that the Republican-controlled chamber will continue to investigate the president and his son regardless of the special counsel announcement.\n\nHe echoed concern expressed by other Republicans that Mr Weiss's inquiry has been insufficiently aggressive.\n\nOther Republicans have wondered whether the attempt to move the trial out of Delaware, where it had been overseen by Trump-appointed Ms Noreika, was an attempt to find a legal venue more friendly to the Bidens.\n\nThe White House called the allegations \"insane conspiracy theories\" and rejected the assertion that Mr Biden has participated in his son's business affairs.\n\nMr Weiss has conducted a years-long investigation into the matter. So far, he has not found any evidence that Hunter Biden's business dealings have benefited from his father's presidential status.\n\nThe special counsel announcement - and the possibility of new charges leading to a jury trial - all but assures that the investigation into Hunter Biden will stretch on well into the 2024 presidential election season, if not past election day itself. It will continue to be a distraction for White House officials who had until recently hoped that the issue was approaching a resolution.\n\nBut Friday's announcement may also diffuse some of the conservative claims that there are two standards of justice in the US - one for Republicans and one for the Bidens.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Hunter Biden is important to Republicans", "Oprah was handing out supplies at the War Memorial Stadium on Thursday\n\nA long line of at least 100 cars stretched towards Maui's War Memorial Stadium on Thursday, even as the shelter began reaching capacity.\n\nScores of evacuees have arrived here and set up camp after wildfires tore through the Hawaiian island, destroying entire neighbourhoods and leaving many residents with nowhere to stay.\n\nVolunteers have been trying to create a comfortable atmosphere despite the heat, offering local treats like shaved ice. But conditions are still challenging.\n\nPeople have to bring their own bedding to the shelter, so many are sleeping on bare cots and air mattresses. And after seeing what people were in need of, part-time Maui resident and talk show host Oprah Winfrey, brought pillows and other goods.\n\nTom Leonard has lived in Lahaina for 44 years. He told the BBC he has been staying at the shelter for the past two days after losing all of his possessions. He has no idea where he will go next.\n\nTom Leonard has lived in Maui for decades, but has lost all of his possessions\n\nMore concerning than the loss of possessions, are the loved ones that people have yet to hear back from. There is even a sense of guilt for some people here.\n\nHundreds are said to be missing. At least 55 people have died and that number is expected to rise.\n\nGetting in contact with loved ones has been made even more challenging by the fact mobile service on the island has been unreliable.\n\nPeople are doing what they can at the shelter, writing down the names of their loved ones along with their contact information and sticking notes on increasingly crowded whiteboards.\n\nMaui resident Ellie Erickson created a Google spreadsheet to crowdsource efforts to find people. Although she only shared it on Wednesday morning, thousands of names have already been added to the list. Some are marked in green as \"found\" and other names are marked in red as \"not located\".\n\nWith the names of the dead not yet confirmed, people have only rumours to go on to know whether their neighbours and friends are still alive.\n\nChelsey Vierra's great-grandmother, Louise Abihai, lives at the Hale Mahaolu senior living facility. She told the Associated Press that she did not know if she was OK.\n\n\"She doesn't have a phone. She's 97 years old,\" Ms Vierra said. \"She can walk. She is strong.\"\n\n\"If you never made contact with your family before sunset last night, you're still trying to figure out where they are,\" Leomana Turalde, 36, told USA Today. He has several aunties who live near Lahaina's popular Front Street which bore some of the heaviest.\n\nOne of them went missing on Wednesday morning.\n\nAt the shelter, Les Munn, 42, recalled packing his belongings as the hurricane winds began coming to shore. His building then caught fire around him. \"Everything went black\", he said, as the smoke began pouring in.\n\n\"I ran up, knocking on some of my neighbours doors. And some of them wouldn't come out,\" he said, sounding perplexed by their decision.\n\nEventually he ran outside, spotted a blue light from a police car through the dense black smoke, and ran and dove into the back of the vehicle. \"And that's how I survived,\" he said from his shelter cot.\n\nHe added that he had not seen any of his neighbours in the shelter and was concerned for their safety.\n\n\"I don't know their fate,\" he said. \"I don't know if they survived.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four factors that made Maui wildfires so deadly", "The barge will provide basic and functional accommodation and healthcare provision\n\nMinisters are facing legal action from the Mayor of Portland over the Bibby Stockholm migrant accommodation barge.\n\nCarralyn Parkes believes the Home Office has exceeded it powers and is not complying with planning rules.\n\nThe first group of 15 people boarded the vessel, moored in Portland Port, on Monday.\n\nDorset Council said it had received assurance from the government that it had undertaken due diligence, but was monitoring the situation.\n\n\"It's not a ship, it's not a cruise ship, there is no engine. The attachment of the barge to the wharf makes it a permanent structure,\" Ms Parks said.\n\nThe barge is part of government efforts to deter dangerous Channel crossings by migrants.\n\nUp to 500 men aged 18-65 will eventually live on the vessel while they await the outcome of asylum applications.\n\nMs Parkes, who is bringing the challenge as a local resident and not as part of a public body, said buildings had been altered or demolished to make ready for the barge.\n\nMayor of Portland Carralyn Parkes is also a town councillor\n\n\"If people want a structure there to house asylum seekers you can't do that in Portland Port without planning permission,\" she said.\n\nPortland Port, which is a private company being paid by the government to berth the barge, refused to comment on planning applications.\n\nDorset Council, which is responsible for planning permissions in Portland, said the Bibby Stockholm has been berthed in the port below a water mark.\n\nIt said the low water mark defined what planning permissions were needed so the location of the barge was below the council's authority.\n\n\"We cannot, as a planning authority, control what goes on below the mean low water mark,\" a Dorset council spokesperson said.\n\nThe council has previously said it is opposed to the location and form of accommodation being used.\n\n\"At this point in time the council has no compelling evidence to indicate that a breach of planning has occurred,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nMs Parks said the government had acknowledged receipt of her legal challenge and now had 14 days to respond.\n\nThe Home Office said there had been a number of last-minute legal challenges and that it would be inappropriate to comment on ongoing proceedings.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The first asylum seekers are now being housed on the vessel in Portland.\n\n\"This marks a further step forward in the government's work to bring forward alternative accommodation options as part of its pledge to reduce the use of expensive hotels and move to a more orderly, sustainable system which is more manageable for local communities.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nSweden produced a magnificent performance to book a semi-final date with Spain and leave Japan's Women's World Cup dreams in tatters.\n\nJapan were seen as title contenders after gliding through the group stage and defeating Norway in the last 16.\n\nHere, they fell behind to Amanda Ilestedt's goal before Manchester City midfielder Filippa Angeldahl doubled Sweden's lead from the penalty spot.\n\nJapan were then awarded a controversial spot-kick, but Riko Ueki's 76th-minute attempt hit the bar, before West Ham's Honoka Hayashi pulled a goal back in the 87th minute.\n\nThat lifeline came moments after Aoba Fujino hit the woodwork from a free-kick, but Sweden saw the game out to make it into the last four in front of a 43,217 crowd in Auckland.\n\nNew Arsenal defender Ilestedt has emerged as one of the players of the tournament, and she now has four goals.\n\nThis time she struck from the edge of the six-yard box in the 32nd minute after Japan failed to clear.\n\nGoalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita kept Japan in the contest when she tipped an attempt by Sweden captain Kosovare Asllani onto the post, while Stina Blackstenius had earlier missed a glorious chance when the game was goalless.\n\nThere looked to be no coming back for Japan when Angeldahl doubled the lead after the video assistant referee (VAR) spotted a handball by Japan's Liverpool midfielder Fuka Nagano.\n\nJapan had shone at this World Cup, scoring 14 times in their previous four matches.\n\nBut they struggled to test goalkeeper Zecira Musovic often enough at Eden Park as Sweden moved to within one win of a first World Cup final since 2003, when they lost to Germany in the final in the United States.\n• None Relive the action as Sweden beat Japan to reach World Cup semi-finals\n• None World Football at the Women's World Cup: Spain and Sweden surge into semis\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nSweden needed a last-minute winner to defeat South Africa in their opening game, while they trailed the United States 3-2 on penalties before eliminating the four-time world champions in the first knockout round.\n\nThey have shown hunger and desire to reach back-to-back World Cup semi-finals and will fancy their chances against Spain back at Eden Park next Tuesday.\n\nPeter Gerhardsson's players were riding the crest of a wave after eliminating the USA and they successfully stifled a Japan side who had been scoring goals for fun.\n\nJapan only came alive in the closing stages and, even after Hayashi scored, Sweden negotiated the 10 minutes of additional time.\n\nAfter playing 120 minutes against the USA five days earlier, the Swedes once again ran themselves into the ground to deservedly book a semi-final spot.\n\nOne step too far\n\nJapan have shown they can counter-attack and cut through opposition defences at pace throughout the tournament.\n\nYet this was one step too far for the Nadeshiko.\n\nThey looked a pale imitation of the side that had reached the quarter-finals in style, and got their first attempt on goal in the 63rd minute.\n\nDespite a strong ending, hopes of reaching a third World Cup final in their most recent four attempts were extinguished by an impressive Sweden.\n\nJapan have been great entertainers at this tournament and many of their players were inconsolable at the full-time whistle.\n\nThe exit of the 2011 world champions means there will be a new World Cup winner.\n\nDespite disappointment at going out, Japan boss Futoshi Ikeda concentrated on positives after the match.\n\n\"I saw my players grow at this World Cup,\" he said. \"The younger players have to use this experience and take it into the Olympics and other tournaments.\n\n\"Going forward we have to grow from this.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Maika Hamano (Japan) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Kiko Seike (Japan) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riko Ueki.\n• None Attempt saved. Riko Ueki (Japan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aoba Fujino with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Zecira Musovic (Sweden).\n• None Goal! Japan 1, Sweden 2. Honoka Hayashi (Japan) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Aoba Fujino (Japan) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Rishi Sunak was pictured boarding a Dassault Falcon 900LX before a trip to Leeds this year\n\nRishi Sunak has used RAF jets and helicopters for domestic flights more frequently than the UK's previous three prime ministers, the BBC can reveal.\n\nMinistry of Defence data show he took almost one such flight a week during his first seven months in office.\n\nThe prime minister has been accused of hypocrisy for flying short journeys domestically, given his pledges to curb planet-warming carbon emissions.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has said air travel was the \"most effective use of my time\".\n\nIn response to Freedom of Information requests, the BBC was told the number of domestic flights on Command Support Air Transport aircraft broken down by prime minister between July 2016 and April 2023.\n\nThe RAF division - known as 32 Squadron - operates two Dassault Falcon 900LX jets and a helicopter to transport the PM and other ministers domestically.\n\nIn total, Mr Sunak boarded 23 domestic flights on these aircraft in 187 days, which is one every eight days on average.\n\nTwo caveats to bear in mind are the brevity of Ms Truss's time in Downing Street, and the limitations on Mr Johnson's travel during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe BBC initially requested data on the number of flights each UK prime minister since Tony Blair had taken using a military aircraft to travel domestically. But the MoD rejected the request on cost grounds and advised asking for data on those flights since Mrs May.\n\nThe prime minister sometimes has access to an RAF Voyager plane for overseas trips, and the government also charters private flights on aircraft operated by Titan Airways.\n\nSeparately, Mr Sunak has accepted more than £70,000 worth of private jet and helicopter travel to Conservative Party events from political donors this year.\n\nMr Sunak's use of flights for UK engagements has come under intense scrutiny, with critics questioning why he had not used the train instead of RAF aircraft for relatively short trips to Newquay, Dover and Leeds this year.\n\nLast month, Mr Sunak said those who say \"no one should take a plane\" in their approach to climate change were \"completely, and utterly wrong\".\n\nLabour said the PM was \"developing an expensive habit of swanning around on private jets courtesy of the taxpayer\".\n\nThe party's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, suggested Mr Sunak had breached the ministerial code, which states he is supposed to use scheduled flights, unless \"it is essential to travel by air\".\n\nThe SNP said the flights data showed Mr Sunak was \"completely out of touch\" and \"grossly hypocritical\" after pledging to curb carbon emissions.\n\nIn his speech at the COP27 climate summit last year, Mr Sunak said it was \"morally right to honour\" the UK's promise to reduce carbon emissions.\n\nThe UK has set a legally binding target of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, as part of the global effort to avert the worst effects of climate change.\n\nFlights produce greenhouse gases - mainly carbon dioxide (CO2) - from burning fuel, and these emissions contribute to global warming.\n\nEmissions per kilometre travelled from domestic flights are significantly worse than any other form of transport, and private jets typically produce more CO2 than commercial flights.\n\nBut carbon emissions vary considerably depending on the size of the plane, how efficient its engines are, and how many passengers it carries.\n\nIn 2019, before the pandemic struck, international and domestic UK aviation accounted for 8% of the UK's total greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nAnna Hughes, whose Flight Free UK campaign urges people to fly less for the sake of the climate, said Mr Sunak's transport choices were \"frustrating\".\n\nShe said if leaders demonstrated \"the kind of behaviour that we all need to adopt to avert the climate crisis, it communicates that it's serious and real\".\n\n\"You can't just say I'm the prime minister, I'm too busy and important,\" she added.\n\nOne former official with knowledge of ministerial travel prior to Mr Sunak's premiership said transport choices \"were based on time\", adding the train would be used \"nine times out of ten\".\n\nThe former official, who did not wish to be named, said they \"had access to the PM's diary and every single minute of every day is accounted for\".\n\n\"In order to achieve a long visit, the only way was to use an aircraft,\" they said.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said ministers \"sometimes require the use of non-commercial air travel\".\n\n\"This is a standard practice for governments around the world and this has consistently been the case under successive UK administrations of all political colours,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Value for money, security, and time efficiency is taken into account in all travel decisions and all flights are carbon offset.\"\n\nAlthough we have the number of domestic flights Mr Sunak has taken up to April this year, we don't know the details of all those journeys, and what aircraft he used.\n\nWe did ask for that information, but the MoD said the \"RAF does not retain records for air miles flown by aircraft\", and withheld data on the PM's trips.\n\nThat means we can't calculate the overall carbon footprint of Mr Sunak's domestic flights during his first seven months in office.\n\nWhat we can do is estimate the carbon emissions of some individual flights, using information in the public domain.\n\nFor example, on 19 January, the prime minister flew from RAF Northolt in west London to Blackpool Airport on a Dassault Falcon 900LX.\n\nA number of aviation websites say the Falcon has a fuel consumption of about 260 gallons per hour. The flight from London to Blackpool took 41 minutes, which means approximately 178 gallons, or 805 litres, of fuel was consumed.\n\nBased on the government's fuel-to-emissions conversion rates, the flight would have produced about two tonnes of CO2.\n\nFalcon jets typically have 12 seats. So if we assume the plane was full for the Blackpool trip, two tonnes of CO2 would be 166 kg per person.\n\nTo put that into context, the International Energy Agency estimated that the global average energy-related carbon footprint was about 4.7 tonnes of CO2 per person in 2021.\n\nIn contrast to Mr Sunak's flight, a train journey from London Euston to Blackpool North would produce 14.31kg of CO2 per passenger, according to a LNER carbon calculator..\n\nThe Trainline website says it takes an average of three hours and 43 minutes to travel from London Euston to Blackpool by train.\n\nOf course, the train would be expected to have run regardless of Mr Sunak's personal travel choice. But the private flight, and its resultant emissions, would not have happened had Mr Sunak taken a different mode of transport.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Ukrainian conscription officials accused of taking bribes and smuggling people out of the country have been sacked in an anti-corruption purge.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky confirmed that more than 30 people face criminal charges, with all regional officials in charge of military conscription removed.\n\nHe said bribery at a time of war is \"high treason\".\n\nIt comes amid efforts to bolster the armed forces, as Ukraine's counter-offensive operation continues.\n\nA statement from the president's office said corruption allegations \"pose a threat to Ukraine's national security and undermine confidence in state institutions\".\n\nReplacement officials will be chosen from candidates who have battlefield experience and have been vetted by the intelligence service, it continued.\n\nOfficials taking cash and cryptocurrency bribes or helping people eligible to be called up to fight to leave Ukraine are among the charges, said Mr Zelensky, in a video posted on social media.\n\nUkraine's general mobilisation rules mean all men over the age of 18 capable of fighting are eligible to be conscripted, and most adult men under the age of 60 are prohibited from leaving the country.\n\n\"We are dismissing all regional military commissars,\" he said.\n\n\"This system should be run by people who know exactly what war is and why cynicism and bribery at a time of war is high treason.\"\n\nHe said the conscription system \"is not working decently\", adding: \"The way they treat warriors, the way they treat their duties, it's just immoral.\"\n\nThe corruption came to light after an inspection of local army offices.\n\nMr Zelensky said 112 criminal proceedings against 33 suspects have been launched against regional officials, and that abuses had been found across the country.\n\nNeither Ukraine or Russia reveal how many of their soldiers have been killed since the February 2022 invasion, but both have sought recruits widely as attritional fighting continues.\n\nThe anti-corruption drive is the latest to be launched by the Zelensky government.\n\nCorruption in public services has been a long-running problem in Ukraine and tackling it is one of the tests the country would have to pass to join Western institutions like the European Union.\n\nAccording to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, Ukraine ranks 116th out of 180 countries, but efforts in recent years have seen its position improve significantly.", "Actor and entertainer Les Dennis is the 15th and final celebrity contestant to be announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe said he was \"thrilled\" to join the show, as his 70th birthday approaches.\n\nHe will join Annabel Croft, Nigel Harman, Bobby Brazier, Jody Cundy, Zara McDermott, Ellie Leach, Nikita Kanda, Adam Thomas and Eddie Kadi on the show.\n\nAngela Rippon, Layton Williams, Angela Scanlon, Amanda Abbington and Krishnan Guru-Murthy will also appear.\n\nDennis, whose career spans more than 50 years, was host of ITV's Family Fortunes for 16 years.\n\nHe has also had roles in ITV's Coronation Street, Extras and Death in Paradise; and has appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera, and in such plays and musicals as Hairspray, Legally Blonde The Musical and 42nd Street.\n\n\"In my career I've always gone for challenges outside my comfort zone and this is the ultimate one!\" he said. \"Can't wait.\"\n\nThis year's series will arrive on screens in the autumn and will be judged by Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse.\n\nHere are the other contestants who have been announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing so far:\n\nFormer tennis player and broadcaster Annabel Croft said she was looking forward to \"swapping tennis balls for glitter balls\" and was \"looking forward to finding some joyfulness in the process\".\n\nCroft became the youngest British player to compete at Wimbledon for 95 years when she was just 15 years old.\n\nShe continues to play a role in the coverage of the tournament and other tennis events, as a presenter, commentator and pundit for the BBC, Sky, Amazon Prime, ITV and Discovery.\n\nCroft has also presented entertainment shows such as Treasure Hunt and Inceptor.\n\nEx-EastEnders star Nigel Harman, known for playing Dennis Rickman on the soap, said he was \"amazed, excited, and terrified\" to be joining the line-up.\n\n\"As an armchair fan of the show, I have watched in awe as people have twirled and gyrated across the screen,\" he said. \"And now it's my turn... gulp!\"\n\nScreen and stage actor and director Harman won awards, including most popular newcomer at the National Television Awards, for his role as the roguish Rickman. He has also appeared on TV in Downton Abbey and in the film Blood Diamond, as well as on London's West End in Guys and Dolls and Shrek the Musical - for which he won an Olivier award.\n\nHarman recently joined the cast of the BBC hospital drama Casualty, as clinical lead Max Cristie.\n\nCurrent EastEnders actor and model Bobby Brazier, son of the late Big Brother star Jade Goody, plays Freddie Slater in the BBC soap.\n\nHe said he was \"excited\" to join the Strictly line-up. \"I can't wait to start training like a professional dancer and adding a few moves to my locker,\" he added.\n\nAway from Walford, Brazier has modelled for the major fashion house Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week.\n\nJody Cundy has represented Great Britain at seven Paralympics, winning eight gold medals in swimming and cycling events.\n\n\"[Strictly is] so far away from what I'm used to, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and pushing myself way out of my comfort zone, especially as I'm always last onto the dance floor,\" he said. \"Can't wait to get stuck in, bring on the glitter and sequins!\"\n\nCundy has also competed in multiple World Championships, winning 23 world titles, the most recent of which added at the recent World Cycling Championships in Glasgow.\n\nIn 2021, he became the first man in Paralympics GB history to win medals at seven different games, and was last year made a CBE for services to cycling.\n\nEllie Leach is best known for her 12 years playing Faye Windass on ITV soap Coronation Street.\n\nShe has been nominated for multiple British Soap Awards and Inside Soap Awards for her role in hard-hitting storylines, which have included being pregnant at 13 and later reconnecting with the child she gave up.\n\n\"It still doesn't feel real that I'm going to be doing Strictly!\" she said.\n\n\"It's always been a dream of mine so I guess dreams really do come true!\" added the actress, who left the soap earlier this year.\n\nNikita Kanda hosts the BBC Asian Network radio station's breakfast show, and also reports regularly on TV on the BBC's The One Show.\n\n\"I don't think it will properly sink in until I step on to the dancefloor,\" she said. \"I can't wait to get glammed up and get out there. Throw the glitter on me!\"\n\nIn her day job, the presenter - recently nominated for presenter of the year at the Asian Media Awards - has interviewed stars including Killing Eve's Sandra Oh, Bridgerton's Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran and Marvel actress Awkwafina.\n\nHer TV work has seen her look into the rise of cashless businesses and government support for female sport.\n\nThomas is best known for playing Adam Barton in ITV soap Emmerdale, winning the TV Choice award for best soap newcomer in 2010.\n\n\"I can't dance to save my life but I'm buzzing to learn and have a good laugh with my pro. Get me on that dance floor... I can't wait!\" he said.\n\nAfter appearing the 2016 edition of ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, Thomas went on to co-host the spin-off-I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp, and recently reprised his role as Donte Charles in BBC One drama Waterloo Road.\n\nIn 2020, the soap star teamed up with his brothers and fellow Mancs on the Mic podcasters Ryan and Scott, for six-part ITV travel series Absolutely India: Mancs in Mumbai, where they traced their family heritage alongside their father.\n\nRip-Off Britain presenter Rippon, 78, will be the series' oldest contestant, after Johnny Ball took part in 2012 aged 74.\n\nRippon said: \"Why didn't they ask me 10 years ago? Having been a fan of Strictly since day one, and as a former presenter of Come Dancing, this will be quite an adventure for me.\"\n\nShe was the first female journalist to permanently present the BBC national television news, and was also one of the presenters of the BBC's original Come Dancing series.\n\nShe hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, presented ITV breakfast show TV-am and famously appeared in a dancing sketch with comedy duo Morecambe and Wise.\n\nGuru-Murthy is the lead anchor for Channel 4 News. He joined the programme in 1998 and is its second-longest-serving presenter after Jon Snow.\n\n\"I'm surprised, delighted and slightly confused to find myself taking part in Strictly on the basis of 'you only live once!\" he said.\n\nThe broadcaster has also fronted Channel 4's Paralympics coverage and was one of the original presenters of the BBC News channel, then called BBC News 24, in 1997.\n\nLast year, Guru-Murthy was briefly suspended after he was heard using an expletive to describe a Conservative minister, something for which he apologised \"unreservedly\".\n\nAbbington is known for starring in TV series including Sherlock and Mr Selfridge, as well as stage plays such as The Son.\n\nThe actress said: \"I'm thrilled to have been asked to do Strictly. I'm actually really shy and self-conscious so this will be a great opportunity for me to overcome those things! Plus I get to learn to dance, which I am incredibly excited about.\"\n\nHowever, some fans have claimed they will boycott the show after Abbington stirred controversy earlier this year with comments about drag performances, questioning whether young children should watch or partake in sexually-charged drag shows.\n\nIn a recent Instagram video, Abbington explained she \"loved drag\" and was not transphobic, adding: \"Personally speaking, I don't think 12-year-olds should be performing in drag shows in overtly sexual ways because they're 12 and they need a childhood.\"\n\nWilliams has performed in London's West End in Billy Elliot, Thriller Live and Everyone's Talking About Jamie. He has also appeared in TV series Bad Education and I Hate Suzie.\n\nThe actor said: \"So excited to learn new skills from the best. Bring on the sequins… ALL the sequins!\"\n\nWilliams most recently provided the voiceover for the BBC Three gay dating show I Kissed A Boy.\n\nThe actor said he would be happy as long as he is paired with a male professional dancer so he can be lifted up during the performances.\n\nAngela Scanlon presents Your Home Made Perfect on BBC Two\n\nIrish TV star Angela Scanlon hosts the BBC Two series Your Home Made Perfect as well as a Saturday night chat show on RTÉ.\n\n\"I'm terrified, I'm excited and I have so many questions. Will they make me tan? How itchy are sequins?! Do they do flesh coloured sports bras? Well - there's only one way to find out, right?!\" she said.\n\nScanlon has appeared on TV shows including The One Show and Robot Wars, and presented a Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio 2.\n\nShe previously worked as a print journalist, writing for magazines including Grazia, Tatler and the Sunday Times Style supplement.\n\nKadi is a stand-up comic who became the first black British comedian to headline London's 02 Arena.\n\nHe announced his participation on BBC Radio 1Xtra's Official UK Afrobeats Chart Show on Sunday, which he presents.\n\n\"I'm so unbelievably proud and honoured that Strictly and the BBC have asked me to join the 2023 team,\" Kadi said.\n\n\"I promise you, I'm going to give it everything I've got. This is going to be a vibe.\"\n\nZara McDermott worked as a government policy advisor before joining ITV reality show Love Island in 2018, and since leaving the villa has presented a series of documentaries.\n\n\"I grew up watching Strictly every year with my nan and she was the biggest fan,\" she said. \"We would dance around the house and I have such fond memories of that time in my life.\n\n\"I even remember the first ever series, and being mesmerised by all the beautiful dresses! I can't wait to throw myself into this experience and start training. It's going to be incredible.\"\n\nSince leaving Love Island, McDermott has presented BBC documentaries including Revenge Porn, Uncovering Rape Culture, Disordered Eating, and Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Captain Jason Chambers from Australian reality series Below Deck Down Under has addressed sexual misconduct on the show's set.\n\nHe thanked the production crew for \"breaking the fourth wall and stepping in\" during two incidents during filming for the new series.\n\nTwo cast members were seen making unwanted sexual advances in recent episodes of the yacht-based production.\n\nBoth cast members, Luke Jones and Laura Bileskalne, were fired on the show.\n\nThe popular series is in the spotlight after two incidents were featured in the sixth and seventh episodes, which both aired on Australian TV station Bravo on 7 August.\n\nCapt Chambers said the \"not acceptable\" incidents took place a year ago, when he was not personally present, after cast members had been drinking together.\n\nIn an Instagram video, he said \"I don't know what goes on\" when the show's crew socialise together, but added: \"If it's inadequate behaviour, you've seen that production would inform me.\"\n\nLuke Jones, who has featured in 11 episodes of the series, was shown entering the cabin of fellow cast member Margot Sisson without consent.\n\nAt the time, she was asleep after drinking alcohol and Mr Jones was undressed.\n\nMr Jones was shown climbing into her bed, which prompted the production crew to intervene to make Mr Jones leave the room, saying that Ms Sisson had \"said no\".\n\nMr Jones then attempted to close the cabin door and proceeded to hold it shut, before eventually leaving.\n\nWriting on Instagram after the episode aired, Ms Sisson thanked producers for stepping in during the incident and said it was \"vital\" for the incident to feature in the episode because \"this issue is all too real and far too frequent\".\n\nMr Jones has not commented on the incident publicly.\n\nDuring the same episode Ms Bileskalne was shown entering the room of another cast member, Adam Kodra, and attempting to massage and kiss him without consent.\n\nThe episode showed Cpt Chambers dismissing both from the yacht where the series is filmed and both have left the production altogether.\n\nIn an Instagram post after the show aired, Ms Bileskalne apologised, saying: \"I made [Mr Kodra] feel uncomfortable and no one should be put in that position\".\n\nUK domestic abuse charity Refuge has praised the show's producers for how the incidents were handled.\n\nIt said the episodes had \"sparked vital conversations around consent\", adding: \"We're pleased to see that action was quickly taken to ensure a safe environment.\"\n\nBravo has not commented on the incidents. BBC News has contacted the production company.\n\nBelow Deck Down Under first aired in March 2022. It is a spin-off the American series Below Deck.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Remains of a primitive human species known as Homo erectus have been found in Europe dating back to 1.4 million years ago.\n\nA big freeze previously unknown to science drove early humans from Europe for 200,000 years, but they adapted and returned, new research shows.\n\nOcean sediments from 1.1 million years ago show temperatures suddenly dropped more than 5C, scientists say.\n\nThey say our early ancestors couldn't have survived as they didn't have heating or warm clothes.\n\nUntil now, the consensus had been that humans had existed in Europe continuously for 1.5 million years.\n\nEvidence for the big freeze is found in sediments in the seabed off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal. Layers are deposited each year which are a record of sea conditions of that period. They also contain pollen grains which are a record of vegetation on the land.\n\nResearchers at the IBS Centre for Climate Physics in Busan, in South Korea, ran computer model simulations using data from the sediments. They found that average winter temperatures plummeted in many areas in Europe well below freezing, even in the otherwise milder Mediterranean.\n\nA drop of this magnitude may not seem too severe by today's standards, where most have access to some heating, warm clothing and food, but that was not the case back then, according to Prof Axel Timmermann, who is director of the group.\n\n\"Early humans were not yet well adapted to cope with such extreme conditions,\" he said. \"There is no direct evidence that they could even control fire at this time. Therefore, the extremely cold and dry conditions over Europe and the corresponding lack of food, must have greatly challenged human survival.\"\n\nThe oldest known human remains in Europe date back to about 1.4 million years ago and were recovered from what is now Spain. They suggest that a species of early humans known as Homo erectus, which originated in Africa, had arrived in Europe via southwest Asia at that time.\n\nProf Chronis Tzedakis of University College London, who led the research, turned to experts in early human settlements to see if the theory that the freeze had pushed them out of Europe was borne out by the fossil and archaeological evidence.\n\nFollowing a thorough review, they found that there were human remains dating back to as recently as 1.1 million years ago in Spain, then a gap until about 900,000 years ago, from which period stone tools and footprints in ancient clays have been found in Happisburgh in Norfolk, England.\n\nBecause of the missing fossil evidence, it is unclear what species of humans were in Happisburgh, but later remains in other parts of Europe suggest they may have been a more advanced species called Homo antecessor.\n\nThe footprints on Happisburgh beach are possibly those of a family in search of food\n\nThe big freeze was over by the time early humans walked in Happisburgh were but it was still cold - cooler than it is in that part of Europe today. According to Prof Nick Ashton of the British Museum, it's thought that those early humans had adapted enough to cope with the colder conditions to be able to come and stay in Europe.\n\n\"It may have triggered evolutionary changes in humans, such as increased body fat as insulation, or increased hair,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It may also have led to technological developments such as improved hunting or scavenging skills, and abilities to create more effective clothing and shelters.\"\n\nIt may have been these advances that enabled humans to cope with succeeding periods of extreme cold and occupy parts of Europe continuously ever since, according to Prof Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum.\n\n\"Europe was a laboratory for human adaptation,\" he said.\n\n\"A more resilient species came back into Europe either because they learned how to survive better, or it was a different species that had more sophisticated behaviours that enabled them to adapt.\"\n\nThe Happisburgh species of humans might have evolved into the Neanderthals, who were well established by 400,000 years ago.\n\nOur own species, Homo sapiens, is believed to have evolved in Africa by about 400,000 years ago. We were established in Europe by 42,000 years ago, co-existing briefly with Neanderthals before they went extinct about 40,000 years ago.", "Several popular landmarks in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui are reduced to rubble after a wildfire cost the lives of dozens of people.", "Repairs have still not been completed on the house\n\nA man who was forced to leave his home after it began to subside has been unable to return seven years on.\n\nEdward Collins moved out of his home in Cockett, Swansea, in April 2016 but multiple delays with the insurance firm mean he is still not home.\n\nThe insurance firm told him it would take a year, but decided to demolish and rebuild after further inspections.\n\nInsurance firm Saga said it was a \"complex case\", and the contractors have not responded to the BBC.\n\nHe has now been told he must leave his temporary accommodation by September.\n\nSubsidence is when the ground beneath a house sinks, causing problems with the foundations of the building.\n\n\"I've had seven years of one problem after the next,\" said Mr Collins. \"The whole thing is disorganised, they don't seem to talk to one another.\"\n\nAfter writing twice to the chief executive of the insurance company, Mr Collins said the council came to the site this March, along with the contractors.\n\nHe said he was promised the work would be done \"no problem\" by the end of July for him to move in August.\n\nEdward Collins says the whole project has been hit with multiple delays\n\n\"They gave me their word but I still haven't ordered the furnishings and I'm assuming there's going to be lead times on those,\" he said.\n\nThe situation has been further complicated after the landlord of the temporary accommodation has told Edward he must move out by September.\n\n\"If they don't do it within five weeks I've got to move on again,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know where I'm going to go, I don't know what's going to happen.\"\n\nAs a semi-detached property it also affects his neighbour Colin Lewis as well who said workers \"come and go as they please\", adding some weeks they do not turn up at all.\n\nColin Lewis also wants his neighbour's house to be completed as the skip and cabin also cause access issues to his house\n\nMr Lewis said, \"the workers themselves are kind enough when they are here\" and often help him get out of his driveway, which has blind spots caused by the skip and cabin on the road outside.\n\nHowever the \"waiting and waiting\" has impacted his life too.\n\n\"I just want to see the back of them just like Edward wants to see the back of them,\" he added.\n\nThe mess caused meant he was reluctant to do any work on his property, meaning he has had to put off his own house improvements twice.\n\n\"I'm waiting to replace the windows and the door, I've actually ordered them, they've asked me when they can start work but I've said until the work has finished next door I don't want anything done.\"\n\nThe skip and cabin outside Edward's house\n\nSaga said it was \"extremely sorry Mr Collins is not yet in his new home\".\n\nIt added it had been a \"complex and extremely unusual insurance claim\" with issues such as \"supply chain disruption\".\n\nIt apologised Mr Collins for the \"considerable inconvenience and frustration caused\".\n\nThe contractors Camilleri Construction Ltd were also contacted but have not responded.", "\"We start early in Year 10 and then we can build up our confidence... and in Year 11 we can just smash them out,\" says Mason\n\nStudents at Bryn y Deryn Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) in Cardiff are among thousands of young people getting their exam results in the next two weeks.\n\nAt the PRU, they try to make sure young people who were disengaged from education leave with qualifications, and are ready for more study or a job.\n\nUnlike other schools, exams are held not in a hall but small groups in class, and students get extra help.\n\nPupils will receive their GCSE results on 24 August.\n\nBefore that, results for A-levels and vocational qualifications will be published.\n\nWe visited Bryn y Deryn on the day of a maths GCSE exam in June, when most pupils in the PRU for 14 to 16-year-olds were sitting the paper.\n\nMason, 15, who sat the exam a year early to get some practice before next summer, said: \"I'm happy with myself I tried my best, that's all I can do.\n\n\"We start early in Year 10 and then we can build up our confidence in exams and in Year 11 we can just smash them out then and get them done - it's just so much easier.\"\n\nSince joining the unit, Megan's predicted grades have gone up from Fs to Bs and Cs\n\nHe has been at Bryn y Deryn since the start of the year after what he describes as \"constant silly behaviour\" in his previous school. But things have improved here.\n\n\"I feel like I can act myself - I can ask for help when I need it and if I'm ever struggling or need anything I know I'm more than welcome to ask the teachers and they're always there to help.\n\n\"I want to get my grades - I just want to be happy, stay in school and get on with what I'm doing now.\"\n\nThe unit supports students who have left mainstream schools because they were excluded or at risk of it.\n\nThe other half of the 90-pupil site supports young people who have not been going to school because of anxiety or other emotional and mental health reasons.\n\nExam days require a huge amount of team effort from staff, says exams coordinator and deputy head Hannah Smith\n\nMegan, 16, is at the end of her two years at Bryn y Deryn which she said had been \"better for my anxiety and coping in general in school\".\n\n\"It's helped me progress my education a lot because in my old school, I was predicted Fs and stuff - now I'm predicted Cs and Bs.\"\n\nThe verdict after sitting the maths papers was that it \"went all right - it was a bit difficult, but I managed to do it\".\n\n\"Hopefully I'm going to get that better grade than my last one,\" she added.\n\nNearly all of the unit's learners need extra support for exams, which means running the timetable is a major operation. Some get more time to do the exam, while others get the help of a reader to explain anything they do not understand.\n\nLishamarie said in her old school she \"got everything wrong, but here I get some of it right and some of it wrong\"\n\n\"It's a big exam today,\" said exams coordinator and deputy head Hannah Smith. \"Every single room in the school will be used and every single adult will be involved in the exam in some way.\"\n\n\"Everybody's involved - it's a huge amount of teamwork on the part of the staff and it's important that we support the learners to get the best results they can get,\" she said.\n\nEven getting some learners to come to school for their exams can be a minor victory. For the maths exam, staff are at the gates to welcome pupils into the behaviour section of the school and some need encouragement to enter the building.\n\nHead teacher Fiona Simpson says students are entered for exams more than once during the two years to help build exam skills\n\nBefore the exam started, one pupil used the trampoline in the playground to calm his emotions before starting the paper.\n\nYear 10 pupil Lishamarie, 15, was \"nervous but excited\", adding: \"I love maths - I absolutely love it.\"\n\nShe can ask for support from staff members if she struggles to read anything in the paper.\n\n\"I'm getting more support here than I did in my old school\", she said. \"I'm way happier. In my old school I got everything wrong but here I get some of it right and some of it wrong,\" she added with a smile.\n\nAll pupils study GCSE art as it has a calming effect, one teacher says\n\nThere's a year to go before she finishes her GCSEs and this summer's results will not be her final try. She hopes for Cs and higher but \"if I get anything above an E then I'll be fine\".\n\nAll learners do GCSE art, explained art and design teacher Kath Miles, with its \"therapeutic\" and \"calming\" effect working well. \"It's not necessarily about the qualification and whether they can paint or draw.\"\n\nArt is \"not necessarily about the qualification and whether they can paint or draw,\" says art and design teacher Kath Miles\n\nDeveloping confidence and social skills are important along with getting \"the maximum amount of qualifications,\" said headteacher Fiona Simpson.\n\nLearners are entered for exams more than once during the two years.\n\n\"Because sitting your most important exams on the same day, in the same week, all across the country isn't going to work for everyone.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A well-known Norwegian mountaineer has denied accusations that her team climbed over an injured guide during a bid to break a world record.\n\nThe porter, named as Mohammed Hassan, had fallen off a ledge on Pakistan's K2 - the world's second-highest mountain.\n\nVideo on social media appears to show a group walking by Mr Hassan, who reportedly died a few hours later.\n\nBut Kristin Harila told the BBC she and her team tried everything to help him in dangerous conditions.\n\n\"It's a tragic accident... here is a father and son and a husband who lost his life that day on K2. I think that's very, very sad that it ended this way,\" she said.\n\nThe Norwegian was heading for K2's summit to secure a world record and become the fastest climber to scale all peaks above 8,000m (26,000ft).\n\nDuring the ascent on 27 July, Mr Hassan reportedly fell from an extremely narrow path known as a bottleneck.\n\nTwo climbers from Austria, Philip Flämig and Wilhelm Steindl, have posted pictures appearing to show people climbing over him. It is unclear what point of the incident the images purport to show.\n\nThe pair were also on the mountain that day, but had cancelled their ascent because of dangerous weather conditions and an avalanche. They had been filming for a documentary about Mr Steindl's attempt to reach the summit.\n\nAs their camera display was small, they say they only saw the details of what their drone captured the next day.\n\n\"We saw a guy alive, lying in the traverse in the bottleneck. And people were stepping over him on the way to the summit. And there was no rescue mission.,\" Mr Steindl told the BBC.\n\n\"I was really shocked. And I was really sad. I started to cry about the situation that people just passed him and there was no rescue mission\n\nMr Hassan was being treated by one person \"while everyone else\" moved towards the summit in a \"heated, competitive summit rush\", Mr Flämig told Austria's Der Standard newspaper.\n\nMs Harila, however, has denied the accusations that Mr Hassan was left to die.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's The World Tonight programme, Ms Harila said members of her team tried to help Mr Hassan but it was \"not possible\" to get him back down the narrow route, which was crowded with other climbers.\n\nShe said Mr Hassan was \"not part of our team\" and she had not seen him fall, but that he had not been left alone once the larger group realised he was hurt.\n\nKristin Harila set a record to become the fastest climber to scale all peaks above 8,000m (26,000ft)\n\nMs Harila suggested there were questions to answer for the company that employed Mr Hassan - who was part of a \"fixing\" team sent ahead of the climbing group to secure ropes - because he appeared not to have an oxygen supply or suitable cold weather clothing.\n\nShe added: \"We were trying to save him, we did everything we could for many hours... it's a very, very narrow path.\n\n\"How are you going to climb and traverse and carry [a person]? It's not possible.\"\n\nIn an earlier Instagram post describing what happened, the Norwegian climber said she had been walking when she saw the other team Mr Hassan was part of a few metres ahead before the \"tragic accident\" happened.\n\nShe said no-one was to blame for his death, adding that she had decided to make the statement to stop the spread of \"misinformation and hatred\".\n\nMs Harila said she did not see exactly what took place, but the next thing she knew, Mr Hassan \"was hanging upside down\" on a rope between two ice anchors, with his harness \"all the way down around his knees. In addition, he was not wearing a down suit and his stomach was exposed to snow\".\n\nHer team tried for an hour-and-a-half to fasten a rope to the guide and give him oxygen and hot water, she recounted, until \"an avalanche went off around the corner\".\n\nHaving established her team were safe, she said she understood more help was coming and decided to move forward to avoid overcrowding on the bottleneck. Her cameraman stayed behind to help until he himself ran low on oxygen.\n\n\"It was only when we came back down that we saw Hassan had passed and we were ourselves in no shape to carry his body down.\"\n\nShe did not say if anyone was with the injured porter when her cameraman left, or when they passed his body upon their descent.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, stands at 8,611m (28,251ft) and is regarded as one of the most challenging and dangerous mountains to climb.\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been goading each other about the showdown since June\n\nA planned cage fight between tech leaders Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg could now take place in Italy, and have an ancient Rome theme.\n\nIn the story's latest twist, Italy's culture minister on Friday said that he had spoken to Mr Musk about hosting the showdown as a charity event.\n\nThe billionaire CEOs of Tesla and Meta (formerly Facebook) have been goading each other into the fight since June.\n\nIf it goes ahead, millions are expected to be donated to children's hospitals.\n\nHowever, Mr Zuckerberg has said no date has been agreed so far.\n\nDetailing his vision on social media platform X (previously known as Twitter), Mr Musk said he had spoken to both Italy's prime minister and its culture minister.\n\n\"They have agreed on an epic location,\" he wrote. \"Everything in camera frame will be ancient Rome, so nothing modern at all.\"\n\nHowever the capital Rome, and its iconic Colosseum - where legendary Gladiator fights were held in ancient times - have been ruled out.\n\nItaly's Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said in a statement that the \"great charity\" event would resonate with the country's historical significance while also preserving its cultural heritage.\n\n\"I had a long and friendly conversation with Elon Musk, we talked about our shared passion for ancient Roman history,\" Mr Sangiuliano said in a statement.\n\n\"We are thinking about how to organise a great charity and historical evocation event, respecting, and fully protecting the setting... It will not take place in Rome.\"\n\nMr Sangiuliano also said that a \"substantial amount, many millions of euros\" is expected to be donated to two Italian children's hospitals as a result of hosting the cage match.\n\nWriting on Threads, the platform seen as a direct competitor to X, which he launched last month, Mark Zuckerberg said he has \"been ready to fight since the day Elon challenged me\", and if a date was ever agreed, \"you'll hear it from me\".\n\n\"Until then, please assume anything he says has not been agreed on.\"\n\nSeeming to take a dig at the floated plans, Mr Zuckerberg said that when he competes, he wants \"to do it in a way that puts a spotlight on the elite athletes at the top of the game\".\n\n\"You do that by working with professional (organisations) like the UFC or ONE [mixed martial arts organisations] to pull this off well and create a great card,\" he said.\n\nElon Musk, 52, and Mark Zuckerberg, 39 are two of the world's most high-profile technology billionaires.\n\nThe bizarre idea to fight each other started in June, when Mr Musk tweeted that he was \"up for a cage fight\" with Mr Zuckerberg.\n\nThe Meta CEO, who already has mixed martial arts (MMA) training and has recently won jiu-jitsu tournaments, simply responded with \"send me location\".", "The findings come from the US muon g-2 experiment\n\nScientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature.\n\nThey have found more evidence that sub-atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of sub-atomic physics.\n\nScientists believe that an unknown force could be acting on the muons.\n\nMore data will be needed to confirm these results, but if they are verified, it could mark the beginning of a revolution in physics.\n\nAll of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. These four fundamental forces govern how all the objects and particles in the Universe interact with each other.\n\nThe findings have been made at a US particle accelerator facility called Fermilab. They build on results announced in 2021 in which the Fermilab team first suggested the possibility of a fifth force of nature.\n\nSince then, the research team has gathered more data and reduced the uncertainty of their measurements by a factor of two, according to Dr Brendan Casey, a senior scientist at Fermilab.\n\n\"We're really probing new territory. We're determining the (measurements) at a better precision than it has ever been seen before.\"\n\nIn an experiment with the catchy name 'g minus two (g-2)' the researchers accelerate the sub-atomic particles called muons around a 15m-diameter ring, where they are circulated about 1,000 times at nearly the speed of light. The researchers found that they might be behaving in a way that can't be explained by the current theory, which is called the Standard Model, because of the influence of a new force of nature.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scientists say they have found \"strong evidence\" for the existence of a new force of nature\n\nAlthough the evidence is strong, the Fermilab team hasn't yet got conclusive proof.\n\nThey had hoped to have it by now, but uncertainties in what the standard model says the amount of wobbling in muons should be, has increased, because of developments in theoretical physics.\n\nIn essence, the goal posts have been moved for the experimental physicists.\n\nBased on a 2,700-hectare site near Chicago, Fermilab is America's premier particle physics lab\n\nThe researchers believe that they will have the data they need, and that the theoretical uncertainty will have narrowed in two years' time sufficiently for them to get their goal. That said, a rival team at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is hoping to get there first.\n\nDr Mitesh Patel from Imperial College London is among the thousands of physicists at the LHC attempting to find flaws in the Standard Model. He told BBC News that the first people to find experimental results at odds with the standard model would be one of the all time breakthroughs in physics.\n\n\"Measuring behaviour that doesn't agree with the predictions of the Standard Model is the holy grail for particle physics. It would fire the starting-gun for a revolution in our understanding because the model has withstood all experimental tests for more than 50 years.\"\n\nFermilab says that its next set of results will be \"the ultimate showdown\" between theory and experiment that may uncover new particles or forces.\n\nScientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe are also in the race to find inconsistencies with the Standard Model\n\nSo what is the Standard Model and why is getting an experimental result that doesn't quite fit in with its predictions such a big deal?\n\nEverything in the world around us is made from atoms - which in turn are made from even smaller particles. These interact to create the four forces of nature: electricity and magnetism (electromagnetism), two nuclear forces and gravity.\n\nTheir behaviour is predicted by the standard model, and for fifty years it has predicted their behaviour perfectly, with no errors whatsoever.\n\nMuons are similar to electrons which orbit atoms and are responsible for electrical currents, but they are about 200 times as massive.\n\nIn the experiment they were made to wobble, using powerful, superconducting magnets.\n\nGalaxies are accelerating apart from each other faster than predicted by the Standard Model\n\nThe results showed that the muons wobbled faster than the standard model said it should. Prof Graziano Venanzoni, of Liverpool University, who is one of the leading researchers on the project, told BBC News that this might be caused by an unknown new force.\n\n\"We think there could be another force, something that we are not aware of now. It is something different, which we call the 'fifth force'.\n\n\"It is something different, something we don't know about yet, but it should be important, because it says something new about the Universe.\"\n\nIf confirmed, this would represent arguably one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs for a hundred years, since Einstein's theories of relativity. That is because a fifth force and any particles associated with it are not part of the Standard Model of particle physics.\n\nResearchers know that there is what they describe as \"physics beyond the Standard Model\" out there, because the current theory can't explain lots of things that astronomers observe in space.\n\nThese include the fact that galaxies are continuing to accelerate apart after the Big Bang that created the Universe, rather than the expansion slowing down. Scientists say the acceleration is being driven by an unknown force, called dark energy.\n\nGalaxies are also spinning faster than they should, according to our understanding of how much material is in them. Researchers believe it's because of invisible particles called dark matter, which again are not part of the Standard Model.\n\nThe results have been published in the Journal Physical Review Letters.\n• None 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature", "The Rohingya were fleeing the Rakhine capital, Sittwe\n\nThe bodies of 23 Rohingyas who were fleeing Myanmar's Rakhine state have been recovered after their boat sank.\n\nThirty others are still missing, while eight people are reported to have survived the accident.\n\nThe survivors said they were trying to reach Malaysia when their boat carrying more than 50 passengers foundered and was abandoned by its crew on Sunday.\n\nEvery year thousands of Rohingyas attempt the perilous sea journey to Malaysia or Indonesia.\n\nThey are escaping persecution in Myanmar and overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh. Those who died this week include 13 women and 10 men, all Rohingya Muslims, a rescue team told BBC Burmese.\n\nThe Muslim Rohingyas are an ethnic minority in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. Many of them fled to Bangladesh in 2017 to escape a campaign of what the UN has described as a possible genocide launched by the Burmese military. Those remaining in Myanmar too have been trying to flee since the military coup in 2021.\n\nSurvivors of the boat sinking this week recall being struck by a large wave near Rakhine's capital, Sittwe.\n\nThey say the smugglers, who had been paid around $4,000 (£3,153) per person for the journey to Malaysia, then abandoned the boat. The bodies of the victims have been picked up by other boats, or washed up on the beach.\n\nThe long journey across the Andaman Sea in overcrowded fishing boats is always dangerous, but especially at this time of the year, at the peak of the monsoon storm season.\n\nMost Rohingyas attempt to cross between the months of October and May.\n\nThey are willing to take the risk - and often sell their only assets, such as land, to fund the trip - because of the unrelentingly grim conditions in which they are forced to live, either as refugees in appallingly crowded camps over the border in Bangladesh, or subjected to discrimination and restrictions on their movement in Myanmar.", "Jay Humphries was jailed for eight years and eight months in 2018 after being convicted of rape and actual bodily harm\n\nA convicted rapist has been jailed for 58 weeks for breaching a sex offender's order after his release from prison.\n\nJay Humphries, 36, admitted he had used an unapproved username on a dating site and deleted his internet history.\n\nHumphries, the son of Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford, was sentenced to more than eight years in 2018 under his old name, Jonathan Drakeford.\n\nJudge Timothy Petts told Caernarfon Crown Court there was \"a very real risk\" he would reoffend if on licence.\n\nHumphries was released on licence in January and was staying in approved premises when the Sexual Harm Prevention Order breaches came to light in March.\n\nHe had been given permission to use the social dating site Fab Guys by the police, but only with an agreed name and password that would allow officers to monitor his activity.\n\nInstead, he used an unapproved username - naughty 5007387.\n\nOfficers also found in March his internet browser history had been deleted.\n\nHe had been warned earlier in 2023 about deleting text messages and judge Petts told him it was a \"warning you didn't heed\".\n\nHumphries' online activity included sexually explicit content but nothing illegal, the court was told.\n\nThe defendant appeared in court via a video link from HMP Berwyn.\n\nA previous hearing heard that he had been recalled to prison in May after other breaches of his release licence, including leaving an abusive phone message for a probation officer.\n\nIn 2018, Humphries was given an eight-year and eight-month sentence after being found guilty of rape and inflicting actual bodily harm.\n\nHe also admitted to a child sexual offence after messaging a girl on Facebook who he thought was 15.\n\nAt the time of Humphries' conviction, Mr Drakeford said it had been a \"distressing period\" for his family, adding that \"our thoughts are with all those caught up in it, especially the victim\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: how do you sign 'carbon footprint' in BSL?\n\nFor deaf children, teachers and scientists, talking about things like \"greenhouse gases\" or \"carbon footprint\" used to mean spelling out long, complex scientific terms, letter by letter.\n\nNow they are among 200 environmental science terms that have their own new official signs in British Sign Language (BSL).\n\nThe deaf scientists and sign language experts behind the update hope the new vocabulary will make it possible for deaf people to fully participate in discussions about climate change, whether it's in the science lab or classroom.\n\n\"We're trying to create the perfect signs that visualise scientific concepts,\" explains Dr Audrey Cameron.\n\nDr Cameron, who is profoundly deaf, leads the sign language project at Edinburgh University, which has just added the new terms to the BSL dictionary.\n\nShe described how, in her own scientific career, a lack of vocabulary meant she was excluded from important meetings and conversations.\n\n\"I was involved in research for 11 years and went to numerous meetings but was never was truly involved because I couldn't understand what people were saying,\" she told BBC News. \"I wanted to talk with people about chemistry and I just wasn't able to.\"\n\nGlasgow-based biology teacher Liam McMulkin has also been involved in the sign-creation workshops, hosted by the Scottish Sensory Centre. \"The beauty of sign language - particularly for science - is that it's a visual language,\" he explained.\n\n\"Some of the concepts are abstract, but sign language can really help children to understand them.\"\n\nMr McMulkin used the sign for \"photosynthesis\" as an example, which uses one flat hand-shape to represent a leaf, while projecting the fingers - like the sun's rays - from other hand.\n\n\"When I do this [move the sun hand towards the leaf hand], you can see that the energy is being absorbed by the leaf,\" he explained.\n\nThe science glossary project, funded in part by the Royal Society, has been running since 2007 and has added about 7,000 new signs to BSL.\n\nThe signs have been created to support deaf children in schools\n\nDescribing the process by which signs are developed, Dr Cameron explained: \"We take a list of terms from the school curriculum and then work together to come up with something accurate but also visual of the meaning.\"\n\nThe newest signs are themed around biodiversity, ecosystems, the physical environment and pollution. There is an online video video glossary demonstrating the terms.\n\nThe glossary is designed to support deaf children in schools. And as 13-year-old Melissa, a deaf student at a mainstream school in Glasgow explained: \"they really help you understand what's happening.\"\n\nMelissa showed me the difference between laboriously finger-spelling greenhouse gases (G-R-E-E-N-H-O-U-S-E G-A-S-E-S), and using the new sign that includes moving her closed fists around like gas molecules in the air.\n\n\"With the sign I can see something is happening with the gas,\" she said.\n\nMr McMulkin, who is Melissa's science teacher and is also profoundly deaf, added that hearing people were \"constantly learning and acquiring knowledge\" wherever they go, \"but deaf people miss out on so much information\".\n\nDeaf scientists develop the new signs in workshops\n\n\"That's why it's so important to use sign language in science lessons in schools,\" he said. \"It allows deaf children to learn in their natural language.\"\n\nDr Cameron also highlighted the value in education of depicting intricate scientific concepts in hand movements - for both hearing and deaf children.\n\nDr Cameron recalled observing a class in which five-year-olds were learning about how things float or sink. \"They were learning about how things that are less dense will float, which is quite complex,\" she explained. \"And the teacher was using the sign for 'density'.\"\n\nThe sign explains that concept by using one closed fist and wrapping the other hand around it - squeezing and releasing to represent different densities.\n\n\"I thought - these five-year-olds are not going to get this. But some time after the end of the lesson, they were asked a question about why things float or sink and they all used the sign for density,\" Dr Cameron said.\n\n\"So I've seen how much of an impact this can have. And my passion has just grown as the glossary has grown.\"\n\nProf Jeremy Sanders, chair of the Royal Society diversity and inclusion committee, said: \"We hope these new signs will inspire and empower the next generation of BSL-using students and allow practising scientists to share their vital work with the world.\"\n\nHear more about the mission to create this visual vocabulary on Radio 4's Inside Science on BBC Sounds", "Drivers have begun a series of 24-hour strikes at the manufacturer of Scottish fizzy drink Irn-Bru.\n\nThe first of nine planned walkouts is taking place at AG Barr's production and distribution centre in Cumbernauld.\n\nUnite represents 11 trucker and shunter drivers who work for the company. They will be taking part in strikes between 11 August and 6 October.\n\nAG Barr said it had made a pay offer it believed was \"fair and competitive\".\n\nA ballot was held after Unite members rejected a 5% pay deal. Strike action was backed by 83% of members and the series of walkouts was confirmed in July.\n\nPickets are in place outside the main entrance to the Cumbernauld plant, which despatches 1,000 pallets of their drinks to customers each day.\n\nAn AG Barr spokesman said production would not be disrupted by the drivers' strike and contingency plans had been put in place to to maintain normal levels of service.\n\nHe added: \"The strike is not expected to have any material impact on service.\"\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said: \"AG Barr can afford to pay its trucker and shunter drivers far more than the penny-pinching pay cut currently on offer.\n\n\"The drivers are absolutely essential to supplies, including Irn-Bru.\n\n\"The company is cash rich with £52.9m chilling in the bank. We will back our members all the way in their fight for better jobs, pay and conditions.\"\n\nDespite talks through the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas), Unite confirmed that AG Barr had refused to move beyond a 5% pay offer for 2023.\n\nUnite said this was a \"significant real-terms pay cut\", saying the broader cost-of-living measurement (RPI) was currently 10.7%.\n\nThe multi-beverage business increased its revenue by 18.2% to £317.6m for the year to 29 January 2023.\n\nAG Barr increased its adjusted profit before tax to £43.5m, and due to strong revenue generation, it reported a net cash position of £52.9m.\n\nAndy Brown, Unite industrial officer, said: \"Unite's members have no option but to take strike action because AG Barr stubbornly refuses to give its loyal workforce a fair share of its sparkling profits.\n\n\"AG Barr's stinginess has escalated this dispute when it could have been easily resolved with a fair pay offer.\"\n\nA spokesperson for AG Barr, said: \"We're disappointed in the decision by 11 of our Scottish based HGV1 drivers, represented by Unite the union, to take industrial action.\n\n\"We made a pay offer that we believe is fair and competitive - in line with what has been agreed with our other employees.\n\n\"We believe we have a responsibility to be fair to everyone.\n\n\"We have contingency plans in place to maintain customer service and we will continue to work with Unite representatives and Acas to find a positive and constructive resolution.\"", "Many schools want children to wear uniforms branded with the school logo\n\nAs the summer holidays draw to a close, some parents feel under pressure to buy sweatshirts, blazers and gym bags embroidered with their school's emblem.\n\n\"The school likes you to have the logo,\" says mother-of-two Mhairi.\n\nShe says she has bought cheaper items from supermarkets and has some hand-me-down items for her primary school-age children.\n\n\"I've still managed to spend almost £100 at the official school shop just to buy a cardigan, four polo shirts and the PE kit,\" Mhairi says.\n\n\"Someone has given me a blazer this year, which means that I don't have to spend the £80 or £90 which some other people are paying.\"\n\nLocal councils and individual schools decide on uniform policy at a local level - with no legal requirement in Scotland to wear it.\n\nMhairi says parents feel pressured into buying items embroidered with the school logo\n\nBut Mhairi, who lives in West Dunbartonshire, says parents still feel pressured into buying items embroidered with the school logo from suppliers suggested by schools.\n\n\"It makes me feel a wee bit nervous as a parent that someone might judge my parenting or judge my child for not looking quite as smart as everybody else,\" she says.\n\n\"I know from experience where my child's gone in with the yellow supermarket polo shirt with no logo on it, and I think it does look a little bit shabby.\"\n\nWith the price of an embroidered polo shirt at £12, Mhairi says she can buy eight unbranded ones for the same price.\n\nShe says it is tempting to opt for the cheaper items.\n\n\"If you spent £20 on a jumper and it goes missing in the first week, it's quite upsetting as a parent,\" Mhairi says.\n\n\"That has happened before.\"\n\nSara Spencer from the Child Poverty Action Group encouraged all schools to consider the cost associated with branded uniforms\n\nSchool clothing grants are available through local authorities in Scotland for those on the lowest incomes.\n\nThis is at least £120 per child of primary school age and £150 per child of secondary school age.\n\nThose on certain benefits may also be able to claim a Best Start Grant School Age Payment of £294.70 to help with the costs of a child starting primary 1.\n\nSara Spencer, from the Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland (CPAG), says this is a huge help for some but there are lots of families on a low income who are not eligible and still struggle with the costs associated with school clothing.\n\n\"Parents say that if the school is asking for you to purchase something, they're going to go to the ends of the earth to be able to do that\", she says.\n\n\"They cut corners on other essentials.\"\n\nMs Spencer says lots of schools are aware of the challenges that parents are facing.\n\nThey are trying to make school uniform more affordable, she says, and some are getting rid of the need for branded items entirely.\n\nHashim Ahmed says parents want their kids to look nice and look professional when they go to school\n\nHashim Ahmed and his family have sold school-branded uniforms in the Greater Glasgow area for more than 30 years - with stores in East Kilbride and Newton Means.\n\n\"We regularly have grandparents coming in to buy uniforms for their grandchildren at the same store that they bought their own children's,\" he says.\n\nThe Blossoms School Wear owner says that although his products are more expensive, they last longer.\n\n\"We do focus on ensuring that our school uniform lasts the year as opposed to parents having to come in say at Christmas and New Year time and purchase more.\"\n\nThe supplier embroiders school logos in-house on a range of products including jumpers, sweatshirts, polo shirts and school bags.\n\n\"There's a lot of emphasis from the schools that they would like the uniform to be worn.\n\n\"A lot of parents do choose to have it because they want their children to be part of an educational environment where they're the same as the person next to them.\n\n\"They want their kids to look nice and look professional when they go to school.\"\n\nIzzie Eriksen from Apparel Xchange is asking parents to think sustainably when kitting out their kids\n\nThere are various schemes offered by schools and charities across the country to help with the cost of going back to school such as uniform banks, blazer hiring and sharing second-hand items with others.\n\nIn Glasgow city centre, rails and rails of preloved kid's clothing hang in a huge warehouse run by social enterprise, Apparel Xchange.\n\nThe group promotes the reuse, repair & recycling of clothing - including school uniforms.\n\nIt sells official logo-branded items for a fraction of the original cost.\n\n\"They sell like hot cakes,\" says Izzie Eriksen, the managing director.\n\n\"They're really popular because they're so much cheaper than actually buying them new.\"\n\nLike CPAG, the organisation is a member of the Scottish government's working group on school uniforms.\n\nThe Scottish government says it will issue new guidance for schools before the start of the school term in August next year.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise that many families are facing real hardship as a result of the cost of living crisis and so more needs to be done to make uniforms more affordable.\n\n\"That is why we will be introducing new guidance on school uniforms based on what we have heard from a recent consultation.\"", "Junior doctors in England are starting their fifth round of strike action with no sign of a breakthrough in their bitter pay dispute with the government.\n\nThe doctors' union, the BMA, made headlines earlier this year when it said pay had fallen so far behind inflation that its members would be better off serving coffee than treating patients. The government described that as misleading and said the average junior doctor earns between £20 and £30 an hour.\n\nIn reality, that term - junior doctor - covers someone fresh out of medical school right up to those with a decade or more of experience. And pay is complicated, with salaries varying massively as medics move up grades when they become more skilled and start to specialise.\n\nBBC News asked two junior doctors, at different stages of their careers, to show us their wage slips and explain exactly how much they earn.\n\nDr Robert Gittings graduated from medical school in Liverpool after studying for a master's in infectious disease biology.\n\nLast summer, he started his first, or FY1, year as a junior doctor in London and is currently working on the infectious diseases ward as part of his rotation - where doctors get experience in different types of medicine.\n\n\"In my hospital, we have a lot of tuberculosis patients, patients with uncontrolled HIV, and we also get pneumonias and, sometimes, we get a tropical infection coming in,\" he says.\n\nRobert is paid a basic salary before tax of about £2,450 a month for a standard 40-hour week - or just over £14 an hour. Then there are additional roster hours - which are compulsory - taking his average working week to 48 hours.\n\nUnder what the government calls a \"final offer\", his pay will go up in October in two ways: a straight 6% pay rise and £1,250 permanently added to annual salaries - both backdated to April.\n\nBut that falls well short of the 35% increase for which the BMA has been asking to make up for years of below-inflation rises.\n\nFor Robert, the latest pay offer would be worth roughly £250 a month before tax.\n\nHe also receives extra payments each month:\n\n\"Sometimes night shifts can be really busy,\" he says. \"There have been times when I've had to manage a patient by myself who is deteriorating, and I have to do everything for them, just with advice over text message.\"\n\nJunior doctors like Robert typically spend five or six years in medical school before starting their jobs.\n\nHe says he graduated with about £50,000 of debt including tuition fees and - in June - paid back £75 in student loans from his salary.\n\nThere are other deductions including £257 - or 9.8% of his wages - for a pension, with the NHS contributing 20.6% under the latest career average scheme, more than most private sector pensions.\n\nIn June, Robert took home a total of £2,164 after tax and deductions. That works out as a total annual salary of roughly £37,000.\n\nHe says he is now looking to take a year out to work abroad - probably in Australia. \"I'm not confident the pay here is going to improve as much as I'd like it to,\" he says. \"I would really quite strongly consider staying [there].\"\n\nDr Kiran Rahim qualified from medical school in 2011 and now treats sick children as a paediatric registrar - one of the most experienced junior doctor grades.\n\n\"I was at work yesterday and it was really, really busy,\" she says. \"I was managing A&E - so taking in all the paediatric referrals, all the sick kids who needed to be seen.\n\n\"And then managing the acute stay ward, making sure the children were getting their treatment, accessing and booking scans for them.\"\n\nKiran has taken three years out to have children herself, and is now working part-time while she looks after her young family, meaning her training - and her time as a junior doctor - has been \"elongated\".\n\nFor an average three-day week, she is paid a basic salary before tax of roughly £3,315 a month - or just under £28 an hour - which is the same rate as a full-time doctor. Like Robert, she also receives London weighting.\n\nIn July, she was paid another £292 for night shifts and £132 for working one weekend in every six or seven.\n\nShe says the \"vast majority\" of junior doctors at her level end up working extra unpaid hours before they can go home at the end of the day.\n\n\"I can't just leave a sick patient because it's unsafe, and it's not fair on the people who are already fighting fire on the next shift,\" she adds.\n\nAs evidenced by her payslip, Kiran did pay more tax than usual in July after she says she worked extra shifts earlier this year to cover staff sickness - that money should be refunded later by HMRC.\n\nShe has just finished paying off her student loan, although she says - like other junior doctors - there are unavoidable costs which do not show up on her payslip.\n\nShe pays £433 a year to the GMC to be on the doctors' register. There are charges to be a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and she has had to pay thousands of pounds in exam fees.\n\nPlus there is the cost of personal indemnity insurance - just under £700 a year - to protect her in case she is sued for medical negligence.\n\nIn a typical month, Kiran says she takes home around £2,400 after tax and deductions for a 27-hour week. If she was working full-time then she would earn a total annual salary of roughly £69,000.\n\n\"Pay is important but so are all the other things that make you want to go to work,\" she says. \"This is not the job I signed up to do 10 years ago and I have seen a decline in morale, in our working environment and in our working conditions.\"\n\nThe government says it has accepted the latest recommendations made by an independent pay review body and its most recent offer represents an 8.8% annual pay rise for the average junior doctor in England.\n\n\"Our award balances the need to keep inflation in check while recognising the important work they do,\" says Health Secretary Steve Barclay.\n\nAre you a doctor with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool have agreed a British record transfer fee of £111m with Brighton for midfielder Moises Caicedo.\n\nHowever, Chelsea are now trying to secure a deal for the Ecuador international despite Brighton rejecting a succession of bids from the club earlier in the summer.\n\nIt is thought the 21-year-old's preference would be to move to Stamford Bridge.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether the Blues will now match Liverpool's bid.\n\nBrighton had set a fee in excess of £100m for Caicedo and had said they felt no-one would reach it. Chelsea are believed to have bid £80m previously.\n• None Get Liverpool news, analysis and fan views sent straight to your phone\n• None Go straight to all the best Reds content\n\nSeagulls boss Roberto de Zerbi gave his thoughts on the transfer saga before Brighton take on Luton Town in their opening Premier League game on Saturday at 15:00 BST.\n\n\"I have already forgotten about Moises,\" De Zerbi told a news conference. \"I'm really proud of the players we have in the squad.\n\n\"We want to keep improving. The credit goes to the club. Bigger clubs can buy our players but they can't buy our soul or spirit.\n\n\"We are Brighton, we achieved a big target last year - the same as Liverpool, better than Chelsea. I would like players who are proud to play in Brighton.\"\n\nLiverpool lost midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho to the Saudi Pro League last month but signed Caicedo's Brighton team-mate Alexis Mac Allister in June for £35m.\n\nFormer Reds captain Henderson, 33, joined Al-Ettifaq in a deal worth £12m plus add-ons, while 29-year-old Brazilian Fabinho switched to Al-Ittihad for £40m.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said: \"I got told I can confirm a deal with [Brighton] is agreed.\n\n\"What did change is that we are a club with not endless resources, so things we didn't expect, a couple of things happening in the summer [Henderson and Fabinho], stuff like this.\n\n\"We didn't think about that before the summer and when it happened, we gave it a go and obviously, the club was really stretched there.\"\n\nKlopp said he \"didn't know\" whether Caicedo was due on Merseyside for a medical on Friday and added he was not sure whether this would be the Reds' final business in the transfer window.\n\nThe fee agreed for Caicedo exceeds the £107m Chelsea paid for Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez earlier this year. The Seagulls would also profit if Caicedo is sold by Liverpool because of a sell-on clause in his contract.\n\nCaicedo joined Brighton from Ecuadorian side Independiente del Valle for £4m in February 2021 although he did not make his Premier League debut until April 2022.\n\nHe asked to leave Brighton in the January transfer window earlier this year. Arsenal then had multiple offers turned down for Caicedo before the player signed a new contract with the Seagulls until 2027 in March.\n\nKlopp has been looking at various options to rebuild his squad after they finished fifth in the Premier League last season and failed to qualify for the Champions League.\n\nHowever, the price they are prepared to pay for Caicedo comes as a surprise, as in April, the club said they would not make a move for England midfielder Jude Bellingham because of the money involved.\n\nThe 20-year-old later joined Real Madrid in a deal that could reach 133.9m euros (£115m).\n\nSouthampton midfielder Romeo Lavia, 19, has also been on Klopp's list of potential transfers, but the Reds have seen three bids rejected by the Saints, who reportedly value the Belgian at £50m.\n\nWhile all the noise was around Chelsea's efforts to sign Caicedo, it is understood Reds chief executive Billy Hogan worked quietly behind the scenes to get this deal in place.\n\nBrighton had a figure they wanted for Caicedo - someone they believe could go on to become one of the world's best - and Hogan's approach allowed Liverpool to get there.\n\nIt may deliver to Klopp one of the most exciting talents in the Premier League - albeit at a fee that reflects that.\n\nAccording to Deloitte figures, if Liverpool signed Caicedo for £111m it would take this summer's Premier League spending to more than £1.6bn.\n\nThat is still below last year's record summer spend of £1.9bn - but is already the second highest, ahead of the £1.4bn spent in summer 2017.\n\nLast season's total transfer spend in summer 2022 and January 2023 was £2.4bn, according to Deloitte.\n\nThe Premier League transfer window closes on Friday, 1 September at 23:00 BST.\n\nKlopp has spoken previously about the huge sums of money involved in transfers and the implications it might have for the future of football.\n\nIn 2016, the German questioned spending £100m on a player after Manchester United re-signed France midfielder Paul Pogba for a then world record £89m.\n\n\"The day that this is football, I'm not in a job any more, because the game is about playing together,\" Klopp said.\n\n\"Other clubs can go out and spend more money and collect top players. I want to do it differently.\n\n\"I would even do it differently if I could spend that money.\"\n\nWhen asked about those comments during his news conference before Sunday's game against Chelsea, Klopp said: \"Everything changed. Do I like it? No. Did I realise I was wrong? Yes.\n\n\"I'm not blaming anyone but it's just the market. In the end, we as a club have to make sure that, with our resources, we get the best possible player.\n\n\"We aren't in a dreamland and can't just point at a player and get them to come in. Sometimes one door closes and another opens up.\n\n\"I said that day what I thought and now I realise I was wrong. Easy to admit that.\"\n\nIn April, Klopp compared talk of big-money transfers with \"a five-year-old asking for a Ferrari for Christmas\".\n\n\"We cannot have six players in a summer, everyone for £100m,\" he said.\n\n\"What we need and what we want, we try absolutely everything to get it, but there are moments when you have to accept that this or that is not possible for us - you step aside and do different stuff.\"\n\nWith Arsenal spending £105m on England midfielder Declan Rice and Klopp in desperate need of reinforcements, Liverpool have joined the clubs willing to go above the £100m mark in order to secure a top player.\n\n£111m fee agreed between Liverpool and Brighton for Caicedo not included as transfer not yet completed\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "A former environment secretary has revealed she failed to declare tens of thousands of pounds of shares she held in oil giant Shell while in the role.\n\nTory MP Theresa Villiers said she had held a stake in the firm worth over £70,000 since February 2018.\n\nBut she declared it only last month along with similar holdings in drinks giant Diageo and finance firm Experian.\n\nShe \"deeply regrets her failure to monitor the value of shareholdings\", a spokesman said.\n\nMPs are meant to declare all shareholdings worth over £70,000. The story first appeared in the Daily Mirror.\n\nHer spokesman added that it had not occurred to her that any of the stakes would pass the threshold but they did after she received a legacy in 2018.\n\nMs Villiers, MP for the London seat of Chipping Barnet, alerted the Commons authorities \"as soon as she realised this\", the spokesman said.\n\nHer latest declaration reveals she has held a stake worth more than £70,000 in Shell since February 2018.\n\nThis was more than a year before she was appointed to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) under Boris Johnson in July 2019, a role she held until February 2020.\n\nShe registered the stake on 17 July this year, along with stakes over the same amount in Diageo, also from February 2018, and Experian, from July 2019.\n\nOn the same day, she also registered a shareholding over the threshold in RIT Capital Partners, an investment trust.\n\nOn 2 August, she registered a fifth stake over the amount in Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, with records showing she held it between 6 and 20 July this year.\n\nThe spokesman for Ms Villiers said her shares were part of a professionally managed portfolio, for which she had \"never taken day-to-day investment decisions\".\n\nWhen Ms Villiers joined Defra, she told the department about her shares and offered to put them in a \"blind\" trust, where she would not have known how the money was invested, the spokesman said.\n\nHowever the prime minister's ethics adviser at the time, Sir Alex Allan, advised her this was unnecessary because \"the portfolio was managed for her and she did not take investment decisions\", he added.\n\n\"Nothing she did as [environment] secretary was influenced by any of these shareholdings,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe shareholdings she held during her time as environment secretary did not appear on the separate ministerial register of interests published during her time in the job.\n\n\"Nothing she has ever said or done as MP has been influenced by these shareholdings,\" he added, but she was \"taking steps to ensure that this never happens again\".\n\n\"She takes full responsibility for the mistake. She accepts that it should never have happened, and that she should have kept track of the additions to her investment portfolio,\" the spokesman added.\n\nAsked about the omission on Sky News, Chief Secretary to the Treasury John Glen described it as an \"oversight on her part\" and insisted the former minister has been \"very clear\" in apologising.\n\nMs Villiers entered Parliament in 2005 and was a rail minister for just over two years under David Cameron.\n\nShe was promoted to Northern Ireland secretary in 2012, a role she held until Mr Cameron's resignation after the Brexit referendum in 2016.\n\nShe returned to the cabinet in the environment role under Mr Johnson, but was reshuffled out of his cabinet nine months later.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane has arrived in Germany for a medical at Bayern Munich as he nears a move from Tottenham.\n\nBayern and Spurs agreed a deal worth more than 100m euros (£86.4m) for the 30-year-old on Thursday.\n\nThe decision to move was then left up to Kane, who is Tottenham's all-time top scorer with 280 goals in 435 appearances.\n\nSpurs boss Ange Postecoglou confirmed on Friday the deal is \"imminent\".\n\nKane had one year left on his contract and was unlikely to stay with the club.\n• None Get Tottenham news, analysis and fan views sent direct to your phone\n• None Go straight to all the best Spurs content\n\nProviding there are no unexpected issues, Kane's move will be completed in time to start the Bundesliga season next week.\n\nIt was felt the striker wanted a decision around his future made before the season began, but it has taken Bayern most of the summer to reach a point where Spurs chairman Daniel Levy was prepared to do a deal.\n\nKane had initially been linked with a move to Manchester United this summer, but it was unclear whether Levy would have been willing to sell him to another Premier League club.\n\nHe could have run down the final year of his contract before leaving on a free transfer in 2024.\n\nManchester City's attempt to sign Kane in 2021 prompted the England striker to delay his return for pre-season training, but he played on Tottenham's recent pre-season tour of Australia and South East Asia while negotiations with Bayern continued and last appeared on Sunday against Shakhtar Donetsk.\n\nSpurs will face Brentford in their first match of the season on Sunday while Bayern begin their campaign against RB Leipzig in the German Super Cup on Saturday.\n\nKane has won the Premier League Golden Boot three times - in 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2020-21 - and with 213 goals from 320 games in the English top-flight he needs just 48 more to break Alan Shearer's Premier League scoring record. A move to Germany could kill off that prospect.\n\nShearer posted on social media following Friday morning's news to joke it is time for Kane to move on from the Premier League, with the expected departure leaving the former Newcastle and Blackburn striker's tally of 260 top-flight goals safe for now.\n\nKane, who is England's all-time leading scorer with 58 international goals, has never won a major trophy with club or country.\n\nBayern Munich claimed their 33rd Bundesliga title last season - an 11th in a row - and have won the Champions League six times and German Cup on 20 occasions.\n\nIn a news conference on Friday, Postecoglou said that Kane had already \"made up his mind\" by the time the Australian took the manager job in June.\n\n\"I don't have a blow by blow account but my understanding is that it's progressed to a point where it's going to happen and a deal is imminent\" Postecoglou said.\n\n\"That at least gives us some clarity, unless something unforeseen happens - we move forward without Harry.\"\n\nThe Spurs boss also said that Kane had wanted a deal done before the start of the Premier League season and that plans were in place for his departure.\n\n\"I had a conversation with Harry the first day he arrived and he was up front and honest. I was the same,\" Postecoglou said.\n\n\"In my mind, after that initial conversation, it seemed like Harry had made up his mind that if the clubs could agree, he was going to go. If not, he was happy to stay.\n\n\"He was very professional about it and I tried to treat him with the respect that someone of his standing deserved.\"\n\nPostecoglou added that Kane will always be one of Spurs' \"greats\" and that his move will not change that.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Bayern boss Thomas Tuchel also faced the media and said his club were working with \"full pressure\" on the deal.\n\n\"We can confirm this, but as we speak there is no agreement yet and if there is no agreement yet then the coach cannot talk about someone who is not their player,\" Tuchel said.\n\n\"I understand there are a lot of ifs and whens. All options are open. The first is to have him as a player and at the moment he is not yet that.\n\n\"This is a big deal. We are trying to take the England captain away from the Premier League.\"\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nJune 2021: Kane is linked with a £160m move to Manchester City following speculation around his future.\n\nAugust 2021: City boss Pep Guardiola confirms the club's interest in the forward but later that month Kane says he will stay at Tottenham with Levy refusing to sell.\n\n15 June 2023: United pull out of race to sign Kane, reportedly because of difficulty of dealing with Levy and Spurs asking for too much money.\n\n27 June 2023: Reports emerge that Bayern made a £70m bid for Kane, but Tottenham sources denied it had been received and said they would immediately reject any offer.\n\n28 June 2023: Bayern make improved offer for Kane, but it is again rejected.\n\n10 July 2023: New Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou says he wants Kane to stay at Spurs.\n\n14 July 2023: Confirmation arrives that Kane will take part in Spurs' pre-season tour of Australia and the Far East.\n\n5 August 2023: Bayern tell Tottenham they want a decision by the end of the day over whether they are prepared to sell Harry Kane.\n\n7 August 2023: Tottenham reject Bayern's most recent offer for Kane, with the Bundesliga champions suggesting an unsuccessful bid on this occasion would mean they moved on to other transfer targets.\n\n10 August 2023: Bayern and Tottenham agree a deal worth 100m euros (£86.4m), leaving it to Kane to decide his future.\n\n11 August 2023: Kane is given permission by Spurs to fly to Germany for a medical.\n\nOn our dedicated Tottenham page, we asked for your thoughts on Harry Kane seemingly choosing to make the switch to Bayern Munich.\n\nHere are some of your replies:\n\nRon: Very disappointed that HK has decided to go, particularly 48 hours before the first match of a new season! He may well win a few trophies with Bayern but I don't believe they will mean as much as becoming the leading Premier League goalscorer!\n\nNick: Goodbye, Harry, and thanks for your service. We hope it works out for you in pastures new. Now looking forward, Ange - you can now shape this team in your fashion, not restricted by Harry. This I believe will make Spurs stronger, not weaker! Looking forward to Sunday and for the first time in years watching Spurs PLAY with passion and excitement! COYS!\n\nColin F: Dark day at Spurs, losing our/the Premier League's best all-round striker. The owners of the club are to blame. It all started when Pochettino was sacked. The owners do not care about THFC football club, they put money above all. We are the laughing stock of the Premier League!\n\nPeter: Good luck, Harry. You've been incredible for Spurs for so long. Thank you.\n\nColin H: Will he be remembered for winning the German league? I don't think so. He has been in three finals with Spurs - including the Champions League - and failed in all of them.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of Tottenham Hotspur is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Spurs - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Light aircraft is moved to a layby after making an emergency landing on A40\n\nWitnesses who saw a light aircraft make an emergency landing on a dual carriageway have congratulated the pilot for making a smooth landing.\n\nThe plane landed on the central reservation of the A40 Golden Valley, close to Churchdown, near Cheltenham after a suspected engine failure.\n\nNo cars collided with the plane and no-one was injured.\n\nOne witness said: \"Kudos to the pilot. He did an amazing job of getting it down safely. Dead on the centre line.\"\n\nGloucestershire Police said the plane - which remained intact - landed shortly before 18:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation has launched an investigation into the incident\n\nDarren Bell, from Cheltenham, was on the bypass at the time and said that although it was a \"bizarre\" thing to witness, it was a very smooth landing.\n\n\"I was driving down and I heard this engine, looked in the mirror and there's a big yellow aeroplane coming down the side of the central reservation,\" he said.\n\n\"It was dead on the centre line, absolutely bang on.\"\n\nA light aircraft has made a forced landing on the A40 in Gloucestershire\n\nJoel Phillips, who also witnessed the landing, said: \"We saw quite a few police cars and ambulances on the scene.\n\n\"It's quite an interesting thing to see because there's been no damage on the central reservation.\n\n\"The plane looks fine, the bridge looks fine. It must have been quite a low landing to come in.\"\n\nSpecialist equipment was used to lift the plane off the carriageway and the road was opened shortly after 20:00.\n\nThe aircraft is a single engine Fournier with two seats. It was manufactured in 1976.\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Branch has confirmed it has launched an investigation into the emergency landing.\n\nWere you on the road when the aircraft landed? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Tee Dang and her family suffered burns as they sat in the ocean for nearly four hours to escape the wildfire in Lahaina\n\nTee Dang was in a rental car with her three children and husband on Lahaina's Front Street when she saw the flames inching closer and closer towards them.\n\nBut when the vehicles around them began catching fire they decided to grab their food, water and phones and run for the waves.\n\nThey had already watched others trying to flee the rapidly moving flames do the same, including an elderly woman who was helped into the ocean.\n\n\"We have to get to the ocean,\" the Kansas mother told BBC News on Thursday. \"There was nothing else because we were cornered in.\"\n\nWith their children - ages five, 13 and 20 - they at first stayed close to shore. But as evening approached, and the tide rose, the water started smashing her into the rock wall of the harbour, severely cutting her leg.\n\nWhen the line of cars on Front Street - \"at least 50\" of them - started exploding, they were forced to move into deeper water to seek shelter from the \"shooting debris\".\n\nThey were in the water for nearly four hours, she said.\n\nIt was a Tuesday afternoon, but the sky behind them was pitch black from the wildfire smoke.\n\nIt was a harrowing ordeal for the family, who wondered if they were going to make it out alive. At one point, one of Mrs Dang's children fainted in the water.\n\nThey were eventually rescued by a firefighter who directed them through the burning streets.\n\nLeading a group of about 15 survivors, she recalls the firefighter telling them: \"I don't even know if we're gonna make it at this point. Just do everything I say. If I say jump, jump. If I tell you to run, run.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oprah hands out supplies in Hawaii: ‘It’s a little overwhelming'\n\nAfter reaching shelter at the Maui Prep School, the family was forced to move twice more, including once because one shelter came under threat from flames.\n\nSeventeen more people were confirmed to be dead on Thursday afternoon, bringing the death toll to at least 53, after a series of fires broke out across the Hawaiian island of Maui earlier this week. Thousands others have been displaced.\n\nThe hardest hit is the historic town of Lahaina, home to 12,000 residents and a popular destination for tourists.\n\nAt a news conference on Thursday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said this is \"the largest natural disaster in Hawaii's state history\".\n\n\"We will continue to see loss of life,\" Gov Green said. Officials said they do not know how people are missing at this point as they continue to survey the damage.\n\nNone of the fires are 100% contained.\n\nGov Green added the state is struggling to house thousands of displaced people. He has called on Hawaiians elsewhere in the state to offer rooms and shelter for those in need.\n\nMany have lost their homes, including Bryce Baraoidan, who was forced to flee with his family.\n\nMr Baraoidan said they left nearly all of their possessions behind, thinking their house would be still standing when they returned, but it did not survive.\n\n\"When we found out… my mother burst into tears,\" he told the BBC. \"Not just the whole street, but the whole neighbourhood is gone.\"\n\nBryce Baraoidan and his family had to leave most of their belongings behind\n\n\"The thing I am saddest about leaving behind was my five pet chameleons,\" the 26-year-old said. \"I was very attached to them and I regret not taking them with us when we left.\"\n\nSteve Kemper, a photographer, lost a gallery that he managed on Front Street in Lahaina, his sister, Susanne Kemper, told the BBC.\n\nBecause only one road leads in and out of the town, it took him three hours to escape and drive east to the Maui town of Haiku, where his son is living.\n\n\"It was a close call,\" she said. \"He was absolutely exhausted when he got to my nephew's. He was shattered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Kemper, who has spent time in Maui and other Hawaiian islands, explained that many of the buildings in the old town of Lahaina are made of wood, a legacy from when the town served as a major whaling port. This likely facilitated the spread of the fire in the town, she said.\n\n\"It just went up like a torch,\" she said. \"They were like matchsticks on the ground.\"\n\nShe and others have struggled to get in touch with friends and family living in the area, as the blaze has cut power to thousands on the island.\n\nOne woman who spoke to the BBC said she could not get in contact with her parents who were staying at a hotel in Lahaina for their honeymoon. She registered their names with the Red Cross, but hadn't heard from them in 24 hours.\n\nAfter escaping and moving from shelter to shelter, Mrs Dang and her family managed to get to the airport in Maui, where they planned to board a flight back to Kansas.\n\nSome 14,000 tourists were moved off Maui on Wednesday, officials say, with a further 14,500 set to be moved on Thursday.\n\nAs for the 26-year-old Mr Baraoidan, he and his parents have been staying with family on the other side of Maui since they evacuated their home. All they managed to take were some important documents, a bag of clothes and their two dogs.\n\n\"We are all in shock,\" he said. But, he added: \"My dad told me that everything in the house is replaceable and we are lucky to have each other.\"\n\nHow are you affected by the wildfires? If it is safe to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 4 and 11 August.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nStrike a pose: Kyle Brown took this beautiful picture of his nine-year-old niece, Amelia Rose Brown, practising her gymnastics at the top of Turnhouse Hill in the Pentland Hills during a holiday to Edinburgh.\n\nPeter Ormsby took this picture at the UCI BMX Freestyle at Glasgow Green.\n\nDevin Scobie took this photograph of derelict Newark Castle by St Monans, East Neuk of Fife.\n\nAlastair Nunn said a visit to Bunnet Stane in Fife is well worth the walk.\n\nRay Mckay took this picture on a walk along Loch Glass, looking at the Pink House, a local landmark.\n\nGerald Geoghegan's wife waits for him during a summer shower, in the picture-perfect village of New Abbey, Dumfries.\n\nSteve Adam took this photo of the leading pack of cyclists coming over the Clackmannanshire Bridge during the Elite Men's Road Race.\n\nNeil Craig snapped the dolphin-watchers under threatening clouds at Chanonry Point on the Black Isle.\n\nRobert Booth took this picture of a fitness centre in Perth.\n\nDave Stewart came across this tiny lizard sunning itself in Mabie Forest, Dumfries & Galloway.\n\nGraham Paton took this picture of the UCI Elite Men's Road Race, as it passed down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.\n\nMike Hay took this incredible picture of this grasshopper, poised on some thistledown, on Drummond Hill at Loch Tay.\n\nEmma West took this fantastic picture of gannets flying over Stac an Armin at St Kilda.\n\nRob Mitchell took this photo at the Dumfries Agricultural Show.\n\nMartin Leiper took this beautiful picture of the sunset at Cairngorms glamping in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire with masses of rosebay willowherb in the forefront of the image.\n\nWilma Boyle enjoyed meeting this Highland cow during her walk at Balgavies Loch.\n\nNeil Robertson took this picture of a swallow's nest under the entrance gateway to Falkland Palace.\n\nA walk in the woods in East Lothian nets Greg Dimeck a lovely basket of porcini mushrooms.\n\nColin Hattersley took this picture of the Les Foutoukours clowns, who are performing at the Edinburgh Festival.\n\nChris Bell took this picture at Glencoe Village of a beautiful sunset overlooking Loch Leven.\n\nKirsteen Young said she thought at first this White Plume moth was a feather floating in her garden in Brig O'Turk.\n\nLiz Hamilton had a fantastic time at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.\n\nWendy Hamlet took this photo of Balfour Castle on Shapinsay, Orkney.\n\nJohn Donnelly took this picture of Glenbrittle sheep at the Eas Mor waterfall.\n\nChristina Cucurullo captured these two resident swallows while visiting Caerlaverock Castle in Dumfries & Galloway.\n\nAndrew McLaren took this photograph of the coral beach on Skye.\n\nNeil Macdougall took this picture of Mathieu Van Der Poel, whose clothes were ripped while participating in the UCI World Championships Elite Men's Road Race in Glasgow.\n\nHazel Thomson took this beautiful picture at Kingairloch\n\nLorna Donaldson took this picture of the evening sky over the Wallace Monument.\n\nMegan Kirkaldy said she had a beautiful day getting lost near the Falls of Acharn at Kenmore.\n\nTerry Aldous took this beautiful picture at Loch Shiel at Glenfinnan.\n\nIain Stewart took this dramatic picture of his daughters looking over Torrisdale beach.\n\nMaw and Paw and the Weans: Sylvia Beaumont took this picture of scarecrows through the gate at the allotments at North Berwick Law.\n\nSuzanne Emptage said the colours in the Isle of Harris 'have to be seen to be believed'.\n\nBrian Colston paused for reflection when he passed this colourful display of mirrors and pictures in a shop window in Falkirk.\n\nBrian Mann thought this a very elegant heron, standing on the harbour wall at Pennan.\n\nGraham Cristie's photo of the fishing boats in Crail Harbour.\n\nGordy Macdonald took this photo during the Edinburgh Fringe: 'Perhaps the only way to avoid the crowds on the Royal Mile is to be way above them.'\n\nTina Torrens took this picture at sunset from Scalpay Bridge on the Isle of Harris, looking west towards Tarbert.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Living near to the beach, Theo says he knows the beach and the sea well\n\nWhen 12-year-old Theo went to the beach with his friends, he had no idea that he would end up saving a younger boy from drowning.\n\nTheo spotted a nine-year-old in the water in difficulty in the Old Harbour area of Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, on Wednesday.\n\nRunning to the rescue, Theo tried to get the little boy to safety, but was dragged under himself.\n\nHe then told the boy to lie on his back and was able to get him back to shore.\n\nBoth Theo and the nine-year-old were taken to hospital and are now safe and home, said Theo's mum, Rhian Bunyan.\n\nShe said she got a call alerting her to the fact Theo had gone in to save a little boy, but at this point she did not know if he was OK.\n\n\"I was beside myself. Just the fear that was going through me. I just can't explain, It is unimaginable.\n\n\"When I got to the lifeboat station the child that he saved was on oxygen and things and was in a pretty bad way,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. If you are struggling at sea the RNLI said you should float to survive\n\nMs Bunyan said when she saw Theo and \"he was sitting up in the chair and the fact he was OK, we were both reduced to tears\".\n\n\"I think it was a mother's worst nightmare to hear something like that, you know, when I just imagine the worst possible scenario.\n\n\"The realisation hit me. It was my son, at the age of 12, has saved a nine-year-old life,\" she said.\n\n\"Every now and again it hits me, and I'm just in tears. I just can't explain to you how proud and how special he is.\"\n\nTheo was playing on the beach with friends when he saw a younger boy in difficulty in the sea\n\nTheo said he did not grasp the reality of what he had done until the following day.\n\nTheo said: \"When you're in the moment you don't really think of anything, you're just trying to make sure he's safe.\"\n\nAlthough several members of his family are in the RNLI, Theo himself has never had lifeguarding experience.\n\nAfter he ran in to save the boy and was pulled under, Theo managed to get the boy off him and told him to \"calm down\" and to lie still on his back allowing Theo to carry him into shore.\n\nMs Bunyan said: \"When we actually got to the hospital I think the word had got round what Theo had done for the child, because the child was admitted.\n\n\"The nurses and doctors came out on to A&E department, calling him a hero,\" she said, adding Theo had become \"a little famous boy\" in Burry Port.\n\n\"It's just brings you closer together. You know, it's put a lot of things into perspective. How quick something can happen.\"\n\nMs Bunyan says there needed to be more awareness of the dangers of the sea, \"the tide was out and somebody could have lost their life if it wasn't for Theo\".\n\n\"I think we have a lot of people come into Burry Port, that aren't around the area and they aren't they aren't aware of how dangerous it can be.\"\n\nTheo's mum said when he is old enough he will join his family members in the RNLI.", "Some growth - but how do we turbo-boost prosperity?\n\nThose who could spend, did. Households with pandemic-era savings, or perhaps pay rises, were still able to treat themselves to non-essentials. It’s that resilience in consumer spending, and a bounce back in manufacturing, especially of cars, that helped the economy to expand last quarter, defying fears. Yet the UK remains an outlier amongst the G7 countries, our level of output is (just) below that of prior to the pandemic. And as inflation and higher interest rates bite harder, the Bank of England predicts little growth in the next year or two. Over half of homeowners have now been exposed to higher mortgage rates, and that’s climbing. Some economists are fearful that, as in the 1970s, we may face stagflation - stagnant growth and stubborn inflation. This as many peoples incomes, once you strip away inflation and tax change, slide. Despite these figures then, a crucial question for politicians remains in the run-up to the election: how do we turbo-boost prosperity?", "Sacha Baron Cohen is planning to revive Ali G, the infamous spoof wannabe gangster who became a comedy star 25 years ago, for a new stand-up tour.\n\nAli G became a hit thanks to his prank interviews with unsuspecting experts on his TV show in the early 2000s.\n\nHe then starred in his own film, and has made occasional appearances in recent years.\n\nVariety reported that Baron Cohen has been working on a stand-up tour in which Ali G will feature.\n\nBBC News has confirmed the report, but there are no further details of the tour.\n\nIn 2021, Baron Cohen brought back Ali G for a sketch at the MTV Movie & TV Awards, and for a one-off routine at a Sydney comedy club.\n\n\"I just wanted to get on stage and muck around and see what Ali G would be like with a crowd,\" the comedian told GQ afterwards. \"It was really good fun.\"\n\nIn the early days, Ali G got laughs by duping an array of interviewees into going along with his persona, while also lampooning white people from the suburbs who posed as the urban youth.\n\nBut the act was criticised by some, who saw it as adopting and ridiculing black street culture.\n\nBaron Cohen, now 51, also found success by playing similar pranks as his Kazakh reporter Borat, and played flamboyant Austrian fashionista Bruno.", "Anastatia (Ana) Mayers, Jon Goodwin and Keisha Schahaff, boarded the VSS Unity for a 90-minute trip into space\n\nVirgin Galactic has taken a former Olympian, a University of Aberdeen student and her mother to the edge of space on its first flight for tourists.\n\nAna Mayers, 18, and her mother Keisha Schahaff, 46, both from Antigua, won their tickets in a competition.\n\nThey became the first mother-daughter duo to fly to space together.\n\nJon Goodwin, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, became the second person with Parkinson's disease to go to space, a trip he called \"completely surreal\".\n\nMr Goodwin bought his ticket for $250,000 (then £191,000) in 2005.\n\nThe carrier mothership VMS Eve took off from Spaceport America, in the state of New Mexico, at 08:30 local time (15:30 BST).\n\nFifty minutes into the flight, the Unity rocket ship separated from Eve as planned.\n\nA short time later, the passengers were given the all-clear to unbuckle and enjoy zero gravity, at an altitude of around 85km (280,000ft).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Mayers, a second-year philosophy and physics student at the University of Aberdeen, immediately reached for the window to take in the views of Earth and the black of space.\n\nThe three then returned to their seats and strapped themselves back in ahead of the return journey.\n\nThey successfully landed back at Spaceport America just over an hour after taking off.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference after the flight, Ms Schahaff - who won the prize while flying to the UK to visit her daughter in Scotland - said she was still \"up there\" following the experience.\n\n\"Looking at Earth was the most amazing\" part of the trip, she said.\n\nMr Goodwin described his experience as the most exciting day of his life.\n\nDespite being diagnosed with Parkinson's several years ago, he was given the all-clear to fly.\n\n\"I'm hoping that I instil in other people around the world, as well as people with Parkinson's, that it doesn't stop you doing things that's out of the normal if you've got some illness,\" he said.\n\n\"The most impressive thing was looking at Earth from space - the pure clarity was very moving.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a video posted on social media, Sir Richard Branson - Virgin Galactic's founder - shed tears of joy as he celebrated the mission from Ms Schahaff and Ms Mayers' native Antigua.\n\nSir Richard, who completed a similar trip in July 2021, wrote: \"Today we flew three incredible private passengers to space: Keisha Schahaff, Anastatia Mayers and Jon Goodwin.\n\n\"Congratulations Virgin Galactic commercial astronauts 011, 012 and 013 - welcome to the club!\"\n\nMr Goodwin was the first on a list of 800 or so individuals who have bought tickets for a ride on the Unity rocket.\n\nSome of them - including Mr Goodwin - have been waiting over a decade to get their chance, and most still face a long wait.\n\nSir Richard first announced his intention to make a space plane in 2004, with the belief he could start a commercial service by 2007.\n\nBut technical difficulties - including a fatal crash during a development flight in 2014 - have made the space project one of the most challenging ventures of his career.\n\nRecently, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin beat Virgin Galactic in the race to become the first company to take paying passengers into space.\n\nBoth companies say their missions further science as well as catering to the very rich.\n\nBut, space tourism has been criticised for its cost and environmental impact.", "Warm weather in June helped lift UK economic growth by more than expected, according to official figures.\n\nHigher temperatures boosted pubs, restaurants and the construction industry, lifting the economy by 0.5%.\n\nThe stronger data meant that the economy expanded by 0.2% between April and June.\n\nHowever, strikes by NHS workers weighed on output in June and fears of a recession remain over the UK's longer-term growth.\n\nDarren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which published the data, said there were three factors that affected the UK in June - the number of working days, weather and industrial action.\n\nHe said while the economy bounced back from May's extra Bank Holiday for the King's Coronation, the manufacturing industry - and cars in particular - had performed robustly.\n\n\"Services also had a strong month with publishing and car sales and legal services all doing well,\" he said. \"Though this was partially offset by falls in health, which was hit by further strike action.\"\n\nWhile June's growth was better than expected, the UK remains only country out of the G7 nations not to see its gross domestic product (GDP) return to pre-Covid levels, based on the latest quarterly figures.\n\nJames Smith, research director at the Resolution Foundation think tank, said that growth of 0.2% between April and June showed the UK's \"relative resilience\".\n\nThe UK has avoided a recession after the economy expanded by 0.1% in the first three months of this year. A recession is usually defined as when the economy shrinks for two three-month periods - or quarters - in a row.\n\nMr Smith said that while the UK has swerved a slowdown, it \"will feel like a recession to many as families struggle with the ever-rising cost of essentials and higher mortgage repayments\".\n\nPhil Simpson, managing director of Lancaster Brewery which has venues in south Cumbria and north Lancashire, said that he has never experienced an environment like the current one during his 20 years in business.\n\n\"It's tough,\" he told the BBC. \"We came out of Covid, that was obviously appalling, we've come into a world that's just horrendous. It's better than Covid, but only just.\"\n\nWhile the company's sales are up by about 9% on last year, its running costs are higher because of inflation which is squeezing its profits.\n\nHe said that the hospitality industry is experiencing a \"dual battering\" from internal pressures such as wages, energy bills, food and drink costs and the external pressures like higher interest rates and inflation.\n\n\"People haven't got the cash they used to have...everyone's just clinging on,\" Mr Simpson said. \"There really is no good news in our industry.\"\n\nCapital Economics predicted the country will enter a \"mild recession\" later this year once a succession of interest rate rises by the Bank of England take effect.\n\nIts deputy chief UK economist Ruth Gregory, said while June's growth looked encouraging: \"The Bank Holiday, unusually warm weather and strikes make it hard to judge the true health of the economy.\"\n\nShe said underlying activity is still growing, \"albeit at a snail's pace\".\n\n\"We still think that with most of the drag from higher interest rates still to come, gross domestic product will fall [between July and September] and a mild recession will begin.\"\n\nStrikes by health workers could continue to drag on the UK economy. Industrial action took place in July.\n\nAnd on Friday, junior doctors started a four-day walkout as health bosses warned that NHS services were at tipping point, with costs to cover the previous four strikes estimated totalling about £1bn, as well thousands of postponed treatments.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made growing the economy one of his key pledges.\n\nIn response to the latest figures, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the \"actions\" the government were taking to fight higher prices were \"starting to take effect, which means we're laying the strong foundations needed to grow the economy\".\n\nBut Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said growth in the economy was \"still on the floor\" due to \"13 years of economic mismanagement under the Conservatives\".\n\nThe rising cost of living and higher interest rates have been squeezing the finances of households and businesses.\n\nInflation which is the rate prices rise at, is 7.9% which is almost four times the Bank of England's 2% target.\n\nThe Bank has been raising interest rates in an effort to bring inflation down, with the theory being that by making borrowing more expensive, people will spend less, leading to demand slowing and prices to rise as fast.\n\nGDP is a measure - or an attempt to measure - all the activity of companies, governments and individuals in a country. It is one of the most important tools for looking at the health of the economy, and is watched closely by the government and businesses.\n\nIf the figure is increasing, that means the economy is growing and people are doing more work and getting a little bit richer, on average.\n\nBut if GDP is falling, then the economy is shrinking which can be bad news for businesses. If GDP falls for two quarters in a row, it is typically defined as a recession.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None What is GDP and how does it affect me?", "Sam Bankman-Fried arrives in court in New York on 11 August 2023\n\nSam Bankman-Fried, who was arrested on fraud charges last year after the collapse of his cryptocurrency firm, must await trial behind bars, a US judge has ordered.\n\nThe 31-year-old was handcuffed in court and led away, while his mother watched in tears after the decision.\n\nJudge Lewis Kaplan had agreed with prosecutors who had accused Mr Bankman-Fried of trying to influence witnesses expected to testify against him.\n\nHe had denied the claims.\n\nSpeaking in court on Friday, Judge Kaplan said: \"There is probable cause to believe that the defendant has attempted to tamper with witnesses at least twice.\"\n\nThe hearing on whether to revoke Mr Bankman-Fried's bail came ahead of trial, which is scheduled for October.\n\nThe 31-year-old was arrested in December after being accused of misusing money from investors and customers of his bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to pay for property, political donations and plug losses at his hedge fund, Alameda Research.\n\nThe former billionaire denied the claims and was released to his parents' home in Palo Alto, California on a $250m (£197m) bond.\n\nHe was forced to hand over his belongings from his pockets and remove his shoelaces, jacket and tie before the US Marshals Service took him away on Friday, according to Reuters.\n\nHis father was also in court and placed his hand over his heart as his son was led away in handcuffs.\n\nThe court had already moved to tighten restrictions faced by Mr Bankman-Fried earlier this year, citing his efforts to contact people involved in the case and his use of a virtual private network.\n\nThe latest request from prosecutors was sparked by a July article in the New York Times, which quoted confessional writings by Caroline Ellison, Mr Bankman-Fried's sometime girlfriend and the former chief executive of Alameda.\n\nIn the article, Ms Ellison, who pleaded guilty to fraud last year and is expected to testify against Mr Bankman-Fried, was quoted reflecting on their break-up and how she felt \"overwhelmed\" at work.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Bankman-Fried had shared the documents to try to make his case in the media that Ms Ellison was a \"jilted lover\" who had worked alone.\n\nThey also argued that it would have a chilling effect on other potential witnesses because it could make them fear \"personal humiliation and efforts to discredit their reputation\" beyond what would be permitted in court. They said he had participated in roughly 1,000 phone calls with members of the press in recent months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sam Bankman-Fried denies claims he knew FTX customer money was used for risky financial bets\n\nHis attorneys said he had shared documents that were already known to the reporter and had a right to speak to the media. They also said sending Mr Bankman-Fried to jail would hinder trial preparations.\n\nEarlier this month, Judge Kaplan barred Mr Bankman-Fried from speaking about the case.\n\nMedia groups, including the New York Times and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, had asked the judge to loosen the restrictions, citing free speech considerations.\n\nThe move to jail marks a further fall from grace for Mr Bankman-Fried, an MIT graduate and son of Stanford professors, whose work in crypto transformed him into a billionaire.\n\nKnown for his curly head of hair, he became a high-profile spokesman for the industry, courting celebrities and politicians and appearing on magazine covers to promote digital currencies.\n\nHis firm collapsed abruptly last year after facing a run on deposits. Mr Bankman-Fried has acknowledged sloppy record keeping but denied intentional wrongdoing.", "The six people who have been arrested in connection with the killing of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio are Colombian, police say.\n\nA seventh suspect, who died from wounds in a shootout with police on Thursday, was also Colombian.\n\nMr Villavicencio was killed leaving a campaign event in the capital Quito.\n\nThe interior minister said a police investigation into the \"abominable event\" was under way.\n\nInterior Minister Juan Zapata said officers would work to \"discover the motive of this crime and its intellectual authors\".\n\nThe six detainees have been identified as Andres M, Jose N, Eddy G, Camilo R, Jules C, and Jhon Rodriguez, Mr Zapata told a press conference on Thursday.\n\nHe added that during the police raid that resulted in their arrest, officers found a rifle, a submachine gun, four pistols, three grenades, four boxes of ammunition, two motorbikes, and a vehicle that had been reported stolen in the group's possession.\n\nA vocal critic of organized crime, Mr Villavicencio was one of the few presidential candidates to allege links between corruption and government officials.\n\nPresident Guillermo Lasso said the assassination was an attempt to sabotage the election.\n\nHe added that voting would go ahead as planned on 20 August, despite a national state of emergency.\n\nHe said organised crime was behind the killing and has asked US federal agents to help investigate, with FBI agents due to arrive shortly.\n\nMr Villavicencio, a member of the country's national assembly, had received threats from a gang calling itself Los Choneros last month and had been given a security detail.\n\nFollowing his murder, a video appeared on social media in which heavily armed men wearing balaclavas claimed responsibility for the murder. The men claimed to belong to Los Lobos (The Wolves), who are rivals of Los Choneros.\n\nHowever another video appeared online just hours later, in which another group of men - this time not wearing masks - claimed they were Los Lobos members and denied any role in the assassination, claiming the other video was an attempt by their rivals to set them up for the murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fernando Villavicencio was shot as he left a rally in Quito\n\nIt's the smallest of the Andean nations in South America, sitting on the equator (hence the name) between Colombia and Peru.\n\nHe was one of eight candidates in the running for the first round of the election with a focus on fighting corruption - and he and his team had been threatened by the leader of a gang linked to drug-trafficking.\n\nOnce a relatively peaceful nation, Ecuador has been ravaged by the arrival of international drug cartels profiting from a boom in cocaine trafficking - and the issue can only grow in importance in the presidential election campaign.", "Amazon staff in the US received a warning email from the firm for not spending enough time in the office after their attendance was tracked.\n\nSome employees were told they were \"not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week.\"\n\nAmazon is not the first tech giant to depart from flexible working rules ushered in during the pandemic.\n\nDisney has already done so and this week Zoom ordered staff to the office.\n\nAmazon's office attendance mandate for American employees took effect in May and stipulates that they have to \"badge in\" to the office at least three days a week.\n\nThe email, sent this week and seen by the BBC, targeted employees who came into the office fewer than three days a week for five or more of the past eight weeks, or for three or more of the past four weeks.\n\nIt appeared to exacerbate existing tensions within the company, as some employees said they had received the email in error.\n\nSome Amazon employees in the US staged a walkout to protest the return-to-office push in June.\n\nThey said morale at the company was at an \"all-time low\" due to a series of \"short-sighted decisions\" by leaders.\n\nSome workers questioned whether the warnings were a sign of an even more strict attendance requirement to come.\n\nIn a response to the concerns, Amazon said the message was sent to those who fell short of the policy despite their building being ready for staff's return.\n\nAmazon also admitted that the warnings may have been sent out by mistake in some cases.\n\n\"While we've taken several steps to ensure this email went to the correct recipients, we recognize that there may be instances where we have it wrong,\" the company said.\n\nDuring pandemic-related lockdowns, many firms opted for remote work. It remains far more prevalent than it was before Covid, due to the flexibility and autonomy it gives workers.\n\nSome companies are rolling back their policies over fears they might dent productivity, but the majority have adopted hybrid working in some way.\n\nWhen Amazon sent out a memo to inform employees about the new attendance requirements in May, its boss Andy Jassy said the change would help strengthen communication, career development and corporate culture.", "From right to left: Lisa Schmidt, Erin Grayson and Brooke Ferguson Image caption: From right to left: Lisa Schmidt, Erin Grayson and Brooke Ferguson\n\nI was speaking to a family of tourists from Portland, Oregon, who were visiting Maui.\n\nStaying at the Westin Ka'anapali – a little way outside the badly-damaged town of Lahaina – grandmother Lisa Schmidt, mother Erin Grayson and daughter Brooke Ferguson were forced to flee from the fires.\n\nSchmidt says she was most emotional when she discovered that the townspeople were not warned of the fires, that it “just took people by surprise that were in downtown Lahaina”.\n\n“It just breaks my heart that people just lost everything. Everything. And with no warning. The warning system didn’t work, that’s just horrible.”\n\nThey drove through Lahaina on their way to the shelter, and saw its devastation first hand.\n\n“It looked like a bomb went off there,” says Ferguson.\n\nThey saw cars that were burned up, and “houses burned to the ground”. Only random, “sporadic” buildings were still left standing, they say.", "The scene on Hammond Road in Woking remained taped off on Friday\n\nThree people detectives want to speak to over the death of a 10-year-old girl in Woking are believed to have left the UK, police have said.\n\nThe girl's body was found after police officers were called to an address in Hammond Road, Woking, at about 02:50 BST on Thursday following a safety concern.\n\nDet Ch Insp Debbie White said it was \"a devastating incident\".\n\nThe three people are believed to have left the UK on Wednesday.\n\nDet Ch Insp White said: \"We have identified three people we would like to speak to in connection with our investigation and from our enquiries, we believe that they left the country on Wednesday, 9 August. We are working with our partners, including international authorities, to locate them.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the force said no-one else had been injured, and no arrests had been made. A post-mortem examination will be carried out on Tuesday.\n\nHouse-to-house inquiries were being conducted on Friday, and police said they will maintain a presence at the scene over the coming week.\n\nInsp Sandra Carlier, borough commander for Woking, said: \"I know that the community are shocked and saddened by yesterday's events, and we stand with them in their grief.\"\n\nA neighbour who lives directly opposite the house said a family with six children had lived at the property for less than six months.\n\n\"They were normal children, friendly. They seemed like a decent family,\" he said.\n\nFlowers have been laid at the scene in tribute to the 10-year-old girl\n\nOn Thursday, Det Ch Insp White said: \"Our officers are working hard to build a picture of what happened.\n\n\"We have no reason to believe there is any risk to the public.\"\n\nThere was a significant police presence near the address in Hammond Road, which would remain closed over the coming days, she added.\n\nThe deceased girl's family have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.\n\nAnother neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, described the area as a \"pretty normal\" neighbourhood, adding: \"There is no real activity going on.\"\n\nAnother local added: \"The area is very peaceful. It is busy during term time with children walking to and from. But it's a lovely, vibrant place normally.\"\n\nA spokesperson for St Mary's Horsell in Woking said the church would be open so the community could attend for \"prayer, reflection or comfort\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with our whole community, but especially those who will be so deeply affected by this tragedy,\" they said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dua Lipa walks the runway at the Versace fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week in 2022\n\nThe company that owns Versace is being bought by the luxury goods group Tapestry in a deal worth $8.5bn (£6.7bn).\n\nCapri Holdings, which also owns Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo, is being taken over by Tapestry whose own brands include high-end names such as Coach.\n\nTapestry's boss Joanne Crevoiserat said the deal \"creates a new powerful global luxury house\".\n\nAnalysts said it would build a rival to compete with European fashion giants.\n\n\"It's creating a major American fashion conglomerate especially in the premium fashion space,\" said Louise Deglise-Favre, apparel analyst at the analytics company GlobalData, told the BBC.\n\n\"It's not as big as the likes of European giants such as LVMH and Kering, but even so it's definitely giving its brands more of a leg to stand on,\" she added.\n\nLVMH and Kering are both France-based luxury brand giants who each control some of the biggest names in luxury fashion, leather goods and jewellery. Kering owns the likes of Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga.\n\nWhile Versace has become a symbol of Italian luxury around the world, brands such as Kate Spade and Michael Kors are seen as more affordable for some consumers, with smaller accessories typically costing from about £100.\n\nCoach has previously paired up with celebrities like pop star Selena Gomez (R) to produce handbags and accessories\n\nMs Deglise-Favre said the merger will strengthen Tapestry's position within this market, by combining brands with offerings at a similar price point, like Coach, which has previously released collaborations aimed at younger shoppers with pop stars like Selena Gomez.\n\nBut she warned that Tapestry is also inheriting Michael Kors, which has suffered from years of lacklustre performance.\n\n\"It will have a definite challenge with that,\" she said.\n\nHowever, Tapestry does have past experience of turning around struggling brands, including Kate Spade, which it took over in 2017.\n\nThe deal comes at a time when inflation - the rate at which prices are rising - has been elevated in many countries which has squeezed consumer spending.\n\nIt presents yet another challenge for firms like Tapestry, with aspirational shoppers being particularly hit in recent months, Ms Deglise-Favre said, while firms have to cope with higher interest rates, wages and supply chain issues.\n\nIt is expected that the deal will close in 2024.\n\nMs Crevoiserat said that the move would help the group reach more countries around the world.\n\nIt is just the latest deal in the luxury fashion space, with Kering announcing it was buying a 30% stake in Italian fashion label Valentino in July.\n\nIt is the second time in five years that Versace has been sold. In 2018, Michael Kors acquired the Italian label for more than $2bn following decades of ownership by the Versace family.\n\nAt that point, Michael Kors shifted Versace and shoemaker Jimmy Choo, which it bought in 2017, under a new company called Capri Holdings.\n• None US inflation ticks higher in July on housing costs", "Police officers in Northern Ireland often keep their occupation secret due to fear of attack\n\nA police officer has said he is moving his family out of Northern Ireland after two data breaches revealed the identities of officers and staff.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) accidentally shared details of 10,000 employees this week. It also confirmed an earlier breach from July.\n\nThe officer, who is a Catholic, said deciding to go had been \"devastating\".\n\nMeanwhile, a civilian PSNI worker said it brought back the trauma police staff had experienced during the Troubles.\n\nBoth interviewees spoke to the BBC about the effect the data breaches are having on their personal lives, but neither is named for security reasons.\n\nThe PSNI officer said he had to calculate the family upset that would be caused by uprooting his children from their home against the safety risks of staying in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"My wife feels she is no longer comfortable in Northern Ireland,\" he told BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"It's just not a place, going forward, that I have confidence or trust in any more - it's been absolutely disastrous.\"\n\nIn the biggest data breach, information appeared online for three hours on Tuesday, leading to the PSNI updating security advice to its officers and staff.\n\nThe surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence, were included.\n\nInformation about the second data breach, involving the theft of a spreadsheet with the names of 200 officers and staff, emerged on Wednesday.\n\nThe PSNI said documents, along with a police-issue laptop and radio, were believed to have been stolen from a private vehicle in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, on 6 July.\n\nThe police have since confirmed they have wiped both of those devices remotely and are confident that information they contained would not be accessible by a third party.\n\nAlmost 2,000 officers are considering taking legal action in the wake of the breaches, according to the Police Federation, a union which represents rank-and-file officers.\n\nMore than 1,200 staff have raised concerns about the security breaches with the PSNI.\n\nDuring the 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles, more than 300 police officers from all backgrounds were murdered.\n\nThe civilian PSNI worker spoke to the BBC anonymously\n\nThey face an ongoing threat from dissident republican paramilitaries - the latest attempt to murder a PSNI officer took place in February when Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was shot several times.\n\nCatholic officers have often been targeted by dissidents, who want to discourage people from Catholic backgrounds from joining the police.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne cut his holiday short to deal with the crisis and he has apologised for the data breaches.\n\nThe civilian PSNI employee, who is a member of the Nipsa union, said she had been \"going through a gauntlet of emotions\" since being made aware of the data breaches.\n\nThe woman also worked for the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) for many years before it was replaced by the PSNI in 2001.\n\n\"I've spent a very long career with a threat over my head - police staff are under the same threat as police officers,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been involved in a few security incidents that could have had severe consequences and I think that, for me personally, the anxiousness and the nervousness of what this data breach is or could do has brought it all back.\"\n\nShe added it had brought back recollections of the Troubles in the 1980s including \"security threats, bombings... colleagues who've been murdered\" and anxiety associated with those experiences.\n\nThe woman said the breach was \"highly traumatic\" for younger staff who had not experienced working during the Troubles.\n\n\"It's probably something that our newer colleagues into the organisation have never dealt with and therefore I think maybe that tension for them is maybe a bit higher than those of us who have worked here longer,\" she said.\n\nSupt Gerry Murray, chair of the Catholic Police Guild, has met the chief constable over the breaches\n\nThe Catholic Police Guild, which represents some Catholic PSNI members, said the PSNI must take account of the \"particular sensitivities\" of Catholic members.\n\nIts chairman, Supt Gerry Murray, met the chief constable on Friday.\n\nMr Byrne, who also met representatives from the PSNI's other staff associations, said afterwards he had reassured the guild that he was committed to supporting everyone affected.\n\nEarlier Supt Murray said he had received a call from a young Catholic officer concerned about the data breaches who asked him if he should take his gun to Mass on Sunday.\n\nAsked on BBC NI's Newsline programme if he thought the officer should bring his gun to Mass, Supt Murray responded: \"I think, if he feels insecure with regard to going to his place of worship and he feels it necessary - yes.\"\n\n\"It's about the protection of the officer. It's about his wellbeing.\"\n\nDissident republicans have claimed they have obtained the data mistakenly shared, but the PSNI said it had not been able to verify this.\n\nAn ex-officer whose husband is still in the force told the BBC the breach was a \"monumental cock up\" which has \"floored\" her family.\n\nThe woman left the police due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from incidents experienced in the course of her job.\n\nShe said she could not sleep after news broke about the data breaches, and that her medication had been increased.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne said he had spoken to officers and staff and realised some were anxious, frustrated and angry\n\n\"I served for many, many years in some volatile areas and took my personal safety very seriously. Even to this day I still check under my car,\" she said.\n\n\"We were always looking over our shoulder but now even more so. I didn't sleep on Tuesday night. I really wasn't very good at all.\n\n\"I had to go back to my doctor - they prescribed me more diazepam.\n\n\"It's just the impact - all of a sudden I feel like I'm back in the job again and that really isn't good for me.\"\n\nAnother serving officer told the BBC's Today programme he felt let down by the PSNI, exposed and vulnerable.\n\nThe officer, who is originally from England, said that with access to his surname, \"it wouldn't take much to track myself or my wife and children down\".\n\n\"If it gets into the hands of [dissident republicans], then that's where the most damage will be caused,\" he said.\n\nThe officer said he also suffered with PTSD and since news of the data breaches his symptoms, including sleepless nights, paranoia and anxiety, had worsened.\n\nNipsa representative Tracey Godfrey said members were seeking reassurance from her.\n\n\"I am able to give that because processes have been put in place but it's the long-term effect that we are having to look at,\" she said.\n\nYou can hear the interview with the officer in full on Evening Extra on BBC Sounds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four factors that made Maui wildfires so deadly\n\nHawaii is no stranger to wildfires, but those of the past few days are being called some of the worst in the archipelago's history.\n\nTheir toll has been devastating, although what sparked the deadly fires is still under investigation.\n\nHurricane winds and dry weather, however, helped fuel the flames.\n\nDrought or abnormally dry conditions across large parts of Hawaii - including the entire island of Maui - also played a role.\n\nWildfires generally need three ingredients: fuel in the form of biomass like vegetation or trees, a spark, and weather such as winds that drive the flames.\n\nAbout 14% of the state is suffering from severe or moderate drought, according to the US Drought Monitor, while 80% of Hawaii is classed as abnormally dry.\n\nDry weather sucks moisture out of vegetation, meaning it can catch alight more easily and then spread.\n\nScientists have calculated that 90% of Hawaii is getting less rainfall than it did a century ago, with the period since 2008 particularly dry.\n\nMaui itself was also under a red flag alert - meaning warm temperatures, very low humidities and stronger winds were expected to combine to produce an increased risk of fire danger - before the fires broke out.\n\nStrong winds from Hurricane Dora, which passed Hawaii's coast on Tuesday, helped fan the flames even further.\n\nForecasters are expecting a stronger-than-usual Atlantic hurricane season due to record high sea surface temperatures this year, which are adding energy to the atmosphere.\n\nLast month, the National Weather Service noted that brush fires had been reported in Maui and briefly closed a highway. Forecasters warned at the time that \"the risk of fires during this year's dry season is elevated\".\n\nScientists also note that some parts of the Hawaiian islands are covered with non-native grasses that are more flammable than native plants.\n\nThis, coupled with dry conditions, can cause a spark to ignite a fire that can spread quickly.\n\nIn a news conference on Thursday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said that the wildfires were the \"largest natural disaster\" in the state's history.\n\n\"We have never experienced a wildfire that affected a city like this before,\" Mr Green said, adding that the challenges of climate change were putting unprecedented strain on Hawaii.\n\n\"We're seeing this for the first time in many different parts of the world,\" he said.\n\nThe last major fire in Hawaii occurred in 2018, when winds from Hurricane Lane whipped up the flames around Lahaina - the same town ravaged by the fires this week.\n\nFive years ago, the fire destroyed 2,000 acres of land, 31 vehicles and 21 structures - most of which were homes - according to local media.\n\nWildfires were once uncommon in Hawaii, ignited largely through volcanic eruptions or lightning strikes. But in recent decades, human activity has made them more common and extreme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Are wildfires in the US getting worse?\n\nClimate change is increasing the risk of wildfire globally as it drives up temperatures and makes heatwaves longer and more intense.\n\nDrier vegetation and hotter temperatures mean that once a fire is ignited, it can spread more easily.\n\nThe UN expects extreme wildfires to increase in number and spread to areas previously unaffected as a result of climate change and changes in how humans use land.", "More rail strikes over pay and conditions will take place on Saturday 26 August and Saturday 2 September, the RMT union has announced.\n\nAbout 20,000 members working for 14 train operating companies are expected to take part.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said that its members would \"continue fighting\".\n\nBut the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said the union was \"once again targeting customers\" on the railways.\n\nThe government called the move \"disappointing\" and said the RMT leadership was \"cynically targeting\" travellers.\n\nThe announcement means rail passengers can expect disruption on the last Bank Holiday weekend of the summer in August.\n\nIt marks the latest step in a long-running dispute which has caused months of upheaval on the railways for passengers.\n\nProgress in the RMT's dispute with the 14 train operating companies has effectively been at a standstill since April, after it rejected the latest proposals from the RDG.\n\nMr Lynch said the mood among RMT members \"remains solid and determined\" in the national dispute, which is over pay, job security and working conditions.\n\nThe union said it had been left with \"little choice but to take further action\", insisting it had seen no improved offer from the RDG, which represents train operating companies.\n\nPlans to close hundreds of ticket offices in England have also angered its members, the union has said.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the RDG, said: \"With further strike action, the RMT are once again targeting customers looking to enjoy various sporting events, festivals and the end of the summer holidays, disrupting their plans and forcing more cars onto the road.\"\n\nThe RDG said it had made three offers to the union, including job security guarantees. The headline pay rise would be a backdated pay rise of 5% for last year, followed by 4% this year. But some workers could see pay rise by as much as 13% over the two years, the RDG claims.\n\nThe group said the RMT had blocked potential deals \"without a convincing explanation\".\n\nIt added that it remained \"open to talks\" and continues to urge the union to put the offer to members in a vote.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"The RMT leadership's decision to call more strikes and cynically target the travelling public over the Bank Holiday weekend is disappointing.\"The government has facilitated fair and reasonable pay offers. However, union bosses are opting to prolong this dispute by blocking their members from having a vote on these offers - we continue to urge that members are given their say, and disruption is brought to an end\", they added.", "US firms like Amazon's AWS are the biggest players in cloud computing\n\nMattias Åström glances out of the office window in France. \"Look at all the beautiful roads and bridges here,\" says the founder and chief executive of Evroc.\n\n\"You can see what we built hundreds of years ago. Now, we're letting foreign companies build our critical infrastructure.\"\n\nHe's talking about digital infrastructure: the hardware and software, data centres and communications networks that power modern business.\n\nThere is a concern in Europe about digital sovereignty, the region's ability to control its own data and technology.\n\nFor example, Europe is heavily dependent on US firms for cloud services - the remote computing and data storage services dominated by US companies including Amazon and Microsoft.\n\nThis has been a potential cause of problems, when the data of European customers is stored in a US cloud service, as there can be a conflict between the laws that apply.\n\nThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires organisations in the EU to protect personal data, and the UK has equivalent data protection laws.\n\nAt the same time, US laws have given intelligence and law-enforcement services broad powers to access data.\n\nThat conflict was underlined In May, when Facebook was fined a record €1.2bn (£1bn) for having inadequate safeguards for data sent from the EU to the US.\n\nHowever, in July the European Commission decided that the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which US firms will be able to join, gives \"an adequate level of protection\" for personal data transferred to the US.\n\nMr Åström is the founder and chief executive of Evroc, which is headquartered in Stockholm.\n\nThe firm believes there's an opportunity to create what it calls Europe's first \"sovereign hyperscale cloud\".\n\nThat means it's fully under the jurisdiction of European law, and it's big enough to rival the major US cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google. They have a 65% share of the world cloud market between them, according to Synergy Research Group.\n\nEvroc has secured €15m in seed funding and plans to build eight data centres in Europe in the next five years. The first will be a large pilot data centre in Sweden next year.\n\nMr Åström sees technological independence from the US as a critical aspect of digital sovereignty.\n\n\"We've seen the US restricting certain components from being exported to China,\" he says. \"Let's say there is a conflict in China and Taiwan. What do you think will happen if computing is a scarce resource? Do you think the US will look after its own interests or help their European friends?\"\n\nUS firms storing European data have to keep to strict European data protection laws\n\nCloud computing firm Ionos already positions itself as the European alternative to US tech giants, out of the reach of the US Cloud Act.\n\nThat's the law that allows US authorities to request data stored by cloud companies that work in the US, even if the data is outside the US. The request must meet the legal standards for a judge to issue a warrant as part of a criminal investigation.\n\nIonos develops all its software in Europe, and its European servers are isolated from the US.\n\n\"It's about trust,\" says Rainer Straeter, its head of cloud development and digital ecosystems. \"Do we really think that the Cloud Act will [hit] a small business around the corner? We don't know. This 'don't know' makes us a bit nervous.\"\n\nResponding to the issue of digital sovereignty, a spokesperson for Amazon Web Services said: \"Our bi-annual transparency reports note that there have been no data requests to AWS that resulted in disclosure of data stored outside the US to the US government. This statement was added to the transparency report in 2020, and has been re-affirmed every six months since then.\"\n\nIn addition the firm said: \"AWS will challenge any law enforcement request for customer data from any governmental bodies where the request conflicts with EU law, is overbroad, or we otherwise have any appropriate grounds to do so.\"\n\nNevertheless, European firms continue their efforts to form cloud services.\n\nIonos is among 377 organisations participating in the Gaia-X project, which aims to join up cloud service providers in a federated system, so data can move between them while data owners remain in control.\n\nIt also counts the European divisions of Microsoft, Google and Amazon among its members.\n\nHowever, Mr Straeter says that if European cloud providers band together, they can take on the US tech giants.\n\n\"None of the European cloud providers can build everything on their own to compete with AWS,\" says Mr Straeter. \"The resources available are not enough. We have to take the European way, be a bit cleverer than anybody else, and define standards. If all the [European] cloud providers were able to share an ecosystem, we would be much stronger than AWS, Google and Microsoft.\"\n\nMr Straeter believes it's important for Europe to have resilient infrastructure, following a run of crises that include the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009, Covid-19, and the war in Ukraine.\n\n\"Federated networks are more resilient, more stable,\" Mr Straeter says. \"We know this from the domain name system in the internet. It's rock solid because it's super distributed.\"\n\nAnother part of digital sovereignty is how a country or region balances free speech with protecting its citizens. The Online Safety Bill, going though UK parliament now, will require social media platforms to remove illegal content quickly, enforce age checks and stop children seeing harmful content.\n\n\"Some of this is terrifying to US companies, who are used to operating in the shadow of the first amendment,\" says Mark Weston, partner and head of technology law at law firm Hill Dickinson.\n\n\"The first amendment says as long as you're not causing direct harm to somebody, you can say whatever you like, and set yourself up in whatever way you like. The UK is [asserting its] digital sovereignty and saying this is harming our citizens, and therefore we want social media companies, while they're in our jurisdiction, to operate in this way.\"\n\nData laws in the UK and EU apply to citizens, even if their data is processed overseas, he says.\n\n\"If you are holding personal data of residents from the UK and the EU on US servers, you're caught within the UK and the EU legislation,\" says Mr Weston.\n\nPeople and firms who are concerned about digital sovereignty may also want to think about the number of companies involved in hosting their data, according to Simon Yeoman, chief executive of cloud company Fasthosts.\n\n\"The supply chain is where it starts to unravel,\" he says. \"You might work with a managed service provider based in Birmingham [UK], and they might work with a UK data centre, but they might back up to Google. You have to ask those follow-up questions around the supply chain to really understand how sovereign you are,\" he says.\n\nBarry Cashman has some reassuring words for people who are worried that US authorities can get easy access to corporate data.\n\nHe works for Veritas Technologies, a US firm, which manages data for thousands of companies all over the world.\n\n\"Concerns that EU companies and citizens have about their data being exported outside of the EU to countries with different privacy regimes are valid, but it's important to remember that the EU-US Data Framework that recently came into force does provide safeguards for the use of personal data by US national security agencies.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nTeenage winger Salma Paralluelo came off the bench to score a 111th-minute winner as Spain beat the Netherlands to reach the Women's World Cup semi-finals for the first time.\n\nMariona Caldentey had appeared to give Spain the win in normal time when she slammed home an 80th-minute penalty via the post after Stefanie van der Gragt handled in the box.\n\nVan der Gragt went from villain to hero by smashing home a stoppage-time equaliser - but Paralluelo found space in the area in extra time to put Spain's women into their first major semi-final for 26 years.\n\nThe Netherlands, runners-up in 2019 where they were beaten by the USA in the final, were outplayed for long periods although they should have taken the lead seconds before the winner, when Lineth Beerensteyn fired over from yards out.\n\nParalluelo, 19, then received the ball from Jenni Hermoso, kept her calm in the box and struck perfectly in off the left post to become Spain's youngest scorer at a Women's World Cup - and their newest star.\n\n\"It means everything for me, it was a unique moment, great euphoria... I'm extremely happy,\" Paralluelo said.\n\n\"We went to extra time, but the team kept on believing,\" said coach Jorge Vilda. \"They played on an extraordinary level, all the players, and it was a match with a lot of emotional decisions, and the goal from Salma, it was sheer joy.\"\n\nSpain will face Sweden in the semi-finals on Tuesday after the Swedish overcame Japan 2-1 in Auckland.\n• None World Football at the Women's World Cup: Spain and Sweden surge into semis\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nBefore Paralluelo grabbed the headlines, this seemed set to be a game defined by the video assistant referee (VAR).\n\nSpain appeared to have taken the lead on 37 minutes when Esther Gonzalez slammed in from close range after Alba Redondo miscued her volley into the striker's path, but it was disallowed for offside on review.\n\nThe Spanish should have been out of sight by that point. Redondo hit the post twice in a matter of seconds - first seeing her header brilliantly tipped on to the woodwork by Daphne van Domselaar, before contriving to turn the rebound off the same upright.\n\nThe Netherlands were left aggrieved in the second half when referee Stephanie Frappart initially gave a penalty for Irene Paredes barging Beerensteyn to the ground, only to overturn her decision.\n\nVAR then stepped in to give Spain a penalty for Van der Gragt's handball.\n\n\"VAR did not do its work properly, but Spain deserved to win,\" said Dutch manager Andries Jonker.\n\nIt appeared to be reward for Spain's dominance - but instead that arrived through substitute Paralluelo, the latest teenage star to make a splash at this World Cup.\n\nVan der Gragt, who is retiring from professional football after this tournament, could not have imagined a more dramatic way to bow out.\n\n\"It's hard now,\" said Van der Gragt. \"We had the chance in extra time and we didn't score, they had one chance and they scored. That's football.\"\n\nEarning her 106th cap in this match, she looked to be heading for a nightmare end to her career when she inexplicably handled Paralluelo's cross in the area, allowing Caldentey to score.\n\nBut the 30-year-old refused to let that be her final defining moment on a football pitch. As the second half ticked into 12 minutes of injury time, the centre-back found herself played clean through on the Spanish goal.\n\nVan der Gragt steadied herself and fired perfectly across Cata Coll and into the net.\n\nIt was a temporary let-off for a Dutch side who were outplayed through the majority of this match. They missed Danielle van de Donk - suspended for this game - with one-time Spain international Damaris Egurrola unable to bring the same combativeness to midfield.\n\nJill Roord, whose four goals already are the most ever by a Dutch woman at a World Cup, was anonymous before being substituted on the hour. Her side were again reliant on keeper Van Domselaar - Aston Villa look to have got a real bargain with their newly signed goalkeeper.\n\nBut Van Domselaar could do nothing about the winner, which earned Spain a first major semi-final since the 1997 European Championships - six years before Paralluelo was born.\n\nIt means the Netherlands' first major tournament under manager Jonker, who took over after their quarter-final exit from Euro 2022, ends in failure.\n\n\"The disappointment is major, if we had won I am convinced we would have made it through the semi,\" said Jonker.\n\n\"I am very proud of this team, in one year we have got back in there [among the world's best teams]. Tough to swallow but we are back on the map.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Eva Navarro (Spain) header from the right side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Salma Paralluelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jenni Hermoso (Spain) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Irene Paredes (Spain) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Teresa Abelleira with a cross following a corner.\n• None Goal! Spain 2, Netherlands 1. Salma Paralluelo (Spain) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jenni Hermoso.\n• None Attempt missed. Lineth Beerensteyn (Netherlands) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Katja Snoeijs (Netherlands).\n• None Attempt missed. Lineth Beerensteyn (Netherlands) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lieke Martens with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hawaiian officials are braced for a significant rise in the death toll from the fast-spreading wildfires, which caused devastation on the island of Maui and destroyed most of the historic town of Lahaina.\n\nHawaii Governor Josh Green said the fires were the \"largest natural disaster in Hawaii state history\" and that 80% of the beach-front town had \"gone\" - satellite images gave an immediate sense of the scale of the damage.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nHundreds of people remain missing almost a week after the disaster, and search teams have only covered a tiny percentage of the area affected.\n\nThe fires are now reported to be under control, but efforts to fully extinguish them continue on some parts of the island.\n\nHundreds of people who fled their homes in Lahaina have been taking cover in an emergency shelter. About 2,700 homes are reported to have been destroyed.\n\nIncredibly strong winds from Hurricane Dora, which passed south of Hawaii on Tuesday 8 August fanned the flames and prevented aircraft from flying over the town during the fire - but once they had passed, pilots were shocked by what they saw.\n\n\"It's horrifying. I've flown here 52 years and I've never seen anything come close to that,\" helicopter pilot Richard Olsten told the Associated Press news agency. \"We had tears in our eyes.\"\n\nThe flames destroyed most of the buildings in front of the port, including the old courthouse.\n\nAnger has grown among the community with many people telling the BBC they were not forewarned about the fires. It is currently unclear if early warning systems were used, or if they malfunctioned.\n\nThe town's lighthouse has survived but most of the surrounding buildings were destroyed, including the oldest hotel in Hawaii - the 122-year-old Pioneer Inn.\n\nThe centre of Lahaina dated back to the 1700s and was on the US National Register of Historic Places - it was once Hawaii's capital.\n\nThe town was home to about 12,000 people - the initial assessments say about 86% of the damaged buildings were residential.\n\nAlice Lee, chair of the Maui County Council, told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme how the fire razed the \"beautiful\" Front Street, the town's main strip.\n\n\"The fire traversed almost the entire street, so all the shops and little restaurants that people visited on their trips to Maui, most of them are burnt down to the ground,\" Lee said, adding: \"So many businesses will have to struggle to recover,\" she said.\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama - who was born in Hawaii - is among those who has expressed his sorrow at the impact of the blaze. He posted on the X social network (formerly known as Twitter): \"It's tough to see some of the images coming out of Hawaii — a place that's so special to so many of us.\"\n\n\"Michelle and I are thinking of everyone who has lost a loved one, or whose life has been turned upside down.\"\n\nThe fires also destroyed many natural features on the island - there are fears for Lahaina's banyan tree, the oldest in Hawaii, and one of the oldest in the US.\n\nThe 60ft-tall (18m) fig tree was planted in 1873, on the place where Hawaiian King Kamehameha's first palace stood, but it was burnt after fires ravaged the area on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to the town's website, if its roots remain healthy it will likely grow back. But at this stage, they say the tree \"looks burned\".\n\nMost of the damage was done on Tuesday as the flames engulfed the town.\n\nThe blaze ripped through the town so quickly that some people jumped into the harbour to escape the flames and smoke.\n\nThe flames were fanned by gusts of wind of up to 65mph (100km/h) that hit the islands last week as Hurricane Dora passed about 700 miles (1,100km) south of Hawaii.\n\nDrought or abnormally dry conditions across large parts of Hawaii - including the entire island of Maui - also played a role.\n\nAbout 14% of the state is suffering from severe or moderate drought, according to the US Drought Monitor, while 80% of Hawaii is classed as abnormally dry.\n\nWildfires were once uncommon in Hawaii, ignited largely through volcanic eruptions or lightning strikes. But in recent decades, human activity has made them more common and extreme.\n\nClimate change is increasing the risk of wildfire globally as it drives up temperatures and makes heatwaves longer and more intense.\n\n\"We have never experienced a wildfire that affected a city like this before,\" Governor Josh Green said, adding that the challenges of climate change were putting unprecedented strain on Hawaii.\n\nHow are you affected by the wildfires? If it is safe to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mobile phone video taken near the waterfront of Lahaina reveals the devastation caused by a wildfire on the Hawaiian island of Maui.", "Fox and the bound? This vixen got her head stuck in metal flooring\n\nA curious fox who got her head stuck gave firefighters a whole new take on a brush with danger.\n\nThe vixen was found by workers in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, at about 07:00 BST, West Midlands Fire Service said.\n\nCrews used specialist equipment to cut through the metal flooring that had ensnared her.\n\nThe RSPCA then took the animal away from the scene for further treatment. She is understood to be safe and well.\n\n\"Who let the fox out? We did,\" crews said on social media following the events on Garrison Street.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 36 people have died as fast-moving wildfires tear through the Hawaiian island of Maui, officials say.\n\nThe deaths in the city of Lahaina, the island's main tourist destination, came as strong winds from a distant hurricane fanned the flames.\n\nThe fire is one of several ongoing blazes that have burnt entire neighbourhoods to the ground.\n\nThousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes and a state of emergency has been declared.\n\nA huge search and rescue operation is under way, with some people still unaccounted for.\n\n\"We barely made it out in time,\" Kamuela Kawaakoa, who fled to an evacuation shelter on Tuesday with his partner and six-year-old son, told the Associated Press.\n\n\"It was so hard to sit there and just watch my town burn to ashes and not be able to do anything,\" he said. \"I was helpless.\"\n\nFive evacuation shelters have been opened on Maui and officials earlier said they were \"overrun\" with people. The island is a popular tourist destination and visitors have been urged to stay away.\n\n\"This is not a safe place to be,\" Hawaii Lt Governor Sylvia Luke told reporters. \"We have resources that are being taxed.\"\n\nFirefighters are still battling active fires, with helicopters dropping water on the blazes from above.\n\nThe western side of the island, which is the second largest of the Hawaiian archipelago, was almost cut off entirely with only one main road open.\n\n\"As the firefighting efforts continue, 36 total fatalities have been discovered today amid the active Lahaina fire,\" the Maui county government said in a statement late on Wednesday.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nDozens of people have been injured since the fires began burning on Tuesday and hospitals on the island are treating patients for burns and smoke inhalation.\n\nLahaina has been devastated by the fire and video showed the blaze tearing through the beachfront resort city.\n\n\"We just had the worst disaster I've ever seen. All of Lahaina is burnt to a crisp. It's like an apocalypse,\" resident Mason Jarvi told Reuters. He showed the news agency images of the city's destroyed and blackened waterfront.\n\nMr Jarvi said he suffered burns after riding through the flames on his bike to save his dog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fires earlier drove people to jump into the city's harbour to escape the flames and smoke. Fourteen people were rescued after jumping in, officials said.\n\nBusinesses around Lahaina have been destroyed, and one senior education official said they were preparing for the possible loss of a century-old elementary school in the city.\n\nOn Wednesday, the strong winds caused by passing Hurricane Dora eased slightly meaning pilots were able to view the full scale of the damage.\n\nImages taken from above showed burnt cars littering the streets and smoke rising high above piles of rubble.\n\n\"It's horrifying. I've flown here 52 years and I've never seen anything come close to that,\" helicopter pilot Richard Olsten told the Associated Press. \"We had tears in our eyes.\"\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nAre you on Maui or in touch with people who are? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A large crowd calling for France to leave Niger gathered near the capital on Friday\n\nRussia has warned that military intervention in Niger would lead to a \"protracted confrontation\" after regional bloc Ecowas said it would assemble a standby force.\n\nSuch an intervention would destabilise the Sahel region as a whole, the Russian foreign ministry said.\n\nRussia does not formally back the coup.\n\nBut the US, which backs efforts to restore deposed leader Mohamed Bazoum, says its Wagner mercenary group is taking advantage of the instability.\n\nOn Friday coup supporters, some waving Russian flags, protested at a French military base near the capital NIamey, some chanting \"down with France, down with Ecowas\".\n\nBoth France and the US operate military bases in Niger and they have been used to launch operations against jihadist groups in the wider region.\n\nMilitary officials from Ecowas countries are reportedly set to meet on Saturday to draft plans for a military intervention.\n\nThe bloc has said it remains open to finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis, but Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu said on Thursday that \"No option is taken off the table, including the use of force as a last resort\".\n\nThe US has not explicitly backed military action but has called on the junta to step aside and allow the restoration of the country's democratic constitution.\n\nThe Niger junta has not responded to the latest statements from Ecowas leaders.\n\nMeanwhile fears are growing for the health and safety of Mr Bazoum, who has been held captive since the military seized power on 26 July.\n\nHe and his family had been \"deprived of food, electricity and medical care for several days\", EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.\n\nUN rights commissioner Volker Turk said he had received credible reports that the conditions of detention \"could amount to inhuman and degrading treatment\".\n\nRights group Human Rights Watch said Mr Bazoum had told them this week that he and his family were being treated in an \"inhuman and cruel\" way.\n\n\"My son is sick, has a serious heart condition, and needs to see a doctor,\" HRW quoted Mr Bazoum as telling them.", "The island of Maui can be seen engulfed in flames in video shot from a passenger plane flying overhead.\n\nFirefighters are still battling to contain wildfires on the Hawaiian island, which began on Tuesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Inside the housing barge after first asylum seekers board\n\nSome of the first group of men to board the Bibby Stockholm have described their first days on the barge.\n\nOne asylum seeker told the BBC it was like a prison and felt there was not enough room to accommodate up to 500 people onboard, as the government plans.\n\nAnother person on board praised the food and called the barge \"quite a nice place\" with small but \"clean and tidy rooms\".\n\nThe Home Office says the barge will provide better value for the taxpayer as pressure on the asylum system from small boats arrivals continues to grow.\n\nMoored in Portland Port, Dorset, it is the first barge secured under the government's plans to reduce the cost of asylum accommodation.\n\nMonday saw the first 15 asylum seekers board the Bibby Stockholm after a series of delays over safety concerns. It will house men aged 18 to 65 while they await the outcome of their asylum applications.\n\nAn Afghan asylum seeker, whom the BBC is not identifying, said: \"The sound of locks and security checks gives me the feeling of entering Alcatraz prison.\n\n\"My roommate panicked in the middle of the night and felt like he was drowning. There are people among us who have been given heavy drugs for depression by the doctor here.\"\n\nHe said he had been given a small room, and the dining hall had capacity for fewer than 150 people.\n\n\"Like a prison, it [the barge] has entrance and exit gates, and at some specific hours, we have to take a bus, and after driving a long distance, we go to a place where we can walk. We feel very bad,\" the man added.\n\nThere is 24/7 security in place on board the Bibby Stockholm and asylum seekers are issued with ID swipe cards and have to pass through airport-style security scans to get on and off.\n\nAsylum seekers are expected to take a shuttle bus to the port exit for security reasons. There is no curfew, but if they aren't back there will be a \"welfare call\".\n\nThe Home Office has said it would support their welfare by providing basic healthcare, organised activities and recreation.\n\nThe first group of men arrived on Monday. The Care4Calais charity said it was providing legal support to a further 20 asylum seekers who refused to move to Portland and are challenging the decision.\n\nOn Tuesday, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffiths, said that moving to the barge was \"not a choice\" and if people choose not to comply \"they will be taken outside of the asylum support system\".\n\n\"Many of us entered Britain nine to 11 months ago, by airplane. Some of us applied for asylum at the airport. We did not come by boat,\" the Afghan man said.\n\n\"It has been two weeks since we received a letter in which they threatened that if we do not agree to go, our aid and NHS will be cut off.\n\n\"There are people among us who take medicine. We accepted. We waited for two weeks and didn't even have time to bring clean clothes.\"\n\nTwo other asylum seekers on board the barge said the \"food is good\" and described the rooms as \"small, but nice, clean and tidy\".\n\nThe men, aged 19 and 25, said they had arrived in the UK earlier this year by plane, not on a small boat crossing the Channel.\n\nThey said they faced religious persecution in their home country, which the BBC is not identifying to protect their anonymity.\n\nThey also described a gym and a TV lounge on board.\n\n\"The food is good, much better than the hotel,\" the 25-year-old told BBC News.\n\nThe 19-year-old added there is an IT centre inside but they can only use it at allocated times.\n\n\"We have indoor games. We have a football ground, small basketball hoops and some board games - it's quite a nice place.\"\n\nHowever he said he was not happy on board because he had been removed from a religious community where he had previously been housed.\n\n\"I don't say I am happy. But it's okay because I have to be here. I was happy when I was with my people, with my community,\" he said.\n\n\"Our main purpose is to practice our religion.\"\n\nHe added he had requested not to be moved from his hotel on the south coast to the barge, but his request was refused.\n\n\"They said that you have to go to the barge. It's basically on a no-choice basis, so you have to come here.\"\n\nThe 19-year-old said he hoped to complete his studies in the UK and become a software developer. The 25-year-old said he wanted to work in international relations.\n\nThe government says it is spending £6m per day housing more than 50,000 migrants in hotels.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"This marks a further step forward in the government's work to bring forward alternative accommodation options as part of its pledge to reduce the use of expensive hotels and move to a more orderly, sustainable system which is more manageable for local communities.\"\n\n\"This is a tried-and-tested approach that mirrors that taken by our European neighbours, the Scottish government and offers better value for the British taxpayer,\" they added.\n\nThe Home Office says that by the autumn, they aim to house about 3,000 asylum seekers in places that aren't hotels - such as the barge, and former military sites Wethersfield, in Essex, and Scampton, in Lincolnshire.", "An Aberdeen University student has spoken of awe and wonder following a record-breaking flight to space with her mother.\n\nAnastatia Mayers was on Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight and floated around, experiencing zero-gravity, during the trip from Spaceport America in New Mexico.\n\nThe physics student had managed to keep her dream trip a secret from her colleagues in Aberdeen, who later gathered to watch her make history as part of the first mother daughter duo in space.\n\nKeisha Schahaff joined her daughter after winning their tickets in a sweepstake. Also on board was 80-year-old former Olympian Jon Goodwin, who bought his ticket for $250,000 back in 2005.", "A controversial rule which deducted living costs from compensation paid to wrongly imprisoned people has been scrapped.\n\nThe government announced the change on Sunday after the case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit, prompted calls for it to be overhauled.", "Private Travis King dashed across the border to North Korea last month\n\nNorth Korea has said US soldier Travis King crossed into its territory last month because of \"inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination\" in the army.\n\nThe 23-year-old private dashed across the border from South Korea on 18 July while on a guided tour.\n\nPrivate King admitted to crossing illegally and wanted refuge in the North, state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nIt is the first time Pyongyang has acknowledged detaining the soldier. The claims have not been verified.\n\nThey appeared in a statement which has so far only been published by the government-controlled KCNA. It did not provide further details about Private King's health or whether the country would accept him as a refugee.\n\nConcerns have been growing for the welfare of the US soldier, who has not been heard from or seen since his crossing.\n\nThe US is trying to negotiate Private King's release with the help of the UN Command, which runs the border area, and has a direct phoneline to the North Korean army.\n\nResponding to the North Korean report on Wednesday, a Pentagon official said the US could not verify the claims and its priority was to have Private King brought home safely \"through all available channels\".\n\nNorth Korea has given no information on how it plans to treat Private King but said the soldier admitted he had \"illegally\" entered the country.\n\nThe fact that North Korea's statement emphasised Private King's illegal entry suggests that it is not thinking of having him stay even if he wants to, said Christopher Green, a senior consultant at the think-tank International Crisis Group.\n\n\"That is not surprising. He would lose all his political value to them if that were the case,\" said Mr Green, but added that North Korea is in no rush to negotiate Travis King's return to the US just yet.\n\n\"They have very publicly thrown in their lot with Beijing and Moscow, as high-level delegation visits from both countries to Pyongyang in recent weeks show. It is a mistake to think that North Korea is or needs to be in a hurry to deal with the Travis King mess,\" he said.\n\nThe statement on KCNA did not say if he would face prosecution or punishment, and there was no mention of his current whereabouts or condition.\n\n\"During the investigation, Travis King confessed that he had decided to come over to the DPRK [North Korea] as he harboured ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the US Army,\" KCNA reported.\n\n\"He also expressed his willingness to seek refuge in the DPRK or a third country, saying that he was disillusioned at the unequal American society.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What's next for captured US soldier in North Korea?\n\nPrivate King is a reconnaissance specialist who has been in the army since January 2021 and was in South Korea as part of his rotation.\n\nBefore crossing the border, he served two months in detention in South Korea for assault charges and was released on 10 July.\n\nHe was supposed to fly back to the US to face disciplinary proceedings but managed to leave the airport and join a tour of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), which separates North and South Korea.\n\nThe DMZ, one of the most heavily fortified areas in the world, is filled with landmines, surrounded by electric and barbed wire fencing, and monitored by surveillance cameras. Armed guards are supposed to be on alert 24 hours a day although witnesses say there were no North Korean soldiers present when Private King ran over.\n\nHis family have previously told US media that he had relayed experiencing racism in the army. They also said his mental health appeared to have declined after he spent time in a South Korean jail.\n\n\"It feels like I'm in a big nightmare,\" said his mother Claudine Gates, adding the family was desperate for answers.\n\nNorth Korea is one of the few countries still under nominally communist rule and has long been a highly secretive and isolated society.\n\nIts government, led by Kim Jong-un, also stands accused of systematic human rights abuse.\n\nAnalysts say the detainment of Travis King has played into North Korea's anti-US messaging, at a time when relations between the two countries are their worst in years.\n\nPyongyang will most likely have relished the opportunity to highlight racism and other shortcomings in American society, especially given the international criticism it receives for human rights abuses.\n\nThe UN Security Council is due to hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss the human rights situation in North Korea for the first time since 2017.\n\nAhead of its comments on Travis King, North Korean media had put out a statement on the UN meeting, which will be led by the US.\n\n\"Not content with fostering racial discrimination and gun-related crimes, the US has imposed unethical human rights standards on other countries\", it read.", "Harrison Ford's legendary Indiana Jones character may fear snakes, but the actor now has a real reptile named after him.\n\nA new found species of snake in Peru has been named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi to honour the actor's environmental advocacy.\n\nFord, who is the vice chair of non-profit group Conservation International, called it \"humbling\".\n\nThe actor also has an ant and a spider named after him.\n\n\"These scientists keep naming critters after me, but it's always the ones that terrify children,\" Ford told Conservation International. \"I don't understand. I spend my free time cross-stitching. I sing lullabies to my basil plants, so they won't fear the night.\"\n\nUnlike his character, Indiana Jones, Ford has repeatedly said he actually liked snakes and \"found a quick kinship with this one\".\n\n\"The snake's got eyes you can drown in, and he spends most of the day sunning himself by a pool of dirty water — we probably would've been friends in the early '60s,\" he said. \"It's a reminder that there's still so much to learn about our wild world - and that humans are one small part of an impossibly vast biosphere,\"\n\nThe discovery, a joint collaboration between researchers from Peru and the United States, was made in Peru's Otishi National Park.\n\nThe Tachymenoides harrisonfordi was discovered in Peru's Andes Mountains\n\nThe Tachymenoides harrisonfordi is a slender snake, measuring a modest 16in (40.6cm) when fully grown. It is not harmful to humans.\n\n\"For a biologist, describing a new species and making it public with its new name is one of the most vital activities during the biodiversity crisis,\" said Edgar Lehr, the lead scientist on the project. \"Only organisms that are known can be protected.\"\n\nHe hopes the discovery will draw attention to the extinction crisis facing species around the world.\n\nReptiles are particularly prone to extinction, with more than a fifth of all reptiles currently under threat, a study co-authored by Conservation International researchers found.\n\nIt was in 1993 that a new species was first named after Ford - the Calponia harrisonfordi, which is a California spider. Years later, an ant was dubbed after the actor - named Pheidole harrisonfordi.", "Stephen Nolan presented his Radio Ulster programme as usual on Tuesday morning\n\nThe BBC has said it cannot comment on allegations against presenter Stephen Nolan published in the Irish News.\n\nThe publication listed a number of claims concerning Mr Nolan including an allegation that he had sent sexually explicit images of a potential guest for his TV show to other BBC staff.\n\nDirector of BBC Northern Ireland Adam Smyth said the BBC \"cannot comment on the specifics of any individual case\".\n\nBBC News NI has not been able to independently verify the claims.\n\nThey appeared in the Irish News on Tuesday.\n\nThe paper alleged that in 2016, while the production team on Nolan Live were attempting to book the reality TV contestant Stephen Bear for the programme, Mr Nolan had sent them two sexually explicit images of Mr Bear.\n\nAccording to the Irish News, the BBC subsequently carried out an investigation in 2018 following a complaint by a member of staff about the images.\n\nAmong the other allegations reported in the Irish News were that a BBC staff member had separately made a formal complaint of bullying against Mr Nolan.\n\nHowever, according to the paper, that complaint was not upheld.\n\nThe Irish News also alleged that \"abusive remarks\" about other BBC staff were shared among Mr Nolan and some members of his production team.\n\nThe BBC has not seen the evidence cited by the newspaper which it further alleges contained historic allegations that some members of the Nolan team shared disparaging comments about politicians.\n\nBBC News NI asked BBC Northern Ireland whether they could confirm that investigations into the separate allegations reported had taken place and the outcome of any investigations.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Mr Smyth said: \"There are important considerations of fairness and confidentiality involved in the handling of any workplace-related complaint.\n\n\"We take these obligations seriously - and in the interests of everyone involved,\" he continued.\n\n\"It is for these reasons that we cannot comment on the specifics of any individual case, who/what it may have involved or its outcome.\"\n\nStephen Nolan presents programmes on Radio Ulster and BBC 5 Live as well as some television work\n\nMr Nolan declined to comment when asked by BBC News NI, through the BBC Northern Ireland press office.\n\nHe presented his Radio Ulster show as usual on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a statement, the DUP MP Gregory Campbell said the Irish News story raises \"significant questions for the corporation and Mr Nolan\".\n\n\"The scale and significance of the revelations printed today, were they related to any other area of life in Northern Ireland, would undoubtedly be headline news across the BBC,\" he said.\n\n\"'Radio silence' just won't cut it however in this instance.\n\n\"There are significant multi-layered issues that have been highlighted and all of which deserve a full response from the BBC.\"", "The Trump campaign described the charges as \"bogus\" and said they were designed to \"damage the dominant... campaign\"\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged with attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state of Georgia.\n\nIt is the fourth criminal case brought against him in five months.\n\nMr Trump, who is the leading Republican candidate for president in 2024, was indicted along with 18 other allies.\n\nHe denies all 13 charges against him, which include racketeering and election meddling. He has said they are politically motivated.\n\nGeorgia prosecutor Fani Willis first launched an investigation in February 2021 into allegations of election meddling against Mr Trump and his associates.\n\nIn a 98-page indictment made public late on Monday, prosecutors listed 41 charges against the 19 defendants.\n\nMs Willis announced she was giving defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on Friday 25 August. She said she plans to try all 19 accused together.\n\nThe list of alleged co-conspirators includes former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former White House lawyer John Eastman.\n\nOthers include a former justice department official, Jeffrey Clark, and Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis - two Trump lawyers who amplified unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud.\n\nThe indictment says the defendants \"knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favour of Trump\".\n\nThe former president is accused of felony counts including:\n\nThe indictment refers to the defendants as a \"criminal organisation\", accusing them of other crimes including influencing witnesses, computer trespass, theft and perjury.\n\nThe most serious charge, violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (Rico) Act, is punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison.\n\nThe act - designed to help take down organised criminal syndicates like the mafia - helps prosecutors connect the dots between underlings who broke laws and those who gave them orders.\n\nIn a statement, the Trump campaign described the district attorney as a \"rabid partisan\" who had filed \"these bogus indictments\" to interfere with the 2024 presidential race and \"damage the dominant Trump campaign\".\n\n\"This latest co-ordinated strike by a biased prosecutor in an overwhelmingly Democrat jurisdiction not only betrays the trust of the American people, but also exposes the true motivation driving their fabricated accusations,\" said the statement.\n\nHe is the first former president in US history to face criminal charges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I make decisions based on the facts and the law.'\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Trump was charged by federal prosecutors in Washington DC with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden, a Democrat.\n\nThat charge sheet devoted significant time to the Trump team's activities in Georgia. Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty in that case.\n\nMs Willis' investigation focuses specifically on Georgia, a key battleground state for the US presidency that Mr Trump narrowly lost.\n\nIn January 2021, Mr Trump was recorded on a phone call asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to \"find\" 11,780 votes - the number he would have required to beat Mr Biden in that state.\n\nThe indictment outlines an alleged scheme to tamper with voting machines in one Georgia county and steal data.\n\nIt also mentions an alleged scheme to submit false lists of electors, officials who make up the Electoral College that elects the president and vice-president.\n\nMr Raffensperger released a statement following the indictment, saying: \"The most basic principles of a strong democracy are accountability and respect for the Constitution and rule of law. You either have it, or you don't.\"\n\nThere are key differences between state charges such as those in Georgia and federal ones. Significantly, if Mr Trump were to become president again in 2024, he would not have the power to pardon himself from state charges.\n\nMr Trump also faces a New York state trial on 25 March next year involving a hush money payment to a porn star. And he is due to go on trial in Florida on 20 May on allegations related to his handling of classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago residence after his presidency.\n\nIn both cases Mr Trump also pleaded not guilty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"I just want to find 11,780 votes\"\n• None The mafia-busting law Trump is charged under in Georgia", "Andy Malkinson was wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in Greater Manchester in 2004\n\nDocuments in the case of Andy Malkinson show the DNA of another man was identified three years after he was wrongly jailed for rape.\n\nMr Malkinson was found guilty in 2004 of raping a woman in Greater Manchester and only had his conviction quashed last month at the Court of Appeal.\n\nQuestions have now been raised over why Mr Malkinson was not granted an appeal as long ago as 2009.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission failed to follow leads, he said.\n\nMr Malkinson went to prison protesting his innocence. At his trial there had been no DNA or other forensic evidence to link him to the victim, or the scene of the savage attack.\n\nLast month, the Court of Appeal quashed the 57-year-old's conviction after the Crown Prosecution Service accepted that DNA obtained long ago from the victim's clothing - but never fully and repeatedly tested for matches - pointed to another man.\n\nCase documents seen by BBC News show that all the key agencies involved in Andy Malkinson's case knew by 2009 of this exonerating DNA.\n\nMr Malkinson's team argue the DNA evidence would have been more than enough to quash his conviction, even if the real suspect could not be identified.\n\nIn 2007, forensic scientists had run a nationwide operation to review biological samples from \"cold case\" unsolved crimes in the hope that technical advances in DNA profiling could identify more suspects.\n\nIn Andy Malkinson's case, the scientists tested for new DNA from the victim's clothing - and the results triggered new questions.\n\nDocuments now disclosed to Mr Malkinson show that in December 2009, the scientists told Crown Prosecution Service lawyers and Greater Manchester Police detectives they were sure they had identified DNA from an unknown man's saliva.\n\nBetween 2007 and 2009 the scientists carried out two searches on the National DNA Database for a match to known suspects. Those searches did not yield a match to any man - a result that also further underlined the sample could not have come from Mr Malkinson.\n\nThe team told the CPS and GMP that the DNA had been recovered from the victim's vest, close to where she had suffered a very serious bite wound.\n\nDNA from an unknown man's saliva was found on the victim's vest top.\n\nA senior CPS lawyer wrote in his notes: \"If it is assumed that the saliva came from the offender, then it does not derive from Malkinson.\n\n\"This is surprising because the area of the clothing that the saliva was recovered from was crime-specific.\"\n\nDespite recognition in the meeting that the DNA evidence appeared to point to another man having attacked the woman, the Crown Prosecution Service advised against any more work on the case, unless and until Mr Malkinson was granted permission for a fresh appeal.\n\nMr Malkinson had already begun that process by asking the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to reinvestigate and send his conviction back to the Court of Appeal.\n\nHis then lawyers were told about the new DNA work - and urged the CCRC to undertake a \"full and comprehensive review of the forensic evidence\".\n\nBut the agency's case log shows its investigators then concluded there was \"nothing to be gained\" by having any of the DNA retested.\n\nThe file, disclosed to Mr Malkinson, notes: \"Would [testing] be a good use of public funds? I do not think on the basis of the material available that it would be a reasonable course of action.\"\n\nA CCRC investigator later wrote that there was \"no DNA material to speak of\" and further testing \"would be extremely costly\".\n\nThe file goes on to question whether the location where the new DNA profile had been found was significant at all.\n\n\"There is no certainty that the vest top DNA sample is crime specific,\" wrote a CCRC investigator.\n\nGreater Manchester Police later destroyed the victim's clothes - and the 2007 DNA profile lay buried in a scientific archive until Mr Malkinson's new legal team tracked it down and commissioned their own testing in 2019.\n\nThat work ultimately led to the identification of a different man whose profile had, in the meantime, been added to the National DNA Database.\n\nSince Mr Malkinson won his freedom, more than 100,000 people have signed his petition for an independent review of how the CCRC handled the case.\n\n\"If the CCRC had investigated properly, it would have spared me years in prison for a crime I did not commit,\" said Mr Malkinson.\n\n\"I feel an apology is the least I am owed, but it seems like the very body set up to address the system's fallibility is labouring under the delusion that it is itself infallible. How many more people has it failed?\"\n\nLord Edward Garnier, Conservative peer and former solicitor general, expressed his \"jaw-dropping shock\" over the handling of Mr Malkinson's case.\n\n\"The more one learns about this case, which is coming out in dribs and drabs, the more one is shocked about how Mr Malkinson was let down by the justice system, essentially let down by the state,\" Lord Garnier told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe called for a public inquiry reaching conclusions within six months, and said all documents related to the case should be publicly disclosed.\n\n\"It's particularly distressing to hear that on grounds of cost, they [the CCRC] decided this was not worth pursuing. Well, here we are now in 2023, well over a decade since they were first involved in this matter, and the costs now are enormous.\n\n\"Not only have we had the cost to Mr Malkinson in every sense of the word, but we are going to see him paid justly huge amounts of compensation. I'd be very surprised now if somebody didn't say he should be given exemplary damages, not just compensatory damages, because of the oppressive and arbitrary behaviour of agents of the state,\" he said.\n\nExemplary damages are assessed to punish the defendant for the wrongful act and \"overcompensate\" the victim.\n\nSenior Conservative and former justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland backed Lord Garnier's call for a public inquiry.\n\n\"I agree with Lord Garnier. Clearly this latest revelation is startling to say the least\", he told BBC Radio 4's World at One. \"That's why I think we need to get to the bottom of this.\"\n\nJames Burley, the investigator at APPEAL, the miscarriages of justice charity that took on Mr Malkinson's case, said the CCRC's decision-making had been \"deeply flawed\".\n\n\"If the CCRC had applied common sense, it would have granted Andy a new appeal in 2009,\" said Mr Burley.\n\n\"Instead, the CCRC said this evidence wasn't enough and then failed to carry out DNA enquiries which might not only have further supported Andy's innocence but identified the new suspect years sooner.\"\n\nIn a statement to the Guardian newspaper, the CCRC said: \"We note the observations that have been made in relation to Mr Malkinson's case and are considering the court of appeal judgment. As we have said before, it is plainly wrong that a man spent 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.\" The organisation has not responded to BBC News' request for an interview.\n\nIn a statement, Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Jackson of Greater Manchester Police said that, when the force became aware of the new DNA material, it complied with all directions given to it by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.\n\n\"This was an appalling miscarriage of justice and I am sorry to Mr Malkinson for all that he has suffered, and for any part GMP has had in the difficult journey of proving his innocence,\" she said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is reviewing how Greater Manchester Police dealt with Mr Malkinson's complaints about his case. Last month the Court of Appeal ruled that two people who police relied upon as alleged witnesses, placing the innocent man at the scene of the crime, were in fact petty criminals. The judges said the jury should have been made aware of their dishonesty.\n\nA spokesman for the CPS said it shared the \"deep regret\" that Mr Malkinson had been wrongly convicted - but denied the 2007 DNA evidence had been ignored.\n\n\"It was disclosed [in 2009] to the defence team representing Mr Malkinson for their consideration,\" he said.\n\n\"In addition, searches of the DNA databases were conducted to identify any other possible suspects. At that time there were no matches and therefore no further investigation could be carried out.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) should not be left leaderless while a massive data breach is investigated, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader has said.\n\nThe data, which was mistakenly released, included the surnames and first initials of 10,000 PSNI staff.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne said the information was now in the hands of dissident republicans.\n\nFormer vice chairman of the SDLP Tom Kelly has called on him to resign.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson told Radio 4's Today programme that the PSNI should not be left leaderless but that it needed to be established very quickly how the breach had happened.\n\nSir Jeffrey added the question of accountability for the breach would follow.\n\n\"But I don't want to leave the PSNI leaderless at this stage, it is important he oversees this stage of the process,\" he said.\n\n\"That leadership is necessary to ensure stability within the PSNI.\"\n\nThe information released in the data breach included the rank or grade of staff, where they are based and the unit in which they work.\n\nMr Byrne said the information could be used to \"intimidate or target officers and staff\".\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said it was important that there is stability at the top of the PSNI\n\nThe threat to officers means they must be extremely vigilant about their security.\n\nMany, especially from nationalist communities, keep their employment secret, in some cases even from many family members.\n\nIn March, the terrorist threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nThat followed an attack on a senior officer who suffered life-changing injuries after being shot several times by dissident republican paramilitaries.\n\nEarlier, former NI Policing Board member Tom Kelly told the BBC that the \"buck stops at the top of any organisation\" and that Mr Byrne should have stepped down within a day or two of the breach becoming public.\n\n\"He is ultimately responsible for this, there are serious questions to be asked because the safety of his officers are at stake,\" Mr Kelly added.\n\nHowever, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said that as there was no Northern Ireland Assembly, no replacement chief constable could be appointed if Mr Byrne resigned.\n\n\"I believe in due process and I think that there needs to be a very robust investigation into how this was possible,\" the former justice minister said.\n\n\"This is an unprecedented breach and I think exposes a systemic failure in terms of data protection within the PSNI.\n\n\"However I tend not to jump to knee-jerk reactions when it comes to demanding people's resignations.\"\n\nFollowing the news of the breach, it later emerged 200 officers and staff of the Police Service of Northern Ireland were not informed of the theft of personal data from a superintendent's car for a month.\n\nPolice said people affected by the security breach in Newtownabbey on 6 July were informed about the incident on 4 August.\n\nThe nature of the missing data had to be confirmed.\n\nThe senior officer remains in his post while the subject of an investigation into the theft of the document and police-issue laptop.\n\nUlster Unionist Party assembly member Mike Nesbitt, who is a member of the Policing Board, said the information given by police over the breach from the car was vague compared to information about the larger data breach.\n\nHe said he wanted the chief constable to explain when exactly the Information Commissioner's Office had been informed about the theft from the car.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Byrne said the PSNI were \"working round the clock to assess and mitigate\" the risk to officers.\n\nInformation released included that of officers working in sensitive areas\n\nHe said dissident republican paramilitaries could use the list of names to generate \"fear and uncertainty\".\n\nDetails released in what Mr Byrne earlier called a breach of \"industrial scale\" included names of people who work in sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence.\n\nLiam Kelly, the chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland (PFNI), the body that represents police officers, urged all police officers and staff to exercise \"maximum vigilance\".\n\nMr Byrne said the safety and welfare of officers and staff was his top priority and said an online service had been set up to deal with any staff concerns.\n\nContrary to some reports, there was no evidence of movement of officers and staff outside the organisation and he paid tribute to the \"resilience\" of staff, he added.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said the UK government remained committed to providing specialist support and expertise.\n\n\"I know that PSNI and security partners will continue to take proportionate action to protect officers and staff and their families,\" he added.\n\nA 'sinister' document was posted outside a Sinn Féin office, said Gerry Kelly\n\nEarlier on Monday, police said they were investigating an incident where a document was posted on a wall in west Belfast, allegedly showing information released in the breach.\n\nNames were redacted from the document, which was found near a Sinn Féin office alongside a photo of the party's policing spokesperson, Gerry Kelly.\n\nThere was also a threatening message which read: \"Gerry we know who your mates are.\"", "Hello and welcome to our coverage of the Rubik's Cube World Championships in Seoul, South Korea.\n\nIt's the final day of the competition, in which hundreds of \"speedcubers\" are competing across 17 events. These range from competing to solve the classic cube in the shortest time, to tackling it blindfolded or one-handed, to cracking other so-called \"twisty puzzles\" such as the pyramid-shaped Pyraminx or the dodecahedron-shaped Megaminx.\n\nDesigned in 1974 by the Hungarian architect Erno Rubik as a teaching tool, the Rubik's cube is now one of the best-selling toys of all time. Speedcubing has surged in popularity, with the world record for solving the puzzle now 3.13 seconds - a fraction of the first world record of 22.95 seconds, set in 1982.\n\nWe won't be providing text updates, but you can watch live coverage by clicking the play button at the top of this page, with commentary provided by the World Cube Association which runs the championships.", "DfI said budget constraints and climate change targets have \"changed the landscape considerably\" for road improvements\n\nA number of major road schemes in Northern Ireland are in doubt after Stormont's Department for Infrastructure (DfI) said it had \"paused\" preliminary work.\n\nThe schemes under threat include the Ballynahinch bypass and the widening of a section of Belfast's A55 ring road.\n\nDfI said it was committed to the remaining planned phases of the A6 Belfast to Derry road.\n\nIt also said the dualling of the A5 is still a priority project.\n\nHowever, even among the department's priorities, funding is yet to be identified for some schemes.\n\nFor example, it said the delivery of the Drumahoe to Caw section of the A6 will \"depend on a range of factors, including future budget settlements\".\n\nThe first phase of the A6 project opened in 2019 with a further stretch, between Dungiven and Derry, completed in April\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the department said a combination of budget constraints and climate change commitments had \"changed the landscape considerably\" meaning that \"delivery of the major roads programme as previously set out is no longer sustainable nor appropriate\".\n\nIt said the list of priority projects includes the completion of recently constructed schemes, those which have funding from City Deals and flagship projects identified by the last Stormont Executive.\n\nDfI added that work will also continue on the A1 Junctions scheme, the York Street Interchange and A32 Dromore to Irvinestown schemes.\n\nAll other schemes will be paused and their place on a future major works programme will be \"informed by the department's emerging transport plans and any decision by a future infrastructure minister\".\n\nWesley Johnston, a researcher with expertise on Northern Ireland's roads, told BBC News NI that a lot of the projects had been on the list for 20 years or more with little work being done.\n\n\"We have less funding than we thought we would and I think this is the department regrouping and accepting a reset,\" said Mr Johnston.\n\nHowever, he said that the Ballynahinch bypass was quite far along in the process with only funding and a contractor appointment needed.\n\n\"The Enniskillen and Cookstown bypasses are going ahead, the one is Ballynahinch is arguable as important so the question is why it is the one that has been paused,\" he added.", "Tens of thousands of online grooming crimes have been recorded during the wait for updated online safety laws.\n\nCampaigners are urging tech companies and MPs to back the Online Safety Bill and are calling for no more hold-ups.\n\nThe bill, which aims to crack down on illegal content, has faced repeated delays and amendments.\n\nChildren's charity the NPSCC says 34,000 online grooming crimes had been recorded by UK police forces since it first called for tougher laws in 2017.\n\nThe proposed new rules state that tech companies should be able to access the content of private messages if there is a child safety concern.\n\nMany popular apps offer an encrypted messaging service, which means that only the sender and recipient can view the content. The tech firms themselves cannot see it.\n\nHowever, these privacy functions are available to everybody, and the platforms say they offer extra protection to victims of domestic abuse, journalists and political activists, among others.\n\nThey also say that if they build in a backdoor, it will make their services less secure for all.\n\nAoife, 22, from East Kilbride, was targeted on the social network Yubo when she was 15, by an adult male who pretended to be a teenager.\n\nHe convinced her to download a different, secure messaging app, and send him explicit images of herself. He then threatened to publish them onto her social media accounts if she did not do what he said.\n\nHe also demanded photos of her school uniform and timetable. Aoife said she remembered a primary school lesson about a digital \"panic button\" run by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and accessed it.\n\nCEOP contacted her school, who told her parents. They helped her report her abuser to the police.\n\nYubo told the BBC it was \"committed to aggressively fighting threats against our users' safety\" and was \"always working to evaluate and improve our safety tools and policies\".\n\n\"I was petrified,\" Aoife told BBC News. \"It was something silly like two o'clock in the morning that I remember sitting in my room and all I wanted was my mum, but you can't go in then tell your mum that you've just done this, and you're in a lot of trouble.\n\n\"It's scary. I felt like I was the only person in the world at the time.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"guilty\" that no-one else knew what she was going through but also annoyed with herself because she was a \"smart girl\".\n\nAfter an investigation by the National Crime Agency in 2022, Aoife's abuser was jailed for 18 years.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to 65 offences relating to 26 girls and women aged between 12 and 22.\n\nCiting data from 42 UK police forces, the NSPCC said that 6,350 offences related to sexual communication with a child were recorded last year - a record high.\n\nThe new research shows that over the last six years 5,500 offences took place against primary school-age children. This means that under-12s made up a quarter of the over 21,000 known victims over that period.\n\nThe findings also showed that 73% of the crimes involved either Snapchat or Meta-linked websites, where the source was known.\n\nA Snap spokesperson told the BBC the platform had improved their technology over the last year to help identify sexual exploitation of young people.\n\n\"We also have extra protections for under-18s to make it even harder for them to be contacted by people they don't know, and tools so parents know who their teens are talking to,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMeta said that it restricts people over 19 from messaging teens who don't follow them, and uses technology to help prevent potentially suspicious adults from finding and interacting with teens.\n\n\"We've developed over 30 features to support teens and their families, including parental supervision tools that let parents be more involved in how their teens use Instagram.\"\n\nHowever, ministers have recently had to defend the Online Safety Bill against a backlash from some tech companies, who argue the law will undermine the use of encryption to keep online communications private.\n\nSome platforms are threatening to leave the UK altogether rather than comply with the new rules.\n\nKate Robertson, senior research associate at Citizen Lab - an organisation where researchers study security on the internet - told the BBC that \"we shouldn't be drilling more holes in internet safety\".\n\nShe said encryption \"is an important source of safety for vulnerable individuals and it's also an important safety net for privacy itself\".\n\nRani Govender, senior policy officer at the NSPCC, said: \"We don't think there's a trade-off between safety and privacy, we think it's about investing in those technical solutions which we know are out there, that can deliver for the privacy and safety of all users on these services.\"\n\nBut the NSPCC also wants assurances that the legislation will regulate new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nChief executive of the Internet Watch Foundation, Susie Hargreaves, echoed this, calling for robust safety features to be brought in.\n\n\"Without them, end-to-end encryption will be a smokescreen for abusers, helping them hide what they're doing, and enabling them to continue to hurt children and destroy young lives,\" she said.", "Donald Trump has been criminally indicted four times, and will have a series of trials to attend in 2024 as he runs again for the White House.\n\nHis candidacy now also faces a challenge from the Colorado Supreme Court, which has ruled Mr Trump cannot run for president because he engaged in an insurrection with his actions in the days leading to the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021.\n\nHere's a guide to the five cases and what they could mean for the former president and current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.\n\nThe Colorado Supreme Court declared Mr Trump ineligible for the presidency under the US Constitution's insurrection clause - Section 3 of the 14th Amendment - which disqualifies anyone who engages in insurrection from holding office.\n\nVoting 4-3, the state's top court found Mr Trump had incited an insurrection in his role in the 6 January 2021 storming of the Capitol by his supporters. Mr Trump has repeatedly denied responsibility for the riot.\n\nThe bombshell ruling directs the Colorado secretary of state to exclude Mr Trump from the state's Republican primary on 5 March, where registered party members vote on their preferred candidate for president. But it could also affect the general election in Colorado next November.\n\nIt does not stop Mr Trump running in other states.\n\nSimilar lawsuits to to remove the Republican from the ballot in Minnesota, New Hampshire and Michigan have failed.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nDuring a one-week trial in Colorado in November, the former president's lawyers argued Mr Trump should not be disqualified because he did not bear responsibility for the riot.\n\nFollowing the Colorado Supreme Court's decision Mr Trump's campaign said immediately it would appeal the decision to the US Supreme Court, where it's likely a similar argument would be made.\n\nHis legal spokeswoman Alina Habba said the ruling \"attacks the very heart of this nation's democracy.\"\n\n\"It will not stand, and we trust that the Supreme Court will reverse this unconstitutional order,\" she said.\n\nThe Colorado Supreme Court put its ruling on hold until at least 4 January. If Mr Trump appeals, that pause will continue until the country's top court weighs in.\n\nIf the Supreme Court does take up the case, which experts say is likely, it could be forced to decide Mr Trump's eligibility beyond Colorado to all 50 states.\n\nThat court has a 6-3 conservative majority with three justices appointed by the former president himself.\n\nWhat are the charges in Georgia 2020 election investigation?\n\nThis is the most recent indictment, the one that saw the first ever mugshot of a former US president after Donald Trump turned himself in at the Fulton County Jail on 24 August. The charges for Mr Trump - listed now as inmate no. P01135809 on Fulton County Jail records - were unsealed last month.\n\nMr Trump and 18 others are named in a 41-count indictment for alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.\n\nThe investigation was sparked in part by a leaked phone call in which the former president asked Georgia's top election official to \"find 11,780 votes\".\n\nMr Trump was hit with 13 criminal counts including an alleged violation of Georgia's Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (Rico).\n\nHis other charges include solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, conspiring to commit impersonating a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery, conspiring to commit false statements, and writing and conspiring to file false documents.\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nThe racketeering charge, which is mostly used in organised crime cases, carries a maximum 20-year jail sentence.\n\nGeorgia prosecutor Fani Willis would need to prove that there was a pattern of corruption from Mr Trump and his allies aimed at overturning the election result in order to bring a conviction.\n\nAs for making false statements, that carries a penalty of between one to five years in prison or a fine.\n\nAnd a person convicted of first-degree criminal solicitation to commit election fraud will face between one to three years in jail.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing in the case and has entered a plea of not guilty.\n\nHe has defended the phone call in question as \"perfect\" and accused Ms Willis of launching a politically motivated inquiry.\n\nThere is no confirmed date for the trial yet.\n\nWhat are the charges in 2020 election investigation?\n\nDonald Trump has been criminally charged in a separate federal investigation into efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nThe 45-page indictment contains four counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.\n\nThey stem from the former president's actions in the wake of the 2020 election, including around the 6 January Capitol riot, which occurred while Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden's victory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nBut there are logistical, security and political questions around whether Mr Trump would serve time even if charged and convicted.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump was formally charged in court in Washington DC on 3 August. A tentative trial date is scheduled for 4 March 2024.\n\nHe argues that the charges are an attempt to prevent him from winning the 2024 presidential election. Before leaving Washington after his arraignment hearing, he told journalists the case \"is a persecution of a political opponent\".\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied responsibility for the riot on 6 January 2021.\n\nHis legal team is also likely to argue that the former president is not directly responsible for the violence that unfolded that day because he told supporters to march \"peacefully\" on the Capitol and is protected by First Amendment free speech rights.\n\nWhat are the charges in classified documents case?\n\nMr Trump is facing 40 criminal charges over his alleged mishandling of classified material after he left the White House.\n\nThousands of documents were seized in an FBI search at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago last year, including about 100 that were marked as classified.\n\nThe charges are related to both his handling of the documents and his alleged efforts to obstruct the FBI's attempts to retrieve them.\n\nThe majority of the counts, are for the wilful retention of national defence information, which falls under the Espionage Act.\n\nThere are then eight individual counts which include conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record and making false statements.\n\nWill Donald Trump go to jail?\n\nThese charges could - in theory - lead to substantial prison time if Mr Trump is convicted.\n\nBut the logistics, security and politics of jailing a former president mean a conventional prison sentence is seen as unlikely by many experts.\n\nLooking at the letter of the law, the counts under the Espionage Act, for example, each carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.\n\nOther counts, related to conspiracy and withholding or concealing documents, each carry maximum sentences of 20 years.\n\nCounts relating to a scheme to conceal, and false statements and representations carry sentences of five years each.\n\nBut while there is no doubt the charges are serious, many questions remain unanswered about the potential penalties should he be convicted.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and the trial is set to begin on 20 May 2024.\n\nThe former president has offered shifting defences for the material found at his property, mostly arguing that he declassified it. No evidence has been provided that this was possible or is true.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump supporters outside court: 'They're afraid of him'\n\nHis lawyers may argue in court that Mr Trump was unfairly targeted and that other politicians, namely Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence and current President Joe Biden, were never charged for their handling of classified documents.\n\nBut experts say the former president's case is different in a number of ways. For one, other politicians were willing to return whatever documents they had, while prosecutors allege Mr Trump resisted.\n\nWhat are the charges in New York hush money case?\n\nMr Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.\n\nThe charges stem from a hush-money payment made before the 2016 election to the adult film star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an adulterous affair with Mr Trump.\n\nWhile such a payment is not illegal, spending money to help a presidential campaign but not disclosing it violates federal campaign finance law.\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nEach of the charges carries a maximum of four years in prison, although a judge could sentence Mr Trump to probation if he is convicted.\n\nLegal experts have told BBC News they think it is unlikely Mr Trump will be jailed if convicted in this case and a fine is the more likely outcome.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial in the case on 25 March 2024.\n\nHe denies ever having sexual relations with Ms Daniels and says the payment was made to protect his family from false allegations, not to sway the election.\n\nDo you have any questions relating to Donald Trump's legal cases?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nSpain beat Sweden in a thrilling finish to reach their first Women's World Cup final.\n\nCaptain Olga Carmona scored an 89th-minute winner to spark wild scenes of jubilation among their supporters at Eden Park, Auckland.\n\nSweden - who have now lost back-to-back World Cup semi-finals - had equalised through Rebecka Blomqvist just 93 seconds earlier and it looked like the match would be going to extra time.\n\nA game of few chances had sparked into life when substitute Salma Paralluelo, 19, gave Spain the lead with just 10 minutes remaining.\n\nThey will face England or Australia in the final in Sydney on Sunday.\n\nThe semi-final between the Lionesses and the co-hosts is live across the BBC on Wednesday (11:00 BST).\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nWhile Spain's players celebrated wildly on the pitch at full-time, Sweden's dropped to the floor as their World Cup dream came to an end.\n\nThere was little evidence of what was to come during a tight and cagey opening 80 minutes.\n\nSpain boss Jorge Vilda opted to recall Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas, whose minutes on the pitch have been limited as she returns from a serious knee injury.\n\nAnd it was Putellas who brought the biggest cheer of the opening half from the sell-out 43,217 crowd when she nutmegged Manchester City's Filippa Angeldahl.\n\nIt took until the 42nd minute for the first shot on target, Sweden's Fridolina Rolfo denied her third goal of the tournament by her Barcelona team-mate Cata Coll.\n\nSpain dominated possession but Sweden's defence, which has been solid and resolute for the past month, frustrated their opponents for long periods, while the Swedes once again used a familiar weapon to try and find a breakthrough.\n\nSeven of their 11 goals at this tournament before the semi-final had come from set-pieces but Coll, who had not started a senior game for Spain prior to the World Cup, stood up well to Sweden's inswinging corners, which had caused havoc in previous matches.\n\nThen came the explosive finish.\n\nParalluelo, who scored the winner in the quarter-final against the Netherlands, kept her composure to fire Spain ahead before substitute Blomqvist poked home the equaliser.\n\nWith extra time looming, Carmona sent Spain through with a shot which went in off the bar following a corner.\n\nSpain had only won one of their previous seven Women's World Cup matches before this tournament. They now head for the final after their fifth - and most dramatic - win in New Zealand.\n\nThis historic win for Spain came just 15 days after they were beaten 4-0 by Japan in a group match.\n\nBoss Vilda said after that defeat \"no-one should lose hope\" and his players have responded by eliminating Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden.\n\nSpain had come into this tournament under a cloud after 15 players had threatened to quit the team as they were unhappy with Vilda's methods, and the coach initially exiled them from the squad.\n\nThree of the 15 - Mariona Caldentey, Aitana Bonmati and former Manchester United defender Ona Batlle - were eventually included in his squad for the World Cup.\n\nSpain appear to have put those differences to one side as all three players helped their country reach the final on a memorable night for La Roja.\n\nIt was the same old story for Sweden as they lost for the fourth time in five World Cup semi-finals, having knocked out 2015 and 2019 winners the United States and Japan in their past two matches.\n\nTheir players have been ruthless and efficient at this tournament but looked heartbroken after going so close to forcing extra time.\n\n\"There are so many emotions right now,\" said boss Peter Gerhardsson. \"Everyone just feels sadness and huge disappointment.\"\n\nSweden now go to Brisbane for the third-place play-off on Saturday (09:00 BST).\n\n\"We will be really, really ready for that game,\" added Gerhardsson, who said he hoped that Spain would go on to win the World Cup.\n\nSweden's defeat means Caroline Seger, their long-term captain, will end her international career without a World Cup winners' medal after five tournaments.\n\nSeger has been limited to just 69 minutes of action at this World Cup because of a calf injury.\n• None Goal! Spain 2, Sweden 1. Olga Carmona (Spain) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Teresa Abelleira following a corner.\n• None Goal! Spain 1, Sweden 1. Rebecka Blomqvist (Sweden) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Lina Hurtig with a headed pass.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Cata Coll (Spain).\n• None Attempt missed. Magdalena Eriksson (Sweden) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Elin Rubensson following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "If dissident republicans have this information, then the obvious question is: What does this mean for staff, officers and civilian personnel?\n\nThe chief constable says they would likely use it to generate fear among officers and staff and also use it, if they can, to target staff.\n\nSimon Byrne says measures will be taken to address the risks.\n\nThe big difficulty the PSNI faces is the sheer enormity of this.\n\nMr Byrne talks about a sort of triage system where the PSNI will assess the safety of individuals.\n\nWe’ve got 10,000 employees, all of whom feel varying degrees of anxiety.\n\nHow do you evaluate that risk to so many people, in real time and as quickly as possible?", "Patricia Bredin also acted in a number of British films, appearing alongside Ian Carmichael and Sid James\n\nThe UK's first Eurovision singer, Patricia Bredin, has died aged 88.\n\nThe Hull-born actress and singer was just 22 years old when she performed at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957.\n\nShe was picked after being discovered at the Savoy in London. She also acted in a number of films, appearing alongside Ian Carmichael and Sid James.\n\nMs Bredin, who married Canadian millionaire Charles MacCulloch and moved to Nova Scotia, passed away on Sunday, her family confirmed.\n\nSpeaking in 2016, she told the BBC: \"Singing in the final in Frankfurt, Germany, it was wonderful, because they had about a 60-piece orchestra and it was like being on clouds.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of the UK's first Eurovision Song Contest, Patricia Bredin from Hull\n\nHer singing career began as a member of the Hull Operatic Society, performing in shows at the City Hall and other venues.\n\nShe landed the Eurovision chance following a short meeting with BBC executives, who asked her, \"Would you like to be on TV?\".\n\nAt the time, only 10 countries entered the contest and the unknown Ms Bredin ended up in seventh place with her love song called All.\n\nThe song was less than two minutes long and despite her performance being broadcast on TV, the public did not have an opportunity to send it into the charts as it was never recorded.\n\nReflecting on her Eurovision appearance in a BBC interview, she said: \"Two songs had been chosen and each one had to be sung by two different performers, but they had a problem because nobody wanted to sing that terrible little song called All.\"\n\nPatricia Bredin was a regular performer on stage and screen. Here she is pictured singing alongside Welsh singer and actor Ivor Emmanuel, whom she married in the 1960s\n\nDespite the setback, Ms Bredin went on to have a long career on stage and screen before retiring to a farm in Canada.\n\nShe played the lead role in Left Right and Centre, with Ian Carmichael and Alastair Sim, and starred alongside Sid James in the film Desert Mice.\n\nMs Bredin became a regular in musicals in the West End and on Broadway, once taking over a role from Julie Andrews.\n\nShe was previously married to Welsh singer and actor Ivor Emmanuel, whom she later divorced.\n\nAnd, while singing on the QE2 liner, she met Mr MacCulloch. The pair married and moved to a farm in Nova Scotia.\n\nShe was widowed soon after the wedding and remained in Canada raising cattle.\n\nMs Bredin remained in Canada where she retired\n\nMeeting Patricia was a real treat but quite nerve wracking.\n\nI'd researched her life and career endlessly in the days before we met at her home in Nova Scotia eight years ago.\n\nI shouldn't have worried. Patricia's warmth and charm was instant and within five minutes of walking through the door, the bubbly was being poured.\n\nShe had worked with Roger Moore on Ivanhoe in the late 1950s, and visited Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton for lunch in London, all after representing the UK for the very first time at Eurovision.\n\nAnd behind that incredible voice was her generosity. She raised funds for her community via charity screenings of her old films.\n\nIn her words: \"I had a wonderful career and enjoyed it and you go on to something else.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Soviet-era MiG-23 fighter has crashed at an air show in Michigan, hitting unoccupied cars as it fell.\n\nThe pilot noticed the plane was losing power, and he and the passenger were able to safely eject just moments before the plane crashed in a plume of smoke.\n\nThe pilot had serious but non-life threatening injuries, while the passenger was left with minor injuries, officials said.\n\n\"It's very fortunate, of course, that nobody on the ground was injured\", said John Brannen, senior air safety investigator at the National Transportation Safety Board.\n\n\"The plane travelled about 500ft (152m) after the initial impact, went through some trees and wound up here next to the apartment building.\" he added.", "Ruth Jaffe, 79, said she found Ryanair's website \"very confusing\"\n\nAn elderly couple have said they were \"horrified\" after being charged £110 by Ryanair to print their tickets at the airport.\n\nRuth and Peter Jaffe told the BBC they had to pay airport check-in fees after mistakenly downloading their return tickets instead of their outgoing ones.\n\nIt sparked a flurry of social media complaints about the airline's fees.\n\nRyanair said the fees were in line with its policy, as the couple had failed to check-in online for the correct flight.\n\nBut consumer rights expert Martyn James said the couple's experience had \"touched a nerve\" as many other people have also been hit by unexpected charges.\n\nThe Jaffes, from Ealing, were flying from Stansted Airport to Bergerac, France, on Friday.\n\nMrs Jaffe, 79, told the BBC's Radio 4 Today Programme she found Ryanair's website \"very confusing\" but despite this, she thought she had successfully managed to print their tickets the day before the flight.\n\nIt was only when she got to the airport that she realised she had accidentally printed the wrong tickets.\n\n\"I was then told that I had to go to the Ryanair desk to get a boarding card, and there they charged me £55 per person,\" she said. \"[I was] horrified.\"\n\nShe added it wasn't easy for her husband to walk from one bit of the airport to the other. \"I was quite flustered and upset.\"\n\nMr Jaffe, who's 80, said that they had no choice but to pay, as they had people expecting them in France.\n\nOn Sunday, their daughter posted on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, saying her mother had made \"an honest mistake\".\n\n\"£110 for 2 pieces of paper which took 1 minute. Shame on you,\" she told the budget airline.\n\nShe added that her parents had also had to pay an extra fee to sit next to each other, as her father has a disability.\n\nHer post has gone viral, having been viewed more than 13 million times, with many social media users complaining of the high cost of printing boarding passes at the airport, and other \"surprise\" fees.\n\n\"I can feel the rage,\" said one X user.\n\nAnother urged Ryanair \"to do the right thing\", with a third saying: \"There should be laws that protect the elderly.\"\n\nOne user also pointed out that it would have been cheaper to go to the nearest stationery shop, purchase a printer and print the tickets themselves.\n\nAsked about the huge reaction on social media, Mrs Jaffe said: \"People hate Ryanair, I think.\"\n\nShe went on: \"If you're elderly and haven't been brought up using computers from day one, it can be very difficult.\"\n\nMr Jaffe added: \"It's also the money-making aspect, like the fact we had to pay extra to sit together.\"\n\nThe couple have complained to Ryanair but said they don't expect to get anything back.\n\n\"I think they'll say it's in the small print and it was our fault. Which it was, but it was a genuine mistake,\" Mrs Jaffe said.\n\nMr James told the BBC that the couple's experience highlighted \"a real issue\" about what happens if, like the Jaffes, you make a genuine mistake.\n\n\"It's deeply unfair to penalise people who made an innocent mistake,\" he said, adding that airlines should commit not to charge people in such cases.\n\nHe said that people do have options if this happens to them. They can complain to the airline, as the Jaffes have done, or take it to an alternative dispute resolution scheme or the small complaints court.\n\n\"But none of this guarantees compensation and a lot of people don't have the time or energy,\" he said. \"If more people complained about a lack of transparency, more airlines start to reconsider these fees.\"\n\nMr James said online check-ins benefit airlines, as it means they need fewer staff checking people in at the airport.\n\nHe added that these additional fees are nothing new.\n\n\"For years, airlines have been stripping out things that used to be free, and charging for them,\" he said.\n\n\"[This story] resonates with people because they're angry they've been hit with these prices too - whether it's luggage charges, paying to sit next to your family, or something else.\"\n\nRyanair said in a statement: \"In accordance with Ryanair's T&C's, which these passengers agreed to at the time of booking, they failed to check-in online before arriving at Stansted airport (11 Aug) despite receiving an email reminder (10 Aug) to check-in online. These passengers were correctly charged the airport check-in fee (£55 per pax).\n\n\"All passengers travelling with Ryanair agree to check-in online before arriving at their departure airport and all passengers are sent an email/SMS, reminding them to do so 24hrs before departure.\n\n\"We regret that these passengers ignored their email reminder and failed to check-in online.\"\n\nThere are often fees that customers aren't aware of:", "Families on a Rotherham estate say they fear that someone will be badly injured or killed after a spate of crashes.\n\nA lack of markings at junctions has led to numerous crashes in recent months, according to residents on the Waverley estate.\n\nThe developer said it had commissioned a traffic assessment and was now implementing a number of recommendations, including putting in signage and road markings.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nBen Stokes' return to the England one-day side for the defence of the World Cup will be confirmed on Wednesday.\n\nStokes, 32, will come out of retirement to be named in a 15-man squad for a four-match series against New Zealand in September.\n\nThe bulk of that party will form the squad for the World Cup in India in October and November.\n\nStokes was man of the match in the final when England won the World Cup for the first time in 2019.\n• None Stokes could have amazing World Cup, says Pope\n• None Who should make England's squad? Analysis and your chance to pick\n\nThe all-rounder retired from one-day internationals last summer, saying that playing three formats was unsustainable.\n\nHe continued to lead the England Test team and play in T20 internationals, starring in the final as England lifted the World Cup in the shortest format in Australia in November.\n\nWhen asked in July if he would play in the 50-over World Cup, Stokes reiterated he was retired.\n\nBut in an interview with the Daily Mail, England white-ball coach Matthew Mott said captain Jos Buttler would approach Stokes over reversing that decision. A number of newspaper reports on Monday said Stokes was considering the request.\n\nA quirk of the schedule means England have no Tests until they tour India for five matches between January and March next year.\n\nStokes had planned to use the gap to address a long-standing left-knee problem, which has severely limited his ability to bowl.\n\nTherefore, his role at the World Cup could largely be as a specialist batter.\n\nEngland will name their squad for the New Zealand ODIs, played between 8-15 September, at 10:00 BST on Wednesday. They will also name a strong 15-man party for four T20s against the Black Caps, beginning on 30 August.\n\nFollowing the New Zealand series, England will play three ODIs against Ireland at the end of September. A separate squad for this will be named at a later date.\n\nBecause of that series' close proximity to the beginning of the World Cup on 5 October, most of the first-choice players will be rested.\n\nEngland begin their World Cup campaign against New Zealand in a repeat of the 2019 final.\n\nMott also said England might be willing to take a risk on the fitness of pace bowler Jofra Archer, who has been plagued by injuries since bowling the super over in the thrilling finale four years ago.\n\nEngland's World Cup squad will have a familiar feel, probably including nine of the squad that was successful on home soil in 2019.\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Will the faithfuls unmask the traitors? 24 Aussies take on the ultimate game of trust and treachery", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The turbine is part of the Scroby Sands offshore wind farm\n\nA fire on an offshore wind turbine has self extinguished, its owner has said.\n\nA plume of black smoke was seen billowing from the Scroby Sands wind farm, 1.5 miles (2.5km) off the coast of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.\n\nHM Coastguard said the alarm was raised at 10:50 BST on Tuesday and that all personnel had been accounted for following an evacuation.\n\nRWE, the German company that owns the wind farm, said no-one was on board the turbine when the fire broke out.\n\nThe company hoped to have the wind farm back operational on Wednesday.\n\nThe fire was first reported to HM Coastguard at about 10:50 BST\n\nA spokesperson for RWE said: \"An incident occurred which led to a fire in the turbine nacelle - the enclosure at the top of the tower which houses the generating components.\n\n\"Emergency services were contacted immediately and the Coastguard made aware. They are monitoring the area and advising on a potential 500 metre restriction zone being enforced around the affected turbine.\n\n\"We would ask people to keep away from the area as assessments are ongoing.\"\n\nThe Scroby Sands wind farm was commissioned in 2004\n\nScroby Sands was one of the UK's first commercial offshore wind farms\n\nRWE said its 30 turbines had an installed capacity of 60 megawatts and was able to power more than 48,000 households.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRaphael Varane scored the winner 14 minutes from time as Manchester United gained a fortunate win against Wolves in their opening game of the new Premier League season.\n\nErik ten Hag's side hardly created a chance of note until Bruno Fernandes found Aaron Wan-Bissaka with a superb pass inside the area.\n\nThe right-back calmly lifted the bouncing ball to the edge of the six-yard box, where Varane used his height to get above Nelson Semedo and head home.\n\nIt was extremely harsh on Wolves, who made light of last week's change of manager to produce a superb performance in Gary O'Neil's first game in charge.\n\nO'Neil was booked for his protests in claiming for a late penalty as United clung on for a fortunate victory.\n\nUnited's debutant goalkeeper Andre Onana avoided punishment in added time for clattering into Sasa Kalajdzic when he came for a cross without making contact with the ball.\n\nMatheus Cunha should have given Wolves the lead before then as Pablo Sarabia's low cross found him unmarked just beyond the far post but despite steadying himself, the Brazilian hit the outside of the upright.\n\nCunha fizzed a low shot wide just before the break and Pedro Neto fired straight at Onana before Varane's decisive effort while Fabio Silva had two goal-bound efforts saved as Wolves pressed for an equaliser.\n• None How did you rate Manchester United's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Wolves' display? Send us your views here\n\nIn the build-up to the game US broadcaster NBC was given a pitchside interview with Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nThe legendary United boss praised the work Ten Hag is doing and said the situation for his old club would improve markedly once £72m forward Rasmus Hojlund has recovered from the back injury he arrived from Atalanta with.\n\nNot long afterwards, Hojlund took his seat alongside Tom Heaton and Jonny Evans at the back of the directors' box.\n\nSir Alex's words were given added credence when the game started as Marcus Rashford failed to make any impact as the main striker and Alejandro Garnacho and Antony were equally muted on the flanks.\n\nPerhaps it should not have been a surprise given in 11 meetings over the past four years only twice have these two sides managed to produce more than a single goal between them.\n\nUnited's other new outfield recruit Mason Mount also failed to make an impact and in a game where so much of their offensive play was average, Fernandes' inspired pass to create the goal stood out.\n\nThe Old Trafford crowd do have a new hero in Onana though. The Cameroon keeper produced a conservative performance with the ball at his feet and did not venture too far from his goal when the home side pressed forward.\n\nHowever, the saves he made were important and the reception the former Ajax and Inter Milan man received from the stands indicated the home fans are very much on his side.\n\nDefiant Wolves still cannot find the net\n\nThat O'Neil spent the immediate seconds after the final whistle still unable to comprehend that his side were denied a penalty and the Wolves fans bellowed their support for their new manager and his team said everything about how the visitors played.\n\nO'Neil made a point of saying before the game that \"clubs normally get six weeks\" to prepare for their opening game. The former Bournemouth boss got four days.\n\nWhat patterns of play and combinations he could have worked on in that time is debatable and his predecessor Julen Lopetegui must deserve some credit for delivering Wolves' players through their summer uncertainty to be able to perform as well as they did.\n\nCunha was outstanding in all aspects but one. His tracking back, runs from deep, and willingness to make space were all top class - but he is a striker and needs to score, and he wasted Wolves' best chance.\n\nAfter Matheus Nunes' surging run forward, he took up exactly the correct position as Sarabia sent his low cross to the far post.\n\nThe angle was not ideal but Cunha opened his body up to give himself the best chance of converting - yet still missed.\n\nScoring goals has been a problem for Wolves for some time now and amid many issues at Molineux, it is a key one O'Neil needs to solve.\n\nA new season has brought no resolution to two pressing off-field matters at Old Trafford.\n\nThe ownership situation, triggered by the launch of a 'strategic review' last November, remains unresolved.\n\nAnd the future of Mason Greenwood - whose criminal charges were dropped in the spring but which triggered an internal investigation into his conduct - is yet to be finalised.\n\nMost outsiders expected there would be determination to resolve both matters by now and the absence of clarity brought protests surrounding the issues outside the stadium before the game.\n\nThe 'Glazers Out' chants transferred inside the ground and will not go away.\n• None Facundo Pellistri (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Hwang Hee-Chan (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Hugo Bueno with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Hugo Bueno (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mario Lemina (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Craig Dawson.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mario Lemina (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Maximilian Kilman.\n• None Attempt blocked. Hwang Hee-Chan (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Fábio Silva.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sasa Kalajdzic.\n• None Attempt saved. Maximilian Kilman (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Matheus Nunes with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The apps provide psychological support as well as advice on weight loss, according to NICE\n\nFour apps aiming to improve access to weight-loss drugs could be used by the NHS in England, under draft health guidance.\n\nThe apps will also provide psychological support and expert advice on diet and exercise for the most obese.\n\nHealth guidance body NICE says face-to-face services treating those with obesity cannot keep up with demand.\n\nA quarter of adults in England are classified as obese.\n\nMark Chapman, interim director of medical technology and digital evaluation at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, said the apps would enable more people to access the help they need to lose weight.\n\n\"Waiting lists are long, some areas don't have a service and patients need a solution,\" he said.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay said the use of apps alongside life-changing weight-loss drugs would help tackle obesity, which costs the NHS billions every year.\n\n\"The newest obesity medicines have the potential to help patients lose significant amounts of weight and reduce related conditions, but it's vital they are used alongside diet, physical activity, and wider behavioural support to help stop people regaining weight,\" he said.\n\nThe apps can be used by the NHS while evidence is collected on their cost-effectiveness over the next four years, NICE recommends in its draft guidance.\n\nIt wants to ensure a balance between delivering the best care and getting value for money for the taxpayer.\n\nUp to 48,000 people could use the apps, saving 145,000 hours of doctors' time, calculations by NICE show.\n\nThe technology aims to provide support for those who are not able to attend face-to-face appointments for treatment, or who do not have access to local help or are on a waiting list.\n\nSome patients might need to be given a tablet computer and mobile internet connection to access the apps, it added.\n\nBut there are doubts about when one of the medications recommended through the apps - much-heralded weight-loss jab, Wegovy - might be available.\n\nIt has not yet launched in the UK, and the Danish company that makes it, Novo Nordisk, said recently that high demand for it in the US meant launching the drug in new markets would be a challenge.\n\nWegovy was approved for use by the NHS in England in March after trials showed it could help people reduce their weight by more than 10%, if they also followed a healthy diet and an exercise regime.\n\nThe drug makes people feel full by mimicking a hormone called Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), and helps to reduce their calorie intake.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Novo Nordisk's chief financial officer, Karsten Knudsen, said: \"We would love to do it, don't get me wrong, but we need to cater for the patients on Wegovy today so we don't create an unnecessary burden that people cannot achieve the continuity of care and the benefits they should expect.\"\n\nMr Knudsen said the firm now had 70% more employees than last year, after hiring thousands of staff to build and operate new factories.\n\nNovo Nordisk makes the type-2 diabetes drug Ozempic as well as weight-loss jabs Saxenda and Wegovy.\n\nThere will be a 10-day public consultation on the draft NICE recommendations around the apps, ending on Friday 25 August.\n\nOnly those with a BMI of 35 (near the top of the obese range) plus a weight-related illness, or slightly less in some cases, will qualify to use the apps.\n• None Listen to 5.45 interview with Novo Nordisk chief financial officer on Wake Up to Money - BBC Sounds", "Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield presented This Morning together from 2009 until this year\n\nITV's This Morning has been nominated for best daytime show at the National Television Awards (NTAs), following the controversy around Phillip Schofield.\n\nSchofield stood down as presenter after 20 years in May, after admitting he had had an affair with a much younger male colleague and lied to cover it up.\n\nHis longstanding co-presenter Holly Willoughby has continued to host the show with a string of co-stars.\n\nLast week MPs asked ITV bosses to address claims of a toxic culture.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Carolyn McCall says ITV was \"repeatedly told there was nothing happening\" at This Morning.\n\nITV said it took complaints seriously, but that it could not act unless such allegations were made directly.\n\nExecutives previously defended the network's duty of care to staff after the furore that surrounded Schofield's affair.\n\nHolly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield collected the award for best daytime show at last year's NTAs, after a tricky few weeks that saw them accused of jumping the queue for the Queen's lying-in-state\n\nDespite the controversy, This Morning will now defend its title in the NTA daytime category against The Chase, Loose Women and The Repair Shop, it was revealed on Tuesday.\n\nBut both Schofield and, perhaps more notably Willoughby, have been overlooked for best presenter at this year's upcoming awards, having made the initial longlist.\n\nSchofield recently revealed he believes his career is now over following the affair which he apologised for, calling it his \"biggest, sorriest secret\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield said the affair was his \"biggest, sorriest secret\"\n\nTwo of his recent rotating replacements, Alison Hammond and Martin Lewis, did make the shortlist list for the best presenter award.\n\nThe winners, like the shortlist, are decided by the public and will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Joel Dommett at London's O2 Arena on 5 September.\n\nThe Traitors host Claudia Winkleman and The Chase's Bradley Walsh are also in the running for best presenter, but that particular prize is traditionally reserved for fellow nominees Ant and Dec - or at least it has been for the past 21 [yes, twenty-one] years.\n\nTwo shows presented by the Geordie duo - I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! and Saturday Night Takeaway - are listed for the Bruce Forsyth entertainment award, up against Gogglebox and The Masked Singer.\n\nAnt McPartlin and Declan Donnelly will take a break from Saturday Night Takeaway after the 2024 series\n\nBest talent show will be contested by Britain's Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing and the Great British Bake Off, as well as the Great British Sewing Bee.\n\nElsewhere, Dame Deborah James and Paul O'Grady have been posthumously recognised.\n\nDame Deborah, who died last year at 40 of bowel cancer, is recognised in the authored documentary category for Bowelbabe In Her Own Words; while presenter and comedian O'Grady, who died earlier this year, is nominated in the factual entertainment category. for his show, For The Love Of Dogs.\n\nThe BBC drama Happy Valley is nominated for several awards including best returning drama, while two of its stars, James Norton and Sarah Lancashire, will go head-to-head in the best drama performance category.", "The owners of a Black Country pub which was gutted by fire and then demolished two days later experienced another huge fire on land they owned.\n\nThe Crooked House, near Dudley, had recently been sold to new owners, who have now been ordered by the Health and Safety Executive to secure the site.\n\nThe safety watchdog said it was also now liaising with authorities.\n\nThe cause of a previous blaze at Finmere landfill, Buckinghamshire, in August 2018 was never established.\n\nAdam Taylor is director of AT Contracting and Plant Hire Ltd, which, according to Land Registry documents, owns the Finmere site.\n\nHis wife, Carly, controls the company ATE Farms Limited, which bought the \"wonky\" Black Country landmark in July.\n\nAdam and Carly Taylor have links to The Crooked House and Finmere landfill site\n\nMrs Taylor also currently controls AT Contracting and Plant Hire Ltd, which the BBC understands rented a digger a week before flames engulfed The Crooked House on 5 August.\n\nTwo days later the 18th Century building on Himley Road was flattened, leading to widespread protests.\n\nMr and Mrs Taylor have not replied to the BBC's requests for an interview.\n\nFire crews worked through the night to extinguish the blaze at Finmere landfill site, Buckinghamshire, five years ago\n\nFour hundred tonnes of waste caught fire at Finmere landfill on 4 August 2018.\n\nFirefighters from Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire worked through the night to extinguish it.\n\nThe landfill facility at Finmere is accessed from the A421 Banbury Road\n\nAlmost exactly five years later, firefighters worked overnight to save the historic Himley pub, which began to subside in the 19th Century.\n\nStaffordshire Police confirmed last Wednesday the blaze was being treated as arson.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council said it was conducting an investigation into the \"demolition of the entire building, without appropriate permissions\".\n\nThe force previously said its investigation would be robust.\n\nProtests against The Crooked House's destruction weeks after it was sold by previous owner Marston's have seen signs and other tributes placed among the rubble.\n\nA petition to rebuild it has amassed more than 18,500 signatures.\n\nFences were put up at the site on Tuesday.\n\nThe HSE said it had issued an Improvement Notice requiring the site owner to secure the area.\n\nA nearby notice states two adjacent footpaths have been closed to the public by the local authority, including one leading to the pub's car park, due to concerns over the instability of the ground.\n\nFencing has been placed around the site for safety reasons, according to workers\n\nDudley North MP Marco Longhi said a public meeting at Himley Hall on Wednesday at 18:00 BST would be a chance for concerned residents to \"vent their anger\" and voice ideas for the building's future.\n\nHe met with South Staffordshire Council on Tuesday and added, while he could not go into the details of what was discussed, was \"much more reassured about where we are going with all of this\".\n\nCampaigners met Mr Longhi after the meeting and one of them, Ian Sandall, told BBC Radio WM he felt \"very buoyant and very confident\" afterwards.\n\n\"Everything seemed very positive. What I can say is we are all singing off the same hymn sheet,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Universities could be hit by more strike action into the new academic year\n\nUniversity strikes are set to continue in September after negotiations with employers broke down, the University and College Union (UCU) has said.\n\nThe union announced more strike days and a continuation of its marking boycott, on Monday afternoon.\n\nIt also said it was preparing a fresh ballot for strike action to continue into the new academic year.\n\nLast week, education minister Robert Halfon wrote to employers and the UCU calling for an end to the dispute.\n\nThe union said the number of strike days and when they will take place, would be confirmed at a later date.\n\nThe marking boycott, which began in April at 145 universities, has caused disruption to graduations and left some students without their grades.\n\nThe UCU claimed the boycott would affect tens of thousands of students over the summer, but universities said they had been working to minimise its impact.\n\nNow the union has said there will be more disruption in September, if negotiations with the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) do not restart.\n\nIt is also planning to send out a fresh ballot to members to renew its six-month mandate for industrial action, which is due to expire at the beginning of October.\n\nIf members vote in favour, strikes could continue into 2024.\n\nUCU general secretary Jo Grady said: \"The UK higher education sector presents itself as a world leader, but it is riddled with casualisation, insecurity and low pay - our members have no choice but to stand up for themselves.\"\n\nResponding to the announcement, the UCEA's chief executive, Raj Jethwa, said the UCU was forcing its members to \"target students\".\n\nHe said continuing the marking boycott was \"the wrong thing to do\".\n\n\"While UCEA respects the right of workers to take industrial action, the choice of the marking and assessment boycott, described by Jo Grady as a 'tactic', is extremely concerning,\" he added.", "Many of Maui's tourists heeded calls to leave the island. Others remained\n\nAfter wildfires devastated parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the US, officials warned visitors to stay away. But thousands remained and others continued to fly in, angering residents in the wake of the tragedy.\n\nAt Maui's Wailea Beach on Monday the skies were bright and clear. Luxury hotels lined the beachfront, their guests spread on the sand. Some waded in the ocean, while others sat under umbrellas with white monogrammed towels on their chairs.\n\nInside one of the hotels, beyond a pool, a two-tiered fountain and a glass-walled habitat for the resident parrot, was a wooden-framed screen advertising a relief fund for the resort's employees - the first sign of the destruction in Lahaina, just 30 miles (48km) up the coast.\n\nIn the wake of the wildfires, the deadliest in modern US history, frustration at tourists who have chosen to carry on with their holidays has grown. Many in Maui say the devastation has highlighted what is known as the \"two Hawaiis\" - one built for the comfort of visitors and another, harsher Hawaii left to Hawaiians.\n\n\"It's all butterflies and rainbows when it comes to the tourism industry,\" said a 21-year-old Maui native and an employee at the hotel who asked to remain anonymous. \"But what's really under it is kind of scary.\"\n\nLast Wednesday, a day after the wildfires, the county asked visitors to leave Lahaina and the island as a whole as soon as possible.\n\nOfficials soon urged people to avoid the island entirely, except for essential travel. \"In the days and weeks ahead, our collective resources and attention must be focused on the recovery of residents and communities that were forced to evacuate,\" the Hawaii Tourism Authority said.\n\nMany travellers heeded the advice. In the immediate aftermath of the fires, some 46,000 people left the island. The grass field separating the airport from the surrounding highway is now lined with rows upon rows of suddenly surplus rental cars.\n\nBut thousands did not. Some ignored requests to leave Maui immediately, while others flew in after the fire - decisions that have angered some.\n\n\"If this was happening to your hometown, would you want us to come?\" said resident Chuck Enomoto. \"We need to take care of our own first.\"\n\nMaui's Wailea is the domain of the island's wealthy visitors\n\nAnother Maui local told the BBC that tourists were swimming in the \"same waters that our people died in three days ago\" - an apparent reference to a snorkelling excursion on Friday just 11 miles from Lahaina.\n\nThe snorkelling company later apologised for running the tour, saying it had first \"offered our vessel throughout the week to deliver supplies and rescue people but its design wasn't appropriate for the task\".\n\nBut the opposition to tourists is not without complications given the island is economically reliant on those travellers. The Maui Economic Development Board has estimated that the island's \"visitor industry\" accounts for roughly four out of every five dollars generated here, calling those visitors the \"economic engine\" of the county.\n\n\"You're kind of raised to hate tourists,\" said the young hotel worker. \"But that's really the only way to work on the islands. If it's not hospitality then it's construction.\"\n\nSurplus rental cars sit outside Maui's airport after thousands of visitors left the island\n\nSeveral business owners expressed concern that the growing anti-tourist sentiment could hurt Maui further.\n\n\"What I'm afraid of is that if people keep seeing 'Maui's closed', and 'don't come to Maui', what little business is left is going to be gone,\" said Daniel Kalahiki, who owns a food truck in Wailuku. Sales have already dropped by 50% since the fire, he said. \"And then the island is going to lose everything.\"\n\nStill, in the days after the fire, the disparity between Maui residents - reeling from catastrophic loss - and the insulated tourist hotspots has been laid bare.\n\nIn one Hawaii, locals face an acute housing crisis. Many live in modest one-storey homes in neighbourhoods like Kahului and Kīhei, some in multi-family dwellings, with each family separated by a curtain or a thin plywood wall.\n\nAnd working a number of jobs is common, locals told the BBC, to keep up with rising costs. Jen Alcantara shrugged off surprise that she worked for a Canadian airline in addition to a senior administrative position at Maui's hospital. \"That's Hawaii,\" she said.\n\nIn this Hawaii, the effects of the fires are everywhere. At shops and grocery stores, evacuees look for essentials, trying to replace their lost possessions with whatever money they have. At restaurants, workers can be seen in kitchens and behind bars holding back tears and making phone calls to co-ordinate relief efforts.\n\nHere, collections were being taken for the survivors nearly everywhere you look. An upscale coffee shop in Kahului was offering to refrigerate donated breast milk. Food truck owners were volunteering their services to the front line and farmers were carrying bunches of bananas to shelters.\n\nDaniel Kalahiki says tourists are 'essential' to prevent the Lahaina disaster from spreading\n\nThings are different in the other Hawaii.\n\nAs you reach the end of the 30-minute drive from the island's urban centre to Wailea, home to Maui's high-end holiday rentals and resorts, the earth suddenly changes, dry brown grasses become a rich, watered green.\n\n\"It's a blunt line,\" one local said, another hotel employee who did not want to be named.\n\nInside Wailea, gated communities border golf courses, that are connected to luxury hotels. Inside those hotels, obliging staff provide surf lessons and pool-side meals, including a $29 burger.\n\nStaff told the BBC that many of the guests were sympathetic to the crisis on the west of the island. Others had complained about scheduled activities in Lahaina - horse-riding, ziplining - being cancelled, said Brittany Pounder, 34, an employee at the Four Seasons.\n\nThe day after the fires, one guest visiting from California, asked if he could still get to his dinner reservation at the Lahaina Grill - a restaurant in one of the hardest-hit areas of the town. \"It's not OK,\" Ms Pounder said.\n\nThere is mounting concern that the eventual rebuild of Lahaina will further cater to this second Hawaii.\n\nAlready, wealthy visitors have contributed to exorbitant house prices, buying land and property in a place where homeownership is out of reach for many permanent residents. Famous billionaires Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos both have homes in Maui. Oprah Winfrey is the island's largest landowner.\n\nRumours have spread of estate agents approaching Hawaiian property owners in Lahaina, asking about possible deals.\n\nSeveral locals told the BBC they worried Lahaina would be refashioned into another Waikiki, the ritzy waterfront of Honolulu, dominated by oceanfront high-rises and branded luxury shopping.\n\n\"We don't need another Waikiki,\" said Chuck Enomoto. \"But it's inevitable.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the fires in Maui? Please share your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The survey found the biggest declines in new orders hit construction and retail firms\n\nBusiness activity in Northern Ireland's private sector fell for the first time in six months in July, according to a survey by Ulster Bank.\n\nEvery month the bank asks firms from across different parts of the economy about things like staffing levels, order books and exports.\n\nIt is considered to be a reliable indicator of economic performance.\n\nThe survey found the decrease in activity was caused by weak demand and the impact of inflation.\n\nNew orders fell across all four sectors of the economy, with the biggest declines in construction and retail.\n\nDespite this, companies continued to take on new staff, albeit at the slowest rate in six months.\n\nUlster Bank's chief economist in Northern Ireland, Richard Ramsey, said: \"Just like the summer weather, business conditions took a turn for the worse in July.\n\n\"The near-term outlook is for a further softening in demand with new orders declining for the second month running.\"\n\nHowever, the survey suggested there had been some easing of the inflationary pressures that firms have been facing as well as an improvement in business sentiment about the outlook for the year ahead.\n\nMr Ramsey added: \"While price pressures have hit demand in recent months, it is encouraging to note that inflationary pressures continue to moderate.\n\n\"Business conditions may have taken a turn for the worse in July but sentiment amongst local firms for the year ahead has actually picked up.\n\n\"The interest rate outlook has improved slightly but the dark cloud of no Stormont Executive looks set to remain anchored over the economy for the foreseeable future.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning executive since February 2022 as part of the Democratic Unionist Party's protest against post-Brexit trading arrangements.\n\n\"Whether the new rise in optimism is well founded or misplaced - time will tell,\" Mr Ramsey added.", "Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has told US media she is carrying out the Trump probe as she would any other case\n\nFani Willis was preparing to start her new role as Fulton County District Attorney in Georgia when Donald Trump made a phone call to a top Republican in the state that would upend her work for the next several years.\n\nOn 2 January 2021, the former president phoned Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and asked him to \"find 11,780 votes\", the number he needed to beat Joe Biden, who had won the state and the 2020 presidential election several weeks before.\n\nAudio from the call was leaked to US media the next day, sparking an outcry on Ms Willis's first day in office.\n\n\"How soon I knew an investigation may be warranted was on day one,\" Ms Willis told USA Today in 2022. \"The phone call was enough to… cause grave concern.\"\n\nTwo-and-a-half years after that phone call, on 14 August 2023, a grand jury in Fulton County voted to charge Mr Trump and 18 others with attempting to overturn the election result in the state.\n\nMr Trump's lawyers called the indictment \"shocking and absurd\" while the former president derided it as the latest development in what he's branded a political \"witch hunt\".\n\nFani Willis is known by fellow Georgia lawyers and those who have worked with her as a dogged prosecutor capable of securing convictions in high-profile and complex cases.\n\n\"She had a reputation of always being prepared,\" said Melissa Redmon, who worked in the Fulton County District Attorney's office at the same time as Ms Willis. \"Given the type of cases she prosecuted, that took a tremendous amount of dedication.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I make decisions based on the facts and the law.'\n\nSome of Ms Willis's most-prominent trials to date include a controversial Atlanta Public Schools scandal involving officials who cheated to improve standardised test scores, and several well-known rappers who were accused of gang crimes.\n\nMs Willis has insisted that in the investigation into Mr Trump's activities her office followed the same procedures it would if anyone had potentially committed a crime in her area.\n\n\"The reality is, we have a job, and the job is just to try to find the truth,\" she told the New York Times in February. \"We're just going to do that [Trump] case like every other.\"\n\nThe BBC has reached out to Ms Willis's office for comment.\n\nBorn in Inglewood, California in 1971, Ms Willis was raised primarily by her father, a criminal defence lawyer and member of the Black Panthers, the radical political party which championed black rights.\n\nThe district attorney has said her father's work led her to the courthouse from an early age.\n\nShe graduated from the historically black college Howard University in 1993, before receiving a law degree from Emory University in Georgia in 1996.\n\nJust five years later, Ms Willis joined the Fulton County District Attorney's office, where she served in several different divisions until 2018.\n\nDuring her nearly two decades there, Ms Willis led more than 100 jury trials, including the longest criminal trial in Georgia history. It ended with convictions for 11 of 12 Atlanta public school officials accused of cheating on state-administered standardised tests in 2009 for better bonuses and promotions.\n\nHer successful trials quickly secured her a reputation of being an exceptionally skilled prosecutor, even among the accused, said Ms Redmon. During her time at the DA's office, Ms Redmon remembers hearing a defendant once plead with a relative to try to get a witness to leave town because the prosecutor tackling their case, Ms Willis, was \"a genius\".\n\nAfter her time in the office ended, Ms Willis spent several years in private practice. Then, in 2020, she decided to go head-to-head with her former boss, six-term Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard.\n\nShe won in a runoff election with 73% of the votes, becoming the first black woman to serve as Fulton County's top prosecutor. As Fulton County's district attorney, she is responsible for representing the government in criminal cases, investigating crimes in the county, determining whether charges should be brought and prosecuting cases in court.\n\nMs Willis launched the investigation into Mr Trump's post-election conduct just a month after his infamous phone call to Mr Raffensperger.\n\nHer office has interviewed dozens of witnesses, including top Georgia Republican officials like Governor Brian Kemp and Mr Raffensperger as well as Mr Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani.\n\nMr Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social to repeatedly lambast the investigation. The \"Radical Left Democrat 'Prosecutor' from Georgia who is presiding over one of the most Crime Ridden and Corrupt places in the USA, Fulton County, has put together a Grand Jury to investigate an absolutely 'PERFECT' phone call to the Secretary of State\", he wrote in 2022.\n\nIn response to the former president's attacks, Ms Willis has argued that no one is above the law.\n\n\"I do not have the right to look the other way on a crime that could have impacted a major right of people in this community and throughout the nation,\" she told the New York Times last September.\n\nShe has faced threatening messages - some littered with racist and sexist language - because of the work, according to emails she reportedly forwarded to Fulton County commissioners.", "A support worker with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said he does not feel safe in his home following a massive data breach.\n\nThe man said he had made changes to his daily life and no longer attended his child's Gaelic football training.\n\nHis name was on a document mistakenly shared by the PSNI that gave details of about 10,000 officers and staff.\n\nHe said it had \"raised security concerns\" and caused \"sleepless nights\".\n\nSome 1,700 staff have reported concerns with police since the data was leaked.\n\nThe worker, who is based outside Belfast, said that many of his colleagues were in \"extreme panic\", especially those with unique surnames.\n\nMany of whom, he added, \"are no longer travelling to work in their own vehicles. They're maybe taking their partner's, their mum's, a close family relative, and varying which car to travel to work in on a daily basis\".\n\nHe also said that since the breach many have changed their names on social media or deleted their accounts entirely.\n\nThe chief constable has apologised for what he called an \"industrial-scale\" breach of internal data.\n\nThe details included the surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence.\n\nA number of PSNI employees have spoken anonymously to BBC News NI about their safety fears following the data breach.\n\nThe civilian staff member said that prior to the leak he had taken steps to conceal his profession.\n\nPolice in Northern Ireland are very conscious of their personal security\n\n\"I would wear a uniform with the PSNI emblem on it,\" the support worker said.\n\n\"When I wash the clothing, I wouldn't be hanging it out on the line like the rest of my clothes, it would be taken to another location and washed and dried or tumble dried or left in the house over the radiator just to ensure that I don't leave with anything, with any emblems on me.\n\n\"There were places before that I was going to and there was people that I would have been in general contact with that would have had suspicions at times that I was an employee of the police service,\" the man told BBC News NI.\n\n\"So it has changed my attendance at a local sports club that I have been attending for maybe 10 or 15 years - or going to a club that my child would also be attending. I've varied my attendance at things I have been doing regularly for years.\"\n\nLaw firms are already making it known that they will represent officers and civilian staff who have had their identities revealed in these data breaches.\n\nAs of Monday morning, 2,834 police officers had signed up to take legal action after the data breaches, according to the Police Federation.\n\nWith more than 10,000 people affected, the potential bill for compensation could run to tens of millions of pounds, according to BBC NI's home affairs correspondent, Julian O'Neill.\n\nIn March, the terrorist threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nIt followed an attack on an off-duty senior detective, who suffered life-changing injuries after being shot several times by dissident republican paramilitaries.\n\nThe civilian worker said the data breach had \"brought on a level of panic that hasn't been around in a lot of years\".\n\n\"It's giving my partner issues as well. She has concerns and is now extremely panicked about me going to work. It has raised the security concerns, I suppose, that were never fully away. There have been a few sleepless nights.\n\n\"With my details being leaked out on this, I'm unsure who has had access to it. I think that although not easily identifiable, a couple of key pieces of information could lead [to people] realising that those details are mine.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne has apologised for what he called a breach on an \"industrial scale\"\n\nThe civilian worker pointed out that support staff only receive about £500 in so-called danger money - while an officer can get up to £3,500.\n\nHe also said he knows of two PSNI employees actively seeking new employment directly because of the breach.\n\nMeanwhile, it emerged on Saturday that 200 PSNI officers and staff of the Police Service of Northern Ireland were not informed of the theft of personal data from a superintendent's car for a month.\n\nThis was in relation to another data breach in Newtownabbey in July.\n\nThe Superintendents' Association of Northern Ireland (SANI) confirmed one of its members was involved, adding that it was giving them \"every possible support in this difficult situation\".", "Michael Oher alleges he was tricked into a conservatorship by the Tuohys\n\nA retired American football star whose rags-to-riches tale was adapted into an Oscar-winning Hollywood film has alleged the story is built on lies.\n\nIn 2009 movie The Blind Side, Michael Oher, a foster child in Tennessee, is adopted by a wealthy white couple and blooms into a star college athlete.\n\nIn a court filing, Mr Oher, now 37, alleges he was never adopted and was instead tricked into a conservatorship.\n\nHe alleges Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy made millions of dollars from his name.\n\nAn attorney for the Tuohy family told the BBC the \"hurtful and absurd\" claims were part of an effort to shake down the couple.\n\n\"They have consistently treated him like a son and one of their three children,\" Martin Singer wrote in a lengthy emailed statement.\n\nMr Singer alleged Mr Oher had said \"he would plant a negative story about them in the press unless they paid him $15 million.\"\n\nThe BBC has reached out to the Oher legal team for comment.\n\nAccording to the 26-page petition filed on Monday in probate court in Shelby County, Tennessee, the Tuohys tricked Mr Oher into making them his conservators shortly after he turned 18.\n\nConservatorships are US court orders that appoint a parent or legal guardian to oversee the personal or financial affairs of someone incapable of fully managing their own affairs because of their age or disability.\n\nThe Tuohys took full control over Mr Oher's \"ability to negotiate for or enter any contract, despite the fact he was over 18 years of age and had no diagnosed physical or psychological disabilities\", he alleges.\n\nSandra Bullock (left) plays Leigh Anne Tuohy (right) in the 2009 movie\n\nMr Oher had shown sporting potential from a young age. But having grown up in foster care and fallen behind in school, he was in need of support and often stayed overnight at classmates' homes.\n\n\"Where other parents of Michael's classmates saw Michael simply as a nice kid in need, [the Tuohys] saw something else: a gullible young man whose athletic talent could be exploited for their own benefit,\" the document alleges.\n\nThe Tuohys allegedly told the teen they intended to legally adopt him and, soon after he had moved in with them in 2004, they presented him with what he believed to be adoption paperwork.\n\nThe couple lied that adopting someone over the age of 18 was called a conservatorship, the petition alleges.\n\n\"Michael Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys,\" the court filing alleges.\n\nMr Singer, the Tuohy attorney, said the couple \"have always been upfront\" about the nature of the agreement and, if Mr Oher wishes to terminate it, they will \"never oppose it in any way\".\n\nThe Tuohys are further accused of using the conservatorship to enrich themselves at Mr Oher's expense as he excelled on the gridiron, becoming a two-time All-American, an accolade for outstanding athletes, at the University of Mississippi.\n\nAs his life story was adapted into a book in 2006 and a movie in 2009, the co-conservators allegedly negotiated a contract that split profits and royalties between them and their two birth children, while leaving nothing to Mr Oher for a lucrative story \"that would not have existed without him\".\n\nThe Blind Side went on to amass more than $300m (£237m) at the global box office and millions more in home video sales.\n\nAccording to the court filing, the Tuohys negotiated a contract of $225,000 in addition to 2.5% of the film's net proceeds for themselves and their biological children, while Mr Oher \"received nothing\".\n\nThe Tuohys and their children, seen here at the movie premiere\n\nIt asks the court to terminate the conservatorship, bar the Tuohys from continuing to profit from Mr Oher's name and likeness, and establish a full accounting of what he is fairly owed.\n\nThe lawsuit accuses the Tuohys of a \"gross and appalling\" breach of fiduciary duty.\n\nMr Tuohy rejected the claim, telling the BBC the Tuohys insisted on equally dividing up any money they received from Mr Oher's life story.\n\nThe Blind Side's release coincided with Mr Oher's start in the National Football League, where he played eight seasons, most prominently with the Baltimore Ravens.\n\nThe film earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and won Sandra Bullock, in the role of Leigh Anne Tuohy, her only Academy Award.\n\nMr Oher has long resented how the movie portrays him as mentally slow, which he felt had affected his career.\n\nThe ex-NFL star said in a statement: \"I am disheartened by the revelation shared in the lawsuit today.\n\n\"This is a difficult situation for my family and me. I want to ask everyone to please respect our privacy at this time. For now, I will let the lawsuit speak for itself and will offer no further comment.\"", "The prices of food staples such as oil and milk are finally \"edging down\", even though shopping bills remain high, new data suggests.\n\nResearch firm Kantar said shoppers paid on average £1.50 for four pints of milk in July, down from £1.69 in March.\n\nThe average cost of a litre of sunflower oil, meanwhile, is now £2.19, which is 22p less than in the spring.\n\nIt comes as grocery inflation - the rate at which overall food prices rise - remains high but is starting to ease.\n\nPrices increased by 12.7% on an annual basis in the four weeks to 6 August, according to Kantar, which tracks the spending habits of 36,000 UK households.\n\nThat is down from 14.9% a month earlier.\n\nFood prices surged last year, in large part because of the Ukraine war, but there are signs the pressures may be beginning to ease as wholesale prices come down.\n\nThe major supermarkets have also begun to cut the price of basics such as eggs, milk and loo roll as they face pressure to do more to help struggling shoppers.\n\nIt follows criticism that they have not passed on falling wholesale prices to customers - claims that they deny.\n\nFraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said that UK grocery prices overall were \"still up year-on-year across every supermarket shelf\", but that consumers \"will have been relieved\" to see the cost of some staples fall compared with earlier in the year.\n\nShoppers also continue to seek ways to cut their grocery bills, he said, such as shopping at discounters Aldi and Lidl or buying cheaper supermarket own-label goods.\n\nSales of own-label goods remained popular last month, Kantar found, climbing 9.7% on an annual basis. In what may be a sign of growing consumer confidence, however, it said sales of more expensive branded groceries also started to pick up.\n\nIt comes despite separate research from consumer group Which? that found the price of some branded goods on supermarket shelves has more than doubled in the last 12 months.\n\nThe consumer champion, which tracked almost 26,000 food products at eight major supermarkets, found:\n\nThe BBC has contacted the supermarkets for comment.\n\nFood prices have been one of the biggest contributors to the UK's overall rate of inflation which remains stubbornly high.\n\nNew figures, due on Wednesday, are expected to show that the overall pace of UK price rises slowed to between 6.7% and 7% in July, down from 7.9% in June.\n\nEven with grocery inflation easing, food prices are expected to remain high for the rest of the year, according to the Bank of England, leaving millions of households under pressure.\n\nHuw Pill, its chief economist, said last week that the return of lower food prices is \"something we may not be seeing for a while yet, if in the future at all\".", "At first glance, the federal charges against Trump for 2020 election interference and the Georgia state charges seem to have a lot of overlap.\n\nBoth deal heavily with the actions of Trump and his associates in Georgia, and even zero in on the same actions.\n\nBut the prosecutors in each case have taken a very different strategic approach.\n\nJack Smith, the Justice Department special counsel overseeing the case in Washington DC, indicted only Donald Trump - though the indictment mentions unnamed co-conspirators who allegedly helped carry out election interference.\n\nProsecuting only Trump allows Smith to move much faster, as the government has indicated it would like a speedy trial ahead of the 2024 election.\n\nFani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney in Georgia, did the opposite: she charged Trump along with 18 other co-defendants in a racketeering case.\n\nIt's a sprawling legal strategy that allows her to try multiple figures at once. Willis is trying to hold several people responsible for a wide range of activity in Georgia, all while pointing the finger at Trump.\n\nIn fact, several of the named defendants in the Georgia case - Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Cheseboro - are also unnamed co-conspirtators in the federal indictment.\n\nWillis's case is the first time they are actually being charged for their alleged attemps to help the former president interfere in the 2020 election.", "Sara Sharif's body was found alone at a house in Woking\n\nAn international manhunt for three people continues following the murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif.\n\nThe girl's body was found alone in the early hours of last Thursday morning at her home in Woking, Surrey.\n\nSurrey Police said the three people it was trying to locate - who were known to Sara - left the UK the previous day.\n\nSara's mother Olga Sharif said her life \"will never be the same again\" as she spoke of her loss in an interview with The Sun.\n\nFormal identification has yet to take place, and investigators are still at the property where Sara's body was found in Hammond Road.\n\nDetectives are working with international authorities to find those they want to speak to in connection with her death. They have released no information about the three people publicly.\n\nNo arrests have been made and a post-mortem examination will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sharif described her daughter as an \"amazing girl\", and told The Sun she was \"too young\".\n\n\"There is nothing I can do that can bring her back to life, so I have to only remember the good times with her now,\" she added.\n\nFlowers were laid at the scene shortly after Sara's body was discovered\n\nThe local imam said the community had been shocked by her death.\n\nHafiz Hashmi, Imam of the Shah Jahan Mosque, said he had not been able to sleep in recent days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Surrey: \"We are immensely shocked and saddened. Can't believe something like this can happen to such an innocent child.\n\n\"We don't know the circumstances around the death so we pray for the girl's soul to be at peace. We pray that we are able to find the truth surrounding her death so that loved ones can lay the girl to rest.\n\nIn a statement, the mosque said it was \"deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Sara whose innocent life was taken last week\".\n\nThe statement added: \"Our thoughts, prayers and condolences are with her and her loved ones during this difficult and testing time.\"\n\nSurrey Police said the three people it was trying to locate left the UK on 9 August\n\nA local church, St Mary the Virgin, in Horsell, has been open since last Friday for members of the community to attend for \"prayer, reflection or comfort\", while floral tributes have been left outside the house.\n\nLast week, there was a heavy police presence at the semi-detached property on Hammond Road and neighbours told reporters a Pakistani family with six \"very young\" children had moved into the house in April.\n\nSpeaking after the discovery of Sara's body, a neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said she \"appeared to help look after her younger brothers and sisters, and especially the baby\".\n\nThey \"seemed a happy family who cared for all their children\", they said.\n\nSara's body was found at the empty house at about 02:50 BST on 10 August.\n\nAnna Bradshaw, an extradition law specialist at the London firm Peters and Peters, said any future legal proceedings involving foreign courts were likely to be protracted.\n\n\"That's an opportunity for the person to contest their extradition\" she said.\n\n\"Some countries do not extradite their own nationals. Most countries will insist on the prima facie case to be met, and almost all countries will have some variation of a human rights test.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Met Police say it is \"vital\" that the man in the image is identified\n\nInvestigators are seeking to identify a man after two men were stabbed in a homophobic attack outside a south London nightclub.\n\nThe men, in their 20s and 30s, were attacked outside the Two Brewers in Clapham High Street on Sunday night.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has released an image of a man taken from outside the venue at the time of the attack.\n\nThe force said it is treating the stabbings as homophobic.\n\nThe Met said the incident happened at about 22:15 BST as the two men stood outside the nightclub.\n\nThe were approached by a man who attacked them with a knife before running away.\n\nNo arrests have been made so far, and police inquiries are ongoing.\n\nThe men have since been sent home from hospital.\n\nThe attack took place outside the Two Brewers in Clapham\n\nDet Ch Insp Jivan Saib from the Met's Central South Command Unit, who is leading the investigation, said: \"I am asking the public to look at this image and see if they recognise this individual - it is vital that we identify and locate him as soon as possible.\"\n\nPC Hayley Jones, the Met's LGBT+ Community Liaison Officer for Lambeth and Southwark said: \"We understand some people from the LGBT+ community may not have the confidence to speak to police.\n\n\"You can contact me directly for advice and support, or to assist this investigation.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the scene, the chief executive of the charity LGBT Hero, Ian Howley, said the attack was \"something that makes you think twice about your own actions; about the way that you talk, the way that you dress, the way that you are as a person\".\n\n\"You kind of see yourself as a beacon for hate and people want to... physically and verbally abuse you for being who you are as a person. And I find that really shocking,\" he said.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan posted on X yesterday saying there was \"no place for hate in London\", adding he stood with LGBTQI+ Londoners.\n\nFlorence Eshalomi, Labour MP for Vauxhall, whose constituency area includes the street, said: \"Having spoken to people in the area this afternoon, I know how alarming this shocking attack has been to the LGBTQ+ community in Clapham.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the victims, who I hope will be supported to make a full recovery.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman's ex-boyfriend shared intimate photos of her online, as well as with her friends and family, without her consent\n\nA Texas jury has awarded a woman $1.2bn (£944m) after ruling that she was the victim of revenge porn.\n\nThe woman, who was named only by the initials DL in court documents, filed a harassment lawsuit against her former boyfriend in 2022.\n\nThe suit alleged that he posted intimate pictures of her online to \"publicly shame\" her after a break-up.\n\nHer lawyers in the case said the settlement is a win for victims of \"image-based sexual abuse\".\n\n\"While a judgment in this case is unlikely to be recovered, the compensatory verdict gives DL back her good name,\" said Bradford Gilde, the lead trial lawyer, in a statement.\n\nThe lawyers had originally asked the jury for $100m in damages.\n\n\"We hope the staggering amount of this verdict sends a message of deterrence and prevents others from engaging in this despicable activity,\" Mr Gilde added.\n\nAccording to court documents, the woman and her former boyfriend began dating in 2016.\n\nThe woman had shared intimate photos of herself with the defendant during the relationship. After a break-up in 2021, he is accused of having posted the photos on social media platforms and adult websites without her consent.\n\nHe allegedly sent links of the photos to her friends and family through a publicly accessible Dropbox folder.\n\nHe was also accused of having access to her phone, social media accounts and email, as well as to the camera system at her mother's home, which he used to spy on her.\n\nAt one point, the defendant allegedly sent the woman a message: \"You will spend the rest of your life trying and failing to wipe yourself off the internet. Everyone you ever meet will hear the story and go looking. Happy Hunting.\"\n\nLawyers for the woman claim her former boyfriend posted the pictures \"to inflict a combination of psychological abuse, domestic violence and sexual abuse\".\n\nHe did not show up in court and did have an attorney to represent him, according to US media reports.\n\nHe was ordered to pay the woman $200m for past and future mental anguish, as well as $1bn in exemplary damages.\n\nHigh settlements have been reached in US revenge porn cases in the past. In 2018, a California woman was awarded $6.8m after her former partner shared explicit photographs of her on porn sites.\n\nDL told a Texas broadcaster that after receiving little assistance from local police she turned to a civil attorney.\n\nIn 2016, around 10 million Americans reported being victims of non-consensual - or revenge - porn. Many of them are women aged 18 to 29, according to a study at the time by the Data & Society Research Institute.\n\nAll US states, with the exception of Massachusetts and South Carolina, have anti-revenge porn laws in place.", "Jade Lily's petition for Wales to match England's pledge has received thousands of signatures\n\nParents are calling on the Welsh government to offer the same financial support for childcare as England.\n\nIn March, it was announced free childcare for working parents in England would be expanded to all children under five by September 2025, to help get parents back to work.\n\nA petition calling for this to be matched in Wales gained 6,000 signatures in 48 hours.\n\nThe Welsh government said high-quality childcare was already being rolled out.\n\nMother-of-two Jade Lily, 30, from Cardiff, started the petition after hearing the experiences of other parents through her Instagram page Mum Life.\n\n\"I saw that when the UK government announced their childcare policy, a lot of Welsh parents wrongly assumed it would apply to them.\n\n\"I have waited since March to find out what the Welsh government plans on doing with the money given to them by the UK government to go towards childcare and there has been no update.\"\n\nWhat will parents in England's get?\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh government has two funded childcare schemes for children aged two, three and four.\n\nUnder the Childcare Offer, parents and guardians of three and four-year-olds can claim up to 30 hours of free childcare each week, for up to 48 weeks of the year, provided they meet certain criteria.\n\nThe second is Flying Start, which provides 12.5 hours of free childcare to some two-year-olds living in more deprived areas of Wales.\n\nThis is undergoing a phased expansion and will eventually be available to all two-year-olds as part of a co-operation agreement between the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru.\n\nBut Ms Lily said Flying Start was \"letting Welsh working parents down\".\n\nKirsty Thomas, 32, from Bangor, Gwynedd, has two sons, two-year-old Rory and four-month-old Jude.\n\nShe signed the petition because \"it was nice to see somebody taking charge\".\n\nShe added: \"When I returned to work after having my little boy in 2020, I wanted to return to work full time.\n\n\"I worked really hard for a professional career in teaching and ended up paying close to £1,000 a month for childcare, even after the 20% reduction from the government, which was really hard going for us.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We are already rolling out high-quality childcare to two-year-olds across Wales through our Flying Start programme as part of our co-operation agreement with Plaid Cymru.\n\n\"This is a phased roll-out, taking account of the capacity within the childcare sector across Wales, where we need to see increases in the workforce and the number of settings.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: ''Thank God that he gave us tears\" - Maui resident\n\nRecovery crews combing through charred homes and vehicles in Hawaii are likely to find 10 to 20 more victims per day, the governor has warned.\n\nThe death toll from the fire now stands at 99, making it the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century.\n\nGovernor Josh Green told CBS News it could take up to 10 days to learn the full death toll.\n\nThe number of missing now stands at around 1,300, he said.\n\nHe later told a press conference that 25% of the area affected by the fire had been searched for bodies.\n\nNearly the entire town of Lahaina was destroyed in the fire.\n\n\"There is nothing to see except full devastation,\" Mr Green told CBS, the BBC's US news partner, on Sunday.\n\nAll residents of Lahaina - home to 12,000 people - probably escaped or perished in the fire, he added. He said crews would probably discover more victims and that it would take time to identify them.\n\n\"It's hard to recognise anybody,\" Mr Green said.\n\nOfficials said 20 dogs trained to search for cadavers had been deployed to the island by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).\n\n\"We've got an area that we have to contain that is at least five square miles, and it is full of our loved ones,\" said Maui Police Chief Jeff Pelletier at a weekend news conference.\n\nOn Monday, Fema Administrator Deanne Criswell declined to give an exact estimate of how long the search and recovery mission would take, calling the situation \"extremely hazardous\".\n\n\"The dogs can only work so long because of how hot the temperatures are,\" said Ms Criswell, participating in the White House daily press briefing remotely from Hawaii.\n\nAt one point, there were more than 2,000 people who had been reported missing since the fire broke out on the island of Maui last week.\n\nThat number went down to 1,300 as people were able to reconnect with one another after access to cell phone service improved.\n\nChief Pelletier has encouraged people with missing family members to submit DNA samples to help with search efforts.\n\nHe also urged patience for those looking to enter the town, as there are still remains that need to be recovered and identified.\n\n\"When we find our family and friends, the remains we're finding is through a fire that melted metal,\" he said. \"We have to do rapid DNA to identify them. Every one of these ... are John and Jane Does.\"\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Monday afternoon, Mr Green said just under 2,000 housing units, including 402 hotel rooms, had been made available for people who had lost their homes.\n\nThe deadly fire in Lahaina is still burning and is about 85% contained, according to Maui County officials. How the fire started remains unconfirmed, though it was fuelled by winds from nearby Hurricane Dora and drought conditions.\n\nA class-action lawsuit was filed on Saturday against Hawaii's largest electricity provider, Hawaii Electric, which alleges the company's downed power lines contributed to the wildfires.\n\nThe lawsuit accuses the company of failing to shut off the downed lines despite advanced warning from the National Weather Service cautioning that Hawaii was under high alert for wildfires.\n\nTemporarily shutting off power to reduce fire risk is a tactic used in western US states, where wildfires are common. In California, power lines have been blamed for half of the state's most destructive wildfires.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the wildfires in Hawaii? You can send your questions to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 35 people have been killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a petrol station in southern Russia.\n\nThe blast occurred in the Dagestan regional capital, Makhachkala, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, at 21:40 local time (18:40 GMT) on Monday.\n\nPictures showed a large fire lighting up the night sky and a number of fire engines at the scene.\n\nAccording to local media, the fire began at a car repair centre near the petrol station.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin offered his sincere condolences following the deadly blast.\n\nA state of emergency was introduced in the Kumtorkalinsky district in Dagestan, according to regional head Sergei Melikov.\n\nSome 260 emergency workers have been deployed, while the most seriously injured have been evacuated to Moscow by air, according to the emergencies ministry.\n\nRescue operations are ongoing, the ministry said. As emergency services clear through the rubble, more bodies are being discovered.\n\nRussia's Interfax news agency quoted doctors as saying three children were among the dead.\n\nIt added that the fire had spread over an area of 600 sq m (6,460 sq ft) and that there was a danger of further explosions.\n\nAn unnamed witness quoted by Russian newspaper Izvestia said the fire had started at a car park opposite the petrol station.\n\n\"After the explosion, everything fell on our heads. We couldn't see anything any more,\" the witness said.\n\nRussia's Investigative Committee said the fire had broken out during some car maintenance work and had been \"followed by a bang\".\n\nA criminal case has been opened to establish the circumstances leading up to the incident, the committee said.\n\nThe Republic of Dagestan is one of 83 constituent parts of the Russian Federation and is the southernmost part of the country. Makhachkala is about 1,600km (1,000 miles) from Moscow.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julie Lloyd is taking part in the first UK trial of the new AI-powered trousers.\n\nA stroke survivor is learning to walk independently again thanks to high-tech trousers powered by AI.\n\nJulie Lloyd, 65, is part of the UK's first trial of the \"smart garment\" that she described as a breakthrough for fellow stroke patients.\n\nThe \"NeuroSkin\" trousers stimulate her paralysed leg using electrodes controlled by artificial intelligence.\n\nThe Stroke Association said new technologies are giving hope to the UK's 1.3 million stroke survivors.\n\nThe developers of NeuroSkin said the invention is already revolutionising stroke care in France, but Ms Lloyd is one of the first involved in the UK's own trial.\n\n\"My leg is almost feeling as if it's being guided,\" she said.\n\nMs Lloyd took part in the UK trial at her physiotherapy clinic in Newport.\n\nAfter first experiencing an uncomfortable \"tingling feeling\", she said that within a few minutes she was walking unaided for the first time in six months.\n\n\"[My leg] was suddenly propelled up from the floor and made me feel safe walking, and that's the part that I've honestly not felt at all with all the physio I've had,\" she said.\n\nJulie needs a cane to walk her dogs near her home in Penarth\n\n\"I've never felt since my stroke as elated as I feel this moment.\"\n\nThe businesswoman, from Penarth in Vale of Glamorgan, had a minor stroke in January which resulted in her left arm and left leg being partially paralysed. She currently relies on a cane to walk.\n\n\"Life before was very energetic, very active,\" she said, explaining how she ran the Cardiff half marathon before her stroke. \"It has taken away a lifestyle I had and that's been terribly tragic.\"\n\nHer rehabilitation involves hours of repetitive exercises aimed at \"teaching\" her brain to work around the area damaged by the stroke and make new connections to control her left side.\n\nThe progress has been slow and gruelling. But when she got to about 3,000 steps a day with a cane, her physiotherapist recommended she enter the trial of the AI-powered tech.\n\nOne side of the \"smart garment\" monitors the electrical impulses of Ms Lloyd's healthy leg, then recreates those impulses on her weakened leg\n\nElectrical muscle stimulation (EMS) has been used in stroke care for decades, \"zapping\" weak and atrophied muscles back to life.\n\nBut it is a blunt approach, said Rudi Gombauld, the CEO of Lyon-based firm Kurage which is developing wearable devices that deliver EMS pulses controlled by artificial intelligence.\n\nNeuroSkin includes wired trousers and shoes with electrodes above the six main muscle groups in each leg.\n\nJulie Lloyd walking unaided for the first time in the six months since her stroke\n\n\"The smart garment is like a second skin which means that you have sensors that can feel how the brain works and have all the sensory information to send to an artificial intelligence system,\" Mr Gombauld said.\n\nThe AI is connected to the electrodes and worn in a vest.\n\nWith each step it gathers information about the impulses being sent by the brain to the healthy leg, and then sends a mirror impulse to the patient's weakened leg to recreate their natural stride.\n\nNeuroSkin is not for home or everyday use, but has been developed to help patients complete the number of repetitions necessary to help regain their walking ability.\n\nIt currently costs about £5,000 a month to lease, with the Morrello Clinic in Newport set to offer the treatment for the first time in Wales in October, starting with three stroke survivors including Ms Lloyd.\n\nKurage CEO Rudi Gombauld described the trousers as a \"second skin\"\n\n\"I really feel this is the breakthrough for stroke victims that has been much and long awaited for,\" Ms Lloyd said.\n\nClare Jonas, from the Stroke Association, said NeuroSkin was an \"exciting\" prospect for the 70,000 stroke survivors in Wales, around three-quarters of whom have some paralysis.\n\n\"It feels like there's probably going to be a big shift in how we treat stroke and how we offer rehab for stroke in the next five to 10 years,\" she said.\n\nBut she warned that new treatments will \"take time to get from the lab into clinical practice\".", "Regulated train fares in England will again rise below the rate of inflation next year, the government has said.\n\nThe move is meant to help people with the soaring cost of living and follows a similar intervention in 2023.\n\nAny rises will once more be delayed until March 2024, rather than kicking in in January as was normal pre-Covid.\n\nHowever, one campaign group said fares should be frozen \"in recognition of the burden high fares place on rail passengers\".\n\nRegulated fares cover about 45% of fares, including season tickets on most commuter journeys, some off-peak return tickets on long-distance journeys and anytime tickets around major cities.\n\nBefore the pandemic, they were increased in January each year, based on the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation from the previous July. The normal formula is RPI plus 1%.\n\nRPI in July was 9%, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday.\n\nIt is not known what next year's increase will be, but this year the government increased national rail fares by 5.9%, which was well below July 2022's RPI figure of 12.3%.\n\nThat increase was still the largest since 2012, according to regulator the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nAt the time Labour called the rise a \"sick joke for millions reliant on crumbling services\".\n\nThe government's latest intervention comes as UK inflation - the rate at which prices rise - remains high although is starting to ease.\n\nMillions are still struggling with higher prices for food and services at time when interest rates are also rising to tackle the problem, making it more expensive to borrow money.\n\nA Department for Transport (DfT) spokesman said the government would \"continue to protect passengers from cost of living pressures\".\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of watchdog Transport Focus, which represents passengers, said: \"Nobody likes their fare going up, but after a year where many journeys have been blighted by disruption due to industrial action and patchy performance, passengers will be relieved to hear that fares will be capped below the Retail Prices Index and any increases will be delayed until March next year.\"\n\nBut Paul Tuohy, boss of pressure group Campaign for Better Transport, said the government should \"freeze rail fares - as they have done with fuel duty - until the long-promised ticketing reform takes place\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey also called for an immediate rail fare freeze, adding: \"We need real action to tackle the cost of living crisis.\"\n\nThe DfT promised in 2021 to simplify the entire ticketing system, reducing the vast number of fares available which can make it difficult for travellers to decide which is best for them.\n\nReforms so far have included a trial of \"single leg pricing\" and the introduction of flexi-season tickets. But the pressure group says overhauling the ticketing system has yet to take place.\n\nSince last summer rail passengers have faced disruption due to a wave of strikes, with further industrial action planned on Saturday 26 August and Saturday 2 September.\n\nWorkers are demanding pay rises that reflect the soaring cost of living, while also trying to stop job cuts and changes to working conditions.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments have not announced their policies regarding rail fare rises next year.", "BJ Barone, right, and Frankie Nelson welcomed their son Milo in 2014\n\nItaly's far-right ruling party has been ordered to pay damages to a same-sex couple for using a photo of them with their newborn son without their consent in an anti-surrogacy campaign.\n\nBJ Barone and Frankie Nelson welcomed their son Milo with the help of a surrogate mother in 2014.\n\nA photo taken of that moment went viral, but it was then used by Brothers of Italy in 2016.\n\nThe party has been ordered to pay the couple €10,000 (£8,600) each.\n\nBrothers of Italy - Fratelli d'Italia in Italian - were ordered to pay for the \"offensive use of their image\" after Italian LGBT law firm Gay Lex took on the case. The party is appealing the decision.\n\nBrothers of Italy were ordered to pay damages over the 2014 advert\n\nItalian PM Giorgia Meloni leads the most right-wing government since World War Two.\n\nBrothers of Italy is a direct political descendant of the Italian Social Movement, which was formed by members of Mussolini's Fascist Party after the war.\n\nIn March, it instructed Milan's city council to stop registering the children of same-sex parents, leading to protests.\n\n\"This is a small win for us, but it is a huge victory for the LGBTQ+ community in Italy and abroad. To us, our birth photo represents everything what we stand for; family, acceptance and unconditional love,\" the couple told the BBC.\n\n\"This victory against the Fratelli and the Prime Minister allows us to reclaim our photo, and show the world that family is about love.\"\n\nThe photo, taken by Lindsay Foster, was also used without permission by independent Irish politician Mary Fitzgibbons in 2016 to push her platform against surrogacy for same-sex parents.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland reached the Women's World Cup final for the first time as they spoiled co-hosts Australia's party on a historic evening in Sydney.\n\nSilencing a sell-out crowd at Stadium Australia with their 3-1 victory, the Lionesses became the first England football team since 1966 to reach a senior final on the world stage.\n\nIt caps a sensational two years under manager Sarina Wiegman as England, crowned European champions for the first time last year on home soil, showed their superiority and know-how to see off an Australia side spurred on by a nation who have been inspired by the Matildas' success.\n\nElla Toone gave England the lead in the first half with a superb first-time strike which sailed into the top corner.\n\nThe Lionesses controlled proceedings until the second half when Australia threw everything at them and star striker Sam Kerr - starting her first match of the tournament - struck a 25-yard stunner over goalkeeper Mary Earps' head to make it 1-1.\n\nBut England, as they so often do, found a way back into the game when Lauren Hemp pounced on a defensive error to restore their lead, before Alessia Russo made sure of victory late on to set up a final with Spain on Sunday.\n• None Reaction and analysis as England reach first final\n• None World Cup final to be shown live on BBC\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nBuild-up to this semi-final has dominated every aspect of Australian life this week as cities across the country became absorbed in 'Matildas Mania'.\n\nFans were queueing outside fan parks in Sydney five hours before kick-off, train stations were decorated in yellow and green balloons, shops sold out of merchandise, and newspapers had the players' faces plastered over their front and back pages.\n\nAll focus was on the co-hosts' attempts to create history, but England quietly went about their business and arrived in Sydney ready to compete in their third successive Women's World Cup semi-final.\n\nTheir experience of handling big occasions was evident from the first minute as they disrupted Australia's rhythm and made every attempt to frustrate the crowd, taking their time over throw-ins and breaking down dangerous counter-attacks.\n\nIt worked for large parts, but when Australia fought their way back into the game through Kerr, England had to find another way - and they did.\n\nBacks against the wall, England's defence, who have been magnificent throughout the tournament, stepped up to make blocks, tackles and head away relentless balls into the box.\n\n\"My thought was 'we're not going to give this away now',\" said Wiegman, reflecting on Australia's equaliser. \"You are never sure. But it was later in the game so we got through.\"\n\nHemp and Russo's flourishing partnership up front ultimately decided the game when they combined late on - Manchester City winger Hemp with a superb no-look pass to set-up Russo.\n\n\"That was just an incredible pass,\" added Wiegman. \"The finish was really good too. I'm really happy with the performance and the players themselves are happy too.\"\n\nEngland's celebrations at full-time were initially subdued. They have created history but this is a team of winners and they have not finished yet.\n\nFrom the first minute they showed they were not afraid to play with physicality, going in hard in 50-50 challenges and doing all it took to bring down Kerr and prevent her getting a run at England's defence.\n\nKeira Walsh set the tone with a crunching tackle on Kerr within two minutes and Alex Greenwood later came sliding in on the Chelsea striker, earning herself a yellow card, to prevent a dangerous break.\n\nWith each tackle came a ripple of boos from the home fans, while Earps was in no rush to get things going again on goal-kicks.\n\nIt was England who controlled things early on - although both teams created a few chances - as they had 70% of the ball in the opening 15 minutes.\n\nTheir control did not really waver as the first half wore on and the crowd became increasingly frustrated, whistling as England enjoyed prolonged periods of possession and passed through Australia's press.\n\nBy the time the break arrived with England leading, the deafening roar which had greeted the players on their entrance had turned to polite applause as the Australians were still processing Toone's superb strike.\n\nThe second half was a different story, however. Kerr's sensational equaliser was followed by a dangerous strike from Cortnee Vine which called Earps into action.\n\nKerr headed another two chances over the bar, while Russo and Lucy Bronze came close at the other end for England.\n\nHowever, it was the Lionesses who were more ruthless, keeping their composure in the big moments and delivering when it mattered.\n\n\"Knowing Sam, she will think that goal means nothing. She is a winner,\" said Australia manager Tony Gustavsson.\n\n\"I know she's upset that she missed those two chances at the end. We need to support her. She did everything she could tonight.\n\n\"The fact she played 90 minutes is unbelievable. It is a world-class goal and shows what Sam Kerr is about. We promised to leave every single thing out there and every player did.\"\n\nEngland will go into the final full of confidence having overcome every hurdle so far in the tournament.\n\nBut this has also been a World Cup to remember for the Matildas, who hope to change the perception of women's football in this country forever.\n\nIt will be hard to ignore their impact and they were given a warm applause on a lap of honour at full-time.\n• None Goal! Australia 1, England 3. Alessia Russo (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lauren Hemp with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Sam Kerr (Australia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mary Fowler (Australia) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cortnee Vine.\n• None Attempt saved. Cortnee Vine (Australia) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sam Kerr.\n• None Attempt missed. Sam Kerr (Australia) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Mary Fowler with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Millie Bright (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Greenwood with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alessia Russo (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ella Toone. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A firm which was contracted to moderate Facebook posts in East Africa has said with hindsight it should not have taken on the job.\n\nFormer Kenya-based employees of Sama - an outsourcing company - have said they were traumatised by exposure to graphic posts.\n\nSome are now taking legal cases against the firm through the Kenyan courts.\n\nChief executive Wendy Gonzalez said Sama would no longer take work involving moderating harmful content.\n\nSome former employees have described being traumatised after viewing videos of beheadings, suicide and other graphic material at the moderation hub, which the firm ran from 2019.\n\nFormer moderator Daniel Motaung previously told the BBC the first graphic video he saw was \"a live video of someone being beheaded\".\n\nMr Motaung is suing Sama and Facebook's owner Meta. Meta says it requires all companies it works with to provide round-the-clock support. Sama says certified wellness counsellors were always on hand.\n\nMs Gonzalez told the BBC that the work - which never represented more than 4% of the firm's business - was a contract she would not take again. Sama announced it would end it in January.\n\n\"You ask the question: 'Do I regret it?' Well, I would probably put it this way. If I knew what I know now, which included all of the opportunity, energy it would take away from the core business I would have not entered [the agreement].\"\n\nShe said there were \"lessons learned\" and the firm now had a policy not to take on work that included moderating harmful content. The company would also not do artificial intelligence (AI) work \"that supports weapons of mass destruction or police surveillance\".\n\nWendy Gonzalez said \"lessons\" had been learned\n\nCiting continuing litigation, Ms Gonzalez declined to answer if she believed the claims of employees who said they had been harmed by viewing graphic material. Asked if she believed moderation work could be harmful in general, she said it was \"a new area that absolutely needs study and resources\".\n\nSama is an unusual outsourcing firm. From the beginning its avowed mission was to lift people out of poverty by providing digital skills and an income doing outsourced computing tasks for technology firms.\n\nIn 2018 the BBC visited the firm, watching employees from low-income parts of Nairobi earn $9 (£7) a day on \"data annotation\" - labelling objects in videos of driving, such as pedestrians and street lights, which would then be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Employees interviewed said the income had helped them escape poverty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2018 the BBC visited Sama in Nairobi\n\nThe company still works mainly on similar computer vision AI projects, that do not expose workers to harmful content, she says.\n\n\"I'm super proud of the fact that we've moved over 65,000 people out of poverty,\" Ms Gonzales said.\n\nIt's important, she believes, that African people are involved in the digital economy and the development of AI systems.\n\nThroughout the interview Ms Gonzalez reiterated that the decision to take the work was motivated by two considerations: that moderation was important, necessary work undertaken to prevent social media users from harm. And that it was important that African content was moderated by African teams.\n\n\"You cannot expect somebody from Sydney, India, or the Philippines to be able to effectively moderate local languages in Kenya or in South Africa or beyond,\" she said.\n\nShe also revealed that she had done the moderation work herself.\n\nModerators' pay at Sama began at around 90,000 Kenyan shillings ($630) per month, a good wage by Kenyan standards comparable to nurses, firemen and bank officers, Ms Gonzalez said.\n\nAsked if she would do the work for that amount of money she said \"I did do the moderation but that's not my job in the company\".\n\nSama also took on work with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.\n\nOne employee, Richard Mathenge, whose job was to read through huge volumes of text the chatbot was learning from and flag anything harmful, spoke to the BBC's Panorama programme. He said he was exposed to disturbing content.\n\nSama said it cancelled the work when staff in Kenya raised concerns about requests relating to image-based material which was not in the contract. Ms Gonzalez said \"we wrapped up this work immediately\".\n\nOpenAI said it has its own \"ethical and wellness standards\" for our data annotators and \"recognises this is challenging work for our researchers and annotation workers in Kenya and around the world\".\n\nBut Ms Gonzalez regards this type of AI work as another form of moderation, work that the company will not be doing again.\n\n\"We focus on non-harmful computer vision applications, like driver safety, and drones, and fruit detection and crop disease detection and things of that nature,\" she said.\n\n\"Africa needs a seat at the table when it comes to the development of AI. We don't want to continue to reinforce biases. We need to have people from all places in the world who are helping build this global technology.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The personal data of hundreds of victims of crime and witnesses have been released by mistake, the forces said\n\nA total of 1,230 people, including victims of crime and witnesses, have had their data breached by Norfolk and Suffolk police forces.\n\nThe constabularies said the personal information was included in Freedom of Information (FOI) responses due to a \"technical issue\".\n\nThey said the data was hidden from anyone opening the files but should not have been included.\n\nIt included descriptions of offences including sexual and domestic assaults.\n\nThe forces have apologised for the breach.\n\nThey said the information was attached to 18 responses to FOI requests for crime statistics issued by the forces between April 2021 and March 2022.\n\nThe FOI responses were sent to individuals including journalists and researchers.\n\nThe data included personal identifiable information on victims, witnesses and suspects relating to a range of offences including sexual offences, domestic incidents, assaults, hate crime and thefts, the forces said.\n\nVictims of sexual offences should have lifelong anonymity under law.\n\nBoth the Norfolk and Suffolk forces described the data as \"hidden from anyone opening the files\" and said they had found \"nothing to suggest\" it had been accessed by \"anyone outside of policing\".\n\nThey said the data would not have been \"immediately obvious\" and anyone who had received the FOI response would have \"needed to know how to access the information\".\n\nAll those affected are expected to be contacted by letter, phone or in person by the end of September, the forces said.\n\nSuffolk's temporary assistant chief constable, Eamonn Bridger, who led the investigation, said once they were aware of the breach they took \"immediate steps\" to react and remove the data from the public domain.\n\n\"The management of information is a complex area of policing, especially when we're talking about huge volumes of data... occasionally things can go wrong.\n\n\"We're not fully completed in our internal investigation at this stage, however, we've already conducted a rapid internal review of policy and procedure to minimise the likelihood of these things happening again,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I recognise the seriousness of this incident and take the opportunity to apologise that this data breach has occurred.\n\n\"I deeply regret any concern that it has caused to any member of the public.\"\n\nTim Passmore, Suffolk's police and crime commissioner, said he would be looking at a full review of information sharing processes\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it was investigating the matter.\n\nStephen Bonner, deputy commissioner at the ICO, said: \"The potential impact of a breach like this reminds us that data protection is about people.\n\n\"It's too soon to say what our investigation will find, but this breach - and all breaches - highlights just how important it is to have robust measures in place to protect personal information, especially when that data is so sensitive.\"\n\nTim Passmore, the Conservative police and crime commissioner for Suffolk, said it was a \"very, very serious issue\" and he needed to understand \"how on earth this could have happened\".\n\n\"No stone will be left unturned to get to the bottom of this. Where there are lessons to be learned and changes to be made, I give an absolute pledge that they will be put in place,\" he said.\n\nIt is not the first time Suffolk Police has breached victims' personal details.\n\nIn November, names and addresses of victims could be seen on the Suffolk Police website.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The attack took place outside Clapham's Two Brewers nightclub\n\nTwo men were taken to hospital after being stabbed in a homophobic attack outside a south London nightclub.\n\nThe men, in their 20s and 30s, were attacked outside the Two Brewers in Clapham High Street on Sunday night.\n\nThe Met Police said it was treating the stabbings as homophobic. The men have since been sent home from hospital.\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said there was \"no place for hate in London\", adding that he stood with LGBTQI+ Londoners.\n\nNo arrests have been made in connection to the incident.\n\nDet Insp Gary Castle said he was \"aware of the shock this attack will cause members of the LGBT+ community\", adding \"an urgent investigation is ongoing\".\n\nA drag performer at the club praised staff at the venue for their response.\n\nThe Two Brewers has boosted its security after the attack\n\nMary Mac posted: \"The team at The Two Brewers were incredible in dealing with this and keeping us inside the venue safe.\n\n\"It's shocking and disgusting that in 2023 this is becoming frighteningly more frequent.\"\n\nA Two Brewers spokesperson said the venue was \"fully supporting\" the police with their investigation \"regarding this unprovoked attack\", adding, \"our thoughts are with the victims and their families\".\n\n\"We would like to reassure the LGBTQIA+ community that the safety and security of our guests remains our number one priority,\" they said.\n\n\"Our CCTV has been handed over to the police and enhanced security measures have now been put in place.\"\n\nCampaign group Stonewall called on the government to set out a plan to deal with hate crime in the wake of the stabbings.\n\nThe organisation said there had been no government hate crime strategy in place for the past three years.\n\nIn a series of entries on Twitter, now known as X, the LGBT+ charity said: \"We are appalled to hear that two men have been stabbed in an apparent homophobic attack outside a LGBTQ+ venue in Clapham.\n\n\"It is unacceptable for LGBTQ+ people to live in fear. We call on the UK Govt to set out its plan to deal with rising hate crime.\"\n\nThe attack took place outside the Two Brewers in Clapham\n\nIn London, Metropolitan Police figures show a slight decrease in homophobic hate crimes - 3,792 such crimes were recorded in the year to July 2023, compared to 4,131 a year earlier.\n\nHome Office figures for the year ending March 2022 show that sexual orientation hate crimes in England and Wales increased by 41% to 26,152, representing the largest percentage annual increase in these offences since current records began in the year ending March 2012.\n\nTransgender identity hate crimes also rose significantly, by 56% to 4,355, the data shows.\n\nThe Home Office said the overall rise could be due to better recording by police, as well as fewer cases having been recorded under Covid restrictions in 2020/21.\n\nHowever, significant increases of more than 40 and 50% would indicate an upward trend.\n\nA government spokesperson said of the Clapham incident: \"These reports are deeply concerning and our thoughts are with the victims and their families.\n\n\"It's right that we give the police space to investigate this incident and it would be inappropriate to comment further while an investigation is ongoing.\"\n\nSadiq Khan said the incident was \"abhorrent\" and his thoughts were with the victims of this \"appalling attack\".\n\n\"I have always been clear that there is no place for hate in London. I stand with LGBTQI+ Londoners and will do all I can to end hate crime in the capital,\" he added.\n\nMr Khan said his team and the Met Police would invite the LGBTQ+ venues forum and its members to attend an urgent meeting later this week.\n\nFlorence Eshalomi, Labour MP for Vauxhall, said: \"Having spoken to people in the area this afternoon, I know how alarming this shocking attack has been to the LGBTQ+ community in Clapham.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the victims, who I hope will be supported to make a full recovery.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Two American tourists in Paris have been found sleeping inside the Eiffel Tower after getting stuck while drunk, according to prosecutors.\n\nThe two men were found by security guards in the early hours of Monday.\n\nThey paid to visit the landmark at around 22:40 (20:40 GMT) on Sunday and hopped security barriers while coming down the stairs, police said.\n\nThey were found in an area normally closed to the public between the tower's second and third levels.\n\nThe men \"appear to have got stuck because of how drunk they were\", Paris prosecutors told the AFP news agency.\n\nA specialist firefighter unit for rescuing people from heights were sent to recover the men, the agency reported.\n\nThe usual opening time of 09:00 was delayed due to the discovery of the inebriated pair.\n\nThey did not pose any threat, said Sete, the publicly-owned Eiffel Tower operator.\n\nBoth men were questioned by police in Paris, while Sete said it would file a criminal complaint.\n\nIt comes after two bomb scares at the tower on Saturday forced the monument to be evacuated twice in the same day.\n\nFrench police have launched an investigation after the false bomb threats were made via posts on a gaming site and a platform for online contact between citizens and police.\n\nThe Eiffel Tower, which was built in the 1880s and stands at 300m (984ft), attracted 5.8 million visitors last year.", "Japan's economy grew much faster than expected in the three months to the end of June as the country's weak currency boosted exports.\n\nThe world's third largest economy saw its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rise by an annualised 6% in the period.\n\nIt is about twice the rate of growth forecast by economists and marks the biggest rise in almost three years.\n\nThe fall in the value of the yen helped exporters as Japanese-made goods became cheaper for consumers around the world.\n\nJapan's currency has fallen sharply against major currencies in recent months and is down by more 10% versus the US dollar this year.\n\n\"The weak yen is behind the positive GDP numbers,\" Fujitsu's chief economist Martin Schulz told the BBC.\n\nGDP is one of the most important tools for looking at how well, or badly, an economy is doing.It helps businesses judge when to expand and hire more people, and it lets government work out how much to tax and spend.\n\nProfits at the country's car makers - including Toyota, Honda and Nissan - have been boosted in recent months as they saw increased demand for exports.\n\nWhile a weak currency makes what the country imports more expensive, prices of commodities on global markets, like oil and gas, have fallen in recent months.\n\nThat has resulted in a drop in the value of imports, down 4.3% from the previous quarter, which EY's Nobuko Kobayashi called \"a major culprit for GDP growth\".\n\nJapan's economy has also been helped by a rise in tourist numbers after the government lifted border restrictions at the end of April.\n\nAs of June, the number of foreign visitors to Japan had recovered to more than 70% of pre-pandemic levels, according to the country's national tourism authority.\n\nSpending by tourists is also expected to give the country's economy an even bigger boost from this month after China lifted a ban on group travel.\n\nBefore the pandemic Chinese visitors accounted for more than a third of tourist spending in Japan.\n\nThat is helping to offset the impact of the slowing recovery of consumption in the country itself after the pandemic.\n\n\"The main difficulty for Japan's second half is, however, that the domestic economy is cooling,\" Mr Schulz said.\n\nAccording to Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics, the details of the data \"weren't as impressive as the headline.\"\n\nHe highlighted a number of issues including a fall in private consumption, which makes up more than half of Japan's economy.\n\nJapanese workers have seen their pay go up at the fastest rate in 28 years but with inflation hovering near a four-decade-high wages have been falling in real terms for well over a year.", "Donald Trump's campaign stops are just one part of his increasingly hectic schedule\n\nDonald Trump, seeking a return to the White House in 2024, already had a crammed political calendar. Now, with multiple legal dramas set to unfold, it is approaching the point of pure chaos.\n\nA federal judge has scheduled the trial for his alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election for 4 March, the day before Super Tuesday, the biggest voting day in the Republican race.\n\nThat trial - in Washington DC - would pull Mr Trump off the campaign trail for a pivotal stretch of his campaign, when he could be securing himself as the Republican standard-bearer or engaged in an extended struggle with one or more remaining rivals.\n\nMr Trump's lawyers have already vigorously complained about proposed trial schedules conflicting with the presidential campaign, which the former president and his supporters have branded \"election interference\" by his enemies.\n\nMr Trump has vowed to appeal the trial date ruling. In a post on his social media site, he derided the judge as \"biased\" and \"Trump hating\" and said the timing was \"just what our corrupt government wanted\".\n\nMr Trump's legal team had initially proposed an April 2026 date for the federal trial - a timeline the judge said was unacceptable.\n\nWhile the first presidential nomination contest, in Iowa, isn't until January, the Republican presidential race has already begun in earnest. The party has started holding monthly debates for qualifying candidates. The first took place in Wisconsin in August - and Mr Trump stayed away, saying an appearance was not necessary given his large polling lead over his rivals.\n\nThe schedule, however, provided an early indication of how his legal concerns could factor into his political calculations. The former president appeared in an Atlanta jail the day after the debate, where he was formally booked on charges of interfering in the Georgia 2020 election.\n\nWhile much of Mr Trump's legal - and political - drama will take place in 2024, there's already one trial scheduled for later this year. On 2 October, New York state's civil fraud lawsuit against Mr Trump and his business empire is scheduled to go to trial. Mr Trump is not required to appear in court, but it still could be a distraction - and it comes just five days after the second scheduled Republican primary debate.\n\nWhen the calendar flips to 2024, things start to really heat up. The Iowa caucuses - the first Republican presidential selection contest - are scheduled for 15 January, the same day a defamation trial against Mr Trump begins. It is the second case brought by writer E Jean Carroll, who has already won a $5m (£3.9m) judgement from the former president after a jury found he sexually assaulted and defamed her.\n\nMr Trump's New York hush-money case is scheduled for trial in late March, a few weeks after the federal 6 January trial is currently on tap to begin in Washington, DC. The federal case involving mishandling classified documents is set for May. That will be after many of the key Republican primaries have taken place. But preparation for those cases, including pre-trial hearings and depositions, will begin well beforehand.\n\nThen there is the Georgia indictment, which is yet to be scheduled.\n\nGeorgia District Attorney Fani Willis has said she wants her sprawling racketeering case against Mr Trump and 18 co-defendants to reach trial within six months, but that timeline is also ambitious, given that one defendant is requesting the proceedings be moved to federal court and a second is calling for an earlier trial.\n\nAll the presiding judges in these cases will take into consideration Mr Trump's legal concerns, as well as the campaign timeline, and attempt to work out a schedule that best accommodates all the competing interests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the second half of 2024, those interests include a Republican national convention that is slated for mid-July, and the traditional series of presidential debates that take place in early autumn. At some point the possibility of a trial in the shadow of November's presidential election - or even after it - becomes a real possibility.\n\nThe trials - and any pre-trial hearings, depositions and other various legal proceedings - will take up weeks if not months of Mr Trump's time. He will have to schedule his campaigning, including his beloved mass public rallies, around them. He could have judges issuing orders to limit what he can publicly say - and sanctioning him if he does not comply.\n\nThen there's the massive financial drain that supporting multiple teams of lawyers to contest the criminal charges against Mr Trump and his associates presents. A Trump-affiliated political committee has already spent more than $40m on legal fees just in the first half of 2023, with the first criminal trial still months away.\n\nThose numbers will only go up - and they will continue to limit the amount of money the former president can direct to the nuts and bolts of his campaign, such as grass-roots organising, television and online advertisements, and staff and infrastructure investments.\n\nIt is a daunting burden for any candidate - even one who has shown Mr Trump's remarkable political durability.", "A comedy show featuring Father Ted writer Graham Linehan in Edinburgh has been cancelled due to complaints.\n\nLeith Arches said it had pulled the gig because it did not support the comedian, and his views do \"not align with our overall values\".\n\nThe writer has been an outspoken critic of transgender self-identification.\n\nMr Linehan urged the venue to reconsider its decision and suggested the cancellation might be unlawful.\n\nThe organisers of the gig said they were looking for an alternative venue.\n\nLeith Arches said it had been unaware Mr Linehan would be taking part in the show which was organised by a third party.\n\nIn a social media post it thanked members of the public for their complaints about his scheduled appearance this Thursday.\n\nIt wrote: \"We do not support this comedian or his views and he will not be allowed to perform at our venue and is cancelled from Thursday's comedy show with immediate effect.\"\n\nMr Linehan responded on X, formerly Twitter, by challenging the venue to explain which of his views it found offensive.\n\nHe posted: \"It sure sounds like discrimination on the grounds of my legally protected beliefs.\"\n\nGraham Linehan, pictured at a Let Women Speak rally in Belfast earlier this year\n\nEarlier this year another Edinburgh venue, The Stand, cancelled a scheduled Fringe festival appearance by SNP MP Joanna Cherry after staff said they were not comfortable with her views on transgender issues.\n\nBut the comedy club later reinstated it and apologised, admitting the cancellation was \"unfair and constituted unlawful discrimination against Ms Cherry\".\n\nThe In Conversation With... Joanna Cherry event took place last week.\n\nMs Cherry, who is also a lawyer, later posted that the Linehan case \"looks like a pretty clear case of belief discrimination\" and hit out at \"more petulant cancellation\".\n\nThe booking website for the show had promised an evening of \"edgy comedy\" featuring four named comedians and a \"surprise famous cancelled comedian\".\n\nIt was organised by Comedy Unleashed, set up by GB News host Andrew Doyle and comic writer Andy Shaw, which says it supports comedians who \"leave their self censorship button at the door\".\n\nMr Shaw told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"We're very much against this cancel culture because we think it's killing the arts and it's treating the audience like children who need mollycoddling.\n\n\"Andrew Doyle and I set Comedy Unleashed up because we're sick of this. We want the extroverts, we want all the crazy stuff, we want people to be free and treat the audience like they're adults.\"\n\nHe added: \"If there's any venue out there who wants an audience of 150 people - we're sold out - we will bring our audience and our pre-packaged act to your venue.\"\n\nMr Linehan co-created the Channel 4 comedy Father Ted and later wrote Black Books and The IT Crowd.\n\nAn episode of The IT Crowd from 2008 has been criticised over its transgender plot line.\n\nIn 2020 Channel 4 removed it from their streaming service saying that \"in light of current audience expectations, we concluded it did not meet our standards for remaining available... and it was not possible to make adequate changes\".\n\nMr Linehan was later involved in a number of acrimonious social media disputes with trans activists, and in 2020 was permanently suspended from Twitter which claimed he had breached rules on \"hateful content\". His account was reinstated after Elon Musk took over the social media platform.\n\nIn an emotional BBC interview last year, the Dublin-born writer told Nolan Live he had been unfairly targeted over his views, losing him work and contributing to the break-up of his marriage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson says there were \"mass failings\" by police\n\nPolice kept evidence from jurors in a case which led to an innocent man spending 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, judges have ruled.\n\nAndrew Malkinson was cleared last month after new DNA evidence linking another suspect to the crime emerged.\n\nCourt of Appeal judges have now also called the original conviction \"unsafe\" because Greater Manchester Police did not disclose images during his trial.\n\nMr Malkinson had always maintained his innocence and was released in 2020.\n\nHe was jailed in 2004 for an attack on a woman in Salford and the prosecution case against him was based only on identification evidence.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the force was \"truly sorry for this most appalling miscarriage of justice\".\n\nFollowing the Court of Appeal ruling, Mr Malkinson said he felt \"vindicated by the court's finding that [GMP] unlawfully withheld evidence\" and \"caused his wrongful conviction nightmare\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"They had control of the evidence, they chose not to disclose these vital pieces of evidence.\n\n\"The impact has been catastrophic on me, of course, to even have had to face trial for this.\n\n\"That could have been stopped, or at least reduced the amount of time I've had to spend behind bars which I can't even elaborate what it's like to be in prison at all for something you've not done, let alone aeons of time.\"\n\nIn July, Mr Malkinson's convictions for two counts of rape and one of choking or strangling with intent to commit rape were overturned by Lord Justice Holroyde.\n\nThe judge, sitting with Mr Justice Goose and Sir Robin Spencer, said last month that Mr Malkinson's legal team had \"raised a number of substantial and important points\" in other parts of his appeal that would be decided in writing.\n\nIn a ruling earlier, the three judges said Mr Malkinson's conviction was also unsafe because of failures to disclose evidence.\n\nThe police evidence included photographs of the victim's hands which showed the fingernail of the rape victim's left middle finger was noticeably shorter than her other fingernails, which corroborated her evidence that she scratched her attacker's face.\n\nIn his judgement, Lord Justice Holroyde said the failure to disclose the photographs had \"prevented the appellant from putting his case forward in its best light and strengthened the prosecution case against him\".\n\nMr Malkinson's defence team was therefore unable to highlight to the jury that he had no such scratch injury to his face.\n\nLord Justice Holroyde said: \"If the photographs had been disclosed, the jury's verdicts may have been different\".\n\nIn his judgement, it was also noted that two eyewitnesses who identified Mr Malkinson had convictions for dishonesty offences.\n\nLord Justice Holroyde said if the previous convictions had been disclosed during the trial it \"would have been capable of casting doubt on their general honesty and capable of affecting the jury's view as to whether they were civic-minded persons doing their best to assist.\"\n\nHe added: \"In our judgement, the challenge to the character and credibility of those two identifying witnesses would have been capable of affecting the jury's overall view as to whether they could be sure that the appellant was correctly identified.\"\n\nMr Malkinson said: \"The evidence needed to overturn my conviction has been sitting in police files for the past two decades.\n\n\"Yet the [Criminal Cases Review Commission] did not bother to look and it fell to the small charity Appeal to bring it to light.\"\n\nHe said that cost him \"extra years behind bars for a crime I did not commit\".\n\nHe told the BBC it had caused him \"immense pain\" and \"oceans of suffering\".\n\nGMP's Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Jackson said the force accepted the Court of Appeal's judgement and added: \"I speak on behalf of the whole force when I say that we are truly sorry for this most appalling miscarriage of justice.\n\nShe said she had \"extended an invitation to meet with Mr Malkinson and say sorry to him personally for the time he wrongly spent in prison and for all that he endured as a consequence\".\n\nMs Jackson said she could not comment further because the force was being investigated by the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, in relation to the case and due to a live criminal investigation.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Hannah Ingram-Moore was the interim CEO of the Captain Tom Foundation when the event was held\n\nThe daughter of Capt Sir Tom Moore was paid thousands of pounds via her family company for appearances in connection with her late father's charity.\n\nIn 2021 and 2022, Hannah Ingram-Moore helped judge awards ceremonies which heavily featured the Captain Tom Foundation charity.\n\nPromotional clips suggested she was there to represent the charity.\n\nHowever her fee was paid not to the Foundation but to her family company. She is yet to respond to the claims.\n\nThe awards ceremony was the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards, which included the name of the charity and the charity's logo on its awards plaques. At the time Ms Ingram-Moore was the charity's interim chief executive on an annual salary of £85,000.\n\nThe name of the charity appeared on awards plaques\n\nHowever her appearance fee was paid not to the Captain Tom Foundation but to Maytrix Group, a company owned by Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin.\n\nFor more than a year, the Charity Commission has been investigating potential conflicts of interest between the charity and the Ingram-Moores' businesses after concerns mounted about potential mismanagement and misconduct.\n\nReplying to a BBC email about this matter, Hannah Ingram-Moore said via email: \"You are awful. It's a total lie.\"\n\nSix minutes later she added: \"Apologies. That reply was for a scammer who has been creating havoc\".\n\nMs Ingram-Moore has not responded to a series of questions from BBC Newsnight about the thousand of pounds that her company received.\n\nBBC Newsnight understands Ms Ingram-Moore did not seek approval from the charity's board before entering into the commercial arrangement with Virgin Media O2, and an internal investigation into it was launched last November.\n\nA spokesperson for the charity trustees said: \"The Captain Tom Foundation is aware of the commercial arrangements made by Hannah Ingram-Moore with Virgin Media O2 in respect of the 'Virgin Media Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards'.\n\n\"This matter is subject of an ongoing internal investigation. The Charity Commission has been notified of the Foundation's review of this matter and the Foundation will share its findings once the investigation has concluded.\"\n\nMs Ingram-Moore is no longer running the charity, but her husband Colin remains a trustee. Both of them are directors of the companies Maytrix Group and Club Nook.\n\nA Charity Commission spokesperson said: \"Our inquiry into the Captain Tom Foundation remains ongoing. Its scope includes examining whether the trustees have adequately managed conflicts of interest, including with private companies connected to the Ingram-Moore family.\"\n\nA Virgin Media spokesperson said: \"When payment was made, we were not aware of any concerns about Maytrix or the Captain Tom Foundation that have since come to light after our campaign and relationship with Captain Tom finished.\"\n\nCapt Tom attracted international attention during the first coronavirus lockdown, by walking 100 laps of his garden ahead of his 100th birthday, to support the NHS.\n\nHaving raised around £38m for NHS Charities Together, he died in early 2021 with Covid-19, less than six months after being knighted.\n\nCapt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk, which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nFamily members then established the Foundation, but its financial activities have since come under scrutiny, with the Charity Commission announcing a review in February 2022.\n\nConcerns have been raised about whether some of the funds were going to separate companies run by the family, the salary paid to Ms Ingram-Moore and how much money was spent on management costs.\n\nSeparately earlier this month, the family defended plans to build an unauthorised spa that they have been told to demolish. An appeal hearing is due to be held on 17 October.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patsy Gregory said her American friend was \"just as I imagined she would be\"\n\nA pair of 80-year-old pen pals who have been writing to each other since 1955 have finally fulfilled their \"lifelong wish\" to meet in person.\n\nPatsy Gregory, from Hoghton in Lancashire, travelled nearly 4,000 miles to meet Carol-Ann Krause in Conway, South Carolina, who she began writing to as a 12-year-old Girl Guide.\n\nMrs Gregory said Mrs Krause was exactly as she imagined she would be.\n\n\"I recognised her immediately and it just felt natural,\" she said.\n\nMrs Gregory said though the pair had met not before, their lives had taken similar patterns.\n\n\"We're both the same age [and] got married around the same time,\" she said.\n\n\"[We] both had three children and we've gone through life, all the trials and tribulations, and shared it.\n\n\"It's absolutely lovely and we're both still here.\"\n\nMrs Gregory and Mrs Krause began writing to each other when they were both 12\n\nThe pair have sent hundreds of letters to each other over the last 68 years\n\nMrs Krause, who was a Girl Scout when the correspondence began, said though they had not met before in person, \"it feels like we've known each other forever\".\n\n\"We started in pencil, moved on to ink, then typing and now we can email and stay in touch on social media,\" she said.\n\nMrs Gregory's trip was organised by her three children as a special gift for her 80th birthday and her daughter Steph Calam accompanied her for the journey.\n\n\"Mum has always wanted to meet her American penfriend,\" Ms Calam said.\n\nMrs Gregory stayed for nine days in South Carolina, with much of that time being spent Mrs Krause and her family\n\nShe said the meeting had been on her mother's \"bucket list\", as it was \"one of her lifelong regrets\" that they had never met in person.\n\n\"It was very emotional when they met,\"she added.\n\n\"I was quite choked up when they hugged for the first time.\n\n\"They hit it off instantly and have a lot in common.\n\nMrs Gregory and her daughter stayed for nine days in South Carolina, with much of that time being spent with Mrs Krause and her family.\n\nThe two pen pals said they would continue to stay in touch through letters and cards, but were not sure if the meeting would ever be repeated.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Six former Metropolitan Police officers have been charged with sending racist messages on WhatsApp after a BBC Newsnight investigation.\n\nThe officers served in various parts of the force but all spent time in the Diplomatic Protection Group, now known as the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command.\n\nThey were not serving during their alleged participation in the group.\n\nBut the BBC believes serving officers were in the group until early 2022.\n\nA statement from the Met said: \"The charges follow an investigation by the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards which was launched following coverage by the BBC's Newsnight programme in October last year.\"\n\nIt said the officers, who retired between 2001 and 2015, have been charged by post with offences under Section 127(1) (a) of the Communications Act 2003.\n\nThey will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 7 September.\n\nLast year Newsnight was passed dozens of messages shared within the chat by a member of the group.\n\nThe BBC has not reproduced the messages because some of them contain strong racial slurs.\n\nSome of the posts referenced the government's Rwanda policy, while others joked about recent flooding in Pakistan, which left almost 1,700 people dead.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex also featured in several images alongside racist language.\n\nCommander James Harman, who leads the Met's Anti-Corruption and Abuse Command, said: \"As soon as we were made aware of these allegations we acted to launch an investigation.\n\n\"I am pleased that following the determined work of officers we have been able to secure these charges.\n\n\"The honest majority of Met officers are fully behind this work.\n\n\"They are tired of being let down by a minority in policing and they are aware of the damage poor behaviour can do to our relationship with the communities we serve.\n\n\"I recognise announcements about the outcome of our investigations may have the potential to cause further public concern, but I hope it demonstrates our absolute commitment to investigate any corrupt and abusive behaviour from the Met.\"", "Three suspected spies for Russia in the UK have been arrested and charged in a major national security investigation, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe defendants, all Bulgarian nationals, were held in February and have been remanded in custody since.\n\nThey are charged with possessing identity documents with \"improper intention\", and are alleged to have had these knowing they were fake.\n\nIt is alleged they were working for the Russian security services.\n\nThe documents include passports, identity cards and other documents for the UK, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, and the Czech Republic.\n\nThe trio were among five people arrested in February on suspicion of an offence under the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThey were held by counter-terrorism detectives from the Metropolitan Police, which has national policing responsibility for espionage, and are due to answer police bail in September.\n\nThree of them were charged later in February with an offence under the Identity Documents Act.\n\nThey remain in custody and are due to appear at the Old Bailey at a later date.\n\nThe trio have lived in the UK for years, working in a variety of jobs, and living in a series of suburban properties.\n\nMr Roussev has history of business dealings in Russia.\n\nHe moved to the UK in 2009 and spent three years working in a technical role in financial services.\n\nHis online LinkedIn profile states he later owned a business involved in signals intelligence, which involves the interception of communications or electronic signals.\n\nMr Roussev, whose most recent address is a seaside guesthouse in Great Yarmouth, also states he once acted as an adviser to the Bulgarian ministry of energy.\n\nIn Harrow, former neighbours described Mr Dzhambazov and Ms Ivanova as a couple.\n\nMr Dzhambazov is described as a driver for hospitals, and Ms Ivanova describes herself on her online LinkedIn profile as a laboratory assistant for a private health business.\n\nThe pair, who moved to the UK around a decade ago, ran a community organisation providing services to Bulgarian people, including familiarising them with the \"culture and norms of British society\".\n\nAccording to Bulgarian state documents online, they also worked for electoral commissions in London which facilitate voting in Bulgarian elections by citizens living abroad.\n\nMr Dzhambazov and Ms Ivanova are described by former neighbours as a couple.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, neighbours at two houses previously occupied by the couple said they brought round pies and cakes as gifts.\n\nAt their most recent Harrow home, neighbours said detectives spent a significant amount of time searching it, with a visible police presence for over a week.\n\nThe three defendants are due to go on trial at the Old Bailey in London in January. They have yet to enter pleas to the charges.\n\nCounter-terrorism police have spoken publicly about the increasing amount of time spent on suspected state threats and espionage, especially relating to Russia.\n\nTheir concern follows notorious incidents from recent years involving Russian intelligence operations in the UK.\n\nIn 2018, Russian operatives attempted to murder former double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Wiltshire, using the deadly nerve agent Novichok. The pair, as well as responding detective Nick Bailey, were treated in hospital and could have died.\n\nLater that year, local woman Dawn Sturgess - who was unconnected to the Skripals - died after being exposed to the nerve agent, which had been left in Wiltshire in a perfume bottle.\n\nIn 2006, former Russian-intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko was killed in London after being poisoned by assassins working for the Russian state.\n\nIf you have information about this story that you would like to share with BBC News, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "We're going to wrap up our live page now, thank you for sending in your questions on the wildfires in Hawaii.\n\nThanks also to our colleagues in Maui and other teams across the BBC who brought their expertise to our coverage.\n\nWe hope we answered a lot of the queries you have on the disaster, but there's also plenty of brilliant pieces across the site if you want to read more:\n• Maps and before and after images reveal Maui devastation\n\nToday's page was helmed from London by myself, Jamie Whitehead and Ali Abbas Ahmadi. Thanks for joining us.", "Madonna has announced rescheduled tour dates for her world tour, as she marks her recovery from a bacterial infection that left her in intensive care.\n\nThe Celebration tour will now kick off in London on 14 October, three months after it was originally due to begin in Vancouver, Canada.\n\nMost of the US dates have been pushed back to 2024, with some cancellations.\n\nThe tour was originally planned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Madonna's breakout single, Holiday.\n\nDubbed the Celebration Tour, it marks her return to arenas and stadiums after the experimental, theatre-based Madame X shows in 2019 and 2020.\n\nSome of those performances were also postponed or cancelled due to the star's knee and hip injuries, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMadonna announced the Celebration tour in January and entered rehearsals in April.\n\nHowever, just weeks before the opening night, her manager broke the news that she was being treated in hospital for a \"serious\" bacterial infection.\n\nIn a message to fans last month, the star said she was \"lucky to be alive\" and thanked her family for their support.\n\n\"When the chips were down my children really showed up for me. It made all the difference,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Love from family and friends is the best medicine. One month out of the hospital and I can reflect.\"\n\nMadonna's 1990 Blond Ambition tour rewrote the rules for pop concerts, with its high-concept stage and iconic costumes\n\nWith the star now on the mend, the tour can now begin, with the European leg going ahead as planned.\n\nAfter four sold out dates at the O2 Arena, the show will travel to France, Italy, Denmark, Portugal and Germany before circling back to London for two more dates in December.\n\nThe tour then hops the Atlantic for a handful of shows in New York and Washington before a Christmas break, after which the rescheduled dates begin in the US, Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe logistics of rescheduling the tour have been complicated - with some cities requiring a new venue. A handful of dates in Tulsa, San Francisco, Phoenix and Las Vegas have been cancelled.\n\nAlso scrapped is a Nashville concert on 22 December, which was intended to raise funds for trans rights organisations.\n\nRefunds for the cancelled concerts will be issued at the original point of purchase.\n\nSelect shows in New York and Los Angeles will also take place in different venues. Ticketholders for the original dates will be refunded and given priority access to the rescheduled concerts.\n\nThe setlist for the show is currently under wraps, but Madonna previously asked fans for their input, posing the question \"What song would you like to dance to at my show?\" on social media.", "Constable Ronan Kerr was the last PSNI officer to be killed in Omagh in 2011\n\n\"I can't trust anyone here.\"\n\n\"We were looking over our shoulder, but now even more so.\"\n\n\"This has done half the job for the people who want to target officers.\"\n\nThese are some of the remarks from serving and recently retired members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) who spoke to the BBC this week.\n\nThey were articulating the fearful fallout from the unforeseen data breach - in which the names of all 10,000 PSNI staff were published on a website.\n\nThe words of the interviewees were spoken on TV and radio by BBC producers.\n\nThe media is used to taking steps to protect the identities of police officers in this part of the UK - in recognition of the security threat.\n\nPSNI staff themselves are accustomed to checking under their cars every day - in case a bomb has been put there - and they vary their route to work.\n\nPolice everywhere face dangers in the course of doing their job.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, the risk is at a different level - because of the presence of paramilitary organisations who actively aim to take the lives of people in the security forces.\n\nThe potential implications for the safety of PSNI members is of course the most serious issue in the data leak - but there are other important, possible consequences too.\n\nPolicing in Northern Ireland is tied up with the politics of the peace process.\n\nDuring the conflict known as the Troubles, 302 officers were killed over three decades.\n\nMost were murdered by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) - the main paramilitary group which wanted to take Northern Ireland out of the UK by force.\n\nNorthern Ireland had been policed since its foundation in 1922 by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the vast majority of members being Protestants - a marker they were from the community which supported the union with Britain.\n\nThe Good Friday Agreement, which largely ended the violence in 1998, promised reforms to policing.\n\nA commission led by the former Conservative Party chair, Lord Patten, recommended big changes and, in 2001, the PSNI was created - designed to be an organisation which could gain the confidence of Irish nationalists, as well as unionists.\n\nThis involved a policy of '50:50 recruitment', in an effort to substantially increase the number of Catholics - who tended to be from the nationalist community.\n\nIn 2007, the political party linked to the IRA - Sinn Féin - endorsed the PSNI before it went into a power-sharing devolved government.\n\nBut that decision was not accepted by a minority of republicans - referred to as \"dissidents\".\n\nThe splinter groups from the IRA continued to target the police.\n\nPeadar Heffron was captain of the PSNI's Gaelic football team\n\nDissident republicans also wanted to discourage people from the nationalist community from joining the PSNI - to try to disrupt a key aspect of peacebuilding.\n\nIt was acknowledged by nationalist politicians and others that Catholic officers were particularly vulnerable.\n\nIn 2010, Constable Peadar Heffron suffered life-changing injuries and Constable Ronan Kerr was killed in separate bomb attacks.\n\nThey were both keen players of Gaelic football - a sport which is hugely popular within the nationalist community.\n\nIts governing body once banned members of the security forces in Northern Ireland from playing - such was the severity of community divisions.\n\nThe lifting of that ban - and the establishment of a PSNI Gaelic football team, which Constable Heffron captained - was seen as a symbol of progress.\n\nAfter the data leak, the group which represents Catholics in the PSNI has said one officer has decided not to turn out for their Gaelic games club this week because they have kept their job a secret, and they are now worried their occupation may be known.\n\nIt is not uncommon for officers of all backgrounds to decide not to tell people - even family and friends - what they do for a living.\n\nBefore the data leak, recruitment figures were showing the PSNI had challenges attracting applications from people from the nationalist community.\n\nThey now make up about a third of officer ranks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The roots of Northern Ireland’s Troubles lie deep in Irish history\n\nCensus figures last year indicated 45% of the population of Northern Ireland had a Catholic background.\n\nPoliticians and independent members of the Policing Board - an oversight body set up during the policing reforms - have also highlighted concerns about how the data breach could affect undercover officers.\n\nFor such officers, secrecy is all the more important.\n\nPSNI intelligence specialists have links with the security service MI5.\n\nDissident republicans have claimed they have access to the data breach list\n\nThat is one of the reasons why PSNI commanders are discussing the course of action after this week's events with security chiefs and the government in London.\n\nBudgets may come under more pressure, if compensation claims move forward or PSNI staff need to be given extra support with their personal security.\n\nPolice are assessing a claim by dissident republicans that they have the leaked information.\n\nFor the PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne, and his leadership team, this is the most unexpected of crises, with still unpredictable repercussions.", "The government has announced £250m in funding to provide an extra 5,000 NHS hospital beds in England this winter.\n\nMinisters say 900 new beds should be ready by January, with the remainder to follow soon after, boosting capacity and helping lower record waiting lists.\n\nThe increase will mean nearly 100,000 permanent beds on wards and in A&E, available at the busiest time of the year - a 5% rise on current levels.\n\nNHS Providers said the extra capacity was needed \"before winter begins\".\n\nMiriam Deakin, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers, said trusts would welcome the support but cautioned any new beds would need to be staffed.\n\nShe added that, since winter is the busiest time of the year for urgent and emergency care, trust leaders would be concerned that the promised extra capacity is only expected to be in place by January.\n\n\"For the best results, trusts would need these new beds before winter begins,\" she said.\n\nPat Cullen, from the Royal College of Nursing, added: \"The elephant in the room is who will staff these additional beds? Nursing staff are already spread too thinly over too many patients.\"\n\nThe government money will also fund services where people can be treated without requiring a hospital stay.\n\nFunding will be focused on developing or expanding urgent treatment centres and same-day emergency care services, where patients can be seen quickly without the necessity of being admitted to hospital.\n\nNHS England is also preparing to make it easier to discharge hospital patients when they are medically-fit to leave, through the rollout of so-called \"care traffic control centres\".\n\nThese bring together the NHS community, housing and charity teams to help co-ordinate support for those patients who require continuing care once they are discharged from hospital.\n\nThe aim is that plans for a prompt and efficient discharge can be drawn up shortly after patients are first admitted to hospital, thanks to better co-ordination among teams regarding follow-up care.\n\nAlongside these measures, there will be at least 10,000 'virtual' hospital beds available by autumn, allowing some patients to be monitored in their home.\n\nIt comes after new data from NHS England revealed waiting lists had reached a record 7.6 million at the end of June.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said the planning for winter had started \"earlier than ever before\" and that the public could be reassured the NHS would be given the resources it needs.\n\n\"These 900 new beds will mean more people can be treated quickly, speeding up flow through hospitals and reducing frustratingly long waits for treatment,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"We know that winter is a difficult time, so we're working to get ahead of pressures whilst also creating a sustainable NHS fit for the future.\"\n\nNHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said: \"Winter is always a busy time for the NHS and so it is right that we put robust plans in place as early as possible to boost capacity and help front-line staff to prepare for additional pressure.\n\n\"Our winter plans, which build on the progress already made on our urgent and emergency care recovery plan, aim to reduce waiting times for patients, and to transform services with an expansion of same-day care and virtual wards, helping patients to be cared for in their own home where possible.\"\n\nBut certain longer-term issues have yet to be addressed, warned Ms Deakin from NHS Providers.\n\n\"Underlying issues, including workforce shortages, a lack of investment in capital and the desperate need for social care reform will ultimately hinder progress unless also addressed,\" she said.\n\n\"It will also be important to understand where new beds are being created, and where beds are being freed up by better means of meeting patients' needs - through care at home or same-day emergency care, for example.\n\n\"Steps like this are promising, but the only way to recover urgent and emergency care - and to put the NHS on a sustainable footing - is for the government to tackle the longer-term challenges in health and care,\" she said.", "Algerian officials are worried that the film, which features an A-list cast including Margot Robbie as Barbie, will damage morals\n\nAlgeria has banned the popular Barbie film three weeks after its release in the mainly Muslim North African nation.\n\nThe culture ministry has asked cinemas to withdraw the Hollywood blockbuster immediately.\n\nThe movie promoted homosexuality and did not comply with Algeria's religious and cultural beliefs, an official source told the Reuters news agency.\n\nCinemas in the cities of Algiers, Oran and Constantine have been packed, according to 24H Algérie news website.\n\nThe film was officially being banned for \"damaging morals\", the privately owned news website said, adding that since its release viewings had sold out every day.\n\nThere has been criticism in the Arab world about the movie's social values, with Kuwait banning Barbie last week to protect \"public ethics\".\n\nThe film, starring Hollywood A-listers Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is a coming-of-age story based on the children's toy, where Barbie journeys to the real world and explores her identity.\n\nAround the time of the film's release, director Greta Gerwig told the New York Times that it was supposed to be \"funny\" and that her hope for the movie was for society to \"let go of the things that aren't necessarily serving us as either women or men\".\n\nBarbie has received a warmer welcome from leaders in other countries, such as the UK and Spain, where British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Spanish royal family were pictured on cinema outings to see it.\n\nSince the movie's release it has grossed more than $1bn (£786m) worldwide.", "Police say that officers with the highest level of training are not restricted on speed when responding to emergencies\n\nWales' new 20mph limit will affect the speed police travel to emergencies, a leaked email has said.\n\nA senior South Wales Police officer said it would have an \"influence\" on how fast police can travel and may affect how they respond.\n\nHowever, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Travis has since said he believes response times will not be affected.\n\nWelsh ministers said the law would not stop police, fire and ambulance services exceeding speed limits.\n\nBut the Welsh Conservatives said they feared lives might be lost because of slower emergency response times.\n\nIn the email, obtained by the Welsh Conservatives, ACC Travis said: \"We recognise that this will influence speeds at which our responders are able to travel to emergency calls and may have an impact on how we respond or deploy our staff to incidents.\"\n\nThe message was sent to all fire, police and ambulance services in Wales, South Wales Police said.\n\nMark Travis said his email to colleages was to \"make sure they were prepared for what is quite large change\"\n\nBut Mr Travis subsequently told Radio Wales Breakfast that the rule change would cause \"no discernible difference\" to response times.\n\n\"We already have 20mph limits within Wales which we already observe and respond to. Whilst this is new in terms of the scale this is not new in terms of ways of working.\n\n\"Actually, sometimes the road being slower makes it easier for emergency service vehicles to make progress. It's easier to pass a slower vehicle than a faster vehicle.\"\n\nThe new limit comes into effect on 17 September on all roads that are currently 30mph (50km/h) although councils will be able to impose exemptions. It is hoped the move will help cut injuries and deaths.\n\nWales' ambulance service will also be restricted to a maximum speed of 40mph (65km/h), rather than 50mph (80km/h), on 20mph (30km/h) roads, it has emerged, as policy means drivers are limited to going 20mph over the limit.\n\nHowever, the ambulance trust said the maximum speed was not always possible.\n\nNorth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it expected the shift would cause slight delays to response times.\n\nWelsh Conservative transport spokeswoman Natasha Asghar said: \"Labour claim that this policy is to save lives.\n\n\"But with the police admitting it will impact response times and no work carried out to measure the affect blue light services - contrary to saving lives - I fear that lives will actually be lost.\"\n\nShe demanded a hold on the rollout of the 20mph scheme.\n\nPolice who do not have the top level of training cannot go more than 20mph above the speed limit\n\nIn response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Conservatives, the Welsh government said it had no information when it was asked for \"studies and data gathered into the negative impact the 20mph limit\" would have on response times.\n\n\"Police, fire and ambulance services are allowed to exceed speed limits in the course of their emergency response duties, and this is not changing with the default speed limit change to 20mph\", the government response said.\n\nIn response to the Conservatives, Mr Travis claimed the comments remarked on by the Conservatives \"have been taken from a longer and more comprehensive email so appear out of context\".\n\n\"At no point have we suggested that response times will be affected detrimentally.\n\n\"We have recommended that agencies should consider their policy, procedure and training to ensure that changes in legislation do not adversely affect the public.\"\n\nHe added that officers with the highest level of training were not restricted on speed when responding to emergencies, but \"drivers who have a reduced level of training will drive to a maximum speed of 20mph above the posted the speed limit\".\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust said: \"While ambulance crews are allowed to exceed speed limits in the course of their emergency duties, we are mindful of the safety of crews and other road users and still instruct safe limits.\n\n\"On that basis, our policy requires crews to drive at a maximum of 20mph above the posted speed limit, recognising that in congested urban areas, this maximum speed is not always possible given safety and environmental factors.\"\n\nThe service said drivers had to \"justify the speed and manner in which they drive the vehicle\" and welcomed the 20mph limit as it has \"the potential to reduce death, serious injury and harm on our roads\".\n\nThe top speed that ambulances can travel at will be reduced in the new 20mph areas\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue service has a similar policy in terms of speeds allowed when responding to emergencies.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"Our crews regularly see the devastating impacts that road traffic collisions can have, including in built up areas where people and vehicles mix closely.\n\n\"We are therefore pleased to support our partners to raise awareness of the importance of speed limits to keep everyone safe.\"\n\nPaul Jenkinson, head of response for North Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said: \"Reducing the speed to 20mph is likely to result in a slight delay in our response times to incidents.\n\n\"However, given the exemption from the speed limits in law, fire appliances can go above the speed limit.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Changing the default speed limit on restricted roads in Wales to 20mph does not impact on the legislation that allows police, fire and ambulance services to exceed speed limits in the course of emergency response duties.\"", "Wages grew at a record annual pace in the April to June period, according to new official figures.\n\nRegular pay rose by 7.8%, the highest annual growth rate since comparable records began in 2001.\n\nThe stronger-than-expected increase has fuelled forecasts the Bank of England will be forced to raise interest rates again to calm inflation.\n\nInflation - which measures the rate at which prices rise - has eased but remains high at 7.9%.\n\nDarren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the Office for National Statistics, which released the wage and employment data, said the latest figures suggested real pay growth, which takes into account the rate of inflation, is \"recovering\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" for the millions struggling with the cost of living.\n\nHowever, wage growth is not quite outstripping the pace of price rises. Mr Morgan told the BBC's Today programme that real pay growth was \"still falling a little\", dropping by 0.6%.\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"These figures confirm once again that the Tories are failing working people and businesses across Britain.\"\n\nNew inflation figures are due out on Wednesday and analysts expect them to show price growth slowed again during July to between 6.7% and 7%.\n\nHowever, that remains far higher than the Bank of England's target to keep inflation at 2%. Stronger wages will stoke concerns that price rises will take longer to ease.\n\nSushil Wadhwani, a former member of the Bank's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, said financial markets were projecting that an interest rate rise at the next meeting in September was a \"virtual certainty\".\n\nMarkets are also forecasting that interest rates could now peak at 6% from 5.25% currently. Just a few days ago, rates were expected to peak at around 5.75%.\n\nMr Wadhwani, who serves on the chancellor's Economic Advisory Council, said: \"The key thing is how much does the Bank need to encourage the process by raising interest rates further and I would argue that today's news is disappointing in the sense that it implies that the Bank has more work to do.\"\n\nThere are signs in the ONS's data that the UK jobs market is weakening. The unemployment rate rose from 4% to 4.2%, while the number of people in jobs ticked lower.\n\n\"The fall in employment in the three months to June and further rise in the unemployment rate will be welcomed by the Bank of England as a sign labour market conditions are cooling,\" said Ruth Gregory, deputy chief UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\nHowever, she added, given that wage growth is still accelerating, she expects the Bank of England to increase its key interest rate again to 5.5%.\n\nCommenting on another potential rise in interest rates, Mr Sunak said it was a matter for the Bank. But he added: \"The best way to be able to bring interest rates down and stop them going up is to bring inflation down.\"\n\nAnnual average pay growth in the private sector continued to outpace the public sector at 8.2%. Wages in the public sector grew at an annual pace of 6.2% between April and June.\n\nThe number of vacancies in the UK jobs market fell again, down 66,000 between May and July. However, there are still more than one million vacancies.\n\nFinding enough people to fill vacancies is one of the biggest business barriers facing Candice Mason, the owner of Masons Minibus & Coach Hire in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"It is just dire,\" she told the Today programme. \"It is not just me, it is every operator that I speak to, we just cannot recruit and staff our companies properly.\"\n\nCoach firm-owner Candice Mason says trying to fill vacancies is the hardest part of business at the moment\n\nMs Mason said the company had increased its wages to fill shifts left by employees who, following Covid lockdowns, decided they wanted a better work-life balance and therefore are working fewer days.\n\n\"But, of course, that created a bigger gap of needing to recruit anyway,\" she said. \"It honestly has just been relentless since we came out of lockdown. It is the most difficult part of the business at the moment.\"\n\nThe wage figures are likely to intensify political debate over next year's rise in the state pension, which is governed by the so-called triple lock.\n\nGovernment policy means the state pension rises the following April in line with either average wage growth, the inflation rate or 2.5% - whichever is higher.\n\nIt is based on wage growth including bonuses between May and July, which the ONS will release next month. The inflation figure for September is also used, which is released in October.\n\nThe latest set of figures signal that wage growth remains relatively high and rising. That is likely to prompt discussion over the potential increase in the state pension, and the allocation of government spending.\n\nPensioner groups say the state pension remains relatively low compared with some other countries.\n\nThe employment data also showed that the rate of those considered economically inactive edged lower to 20.9% between April and July.\n\nEconomically inactive people are those aged between 16 and 64 who are not looking for work.\n\nNumbers swelled during the Covid pandemic. The ONS said on Tuesday that the number of people who were inactive because of long-term sickness had increased to a record high of 464,225.\n\nBut the overall rate dipped because more people shifted out of being economically inactive and into unemployment.\n\nThese are people who have been searching for work over the past four weeks or are available to start a job within the next fortnight.\n\n1. Search beyond a 40 mile radius - Remote, hybrid and flexible working open up opportunities further away.\n\n2. Use key words in your searches - Online algorithms will pick up on daily searches and send you more of the same.\n\n3.Don't wait for a job to be advertised - Contact a business that you like the look of as you never know what jobs might be coming up.\n\n4. Sell your skills - Use social media sites like Linkedin which showcase your skills and experience. Other platforms like Twitter and Instagram can prove useful when touting yourself out to potential employers as well.\n\nYou can read tips from careers experts in full here\n\nHave you recently found work? How are you coping with the cost of living? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Information mistakenly released in a major data breach is in the hands of dissident republicans, Northern Ireland's police chief has said.\n\nThe data includes the surname and first initial of 10,000 Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) employees.\n\nIt also includes their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit in which they work.\n\nSimon Byrne said the information could be used to \"intimidate or target officers and staff\".\n\n\"We are working round the clock to assess and mitigate this risk,\" he said.\n\nHe said dissident republican paramilitaries could use the list of names to generate \"fear and uncertainty\".\n\nDetails released in what Mr Byrne earlier called a breach of \"industrial scale\" included names of people who work in sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence.\n\nIn March, the terrorist threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nIt followed an attack on a senior officer who suffered life-changing injuries after being shot several times by dissident republican paramilitaries.\n\nThe threat to officers means they must be extremely vigilant about their security.\n\nMany, especially from nationalist communities, keep their employment secret, in some cases even from many family members.\n\nLiam Kelly, the chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland (PFNI), the body that represents police officers, urged all police officers and staff to exercise \"maximum vigilance\".\n\n\"We must do all we can to frustrate and prevent attacks on our colleagues and their families,\" he said.\n\n\"That means varying the routes we take to and from work, changing routines and re-assessing our personal security both on and off duty.\"\n\nMr Byrne said the safety and welfare of officers and staff was his top priority and said an online service had been set up to deal with any staff concerns.\n\nContrary to some reports, there was no evidence of movement of officers and staff outside the organisation and he paid tribute to the \"resilience\" of staff, he added.\n\nMr Byrne said the force was being strongly supported by a range of cyber specialists, and continuing to liaise with the UK government.\n\nHe said that at the beginning of Monday there were 45 members of PSNI staff the organisation \"hadn't caught up with\" to discuss the breach, adding that things were moving quickly.\n\nThe police chief said contact and face-to-face meetings were continuing to be organised and that the details of retired colleagues were not part of the breach.\n\nNI Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said the UK government remained committed to providing specialist support and expertise.\n\n\"I know that PSNI and security partners will continue to take proportionate action to protect officers and staff and their families,\" he added.\n\nA 'sinister' document was posted outside Sinn Féin office, said Gerry Kelly\n\nEarlier, police said they were investigating an incident where a document was posted on a wall in west Belfast, allegedly showing information released in the breach.\n\nNames were redacted from the document, which was found near a Sinn Féin office alongside a photo of the party's policing spokesperson, Gerry Kelly.\n\nThere was also a threatening message which read: \"Gerry we know who your mates are.\"\n\nCCTV cameras by the office had not been working, Sinn Féin said.\n\nDUP MLA Trevor Clarke, a member of the Policing Board, said it reinforced that the threat from the leak would have to be \"monitored potentiality for some years to come.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in a separate development, it emerged on Saturday that 200 officers and staff were not informed of the theft of personal data from a superintendent's car for a month after it was stolen.\n\nA document containing the names of 200 officers and staff was taken along with a police-issue laptop on 6 July.\n\nNearly half of Northern Ireland's police officers, about 3,000, have contacted the Police Federation about a potential damages case after the mass data leak.\n\nAll are likely to be in line for some form of compensation.\n\nIt is thought the bill could run into tens of millions of pounds.", "Many Afghan refugees have been \"let down\" by the UK, with some living in hotels for up to two years and now facing eviction, a think tank has said.\n\nMore in Common said lessons needed to be learned so future refugees were better supported.\n\nIt comes on the anniversary of the UK's evacuation programme and the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on 15 August 2021.\n\nMinister Johnny Mercer admitted there had been \"challenges\" but said he was determined to make Afghan schemes work.\n\nOperation Pitting saw the UK airlift around 15,000 people out of Kabul - including British nationals, as well as people who worked with the UK in Afghanistan and their family members.\n\nThose who had nowhere to live were placed in government-funded hotels. This was supposed to be temporary accommodation but by the end of March, there were still around 8,800 Afghans living in hotels.\n\nThe government has imposed a deadline of the end of August for Afghans to be moved out of hotels, but councils have warned some are facing homelessness as they cannot find anywhere else to live.\n\nMore In Common, an organisation founded in the wake of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, surveyed 132 Afghans in the UK.\n\nIt was told of failures in communication with local authorities and the Home Office on housing, rental applications being repeatedly rejected, and unsuitable homes being offered, sometimes hundreds of miles away.\n\nOne example saw a refugee living in temporary accommodation in Bristol, where they had family, offered permanent housing in Northern Ireland.\n\nAmir Hussain Ibrahimi was evacuated from Afghanistan by the UK two years ago and has been living in a hotel in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, ever since.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who was a journalist and photographer in Afghanistan, said he was forced to leave his family behind after he was arrested and attacked by the Taliban.\n\n\"The first days when I was in the hotel we had a lot of promises - the government told us that you're going to stay three months or four months or five months,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It is quite hard because you don't know what is the next step for your life.\"\n\n\"Sometimes you want to feel a place is like a home,\" he said, adding that he had felt depressed at times since coming to the UK.\n\nMr Ibrahimi said he was relieved the council had finally found him a permanent home, after being rejected by more than 10 landlords. He is now waiting to see if this landlord will accept him as a tenant.\n\nHowever, he said he knew many other families who had not managed to find homes.\n\nMr Ibrahimi acknowledged there were challenges as other Afghans did not have experience working in the UK and often had large families. However, he said the government needed to do more to help.\n\nAmir Hussain Ibrahimi now works as a marketing and production assistant in east London\n\nCabinet Office minister Mr Mercer, who served in Afghanistan during his time in the military and is responsible for the resettlement scheme, acknowledged \"things could always have been done differently\" and that Afghan families had been in hotels \"for far too long\".\n\nHe told the PA news agency the deadline for people to leave hotels by the end of August had been \"a controversial move\" but it was done \"with compassion in mind\".\n\nHe said 440 Afghans had been matched to homes in the past week \"and I couldn't have generated that momentum without putting that hard deadline in there\".\n\nThe government said it had provided £285m of funding to help move Afghans into permanent homes, with more than 10,500 people moved from hotels to long-term accommodation so far.\n\nA spokesperson for the Local Government Association said councils had worked \"incredibly hard\" to support Afghan families but had faced challenges including a shortage of housing.\n\nIt accepted there were lessons to be learned but blamed a \"delay in funding and guidance from government for creating a lot of uncertainty\".\n\nSir Laurie Bristow, who was the UK's ambassador to Afghanistan when Kabul fell to the Taliban, said Britain has a responsibility to those who worked for the UK there.\n\n\"There are people in Afghanistan and in refugee camps who worked for us and worked with us and whose lives are in danger as a result of doing so,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nAs debate continues over whether countries should engage with the Taliban, Sir Laurie said that doing so effectively could help to address reasons why Afghans were leaving the country for the UK.\n\nOperation Pitting saw around 15,000 people evacuated from Kabul\n\nMeanwhile, charities have criticised resettlement schemes for being too slow and leaving many people who want to come to the UK stuck in Afghanistan.\n\nSince the original evacuation, the numbers arriving under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) have been low, with only 40 refugees who have fled Afghanistan to neighbouring countries being resettled in the UK up to the end of March, while only 14 members of at-risk groups have been resettled directly from Afghanistan.\n\nA further 9,059 people, who arrived in the UK under Operation Pitting, have also been resettled under the ACRS, while 11,398 have been brought to the UK under a scheme for Afghans who worked for or with the UK government.\n\nIn the meantime others have taken dangerous routes like crossing the Channel in small boats, with Afghan the most common nationality recorded among those arriving this way so far this year.\n\nHuman rights organisation Justice said the schemes had been marked by \"significant delays, lack of transparency and lack of consistency\".\n\nIt called for quicker processing times and better communication with applicants.\n\nMr Mercer acknowledged some people had been left behind after the Taliban takeover and had still not been brought to safety.\n\nHowever, he said he was determined to make resettlement schemes \"work properly\" and that the UK should be \"proud\" of its efforts to rescue people.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the UK had made \"one of the largest commitments of any country to support Afghanistan\" and there was \"no need for Afghans to risk their lives by taking dangerous and illegal journeys\".", "Rishi Sunak was asked about the Bibby Stockholm barge during a visit to a hospital in Buckinghamshire\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said his government is still \"committed\" to using the Bibby Stockholm barge to house asylum seekers.\n\nLast week, 39 asylum seekers were taken off the barge after Legionella bacteria was found in the on-board water system.\n\nMr Sunak said it was \"right\" to \"go through all the checks\" before asylum seekers were accommodated on the barge.\n\nThe barge is seen as a cheaper option to hotels for asylum seekers waiting the outcome of their claims.\n\nThe government eventually plans to house up to 500 men aged 18-65 on the vessel moored in Portland Port, Dorset.\n\nBut it lies empty for the time being, while the Home Office awaits the results of further tests for the Legionella bacteria, which can cause a type of pneumonia.\n\nIn his first interview since returning from a summer holiday in the United States, Mr Sunak was asked whether he was personally warned about potential health risks for asylum seekers on board the Bibby Stockholm.\n\nIn response, he said; \"No, look, what's happened here is that it's right that we go through all the checks and procedures to ensure the health and wellbeing of the people who are being housed on the barge.\"\n\nHe said it was unfair to expect taxpayers to cover the costs of housing asylum seekers in hotels across the UK.\n\n\"We've got to find alternatives to that, that's what the barge is about, that's why we're committed to it,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nThe government says it is currently spending £6m per day housing more than 50,000 migrants in hotels.\n\nThe Home Office says that by the autumn, they aim to house about 3,000 asylum seekers in places that are not hotels - such as the barge, and former military sites Wethersfield, in Essex, and Scampton, in Lincolnshire.\n\nBut the government's efforts to use these barges and sites have been hampered by legal challenges, local opposition and logistical issues.\n\nAsylum applications have increased in the last couple of years, with the backlog of cases rising to more than 172,000 people, according to the latest Home Office figures.\n\nEarlier, Health Minister Will Quince said asylum seekers could return to the Bibby Stockholm barge within days.\n\nBut he said the asylum seekers would only return to the barge if it was safe to do so, insisting \"public health and safety is always our paramount concern\".\n\nThe arrival of people on small boats crossing the English Channel has been putting pressure on the asylum system.\n\nMore than 100,000 migrants have made the perilous journey across the Channel in small boats in the last five years, and more than 500 arrived on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, the Daily Mail and The Times reported that the European Commission has ruled out a deal that would allow migrants to be returned to EU countries.\n\nMr Sunak has pushed for a bilateral returns agreement with France, but President Emmanuel Macron believes any deal must be at an EU level.\n\nA leaked memo reported by the two newspapers suggests such a pact is not being entertained by the EU, which is dealing with its own internal rows over migration and refugee returns reforms.\n\nThe Daily Mail says it has seen an internal British government memo which describes the outcome of the meeting between National Security Adviser Sir Tim Barrow and Bjoern Seibert - the head of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's cabinet.\n\nThe paper reported that the memo said Mr Seibert \"stressed that the Commission is not open to a UK-EU readmissions agreement\".\n\nBut a European Commission spokesperson told the BBC the reports in the Times and Telegraph were \"not correct\".\n\nMr Seibert \"never made such a statement\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe UK government said it \"remains open\" to working towards a UK-EU returns accord.", "This view of Salford includes landmarks like the Manchester Ship Canal and Salford Docks. Bottom-right are Old Trafford football and cricket grounds and White City stadium\n\nA collection of photographs taken during World War Two have been opened to the public for the first time.\n\nThe aerial images were taken by the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) Photographic Reconnaissance units while stationed at bases across England in 1943 and 1944.\n\nThe 3,600 photographs offer a birds-eye view of the country as it changed during the war.\n\nThis includes bomb damage to towns and cities as well as Old Trafford football stadium in Greater Manchester.\n\nA photograph captures the damage to Old Trafford football ground\n\nDamage to the main stand of the football ground can be seen in the photo, after it was hit in a bombing raid in March 1941.\n\nThe home of Manchester United was not used again for football until 1949.\n\nThey also captured ancient monuments surrounded by anti-tank defences in West Sussex, such as Cissbury Ring Iron Age hillfort in Worthing where ditches and concrete cubes can be seen laid out to impede an enemy advance.\n\nThere is also a low-level photograph showing part of a US Army camp in Wiltshire which shows firing ranges in the foreground while troops play a game of baseball in a recreation field in the top left of the image.\n\nA shot of a US Army camp on the outskirts of Devizes, taken on 30 April 1944\n\nThe collection has been made available to the public for the first time in an online, searchable map on the Historic England Archive.\n\nThis image of Newbury Racecourse, which was was used as a marshalling yard, shows rows of containers of military equipment\n\nOne photograph captures Eighth Air Force B-17 bombers flying over The Brecks area of Norfolk\n\nRAF Grafton Underwood (USAAF Station 106), Northamptonshire, 22 April 1944. The USAAF's first heavy bomber mission of the Second World War was flown from here on 17 August 1942\n\nThe shadows of USAAF bomber aircraft in flight dot the fields at RAF Watton (USAAF Station 376), Norfolk, 27 May 1944\n\nDetail showing the extended runways and dispersal areas of RAF Bradwell Bay, Essex, on 25 January 1944. The dark lines along the runway may indicate where FIDO (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation) pipelines were ignited.\n\nTaken by the port side oblique camera, this photo captures the flight of RAF PR Mosquito PR Mk IX, MM247 over Brill in Buckinghamshire on 24 December 1943. The following April, MM247 was lost whilst on a PR mission over the Peenemünde Army Research Centre on the Baltic coast of Germany\n\nDuncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said the collection recorded \"changes taking place in England\" as well as \"capturing fascinating incidental detail, like American troops playing baseball\".\n\n\"Our collection of USAAF wartime photographs were taken in England by the pilots and aircraft of squadrons that provided intelligence for the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany,\" he said.\n\n\"This came at a cost, with many pilots killed in the line of duty.\n\n\"We are making these images available to the public for the first time online, giving people access to this remarkable collection of historic photographs.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump is expected to face his fourth criminal indictment next week, in the state of Georgia\n\nThe first count in the Georgia indictment charges Donald Trump and 18 others with racketeering for their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state.\n\nAnnouncing the charges, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis implicated the former president in a sprawling election subversion conspiracy, with him as the ringleader.\n\n\"The indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia's legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal, racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia's presidential election results,\" she said.\n\nThese are the fourth set of criminal charges brought against Mr Trump in recent months, but it is the first time a former American president faces charges once used to convict mob bosses like John Gotti and Vincent Gigante.\n\nOrganised criminal activity in the US is routinely prosecuted under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Rico) Act.\n\nRico laws help prosecutors connect the dots between underlings who broke laws and those who gave them marching orders.\n\nMore than 30 US states have implemented their own versions of the federal government's Rico Act and Georgia's adaptation is broader in scope than most.\n\nFederal Rico statutes list 35 crimes that would qualify as evidence of racketeering, but Georgia's Rico laws choose from a list of 65.\n\nProsecutors are required to show that a criminal \"enterprise\" exists and to detail a pattern of racketeering that rests on at least two qualifying crimes.\n\nRudy Giuliani (center) may face charges in any Rico indictment\n\nThe Rico Act is a storytelling tool prosecutors can use \"to really capture what happened here in the aftermath of the election and to prosecute the full scope of the conspiracy,\" says Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University.\n\n\"There were so many different bad actors in Georgia working to undermine the election and to overthrow the vote count. Donald Trump is at the centre of it, but he was working in a broader orbit.\"\n\nPenalties under Georgia's Rico Act are steep - prison terms between five and 20 years, or fines of up to $250,000 (£197,000) - and can help persuade subordinates to cut deals with the prosecution in exchange for lesser sentences.\n\nSuch incidents could generate a wave of never-before-seen evidence and testimony prosecutors can use against the alleged ringleaders, Mr Kreis argues.\n\nBut to convict Mr Trump himself, prosecutors will have to show the former president was \"not some kind of passive participant\" following legal advice, but the man \"driving the bus\", he says.\n\nThe campaign was \"very sloppy, left a paper trail everywhere they went and had no shame in covering up what they did,\" says Mr Kreis. \"That means there are nuggets of information out there.\"\n\nMr Trump is already facing federal charges from the US Department of Justice over his false election claims, in a trial whose evidence could factor into, and overlap with, the case in Georgia.\n\nHe is also awaiting trial over his alleged mishandling of classified documents and his hush-money payments to a porn star.\n\nDistrict Attorney Willis, a Democrat, has used the state's racketeering laws for high-profile prosecutions in the past.\n\nIn 2013, she led the prosecution - on Rico charges - of Atlanta public school teachers and administrators accused of cheating on state-run standardised tests in order to secure bonuses and promotions.\n\n\"You don't, under Rico, have to have a formal, sit-down dinner meeting where you eat spaghetti,\" Ms Willis explained as she indicted nearly three dozen educators about a decade ago.\n\nRico is a tool that helps prosecutors tell the whole story, says Fani Willis\n\n\"But what you do have to do is all be doing the same thing for the same purpose. You all have to be working towards that same goal.\"\n\nEleven of 12 officials were ultimately convicted at trial, the longest in state history, with most other co-conspirators taking guilty pleas.\n\nLast year, Ms Willis leaned on Rico statutes again to allege that Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug and 27 associates at his YSL music label are a \"criminal street gang\".\n\n\"The reason that I am a fan of Rico is, I think jurors are very, very intelligent,\" she said at a news conference to announce the charges.\n\n\"They want to know what happened. They want to make an accurate decision about someone's life. And so Rico is a tool that allows a prosecutor's office and law enforcement to tell the whole story.\"\n\nBut a trial that was set to begin this past January is now eight months into a glacial jury selection process, with thousands of jurors excused and not a single juror seated.\n\nThat has left Young Thug sitting in jail for 15 months, while a handful of his YSL co-defendants have taken plea deals or had their cases separated from the trial.\n\n\"I am hoping Fani Willis has learned from this YSL case when Donald Trump's case finally gets to that level,\" said Keisha Steed, an Atlanta defence attorney. \"The way it's playing out has been a mess!\"\n\nShe said Ms Willis's office did not seem \"prepared for the number of jurors that they had to call in, the logistics of having everybody be in one place, the time it takes for all attorneys to question jurors\".\n\nThe plodding pace of Young Thug's trial has set it on course to beat the record set by the Atlanta educators' trial as the longest in state history.\n\nThat is not unusual for multi-defendant and multi-attorney Rico cases, which can create major backlogs in the legal system.\n\n\"The whole courthouse is basically closed,\" said Meg Strickler, another local defence attorney.\n\n\"I hate the Rico Act,\" she added, saying clients are frequently intimidated by the penalties they could face, and the time and money needed to defend themselves.\n\nAnd, given how lengthy and complicated Rico trials are, she expects the Trump trial will prove a confusing and uncomfortable affair for a jury, if one can eventually be seated.\n\n\"Jurors are going to fall asleep long before they understand it,\" Ms Strickler predicted.\n• None Is Trump running for president mostly to avoid prison?", "A 10-year-old girl found dead at a house in Surrey has been named locally as Sara Sharif.\n\nDetectives are still looking for three people known to the girl and who have left the country. No arrests have been made.\n\nThe girl was alone when found at the property at about 02:50 BST on 10 August.\n\nA post-mortem examination will be held on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nFormal identification has yet to take place, and investigators are still at the property in Hammond Road, Woking.\n\nThe three people detectives wish to speak to are believed to have left the country on 9 August.\n\nSurrey Police said it was working with the international authorities to locate them.\n\nA Surrey Police spokesperson said: \"Detectives have confirmed that no other people were present at the address when they attended in the early hours of Thursday morning.\n\n\"The three people they would like to speak to were known to the victim. Formal identification is yet to take place, but we understand the child has been named locally.\"\n\nThe deceased girl's family have been informed and are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nPolice have maintained a presence outside the house since Thursday\n\nOn Thursday, Det Ch Insp Debbie White said: \"Our officers are working hard to build a picture of what happened.\n\n\"We have no reason to believe there is any risk to the public.\"\n\nSt Mary's Horsell church in Woking was opened on Friday so members of the community could attend for \"prayer, reflection or comfort\".\n\nFloral tributes were left outside the property where Sara's body was found, with messages remembering a \"sweet girl\" whose \"sparkle was put out too soon\".\n\nSpeaking after the discovery, a neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, described the neighbourhood as \"pretty normal\".\n\n\"There is no real activity going on,\" they said.\n\nSara \"appeared to help look after her younger brothers and sisters, and especially the baby\", the neighbour added.\n\nThey \"seemed a happy family who cared for all their children\", they said.\n\nMeanwhile, another local resident said: \"The area is very peaceful. It is busy during term-time with children walking to and from. But it's a lovely, vibrant place, normally.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The scene on Hammond Road in Woking remained taped off on Friday\n\nThree people detectives want to speak to over the death of a 10-year-old girl in Woking are believed to have left the UK, police have said.\n\nThe girl's body was found after police officers were called to an address in Hammond Road, Woking, at about 02:50 BST on Thursday following a safety concern.\n\nDet Ch Insp Debbie White said it was \"a devastating incident\".\n\nThe three people are believed to have left the UK on Wednesday.\n\nDet Ch Insp White said: \"We have identified three people we would like to speak to in connection with our investigation and from our enquiries, we believe that they left the country on Wednesday, 9 August. We are working with our partners, including international authorities, to locate them.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the force said no-one else had been injured, and no arrests had been made. A post-mortem examination will be carried out on Tuesday.\n\nHouse-to-house inquiries were being conducted on Friday, and police said they will maintain a presence at the scene over the coming week.\n\nInsp Sandra Carlier, borough commander for Woking, said: \"I know that the community are shocked and saddened by yesterday's events, and we stand with them in their grief.\"\n\nA neighbour who lives directly opposite the house said a family with six children had lived at the property for less than six months.\n\n\"They were normal children, friendly. They seemed like a decent family,\" he said.\n\nFlowers have been laid at the scene in tribute to the 10-year-old girl\n\nOn Thursday, Det Ch Insp White said: \"Our officers are working hard to build a picture of what happened.\n\n\"We have no reason to believe there is any risk to the public.\"\n\nThere was a significant police presence near the address in Hammond Road, which would remain closed over the coming days, she added.\n\nThe deceased girl's family have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.\n\nAnother neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, described the area as a \"pretty normal\" neighbourhood, adding: \"There is no real activity going on.\"\n\nAnother local added: \"The area is very peaceful. It is busy during term time with children walking to and from. But it's a lovely, vibrant place normally.\"\n\nA spokesperson for St Mary's Horsell in Woking said the church would be open so the community could attend for \"prayer, reflection or comfort\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with our whole community, but especially those who will be so deeply affected by this tragedy,\" they said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma Audain says she is owed £3,000 by Booking.com for stays at her Glasgow flat\n\nTravel website Booking.com has been accused of leaving accommodation hosts in Scotland thousands of pounds out of pocket because of payment delays.\n\nThe online platform allows people to book rooms that hotels and individual homeowners advertise on its site.\n\nHowever, two Scottish hosts said they have not been paid in months for accommodating guests.\n\nBooking.com said some payments were delayed as a result of planned IT system maintenance.\n\nThe company blamed \"unforeseen technical issues\" and said it was urgently working to resume payments for a small number of hosts.\n\nAccommodation owners in other parts of the UK and Europe have also been affected by the issue with one man claiming he is owed about £50,000.\n\nThe row comes weeks after online marketplace Etsy came under fire from sellers for withholding their money.\n\nBooking.com takes payment from the customer and then pays the host once it has deducted fees and commission.\n\nBut hosts have told BBC Scotland they are out of pocket after the Amsterdam-based firm carried out some planned system maintenance.\n\nEmma Audain, who rents out a flat in Glasgow, said she is owed £3,000 by Booking.com having not received any payments since June, and is now considering legal action against the company.\n\nShe said: \"We have a situation where the company is accepting money from customers, and in one case we had been able to issue refunds to them, but somehow is unable to issue payments to the host.\n\n\"It doesn't add up. We knew there was going to be a slight delay with the maintenance period but they last paid me in June and have been consistently offering conflicting messages such as we will receive a payment in x days, only not to receive it.\n\n\"Guests have paid and I'm not sure they will be entirely comfortable to find out this money has been swallowed by Booking.com.\n\n\"This is money we use to pay our bills, the cleaners, management fees and the like. We don't want to pass the impact of this on to guests.\"\n\nOne of the properties in Nairn that Karen Bancroft says Booking.com still owes money on\n\nKaren Bancroft manages five short-term let properties in the Nairn area, one of which she owns, and is chasing £3,000 in payments.\n\nShe said: \"It has been a total nightmare, none of the hosts in my situation are huge corporations so going this long without these payment is really hurting their business.\n\n\"Dealing with Booking.com has been really challenging, just trying to get a straight answer has been near impossible.\n\n\"This is the guests' money, what have they done with it? I don't think guests will be aware of what is going on and I really don't think they would be comfortable knowing that their hosts have not been paid for the stay.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Booking.com said: \"We always strive to support our accommodation partners in the best way possible, and fully understand the importance of processing payments on time.\n\n\"We have been urgently working to resume payments, which were delayed as a result of a planned system maintenance, which we notified our accommodation partners of ahead of time, and can confirm that payments have now been processed and the majority of our partners have now received payment.\n\n\"In a small number of cases, there have been unforeseen technical issues that are being quickly resolved by our team.\"", "Disorder broke out in central London last week\n\nThe Prime Minister has condemned the way looting and disruption has been organised on social media as \"appalling\" and \"unacceptable\".\n\nRishi Sunak's comments follow calls by the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) for parents to be held accountable for children involved in criminal social media crazes\n\nDisorder in London's Oxford Street spread last week after online rumours.\n\nMr Sunak said those involved should face \"the full force of the law\".\n\nNine people were arrested after trouble broke out on 9 August when social media videos urged people to turn up and cause disorder.\n\nWest End stores were forced to close their shutters and lock customers inside during the looting bid, which was reportedly inspired by a social media craze encouraging people to take part in an \"Oxford Street JD robbery\".\n\nRishi Sunak made the comments about the disorder in London following a visit to a hospital in Milton Keynes\n\nAsked what he made of the disturbances, which occurred while he was on holiday in the US, Mr Sunak told broadcasters: \"I have got to say it is appalling.\n\n\"I fully support the police in bringing those people to justice - because that type of behaviour is simply unacceptable in our society.\"\n\nDispersal orders were also imposed in Southend after posts encouraging anti-social behaviour.\n\nDonna Jones, who is PCC for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight as well as chair of the APCC, said that such incidents were organised and shared on social media and were a \"real indication of societal breakdown\".\n\nShe said the trend for social media crazes was \"incredibly worrying\" and called for action from social media companies.\n\n\"This is mindless vandalism, and it's also criminal activity in terms of shoplifting and theft, looting, mass looting,\" she said.\n\n\"This is taking away police hours from operational policing that they should be doing to keep genuine people that need protecting safe.\"\n\nMs Jones said parents could be forced to pay the fines for the criminal behaviour of their children under the age of 16, or under 18 if in full-time education.\n\n\"We need to send a clear message - this is not acceptable and the parents need to be held accountable,\" she said.\n\nShe said another social media craze involved teenagers in Southampton goading others into taking paracetamol.\n\nDonna Jones is chairwoman of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners\n\nBBC Verify searched TikTok to see whether there were recent videos about a paracetamol challenge involving teenagers in Southampton but couldn't find any.\n\nThey asked TikTok whether any had existed but had been deleted by them.\n\nTikTok said: \"These claims are simply wrong. We have found no evidence to support them and this content has not trended on TikTok. We have written to the government with the facts to clear up these misrepresentations.\"\n\nMs Jones said a \"handful\" of children were admitted to hospital in Southampton as a result of an alleged paracetamol-taking challenge.\n\nSouthampton City Council said the incident happened at Southampton Central train station, and involved children aged between 15 and 17.\n\nIt said: \"We are aware of the incident in question and are continuing to work across the appropriate agencies as part of ongoing investigations and to ensure those involved are fully supported. We are unable to comment any further.\"\n\n\"I don't think [teenagers] understand that the fun that goes along with it - as they see it as fun - could actually potentially be very, very worrying,\" she added.\n\n\"This is taking up much needed ambulance time, police time and of course we can't afford for that to happen and I think parents need to get involved.\"\n\nNHS advice is that paracetamol is safe to take as a painkiller when used correctly and when the dosage recommendations are followed, but can cause serious liver damage if those are exceeded.\n\nMs Jones called for TikTok in particular to investigate its role in organising gatherings and harmful challenges.\n\nIn a statement, TikTok said: \"We have seen no evidence to support these claims and we have zero tolerance for content facilitating or encouraging criminal activities.\n\n\"We have over 40,000 safety professionals dedicated to keeping TikTok safe - if we find content of this nature, we remove it and actively engage with law enforcement on these issues.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The administrators of Wilko have said jobs are set to go and stores will close after it failed to find a buyer for the whole business.\n\nHowever, PwC said parts of the group could still be bought.\n\nWilko announced earlier this month that it was going into administration, putting 12,500 jobs and its 400 stores at risk.\n\nPwC was tasked with trying to look for a buyer for all or part of the business.\n\nIn a statement, PwC said: \"While discussions continue with those interested in buying parts of the business, it's clear that the nature of this interest is not focused on the whole group.\n\n\"Sadly, it is therefore likely that there will be redundancies and store closures in the future and it has today been necessary to update employee representatives.\"\n\nPwC said it understood the news would further add to uncertainty felt by workers and said it would be supporting staff.\n\nIt said that in the immediate term, all stores remain open and continue to trade, and that staff would continue to be paid.\n\nIt added there were \"currently no plans to close any stores next week\".\n\nEarlier, the union representing workers at Wilko said the majority of stores were to close \"within weeks\" after a purchase fell through.\n\nThe GMB said that some stores might be bought, but \"significant job losses\" were now expected.\n\nIts national secretary, Andy Prendergast, said the union would seek to ensure its members \"receive every penny\" they are entitled to.\n\n\"We will fight to ensure Wilko bosses are held accountable for the simple reason our members deserve so much better,\" he added.\n\nThe company, which was founded in Leicester in 1930, is well known for its affordable everyday items.\n\nAfter the collapse of Woolworths in 2008, Wilko - which is still family run - stepped up to fill the gaps left on High Streets.\n\nBut it has been struggling with sharp losses and a cash shortage.\n\nSarah Montano, professor of retail marketing at the University of Birmingham's Business School, said the collapse of Wilko was not particularly surprising.\n\nShe told the BBC 5Live's Wake up to Money: \"From the consumer point of view, I think it comes back to this reason: why would you go to Wilko?\n\n\"They haven't kept up with their competitors,\" she added. \"In retail you could start out as unique and as innovative as you could possibly be, but, over time, gradually your competitors are going to do similar things to what you do.\"\n\nMany of Wilko's stores are in High Street locations in traditional town centres, which became an expensive liability as customers shifted to bigger retail parks and out-of-town locations.\n\nThe company has also faced strong competition from rival chains as the high cost of living has pushed shoppers to seek out bargains.\n\nThere has been speculation that some of those rivals, such as B&M, Poundland, The Range and Home Bargains, could be those interested in the firm.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicky Campbell says a former teacher abused children on a Savile scale\n\nBroadcaster Nicky Campbell has claimed a teacher at two Edinburgh schools abused children on a \"Savile scale\".\n\nHe compared Iain Wares to the disgraced BBC TV and radio presenter Jimmy Savile after giving evidence to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.\n\nThe BBC Radio 5Live presenter told the inquiry he was sexually and physically abused by other teachers while he was a pupil at Edinburgh Academy.\n\nHe said he witnessed the sexual abuse of a pupil aged about 10 by Mr Wares.\n\nThe 83-year-old retired teacher lives in South Africa where he is fighting extradition to Scotland.\n\nHe is facing charges relating to his time teaching at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes Academy in the 1960s and 70s, which he denies.\n\nAfter giving evidence of his own abuse to the inquiry, Mr Campbell became emotional as he told journalists outside the hearing: \"It's as if someone at last has told the grown ups about what happened to us when we were little\".\n\nHe said Mr Wares had abused children on an \"industrial scale\" at Edinburgh Academy before being moved to Fettes after parents raised concerns.\n\n\"We're talking about, for sure, one of the most prolific paedophiles in British history,\" he said. \"And due to the ineptitude of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, he's living in a retirement complex in South Africa with an expensive lawyer delaying and delaying and delaying.\n\n\"But this could have been sorted out years ago and should have been sorted out years ago. This is Savile scale.\"\n\nA spokesman for the COPFS said it had been a complex investigation which had been difficult for all involved.\n\n\"In order to protect any future proceedings and to preserve the rights of the complainers, the Crown will not comment further at this stage,\" he added.\n\nIain Wares (centre) is facing abuse charges at Wynberg Magistrate's Court in Cape Town\n\nMr Campbell is one of a number of former pupils of the independent, fee-paying schools who have been giving evidence to the long-running inquiry.\n\nHe has previously said the sexual and violent abuse he experienced while a day pupil at the school had a \"profound effect on my life\".\n\nWarning: Some readers might find some of the following details upsetting\n\nDuring two hours of testimony on Tuesday morning, he told the inquiry about an occasion when he says a teacher touched his genitals.\n\nThe Long Lost Family presenter recalled that the history teacher, Hamish Dawson, would call forward students who were wearing shorts.\n\nMr Campbell said that on three occasions he was tickled by the teacher on his leg in front of other pupils.\n\nOn the fourth he said the teacher's finger went into Mr Campbell's underwear and touched his genitals.\n\nNIcky Campbell said Hamish Dawson sexually abused him at Edinburgh Academy\n\nMr Campbell also described a time when he was assaulted in a corridor by a teacher when he was aged about 14 or 15. He said he was held down by his hair.\n\nHe said he was then kicked and his shirt was ripped. Mr Campbell described this as the worst day of his life.\n\nThe 62-year-old, who was adopted by a \"very loving family\" as a baby, told the inquiry he was sent to the fee-paying school because his parents \"wanted the best for me\".\n\nHe said his form teacher would carry out relentless beatings on pupils using a wooden bat known as a clacken without reason.\n\nMr Campbell said the teacher would smirk as he told pupils he would see them after the class had finished.\n\nHe said the situation was terrifying.\n\nMr Campbell told the inquiry that on one occasion the same teacher was responsible for \"a moment of brutality that never leaves you\".\n\nHe said that the man held him down and banged him on the head with his knuckles.\n\nMr Campbell went on to tell the inquiry he still has nightmares about a beating he said he experienced at the hands of another teacher.\n\nHe said he was punched and kicked like a rag doll and that the assault left him crying and screaming.\n\nAfterwards, he said, his mother contacted Edinburgh Academy and received a \"mealy mouthed\" apology from the teacher.\n\nMr Campbell told the inquiry he \"wept like a little boy\" when he heard a programme had been made about sexual abuse at his former school.\n\nHe described his subsequent involvement with the project as a life changing moment when he realised abuse was \"happening on an industrial scale\".\n\nThe Edinburgh Academy is the subject of the latest abuse inquiry hearings\n\nIn an emotional closing address, Mr Campbell wiped away tears as other former pupils sobbed in the public gallery.\n\nHe said Edinburgh Academy must apologise for sending Iain Wares to teach at Fettes.\n\nBut the broadcaster described the current rector of the school as \"a good man trying to do good things in a dreadful situation\".\n\nA spokesperson for Edinburgh Academy said it unreservedly apologised to those \"wronged by specific individuals whose roles were to educate, protect and nurture them\".\n\nIt said it was committed to supporting former pupils and helping investigating allegations of historical abuse.\n\nThe Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was set up in October 2015 to look at the abuse of children in care in Scotland.\n\nLady Smith, who chairs the inquiry, has heard evidence of abuse at schools including Fort Augustus Abbey in the Highlands, and Loretto School in East Lothian.\n\nShe has found that children in homes run by Quarriers, Aberlour Child Care Trust and Barnardo's suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse\n\nThe inquiry has also found that Sisters of Nazareth children's homes and orphanages run by the Daughters of Charity were places of fear.", "Magaluf is a popular holiday destination in the Spanish island of Majorca\n\nEight men suspected of gang-raping an 18-year-old British woman in Majorca were not all known to each other, Spanish police have said.\n\nFive French and one Swiss tourist were arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and violation of the right to privacy earlier this month.\n\nTwo more men, both residents in France, were arrested in that country this week and are awaiting extradition.\n\nThe alleged attack is said to have taken place in the resort of Magaluf.\n\n\"Of the eight [suspects], some knew each other, they weren't all strangers,\" said a spokesman for the civil guard. \"But it was not one group of friends.\"\n\nThe alleged victim is thought to have met a group of young tourists in the early hours of 14 August.\n\nShe is believed to have followed them to their hotel, where she was forced to have sexual intercourse and was filmed by the alleged aggressors.\n\nThe woman later escaped and was helped by hotel staff after being found in the street.\n\nShe was taken to Son Espases hospital in Palma de Mallorca, where she was treated before registering her rape complaint.\n\nPolice arrested the first six suspects within hours of the alleged attack and they are in preventive custody.\n\nThe pair arrested this week flew from Spain to Baden-Baden in Germany, then travelled to France.\n\nA Spanish judge issued a European detention order and one of them was held in Scherwiller and the other at the airport of Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, both in the north-eastern Alsace region, the civil guard reported.\n\nWith the two arrests in France, the Spanish civil guard said it has closed its investigation into this case.\n\nThe force said that \"the swift and efficient action of this team\" in tandem with local police \"has permitted the arrest of all those responsible for this brutal attack\".\n• None Six arrested over alleged gang rape of British teen", "Suspended precariously in mid-air, drone footage, exclusively obtained by the BBC, shows the passengers of a stranded cable car in Pakistan.\n\nAll of the people inside the cable car, six children and two adults, were saved during a 12 hour rescue operation which included a military helicopter and zip wire experts.\n\nThe owner of the cable car company in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was later arrested by police on multiple charges including negligence and endangering valuable lives.", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nEngland were defeated 4-3 in the final seconds of extra time as Ukraine were crowned partially sighted football world champions in Walsall.\n\nAdam Lione netted a superb hat-trick to put England 3-2 up after Illia Lubashev and Vadym Shvets scored for Ukraine.\n\nRobert Tremba equalised before Shvets netted his second with 22 seconds left to seal the victory.\n\nUkraine's win at the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) World Games is their third overall title.\n\nPartially-sighted football is played by four visually-impaired players (B2/B3), plus one fully or partially-sighted goalkeeper per team.\n\nIt is one of 10 sports for blind and partially-sighted athletes that feature at the IBSA World Games, which is held across Birmingham and the West Midlands region from 14-27 August.\n\nIt is the first time the world's largest sporting event for blind and partially-sighted athletes has been held in the United Kingdom.", "Organisers said they would continue to support the family after Saturday's tragedy\n\nA child has died after falling ill at Camp Bestival in Shropshire.\n\nThe child was taken to hospital in a critical condition on Saturday but died a short while later, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nEmergency services were called to the festival site at Weston Park at 00:37 BST.\n\nAn investigation has been launched to determine the circumstances of the death, the force said.\n\nFestival organisers expressed their \"deepest sympathies\" to the child's family.\n\nA spokesperson for Camp Bestival said: \"A child became poorly on Friday night and, after receiving immediate medical care onsite, was taken to hospital in an ambulance, where they tragically passed away.\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the family at this terrible time, and we will continue to support them in any way we can.\"\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said it was not called to the site and a private ambulance company was used.\n\nIt was the second year the festival took place in Shropshire. The sister site in Dorset has been running for 15 years.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nOwen Farrell will miss England's first two World Cup pool games after World Rugby successfully appealed against the decision to overturn his red card.\n\nThe England captain's four-game ban means he will miss the group matches against Argentina and Japan, with two warm-up fixtures also included.\n\nFarrell's red card had been overturned by an independent judicial committee, which was then overruled on Tuesday.\n\nThe appeal committee said the tackle was \"always illegal\".\n\nFarrell became the first England player to receive a red card from rugby's new 'bunker' review system when he made a high tackle on Taine Basham during England's 19-17 win over Wales on 12 August.\n\nThe appeal committee found that, in their original hearing, the disciplinary committee should have considered Farrell's attempt to wrap his opponent in the tackle.\n\nTherefore the appeal committee determined that no mitigation could be made for the tackle, and the decision to overturn the red card was an error - which led them to ban Farrell.\n\nThe ban will include last weekend's 29-10 defeat by Ireland in Dublin, which the appeal committee said Farrell \"voluntarily stood down\" from playing in after World Rugby announced its intention to appeal beforehand.\n• None England working on tackle technique every day, says Care\n\nThe 31-year-old will also miss England's final warm-up game against Fiji this weekend at Twickenham as well as the first two pool matches. He will be available to play again on 23 September against Chile.\n\nEngland's opening World Cup game against Argentina is on 9 September in Marseille.\n\nWhen launching its appeal against the overturning of the ban, World Rugby said \"player welfare is the number one priority\".\n\nIn January, the RFU approved a reduction in tackle height for the community game in England in order to improve player safety, while tightening laws around high tackles in the professional game aimed to further help the issue.\n\nEngland number eight Billy Vunipola is also due to face the disciplinary panel for a red card in the defeat by Ireland following a high tackle which resulted in direct head contact on Ireland prop Andrew Porter.\n\nA ban of more than one game for Vunipola would result in England also being without their only specialist number eight for the start of the competition.\n• None A messy hen-do in an isolated Welsh cottage gets derailed by the apocalypse...\n• None One of Britain's most callous and brutal killings", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEver since he led a mutinous march on Moscow in late June Yevgeny Prigozhin was described by Russia watchers as \"a dead man walking\".\n\nCommenting recently on the mercenary boss's life expectancy the CIA Director William Burns even said: \"If I were Prigozhin I wouldn't fire my food taster\".\n\nIf it is ever proven that the mid-air destruction of a plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin was an act of deliberate, cold-blooded revenge by the Kremlin, this will go down in Russian history as the ultimate \"special military operation\".\n\nPrigozhin, a former convict, chef and hot dog salesman-turned mercenary boss, had a lot of admirers amongst the ranks of his Wagner mercenary army and beyond. Many will have witnessed his warm reception by the public in Rostov-on-Don when he turned up there exactly two months ago in the throes of his aborted one-day rebellion.\n\nBut he also had a lot of enemies in Moscow, most notably in the upper ranks of the Russian military whose leaders he frequently and publicly criticised.\n\nWhat has probably turned out to have been his fatal mistake was crossing President Putin when he launched that march on Moscow on 23 June. Although he did not mention Putin by name at the time, Prigozhin infuriated the Kremlin by very publicly criticising the official reasons given for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He told Russians they had been deceived and that their sons were dying in the Ukraine war due to poor leadership. This was heresy and Putin's video message on that day was sizzling with vitriol. He called Prigozhin's march on Moscow a betrayal and a stab in the back.\n\nAlexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who became a British citizen, was fatally poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006\n\nVladimir Putin does not forgive traitors nor those who challenge him.\n\nThe former Russian intelligence officer-turned defector, Alexander Litvinenko, died a slow and agonising death in a London hospital in 2006 after he was poisoned with radioactive Polonium-210.\n\nA subsequent investigation concluded that this assassins brought the lethal substance with them from Russia and that it could only have been sourced from a Russian government laboratory. Moscow denied any involvement but refused to surrender the two suspects for trial.\n\nThen there was Sergei Skripal, a former Russian KGB officer and again a defector to Britain.\n\nIn 2018 he and his daughter Yulia narrowly escaped death when GRU Russian military intelligence officers allegedly put Novichok nerve agent on the door handle of his house in Salisbury.\n\nA discarded perfume bottle containing the lethal agent was later found by a local Wiltshire resident, Dawn Sturgess, who died after applying it to her wrists.\n\nSergei Skripal survived being poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in 2018\n\nInside Russia there is a long list of people, including both critics and businessmen, who have met with sudden death, in some cases \"falling out of upper floor windows\". President Putin's most vocal opponent, Alexei Navalny, is now languishing in a penal colony on what are said to be politically-motivated fraud charges. He too survived assassination by Novichok nerve agent poisoning after nearly dying onboard a flight across Siberia in 2020.\n\nBut Prigozhin was a very different case, which makes his demise all the more controversial for Russians. Here was a man who was extremely useful to the Kremlin and seen by some Russians as a national hero.\n\nHis Wagner group of mercenaries, founded in 2014, was formed from a hard core of former Russian Speznaz (Special Forces) operatives and other soldiers. It has been highly active in eastern Ukraine where it drove the Ukrainian army out of Bakhmut, acquiring a fearsome reputation not shared by the often decrepit and poorly-led regular Russian army. Wagner bolstered its ranks when Prigozhin personally toured Russian penal colonies to recruit thousands of convicts, including rapists and murderers. These were effectively used as cannon fodder in eastern Ukraine where commanders ordered them to advance into withering fire in repeated attempts to overwhelm the enemy lines.\n\nWagner have also been operating in Syria for years but it is in Africa where they have achieved strategic success for the Kremlin. There they have developed a brutally effective business model that is proving popular with undemocratic regimes. By providing a range of \"security services\", from VIP protection to influencing elections, silencing critics, they have received in return mineral rights and access to gold and other precious metals in several African states. Money flows back to Moscow and everyone gets rich - except the actual populations of those countries.\n\nWagner troops have been accused of numerous human rights abuses including the massacre of civilians in Mali and Central African Republic. Yet they have succeeded in supplanting French and other western forces across a huge swathe of the African continent. Only this week Prigozhin popped up on a Telegram channel in a video presumed to have been filmed at a base in Mali, promising an expansion of Wagner's activities in Africa and \"freedom\" for its people.\n\nDespite all this, there are certainly some back in Moscow, notably in military intelligence, who viewed him as a liability, a loose cannon and a potential future threat to Putin's rule and the system around him.", "UK Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is in India for a G20 meeting this week\n\nUK trade talks with India are reaching their \"final but trickier\" stages, according to government sources.\n\nTrade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is visiting India for a meeting of G20 trade ministers this week.\n\nThere has been speculation about whether a trade deal may be struck before Rishi Sunak visits India in September.\n\nBut the BBC has been told there is currently no expectation in government a full deal will be agreed by then.\n\nGovernment sources said they hoped a deal could now be \"months\" away, but they stressed there were still some \"big nuts to crack\".\n\nA trade deal with India has long been seen in government as one of the biggest prizes of all deals the UK could strike with other nations following Brexit.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised in April last year to get an agreement \"done\" by Diwali in the autumn of 2022 - but that deadline was missed.\n\nThe UK has been particularly keen to strike an agreement that could bring down tariffs on UK exports including cars and whisky, which currently face triple-figure tariffs, or import taxes, in India.\n\nThose tariffs mean UK products can have a much higher price tag in India, making them less competitive.\n\nTrade talks have faced some hurdles in the last year, in particular due to British ministers' refusal so far to grant more visas to Indian workers.\n\nNick Thomas-Symonds, Labour's shadow international trade secretary, said: \"The Conservatives' record on trade negotiations has been to deliver bad deals or no deals at all.\n\n\"They committed to delivering agreements with India and with the United States by the end of 2022, yet failed to meet their own deadline. So them trumpeting the latest round of trade talks falls far short the concrete action needed to get any deal across the line.\"\n\nRishi Sunak last met India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a G7 summit in May\n\nThe UK has been keen to get India to allow more UK City firms and service industries to set up business in the country.\n\nWilliam Bain, head of trade policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, said this would be the \"big win\" for British businesses - particularly UK travel, business or financial services.\n\n\"Up to 80% of the UK economy is services-based,\" he said.\n\nBut he added: \"That's one of the last areas that India would want to make agreement at this point, because that's where it has leverage.\n\n\"Having much more visa access to the UK will be part of the key things to get a deal over the line.\n\n\"If there is a future stage later in the year where the two prime ministers meet face to face for a further push - it's really going to be that issue of services access in return for better access for Indian nationals in the UK.\n\n\"It is a bigger export market and it's one which is rapidly increasing its prosperity. Also India hasn't done many trade agreements, so the UK is relatively front of the queue here.\"\n\nMs Badenoch is travelling to India to meet fellow trade ministers in the G20 group of wealthy nations, rather than to hold formal negotiations on a UK-India deal.\n\nHowever, talks between officials from both sides will be ongoing in India during the visit, and she is set to have a one-on-one meeting with her Indian counterpart after the G20 meeting is over.\n\nShe will also be talking to the so-called B20, the business equivalent of the G20, chaired by Indian conglomerate Tata, which recently announced more than £4bn of investment in a gigafactory in Somerset.\n\nThe UK is hoping to proactively encourage other Indian investors to invest in the UK.\n\nThere have been some media reports, particularly in India, suggesting that a deal is \"close\" and could be reached to coincide with Rishi Sunak's visit for the G20 leaders' summit in September.\n\nBut officials have indicated that it is unlikely a full deal will be agreed by then.\n\nGovernment sources stressed that, while the last round of talks \"closed some chapters\", negotiations get \"harder, not easier\".\n\nUK officials are preparing for there to be a need for further talks following the trade secretary's visit this week.\n\nMr Sunak is expected to receive a warm welcome when he visits in September. His appointment as the first British Indian prime minister was one of the top stories across Indian media.\n\nIndian broadcaster NDTV ran a headline at the time saying: \"Indian son rises over the empire. Rishi Sunak first Indian origin UK PM. History comes full circle in Britain.\"\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described him as the \"living bridge\" of UK Indians, while the Times of India suggested the appointment of a Hindu PM had brought India Diwali cheer.\n\nA department for business and trade spokesperson said: \"The UK and India are committed to working towards the best deal possible for both sides.\n\n\"We've made good progress in closing chapters, and are now laser-focused on goods, services and investment.\n\n\"While we cannot comment on ongoing negotiations, we are clear that we will only sign when we have a deal that is fair, balanced, and ultimately in the best interests of the British people and the economy.\"", "Video shared on social media appears to show the moment that a plane crashes in a Russian village.\n\nAccording to Russian authorities, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a plane that crashed in the area.\n\nBBC Verify has been able to confirm the location as being in the Tver region.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment a drone hits an unfinished building in Russia's capital\n\nA drone attack on Russia's Belgorod region has killed three people, hours after another drone hit central Moscow, Russian officials say.\n\nBelgorod's Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov blamed Kyiv for the attack on the region, near Ukraine's border.\n\n\"Ukrainian forces launched an explosive device through a drone while people were on the street,\" he claimed.\n\nKyiv has not claimed responsibility for either incident, but it rarely comments on attacks inside Russia.\n\nHours after the first drone attack which killed three in Belgorod a second drone was destroyed over the region, the Russian Defence Ministry said.\n\nAs well as the drone strikes on Belgorod, drones were also reported in Moscow, where a building that was under construction was hit, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.\n\nAir defences also shot down two drones earlier in the Mozhaisk and Khimki districts of the Moscow region, the defence ministry added. No casualties were reported.\n\nFollowing the incident in Russia's capital, all flights to and from Moscow's airports were suspended early on Wednesday, thought they later returned to normal.\n\nThe flight suspension measures have been taken repeatedly in recent days amid a spate of drone attacks on the capital.\n\nIt was the sixth consecutive night of aerial attacks on the Moscow region, the AFP news agency reported.\n\nThe drone that hit the building under construction at the Moscow city complex was suppressed by electronic warfare systems, the defence ministry said. It lost control and collided with the building, officials added.\n\nSeveral windows were smashed in two five-storey buildings opposite the site and emergency services were inspecting the area, Mr Sobyanin said.\n\nIn response to reports of the downed drones, the US State Department said the US did not encourage drone attacks in Russia.\n\nUS officials added it was up to Ukraine to decide how to defend itself, and that Russia could end the war at any time by withdrawing its forces from its neighbour.\n\nAllegations of drone strikes inside Russia have become increasingly common in recent months.\n\nOn Tuesday, Russia's defence ministry said it had downed two drones over the Moscow region, and two more were intercepted over the Bryansk region near the Ukrainian border.\n\nOfficials also said a Russian warplane had destroyed a Ukrainian reconnaissance boat in the Black Sea that sailed near Russian gas production facilities on Tuesday.\n\nUkraine did not claim responsibility for any drone incursions on Tuesday - but President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said that attacks on Russian territory are an \"inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process\".", "Bus drivers reported feeling more appreciated if greeted by passengers\n\nPassengers who greet bus drivers as they embark or disembark have a small positive impact on drivers' wellbeing, a survey has suggested.\n\nA pilot in Hammersmith saw stickers put on some buses to encourage people to say hello or thank you to the driver.\n\nIn non-stickered buses, just two in 10 people greeted the driver, which rose to three in 10 in stickered buses.\n\nA survey of 77 drivers indicated a greeting from a passenger was meaningful to them, researchers said.\n\nThe survey, carried out by the University of Sussex, Transport for London (TfL) and research company Neighbourly Lab, also found more than 80% of passengers at one bus stop believed that saying hello had a positive impact but less than a quarter actually did it.\n\nSome bus drivers - who on average have salaries of £26,000 (entry grade) which can rise to more than £31,000, according to Go Ahead London which operates a quarter of the capital's buses - said passenger interaction made them feel \"respected\", \"seen\" and \"appreciated\".\n\nDr Gillian Sandstrom, director of the Sussex Centre for Research on Kindness, said the results suggest \"micro-interactions like these are more well-received, and more meaningful than most of us realise\".\n\nTom Cunnington, head of bus business development at TfL, said: \"Recognition and acknowledgement of each other is something we should encourage more, and I hope we can expand on this across London.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man's body was found on the Schlatenkees glacier, one of the fastest-melting glaciers in Austria\n\nThe body of a man who is believed to have died more than 20 years ago has been found on a rapidly melting glacier in the Austrian province of Tyrol.\n\nPolice say a mountain guide discovered the body last week 2,900m (9,500ft) up the Schlatenkees glacier in East Tyrol.\n\nA rucksack was found close by containing a bank card and a driving licence. Police used a helicopter to help retrieve the body.\n\nPolice think the man was from Austria and was 37 years old when he died.\n\nDNA tests are being carried out to establish his identity.\n\nPolice spokesman Christian Viehweider told BBC News it would take several weeks before the results of those tests would be known.\n\nThe man, who had ski touring equipment with him, is believed to have had an accident in 2001.\n\nThe Schlatenkees is thought to be one of the country's fastest-melting glaciers. In its report for 2021/2022, the Austrian Alpine Club said it was the glacier with the biggest recorded loss of 89.5m.\n\nLast April the Austrian Alpine Club said the melting of glaciers in Austria was at a record high. It said that it had never recorded such a large shrinkage of glaciers since its history of measuring began in 1891.\n\nThere have been several similar discoveries in rapidly shrinking Alpine glaciers this summer as the melting ice reveals long-held secrets.\n\nIn June a climber found human remains and bones on the same glacier in Tyrol, in the Venediger group of mountains. The remains are believed to have been in the Schlatenkees for decades. DNA testing is under way.\n\n\"It is rather unusual to have two such discoveries on a glacier within such a short time,\" Mr Viehweider said.\n\nHe said that around 45 people, missing in the Austrian Alps since 1964, are still unaccounted for.\n\nIn Switzerland, the body of a German climber - missing since 1986 - was found on a glacier close to the Matterhorn mountain last month. It was discovered by mountaineers crossing the Theodul glacier above Zermatt.\n\nThey noticed a hiking boot and crampons emerging from the ice.\n\nDNA analysis showed the body to be that of a German climber, who disappeared 37 years ago. A huge search and rescue operation at the time failed to find any trace of him.\n\nPolice did not name the climber but said he was aged 38 when he went missing during a hike.\n\nSwitzerland and Austria have been experiencing very hot conditions this summer and there are fears for the future of the Alpine glaciers which are key to Europe's environment.\n\nThe winter snow stored by the glaciers fills European rivers such as the Rhine and the Danube, providing water for crops, or for cooling nuclear power stations.\n\nThis was the Schlatenkees glacier in 2001, the year the man whose body has been found went missing", "Access to parts of the estate are limited due to construction work on the project\n\nThe Perthshire village of Kenmore is a tranquil tourist destination at the northern end of Loch Tay which is home to a few hundred people.\n\nBut the peace has been shattered by a row over the £300m redevelopment of nearby Taymouth Castle by American real estate firm Discovery Land Company (DLC).\n\nA protest group has been campaigning against the proposals for the 450-acre Perthshire estate - but the local community council say local residents are largely in favour of the plans.\n\nDLC's website says those proposals include the restoration of the castle and golf course, building 167 new homes, and landscaping park and woodlands.\n\nThe castle dates from 1842. Planning permission to renovate it and build hundreds of homes on the estate was granted between 2005 and 2011, with various developers coming and going in the meantime.\n\nTaymouth Castle and the surrounding estate are undergoing a £300m redevelopment\n\nDLC bought the castle in 2018 and since then has been buying nearby land and businesses.\n\nThese include the Kenmore Hotel and the village shop, which are both currently being renovated, as well as cottages earmarked for estate staff.\n\nBut DLC's other international developments, which they call \"worlds\", are causing concern for the protest group, Protect Loch Tay.\n\nThese \"worlds\" are exclusive affairs in places like Dubai, the Hamptons in New York, and Barbuda in the West Indies.\n\nDLC describes them as \"private residential club communities,\" but is emphatic Taymouth will not be a gated community.\n\nDLC bought the castle in 2018 and have been buying nearby land and businesses since then\n\nHowever, Protect Loch Tay fears that the developer is creating a private resort for millionaires that won't benefit the wider community.\n\nThey are also concerned over access rights and the local environment.\n\nRob Jamieson, from the protest group, said: \"Gates don't have to be physical. It can be gated purely by pricing everybody out of the place.\"\n\nThe group say individual planning applications submitted by DLC are being \"drip-fed to the community\" and this is \"neither fair nor ethical\".\n\nBut Kenmore and District Community Council say locals are largely in favour of both the development and DLC's purchase of a number of businesses and properties in the village.\n\nColin Morton said there was widespread local support for the development\n\nProtect Loch Tay's petition calling for a halt to further and future development has attracted almost 150,000 signatures - but Colin Morton from the local community council is sceptical.\n\nHe said: \"On the electoral roll for our little community here there are only 200 adults. So where are all these people coming from?\n\n\"The petition people tell us they have supporters from all around the world.\n\n\"I'm not sure why they feel that they're qualified to tell us how to manage our community.\"\n\nProtect Loch Tay said the majority of signatures were from people in Scotland, and that they had been contacted by Kenmore residents opposed to the development.\n\nProtect Loch Tay said the majority of people signing their petition were from Scotland\n\nThe group's organisers do not want to be pictured after receiving online abuse.\n\nMr Jamieson said: \"We'd like it (the redevelopment) to be stopped where it is just now until it gets looked at properly, and there's a full plan and everybody can see what their intentions are.\n\n\"We all move forward knowing what's going on and people can object then to things once they see them.\"\n\nThe row escalated earlier this month, with the community council telling the protest group to \"step back and leave it alone\".\n\nThe community council said the group was misinformed and unrepresentative of the wishes of local people, and accused it of \"misinformation and scaremongering\".\n\nKeith Mitchell from the Kenmore Bakery is one of those backing the project\n\nKeith Mitchell, who runs the Kenmore Bakery and backs the development said: \"If someone is prepared to spend so much of their money, it's up to them to do what they want, within the bounds of local regulations and national regulations.\n\n\"They should be allowed to get on and do the job for the benefit of their business and our community.\"\n\nHe said he had no issue with the purchases of local properties, citing a tradition of estate staff being based in the village.\n\n\"Everything in this area centred round the castle. The gardens where the Kenmore Club is now, that used to employ a vast amount of men.\n\n\"The Mains of Taymouth used to be the dairy and the gasworks, it was all geared round the castle,\" he said.\n\nMr Jamieson said that buying up properties and making them available for staff could be a good thing in itself.\n\n\"That would be fair enough. I think what they're actually trying to do is, they're creating a dormitory of Kenmore for their staff,\" he added.\n\nThe scale of the £300m development can be seen from the air\n\nHundreds of people recently attended a public meeting called in nearby Aberfeldy by local politicians over the development.\n\nIssues raised included the potential impact on wildlife, difficulties understanding the extensive planning applications, how exclusive the estate will be, and fishing access on Loch Tay.\n\nThose backing the project said not enough was being done to highlight its economic and employment benefits.\n\nProtect Loch Tay have submitted 15 requests to DLC, including a report on the social and economic impact of the development and a commitment to \"fully honour all access throughout the entire Taymouth Estate\".\n\nColin Morton, from the community council, said there was considerable oversight for the development from organisations like Forestry Scotland; the Scottish Environment Protection Agency on water quality and environment issues; Perth and Kinross Council on planning; and the Scottish government on \"the bigger picture\".\n\n\"That's democracy at work,\" he added.\n\nDLC have also purchased a number of properties in the village\n\nDLC declined to comment or put anyone forward for interview despite repeated requests from BBC Scotland.\n\nThe company said it had published a question and answer section about the development on its website.\n\nBut, David O'Donoghue the castle's new general manager, has replied to a letter from local SNP politicians John Swinney and Pete Wishart, who are seeking clarity on the company's plans.\n\nMr O'Donoghue said the firm \"hopes to earn the privilege to be considered by you as good neighbours\".\n\nHe said the company would fully comply with all legislative requirements, \"particularly with regard to public access\".\n\n\"We are 100% committed to not just working in harmony with the environment, infrastructure, businesses and way of life, but wherever possible to enhance them - and do so in a way that respects the land, people and traditions,\" he added.", "Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed in Russia killing all 10 people on board, Russia's civil aviation authority says.\n\nSocial media linked to the Wagner mercenary group say his private plane was shot down by Russian air defences.\n\nPrigozhin died \"as a result of actions of traitors to Russia\", the Grey Zone Telegram channel posted.\n\nPrigozhin led an aborted mutiny against Russia's armed forces in June.\n\nHowever, some experts in Russia and abroad suggest the revolt was staged, and Prigozhin abandoned his \"justice march\" on Moscow after direct orders from President Vladimir Putin.\n\nWednesday's crash in the Tver region, north-west of the capital Moscow, comes on the same day that senior Russian general Sergei Surovikin was reportedly sacked as air force chief.\n\nGen Surovikin was known to have good relations with Prigozhin and had not been seen in public since the mutiny.\n\nPrigozhin's aircraft - an Embraer-135 (EBM-135BJ) - was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg on Wednesday with seven passengers and three crew, Russia's Rosaviatsia aviation authority said.\n\nSenior Wagner commander Dmitry Utkin - who founded the group in 2014 - was also on the passenger list, it said.\n\nThe plane is reported to have come down near the village of Kuzhenkino, about half-way between Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nOne report said the body of Prigozhin, 62, had been found and identified - this has not been officially confirmed.\n\nAll 10 bodies have been recovered, Russia's state-run news agency Interfax said.\n\nGrey Zone said local residents had heard two bangs before the crash and had seen two vapour trails.\n\nTass news agency said the plane had caught fire on hitting the ground.\n\nThe aircraft had been in the air for less than half-an-hour, it added.\n\nAn investigation has been launched into the crash and emergency services are searching the scene.\n\nAt the same time, Grey Zone reported that a second business jet owned by Prigozhin had landed safely in the Moscow region.\n\nThe mercenary group has about 25,000 fighters.\n\nThe group has been active in Ukraine, Syria and west Africa, and has gained a reputation for brutality.\n\nPrigozhin headed the mutiny on 23-24 June, moving his troops from Ukraine, seizing the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, and threatening to march on Moscow.\n\nThe move came after months of tension with Russian military commanders over the invasion of Ukraine launched by President Putin in 2014.\n\nThe stand-off seemed to have been settled by a deal which allowed Wagner troops to move to Belarus or join the Russian army.\n\nPrigozhin himself agreed to relocate to Belarus - but has apparently been able to move freely, making public appearances in Russia and releasing a video of him purportedly in Africa.\n\nUnverified pictures appear to show the plane on fire\n\nBut several Russia watchers have described him as a \"dead man walking\" since the mutiny.\n\nPresident Putin's initial reaction to his challenge to Russia's defence establishment was vitriolic, calling it a betrayal and a stab in the back in a video message on 24 June.\n\nThe deal did not mean he was safe.\n\n\"Revenge\", commented CIA director William Burns, \"is a dish Putin prefers served cold\" - or words to that effect.\n\nNone of this, of course, is proof that Prigozhin and his entourage were deliberately targeted.\n\nBut given the circumstances any claims that his demise, if confirmed, was an accident will see a lot of eyebrows raised.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said he was \"not surprised\" by news of Prigozhin's possible death.", "UPS has avoided its first US strike in more than 25 years as the union representing its workers said a new five-year contract has been approved.\n\nThe two sides have been negotiating for months over demands including higher pay and better working conditions.\n\nIn July, UPS said it had agreed a deal with the Teamsters Union to raise the average annual salary of full-time drivers to about $170,000 (£133,440).\n\nThis included healthcare and other benefits and is up from about $145,000.\n\nThe deal also gives workers one more day of paid holiday, ends forced overtime and adds air conditioning to new models of the company's trucks from next year.\n\n\"This is the template for how workers should be paid and protected nationwide, and non-union companies like Amazon better pay attention,\" the general president of Teamsters Sean M O'Brien said.\n\nUPS warned earlier this month that its profits will be lower because of the deal.\n\nThe Atlanta-based firm is the world's largest package delivery company, with more than 20 million deliveries a day in more than 220 countries around the world.\n\nIn 2020, UPS estimated that the goods it handled were worth about 6% of the US economy, including time-sensitive shipments for healthcare firms and others.\n\nWorkers at Amazon and other delivery firms have pointed to the agreement as they pushed for their own pay raises.\n\nUnions representing \"essential\" transportation workers such as pilots, port workers and delivery drivers have been enjoying stronger bargaining power in recent months due to the country's tight jobs market.\n\nThe latest data showed that layoffs in the US dropped to an 11-month low in July as the labour market has largely weathered aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve since March 2022.\n\nEconomists are watching the pay increases closely, as some worry higher wages could start to feed into an inflation problem that started with pandemic-related supply issues.\n\nUS inflation hit a peak of 9.1% last year, far above the central bank's 2% target. But it has eased significantly as the shock to food and energy prices from the war in Ukraine has faded.\n\nThis year, wage growth has started to outpace inflation which means that it could start to push up prices as consumers spend more money.", "Wagner fighters managed to take control over Rostov-on-Don - a Russian city - during their short-lived mutiny\n\nWagner mercenary group head Yevgeniy Prigozhin has rejected an offer to his fighters to serve as a unit in Russia's army, President Vladimir Putin says.\n\nHe told Kommersant newspaper that many group commanders had backed the plan to be led by a senior Wagner figure during recent talks in Moscow.\n\nHe said Prigozhin's reply was \"the guys do not agree with this decision\".\n\nThe talks were held just days after Wagner's aborted mutiny on 23-24 June that challenged Mr Putin's authority.\n\nUnder the deal that ended the short-lived rebellion, the mercenaries were told they could join the regular Russian army or head to Belarus, a close ally of Russia.\n\nWagner has fought some of the bloodiest battles since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nHowever, the US military now assesses that the group is no longer \"participating in any significant capacity in support of combat operations in Ukraine\".\n\nThe comments were made on Thursday by Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder, who also said that \"the majority\" of Wagner fighters were believed to still be in areas of Russian-occupied Ukraine.\n\nIn a separate development, Belarus' defence ministry said on Friday that Wagner fighters were now acting as military instructors for the country's territorial defence forces.\n\nThe ministry said the fighters were training Belarusian forces \"in a number of military disciplines\" near the town of Osipovichy, about 85km (53 miles) south-east of the capital Minsk.\n\nIn Thursday's interview with Kommersant business daily, President Putin said that 35 Wagner commanders, including Prigozhin, had been present at the Kremlin meeting on 29 June.\n\nMr Putin said he had offered them several \"employment options\", including continued service under the command of a senior Wagner commander known by his nom de guerre Sedoi - Grey Hair.\n\n\"Many [Wagner fighters] were nodding when I was saying this,\" Mr Putin said.\n\n\"And Prigozhin, who was sitting in front and didn't see all this, said after listening: 'No, the guys do not agree with this decision,'\" the president added.\n\nHe also said that \"Wagner does not exist\" when asked whether the group would be preserved as a fighting unit. \"There is no law on private military organisations. It just doesn't exist.\"\n\nThis \"difficult issue\" of how to legalise Wagner fighters should be discussed in parliament, Mr Putin suggested.\n\nThe Kremlin appears to want to differentiate between the Wagner chief and regular Wagner fighters, driving a wedge between them, says the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.\n\nHe adds that this would explain the attempts in Russia's state media to discredit Prigozhin.\n\nThe current whereabouts of Prigozhin, a former Putin loyalist, are unknown.\n\nAlso on Thursday, US President Joe Biden said Prigozhin should be careful of poisoning following the mutiny.\n\n\"God only knows what he's likely to do. We're not even sure where he is and what relationship he has [with Mr Putin]. If I were he, I'd be careful what I ate. I'd keep my eye on my menu,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nSpeaking after a summit with Nordic leaders in Helsinki, he also said there was no possibility of Mr Putin winning the war in Ukraine.\n\n\"He's already lost that war,\" the president said.\n\nMr Biden suggested that the Russian president would eventually \"decide it's not in the interest of Russia, economically, politically or otherwise to continue this war. But I can't predict exactly how that happens.\"\n\nHe also expressed the \"hope and expectation\" that Ukraine would make enough progress in its current counter-offensive for there to be a negotiated peace settlement.\n\nBut more than a month into the long-planned Ukrainian counter-offensive, some Ukrainians and their allies are expressing concerns over the slow progress of Kyiv's troops.\n\nOthers believe that Russia's defences will eventually shatter, allowing Ukraine to seize strategically significant territory and to advance towards Crimea, Ukraine's southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The day Wagner chief went rogue... in 96 seconds\n\nUkraine has long asked Western allies to provide more military assistance to help it fight back against the Russian invasion.\n\nAlthough it did not get a solid timeframe for Nato membership at this week's summit in Lithuania, it did receive from G7 members a long-term security framework to help guard against Russian aggression.\n\nOn Thursday, Ukrainian army commander Oleksandr Tarnavskyi told US broadcaster CNN that the military had received the first consignment of cluster munitions promised by the US in a controversial move.\n\nHe stressed that they would make a difference to Ukraine's fortunes on the front line. \"We just got them, we haven't used them yet, but they can radically change [the battlefield],\" Mr Tarnavskyi said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Authorities said Sara Sharif had suffered \"multiple and extensive injuries\", likely caused over a sustained period of time\n\nPolice have had \"historic\" contact with the family of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead at her home, a senior officer has said.\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman of Surrey Police said the interaction with Sara Sharif's family \"goes back some years\".\n\nIt follows Surrey County Council's disclosure that the family, from Woking, were known to the authorities.\n\nThree family members went to Pakistan before Sara's body was found on 10 August and are wanted by the police.\n\nDet Supt Chapman told the BBC: \"Surrey Police's contact with the family has been on a limited basis. It's been on a historic basis. And that goes back some time.\"\n\nHe said police interaction with the Sharif family \"goes back some years\" but declined to expand on his comment.\n\nThe police officer also said the force had not referred the case to the police watchdog, adding: \"Surrey Police have reviewed the position and it doesn't fulfil the criteria to alert the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\"\n\nThe three people who travelled to Pakistan, and are now thought to be in Islamabad, are Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, 41, his partner, Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother, Faisal Malik, 28.\n\nPolice in Pakistan confirmed to the BBC that they had questioned - but not arrested - two of Mr Sharif's brothers as well as his father. The brothers - Imran Sharif and Zareef Sharif - are both based there.The police also revealed that they are under pressure from the Federal Investigation Agency in Pakistan to find the trio who left England.\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nDet Supt Chapman said Surrey officers wanted to build a picture of how Sara - a Year 5 pupil at St Mary's C of E primary school in Byfleet - had lived.\n\nHe said: \"We're looking to hear from anybody who lived in the area who regularly saw Sara going about her daily routine.\n\n\"Any parents who may know of Sara from school or other regular activities. Any parties that might have gone on out of school, or anyone who had any form of contact with her really, no matter how insignificant it might seem.\"\n\nAfter it was revealed Sara was known to the authorities, campaigner on children's social care, Chris Wild, who advised the government's most recent review into children's social care, told the BBC's World at One programme this meant Sara would have been \"on their radar\".\n\nHe also said there may have been a child protection order in place, or a safeguarding concern made.\n\nThe council has said a multi-agency review is under way.\n\nPolice have said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan shortly after landing in Islamabad with his partner, his brother and five children, aged between one and 13.\n\nThat led officers to the house in Woking where they found Sara's body. She had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\" likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nPolice have also been searching the family's previous address in West Byfleet.\n\nThere is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Pakistan.\n\nThis article has been updated to clarify the nature of the family's previous contact with the police.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pat Bennett, who has a type of MND, trains the brain interface to recognise the words and phrases she is trying to say\n\nScientists have developed a device that can translate paralysed people's brain signals into words at faster speeds than before, it has been reported in two papers in the journal Nature.\n\nPat Bennett, 68, who has motor-neurone disease (MND), tested the technology and said it could help her stay connected to the world.\n\nImplants in her brain decode the words she wants to say.\n\nThe US researchers now want to improve their technology further.\n\nTheir ultimate aim is for people who can no longer talk, because of strokes, brain diseases or paralysis, to be able to communicate their thoughts in real time.\n\nMs Bennett used to ride horses and jog every day before being diagnosed, in 2012, with a disease that attacks areas of the brain that control movement, causing eventual paralysis.\n\nHer speech was the first thing affected.\n\nFor the Stanford University research, a surgeon implanted four sensors the size of pills into Ms Bennett's brain, in areas key to producing speech.\n\nWhen she tells her lips, tongue and jaw to make sounds to form words, an algorithm decodes information coming out of her brain.\n\n\"This system is trained to know what words should come before other ones, and which phonemes make what words,\" said Dr Frank Willett, co-study author.\n\n\"If some were wrongly interpreted, it can still take a good guess.\"\n\nAnn is severely paralysed after a stroke - her brain signals were converted into speech through a digital avatar\n\nAfter four months of training the software to interpret Ms Bennett's speech, her brain activity was being translated into words on a screen at 62 words per minute, about three times the speed of previous technology.\n\nNormal conversations are about 160 words per minute, the researchers say, but they are yet to produce a device people can use in everyday life.\n\nOne in 10 words was wrong in a vocabulary of 50 words and there were errors in a quarter of Ms Bennett's 125,000-word vocabulary.\n\n\"But it's a big advance toward restoring rapid communication to people with paralysis who can't speak,\" Dr Willett said.\n\nAnd Ms Bennett said it meant \"they can perhaps continue to work, maintain friends and family relationships\".\n\nIn another study, from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Ann, who has severe paralysis following a stroke, was able to speak through a digital avatar, complete with her own facial expressions.\n\nScientists decoded signals from more than 250 paper-thin electrodes implanted on the surface of Ann's brain and used an algorithm to recreate her voice, based on a recording of her speaking at her wedding.\n\nThe system reached nearly 80 words per minute and made fewer mistakes than previous methods, with a larger vocabulary.\n\n\"It's what gives a user the potential, in time, to communicate almost as fast as we do and to have much more naturalistic and normal conversations,\" researcher Sean Metzger, who helped develop the technology, said.\n\nStudy author Dr Edward Chang was \"thrilled\" to see the success of the brain interface in real time.\n\nImprovements in artificial intelligence (AI) had been \"really key\", he said, and there were now plans to look at turning the technology into a medical device.\n\nCurrent technology allows some people with MND to bank their voice before it's lost, and then use their eyes to select the words or letters they want to say on a screen, but it can be time-consuming.\n\nThe charity MND Association says it's \"excited\" about the potential of the new research, although they caution it's at a very early stage.", "A caption posted with the video on Telegram suggests Yevgeny Prigozhin is in an African country\n\nWagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has appeared in his first video address since his failed mutiny in Russia, which suggests he is in Africa.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify where the video was filmed.\n\nThe video posted on Telegram channels linked to the Wagner mercenary group shows him in combat gear, saying the group is making Africa \"more free\".\n\nWagner is believed to have thousands of fighters on the continent, where it has lucrative business interests.\n\nMr Prigozhin's soldiers are embedded in countries including Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR) - where rights groups and the UN accuse them of committing war crimes.\n\nThe UK last month imposed sanctions on the two heads of Wagner's operations in CAR, accusing them of torture and killing civilians.\n\nWagner fighters have also been accused by the US of enriching themselves with illicit gold deals on the continent.\n\nIn the video, Mr Prigozhin says Wagner is exploring for minerals as well as fighting Islamist militants and other criminals.\n\n\"We are working. The temperature is +50 - everything as we like. Wagner PMC conducts reconnaissance and search actions, makes Russia even greater on all continents, and Africa even more free,\" Mr Prigozhin can be heard saying.\n\n\"Justice and happiness - for the African people, we're making life a nightmare for ISIS (Islamic State) and Al-Qaeda and other bandits.\"\n\nHe says Wagner is recruiting and the group will \"continue fulfilling the tasks that were set - we made promises we would succeed\".\n\nMr Prigozhin was photographed in St Petersburg during last month's Africa-Russia summit, shaking hands with Ambassador Freddy Mapouka, a presidential advisor in the CAR.\n\nMr Prigozhin has been keeping a low public profile since heading his short-lived mutiny in June, which lasted only 24 hours.\n\nAbout 5,000 Wagner troops seized control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and moved towards Moscow, with the stated aim of removing the military leadership.\n\nHowever, Mr Prigozhin stopped the advance after negotiations with the Kremlin, which were mediated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nUnder a deal to end the mutiny, charges against Mr Prigozhin were dropped and he was offered a move to Belarus.\n\nThere had been very public infighting between Wagner and Russia's ministry of defence over the conduct of the war. Mr Prigozhin repeatedly accused the ministry of failing to supply his group with ammunition.\n\nMr Prigozhin says he founded the Wagner group in 2014. A wealthy businessman with a criminal record, Mr Prigozhin is known as \"Putin's chef\" because he provided catering for the Kremlin.\n\nIn 2014, Wagner started backing pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, and is thought to have helped Russia annex Crimea.\n\nBefore the war in Ukraine, Wagner had an estimated 5,000 fighters - mostly veterans of Russia's elite regiments and special forces.\n\nHowever, Mr Prigozhin said last June that its numbers had grown since the start of the Ukraine war to 25,000 fighters.", "The Women's World Cup was one of record attendances, huge global audiences and teams breaking new ground. But it was also one marred by incidents which detracted from momentous achievements on the pitch.\n\nWhen Spain's football team stepped on to the podium on Sunday to collect their trophy after winning the Women's World Cup, adoring crowds cheered their historic achievement. Hours later, a viral video clip of Spanish federation chief Luis Rubiales kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips became a global talking point - sparking anger from pundits and players alike.\n\nThe incident was not lost on one of the sport's most high profile activists on equality, the US player Megan Rapinoe, who observed that women footballers are \"playing two games at the same time\".\n\n\"One, we're playing all against each other. And then the other one, we're all playing together to win equality and progress and what we deserve,\" she added.\n\nThe tournament had already started against a backdrop of discussion and disputes across nations over equal pay, bonuses and other financial support.\n\nFrom Rubiales infamous kiss to Nike's decision not to make replica goalkeeper shirts, here's what three controversial World Cup moments show us about the issues women footballers still face.\n• None Women's World Cup: Football's new idols in the fight for women's rights\n\nInfantino's speech and the battle for recognition\n\nInfantino is no stranger to raising eyebrows. Back in November 2022, the most powerful man in world football delivered a monologue on the eve of the controversial Qatar men's World Cup.\n\n\"Today I feel Qatari, I feel Arab, I feel African, I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker,\" Fifa's president said in a news conference before the men's World Cup in Qatar, after which he was being criticised for comments \"as crass as they were clumsy\".\n\nBut in another World Cup news conference just nine months later and addressing \"all the women\", he told them they \"have the power to change\".\n\n\"Pick the right battles. Pick the right fights. You have the power to change. You have the power to convince us men what we have to do and what we don't have to do. You do it. Just do it. With men, with Fifa, you will find open doors. Just push the doors,\" he said.\n\nIt was another speech for which Infantino was criticised, with The Guardian columnist Marina Hyde calling his words \"patronising women beyond belief\", BBC presenter Gabby Logan said the comments were \"ridiculous and reductive\", while commentator Jacqui Oatley called it \"nonsense\".\n\nPlayers didn't like it either. Norway forward Ada Hegerberg said in a sarcastic post on social media that she was \"working on a little presentation to convince men\".\n\nBy this point, Infantino had already drawn attention to the fact that he has four daughters. In videos of support to the Lionesses posted on social media, it was noted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, David Beckham, even the Prince of Wales, all highlighted their daughters - but not their sons, in the case of the latter two.\n\nSunak and Prince William's absences from Sunday's final were also notable. Climate impact explanations were raised, but many questioned if the British Prime Minister and president of the Football Association would have missed a World Cup final if it had featured Gareth Southgate's men?\n\nSpain's tournament build-up was marked by unrest in the camp and player revolts but, despite a deserved maiden World Cup win, further negative attention came the nation's way because of the actions of the man at the top of their federation.\n\nHaving earlier grabbed his crotch in celebration while standing near Spain's Queen Letizia and her 16-year-old daughter, Rubiales would once again display \"unacceptable\" behaviour as he took his place on the podium.\n\nGreeting Spain's players as they received their World Cup winners' medals, he grabbed Jenni Hermoso by the head before forcibly planting a kiss on her lips, surrounded by cameras, the eyes of millions watching on.\n\nAs Hermoso moved away, he continued to kiss her team-mates on the cheek and neck as he embraced each and every one of them. Later in the dressing room, he told them they must visit Ibiza, as that would be where he would marry Hermoso.\n\n\"I did not enjoy that\", the Spanish forward told the press, though later defended Rubiales albeit through quotes released by the Spanish FA itself - while the country's politicians said it was a \"form of sexual violence\" that cannot be \"normalised\". On Tuesday, Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called it an \"unacceptable gesture\", while another politician called on him to resign.\n\nRubiales later admitted he was \"completely wrong\", after the global backlash, but an emergency Spanish FA meeting on Friday may result in further action.\n\nRapinoe, speaking to American magazine The Atlantic, said Rubiales' actions \"signals such a deep level of misogyny and sexism in that federation\", adding: \"It made me think about how much we are required to endure.\n\n\"What kind of upside-down world are we in? On the biggest stage, where you should be celebrating, Jenni [Hermoso] has to be physically assaulted by this guy.\"\n\nThe shirt saga and support for players\n\nAnd then you have the story that has run and run with no sign of a solution any time soon.\n\nFootball fans, particularly those young, impressionable supporters, have worn the names of their heroes on their backs for years. But if your hero is Mary Earps, bad luck.\n\nThe England goalkeeper may be fast becoming a household name with individual awards - the world's top goalkeeper at the Fifa Best awards, the Golden Glove winner in Australia and New Zealand - racking up, but her match shirt is nowhere to be seen.\n\nIn July, Earps said she was \"hurt\" that fans could not buy a replica of her goalkeeper jersey, manufacturers Nike reportedly not having women's goalkeeper kits on public sale as part of their commercial strategy. A quick online search finds an England men's goalkeeper shirt readily available to buy.\n\nIt could be seen as a missed commercial opportunity for the brand, given replicas of Earps' Manchester United kit, produced by Adidas, sold out last season.\n\nOn Sunday, Nike said they were \"working towards solutions for future tournaments\". At the time of writing, a petition calling on Nike to re-think their decision has amassed more than 130,000 signatures.\n\nEarps responded to Nike's statement on Instagram, writing: \"Is this your version of an apology/taking accountability/a powerful statement of intent?\".\n\nIn the end, fans took matters in to their own hands, getting the fabric pens out and fashioning their own versions.\n\nThe only two people who managed to get hold of Earps goalkeeper jerseys were her own parents - proudly wearing the old match shirts in loyal support.\n\nFor all the above, this was a tournament that brought an immense amount of hope and confidence that respect for women's football is actually headed in the right direction.\n\nBut as Dr Ali Bowes - a lecturer in the sociology of women's sport at Nottingham Trent University - recently told BBC News, \"sport is a microcosm of society\".\n\n\"If you can tackle gender inequality in sport, you're going to go some way to tackling gender inequality problems in the wider world.\"", "The former president is accused of mishandling the storage of sensitive files at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been implicated by one of his employees in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, according to a court filing.\n\nYuscil Taveras, an IT director identified as Trump Employee 4 in legal documents, changed his testimony after switching lawyers, say prosecutors.\n\nHe now accuses Mr Trump and two aides of \"efforts to delete security camera footage\", says the filing.\n\nThe 77-year-old ex-president faces 40 charges in the case.\n\nMr Trump, his close personal aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira have all pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe former president is accused of mishandling the storage of sensitive files at his Florida estate and trying to cover up the alleged crime by deleting security footage.\n\nThe court document filed on Tuesday says Mr Taveras changed lawyers after special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the case, notified him he was being investigated for perjury.\n\nHis former lawyer also represents Mr Trump's co-defendant Mr Nauta.\n\nDuring grand jury testimony in March this year, Mr Taveras \"repeatedly denied or claimed not to recall any contacts or conversations about the security footage at Mar-a-Lago\".\n\nProsecutors said they obtained evidence that Mr De Oliveira had asked Mr Taveras to delete the CCTV footage after investigators demanded the video as they tracked the movement of boxes containing the documents inside the resort.\n\nThe chief judge overseeing the federal grand jury, James Boasberg, offered a public defender to Mr Taveras after prosecutors pointed out a conflict of interest for his lawyer Stanley Woodward, who was being partly funded by Mr Trump's Save America political action committee.\n\n\"Advising Trump Employee 4 to correct his sworn testimony would result in testimony incriminating Mr Woodward's other client, Nauta; but permitting Trump Employee 4's false testimony to stand uncorrected would leave Trump Employee 4 exposed to criminal charges for perjury,\" the filing said.\n\nOn 5 July, Mr Taveras informed Judge Boasberg that he no longer wished to be represented by Mr Woodward and would instead accept the offer of legal aid.\n\n\"Immediately after receiving new counsel, Trump Employee 4 retracted his prior false testimony and provided information that implicated Nauta, [Carlos] De Oliveira, and Trump in efforts to delete security camera footage, as set forth in the superseding indictment,\" the court filing says.\n\nMr Taveras is not charged in the case, which is scheduled for trial next May.\n\nMr Trump is fighting criminal charges in three other cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Trump's indictment in Miami court unfolded - in 60 seconds", "There are many different designs of the makeshift cable cars (file image from 2007)\n\nEight people, including children, were left stranded in a cable car dangling above a ravine in Pakistan's north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday.\n\nFootage of the chair lift, dangling precariously at 274m (900ft) above ground, is the stuff of nightmares for many.\n\nBut makeshift cable cars are widely used in eastern Mansehra and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and stretch all the way up to Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the north.\n\nWith little infrastructure in the area and long-distances between facilities like schools - the cable cars, often thrown together with scrap metal - are born from necessity.\n\nThey are built by local communities - mostly illegally, because it is cheaper and there is no alternative infrastructure.\n\nSometimes they are made of the upper body of a pick-up truck. For example, a Suzuki may be converted into a large cabin used to transport people and cattle. They are then attached to the cable - which can also be scrap iron - using ropes.\n\nThough dangerous, people often use them to cross rivers and to shorten the distance needed to travel between valleys in the mountains.\n\nIn Allai - the mountainous area where the group were trapped on Tuesday - there is no road infrastructure or basic facilities.\n\nAs a result, a local resident obtained permission from the city administration to build the cable car, police confirmed to BBC News.\n\nKnown to locals as \"Dolly\", it links the village of Jangri to Batangi, where the local school is located.\n\nWhat would usually be a two-hour walk was reduced to just four minutes in the cable car.\n\nPolice said they checked the lift every month, however BBC News has been unable to independently verify this.\n\nStrong winds made the rescue particularly difficult, as army soldiers dangled from helicopters, trying to reach those trapped in the cable car\n\nThe affordability of the Allai cable car also makes it an attractive mode of transport.\n\nIt costs far less than road travel, and while the fare varies depending on the distance being travelled, it begins from as little as 20 PKR (£0.053; $0.067).\n\nOne local, Mohabbat Shah, said residents were willing to take the risk with the cable cars. Since there had been no problems with these particular cars before, they were a good option for people trying to move around the region.\n\n\"We pay only 10 rupees per person on a one way trip. If we book a cab, this will cost up to 2000 rupees (£18.91; $24.09)\", he told the BBC.\n\nWhile this particular cable car had not yet encountered any challenges, others across Pakistan have.\n\nIn 2017, an illegal car crashed in Murree, Punjab, killing 11 passengers as it plummeted into a ravine.\n\nAnd last December, local media reported that 12 children had to be rescued after a rope snapped in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Those children were on their way to school, and were stranded 61m over a river until they could be rescued.\n\nFollowing Tuesday's incident, Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar ordered \"safety inspections of all such private chairlifts to ensure that they are safe to operate and use.\"\n\nBut without significant investments into new infrastructure, the lifts will continue to be the main mode of transport for most people in the mountainous region.", "Amal Bafaqih's unsuccessful appeals means her debt has been increased to £170\n\nA disabled driver fined £100 for parking marginally over markings has vowed to fight the matter in court and claimed she is ready to go to prison.\n\nAmal Bafaqih said she felt \"angry, ill, sick, disappointed\" after seeing a ticket stuck to her car in Cardiff Bay Retail Park on 5 April.\n\nLetters sent to the 85-year-old blue badge holder included a picture showing how she had parked in the disabled bay.\n\nEnforcement firm UK Parking Control has been asked to comment.\n\nThe picture of Ms Bafaqih's vehicle appears to show the front and back wheel of her vehicle slightly outside of the bay and on an adjacent yellow box.\n\nThe retired psychiatric nurse said the car was not blocking traffic or other parking bays and has refused to pay the fine.\n\nAfter unsuccessful appeals, her debt has been increased to £170, but she has pledged to see the business in court.\n\nMs Bafaqih, from Canton, Cardiff, said she had been shopping for about 20 minutes and spotted the fine on her return.\n\nShe said she had not realised she was not parked within the bay and tried, without success, to challenge the enforcement officer who ticketed her.\n\nThe 85-year-old said she was prepared to fight the matter in court\n\nTwo days later she received a letter from UK Parking Control informing her she had been fined £100.\n\nAfter refusing to pay and unsuccessfully appealing, Ms Bafaqih received several letters from debt recovery agencies and UK Parking Control - which was disciplined in 2015 for tampering with photos.\n\nMs Bafaqih said: \"It's really ridiculous. For one inch of the road - why?\n\n\"I haven't blocked the second car beside me. The yellow box between me and the other car is clear - there's nothing.\"\n\nMs Bafaqih, who struggles to walk following a spine operation in June and is waiting for a new knee, dubbed the situation \"nonsense\".\n\nShe also has diabetes, Crohn's disease and arthritis and said her medical records were sent to the firm when she appealed, adding: \"They don't care a hoot.\"\n\nMs Bafaqih pledged to keep fighting: \"I'll go to prison and I'm not paying.\"", "A number of buildings in Moscow have been hit in drone attacks in recent weeks\n\nRussia's defence ministry says it has thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack after it downed two drones over the Moscow region.\n\nTwo other drones were intercepted over the Bryansk region, north-east of the Ukrainian border, it added.\n\nFlights were temporarily stopped to and from Moscow's airports early on Tuesday, the ministry said.\n\nAirspace above Moscow has been closed several times in recent days as reports of drone strikes become more regular.\n\nThe defence ministry also said a Russian warplane had destroyed a Ukrainian reconnaissance boat in the Black Sea that had sailed near Russian gas production facilities.\n\nEarly on Tuesday, Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russian air defences had shot down two drones to the west of the capital in the Krasnogorsk and Chastsy districts.\n\nNo injuries were reported in the attacks and Ukraine has not commented.\n\nAlthough Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for specific drone strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said that attacks on Russian territory are an \"inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process\".\n\nOn Saturday, a flagship Russian long-range bomber was destroyed in a Ukrainian drone strike, according to reports.\n\nImages posted on social media and analysed by BBC Verify show a Tupolev Tu-22 on fire at Soltsy-2 airbase, south of St Petersburg.\n\nMoscow said that a drone was hit by small-arms fire but managed to \"damage\" a plane.\n\nThe Russian Tu-22 bomber that was destroyed can travel at twice the speed of sound and has been used extensively by Russia to attack cities in Ukraine.\n\nMoscow's defence ministry said in a statement that an attack by a \"copter-type UAV\" took place at around 10:00 Moscow time (08:00 BST) on Saturday.\n\nIt stated the location as \"a military airfield in the Novgorod region\", where Soltsy-2 is situated.\n\n\"The UAV was detected by the airfield's observation outpost and was hit with small-arms fire,\" the ministry said.\n\n\"One airplane was damaged; there were no casualties as a result of the terrorist act.\"\n\nThe statement also said a fire which broke out in the airfield parking lot was quickly extinguished.\n\nHowever, images posted on the social media platform Telegram showed a large fire engulfing a jet with the distinctive nose cone of the Tu-22. BBC Verify analysed the images and believes them to be credible.\n\nOver recent months dozens of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft have attacked Russia's capital.\n\nMoscow has blamed Kyiv for the attacks. Ukraine rarely takes responsibility for incidents or strikes that take place within Russian territory.", "Nadine Dorries has not spoken in the House of Commons for more than a year\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats has joined calls for Rishi Sunak to \"sack\" Nadine Dorries, calling the Mid Bedfordshire MP a \"dosser\".\n\nSir Ed Davey made the comments on a visit to Ampthill, where he met constituents angry about her absence.\n\nMs Dorries said she would stand down \"with immediate effect\" in June in protest at not receiving a peerage.\n\nShe insisted she was \"working daily with constituents\" and was being targeted by political attacks.\n\n\"Myself and my team of four case workers are working daily with constituents,\" she told the News Agents podcast.\n\n\"I understand that political opponents... are choosing the summer and the news hungry outlets in the summer recess to be noticed. However, we are just getting on with the work.\"\n\n\"Nadine is letting down the people of Mid Bedfordshire,\" Sir Ed said. \"She's totally absent.\"\n\nMs Dorries - whose claim that Mr Sunak removed her peerage nomination has been denied by Downing Street - has said she was delaying her exit while she investigated why she was refused a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nSir Ed Davey, on a visit to Ampthill in Bedfordshire, described Ms Dorries as a \"dosser\"\n\nAlthough the PM does not have the power to make someone stand down as an MP, Sir Ed said Mr Sunak should remove the Conservative whip from Ms Dorries.\n\n\"Rishi Sunak should sack Nadine Dorries today. He should have done it weeks ago,\" he said.\n\n\"Nadine is letting down the people of Mid Bedfordshire. She's totally absent. She said she'd resign and she doesn't. People are pretty angry locally.\"\n\nMr Sunak previously said the former culture secretary's voters \"aren't being properly represented\", but has not moved to expel her, prompting Sir Ed to call him \"weak\".\n\nNadine Dorries, pictured in May, has held the Mid Bedfordshire seat since 2005\n\nMs Dorries, who hosts a weekly chat show on Talk TV, has written a book titled The Plot: The Political Assassination Of Boris Johnson, to be published in September.\n\nShe has not spoken in the House of Commons since June 2022.\n\nMs Dorries secured a 24,000 majority at the 2019 general election in the seat, which the Conservative Party has held since 1931.\n\nShe will not be able to formally resign and trigger a by-election until MPs return from their summer recess.\n\nSir Ed indicated the Lib Dems were ready to work cross-party with any other MPs who want to force Ms Dorries to step down once Parliament returns.\n\nFellow Tory MPs have also voiced their anger at their colleague's failure to follow through on her vow to quit.\n\nThe prime minister and Ms Dorries have been contacted for comment.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook and Instagram. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830", "Demonstrators have blocked entrances of the hotel to try to hinder efforts to prepare for the arrival of asylum seekers\n\nA move to house asylum at a village hotel is not imminent and won't happen until the site is \"signed off as safe\", officials have said.\n\nPlans for up to 241 people to live at Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, have led to protests, damage and arrests, police have said.\n\nAbout 300 people took part in an online meeting with Home Office officials and contractors Clearsprings on Tuesday.\n\nLocals were told only families will be placed at the hotel.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of Clearsprings, Steve Lakey said the company recognised the challenges for the community and wanted to work \"resolve those issues where possible\".\n\n\"Our intention for this hotel is very much entirely for family use, so there won't be any singles accommodated there, and [there] will be up to 241 people but phased over a period of time,\" he said.\n\n\"Nobody will be accommodated on site until it has been signed off as safe by all those statutory partners and our own teams as well.\"\n\nAbout 300 people attended an online Q&A with a panel about plans for Stradey Park Hotel\n\nTim Rymer, of the Home Office, added: \"I recognise the use of this hotel, any hotel, is very far from ideal. But right now it remains an operational necessity.\n\n\"I can certainly say to you now that we're not about to start moving people in, we will do that further work first, and then work through any plans with partners before we actually bring people onto the site.\"\n\nA previous legal bid by Carmarthenshire council to halt the plans failed, and the authority said it was \"the saddest and most divisive and difficult case we have had to deal with\".\n\nJake Morgan, the council's deputy chief executive, said that the council still believes the hotel is \"the wrong site and wrong model of care\" to house the asylum seekers and \"we don't believe that Clearsprings' model works\".\n\nMr Morgan added: \"We regret the loss of an iconic hotel in the county and the 100 jobs that it supported in a community that, frankly, couldn't afford to bear such a loss.\"\n\nProtestors have been camping outside the hotel, leading to the owners securing a temporary injunction to restrict their activities.\n\nSome against the move have cited lack of community consultation and information as their reason for opposing the plans.\n\nStradey Park Hotel in Llanelli is set to house up to 241 asylum seekers\n\nCanon Aled Edwards, who chaired the meeting on Tuesday, told BBC Radio Wales: \"There were very legitimate questions. We received many questions and they were filtered through to the panel.\n\n\"What we have to remember here is that Wales does actually have a longstanding tradition of setting up such accommodation for those who are seeking asylum.\n\n\"I think we do have a good legacy in Wales in terms of being able to handle these situations relatively well, but they are always going to be challenging.\"\n\nAppealing for calm at the site moving forward, Supt Ross Evans from Dyfed-Powys Police said the past few weeks had been \"extremely challenging\".\n\nHe also confirmed 17 people had been arrested at the site, most happening in the past seven days, and said more were likely to follow.\n\nIn an update on Wednesday, the force said an investigation was ongoing into disorderly behaviour last week which \"resulted in extensive damage to the hotel\".\n\nSupt Evans added that it was the police's intention to \"work with any protest groups in advance of any events so that we can facilitate peaceful demonstration\".\n\nAll questions heard at Tuesday's meeting were submitted to panel members beforehand, with no opportunity for any additional comments or questions during the session.\n\nFollowing the session, Rob Lloyd, spokesman for the Furnace Action Group of protestors, said he did not feel any of his concerns were alleviated and he did not feel that the community had any trust in the Home Office or Clearsprings.", "India's Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon.\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined the launch event via video conference from South Africa where he is attending a summit of Brics nations.\n\nIndia's space agency broadcast a live simulation of the touchdown. Watch how it all unfolded.", "South Yorkshire Police has apologised for losing data such as bodycam footage which could affect dozens of cases.\n\nThe force said it had referred itself to the Information Commissioner's Office following a \"significant\" and \"unexplained reduction\" in data.\n\nThis includes bodycam footage recorded by officers between July 2020 and May 2023. The force estimates around 69 cases could be affected.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rick Alton said he was \"deeply sorry\".\n\nHe confirmed digital forensic experts were attempting to recover the data.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"We will provide an update concerning this when further work has been undertaken.\n\n\"Whilst we remain hopeful, there are no guarantees, so it's important the victims and the wider public are informed.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police confirmed that an internal investigation was under way, and said the data was deleted, rather than moved elsewhere.\n\nIt said there was \"no suggestion\" systems were hacked.\n\n\"We're now focused on how and why this has happened,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nBodycam footage is often used as evidence in both criminal and civil proceedings and the loss could have an impact on future court cases.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Dr Alan Billings called the data loss \"concerning and disappointing\".\n\nHe said: \"There may be implications for victims and witnesses and the wider criminal justice system as some of this footage may be evidence in upcoming court cases.\n\n\"The force is working through the implications and direct contact is being made with those affected.\"\n\nDr Billings said he would ask South Yorkshire Police to outline what measures would be put in place to prevent this from happening again.\n\nA police spokesperson said it was \"important to note\" that the 69 cases had been highlighted \"because we know\" bodycam footage was available.\n\n\"This does not mean it was relevant, or would have been submitted as evidence,\" they said.\n\n\"We are working with victims in those cases which might be affected and appropriate support is being offered.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly a third of young people have had unwanted propositions from \"text pest\" staff at firms that have their personal details, the UK's data watchdog says.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it was \"struck\" by how many people had received unsolicited romantic or sexual propositions.\n\nIts study showed that around 30% of 18-34 years olds, and a quarter of 35-44 year olds, had \"fallen prey\".\n\nThe ICO said that such behaviour, \"quite simply, it is against the law.\"\n\nAcross all ages, the ICO found that 17% of the public had received unwanted contact from employees after using their businesses. London had the highest rate, with 33% of respondents in the city reporting it happening to them.\n\nEmily Keaney, the deputy commissioner of the ICO, said that her office was prompted to commission the study by a BBC Radio 5 Live report in May by two members of staff who were victims and told the station she was \"struck\" by what was found.\n\n\"The number of people that this is happened to is really concerning,\" she told 5 Live, adding that she had launched a call for evidence from other victims to fully gauge the extent of the problem.\n\n\"There might be this misperception that this is romantic. But it is not romantic - it's not okay, it can be very intimidating and actually it's against the law,\" she added.\n\nMs Keaney said that both the company and the individual employee could be held liable for such behaviour.\n\n\"The organisations have a responsibility that when anybody shares their data that they use it in the way that we would expect - just for the purposes that it has been shared,\" she said.\n\n\"If they are not doing that, that is potentially a breach of data protection law.\n\n\"But also, it is potentially an offence for that individual to be accessing info and using it for personal purposes. They could end up in court and being fined for that.\"\n\nMs Keaney said that her office had launched a campaign to remind businesses of their responsibilities and \"to hear about the kinds of safeguards they have in place\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Radio 5 Live looks into rising rates of GDPR harassment known as text pests.\n\nEmma Green, the managing partner of Cyber Data Law solicitors, said that her advice was to \"say to the perpetrator 'don't contact me again'. Delete the number. Complain to the company, complain to the ICO. And if anybody feels unsafe - contact the police.\"\n\nThe IOC research found that 66% of the public believed the practice was morally wrong. This broke down into 74% of female respondents and 58% of males.\n\nThe survey was based on interviews with 2,289 UK adults. A breakdown by gender was not provided for those who received the inappropriate messages.\n\n\"People have the right to order a pizza, or give their email for a receipt, or have shopping delivered, without then being asked for sex or a date a while later,\" said Ms Keaney said in an earlier statement.\n\nThe ICO urged companies to ensure they understood their responsibilities.\n\n\"If you are running a customer-facing business, you have a responsibility to protect the data of your customers, including from your employees misusing it,\" Ms Keaney added.\n\n\"We are writing to major businesses, including in food and parcel delivery, to remind them that there are no excuses, and there can be no looking the other way.\"\n\nThe ICO is the UK's independent regulator for data protection and information rights law.\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues raised here and would like to get in touch with us, you can email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The baby will \"give hope\" to those wanting children, say the transplant team\n\nA woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb, in a medical first, doctors report.\n\nThe 36-year-old mother, who was born without a uterus, received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s.\n\nThe British medical journal The Lancet says the baby was born prematurely in September weighing 1.8kg (3.9lb). The father said his son was \"amazing\".\n\nCancer treatment and birth defects are the main reasons women can be left without a functioning womb.\n\nIf they want a child of their own, their only option is surrogacy.\n\nThe identity of the couple in Sweden has not been released, but it is known the mother still had functioning ovaries.\n\nThe couple went through IVF to produce 11 embryos, which were frozen. Doctors at the University of Gothenburg then performed the womb transplant.\n\nThe donor was a 61-year-old family friend who had gone through the menopause seven years earlier.\n\nDrugs to suppress the immune system were needed to prevent the womb being rejected.\n\nA year after the transplant, doctors decided they were ready to implant one of the frozen embryos and a pregnancy ensued.\n\nThe baby was born prematurely, almost 32 weeks into the pregnancy, after the mother developed pre-eclampsia and the baby's heart rate became abnormal.\n\nBoth baby and mum are now said to be doing well.\n\nIn an anonymous interview with the AP news agency, the father said: \"It was a pretty tough journey over the years, but we now have the most amazing baby.\n\n\"He's no different from any other child, but he will have a good story to tell.''\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Surgeon Richard Smith on the prospects for British womb transplants\n\nTwo other medical teams have attempted womb transplants before.\n\nIn one case, the organ became diseased and had to be removed after three months. Another case resulted in miscarriages.\n\nProf Mats Brannstrom, who led the transplant team, described the birth in Sweden as a joyous moment.\n\n\"That was a fantastic happiness for me and the whole team, but it was an unreal sensation also because we really could not believe we had reached this moment.\n\n\"Our success is based on more than 10 years of intensive animal research and surgical training by our team and opens up the possibility of treating many young females worldwide that suffer from uterine infertility.\"\n\nLiza Johannesson, a gynaecological surgeon in the team, said: \"It gives hope to those women and men that thought they would never have a child, that thought they were out of hope.\"\n\nHowever, there are still doubts about the safety and effectiveness of the invasive procedure.\n\nDr Brannstrom and his team are working with another eight couples with a similar need. The results of those pregnancy attempts will give a better picture of whether this technique can be used more widely.\n\nDr Allan Pacey, the chairman of the British Fertility Society, told the BBC News website: \"I think it is brilliant and revolutionary and opens the door to many infertile women.\n\n\"The scale of it feels a bit like IVF. It feels like a step change. The question is can it be done repeatedly, reliably and safely.\"\n\nThe couple, fresh from celebrating the birth of their child, will soon have to decide if they want a second.\n\nThe drugs used to prevent the womb being rejected would be damaging in the long term - so the couple will either try again or have the womb removed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia's aviation authority says that the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was on a plane that crashed in western Russia.\n\nBBC Analysis editor Ros Atkins takes a look at how Prigozhin went from incarceration in the 1980s to the leader of a recent coup.", "A 34-year-old woman received her sister's womb in the first transplant of its kind in the UK\n\nSurgeons in Oxford have carried out the first womb transplant in the UK.\n\nThe recipient was a 34-year-old woman, and the donor her 40-year-old sister, both of whom wish to remain anonymous.\n\nDoctors say both recovered well from surgery and the younger sister - with her husband - has several embryos in storage, waiting to be transferred.\n\nA team of more than 30 carried out the procedures, lasting around 17 hours, in adjoining operating theatres at the Churchill hospital in February.\n\nThe surgical team shortly after completing the surgery\n\nHer sister already had two children and had completed her family. Both sisters live in England.\n\nProf Richard Smith, gynaecological surgeon, who led the organ retrieval team, has spent 25 years researching womb transplantation. He told the BBC it was a \"massive success\".\n\nHe said: \"The whole thing was emotional. I think we were all a bit tearful afterwards.\"\n\nTransplant surgeon Isabel Quiroga, who led the team implanting the womb, said the recipient was delighted: \"She was absolutely over the moon, very happy, and is hoping that she can go on to have not one but two babies. Her womb is functioning perfectly and we are monitoring her progress very closely.\"\n\nThe woman had her first period two weeks after the surgery. Like other transplant patients, she needs to take immunosuppressive drugs to prevent tissue rejection. These carry some long-term health risks, so the uterus will be removed after a maximum of two pregnancies.\n\nShe was born with a rare condition, Type 1 Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) where the uterus is absent or underdeveloped, but has functioning ovaries. Prior to surgery she had fertility treatment with her husband, and they have eight embryos in storage.\n\nBoth underwent counselling before surgery, and their case was reviewed and approved by the Human Tissue Authority. The NHS costs, estimated at £25,000, were paid for by the charity Womb Transplant UK. More than 30 staff involved on the day gave their time for free.\n\nProf Smith, who is Chairman of Womb Transplant UK, said the team had been authorised to carry out a total of 15 transplants - five with live donors and 10 with deceased, brain-dead donors - but would need another £300,000 to pay for all the procedures.\n\nHe said: \"The shocking truth is that there are currently more than 15,000 women of child-bearing age in this country who have Absolute Uterine Factor Infertility. They were either born without a womb or have had a hysterectomy due to cancer or other abnormalities of the womb.\"\n\nIn 2014 a woman in Sweden became the first to have a baby as a result of a womb transplant. She had received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s.\n\nSince then 100 womb transplants have taken place worldwide and around 50 babies have been born, mostly in the US and Sweden, but also in Turkey, India, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Germany and France.\n\nSurgeons in the UK were given permission to begin performing womb transplants in 2015. Writing in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the team cited \"institutional delays\" and Covid as reasons why the UK had taken so long to perform its first operation.\n\nWomb Transplant UK said more than 500 women had contacted the charity wishing to take part in the programme, and around a dozen had embryos in storage or were undergoing fertility treatment - a prerequisite for getting on the waiting list.\n\nOne of them is 31-year-old Lydia Brain, who needed a hysterectomy after having womb cancer. She was diagnosed when she was 24 after experiencing heavy periods, and bleeding between periods, which led to anaemia. She and her partner have paid £15,000 for fertility treatment and now have several embryos in storage.\n\nLydia Brain hopes to be able to have a transplant\n\nLydia said she was delighted by the news of the first successful womb transplant in the UK, describing it as \"miraculous\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"Infertility was a huge part of the impact of my cancer. It affects you every day as you can't avoid pregnant people, babies, and your friends getting into that phase of their life.\"\n\nShe said it \"would mean everything\" if she could get on the waiting list and have a womb transplant, because she wants to \"carry my own child and have that experience, being able to breastfeed and to have a newborn baby, at least once.\"\n\nLydia said she would consider surrogacy and adoption, but said both routes were problematic. \"The laws and the process are very difficult,\" she explained, adding that with adoption \"you often don't get a newborn baby\".\n\nLydia now works for the charity Eve Appeal, which funds research and raises awareness into the five gynaecological cancers - womb, ovarian, cervical, vulval and vaginal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The derailment happened near Stonehaven in August 2020\n\nNetwork Rail is to face court action after an Aberdeenshire train crash which claimed three lives.\n\nDriver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died when the train derailed at Carmont on 12 August 2020.\n\nNetwork Rail is due to face criminal action at the High Court in Aberdeen on 7 September.\n\nThe court roll, which is published by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service, states the case will call under a section 76 indictment.\n\nThis procedure suggests that a guilty plea may be offered.\n\nNetwork Rail said: \"The Carmont derailment and the tragic loss of Christopher Stuchbury, Donald Dinnie and Brett McCullough was a terrible day for our railway and our thoughts remain with their families and all those affected by the accident.\n\n\"While we cannot comment on the ongoing legal process, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch report into Carmont made clear that there were fundamental lessons to be learnt by Network Rail and we have supported the investigation process.\n\n\"Since August 2020, we have been working hard to make our railway safer for our passengers and colleagues.\"\n\nSix other people were injured when the 06:38 Aberdeen to Glasgow service hit washed-out debris at Carmont, south of Stonehaven.\n\nThe train was returning to Aberdeen due to the railway being blocked further down the line.\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) made 20 safety recommendations in the wake of the crash.\n\nThey included better management of civil engineering projects, improved response to extreme rainfall, and better understanding of the additional risk associated with older trains.\n\nA drainage system was installed in 2011 and 2012 by now-collapsed contractor Carillion - but it was not in accordance with the design.\n\nAnd Neil Davidson of Digby Brown Solicitors, which represents some of those impacted, said: \"For nearly three years bereaved families and injured survivors have waited patiently for answers so the update of these criminal proceedings is generally positive.\n\n\"However, it is what actually transpires from the hearings that is important such as the nature of the charge, the outcome of the prosecution and any other information that sheds light on the mindsight of those in charge at Network Rail.\n\n\"It is fair to say that each person and family affected by this tragedy will be looking for different things from this hearing and we will continue to support our clients in their pursuit for justice and recognition.\"", "See the moment one child was rescued from a dangling cable car in Pakistan.\n\nDramatic footage shows the moment a child - reportedly the first - was rescued by helicopter.\n\nAll occupants of the dangling cable car were eventually rescued.\n\nThis video has no sound.", "A police inspector who gave evidence in an employment tribunal that found a female officer was victimised has been charged with perjury.\n\nKeith Warhurst spoke at the case brought by Rhona Malone, which found evidence of a \"boys' club\" culture in Police Scotland's firearms unit.\n\nHis evidence was criticised by the tribunal, which concluded in 2021.\n\nIt came about after Mr Warhurst said two female firearms officers should not be deployed together in an email.\n\nA settlement was reached in which Ms Malone was to be paid nearly £1m by Police Scotland.\n\nBBC News understands Mr Warhurst has been suspended from the force.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"On Thursday, 17 August, 2023, a 48-year-old man was charged in connection with a perjury offence. A report has been submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.\"\n\nThe tribunal heard in 2021 that Ms Malone, who was based in Edinburgh, was a committed police constable who had an exemplary record.\n\nIt accepted evidence that the culture in parts of armed policing was \"horrific\" and an \"absolute boys' club.\"\n\nThe tribunal said Rhona Malone was to be paid nearly £1m by the force\n\nOne female officer said she was told women should not be firearms officers because they menstruate and this would affect their temperament.\n\nWhen Ms Malone raised concerns about her experiences she was offered a small payout on the condition she signed a non disclosure agreement (NDA) to stop her speaking out.\n\nShe refused and ended up taking her case to a tribunal.\n\nMs Malone's solicitor said the findings were a watershed moment for Police Scotland.\n\nFormer Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said an independent force would review the judgement over \"legitimate concern\" about what it had found.\n\nHe said: \"Misogyny, sexism and discrimination of any kind are deplorable. They should have no place in society and no place in policing.\"", "An inquest heard Sarah Albone died from obstruction to her airways caused by head injuries\n\nA man murdered his partner and hid her body in a suitcase inside a wheelie bin, a court has heard.\n\nSarah Albone, 38, was discovered dead in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, on 25 February after her family reported her missing.\n\nMatthew Waddell, 35, who lived with her at the Winston Crescent address, denies murdering the mother-of-three.\n\nOpening his trial, the prosecution say Mr Waddell killed her in a \"frenzied and horrific attack\".\n\nProsecutor Martin Mulgrew said Mr Waddell told Ms Albone's family she was receiving hospital treatment in London and could not be contacted.\n\nHe sent text messages from her mobile phone, used her bank card and sold her belongings, the jury at Luton Crown Court heard.\n\nMr Waddell is accused of killing his partner between 20 November 2022 and 26 February 2023.\n\nMr Mulgrew told jurors: \"Her body was stuffed in a suitcase. The suitcase was in a wheelie bin and the bin was taped shut.\n\n\"She had been dead for several months.\"\n\nMr Mulgrew said that a post-mortem examination found a \"frenzied and horrific attack had been carried out, resulting in catastrophic injuries\".\n\nScenes of Crime Officers found the purple suitcase wrapped in industrial cling film under the remains of a carpet in the bin. Ms Albone was found in her pyjamas, the court heard.\n\nHer cause of death was airway obstruction caused by catastrophic injuries to her head. She also had broken ribs and injuries to her body.\n\nThe court was told it was believed Ms Albone, who had multiple sclerosis, was attacked in her bedroom towards the end of November, possibly while getting out of bed.\n\nThe attack included stamping, kicking, punching and possible use of a weapon, the jury heard.\n\nMatthew Waddell denies murdering Sarah Albone after her body was found at their home in Biggleswade\n\nIn a letter found in the house, Mr Waddell was alleged to have written about the attack and added: \"I felt nothing.\"\n\nThe letter was \"a complete and detailed confession to murder\", Mr Mulgrew said.\n\nProsecutors said the defendant then planned, in \"a sophisticated manner\", to lay false information about Ms Albone's whereabouts.\n\nThe couple first met in November 2020 and Ms Albone became dependent on him because of her medical conditions, the court heard.\n\nMr Mulgrew said Ms Albone had ended their relationship once because the defendant was controlling and she had also reported him for assault after a further break-up in September 2021.\n\nHe was ordered not to visit her but repeatedly breached the order, the court heard.\n\n\"He had developed an obsession and could not accept she would not be part of his life,\" said the prosecutor.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak failed to declare his wife's financial interest in a childminding agency correctly, the MPs watchdog has ruled.\n\nDaniel Greenberg, parliamentary commissioner for standards, said this arose out of \"confusion\" about the rules and was \"inadvertent\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Greenberg, Mr Sunak said he accepted the ruling and apologised.\n\nThe inquiry is now closed and the PM will not face further action.\n\nLabour have said Mr Sunak's case is \"further evidence\" the process around declaring interests needs to be overhauled.\n\nA complaint was submitted to Mr Greenberg following Mr Sunak's appearance before MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee in March.\n\nDuring the session, the prime minister was questioned about his policy to provide payments to encourage people who became childminders. The cash would be doubled for those who signed up through six private childcare firms listed on the UK government's website, with the money being used to cover the firms' fees.\n\nMr Sunak's wife Akshata Murty was a shareholder in one of those private firms, Koru Kids but when asked if he had any declarations to make Mr Sunak said \"no, all my disclosures are declared in the normal way\".\n\nFollowing an investigation, Mr Greenberg said he had concluded that Ms Murty's shareholding was a relevant interest that should have been declared to MPs.\n\nThe commissioner said that, even if Mr Sunak had not been aware of the shareholding at the time of his appearance before the committee, he was aware of it when he later wrote a letter to the Committee chairman Sir Bernard Jenkin to clarify things and should, at that stage, have declared it.\n\nMr Sunak had recorded the shareholding under arrangements for ministers to declare their interests. That record is not publicly declared but held by civil servants.\n\nSome of these interests are made public on the list of ministers' interests. The independent adviser on ministers' interests advises on which interests need to be included in this publicly-available list.\n\nMr Sunak said three different independent advisers had told him his wife's shareholdings did not need to be added.\n\nMr Greenberg said he accepted Mr Sunak believed that, by registering the interest, he had complied with his obligations, and so did not declare it in his letter to Sir Bernard Jenkin.\n\nHe added that Mr Sunak \"had confused the concept of registration with the concept of declaration\" and so the \"the failure to declare arose out of this confusion and was accordingly inadvertent on the part of Mr Sunak\".\n\nMr Greenberg said he was concluding his inquiry using what is called the \"rectification procedure\" - a process used to correct minor failures to declare interests.\n\nIt means the commissioner stops short of submitting a full report to MPs on the Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges for them to consider any possible further action.\n\nReplying to Mr Greenberg, Mr Sunak said that during the Liaison Committee hearing he had \"no idea\" of the connection between Koru Kids and his government's childcare policy.\n\n\"It was was only after the hearing that I became aware of the link, as set out in my subsequent letter to Sir Bernard, the Chair of the Liaison Committee.\n\n\"I now understand that my letter to Sir Bernard was not sufficiently expansive regarding declaration (as distinct from registration)... On reflection, I accept your opinion that I should have used the letter to declare the interest explicitly... I apologise for these inadvertent errors and confirm acceptance of your proposal for rectification.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"This is just further evidence that the system needs a full overhaul.\"\n\nLabour have promised to set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission with greater powers to launch investigations and determine where parliamentary rules have been broken, if they are elected.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Dr Hartwig Fischer has been director of the British Museum since 2016\n\nThe head of the British Museum has defended its investigation into allegedly stolen items, after an art dealer said he alerted bosses in 2021.\n\nThe British Museum told Ittai Gradel that \"all objects were accounted for\", according to emails seen by the BBC.\n\nMuseum director Hartwig Fischer now claims the art dealer had more items in his possession, unknown to the museum.\n\nDr Gradel claimed that was an \"outright lie\", adding the museum did not contact him despite making himself available.\n\nThe museum has sacked a member of staff after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nEmails seen by BBC News between Dr Gradel and the museum appear to show the London institution was alerted to the thefts in 2021 but it appears that they did not take sufficient action.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, Mr Fischer said that when allegations were brought to the British Museum in 2021, \"we took them incredibly seriously, and immediately set up an investigation\".\n\n\"Concerns were only raised about a small number of items, and our investigation concluded that those items were all accounted for,\" he continued.\n\n\"We now have reason to believe that the individual who raised concerns had many more items in his possession, and it's frustrating that that was not revealed to us as it would have aided our investigations,\" he said.\n\nMr Fischer said a \"full audit\" was launched in 2022, which \"revealed a bigger problem\", after which they alerted the police and a disciplinary process was launched. This \"resulted in a member of staff being dismissed,\" Mr Fischer said.\n\nHe added that his priority was to the \"incredible British Museum collection\".\n\nIn response, Dr Gradel said: \"The claim that I withheld information from the British Museum is an outright lie.\n\n\"I was explicit in my communication with the British Museum that I was entirely at their disposal for any further information or assistance they would require. They never contacted me.\"\n\nThe British Museum has been contacted for comment.\n\nAccording to the PA news agency, the missing items are believed to have been taken over a \"significant\" period of time. Some of them reportedly ended up on eBay, being sold for considerably less than their actual estimated value.\n\neBay said it \"does not tolerate the sale of stolen property\".\n\nNone of the treasures, which dated from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD, had recently been on display and had been kept primarily for academic and research purposes, the museum said. The majority of them were kept in a storeroom.\n\nDr Gradel's emails suggest he became suspicious when he \"stumbled\" upon a photo of a Roman cameo fragment that he said had been up for sale and had been listed on the British Museum website but had since been removed.\n\nDr Gradel also alleges in one of his emails that a third-party seller returned a gem to the museum as soon as Dr Gradel told him his suspicions, but claims the museum didn't follow this up sufficiently.\n\nIn one of several emails he sent to follow up any progress, this time to a board trustee, Dr Gradel accuses Mr Fischer and deputy director Jonathan Williams of \"sweeping it all under the carpet.\"\n\nIn one response emailed in October 2022 to a trustee who was following up on Dr Gradel's concerns, Fischer said there was \"no evidence\" of any wrongdoing, adding that the \"three items\" Dr Gradel had mentioned were \"in the collection\".\n\nIt's now believed that more than 1,500 objects were stolen, damaged and destroyed, in a crisis that is threatening the reputation of the British Museum.\n\nDespoina Koutsoumba, director of the Association of Greek Archaeologists, said the museum could no longer claim Greek heritage was protected - Greece has long campaigned for the return of the Parthenon sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, which are held at the museum.\n\nMP Tim Loughton, chair of the British Museum All-Party Parliamentary Group, called the remarks \"blatant opportunism\".", "Louis Theroux delivered the keynote speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival\n\nLouis Theroux has said it's harder to get programmes made about risky subjects because broadcasters like the BBC are now \"playing it safe\".\n\nThe presenter said his documentaries had often been about \"morally fraught\" people whose stories \"made me nervous\".\n\nBut he said broadcasters like the BBC now had \"a temptation to lay low\" and avoid difficult subjects for fear of causing offence.\n\nThere is an \"atmosphere of anxiety\" in the TV industry, he suggested.\n\nTheroux was giving the annual keynote MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival.\n\n\"I want to take the risk of going out speaking to people I profoundly disagree with and making documentaries about them,\" he said.\n\nHe recalled making his name by \"investigating worlds viewed as stigmatised or controversial\", including the porn industry, the far right, Nazis, gangs and sexual predators.\n\n\"Often the stories made me nervous. They felt risky,\" he said.\n\n\"But it was also true that those shows that had real moral complexity to them were the ones that worked best.\n\n\"The less morally fraught episodes - the ones that were safer - haven't aged so well.\"\n\nLouis Theroux with two inmates on his 2011 documentary Miami Mega Jail\n\nThere has been a welcome shift in mindset so broadcasters today are \"more thoughtful about representation\" and aware of \"the need not to wantonly give offence\", he said. \"I am fully signed up to that agenda.\n\n\"But I wonder if there is something else going on as well. That the very laudable aims of not giving offence have created an atmosphere of anxiety that sometimes leads to less confident, less morally complex film-making.\"\n\nHe added: \"As a result, programmes about extremists and sex workers and paedophiles might be harder to get commissioned.\"\n\nFrom his time working for the BBC, he said he could see \"all-too-well the no-win situation it often finds itself in\".\n\nThe corporation, he said, was \"trying to anticipate the latest volleys of criticisms, stampeded by this or that interest group, avoiding offence\".\n\n\"Often the criticisms come from its own former employees, writing for privately owned newspapers whose proprietors would be all too happy to see their competition eliminated.\n\n\"And so there is a temptation to lay low, to play it safe, to avoid the difficult subjects.\n\n\"But in avoiding those pinch points, the unresolved areas of culture where our anxieties and our painful dilemmas lie, we aren't just failing to do our jobs, we are missing our greatest opportunities. For feeling. For figuring things out in a benign and thoughtful way. For expanding our thinking. For creating a union of connected souls.\n\n\"And what after all is the alternative? Playing it safe? Following a formula? That may be a route to success for some. It never worked for me.\"\n\nHe called for television that is \"confrontational, surprising and upsetting\", and urged producers: \"Take risks. Sail close to the wind.\"\n\nIn response, the BBC's chief content officer Charlotte Moore defended the corporation, saying it does take risks and cover controversial topics.\n\n\"We can't shy away from difficult subjects because we think it might offend someone,\" she said.\n\n\"It's [about] how we deal with those subjects responsibly and with integrity, and long may the BBC continue to do so.\"\n\nSpeaking during a follow-up session at the festival, Theroux said the BBC also faced other challenges.\n\n\"I think it's possible that the licence fee is on a kind of managed decline and I think there are vested interests lobbying and actively campaigning for a 'Brexit' from the licence fee,\" he said.\n\nThere is still a role for public service broadcasters in the streaming age, though, he said.\n\n\"These streamers, as much as I love them, they're not doing news. They're not doing local news. They're not doing carefully calibrated civic content [like] local news coverage, documentary making, [and are not] Britain focused.\n\n\"Netflix is amazing, but it's a transnational corporation with a global outlook. It's not telling me much about what's happening in London.\"\n\nHowever, he admitted he took his interview podcast from the BBC to Spotify because \"I chased the money bags\".", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nMason Greenwood's last appearance for Manchester United was against West Ham in January 2022 Rachel Riley has accused Manchester United of \"gaslighting\" and \"green lighting\" abuse for their handling of the decision to part company with Mason Greenwood. Greenwood's exit was confirmed on Monday after a six-month internal investigation into his conduct. It came after charges against the player, including attempted rape and assault, were dropped in February. In explaining the lengthy process behind their decision, a Manchester United statement claimed Greenwood \"did not commit the offences in respect of which he was originally charged\", adding: \"Based on the evidence available to us, we have concluded that the material posted online did not provide a full picture.\" An open letter from chief executive Richard Arnold also said: \"While we were unable to access certain evidence for reasons we respect, the evidence we did collate led us to conclude that Mason did not commit the acts he was charged with\". And Greenwood issued a statement saying he accepted he had \"made mistakes\" and took his \"share of responsibility\", but added: \"I did not do the things I was accused of.\" Arnold said that Greenwood's potential reintegration was \"one of the outcomes we considered and planned for\" but that \"several outcomes have been contemplated and planned for\" and his view \"evolved\". However, United fan Riley claimed the club's statements were \"gaslighting\" - a term used to describe a form of manipulation where a person is given false information that leads them to question the truth. She also accused the club of \"green lighting\" abuse on social media, saying: \"This overreaching statement will put wind in the sails of abusers and send a message to victims it's more trouble than it's worth to report alleged abuse. It's so disappointing to see my club contribute to the culture that upholds this.\" \"The question before them [United] was not whether Mason Greenwood may be found guilty in a criminal, or even civil court, it was whether he's fit to wear the United badge, to be a role model to kids who look up to footballers as heroes, and have his name proudly displayed on shirts sold in the club shop,\" Riley wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Riley had previously said she would stop supporting United if forward Greenwood stayed at the club. She also told podcast The News Agents: \"I think it's gaslighting for people to have two statements saying, Mason Greenwood himself saying he's been cleared of all charges - which is not the case, the claims were dropped because the key witness dropped out - and they [United] claim new evidence. \"I've never been more ashamed of the club. I think it's just a disgrace. And they had another opportunity to make it right, make a good statement and they have just greenlighted the abuse that's been going on on social media.\" Writing on X on Tuesday, the Countdown co-presenter said: \"I've been a red since before I was born, I've passed it on to my baby girls and some of the all-time best times of my life have been working with and cheering on Man United, so I write with such a heavy heart - as a club we've handled this appallingly.\" England international Greenwood was arrested in January 2022 following allegations surrounding material published online. He was later charged in October 2022 with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. After the charges were dropped in February 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service said key witnesses had withdrawn and new material had come to light, meaning there was \"no longer a realistic prospect of conviction\". United then started their own investigation. On Monday the club issued three statements: from the club, Greenwood and an open letter from Arnold to fans. They came after a number of delays amid fierce debate about Greenwood's potential reintegration at Old Trafford. The club said they wanted to consult with their women's team, some of whom were part of England's World Cup squad playing in Australia, before announcing a decision about Greenwood's future. Arnold said the club had \"limited powers of investigation\" and \"were reliant on third-party cooperation\" as they \"sought to collate as much evidence as possible to establish facts and context\". He said the extra evidence included the alleged victim requesting the police to drop their investigation in April 2022, and the club receiving alternative explanations for the material that was posted online. Former United player Gary Neville said United's handling of the Greenwood investigation had been \"pretty horrible\", lacked strong leadership and should have been dealt with independently. Riley told The News Agents podcast that Arnold should consider his position. \"I've seen first hand how little is known, even amongst professionals who are supposed to be dealing with this - I include the police, I include social services,\" she said. \"If they don't know the intricacies, I don't know how a CEO at Manchester United who has multimillion pounds at stake is in any position to make a judgement on what has happened, especially having not consulted abuse charities.\" In her social media post, Riley said the situation needed \"trained, qualified, experienced experts\" and it \"goes far beyond the scope of what United were tasked with\". \"It is absolutely right a thorough investigation should take place. Yet experts could have used their knowledge to help United navigate the process so we could trust the outcome. And an external party with no vested interests would have been far more credible,\" she added.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Morgan Stanley has been fined £5.41m ($6.9m) after energy traders discussed business over WhatsApp on private phones.\n\nRegulator Ofgem said the bank breached rules requiring firms to record messages linked to energy trading.\n\nIt is the first fine of its kind to be issued under transparency rules aimed at protecting consumers against market manipulation and insider trading.\n\nThe watchdog said that Morgan Stanley's failures were \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt also said that the fine could have been as much as £7.7m but the bank agreed to settle the case and received a 30% discount.\n\nOfgem said that the investment bank had policies in place to prohibit staff to use WhatsApp for trading communications. But it \"did not take sufficient reasonable steps to ensure compliance with its own policies and the requirements of the regulations\".\n\nCathryn Scott, regulatory director of enforcement and emerging issues at Ofgem, said Morgan Stanley's failure to record or retain communications between January 2018 and March 2020 risked a \"significant compromise of the integrity and transparency of wholesale energy markets\".\n\nUnder legal requirements, Ofgem expects firms to record and retain electronic communications relating to trading wholesale energy products to ensure transparency and discourage market manipulation and insider trading.\n\nInsider trading is the buying and selling of a listed company's shares or other securities, such as bonds or share options, based on information that is not available to the public.\n\nIn many countries, including the US and UK, insider trading is illegal as it is seen as giving an unfair advantage to those with access to the information.\n\nSimon Francis, coordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said because wholesale energy prices underpin energy bills for households and businesses, \"anything which impacts on these prices is of concern\".\n\n\"But action on this particular case should remind us about wider concerns about the role of energy market trading,\" he added.\n\n\"Every act of trading energy on the markets usually results in profit for the traders and ultimately adds to our bills.\"\n\nThe regulator said on Wednesday it discovered the breach following requests for information from Morgan Stanley, which it said had admitted the failings.\n\nOfgem said the bank had strengthened its \"internal systems and controls\" and trained staff to avoid future breaches.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice in Pakistan have arrested the owner of a cable car that left eight people stranded and dangling over a ravine when it malfunctioned.\n\nThe incident in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa sparked a massive rescue operation lasting more than 12 hours.\n\nThe arrest comes after a child who was trapped in the chair-lift said he feared \"it was over\" during the ordeal.\n\n\"When the chairlift was halfway there, its rope broke. It was dangling and I was terrified,\" Attaullah Shah said.\n\nA military chopper rescued one trapped child, while zip line experts recovered the rest of the group after dark.\n\nThe group had been on their way to school when two of the car's cables snapped.\n\nIt was left hanging precariously 274m (900ft) above the ground and in high winds.\n\n\"It was like doomsday for the area,\" said Fahim Udin Shah, the uncle of one of the rescued children.\n\n\"Everyone rushed out of their homes [to observe the operation]. A kid from almost every household was here,\" he added.\n\nPakistan's army said the rescue mission had been \"extremely difficult and dangerous\".\n\nThe incident happened at about 07:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Tuesday near the city of Battagram in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.\n\nSix children, aged between 10 and 16 years old, were trapped, along with two adults.\n\nOne of the children, a teenage boy, has a heart condition and was unconscious for several hours, an adult on board named Gulfaraz told local media.\n\nA child also fainted due to \"heat and fear\", a rescue worker told Reuters news agency, although it was unclear if that was the same child.\n\nThe cable car links the village of Jangri to Batangi, where the school is located.\n\nThe cable car is a popular and cheap mode of transport to get across the Allai valley - cutting a two-hour road journey through mountainous terrain to just four minutes.\n\nWhen the cable suddenly snapped, the car was making its fifth trip of the day.\n\nResidents used loudspeakers to alert officials to the crisis, but it took at least four hours for the first rescue helicopter to arrive at the remote location, local media outlet Dawn reported.\n\nAnxious crowds, including relatives of those trapped, quickly gathered along the ravine, watching on as military helicopters battled against the strong winds to lower commandos to the stranded car.\n\nSeveral early attempts to reach them failed, however some food and water was successfully delivered.\n\nIn addition to gusty winds, there were concerns that the helicopter's rotor blades could further destabilise the cable car, and as night set in the operation was suspended.\n\nBut rescuers continued their efforts with the help of zip line experts and local people on the ground.\n\nAllai is a mountainous area 2000m above sea level with a sparse population and little infrastructure.\n\nMakeshift chairlifts and cable cars are regularly used as transport between mountains.\n\nThe one involved in this incident is believed to be privately operated, local media reported. It is not yet known how the cables on the stranded car broke.\n\nPakistan's acting prime minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar has ordered all privately operated chair-lifts to be inspected.", "It's more than a day after a private jet crashed near Moscow - killing ten people, who reportedly included Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.\n\nInformation is still emerging - but here are the key things we do know.\n\nUS officials are among those who think it's \"likely\" the Wagner leader was on board the crashed plane. But there's still been no explicit confirmation of this, as you'll see from our earlier post analysing the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin. We know that Prigozhin was on the passenger list that was released by Russian air officials soon after the incident.\n\nVarious theories have emerged as to what brought the plane down. It has been reported that a surface-to-air missile may have struck the plane, but the Pentagon has said it has no indication that one was used. A US official has told the BBC’s US partner network CBS that an explosion on board was a more probable cause - and that it was possible a bomb went off.\n\nFingers have been pointed at members of the Russian leadership, thought there is no proof that any of them were involved. Breaking his silence on the incident, Putin called it a “tragedy” and reiterated that an investigation was under way. Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country had nothing to do with the crash.\n\n4. The circumstances of the crash\n\nWe know that the aircraft - an Embraer-135 (EBM-135BJ) - was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg on Wednesday. It had seven passengers and three crew, according to Russia's aviation authority. The plane come down near the village of Kuzhenkino, about halfway between Moscow and St Petersburg. All 10 people on board were killed.", "The surgeon planning to do the first womb transplant in the UK says he hopes to carry out the first operations \"before the end of 2018\".\n\nMr Richard Smith, clinical lead at the charity Womb Transplant UK, also said that they plan to use living donors.\n\nIn 2015, approval was given for 10 womb transplants in the UK, but these were from deceased donors, whose hearts are still beating.\n\nNow the team plans to use both live and cadaveric donors.\n\nMr Smith, a consultant gynaecologist at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London, said this was because the procedure to retrieve a womb from a living donor was now simpler and safer, with the surgery time cut from 12 to four hours.\n\nAround 750 women in the UK have approached the team to enquire about transplantation.\n\nWomb Transplant UK says it has enough funds to pay for three transplants but will need hundreds of thousands of pounds more to complete a total of 15 transplants - five of these with living, related donors.\n\nAround 6,000 women in the UK were born without a womb, while others lose their uterus to cancer.\n\nAt present, their only chance of having a genetically-related child is through surrogacy.\n\nA global review of womb transplants has found that the procedure is a \"major advance\" but requires strictly controlled clinical trials.\n\nWriting in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, a team of doctors in Japan said while womb transplants offer \"great hope\" for women born without a uterus, the practice is still experimental.\n\nWomb transplants have been carried out in 10 countries: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Sweden, US, China, Czech Republic, Brazil, Germany, Serbia and India.\n\nThe paper is the first global review of womb transplantation.\n\nIt says surgical risk is the major concern due to the difficulty of obtaining the uterine veins which run along the pelvic floor.\n\nIn a trial in Sweden involving nine patients, the average time to remove the uterus from a living donor was 11.5 hours, with 4.5 hours for the recipient surgery.\n\nA team in China reduced the time of living donor organ retrieval to six hours using robot-assisted surgery, and the ovarian vein as an alternative to the uterine veins.\n\nHow would the procedure work in the UK?\n\nMr Smith told the BBC that after a preliminary selection process, the team was in contact with around 50 women who were potential recipients.\n\nSome of these women had close relatives who were willing to donate their wombs.\n\nHe said: \"The new method of live donor retrieval changes the equation to make it much safer.\n\n\"It is still major surgery but the risk of clot formation, DVT and damage to pelvic organs is greatly reduced, making it an acceptable approach.\"\n\nThe surgery will take place in NHS transplant centres, but the costs will be paid for by the charity, and team members will give their services free.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Murray Foote stood down from his previous role with the party amid a row over membership numbers\n\nThe SNP has appointed its former head of communications Murray Foote as its new chief executive.\n\nMr Foote resigned from his previous role in March amid a row over the party's membership numbers.\n\nHe had described a newspaper report that they had dropped by 30,000 as \"drivel\", but it was later confirmed the figure was correct.\n\nHe replaces Peter Murrell who stood down after taking responsibility for misleading the media.\n\nMr Foote said: \"I am delighted to take up this important role and look forward to helping build the campaign for independence, both by strengthening the SNP's headquarter functions and supporting the party's formidable organisation across Scotland.\"\n\nHe was previously editor-in-chief at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspapers from February 2014 to March 2018 before joining the SNP as the party's communications chief.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said Mr Foote would bring a \"wealth of experience and talent to the role.\"\n\nOn X, formerly Twitter, he said: \"I'm delighted to have him on board as we look to strengthen the SNP HQ, empower our incredible activists across Scotland and build a winning campaign for independence.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoth Mr Foote and Peter Murrell - who is the husband of Nicola Sturgeon - stepped down during the dispute over SNP membership numbers, with the party initially denying claims it had lost 30,000 members.\n\nThe SNP later admitted that its membership had fallen to 72,186 from the 104,000 it had two years previously.\n\nMr Foote said he had issued agreed party responses to the media which \"created a serious impediment\" to his role.\n\nHe maintained that he had issued the responses in \"good faith as a courtesy to colleagues at party HQ\".\n\nAfter his resignation, Mr Foote spoke out against the police investigation into the SNP's funding and finances, calling the process a \"wild goose chase\" and a \"grotesque spectacle\".\n\nPeter Murrell - the SNP's former chief executive - also quit his post in the row over the party issuing misleading membership figures to the media\n\nMr Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon have since been arrested and questioned as part of the police inquiry, along with the former SNP treasurer Colin Beattie.\n\nAll were released without charge pending further investigation.\n\nMr Foote will take up his role from Monday of next week.\n\nA Scottish Conservative spokesman said the SNP were \"merely reshuffling the same people into different posts\".\n\nHe added: \"Nicola Sturgeon and her husband may be in the background but their top team are still running the show in the party under Humza Yousaf.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said: \"Presented with the chance of a fresh start for the SNP after years of secrecy, Humza Yousaf has instead appointed Murray Foote as the successor to the beleaguered Peter Murrell.\n\n\"This is just the latest continuity candidate to be brought back by Humza Yousaf who is desperately trying to get the band back together ahead of what could be their farewell tour.\"\n\nThis is one of the biggest jobs in Scottish politics. But it comes with immediate challenges.\n\nThe police investigation into the SNP's finances is rumbling on, and there's likely to be a general election next year where dozens of seats will have to be fiercely defended.\n\nMr Foote's return has also given political opponents an opportunity to accuse the party of resorting to recycling figures from its past.\n\nBut it's easy to see why a party would want Murray Foote on board. He's an experienced operator, not just in the political world but also in journalism.\n\nAs a former national newspaper editor he's no stranger to managing big teams, taking high-pressure decisions, and predicting where the news agenda is likely to go.\n\nHis predecessor in the role, Peter Murrell, was hugely influential and stayed in the job for just shy of 25 years.\n\nMurray Foote probably isn't aiming for quite the same tenure, but he'll hope he can steady the SNP ship in challenging times.", "While speaking to the Brics summit, Vladimir Putin once again set out his view of the events leading up to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 - and ultimately its full-scale invasion of Ukraine eight years later.\n\nThe Russian president says that the overthrow of Kyiv's pro-Russian government in 2014 was instigated by the West. He describes those events, known as the Maidan Revolution, as a \"coup d'etat\", but here's a reminder of what actually happened.\n\nMore than 100 people died in the Maidan protests of 2013-14 Image caption: More than 100 people died in the Maidan protests of 2013-14\n\nThey began with quite small protests against the government after it refused a deal on closer ties with the EU. But the demonstrations grew into the hundreds of thousands because of popular outrage at police brutality.\n\nFrom discontent over a single policy, it became a genuine popular movement - a broad protest against a regime seen as authoritarian and corrupt.\n\nPro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia after the revolution, continued to enjoy popular support in eastern parts of the country, at least while he was in office.\n\nBut for much of the country he was a figure of hate - probably more disliked for his lavish lifestyle and corrupt politics than for his pro-Russian stance.", "An airport in France will be renamed in honour of Queen Elizabeth II after receiving permission from the King, officials in the town have said.\n\nLe Touquet, in northern France, received the blessing from the King on Monday, its town hall said.\n\nThe town hall said the tribute to the \"Great Queen\" would also recognise the \"most British of French resorts\".\n\nA date for the inauguration has not been set.\n\nIt comes after the original proposal was made to the British Crown six days after the death of the Queen on 8 September last year.\n\nLe Touquet explained it was also a nod to the late Queen's uncle, Edward VIII, who visited the resort to enjoy horse riding and sand yachting, sometimes accompanied by his niece when she was not yet Queen.\n\n\"That King Charles III accepted the proposal of the mayor of Le Touquet further reinforces the strategy of the latter who wants to affirm Le Touquet as 'the most British of French resorts',\" Le Touquet's town hall added.\n\nThe airport was designed in the 1930s to welcome Britons to the coastal town about an hour's drive from Calais. President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte also have a holiday home there.\n\nThe town hopes its airport's new name will strengthen the link between the town and the UK, and welcome tourist planes from across the Channel.\n\nNext month, Le Touquet will host the England rugby team when it plays in Rugby World Cup being hosted in France.\n\nBuckingham Palace and the Cabinet Office have been contacted for comment on the renaming.", "Gen Surovikin won repeated promotions in the military until he lost his role in charge of the Ukraine war in January\n\nOne of Russia's leading military figures, Gen Sergei Surovikin, has reportedly lost his job as air force chief after weeks of speculation about his disappearance from public view.\n\nRia Novosti agency said he had been relieved of his post, citing a source.\n\nFor several months Gen Surovikin was in charge of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine but he has not been seen since the Wagner mutiny in June.\n\nObservers believe his removal dates back to the botched rebellion.\n\nOne Russian report quoted a defence ministry source as saying he had been dismissed because of a transfer to a new job and he was now on a short vacation.\n\nHis role as head of aerospace forces has been taken on by air force chief of staff, Gen Viktor Afzalov, Ria Novosti adds.\n\nDuring the hours that Wagner mercenaries marched towards Moscow on 24 June, Gen Surovikin appeared in a video appealing to them to return to base.\n\nBut his awkward performance was later compared to a hostage-style video. The general was known to have good relations with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who reserved his loathing for other figures in the defence hierarchy.\n\nIn the weeks after the June revolt, there were unconfirmed reports by Russian military bloggers that Gen Surovikin had been detained for questioning. But officials denied he was being held in a pre-trial detention centre and one retired general said that he was merely \"resting\" and unavailable.\n\nGen Surovikin, a 56-year-old veteran of the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980s, was given the nickname General Armageddon for his brutal tactics in Syria.\n\nAs commander of Russian forces and later the air force he left much of the second city, Aleppo, in ruins and bombarded civilians in rebel-held Idlib province. He was the first army officer to head Russia's aerospace forces and had no experience in aviation.\n\nHis big promotion came in October 2022, when he was made commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, months into the flagging, full-scale invasion.\n\nHis three months in charge were not a success. On the day he was appointed, the bridge over the Kerch Strait was attacked, and weeks later he ordered a retreat from the city of Kherson. Within three months he was replaced by Russian chief of staff Valery Gerasimov, becoming one of his deputies.\n\nRussia's military leaders have had little to boast about since President Vladimir Putin sent in the troops in February 2022 and many of the top brass have been moved to different posts.\n\nBefore Gen Surovikin was put in charge of the operation, the war effort was run by Col-Gen Gennady Zhidko. He died in Moscow last week after what officials said was a \"lengthy illness\".", "When the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) was founded in 1969, its primary goal was fairly simple - to design and launch satellites for forecasting storms, mitigating floods and bolstering telecommunications in the country.\n\nNow the space agency has made history after its Chandrayaan-3 became the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon\n\nIt’s a huge moment, especially for a country which operates on a fraction of what others spend on space exploration.\n\nBut behind the milestone mission, dubbed at the most ambitious yet for India, lies years of effort.\n\nIn the beginning, India space missions were carried out with the help of other countries and it wasn’t until the 1990s that Isro began to design and launch satellites on its own.\n\nSince then the country has achieved significant milestones to emerge as a leader in space missions.\n\nIn 2009, India sent a robotic orbiter called Chandrayaan-1 to the moon, which helped discover that water ice can exist on the lunar surface.\n\nIn 2014, India successfully put a satellite into orbit around Mars, becoming the fourth nation to do so.\n\nAnd in 2017, India created history by successfully launching 104 satellites on a single mission, overtaking the previous record of 37 satellites launched by Russia in 2014.\n\nThe journey has been hardly easy - and yet here we are.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Yevgeny Prigozhin and the war in Ukraine\n\nFrom the moment Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny in Russia collapsed two months ago there was always a sense that a man who had lived so close to the edge for so long had overplayed his hand.\n\nAssuming he was on board his own private jet when it went down en route from Moscow to St Petersburg, this was a shocking and violent end to a very turbulent life.\n\nFor so many years Vladimir Putin was able to call on Prigozhin's services.\n\nBut the botched revolt involving thousands of Wagner mercenaries went beyond the pale. President Putin condemned the rebellion as \"treason\" and it was soon very clear that Prigozhin's prolific role in Russia was over.\n\nThis was a man whose first years of adulthood were spent in a St Petersburg jail, but he thrived in the 1990s with catering businesses that brought him wealth and patronage from Mr Putin himself.\n\nIt was Prigozhin's mercenary ventures in Africa, Syria and Ukraine that made him a military figure but the dynamic changed when Russia unleashed war in Ukraine and the president's one-time chef found power as well as wealth.\n\nUnconfirmed reports suggest his Embraer Legacy plane was hit by two bursts of fire from military air defences.\n\nIf it was brought down deliberately, few will be surprised because Prigozhin had no shortage of enemies. Dmitry Utkin, who was Prigozhin's first Wagner commander, was also on the passenger list.\n\nPrigozhin, 62, appeared to have escaped punishment for his short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin.\n\nUnder a deal to end the revolt many of his rebel mercenaries were allowed to go to a camp in Belarus while the Wagner boss himself was able to travel within Russia, showing up in St Petersburg in casual clothes during a Russian summit of African leaders in late July.\n\nHis witty but venomous video rants against the failings of the Russian defence establishment came to an end and state-run TV broadcast footage of raids on his luxurious home outside St Petersburg.\n\nA caption posted on a video this week suggested Prigozhin was in an African country\n\nBut Prigozhin was never going to slink off quietly to a bolthole in Belarus and it was only this week that his first video address since the botched mutiny surfaced.\n\nThe desert background indicated it had been shot in Africa and, clad in combat gear, Prigozhin declared that the temperature was 50C and his Wagner group was recruiting to make Russia \"even greater on all continents, and Africa even more free\".\n\nPrigozhin appeared to be reverting to the mercenary roots he put down several years ago when he set up the Wagner private military company, which helped prop up Russian allies in the Central African Republic and Syria, and challenged French influence in Mali.\n\nAlthough he denied it for years, Prigozhin also founded a so-called troll-factory of pro-Kremlin bloggers in a non-descript office in St Petersburg. His Internet Research Agency was blamed by the US for using information warfare to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nPrigozhin admitted this year to coming up with the whole idea: \"It was created to protect the Russian information space from the West's boorish and aggressive anti-Russian propaganda.\"\n\nHe had spent almost a decade in the final years of the Soviet era in jail for robbery and fraud. But as the new Russia shrugged off its Soviet past, Prigozhin went into catering, first as a hotdog-seller and then moving on to more sophisticated dining, opening some of St Petersburg's more chic restaurants.\n\nMr Putin, then the city's deputy mayor, took notice. \"Vladimir Putin saw how I built a business out of a kiosk,\" he said years later.\n\nAfter he became president, Mr Putin entertained global leaders such as France's Jacques Chirac in Prigozhin's restaurants. The up-and-coming caterer earned the sobriquet \"Putin's chef\".\n\nIf Prigozhin's mercenary business was later to give him military clout and money, his catering business would supply him with a constant stream of wealth right up to this year.\n\nPresident Putin revealed shortly after the botched Wagner revolt that Prigozhin's private army had been fully funded with $1bn from the state over 12 months, while a further $1bn went to Prigozhin's Concord catering firm for feeding the military.\n\nBut that was just over one year, and reports suggest he had received more than $18bn in government contracts since 2014.\n\nKremlin propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov said big money had made Prigozhin go \"off the rails\" but it was his men's battlefield exploits that had gained him a sense of impunity.\n\n\"He thought he could challenge the defence ministry, the state itself and the president personally.\"\n\nThat all came to a head as Russia's military campaign in Ukraine faltered last year and Prigozhin's Wagner fighters spearheaded a bloody campaign to seize the eastern city of Bakhmut.\n\nLast September Prigozhin toured prisons around Russia offering inmates the chance to commute their sentences in exchange for service with Wagner.\n\nThousands died in the fight for Bakhmut, many of them inexperienced, badly armed former prisoners.\n\nAs the battle reached a climax, Prigozhin appeared in social media videos demanding ammunition, standing among bodies of dead mercenaries.\n\nHe reserved his loathing for President Putin's loyal defence minister Sergei Shoigu and the armed forces chief Valery Gerasimov.\n\n\"Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the... ammunition?... They came here as volunteers and die for you to fatten yourselves in your mahogany offices.\"\n\nPrigozhin steered clear of directly criticising the president, always blaming his commanders instead.\n\nBut when the military chiefs announced plans to bring the Wagner forces and other \"voluntary detachments\" under the main command structure, Prigozhin appeared to snap.\n\nAs he prepared to launch his \"march for justice\", he called into question the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and accused the defence minister of responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Russian soldiers.\n\nThe Kremlin denounced as \"hysteria\" suggestions that Prigozhin's revolt had dented Vladimir Putin's hold on power.\n\nAt the very least it was the beginning of the end of Prigozhin's extraordinary and long-lived Russian influence over the Putin leadership.", "The government considered using legal powers to block the expansion of London's Ultra Low Emission (Ulez) scheme, the BBC has been told.\n\nMinisters dropped the plan after receiving legal advice it would probably fail if challenged in court, the Daily Telegraph reports.\n\nThe Ulez scheme will be expanded to all London boroughs on Tuesday.\n\nThe Department of Transport said it was for the mayor to justify its expansion as people deal with the cost of living.\n\nThe Telegraph said cabinet ministers had been considering using part of the 1999 Greater London Authority Act that allowed them to overrule Sadiq Khan's policy if it was \"inconsistent with national policies\".\n\nBut formal legal advice concluded that the move would fail if challenged, the broadsheet added.\n\nA spokesperson for the mayor of London said: \"The Secretary of State could only use this power after changing national policy to prevent all cities charging drivers based on their emissions.\n\n\"Ministers have directed numerous UK cities to introduce clean air zones, and the government is under clear legal obligations to tackle air pollution.\n\n\"The mayor has received no suggestion from government that they have any intention to renege on these commitments.\"\n\nMotorists driving vehicles within the charging zone which do not comply with Transport for London's (TfL) emission standards will have to pay a £12.50 daily charge.\n\nPetrol cars generally meet the standards if they were first registered after 2005, while diesel cars generally have to be newer than September 2015.\n\nThe controversial expansion of the scheme, first introduced in 2019 to clean up the capital's air, was ruled lawful in the High Court last month after five Conservative-led councils challenged the Labour mayor's plan.\n\nThe issue was later blamed by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer for the party's defeat in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Transport said it was for the mayor to \"justify the Ulez expansion, and at a time when the government is doing everything it can to support people with the cost of living, the mayor is responsible for explaining whether it is fair to charge those with non-compliant vehicles £12.50 every time they drive in London\".\n\nThe AA motoring association says it is \"essential\" drivers who do not comply with Ulez are not fined \"until the system beds in\".\n\nTFL says it can use its \"discretion\" to issue warning letters instead of penalty charge notices.\n\nOn the day Birmingham's emissions-based charging scheme was introduced in June 2021, the city council announced the £8 daily fee for non-compliant vehicles would not need to be paid for the first two weeks as part of a \"soft launch\".", "Online adverts for the retailer Boots promoting four brands of infant formula on Google broke advertising rules, the watchdog has said.\n\nIn the UK, it is against the law to advertise infant formula for babies up to six months old because it might discourage breastfeeding.\n\nBoots apologised and said the adverts, which were automated, had been removed.\n\nIt comes as supermarket Iceland calls for changes to laws on formula milk advertising.\n\nAdvertising follow-on formula, for babies over six months, is allowed.\n\nBut for infant formula, retailers cannot communicate special offers via any platform.\n\nIceland says it is calling on the government to \"immediately\" update existing legislation so that retailers are allowed to tell the public when they reduce the price of formula.\n\nThe supermarket said it still endorsed breastfeeding, yet rising costs were \"placing unbearable pressure on parents who choose to or have no alternative\" to using formula milk.\n\nIt is also asking for customers to be allowed to buy formula with loyalty points, gift cards or food bank vouchers, which is currently prohibited.\n\nIceland and other retailers have included formula products in offers and cut-price promotions but under the law are not allowed to communicate this to customers.\n\nIceland's executive chairman, Richard Walker, said that the supermarket had gone against these regulations and got in touch with customers about offers.\n\nThe government said: \"The legislation ensures parents and carers have access to the highest quality and safe infant formula, as well as not discouraging breastfeeding by protecting them from inappropriate marketing of breast milk substitutes.\"\n\nIt added that it has measures in place to support families with the cost of feeding babies and young children, including a scheme to help parents of children under four from lower-income families buy foods including baby formula.\n\nThe BBC has asked the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for comment.\n\nBreastfeeding support groups feel that supermarkets and other retailers are just interested in their profits rather than babies and mothers.\n\nA spokesperson for the Baby Feeding Law Group said that these legal marketing restrictions are intended to protect parent and carers from \"undue commercial influence\".\n\n\"There is a wealth of evidence that marketing undermines breastfeeding and safe and appropriate formula feeding. The regulations are not designed to limit access to infant formula, it is the manufacturers and retailers who set prices, and who do so in a manner which ensures high profit margins,\" the group added.\n\nThe ASA said the Boots adverts, which appeared on the sidebar on search engine websites like Google, clearly displayed \"images of the infant formula products to mean that the ads were promoting infant formula\".\n\nIt ordered Boots to remove the adverts.\n\nThe adverts in question, paid for by Boots, were promoting four different branded formulas: Aptamil, Hipp, Cow & Gate and Kendamil.\n\nFollowing the ASA ruling, Boots apologised and said it had removed all its infant formula advertising, saying that the adverts were automated, generated by an algorithm linked to the Boots website that promoted products on offer.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) recommends exclusively breastfeeding babies for the first six months and giving breast milk alongside solid food until the age of two or beyond.\n\nIt says breast milk has many benefits for infants including protection against gastrointestinal infections. It is also an important source of energy and nutrients.\n\nThe WHO has urged governments around the world to ban the advertising of infant formula as it feels it discourages breastfeeding.", "UK manufacturing in August saw its biggest drop since covid restrictions\n\nThe UK economy is on course to shrink between July and September and could tip into recession, a closely-watched survey suggests.\n\nThe S&P Global/CIPS UK Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) found that rising interest rates and weaker household spending led to a sharp drop in demand for goods and services in August.\n\nThe index looks at key economic measures such as orders and employment.\n\nIt showed that activity shrank in August after six months of growth.\n\nThe index's reading of 47.9 this month - anything below 50 marks a contraction - is the lowest level in two and half years.\n\nOn the upside, economists said that the PMI figures, which measure the health of an economy, showed that the Bank of England's efforts to tame inflation were beginning to work.\n\nFollowing the release of the PMI report, the pound fell against the dollar and City analysts lowered their expectations of where the interest rate would peak to 5.5% from 6%.\n\nInterest rates currently stand at 5.25% following a succession of increases since late 2021 when it was close to zero.\n\nHowever, Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said the figures also suggested \"the fight against inflation is carrying a heavy cost in terms of heightened recession risks\".\n\n\"A renewed contraction of the economy already looks inevitable, as an increasingly severe manufacturing downturn is accompanied by a further faltering of the service sector's spring revival,\" he said.\n\nAccording to official figures, UK inflation was 6.8% in July which, although slower than the previous month, is still more than three times higher than the Bank of England's 2% target.\n\nThe Bank's Monetary Policy Committee has voted 14 times in a row to raise interest rates. The theory is that by making it more expensive to borrow money, consumer demand will cool and price rises will slow.\n\nHowever, repeated interest rate rises tend to drag on economic growth as it becomes more expensive for consumers and businesses to borrow and spend. Companies may also cut back on investment and jobs.\n\nPaul Dales, economist at Capital Economics, said the survey would encourage the Bank \"that higher rates are working\" but added that economic activity would soon contract and a \"mild recession is on the way\".\n\nAccording to the PMIs, UK activity fell in both the manufacturing and services sectors in August.\n\nRhys Herbert, a senior economist at Lloyds Bank, added that \"the sharper-than-expected drop in retail sales in July\" was also a warning of \"further possible weakness as we enter autumn\".\n\n\"Some businesses continue to also experience challenges with recruitment, resulting in upward pressure on wages,\" Mr Herbert added.\n\nPay has been rising at a record rate but the Bank of England has warned that wage increases will make it harder to get inflation down.", "The British Museum is one of the most popular visitor attractions in the UK\n\nAn art dealer alerted the British Museum to alleged stolen items from the institution in 2021 but was told \"all objects were accounted for\".\n\nIttai Gradel alleged in February 2021 he had seen items online belonging to the museum, according to correspondence seen by BBC News between Mr Gradel and the museum.\n\nDeputy director Jonathan Williams responded in July 2021 to Dr Gradel, saying \"there was no suggestion of any wrongdoing\".\n\nThe British Museum has been contacted for comment.\n\nMr Williams added during the correspondence that there had been a \"thorough investigation\" and that the \"collection was protected.\"\n\nThe London institution announced last week that it had sacked a member of staff after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nPolice are now investigating. A statement issued by the Metropolitan police said: \"We have been working alongside the British Museum.\n\n\"There is currently an ongoing investigation - there is no arrest and enquiries continue. We will not be providing any further information at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that while there are unanswered questions for the museum, due to police involvement, they don't intend to comment further at present.\n\nThe museum has launched its own investigation into the thefts.\n\nFischer recently announced that he would stepping down as museum director next year\n\nAccording to the PA news agency, the missing items are believed to have been taken over a \"significant\" period of time. Some of them reportedly ended up on eBay, being sold for considerably less than their actual estimated value.\n\nAn eBay spokesperson said: \"Our dedicated law enforcement liaison team is in close contact with the Metropolitan Police and is supporting the investigation into this case.\n\n\"eBay does not tolerate the sale of stolen property. If we identify that a listing on our site is stolen, we immediately remove it and work with law enforcement to support investigations and keep our site safe.\"\n\nNone of the treasures, which dated from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD, had recently been on display and had been kept primarily for academic and research purposes, the museum said. The majority of them were kept in a storeroom.\n\nDr Gradel's emails suggest he became suspicious when he \"stumbled\" upon a photo of a Roman cameo fragment that he said had been up for sale and had been listed on the British Museum website but had since been removed.\n\nDr Gradel also alleges in one of his emails that a third-party seller returned a gem to the museum as soon as Dr Gradel told him his suspicions, but claims the museum didn't follow this up sufficiently.\n\nIn one of several emails he sent to follow up any progress, this time to a board trustee, Dr Gradel accuses the director - Hartwig Fischer - and Mr Williams of \"sweeping it all under the carpet.\"\n\nIn one response emailed in October 2022 to a trustee who was following up on Dr Gradel's concerns, Fischer said there was \"no evidence\" of any wrongdoing, adding that the \"three items\" Dr Gradel had mentioned were \"in the collection\".\n\nChair of the museum former chancellor George Osborne was alerted to Dr Gradel's emails by one of the museum's trustees in October 2022.\n\nAccording to the emails, Mr Fischer told that trustee that \"there is no evidence to substantiate the allegations\".\n\nMr Osborne told Dr Gradel in January this year that \"I have taken your comments very seriously\".\n\nIt's now believed that more than 1,500 objects were stolen, damaged and destroyed, in a crisis that is threatening the reputation of the British Museum.\n\nLabour MP Ben Bradshaw, a former culture secretary, told BBC News the latest allegations were \"extremely serious\".\n\n\"These are priceless objects that belong to the nation, and they should be safe,\" he said.\n\n\"This has potential reputational damage for Britain because this is already being reported across the globe. The British Museum is a probably the world's most famous museum.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Culture department will be wanting to assure itself from the board of trustees and George Osborne, that it has the governance in place to protect these items now and in the future, to prevent anything like this ever happening again.\"\n\nLast month, it was announced Fischer will step down from his role as director of the British Museum in 2024.\n\nMr Osborne told the BBC: \"Hartwig has been a much respected director. I have been very clear - as has Hartwig - that his decision was not connected to our announcement last week.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nNumber eight Billy Vunipola will miss England's opening game of the World Cup with Argentina following his red card against Ireland.\n\nHe was shown a yellow card for a high challenge on Ireland's Andrew Porter on Saturday which was upgraded to a red.\n\nVunipola has been banned for three games but it can be reduced to two if he completes the World Rugby coaching programme on tackling.\n\nEngland's final warm-up game is against Fiji this Saturday.\n\nThe World Cup in France starts on 8 September and England meet Argentina the following day.\n\nEngland coach Steve Borthwick will also be without captain Owen Farrell for England's first two pool games after World Rugby successfully appealed against the decision to overturn his red card in the win over Wales on 12 August.\n\nOfficially named the coaching intervention programme, 'tackle school' is allowed to be taken once in each player's career and is intended to modify the specific techniques and technical issues that lead to illegal hits.\n\nAt a video hearing held on Tuesday, Vunipola admitted that his shoulder-led tackle that struck Porter on the head was a red card offence, triggering an automatic six-game suspension.\n\nHowever, the hearing saw mitigation in his clean previous record, his immediate remorse and apology and the lack of aggravating factors, thereby reducing the ban.\n\nVunipola is the only specialist number eight selected in England's 33-player World Cup squad. Coach Steve Borthwick will have to use the Fiji game to look at alternatives, with Ben Earl expected to replace the Saracens forward given Tom Curry is still struggling with an ankle injury.\n\nThe decision against Vunipola means England have had a player sent off for a high tackle by rugby's new 'bunker' review system in their past two warm-up games.\n\nFarrell became the first, having initially been shown a yellow card following a high tackle on Taine Basham.\n\nThe 'bunker' system was introduced during the Summer Nations Series to support referees in making correct decisions.\n\nScrum-half Danny Care says England have been working on their tackle technique every day as they look to improve their discipline.\n\n\"Billy has been through a lot in his career and has been really mature and really helpful towards the rest of the squad,\" said attack coach Richard Wigglesworth.\n\n\"There's no worrying about himself. He's worrying about everyone else.\"", "Sir Mick Jagger paid an emotional tribute to the band's late drummer on their US tour last year\n\nThe Rolling Stones appear to have revealed the title of their new album with an advert for a fictional glass repair business in a local newspaper.\n\nThe ad, which appeared in the Hackney Gazette, referenced several of the band's best-known songs.\n\n\"Our friendly team promises you satisfaction,\" it read. \"When you say gimme shelter we'll fix your shattered windows.\"\n\nThe band have yet to confirm the existence of their 31st studio album.\n\nHowever, the advert contained several clues: A miniature version of the Stones' famous lips logo appeared as the dot above the letter i, and the glass repair business was established in 1962, the same year the band was formed.\n\nThe company's name, Hackney Diamonds, is believed to be the title of their new album - and uses the same font as the band's 1978 album Some Girls.\n\nThe phrase is local slang for broken glass - specifically the shards left on the ground after car and shop windows are smashed during a robbery.\n\nThe newspaper advert also features a phone number that customers can call to get a quote.\n\nIf they do, they hear a recorded message that says: \"Welcome to Hackney Diamonds, specialists in glass repair: Don't get angry, get it fixed. Opening early September, Mare Street, E8. Register for a call at www.hackneydiamonds.com. Come on then.\"\n\nThe website offers fans the chance to join a mailing list, which is run by the Stones' record label, Universal Music.\n\nThe advert was first spotted by Simon Harper, founder of Clash Magazine, who posted it to X / Twitter, days after the paper went to press.\n\nEditor Simon Murfitt told the BBC he only learned of the publicity stunt when readers wrote in asking for souvenir copies.\n\n\"Often you can't see the ads\" when putting the paper together, he said. \"On our page planner, it would just have said 'Universal Music'. So we had no idea what it was until it was published.\n\n\"It's normally more local businesses,\" he added.\n\nThe advert appeared on page three of the Hackney Gazette\n\nA new Stones album would be their first since 2016's Blue and Lonesome, which was a collection of blues cover songs, and their first record of original material since A Bigger Bang in 2005.\n\nIt would also be the band's first release since the death of drummer Charlie Watts in August 2021 aged 80, after suffering throat cancer.\n\nThe star is known to have recorded new drum tracks with the band before his death.\n\n\"Let me put it this way,\" Guitarist Keith Richards recently told the Los Angeles Times, \"you haven't heard the last of Charlie Watts.\"\n\nHe added that sessions for the album had taken longer than planned because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"If everything hadn't gotten closed down, we might've finished the damn thing,\" he said.\n\nSinger Mick Jagger added: \"We have a lot of tracks done, so when the tour's finished we'll assess where we are with that and continue.\"\n\nSeparately, it has been reported that bassist Bill Wyman was invited back to the band after three decades to record a tribute song for Watts.\n\nIn June, an unnamed source told The Sun newspaper: \"Bill hasn't seen the band together for years, but always loved Charlie. This record's really a tribute to Charlie, so he couldn't say no.\"\n\nIt has also been rumoured that Paul McCartney and Elton John will appear on the album, which is being produced by Grammy winner Andrew Watt.\n\nRolling Stones podcast Hang Fire said an announcement about the album was due in September, with the release coming in October.\n\nMurfitt says he's hoping for an exclusive interview with Jagger and Richards in the Hackney Gazette.\n\n\"I think we're owed it, aren't we? I'm looking forward to them calling us up.\"", "The former boss of NatWest is set to receive a £2.4m pay package this year, despite having quit in disgrace over her handling of the closure of Nigel Farage's bank account.\n\nDame Alison Rose stepped down from the bank last month after admitting to being the source of an inaccurate news story about Mr Farage's finances.\n\nShe is currently working out her 12-month notice period at the group.\n\nBut NatWest said her pay will remain under review as it investigates the scandal.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Like other employees where an investigation outcome is pending, Alison is currently receiving her fixed pay.\n\n\"This in line with her contractual notice period and remains under continual review, as the independent investigation continues. As previously confirmed, no decision on her remuneration will be taken until the relevant investigations are complete.\"\n\nThe scandal emerged after Mr Farage, a prominent Brexiteer, claimed in early July that his Coutts account had been shut because of his political views.\n\nA BBC report, citing a source familiar with the matter, then disputed this, stating that the account was closed because he no longer met the wealth threshold for Coutts.\n\nMr Farage subsequently obtained a document outlining his suitability as a Coutts customer. The 40-page document flagged concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and also questioned the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a client.\n\nIt said that to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts' \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nOn 26 July, Dame Alison quit, hours after admitting she had made a mistake in speaking to the BBC about Mr Farage.\n\nShe had come under mounting pressure from Downing Street, the chancellor and other senior cabinet ministers to step down.\n\nThe BBC has since apologised for its inaccurate report.\n\nIn a message on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Mr Farage said: \"Any employee of NatWest that had done what she'd done would have been out the door, fired and would not even have received their month's money.\"\n\nIn a note to investors on Wednesday, NatWest said it would pay Dame Alison a £1.15m salary for the year and £1.15m in NatWest shares, which she will receive over the course of five years.\n\nShe is also in line for £115,566 in pension payments, bringing the total pay deal to around £2.4m.\n\nNatWest said that Dame Alison's pay linked to previous share awards can yet be adjusted. The bank could decide to \"claw back\" those awards at a later date.\n\nNatWest also confirmed pay arrangements for its interim chief executive, Paul Thwaite. He will receive £1m not including bonuses, shares or pension.", "Emergency Department staff at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) have described a recent report into patient safety as \"wholly unsatisfactory\".\n\nStaff said they were \"deeply disappointed\" in the lack of \"explicit focus on patient safety\" in the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) report.\n\nIt was published in July after the RQIA carried out an unannounced inspection.\n\nIt said the department was operating beyond its core purpose and capacity.\n\nIn a letter to the RQIA seen by BBC News NI, staff said that despite taking part in a feedback session, where RQIA staff agreed that the emergency department was \"unsafe\", the final report did not sufficiently focus on patient safety.\n\nThe RQIA has defended the report, which also found that department staff were experiencing burnout.\n\nIn response to the criticism, it said the report does \"articulate the patient safety impact of patient crowding, and reflects concerns of staff, who were clearly doing their best to provide safe care within the service\".\n\nThe inspection happened in November 2022, when there were media reports of patients waiting for days in overcrowded areas and on trolleys.\n\nLengthy ambulance waits, negative reports by staff and patients being cared for in corridors and cupboards triggered headlines for months.\n\nBBC News NI, after being given exclusive access to the emergency department, captured conditions that showed hospital trolleys packed tightly against each other, with patients waiting for days to be admitted onto a ward.\n\nIn its statement to BBC News NI, the RQIA said that during its inspection it found each of the five standards were breached, namely fire safety, workforce, environment, infection prevention and control, and medicines management.\n\nIt added there was an escalation due to service pressures regionally.\n\nThe regulators said this was a \"a very significant and serious outcome\".\n\nThey also said services operating below the minimum quality standards are \"less able to prevent risks translating into actual events or incidents, and resulting in harm\".\n\nThe RQIA stressed this is clearly recorded and reflected in the report.\n\nBut health staff have told BBC News NI the report did not go far enough and have questioned why it took eight months between inspection and publication.\n\nThe letter said they hoped the feedback could bring about improvement in RQIA inspections and highlight ongoing safety concerns.\n\nIt added that waiting times and the lack of safe patient flow at every stage of the patient journey are not adequately addressed in the report.\n\nIn response to allegations of a delay, the RQIA said it is committed to publishing reports in a \"timely way\" and it is important that inspection reports are subject to a robust peer review and accuracy checking process.\n\nIt added there was a significant volume of material to be reviewed, then time provided to the Belfast Trust to draw up its response to the Quality Improvement Plan.\n\nIt also said the report provides evidence of specific safety issues, including increases in reported incidents of patient falls, pressure sores and medication incidents; challenges in managing patients presenting with mental health crisis; and impact on patient's privacy and dignity.\n\nThe RQIA said it will follow up with the Belfast Trust to seek evidence of progress on the actions the trust has committed to take to address the issues identified in the inspection report.\n\nWhat can unlock the conundrum that is Northern Ireland's emergency department crisis?\n\nToo often we hear that the lack of budget and government is to blame. And while the system by its very nature will never be perfect, it could be a lot better.\n\nEmergency departments were in crisis long before Stormont fell and were in crisis when the power-sharing government collapsed previously too.\n\nLike most health services, there needs to be change within emergency care if the NHS is to survive.\n\nDoctors and nurses told me there's little thinking outside the box and those in charge often look as if they are being left to manage the optics instead.\n\nThere is a feeling health trusts should be more fearful of the regulator - and that the regulator should instil greater fear.\n\nIf the key to making emergency departments safer and less crowded requires shifting some resources away from hospitals and into the community instead - why can't this happen?", "A woman who went missing in County Tyrone has been found safe, police have said.\n\nThe police, Sligo Coastguard helicopter and Lough Neagh Rescue were involved in the search for Claire Rock.\n\nLough Neagh Rescue said it had been tasked to the search operation along with the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Wednesday evening police, said Ms Rock had been found and was safe and thanked the public for their help.", "It took over 12 hours to free all eight people stuck in a cable car dangling hundreds of metres above a ravine in Pakistan.\n\nThe army was deployed with dramatic scenes of soldiers scaling ropes but tactics were forced to change because of bad weather and dwindling daylight.\n\nWatch the extraordinary videos of the successful rescue mission.", "An increase in younger people claiming disability benefits is being driven by a \"staggering\" rise in mental health issues, a think tank says.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said there had been a striking increase in claim rates for working-age adults over the past decade.\n\nThe rise is particularly stark for adults in their 20s and 30s.\n\nThe figures have implications for public finances, as spending on disability benefits grows.\n\nIn a new report, the IFS found that while physical disabilities are continuing to increase with age, for younger age groups disabilities due to mental health conditions are rising.\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of 30-year-olds claiming disability benefits has risen from around 2% in 2002 to around 4% in 2022, with most of the increase happening in the past decade.\n\nIn contrast, the proportion of those 60 and over claiming disability benefits are almost the same as they were in 2002.\n\nThe main disability benefit for working-age adults is personal independence payment. Eligibility is unrelated to whether someone is able to work so many younger claimants may still be in employment.\n\nHeidi Karjalainen, one of the authors of the report, said growing awareness and less stigma around mental health, meaning people are more likely to report suffering from poor mental health, was \"part of the story\" but \"that doesn't mean it's not a problem\".\n\nShe told the BBC mental health conditions had \"a real life impact\", including an increase in benefit claims and pressure on the NHS, as well as affecting people's ability to work and continue education.\n\nThe number of people not working in the UK due to long-term sickness has risen to record levels since the pandemic, with an increase in mental health issues in younger people partly blamed for the rise.\n\nThe government says getting people back to work is a key priority, with the issue contributing to worker shortages and the UK economy doing less well than other developed countries.\n\nThe IFS also found a large increase in the proportion of school-age children receiving disability benefits, mainly disability living allowance, from 2-3% in 2002 to 5-7% in 2022.\n\nIt said this was largely accounted for by increases in claims for learning disabilities, behavioural disorders and ADHD.\n\nMs Karjalainen said there was concern this could translate into lower education attainment and job prospects, with implications for efforts to get people into work and tackle inequality.\n\nThe IFS report found those with low levels of education were more likely to have a poor mental health or a disability and this was much more likely to result in them being unemployed.\n\nAt the age 30, the rate of disability is 8% for degree holders and 24% for those with no qualifications, the IFS said.\n\nNil Guzelgun, policy and campaigns manager for mental health charity Mind, said the pandemic and cost-of-living crisis had both contributed to a rise young people struggling to cope.\n\nShe said the charity was \"deeply concerned\" by the IFS findings.\n\nMind is calling for the government to overhaul the benefits system and do more to help people with mental health problems into work.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We're investing an extra £2bn to help more people with disabilities and health conditions into work and grow the economy - with the latest figures showing inactivity has fallen by over 300,000 since the pandemic peak.\"\n\nFor those who cannot yet return to work, he said the government was also spending an extra £2.3bn a year by March 2024 to improve mental health services.\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues raised here and would like to get in touch with us, you can email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers have released footage of two children being rescued from a cable car that had been dangling over a ravine in northern Pakistan.\n\nThey were brought to safety along a zip line.\n\nSix children and two adults were trapped for many hours hundreds of metres in the air.\n\nAll eight were successfully rescued.", "The labelling is not officially required until the start of October and is due to be rolled out across the rest of the UK in October next year\n\nAsda has become the first supermarket to start \"Not for EU\" labelling on some of its food in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe labelling is a requirement of the Windsor Framework, the revised Brexit deal for Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is not officially required until the start of October and is due to be rolled out across the rest of the UK in October 2024.\n\nIt is part of a broader package of changes to the 2019 Brexit deal for NI - known as the NI Protocol.\n\nThe protocol kept Northern Ireland inside the EU single market for goods, which allowed a free flow of goods across the Irish border.\n\nHowever, it made trading from Great Britain to Northern Ireland more difficult and expensive.\n\nChecks and controls on GB food products entering NI have been some of the biggest practical difficulties.\n\nUnder the Windsor Framework, UK public health and safety standards will apply for all retail food and drink in the UK internal market.\n\nThat means GB traders who are sending food for sale in Northern Ireland should face no routine checks and minimal paperwork.\n\nFrom October, pre-packed items such as meat will have to be labelled in a certain way\n\nThe flipside of this is the introduction of the \"Not for EU\" labels on GB food products, to give a level of assurance to the EU that products will not wrongly enter its single market.\n\nFrom October, prepacked meat and fresh milk being sent from GB to NI will have to be individually labelled in that way, with labelling of other goods being rolled out by July 2025.\n\nBusinesses will also have to be registered as trusted traders to benefit from the reduced controls.\n\nAsda has so far introduced the labelling on some of its own brand meat products.\n\nThere has been concern in the retail industry that businesses have not had enough time to prepare for the labelling changes, meaning not all operators will be compliant in October.\n\nHowever, the government has indicated that it will initially take a light touch approach to enforcement.\n\nFor example, in its most recent published advice it said that during the first few months of the new scheme \"procedures will be in place\" to ensure that businesses using an existing trusted trader scheme will benefit from the new arrangements.\n\nNeil Johnson of the NI Retail Consortium, which represents major supermarkets, said the change in labelling does not affect the quality of the food.\n\n\"This is simply about keeping everybody happy,\" he added.\n\n\"Because we are next door to the EU, we have to respect their right to their internal market and this labelling is just an administrative procedure to assist that.\n\n\"It has nothing to do with the food. Hopefully supermarkets will be able to continue to supply the same value and range of goods as they do today.\"\n• None What does new NI Brexit deal mean for business?", "18-year-old Arion Kurtaj was a key member of the notorious Lapsus cyber crime gang\n\nA court has found an 18-year-old from Oxford was a part of an international cyber-crime gang responsible for a hacking spree against major tech firms.\n\nArion Kurtaj was a key member of the Lapsus$ group which hacked the likes of Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games.\n\nA court heard Kurtaj leaked clips of the unreleased Grand Theft Auto 6 game while on bail in a Travelodge hotel.\n\nThe audacious attacks by Lapsus$ in 2021 and 2022 shocked the cyber security world.\n\nKurtaj is autistic and psychiatrists deemed him not fit to stand trial so he did not appear in court to give evidence.\n\nThe jury were asked to determine whether or not he did the acts alleged - not if he did it with criminal intent.\n\nAnother 17-year-old who is also autistic was convicted for his involvement in the activities of the Lapsus$ gang but cannot be named because of his age.\n\nThe group from the UK, and allegedly Brazil, was described in court as \"digital bandits\".\n\nThe gang - thought to mostly be teenagers - used con-man like tricks as well as computer hacking to gain access to multinational corporations such as Microsoft, the technology giant and digital banking group Revolut.\n\nDuring their spree the hackers regularly celebrated their crimes publicly and taunted victims on the social network app Telegram in English and Portuguese.\n\nThe trial was held in Southwark Crown Court in London for seven weeks.\n\nJurors heard that the unnamed teenager started hacking with Kurtaj in July 2021 having met online.\n\nKurtaj aided by Lapsus$ associates, hacked the servers and data files of telecoms company BT and EE, the mobile operator, before demanding a $4m (£3.1m) ransom on 1 August 2021.\n\nThe hackers sent out threatening text messages to 26,000 EE customers\n\nNo ransom was paid but the court heard that the 17-year-old and Kurtaj used stolen SIM details from five victims to steal a total of nearly £100,000 from their cryptocurrency accounts which were secured by their compromised mobile phone SIM identities.\n\nBoth defendants were initially arrested on 22nd January 2022, then released under investigation.\n\nThat did not deter the duo who continued hacking with Lapsus$ and successfully breached Nvidia, a Silicon Valley tech giant that makes chips for artificial intelligence chatbots, in February 2022.\n\nThey stole and leaked sensitive and valuable data and demanded a ransom payment to stop them releasing more.\n\nThe jury were shown Telegram group chats of the gang instructing someone they'd hired to call the Nvidia staff help desk pretending to be an employee in an attempt to get log in details for the firm.\n\nIn other hacks the gang spammed employee phones late at night with access approval requests until staff said yes.\n\nKurtaj and the youth were both re-arrested on March 31st 2022.\n\nShortly before his arrest, Kurtaj was \"doxxed\" by rival hackers who posted his and his families contact details online along with pictures and videos of the keen fisherman from social media.\n\nKurtaj was moved into a Travelodge hotel in Bicester for his safety and given strict bail conditions including a ban from going on the internet.\n\nProsecutors say he was \"caught red handed\" when City of London Police searched his hotel room.\n\nIn a \"flagrant disregard for his bail conditions\", jurors were told that police found an Amazon Fire Stick in his hotel TV allowing him to connect to cloud computing services with a newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse.\n\nThe court heard he had helped attack Revolut, Uber and Rockstar Games.\n\nHis final hack against the game-maker was described as his \"most audacious\" as Kurtaj posted a message on the company Slack messaging service to all employees, stating: \"I am not a Rockstar employee, I am an attacker.\"\n\nHe declared that he had downloaded all data for Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar's hugely popular video game series, adding that \"if Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram within 24 hours I will start releasing the source code\".\n\nMeanwhile, 90 video clips of unfinished gameplay for the highly-anticipated new game were also published on a fan forum under the username TeaPotUberHacker.\n\nKurtaj was re-arrested and detained until his trial.\n\nProsecution lead barrister Kevin Barry said that Kurtaj and his co-conspirators repeatedly showed a \"juvenile desire to stick two fingers up to those they are attacking\".\n\nOnce inside a company's computer network, the hackers often left offensive messages on Slack and Microsoft Teams as they attempted to blackmail staff.\n\nThe gang's actions were often erratic with motives apparently swinging from notoriety, financial gain or amusement.\n\nTheir hacking spree prompted a major review by US cyber authorities earlier this month which warned that cyber defences needed to be improved to counter the rising threat of teenage hackers.\n\nThe report said Lapsus$ \"made clear just how easy it was for its members (juveniles, in some instances) to infiltrate well-defended organisations\".\n\nIt is thought that members of the gang are still at large.\n\nIn October, Brazilian police arrested an individual this is alleged to have hacked various Brazilian and Portuguese companies and public bodies with Lapsus$.\n\nIt is not clear how much money Lapsus$ has made from its cyber crimes. No companies publicly admitted paying the hackers and the 17-year-old refused to give police access to his cryptocurrency hardware wallet.\n\nBoth teenagers will be sentenced at a later date by Her Honour Judge Lees.\n\nKurtaj is remanded in custody and the 17-year-old defendant continues to have bail.", "Eight candidates have made their case to be the Republican presidential candidate for 2024.\n\nIt was not a calm and civil debate, there were fiery clashes across multiple topics.\n\nOver the coming days, we're likely to see the candidates tout their own performances in the debate, and continue to spar on the key issues including the economy, crime, immigration and the border.\n\nWe're also likely to hear more from the party's front-runner - Donald Trump - who was not in attendance.\n\nInstead, he appeared in an interview with Tucker Carlson on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nTrump's shadow loomed over the debate, but perhaps not as large as many thought it would.\n\nYou can read more analysis on the winners and losers of the debate here.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment two children were brought to safety along a zip line\n\nAll eight people who were stuck in a cable car dangling hundreds of metres above a ravine in Pakistan's north-west for many hours have now been rescued.\n\nIn a slow and dangerous operation, a military helicopter rescued one child, while teams on the ground recovered the rest of the group after dark.\n\nThey were helped to safety along a zip line, with a huge crowd on top of the hillside celebrating their rescue.\n\nThe group were on their way to school when one of the car's cables snapped.\n\nIt was left hanging precariously across 274m (900ft) above the ground and in high winds.\n\nPakistan's caretaker prime minister, Anwaar ul Haq Kakar, said he was relieved, and thanked all of those who were involved in the rescue.\n\nPakistan's army said the rescue mission had been \"extremely difficult and dangerous\".\n\nThe incident happened at about 07:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Tuesday near the city of Battagram in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.\n\nSix children, aged between 10 and 16 years old, were trapped, along with two adults.\n\nOne of the children, a teenage boy, has a heart condition and was unconscious for several hours, an adult on board named Gulfaraz told local media.\n\nA child also fainted due to \"heat and fear\", a rescue worker told Reuters news agency, although it was unclear if that was the same child.\n\nKnown by locals as \"Dolly\", the cable car links the village of Jangri to Batangi, where the school is located.\n\nThe car is a popular and cheap mode of transport to get across the Allai valley - cutting a two-hour road journey through mountainous terrain to just four minutes.\n\nWhen the cable suddenly snapped, Dolly was making its fifth trip of the day.\n\nResidents used loudspeakers to alert officials to the crisis, but it took at least four hours for the first rescue helicopter to arrive at the remote location, local media outlet Dawn reported.\n\nAnxious crowds, including relatives of those trapped, quickly gathered along the ravine, watching on as military helicopters battled against the strong winds to lower commandos to the stranded car.\n\nSeveral early attempts to reach them failed, however some food and water was successfully delivered.\n\nIn addition to gusty winds, there were concerns that the helicopter's rotor blades could further destabilise the cable car, and as night set in the operation was suspended.\n\nBut rescuers continued their efforts with the help of zip line experts and local people on the ground.\n\nAllai is a mountainous area, located at an altitude of 2000m above sea level. Settlements are spread far and wide and there is little infrastructure like roads and basic facilities.\n\nIn most of the area, makeshift chairlifts and cable cars are used regularly for transportation from one mountain to another.\n\nThe one involved in this incident is believed to be privately operated by residents, local media reported.\n\nPolice said they checked the lift every month, however BBC News has been unable to independently verify this.\n\nAnwaar ul Haq Kakar says he has ordered all privately-operated lifts to be inspected for safety.\n\nAdditional reporting from Zubair Khan, in Abbottabad, and Kelly Ng in Singapore.", "Sam Bankman-Fried was led into court wearing leg restraints and a beige prison uniform\n\nSam Bankman-Fried is struggling to prepare for his fraud trial due to a lack of adequate food in prison, the lawyer for the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX says.\n\nThe claim came as Mr Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to seven criminal charges contained in a new indictment.\n\nHis bail was revoked two weeks ago.\n\nAt the time the judge said: \"There is probable cause to believe that the defendant has attempted to tamper with witnesses at least twice.\"\n\nThe former billionaire's lawyer, Mark Cohen, said a lack of adequate food at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center was hampering his client's ability to prepare for his trial, which is scheduled to start in October.\n\nMr Bankman-Fried was \"subsisting on bread and water\", his lawyer said.\n\nMr Cohen also said Mr Bankman-Fried had not been provided with the attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) drug Adderall and that his supply of the medication Emsam to treat depression was running low.\n\nMagistrate Judge Sarah Netburn said she would ask the US Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons, which runs the jail, to address the issues with Mr Bankman-Fried's medication.\n\nShe was \"reasonably confident\" the facility offered vegetarian food, but was not sure whether vegan food was available, Judge Netburn added.\n\nThe Bureau of Prisons said inmates had access to \"appropriate\" healthcare, medicine and hot meals.\n\nDuring the court hearing in New York on Tuesday he pleaded not guilty to seven criminal charges contained in a new indictment.\n\nMr Bankman-Fried, who was formerly nicknamed \"The King of Crypto\", was led into court wearing leg restraints and a beige prison uniform.\n\nIt was his first court appearance since his bail was revoked on 11 August.\n\nMr Bankman-Fried was jailed after sharing the personal writings of his former romantic partner and colleague, Caroline Ellison, with a journalist.\n\nMs Ellison, who is the former chief executive of Mr Bankman-Fried's trading firm Alameda, has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against him.\n\nThe new indictment charged Mr Bankman-Fried with seven counts of fraud and conspiracy over the collapse of FTX in November 2022.\n\nHowever, it no longer charges him with conspiring to violate US campaign finance laws.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to the charges.\n\nMr Bankman-Fried has acknowledged that FTX had inadequate risk management but has denied stealing the funds.\n\nFTX was once the world's second largest cryptocurrency exchange and valued at $32bn (£25bn).\n\nIt filed for bankruptcy protection on 11 November, which sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency market.", "Rudy Giuliani, who served as Donald Trump's personal lawyer, in a police booking mugshot released by Fulton County Sheriff's Office\n\nRudy Giuliani, who was Donald Trump's personal lawyer, has surrendered at a jail in Atlanta, Georgia on charges of helping Mr Trump try to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.\n\nMr Giuliani, who was released on a $150,000 (£118,000) bond, faces 13 charges including racketeering.\n\nThe former New York mayor is one of 19 people, including Mr Trump, indicted in the election interference case.\n\nMr Trump has said he will attend jail to be booked on Thursday afternoon.\n\nWhile yet to enter a plea, he denies wrongdoing and has said the charges are politically motivated.\n\nLeaving the Fulton County jail, Mr Giuliani told reporters he was \"honoured\" to be involved in the case.\n\n\"This case is a fight for our way of life,\" he said. \"This indictment is a travesty.\"\n\nMr Giuliani and Mr Trump face the most charges among all those accused.\n\nBefore Mr Giuliani, seven of Mr Trump's other co-defendants had arrived in Atlanta to be processed, including lawyer John Eastman, Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall, and Sidney Powell - another lawyer who allegedly took a central role in efforts to undermine the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.\n\nFormer Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer, Cathy Latham, Ray Smith III and Kenneth Chesebro have also been booked at the jail.\n\nProsecutors in Fulton County have set a deadline of noon local time on Friday for each of the defendants to surrender. They will then appear in court to hear the charges against them at a later date.\n\nThose who were booked on Wednesday had mugshots taken and posted to the Fulton County website within hours. Mr Trump is also expected to get his mugshot taken.\n\n(L-R, top): Former Trump Lawyers Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis had mugshots taken at Fulton County Jail. (L-R, bottom): Fellow co-defendants Kenneth Chesebro, Cathy Latham and Ray Smith\n\nLike Mr Giuliani, the former president faces 13 charges including racketeering and election meddling. Mr Trump is yet to enter a plea, but he denies wrongdoing and has said the charges are politically motivated.\n\nIn a post on Wednesday to his social media site, Truth Social, Mr Trump said he would \"proudly be arrested\" on Thursday afternoon.\n\n\"Nobody has ever fought for election integrity like President Donald J. Trump,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump has already been granted a $200,000 bond and issued with other release conditions, such as being barred from using social media to directly or indirectly threaten alleged co-conspirators or potential witnesses.\n\nThe former president, who Forbes estimates to have a personal wealth of $2.5bn, has drawn criticism for not paying the legal fees of his co-defendants.\n\nOne of them, ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that \"this has became a bigger principle than just one man. So why isn't MAGA, Inc funding everyone's defence?\"\n\nAnother former Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen, now a fierce critic of his former boss, told CNN on Tuesday that Mr Trump was not paying Mr Giuliani's fees. The BBC has contacted Mr Giuliani's lawyer for comment.\n\nFormer White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, another co-defendant, filed court papers asking a judge for an immediate ruling on a bid to move his case from Fulton County to a federal court, or - alternatively - to issue an order shielding him from arrest in Georgia.\n\nThe filing came after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis denied a request to delay Mr Meadows' arrest. An email from Ms Willis included in the filing said Mr Meadows \"is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction\".\n\nA similar request was made by former justice department official Jeffrey Clark. Lawyers for both men have argued that their alleged actions should be handled by the federal court system, as they were federal officials at their time of their alleged involvement in the case.\n\nThe Georgia case is the latest in a series of criminal indictments filed against Mr Trump.\n\nHe faces 78 charges across three other criminal cases, including an investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Patrick Robinson has been a member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 2015\n\nA UN judge says the UK is likely to owe more than £18tn in reparations for its historic role in transatlantic slavery.\n\nA report co-authored by the judge, Patrick Robinson, says the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries.\n\nBut Mr Robinson said the sum was an \"underestimation\" of the damage caused by the slave trade.\n\nHe said he was amazed some countries responsible for slavery think they can \"bury their heads in the sand\".\n\n\"Once a state has committed a wrongful act, it's obliged to pay reparations,\" said Mr Robinson, who presided over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president.\n\nMr Robinson spoke to the BBC ahead of his keynote speech at an event to mark Unesco's Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition at London's City Hall on Wednesday.\n\nHe's been a member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 2015 and has been researching reparations as part of his honorary presidency of the American Society of International Law.\n\nHe brought together a group of economists, lawyers and historians to produce the Brattle Group Report on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery.\n\nThe report, which was released in June, is seen as one of the most comprehensive attempts yet to put figures on the harms caused by slavery, and calculate the reparations due by each country.\n\nIn total, the reparations to be paid by 31 former slaveholding states - including Spain, the United States and France - amount to $107.8tn (£87.1tn), the report calculates.\n\nThe valuation is based on an assessment of five harms caused by slavery and the wealth accumulated by countries involved in the trade. The report sets out decades-long payment plans but says it is up to governments to negotiate what sums are paid and how.\n\nIn his speech at the London mayor's office, Mr Robinson said reparations were \"necessary for the completion of emancipation\".\n\nHe said the \"high figures\" in the Brattle Report \"constitute a clear, unvarnished statement of the grossness\" of slavery.\n\nIn his own speech, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the transatlantic slave trade \"remains the most degrading and prolonged act of human exploitation ever committed\".\n\n\"There should be no doubt or denial of the scale of Britain's involvement in this depraved experiment,\" Mr Khan said.\n\nThe Brattle Report has generated interest within the reparations movement, but the governments implicated are highly unlikely to accept its recommendations.\n\nCaribbean countries have sought slavery reparations from these governments for years with limited success.\n\nEarlier this year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dismissed calls for the UK government to apologise and pay reparations for its role in slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBritish authorities and the monarchy were participants in the trade, which saw millions of Africans enslaved and forced to work, especially on plantations in the Caribbean, between the 16th and 19th centuries.\n\nBritain also had a key role in ending the trade through Parliament's passage of a law to abolish slavery in 1833.\n\nThe British government has never formally apologised for slavery or offered to pay reparations.\n\nWhen asked if he thought Mr Sunak would take the Brattle Report seriously, Mr Robinson said: \"I certainly hope he will.\"\n\nMr Robinson said he hoped Mr Sunak would change his opinion on reparations and urged him to read the Brattle Report.\n\nBut he added: \"For me, it goes beyond what the government and the political parties want.\n\n\"Of course they should set the tone. But I would like to see the people of the United Kingdom involved in this exercise as a whole.\"\n\nWhen asked if the £18.8tn figure could be too little, Mr Robinson said: \"You need to bear in mind that these high figures, as high as they appear to be, reflect an underestimation of the reality of the damage caused by transatlantic chattel slavery. That's a comment that cannot be ignored.\"\n\nHe said the sums in the report \"accurately reflect the enormity of the damage cause by slavery\".\n\nHe said: \"It amazes me that countries could think, in this day and age, when the consequences of that practice are clear for everyone to see, that they can bury their heads in the sand, and it doesn't concern them. It's as though they are in a kind of la la land.\"\n\nAs to how reparations could be achieved, Mr Robinson said that was up the governments to decide.\n\n\"I believe a diplomatic solution recommends itself,\" he said. \"I don't rule out a court approach as well.\"\n\nThe legal status of reparations demands by states is highly contested.\n\nRepresentatives of Caribbean states have previously stated their intention to bring the issue to the ICJ, but no action has been taken.\n\nReparations are broadly recognised as compensation given for something that was deemed wrong or unfair, and can take the many forms.\n\nIn recent years, Caribbean leaders, activists and the descendants of slave owners have been putting Western government under increasing pressure to engage with the reparations movement.\n\nSome of the descendants of slave owners - such as former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan, and the family of 19th Century Prime Minister William Gladstone - have attempted to make amends.\n\nIn response to the BBC's request for comment, the UK government pointed to comments made by Foreign Minister David Rutley in Parliament earlier this year.\n\nHe said: \"We acknowledge the role of British authorities in enabling the slave trade for many years before being the first global force to drive the end of the slave trade in the British empire.\"\n\nHe said the government believes \"the most effective way for the UK to respond to the cruelty of the past is to ensure that current and future generations do not forget what happened, that we address racism, and that we continue to work together to tackle today's challenges\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAndrew Tate has denied fuelling a culture of misogyny and defended his reputation in a combative interview with the BBC.\n\nWhen the BBC put a range of allegations to him - including specific accusations of rape, human trafficking and exploiting women, for which he is being investigated by Romanian prosecutors - he dismissed them.\n\nWhen pushed on whether his controversial views on women harmed young people, the influencer claimed he was a \"force for good\" and that he was \"acting under the instruction of God to do good things\".\n\nThis was Mr Tate's first television interview with a major broadcaster since being released into house arrest from police custody in Romania in April.\n\nMr Tate, who has repeatedly expressed his mistrust of traditional media, has a huge following online but his views have until now gone unchallenged in a direct interview like this.\n\nHe agreed to our interview with no set conditions.\n\nHe dismissed the testimonies of individual women involved in the current investigation who have accused him of rape and exploitation.\n\nAnd he described another woman, interviewed anonymously by the BBC earlier this year, as \"imaginary\", saying she had been invented by the BBC.\n\nThe woman in question, given the pseudonym Sophie to protect her identity, told BBC Radio 4's File on Four that she followed Mr Tate to Romania believing he was in love with her. There, she was pressured into webcam work and into having Mr Tate's name tattooed on her body, she said.\n\nWhen questioned about Sophie's testimony, Mr Tate told the BBC: \"I'm doing you the favour as legacy media, giving you relevance, by speaking to you. And I'm telling you now, this Sophie, which the BBC has invented, who has no face. Nobody knows who she is. I know.\"\n\nSophie is now helping Romanian prosecutors with the investigation.\n\nI also put to him the concerns of schoolteachers, senior police figures and rights campaigners about the influence of his views.\n\nThese concerns include comments by the chief executive of Rape Crisis in England and Wales, who said she was \"deeply concerned by the dangerous ideology of misogynistic rape culture that Mr Tate spreads\".\n\nSitting across from me in a small armchair, Mr Tate said those accusations were \"absolute garbage\".\n\nLater in the interview, he said it was \"completely disingenuous\" to \"pretend\" that he was damaging young people.\n\nAndrew Tate denied fuelling a culture of misogyny and defended his reputation.\n\nWhen asked about organisations that blamed him for increased incidents of girls being attacked, and female teachers being harassed, he said: \"I have never, ever encouraged a student to attack a teacher, male or female, ever.\n\n\"I preach hard work, discipline. I'm an athlete, I preach anti-drugs, I preach religion, I preach no alcohol, I preach no knife crime. Every single problem with modern society I'm against.\"\n\nMr Tate suggested that some of his comments had been taken out of context or intended as \"jokes\" - including a video discussion in which he said that a woman's intimate parts belonged to her male partner.\n\n\"I don't know if you understand what sarcasm is. I don't know if you understand what context is. I don't know if you understand what's satirical content,\" he told me when challenged over the comment.\n\nHis description does not match the tone in an online video seen by the BBC.\n\nHe also denied admitting to emotional manipulation of women, despite comments made on a previous version of his online coaching course, Hustlers University.\n\nAn introduction on that site began: \"My name is Andrew Tate… and I'm the most competent person on the entire planet to teach you about male-female interactions.\"\n\nIt goes on to say that Mr Tate's job was to \"meet a girl, go on a few dates, sleep with her, get her to fall in love with me to where she'd do anything I say, and then get her on a webcam so we could become rich together\".\n\nThe page has since been taken down.\n\nWhen asked about it in our interview, Mr Tate replied, \"I've never said that.\"\n\nI suggested that making controversial statements had brought him a lot of money by attracting followers who then signed up for a paid course on how to become a successful man.\n\nMr Tate replied: \"I genuinely am a force for good in the world. You may not understand that yet, but you will eventually. And I genuinely believe I am acting under the instruction of God to do good things, and I want to make the world a better place.\"\n\nDuring our conversation, which lasted nearly forty minutes, Mr Tate pointed several times to what he called the \"little pieces of paper\" I had brought with me, telling me I was \"saying silly things\" and should \"do some research\".\n\nIn a sign of his mistrust of traditional media, our visit and interview were filmed by his team for their own use - and after we left he claimed that the BBC had promised only to ask \"sanitised questions\".\n\nWhile the BBC did provide topics of discussion before the interview as a matter of courtesy, as per our editorial guidelines, we did not agree the questions we would ask in advance and were clear that our interview would be a wide-ranging, dynamic discussion with challenging questions.\n\nBefore we had even left the building, Mr Tate posted a message on social media promising to publish his own version of the interview, which he did shortly after.\n\nThe BBC has followed his case closely since the end of last year, when the Tate brothers were taken into custody, and has spoken to witnesses, former employees, neighbours and associates, and those involved in the investigation, to piece together an accurate picture of the Tate brothers' time in Romania.\n\nThe brothers are now in their sixth - and last - month under judicial control in this investigation, and any indictment is expected within the next few weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Aberdeen Royal Infirmary's emergency department has faced sustained problems with finding inpatient beds for people who no longer need to be in A&E\n\nA group of senior doctors has accused NHS Grampian of ignoring their safety concerns about emergency departments.\n\nThey told BBC Scotland News they were speaking out because they feel they cannot deliver a safe level of care.\n\nThe medics said staff shortages meant Grampian's two A&Es have no senior registrars on shift to make key decisions about patients for the majority of weekend night shifts.\n\nNHS Grampian said it was working hard to expand the workforce.\n\nA spokesperson thanked staff and said it recognised the \"tremendous pressure\" on A&E departments but said there were was a national shortage of doctors at the appropriate level of training.\n\nA number of senior doctors spoke anonymously to BBC News about conditions in Elgin and Aberdeen emergency departments.\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC News show medics have been raising concerns since 2021, both with NHS Grampian and the Scottish government, and in July this year submitted a formal whistleblowing complaint about the situation.\n\nOne doctor said: \"The staff are in an impossible situation.\n\n\"We are witnessing ongoing harm with unacceptable delays to the assessment and treatment of patients.\n\n\"There have been avoidable deaths and at other times there are too long delays getting to patients who may be suffering from a serious condition like stroke or sepsis.\"\n\nIn March last year, one senior clinician wrote to NHS Grampian bosses to warn of the \"incredibly stressful and difficult\" conditions in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary's emergency department.\n\nThe letter warns of the dangers of ambulances \"stacking\" outside the hospital and a high number of patients with chest pains or headaches waiting for long periods of time to be seen.\n\nThe document also has the medic declaring they have \"no wish to go through what happened in 2014 again\" - a reference to a staffing crisis that year in NHS Grampian.\n\nThe doctor points out they had just worked six weekends in a row to try and fill in schedule gaps before pointing out the current situation carries \"significant clinical risk\" and that \"something significant has to change soon\".\n\nThen in January this year, a joint letter signed by a number of staff in NHS Grampian emergency departments warned these A&Es were failing and \"unlikely to be able to perform their statutory duty in a major incident\".\n\nDr Gray's Hospital in Elgin is one of two adult A&E departments in the NHS Grampian area\n\nThe letter said \"exit block\" - finding hospital beds for patients who no longer need to be in A&E - was the biggest patient safety concern.\n\nIt also included an estimate that between 30 December last year and 3 January this year, a total of 260 A&E patients were delayed in excess of eight hours in Grampian's emergency departments.\n\nUsing Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates on the impact of delays on patients' life chances, they estimate these long waits equate to at least three excess deaths in that five-day period.\n\nFive weeks after the joint letter was submitted a major incident was declared at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 22 February as a result of the pressures being felt by the service.\n\nNHS figures for the month of June show that 49% of patients who attended A&E at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary were seen, admitted or discharged within the target of four hours.\n\nAt Dr Gray's hospital in Elgin, 77% were seen within four hours at its emergency department.\n\nDr Lailah Peel, a junior doctor and deputy chair of BMA Scotland, said many other emergency medics will have \"similar experiences\" to those in NHS Grampian.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"In A&E it is really important you have senior decision makers around, as a junior doctor I regularly go to them to get advice and sign offs.\n\n\"It is a really important part of how an A&E runs and it is really important there is a sufficient number of them - if that burden of decision making falls on one individual it is really dangerous.\"\n\nRosemary Agnew, the Independent National Whistleblowing Officer for the NHS in Scotland, told BBC News that health boards should not \"wait for whistleblowing\" to address issues raised by clinicians.\n\nShe added it was: \"important that people do raise it because what that raises is the national awareness of a wider issue, and if I see trends of a wider issue I will raise them with the Scottish government\".\n\nA spokesman for NHS Grampian said: \"We want to acknowledge the very great pressure all teams have worked under, and are continuing to work under.\n\n\"Providing health and social care services is more complex and challenging now than it has ever been.\n\n\"Some of these challenges will be specific to certain services or areas of Grampian, others are being experienced right across the NHS.\n\n\"At all levels, we are committed to meeting these challenges and resolving them. This is neither an easy nor a quick task, but it is one we will strive to complete.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it has been \"engaging with staff at NHS Grampian on these issues and will support with the board to ensure the steps they are taking to enhance staffing levels deliver the improvements required\".\n\nWhat do you do when you feel that you have nowhere else to go?\n\nIn this case, a group of doctors say all of their efforts to raise concerns with senior management fell on deaf ears.\n\nHaving exhausted all other options, they have now turned whistleblowers in the hope that it will force the health board to address the serious patient safety issues they say they are facing.\n\nNHS Scotland's whistleblowing procedures were strengthened following an independent review into claims of a bullying culture at NHS Highland. But a recent survey by the BMA suggested nearly a quarter of doctors would still not feel comfortable raising a concern about patient safety or malpractice.\n\nThe official definition of whistleblowing relates to someone speaking up \"in the public interest\" about issues that could create \"a risk of harm or wrong doing\".\n\nThe medics in Grampian say staffing levels are so dangerous in A&E that they pose a clear and significant risk to the people the NHS should be caring for.\n\nThe whole system is under so much pressure, and the whole country faces such difficulties finding enough skilled staff, that doctors can only hope this is a positive route to improvement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump turned himself in as expected on Thursday in Georgia to be charged with an election plot. That process - and the coming arraignment - may follow a script unlike his previous three arrests this year.\n\nDuring bookings in New York, Florida and Washington DC - where the former president has pleaded not guilty - he got special treatment.\n\nHere's why this time will be different.\n\nThe former president has until now been spared a booking photo and having to interact with other criminal defendants.\n\nBut Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat has said the department's \"normal practices\" will be followed when processing Mr Trump. These practices typically include a medical screening, fingerprinting and a warrants check.\n\nA number of his alleged co-conspirators have already been booked into the Fulton County Jail, which is notorious for hazardous conditions that some inmates endure for months.\n\nMr Trump was also subjected to his first mugshot on Thursday, as the county's normal steps include photographing all its defendants.\n\n\"The Fulton County Jail, amongst jails, is a very disturbingly dysfunctional place,\" said Rachel Kaufman, an attorney in Atlanta.\n\nMr Trump and his 18 co-defendants \"are going to witness some level of that dysfunction\" when processed, she said.\n\nStill, the former president wasn't kept in a holding cell overnight like many other defendants - he was in and out in about 20 minutes.\n\n\"He's not going to feel the full force of what an average person experiences in the Fulton County Jail when they've been charged with several felonies,\" said Ms Kaufman.\n\n\"And what they experience is their life being put at risk.\"\n\nMr Trump's arraignment in Georgia - where he is expected to plead not guilty - could be the first time the public actually sees him in court.\n\nTo date, video cameras have not been allowed during Mr Trump's arraignments in New York, Washington DC and Miami.\n\nThat's because New York state and federal courtrooms do not usually allow video and microphone recordings.\n\nBut the state of Georgia does.\n\nIt's up to the judge to decide whether cameras are allowed, said Ms Kaufman, adding that the judge assigned to Mr Trump's arraignment, Scott McAfee, has often allowed them in the past.\n\n\"He's a full transparency judge,\" she said. \"My guess is that whatever happens in front of him is going to be televised.\"\n\nThat could mean cameras in the courtroom for Mr Trump's potential trial, too.\n\nIt would not be the first time that one of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' high-profile cases took place on screen.\n\nIn 2014 and 2015, an eight-month long trial involving a controversial Atlanta Public School cheating scandal was broadcast on television and radio, capturing the attention of locals.\n\nMr Trump waves ahead of his arraignment at the Manhattan Criminal Court\n\nMr Trump floated the idea of pardoning himself before leaving the White House in 2021, and some have suggested he might attempt to do so in the criminal cases against him if elected president in 2024.\n\nBut experts say that would be much harder for the top Republican candidate to pull off in the state of Georgia.\n\nFor one, presidents can only issue pardons for federal crimes, and Mr Trump is facing state charges in Georgia.\n\nMr Trump would not be able to appeal to Georgia's governor for a pardon either, because unlike many other states, the governor there is not allowed to issue them.\n\nInstead, Georgia's State Board of Pardons and Paroles is responsible for issuing pardons, which it only does five years after a convicted person has completed his or her sentence.\n\nMr Trump is facing up to 20 years in prison in Georgia if convicted of the most severe charge of racketeering.", "Tens of thousands more 16-year-olds than last year will need to resit their English and maths GCSE exams.\n\nMore than 167,000 students in England received grade 3 or lower on their maths paper, about 21,000 more than in 2022, while 38,000 more, 172,000, failed English language - the highest number in a decade.\n\nHead teachers' unions have said this will put more pressure on colleges.\n\nIt comes as the overall number of GCSE passes have fallen for a second year.\n\nOne parent, who wishes to remain anonymous, has told BBC News her son performed really well in English, music, art, media and photography, achieving As and Bs, but is devastated as he failed his maths exam despite working incredibly hard and receiving extra tutoring.\n\nHer son, who is autistic and has dyslexia, is a talented musician and film-maker and had planned to take A-levels in film studies and photography and a BTec in music production - but one of these will clash with his maths-resit classes, so he is now having to take different subjects.\n\n\"All he can see is the fail - it's torture,\" she said. \"And now he has to spend hours working on a subject he doesn't like and is rubbish at.\"\n\nIn England, students need maths and English GCSEs at grade 4 or above to qualify for further study - although, they can study for resits alongside their new subject choices.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak wants all pupils in England to study some form of maths until the age of 18 but an education committee earlier this year heard the plan would be challenging to implement.\n\nThe Association of Colleges has estimated the extra GCSE resits could mean \"additional costs of around £500,000 per week across colleges in England, around £16 million per year\".\n\nSenior policy manager Eddie Playfair said grading changes around the Covid pandemic had had a \"yo-yo effect\" on the numbers of resits, making planning a huge challenge. And colleges needed additional resources to pay for extra teachers and classes.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb told BBC One's Breakfast programme the compulsory-resit policy was \"terribly important\" but did not say whether more money would be available.\n\nJulie McCulloch, of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the extra resits would \"put more pressure on sixth forms and colleges\" and mean \"many students are forced into a series of demoralising retakes where the majority will again fall below the benchmark\".\n\nThe development of new English and maths qualifications was \"badly needed\", she added.\n\nLast year, only 20% of those retaking their maths GCSEs passed.\n\nThe NAHT school leaders' union also said the current policy needed \"urgent change\".\n\nThere were more students taking GCSEs this year, but the proportion marked as fails has also risen since 2022.\n\nOverall, GCSE passes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have fallen - with 68.2% of all entries marked at grades 4/C and above.\n\nThe drop has been steepest in England, where grades were due to be brought back in line with 2019 in this year's results.\n\nIn Wales and Northern Ireland, grades were always meant to be a bit higher this year.\n\nMore than 225,000 Level 2 BTec results were given out on Thursday, and more than 120,000 students received Cambridge National results.\n\nLast year was the first time students sat exams since the start of the pandemic. Ofqual called it a \"transition year\", with grades set to reflect a midway point between 2019 and 2021. About 73.2% of GCSEs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were marked at grades 4/C and above.\n\nNow, in the second stage of the plan, grades are more similar to those in 2019, when 67.3% of GCSEs were marked as passes.\n\nNick Gibb has previously said bringing them back down would ensure results carried \"weight and credibility\" with employers, universities and colleges, so they know what the different grades mean.\n\nHe also said the difference in grades between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils was a \"major concern\" for the government.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nIn England, the gap between the regions with the lowest and highest proportion of GCSE passes grew, and state schools had a steeper fall in passes than private schools.\n\nLabour's shadow schools minister Stephen Morgan said the results showed that \"the government's levelling up agenda has failed\".\n\nMost of this year's GCSE students were in Year 8 when the pandemic hit. They also faced disruption from teacher strikes this year, although unions said they tried to minimise the impact on exam year groups.\n\nOfqual says there was \"protection built into the grading process\" so that students should have achieved the grades they would have done if the pandemic had not happened - even if they did not perform as well in their exams.\n\nSome Covid measures also remained in place for this year's exams. GCSE papers in the same subject were spaced apart more than they were before the pandemic, allowing for rest and revision.\n\nStudents had formulae and equation sheets in some subjects, and were not tested on unfamiliar vocabulary in modern foreign language exams.\n\nBut, unlike in the rest of the UK, GCSE students in England were not given advance information about the topics on which they would be tested.\n\nStudents in England have to do some form of study or training until they are 18 - such as A-levels,T-levels, BTecs or apprenticeships.\n\nLast week, the overall percentage of top A-level grades fell close to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nA total of 3,448 people received T-level results - although 5,210 students started them in 2021.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working to \"improve retention\".\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople here were shocked this summer after drones attacked the centre of Moscow on several occasions, causing explosions and damage to buildings.\n\nThen, the Russian rouble took an unexpected tumble - briefly tipping the dollar rate to over 100 roubles.\n\nAdd to that, a failed mission to the Moon: Russia's 'Luna-25' lander was lost in space, destroyed as it collided with the lunar surface last week.\n\nBut today, as the news broke that Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane had fallen out of the sky, crashing in a fireball in Russia's Tver Region, most people were far from shocked. In fact, most Russians were probably surprised it hadn't happened sooner.\n\nSpeculation had been swirling for weeks in Russia about exactly what fate awaited Yevgeny Prigozhin. Exactly two months ago, the Wagner boss launched his brief mutiny.\n\nHis mercenaries seized a major Russian city and even marched on Moscow. After the rebellion was called off, many thought Prigozhin's days were numbered. After all, the mutiny was a significant humiliation for the Kremlin, and President Putin isn't the kind of man to forgive and forget.\n\nAbout an hour after the crash, the Russian Federal Aviation Agency Rosaviatsiya released a statement confirming that Yevgeny Prigozhin's name was on the passenger manifest.\n\nThat is unusually quick for Rosaviatsiya: the agency is usually much slower to respond to such incidents. That raised eyebrows here.\n\nRussian state TV is keeping reporting of the incident to a minimum, quoting government officials with no comment. In its main evening news bulletin, Kremlin-controlled Channel One dedicated just 30 seconds to the story.\n\nIt is a well-known fact in Russia that state TV channels often wait until they receive official instructions regarding the tone of reporting.\n\nAs for the Wagner group itself, Telegram channels linked to the mercenaries have claimed that Prigozhin \"was killed….by traitors of Russia\". At the Wagner HQ in the city of St Petersburg, a makeshift shrine has appeared. Images on Russian media show people bringing flowers and candles to the Wagner Centre.\n\nAttention is now turning to what happened on board the flight. According to Russian media, investigators are looking into a number of possible causes, including \"external actions\".\n\nCommenting on the incident, political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya said that the cause of the plane crash is not important - more significant is the message it sends to any other potential mutineers: \"Everyone will see this as an act of retaliation and retribution…From Putin's perspective, as well as many among the security and military officials, Prigozhin's death should serve as a lesson.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Big Dipper first opened on 23 August 1923\n\nBlackpool Pleasure Beach is celebrating the centenary of its Big Dipper ride.\n\nOne of the oldest wooden rollercoasters in the world, it opened on 23 August 1923.\n\nAndy Hygate, head of operations at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, described the Grade II listed structure as \"very special\".\n\n\"Amusement parks change and adapt but you hold on to those things that are magical,\" he said, adding: \"It's the history that's attached to it.\"\n\nHe said a \"wooden rollercoaster is very different ride to a steel coaster\".\n\n\"You'll get a different ride depending on what the weather is like.\"\n\nManaging director Amanda Thompson said riding the rollercoaster was a sensory experience.\n\n\"You hear the chain pulling you up, you hear everything cranking and the wood slightly talking to you.\"\n\nPaul Heany, of the Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain, said the Big Dipper was \"full of character\".\n\n\"It's got a life of its own,\" he said.\n\nThe Big Dipper is the second oldest rollercoaster still in use in Great Britain.\n\n\"When [The Big Dipper] was first built there was nothing like it,\" he said.\n\n\"Margate's Scenic Railway was the first, but that was more sedate.\"\n\nThe rollercoaster has been repainted many times over the last century\n\nIt was designed and constructed by William H Strickler and John A Miller\n\nBlackpool first established itself as an entertainment destination after Londoner William George Bean set up Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad on the sand dunes at South Shore in 1896.\n\nInspired by his time in New York's Coney Island, Mr Bean started to build his tourism empire and by 1923, Blackpool Pleasure Beach was an established amusement park.\n\nHollywood star Marlene Dietrich took a ride on the Big Dipper in 1934\n\nThe ride has been ridden by thousands of thrill-seekers over the years\n\nAfter the Big Dipper was expanded in 1934, Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich went for a ride.\n\nThe German-born actress and singer lost a pearl and gold earring in the process and later wrote to the amusement park to ask staff to search for the items.\n\nThe earring was thought lost forever until 70 years later when it was found by workmen dredging a lake as part of construction work for a new ride.\n\n\"We have compared it to pictures taken at the time of her visit and it certainly looks like one of hers,\" a Pleasure Beach representative said.\n\nIn 2003, 32 thrill-seekers with an average age of 75 rode on the Big Dipper to break the world record for the oldest rollercoaster riders.\n\nTaking to the ride to mark National Grandparents Day, the riders, most of whom lived in Blackpool, had a combined age of 2,408.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "India has completed its historic mission to land near the Moon's south pole. The BBC's South Asia correspondent was at the space centre in Bangalore.\n\nShe filmed the final moments of the tense wait for the landing and her reaction when the outcome was clear.", "The head of Ukraine's Donetsk region Pavlo Kyrylenko posted photos of the damage on Telegram\n\nThree people have been killed in Russian artillery fire near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman, Ukrainian authorities say.\n\nThe three who reportedly died - two women and a man aged 63 to 88 - were sitting on a bench in the village of Torske when shelling hit.\n\nThe area is close to the front line and regularly comes under attack.\n\nMeanwhile a drone attack on the Danube river port of Izmail destroyed 13,000 tons of grain.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the grain had been destined for export to Egypt and Romania and the drone strike had reduced the port's export capacity by 15%.\n\n\"Russia is systematically hitting grain silos and warehouses to stop agricultural exports,\" he said.\n\nOver the past month Russian strikes on its sea and river ports had destroyed 270,000 tons of grain, he said.\n\nElsewhere, there have been reports of explosions in the port city of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea.\n\nThe peninsula's Russian-appointed proxy governor said the fleet was conducting firing exercises.\n\nMeanwhile, four civilians were injured by mortar fire and a residential building was damaged by two drones in Seredyna-Buda, in the Sumy region of north-eastern Ukraine, the regional military administration said on Facebook.", "A neighbour has told the BBC Sara Sharif was being home schooled at the time of her death\n\nA 10-year-old girl was seen in school with cuts and bruises to her face months before she was found dead at her home, a neighbour has said.\n\nThe woman learned about the injuries to Sara Sharif from her own daughter, who was one of the girl's classmates.\n\nSara's father, his brother and his partner flew to Pakistan before Sara was found in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.\n\nThe former neighbour, who asked only to be identified as Jessica, told the BBC Sara had been a happy and confident child who always skipped to school.\n\nBut after Sara was found dead, Jessica's daughter told her mother that in April Sara had gone to St Mary's primary school in Byfleet with clearly visible injuries.\n\n\"Just before the Easter holidays she was in school and had cuts and bruises on her face and her neck,\" Jessica said.\n\n\"My daughter had asked what had happened and she said she'd fallen off a bike and then kind of walked away.\n\n\"The next day the teacher announced she had left school and she was being home-schooled.\"\n\nShe said it was about that time that the Sharif family moved to Woking, about a 20-minute drive away.\n\nJessica said she never saw Sara at the school again and neighbours in Woking also said they did not see the child go to school.\n\nTributes have been left at the family home in Woking\n\nEarlier, another neighbour said Sara had been removed from school and was being educated at home.\n\nThe woman, who did not want to be named, told the BBC that Sara's father's partner, Beinash Batool, had told her the girl was being home schooled after being bullied for wearing a hijab.\n\n\"I suggested to Beinash that Sara needed to be with children her own age,\" said the neighbour. \"She replied that she was making friends at the mosque and in her swimming lessons.\n\n\"Another time I remarked to Beinash that it must be difficult to home school Sara, especially as she had the baby to look after. She said it was very easy as she used BBC Bitesize.\"\n\nThe neighbour said Sara seemed a \"reserved and quiet\" child.\n\n\"She often carried the baby in her arms, and sometimes I saw her playing with him. I never saw her smile or laugh.\"\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nSurrey Police officers are working with the authorities in Pakistan to locate Ms Batool, Sara's father Urfan Sharif and his brother Faisal Malik.\n\nSurrey County Council and police have confirmed the authorities had contact with the family, with the police describing their interaction as \"limited\" and \"historic\".\n\nA post-mortem examination failed to establish the exact cause of Sara's death, with more tests being carried out.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Grant Shapps visited a power plant as part of his trip to Ukraine\n\nUK support will help power Ukraine's nuclear plants, Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps has said after visiting the country.\n\nThe government has announced it will provide a £192m loan guarantee to enable a UK-based company to supply Ukraine with uranium enrichment services, a vital part of nuclear fuel.\n\nNuclear power generates more than half of Ukraine's electricity.\n\nBut its largest plant, at Zaporizhzhia, is currently held by Russia.\n\nWhile he was in Ukraine on Tuesday, Mr Shapps visited a power station, which has been badly damaged by Russian bombing.\n\nHe also met senior Ukrainian ministers and energy industry figures in Kyiv to discuss the UK's support for the country's recovery.\n\nThe government has said it will provide the loan guarantee through UK Export Finance - the UK's export credit agency - to enable UK-headquartered company Urenco to supply Ukraine's national nuclear company, Energoatom.\n\nThe Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said this would bring the total of the UK's non-military assistance to Ukraine to nearly £5bn.\n\nIt said the support would strengthen Ukraine's energy security as it defends itself against the Russian invasion, as well as maintain its independence from Russian nuclear fuel.\n\nUkraine has four nuclear power plants - including Europe's largest at Zaporizhzhia - but before the Russian invasion in February 2022 it had been receiving most of its nuclear services and fuel from Russia.\n\nIt has been reducing its dependence and in June last year signed a deal with US company Westinghouse to supply fuel to all its nuclear power stations.\n\nMr Shapps said: \"Our support for Ukraine is unwavering in the face of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's barbaric invasion - the UK continues to stand with Ukraine as they repel Russian attacks and rebuild their country.\"\n\nHe added: \"Putin has used energy as a weapon of war: the action today to support nuclear fuel deliveries will help Ukraine end their reliance on Russian supplies and bolster their energy security.\"\n\nThe UK announcement comes after a meeting of G7 energy ministers in Japan earlier this year, where the UK, US, Canada, Japan and France agreed a new nuclear fuel alliance in an attempt to strengthen the sector in each country and push Russia out of the market.\n\nOther European countries have also offered financial support to Ukraine's energy sector through the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, which aims to repair damage caused by Russia to infrastructure and keep it running.\n\nDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero Grant Shapps also visited a kindergarten while in Ukraine\n\nLast year, Mr Shapps took in a Ukrainian family as part of the government's Homes for Ukraine scheme.\n\nWhile in Ukraine, Mr Shapps visited a kindergarten, which was damaged by Russian shelling and was previously attended by Nikita, the young son of the family who lived with him.\n\nThe children performed a song before Mr Shapps played them a recorded message from Nikita.", "With the Chadrayaan-3 mission, India aims to be the first to land near the Moon’s little-explored south pole.\n\nThe lander is due to reach the Moon on 23-24 August, space officials said.\n\nIf successful, India will be only the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, following the US, the former Soviet Union and China.", "The British Museum is one of the most popular visitor attractions in the UK\n\nGreek claims that the British Museum is not safe after a series of thefts are \"blatant opportunism\", the chair of its cross-party group has said.\n\nMP Tim Loughton said it was \"incredibly rare\" for items to go missing and the institution was taking it \"seriously\".\n\nArchaeologist Despoina Koutsoumba said the museum could no longer claim Greek heritage was being protected.\n\nGreece has long campaigned for the return of the Parthenon sculptures also known as the Elgin Marbles.\n\nThe institution said a staff member had been sacked after treasures were reported \"missing, damaged or stolen\".\n\nLegal action is being taken by the museum against the unnamed member of staff.\n\nThe Economic Crime Command of the Metropolitan Police is investigating but no arrests have been made. The museum has also started an independent review of security.\n\nItems including gold, jewellery and semi-precious gemstones are among those missing, though the museum has not specified which items in particular.\n\nIt is now believed that more than 1,500 objects were stolen, damaged and destroyed, in a crisis that is threatening the institution's reputation.\n\nAccording to the PA news agency, the missing items are believed to have been taken over a \"significant\" period of time.\n\nMr Loughton, who chairs the British Museum All-Party Parliamentary Group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that news of items going missing from the collection in London was \"damaging\", but so too were claims the museum was not safe.\n\n\"What is particularly damaging is [the] blatant opportunism of the Greeks and others saying, 'Oh no, the British Museum is not safe',\" he said.\n\nThe Tory MP, who has been in touch with the museum, said it had undertaken a \"tremendous amount of work cataloguing\" items in its collection and had the most online documentation in the world.\n\n\"People want to know the extent of the objects which have disappeared, what investigations took place at the time when various reports came in and what is being done now because otherwise [it's] getting out of hand,\" he added.\n\nHis comments follow renewed calls by officials in Greece for the return of the Parthenon sculptures - among the most high-profile contested items in the museum's collection.\n\nParthenon Sculptures, which are originally from the temple of Athena in Greece, were brought to Britain by Lord Elgin\n\nThe sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, once adorned the Parthenon atop the Acropolis in Athens and have been on display in the museum since the 19th Century.\n\nGreece has long claimed they were illegally acquired during a period of foreign occupation.\n\nMs Koutsoumba, director of the Association of Greek Archaeologists, told BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme that it was \"obvious\" the sculptures would be well protected in Greece, not in the museum.\n\n\"We are very much worried how many Greek items were [among] these stolen items and we want to tell the British Museum that they cannot anymore say that Greek cultural heritage is more protected in the British Museum,\" she said.\n\n\"They have to return the Parthenon marbles back because they are not safe in London.\"\n\nShe added that the potential security issues the thefts have exposed were a \"problem for all museums in the world\".\n\n\"All museums in the world have to learn what happened in the British Museum so that if we have problems in our security protocols [we can] change it,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC has also seen correspondence showing that an art dealer alerted the museum to the alleged stolen items in 2021.\n\nIttai Gradel alleged in February 2021 he had seen items online belonging to the museum, according to the correspondence.\n\nDeputy director Jonathan Williams responded in July 2021 to Mr Gradel, saying \"there was no suggestion of any wrongdoing\".\n\nThe museum's independent review is being led by former museum trustee Sir Nigel Boardman and Lucy D'Orsi, Chief Constable of British Transport Police.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's Josh Kerr stunned Norway's Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to take 1500m gold at the World Championships in Budapest.\n\nKerr, Olympic bronze medallist in Tokyo, timed his surge for gold to perfection inside the final 200m.\n\nThe 25-year-old clocked a season's best three minutes 29.38 seconds to make his first podium at a World Championships.\n\nIt comes one year after Ingebrigtsen suffered defeat by Briton Jake Wightman in similar circumstances in Eugene.\n\nKerr let out an almighty roar as he crossed the line, celebrating with the crowd and embracing his parents in the stands with a crown on his head and a gold medal proudly hanging from his neck.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming,\" the Scot said.\n\n\"It's quite an overwhelming experience but I'm so proud of myself and of my team and my family that got me here.\n\n\"I didn't feel like I ran the best race. I just threw my whole 16 years of this sport in that last 200m and didn't give up until the end.\"\n\nIngebrigtsen, meanwhile, appeared crestfallen as history repeated itself.\n\nThe 22-year-old led from the front for much of the race before once again being denied by a gutsy finish from a British athlete, Kerr breaking his rival in the final 50m.\n\nIngebrigtsen held on for silver in 3:29.65 ahead of compatriot Narve Gilje Nordas (3:29.68), while Britain's Neil Gourley finished ninth in 3:31.10.\n\nKerr earned GB a fourth medal of the championships, and second gold, following in the footsteps of Katarina Johnson-Thompson's heptathlon triumph.\n\nKerr emulates Wightman to stand on top of the world\n\nEvidently full of confidence coming in to the championships, Kerr had stated his belief that Ingebrigtsen - unbeaten this season and boasting the fastest time of 2023 - was \"very beatable\".\n\nAnd, as 2022 champion Wightman watched on, the Scot emulated his Edinburgh Athletics Club team-mate in spectacular fashion.\n\nIngebrigtsen had been determined to upgrade last year's silver and took control on the second lap - but once again was powerless to respond as Kerr moved level and then refused to fade away.\n\nThe reigning world 5,000m champion came into the championships unbeaten, running the fourth-fastest 1500m of all time in July, and was a heavy favourite for gold.\n\nKerr had run his two fastest times since Tokyo earlier this season, but Ingebrigtsen was in unrelenting form as he built towards correcting his 2022 loss.\n\nWhile his talent is undeniable, Norway's versatile star will rightly be concerned about the manner in which world gold was once again ripped from his grasp, with another Briton adding his name to the list of contenders at Paris 2024.\n\nKerr demonstrated his ability to produce elite level performances on the global stage when he won his Olympic bronze in 2021, becoming the first British man to win a medal over 1500m at a Games since 1988.\n\nBattling illness when he finished fifth at last year's Worlds, he backed up that breakthrough medal here with a superbly managed run.\n\nMen's 400m hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm reclaimed his title with a dominant victory after his 2022 hopes were hindered by injury.\n\nWarholm, who finished seventh last season after struggling with a hamstring injury in the run up to the meeting, had shown signs of a return to his devastating best in 2023 by producing two of the five fastest performances of all time.\n\nThe Norwegian clocked 46.89 seconds to clinch his fourth global title ahead of Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands (47.34) and American Rai Benjamin (47.56).\n\nIn the women's 400m final, Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic took gold in 48.76 ahead of Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek and Barbadian Sada Williams.\n\nBritain's Molly Caudery also shone in a thrilling women's pole vault final which saw Australian Nina Kennedy and American Katie Moon share gold.\n\nKennedy and Moon agreed to share the title after both athletes cleared 4.90m but neither could make 4.95m after three attempts.\n\nA delighted Caudery, 23, produced a personal best with a clearance over 4.75m to finish fifth on her first appearance at a global championships.\n\nTeam-mate Anna Purchase qualified for the hammer throw final in 11th with a 71.31m best attempt but Charlotte Payne (69.57m) did not.\n\nGB's Cindy Sember was unable to reach the women's 100m hurdles final with a sixth-placed semi-final finish in 12.97 secs, while Megan Keith and Amy Eloise-Markovc failed to qualify from the women's 5,000m heats, which were pushed back from the morning session because of extreme heat with temperatures well above 30C.\n\nMarkovc finished 11th in 15:13.66 in her heat - during which Sifan Hassan and 1500m gold medallist Faith Kipyegon engaged in an unnecessary sprint finish - while Keith was 14th in 15:21.94 in her race.\n\nAimee Pratt missed out on the women's 3,000m steeplechase medal race, finishing seventh in her heat in 9:26.37", "Lucy Letby was handed a whole life order and will never be released from jail\n\nParents of babies attacked by nurse Lucy Letby received a \"total fob off\" from a hospital boss when they pleaded for answers, their lawyer has said.\n\nOne family said said they received \"no proper explanation or clarification\" about the collapses of their twins - one of whom was killed.\n\nFormer Countess of Chester Hospital medical director Ian Harvey has been accused of a \"shameful\" failures.\n\nMr Harvey has apologised for not communicating more fully at the time.\n\nHe added: \"Having read the heart-rending victim impact statements, I know how desperate the parents are for answers and I will help them as best I can at the public inquiry.\"\n\nLetby, 33, was ordered to spend the rest of her life in jail on Monday.\n\nHer murder of seven babies and attempts to kill a further six between June 2015 and June 2016 made her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern British history.\n\nIan Harvey was medical director at the hospital where Letby carried out her attacks\n\nRichard Scorer, from law firm Slater and Gordon, which is representing two of the families affected, criticised Mr Harvey for not responding more fully to the troubled parents' queries.\n\nHe was medical director at the time Letby carried out her killings but retired in August 2018, a month after she was first arrested.\n\nMr Scorer said: \"Our clients received a series of anodyne letters from Harvey containing no proper explanation or clarification.\n\n\"The letters invited them to contact Harvey for more explanation and they tried to contact him repeatedly, but despite many attempts to get through to him they never received a return call.\n\n\"Our clients have described his response as a 'total fob off'.\n\n\"It seems that Harvey had little interest in passing any meaningful information to the parents, responding properly to any of their concerns, or complying with any duty of candour to them.\"\n\nLawyer Richard Scorer said his clients were ignored\n\nHe added: \"In our view this failure to address parental concerns was shameful and another matter which needs to be investigated by a statutory inquiry with the power to compel witnesses and the production of documents.\"\n\nIn a statement issued to the BBC, Mr Harvey said: \"I'm sorry they felt fobbed off. I wanted to give detailed and accurate answers, but this was difficult while the reviews and investigations were taking place.\n\n\"Once the police were involved, we were advised by them not to say or do anything that might jeopardise their investigation.\n\n\"I was told all communication had to go through the police and not come from the hospital. I apologise for not communicating that clearly enough at the time.\"\n\nAccording to reports, Mr Harvey was referred to the General Medical Council (GMC) in 2018 following allegations he \"misled the public in media statements\", encouraged \"an atmosphere of secrecy and fear\" and failed to act \"appropriately or in a timely manner\" when consultants raised concerns.\n\nAnthony Omo, director of fitness to practise and general counsel at the GMC, said: \"In 2018 we received a complaint about Ian Harvey which we promoted for a full investigation.\n\n\"During our investigation, we liaised with the police, obtained an independent expert report and a witness statement, and thoroughly examined all relevant information.\n\n\"At the conclusion of our investigation, our senior decision makers considered all of the evidence and decided that the case did not reach the threshold for referral to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service for a hearing.\"\n\nMr Scorer said his clients were now \"very keen\" to see a statutory inquiry set up to \"compel people like Harvey to come and give evidence and compel the production of documents\".\n\nHe said: \"Some of this has been looked at in the criminal trial, but the criminal trial focuses on the particular offences that were committed, we now have to move on to looking at the surrounding circumstances and the way in which management dealt with this.\n\n\"That's why we need the inquiry, but it has to be an effective inquiry. It has to have teeth, it has to be able to compel people to come and give evidence on oath.\n\n\"It has to be able to force the hospital to disclose all the relevant documents all those things are needed to make the inquiry effective.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Some of the worst fires are close to the outskirts of north-west Athens\n\nFires that have claimed 20 lives in Greece are still burning out of control in foothills near Athens and the Evros region near the border with Turkey.\n\nEighteen of those killed are thought to be refugees and migrants who crossed the border recently, hiding in forests north of the city of Alexandroupolis.\n\nGreece has expressed its deepest sorrow for the deaths in the Dadia forest close to the Turkish border.\n\nFor five days, fires have burned near the city and west along the coast.\n\nFirefighters are also trying to stop a fire spreading from the slopes of Mount Parnitha, to the north-west of Athens.\n\nTheir efforts are being hindered by strong winds whipping up the flames and searing heat of up to 40C (104F).\n\nThe victims were found on Tuesday by the fire service near a shack outside the village of Avantas, to the north of Alexandroupolis.\n\n\"Unfortunately, their stay in the Dadia forest proved fatal,\" said government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis, pointing out that the alarm had been raised in the area where they were found and evacuation messages had been sent on the mobile 112 emergency service.\n\nA satellite image shows the scale of the fires burning near Alexandroupolis this week\n\nMigrants and refugees trying to reach the European Union face many perils - being beaten, robbed, arrested, forced back across a border, or drowning in the Mediterranean. Now the risks also include a ring of fire in northern Greece.\n\nFire service spokesman Yiannis Artopios said there had been no reports of missing residents and it is widely assumed those who died had recently crossed Greece's long, snaking border with Turkey along the River Evros.\n\nFor many who are desperate to reach EU soil, the river is their gateway and the vast forest on the other side provides cover.\n\nAll the dead were male, and two were minors according to local coroner Pavlos Pavlidis, who said the bodies were found within a 500m (1,640ft) radius, some near a sheep pen.\n\nTheir bodies have been taken to Alexandroupolis for post-mortem examinations. But identifying them will be difficult and authorities will need relatives to come forward.\n\nOne Syrian man told the BBC he fears his 27-year-old cousin died in the blaze as he has been unable to reach him for four days. The cousin was among a group of Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis hoping to follow a well-worn path through the forest.\n\nThe Syrian said they would not have called Greek authorities for help, despite the evacuation order, for fear of being sent back across the border to Turkey.\n\nGreek police say throughout August as many as 900 people a day have tried to get across the border and hundreds of traffickers have been arrested. People smuggling is a big business involving criminal networks.\n\nOvernight at the Ipsala border crossing between Turkey and Greece a group of young men tried to climb on to a lorry waiting to enter Greece.\n\nOne managed to conceal himself by lying flat on the top. The others melted away into the darkness when they were spotted.\n\nMany residents in the villages around Alexandroupolis are furious, as they believe the fires are caused by migrants who cross the border and hide in the forest before heading inland.\n\nThere is no evidence, though, that this fire in the Dadia forest was caused by migrants. Earlier this week the mayor of Alexandroupolis blamed the fires on a lightning strike during a storm.\n\nA video filmed in the Alexandroupolis area has provoked uproar in Greece after it showed a man \"arresting\" refugees and migrants and locking them in a trailer attached to his car. The man walks around the trailer, accusing the migrants and refugees of trying to burn Greeks. He then opens the door showing several frightened young men.\n\nPolice said the man had been arrested, along with two people suspected of helping him. They added that the video had involved the illegal detention of \"13 illegal immigrants of Syrian and Pakistani origin\".\n\nIn a separate development, Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adeilini has called for a dual inquiry into the causes of the fires in the Evros region and into alleged incidents of racist violence against migrants that have followed the 18 deaths in the Dadia forest.\n\nThe bodies were found in Avantas, a village badly damaged by fire this week\n\nOn the other side of the border, in the Canakkale province of western Turkey, wildfires have continued for a second day, prompting authorities to evacuate 1,200 residents from 11 villages.\n\nMarine traffic was suspended on Wednesday in the Dardanelles Strait between the Aegean and the Black Sea to allow helicopters and other aircraft to pick up water to fight the flames.\n\nFires are still burning in the Dadia forest in north-eastern Greece but the biggest front in the Evros region is now to the west of Alexandroupolis.\n\nThe situation on the outskirts of Athens is proving increasingly difficult for firefighters and three nursing homes have been evacuated from the town of Menidi.\n\nHomes have already burned Hasia and Fyli, in the foothills of Mount Parnitha.\n\nGreek officials have called for the evacuation of thousands of people from the big district of Ano Liosia in the north-west of the capital, although many have refused to leave.", "Damage could be seen on the skyscraper's facade\n\nA skyscraper in Russia's capital Moscow has been attacked by a drone for the second time in two days, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said.\n\nSeveral drones were shot down overnight on Monday, he said, but \"one flew into the same tower at the Moskva City complex\" that was targeted on Sunday.\n\nKyiv did not comment on responsibility but warned Russia that the conflict could soon move to its territory.\n\nIt did not address separate Russian claims that three Ukrainian sea drones were destroyed while trying to attack Russian naval ships in the Black Sea, though did dismiss as \"fictitious\" further claims that Russian civilian ships had also been targeted.\n\nNo one was injured in the skyscraper attack. Moscow mayor said the IQ-Quarter Tower 1 building's \"glazing was destroyed over 150 sq m\".\n\nThe building houses teams from Russia's ministry of economic development, the digital ministry, and the ministry of industry and trade. Staff at the former have been told to work from home, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nTwo more Ukrainian drones were shot down by anti-aircraft systems elsewhere in the Moscow region, Russia's defence ministry said, claiming to have thwarted a Ukrainian \"terrorist attack\".\n\nMoscow has repeatedly accused Ukraine of carrying out drone strikes on its territory in recent months, including one on the Kremlin - President Vladimir Putin's official residence in the capital - back in May.\n\nAlthough Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for specific incidents, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said attacks on Russian territory are an \"inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process\".\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday, Ukrainian presidential official Mykhailo Podolyak said the conflict would soon move to the territory of the \"authors of the war\" and bring \"more unidentified drones, more collapse, more civil conflicts, more war\".\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Russia's defence ministry said in a statement that, during the night, Ukraine had made an \"unsuccessful attempt to attack the Sergei Kotov and Vasiliy Bykov patrol ships of the Black Sea fleet with three unmanned sea boats\".\n\nIt said the two ships had been controlling shipping 340 km (211 miles) southwest of the Crimean peninsula and would continue to do so.\n\nLater, in a briefing, the ministry also said three Ukrainian semi-submersible unmanned boats had been destroyed while trying to carry out a \"terrorist attack\" on Russian civilian transport ships heading towards the Bosphorus Strait.\n\nIn response, Mr Podolyak told Reuters: \"Undoubtedly, such statements by Russian officials are fictitious and do not contain even a shred of truth.\n\n\"Ukraine has not attacked, is not attacking and will not attack civilian vessels, nor any other civilian objects.\"\n\nHe did not respond to the claim that Ukraine had used sea drones to target the Russian navy.\n\nRussia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nRussia's emergencies services were working at the scene on Tuesday", "Coutts has offered to reinstate Nigel Farage's personal and business bank accounts, the former Ukip politician has claimed.\n\nMr Farage said the new boss of Coutts had written to him to say he could keep the accounts.\n\nCoutts and its parent company NatWest have been embroiled in a row with Mr Farage, which last week led to resignations at the top of both banks.\n\nNatWest said it could not comment on individual customers.\n\nSpeaking on his GB News programme, Mr Farage said the interim chief executive of Coutts, Mohammad Kamal Syed, had made the offer to continue banking with them.\n\n\"He has written to me to say I can keep both my personal and my business accounts,\" Mr Farage said.\n\n\"And that's good and I thank him for it.\"\n\nMr Farage did not say whether he planned to accept the offer to stay with Coutts, which offers services exclusively to wealthy clients.\n\nThe former MEP is still on the war-path against Coutts - which he says decided to close his accounts because it did not like his political views.\n\nMr Farage has shared documents which show his political views were discussed by the bank, along with his financial situation, before it decided to close his accounts.\n\nMr Farage said he had suffered \"enormous harm\" from the controversy around his banking arrangements.\n\n\"It has taken up a huge amount of my time and it has cost me, so far, quite a lot of money in legal fees so I have today sent a legal litigation letter to Coutts where I want some full apologies, I want some compensation for my costs, but - more important than all of that - I want a face-to-face meeting with the bank's bosses.\n\nHe added he wanted to find out how many other customers had had their accounts closed over their political opinions.\n\nMr Farage this week launched a website which he said would help individuals and small businesses who had faced \"unjust treatment\" from banks, particularly if their accounts had been closed abruptly.\n\nDame Alison Rose, chief executive of NatWest Group, quit last week, after saying she had made a \"serious error of judgment\" in speaking to a BBC journalist about Mr Farage's Coutts account.\n\nPeter Flavel, the boss of the NatWest-owned private bank for the wealthy, Coutts, also quit.", "Donald Trump has been criminally indicted four times, and will have a series of trials to attend in 2024 as he runs again for the White House.\n\nHis candidacy now also faces a challenge from the Colorado Supreme Court, which has ruled Mr Trump cannot run for president because he engaged in an insurrection with his actions in the days leading to the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021.\n\nHere's a guide to the five cases and what they could mean for the former president and current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.\n\nThe Colorado Supreme Court declared Mr Trump ineligible for the presidency under the US Constitution's insurrection clause - Section 3 of the 14th Amendment - which disqualifies anyone who engages in insurrection from holding office.\n\nVoting 4-3, the state's top court found Mr Trump had incited an insurrection in his role in the 6 January 2021 storming of the Capitol by his supporters. Mr Trump has repeatedly denied responsibility for the riot.\n\nThe bombshell ruling directs the Colorado secretary of state to exclude Mr Trump from the state's Republican primary on 5 March, where registered party members vote on their preferred candidate for president. But it could also affect the general election in Colorado next November.\n\nIt does not stop Mr Trump running in other states.\n\nSimilar lawsuits to to remove the Republican from the ballot in Minnesota, New Hampshire and Michigan have failed.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nDuring a one-week trial in Colorado in November, the former president's lawyers argued Mr Trump should not be disqualified because he did not bear responsibility for the riot.\n\nFollowing the Colorado Supreme Court's decision Mr Trump's campaign said immediately it would appeal the decision to the US Supreme Court, where it's likely a similar argument would be made.\n\nHis legal spokeswoman Alina Habba said the ruling \"attacks the very heart of this nation's democracy.\"\n\n\"It will not stand, and we trust that the Supreme Court will reverse this unconstitutional order,\" she said.\n\nThe Colorado Supreme Court put its ruling on hold until at least 4 January. If Mr Trump appeals, that pause will continue until the country's top court weighs in.\n\nIf the Supreme Court does take up the case, which experts say is likely, it could be forced to decide Mr Trump's eligibility beyond Colorado to all 50 states.\n\nThat court has a 6-3 conservative majority with three justices appointed by the former president himself.\n\nWhat are the charges in Georgia 2020 election investigation?\n\nThis is the most recent indictment, the one that saw the first ever mugshot of a former US president after Donald Trump turned himself in at the Fulton County Jail on 24 August. The charges for Mr Trump - listed now as inmate no. P01135809 on Fulton County Jail records - were unsealed last month.\n\nMr Trump and 18 others are named in a 41-count indictment for alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.\n\nThe investigation was sparked in part by a leaked phone call in which the former president asked Georgia's top election official to \"find 11,780 votes\".\n\nMr Trump was hit with 13 criminal counts including an alleged violation of Georgia's Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (Rico).\n\nHis other charges include solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, conspiring to commit impersonating a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery, conspiring to commit false statements, and writing and conspiring to file false documents.\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nThe racketeering charge, which is mostly used in organised crime cases, carries a maximum 20-year jail sentence.\n\nGeorgia prosecutor Fani Willis would need to prove that there was a pattern of corruption from Mr Trump and his allies aimed at overturning the election result in order to bring a conviction.\n\nAs for making false statements, that carries a penalty of between one to five years in prison or a fine.\n\nAnd a person convicted of first-degree criminal solicitation to commit election fraud will face between one to three years in jail.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing in the case and has entered a plea of not guilty.\n\nHe has defended the phone call in question as \"perfect\" and accused Ms Willis of launching a politically motivated inquiry.\n\nThere is no confirmed date for the trial yet.\n\nWhat are the charges in 2020 election investigation?\n\nDonald Trump has been criminally charged in a separate federal investigation into efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nThe 45-page indictment contains four counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.\n\nThey stem from the former president's actions in the wake of the 2020 election, including around the 6 January Capitol riot, which occurred while Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden's victory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nBut there are logistical, security and political questions around whether Mr Trump would serve time even if charged and convicted.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump was formally charged in court in Washington DC on 3 August. A tentative trial date is scheduled for 4 March 2024.\n\nHe argues that the charges are an attempt to prevent him from winning the 2024 presidential election. Before leaving Washington after his arraignment hearing, he told journalists the case \"is a persecution of a political opponent\".\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied responsibility for the riot on 6 January 2021.\n\nHis legal team is also likely to argue that the former president is not directly responsible for the violence that unfolded that day because he told supporters to march \"peacefully\" on the Capitol and is protected by First Amendment free speech rights.\n\nWhat are the charges in classified documents case?\n\nMr Trump is facing 40 criminal charges over his alleged mishandling of classified material after he left the White House.\n\nThousands of documents were seized in an FBI search at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago last year, including about 100 that were marked as classified.\n\nThe charges are related to both his handling of the documents and his alleged efforts to obstruct the FBI's attempts to retrieve them.\n\nThe majority of the counts, are for the wilful retention of national defence information, which falls under the Espionage Act.\n\nThere are then eight individual counts which include conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record and making false statements.\n\nWill Donald Trump go to jail?\n\nThese charges could - in theory - lead to substantial prison time if Mr Trump is convicted.\n\nBut the logistics, security and politics of jailing a former president mean a conventional prison sentence is seen as unlikely by many experts.\n\nLooking at the letter of the law, the counts under the Espionage Act, for example, each carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.\n\nOther counts, related to conspiracy and withholding or concealing documents, each carry maximum sentences of 20 years.\n\nCounts relating to a scheme to conceal, and false statements and representations carry sentences of five years each.\n\nBut while there is no doubt the charges are serious, many questions remain unanswered about the potential penalties should he be convicted.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and the trial is set to begin on 20 May 2024.\n\nThe former president has offered shifting defences for the material found at his property, mostly arguing that he declassified it. No evidence has been provided that this was possible or is true.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump supporters outside court: 'They're afraid of him'\n\nHis lawyers may argue in court that Mr Trump was unfairly targeted and that other politicians, namely Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence and current President Joe Biden, were never charged for their handling of classified documents.\n\nBut experts say the former president's case is different in a number of ways. For one, other politicians were willing to return whatever documents they had, while prosecutors allege Mr Trump resisted.\n\nWhat are the charges in New York hush money case?\n\nMr Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.\n\nThe charges stem from a hush-money payment made before the 2016 election to the adult film star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an adulterous affair with Mr Trump.\n\nWhile such a payment is not illegal, spending money to help a presidential campaign but not disclosing it violates federal campaign finance law.\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nEach of the charges carries a maximum of four years in prison, although a judge could sentence Mr Trump to probation if he is convicted.\n\nLegal experts have told BBC News they think it is unlikely Mr Trump will be jailed if convicted in this case and a fine is the more likely outcome.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial in the case on 25 March 2024.\n\nHe denies ever having sexual relations with Ms Daniels and says the payment was made to protect his family from false allegations, not to sway the election.\n\nDo you have any questions relating to Donald Trump's legal cases?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Venice should be added to a list of world heritage sites in danger, the UN's cultural agency has said.\n\nThe iconic Italian city is at risk of \"irreversible\" damage from overwhelming tourism, overdevelopment and rising sea levels due to climate change, according to a report from Unesco.\n\nThe agency aims to encourage the better preservation of the site for future.\n\nA spokesperson for the Venice municipality said they will \"carefully read\" the proposal, Reuters reports.\n\nThey added it will then be discussed with the Italian government.\n\nVenice is known as \"La Serenissima\", which translates to \"very serene\" - but that nickname no longer fits.\n\nThe Unesco report blames the Italian authorities for a \"lack of strategic vision\" to solve the problems faced by one of Italy's most picturesque cities.\n\nIt is a blow for authorities, who are accused of failing to protect the historic city and surrounding lagoon.\n\nBut one of Venice's former mayors has accused the international heritage agency of being \"one of the most expensive and useless bodies on the face of the earth\".\n\nMassimo Cacciari said Unesco passes \"judgement without knowledge\" and \"give opinions left and right, which we would do best to disregard\".\n\n\"They don't give us any funding to make changes, all they do is criticise… As if Venice needed Unesco to be a world heritage site! We need more action and fewer words.\"\n\nThe inclusion of Venice in the danger list had already been proposed by Unesco two years ago, but it was averted at the last minute due to some emergency measures adopted by the Italian government.\n\nIn particular, one of those measures was the decision to ban large ships - such as cruise ships - in the San Marco Canal, as well as the promise to launch an ambitious conservation plan for the city.\n\nThe ban on large ships is being enforced - even though Unesco says it should be extended to other models of boats which are very polluting.\n\nBut the plan to save Venice was never implemented, and has remained a mirage.\n\nAccording to Italian newspaper la Repubblica, Unesco experts have written several letters to the Italian government asking for updates and a timetable. The answers they received were deemed insufficient.\n\nThe Unesco report, seen by la Repubblica, says authorities dealing with the emergency in the city lack a strategy to address the threat of climate change.\n\nA warming planet is having a damaging impact by causing sea levels to rise, so Venice - which is surrounded by water - is very vulnerable to flooding.\n\nOn top of this, about 28 million tourists visit Venice every year. This leads to more and more urban expansion projects, which in turn damages the city, according to Unesco.\n\nAmong other things, Unesco believes that high-rise buildings can \"have a significant negative visual impact\" on the city and they should be built far from the city centre.\n\nVenice is considered an undisputed gem by Italians.\n\nOn top of being given a nickname for its serenity, it is in turn known as \"the city of love\", \"la domitante\" (the dominant), and the \"queen of the Adriatic\".\n\nUnesco lists 55 World Heritage sites globally as being \"in danger\", with a further 204 that are actively being monitored by the agency due to the threats they face.\n\nAustralia's Great Barrier Reef narrowly avoided making it on to this year's list despite remaining under \"serious threat\" from climate change and water pollution.\n\nInstead, Unesco will review the Australian government's reef conservation efforts again in 2024.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dagmar Turner played the violin while surgeons removed a brain tumour at King's College Hospital\n\nA woman who played the violin during her brain surgery has been reunited with the surgeon who removed her tumour.\n\nDagmar Turner's operation in London in January 2020 was planned so that her ability to play the violin would not be impaired as a result of the surgery.\n\nThe 57-year-old has since returned to playing music in the Isle of Wight.\n\nShe said she was \"eternally grateful\" to consultant neurosurgeon Prof Keyoumars Ashkan.\n\nThe former management consultant re-watched the operation at the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London with Prof Ashkan, of King's College Hospital.\n\n\"When I saw him, I just had to smile, he always makes me laugh,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been eternally grateful to him for what he did with my tumour in my head, because it wasn't supposed to be there.\"\n\nDagmar Turner returned to orchestra rehearsals within weeks of her brain surgery\n\nMs Turner returned to the Isle Of Wight Symphony Orchestra soon after the surgery.\n\nShe played the violin as her tumour was removed to help ensure parts of the brain that control delicate hand movement and coordination were not harmed during the operation.\n\nShe later suffered side effects including fatigue, which still has an impact on her.\n\nProf Ashkan explained that when \"everything is working\" after brain tumour surgery there can be \"euphoria\" for patients, but long-term issues can include fatigue.\n\n\"Obviously, Dagmar gets monitored regularly and so far, so good, we keep our fingers crossed that things remain well for her,\" he said.\n\n\"And she continues to play amazing, wonderful violin.\"\n\nMs Turner was first diagnosed with a slow-growing glioma in 2013 and had a seizure while playing.\n\nShe had radiotherapy to treat the tumour, but underwent surgery after it became more aggressive in 2019.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Patient plays violin during her brain surgery. Video, 00:01:01Patient plays violin during her brain surgery", "David Hunter visited his wife Janice's grave the day after being released from prison\n\nA retired miner who killed his seriously ill wife has visited her grave the day after being freed from prison in Cyprus.\n\nDavid Hunter was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Janice, 74, in an assisted suicide at their home and jailed for two years.\n\nThe 76-year-old was freed after spending 19 months awaiting his trial.\n\nAfter her death in December 2021, Mrs Hunter was buried near their home in Tremithousa, near Paphos.\n\nHunter, originally from Ashington in Northumberland, had been unable to visit the grave as he was admitted to hospital after trying to take his own life immediately after killing his wife of 52 years.\n\nJanice and David Hunter had been together for more than 50 years\n\nHe was then held in prison before being cleared of premeditated murder but found guilty of manslaughter by a three-judge panel.\n\nHe was allowed to walk free within 15 minutes of being sentenced at Paphos District Court on Monday due to time already served and good behaviour.\n\nHunter could not initially find the grave and was guided to it by Michael Polak of Justice Abroad, which represented him during his trial.\n\nCarrying a bouquet of pink, purple and yellow flowers, he knelt by the grave for about half an hour.\n\nHunter could not initially find the grave and was guided to it by Michael Polak of Justice Abroad\n\nThe couple's daughter, Lesley Cawthorne, previously said she believed that her father would stay in Cyprus to be near Mrs Hunter's grave and \"say his goodbyes properly\".\n\nHunter told his trial, which lasted more than a year, that his wife \"cried and begged\" him to end her life as she suffered from blood cancer.\n\nHe said he would \"never in a million years\" have taken Mrs Hunter's life unless she had asked him to.\n\nHunter had not been able to visit his wife's grave since she died\n\nHe showed the court how he held his hands over his wife's mouth and nose and said he eventually decided to grant her wish after she became \"hysterical\".\n\nJudges heard he then tried to kill himself by taking an overdose but paramedics arrived in time to save him.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "British nationals in Niger are being urged to register their whereabouts with the UK government amid unrest sweeping the West African country.\n\nViolent protests have broken out in Niger after a military junta seized control of the government last week.\n\nFrance, Italy and Spain are all preparing rescue flights, but the Foreign Office have not announced any plans to evacuate people.\n\nIt has urged British nationals in the country to stay indoors.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office is understood to be closely monitoring the fast-moving situation and is keeping its plans under review.\n\nIts travel advice has been updated to advise against all travel to Niger.\n\nIt is unclear how many British nationals are in the country, but it is thought to be fewer than 100.\n\nOfficials are thought to be liaising with other countries on the ground, including France, the former colonial power in Niger.\n\nThe government in Paris announced evacuation plans for the roughly 600 French nationals in the country after hostile crowds surrounded its embassy on Sunday.\n\nIt said a limited number of flights would take place \"very soon\" because of the \"deteriorating security situation\" in the capital city Niamey.\n\nA statement from the French foreign ministry said it would also help other European nationals leave the country if necessary.\n\nThe Italian government said it was putting on a \"special flight for those (Italians) who want to leave the country\", AFP reported. It said there are around 500 Italian nationals in Niger.\n\nGerman citizens in Niger - who are thought to number fewer than 100 - have been urged to leave the country aboard planes organised by France.\n\nThe Spanish government said it is preparing to evacuate around 70 of its citizens.\n\nOn Sunday the UK government announced it was suspending long-term development assistance to Niger in response to the coup, but will continue spending on humanitarian aid.\n\nAndrew Mitchell, the minister for development and Africa, called for the deposed President Mohamed Bazoum to be \"immediately reinstated to restore constitutional order\".\n\nHave you been affected by the unrest in Niger? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Tia and other Year 12 students will be taking mock exams in the school hall on Wednesday, when teachers are going on strike\n\nIn the Sixth Form study room, Tia is twizzling a pink fluffy pen around in her hand. She is nervous about her mock IT exam next week.\n\n\"This is my one practice, and then I've got the real one,\" she says.\n\nOn Wednesday, she will be among the only pupils attending Wales High School in Rotherham, which is due to close because of a staff walk-out over pay.\n\nThe decision to close has been \"horrible\", says head teacher Pepe DiIasio. Only Year 12s taking mock exams, vulnerable pupils, and the children of critical workers will be expected in.\n\n\"Students have missed an awful lot of time in the last three years, and we don't want them to miss any more,\" he says.\n\nPepe DiIasio says he has heard the strikes described as \"10 years in the making\" because of teachers' pay and conditions\n\nPepe's office, a short walk and a few flights of stairs from the study room, is the HQ of this hub of 1,900 pupils. He has been busy preparing for Wednesday - sending letters to parents, making sure those who have children on free school meals get funds for lunches, and allocating laptops to children who need them for online learning.\n\nSome parents have criticised school closures on social media, arguing that families are fined if they keep their children out of school - but Pepe hasn't had any complaints like that.\n\nPlanning ahead is tricky because members of the National Education Union (NEU), which is co-ordinating the strike in England and Wales, don't have to tell their heads whether they will take part.\n\nAs the former president of the Association of School and College Leaders, Pepe is well aware of this. However, about 30 members of staff have told him that they won't be at work, and he estimates the total number could be more than 50.\n\n\"One of the gifts of Covid is that we're fully prepared for this sort of situation, and what we can do is move into a remote curriculum virtually straight away,\" he says.\n\nTeachers on strike also don't have to set work to cover strike days. Here, it is up to senior leaders like assistant head teacher Hannah Feerick to prepare work for pupils to do at home.\n\n\"They'll just follow their timetable as they would do on a normal Wednesday,\" she says. \"So if they have Maths first thing, then they'll do the Maths work for the first hour.\"\n\nThe school library will serve as a temporary classroom for pupils who are coming in - but Hannah won't know how many this will be until the morning itself.\n\nHannah Feerick will be supervising pupils in the school library.\n\nShe hopes lessons can be learnt for further NEU strikes in February and March.\n\n\"Hopefully if we get something that works for everybody, then we can just pick that up and reapply it.\"\n\nDownstairs in the science technician rooms, the chorus of \"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now\" is blasting out from a radio tucked behind a row of plants. This part of the school is a retreat for Jo Smethurst, the science resource manager, who spends much of her day marching between labs and checking the step count on her leopard-print smart watch.\n\nJo is not a member of teaching staff and won't be on strike, but she may not be able to work because of her own childcare issues. She says it has been \"stressful\" checking every morning for an email from her son's primary school about whether or not it will be closing.\n\n\"I'm trying to look around to see if I can get grandparents so I can get some childcare for that day. Or I will have to have the day off, or his dad will have to have the day off,\" she says - which could hit their income, as he is self-employed.\n\nManaging the science technicians is among Jo Smethurst's jobs at Wales High School.\n\nDespite her childcare jigsaw, she is broadly in agreement with the teaching staff going on strike, because of the rising cost of living.\n\n\"Fuel, gas, electricity - everything's going up,\" she says. \"We want our wages to go up and teachers want their wages to go up.\"\n\nAround the corner from Pepe's office, with a green pen in hand, Ross Napier is rattling through a pile of Year 13 Economics essays.\n\nRoss represents NEU members in the school, and plans to strike on Wednesday. He left industry in the mid-1990s to teach because it was an \"attractive profession\", he says - but that has changed because of the \"erosion of pay\".\n\nHis partner is also a teacher, and they lived \"happily on one-and-a-half salaries\" for 12 years, while she worked reduced hours after having children. Then she went back full-time.\n\n\"We're worse off now in real terms than we were when my partner was working part-time,\" he says.\n\nRoss Napier will be taking part in an NEU rally in Sheffield\n\nRoss DJs at the weekends - house music, mostly - to help pay their bills and mortgage.\n\n\"The extra income allows me to stay in teaching when so many leave,\" he says. \"I love the job.\"\n\nRoss says he hasn't picked up on much chatter about the strikes among his non-NEU colleagues because \"most teachers don't really have the time to go into the staff room\". Last summer he had to give up a role as head of house, because he didn't have the time during the working week.\n\nMost of his students will be taking exams this year, so for him, striking is a \"massive decision to make\", but he adds: \"One day of strike isn't nearly as big an impact as the last 12 years of cuts.\"\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb has told the BBC that the government is concerned about agreeing pay rises in line with inflation, which he said would mean embedding inflation into the economy.\n\nThe Department for Education, which has been in talks with teaching unions over pay, has advised that schools remain open for \"as many pupils as possible\" - and the picture will vary across schools in England and Wales. Strikes have already been taking place in Scotland, and teachers will walk out for half a day in Northern Ireland on 21 February.\n\nBack in the study room, Year 12 student Oliver says he is happy that his geography mock is going ahead on Wednesday.\n\nTia and Oliver, both 16, were in Year 9 during the first Covid lockdown\n\n\"I've prepared and revised,\" he says. \"If I'm expecting an exam next week, and it's the week after, it's another week that I've got to revise.\"\n\nBut for his brother, who is in Year 10, the strike day will mean a day back to learning at home - reminding him of learning during Covid.\n\n\"The further disruption is a bit worrying,\" says Tia. \"At the same time, I feel like I need to support my teachers, because they are doing it for a good reason.\"\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "HSBC said its profits for the first half of the year have more than doubled after the banking giant benefited from rising interest rates in the UK and around the world.\n\nCentral banks have been lifting interest rates to calm high inflation.\n\nBut UK regulators have been concerned that banks have not been passing on enough of the rises to savers.\n\nHSBC said pre-tax profit rose to $21.7bn (£16.9bn) between January and June from $8.7bn last year.\n\nIts chief executive Noel Quinn said: \"Our financial performance has continued to improve, aided by the interest rate environment.\"\n\nMuch of HSBC's revenue rise was due to a wider gap between the income it got from products such as loans, mortgages and securities and the interest it paid on customer deposits, debt issued and other offerings.\n\nMore than 80% of its profits were generated outside of its UK operations.\n\nInterest rates on mortgages have risen quickly, but savings rates have not grown as fast, particularly for easy access accounts.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said banks that offer unjustifiably low savings rates to their customers will now face \"robust action\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Sheldon Mills, executive director of consumers and competition at the FCA, told the BBC's Today programme that the regulator had an action plan to encourage firms to pass on interest rate rises \"appropriately\".\n\nHe said if they repeatedly failed to do so, the FCA could fine the bank or take action against the individuals responsible.\n\nMr Mills added that the FCA had the power to impose unlimited fines - but refused to say how much a typical fine might actually be.\n\nThe Bank of England has raised interest rates four times over the course of 2023 alone.\n\nThis has led to higher mortgage payments for some people whose cheaper deals have come to an end.\n\nOne million people will see their mortgage bill rise by more than £500 a month by the end of 2026, according to the Bank.\n\nMr Quinn warned that \"with more mortgage customers due to roll off fixed-term deals in the next six months, and further rate rises expected, tougher times are ahead\".\n\n\"In the UK, we have seen limited signs of stress in the mortgage book, although we are acutely aware of the day-to-day financial challenges that some of our customers face,\" he added.\n\nDespite the surge in profit, the HSBC warned of the uncertain economic outlook.\n\nThe Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates again on Thursday, which would be the 14th successive increase in borrowing costs since December 2021.\n\nLast month, the cost of a mortgage hit a 15-year high when the average rate on a two-year fixed deal approached 7%.\n\nIn May, HSBC said its profits would get a $1.5bn boost from the purchase earlier in the year of SVB UK for a nominal £1 in a deal led by the government and the Bank of England.", "Mr Xi is also chairman of China's top military command, the Central Military Commission.\n\nChina replaced two leaders of an elite unit managing its nuclear arsenal, triggering speculation of a purge.\n\nGeneral Li Yuchao who headed the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Rocket Force unit and his deputy had \"disappeared\" for months.\n\nFormer deputy navy chief Wang Houbin and party central committee member Xu Xisheng were named as replacements.\n\nThis is the biggest unplanned shake-up in Beijing's military leadership in almost a decade.\n\n\"The latest purge is significant… [as] China is undertaking one of the most profound changes in nuclear strategy in decades,\" said Lyle Morris, a foreign policy and national security fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute.\n\n\"[President] Xi [Jinping] has consolidated control of the PLA in unprecedented ways, but that doesn't mean it's complete. Xi is still worried about corruption in the ranks and has signalled that absolute loyalty to the [party] has not yet been achieved,\" he said.\n\nMr Xi is also chairman of China's top military command, the Central Military Commission.\n\nAt a meeting late last month, Mr Xi stressed the need to focus efforts on \"addressing prominent issues faced by party organisations at all levels, in aspects such as maintaining the party's absolute leadership over the military\", Chinese state media reported.\n\nThe replacement of Rocket Force leaders mark the biggest irregular shake-up in Beijing's military leadership in almost a decade\n\nBeijing has not commented on the whereabouts of Gen Li and his deputy General Liu Guangbin, but a South China Morning Post report last week suggested that the commission's anti-corruption arm had launched an investigation into the two men, as well as Gen Li's former deputy Zhang Zhenzhong.\n\nMr Wang's and Mr Xu's new appointments came a day before the 96th anniversary of the PLA's founding on 1 August. They were announced at a ceremony at the commission's headquarters in Beijing.\n\nBoth have been promoted from the rank of lieutenant general to full general which in China marks the highest rank for active service officers.\n\nMr Morris said Gen Li's downfall, together with the recent replacement of former foreign minister Qin Gang, presents one of the biggest leadership challenges for Mr Xi in recent times.\n\nMr Qin had been absent from public commitments for a month before he was replaced by his predecessor Wang Yi last week. No explaination was given for his removal.\n\nIn 2014, a broad purge among China's military ranks saw former deputy chairs of the Central Military Commission Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong ousted and prosecuted for corruption. Guo was sentenced to life in jail by a military court, while Xu died before his trial.", "Some 350 people worked to rescue people trapped by the latest strikes on Kryvyi Rih\n\nAt least six people, including a 10-year-old girl and her mother, have been killed by a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.\n\nUkraine's interior minister said 69 others were injured when missiles slammed into a high-rise building and a university on Monday.\n\nRegional governor Serhiy Lysak declared a day of mourning for those lost.\n\nThe home city of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Kryvyi Rih has been a consistent target for Russian strikes.\n\nIn June, 11 people died and 28 others were injured in the city after Russia launched a \"massive missile attack\" on civilian buildings.\n\nThe latest attack saw dozens of people hospitalised, including children aged from four to 17-years-old.\n\nPresident Zelensky, who grew up in the city of 600,000 people, said a pair of missiles smashed into the residential apartment block and a university building early on Monday morning.\n\nLocals told the Reuters news agency that the attack took place shortly after 09:00 local time (07:00 GMT).\n\nA video posted by President Zelensky showed that much of the high-rise building had been completely demolished by the strike, with a large scar running up the structure. But officials said around 150 people managed to escape the blast unharmed.\n\nWriting on Telegram, the Ukrainian leader said more than 350 people were involved in rescue operations and Mr Lysak said later that another 30 people were rescued from the building by the emergency workers.\n\nPresident Zelensky added that \"dozens of people\" had been left traumatised and injured by the attack, but vowed that \"this terror will not frighten us or break us\".\n\nIn recent weeks, Russia has again been stepping up attacks on civilian targets, and Mykhailo Podolyak - a top adviser to Mr Zelensky - accused Moscow of launching \"genocidal\" attacks on Ukrainians.\n\n\"International law will never work if the aggressor does not see a real power behind it. The power begins with closing the Ukrainian skies with missile defence and air defence systems,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nMoscow has consistently denied that it seeks out civilian targets. But Western leaders, including US President Joe Biden, have accused Russia of frequently bombarding areas with \"no military purpose\".\n\nEarlier this month, the UN said there have been some 25,671 civilian casualties since Russian launched its invasion of Ukraine last year, but the true figure is likely to be far higher.\n\nThere will be no forgiveness! Never!\" Mr Lysak wrote in a Telegram post on Monday. Russia would pay, he said, for \"every innocent person killed\" and \"the suffering of our people\".\n\nElsewhere, in the southern region of Kherson, the head of President Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak, said four people were killed in what local officials called merciless Russian shelling.\n\nThe Kherson military administration said one of those killed was a 60-year-old utilities worker whose team had come under fire. Several others were injured in the blast.\n\nAnd a drone attack has been reported in Russia's border region of Bryansk - with Governor Alexander Bogomaz saying a police station was hit.\n\nOn Saturday, Russian officials said three Ukrainian drones were downed in Moscow - the latest in a series of drone assaults on the Russian capital.\n\nMoscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin blamed Ukraine for the attack, in which two office blocks were damaged, although there were no casualties.\n\nPresident Zelensky warned that war was coming back to Russia, and that attacks on Russian territory were an \"inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process\" of the war between the two countries.\n\nEmergency services helped residents in the aftermath of the missile strike", "Cardi B was filmed throwing her microphone at a member of the crowd who sprayed her\n\nCardi B became the latest star to be hit by an object from the crowd during a concert, when an audience member threw their drink at the rapper.\n\nThe 30-year-old reacted by throwing her microphone at the concertgoer from the stage.\n\nAlthough the rapper no longer had a microphone, her voice was still heard on the pre-recorded backing track playing through the speakers.\n\nBBC News has asked representatives for Cardi B for comment.\n\nThe incident took place in Las Vegas and was caught on camera from multiple angles by several fans.\n\nIn the footage, security staff are seen surrounding the perpetrator and recovering the rapper's microphone.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pop Base This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, footage from earlier in the concert showed Cardi B asking a different member of the audience to spray her from behind, as she turned her back to the crowd.\n\nLater in the show, the rapper explained the earlier spray had been done on her back and under her own instruction, whereas she objected to the other member of the crowd unexpectedly throwing water which hit her face.\n\nThe Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department later confirmed that a show attendee had come forward to \"report a battery.\"\n\n\"According to the victim, she was attending an event on July 29, 2023, at a property located in the 3500 block of Las Vegas Boulevard,\" the Las Vegas police said in a statement. \"During a concert, she was struck by an item that was thrown from the stage.\"\n\nAlthough Cardi B's microphone was live, the fact that her voice was still heard on the backing track after she threw the mic prompted accusations of lip synching, as many jokingly compared her with the 1980s group Milli Vanilli.\n\nCardi B, pictured at a fashion show last month, is best known for hits such as I Like It, Up, Bodak Yellow and WAP\n\nThis is the latest example of performers having their shows interrupted by someone in the crowd throwing something on stage.\n\nIn June, Bebe Rexha was hurt when a man threw his phone on stage, hitting her in the face.\n\nThe man, named as 27-year-old Nicolas Malvagna of New Jersey, was later charged with with two counts of assault in the third degree, one count of harassment in the second degree, one count of aggravated harassment in the second degree, and one count of attempted assault in the third degree.\n\nIn November, Harry Styles was hit in the eye with a sweet at a gig, and Pink looked uncomfortable when a bag of human ashes was thrown on stage while she was performing in London.\n\nLast year Cardi B admitted two offences arising from a brawl in a strip club, as part of a deal to avoid a trial and possible jail time.\n\nAt the time she said \"I've made some bad decisions in my past that I am not afraid to face and own up to.\"\n\nCardi B is best known for hits such as I Like It, Up, Bodak Yellow and WAP - a duet with Megan Thee Stallion.\n• None Why are fans throwing things at artists on stage?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Smith charges Trump with conspiracy to defraud US\n\nHe is currently overseeing two separate criminal investigations into a former American president, but Jack Smith is no stranger to bringing high-stakes cases.\n\nOver the past two decades, Mr Smith, 54, has pursued public officials in the US and abroad - with a mixed record of success.\n\nThe veteran prosecutor has cut a low profile since his appointment as special counsel in the two investigations of Donald Trump by the US Department of Justice.\n\nIn announcing his selection last November, Attorney General Merrick Garland called him \"the right choice to complete these matters in an even-handed and urgent manner\".\n\nMr Trump meanwhile has characterised Mr Smith as a \"deranged\" man at the forefront of a \"political witch hunt\" against him.\n\nThe special counsel has indicted Mr Trump over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He has also indicted the ex-president on 40 felony counts over his alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nAt Mr Trump's arraignment hearing in Washington DC on Thursday, Mr Smith sat in the court's front row about 20ft away from the former president. The two seemed to exchange glances.\n\nMuch like the man he is now investigating, John Luman Smith is a New York native.\n\nA Harvard Law School graduate, he began his prosecutorial career in 1994 as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan district attorney's office.\n\nOver the next decade, he climbed up the ranks of the US attorney's office in Brooklyn, where he pursued violent gangs, white-collar fraudsters and public corruption cases.\n\nHe once spent a weekend sleeping in the hallway of an apartment building so he could convince a woman to take the witness stand in a domestic violence case, the Associated Press (AP) reported.\n\nDuring that time, Mr Smith was also among those who investigated the infamous assault of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima with a broomstick by New York police.\n\nHis work on the team led in part to his recommendation as special counsel in the Trump cases, according to the New York Times.\n\nTrump's role in the events leading up to the Capitol riot is being investigated\n\nIn 2008, Mr Smith went overseas to The Hague in the Netherlands where he oversaw war crimes investigations as a junior investigator for the International Criminal Court.\n\nHe returned to the justice department two years later as chief of the department's public integrity unit, which prosecutes federal crimes such as public bribery and election fraud.\n\nIn a 2010 AP interview, he described the career transition as leaving \"the dream job for a better one\".\n\nBut when he took over, the unit was recovering from a prosecutorial debacle that had seen a banner criminal conviction tossed out by a judge.\n\nMr Smith's stint began with the closure of some long-running investigations into members of Congress without charges, but he pressed ahead with other efforts.\n\nUnder his tenure, prosecutors brought a public corruption case against former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a Republican, in a case unanimously overturned by the US Supreme Court in 2016.\n\nThe unit also prosecuted former Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, but a jury acquitted Mr Edwards on one count and was deadlocked on others, and he was never tried again.\n\nMr Trump has seized on these examples to argue Mr Smith has \"destroyed a lot of lives\", while also skewering him over his involvement in a tax scandal over the alleged targeting of conservative groups.\n\n\"What he's done is just horrible,\" the ex-president told Breitbart. \"The abuse of power - it is prosecutorial misconduct.\"\n\nMr Smith has also had many notable victories, including sending former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to prison on corruption charges.\n\nHe also convicted ex-Arizona congressman Rick Renzi, a Republican, of corruption. Mr Renzi later received a presidential pardon from Mr Trump.\n\nIn 2015, Mr Smith accepted a post with the federal prosecutor's office in Nashville, Tennessee, so he could be closer to family.\n\nHe left in 2017 for a private health care company after being passed over for a permanent appointment under the Trump administration.\n\nBy 2018, he was back at The Hague where he took up a post as the court's chief prosecutor of war crime allegations in the 1990s Kosovo conflict.\n\nWhen Mr Garland offered Mr Smith the job of special counsel in Washington, his team was preparing for the trial of Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaci, the Times reported.\n\nThough eager to return to the justice department, Mr Smith was at the time recovering from surgery to his left leg after a bicycle accident and did not return to the US until January 2021.\n\nIt is at least the second major injury he has suffered while cycling.\n\nIn the 2000s, he fractured his pelvis after being struck by a truck, an incident which he claimed in an interview has led to multiple physical therapy visits.\n\nAs avid a runner as he is a cyclist, Mr Smith has completed more than 100 triathlons since 2002, even representing Team USA in World Triathlon.\n\nHis friend and former colleague, New York attorney Moe Fodeman, described Mr Smith to CNN last year as a \"literally insane\" triathlete and \"one of the best trial lawyers I have ever seen\".\n\nOther former co-workers have spoken of Mr Smith's fearless and proactive manner, and many say that Mr Trump's efforts to malign him will come up empty.\n\n\"If I were the sort of person who could be cowed -— 'I know we should bring this case, I know the person did it, but we could lose, and that will look bad' - I would find another line of work,\" Mr Smith said in a 2010 interview with the Times.\n\n\"I can't imagine how someone who does what I do or has worked with me could think that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Violations of those laws put our country at risk'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Officer Harry Dunn is still traumatised by the attack on the Capitol\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.\n\nHe is accused of four counts including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.\n\nThe indictment caps an inquiry into events which led up to the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol - when supporters of Mr Trump stormed Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nMr Trump, who is again running for president, denies wrongdoing.\n\nHere are the key moments from 6 January 2021.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud ahead of his rally in Washington DC.\n\nMembers of the Proud Boy movement, a right-wing militia, are seen heading towards the Capitol. Speaking to Newsnight's US correspondent David Grossman, one member of the group says: \"We're taking our country back.\"\n\nOne of the group has a radio. \"It was clear he was communicating - getting messages, sending messages to somebody,\" our correspondent said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What the Proud Boys were doing before Trump's speech that day\n\nPresident Trump begins his speech to supporters in Washington. Some 15 minutes into it, he starts urging them to converge on the Capitol.\n\n\"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nAs the president speaks, a crowd outside the Capitol is swelling. They begin marching towards the police barrier and get past officers. The police, outnumbered, try to contain them.\n\nTrump supporters wield flags and weapons. One man stands on a makeshift gallows, complete with a noose. The crowd chants: \"Fight for Trump.\"\n\nSome have argued in court that they went to the riot because Donald Trump told them to\n\nMinutes later, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi commences the certification process.\n\nMr Trump ends his speech with the words: \"We fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.\"\n\n\"They're throwing metal poles at us,\" he says. \"Multiple law-enforcement injuries,\" he adds in a panicked voice.\n\nProtesters surge past Capitol police protecting the west steps, the side facing the White House.\n\nMinutes later, an officer declares there is a riot at the Capitol. \"We're going to give riot warnings,\" he says. \"We're going to try to get compliance but this is now effectively a riot.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch dramatic new footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot\n\nMeanwhile Vice President Mike Pence is continuing to preside over the session.\n\nSecret Service quickly and suddenly evacuate Mr Pence from the Senate floor.\n\nThe protesters break through the windows. They push inside, hopping through the broken glass. They then kick open the doors to let others in. Some wear hoods and helmets, some hold cameras or Confederate flags.\n\nAn immediate recess of the Senate is called.\n\nA minute later, Officer Eugene Goodman runs to respond to the initial breach. He warns Senator Mitt Romney that the mob is approaching. Mr Romney turns and runs through a capitol hallway to safety.\n\nThe mob, a floor below them, has already begun to search for the Senate chamber.\n\nOfficer Goodman makes his way down to the first floor where he encounters the mob.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a rioter during the attack\n\nHe lures the armed rioters away from the upper chamber. Many of these individuals have been calling for Mr Pence to be hanged.\n\nBy that point, the rioters are \"within 100ft\" (30m) of Mr Pence and a foot away from one of the doors to the chamber. Many senators are still inside.\n\nAt the same time, Ms Pelosi is rushed from the house floor. She is evacuated entirely from the Capitol complex to a secure off-site location.\n\nHer staff barricade themselves into a conference room, hiding under a table.\n\nStaff members of the House leader speak softly, frantically, to each other. Just outside, rioters are spreading out across the building, searching for Ms Pelosi herself.\n\nThe rioters chant: \"Where are you Nancy?\" In an audio clip, we hear one staff member whisper: \"They're pounding on doors trying to find her.\"\n\nOne man breaks open the outer door to the office where the staff are hiding, but not the inner door. Another tries as well, but eventually moves on.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Pence is evacuated to a secure location.\n\nRioters start to spread through the buildings. Others break in from outside through various doors around the building.\n\nThey open the east side door of the rotunda to let more people in, flooding through the doors and overwhelming the officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nThe House floor debate is suspended to update members. House members are told to reach for tear gas masks and be prepared to use them.\n\nThe House is called back into session in the hope of continuing the count.\n\nBut minutes later the House is abruptly recessed. Members are told to get down under their chairs if necessary.\n\n\"Folks have entered the rotunda and are coming this way,\" lawmakers are told.\n\nDemocratic Congressman Eric Swalwell sends a text to his wife: \"I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me\".\n\nThe mob outside the chamber grows larger and they get within feet of the house door.\n\nPresident Trump called Senator Mike Lee, according to the Utah Republican who has provided the trial lawyers with a copy of a log from his mobile phone.\n\nAccording to his office, he received a call from the White House switchboard number - and the call lasted four minutes. Mr Lee has said that apparently the call was meant for Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville, and that he handed his phone to his colleague.\n\nMr Tuberville told reporters that he informed Mr Trump that Mr Pence had been evacuated from the Senate floor. \"I said: Mr President, they've taken the vice-president out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go.\"\n\nHouse impeachment managers say it is further evidence that the president knew how much danger his vice-president was in.\n\nAshli Babbit is seen turning the corner towards the House lobby doors as members are leaving.\n\nHouse Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern is spotted by the mob as he leaves the House floor.\n\nIn a hallway outside the House chamber, a group attempts to force its way through a set of locked doors. The glass window panes on the doors are shattered. A rioter uses a baton to smash through as the crowd around him chants \"break it down, break it down\".\n\nFootage shows the hands of an officer on the other side, holding a gun and pointing it toward the mob. We hear a shot and see Babbitt fall to the ground.\n\nPeople still inside the gallery of the chamber are trapped. They tell each other to take off their congressional pins.\n\nIn the meantime, a number of rioters reach the inside of the Senate gallery.\n\n\"Is this the Senate?\" one demands to know. \"Where are they?\" another asks, apparently referring to the evacuated senators.\n\nVideo footage shows some rioters rifling through papers and materials left behind by lawmakers. \"There's got to be something we can use against these scumbags,\" one says.\n\nTrump tweets asking for people to \"remain peaceful\".\n\nMeanwhile the mob are still at the Capitol.\n\nFootage shows a sprawling mob, a sea of people on the Capitol grounds. A Confederate flag waves in the foreground.\n\nTrump releases a video in which he tells the mob to go home.\n\nFifteen minutes after police confirm Ashli Babbitt has died, Trump tweets again.\n\nHe refers to those at the Capitol as \"great patriots\".", "Top YouTuber Jimmy \"MrBeast\" Donaldson is suing the company behind his fast food chain, and says fans called the food \"revolting\".\n\nDonaldson, the biggest YouTuber in the world with 172 million subscribers, opened MrBeast Burger in 2020.\n\nHe claims Virtual Dining Concepts - the company behind the burger - is hurting his brand and reputation by serving a subpar product.\n\nHe is asking a judge to give him the right to terminate the arrangement.\n\nDonaldson is known for his philanthropy, as well as videos featuring huge prizes and cash giveaways.\n\nThe legal action, filed in New York on Monday, accuses Virtual Dining Concepts of not ensuring the quality of the burgers, claiming they were at times \"inedible\".\n\n\"As a result, MrBeast Burger has been regarded as a misleading, poor reflection of the MrBeast brand,\" the lawsuit claims, going on to say it \"has caused material, irreparable harm to the MrBeast brand and MrBeast's reputation\".\n\nIt also claims Donaldson \"has not received a dime\" from the partnership.\n\nThe BBC has approached Virtual Dining Concepts for comment.\n\nDonaldson has previously apologised to fans on Twitter who were disappointed by their food, and said he \"can't get out of\" his deal with the company.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrBeast Burger delivers from more than 1,000 so-called \"ghost kitchens\" worldwide.\n\nAlso known as dark kitchens or virtual restaurants, these are food delivery services which operate out of the kitchens of other businesses.\n\nFor example, in early 2022 fans in London could have a MrBeast Burger delivered to them from Shoreditch, in the east of the city, where it was made in the kitchen of a different burger joint - Dirty Bones.\n\nIt drew national media attention in September 2022, when Donaldson filled a shopping centre in the US with thousands of fans for the opening of his first bricks-and-mortar burger restaurant.\n\nFans queued for hours for a burger, and a chance to meet him at the location, in New Jersey.\n\nDonaldson has the second-largest YouTube channel in the world, and is the most-subscribed individual creator on the platform.\n\nThe only channel bigger than his belongs to Indian record label T-Series, which features thousands of Hindi-language music videos.\n\nIn 2021, he launched a separate philanthropy-themed YouTube channel, which itself has more than 10 million subscribers, and he has a licensed charity that functions as a food bank to feed communities across the US.", "A couple in the Philippines have pressed ahead with their wedding, despite flooding in the wake of Typhoon Doksuri on Sunday.\n\nGuests and family members could be seen wading through floodwaters in gumboots and sandals at the Barasoain Church in Malolos.\n\nTyphoon Doksuri, known locally as Egay, as well as Typhoon Falcon have strengthened monsoon rains in the region and caused flooding in many parts of the province of Bulacan.", "Two teenagers suffered \"horrific\" electrocution injuries after separate incidents on Scotland's railways over the weekend.\n\nOn Saturday a 14-year-old boy climbed on top of a stationary freight train in North Lanarkshire and touched the overhead line.\n\nAnd on Sunday a 17-year-old boy was found seriously injured on a footpath close to a line in Edinburgh.\n\nDet Chief Insp Marc Francey said: \"In just over 24 hours this weekend two young people have sustained horrific injuries after taking unnecessary risks on the railway.\"\n\nThe first incident happened at about 21:00 on Saturday between Carfin and Holytown.\n\nOfficers said the teenager's injuries were believed to be life-changing and he remains in hospital in a serious condition.\n\nThe following day, at about 22:40, a teenager was discovered by a member of the public in Murrayfield.\n\nIt is believed he sustained his injuries, which were also described as life-changing, after gaining access to the tracks.\n\nHe is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.\n\nBTP said officers were supporting the families of both victims.\n\nDet Chief Insp Francey added: \"It should be abundantly clear from these two tragic incidents that the railway is not a playground.\n\n\"Modern trains can almost silently reach speeds of 125mph, and the overheard lines are powered by extremely high currents of electricity 24 hours day, which can kill instantly or result in catastrophic, life-changing injuries.\"\n\nHe urged parents and carers to speak to children about the dangers as soon as possible and encourage them to stay off the tracks.\n\nThe officer added that BTP and Network Rail's You vs Train campaign highlighted the devastating consequences of trespassing on the railway.\n\nIn May a 16-year-old boy was electrocuted by overhead lines after he fell from the roof of Edinburgh Waverley railway station.\n\nThe teenager was seriously injured following the incident, which happened near the entrance on Waverley Bridge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MP Margaret Ferrier has been unseated after a recall petition\n\nAn MP who was suspended for breaking Covid lockdown rules has lost her seat after a vote by constituents.\n\nA by-election will now take place after 11,896 people in Rutherglen and Hamilton West signed a petition to remove Margaret Ferrier from office.\n\nShe had sat as an independent MP after being kicked out of the SNP in 2020.\n\nFerrier travelled to London and spoke in the Commons while awaiting the result of a Covid test, then got a train home after testing positive.\n\nThe petition to remove her was signed by almost 15% of the 81,124 eligible constituents, passing the 10% threshold which triggers a by-election.\n\nMs Ferrier confirmed on Tuesday that she would not seek re-election.\n\nIn a statement the MP said: \"I respect the outcome of the petition.\n\n\"It has been the privilege of my life to serve as the Member of Parliament for Rutherglen & Hamilton West. I have always put my job and my constituents first, and I am disappointed that this will now come to an end.\n\n\"I decided some time ago that I would not stand in the upcoming by-election. This has been a difficult and taxing process that has now come to its conclusion and I do not wish to prolong it further.\"\n\nCampaigning in the seat has really already begun, with the SNP and Labour having selected candidates for an expected by-election months ago.\n\nNo date has yet been set for the vote, but the earliest it could happen is 5 October.\n\nFerrier had taken a Covid test on Saturday 26 September 2020 after noticing what she described as a \"tickly throat\".\n\nWhile awaiting her results, she went to church on the Sunday and gave a reading to the congregation. She later spent more than two hours in a bar in Prestwick, Ayrshire.\n\nThe next day, Monday 28 September, she travelled to London by train - which had 183 passengers on board - and spoke in the Commons before finding out a short time later that she had tested positive for the virus.\n\nFerrier decided to get a train back to Glasgow the following day, fearing she would have to self-isolate in a London hotel room for two weeks.\n\nShe was arrested and charged with culpable and reckless conduct in January 2021 and pleaded guilty last August. A month later she was ordered to carry out 270 hours of community service.\n\nLabour and the SNP have both been campaigning in Rutherglen and Hamilton West for months already. But now the vacancy is official, expect things to kick up a gear.\n\nThis is a race which could have UK-wide ramifications, as a measure of Labour's prospects under Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nIf he is to enter Downing Street, he needs to win this sort of seat - under 10% majority, sited in a former heartland - and a result here would build crucial momentum.\n\nIt is also a test of how flexible his party can be. Its UK-wide messaging is chiefly aimed at winning contests against the Conservatives in England, but the SNP is hoping to outflank it on the left in Scotland.\n\nIt is also an early test of Humza Yousaf's leadership of the SNP.\n\nHe ran for the job as the Nicola Sturgeon continuity candidate, before ripping up key parts of her policy agenda. Can he replicate her record of electoral success?\n\nThe SNP is already putting independence front and centre of its campaign, and it will be interesting to see if the constitution continues to dominate as a political topic even as Labour endeavour to talk about just about anything else.\n\nThe Commons' standards committee recommended in March that Ferrier should be suspended, a decision which was upheld by an independent expert panel after she lodged an appeal.\n\nMPs then voted to suspend Ferrier from the Commons for 30 days, a decision which automatically triggered the recall motion.\n\nThe recall petition, which was the first to be held in Scotland, ran from 20 June to 31 July.\n\nThe seat became vacant at the moment the petition officer, who oversaw the count, informed the Speaker of the House of Commons of the result.\n\nThe date for the by-election will be set when parliament resumes in September.\n\nMargaret Ferrier sat as an independent MP after losing the SNP whip\n\nRecent polling has suggested that the SNP's lead over Labour in Scotland has narrowed in the wake of Nicola Sturgeon standing down as first minister and the ongoing police investigation into the SNP's finances.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf, the SNP leader, has previously admitted that the circumstances in Rutherglen and Hamilton West are \"challenging\" for his party - but that it has \"solid support\".\n\nAfter the result of the recall petition was announced, he said: \"At every stage of this campaign, the SNP will promote the interests and needs of all the people of Rutherglen and Hamilton West.\n\n\"By contrast, Labour in Scotland is a mere branch office, doing the bidding of their bosses at Westminster.\"\n\nBut Scottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie said people in the constituency had \"made their voices heard and demanded change\".\n\nShe added: \"For far too long the area has been failed - let down by two incompetent governments and left voiceless in parliament by their rule-breaking MP.\"\n\nMs Baillie said a by-election should be held at the earliest opportunity so that \"Rutherglen and Hamilton West can get the representation it deserves as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' deputy leader, Meghan Gallacher, said constituents had delivered \"a very clear verdict\" on Margaret Ferrier's \"reckless and selfish actions at the height of the pandemic\".\n\nShe said the SNP was \"engulfed in chaos\" and that Scottish Labour was \"too weak to stand up to them on an overwhelming number of issues\".\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat MSP Willie Rennie said people in the area deserved fresh representation and were \"fed up of being neglected by the nationalists\".\n\nThe Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), the body which regulates MPs' pay and pensions, confirmed to the BBC that Ferrier is not eligible for any payoff for leaving parliament.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Ron DeSantis was once seen as a Trump successor but he now polls 37 points behind the former president Image caption: Ron DeSantis was once seen as a Trump successor but he now polls 37 points behind the former president\n\nPaul Dodd asks why the Republican Party has not put up a strong alternative for the 2024 presidential nomination, with all the money it has in hand.\n\nRepublican voters are looking for a fighter in 2024 and many continue to see Donald Trump as a proven commodity in that regard.\n\nLet's also not forget that Trump used his time in office to help elevate to power those who supported him and to help push out those who opposed him. Republicans in both chambers of the US Congress, and in key positions within the Republican National Committee, which oversees the nominating process, are significantly 'Trumpier' now than when he first came to Washington.\n\nIn the mid-term elections last November, several Trump-backed candidates were rejected by voters, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was resoundingly re-elected to a second term in his post. Many in the party used those results to argue the 44-year-old could take the baton as the next conservative warrior.\n\nBut Trump's mounting legal troubles have proven an effective rallying cry for a voting base that believes he has been unfairly persecuted. Or as Trump puts it: \"They're coming after you - and I'm just standing in their way.\"\n\nAt the same time DeSantis has badly stumbled on the campaign trail, leading both potential voters and donors to reconsider supporting him. And like most of the other candidates in the 2024 race, he has largely defended Trump after each indictment rather than risk angering Trump supporters who may be looking for an alternative.\n\nAnti-Trump candidates like Chris Christie have gained little traction, either.", "The test images bristle with stars despite portraying tiny sections of space - fractions smaller than the part of the night sky occupied by the Moon\n\nEurope's new space telescope, Euclid, has returned its first images.\n\nEngineers switched on the cameras of the €1.4bn (£1.2bn) observatory to begin a phase of testing and captured a wide vista of stars and galaxies.\n\nOnce properly set up, Euclid will start building a 3D map of the cosmos in an effort to tie down the nature of so-called dark matter and dark energy.\n\nTogether, these phenomena appear to control the shape and expansion of everything we see out there.\n\nQuite what they are, however, is highly uncertain.\n\nNeither dark matter nor dark energy are directly detectable, which means Euclid will have to use roundabout methods to glimpse their properties.\n\nThe telescope was launched on 1 July from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.\n\nIt was despatched to an observing position about 1.5 million km from Earth on its night side - a popular location for space observatories because it sits in a gravitational sweetspot that means less fuel is needed to keep a craft on-station.\n\nThis place, known as the \"2nd Lagrange Point\", also doesn't suffer from the swings in light and temperature experienced by telescopes orbiting close to Earth.\n\nThe new super-space telescope James Webb is another inhabitant of this parking spot.\n\nThe test images released by the European Space Agency on Monday come from both of Euclid's cameras.\n\nThere are a lot of streaks in the VIS imagery caused by cosmic rays. They can be eliminated\n\nIt's got a visible light (the light our eyes sense) instrument, called simply VIS; and an infrared (longer wavelength light than our eyes will sense) instrument referred to as NISP, or Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer.\n\nThe sample pictures from both cameras contain countless stars and galaxies, even though they are tracing a patch on the sky that is smaller than the full Moon.\n\nInterestingly, if you look closely at the VIS imagery, you can see lots of little streaks. These are tracks left by high energy particles, or cosmic rays. They strike the camera's detectors at all angles to leave lines of various lengths.\n\nWhen Euclid commences its 3D survey, scientists will remove these artefacts by stacking several exposures on top of each other.\n\nThe European Space Agency says mission managers had a bit of a scare when they first examined the VIS pictures because it was evident stray sunlight was getting into the camera through some gap in the hardware. By turning the space observatory, they were able to block the contaminating light.\n\nThe issue should not affect Euclid's survey, provided the telescope is only used in specific orientations.\n\nEngineers have several more months of commissioning before the telescope can be released to go after its two targets.\n\nDark matter is the matter that cannot be detected directly but which astronomers know to be there because of its gravitational effects on the matter we can see.\n\nGalaxies, for example, could not hold their shape were it not for the presence of some additional \"scaffolding\". This is presumed to be dark matter - whatever that is.\n\nAlthough this material cannot be seen directly, the telescope can plot its distribution by looking for the subtle way its mass distorts the light coming from distant galaxies.\n\nDark energy is a very different concept from dark matter.\n\nThis mysterious \"force\" appears to be accelerating the expansion of the Universe. Recognition of its existence and effect in 1998 earned three scientists a Nobel Prize.\n\nEuclid will investigate the phenomenon by mapping the three-dimensional distribution of galaxies.\n\nThe patterns in the great voids that exist between these objects can be used as a kind of \"yardstick\" to measure the expansion through time.\n\nEuclid won't be able to say definitively \"this is the nature of dark matter and dark energy\", but what it should do is narrow the scope of the models and ideas that flood current thinking. It will focus the attention of theorists and experimentalists.\n\nThe development of the VIS instrument was led from the UK.\n\nArtwork: Euclid has been given six years to assemble its 3D map of one-third of the sky", "A major shake-up of the way alcohol is taxed could leave many drinks costing more from Tuesday.\n\nUnder what the Treasury says are new \"common-sense\" principles, tax is being levied according to a drink's strength.\n\nDuty will increase overall, with most wines and spirits seeing rises, but will fall on lower-alcohol drinks and most sparkling wine.\n\nTaxes on draught pints will not change, an additional measure designed to support pubs.\n\nAlcohol duties have been frozen since 2020. These changes were originally scheduled for February this year but were postponed by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as the cost-of-living crisis continued.\n\nNow with prices still rising, though at a slower rate, the government is going ahead with a 10.1% rise in alcohol duties, and is also overhauling the system.\n\nDrinks with alcohol by volume (ABV) below 3.5% will be taxed at a lower rate, but tax on drinks with ABV over 8.5% will be taxed at the same rate, whether it is wine, spirit or beer.\n\nAs a result, sparkling wine, which was previously taxed at a higher rate than still wine, will be 19p cheaper, for a standard-strength bottle, if retailers pass on the tax changes by lowering prices. A can of pre-mixed gin and tonic would be 5p cheaper.\n\nTax on a typical bottle of still wine with ABV 12% will go up by 44p, but on wine with 15% ABV, tax will rise by 98p, according to the Wine and Spirits Trade Association (WSTA).\n\nSpirits and fortified wines, such as sherry and port, will see steep rises.\n\n\"The changes we're making to the way we tax alcohol catapults us into the 21st century, reflecting the popularity of low-alcohol drinks and boosting growth in the sector by supporting small producers financially,\" the chancellor said.\n\nThe government said the new system of duties had been made possible by the UK's departure from the EU, and that it would support \"wider UK tax and public health objectives\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said lower duties on draught beers and ciders would \"reduce the price of a pint\" and support pubs.\n\nTax on draught beer in pubs will be up to 11p lower than tax on supermarket beer as a result of the changes - a measure that was announced in the Budget earlier this year.\n\nWilliam Robinson, managing director of Robinson Brewery, which operates 250 pubs, welcomed the difference in draught beer duty between pubs and supermarkets but said rising tax on other alcoholic drinks could be passed on to customers.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is clearly a benefit there of a lower duty rate on pubs but what will be going up is wines and spirits, they will be increasing…we'll have to all work out how we manage to pass those increases on to the consumer or how we can hold those increases and absorb them.\"\n\nHe said he thought individual businesses would take their own view. \"At the end of the day, duty is a tax. It isn't a cost of goods so it is very hard to work out how you can absorb all of that,\" he said. \"Ultimately and generally, duty is simply passed through because it is form of tax collection.\"\n\nThe WSTA said the measures represented the biggest tax rise on a standard bottle of wine for nearly 50 years.\n\nThe trade association said the government had chosen to \"impose more inflationary misery on consumers\".\n\nIt warned that other economic pressures, including high inflation and \"rocketing prices\" for glass, would mean that many businesses, especially smaller firms, would not be able to stay afloat following these changes.\n\n\"Ultimately, the government's new duty regime discriminates against premium spirits and wine more than other products,\" WSTA chief executive Miles Beale said.\n\nWine from hotter countries, where the sun naturally produces higher alcohol content, would be penalised, he added.\n\nThe overhaul of alcohol excise is being introduced in two stages, with a second adjustment coming in February 2025, which will apply a full sliding scale of tax levels according to alcohol content.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said its latest monthly survey of shop prices showed that prices were rising more slowly in July (at 7.6%), compared to June when they were rising at 8.4%.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drone attacks on the Russian capital, regardless of who launched them and from where, are the most graphic reminder yet to Russians that President Putin’s war is reaping the exact opposite to what it was intended to achieve.\n\nBack in February 2022, when the invasion was presented as a \"special military operation\", the Kremlin announced it was essential in order to make the homeland safer. That is now patently untrue.\n\nThe drone attacks hitting Moscow are still miniscule in comparison to the daily bombardments heaped on Ukraine with a lethal combination of Russian and Iranian drones, missiles and glide bombs.\n\nYet they come on the back of a palpable shift in the strategic chessboard on Russia’s borders. Finland, historically neutral, has joined Nato, Sweden will be next and eventually quite possibly Ukraine.\n\nPoland, which shares a border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has embarked on a massive expansion of its armed forces, while Nato is looking to bolster its rapid reaction units in the Baltic states.\n\nNato is adamant that its actions are precautionary and defensive, that it has no intention of attacking Russia or its ally, Belarus. Yet the net effect of 18 months of attritional war in Ukraine will be to only increase the Kremlin’s paranoia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA British man freed by a Cypriot court after being sentenced for killing his seriously ill wife has said he could not find words to describe his release.\n\nDavid Hunter was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Janice, 74, in an assisted suicide at their Paphos home in 2021 and jailed for two years.\n\nThe ex-miner, 76, from Northumberland, was freed after spending 19 months in custody awaiting trial.\n\nOutside court Hunter thanked his colliery \"family\" for their support.\n\nHe had told the trial his wife had \"cried and begged\" him to end her life as she suffered from blood cancer.\n\nDavid and Janice Hunter retired to Cyprus 20 years ago, living near the resort of Paphos\n\nOn the steps of Paphos District Court, he told the BBC: \"I'd like to say thank you to all the people who've donated to me, and especially my mates and my workmates.\n\n\"I don't know where I would be without them. When you work in a colliery, you're a family.\"\n\nAsked how he was feeling, he said: \"I can't describe it. I'm sorry. I wish I could, I wish I could find words to describe it, but I can't.\n\n\"When you're under pressure for two years, not knowing which way it's going to go.\"\n\nHunter spoke to the media outside court after he was released from custody\n\nHis legal team had argued he should be given a suspended sentence, in a case which was a court first in the country.\n\nThey had initially suggested he would be released by 18 August, but prison authorities freed him on Monday after they officially calculated his release date.\n\nIn mitigation last week, his defence lawyer Ritsa Pekri said his motive was to \"liberate his wife from all that she was going through due to her health conditions\".\n\nThe court heard it was Mrs Hunter's \"wish\" to die and that her husband \"had only feelings of love for her\".\n\nHunter, who was originally from Ashington, said he would \"never in a million years\" have suffocated his wife of 52 years unless she had asked him to.\n\nHe showed the court how he held his hands over Mrs Hunter's mouth and nose and said he eventually decided to grant her her wish after she became \"hysterical\".\n\nThe court heard he then tried to kill himself by taking an overdose, but paramedics arrived in time to save him.\n\nThe couple were married for more than 50 years\n\nPreviously state prosecutor Andreas Hadjikyrou had told the BBC Hunter killed his wife for \"selfish motives\", adding: \"It's himself he was taking care of.\"\n\nHe had told the court Janice died from asphyxiation, telling three judges it was a \"horrible death\" and her end was \"not painless or peaceful\".\n\nProsecutors said Janice still went to the hairdresser every fortnight which, they said, proved she had a social life and took care of herself.\n\nSentencing Hunter, judge Michalis Droussiotis said the court was \"not facing a typical case\".\n\n\"This is a crime that goes against human life, which is the highest virtue. Taking it is a crime,\" he said.\n\n\"Before us is a unique case of taking human life on the basis of feelings of love, with the aim of relieving the person of their suffering that came due to their illness.\"\n\nWhen David Hunter walked into court he told me \"It's the most nervous I've ever been\". But he seemed happier and chattier than he'd been before.\n\nAfter last week's manslaughter verdict, the fear of a life sentence was behind him. Today, there was hope.\n\nThen, after a 30-minute hearing, the judges told him he'd be sentenced to two years in prison, but take into account the time he'd already spent in custody.\n\nThere was confusion. His lawyers started calculating when he would be released. They confirmed a deadline of 18 August but a short while later, something extraordinary happened. David Hunter walked free.\n\nSlowly and steadily, he made his way out on to the court steps and said he hoped his family back in the UK were feeling the same way he was. They were.\n\nHis daughter Lesley told me: \"I'm in tears and speechless.\" She'd even managed a video call with him. \"He told me he loved me,\" she said, \"and not to worry, because everything will be OK.\"\n\nHunter killed Janice at the home they shared near Paphos\n\nThe couple's daughter, Lesley Cawthorne, from Norfolk, described the past 19 months as a \"living nightmare\" for the family.\n\n\"I thought I'd lost him forever. I cannot believe it. It's amazing. I just didn't think, after the way the case has gone, that this was possible,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm elated and relieved that my darling dad has been released. Today is the start of us being able to rebuild our lives.\n\n\"Dad's release also means we can finally grieve for my mum and I hope everyone can respect our privacy whilst we take the time to come to terms with her loss.\n\n\"So many people have worked hard and supported our efforts to bring my dad home, too many to mention but you know who you are and you know you have our deepest gratitude.\"\n\nAfter talking to her father over the phone, Ms Cawthorne added: \"Speaking to my daddy was the most amazing thing. I feel like my heart has been put back together.\"\n\nShe said she believes that, rather than returning to the UK immediately, her father will stay in Cyprus so he can visit his wife's grave and \"say his goodbyes properly\".\n\nMrs Hunter is buried a short distance away from the couple's former home in Tremithousa - a quiet village about three miles from the coastal town of Paphos.\n\nHunter has not been able to visit his wife's grave since she died\n\nMichael Polak from Justice Abroad, which has been representing Hunter, said the sentencing had not been straightforward \"given that a case like this has never come before the courts of Cyprus before\".\n\nHe added his client's release was \"everything we were hoping for\".\n\n\"He was facing a charge of premeditated murder, which carries a life sentence which would have resulted in [him] dying in prison here in Cyprus. Then two weeks ago he was found guilty of manslaughter,\" he said.\n\n\"The judge gave a very balanced view of the case [today], talking about the sanctity of life but also speaking about the particular circumstances of this case.\n\n\"They'd been together for over 50 years. It was a loving relationship.\n\n\"When you've got someone there asking you to end their life because they're in so much pain, to make that decision must have been immensely difficult.\n\n\"It's a decision that we all hope we're never going to have to make in our own lives.\"\n\nA plea deal, which would have seen Hunter admit manslaughter, was agreed with prosecutors in November but the murder trial went ahead after a U-turn by Cypriot authorities.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Commander John Holmes (left) helped to rescue 28 calves that had fallen into a slurry tank\n\nA firefighter whose retirement party was put on hold as he helped rescue 28 calves from a slurry tank has said it was \"no bother at all\".\n\nColleagues of Commander John Holmes were planning to toast his retirement from Newcastle fire station in County Down, after 42 years of service.\n\nBut at about 17:30 BST on Monday officers received a call to 28 calves trapped in a slurry tank near Cullyhanna, County Armagh.\n\nIt meant he missed the barbecue organised at Newcastle Fire Station, where he was due to receive a certificate.\n\n\"I didn't hesitate to go to the incident - it was no bother at all,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I love animals and I wanted to help them - we have helped rescue hundreds of animals over the years.\n\n\"I was on call and was not to be finished until midnight that night.\n\n\"I went down into the slurry tank with two others to get the final 10 calves.\n\n\"We were wearing the right overalls and breathing apparatus - the fumes would have killed you otherwise. My colleagues were shocked to see me.\"\n\nRescuing the calves was not the final task for Commander Holmes.\n\n\"I got another call at 20 past 11 that night in Newcastle,\" he said.\n\n\"A faulty smoke alarm went off - I still had to turn out just in case - and I left my shift at half past midnight.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said Commander Holmes' rescue mission in Cullyhanna was \"testament to his 42 years of dedicated service\".\n\n\"John took charge of the animal rescue team, playing a central hands-on role in the safe and successful rescue of every one of the 28 calves,\" said NIFRS, on social media.\n\nCommander Holmes hailed the camaraderie forged over four decades as a firefighter and recalled being honoured for saving a man's life, in tandem with his brother, following a chip pan fire.\n\n\"In 1988, I received a chief fire officer's commendation for live rescue - both myself and my brother Derek saved a man's life without having breathing apparatus,\" Commander Holmes added.\n\n\"The man was lying over a coffee table after a chip pan fire, he had gone to sleep.\n\n\"He is still alive today.\"\n\nCommander Holmes added: \"I love the job, it is about helping people in the local community.\n\n\"You give up a lot to do the job, it is an inner pride.\"\n\nCommander Holmes and his colleagues will instead celebrate next week\n\nThe retirement presentation for Commander Holmes has now been rescheduled.\n\n\"I am looking forward to spending more time with my wife, she was part of it too,\" he said.\n\n\"Next Monday, we will have the leaving barbecue again - providing there are no fire calls.\"", "A husband and wife are on the verge of opening a spaceport on a tiny island.\n\nFrank and Debbie Strang bought a former RAF radar station on Unst in Shetland about 15 years ago with an idea to turn it into an eco-tourism attraction.\n\nBut the plan changed when the UK government was looking for potential sites for vertical launches of small rockets carrying satellites.\n\nThe Strangs could now be just weeks away from seeing the site secure a spaceport licence.\n\nBy next summer, they hope that three rocket launches will have been completed at the facility on UK's most northerly inhabited island, which is home to fewer than 700 people.\n\nThe site, and overall project, is today owned by SaxaVord Spaceport, which was set up as a stand-alone company with the Strangs as founder shareholders. It now has 400 shareholders and more than 80 staff.\n\nFrank is the chief executive and Debbie runs visitor management, while a team of people from engineers to stewards is working towards getting the spaceport operational.\n\n\"I never thought I would be involved in space,\" Debbie said.\n\n\"Even though we are five years into the journey, I still find it surreal but incredibly exciting that we are working on this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrank added: \"We have fought and bit and scratched to get to the point where we are at now, with the help of an awful lot of people.\n\n\"It's been a long journey, but as my granny would have said: nothing comes easy.\"\n\nThe couple met when they were RAF officers serving at Lossiemouth air station in Moray, on Scotland's north-east coast.\n\nDebbie, 58, is originally from Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, while Frank, 65, hails from Dornoch.\n\nThey bought SaxaVord radar station for an undisclosed sum at a time when the Ministry of Defence was shutting down and selling off land and properties.\n\nThe couple's original vision was to create a visitor attraction to support Shetlands' wildlife and eco-tourism.\n\nGerman company Rocket Factory Augsburg could launch from the site early next year\n\nBut then the UK government's Pathfinder mission to create spaceports across the UK opened up a new opportunity.\n\nWith help from Shetland Islands Council, the Strangs gauged industry interest in a spaceport on Unst before starting the hard work of persuading Shetlanders, planners and investors to come onboard.\n\nFrank said: \"The biggest challenge was people believing that we were real.\n\n\"Gaining planning permission was a long process, but once we got through that work started immediately.\"\n\nDebbie added: \"I think the biggest challenge, and it continues to affect us daily, is that every element of the spaceport development is being done for the first time, and there is no UK pool of people from which to recruit.\n\n\"To overcome this we have recruited very able people with transferable skills who are adaptable, determined and patient to work with the myriad of public agencies to find out how we plan, develop and build the spaceport.\n\n\"They are an incredible team of professionals and the company has a skillset and knowledge that would be difficult to find anywhere else.\"\n\nSaxaVord Spaceport is mostly privately funded, with investors including Danish billionaire and Highland landowner Anders Holch Povlsen's company Wild Ventures Ltd. Mr Povlsen opposed a similar spaceport plan near his Highland estate in Sutherland on environmental grounds.\n\nTo date, the project has secured £20m in equity, £10m in debt and loans, along with a large development bond.\n\nThe spaceport's workforce has grown from six to 82 full-time roles, with more than 30% of the staff coming from Shetland.\n\nNext year there could be as many as 130 people working at the site.\n\nWithin the next four to six weeks, the project hopes to reach a crucial milestone by gaining a spaceport licence.\n\nFurther licences will be needed for launches, rockets and satellites.\n\nFour other spaceports are planned for Scotland - Space Hub Sutherland in the Highlands, Spaceport 1 in the Western Isles, Prestwick Spaceport in South Ayrshire and Spaceport Machrihanish in Argyll.\n\nElsewhere in the UK, there is Spaceport Cornwall in south west England and plans for Spaceport Snowdonia in Wales.\n\nThe first launch from Unst is expected to take place by the end of this year.\n\nIt will be a test mission to send a rocket made by German company HyImpulse up to a height of 29 miles (47km).\n\nAnother German company, Rocket Factory Ausburg (RFA), is planning an orbital launch early next year, followed by a Lockheed Martin/ABL Space Systems launch later in 2024.\n\nSome testing has already been possible at the site ahead of planned launches\n\nSatellites put into orbit around the Earth could be used for communications and monitoring climate change.\n\nRocket engine tests have already been conducted on a completed launch pad.\n\n\"At the moment we take one step at a time,\" Debbie said.\n\n\"While the launch is the vision that the whole team works towards, it is still difficult to imagine being in Unst, listening to the countdown and waiting for a safe and successful launch.\"\n\nGetting to the most northern point in the UK is a bit of a mission in itself……a flight from mainland UK - then one ferry and then another ferry before you arrive in Unst.\n\nHowever it's remoteness is one of the reasons Unst could soon be something of a super highway into space.\n\nFrank Strang and I are standing on the very top of launch pad Fredo, named after the late son of Anders Povlsen, one of the spaceport's biggest investors.\n\nOne day soon they hope a rocket will launch into space from this very spot, carrying small satellites which could be used to improve connectivity or monitor climate patterns.\n\nSurrounded by miles of water and with relatively quiet airspace, Unst, he says is in the goldilocks position. Just right.\n\nBut as others have shown, successfully getting rockets into space is a tricky business and the team still need the correct permissions from the civil aviation authority before they can even try.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Islanders in Orkney are set to get mail deliveries much quicker\n\nOrkney has become the first location in the UK to have mail delivered by drone.\n\nThe Orkney I-Port operation has been launched by Royal Mail and drone firm Skyports to distribute letters and parcels between the islands.\n\nIn partnership with the council's harbour authority and Loganair, mail will be transported from Royal Mail's Kirkwall delivery office to Stromness.\n\nFrom there, drones will carry items to Graemsay and Hoy where postal staff will complete their delivery routes.\n\nWhile the service will initially operate for three months, it could be continued on a permanent basis under existing regulatory frameworks due to Orkney's unique landscape and the proximity of the islands to one another.\n\nThe drone service is expected to significantly improve service levels and delivery times to Graemsay and Hoy, as weather and geography can cause disruption to delivery services.\n\nThe use of electric drones for inter-island delivery will also bring significant safety improvements by ensuring postal workers can deliver between ports without risk.\n\nThe fully electric drones will take mail between the islands, where staff will complete their usual delivery routes\n\nSkyports will conduct the inter-island flights with the Speedbird Aero DLV-2 aircraft. The multirotor drone is capable of carrying payloads of up to 6kg (1st).\n\nThe project has been funded by the Department for Transport's Freight Innovation Fund and carried out by the Connected Places Catapult.\n\nChris Paxton, head of drone trials at Royal Mail, said: \"We are proud to be working with Skyports to deliver via drone to some of the most remote communities that we serve in the UK.\n\n\"Using a fully electric drone supports Royal Mail's continued drive to reduce emissions associated with our operations, whilst connecting the island communities we deliver to.\"\n\nThe drones will improve service levels and delivery times\n\nAlex Brown, director of Skyports Drone Services, said: \"By leveraging drone technology, we are revolutionising mail services in remote communities, providing more efficient and timely delivery, and helping to reduce the requirement for emissions-producing vehicles.\n\n\"We're pleased to be once again partnering with Royal Mail to demonstrate how drone operations can benefit UK logistics on this project.\"", "Video from China’s Sichuan Province shows a giant panda suffering a bout of the hiccups.\n\nThe animal was filmed at Wolong Shenshuping panda base, in Sichuan province, a world-leading centre in Panda conservation efforts.", "The spa (the C-shaped building to the right of the pond) is at the home where Capt Sir Tom Moore walked 100 laps of the garden in 2020, raising £33m for NHS Charities Together\n\nThe family of Capt Sir Tom Moore has defended an unauthorised home spa which has been ordered to be demolished.\n\nThe veteran fundraiser's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband used the Captain Tom Foundation name on the first plans for the building, with revised plans then turned down.\n\nThe demolition order is subject to an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.\n\nIn planning documents, the family said the structure was \"no more overbearing than the consented scheme\".\n\nThe Army veteran walked 100 laps of his garden in Marston Mortaine, Bedfordshire, at the start of the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020, raising £33m for NHS Charities Together.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, died in 2021 aged 100.\n\nAfter he became an international figure, his family set up a separate charity in his name.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore became famous for his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown\n\nThe Ingram-Moores requested planning permission for a \"Captain Tom Foundation Building\", which was \"for use by occupiers... and Captain Tom Foundation\", according to documents submitted to Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) in August 2021.\n\nThe local authority granted permission for the single-storey structure to be built on the tennis courts at the Grade II-listed home.\n\nThen, in February 2022, the family submitted revised plans for the already partly constructed building, which called it the \"Captain Tom Building\".\n\nThe plans included a spa pool, toilets and a kitchen, which the Design & Access and Heritage Statement said was \"for private use\".\n\nIn November 2022, Central Bedfordshire Council refused the retrospective planning permission for the revised plans.\n\nResidents overlooked by the building have labelled it an \"eyesore\".\n\nThe charity fundraiser died in 2021 at the age of 100\n\nBut in documents submitted for the Planning Inspectorate appeal, Colin Ingram-Moore said: \"The subject building is no more overbearing than the consented scheme.\n\n\"The view is virtually identical save for a pitch roof being added to the elevational treatment. The heights are the same. As such there cannot be an unacceptable overbearing impact.\"\n\nMr Ingram-Moore said there were \"no grounds supporting the refusal of the retrospective application\" and asked the Inspectorate to uphold their appeal.\n\nIn the council's legal papers, it states its belief that there were \"significant differences\" between the approved and constructed buildings and that the authority \"does not consider that the requirement to demolish the building is excessive\".\n\nIt said the council considered \"that the size and scale of the unauthorised building have an adverse impact on the amenity of the neighbouring dwellings\".\n\nIt said reports detail \"the harm caused to the setting of the listed building and, in particular, the significant difference between the two schemes that arises from the lack of sufficient public benefit that has been proposed in respect of the unauthorised building\".\n\nA date for the Planning Inspectorate appeal hearing has yet to be set.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Weather warnings are in place across England and Wales on Wednesday as the UK's wet and windy weather continues.\n\nA yellow alert for storms stretching from London to Manchester, covering much of the Midlands and Wales, will last from 09:00 to 19:00 BST.\n\nAnother yellow warning is in place throughout the day for strong wind due to hit the south coast of England.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed last month was one of the wettest Julys on record, according to provisional data.\n\nIt said the UK had its sixth rainiest July since data started being collected, and its wettest since 2009, with 140.1mm of rainfall, more than two thirds higher than the average for this time of year.\n\nNorthern Ireland has had its wettest July on record, the Met Office data shows. The region saw more than double its average rainfall (185.4mm).\n\nAnd Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside also saw their wettest July since records began, all seeing long periods of rain.\n\nRain, wind and cool temperatures have dominated the forecast in recent weeks - in stark contrast to the dangerous heatwave sweeping much of Europe.\n\nMeteorologists say the wet and cool weather is due to the position of the jet stream, a core of strong winds sitting about five to seven miles above the Earth's surface, and which dictate much of the UK's weather.\n\nThe jet stream marks the boundary of cold air to the north in the polar regions and hot air to the south, a contrast which produces pressure differences.\n\nLast year, the jet stream was positioned further north, so the UK saw warm and dry weather created by the high-pressure system sitting over the country.\n\nBut this month, the jet stream has been stuck to the south of the UK, meaning its low-pressure system has been bringing cold and wet weather.\n\nThe weather has forced some summer festivals and events to cancel in recent weeks, including the Tiree Music Festival, a folk event held on the island of Tiree off Scotland's west coast.\n\nAround 600 members of staff, volunteers and ticket holders were already on the remote island when powerful winds meant it had to be cancelled at the last minute.\n\nCo-founder Daniel Gillespie told BBC News: \"We thought we might be able to be able to continue but once the winds strengthened and forecasts got worse, we had to start to evacuate.\n\n\"The festival takes a year of planning and then it all goes down the drain in a matter of days, but we had a good plan in place.\n\n\"We also had families on the island turning up to the site in their cars and taking campers home to crash on their couches.\"\n\nHe said he was confident the event will be back next year, but said cancellations have knock-on impacts for performers and businesses and called predictions of more extreme summer weather in the future \"concerning\" for people who organise outdoor events.\n\nA number of local events have been forced to cancel, including the Penarth Summer Festival in south Wales, which attracts visitors from around the UK for its downhill homemade go-kart race.\n\nNick McDonald from Penarth Town Council said the 60-year-old festival is a boost for local businesses and \"is meant to signal the start of the summer holidays\" - but instead was cancelled because of a weather warning for high winds.\n\nThe wet weather has also hit domestic holidaymakers. Stephen Felce from Hertfordshire said he cancelled his 10-day trip to Cornwall after seeing heavy rain predicted throughout.\n\nThe 79-year-old told the BBC he decided to stay at home because heavy rain was forecast \"on all but two days of 10, and I just thought you can put up with so much, but that's a bit too much.\"\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, said pubs haven't had the \"boost\" of sunny weather this month.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"We hope people will support their local or visit a new pub on their holidays whatever the weather, but we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for more sun before summer's over.\"\n\nA woman shelters under an umbrella during a heavy downpour of rain in Belfast\n\nSome scientists think that higher temperatures due to climate change in the Arctic - which has warmed more than four times faster than the global average - are causing the jet stream to slow, increasing the likelihood of high pressure and hot weather remaining in place.\n\nGlobal warming means hot temperatures and wetter periods will become more typical for the UK.\n\nHotter air is able to hold more moisture - and it falls back to ground in heavy downpours.\n\nA recent study from the UK Met Office and University of Bristol, published in March, found that the intensity of downpours can increase by up to 15% for every degree of global warming.\n\nGlobal temperatures are expected to climb by 2.4C by the end of the century based on projected emissions levels.\n\nWhile the rainfall has eased some of the pressure on natural water sources after last year's droughts and a dry May and June this year, Steve Turner from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology told the BBC that a wet July won't totally replenish rivers and lakes.\n\nHe said: \"This unsettled weather in the short term will have eased the pressure on the environment, but there are some areas still seeing ecological stress following the very dry summer last year.\n\n\"Because the summer last year was so severe, although we have had some rain, it just takes a longer time to replenish that and get back to normal.\"\n\nHe added that intense rainfall can increase the risk of river pollution.\n\n\"After our dry June and now having some more intense rainfall there will have been some run off from the land and potentially some water quality issues but we don't yet have data to confirm this,\" he said.\n\nIreland has seen its wettest July on record, according to provisional data gathered by the Irish Meteorological Service, with more than four times the amount of rain falling this month than in July 2022.", "We love sport because of how it makes us feel.\n\nWithout the feelings, sport is just something that is happening. Someone trying to run fast, some players kicking a ball into a net, someone hitting a ball with a bat.\n\nWe can make a connection with stars we have never met, or are never likely to meet, because of how they make us feel. Andy Murray crying on Centre Court, Chloe Kelly twirling her shirt around her head, Jessica Ennis-Hill's sprint down the home straight on Super Saturday.\n\nWhich brings us to Stuart Broad.\n\nThere might have been better cricketers to play for England. Some have won more World Cups or Ashes series. One man has more wickets.\n\nFew gave us the feels like Broad.\n\nOn Saturday evening Broad had just announced that the fifth Ashes Test would be his last match as a professional cricketer. Speaking to the press, he said: \"I've given my heart and soul. I can't think there'll be too many cricket fans out there who would think I've slacked off for a moment.\"\n\nFor Broad, there were two days left to deliver the feelings. The joy and the nerves, the relief and the tension, the silliness and the sadness.\n\nHe got them all in. Hollywood is on strike so he had to write his own script. The Greatest Showman. Hugh Jackman had even been there watching.\n\nThe Oval is a place for goodbyes. Andrew Flintoff's run-out of Ricky Ponting. Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose arm in arm. Donald Bradman's duck.\n\nThe night before his final day as a cricketer, Broad went for a drink with his old mate Alastair Cook, a man who nailed an Oval farewell like no-one else before him with a century in his final Test innings.\n\nIn the aftermath of his retirement, Cook had recurring dreams about making a comeback, to the point he even contacted some of his former team-mates. Only when he got back in the nets did he decide it was a bad idea.\n\nOn this occasion, Cook looked Broad in the eye and told him he had made the right decision to call time. What Cook couldn't have known was that Broad was about to conjure a finale to rival his own.\n\nBy this point, Broad had already been given a guard of honour by the Australians and swiped what turned out to be his final ball as a Test batter for six.\n\nHowever, that was about as good as it got for England on day four of the fifth Test. As Monday dawned, Australia had given themselves a decent chance of completing a chase of 384, winning the Ashes 3-1 and ruining Broad's farewell. David Warner, of all people, was still batting.\n\nBut if you want a party, Chris Woakes would be the perfect man to organise it. Ever-dependable, he would be the admin on the WhatsApp group, make the buffet and put you in a taxi home after having one drink too many. On this day, it was Woakes' mission to send Broad off in style.\n\nJagging the ball around, bending it to his will, Woakes took the vital wickets of Warner, Usman Khawaja and Steve Smith in his 4-50. Broad was living every minute to the fullest, applauding the crowd each time he went near to the boundary and celebrating the wickets with maniacal gusto.\n\nAt the other end, another fitting farewell was playing out.\n\nMoeen Ali had not explicitly told anyone that this would be his final Test - that's not his style - but we all knew.\n\nThe moment Moeen answered Ben Stokes' SOS to come out of retirement and replace the injured Jack Leach, he set himself on the path to a heroic performance.\n\nIf the return itself was not extraordinary enough, then what came after defied belief. A missed day of training to collect an OBE, a gash in his spinning finger like something from a horror film, a magical cure sent through the post by a fan.\n\nIt is sheer luck for England that Moeen ended the series as their number three and frontline spinner. No other cricketer in the country could have fulfilled the role and his beguiling spell on Monday, ending with 3-76 against an Australia team that have always been his tormentors, was just reward for one of the all-time great comebacks.\n\nIt was the work of Woakes and Moeen that set the stage for Broad. Two wickets to win and Broad with ball in hand. Captain Stokes can say it was because Broad was suited to bowling to the left-handers at the crease, but he would have known the theatre of the moment.\n\nBut all great fairytales have a bad guy and this was no different. Alex Carey had secured his place as persona non grata with his stumping of Jonny Bairstow at Lord's.\n\nHis sidekick was Todd Murphy, a man who wouldn't have been playing had it not been for an injury to Nathan Lyon. The villain and the replacement chipped away, a ninth-wicket partnership to evoke memories of Australia's win in the first Test at Edgbaston.\n\nBroad knew the feeling and knew what to do. Change the bails, change the luck, change the game. Murphy was powerless to stop it. Broad was off and running, The crowd released enough energy to restart Battersea Power Station.\n\nZak Crawley dropped the chance at the finale, but Broad was not to be denied. At Lord's, after he walked out to bat following the fall of Bairstow's wicket, Broad told Carey the stumping was what he would be remembered for.\n\nHe was wrong. Carey will instead be remembered as the man who Broad dismissed with his final ball in Test cricket. Bairstow completed the circle by taking the catch. At the instant the ball hit the gloves, Broad was a former cricketer, but he was running too fast in celebration to notice.\n\nBroad left the field with his arm draped around the shoulders of Moeen, two magnificent servants to English cricket exiting the Test stage for the final time.\n\nAs the teams shook hands, Broad embraced Warner, symbolically ending an era in Ashes cricket. These two sets of players having been doing battle for most of the past 10 years, but plenty won't make the next Ashes in 2025-26 and more still won't be around for the next series in this country in four years.\n\nBroad took off his bowling boots then returned to the middle to be interviewed by his long-time new-ball partner James Anderson.\n\nAt 41, Anderson has seen plenty who came after him leave before him, but this one must really cause pause for thought. It was telling that Anderson bowled only four overs on the final day at The Oval and he must be wondering if he will have the opportunity to go out on his own terms.\n\nThis day, though, belonged to Broad. The man who watched videos of his dad winning the Ashes and continued the family business, playing in 25 consecutive home Ashes Tests and ending with more wickets against Australia than any other Englishman.\n\nWe'll miss the headband, we'll miss the celebrappeals. We'll miss you revving up the crowd and we'll miss your reviews. We'll miss the Nighthawk and we'll miss you switching the bails.\n\nMost of all, we'll miss the feelings.", "Teenagers Farhad (left) and Touheed travelled to Libya via Egypt and Dubai - their family has no news\n\nThousands of Pakistanis are taking the Libya route to seek work in Europe. It involves a boat journey, the perils of which were highlighted when an overcrowded vessel sank off Greece in June with huge loss of life. Of nearly 13,000 Pakistanis who headed for Libya and Egypt this year, most haven't returned - including two teenagers whose last words to their mother were not to worry.\n\nAt the police station in Punjab province it is 35C (95F), humid and still. Sweat runs down our backs; the officer's temple shines with it.\n\nDown a short open corridor, past rooms filled with precariously balanced papers, we are shown a small cell. Sixteen men sit side by side on the cement floor, damp is seeping through the walls, a single fan whirs behind the cell bars, and there is one toilet behind a low wall.\n\nAll these men are alleged to have been involved in human smuggling, the majority directly in connection with the migrant ship that left Libya and sank off Greece on 14 June. Nearly 300 Pakistanis thought to have been on board are missing, feared dead, including the teenagers Farhad, 15, and Touheed, 18.\n\nWe ask if anyone wants to speak. Most avert their eyes, but one man, Husnain Shah, jumps up. This is his third arrest; he has been a smuggler for more than a decade, he says, although he denies he played a large role in the shipwreck off the coast of Greece.\n\nHusnain Shah is one of 16 men sharing a police cell in Punjab - all are alleged to have been involved in human smuggling\n\n\"There is so much unemployment here people show up to our houses and ask us to put them in touch with someone who can take their brothers and sons abroad,\" he says. He believes he has taken thousands of people in his years operating.\n\n\"I started this because there was no other business. I don't have a main role, it's the people who are sitting in Libya who are very big and rich; we don't even get the main share, not even a tenth of the amount.\"\n\nWhen I ask if he feels a sense of guilt at what has happened to those who have died taking these routes, his tone changes.\n\n\"I felt very sorry, we are really ashamed over this. But what can we do? If I don't do this, someone else will do it.\"\n\nLibya is being used as a route by smugglers to get migrants across to Europe on boats\n\nWith the economy teetering on the edge, inflation reaching nearly 40% and the Pakistani rupee dropping in value, many here are looking to go abroad, where even a low salary will likely exceed anything they can earn if they stay.\n\nA survey at the end of last year found that 62% of boys and young men aged 15-24 wanted to leave. While some will try to go legally, others will find alternative routes.\n\nBy its nature, illegal migration is difficult to quantify, but the Pakistani authorities told us that the recent Greek shipwreck did highlight a newly popular route for Pakistanis; flying via Dubai to Egypt or Libya, then taking a large boat from eastern Libya across to Europe.\n\nPakistan now has fewer deportees from other routes, such as across Iran, as fewer people are taking the journeys after countries like Turkey cracked down on illegal arrivals, says Mohammed Alam Shinwari, who is in charge of Pakistan's investigation into what happened with the Greek shipwreck.\n\nHe told the BBC nearly 13,000 people left Pakistan to go to Libya or Egypt in the first six months of 2023, compared with around 7,000 in the whole of 2022. Of those 13,000, 10,000 have not returned.\n\n\"We don't know whether they are still in Libya or if they have gone to any of the European countries.\"\n\nIt seems surprising it has taken the police until the shipwreck to realise how many Pakistanis were taking this route. In February, Pakistanis were on board a ship which sank off the coast of Italy having travelled from Turkey via Libya.\n\nBut Mr Shinwari argues that investigating these routes is complicated when families do not come to the police about what has happened.\n\n\"People don't come forward to complain, instead they will go to out of court settlements,\" he says. \"It becomes very difficult for us to pursue those cases and gather information because that has to come from the families and in most cases they won't tell us.\"\n\nThere are added complications too; many of these travellers he says flew on valid documents with valid visas for Dubai or Egypt, making it hard to stop them. This also means that the journey is more expensive than previous routes - between 2.5-3m rupees (£6,780-8,140; $8,725-10,470) showing the amounts many are willing to pay to get out.\n\nPakistan does work to stop illegal migration; Mr Shinwari tells me that they stopped 19,000 people from going abroad last year as they feared they could be victims of people smuggling, and they had 20,000 Pakistanis deported back.\n\n\"As to how many people are going,\" he says. \"We don't have any idea.\"\n\nSome of those who have made this journey are now stranded in Libya. In one village in Punjab, we stop to speak to one family, but are quickly joined by men from across the area.\n\nSeveral of their young men travelled out to Libya weeks before and are still there. They send their relatives and friends voice notes and videos, begging for more money.\n\nOne father shows us a video of more than 100 men in a windowless room with white walls and white floors. Most of the men are stripped down to their underwear to withstand the heat, several are pleading to the camera to get them out.\n\nFamilies showed the BBC videos of their missing relatives and friends in worrying conditions\n\nThe situation is so confused, their families don't know if they are being still held by smugglers, by Libyan authorities or by someone else. They asked us not to reveal their identities in case there is retaliation against the men still held.\n\n\"They only give them food once every two to three days,\" one father tells me. \"My son cries a lot, he is only 18 years old. He says what kind of trouble have we landed into, we gave the money and we are dying here.\"\n\nEven given these conditions, the families aren't consistent about what they want to happen next. Initially when asked, they said they wanted a safe way for the young men to continue to Europe, but then later said they wanted them to return home.\n\nPakistan's foreign affairs ministry is aware and is working on this, police say.\n\nDespite the risks and the police crackdown, we spoke to numerous people across Pakistan who said they were actively still looking to travel illegally.\n\nOne smuggler, based in Europe, said routes were still operating out of Pakistan. Even the police authorities acknowledged that they know people are still leaving the country illegally.\n\nOf the many people we spoke to who either wanted to go or had willingly sent their sons, all spoke of hope for a better life.\n\nSome talked about social pressure; one man said most of his cousins and brothers had already made the crossing, and that now at social occasions he was pushed to explain why he hadn't gone.\n\nOthers talked about seeing the homes built with money earned abroad, of pressure put on them by the smugglers who lived near them to do what would be best for their children's future.\n\nSome even had personal experience of making the journey themselves, including Farhad and Touheed's father.\n\nFareed and Najma Hussain's two sons are believed to have drowned when the boat they were travelling on capsized off Greece in June\n\nFareed Hussain went to Germany illegally eight years ago, travelling through Turkey via Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. After four years he returned when his father became ill and he needed to take care of the family. Then he was persuaded by the same smuggler to send his teenage sons.\n\n\"He used to make us believe that Europe was just in front of us,\" Fareed says. \"That the kids are going to go and make a life for themselves and then you can buy whatever you want.\n\n\"I thought we are poor people, even if they get educated here they won't find a job and we don't have much land. I thought they will go, get educated and work.\"\n\nFareed sold his family plot and then his boys Farhad and Touheed travelled to Libya via Egypt and Dubai. Their parents have videos of them excitedly boarding the plane; of the safe house in Libya, sleeping on the floor with dozens of other boys and young men; and a voice note sent at 04:00 on the day they left, saying Najma shouldn't worry.\n\n\"They messaged their father early in the morning from somebody's mobile saying: 'We are leaving, tell mother this is our last message',\" Najma says, before breaking down in tears.\n\nA few days later, the smugglers contacted the family telling them to distribute sweets, that their children had made it. They began celebrating.\n\nThe following day, their cousins called. They had read an international news article about a migrant ship sinking. By then the smugglers had left.\n\nThe family never heard from Farhad and Touheed again. Both are believed to have drowned in Greece's waters on 14 June. Their parents may never have their bodies to bury.\n\nNow their mother says she listens to their voice messages and cries for hours.\n\n\"Even if there is poverty here and they die from hunger, you shouldn't go,\" says Fareed. \" It doesn't matter how much anyone convinces you.\"", "In a sign of growing hostility towards the West since the coup in Niger, a businessman proudly shows off his outfit in the colours of the Russian flag in the traditional heartland of deposed President Mohamed Bazoum.\n\nSince the coup, there has been a war of words between the military and the West.\n\nMr Bazoum was a staunch ally of the West in the fight against militant Islamists, and was a strong economic partner as well.\n\nNiger hosts a French military base and is the world's seventh biggest producer of uranium. The fuel is vital for nuclear power with a quarter of it going to Europe, especially former colonial power France.\n\nSince General Abdourahamane Tchiani overthrew the president in a coup on 26 July, Russian colours have suddenly appeared on the streets.\n\nThousands took part in a protest in the capital Niamey on Sunday, with some waving Russian flags and even attacking the French embassy.\n\nIt now seems this \"movement\" is spreading across the country.\n\nThe businessman, based 800km (500 miles) away in the central city of Zinder, didn't want to give his name for safety reasons and asked that we blur his face.\n\n\"I'm pro-Russian and I don't like France,\" he said. \"Since childhood, I've been opposed to France.\n\n\"They've exploited all the riches of my country such as uranium, petrol and gold. The poorest Nigeriens are unable to eat three times a day because of France.\"\n\nThe businessman said thousands had taken part in Monday's protest in Zinder in support of the military takeover.\n\nHe said he had asked a local tailor to take material in the Russian colours of white, blue and red and make an outfit for him, denying that it had been paid for by pro-Russian groups.\n\nNiger is home to 24.4 million people where two in every five live in extreme poverty, on less than $2.15 a day.\n\nThe demonstrations in favour of Niger's military takeover have often featured Russian flags\n\nPresident Bazoum entered office in 2021 in Niger's first democratic and peaceful transition of power since independence in 1960.\n\nBut his government was a target for Islamist militants linked to the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda who roam across parts of the Sahara Desert and the semi-arid Sahel just to the south.\n\nUnder pressure from the Islamists, the armies in both neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso, also former French colonies with considerable French interests, seized power in recent years, saying this would help in the fight against jihadists.\n\nLike Niger, both these countries previously had significant numbers of French troops helping them but as the Islamist attacks continued, anti-French sentiment rose across the region, with people in all three countries starting to accuse the French of not doing enough to stop them.\n\nOnce in power, the junta in Mali welcomed Russia's mercenary Wagner Group as they first forced out French troops and then pushed for thousands of UN peacekeepers to leave.\n\nAlthough Islamist attacks have continued in Mali, Burkina Faso's junta has also grown close to Russia and expelled hundreds of French forces.\n\nIn Niger, anti-French protests were frequently banned by Mr Bazoum's administration.\n\nSeveral civil society groups began escalating anti-French protests in mid-2022, when Mr Bazoum's administration approved the redeployment of France's Barkhane forces to Niger after they had been ordered to leave Mali.\n\nKey among them is the M62 movement, formed in August 2022 by a coalition of activists, civil society movements and trade unions. They led calls against the rising cost of living, poor governance and the presence of the French forces.\n\nRussian colours are suddenly popular on the streets of Niger\n\nVarious planned protests by the group were banned or violently put down by Niger's authorities with its leader Abdoulaye Seydou jailed for nine months in April 2023 for \"disrupting public order\".\n\nThe M62 appears revitalised in the wake of President Bazoum's removal.\n\nIn an unusual move, its members were quoted by state TV mobilising mass protests in support of the junta, as well as denouncing sanctions by West African leaders over the coup.\n\nIt is unclear if the group is linked to the junta known as the National Council for Safeguarding the Homeland (CNSP) or to Russia.\n\nBut it was the umbrella group organising Sunday's protest, where smaller civil society groups such as the Coordination Committee for the Democratic Struggle (CCLD) Bukata and Youth Action for Niger were also present.\n\nBack in Zinder, the pro-Russia businessman is positive about how Moscow can help his homeland.\n\n\"I want Russia to help with security and food,\" he said. \"Russia can supply technology to improve our agriculture.\"\n\nBut Moutaka, a farmer who also lives in Zinder, rejects this argument and says the coup is bad news for everyone.\n\n\"I don't support the arrival of Russians in this country because they are all Europeans and nobody will help us,\" he said. \"I love my country and hope we can live in peace.\"", "Jones was described as \"a sexual predator\" by a judge\n\nA rapist tricked a woman into playing a drinking game - and then filmed his sex attack while she was naked, a court has heard.\n\nSteffan Jones, 25, from Bridgend, made the woman strip off her clothes leaving her \"blind drunk\" from a \"forfeit\".\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard she was nude, drunk and vomiting into a wash basin when he carried out the attack.\n\nJones was found guilty of rape and two counts of assault by penetration and jailed for 12 years.\n\nJury members during the trial heard how the defendant recorded the attack on his phone to watch back later, and even showed his flatmate.\n\nHis victim was later forced to watch the video in court after he accused her of lying - and she described how she was left feeling \"completely worthless\".\n\nProsecutor Heath Edwards read a statement from the victim saying watching Jones's video had \"ripped off the healed scars\" and the attack had left her \"completely lost\" with \"no enthusiasm for life\".\n\n\"I know what he did to me will always impact my life including sex,\" she said.\n\nIn a separate incident, Jones raped another woman, and her victim impact statement said she had been left feeling like a \"shell of the person\" she had been before.\n\nHe was found guilty of three charges following a trial.\n\nJudge David Wynn Morgan said his video had been \"particularly shocking\".\n\nHe added: \"Your victim was blind drunk as a result of you callously tricking her in a drinking game.\n\n\"That, I'm afraid, is the person you really are - a sexual predator, a liar, and a narcissist. Not the paragon described in the multitude of character references that have been gathered on your behalf.\"\n\nJudge Morgan said Jones's actions had a \"substantial and adverse\" impact on both of his victims, with his not guilty pleas forcing them to relive their experiences during the trial.\n\nHe will serve 12 years in prison, plus a further three on licence following his release.\n\nFollowing sentencing, South Wales Police Det Sgt Andrew Coakley said: \"Jones is a vile rapist who is now where he deserves to be.\n\n\"I applaud the two victims for having an extreme amount of courage to bring their complaint forward and ensure the conviction of their attacker.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Stringer is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court\n\nA Gwent Police officer accused of assaulting a girl and showing her pornography was \"trusted\" by her parents, a jury has heard.\n\nJohn Stringer, 41, from Cardiff, is accused of five counts of sexual abuse of a girl under 13, which he denies.\n\nAt Cardiff Crown Court, the girl's father said his daughter described conversations with Mr Stringer in which he would tell her he was \"lonely\".\n\nThe girl's mother said Mr Stringer told the girl he wanted a girlfriend.\n\nGiving evidence on the second day of the trial, the father told prosecutor Ian Wright: \"There has been occasions where she has come to us and said how John has told her things about his private life that we thought were a little bit not quite right for a young girl.\n\n\"(She) told us how John told her that he was lonely.\"\n\nHe was also asked by the prosecution if he trusted Mr Stringer.\n\n\"We did, yes,\" the complainant's father said.\n\nThe girl's mother also told the jury: \"She would say that he'd said he wanted a girlfriend and that he missed his previous partner.\n\n\"She would say to me that he would chat to her about his loneliness and that... he was lonely without a girlfriend, and I would say you don't need to have those conversations it's not really appropriate.\n\n\"I would query why an adult will tell a small child that they were lonely,\" she added.\n\nThe parents said that although they felt uncomfortable hearing about the conversations between their daughter and the defendant they did not confront him.\n\nThe court previously heard how the allegations came to light after the girl made a disclosure to a teaching assistant.\n\nIn a statement written by the aide and read to the court by Mr Wright, the teaching assistant said the girl had approached her in the playground and told her: \"John sits next to me and puts a blanket over me and puts his hand here.\"\n\n\"She said he showed her videos as well,\" the statement added.\n\n\"I did not ask any leading questions but I did ask her if she had told her mum and dad and she said she hadn't.\n\n\"I asked how long it had been going on for and she said 'quite a while'.\"\n\nThe jury previously watched the girl's interview with police, during which she told an officer that Mr Stringer had touched her inappropriately and would show her pornographic videos with half-naked women in them and ask her to \"mimic\" the actions of the performers.\n\nShe told them there had been a break in the alleged offending during two of the Covid-19 lockdowns and the abuse resumed when restrictions eased.\n\nA transcript of Mr Stringer's police interview was read to the court by Mr Wright and the officer in the case Det Con Abbie Voice.\n\nThe final witness of the day was a friend of the defendant's who said she had known him for 24 years but had lost contact with him for a time when he moved to New Zealand to play rugby.\n\nThe woman, who works as a mental health care practitioner, told the court: \"He's always been quieter. He's always been a private man.\n\n\"He's very focused and motivated and very into his sports.\"\n\nShe added she had \"no concern at all\" about Mr Stringer's behaviour around children.\n\nMr Stringer denies two counts of sexual assault by touching, two counts of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and one count of causing a child to watch a sexual act and are said to have taken place between December 2019 and July 2021.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A full Moon when the Moon is closest to the Earth appears larger and brighter than usual\n\nWhile most years have 12 full Moons, 2023 will have 13 of these lunar events.\n\nThere are two supermoons in August - the full Sturgeon Moon which rises on the evening of 1 August and the full Blue Moon on 30 August.\n\nThe final supermoon in 2023 will rise on 29 September - the Harvest Moon.\n\nThe names are mostly English interpretations of Native American names; some are also Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, medieval English, or neo-pagan.\n\nThe names can have a spiritual meaning, such as the Sturgeon Moon, which is said to embody the final days of summer and signals the beginning of harvest season.\n\nSome people believe the different phases of the Moon impact the behaviours of both people and animals - with some pet owners saying their dogs behave differently when there is a full Moon.\n\nOf course, we need cloud-free skies to be able to see these celestial events - especially when the nights are still quite short.\n\nTechnically, the Sturgeon Moon rises on 1 August, but it will still look full for the following couple of nights.\n\nWeather conditions will not be good for viewing on Tuesday night but should be better on Wednesday night into Thursday.\n\nOn Monday, Joe McNeill got lucky with this photograph taken during cloud gaps when the Sturgeon Moon was almost full cloud over Newry, County Down\n\nOf course, we can always look ahead to the once-in-a-blue supermoon at the end of August, this year's extra full Blue Moon. This only occurs now and then (hence the name) and can have a blueish colour.\n\nThe final supermoon of 2023 will occur on 29 September. This will be the Harvest Moon which only occurs once every four years.\n\nThe other three years it comes in October and is then called Hunter's Moon as, traditionally, people in the Northern Hemisphere spent October preparing for the coming winter by hunting, slaughtering, and preserving meats, giving it its Anglo-Saxon name.\n\nWeather watchers may recall the Buck Moon in July - it is named after the new antlers that emerge from a buck's forehead around that time of the year, as male deer or bucks shed their antlers and grow new ones every year.\n\nGerard McCreesh captured the Buck Moon in Warrenpoint and Stephen Henderson spotted the Wolf Moon above Belfast's Titanic Museum\n\nBefore that there was the Strawberry Moon in June which is thought to mark the beginning of a fruitful season, helping different cultures to celebrate the ripening of berries and the bountiful harvesting season ahead.\n\nIt is thought that January's full moon came to be known as the Wolf Moon because wolves were more likely to be heard howling at this time, maybe because they were hungry.\n\nAs the Moon orbits the Earth in an elliptical shape rather than in a circle, its distance to us varies over time.\n\nA supermoon is a phenomenon that occurs when a full Moon takes place at the same time as the perigee - when the Moon is closest to the Earth.\n\nA full Moon during perigee will appear 14% larger and 30% brighter than a full Moon during apogee - this is when the Moon is furthest away from Earth, an event known as a micromoon.\n\nA supermoon is also about 7% larger and 15% brighter than the average full moon.\n\n\"The full Moon occurs at a very specific moment in time - down to the second - when the Moon is directly opposite the Sun in the sky,\" explains Dr Darren Baskill, an astronomer and astrophotographer based at the University of Sussex.\n\n\"But to our eyes, the Moon will look full, or almost full, for two or three days either side of the exact moment that the full Moon occurs.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister's visit comes as alcohol duties rise by 10.1%\n\nRishi Sunak has been heckled during a visit to the Great British Beer Festival in central London.\n\nAs the PM pulled a pint to promote his changes to alcohol tax, publican Rudi Keyser shouted: \"Prime minister, oh the irony that you're raising alcohol duty on the day that you're pulling a pint.\"\n\nMr Keyser later told the BBC: \"I wasn't expecting to see the prime minister but when I saw him he really riled me up.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Sunak defended the new system as \"inherently more sensible\".\n\nSpeaking to reporters he said he was \"radically simplifying\" the system to ensure that the less alcohol in a drink, the lower the tax imposed.\n\nUnder the changes, duty will rise overall, particularly on wine and spirits, but fall on lower-alcohol drinks and most sparkling wine.\n\nTaxes on draught pints will not change, an additional measure that will reduce it to a lower rate than the tax on supermarket beer.\n\nMr Sunak said his changes would be beneficial to \"thousands of businesses across the country\".\n\nHowever, during a tour of the Great British Beer Festival, Mr Keyser - a brewer turned publican - expressed his anger at the changes.\n\nAfter heckling the prime minister, he told the Press Association that the \"draught relief\" was \"smoke and mirrors\" adding: \"It's robbing Peter to pay Paul. So across the board, it's all going up.\n\n\"I can tell you from my side now in the trade, the consumer is going to see an increase and he has the audacity to come and pull a pint for PR.\"\n\nThe prime minister received another, less-hostile, heckle when a member of the crowd shouted out: \"Prime minister, it's not Coca-Cola.\"\n\nMr Sunak, who is teetotal, has previously expressed a passion for the fizzy drink.\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association welcomed some of Mr Sunak's changes saying it would help \"incentivise the production of lower strength products\".\n\nHowever, it expressed concern that the 10.1% duty increase would have a \"huge impact\" and urged the government to guarantee there would be no further rises.\n\nThe Scotch Whisky Association described the rise as \"a hammer blow for distillers and consumers\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA life-size bronze statue of the black American anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass has been unveiled in Belfast city centre.\n\nMr Douglass, a former slave, was a leading member of the abolitionist movement to outlaw slavery in the US.\n\nHe visited Belfast a number of times in the 1840s at the invitation of the Belfast Anti Slavery Society.\n\nThe lord mayor of Belfast described the unveiling of the statue as a \"positive news story for the city\".\n\n\"His writings and his values are just as relevant today as they were in the 19th century when he was touring Ireland,\" Ryan Murphy said.\n\nAnna Slevin from the Department for Communities, Takuri Makoni of the African and Caribbean Support Organisation NI (ACSONI), sculptor Hector Guest, Belfast Lord Mayor Ryan Murphy, sculptor Alan Beattie Herriot and the Reverend Dr Livingstone Thompson of ACSONI at the unveiling\n\nSpeaking on to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, the lord mayor said: \"His story is fairly remarkable and the fact that we have a linkage to him, I think it's worth telling that in the city of Belfast.\"\n\nMr Murphy added that the statue would help Belfast \"welcome more visitors into the city\".\n\nThe city has become the first in Europe to honour Mr Douglass with a statue.\n\nIt is located at Rosemary Street, close to where he addressed crowds in 1845.\n\nMr Douglass was as born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. He escaped enslavement and became one of that century's most prominent abolitionists.\n\nHe had a talent for public speaking and travelled widely, telling people about life as a slave.\n\nHe recounted his life story in his 1845 memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.\n\nFrederick Douglass was as born into slavery in Maryland in 1818\n\nAt Monday's unveiling in Belfast, historian Prof Christine Kinealy described how Mr Douglass came to Ireland to escape recapture and return to enslavement in the United States.\n\nShe said that he came to love the country and the city of Belfast, quoting from one of his speeches: \"Whenever else I feel myself to be stranger I will remember I have a home in Belfast.\"\n\nAlan Beattie Herriot, one of the sculptors behind the project, also spoke at the unveiling.\n\n\"The memorial is dedicated to a very special individual who triumphed against his own personal situation and went on to champion the rights of others,\" he said.\n\nMr Beattie Herriot also thanked his partner on the project, Hector Guest, describing him as a \"particularly talented sculptor\".\n\nAlso attending the unveiling were several students taking part in the Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship.\n\nAmong them was Florence Onyiuke, a student of University of Pennsylvania, who described Mr Douglass's as a \"story of hope\".\n\n\"This idea that you can take whatever circumstance that you are born into and make it better, not only for yourself but for the next person after you,\" she said.\n\nHistorian and tour guide Tom Thorpe said the statue was appropriate, describing Belfast as an \"anti-slavery city\".\n\nHe said that while \"many people in Belfast did own slaves\", an attempt to set up a slave ship company in the city in 1786 failed due to opposition in the city.\n\n\"Slavery never established itself here in the way that it did in Liverpool, London, and Bristol,\" Dr Thorpe added.\n\nDr Thorpe said the statue of Mr Douglass \"takes us into a history which united us rather than divides us\".\n\n\"The anti-slavery cause was followed by people from across the political divide, unionists and nationalists, but also from the Catholic and Presbyterian communities,\" he said.\n• None Statue of abolitionist to be erected in Belfast", "The employee survey found that two to three days per week working from home was the norm for more than half of respondents\n\nJust over 17% of the Northern Ireland workforce is engaged in some form of remote working, new analysis by Ulster University economists suggests.\n\nThat compares to 41% at the peak of the pandemic in April 2020 and under 10% before the pandemic in 2019.\n\nThe rate of remote working in Northern Ireland is well below the UK average of 31% and the lowest of any UK region.\n\nThe analysis draws on official data as well as an employee survey and interviews with NI employers.\n\nThe online survey of 865 employees, 87% of whom worked at least one day a week away from their workplace, was conducted in early 2023.\n\nThe consultation with business owners or senior HR managers covered 14 private sector firms, five public sector organisations and three focus groups with other businesses.\n\nAll were organisations that adopted remote working in the pandemic and have managed this since.\n\nThe researchers said the consultation with employers suggests that \"current working patterns are probably here to stay, that they are working well for staff and there is no evidence of a 'secret longing' to return staff to the office\".\n\nHowever, the consultees said concerns remain around certain aspects of work, including collaboration, team culture and the impact on younger people and new recruits as they try to integrate into the workplace and build networks.\n\nThis in turn has raised issues around the need for support and development for line managers to develop new approaches in a hybrid environment, with many feeling they have been \"left to figure it out themselves\".\n\nThe employers also suggested the impact on productivity remains an open question.\n\nMeasurement remains a difficult issue and consultees were not sure whether more hours worked meant more output or better quality.\n\nThe employee survey found that two to three days per week working from home was the norm for a majority (55%) of respondents.\n\nThere was a high levels of satisfaction (80%) among those where a hybrid or remote working policy is in place - particularly if there is certainty around the arrangements.\n\nIssues typically fell into two categories: equity - where the policy is not being implemented consistently by all line managers across the organisation - and communication.\n\nThe survey respondents were overwhelmingly of the view that their productivity was higher when working remotely, a similar outcome to most self-reported surveys in the UK, Canada, US and elsewhere.\n\nEconomist at Ulster University Economic Policy Centre Ana Desmond, said: \"Where remote working is possible, it appears from this research the best way to strike a balance between management and employees at present is a hybrid environment where workplace days are coordinated bringing teams together to facilitate innovation and creativity, alongside fostering corporate culture, whilst at-home days allows specific tasks to be completed with more focus and attention.\"\n\n\"Businesses may need to adapt management and mentoring practices to ensure employees feel visible, integrated, and appropriately trained for the job within the workplace.\"\n\nShe added that those with management responsibilities \"may now be responsible for creating a sense of place within the workspace alongside coordinating employees\".", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nLauren James produced a sensational individual performance as England entertained to sweep aside China and book their place in the last 16 of the Women's World Cup as group winners.\n\nIt was a display worthy of their status as European champions and James once again lit the stage alight in Adelaide with two sensational goals and three assists.\n\nThe 13,497 in attendance were treated to a masterclass from Chelsea's James, who announced her arrival at the World Cup with the match-winner against Denmark on Friday.\n\nShe helped England get off to the perfect start when she teed up Alessia Russo for the opener, and later slipped the ball through to Lauren Hemp to coolly place it into the bottom corner.\n\nIt was largely one-way traffic as England dominated and overwhelmed, James striking it first time into the corner from the edge of the box to make it 3-0 before another stunning finish was ruled out by video assistant referee (VAR) for offside in the build-up.\n\nChina knew they were heading out of the tournament unless they responded, so they came out with more aggression in the second half, unnerving England slightly when Shuang Wang scored from the penalty spot after VAR picked up a handball by defender Lucy Bronze.\n\nBut James was not done yet - she volleyed Jess Carter's deep cross past helpless goalkeeper Yu Zhu for England's fourth before substitute Chloe Kelly and striker Rachel Daly joined the party.\n\nEngland, who had quietly gone about their business in the group stages, will have raised eyebrows with this performance before their last-16 match against Nigeria on Monday, which will be shown live on BBC One at 08:30 BST.\n\nChina are out of the competition after Denmark beat Haiti to finish in second place in Group D.\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nManager Sarina Wiegman kept everyone guessing when she named her starting XI, with England fans anxiously waiting to see how they would set up without injured midfielder Keira Walsh.\n\nWiegman's response was to unleash England's attacking talent on a China side who struggled to match them in physicality, intensity and sharpness.\n\nJames oozed magic and unpredictability, Hemp used her pace to test China's defence and captain Millie Bright was ferocious in her tackling, winning the ball back on countless occasions.\n\nAfter nudging past Haiti and Denmark with fairly underwhelming 1-0 wins, England were keen to impose themselves from the start. Although China had chances in the second half, they were always second best.\n\nGoalkeeper Mary Earps will be disappointed not to keep a clean sheet, but she made two smart saves to deny Chen Qiaozhu.\n\nWhile England are yet to meet a side ranked inside the world's top 10 at the tournament, this will help quieten doubts that they might struggle without the instrumental Walsh.\n\n\"We're really growing into the tournament now,\" said captain Bright. \"We got a lot of criticism in the first two games but we were not concerned at all.\n\n\"It's unbelievable to be in the same team as [the youngsters]. It feels ridiculous and I'm quite proud. Players feeling like they can express themselves on the pitch is what we want.\"\n• None How to watch England v Nigeria on the BBC\n• None Harder stars as Denmark beat Haiti to reach last 16\n\nThe name on everyone's lips following England's win over Denmark was 'Lauren James', and those leaving Adelaide on Tuesday evening will struggle to forget her performance against China any time soon.\n\nShe punished China for the space they allowed her on the edge of the box in the first half and could have had a hat-trick were it not for the intervention of VAR.\n\nGreeted on the touchline by a grinning Wiegman, James was substituted with time to spare in the second half and went off to a standing ovation from large sections of the stadium.\n\n\"She's special - a very special player for us and for women's football in general,\" said Kelly. \"She's a special talent and the future is bright.\"\n\nShe became only the third player on record (since 2011) to be directly involved in five goals in a Women's World Cup game.\n\nWith competition for attacking places in England's starting XI extremely high, James has proven she is far too good to leave out of the side and is quickly becoming a star at this tournament at the age of 21.\n• None Attempt missed. Laura Coombs (England) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Chloe Kelly.\n• None Attempt missed. Shen Mengyu (China PR) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Yao Wei.\n• None Attempt missed. Laura Coombs (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Greenwood.\n• None Attempt saved. Chen Qiaozhu (China PR) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! China PR 1, England 6. Rachel Daly (England) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner. Assisted by Laura Coombs.\n• None Attempt missed. Laura Coombs (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bethany England.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Fifth LV= Insurance Ashes Test, The Kia Oval (day five of five)\n\nStuart Broad ended his glittering career by bowling England to another dramatic victory in the fifth Test against Australia to leave a memorable Ashes series level at 2-2.\n\nBroad, in his final Test before retiring, took the last two wickets as England bowled out the tourists for 334 to win by 49 runs in front of a raucous crowd at The Oval.\n\nChris Woakes was immense in taking 4-50 while off-spinner Moeen Ali, battling a groin injury in the last Test of his career, picked up a crucial 3-76.\n\nResuming on 135-0 in pursuit of 384, Australia lost David Warner and Usman Khawaja to Woakes' morning burst, while Mark Wood accounted for Marnus Labuschagne.\n\nThe visitors were put back on course for one of their greatest run-chases by Steve Smith, who made 54, and 43 from Travis Head.\n\nBut after a rain delay of more than two hours, Woakes and Moeen were the architects of an Australian collapse of five wickets for 30 runs.\n\nAlex Carey and Todd Murphy raised tension with a ninth-wicket stand of 35 only for Broad to produce a last moment of theatre.\n\nLooking to change England's luck, Broad switched the bails at the non-striker's end and, next ball, bowled a beauty to have Murphy caught by wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow.\n\nBroad then had Carey caught behind to seal victory and, amid high emotion at a ground renowned for goodbyes, left the field arm in arm with Moeen.\n\nEngland's win replicates the 2-2 draw of four years ago and preserves an unbeaten home record in Ashes series that stretches back to 2001.\n\nThough Australia retain the urn, which they will defend down under in 2025-26, their wait for a win in this country will be up to 26 years when they next visit in 2027.\n\nThis was a magnificent finale to a series for the ages, another tense affair in front of a passionate crowd with the added drama of the rain delay thrown in.\n\nBefore this summer, 25 of the 340 previous Ashes Tests had been won by three wickets or fewer, or 50 runs or fewer. This series has had four such victories.\n\nThe action on Monday was never less than compelling. Led by Woakes, England were excellent with the ball, only for old foe Smith to threaten another act of defiance.\n\nIf was after the rain delay that the match swung decisively in England's direction, with four wickets falling in as many overs. The scalp of Smith in particular sparked wild celebrations on the field and in the stands, a mixture of delight and relief.\n\nIn the end, a draw feels like a fair result at end of a wonderful battle between cricket's oldest rivals. Australia took advantage of England's mistakes to lead 2-0 before the hosts roared back. Ben Stokes' side probably would have won 3-2 had rain not ruined the end of the fourth Test.\n\nIt has been a series of countless memorable moments: Zak Crawley driving the first ball for four, Stokes' declaration on the first day of the series, the controversy around Bairstow being stumped at Lord's, the nerve-shredding conclusion to the third Test and Crawley's hundred at Old Trafford to name a few.\n\nBut the enduring image was of Broad, an Ashes warrior, first conjuring the wicket of Murphy with one of his old tricks, then sparking joyous scenes with his final delivery in Test cricket.\n\nNeither Woakes nor Moeen were in England's plans at the start of the summer, but have played vital roles in levelling the series.\n\nMoeen, out of retirement, has overcome a finger injury and the groin problem to bat at number three and lead the spin attack. Woakes, balancing the side because of Stokes' inability to bowl, ends with 19 wickets from only three matches and was named player of the series.\n\nEngland were flat on Sunday, yet on Monday had use of a ball that had been switched only 11 deliveries before play was ended by rain on the fourth day. With it, Woakes was a constant threat, finding devilish seam movement to spearhead the attack.\n\nWarner poked behind for 60 and Khawaja was pinned on the crease to be lbw for 72. After Labuschagne edged Wood to the safe hands of Crawley at second slip, England had taken 3-29, only to be stalled by Smith and Head.\n\nWoakes and Moeen were rejuvenated after the rain break. Moeen drew Head into an edge to slip, before Mitchell Marsh inside-edged on to his pad and was athletically caught by Bairstow.\n\nIn between, Woakes struck the all-important blow to have Smith edge to second slip, before Mitchell Starc fell in the same manner. When Australia captain Pat Cummins miscued Moeen into his pad and was caught by Stokes, the stage was set for Broad.\n\nAs England opted against taking the second new ball, Broad regularly beat the bat in the frustrating stand between Carey and Murphy, which evoked memories of Cummins and Nathan Lyon guiding Australia to victory in the first Test.\n\nJust as England might have contemplated a change, Broad accounted for Murphy, resulting in a release of emotion from the crowd that had spotted the changing of the bails. When he had finished celebrating, Broad patted the bails in acknowledgement.\n\nIt seemed like he might miss out on the fairytale ending when Crawley dropped an edge off Carey, but Broad would not be denied a final moment of glory as an England cricketer.\n\nAustralia lift the urn but fail in their mission\n\nAustralia were crowned world Test champions on this ground in June and take the urn back down under, yet have failed in their stated aim of ending the long wait for a series win in this country.\n\nThey have been outplayed in the final three Tests, but for stages of the last two days at The Oval got into a position from where they could have pulled off their second-highest chase in Tests.\n\nFirst through the Khawaja-Warner opening stand, then when Smith and Head were adding 95, Australia were on course.\n\nWhen Smith, on 39, was dropped by leg slip Stokes, who lost control of the ball after taking it above his head then hitting his hand on his own thigh, it felt like a huge turning point.\n\nEven after the rain, Australia had plenty of time - 47 overs in which to score the 146 runs still required - only to fall apart under the pressure applied by England's bowlers and the expectant crowd.\n\nThis result means an entire generation of Australian cricketers will go through their careers without winning a series here: Khawaja, Warner, Smith, Starc, Hazlewood and the injured Lyon are all unlikely to be back.\n\nAustralia's attempt to combat the hosts' Bazballing ways has led to a fascinating clash of styles. A 3-1 win would have been a remarkable achievement but not a fair reflection of England's dominance of the second half of the series.\n\n'A dream finish' - what they said\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew on Test Match Special: \"I really don't think Stuart Broad could have had a better script than this, it's a dream finish.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"Fairytales can happen. An incredible crowd, a brilliant series. This has been absolutely incredible, it's had everything.\n\n\"Broad bowled beautifully today, I don't know why he's quitting. He played magnificently. Australia controlled the game at times but this England side have got this knack of fighting back.\"\n\nFormer England captain Sir Alastair Cook on TMS: \"It had to be Stuart Broad, it just had to be. That's why chasing such a big total is so hard. The crowd was right behind England, you just felt like they had that edge.\"", "Liam Kavanagh gained millions of pounds of investment in his solar farms\n\nA businessman cheated a council out of tens of millions of pounds and went on a spending spree with the cash, an investigation has discovered.\n\nLeaked documents reveal how Liam Kavanagh used Thurrock Council's money to buy luxury goods, including a yacht and a private jet.\n\nThe council has been made effectively bankrupt after investing £655m in Mr Kavanagh's solar farm business.\n\nMr Kavanagh's lawyers say all the payments were permissible.\n\nThey say they were approved by his company's finance team and auditor.\n\nThurrock is one of a number of councils that have got into financial difficulties since the coalition government gave local authorities more freedom to raise funds and invest in 2011.\n\nWoking, Slough and Croydon have all been forced to stop all non-essential spending after losing public money on risky investments.\n\nThe Audit Commission - a spending watchdog that stopped councils taking too many risks - was abolished in 2015.\n\nConservative-led Thurrock Council started investing cash with Mr Kavanagh's business Rockfire the following year.\n\nThe idea was that the council would get regular interest payments from the profits and its cash would be safe because it was secured against the value of the solar farms.\n\nBut the interest payments stopped after Mr Kavanagh wound up his companies and the estimated value of the solar farms is less than the council thought.\n\nAdministrators are now selling the solar farms and Thurrock is facing a £200m shortfall on its investment.\n\nThe council has been forced to cut services and put up council tax.\n\nVickki Jarmyn has run a dance group for people with learning difficulties in the area for the past 14 years. But her £7,000 grant has been cut and the group is under threat.\n\n\"It's just an ongoing battle,\" she said. \"How can you just take something from people that thrive in that situation, that are safe and comfortable? How can you just do that?\"\n\nThe investigation - by BBC Panorama and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - has revealed how the value of Liam Kavanagh's solar farms was inflated to persuade the council to invest more cash.\n\nRockfire had one of its solar farm portfolios revalued in 2018. The company gave valuers a power price of £61.45 per megawatt hour (MWh), but the average power price for the portfolio at the time was £46.92/MWh.\n\nIn 2020, Mr Kavanagh was told by staff that the average power price was predicted to be £41.70/MWh. But he insisted the valuers should be given an inflated price of £62/MWh, which they seemed to accept.\n\nGavin Cunningham, a former investigator with the Serious Fraud Office, told Panorama that supplying inaccurate energy prices was potentially fraudulent.\n\nMr Cunningham said: \"The effect of that will be that you end up with a far greater valuation of the overall portfolio of solar farms than is actually the case. And anyone relying on that information is going to be misled by it.\"\n\nMr Kavanagh owned multiple solar farms, including this one in Wiltshire\n\nBy 2018, Thurrock had already invested more than half a billion pounds in Mr Kavanagh's business.\n\nThe inflated valuations convinced the council to invest a further £130m - but the money never reached the solar farms.\n\nLeaked documents from Rockfire reveal how Mr Kavanagh spent council money on himself instead.\n\nA ledger of payments shows £12m went to a company that bought Liam Kavanagh's private jet.\n\nThere are also payments totalling £2m for his Bugatti Chiron car and £16m for his yacht Heureka.\n\nA further £40m disappears into a bank account labelled \"other\".\n\nAn email Mr Kavanagh sent in 2020 suggests he always planned to spend council cash on himself. It says: \"These funds… will be used to create a new family investment office and to create wealth for years to come. This has always been my plan.\"\n\nMr Kavanagh is no longer living in the UK.\n\nThe Millionaire who Cheated a Council is on BBC iPlayer now and will be on BBC One at 20:00 BST (22:40 BST in Wales)\n\nHis lawyers said the transactions were all legal and that he was entitled to spend the council money on whatever he wanted.\n\nThey said there were no restrictions on how the investments were to be used, the solar assets were not overvalued and the power prices submitted were honest predictions.\n\nMr Kavanagh said Thurrock had approached him about the investments and they had produced significant income for the council over a number of years.\n\nHe said: \"I have never misled Thurrock Council during the course of those investments. It was always my understanding that Thurrock Council conducted its own independent due diligence into investments.\"\n\nLast month, a report by Essex County Council criticised Thurrock for its risky investment decisions and failure to make proper checks. The report also highlighted the role played by the council's then chief financial officer, Sean Clark, in its disastrous investment strategy.\n\nAs well as the Rockfire investments, Mr Clark also invested council cash in other companies that went bust. Mr Clark did not respond to Panorama.\n\nThe new council leader, Andrew Jeffries, apologised for the \"the shocking and unacceptable failures\" of the past.\n\nHe said the council was taking all appropriate action to recover the council's financial position and to protect vulnerable residents and essential services.\n\nThe Government says it has offered Thurrock financial help. It has also established the Office for Local Government to improve accountability, help detect emerging risks of failure and support local authorities.", "John Caldwell was shot in front of his son in February\n\nA man charged over the New IRA's claim that it shot a top detective joked about the attack on social media, the High Court has heard.\n\nProsecutors claimed Tiarnan McFadden uploaded an image of a ball hitting the back of a net on the night Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was shot in February.\n\nThe post was captioned: \"Anyone fancy a kickabout.\"\n\nThe detective was seriously injured after finishing a youth football coaching session in Omagh.\n\nThe details emerged as 25-year-old Mr McFadden, of Carnhill in Londonderry, and his 23-year-old co-accused Caolan Brogan, from Bluebellhill Gardens in the city, applied for bail.\n\nThey are jointly charged with possessing an article for use in terrorism, namely a typed notice declaring that the New IRA carried out the attack.\n\nThey both deny the charge.\n\nA third man, 37-year-old William McDonnell of Balbane Pass in Derry, is accused of the same offence.\n\nMr Caldwell was shot repeatedly and seriously wounded in front of his young son in the shooting at a sports complex on 22 February.\n\nHe was able to leave hospital in April.\n\nSeven other men are in custody charged with attempting to murder him.\n\nOn 26 February a typed letter claiming the New IRA was responsible for the attack bid appeared on a gable wall in Central Drive in the Creggan estate in Derry.\n\nBased on CCTV and air support footage, the prosecution contended the note was attached about 20 minutes before the message with the image of a ball appeared on the Twitter account \"Republic Media\", the court was told.\n\nMr McFadden and Mr Brogan allegedly travelled together to Mr McDonnell's home, collected a bucket and then headed in the direction of the gable wall.\n\nSeven men have been charged with attempted murder over the shooting\n\nMr McFadden told police he was only at the wall to clean graffiti from a mural.\n\nOpposing bail, the prosecution argued whoever posted the notice must have been trusted by and acting on behalf of the New IRA.\n\nThey claimed that less than two hours after Mr Caldwell was shot, and before details became public, Mr McFadden made reference to the attack online.\n\nMr McFadden also allegedly shared a video of a number of police vans which were believed to be travelling to the scene of the shooting.\n\nThat post included the comment \"What's the rush?\" along with a laughing emoji, the court heard.\n\nWhen someone else online suggested the police were late for their dinner, he allegedly replied: \"Must have missed a football match or something.\"\n\nMr McFadden's barrister argued that the charge was based entirely on circumstantial evidence.\n\nCounsel for Mr Brogan described it as a \"tenuous\" case involving poor-quality CCTV footage, adding that the notice could have been posted as far back as 22 February.\n\nReserving judgment on both defendant's applications for bail, Mr Justice O'Hara said he would give his decision at a later stage.", "Andriana, pictured at a rehabilitation centre in Ukraine, where she is training to return to the front line\n\nUkrainian women have been signing up in growing numbers to serve as combat troops against Russia. The BBC spoke to three of the 5,000 female front-line soldiers who are fighting both the enemy, and sexist attitudes within their own ranks.\n\nA slim, blue-eyed, brunette woman is working out in a gym. This might be unremarkable were it not for the fact that, according to the Russian media, she is dead.\n\nAndriana Arekhta is a special unit sergeant in the Ukrainian armed forces, preparing to return to the front line.\n\nThe BBC found Andriana in a rehabilitation centre in Ukraine - in a location we cannot name for her safety - after she was injured by a landmine in the Kherson region in December.\n\nNumerous text and video reports in Russian celebrate her \"death\" in graphic detail.\n\n\"They published that I am without legs and without hands, and that I was killed by them,\" says Andriana. \"They are professionals in propaganda.\"\n\nThe reports include lurid descriptions of her - such as \"executioner\" and \"eliminated Nazi\".\n\nAccusing her of cruelty and sadism without any proof, they appeared shortly after the Ukrainian army had liberated Kherson.\n\n\"It's funny to me. I am alive and I will protect my country,\" she says.\n\nEighteen months on from Russia's invasion, there are 60,000 women serving in the nation's armed forces. More than 42,000 are in military positions - including 5,000 female soldiers on the front line, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine told us.\n\nIt added that no woman could be conscripted under Ukrainian law against her will.\n\nBut there are particular combat roles which some believe are better performed by women.\n\n\"I came to my commander and I asked him, 'what can I do the best?' He said: 'You will be a sniper,'\" recalls Evgeniya Emerald - who carried out the role on the front line until recently.\n\nEvgeniya Emerald, pictured with her three-month-old baby, ran a jewellery business before the war\n\nShe says female snipers have been romanticised since World War Two, adding there is a very practical reason for this reputation.\n\n\"If a man hesitates whether to make a shot or not, a woman will never.\n\n\"Maybe that's why women are the ones giving birth, not men,\" she adds, cradling her three-month old daughter.\n\nThe 31 year old, who had military training after Russia invaded Crimea but only joined the army in 2022, was the owner of a jewellery business before the full-scale war.\n\nShe has used her entrepreneurial experience to build a strong social media following, to help raise the profile of Ukrainian female soldiers.\n\nLike Andriana, Evgeniya has been widely referred to as \"a punisher\" and \"Nazi\" by Russian media, with hundreds of reports discussing her front line role as a female sniper, and her private life.\n\nWorking as a sniper is particularly brutal - says Evgeniya - both physically and mentally.\n\n\"Because you can see what is going on. You can see hitting a target. This is a personal hell for everyone who sees that in a [sniper's] scope.\"\n\nEvgeniya, and the other front-line women we have spoken to, cannot reveal the number of targets they have hit. But Evgeniya remembers the heightened emotion she felt when she realised she was probably going to have to kill someone.\n\n\"For 30 seconds I was shaking - my whole body - and I couldn't stop it. That realisation that now you'll do something that will be a point of no return.\n\n\"But we didn't come to them with a war. They came to us.\"\n\nEvgeniya Emerald says working as a sniper is a particularly brutal form of warfare\n\nThe percentage of women in the Ukrainian military has been growing since the first Russian invasion in 2014, reaching over 15% in 2020.\n\nBut while many female troops are serving in combat roles against Russia, they say there is another battle within their own ranks - against sexist attitudes.\n\nEvgeniya says she faced this before she established her authority and confidence as a front-line sniper.\n\n\"When I had just joined the special forces, one of the fighters came to me and said: 'Girl, what are you doing here? Go and cook borshch [Ukrainian traditional soup].' I felt so offended at that moment I thought, 'are you kidding me? I can be in the kitchen, but I can also knock you out'!\"\n\nAnother Evgeniya, Evgeniya Velyka from the Arm Women Now charity - which provides help to the Ukrainian female soldiers - agrees: \"In society [there] exists a strong opinion that girls go to the army to find a husband.\"\n\nShe says women have also told her about cases of physical abuse.\n\n\"We can't imagine the scale of the problem because not every female soldier wants to talk about this,\" she says.\n\nUkraine's deputy defence minister, Hanna Malyar, told the BBC those were just a \"few cases\" in contrast to the \"hundreds of thousands\" mobilised.\n\nIn 2021, the Ukrainian military released pictures of female soldiers practising for a parade in heels - sparking outrage\n\nWomen in the Ukrainian army do not have gender-appropriate uniforms. They are issued with ill-fitting male fatigues, including male underwear, and outsized shoes and bulletproof vests.\n\nEven the deputy defence minister, Hanna Malyar, says her field uniform is designed for a man - which she has had to alter as she has \"a small height\". She adds the ceremonial uniform includes shoes with heels.\n\nIf women in the army want to wear female fatigues, they must currently either buy their own generic kit online, or rely on charities or crowdfunding.\n\nThis is why Andriana co-founded a charity called Veteranka [Ukrainian Women Veteran's Movement], which campaigns for equal rights for female military personnel, and for reforming Ukrainian army legislation to bring it in line with Nato legislation.\n\nBut Ms Malyar says the government has made progress. A uniform for women has been developed, tested and will enter mass production in the near future - although she could not specify when.\n\nSniper Evgenya Emerald says that despite such issues, \"war doesn't have a gender\".\n\n\"A war doesn't care whether you are a man or a woman. When a missile hits a house, it doesn't care if there are women, men, children - everyone dies.\n\n\"And it's the same on the front line - if you can be effective and you're a woman, why wouldn't you defend your country, your people?\"\n\nIryna says a sniper's role in war has been romanticised\n\nIn the eastern Donbas region, sniper Iryna is involved in the counter-offensive right now. We secure a brief connection with her during a moment of peace on the battlefield.\n\nShe could be held up as an example of the reforms so many combat women have been working hard for - she is acting-up as a female commander of an all-male unit.\n\n\"A sniper's image is romanticised… and is beautiful due to the movies. In reality, it's hard work.\"\n\nShe describes how snipers lie still on the ground for up to six hours to fire a shot, followed by a rapid change in position.\n\n\"It's like playing with death,\" she adds.\n\nThe thousands of women serving have left behind careers, as well as their families.\n\nAndriana left her job as the UN consultant on gender equality, under the Ukrainian Ministry of Veterans' Affairs, to join the Ukrainian military when Russia invaded last year.\n\n\"They took the best years of my life,\" the 35-year-old says. Thinking back to a time before the war, she adds: \"I could travel and be happy, build a career and have a dream.\"\n\nThe mother of a primary school-aged boy, Andriana tearfully tells me she has not held her son for more than seven months. As she shows me pictures of him on her phone, a smile appears on her face, replacing her tears.\n\nShe is driven by the desire to secure him a peaceful future in his native country - not having to risk his life by fighting like his parents.\n\nAndriana first joined the armed forces when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014\n\nUnlike Evgeniya Emerald, who joined up after Russia's full invasion last year, Andriana has previous military experience.\n\nIn 2014 when Russia first attacked Ukraine, annexing Crimea and invading Donbas, she left her job as a brand manager and joined one of the first volunteer battalions - along with thousands of other Ukrainians. At the time, the military was smaller than it is now and was struggling.\n\nAidar battalion, where Andriana was serving, was accused by the Kremlin and Amnesty International of human rights violations - but the Ukrainian army told the BBC no substantive evidence to support such claims had been provided.\n\nAmnesty also urged Ukrainian authorities to bring the volunteer battalions under effective lines of command and control, which they did.\n\nDespite Andriana never being linked to any acts of misconduct, and her leaving Aidar eight years ago, Russian media continually accused her of \"sadism\", providing no evidence.\n\nIn Ukraine, she has been awarded medals for her service - one \"for courage\", another for being a \"people's hero\"\n\nAndriana, who told the BBC she is no longer part of Aidar, said she felt obliged to re-join the army on the front line in 2022, as she already had much-needed combat experience.\n\nAndriana working out in preparation to return to the front line\n\nWhile Ukraine's Ministry of Defence said it could not provide the number of combat casualties - due to sensitivities of such information during wartime - the BBC has obtained data suggesting 93 Ukrainian servicewomen have been killed in action since the recent Russian invasion.\n\nThe data, from charity Arm Women Now, says more than 500 have been injured.\n\nAndriana's phone book has turned into a list of the dead.\n\n\"I lost more than 100 friends. I don't even know how many phone numbers I need to delete.\"\n\nBut the price already paid was too high to give up, she said - as she turns to finish her rehabilitation training in the gym.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The robbers grabbed luxury items from the store's display cases\n\nTwo men in suits and a woman in a dress have robbed a prestige jeweller's in the fashionable heart of Paris making off with goods worth millions of euros, reports say.\n\nThe trio, carrying a handgun equipped with a silencer, targeted the Piaget store at lunchtime in the chic Rue de la Paix, a stone's throw from the Opera in the city's second district.\n\nStaff were forced to the ground, a police source told Le Parisien website.\n\nThe robbers then fled on foot.\n\nProsecutors believe luxury jewels worth €10m-€15m (£8.5m-£13m) were taken as the trio plundered the shop displays. No-one was reported hurt.\n\nFrance's special BRB police unit targeting armed robbery and burglaries has taken over the inquiry, one of several high-profile investigations into organised gangs and hostage-taking in Paris.\n\nOnly three months ago, another smart-fronted jewellery store was targeted 100m (330ft) down the street. The Bulgari shop on Place Vendôme was attacked on a Saturday afternoon, again in broad daylight, by three armed robbers who sped away on two motorbikes.\n\nBoth Rue de la Paix and Place Vendôme are renowned for their luxury jewellers' shops. But unlike the Bulgari raid, the gang that robbed the Piaget store were smartly dressed.\n\nFrench reports speak of two men in grey suits and a woman wearing a green dress and black trousers.\n\nSandrine Marcot of France's jewellery and watches union told French TV the number of raids was worrying: \"Even though it's true the level has dramatically fallen over the years, since the end of Covid in the past couple of years, the number of robberies and burglaries has been growing.\"\n\nLess than two weeks ago, Italy and Paris St-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and his partner were tied up in their Paris flat as their attackers made off with jewellery, watches and other luxury goods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The 78-year-old Nobel laureate has been charged with a raft of criminal offences including voter fraud\n\nFormer Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been pardoned in five of 19 charges brought against her by the military.\n\nThe pardon, part of a seasonal amnesty, will reduce her 33-year jail sentence by six years.\n\nFormer president Win Myint, who was ousted along with Ms Suu Kyi, also received a reduced jail sentence after getting two of his charges pardoned.\n\nPeriodic amnesties have been announced before, but this is the first time they have included Ms Suu Kyi and Mr Myint.\n\nThe military junta has made other concessions in what appears to be an effort to revive stalled diplomacy efforts.\n\nLast week, Ms Suu Kyi was moved from prison to house arrest in the capital Nay Pyi Taw.\n\nThe 78-year-old Nobel laureate has been detained by the military since February 2021 following the coup that ousted her.\n\nThe coup triggered civil war in the country, and has led to the deaths of thousands of people.\n\nThe military junta has also been accused of unleashing disproportionate violence against those opposing its rule.\n\nSome countries, notably China and Thailand, have started a dialogue with the junta, but these initiatives have been criticised for excluding Ms Suu Kyi's party, which won a huge majority in 2020 elections.\n\nThe extent of the win led the military to allege election fraud - which they then used as a justification for the coup.\n\nAny negotiations on a compromise with the opposition would almost certainly require the involvement of Ms Suu Kyi. She has, however, been kept isolated since her arrest.\n\nMs Suu Kyi is appealing against the convictions on the other offences, which range from election fraud to corruption.\n\nAll the charges - which she has denied - were brought against her in closed-door, military-run trials. Rights groups have condemned the court trials as a sham.\n\nThe military junta on Monday postponed an election it had promised would be held by August this year.", "Prof Christopher DeCorse (C) is leading the team of archaeologists in Ghana\n\nThe exact location of what is thought to be the first English slave fort in Africa may have been found - the BBC has been hearing about the significance of the discovery in Ghana.\n\nTaking care, archaeologist Christopher DeCorse spreads the rare artefacts out on a makeshift table next to the dig site.\n\nA gunflint (used in old-fashioned guns), tobacco pipes, broken pottery and the jawbone of a goat are carefully laid out. These discarded fragments, unearthed from centuries of compacted soil, offer clues to a lost past.\n\n\"Any archaeologist who says they are not excited when they find something are not being entirely truthful,\" the professor from Syracuse University in the US says with a broad smile.\n\nThese remnants point to the existence of \"the first English outpost established anywhere in Africa\", he argues.\n\nThe archaeologist is standing in the ruins of Fort Amsterdam, speaking above the wind and roar of the Atlantic Ocean waves hitting Ghana's coastline.\n\nInside that fort are what are thought to be the remains of an older fort - Kormantine - long-lost under the earth, which the professor's team are gradually excavating with brisk activity.\n\nThe site of the dig, under the blue canopy, is inside Fort Amsterdam built by the Dutch\n\nThey are methodically combing through distinct layers of soil and stones with soft-bristle brushes and trowels. The disturbed soil removed from the trenches is carefully sieved.\n\nA canopy protects the team and the site from the weather and despite the intense sun and the occasional shower, the archaeologists' work continues.\n\nAncient maps had referred to a Fort Kormantine in that area, for example the name of the nearby town, Kormantse, is clearly related. In addition, another version of the name, Coromantee, was given to some of the enslaved people in the Caribbean thought to have been transported from this place and later known for slave rebellions.\n\nBut where exactly the fort was located remained a matter of speculation, which may have now been brought to an end.\n\nDating back to the 17th Century, Fort Kormantine sat on the Atlantic coast just at the time when Europeans started shifting their interest from the trade in gold to the trade in humans.\n\nIt was a pivotal moment in the history of their involvement in Africa that would have a profound effect on the continent.\n\nThe discovery by the team of archaeologists may shed some light on the lives of those early traders and what they were doing, as well as those who were sold and the impact on the community around them.\n\nGhana's coastal fishing towns, known for their colourful boats and the melodies sung by the fishermen, remain scarred by a past of European exploitation and human cruelty.\n\nThe slave forts dotted along what was called the Gold Coast are a looming reminder of that past.\n\nHundreds of thousands passed through them before being transported in horrific conditions across the sea.\n\nFort Kormantine - built by the English in 1631 - was one of the earliest places where that journey started.\n\nIt began life as a trading post for gold and other items like ivory.\n\nThe slave trade only began from there in 1663 when King Charles II granted a charter to the Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa (later the Royal African Company). He gave it monopoly rights over the trade in human beings.\n\nIt was only in English hands for another two years before the Dutch seized it but Fort Kormantine played a key role in the initial stages of the slave trade.\n\nIt served as a warehouse for the goods that were used to buy slaves. It was also a brief holding point for those who had been kidnapped in different parts of West Africa before being shipped to the Caribbean to work in plantations to develop the sugar economy.\n\n\"We don't have that many details on exactly what these early outposts of the slave trade looked like, which is one of the things that make uncovering the foundations of Fort Kormantine interesting,\" Prof DeCorse says.\n\nAfter capturing the fort, the Dutch built Fort Amsterdam on the same site, which is why its exact location could not be pinpointed, especially after it became a United Nations-recognised World Heritage Site, making excavation difficult.\n\nBut initial digs in 2019 in and near Fort Amsterdam, which turned up some early 17th Century artefacts, suggested where it might be.\n\nArchaeologists returned earlier this year and began further searches.\n\nNigerian Omokolade Omigbule says it was \"mind-blowing\" to see the remains of the English fort\n\nAt first there was some disappointment as they started by finding a lot of plastic items that must have been dropped more recently. But then Nigerian graduate student Omokolade Omigbule uncovered a stone that Prof DeCorse identified as part of a bigger structure.\n\n\"It was mind-blowing, seeing first-hand the remnants, the footprints of an actual building subsumed under a new fort,\" says the student from the University of Virginia.\n\n\"Seeing the imprints of these external forces in Africa first-hand and being a part of such a dig takes me back a few hundred years, it feels like I was there.\"\n\nAs the excavations continued, they uncovered a six-metre-long (20ft) wall, a door post, foundations and a drainage system made of red brick.\n\nAll these indicate an English presence pre-dating the Dutch fort.\n\nThese bowls of tobacco pipes were among the artefacts found at the site\n\nReturning to the display of artefacts in neatly labelled zip-lock bags, Prof DeCorse points out the rusty gunflint, which he says was in use in England in the early 17th Century.\n\nThe pipes with their small bowls where the tobacco was placed \"is also very distinctive of the time that we are talking about here\", the professor says, adding that over time the bowls got larger as tobacco became cheaper and more readily available.\n\nPre-empting the question about why the jawbone of a goat is important, Prof DeCorse suggest that it is proof of how the English occupants may have domesticated local animals as an alternative source of protein despite being on a coastline where there were fish in abundance.\n\nArchaeology is painstaking work. Each fragment of the past it throws up needs to be interrogated and interpreted.\n\nBut in some ways, the hard work has only just begun. Archaeologists will spend the next three years trying to unravel the gamut of Fort Kormantine - its architecture, look and feel - which should in turn reveal its true significance.", "Angus Cloud, who starred on HBO's hit series Euphoria, has died aged 25.\n\nCloud, who played drug dealer Fezco \"Fez\" O'Neill on the teen drama, died on Monday at his family home in Oakland, California, said a publicist.\n\n\"It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today,\" said the Cloud family.\n\nCloud attended his father's funeral in Ireland last week and, according to his family, \"intensely struggled with this loss\".\n\nThere was some comfort in knowing he was now \"reunited with his dad, who was his best friend\", they said in a statement.\n\n\"Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence,\" it said.\n\n\"We hope the world remembers him for his humour, laughter and love for everyone.\"\n\nTwo weeks ago, Cloud posted a photo of his father on Instagram and wrote: \"miss u breh.\"\n\nHis cause of death has not been confirmed.\n\nCloud had minor acting credits in two films, North Hollywood and The Line. He had also appeared in music videos for artists including Becky G, Karol G and Juice WRLD.\n\nBut his career really took off after he won the part of Fez, a high school drug dealer in Euphoria.\n\nThe role turned Cloud into a breakout star, according to the Hollywood Reporter, and his character was expanded in the second season.\n\nIn an interview with Variety last year, Cloud said he was bothered by fan comparisons to his on-screen character.\n\n\"It's not that simple,\" he said. \"I brought a lot to the character.\"\n\nAs a teenager, he suffered a traumatic brain injury, which is partially responsible for his slow-paced voice on the show.\n\nAccording to a 2019 interview with GQ, Cloud had no real aspirations to become a star, or even an actor.\n\nHe used to work at a chicken and waffle joint, according to the magazine, and one day was unexpectedly stopped in the street by an agent from a casting company.\n\n\"I was confused and I didn't want to give her my phone number,\" Cloud told GQ. \"I thought it was a scam.\"\n\nAfter first airing in June 2019, Euphoria quickly became a hit and by 2022 was the most tweeted-about TV show of the decade in the US.\n\nThe main character, played by Zendaya, is a 17-year-old who struggles with drug abuse, seen on screen taking the deadly opioid fentanyl and injecting morphine.\n\nIn 2022, Cloud defended accusations during an interview with TMZ that the show glorified drug use.\n\nEuphoria creator Sam Levinson said: \"There was no one quite like Angus. He was too special, too talented and way too young to leave us so soon.\"\n\nSydney Martin, the model who was rumoured to be in an on-off relationship with Cloud, shared broken heart emojis on Instagram after his death was announced.\n\nCloud's co-star Javon \"Wanna\" Walton, known in the show as Cloud's adoptive brother, Ashtray, wrote on Instagram: \"Rest easy brother.\"\n\nCalifornia congresswoman Barbara Lee lamented the loss of \"Oakland's own\", in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter,\n\n\"His immense talent touched the lives of countless people. His work & legacy will forever live on and make Oakland proud,\" she wrote.\n\nActress Kerry Washington also posted on the platform: \"You will be deeply missed. Rest in power.\"\n\nCloud was immensely talented and a beloved part of the Euphoria family, HBO said in a statement.", "Margaret Ferrier campaigns with the then-SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon ahead of the 2019 General Election\n\nA by-election has been triggered after MP Margaret Ferrier, who was suspended from the Commons for breaking Covid lockdown rules, lost her seat in a recall petition.\n\nShe had travelled to London while feeling ill in 2020 then got a train home after a positive Covid test.\n\nFerrier was elected as an SNP member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West in 2015 but was suspended from the party after the lockdown breach in 2020 and has since sat as an independent.\n\nShe had taken a Covid test on Saturday 26 September 2020 after noticing what she described as a \"tickly throat\".\n\nWhile awaiting her results, she went to church, gave a reading to the congregation and spent more than two hours in a bar in Prestwick, South Ayrshire.\n\nThe next day she travelled to London by train and spoke in the Commons before finding out a short time later that she had tested positive for the virus.\n\nFerrier decided to get a train back to Glasgow the following day, fearing she would have to self-isolate in a London hotel room for two weeks.\n\nShe was arrested and charged with culpable and reckless conduct in January 2021 and pleaded guilty last August. A month later she was ordered to carry out 270 hours of community service.\n\nThe 62-year-old first became an MP in 2015 in the SNP landslide that saw the party take 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland.\n\nFerrier, who won Rutherglen and Hamilton West, pulled off one of the biggest shocks on a night full of surprises.\n\nHer victory overturned a Labour majority of 21,002 - one of the largest in the UK - and she ended up the winner by 9,975 votes.\n\nShe was 54 when she was chosen to be the SNP candidate and had only joined the party four years earlier.\n\nSoon after becoming an MP, she told the Rutherglen Reformer she could not remember a time when she did not support an independent Scotland.\n\nEven as a member of the Labour Party in her youth, she felt the country should go it alone, she said.\n\nBorn in the south of Glasgow, she lived for almost two years of her childhood in Spain.\n\nShe told the Reformer she had early memories of correcting people in Spain when they called her English.\n\n\"I wasn't English, I was Scottish, so I always had that Scottish identity, even from the age of 12,\" she said.\n\nFerrier returned to Scotland in 1972 and settled with her family in Rutherglen.\n\nMargaret Ferrier in the House of Commons during a debate on the coronavirus response\n\nShe is said to have had a keen interest in politics since her early-20s and was a member of Amnesty International.\n\nBefore becoming an MP, she had worked as a commercial sales manager for a manufacturing construction company in Motherwell.\n\nAlthough she said she voted for the SNP on a number of occasions, she did not join the Rutherglen branch of the party until 2011.\n\nShe quickly established herself in the local party and was a candidate for the council elections in 2013.\n\nShe said she was initially reluctant to contest the Westminster seat in 2015 and admitted at the time that some potential candidates may have been put off by the prospect of taking on a huge Labour majority.\n\nHer surprise win was followed by defeat in the snap election of 2017 when Ged Killen regained the seat for Labour with a slender majority of 265.\n\nThe then-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited Rutherglen to offer her support for Margaret Ferrier as she campaigned successfully to win back the seat in the 2019 election.\n\nFerrier was one of the MPs who called on the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings to resign in the wake of the controversy over his visit to the North East of England during lockdown.\n\nAt the time, she said his actions had \"undermined the sacrifices that we have all been making in lockdown to protect each other from coronavirus\" and described his position as \"untenable\".\n\nIt subsequently emerged that Ferrier had travelled from Glasgow to London with Covid symptoms, and then returned home by train after testing positive.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was quick to condemn her actions as \"dangerous and indefensible\".\n\nThe former SNP leader later called \"with a heavy heart\" for Ferrier to resign as an MP.", "Sweet Pea says it has changed its procedures since the child was left locked in the nursery\n\nA young child was left locked in a nursery after it had closed for the day.\n\nThe child was left alone for up to 15 minutes at Sweet Pea Daycare in Birchgrove, Cardiff, on 13 July.\n\nThe nursery said its investigation found that software indicated the child had been picked up when they had not.\n\nCare Inspectorate Wales (CIW) said it had taken the appropriate steps in line with its policies.\n\nSweet Pea has two nurseries locations - near Birchgrove Primary School and the other near Ton-Yr-Ywen Primary School - and was established in April 2013.\n\nIts registered nursery in Birchgrove cares for 44 children aged six weeks to five years old and is split into four separate areas.\n\nThe nursery refused to speak to BBC Wales, but in a statement to WalesOnline it said the safety of children in its care was its \"utmost priority\" and new measures had been adopted to ensure the incident did not happen again.\n\nIt added: \"Following the incident, the management team conducted a thorough internal investigation to address the issue it took immediate action by involving the appropriate regulatory body, CIW, to ensure that our investigation was conducted with the utmost professionalism and that steps were taken to prevent any future occurrences.\"\n\nSweet Pea said it has now implemented an additional step in their sign in and sign out procedures whereby parents are required to personally sign out their child at the end of the day.\n\nCIW said: \"We continue to work closely with the provider and local authority to ensure the safety of all children who use the service.\"", "As prime minister, Boris Johnson railed against \"newt-counting\" as a \"massive drag on prosperity\" blaming the process for slowing down building in the UK.\n\nNow, his own plans to build a pool at his newly acquired Oxfordshire home may be hampered due to the presence of his old nemesis, the great crested newt.\n\nObjecting to the pool, one council officer warned nearby newts could be impacted by the development.\n\nHe advised planning permission should not be granted, without an assessment.\n\nMr Johnson moved to the £3.8m 17th Century house in May. The grounds of the nine-bedroom building include a tennis court and are bordered on three sides by a moat.\n\nThe holding objection to the pool, first reported in the Telegraph, was lodged by South and Vale Countryside Officer Edward Church who said the proposed development falls within \"the red zone of highest risk to great crested newts\".\n\n\"Natural England guidance requires that proposals need to demonstrate no risk to GCN or appropriate levels of mitigation and compensation following assessment.\"\n\nHe said protected species surveys may be needed to support Mr Johnson's application.\n\nGreat crested newts are a European protected species and it is an offence to deliberately kill, injure or capture them, or damage their breeding sites and resting places.\n\nAccording to government agency Natural England, the population of great crested newts has dramatically declined over the last 60 years.\n\nIn order to protect the species, local councils have to check developers have taken appropriate measures to mitigate negative effects on the orange-bellied amphibians.\n\nMr Johnson's application to build an 11 by 4m outdoor swimming pool, also attracted comments from the council's County Archaeological Services who noted that the site was an area of \"considerable archaeological interest\" as it was believe to be the location of a moat of a 12th century siege castle.\n\nThe body said the development \"despite its relatively limited nature, could encounter archaeological deposits related to the medieval development\".\n\nIt advised that if permission was granted, some form of archaeological monitoring should take place during construction.\n\nGreat crested newts can be identified by their orange belly and warty skin\n\nThe Campaign to Protect Rural England Oxfordshire noted that the application did not include an external lighting scheme.\n\nThe organisation said it was working to reduce light pollution and any new plans for pool lighting should be subject to prior approval.\n\nRebecca Barnett, the conservation officer for the local district council said she had no objection to the pool, concluding that it would be \"unharmful\" to the character and appearance of the conservation area.\n\nThe application of the former prime minister also received other, perhaps less serious, comments, with one anonymous contributor giving their address as \"123 Brexit Avenue, Sunlit Uplands\" - a reference to Mr Johnson's role in taking the UK out of the EU.\n\nBoris Johnson's spokesman declined to comment on the newts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says the Acorn project will strengthen the UK's energy security strategy\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak defended the decision to grant 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences.\n\nThe UK government has also said it will support a carbon capture project in the north east of Scotland.\n\nCampaigners said that extracting more fossil fuels from the North Sea would \"send a wrecking ball through the UK's climate commitments\".\n\nBut Mr Sunak said granting the new licences was \"entirely consistent\" with net zero commitments.\n\nIt comes as the party faces internal divisions over its green policies - such as the review over low-traffic neighbourhoods in England - with some MPs calling for a rethink.\n\nMr Sunak confirmed support for the Acorn Project in St Fergus, Aberdeenshire, on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, then later visited the site.\n\nIt is one of four carbon capture projects which will share up to £20bn of funding.\n\nMr Sunak said the announcement would support thousands of jobs across the UK.\n\nHe said granting the new oil and gas licences was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nThe Acorn Project will be located at St Fergus gas terminal in Aberdeenshire\n\nHe said: \"Even when we reach net zero in 2050, a quarter of our energy needs will still come from oil and gas and domestic gas production has about a quarter or a third of the carbon footprint of imported gas.\"\n\nThe prime minister also said it made \"absolutely no sense\" to import energy supplies with \"two to three times the carbon footprint of what we have got at home\".\n\nHe said increasing home-grown sources of energy would improve the UK's resilience, create jobs and generate tax revenue to fund public services.\n\nMr Sunak said the government was determined to transition to net zero in a \"proportionate and pragmatic\" way.\n\nAnd he also defended his plans to fly to Scotland as \"an efficient use of time for the person running the country\" and highlighted investment in new technologies, such as sustainable aviation fuel.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"If your approach to climate change is to say that no one should go on holiday, no one should go on a plane, I think you are completely and utterly wrong.\"\n\nThe Acorn project in St Fergus in Aberdeenshire missed out, quite controversially, on track one of funding for this back in 2021.\n\nInstead it went to two projects in the north of England.\n\nThat was highly controversial because there had been heavy hints placed that the Scottish project would form part of that.\n\nIt was one of the most advanced projects in the UK, if not the most advanced, and then suddenly it was dropped.\n\nThe accusation was that the Conservative government at Westminster was favouring Red Wall constituencies following its success at the last general election.\n\nBut it was always the case that this would be a sequencing of events.\n\nBetween the projects announced in 2021 and today 10 mega tonnes of carbon dioxide will be captured and stored by 2030, the UK government says.\n\nThat includes emissions from Mosmorran, from Grangemouth, from a new power station to be built at Peterhead and, potentially, from direct air capture.\n\nIt effectively sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and also stores it.\n\nLabour's Ed Miliband claimed the Conservatives' energy policy had left Britain as \"the worst hit country in Western Europe during the energy crisis\".\n\nMr Miliband, the shadow climate change secretary, said: \"Rishi Sunak's weak and confused policy will not take a penny off bills - as his own party chair has admitted - will do nothing for our energy security, and drive a coach and horses through our climate commitments, while continuing to leave us at the mercy of fossil fuel dictators like Putin.\"\n\nAnd Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf said the new oil and gas licences demonstrated the UK government was \"not serious about tackling the climate emergency\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"For the PM to announce unlimited extraction of oil & gas, in the week the UN has confirmed July is set to be the hottest month in human history, shows the PM is willing to recklessly gamble the future of our planet for cheap political gain.\"\n\nThe St Fergus project is a joint venture between Shell UK and other companies.\n\nIt would become Scotland's first carbon capture and storage facility, which would see harmful greenhouse gas emissions piped under the North Sea.\n\nThis would prevent the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, by capturing it at the point where the fossil fuel is being burnt.\n\nThe UK government said its \"decisive action\" would provide highly-skilled jobs for young people in the region.\n\nIt added this package would \"defend the public\" against the disruption of global energy supplies by Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nHowever, climate campaigners criticised the decision to award new fossil fuel licences.\n\nOxfam climate change policy adviser Lyndsay Walsh said the announcement was another example of the government's \"hypocritical and dangerously inconsistent climate policy\".\n\nShe added: \"Extracting more fossil fuels from the North Sea will send a wrecking ball through the UK's climate commitments at a time when we should be investing in a just transition to a low carbon economy and our own abundant renewables.\"\n\nMike Childs, head of policy at environmental charity Friends of the Earth, said the government needed to focus on energy efficiency and home-grown renewable resources rather than \"championing more costly and dirty fossil fuels\".\n\nHe added: \"Climate change is already battering the planet with unprecedented wildfires and heatwaves across the globe.\"\n\nAnd Fabrice Leveque, climate and energy policy manager at WWF Scotland, said politicians should be focusing on helping households to transition to clean heating rather than \"chasing the mirage of cheap domestic fossil fuels\".\n\nHe added: \"These new licences will do nothing to cut households' energy bills and ignore the best way to boost our energy security - reducing demand for fossil fuels in the first place by insulating homes and replacing oil and gas boilers and vehicles with clean alternatives that run on cheap, homegrown renewables.\"\n\nBurning fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal to generate electricity emits carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the main driver of climate change.\n\nThe carbon capture process stops most of the CO2 produced from being released, and either re-uses it or stores it underground.\n\nCarbon capture technology is seen by policy makers as a vital tool in reaching the net zero target by the middle of the century.\n\nSome environmentalists, however, are against it because they consider it a distraction from the urgent need to cut emissions.\n\nThe Acorn Project has been under development in various forms for more than a decade.\n\nIt had hoped to be one of the first projects of its kind to receive government backing in 2021, but lost out to two projects in the north of England around the Humber and the Mersey.\n\nSNP Westminster leader and MP for Aberdeen South, Stephen Flynn, said \"broken promises\" had left Scotland's green energy future in jeopardy.\n\nWelcoming the investment, he added: \"There can be no more broken promises or delays. Now is the time to strike on Scotland's green energy potential.\"\n\nThere have been questions raised about the government's ability to meet its 2050 net zero target, with its climate advisers having warned the UK risks falling behind without much faster action.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Sunak said he was committed to meeting the target in a \"pragmatic and proportionate way\" but without \"unnecessarily adding costs and burdens to families\".\n\nNet zero means no longer adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\n\nMr Sunak has faced calls from some Tories to change the deadline for the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesels cars, but told the Sunday Telegraph he was not planning to do so.\n\nThere has also been debate over the expansion of London's ultra-low emission zone (Ulez), which was widely seen as helping Conservatives seal a narrow victory in the Uxbridge by-election.\n\nBoth Mr Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have urged London mayor Sadiq Khan to reflect on the rollout as people struggle with cost-of-living pressures.", "Transport minister Richard Holden has said he can not put a timeframe on when asylum seekers will be housed on a barge in Dorset.\n\nThe Home Office had been planning to move the first 50 migrants onto the Bibby Stockholm, moored at Portland Port, on Tuesday.\n\nBut the arrival date has now been pushed back, potentially to next week.\n\nHome Office sources say the delay is because working practices for port staff haven't been signed off.\n\nThe local fire service says it has been providing fire safety advice to the Home Office and the vessel operators.\n\nAsked earlier on Sky News when the barge would be available, Mr Holden said: \"I can't put a timeframe on it.\"\n\nHe added: \"The checks are going to take as long as they're going to take. It's important we get these things right.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that \"all accommodation has to go through a series of checks and inspections\" when asked about the delay.\n\nHe also defended the policy arguing that it was \"not fair\" for taxpayers to pay \"six million quid a day to house illegal migrants in hotels\".\n\nThe government wants to use barges to house male migrants in an attempt to reduce the bill for hotel rooms.\n\nSenior ministers hope to confirm the use of further barges in the coming months.\n\nThey have struggled to find ports prepared to host them so far, with a site next to London City airport and another on the River Mersey in Wirral among those being rejected.\n\nThe government believes a successful scheme in Dorset will help encourage other areas to sign up.\n\nBut any safety issues would make increasing the use of barges less likely.\n\nThe initial plan is for 50 men to live on Bibby Stockholm. But that could increase to more than 500 in the coming months.\n\nThe Home Office decided men living on the barge could share rooms, which significantly increased the capacity.\n\nBut there has been opposition to the plan - with local councillors and residents staging protests and Conservative MP for South Dorset Richard Drax calling on the government to remove the barge.", "A large snake slithered onto a Lanka Premier League game in Colombo, Sri Lanka, bringing play to a halt.\n\nThe reptile, believed to be a non-venomous rat snake, was ushered off the grounds before the game between Galle Titans and Dambulla Aura resumed.", "Sniper commander Ghost says his team got the name \"the Ghosts of Bakhmut\" after they started their operations in the area\n\nUkrainian forces are trying to retake the city of Bakhmut in the country's east. The BBC was given exclusive access to a team of elite snipers, referred to as \"the Ghosts of Bakhmut\", who are conducting night raids nearby.\n\nGhost, the sniping team's commander, takes us to the place he calls the \"edge of existence\" - their base on the outskirts of the city.\n\n\"Ghost is my call sign,\" he tells me. \"When we started bringing terror to Bakhmut, we got the name 'the Ghosts of Bakhmut'.\"\n\nTheir base is already well within the range of Russian artillery. Ghost doesn't flinch at the crump of a shell landing nearby. \"The artillery always makes people worry,\" he says. \"You can hide from artillery, but not from a sniper\".\n\nThe Ghosts, a team of about 20 soldiers, have been operating on the edges of Bakhmut for the past six months. They often hunt for high-value targets.\n\nI ask Ghost how many Russians his team have killed. He says, \"There's a confirmed number - 524. Seventy-six of those are mine.\" The team electronically records every shot through the sights of their rifles.\n\nNot everyone's keeping count, though. Kuzia, the marksman for tonight's mission, says: \"It's nothing to be proud of. We're not killing people, we're destroying the enemy.\"\n\nBefore the war, he worked in a factory. He says he never liked guns, but felt compelled to take up arms when Russia invaded.\n\nKuzia does one final check of his US-made Barrett sniper rifle: \"Each mission is dangerous, when we make a mistake the enemy can hit you,\" he says. \"Of course I'm scared - only a fool wouldn't be.\"\n\nSniping team marksman Kuzia checks his rifle one last time before heading out on their mission\n\nOn tonight's mission he'll be accompanied by Taras, his spotter. Kusch is the driver - who'll bring them as close as possible to the front line. From there the two-man team will have to walk more than a mile to reach their target. Ghost will remain back at the base, along with the rookie, known simply as the Brit.\n\nThe youngest member of the team got the name after receiving his initial training in the UK. He's yet to have his first confirmed kill.\n\nGhost says he's handpicked every member of the team based on their \"humanity and patriotism\" rather than their military experience and skills.\n\nAs dusk approaches the team climbs into their armoured Humvee. I, and cameraman Moose Campbell, will accompany them to the drop-off point.\n\nKusch, the driver, tells us that part of the route is still being targeted by Russian artillery.\n\nAs he starts the engine the team all give themselves the sign of the cross. Kusch starts to play some music from his phone. He says the Ukrainian rap song gets them in the mood. But it'll also mask the sound of the shelling.\n\nAt first it's hard to hear the explosions nearby because of the rattle of the Humvee, which Kusch drives at speed over pot-holed tracks. But he points to the sky several times and warns, \"incoming\". There are a few thuds nearby.\n\nWe pass half a dozen wrecked Ukrainian armoured vehicles that weren't so fortunate. Kusch points to minefields on either side of the dirt track.\n\nThe vehicle the team is travelling in is damaged by shrapnel after an explosion nearby\n\nTwenty minutes later we come to an abrupt halt close to a ruined house. The two-man sniper team open the doors and disappear towards a tree line. Kusch shouts out, \"God be with you\" before making a fast exit.\n\nAs we return there's a flash of orange and a louder explosion. The Humvee starts to rattle even more. Kusch opens his door, while driving, to look behind and lets out a stream of swear words.\n\nA piece of shrapnel has shredded one of the back tyres. It's a nerve-wracking hobble back to base. When we finally return he shows us the large piece of jagged metal which tore apart the tyre.\n\nIt's now dark and the shelling has subsided. Inside their base they anxiously hold on to their radios for news from the sniper team. Kusch and the Brit pace the floor.\n\nGhost makes a phone call to his seven-year-old daughter. She's on speaker when she excitedly shouts, \"I love you daddy\". It's a brief burst of normality - but he's already taught her how to strip a gun.\n\nSeven hours later, with little sleep, it's time for the extraction. We shelter in the building while there's a volley of incendiary fire, and then make our way back into the Humvee.\n\nThis time it's dark, but Kusch tries to drive from memory - avoiding turning on the headlights to attract attention. Another abrupt halt and the two-man sniper team gets back inside the Humvee.\n\nThe relief is palpable when we get back to their base.\n\nThis photo, taken on 15 June, shows destroyed buildings in the ruined city of Bakhmut\n\nKuzia says: \"One shot, one target.\"\n\nLater they show us the video from the night-scope. They say it was a Russian machine-gunner who'd been firing at Ukrainian troops near the front line.\n\nThey'll rest now until the next night's mission. Kuzia says: \"I'm happy to be back and happy that everyone's alive\".\n\nOver the past six months several of the team have been injured, including the commander Ghost. But none of them has been killed.\n\nGhost says \"every trip may be our last, but we're doing a noble deed\".\n\nOne small team of snipers won't win this war, or even take back Bakhmut. But they believe they're having an impact.\n\nKusch says it has a psychological effect on their enemy - hunting down one Russian soldier at a time from a place that can't be seen and with a sound that can't be heard.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe owners of Twitter have been accused of trying to \"bully\" anti-hate campaigners into silence with letters threatening legal action.\n\nThe Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said X Corp accused it of making \"troubling and baseless claims\" in its reports about the platform.\n\nElon Musk bought the platform last year promising to defend free speech.\n\nImran Ahmed, CCDH chief executive, said Mr Musk's actions were \"a brazen attempt to silence honest criticism\".\n\nTwitter was rebranded as X by Mr Musk just over a week ago.\n\nSince Mr Musk took over Twitter, the platform has been accused - including by former employees - of not doing enough to counter hate-speech and misinformation. Conversely, in December Mr Musk tweeted that hate speech was down by a third.\n\nOn Sunday the platform reinstated Kanye West after an almost eight-month ban for a series of offensive tweets - one of which appeared to show a symbol combining a swastika and the Star of David.\n\nIn the letter to the CCDH, X Corp lawyer Alex Spiro rejected the campaign group's allegations that Twitter \"fails to act on 99%\" of hateful messages from accounts with Twitter Blue subscriptions.\n\nMr Spiro criticised the organisation's methodology, writing that \"the article is little more than a series of inflammatory, misleading, and unsupported claims based on a cursory review of random tweets.\"\n\nHe also alleged that CCDH was supported by funding from \"X Corp's commercial competitors, as well as government entities and their affiliates\".\n\nThe letter accused the organisation of attempting to drive away advertisers and said X Corp was considering legal action. The company has lost almost half of its advertising revenue since his $44bn (£33.6bn) takeover, Mr Musk revealed in July.\n\nIn its reply CCDH's lawyer Roberta Kaplan said the allegations in the \"ridiculous letter\" had no basis in fact but were \"a disturbing effort to intimidate those who have the courage to advocate against incitement, hate speech and harmful content online\".\n\nCCDH says it does not accept funding from social media companies nor government bodies, \"both of whom we praise or criticise without fear or favour\".\n\nBritish politicians backed CCDH for its work on highlighting hate speech on social media.\n\nDamian Collins, a British MP on the UK board of CCDH, said Elon Musk's commitment to free speech didn't seem to apply when his firm was criticised.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Damian Collins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShadow culture secretary Lucy Powell MP said that CCDH \"does vitally important work tackling hate online and calling out platforms which fail to counter dis- and misinformation on their sites\".\n\nAfter the company was renamed, X Corp removed the old Twitter sign from its headquarters in San Francisco and replaced it with a new brightly lit and flashing X.\n\nHowever, the company has now been ordered to remove the new sign due to complaints.", "The flashing sign was put up on the roof of headquarters at X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday.\n\nCity officials in San Francisco said they were investigating the sign's installation after numerous complaints.", "There is no evidence the global spread of Facebook is linked to widespread psychological harm, an Oxford Internet Institute (OII) study suggests.\n\nThe research looked at how wellbeing changed in 72 countries as use of the social media platform grew.\n\nIt counters the common belief that social media is psychologically harmful, the researchers argue.\n\nSeveral countries, including the UK, are considering legislation to protect social media users from online harms.\n\nMeta, which owns Facebook, has faced scrutiny following testimony from whistle-blowers and press reports based on leaks that suggested the company's own research pointed to negative impacts on some users.\n\nThis research only looked at Facebook and not Meta's other platforms, which include Instagram.\n\nProf Andrew Przybylski, of the OII, told the BBC the study tried to answer the question: \"As countries become more saturated with social media, how does the wellbeing of their populations look?\"\n\nHe said: \"It's commonly thought that this is a bad thing for wellbeing. And the data that we put together, and the data that we analysed didn't show that that was the case.\"\n\nPrevious OII work carried out by Prof Przybylski also found little association between teenagers' technology use and mental health problems.\n\nBut the report only looked at the overall impact of Facebook use at a national level. The broad-brush findings would not reveal the impact of Facebook use on groups of people with particular vulnerabilities.\n\nIt might, for example, miss negative impacts on small groups of users if they were offset by positive impacts on others, Prof Przybylski accepted.\n\nIt also did not drill down to examine the risks presented by certain types of content, such as material promoting self-harm.\n\nFor Prof Przybylski, the main policy lesson from the study was that researchers needed access to better data from tech firms to answer questions about the effect of social media:\n\n\"You know, we have a situation where a handful of people are crying wolf, about social media. But we don't actually have the data, we don't have the materials we need to build a wolf detector,\" he said.\n\nThe UK's Online Safety Bill (OSB) is in the final stages of its parliamentary journey towards becoming law. It is designed to protect people from online harms.\n\nBut Prof Sonia Livingstone, of the London School of Economics, cautioned that the study's relevance to the OSB was limited.\n\n\"The authors' broad critique - that screen-time anxieties are not much supported by robust evidence - is fair. However, the study reported here is so general as to be of little use to current regulatory or clinical debates,\" she told the BBC.\n\nAnd while the OSB prioritises protecting children - the research does not look at youngsters as a separate group and \"by and large children are not using Facebook\".\n\n\"This reminds me of a conference I went to that asked, 'what difference did half a century of television make?'. How can there be one answer?\" she said.\n\nBut she supported the authors' call for more research based on access to data.\n\nThe peer-reviewed research by Prof Przybylski and co-author Matti Vuorre is based on a large amount of data provided by Facebook. Both researchers are independent of the company and the research was not funded by the tech giant.\n\nFacebook gave the researchers data showing how the number of users in each country grew between 2008 and 2019 divided into two age brackets, 13-34 and over 35.\n\nThe OII team compared this data with some on wellbeing representing nearly a million people, recorded by the Gallup World Poll Survey.\n\nOverall the researchers say they found no evidence that increasing social media adoption was linked to a negative affect on psychological wellbeing.\n\nProf Peter Etchells, professor of psychology and science communication at Bath Spa University, said the \"broad strokes\" study was fascinating.\n\nBut he said - as the authors make clear - it did not say anything about cause and effect. However, it showed the value of the technology companies opening their doors to researchers, he noted.\n\nMeta, which owns Facebook, said it hoped the \"first of a kind study\" using internal data from a social media firm lead to productive conversations with policymakers, parents and academics. \"We can only support those struggling with their well-being when we understand the full picture\", it said.", "Hardeep Singh Kohli has been arrested and charged with sex offences\n\nScottish comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli has been arrested and charged in connection with \"non-recent\" sexual offences.\n\nThe 54-year-old has been released and is due to appear in court at a later date, police confirmed.\n\nMr Kohli has presented several programmes for the BBC and other broadcasters, and was runner up in the 2006 edition of Celebrity MasterChef.\n\nHe was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2018.\n\nA spokesperson for the force said a report of the circumstances had been submitted to the procurator fiscal.\n\nMr Kohli's arrest follows an investigation by the Times which described how several people had raised concerns about him.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed last month it was investigating the allegations.", "During the trial, the jury heard that during the drive home from Kylie Jenner’s pool party on the night of July 11, 2020, Megan Thee Stallion insulted Tory Lanez‘s musical talent.\n\nAs the argument escalated, she demanded to be let out of the car. Megan testified that she heard Lanez shout “dance\" before he fired five rounds at her.\n\nThe court heard she left a trail of blood at the scene, before getting back into the vehicle, which was stopped minutes later by police.\n\nA gun that was still warm to the touch was found near where Lanez had been sitting.\n\nMegan testified Lanez had offered her $1m (£780,000) to keep quiet about the attack because he claimed to be on probation for a weapons offence.\n\nMinutes after the shooting, another passenger texted Megan Thee Stallion's security detail, saying: \"Help... Tory shot meg.\"", "A mobile billboard paid for by the South Australia government has been seen outside hospitals encouraging doctors to move down under\n\nThe NHS, it is claimed, is facing an exodus of doctors. It is one of the reasons put forward to support their claims for more pay as strike action continues.\n\nBut an analysis of data by the BBC suggests this is not the case - yet.\n\nThe proportion of the medical workforce leaving the NHS has hardly changed for a decade, while figures on those seeking a move overseas do not, overall, show a clear upwards trend.\n\nThere are, however, some worrying signs - with increasing numbers of junior doctors taking a break in their training, and some evidence that aggressive marketing by authorities in Australia on social media and billboards is turning the heads of more UK medics.\n\nEvery year thousands of doctors leave the NHS. Some retire, others move into private practice and some head abroad.\n\nBut figures from NHS Digital in England show over the past decade the proportion leaving overall has remained pretty constant at about 14-15%.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of new joiners has increased, leading to a rise in the number of doctors in the NHS.\n\nBut what about if we just look at junior doctors? This is the group that receives the lowest rates of pay in the profession and is often said to be the most disenchanted.\n\nThey make up almost half the hospital doctors in England and include anyone who has finished medical school but has not yet completed their postgraduate training to become a GP, speciality doctor or consultant.\n\nFirstly, most junior doctors do stay. Of those in 2016 who had completed their first two years of foundation training, only 7% had left the profession five years later, according to the General Medical Council (GMC).\n\nHowever, other data from the regulator does show a big jump in the numbers taking a break from their training.\n\nIn 2012, two-thirds moved straight on to the third year of their junior doctor training pathway after completing year two.\n\nBut by 2020 that figure had fallen to under a third.\n\nWhere these doctors are going is unclear. They could be spending time working as a locum - taking well-paid but ad-hoc freelance shifts to cover gaps in rotas - going travelling or seeking opportunities abroad.\n\nMost seem to come back after a pause of a year or two, but the fact there is a clear upwards trend is causing some concern.\n\nThe best data on how many move abroad each year comes from the GMC database on applications for a Certificate of Good Standing, which doctors use to apply for work abroad.\n\nBefore the pandemic, there were consistently more than 6,000 certificates a year sent to other medical authorities around the world.\n\nAfter a drop during the pandemic the number rose to about 7,000 in 2022.\n\nMore recent figures for 2023 so far suggest the number will be higher again - although it is unclear if this reflects a long-term rise, as the trend seen over the last 18 months may just be a natural catch-up following the dip during the pandemic.\n\nThe most popular countries are Australia, United Arab Emirates, Canada and Ireland, accounting for two-thirds of the certificates.\n\nBut applying for one of these certificates does not mean a doctor has definitely left the UK, the GMC says, rather it shows an intention to work abroad in the future. Data from previous years suggests half of doctors who apply for a certificate remain working in the UK.\n\nThe BBC has also approached the medical authorities directly in Australia and New Zealand about the number of doctors trained in the UK emigrating.\n\nNew Zealand has the most up-to-date figures, which show about 500 doctors a year trained in the UK and Ireland left to work there before the pandemic. The data available for the first three-quarters of 2022-23 suggests a similar level.\n\nThe figures for Australia only go up to 2021, and show a total of 6,621 UK-trained doctors working in the country that year. There has been a gradual upwards trend over the past five years with the figures more than a quarter higher than they were in 2016.\n\nAnd the British Medical Association (BMA) is convinced this will get worse.\n\nDr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, who jointly chair the BMA junior doctors' committee, said: \"You cannot ignore the evidence that if the government won't pay doctors what they are worth, they are going to continue to leave for countries that will.\"\n\nBut as doctors leave the UK, it is also worth noting medics come in from abroad.\n\nLast year more than 12,000 doctors who were trained abroad joined the register. The number of newly-qualified homegrown doctors who joined was 8,000.", "Former landlord Tom Catton proposed to wife Laura while working at the pub and had a last drink in the rubble on Tuesday\n\nThe last landlord at \"Britain's wonkiest pub\" said the recent fire and demolition of the building would tarnish memories.\n\nLee Goodchild, 46, ran the Crooked House near Dudley from September 2022 until it recently shut.\n\nHis views were echoed by Tom and Laura Catton, who met while working at the pub and visited the remains on Tuesday for one last drink in the rubble.\n\nThey described it as a community focal point.\n\nThe Crooked House was gutted by fire on Saturday night. The shell of the building was left standing, but it was bulldozed on Monday afternoon. Officials have said the demolition was unacceptable and possibly unlawful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council said it was looking at possible enforcement action against those responsible.\n\nMr Goodchild, who lives in Worcestershire, said he was \"pretty low\" when he had to leave the pub, after brewer Marston's put it up for sale, but the fire and the surprising demolition had left him \"appalled\".\n\nThe landlord has been in the pub trade for more than 25 years, but said he was now thinking of leaving the business and added: \"This has just really taken its toll.\"\n\nHe said he had received many messages since the fire, but had found it hard to look at the pictures of the pub he once ran.\n\nHe described the Crooked House as an \"iconic building\" and had thought the previous owners, Marston's, would have wanted it to remain a pub.\n\nLee Goodchild said the fire and subsequent demolition of the Crooked House was \"appalling\"\n\nThe former farmhouse was a popular attraction in the West Midlands for decades after Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries bought it and converted it into a pub in the 1940s.\n\nIt became famous for its uneven floors, due to subsidence caused by mining, and people often went to witness the illusion of coins and marbles appearing to roll uphill along the bar.\n\nTom and Laura Catton ran and lived in the pub for more than two years. They said the quirks of the building had a lasting appeal.\n\n\"It was the focal point of the community and it brought so many people to the community because people had come from all over the world just to have a look at this marble run up the hill,\" Mrs Catton said.\n\n\"And, it would bring people into other local businesses as well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Nationwide programme spent an afternoon inside The Crooked House in 1974\n\nMr Catton said the pub meant a lot to him. It was not only where he started his first job, but met his wife there, his boss at the time.\n\n\"We lived there for two years. I proposed to her there. We had our first child there,\" he said.\n\n\"So even after 15 years away, it's hit hard.\"\n\nMrs Catton said the pub trade had changed a lot over the years, particularly through the Covid pandemic, although she believed it should have remained open.\n\n\"They struggled with the outside service, the table service,\" she said.\n\n\"The pub trade has changed an awful lot, but I can't see how a pub that was pulling people in from all over the world couldn't sustain itself.\"\n\nTalk of the pub being rebuilt brick by brick was a comfort, but the couple said they doubted it would become reality, mainly due to rising costs.\n\nMr Goodchild said people of all ages had stories to tell about it and agreed answers were needed.\n\n\"People need to know the truth of what's gone on,\" he said.\n\nOther people reminiscing about the pub include Dawn Yates from Halesowen, who went on a blind date at the Crooked House 21 years ago and is still with the man she met there.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely gutted\" she would not get the chance to take her children there now.\n\nDawn Yates met her partner on a blind date at the pub\n\nAnother woman, who went there when she was younger, said: \"You just go for the entertainment value really, it was just an old fashioned world pub with all the quirky pieces.\"\n\nShe said she was \"devastated because it was just part of the Black Country\".\n\nA man who played for the pub's football team in the 1980s said: \"Americans used to come there and they just couldn't believe it.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reuben, left, and Jasper face being split up when they begin school in September\n\nA charity has warned of possible \"unwanted outcomes\" after autistic twin brothers were allocated places at two different schools.\n\nJasper has been offered a place at Hob Moor Oaks School, in York, leaving Reuben to attend a mainstream primary.\n\nThe four-year-olds' parents, Pete and Rhiannon, are taking their case against City of York Council to a tribunal.\n\nAhead of the hearing, Twins Trust said separation could cause psychological issues \"for years to come\".\n\nRhiannon and Pete with Jasper, left, Reuben, right\n\nIn a statement, Shauna Leven, chief executive of Twins Trust, said: \"In the vast majority of cases, separation of multiples into different schools against their will can bring about unwanted outcomes for all concerned. The psychological effect of separation can create problems for years to come.\n\n\"Often twins like Reuben and Jasper are together from birth, then throughout nursery school. They become emotionally dependent on each other and can be distressed when separated.\n\n\"We strongly urge decision makers to find ways to allow families to be at the centre of decision-making regarding their school placement.\"\n\nMs Leven added it was \"preferable\" for children \"to have as much time as possible to prepare for transition to primary school\".\n\nBoth boys are non-verbal and have Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) detailing \"significant\" difficulties.\n\nCity of York Council has told the family that Hob Moor Oaks School is \"over-subscribed\" but has previously pledged to work with the family to find \"suitable provision\" for Reuben.\n\nSubject to a ruling to the contrary from next month's tribunal panel, Reuben will attend a mainstream primary that adjoins the special school.\n\nPete and Rhiannon said their sons' consultant paediatrician has also submitted a letter of support for the tribunal.\n\nFormer special needs teacher Pete said: \"Although Jasper and Reuben would technically be under the same roof the provision would be very different. One is a special school; the other is a mainstream primary school.\n\n\"They are identical twins with the same needs. Since Jasper was offered his place in January, it's been really stressful. It's caused a lot of sleepless nights.\"\n\nMeanwhile, York Central MP Rachael Maskell said she had met with a senior council official last week to discuss the case.\n\nShe said she understood the family's concerns but added there is \"a shortage of SEND [Special Educational Needs and Disability] provision\" in York and North Yorkshire.\n\nMartin Kelly, City of York Council's corporate director of Children and Education, said: \"The allocation of special school places always takes account of the circumstances of individual children, and where children are in enhanced resource provision or in mainstream provision this is considered by the admissions panel with school places allocated on this basis.\n\n\"In common with local authorities nationally, York has seen a significant increase in parental requests for special school places since 2020. We are addressing this increase by implementing capital plans which both increase specialist and enhanced resource provisions, and support appropriate adaptations in mainstream education.\"\n\nThe Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal is expected to hear the case on 14 September.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A mother complained the information posted on the genealogy website could endanger her adopted child\n\nThe names of thousands of people adopted as children were available on a genealogy website, it has emerged.\n\nSafety and privacy fears were raised after a mother found details of adoptions dating back more than 100 years on the Scotland's People site.\n\nIt is operated by National Records of Scotland (NRS), an official arm of the Scottish government.\n\nNRS removed the information 36 hours after the mother complained it could endanger her adopted child.\n\nIt said it was taking the issue \"extremely seriously\" and has launched an investigation.\n\nScotland's Children and Young People's Commissioner said the information could have resulted in \"a significant risk of harm\".\n\nThe mother who raised the concerns - a public sector worker from Central Scotland who wishes to remain anonymous - contacted BBC Scotland News after discovering her child's details on the site.\n\nShe said she was worried that under certain circumstances, the website could allow people to find out the new surname of an adopted child and track them down.\n\nShe told the BBC that when adopting her son she had been encouraged to keep his first name.\n\n\"I did a search to see how many children with his first name were born in the same year, and to my horror the first entry that came up was his,\" she said.\n\nThe entry included a reference number which revealed he was on the adoption register.\n\n\"I searched for someone else who was adopted and found them too,\" the mother said.\n\n\"The whole adoption register was there online for everybody to see. I was horrified.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's every adoptive parent's worst nightmare that their child's adoptive name, which has been carefully shielded through the court process, could be made public.\n\n\"There's also a massive concern for adults who don't know they've been adopted.\"\n\nThe Scotland's People website is operated by National Records of Scotland (NRS), an official arm of the Scottish government\n\nBefore the information was removed, the Scotland's People website included the names of thousands of people who had been adopted as far back as 1909.\n\nThe most recent entries were from 2022.\n\nNick Hobbs, the acting Children's Commissioner in Scotland, backed the mother's concerns and raised the issue with NRS.\n\n\"This is something that raises really serious concerns for us about children's right to privacy,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a significant risk of harm for some children potentially, by people being able to link their current name with their birth name.\n\n\"It's not straightforward to do that but my biggest concern is that you can do it, that that information is available at all.\"\n\nMr Hobbs believes the information could breach a child's right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.\n\n\"Having your adoption status searchable on a public database clearly engages your right to privacy under both those international conventions,\" he said.\n\nHe welcomed NRS's decision to take the information offline.\n\n\"What we need them to do now is work out a longer-term solution that respects their right to privacy and ensures children are kept safe,\" he said.\n\nAn NRS spokesperson said: \"Relevant records have been removed from the website while we investigate this.\n\n\"We are taking this extremely seriously and will listen to a wide range of views before making decisions for the longer term.\"\n\nThe spokesman said NRS had a statutory responsibility to make its registers open and searchable.\n\nHe said: \"There has been no personal data breach but we have made the Information Commissioner's Office aware of the complaint raised and the action we are taking as a precautionary step while we review the way we make this information available.\"\n\nThe NRS declined to say how long the information had been available through the website but said it had not been the result of a recent change.\n\nAn spokesperson for the Information Commissioner's Office said: \"It's important organisations holding sensitive personal data ensure it is handled in line with data protection law.\n\n\"National Records of Scotland alerted us to the concerns raised and we provided advice on organisations' duty to self-assess and conclude if an incident needs to be formally reported to the ICO.\n\n\"We don't appear to have received a formal breach report regarding this.\"", "Anyone who spots the pelican has been asked to contact the zoo\n\nA pelican has gone missing from a zoo after taking to the air when it was scared by a flock of gulls.\n\nBlackpool Zoo said the 14-week-old fledgling flew on to the flamingo house on Friday afternoon after being startled by the squawking birds.\n\nIt said the pelican was then \"taken on a gust of wind\" and keepers lost sight of it at about 16:00 BST as it headed towards South Shore.\n\nA representative said anyone who spots it should contact the zoo.\n\nThey said the brown-feathered bird was about 4ft (1.2m) tall with a 5ft (1.5m) wingspan and had been \"seen in the area\" since it flew off.\n\nThey said keepers were \"following up all sightings\" and searches were \"continuing from dawn to dusk every day\".\n\n\"We remain hopeful that it will be found,\" they said.\n\nIn April, the zoo advertised for people to dress in bird costumes and scare gulls\n\nThey said pelicans were \"beautiful, docile creatures\" and there was \"no threat to the public\", but anyone who spots it should not approach it.\n\nThey added that the zoo had \"housed this magnificent species for many years\" and had the only collection that had \"successfully bred... which makes the youngster very special\".\n\n\"This is the first time we have had an incident like this, which was down to the ever-growing problems we, and the town, continue to have with seagulls,\" they said.\n\nIn April, the zoo advertised for \"seagull deterrents\", a role which would see successful applicants dressed up in bird costumes to scare away the nuisance birds.\n\nIt later said almost 200 people had applied for the roles.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The school book - promoted by Russian Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov - is the first that mentions Russia's invasion of Ukraine\n\nAuthorities in Moscow have unveiled a new schoolbook which aims to justify the war on Ukraine and accuses the West of trying to destroy Russia.\n\nAccording to excerpts published by Russian media, schoolchildren will now be taught that human civilisation could have come to an end had Vladimir Putin not started his \"special military operation\" against Ukraine.\n\nThe textbook, called \"Russian History, 1945 - early 21st century\", was co-authored by presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky, formerly Russian culture minister.\n\nThis is the first officially approved history book to be used in Russian schools which mentions events as recent as the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which started in February 2022.\n\nFrom September, it will be studied in the last year of secondary education in Russia - the 11th year - which is attended by pupils aged 17-18.\n\nThe textbook claims that \"the West is fixated on destabilising the situation within Russia\" and to achieve this aim, Western powers spread \"undisguised Russophobia\".\n\nThen, it goes on, they started \"dragging\" Russia into various conflicts. The West's ultimate objective is to destroy Russia and take control of its mineral wealth, the schoolbook says.\n\nIt repeats numerous clichés from Kremlin propaganda, portraying Ukraine as an aggressive state run by nationalist extremists and manipulated by the West, which allegedly uses the country as a \"battering ram\" against Russia.\n\nAccording to the book, Ukraine is little more than a Western invention created to spite Russia, and even Ukraine's blue-and-yellow flag was supposedly invented by the Austrians keen to convince Ukrainians that they are different from Russians.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2022: Ros Atkins on... Putin’s false Nazi claims about Ukraine\n\nThe textbook is also rife with distortion and manipulation.\n\nFor example, it describes Russia's initial attack on Ukraine in 2014 as a popular uprising of eastern Donbas residents who \"wanted to stay Russian\" and who were joined by \"volunteers\" from Russia. It makes no mention of the military hardware and personnel Russia sent to Donbas at the time or over the next eight years.\n\nIt argues that one key reason for the full-scale invasion in 2022 was the possibility of Ukraine joining Nato.\n\nIf Ukraine had joined the alliance and then \"provoked a conflict in Crimea or Donbas\", the textbook says, Russia would have been forced to wage war against the whole of the Nato alliance.\n\n\"This would have possibly been the end of civilisation. This could not be allowed to happen,\" the schoolbook says.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's accession to Nato was, back then - and remains now - a distant prospect.\n\nThe textbook also falsely claims that before Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine had plans to turn Sevastopol - the seat of Russia's Black Sea Fleet - into a Nato base and that later Kyiv said it wanted to acquire nuclear weapons.\n\nAnother false assertion in the textbook is that until 2014, 80% of Ukraine's population considered Russian as their mother tongue. According to a poll published by the reputable Razumkov Centre in 2006, only 30% of residents of Ukraine named Russian as their mother tongue, while 52% said Ukrainian was their native language.\n\nIn an apparent reference to the abundance of online material implicating Russian forces in atrocities committed in Ukraine, the textbook warns schoolchildren to be mindful of \"a global industry manufacturing staged clips and fake photos and videos\".\n\n\"Western social networks and media all too enthusiastically spread fake information,\" the textbook says in a chapter about the \"special military operation\".\n\nAuthorities in Russia have previously jailed activists who have accused Russian troops of targeting civilians in Ukraine. For example, Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin was jailed for eight-and-a-half years in December 2022 after discussing suspected Russian war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha in an online live stream.\n\nThe textbook is critical of Western sanctions imposed on Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine and presents them as an attempt to \"destroy Russia's economy\". It also wrongly argues that these sanctions \"violate all the norms of international law which the West is so fond of quoting\".\n\nAt the same time, the exodus of Western businesses from Russia in the wake of the full-scale invasion is presented as a \"fantastic opportunity\" for Russian businesspeople.", "The mother of a girl murdered in 1992 says she is taking legal action against a police force over her 30-year wait for justice.\n\nNikki Allan, seven, was lured to a derelict building in Sunderland where she was repeatedly beaten and stabbed.\n\nHer ex-neighbour David Boyd was jailed for her murder in May. Nikki's mum Sharon Henderson said Northumbria Police should have caught him sooner.\n\nThe force told the BBC it would not comment over any legal action.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with BBC Newsnight, Ms Henderson said her lawyers were writing to the chief constable of Northumbria Police announcing their intent to pursue legal action.\n\nSharon Henderson started her own investigation into her daughter's death\n\nShe has also invited the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner to conduct an inquiry.\n\nMs Henderson said she believed the near 30-year delay in arresting Boyd, who was also Nikki's babysitter's boyfriend, stemmed from an inadequate police investigation into the case.\n\nThe story of Sharon Henderson and her hunt for her daughter's killer.\n\n\"I was treated really badly by the police,\" Ms Henderson said, adding: \"Because I was the one parent, I didn't have any support and I was drinking heavily.\n\n\"I was living in a council flat and I didn't have any money.\"\n\nDavid Boyd was jailed for life with a minimum term of 29 years\n\nNikki and her family lived in the Wear Garth flats in Hendon, east Sunderland, two floors below Boyd, who was 25 years old at the time.\n\nShe disappeared on the night of 7 October with her battered and blood-stained body found in the basement of the nearby derelict Old Exchange building the following morning.\n\nShe had been stabbed dozens of times and smashed on the head with a brick.\n\nLocal man George Heron fell under police scrutiny, confessing to the crime after three days of questioning.\n\nBut that confession was ruled inadmissible in court due to harsh interrogation tactics and Mr Heron was acquitted of Nikki's murder, granted a new identity, and relocated from Sunderland.\n\nNikki Allan was killed in the Old Exchange building in the Hendon area of Sunderland\n\nBoyd was spoken to by police as a witness but never treated as a suspect at the time.\n\nA DNA profile matching his was found on Nikki's clothes in 2017 when a new team of detectives reopened the case.\n\nMs Henderson had carried out her own investigations over the years and said she could not understand why the police did not question him at the time, adding she \"begged\" the force to reopen Nikki's case sooner.\n\n\"For years I asked about this person, and the police said he didn't exist,\" she said.\n\nShe said years of fighting for justice had left a heavy toll, adding: \"I am grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder, I have been in and out of hospitals.\"\n\nMs Henderson said one source of her torment was the repeated dismissal of her pleas by the police.\n\nSharon Henderson said years of fighting for justice had left a heavy toll on her\n\nShe said she had been haunted by relentless nightmares, adding: \"I kept saying to Nikki that I will not let you down, because I've let you down once and I have to live without you.\n\n\"If I go to the shop and I see a boy or a little girl by themselves I call the shop owner, I worry sick.\"\n\nMs Henderson said after Nikki was found dead, sections of the media blamed her for not being a good mother.\n\n\"It was really bad at the beginning,\" she said.\n\n\"But I ignored rumours, which is hard when you live in a community and it's around you.\"\n\nMs Henderson claimed one of the false rumours was spread to the media by local police members, suggesting that she was out at a pub the day Nikki Allan disappeared.\n\nShe said she had not been contacted by the police and only heard the force had apologised via the media.\n\nNorthumbria Police told the BBC it had \"made repeated attempts to try and speak to Nikki's mum Sharon prior to the media coverage but were unfortunately unable to contact her\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"We did speak to Sharon the following day and have further offered the opportunity for her to meet with Assistant Chief Constable Alastair Simpson - and this offer remains open.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Henderson said she would not accept any apology, but wanted to \"make sure that this doesn't happen to other families\".\n\nMs Henderson, who has made a memorial to Nikki in her garden, said she had \"only just begun to grieve\" for her daughter, adding: \"I'm just trying to do the best to get the best justice outcome for Nikki.\"\n\nHarriet Wistrich of the Centre for Women's Justice, which is legally representing Ms Henderson, said: \"Sharon and her daughters have suffered immense pain and damage as a consequence of historic police failures.\n\n\"She never gave up on her attempts to secure justice for Nikki.\n\n\"Now the murderer has been convicted, she wants answers and a full inquiry into the historic failures by Northumbria Police.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted the Northumbria Police for its reaction to Ms Henderson's legal action.\n\nIt said \"it would not be appropriate for us to comment in relation to any intention to bring legal action against the force\".\n\nNorthumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Kim McGuinness said she could \"only imagine the impact the wait for justice has had\" on Nikki's family and would make plans to meet them \"in the coming days\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Goldsmith made the comments to the BBC's HARDtalk programme\n\nZac Goldsmith - who quit the government over its alleged climate change \"apathy\" - has said he is \"very tempted\" to back Labour.\n\nThe Conservative peer criticised his own party for not having \"a clear answer\" to what he called the \"biggest challenge we've ever faced\".\n\nHe told the BBC's HARDtalk he was \"desperately hoping the Conservative Party comes to its senses.\"\n\nBut he was seriously looking at switching his support to Labour.\n\n\"The simple truth is there is no pathway to net zero and there's no solution to climate change that does not involve nature, massive efforts to protect and restore the natural world.\n\n\"And at the moment, I'm not hearing any of that from the Labour Party if I do, if there's a real commitment now the kind of commitment, frankly, that we saw when Boris Johnson was the leader, then I'd be very tempted to throw my weight behind that party and support them in any way I could.\"\n\nLord Goldsmith is a close ally of former prime minister Boris Johnson and was the government's international environment minister until he quit in June, after being among those accused of interfering in an MPs' inquiry into partygate.\n\nIn a scathing resignation letter, he said he had been \"horrified\" at the government abandoning its environmental commitments and withdrawing its leadership on the world stage.\n\nAs international environment minister, the former MP and London mayoral candidate travelled the world championing the UK's environmental initiatives, as well as promoting legislation to ban trophy hunting.\n\nIn his HARDtalk interview, Goldsmith also said the government can't meet its target to spend 11.6bn over five years in international climate change programmes.\n\n\"It's great that the government is saying that they're committed to 11.6, but mathematically, it is impossible for us to meet that target.\n\n\"Unless the Treasury intervenes, unless the prime minister intervenes, it's simply impossible.\n\n\"If you look at the trajectory of expenditure, in order to fulfil that promise the first year of the next government, which may or may not be this government, it might be the Labour Party, will have to spend over 80% of all of its bilateral aid on climate finance and that it obviously is not going to happen.\"\n\nRishi Sunak has insisted he cares about reaching net zero but that the 2050 target needs to be achieved in \"a proportionate and pragmatic way\".\n\nThe prime minister told LBC last week he wanted to leave the environment in \"a better state than we found it in\" for his two daughters.\n\nMr Sunak is facing pressure from some Conservative MPs to review the government's green policies, after the party's surprise win in the Uxbridge by-election, when it capitalised on anger over London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone (Ulez).\n\nYou can watch the full HARDtalk interview with Lord Goldsmith on BBC News on Thursday and on the BBC World Service Radio on Friday - or on the BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA fire which ripped through a landmark pub days before it was unexpectedly demolished is being treated as arson, police say.\n\nThe Crooked House, near Dudley in the Black Country, caught fire on Saturday night and was then bulldozed on Monday, prompting anger from local residents.\n\nThe pub, once Britain's \"wonkiest\", was sold by Marston's last month.\n\nStaffordshire Police said on Wednesday investigations were continuing but the blaze was being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn a statement the force said: \"Our investigation into a fire at the Crooked House on Himley Road last Saturday continues as we try to understand the circumstances, which we are now treating as arson.\"\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council said it had not agreed to the total destruction of the site and was investigating whether the demolition of the 18th Century building was unlawful.\n\nIt said it had permitted only part of the building to be demolished for safety reasons and the matter had been referred to its legal team with a view to taking enforcement action.\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact the new owners ATE Farms, from Warwickshire.\n\nFlames ripped through the 18th Century building on Saturday night\n\nThe property was built in 1765 as a farmhouse but, due to mining in the area during the early 19th Century, one side of the building began to sink, causing its distinct, sloping appearance.\n\nIts notoriety - including an illusion of coins and marbles appearing to roll uphill along the bar - attracted visitors and customers from far and wide before the pub closed and was put on the market in March.\n\nBut up to 30 firefighters were called to the Himley area on Saturday evening after the building was spotted alight, however firefighters said they were hampered by mounds of soil prohibiting access to the lane the pub was on.\n\nWithin 48 hours it was reduced to a pile of rubble which led to locals coming to visit the remains and show their support.\n\nAndy Street, the mayor of the West Midlands, has called for it to be rebuilt \"brick by brick\".\n\nOther local politicians, including MPs Sir Gavin Williamson and Jane Stevenson, were among those who also called for a full inquiry.\n\nDudley MP Marco Longhi said earlier on Wednesday he had written to police to clarify details about the demolition process and added that a lack of information from authorities had \"raised animosity\" in the local community.\n\nPeople visited the site on Monday and Tuesday after news spread about the demolition\n\nFormer landlords Tom and Laura Catton who ran and lived in the pub for more than two years were among the hundreds of people who said they were angry and upset by what had happened.\n\nThey visited the site on Tuesday and had one last drink in the rubble.\n\n\"It was the focal point of the community and it brought so many people to the community because people had come from all over the world just to have a look at this marble run up the hill,\" Mrs Catton said.\n\nFormer landlord Tom Catton proposed to wife Laura while working at the pub and had a last drink in the rubble on Tuesday\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The raid took place at Craig Robertson's home in Provo, Utah\n\nA man who posted violent threats against President Joe Biden and other officials online was shot dead during an FBI raid on Wednesday.\n\nAgents were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on Craig Robertson at his home in Utah, just hours ahead of a planned visit to the state by Mr Biden.\n\nA criminal complaint said Robertson posted threats on Facebook against Mr Biden and a prosecutor pursuing criminal charges against Donald Trump.\n\nThe FBI declined to give more details.\n\nThe raid happened at about 06:15 local time in Provo, about 40 miles (65 km) south of Salt Lake City.\n\nA criminal complaint outlined messages that Robertson made on Facebook including pictures of guns and threats to kill Mr Biden and Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney leading an investigation into a hush-money payment by Mr Trump to an adult film star.\n\nAccording to the complaint, other messages targeted US Attorney General Merrick Garland and New York Attorney General Letitia James.\n\nRobertson posted on Facebook: \"I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghillie suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle.\"\n\nIt was just one of dozens of violent messages and photos of weapons posted on two of Robertson's Facebook accounts.\n\nThe complaint said Robertson came to the attention of federal agents in March after he posted a threat against Mr Bragg on Truth Social, the social network owned by Mr Trump. The company alerted the FBI's National Threat Operations Center.\n\nFBI agents then visited the suspect, who told them that the post was a \"dream\" and ended the conversation by saying: \"We're done here! Don't return without a warrant!\"\n\nLater posts by Robertson referenced his encounter with the agents, showed him in camouflage used by snipers, and repeatedly threatened public officials.\n\nThe messages continued as late as Tuesday, when he posted: \"Perhaps Utah will become famous this week as the place a sniper took out Biden the Marxist.\"\n\nMr Biden will make his first visit to Utah as president on Thursday, with a visit to a veterans' hospital and a fundraising event in Park City.", "Paris has the strictest rules under the Crit'Air scheme\n\nUK travellers driving to France are being warned they need to display a clean air sticker in their car to enter several cities, including Paris.\n\nFailure to do so could result in a fine of up to €180 (£155).\n\nThe stickers - known as Crit'Air vignettes - come in six categories, from green for the cleanest vehicles to dark grey for the most polluting.\n\nDrivers must apply via the official French government website before they depart, RAC warns.\n\n\"It's vital anyone travelling to Europe does their homework to see whether an emissions-based windscreen sticker is needed - and give themselves enough time to order one before their trip,\" said Rod Dennis, RAC's Europe spokesperson, warning that restrictions are likely to get stricter in the coming years.\n\nIntroduced in 2017 as part of efforts to improve air quality in major towns and cities, the stickers identify a vehicle's air pollutant emissions.\n\nCovering the vehicle for its entire lifetime, they are based on a vehicle's Euro emissions standard. Travellers with a 100% electric car still need to display a sticker.\n\nThey cost €4.61 (£4), and RAC said it is aware of \"unofficial third-party sites\" charging six times as much for the sticker - it urges drivers to avoid these services \"at all costs\".\n\nThe rules for the stickers apply in 12 French cities or regions, including Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Aix-Marseille-Provence.\n\nAccording to RAC, Paris is the strictest city, only permitting cars displaying the Crit'Air '0', '1' or '2' stickers to use certain roads at certain times, followed by the Aix-Marseille-Provence region, Toulouse and Reims which allow the Crit'Air '0', '1', '2' or '3' vignettes.\n\nThose driving in a low emissions zone and not complying with local regulations - either by not displaying a sticker or driving a car that is too polluting - could be fined €68 (£59), which rises to €180 (£155) if not paid within 45 days.\n\nCamera-based enforcement is expected to begin next year, and maximum fines will increase to €750 (£646).\n\nNot all vehicles are eligible under the scheme, including cars registered before January 1997 and motorbikes and scooters registered before June 2000. These cannot be driven at all where the restrictions apply.\n\nRAC is also urging drivers to cities in other European countries, including Spain, Italy and Switzerland, to check whether they are affected by any low emission zones before embarking on their trips.\n• None What is Ulez and why is expansion controversial?", "\"It was the first time I was able to see myself in my mother's eyes,\" said Timothy\n\nTimothy Welch was one of the thousands of babies who were given up for adoption from a mother and baby home in the 1960s.\n\nHe was only six weeks old when he was separated from his birth mother, June Mary Phelps, who was 18 at the time.\n\nHe described how he traced his family roots and met June in Monmouth, where she now lives.\n\nTimothy, 59, a teacher from London, grew up with his adoptive parents Bill and Eunicé.\n\n\"My adoptive parents always said to me 'you were special - you came to us in a different way'.\n\n\"They couldn't have their own children so they started the adoption process and when they were 36 they adopted me.\"\n\nTimothy described his life with his adoptive parents as \"really happy\", and never considered trying to find his birth mother until his adoptive parents died: Bill in 2018 and Eunicé in 2020.\n\nTimothy and his adoptive parents, Bill and Eunicé\n\n\"As an adoptive child you always think about researching your birth family, but whether or not you act on it is another matter,\" said Timothy.\n\n\"A lot of it goes back to identity as a person over the years. I wondered who I was, certain personality traits that were different from my adoptive family.\n\n\"When my adoptive parents died, it makes you feel differently about the world and yourself.\n\n\"A counsellor said to me that after people's adoptive parents die they often re-open the curiosity about their own heritage because we are all searching for connection.\n\n\"I think that's really what it was about for me. It gives you a permission to think - OK what now for myself?\"\n\n\"My adoptive father told me I said when I was a child: 'I hope my birth mother's ok, I think she's beautiful and I understand why she couldn't keep me'\"\n\nTimothy started his search for his birth mother in January 2022 after going through some old family photos.\n\n\"I found a photo of my birthplace - Yateley Haven, Hampshire\" he said.\n\n\"While looking I noticed there was a closed Facebook group for families mothers and children who were born there.\n\n\"I requested to join the group and the moderator Penny Green replied and asked me about my story.\n\n\"As an enthusiastic amateur historian, she was very interested and offered to help me trace my birth parents.\"\n\nPenny Green, an ex-charity worker from Bedfordshire, created the Facebook group for people who were born or have a link to The Haven, a mother and baby home run by the Baptist Church, after being born there herself.\n\nThe 62-year-old explained unmarried mums applied to go there to give birth and their babies were adopted - often forcibly.\n\n\"The theory was back then that they were doing all these unmarried mums a favour because it was not the done thing to be an unmarried mother,\" she said.\n\nAccording to the Yateley Society, The Haven was open from 1945 until 1970, and almost 1,800 babies were born there.\n\nPenny's own mum was 36 when she was sent there by her parents as she was single and pregnant.\n\nPenny Green was vital to Timothy finding his birth family\n\nHowever, unlike many younger mothers, she refused to give Penny up. According to Penny, her mother then changed her name, and told people she was married but the baby's father had been killed in a car crash.\n\nTimothy also believes his mother was a victim of forced adoption, due to the fact she was so young.\n\nHe said: \"June didn't really have a choice, particularly if she wanted to keep working. How would she support me without having a job?\"\n\nPenny said although some mothers at The Haven knew their children were going to be taken away, they didn't get told when or get to say goodbye.\n\n\"One mum made a toy for her baby to have when they were taken, but as she wasn't told when they were taken, she never got to give it to them,\" she said.\n\n\"Some of the mothers were so traumatised they had hidden away and were so scared of bringing up the past.\"\n\nFollowing Penny's advice, Timothy applied to the General Register Office for a copy of his original birth certificate which contained his birth mother's full name, date and place of birth.\n\nPenny then used the electoral roll on and internet searches to locate her.\n\nAfter Penny made the first contact on his behalf, Timothy found his mother's current husband, Michael Mortimer.\n\nTimothy gave Mr Mortimer his email, which he passed on to Timothy's brothers and they arranged a day to meet up in London.\n\n\"Through all this I have felt the support from my brothers which has been wonderful\"\n\n\"They are both wonderful men - kind, thoughtful and reflective,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel very fortunate to have met them at this stage of our lives and am going to enjoy getting to know them and their respective families very much.\n\n\"An extra bonus for me was meeting Chris's partner, Amanda, and Greg's partner, Gemma, and some of their children who are all lovely.\"\n\nAfter 58 years apart, on Saturday, 19 September 2022, Chris and Greg took Timothy to be reunited with his birth mother.\n\nHe said: \"It was the first time I was able to see myself in my mother's eyes.\n\n\"It was emotional but at the same time it felt natural.\n\n\"We spoke about a variety of things but the part I enjoyed the most was just looking at her and taking in the person that she is.\"\n\nTimothy explained that despite long-term health challenges, his mother has a good memory of him and can \"eat an Olympian under the table\".\n\n\"I have been able to start to tell them all about my gorgeous parents who brought me up - keeping them alive in my heart and life\"\n\nTimothy said since the meeting, he is now beginning to piece together details about his early life.\n\n\"My mother was 17 when she was pregnant and just 18 when she gave birth to me. She had another baby boy a year or so earlier when she was 16, who was put up for adoption and she has not seen since,\" he said.\n\n\"She was the youngest of three children - she had a sister Audrey who was 10 years older and a brother Bill who is eight years older. He is still alive.\n\n\"My father's name was Hedayat Mamagan Zardy, an Iranian Muslim. They had a fleeting romance and loved dancing on nights out in Oxford.\n\n\"Attempts to find my birth father and older brother are at very early stages.\"\n\nTimothy explained that June went on to marry in 1966 and had two more sons - his brothers, with whom he is now in contact.\n\nReflecting on his experience of finding his family, Timothy said: \"You have to remain open minded and strong within yourself.\n\n\"Now, I've got brothers so it is interesting to have this extra layer and it's exciting to me.\n\n\"I shall be visiting my mother and look forward to getting to know her as time goes on.\"", "Lizzo has described the previous allegations made against her as false\n\nLawyers representing three of Lizzo's former dancers have said they are reviewing new complaints against the singer.\n\nFresh allegations are reported to have been made by at least six people who said they had worked with Lizzo.\n\nEmployment lawyer Ron Zambrano said the allegations concern a \"sexually charged environment\" and failure to pay employees.\n\nThe singer has described previous claims made against her as false and said she is \"not the villain that people and the media have portrayed me to be\".\n\nAccording to NBC News, Mr Zambrano said his firm is vetting new allegations from at least six people who said they toured with Lizzo, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson.\n\nThe individuals making the latest allegations are said to include some who said they worked on the singer's Amazon Studios reality show, Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls.\n\nMr Zambrano said that in reviewing the claims, he determined that some are potentially actionable but that others are not.\n\nLast week, three former dancers who toured with Lizzo - Arianna Davis, Noelle Rodriguez and Crystal Williams - filed a lawsuit alleging sexual, religious and racial harassment, discrimination, assault and false imprisonment.\n\nIn response, Lizzo said: \"Usually I choose not to respond to false allegations but these are as unbelievable as they sound, and too outrageous to not be addressed.\"\n\n\"These sensationalized stories are coming from former employees who have already publicly admitted that they were told their behaviour on tour was inappropriate and unprofessional.\"\n\n\"As an artist, I have always been very passionate about what I do. I take my music and my performances seriously because at the end of the day I only want to put out the best art that represents me and my fans.\n\n\"With passion comes hard work and high standards. Sometimes I have to make hard decisions but it's never my intention to make anyone feel uncomfortable or like they aren't valued as an important part of the team.\"", "One woman has died and more than 50 have been injured following a warehouse explosion near Moscow, officials said.\n\nMoscow's state governor Andrey Vorobyov said on Telegram that six people were in intensive care.\n\nVideos shared online showed a large plume of smoke billowing from the facility in the city of Sergiyev Posad.\n\nThe blast occurred on the grounds of a factory that Russian media has previously said manufactures military equipment like night vision goggles.\n\nThe shockwave blew windows from nearby buildings, damaging residential apartments, two schools and a nearby sports complex.\n\nMr Vorobyov said the explosion occurred in a warehouse storing fireworks which was located on the grounds of the Zagorsk optics manufacturing plant.\n\nInvestigators dismissed claims the explosion was caused by a drone attack, despite pro-Kremlin commentators suggesting that was the case.\n\nThe explosion came shortly after Russia's defence ministry said two drones were shot down near Moscow overnight, one near the airport.\n\nRussia blamed Ukraine for those drone attacks. Ukraine has not claimed involvement in either the drone attacks or the warehouse explosion.\n\nHowever, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said attacks on Russian territory are an \"inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process\".", "The US special counsel investigating Donald Trump obtained a secret search warrant for the ex-president's Twitter data in January, unsealed records show.\n\nJack Smith requested \"data and records\" relating to Mr Trump's account which may have included unpublished posts.\n\nAfter initially resisting the warrant, Twitter eventually complied, but missed a court-ordered deadline by three days.\n\nThe delay resulted in the company being handed a $350,000 (£275,000) fine for contempt of court.\n\nThe existence of the search warrant and the legal fight over it was revealed in court documents unsealed on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to the unsealed ruling, which still includes some redactions, Twitter's lawyers did not object to the warrant itself, but disputed the nondisclosure order which kept it secret.\n\nThe company, now known as X under the ownership of Elon Musk, argued that it should be allowed to notify customers whose accounts are subject to search warrants.\n\nX handed over the data in February, but appealed the fine. Its case was rejected by a US appeals court last month.\n\nThere is little indication in the documents about what exactly Mr Smith was seeking, with the court filing noting that only that the warrant directed the company \"to produce data and records\" related to Mr Trump's account.\n\nThe US congressional panel investigating the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot found that Mr Trump had drafted - but never sent - a tweet urging his supporters to come to Washington.\n\nIt said: \"I will be making a Big Speech at 10 a.m. on January 6th at the Ellipse (South of the White House). Please arrive early, massive crowds expected. March to the Capitol after. Stop the steal!\"\n\nThe @realdonaldtrump account, which has 86.5m followers, was suspended after the riot.\n\nIt was reinstated in November 2022 after Mr Musk ran a poll asking users whether the former president should be allowed back on the platform.\n\nMr Trump has not posted on X since being reinstated, instead preferring to use his own Truth Social network.\n\nExperts have noted that his Truth Social business contracts mean he potentially stands to lose millions if he resumes posting on X.\n\nMr Trump responded to news of the search warrant on Truth Social, writing that it was a \"major 'hit' on my civil rights... These are DARK DAYS IN AMERICA!\"\n\nHe has been charged in the two investigations led by Mr Smith, one surrounding events following the 2020 election and the other relating to the handling of classified documents.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSix people have died and more have been injured by wildfires sweeping the Hawaiian island of Maui, officials say.\n\nThousands are without power or cell phone service due to fires that are being fuelled by winds from a nearby hurricane in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nSeveral blazes are also burning on the Big Island, also known as Hawaii island, a neighbouring island to Maui.\n\nOfficials say search and rescue efforts are still ongoing. But they warn that the death toll may rise.\n\nAuthorities have evacuated neighbourhoods, closed roads, and opened shelters to host thousands of evacuees.\n\nAn emergency order has been signed discouraging people from coming to Maui, which is a popular tourist destination.\n\n\"We have shelters that are overrun, we have resources that are being taxed, we are doing whatever we can\" for local residents, the state Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke said during a news briefing on Wednesday morning local time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Maui, about 4,000 visitors are trying to leave the island, said state transportation official Ed Sniffen.\n\nThousands there are also without cell service, due to about 29 power poles collapsing. The full scale of the damages to homes and businesses is not yet clear, officials say.\n\nMaj Gen Kenneth S Hara, who is in charge of the emergency response, said the priority at the moment is \"saving lives, preventing human suffering, and mitigating great property loss\".\n\nMore than 12,000 people in the state of Hawaii are currently without power, according to PowerOutage.Us.\n\nMuch of the destruction has taken place in the Maui island town of Lahaina. Parts of the town were destroyed or severely damaged by the blaze. One local resident told media that every boat in the town harbour was burning.\n\nThe US Coast Guard said it had rescued 12 people after reports of residents fleeing into the water to escape the fires.\n\nThe fire in the town of Lahaina was still burning on Wednesday\n\nMaui County Mayor Richard Missen confirmed the six fatalities, but said he was not yet able to provide further details.\n\nThere were also at least 20 injuries, including a firefighter who suffered smoke inhalation. Three patients are in critical condition.\n\nHe warned the total number of fatalities could rise as emergency responders conduct search and rescue operations as well as evacuations.\n\nA full assessment of the damage could take \"months,\" Ms Luke said in Wednesday's briefing. She also said that \"there are concerns about potential riots\" in the aftermath.\n\nParts of Lahaina were destroyed or severely damaged by the blaze\n\nThe Lahaina fire is one of at least seven ongoing in Hawaii. About 13,000 people live in the city situated on the western part of the island of Maui.\n\nLocal resident, Dustin Kaleiopu, told Hawaii News Now that his house was among those destroyed in the fire.\n\n\"Everything that we'd ever known was gone. Our church, our schools, every single memory we had on this household,\" he said. \"Everything was gone in the blink of an eye.\"\n\n\"There is no Lahaina,\" resident Kekai Keahi told the Associated Press news agency. \"Lahaina no exist anymore.\"\n\nOfficials say they have yet to determine the full scale of the damage from the wildfires\n\nThat fire is one of several in Hawaii fuelled by strong winds by Hurricane Dora hundreds of miles offshore, low humidity and dry air, according to the National Weather Service's Honolulu office.\n\nLocal officials have said that the winds have complicated efforts to use helicopters for firefighting operations.\n\nThe Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) and the US Marines are assisting in firefighting and search and rescue operations, the White House said on Wednesday.\n\nFema is also working towards providing emergency supplies, including water, food, cots, and blankets.\n\nOn Tuesday night, Ms Luke issued an emergency declaration and activated the state's National Guard.\n\nFires in Hawaii are typically smaller than those which plague California and other parts of the western continental US.\n\nExperts have warned, however, that they are often more damaging, as Hawaii's ecosystem evolved without fires before the arrival of humans.", "Warnings have been issued after a child was swept into the sea at Ilfracombe Harbour.\n\nNorth Devon Council said a group of four children were playing on the pier slipway during high tide when a wave knocked a girl off her feet.\n\nThe child was swept between the railings and into the sea, but was saved by two members of the public.", "Eleven bodies have been found after a fire ripped through a holiday home hosting people with learning disabilities in eastern France.\n\nNearly 80 firefighters were sent to the blaze in La Forge after emergency services were alerted at 06:30 local time (04:30 GMT) on Wednesday.\n\nThe fire has now been extinguished, but its cause is not yet clear.\n\nSeventeen people were evacuated from the building, with at least one person taken to hospital.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said his thoughts were with the victims and their families and thanked the emergency services for responding to the \"tragedy\".\n\nInitially, emergency services confirmed nine people had died while a search for the bodies of the two remaining missing people went on.\n\nBy the afternoon deputy prosecutor for Colmar Nathalie Kielwasser confirmed the death toll had risen to 11.\n\n\"We know that it happened on the second floor,\" she told Reuters. \"The people on the second floor found it difficult to escape and it's there where the bodies were found.\n\n\"Another thing that is certain is that sadly for the moment we cannot hear from any witness, so we don't know exactly the reasons why people were trapped by the flames.\"\n\nThe fire broke out near Wintzenheim, close to the German border and about 70km (50 miles) south of the city of Strasbourg.\n\nThe building was being used by two groups of adults from two separate charities helping people with disabilities, the local government for the Haut-Rhin region said.\n\nIn an earlier statement, it said one group was from Nancy, also in eastern France.\n\nFour fire engines and 76 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze. It was quickly brought under control, despite the strength of the fire, the statement added.\n\nDrones were used to survey the wreckage of the burned-out building, while dogs were also used as part of the search effort.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne visited the scene and spoke to rescue workers.\n\nMs Borne expressed her sadness at what she said was an appalling disaster.\n\nIn an earlier post on social media, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin praised the bravery of firefighters who responded and warned casualties were likely, despite the fast work of the emergency services.\n\nPhotographs published in local media showed the partially wooden building in La Forge almost entirely ablaze early on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe building is an old barn converted into a three-storey holiday home. Firefighters said two-thirds of the building was on fire before they managed to bring it under control.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Inside the housing barge after first asylum seekers board\n\nSome of the first group of men to board the Bibby Stockholm have described their first days on the barge.\n\nOne asylum seeker told the BBC it was like a prison and felt there was not enough room to accommodate up to 500 people onboard, as the government plans.\n\nAnother person on board praised the food and called the barge \"quite a nice place\" with small but \"clean and tidy rooms\".\n\nThe Home Office says the barge will provide better value for the taxpayer as pressure on the asylum system from small boats arrivals continues to grow.\n\nMoored in Portland Port, Dorset, it is the first barge secured under the government's plans to reduce the cost of asylum accommodation.\n\nMonday saw the first 15 asylum seekers board the Bibby Stockholm after a series of delays over safety concerns. It will house men aged 18 to 65 while they await the outcome of their asylum applications.\n\nAn Afghan asylum seeker, whom the BBC is not identifying, said: \"The sound of locks and security checks gives me the feeling of entering Alcatraz prison.\n\n\"My roommate panicked in the middle of the night and felt like he was drowning. There are people among us who have been given heavy drugs for depression by the doctor here.\"\n\nHe said he had been given a small room, and the dining hall had capacity for fewer than 150 people.\n\n\"Like a prison, it [the barge] has entrance and exit gates, and at some specific hours, we have to take a bus, and after driving a long distance, we go to a place where we can walk. We feel very bad,\" the man added.\n\nThere is 24/7 security in place on board the Bibby Stockholm and asylum seekers are issued with ID swipe cards and have to pass through airport-style security scans to get on and off.\n\nAsylum seekers are expected to take a shuttle bus to the port exit for security reasons. There is no curfew, but if they aren't back there will be a \"welfare call\".\n\nThe Home Office has said it would support their welfare by providing basic healthcare, organised activities and recreation.\n\nThe first group of men arrived on Monday. The Care4Calais charity said it was providing legal support to a further 20 asylum seekers who refused to move to Portland and are challenging the decision.\n\nOn Tuesday, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffiths, said that moving to the barge was \"not a choice\" and if people choose not to comply \"they will be taken outside of the asylum support system\".\n\n\"Many of us entered Britain nine to 11 months ago, by airplane. Some of us applied for asylum at the airport. We did not come by boat,\" the Afghan man said.\n\n\"It has been two weeks since we received a letter in which they threatened that if we do not agree to go, our aid and NHS will be cut off.\n\n\"There are people among us who take medicine. We accepted. We waited for two weeks and didn't even have time to bring clean clothes.\"\n\nTwo other asylum seekers on board the barge said the \"food is good\" and described the rooms as \"small, but nice, clean and tidy\".\n\nThe men, aged 19 and 25, said they had arrived in the UK earlier this year by plane, not on a small boat crossing the Channel.\n\nThey said they faced religious persecution in their home country, which the BBC is not identifying to protect their anonymity.\n\nThey also described a gym and a TV lounge on board.\n\n\"The food is good, much better than the hotel,\" the 25-year-old told BBC News.\n\nThe 19-year-old added there is an IT centre inside but they can only use it at allocated times.\n\n\"We have indoor games. We have a football ground, small basketball hoops and some board games - it's quite a nice place.\"\n\nHowever he said he was not happy on board because he had been removed from a religious community where he had previously been housed.\n\n\"I don't say I am happy. But it's okay because I have to be here. I was happy when I was with my people, with my community,\" he said.\n\n\"Our main purpose is to practice our religion.\"\n\nHe added he had requested not to be moved from his hotel on the south coast to the barge, but his request was refused.\n\n\"They said that you have to go to the barge. It's basically on a no-choice basis, so you have to come here.\"\n\nThe 19-year-old said he hoped to complete his studies in the UK and become a software developer. The 25-year-old said he wanted to work in international relations.\n\nThe government says it is spending £6m per day housing more than 50,000 migrants in hotels.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"This marks a further step forward in the government's work to bring forward alternative accommodation options as part of its pledge to reduce the use of expensive hotels and move to a more orderly, sustainable system which is more manageable for local communities.\"\n\n\"This is a tried-and-tested approach that mirrors that taken by our European neighbours, the Scottish government and offers better value for the British taxpayer,\" they added.\n\nThe Home Office says that by the autumn, they aim to house about 3,000 asylum seekers in places that aren't hotels - such as the barge, and former military sites Wethersfield, in Essex, and Scampton, in Lincolnshire.", "The deal has been described as \"strategic and comprehensive\"\n\nTunisia and the EU have signed a deal to tackle \"irregular\" migration - meaning those moving in breach of rules.\n\nTunisia has become the main departure point for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.\n\nThe EU has been struggling to cope, with 72,000 migrants making the journey this year alone, mostly to Italy.\n\nThe deal includes $118m (£90m) to stop smuggling, strengthen borders and return migrants.\n\nIn recent months, black migrants in Tunisia have faced violent attacks due to an increasingly hostile environment.\n\nTunisia's President Kais Saied had accused migrants of partaking in a \"plot\" to change the country's demographic profile, blaming \"traitors who are working for foreign countries\". He later denied being racist.\n\nTunisia is suffering an economic crisis and increasing numbers of Tunisians are also trying to leave the country to go to Europe.\n\nThe EU-Tunisia deal says migrants at the border will be treated with the \"full respect of human rights\" and also seeks to carve out legal pathways for people to migrate.\n\nThe deal, which the EU describes as \"strategic and comprehensive\" also outlines a plan to boost Tunisia's economic growth through \"socio-economic reforms\" and greater cooperation on a green energy transition, education, research and innovation.\n\nThe European leaders, including Italian and Dutch Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni and Mark Rutte, who were in Tunis for the signing of the deal described it as an \"important step\" to deal with migration and an agreement which would also benefit \"the Tunisian people\", according to the AFP news agency.\n\nPresident Saied also defended his record on migration, saying that the country \"gave the migrants everything it can offer with unlimited generosity,\" AFP reports.\n\nThere is still a question mark over a long-term loan of $1bn (£764m) that the EU has previously offered to help Tunisia out of its economic crisis, because it depends on the outcome of separate talks with the IMF. However those negotiations with the Washington-based finance agency have since stalled.\n\nAside from the anti-migration comments, President Saied also faces opposition from Tunisians who accuse him of seizing control for himself.\n\nPresident Saied, who was elected in 2019, has carried out a series of measures to enhance the powers of the presidency at the expense of parliament and the judiciary. Two years he ago sacked his prime minister, suspended parliament and a year later pushed through a constitution that gives him almost unlimited powers.\n\nHis critics have accused him of a coup, but President Saied said he was simply taking action to \"save the state\" after Covid severely damaged the economy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The goats have been causing chaos in gardens\n\nWild goats are destroying gardens and damaging homes, according to residents who live next to ancient woodland in a Welsh beauty spot.\n\nThey have called for action to control the number of animals grazing in Padarn Country Park above Llanberis in Gwynedd.\n\nThere are now more than 50 animals in the herd, despite a cull in 2006.\n\nOfficials said they were examining \"long-term and sustainable\" approaches to the problem.\n\n\"They are very fond of roses and very good at getting over any defences one can put up,\" said retired teacher Jim Chatterton.\n\nHe lives in the tiny village of Dinorwig, below the former slate quarries where the mountain goats spend much of the day.\n\nThe goats have eaten all Jim Chatterton's roses and smashed slate tiles on his home\n\nThey descend to forage in the 325 hectares (800 acres) of oak woodland below, more often than not stopping off at gardens on the way - and not just gardens.\n\n\"I had to have the whole back of the house re-slated for that reason,\" said Mr Chatterton.\n\nThe traditional Welsh slates were broken and dislodged by goats leaping on to the low roof of the property, and have now been replaced with unbreakable tiles.\n\nJust one of the goats making a lunch stop in the garden of Dinorwig resident Dr Stel Farrar\n\nNext-door neighbour Dr Stel Farrar said the goats were becoming an increasing nuisance in the Dyffryn Peris area, on the edge of the Eryri national park, also known as Snowdonia.\n\n\"The little ones are quite cute, aren't they? But when you get about 60 big billy goats trampling over your garden and taking absolutely everything - the roses, everything - of course it impacts on you,\" she said.\n\n\"They break down all the walls, they took all my apple trees when I first moved here.\"\n\nDr Stel Farrar says the goats eat everything in her garden\n\n\"It's not just a matter of putting up a little fence, you'd have to have thousands and thousands of pounds to keep them out of your garden. It's a big problem.\"\n\nAnother resident said she had just had to replace a car headlamp after a goat's horn went through the glass, while another found a goat had fallen through a skylight in an outbuilding, and then smashed through another window to escape.\n\nThe residents said they were also concerned for the park woodland, which they feared was being devoured by hungry goats.\n\n\"It's a very rare special woodland, and it is threatened by these goats,\" added the plant biologist, Dr Farrar.\n\n\"The oak trees there are very old ones, and you do see before the goats come along the little oak seedlings, but they never get further than that.\"\n\nThere are now well over 50 goats in the herd grazing in the country park woodland\n\nThe Dinorwig woodland has been a listed site of special scientific interest (SSSI) since the 1960s, partly because of the type of oak that grows on the slate hillside, known as sessile oak - where acorns grow directly on twigs, without a stem.\n\nHowever, Natural Resources Wales said it had carried out some small-scale monitoring in the woods, and found there was \"currently a low impact on the SSSI features resulting from the goats\".\n\n\"However, this could change if conditions such as a severe winter led the goats into the less hostile woodland environment resulting in increased grazing impact,\" added an official from the environmental body.\n\nA cull of most of the animals was carried out by marksmen back in 2006 as part of a wider programme to control feral goat numbers across the county.\n\nIn other parts of Wales, including the Great Orme goats on Llandudno, contraceptives have been used to prevent the goat herds breeding.\n\nSigns in Coed Dinorwig highlight the potential threat posed by the feral goats\n\nThe local council, Cyngor Gwynedd, which manages the country park, said it was aware of the concerns being raised by those in the communities.\n\n\"As a council we are working with our partners, which includes Natural Resources Wales and Eryri National Park, to find a long term and sustainable solution to feral goat grazing in Dyffryn Peris,\" said a council officer.\n\n\"Feral goats, such as the ones found throughout the Dyffryn Peris area, are also found in many other areas within Gwynedd.\"", "Shares in WeWork, the once globally-hyped office space-sharing company, have plunged after it raised \"substantial doubt\" about its future.\n\nThe company's shares fell by close to 24% in extended trading in New York.\n\nThe firm said that it needed to raise additional capital to keep it afloat over the next 12 months.\n\nWeWork, which is backed by Japanese tech giant Softbank, was hit hard by the pandemic as social distancing rules drove people to work from home.\n\nHowever, it has yet to turn a profit, even after workers returned to offices as coronavirus restrictions eased.\n\nOn Tuesday, WeWork said in a statement that it faced challenges including softer demand and a \"difficult\" operating environment.\n\n\"Substantial doubt exists about the company's ability to continue as a going concern,\" the firm said.\n\nIt added: \"The company's ability to continue as a going concern is contingent upon successful execution of management's plan to improve liquidity and profitability over the next 12 months.\"\n\nThe plan involves raising additional capital through the issuance of stocks or bonds, or asset sales.\n\nThe management will also move to reduce rental costs and limit capital expenditures, WeWork said.\n\nWeWork currently has 512,000 members at its workspaces in 33 countries around the world.\n\nThe company's first attempt to go public collapsed in 2019 over concerns about its business model and co-founder Adam Neumann's leadership style.\n\nIt was listed two years later in a deal that valued WeWork at $9bn. That was roughly a fifth of its estimated value in 2019.\n\nThe firm has also struggled to cope with troubles in the technology sector.\n\nIt has seen the exits of several top executives this year, including that of former chief executive and chairman Sandeep Mathrani.\n\nIn March, WeWork said it had struck deals with Softbank and other investors to reduce its debt by around $1.5bn.\n\nShares in the company have fallen by more than 95% in the last year. Shares fell by almost a quarter in extended trading on Wednesday to $0.21 (£0.16).", "Students will need to be \"quick off the mark\" to get a place at a top university through clearing this year, according to the head of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas).\n\nClare Marchant said \"highly selective courses\" would \"go quite quickly\".\n\nShe has stressed there will be a \"wide range of opportunities\" elsewhere.\n\nClearing allows students who want to go to university to search for courses that still have vacancies.\n\nIt is often used by those who missed the A-level or equivalent grades they needed to take up a university offer.\n\nBut it is also used by applicants who achieved higher grades than they expected, or who have changed their minds.\n\nResults for A-levels, T-levels, BTecs and other Level 3 results will be released on 17 August.\n\nThe number of 18-year-olds in the population is growing, so it could be more competitive to get a place at universities asking for the highest grades, like elite Russell Group universities.\n\nApplications to undergraduate courses from international students are also up slightly on last year.\n\nSpeaking to PA news agency, Ms Marchant said students should be \"pretty quick off the mark\" if they wanted to get to top universities through clearing.\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said \"the vast majority will absolutely get their first choice next week\".\n\nShe said \"any year is competitive\", but added: \"This year we are seeing a rise in the number of 18-year-olds in the population, and so at those highly selective courses at highly selective institutions, it's likely to be more competitive than it was last year.\"\n\nUcas has stressed that there will still be a \"wide range of opportunities\" for students in clearing.\n\nThere are more than 28,000 courses currently available in the online system, she said - about 5,000 of which are at highly selective institutions.\n\nVivienne Stern, the chief executive of Universities UK, told the programme that students should research what is available ahead of results day \"so you've got a plan for if you for some reason, don't get the grades you're expecting\".\n\nThe Russell Group said it was \"not unusual\" for its member universities to have \"fewer courses than other universities in clearing\".\n\n\"The confirmation from Ofqual that grade distributions will return to 2019 levels has given universities more confidence in making offers compared to last year, which may mean universities have less flexibility to offer courses in clearing in some subjects,\" it said.\n\n\"However, most Russell Group universities have courses available in clearing this year, across a range of subjects, as they have done in past years and more courses will become available after results day.\"\n\nLast year, 34,875 18-year-olds secured a university place through the system.\n\nWhat questions do you have about results day? Whether you have queries about A-levels, GCSEs, Highers or vocational courses, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nMs Marchant said last month that while there is a \"small gradual decline in the number of courses\" in clearing, \"we must collectively reassure applicants that there will still be plenty of choices available for those still actively seeking progression to HE [higher education] after results day\".\n\nStudents in Scotland received their exam results on Tuesday. The pass rate fell - but remains higher than before the Covid pandemic.\n\nResults in England are predicted to fall back in line with pre-pandemic levels this year, after three years of higher grades.\n\nHowever, because of the disruption caused by Covid, exam boards will be \"slightly\" more lenient than before the pandemic when deciding grade boundaries. This will protect students who performed slightly less well in these exams than expected.\n\nPupils in Wales and Northern Ireland were given advance information about papers this year - but that was not the case in England.", "Hillary Clinton, who lost the US presidential election in 2016, visited Swansea University in 2019\n\nIt wasn't exactly where he expected the conversation to go when he sat beside Hillary Clinton.\n\nBut Welsh government minister Jeremy Miles found himself being offered to be set up on a blind date by the former US secretary of state, presidential candidate and First Lady.\n\nSitting beside her at an event at Swansea University, Mr Miles said he thanked her for referring to LGBT rights in a speech she had given, before explaining he was the first openly gay cabinet minister of a government in Wales.\n\nHe said: \"She asked me if I had a partner and I was newly single at that point, and she very kindly offered to introduce me to some of her friends.\n\n\"Including - I won't mention his name - but a world leader.\n\n\"I did not say yes, I thought that would be a step too far.\"\n\nIt was a long way from his days as a teenager at Ystalyfera Comprehensive School in the Swansea valleys, where he says he went to bed wishing he would wake up and \"not be gay\".\n\nJeremy Miles, pictured with Hillary Clinton, is the first openly gay cabinet member of the Welsh government\n\nOn BBC Radio Wales' Walescast, the education and Welsh language minister said he struggled with a lack of positive gay role models and that his family \"absolutely did not talk about it\" at the time.\n\nHe said: \"I knew that I was different and I wasn't quite sure what way exactly, but I knew that I was different. And obviously, by the time I became a teenager, I had a much stronger sense that I was gay, but you didn't see that anywhere, it wasn't talked about in school at all.\n\n\"My family, absolutely did not talk about it. And when I came out to them very much later, that was incredibly painful.\n\n\"There was a long time when I would have given anything not to feel like that. I used to go to bed praying that I would wake up not being gay.\n\n\"That has changed now, obviously, thankfully. But that kind of stuff, it leaves its mark. And I do think if I was to look back at my younger life, I think it probably affected my confidence, my sense of what I could achieve, what I should set my mind doing.\"\n\nMr Miles joined the Labour Party at 16, before studying law at New College, Oxford. This led to him playing a surprising role in the early days of the ITV series Downton Abbey.\n\nAs a lawyer for the US TV network NBC Universal, he was involved in selling the show, and met a lot of the cast.\n\nNow, as education minister, Mr Miles said his struggles as a teenager have led to his passionate belief in \"making school feel inclusive for everybody\".\n\nJeremy Miles, with First Minister Mark Drakeford at a Pride event, says coming out to his family was \"incredibly painful\"\n\nHe reflected on criticism of the Welsh government's new relationships and sexuality education (RSE) curriculum, which saw a failed judicial review by a group of parents.\n\n\"You need to be able to see yourself and your feelings and your place in the world in some way reflected back at you in the life of the school,\" Mr Miles said.\n\nHe said the Welsh government was currently looking at \"guidance to support schools, to support trans young people and the school community more broadly\" which he hoped would be published before the end of the year.\n\nMr Miles refused to be drawn on whether his next career move would be as a candidate to be first minister when Mark Drakeford stands down before the next Senedd election in May 2026.", "The Italian coastguard recovered the bodies of a one-year-old baby and a woman from the Ivory Coast\n\nThirteen people have drowned after the migrant ships carrying them sank in the Mediterranean Sea at the weekend.\n\nA ship sank off Tunisia's Kerkennah Islands, with 11 bodies recovered on Sunday. A further 44 are still missing, and only two were rescued.\n\nSeparately, two ships sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, leading to the deaths of a woman from Ivory Coast and her one-year-old baby.\n\nMore than 30 are thought to be missing who had been on those two vessels.\n\nThey had reportedly left from the Tunisian port city of Sfax carrying 48 and 42 people respectively. They sank on Saturday, with Italian coastguards rescuing 57 people.\n\nThe migrants in all three of the sinkings are said to be from sub-Saharan African countries. Italian authorities are investigating the incidents.\n\nTunisian officials also said they found the bodies of 10 migrants on a beach near Sfax.\n\nThey were found between Friday and Saturday during a windstorm which may have sunk their boat, the official told the AFP news agency.\n\nTunisian authorities say Sfax, a port city about 80 miles (130km) from Lampedusa, is a popular gateway for migrants seeking a better life in Europe.\n\nThe tragedies follow June's Greek boat disaster which left at least 78 dead and hundreds missing.\n\nState-run Tunisian TV channel Al Arabiya reported that another 34 migrants found stranded on a rocky area near Lampedusa on Sunday had been rescued.\n\nIn recent days, Italian patrol boats and charity groups have rescued another 2,000 people who have arrived on the island.\n\nThe Red Cross has provided some of the migrants with food, water, clothes and emergency thermal blankets.\n\nBut the coastguard said bad weather and the poor quality of the boats continue to hinder the rescue operations.\n\nIn some instances, the engines are stolen from the boats at sea, so that traffickers can reuse them.\n\nPolice chief Emanuele Ricifari urged the traffickers to halt the crossings, saying: \"Rough seas are forecast for the next few days. Let's hope they stop. It's sending them to slaughter with this sea.\"\n\nNGOs say Italy's far-right government has made their task more difficult by passing laws that have the effect of forcing rescue ships to use faraway ports.\n\nCharities have warned that this increases their navigation costs and reduces the amount of time ships can patrol the areas of the Mediterranean where such sinkings are common.\n\nThe Italian interior ministry said migration figures by sea had doubled this year to 92,000, compared with 42,600 recorded in the same period in 2022.\n\nSince March this year, crossing attempts from Sfax to Lampedusa have increased after Tunisian President Kais Saied accused sub-Saharan migrants of trying to change the nature of Tunisian society.\n\nMore than 1,800 people have lost their lives in the central Mediterranean crossing from North Africa to Europe.\n\nThe International Organization for Migration said the actual figures were likely to be much higher.\n\n\"Lots of bodies are being found at sea, suggesting there are many shipwrecks we never hear about,\" said spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has apologised for mistakenly revealing details of all its 10,000 staff.\n\nNI's Police Federation said the breach could cause \"incalculable damage\".\n\nIn response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, the PSNI had shared names of all police and civilian personnel, where they were based and their roles.\n\nThe details were then published online, before being removed.\n\nApologising to officers, Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said the error was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"We operate in an environment, at the moment, where there is a severe threat to our colleagues from Northern Ireland-related terrorism and this is the last thing that anybody in the organisation wants to be hearing this evening.\n\n\"I owe it to all of my colleagues to investigate this thoroughly and we've initiated that.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland police have been the targets of republican paramilitaries - the latest attack was in February.\n\nThe threat to officers means they must be extremely vigilant about their security.\n\nMany, especially from nationalist communities, keep their employment secret, in some cases even from many family members.\n\nThe FoI request had asked the PSNI for a breakdown of all staff rank and grades.\n\nBut as well as releasing a table containing the number of people holding positions such as constable, the PSNI included a spreadsheet.\n\nThis contained the surnames of more than 10,000 individuals, their initials and other data.\n\nIt appears to cover everyone within the PSNI, from Chief Constable Simon Byrne down.\n\nIt does not include any private addresses.\n\nThe scale of this error is enormous.\n\nIt is probably the worst data breach in the organisation's 22-year history.\n\nThe consequences are a little more difficult to evaluate.\n\nHad this contained addresses, it would have been catastrophic in terms of assisting terrorist groups to target officers.\n\nBut the release of employee names could still expose individuals, many of whom take great care to keep who they work for a secret, even, in some cases, from friends and family.\n\nThat the information was published on a website for more than two hours will add to concerns within the workforce.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said he was \"deeply concerned\" by the data breach and that senior PSNI officers were keeping him updated.\n\nThe Police Federation of Northern Ireland, which represents officers' interests, expressed dismay and anger at the incident, calling it a \"breach of monumental proportions\".\n\nPolice officers in Northern Ireland were regularly attacked by republican paramilitary groups during the Troubles and members of the PSNI have also been targeted in gun and bomb attacks in the years following the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nIn February this year, senior PSNI officer Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was seriously injured in a shooting in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThe following month, the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nThe Police Federation has called for an urgent inquiry.\n\nIts chairman Liam Kelly said: \"Rigorous safeguards ought to have been in place to protect this valuable information which, if in the wrong hands, could do incalculable damage.\n\n\"The men and women I represent are appalled by this breach. They are shocked, dismayed and justifiably angry. Like me, they are demanding action to address this unprecedented disclosure of sensitive information.\"\n\nMr Kelly added that it was fortunate that the PSNI spreadsheet had not given home addresses, saying that would have been a \"potentially calamitous situation\".\n\nBBC News NI understands the contents of the FoI have been seen by current and former PSNI staff.\n\nIt is understood the sensitive information was published online, on the What Do They Know website, before being removed.\n\nSenior police personnel have been meeting to discuss the breach, which is being attributed to human error.\n\nOne person briefed told BBC News NI they were \"very alarmed\" by what had happened, describing it as \"a major breach\".\n\nStormont politicians will attend an emergency meeting on Thursday of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, which oversees the work of the PSNI.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Gerry Kelly confirmed the meeting, at which he said he would be \"asking why safeguards were not in place to prevent such a breach happening and how quickly measures can be put in place to ensure it won't happen again\".\n\n\"In circumstances where the level of threat is at severe after the attempted murder of DCI John Caldwell there will be huge concern among members of the PSNI and their families and the wider community at this revelation,\" Mr Kelly added.\n\nTrevor Clarke from the Democratic Unionist Party said: \"Any data breach is unacceptable but more so when it discloses personal information identifying rank-and-file officers.\n\n\"This not only jeopardises the safety of officers but will further undermine morale within the organisation at a time when staff are holding the line amid unprecedented budget cuts.\"\n\nThe Alliance Party leader and former Justice Minister Naomi Long said: \"This level of data breach is clearly of profound concern, not least to police officers, civilian staff and their families, who will be feeling incredibly vulnerable and exposed tonight and in the days ahead.\n\n\"That such sensitive information could ever have been held in a manner open to such a breach is unconscionable and will require serious investigation; however, the most urgent issue is supporting those whose security has been compromised.\"\n\nMike Nesbitt from the Ulster Unionist Party, who sits on the Policing Board, asked why there was \"no 'fail safe' mechanism to prevent this information being uploaded\".\n\nHe added that his \"thoughts are with those whose names have been released into the public domain, who had a reasonable expectation this would never happen\".\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party leader Colum Eastwood tweeted: \"The level of incompetence involved here is staggering. So dangerous.\"", "Police said a male driver was dragged from his car before it was set on fire.\n\nA mother has said her daughter now has a \"hole in her face\" after debris from a car fire struck her in Londonderry.\n\nMolly was walking near the burning car on her way to a friends house in the Galliagh area when she was injured.\n\nThe trouble in the area followed the removal of wood and other materials from a bonfire site earlier on Monday.\n\nThe 19-year-old's mother said those responsible for Molly's injury need to think of the serious consequences that their actions have had on their family.\n\n\"Her jaw is broken in two places and she had to get two plates put in her face,\" Patricia - who, like her daughter, only wanted her first name used - told BBC News NI.\n\n\"She has a hole in her face on her cheek and she needs plastic surgery - they couldn't even operate today because there was so much swelling around her face.\"\n\nThe police have said Molly was injured around the same time a man was dragged out of his car, beaten and the vehicle set alight in Galliagh.\n\nThey said buses and a delivery driver's van also came under attack and attempts were made to burn a van during the disorder.\n\nPatricia said her daughter described the car being on fire and making a sort of hissing noise before she was struck by the debris.\n\n\"Whatever it was, it must have hit her at some force because her jaw was broken in two places,\" she said.\n\nPatricia said Molly spent the night in hospital and remains there awaiting further surgery.\n\nSpeaking directly to those who caused her injury, Patricia appealed for calm and said that she does not want to to see any other family go through what they are going through.\n\nContractors removed the material from the site of the bonfire on Monday morning\n\nFor several months, young people in Galliagh have been collecting material for a bonfire on 15 August - a date when bonfires have been lit for a number of years in nationalist areas of Derry.\n\nOn Monday, Stormont's Department for Communities (DfC) said it had cleared the site due to \"public safety concerns\".\n\nThe material was being gathered close to homes on a large green space owned by the department.\n\nBins, tyres and pallets were dragged onto roads in Galliagh and set on fire throughout the evening, police said.\n\nPolice said the man was dragged from his vehicle at about 22:30 BST on Monday.\n\nHe was struck on the head before his car was set on fire.\n\nEarlier in the day, at about 16:30, a delivery driver's van was attacked by two masked men in Knockalla Park.\n\nAt about 17:50, a brick was thrown at a bus on the Upper Galliagh Road, damaging a window, while at 19:15 petrol bombs were thrown at a bus parked at a community centre in Bracken Park.\n\nAt about the same time, police said, there was an attempt by a group of young people to set fire to a van that was parked at a local playschool.\n\nBins, tyres and pallets were dragged onto roads in Galliagh and set on fire throughout the evening.\n\nShe said she was disappointed by the \"unacceptable scenes\" and appealed to those responsible \"to bring it to an end now before they cause any more damage and upset to their community\".\n\nSinn Féin councillor for Galliagh Sandra Duffy told BBC News NI that the same issues occurred in the area last year when an \"unregulated fire\" caused major safety concerns,\n\n\"An illegal fire can't be regulated, so once it's lit, the behaviour is - well, it's no man's land,\" she said. \"So we had young people assaulted, we had a young person that nearly died from falling in the fire, we had another young person who nearly died from an overdose. We couldn't get ambulances into the area because of the crowds that were here.\n\n\"All of these things just added to the issues that were already there and residents here were very afraid if this fire went ahead this year we were going to be faced with the same issues and we could be possibly facing a loss of life.\"\n\nIn 2012 the removal of material at a bonfire site in Galliagh sparked three nights of riots.\n\nThe previous year Father Michael Canny, a senior priest in Derry, condemned bonfires across the city, including in the Galliagh area, as \"a nuisance\".\n\nThis month it was announced that a controversial bonfire in the city's Bogside on 15 August could be cancelled and replaced with a music event.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe demolition of a landmark pub following a fire was unacceptable and possibly unlawful, a council has said.\n\nThe 18th Century Crooked House, near Dudley, once known as \"Britain's wonkiest pub\", was gutted by fire on Saturday and demolished on Monday.\n\nPotential breaches of the Town and Planning Act are being investigated, said South Staffordshire Council.\n\nThe local authority has referred the matter to its legal team with a view to taking enforcement action.\n\nThe Crooked House pub was reduced to rubble on Monday\n\nOn Tuesday evening between 200 and 250 people gathered at the site to see for themselves what had happened to the pub, with some collecting bricks to take away with them.\n\nFormer landlord Tom Catton, who ran it for two-and-a-half years with his wife Laura before they left in 2008, said he was \"absolutely gutted\" when he heard about the fire on Saturday night.\n\n\"But Sunday morning - it's not what you want to see when you're having your morning coffee,\" Mr Catton said.\n\n\"To go from a standing pub to a pile of rubble within less than 48 hours is just crazy because surely if there's a fire it needs to be investigated and looked at.\"\n\nCouncil officers visited the site on Monday and agreed a programme of works with the land-owner's representative, council leader Roger Lees said.\n\n\"At no point did the council agree the demolition of the whole structure nor was this deemed necessary,\" he added.\n\nTom and Laura Catton went to see what was left of the pub they ran for over two years on Tuesday evening\n\nMr Lees said the way the situation was managed following the fire was \"completely unacceptable and contrary to instructions provided by our officers\", adding the Health and Safety Executive had been notified.\n\nHe said the authority's investigation was at an early stage and asked for time to ensure any future actions were \"meaningful and proportionate\".\n\n\"The council is incredibly saddened by the loss of the building which, whilst not listed, was a heritage asset and important landmark to the local area and community,\" he said.\n\nFire gutted the celebrated leaning building on Saturday night, leaving just the exterior standing.\n\nStaffordshire Police and the fire service are trying to establish the cause.\n\nIt was built as a farmhouse but started to subside during the early 19th Century, due to mining in the area.\n\nLater it became a pub people often went to to witness the illusion of coins and marbles appearing to roll uphill along the bar.\n\nBut on Monday afternoon, residents and former customers gathered at the site to see a large pile of rubble where the inn once stood.\n\nA video shared on social media showed a digger knocking down the building.\n\nOver 200 people visited the site on Tuesday night to see what had happened to the pub\n\nAmong the crowds that visited the land on Tuesday evening were Emma Smith, Kerry Anne Goodman and Jack Gosnall from Kingswinford who said they felt like they had lost a family member.\n\n\"I was brought here as a child by all of my family,\" Ms Goodman said.\n\n\"I've brought my children here, but my youngest - I just lost the opportunity to bring him as they locked the doors.\n\n\"Why should people come and knock it down?\n\n\"It's like a murder more than anything else. It's like a huge loss.\"\n\nMs Smith added: \"It's a part of our history. Everybody feels the same, I think, that's why they've all come down here tonight.\"\n\nIn March, previous owner Marston's listed the building for sale with a guide price of £675,000.\n\nThe sale of the property \"as a going concern\" was completed two weeks ago, said the company.\n\nThe identity of the buyer, based in Warwickshire, has not been revealed.\n\nEmma Smith, who saw the remains on Tuesday evening with Jack Gosnall, said people wanted answers\n\nSpeculation into the cause of the fire was \"not helpful at this time\", said Staffordshire Police.\n\n\"We understand the strength of feeling in the community is high at this moment and the sadness felt amongst those who have a strong emotional attachment to this place,\" said Ch Insp Chris Cotton.\n\nOn Monday a police cordon was put in place. But due to the \"unsafe structure\" of the building, officers were told to leave the site, he said.\n\n\"Since then, the area has been in the care of the landowners and the building has since been demolished.\"\n\nThe force encouraged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nConservative MP for South Staffordshire Sir Gavin Williamson said he shared concerns and frustrations of residents regarding the demolition.\n\nHe tweeted he had called for a meeting for police, fire and council representatives to update him.\n\nRubble and debris remain at the site of the now former pub\n\nIn the meantime, the mayor of the West Midlands has called for the building to be rebuilt \"brick by brick\".\n\nAndy Street said he had asked South Staffordshire Council to ensure the pub was rebuilt \"and any attempt to change its use blocked\".\n\n\"We will not let the Crooked House be consigned to history,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe that great pubs have immense cultural and historical value here in the West Midlands and we should be taking steps to protect and preserve their heritage.\"\n\nA community gathering to mourn the loss of the pub is due to be held at the site later on Tuesday.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Many users of video-sharing sites such as Onlyfans, Twitch and Snapchat would have difficulty reading and understanding the site rules, according to the media regulator.\n\nOfcom has looked at how easy it is for people to access the terms and conditions set by six platforms.\n\nIt found advanced reading skills were needed to understand them.\n\nIt also found their complexity and length meant they were unsuitable for children.\n\nJessica Zucker, online safety policy director at Ofcom, said: \"Terms and conditions are fundamental to protecting people, including children, from harm when using social video sites and apps.\n\n\"That's because the reporting of potentially harmful videos - and effective moderation of that content - can only work if there are clear and unambiguous rules underpinning the process,\" she added.\n\n\"Our report found that lengthy, impenetrable and, in some cases, inconsistent terms drawn up by some UK video-sharing platforms risk leaving users and moderators in the dark.\"\n\nAccording to the watchdog, at nearly 16,000 words, OnlyFans has the longest terms of service, which would take its adult users more than an hour to read.\n\nThis was followed by Twitch, Snapchat, TikTok, Brand New Tube and lastly BitChute, which - with 2,017 words - would take eight minutes for the average adult to read.\n\nOfcom calculated a \"reading ease\" score for each platform's terms of service. All, except for TikTok's, were assessed as being \"difficult to read and best understood by high-school graduates\".\n\nAlthough TikTok's rules were likely to be understood by users without a university education, Ofcom found the rules would still be challenging for the youngest users on the platform to comprehend.\n\nThe report also showed that Snapchat, TikTok and BitChute use \"click wrap\" agreements - where platforms make acceptance of the terms of service implicit in the act of signing up.\n\nBecause users are not prompted or encouraged to access the rules, it makes it easier to agree to them without actually opening or reading them.\n\nOfcom's study also identified that users may not fully understand what content is and is not allowed on their sites. It found OnlyFans and Snapchat provide little detail to users about prohibited content.\n\nThe study also found that users were not clear about the consequences of breaking the rules set out by the platforms.\n\nWhile TikTok and Twitch have dedicated pages providing detailed information on the penalties they impose for breaking their rules, other providers offer users hardly any information on the actions moderators may take.\n\nThe Ofcom report looked into content moderators on the six platforms and learned that they do not always have sufficient training in how to enforce their terms and conditions.\n\nThe quality of internal resources for moderators varied significantly between the sites, and few provided specific guidance on what to do in a crisis situation.\n\n\"We share Ofcom's goal in ensuring our community guidelines and terms of service are easy to understand for everyone who uses Snapchat,\" a Snapchat spokesperson told the BBC.\n\n\"As Ofcom recognises, we have a number of good-practice measures in place, including using reading-ease tools to regularly review language.\n\n\"We are in the process of updating our guidelines, including adding more information about moderation and what content is and isn't allowed. We will continue to gather feedback and work with Ofcom to ensure our rules are easy to understand.\"", "A \"significant\" number of asylum seekers who had refused to board the Bibby Stockholm have now changed their minds about moving to the barge, the immigration minister has told the BBC.\n\n\"A significant number moved yesterday, I suspect more will move in the coming days,\" Robert Jenrick said.\n\nAsylum seekers already on the vessel have been describing the conditions.\n\nOne told the BBC it was like a prison without the room to accommodate up to 500 people, as the government plans.\n\nBut others have praised the food, facilities and cleanliness on the barge.\n\nResidents are free to come and go, and ministers said it was safe and decent accommodation.\n\nTwo asylum seekers living on the barge, aged 19 and 25, and who the BBC are not identifying, said they arrived in the UK earlier this year by plane after facing religious persecution in their home country.\n\nThe 25-year-old said: \"The food is good - much better than the hotel. The rooms are small but nice, clean and tidy.\"\n\nThe 19-year-old added there was an IT centre but that it could only be used at allocated times.\n\n\"We have indoor games,\" he said. \"We have a football ground, small basketball hoops, and some board games. It's quite a nice place.\"\n\nHowever, he said he was not happy on board because he had been removed from a religious community where he had been housed previously.\n\n\"I was happy when I was with my people, with my community,\" he explained. \"Our main purpose is to practice our religion.\"\n\nTwo asylum seekers who spoke to the BBC praised the quality of the food onboard\n\nHe said his request not to be moved from his hotel on the south coast alongside his community had been refused.\n\n\"They said that you have to go to the barge,\" he said. \"It's basically on a no-choice basis. So you have to come here.\"\n\nAnother asylum seeker, from Afghanistan, said: \"The sound of locks and security checks gives me the feeling of entering Alcatraz prison.\n\n\"My roommate panicked in the middle of the night and felt like he was drowning. There are people among us who have been given heavy drugs for depression by the doctor here.\"\n\nHe said he had been given a small room, and the dining hall had capacity for fewer than 150 people.\n\n\"Like a prison, it [the barge] has entrance and exit gates, and at some specific hours, we have to take a bus, and after driving a long distance, we go to a place where we can walk. We feel very bad,\" the man added.\n\nRobert Jenrick has repeatedly defended the government's use of a the migrant barge\n\nMr Jenrick said the numbers aboard the vessel - moored at Portland Port in Dorset - would increase \"in the coming days\" from the initial group of about 20, but no date had been set for reaching full capacity.\n\n\"We have written to those individuals who have so far declined to travel and, as I understand it, a significant proportion of them have already changed their minds and agreed to move,\" he said.\n\nAsylum seekers have been told refusing to board the Bibby Stockholm barge could result in them no longer receiving government support.\n\nMr Jenrick said there was \"not a menu of options\" for those seeking state-funded help.\n\n\"We've got to be fair to the tax payers as well as decent and compassionate to the individuals concerns.\n\n\"If you choose to turn down perfectly acceptable accommodation such as the barge, we give those people due notice and if they don't change their mind, we do withdraw their accommodation support.\"\n\nHe said those affected would have to \"look after themselves\".\n\nThere has been considerable local opposition to the barge coming to Portland\n\nBibby Stockholm is the flagship of the government's latest plan to \"stop the boats\" and deter dangerous Channel crossings by migrants. Men aged 18-65 will live on the vessel while they await the outcome of asylum applications.\n\nThe Care4Calais charity said on Monday it was providing legal support to 20 asylum seekers who had refused to move to Portland and were challenging the decision.\n\n\"Housing people fleeing threats and persecution on an overcrowded barge is appalling, and in itself likely to cause extreme distress,\" it said.\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said on Tuesday that the Bibby Stockholm is \"basically safe and decent accommodation\".\n\n\"What [the British public] don't expect is that we're spending six million a day on four-star hotel accommodation,\" he told Sky News.\n\nThe 222-room, three-storey barge arrived in Portland Port more than three weeks ago, chartered by the government to reduce the cost of placing asylum seekers in hotels.\n\nMinisters pressed ahead with the plans despite safety warnings from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) which has raised concerns over narrow exits and possible overcrowding.\n\nMigrants will be free to leave on hourly buses to Weymouth and Portland, although they are encouraged to return by 23:00 each night.\n\nThe Home Office has said the barge occupants will undergo security screening and Dorset Police has said it does not expect any impact on the local community.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has issued a \"sincere, heartfelt and unreserved\" apology to people affected by the practice of forced adoption.\n\nThousands of unmarried women in Scotland were forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.\n\nThe first minister told Holyrood it was time to \"acknowledge the terrible wrongs that have been done\".\n\nShe said: \"What happened to these women is almost impossible to comprehend.\"\n\nIt is estimated 60,000 women in Scotland had babies adopted simply because they were unmarried.\n\nMany women were coerced into handing over their babies and some were denied access to housing and social benefits which may have allowed them to have kept them.\n\nSome children forcibly removed from their parents as a result of forced adoption were abused, Ms Sturgeon told MSPs.\n\nShe added: \"It is important to say very clearly that many of them went to loving homes - acknowledging these injustices should never be seen as a rejection of the deep bonds that people share with adopted families.\n\n\"Nothing can ever invalidate the love that these families have for one another. But it is also clear that many of those affected - far too many - had a very, very different experience.\n\n\"We know some will always have lacked a sense of belonging, some may have suffered mistreatment or abuse.\"\n\nAddressing MSPs in the Holyrood chamber as victims and campaigners watched on from the public gallery, Ms Sturgeon said forced adoption was \"a level of injustice which is hard now for us to comprehend\".\n\nShe said it was caused by a society that treated women as \"second class citizens\".\n\nMarion McMillan, seated in the centre, was in Holyrood to hear the apology along with fellow campaigners and MSPs\n\nMarion McMillan, from Paisley, was 17-years-old when she had her son taken from her after she gave birth in a Christian mother and baby home.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland, she said: \"I was just a wee lassie and I left this country called Scotland, to go to this country England I only knew in the geography books.\n\n\"We were absolutely thrown to the wolves - you couldn't even go to the church. You were stuck in the darkest of providences.\n\n\"Not only did your family reject you, the whole of society rejected you. You couldn't tell anyone you had this baby.\"\n\nMs McMillan, now in her seventies, said the formal apology will bring a \"great measure of healing\" to thousands of mothers and adoptees.\n\nThe first minister made the apology in the Scottish Parliament\n\nFiona Aitken, director of the Adoption UK Scotland charity, said: \"We wholeheartedly support the apology for those who had their children removed and are particularly pleased to see this extend to the individuals who were adopted through this practice, whose lifelong needs have gone unacknowledged and unsupported.\n\n\"Adoption UK now calls on other UK governments to follow Scotland's lead in issuing a formal apology to all those who have been affected by forced adoptions, and to meet the needs of all adopted individuals who would benefit from support.\"\n\nThe apology in Scotland follows others around the world.\n\nIn 2013, Australia issued the world's first government formal apology for forced adoption, taking responsibility for the practice.\n\nThen in 2021 the Irish government apologised to former residents of mother and baby homes in Ireland for the way they were treated over several decades.\n\nThe Scottish government has committed funding of about £145,000 to provide specialist support and counselling for those affected by forced adoption and research is also under way to identify how existing support services can be improved.\n\nScottish Conservative deputy leader Meghan Gallacher, said: \"Although a national apology cannot right the wrongs of the past, I hope that it will be the start of a healing process for those suffering lifelong trauma.\n\n\"My only regret is that some campaigners have sadly died before this apology was made.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie, said: \"These appalling cruelties are perhaps among the most heinous of injustices that our society has inflicted on women and their children.\"\n• None Forced adoption: 'My baby was taken'", "Walking is key to reducing the risk of premature death, according to a new study\n\nIt has long been touted that 10,000 steps a day is the magic number you need to stay fit and healthy - but a new study shows fewer than 5,000 may be enough to see a benefit.\n\nThe analysis of more than 226,000 people around the world showed 4,000 was enough to start reducing the risk of dying prematurely of any cause.\n\nJust over 2,300 is enough to benefit the heart and blood vessels.\n\nThe more you do, the more health benefits are seen, researchers said.\n\nEvery extra 1,000 steps beyond the 4,000 reduced the risk of dying early by 15% up to 20,000 steps.\n\nThe team from the Medical University of Lodz in Poland and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US found the walking benefits applied to people of all ages, regardless of where they lived.\n\nHowever, the biggest benefits were seen among the under-60s.\n\nProf Maciej Banach, from the Lodz university, said that while the number of advanced drugs for treatment was growing, they were not the only answer.\n\n\"I believe we should always emphasise that lifestyle changes, including diet and exercise, which was a main hero of our analysis, might be at least as, or even more, effective in reducing cardiovascular risk and prolonging lives,\" he said.\n\nWalking to the shops instead of driving, or getting off the bus a couple of stops early could be enough to make a difference\n\nAccording to World Health Organization data, insufficient physical activity is responsible for 3.2 million deaths each year - the fourth most frequent cause worldwide.\n\nHoney Fine, a personal trainer and instructor for global fitness company Barry's, emphasises the problems that come from sitting down too much.\n\n\"It can slow your metabolism and affect muscle growth and strength, which can cause aches and pains,\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"Sitting down for too long can also cause all sorts of back problems, we find this a lot with people with office jobs, that their backs are constantly put in a stressed compressed position which causes a lot more problems later on in life.\"\n\nShe explains the importance of non-exercise activity thermogenesis - also known as Neat, \"which in simple terms is everything we do that uses energy and burns calories\".\n\n\"Tasks like standing, carrying shopping, washing the floors, hoovering, pacing whilst talking on the phone - it's all the little things that make us more active that help us to burn calories more efficiently,\" she said.\n\nMs Fine says that although adding regular walks into your life may be daunting, the rewards are great when it comes to your health.\n\n\"Walking can lower your blood pressure, strengthen your muscles to protect your bones, it can increase energy levels as well as giving you endorphins and it can help you maintain a healthy weight alongside healthy eating,\" she says.\n\nOther benefits include boosts to your mental health and important time away from screens and other distractions.\n\nWalking is suitable for \"almost anybody\" because it is low impact and easy on joints and muscles, she added.", "Doreen Mantle also had roles in Coronation Street and Father Brown\n\nActress Doreen Mantle, best known for her role in the BBC comedy One Foot in the Grave, has died aged 97, her agent has announced.\n\nShe died \"peacefully at home\", a statement said.\n\nMantle played Jean Warboys, the annoying friend of Victor Meldrew's wife, Margaret, in the BBC series.\n\nIn 1979, she won an Olivier Award for actress of the year in a supporting role in the stage show Death of A Salesman for the National Theatre.\n\nIn a statement, her agent said: \"It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our beloved client and much-loved stage, screen, and radio actress Doreen Mantle, aged 97.\n\n\"She died peacefully at home. She is survived by her two sons, four grandchildren and one brother.\"\n\nMantle also starred in the BBC detective series Father Brown and played Joy Fishwick in ITV soap Coronation Street.\n\nHer other credits include My Family, Doctors, Dirk Gently, Jam and Jerusalem, Doc Martin, Jonathan Creek and Yentl.", "The Rwanda plan aims to deter people from crossing the Channel in small boats\n\nSenior Conservatives - including a cabinet minister - say their party is likely to campaign to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) at the next election, if Rwanda flights continue to be blocked.\n\nThere is frustration at the role of a European court in stopping flights for asylum seekers taking off last year.\n\nThe minister told the BBC the UK was \"probably\" being punished for Brexit.\n\nThe government's official position is that the UK will remain in the ECHR.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The government has been clear that it will abide by its international treaty obligations.\n\n\"As we've set out previously - we believe our Stop the Boats Bill will deliver the changes necessary to reduce the incentives for people to risk their lives through illegal crossings while remaining party to the ECHR.\"\n\nHowever, immigration minister Robert Jenrick would not rule out withdrawing from the convention, telling Times Radio the government would do \"whatever is necessary ultimately to defend our borders\".\n\nThe comments by senior figures in government are likely to reignite a debate in the Conservative Party about the ECHR - which splits opinion among Tory MPs.\n\nSir Bob Neill, the Conservative chairman of the Commons Justice Committee, said it would be \"a completely foolish idea and absolutely wrong\" for the UK to leave the ECHR.\n\nHe told the BBC that being outside the ECHR would leave the UK in the company of Belarus and Russia, and there would be a danger Britain's international reputation would be \"very seriously damaged\".\n\nThe ECHR was established in 1950 by a number of countries including the UK.\n\nThe treaty, which sets out the rights and freedoms people are entitled to in the 46 signatory countries, is overseen by the European Court of Human Rights.\n\nIt is separate to the European Union - so the UK remained part of both after Brexit.\n\nMinisters are desperate to show they can deliver on tackling illegal migration to the UK before an election - likely next year.\n\nBut so far the Rwanda scheme, which would see the UK send some asylum seekers to the east African country, has not got off the ground and the timetable is slipping.\n\nThe first flights were stopped by a European judge in a last minute intervention last year - despite being cleared by UK courts.\n\nSince then, the scheme has become bogged down in legal action.\n\nThe UK's Court of Appeal ruled against the plan last month, to the surprise of the Home Office.\n\nThere will now be an appeal in the Supreme Court in the autumn, but senior ministers are privately unsure about whether they can overturn the ruling.\n\nThey fear that even if the government does win, it could take many months for deportations to begin because individual legal challenges will take place too.\n\nAlternative plans are being considered, but they would also face legal challenges and take time to deliver.\n\nThat is likely to lead to further debate about whether the UK needs to take further action to ensure the policy is delivered.\n\nLegislation passed in recent weeks will put a legal obligation on the government to remove people who have entered the country illegally.\n\nBut without comprehensive returns agreements - and with the Rwanda policy stuck in the courts - it is unclear when ministers will trigger the implementation of that responsibility.\n\nThe government also now has the power to ignore certain ECHR interim injunctions relating to border security.\n\nBut some Conservative MPs wanted the government to go further and remove itself from other ECHR obligations.\n\nA cabinet minister said events could make it \"inevitable\" the Conservatives end up backing leaving the ECHR.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused the Conservatives of going after headlines and \"failing to tackle the crisis\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"All of this rhetoric is making it harder to get the kinds of agreements that we need with France, with other European countries, to actually tackle this problem and prevent these dangerous crossings in the first place.\"\n\nSome backbenchers have said the Conservatives should campaign to leave at the next election regardless of what happens with the Rwanda scheme.\n\nJonathan Gullis said: \"Time and again we see the quasi-legislative European Court of Human Rights continue to undermine the government's plan to stop the boats.\"\n\nHe added the electorate should be given a choice over ECHR withdrawal at the next election.\n\nBut a former cabinet minister - strongly opposed to withdrawal - described the idea as \"knee jerk nonsense\".\n\nThey said those who backed quitting were a \"minority\" and there would be significant opposition in cabinet.", "The four survivors were rescued after their boat capsized\n\nForty-one migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, survivors told local media.\n\nA group of four people who survived the disaster told rescuers that they were on a boat that had set off from Sfax in Tunisia and sank on its way to Italy.\n\nThe four survivors, originally from the Ivory Coast and Guinea, reached Lampedusa on Wednesday.\n\nMore than 1,800 people have lost their lives so far this year in the crossing from North Africa to Europe.\n\nLocal public prosecutor Salvatore Vella said he had opened an investigation into the tragedy.\n\nThe survivors - a 13-year-old boy, two men and a woman - told rescuers that they were on a boat carrying 45 people, including three children.\n\nThey said the boat, which was about 7m (20ft) long, left Sfax on Thursday last week, but sank within hours after being hit by a big wave. Only 15 people are understood to have been wearing lifejackets, but this apparently failed to save their lives.\n\nThe Italian Red Cross and German charity Sea-Watch said the four managed to survive the shipwreck by floating on inner tubes and lifejackets until they found another empty boat at sea, in which they spent several days drifting before being rescued.\n\nThe four survivors arrived in Lampedusa suffering from exhaustion and shock, but the doctor who treated them, Adrian Chiaramonte, said they had only minor injuries.\n\n\"What really struck us was the story of the tragedy,\" he said.\n\n\"They said they had encountered a first ship, which had apparently ignored them.\n\n\"An hour later they were spotted by a helicopter, and an hour after that sighting, they were picked up by an oil tanker.\"\n\nThe Italian coast guard reported two shipwrecks in the area on Sunday, but it is not clear whether this vessel is one of those.\n\nThe United Nations migration agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said the migrants would have had little chance of survival.\n\n\"Sub-Saharan migrants [leaving from Tunisia] are forced to use these low-cost iron boats which break after 20 or 30 hours of navigation. With this kind of sea, these boats capsize easily,\" IOM spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo told AFP.\n\nTunisian authorities say Sfax, a port city about 80 miles (130km) from Lampedusa, is a popular gateway for migrants seeking safety and a better life in Europe.\n\nIn recent days, Italian patrol boats and charity groups have rescued another 2,000 people who have arrived on Lampedusa.\n\nTunisia has seen a wave of racism against black Africans in recent months and attempts to leave the country by boat have increased.\n\nThe United Nations has registered more than 17,000 deaths and disappearances in the central Mediterranean since 2014, making it the most dangerous migrant crossing in the world.\n\nLast month, the EU signed a $118m (£90m) deal with Tunisia in a bid to curb \"irregular\" migration.\n\nThe money is to be spent on efforts to stop smuggling, strengthen borders and return migrants.\n\nItaly's far-right government has adopted a policy that forces rescue ships to dock at ports further away, rather than letting them disembark rescued migrants in Lampedusa or Sicily.\n\nIt says the aim is to spread arrivals across the country, but NGOs say the policy reduces the amount of time they can patrol areas where shipwrecks are more common.", "Amber Gibson's body was found in Caddo Glen in Hamilton days after she was last seen\n\nA man who raped a teenager five months before she was murdered by her brother has been jailed.\n\nJamie Starrs, 20, assaulted and raped Amber Gibson while she was asleep or unconscious at a property in Bothwell in June 2021.\n\nHe was found guilty at the High Court in Lanark in July, and on Tuesday he was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison.\n\nHe was also convicted of raping another teenage girl in Bothwell in May 2021.\n\nAmber, 16, was sexually assaulted and murdered in November 2021 by her brother Connor Gibson.\n\nHe was convicted last month following a separate trial at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nDet Con Ross McCaig told the jury at Starrs' trial he had taken a statement from Amber about the attack.\n\nShe said she met Starrs, who was a stranger to her, and two others before heading to Bothwell.\n\nThe court heard that Amber revealed she had been attacked while in a supported accommodation unit in Blantyre.\n\nJamie Starrs has been sentenced to ten and a half years\n\nAmber told officers: \"The reason I think I was raped was that I woke up in a bed with no clothes on my bottom half with a boy I had only met naked under the covers.\n\n\"I can't remember hugging him or kissing him at all.\"\n\nAmber identified her attacker after being shown a board of photographs by police.\n\nDet Insp Lorraine Wilson, of Lanarkshire division's rape investigation unit, said Amber's evidence was \"key in securing his conviction\".\n\nThe other victim told the court she had been attacked by Starrs while she was drunk and unable to give consent.\n\nThe court heard that Starrs attempted to pervert the course of justice by sending threatening messages on Facebook to a boy linked to the second girl.\n\nHe tried to get this boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to pressure the female into withdrawing her evidence.\n\nAs well as his prison sentence, Judge Thomas Welsh ordered Starrs to be supervised for two years on release.\n\nAt the High Court in Edinburgh the judge said: \"You have been convicted of appalling crimes against two innocent teenage girls and you have been assessed as being of very high risk of sexual violence on release.\n\n\"I am required to take into account your age and difficult upbringing - however, the crimes remain serious and grave, and I will impose an extended sentence.\"\n\nHe said he would have ordered 11 years to be served in custody but reduced this to 10-and-a-half years to take into account the time that Starrs had spent on remand.\n\nStarrs, who appeared via video link from custody, has been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.\n\nHe was also found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice and a breach of bail conditions.\n\nMichael Meehan KC, who represented Starrs, highlighted that the sentence must take into account sentencing guidelines for under-25s.\n\nThe guidelines state that people aged under 25 in Scotland should be given lesser sentences because of their emotional immaturity and the fact that that they have a greater chance of rehabilitation.\n\nMr Meehan said a report identified that Starrs showed \"cognitive and emotional immaturity\".\n\nMr Meehan also urged the judge to consider his client's adverse childhood experiences.\n\nHe told the court that Starrs was removed from parental care at the age of three and developed addiction issues from the age of nine.\n\n\"He has a traumatic background from a young age which perhaps gives some degree of explanation,\" the lawyer said.\n\nHe added that Starrs was \"vulnerable to negative influences\" and had a \"chaotic lifestyle\".\n\nThe sentencing comes a fortnight after Connor Gibson, 20, was convicted of attacking his sister Amber in Caddo Glen, Hamilton in November 2021.\n\nHe was found guilty of removing her clothes, sexually assaulting her with the intention of raping her, inflicting blunt force trauma to her head and body, and strangling her.\n\nAmber was reported missing on the evening of Friday 26 November and her body was discovered in Caddo Glen on 28 November.\n\nStephen Corrigan - who was unknown to both Amber and Connor Gibson - found her body, but rather than alert police, he inappropriately touched her and then concealed her remains.\n\nThe 45-year-old was found guilty of attempting to defeat the ends of justice and breach of the peace.\n\nThe two men will be sentenced on 4 September at the High Court in Livingston.", "Firefighters worked to contain the flames in Odemira on Monday\n\nFirefighters in Portugal are battling to contain wildfires engulfing thousands of hectares amid soaring temperatures.\n\nAround 800 personnel attended a fire near the southern town of Odemira overnight on Monday, with more than 1,400 people having to evacuate.\n\nAt least nine firefighters have been injured tackling the fires.\n\nTemperatures in excess of 40C (104F) are expected to hit much of the Iberian peninsula this week.\n\nThree major fires that scorched hundreds of hectares in Spain over the weekend have been brought under control, but weather alerts remain in place across much of the country.\n\nIn Portugal, Monday saw a temperature of 46.4C (116F), the hottest of the year so far, recorded in Santarém.\n\nThe fire near Odemira began on Saturday and was driven south into the hilly interior of the Algarve, Portugal's main tourism region, by strong winds.\n\nIt has so far destroyed some 6,700 hectares (16,600 acres) of land, while a total of 19 villages, four tourist accommodations and a camping site have been evacuated.\n\nThe town's mayor, Helder Guerreiro, has said the situation is \"critical, difficult, and complex\".\n\nFormer BBC correspondent Alastair Leithead, who lives around 16km (10 miles) south of Odemira in São Teotónio, knows how dangerous and fast-moving wildfires in Portugal's countryside can be.\n\nLast year he had just an hour's notice to load up his car with some luggage and his dogs to escape a fire which burnt part of his house.\n\nWith the flames once again raging minutes from his home, he told Radio 4's World at One programme the fires sent \"everybody in this area into a real panic\" on Monday but that things had calmed \"a little\" on Tuesday \"simply because the wind has dropped.\"\n\n\"We had a very fast wind, a very hot and very dry wind, coming from the east... yesterday and that doubled the size of the fire in just a few hours,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of people were evacuated from their homes, a few of the hotels here had to send guests elsewhere and we've had since yesterday more than 800 firefighters, as well as about 280-odd vehicles.\"\n\nHe said commercial eucalyptus and pine forests in the area have been engulfed, adding: \"It's wild country, there aren't roads going through them, so when the fires get into the valleys they burn fast and hard, and when the wind... gets going, it's a very dangerous thing to deal with.\n\n\"The firefighters really can only direct it, try to push it to a place where there are not many trees and hope it naturally runs out of fuel.\"\n\nIn the centre of the country, other major fires prompted the closure of several stretches of motorway, including parts of the A1 between Lisbon and Porto.\n\nSixteen waterbombing aircraft have been deployed to support firefighting efforts across the two areas.\n\nAuthorities have declared more than 120 municipalities across Portugal at maximum risk of wildfires.\n\nIn Spain, fires near the south-western coastal cities of Cadiz and Huelva and in the northern Catalonia region scorched more than 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) in total on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThis week's heatwave will mark the third to hit the Iberian peninsula this summer.\n\nRuben del Campo of Spain's State Meteorological Agency told Reuters it was being caused by a large mass of hot, dry air from North Africa and would be \"generally more intense, more widespread and a little longer-lasting\" than the two that hit in July.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow have you been affected by the wildfires in Portugal? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Demonstrators, including indigenous people from Amazon countries, marched in Belém on Tuesday as the summit began\n\nThe eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation.\n\nDelegates from the countries are meeting in the Brazilian city of Belém for a two-day summit on the issue.\n\nA joint declaration on Tuesday created an alliance to combat deforestation, but left each country to pursue its own conservation goals.\n\nClimate activists said the deal lacked concrete measures at a time \"when the planet is melting\".\n\n\"Temperature records are broken every day, it's not possible that under those circumstances, the eight presidents of the Amazon nations can't include a line in the declaration stating, in bold letters, that deforestation needs to be zero, that it won't be tolerated any more,\" Márcio Astrini of the Climate Observatory group said.\n\nAround 60% of the Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world, lies in Brazil. The other countries represented at the gathering are Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.\n\nRepresentatives from the eight countries which share the Amazon will attend\n\nPreserving the Amazon is a central part of efforts to tackle climate change and ahead of the summit, its host, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had called for a common goal of ending deforestation by 2030.\n\nBrazil has already adopted the policy but hopes for it to be adopted jointly by all the eight nations gathered in Belém were dashed on Tuesday.\n\nMr Astrini said the declaration lacked \"something more forceful\".\n\nHaug Larsen of the Rainforest Foundation Norway also bemoaned the fact that a commitment to zero deforestation, the \"guiding star for the agreement\", had not been achieved.\n\nBut he welcomed an agreement by the eight nations to work together to combat illegal activities in the Amazon, which he said had been allowed to \"rage freely\", particularly in the border areas.\n\nHe said concrete plans had been made to co-ordinate air space surveillance and exchange information to combat illegal mining and logging.\n\nIf properly implemented, the agreement would be \"a giant leap in the right direction\", he concluded.\n\nBrazil's President Lula said in his opening speech that action had \"never been so urgent\".\n\n\"The challenges of our era, and the opportunities arising from them, demand we act in unison\".\n\nDeforestation in Brazil has fallen dramatically since Lula won the presidency from predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, who favoured development over conservation, but thousands of square kilometres continue to be lost each year.\n\nThe joint statement, named the Belém declaration, said the new alliance would aim to \"prevent the Amazon from reaching a point of no return\".\n\nIt also included commitments to enhance co-operation on issues like water management, health, sustainable development and common negotiating positions at global climate summits.\n\nBut there have been differences in opinion in some areas.\n\nColombia's President, Gustavo Petro, for example, wants other countries to match his pledge to ban new oil exploration, while Brazil is considering exploring new areas at the mouth of the Amazon river.\n\nDespite the differences, the gathering has undoubtedly given this region a voice when it comes to combatting climate change, and is being viewed as a precursor to the 2025 UN Climate Change conference, which will also be held in Belém.\n\nThe summit opened on the same day that the European Union's climate change panel confirmed that July had been the hottest month on record globally.\n\nThe billions of trees that make up the Amazon hold vast amounts of carbon, accumulated over centuries, and every year their leaves continue to absorb carbon dioxide that would otherwise remain in the atmosphere and contribute to the rise in global temperatures.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2019: How is the rainforest helping limit global warming?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobbie Robertson, guitarist and songwriter for Canadian-American group The Band, has died aged 80.\n\nA statement from his manager said he died on Wednesday surrounded by his family after a long illness.\n\nThe Band were an influential act in the late 1960s and also the subjects of The Last Waltz, a 1978 Martin Scorsese film about their farewell concert.\n\nRobertson wrote some of their best-known songs, including The Weight and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.\n\nBorn Jaime Royal Robertson in Toronto in 1943, he left home to pursue a career in music aged 16.\n\nAs well as their own music, The Band were known for a spell touring as Bob Dylan's backing band before the success of their 1968 debut album, Music From Big Pink.\n\nThey released a string of acclaimed albums during the 1970s and, after playing their last show as a full band in 1976, reunited without Robertson for a number of tours and studio releases throughout the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nAlong with keyboardist Garth Hudson, Robertson was one of two surviving members of The Band's classic line-up.\n\nAfter The Last Waltz, he collaborated with Scorsese on the soundtracks to some of the director's best-known films, including 1980 classic Raging Bull and 2019's The Irishman.\n\nRobertson performing with The Band at the Royal Albert Hall in London, June 1971\n\nPaying tribute, Scorsese called Robertson a \"giant\" and \"a constant in my life and work.\"\n\n\"Long before we ever met, his music played a central role in my life - me and millions and millions of other people all over this world,\" he said. \"His effect on the art form was profound and lasting.\"\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood said: \"Such sad news about Robbie Robertson - he was a lovely man, a great friend and will be dearly missed.\"\n\nStevie van Zandt, a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, said Robertson was a \"good friend\" and \"underrated brilliant guitar player\".\n\nCanadian singer Bryan Adams posted a photo of Robertson and wrote: \"Thanks for the amazing music and the great hangs.\"", "Martin Bailey attached his red ribbon to his car today\n\nDrivers are protesting against new 20mph speed limits in Wales by tying red ribbons to their cars.\n\nThe Welsh government decided to lower the limit from 30mph to 20mph in built-up areas to cut crashes, reduce noise and encourage people to walk or cycle.\n\nThe controversial plans have seen a petition to scrap the change signed by 21,000 people, amid claims it could increase road rage.\n\nThe Welsh government said the changes would save lives.\n\nMartin Bailey, of Buckley, Flintshire, said more protests were likely.\n\nThe town had a pilot scheme of the 20mph zones introduced on 28 February 2022.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"We woke up one day and had all the signs uncovered and that was when we learned it was including the main roads.\"\n\nThe 48-year-old said the whole town was talking about the changes.\n\nMartin Bailey says he thinks more people are becoming aware of how the 20mph limit will affect them\n\nThe Buckley, Mynydd Isa and Bryn Y Baal 20mph Pilot Scheme Opposition Group has been campaigning to stop the changes.\n\nMr Bailey said the red ribbon idea was \"a bit of a symbolic gesture, something that's highly visible, to show support out in the roads for the cause\".\n\nHe added: \"Personally, I'm against [the change] on the main arterial roads, I don't have an issue with what I would refer to as the residential roads.\"\n\nHe claimed cars were driving closer together under 20mph limits compared with 30mph.\n\n\"It actually makes it harder for people to cross the road,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"We've seen accidents, we've seen two walls demolished in 20mph zones. We don't necessarily believe it's making it any safer at all.\n\n\"People are really concerned about the potential of enforcement and worried about sitting looking at the speedo constantly.\"\n\nMr Bailey said drivers were worried about being hit with £100 fines or being banned if they drifted over the limit.\n\n\"The people of Wales are pretty reserved but they've been protesting for a long time,\" he said.\n\n\"We've been trying to work with the Welsh government and the local councils and they've been obstinate, they've not really been helpful.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Decreasing speeds not only reduces collisions and saves lives but improves the quality of life, making room on our streets for safer active travel, whilst helping reduce our environmental impact.\"\n\nKatie Wilby, of Flintshire council, said: \"While most restricted roads in Flintshire will change to 20mph, the council, working closely with local county councillors, has identified some roads which have the potential to remain at 30mph after the national legislative change in September.\"\n\nThis, she said, was currently out to consultation.", "The boss of TUI has said heatwaves and climate change could prompt people to take their holidays in spring or autumn and choose cooler destinations.\n\nSebastian Ebel, chief executive of the tour firm, said holidaymakers might choose to travel to Greece in November, benefiting the travel industry.\n\nDestinations such as the Belgian or Polish coast might become more popular, he added.\n\nTUI said July's wildfires in Rhodes had cost the firm €25m (£21.5m).\n\nTUI said 8,000 of its customers had been evacuated from the Greek island. However, the German company said 80% of its guests on the island were unaffected.\n\nMr Ebel claimed the climate was \"not as it was described\" and said he went to Rhodes on \"the first day\" of the blazes starting and he was \"surprised\" because the fire was not visible.\n\nIn total more than 20,000 people were evacuated when wildfires broke out in Rhodes and other parts of Greece, and thousands of UK holidaymakers were flown home.\n\nThe experience was described as like \"being thrown into a disaster film\" by some. People were moved to sleep in schools and sports centres as they waited for flights home, after wildfires made some holiday resorts uninhabitable.\n\nTUI said the events had only affected demand in the short term, with bookings for last week 5% higher than the equivalent period last year, in line with a general recovery of holiday bookings following the pandemic.\n\nBut the wildfires cost the firm €25m through covering cancellations, compensation as well as repatriation flights and welfare costs.\n\nTUI said the experience showed booking a package tour with an operator offered \"great advantages and comprehensive service in extraordinary situations\".\n\nMr Ebel said the company was set to broaden the amount of destinations it offered to mitigate against similar risks in the future.\n\nCountries with more moderate temperatures, such as the Nordic countries, could become more popular travel destinations, but Mr Ebel said the Mediterranean region remained one of the top places for holidaymakers.\n\nHe added that TUI could introduce new insurance for tourists going to areas that were affected by climate change-related disruptions.\n\nOn Wednesday, the company reported a return a third-quarter profit for the first time since the pandemic, with bookings for summer 2023 up 6% year-on-year and recovering to 95% of 2019 levels.\n\nTUI said its price increases reflected the popularity of summer holidays and its customers' continued willingness to prioritise spending on travel and experiences.\n\nIt said popular destinations this summer were Turkey, the Caribbean, the Balearics, Greece, the Canaries and Cape Verde.", "Struggling homeware retailer Wilko has suspended home deliveries as it teeters on the brink of collapse.\n\nThe company said on its website that home delivery was \"temporarily unavailable\" but that products could still be ordered by click-and-collect.\n\nWilko has filed a notice to appoint administrators as it races to raise the cash it needs to keep going.\n\nThere have been reports of a potential rescue deal, but the firm has not commented on the speculation.\n\nThe homeware chain, which has 408 stores across the UK, is well known for its affordable everyday items.\n\nIf the High Street stalwart goes under, some 12,000 jobs could be at risk.\n\nAnnouncing its plan to appoint administrators last week, the firm said it had 10 working days to strike a rescue deal. The deadline is 17 August.\n\nChief executive Mark Jackson has said the company continues to talk to interested parties about options for the business.\n\nHe said he hoped to find a solution as quickly as possible to \"preserve the business\".\n\nWilko is struggling after sharp losses left it short of cash. It has already borrowed £40m from the restructuring specialist Hilco, cut jobs, rejigged its leadership team and sold off a distribution centre.\n\nThe company, which was founded in 1930 in Leicester, is still owned by the Wilkinson family.\n\nThe retailer stepped into the High Street gap left by the collapse of Woolworths in late 2008, but has struggled over the past decade partly due to growing competition from the likes of Poundland and B&M.\n\nWilko's sales were higher than B&M's a decade ago, but now they are one-third the level of its competitor's.\n\nIt is also lagging behind Poundland, Home Bargains and The Range.\n\nSome experts question whether Wilko has too many stores across the UK. Many of its shops are in High Street locations in traditional town centres.\n\nBut while these locations are convenient for shoppers without cars, since the pandemic there's been a shift to bigger retail parks and out-of-town options with more space.\n\nCharles Allen, retail analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, told the BBC last week that the locations of Wilko stores had been a bit of a turn-off for some customers.\n\n\"B&M has also moved many of its locations to retail parks which are more convenient for many consumers, especially when they are buying bulky goods.\"", "Eve Smith, 21, Rafel Jeanne, 24, and Darcy Ross, 21, died after a collision in the St Mellons area of Cardiff\n\nVictims of a fatal car crash had been drinking and inhaling laughing gas before the incident, a friend told police.\n\nRafel Jeanne, 24, Darcy Ross, 21, and Eve Smith, 21, died while two other passengers survived with injuries.\n\nA sixth passenger, Joel Lia, had driven the same car earlier that evening and was later charged with driving offences.\n\nCourt papers revealed he described the victims as being \"intoxicated\".\n\nThe crash happened on the A48(M) near the St Mellons area of Cardiff at about 02:00 GMT on Saturday 4 March when a Volkswagen Tiguan veered off a slip road approaching a roundabout and came to rest in a small copse of trees.\n\nTwo other occupants Sophie Russon, 20, and Shane Loughlin, 32, survived but were injured.\n\nThe five were discovered on 6 March, about 46 hours after the crash happened.\n\nThe length of time taken by Gwent Police and South Wales Police to find the group, who were reported missing by family members, is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe group had been on a night out at The Muffler social club in Maesglas, Newport, on 3 March and then travelled in the Tiguan just under 40 miles (64km) to the Trecco Bay Caravan Park, Porthcawl, where they are said to have spent some time in one of the caravans on site.\n\nA noise complaint was made to the park's security lodge about the group.\n\nSophie Russon, 20 at the time of the crash, and Shane Loughlin, 32, were seriously injured in the accident\n\nThey left the site a short time later and were last seen at about 02:00 in the Pentwyn area of Cardiff, dropping off a sixth member of their group.\n\nCourt papers obtained by the PA news agency reveal that the group had been drinking alcohol and inhaling nitrous oxide - also known as laughing gas - prior to the collision.\n\nThe details emerged in a behind-closed-doors hearing at Cardiff Magistrates' Court for Joel Lia, the sixth member of the group, who had been driving the Tiguan an hour before the crash.\n\nLia, 28, of Rumney, Cardiff, was charged with driving without a licence or insurance in Porthcawl.\n\nHis case is being dealt with under a system known as the single justice procedure, where magistrates handle non-custodial criminal prosecutions in private rather than open court.\n\nPA applied to the court for the prosecution documents relating to Lia's case.\n\nDet Con Joanne Mahony took a witness statement from Lia in which he admitted driving the car even though he did not have a full UK licence.\n\nCCTV from a petrol station in Porthcawl showed the Tiguan pulling on to the forecourt at 01:08 and leaving three minutes later.\n\n\"On stopping at the garage, Joel Lia exits the rear offside of the vehicle and, when the driver exits the driver's seat, Joel Lia then enters the driver's seat. He then drives the vehicle off the forecourt,\" police documents state.\n\nThe papers go on to say that DC Mahony, the officer in the case, took a signed statement from Lia in which he admitted driving without holding a full UK licence.\n\n\"All other persons in the vehicle were intoxicated, by Joel's admission, as they had been drinking alcohol and inhaling nitrous oxide throughout the course of the evening,\" the documents state.\n\n\"The vehicle did not display L plates which can be seen on CCTV. The officer in the case has reviewed the CCTV as part of this unrelated case and can positively identify Joel Lia as the person entering the driver's seat.\"\n\nLia pleaded guilty to both charges and the case was adjourned until 24 August.\n\nAn initial inquest was told that the three who died were declared dead at the scene of the crash.\n\nThe hearing was adjourned to await the findings of further histology (tissue and cell study) and toxicology tests.", "The six-year-old student who shot his teacher in the US earlier this year, boasted about the incident saying \"I shot [her] dead\", unsealed court documents show.\n\nWhile being restrained after the shooting at a Virginia school, the boy is said to have admitted \"I did it\", adding \"I got my mom's gun last night\".\n\nHis teacher, Abigail \"Abby\" Zwerner - who survived - filed a $40m (£31.4m) lawsuit earlier this year.\n\nThe boy has not been charged.\n\nThe boy's mother, however, Deja Taylor, has been charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanour recklessly leaving a loaded firearm as to endanger a child.\n\nIn June, she was also charged with unlawfully using a controlled substance while in possession of a firearm and making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.\n\nMs Taylor will be sentenced in October and could face up to 25 years in prison.\n\nUsing his mother's gun, the boy shot his first-grade teacher, Ms Zwerner, in the hand and chest on 6 January at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter the shooting, Ms Zwerner told police at hospital that she saw the child standing by his desk when he \"pulled a firearm out of his jacket pocket and pointed it\" at her, according to the newly released documents.\n\nBefore he shot the 9mm handgun, she said, \"What are you doing with that?\"\n\nThe primary teacher has undergone surgery four times.\n\nAmy Korvac, a reading specialist at the school, heard the gun shots and restrained the student until police arrived. It was during this time that the boy allegedly confessed to the shooting, using a profanity to refer to Ms Zwerner.\n\nIn an interview with the Washington Post published on Wednesday, Ms Korvac said she went inside the classroom after the shooting, where she found the six-year-old standing next to his desk with his arms crossed and a handgun on the floor next to him.\n\nShe said she then took the boy's hand and walked him to the front of the classroom, where she used a phone to call 911.\n\n\"While I was holding him, he told me he had gotten his mom's gun the night before and put it in his backpack,\" Ms Kovac told the paper. \"He also told me he only had time to load one bullet.\"\n\nThe court documents also mention another incident with the same student while he was in kindergarten. A retired teacher told police he started \"choking her to the point she could not breathe\".\n\nIn Ms Zwerner's lawsuit, filed in April, she accuses school officials of gross negligence for ignoring warning signs and argues the defendants knew the child \"had a history of random violence\".", "The UK's six biggest water firms are facing legal action over claims they underreported pollution and overcharged customers.\n\nSevern Trent is the first in line, with claims against the other firms expected in the coming months.\n\nA law firm says it could result in customers on average receiving £40 each, but the process could take years and there is no guarantee of success.\n\nTrade body Water UK said the accusations were \"without merit\".\n\nThe claims are being brought by Professor Carolyn Roberts, an environmental and water consultant represented by Leigh Day Solicitors. Leigh Day says it is the first environmental collective action of its kind.\n\nThe legal basis of such action is fairly new, dating from 2015. No cases have reached a conclusion yet although a number are currently going through the courts, including against MasterCard and BT.\n\nThames Water, United Utilities, Anglian Water, Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water are all set to have cases brought against them after Severn Trent. If all prove successful, the law firm says 20 million customers could be eligible for compensation.\n\nThe claims are being brought on an opt-out basis, which means all water bill payers are automatically part of it unless they actively choose not to be.\n\nThe Competition Appeal Tribunal will first need to decide whether the claims can go ahead. That process can take around a year.\n\nWhat are your thoughts about water bills and leaks? You can get in touch the following ways:\n\nProfessor Roberts said that she had watched \"with horror\" the rising number of stories of raw sewage being dumped into rivers and seas.\n\n\"It appears that because of the serial and serious under-reporting at the heart of these claims, water companies have been avoiding being penalised by [the regulator] Ofwat,\" she said.\n\n\"I believe this has resulted in consumers being unfairly overcharged for sewage services.\"\n\nShe added she believed the UK population had \"a right to expect\" rivers and seas would be clean.\n\nHowever, a Water UK spokesperson called the claim \"highly speculative\" and \"entirely without merit\".\n\n\"The regulator has confirmed that over 99% of sewage works comply with their legal requirements. If companies fail to deliver on their commitments, then customer bills are already adjusted accordingly,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nA Severn Trent spokesperson also called the claim \"highly speculative with no merit\" and said it strongly refuted it.\n\n\"Should pollutions ever occur, they are always reported to the Environment Agency. Any claim to the contrary is wholly and completely wrong.\n\n\"Our regulators, the Environment Agency and Ofwat, set strict targets and performance measures that deliver for our customers and the environment.\"\n\nA number of water firms have been criticised over raw sewage discharges.\n\nIn 2022, raw sewage was pumped into rivers and seas for 1.75 million hours - an average of 825 times per day.\n\nUpdate 30 August 2023: The lead image on this article has been changed to show a picture which better fits a UK context.", "Labour says reforms are needed to bring more criminals to justice\n\nLabour is setting up an expert commission tasked with drawing up reforms to increase the number of crimes solved.\n\nThe Charging Commission will propose ways to help police and prosecutors bring more criminals to justice.\n\nHome Office data show 2.4 million cases were dropped over evidential difficulties in the year ending March 2023.\n\nThe government said it was determined to bring all offenders to justice.\n\nBut shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the Conservative government's record on law and order was one of \"damaging decline and collapsing confidence in the criminal justice system\".\n\nMs Cooper said Labour's expert commission would help \"turn things around\" and \"deliver on our pledge to make Britain safer\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the partnership between the police and the prosecution had \"crumbled\", with each side blaming the other instead of working together.\n\n\"We've got to cut some of the excess bureaucracy the police are facing and that prosecutors are facing and properly get new partnerships in place,\" she added.\n\nLabour said the commission would be chaired by the former Victims' Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird, and include former chief constable Stephen Otter, former chief crown prosecutor Drusilla Sharpling, and West Yorkshire Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Alison Lowe, on the panel.\n\nThe party said the panel would make recommendations in key areas for improvement across the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nThe panel would seek to find ways to cut paperwork, boost digital forensics, and speed up the work of police and prosecutors.\n\nLabour said the commission will meet for the first time in September this year.\n\nThe party is concerned about the number of suspects not being identified, victims not wanting to press charges, increasing difficulties getting evidence, and the speed of cases slowing.\n\nIt pointed to recent Home Office figures showing that, in the year to March 2023, there were \"evidential difficulties\" with 2.4 million out of 5.4 million recorded crimes.\n\nLabour says this amounts to \"a decade of dereliction\" by the Tory government on crime.\n\nDame Vera said the \"woeful collapse in charging rates\" meant victims were \"giving up on the criminal justice system altogether\".\n\n\"This Commission will bring together voices from across policing and prosecutions to forensically investigate the causes of this charging crisis, and set out robust recommendations for recovery,\" Dame Vera said.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson claimed \"communities are safer\" since the Conservatives took power 13 years ago.\n\nThey said \"neighbourhood crime including burglary, robbery and theft down 51% and serious violent crime down 46%\".\n\n\"The government has also delivered more police officers than ever before in England and Wales and the home secretary has been clear she expects the police to improve public confidence by getting the basics right - catching more criminals and delivering justice for victims,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nBut they also acknowledged the criminal justice system \"needs to work better together - including the current levels of cases being investigated and converted into charges and subsequent prosecutions\".", "The UK's elections watchdog has revealed it has been the victim of a \"complex cyber-attack\" potentially affecting millions of voters.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said unspecified \"hostile actors\" had managed to gain access to copies of the electoral registers, from August 2021.\n\nHackers also broke into its emails and \"control systems\" but the attack was not discovered until October last year.\n\nThe watchdog has warned people to watch out for unauthorised use of their data.\n\nIn a public notice, the commission said hackers accessed copies of the registers it was holding for research purposes, and for conducting checks on political donors.\n\nChief executive officer Shaun McNally said the commission knew which of its systems were accessible to the hackers, but could not \"conclusively\" identify which files may have been accessed.\n\nThe watchdog said the information it held at the time of the attack included the names and addresses of people in the UK who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022.\n\nThis includes those who opted to keep their details off the open register - which is not accessible to the public but can be purchased, for example by credit reference agencies.\n\nThe data accessed also included the names - but not the addresses - of overseas voters, it added.\n\nHowever, the data of people who qualified to register anonymously - for safety or security reasons - was not accessed, the watchdog said.\n\nThe commission says it is difficult to predict exactly how many people could be affected, but it estimates the register for each year contains the details of around 40 million people.\n\nThe personal data held on the registers - name and address - did not itself present a \"high risk\" to individuals, it added, although it is possible it could be combined with other public information to \"identify and profile individuals\".\n\nIt has not said when exactly the hackers' access to its systems was stopped, but said they were secured as soon as possible after the attack was identified in October 2022.\n\nExplaining why it had not made the attack public before now, the commission said it first needed to stop the hackers' access, examine the extent of the incident and put additional security measures in place.\n\nDefending the delay, commission chair John Pullinger said: \"If you go public on a vulnerability before you have sealed it off, then you are risking more vulnerabilities.\"\n\nHe said the \"very sophisticated\" attack involved using \"software to try and get in and evade our systems\".\n\nHe added that the hackers were not able to alter or delete any information on the electoral registers themselves, which are maintained by registration officers around the country.\n\nInformation about donations and loans to political parties and registered campaigners is held in a system that is not affected by this incident, the notice added.\n\nMr McNally said he understood public concern, and would like to apologise to those affected.\n\nThe commission added that it had taken steps to secure its systems against future attacks, including by updating its login requirements, alert system and firewall policies.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office, which is responsible for data protection in the UK, said it was urgently investigating.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"This serious incident must be fully and thoroughly investigated so lessons can be learned.\"\n\nOn paper, this is about as serious as it gets.\n\nHackers interfering in elections is one of the biggest fears of the democratic world.\n\nLuckily, the commission says in this case the cyber intruders did not have an impact on any elections, or anyone's registration status.\n\nBut make no mistake - this is still a serious breach and the nature of the attack is telling.\n\nFor supporters of the UK's manual voting system, the attack will bolster the case against using e-voting in future.\n\n\"Pen and paper can't be hacked\" is often what supporters say when debates about modernisation come about.\n\nThe fact the hackers were inside the Electoral Commission systems from August 2021 indicates this was not a criminal hacking operation looking to make a quick buck through extortion.\n\nThis was a patient and skilled adversary to have been inside undetected for so long.\n\nThis operation looks like a probing one seeking out information about the UK's democratic process to search for weaknesses.\n\nThe Electoral Commission isn't saying who it was (if they know).", "Situation in Maui should take precedence - Big Island mayor\n\nHawaii County Mayor Mitch Roth begins his remarks by saying that there are \"three to five fires depending on how you count them\" on Big Island (also called Hawaii). Speaking via a video-link, he says one of these is \"pretty much well contained\", while firefighters are still fighting the other two. Roth says he \"appreciate(s) all the support\" that officials have received, from local to federal partners, adding that \"we are not out of the woods yet\". He says that his thoughts and prayers are with Maui, and that the situation there \"should take precedence\" over the one on Big Island.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do people make of S4C including more English content?\n\nThere will be no apology from S4C for introducing some English on the Welsh-language channel, its bosses have said.\n\nS4C's Sara Peacock said it wanted to encourage learners to speak it more and reflect how the language is spoken throughout the country.\n\nBut Ieuan Wyn of campaign group Cylch yr Iaith called the move \"dangerous\".\n\nFormer Love Island contestant Connagh Howard, who has had some criticism for using English on an S4C show, said he could see both sides.\n\nBilingual rapper Sage Todz is not appearing at this year's National Eisteddfod in Boduan, Gwynedd, because his songs contain lyrics in Welsh and English.\n\nS4C has been very conscious of how much English it uses in its programming, trying to reflect how Welsh is spoken around the country\n\nWhile he said his \"songs are finished products, not subject to change\", organisers said the rule about the Welsh language was \"fundamental\" to the festival.\n\nConnagh Howard, from Cardiff, said he faced a \"backlash, nothing too bad\" after appearing on the S4C show Hansh in 2020.\n\nThe 2020 Love Island contestant said he had not spoken Welsh too much immediately before appearing and admitted his skills were \"rusty\" and he used a few English words.\n\nThe former pupil of Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf in Cardiff said he sees both sides of the debate, adding: \"A lot of Welsh speakers are very proud, very patriotic and want to protect that heritage. It's very admirable and I can definitely see why they are protective.\n\n\"But then I can also see the potential benefits of introducing a little bit of English, just to raise awareness. I've experienced a lot of people, especially since Love Island, people who may not even have known we have our own language.\n\n\"If there's one character on the show (Pobol y Cwm) that people can understand, so be it, it can only be a good thing if it grows interest and gets more people speaking.\"\n\nConnagh Howard has appeared in a number of Welsh-language shows with his dad Wayne, who learnt the language to support him through school\n\nHe said there were many positive things happening to grow the language and give learners and people in south Wales chance to use it more - such as social media influencers using it.\n\nS4C has now joined the debate on how much English can and should be used while speaking in Welsh.\n\nThe channel was set up in 1982 after a long-running campaign by activists, and as well as being the birthplace of Fireman Sam and SuperTed, it gave stars such as Rhys Ifans, Duffy, Ioan Gruffudd and Gethin Jones their first exposure to the limelight.\n\nMs Peacock, S4C's lead on Welsh language strategy and speaking at the Eisteddfod, said the channel \"won't apologise\" for introducing some English on the channel, and its heads are starting a discussion on English usage.\n\nThere was some criticism of an English-speaking character on soap Pobol y Cwm, with Ms Peacock adding: \"It is important to us that the whole of Wales is seen and heard on S4C.\n\n\"We try hard to ensure that every form of Welsh spoken in the country is reflected on our programmes in one way or the other.\n\n\"We also try to help our communities and encourage people to learn Welsh and go out and speak Welsh in our communities.\"\n\nMs Peacock said S4C will not apologise for using more English in its shows\n\nMs Peacock admitted that the introduction of a non Welsh-speaking character in Cwmderi - the fictional village in Pobol y Cwm - had \"created a bit of a stir\".\n\nShe said the intention was for the character to learn Welsh, and they will use more and more as time goes on.\n\n\"It is important to see how we can support the learners among us,\" she added, saying the flagship soap opera was \"a good place to do that\".\n\nMs Peacock said this attitude extends to the channel in general, saying: \"If someone comes to us and does an interview and they are perhaps not confident and use a little English in their Welsh, that is absolutely fine\".\n\nShe said it was important for viewers to hear that \"people on the street or in the shop\" use a few English words sometimes in Welsh.\n\n\"Some people - in Cardiff for example - use a lot of English in their language, but it is Welsh,\" she added.\n\n\"It's a natural form of the language. We want to reflect all types of Welsh on S4C.\"\n\nHowever Ieuan Wyn of Cylch yr Iaith is concerned about the implications of the move.\n\n\"The interference of the English language is the biggest threat to the Welsh language,\" said Mr Wyn.\n\n\"You have to protect the cultural integrity and Welsh life and culture,\" Mr Wyn told BBC Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast.\n\n\"The argument that English must be used for the sake of what they call 'social reality', well, not only is it not logical, but it is dangerous,\" he said.\n\n\"If you base the strategy on that and then Welsh is still losing out in the community, and communities are becoming increasingly bilingual, then ultimately that would lead to the increase in the use of English to reflect that.\"\n\nHe said S4C should be \"protecting the Welsh language\", and \"promoting its status as a natural medium for all aspects of our lives as Welsh speakers.\n\n\"That is, seeing Wales and the world through a Welsh language window.\"", "Rodriguez, pictured in 2017, did not know for years how popular his music had become in South Africa\n\nSixto Rodriguez, the musician and subject of the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, has died aged 81.\n\nThe Detroit-born singer's official website confirmed he died on Tuesday.\n\nRodriguez launched his career in 1967 but initially struggled to find success in his native US and was ultimately dropped by his record label.\n\nHowever, his music gradually developed a cult following overseas, and his records enjoyed significant sales and airplay in South Africa and Australia.\n\nLittle was known about Rodriguez in the country despite his music being so popular, and false rumours had circulated that the singer had killed himself on stage in the 1970s.\n\nBut Rodriguez was in fact still alive and well and living in Detroit, having returned to a life of relative obscurity and construction work.\n\nHe was unaware of his popularity abroad, which partly stemmed from bootlegged copies of his album Cold Fact circulating in South Africa, where it been adopted as an unofficial soundtrack to youth protests against apartheid.\n\nRodriguez launched his career in 1967 but struggled to find success in his native US\n\nDespite his success in the country, Rodriguez only found out about his success in South Africa when his eldest daughter, Eva, came across a website dedicated to him in 1997 - when the internet was still in its relative infancy.\n\nAfter contacting the website, Rodriguez went on his first South African tour in the late 1990s.\n\nThe Mexican-American singer and guitarist was playing sold-out shows in the country's biggest arenas to thousands of fans and went on to perform a string of shows in Australia.\n\nIn 2012, the Oscar-winning Searching for Sugar Man saw two South African fans track Rodriguez down to see what had become of him.\n\n\"The rumour was that he was dead,\" one of the fans, Stephen Segerman, told the BBC.\n\n\"To our shock, horror and delight we found out that he actually wasn't dead, he was living in Detroit. We convinced him to come to South Africa to tour and he walked out on stage in front of stadiums full of screaming fans who sang every word of his lyrics, that was the beginning of his success.\"\n\nThe release of the documentary, which depicted the story of Rodriguez discovering his own fame overseas, saw his career enjoy another resurgence, and he began touring and recording once again.\n\nThe film prompted the two albums Rodriguez recorded in the early 1970s - Cold Fact and Coming From Reality - to become successful around the world four decades after their original release, and Rodriguez played festivals including Coachella and Glastonbury.\n\nHe continued to work in the final years of his live, and was interviewed by the BBC World Service's Outlook programme in 2022.\n\nSearching For Sugar Man producer Simon Chinn described Rodriguez as a \"true legend\"\n\nA statement posted on his official website read: \"It is with great sadness that we at Sugarman.org announce that Sixto Diaz Rodriguez has passed away earlier today.\n\n\"We extend our most heartfelt condolences to his daughters - Sandra, Eva and Regan - and to all his family. Rodriguez was 81 years old. May His Dear Soul Rest In Peace.\"\n\nThe musician's cause of death was not announced.\n\nSimon Chinn, who produced Searching For Sugar Man, described Rodriguez's death as \"such sad news\".\n\n\"He was a true legend, and it was an honour to know him,\" he said. \"What a privilege to be able to share his amazing story with the world. RIP Rodriguez - your music will live forever.\"\n\nSouth African musician David Scott, known as The Kiffness, said Rodriguez was a \"legend with the most amazing life story\".\n\n\"In the US he lived in relative obscurity, but was hugely popular in here South Africa without him ever knowing until much later on,\" he said.\n\n\"We will never witness a story like his in our lifetime again.\"", "The Police Service of Northern Ireland has apologised for mistakenly sharing details of all of its 10,000 staff.", "Glenn Campbell has worked at BBC Scotland since 2001\n\nBBC Scotland political editor Glenn Campbell has announced he is being treated for a brain tumour.\n\nThe 47-year-old is to undergo surgery and will take time off work for treatment.\n\nHe joined BBC Scotland in 2001 as a political correspondent and presents the corporation's Scottish election programmes.\n\nThe tumour was discovered while Glenn was being treated after a cycling accident in which he broke 10 ribs.\n\nIn a message he wrote that he had recovered well from the crash but doctors had discovered the tumour during his care and surgery was now needed to determine his treatment.\n\nGlenn said: \"I don't think the tumour caused my accident or vice versa but it is possible that falling off my bike has helped reveal the tumour earlier than might otherwise have been the case. I am as optimistic as it is possible to be and I have already started researching charities to support with some fundraising.\"\n\nAddressing colleagues at BBC Scotland, he said: \"I have been enjoying watching, listening to and reading your work from home and look forward to contributing to our news output again as soon as possible.\"\n\nBBC Scotland's head of news and current affairs, Gary Smith, said: \"Our heartfelt best wishes go to Glenn and his family as he undergoes treatment. Glenn's not only a highly talented political editor, he's also a very popular colleague in the newsroom.\n\n\"Everyone at BBC Scotland is thinking of Glenn and is looking forward to seeing him recover and return to reporting duties.\"\n\nA number of political figures in Scotland later posted messages of support on social media.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"Very sorry to hear this news, a worrying time for Glenn and his family. My best wishes to @GlennBBC for a speedy and full recovery.\"\n\nThe SNP's former Westminster leader Ian Blackford said: \"Every best wish to you @GlennBBC for your treatment and recovery. I look forward to you being back at work holding [us] all to account!\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Dr Sandesh Gulhane said \"best wishes to @GlennBBC⁩ for a speedy recovery\" while Scottish Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy added \"we're all rooting for you\".\n\nLeader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats Alex Cole-Hamilton said: \"He's a strong guy and a vital voice in Scottish journalism. Hang in there @GlennBBC, you've got this.\"\n\nAnd Scotland's former first minister Lord McConnell also wished Glenn well, adding: \"A formidable reporter and really likeable guy.\"", "Mario has had £5,000 withheld by Amazon, even though he has no complaints from customers, he says\n\nHundreds of Amazon sellers have complained that the online marketplace is withholding their money, with some saying they could go out of business.\n\nVinyl and CD seller Mario told the BBC Amazon is holding £5,000 leaving him \"shaken and panicked\" and fearing he can no longer continue trading.\n\nSome sellers have written to their MPs to ask for help.\n\nAmazon said its policy was designed to make sure there were sufficient funds to cover returns or customer claims.\n\nUnder the policy Amazon said it was holding money for seven days after the delivery date following a sale.\n\nIt introduced the policy for new sellers in 2016, but extended it to EU and UK sellers registered before that point in August of this year.\n\nAmazon said it recognised the policy change could lead to \"a one-time cash flow disruption\" but that it had notified affected sellers three months in advance. However some sellers told the BBC this email was not clear - or in many cases went to their junk mail folder.\n\nMario has been selling music on Amazon for seven years, but said he can no longer afford to renew his stock, or pay for postage to fulfil his current orders.\n\nMario, whose money was frozen on 3 August, said he is unable to withdraw any for maintaining daily operations.\n\n\"I'm losing my company,\" he said. \"I've never had a problem with my payments before. How can I feed my family, pay my bills?\"\n\nHe told the BBC when he emailed Amazon Sellers' customer services, he received a \"generic, stock\" message.\n\nHe showed the BBC posts on the Amazon Sellers forum, where there are hundreds of complaints from people who have had their money withheld since 3 August.\n\nDaniel Moore, 48, has a business called Ink Jungle that sells ink cartridges. He has £170,000 in reserve - and it is increasing by £40,000 a day, he said.\n\n\"The value they will be holding from us is disproportionately high versus the potential refunds processed by customer returns or non-delivery,\" he said.\n\nHis company turns over about £16m on Amazon and employs more than 20 staff.\n\nDaniel said the withheld funds meant he will be unable to pay his £191,000 VAT bill, which is due this week.\n\nHe has contacted his local MP and the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\nMichelle, 32, from Cheltenham has been selling pet products for more than 10 years on Amazon. She told the BBC the company is holding £16,000 of her takings.\n\nShe took out an £18,000 loan from Amazon Lending to help keep her business running, which she was expecting to receive straight away. But said she was told by Amazon she could not access the loan for two weeks, making things \"very challenging indeed\" for cash flow.\n\n\"We employ 13 members of staff and this is crippling our business\", she said.\n\nThe BBC has seen several letters sent from sellers to MPs complaining about Amazon's reserve system.\n\nThe office of Conservative MP for Bracknell James Sunderland confirmed the matter had been raised with ministers, and that the Treasury was aware of it.\n\nAmazon said the policy was first introduced for new sellers worldwide in 2016, but on 3 August this year it was also extended to sellers in the EU and the UK registered before 2016.\n\nThe small business commissioner Liz Barclay said many sellers had told her office they were being offered loans by Amazon at interest rates of around 14% to help them manage cash flow while they waited for funds to come through.\n\n\"They say they are being lent their own money at high interest, but for some the alternative is insolvency. We need big firms to understand that delaying small payments to small firms can have a massive negative impact and everyone loses,\" she said.\n\nShe added that with bank processing times, many sellers are facing a 14 days window with no income.\n\nThe challenges are similar to those faced by Etsy sellers after that marketplace began withholding 75% of sellers funds for around 45 days. Hundreds of sellers complained it was undermining their businesses. Following a BBC report into the problem, Etsy last week reduced the amount it was withholding.\n\nAn Amazon spokesperson said the process would \"standardise this policy for European sellers to ensure they have sufficient funds to cover any financial obligations, like product returns or customer claims\".", "A weight-loss drug has been proven to also reduce the risk of a stroke or heart attack, according to a new trial.\n\nThe makers of Wegovy, Novo Nordisk, say its latest study shows it cuts risk of a cardiovascular event in overweight people with heart disease by a fifth.\n\nThe firm hailed it a \"landmark trial\", saying it would change the way obesity is regarded and treated.\n\nWhile the findings still have to be fully reviewed, experts agreed the results were potentially significant.\n\nThe injection is popular in places like the US, and was approved for weight loss in the NHS in England in June.\n\nThe drug would need to be passed by regulators again before it could be prescribed in a new capacity.\n\nNovo Nordisk executive vice-president Martin Holst Lange said the injection had a clear medical benefit, as well as being able to help people lose weight.\n\n\"People living with obesity have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but to date there are no approved weight management medications proven to deliver effective weight management while also reducing the risk of heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death.\"\n\nWegovy is a weight-loss injection that is taken once a week.\n\nIt tricks people into thinking they're already full, so they end up eating less and losing weight.\n\nWegovy was approved for NHS use after research suggested users could shed more than 10% of their body weight.\n\nBut in trials, users often put weight back on after stopping treatment.\n\nThis new study, which looked at more than 17,600 adults aged 45 and older, took place over a five-year period.\n\nEach patient had a body mass index of 27 or over and established cardiovascular disease, with no history of diabetes.\n\nThe trial found that patients given a 2.4mg once-weekly dose of Wegovy, plus standard care for the prevention of heart attacks or strokes, saw their risk of a heart attack or a stroke reduce by 20% compared with those given a placebo drug.\n\nThe full details of the trial won't be released until later this year, making it difficult to fully assess the claims being made.\n\nBut Prof Stephen O'Rahilly, from the University of Cambridge, said the long-awaited results \"do not disappoint\".\n\n\"The obvious conclusion of these findings is that we should view obesity as a medical condition, like high blood pressure, where effective and safe drug therapy can contribute to reducing serious adverse health outcomes.\"\n\nDr Simon Cork, senior lecturer in physiology at Anglia Ruskin University, said the results offer hope when it comes to dealing with a growing and costly public health problem.\n\n\"Obesity and its associated health impacts cost the NHS over £6bn per year,\" he said.\n\n\"Effective and long-term support with losing weight with Wegovy, the results of which are unattainable for most people living with obesity to achieve through diet and exercise alone, results in significant improvements in health outcomes.\n\n\"This will not only provide significant financial savings for health bodies but provide people with a greater quality of life.\"\n\nNovo Nordisk says it plans to take its new research to regulators in the US and the European Union before the end of the year.\n\nIt would also need to be approved by regulators in the UK, and then experts would decide whether it is something that should be offered on the NHS beyond its current use.", "The Porta Nuova business district seen from the terrace of Duomo Cathedral in Milan\n\nItaly has passed a one-off 40% tax on the profits banks earn from higher interest rates, in a shock move that has seen shares plummet.\n\nA hike in official interest rates has resulted in record profits for Italian banks, prompting the government's move.\n\nProceeds will be used to help mortgage holders and to cut taxes, the government says.\n\nBut Italian banks have said the tax on their profits will be \"substantially negative\" for the sector.\n\nThe surprise move was agreed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's ministers at a cabinet meeting late on Monday. They vowed to invest the funds raised into helping households and businesses struggling with the cost of borrowing.\n\n\"One has only to look at banks' first-half profits to realise that we are not talking about a few millions, but of billions,\" Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini told a news conference in Rome late on Monday.\n\nThe tax will apply to the net interest income that comes from the gap between the banks' lending and deposit rates.\n\nAround €2bn (£1.7bn) is reportedly expected to be generated from the levy, which will be used to fund support for families hit by higher interest rates.\n\nItaly's parliament now has 60 days to pass the tax decree into law.\n\nForeign Minister Antonio Tajani told the Corriere della Sera newspaper the tax was not against the banks, \"but a measure to protect families\" and those struggling to pay mortgages.\n\nBut some European banks have said the surprise move is bad news for the sector.\n\nEquity Research Analyst at Citi, Azzurra Guelfi, said: \"We see this tax as substantially negative for banks given both the impact on capital and profit as well as for cost of equity of bank shares.\"\n\nShares in the country's two largest banks, Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit, dropped by 8% and 6.5% respectively on Tuesday morning following the announcement.\n\nShares in Banco BPM, the country's third-largest bank dropped 8.2%, while the state-owned Monte dei Paschi di Siena dipped by 7.4%. Other banks including BPER Banca, Banca Generali and Mediobanca were also down.\n\nThe fallout has had ramifications for other banks, with shares dropping at Germany's Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, and France's BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole.\n\n\"The tax that Italy has levied on the excess profits that banks are perceived to be making has come as a surprise and is likely raising concerns that other countries could follow Italy's example,\" said Stuart Cole, chief macro economist at Equiti Capital.\n\nOther European countries including Hungary and Spain have imposed similar windfall taxes on banks.\n\nIn May, Lithuanian lawmakers backed a temporary windfall tax on banks to fund defence spending, while Estonia is planning to raise the tax level on banks to 18%, up from 14% this year.\n\nA windfall tax is a levy imposed by a government on companies that have benefited from something they were not responsible for - in other words, a windfall.", "The spending power of workers in some parts of the UK will still be below the level it was before the pandemic by the end of 2024, a think tank has warned.\n\nPay, after accounting for rising prices, is set to fall between 2019 and 2024 in regions like the West Midlands and East of England, said Niesr.\n\nBy contrast, it said London and parts of the South were \"steaming ahead\".\n\nThe Treasury said the UK economy had \"proven resilient... heading off predictions of a recession this year\".\n\nOver the last few years inflation - the rate at which prices rise - has soared, driving up the cost of living for millions.\n\nWages have also climbed, but not as fast as prices, leaving households across the UK feeling squeezed.\n\nThe National Institute for Economic and Social Research (Niesr), which is one of the UK's oldest economic forecasting bodies, said that Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine war had badly affected the economy, resulting in five years of \"lost\" growth.\n\nIt added that the surging cost of living meant people's spending power in some parts of the UK would still not be back to 2019 levels by late next year.\n\nThe regions set to see the biggest squeeze are the East of England, parts of the South East and the West Midlands, where pay, when inflation is accounted for, is forecast to fall by between 0.5% and 5% in the period.\n\nBy contrast, people's \"real wages\" in London are forecast to jump by 7%, while in Wales they will rise by 4.6% and in Northern Ireland by 4%. However, the think tank said there were disparities within these regions.\n\nProf Stephen Millard, deputy director for macroeconomic modelling and forecasting at Niesr, told the BBC's Today programme that London was \"steaming ahead\" but added the capital was \"lucky\".\n\n\"It's full of industries that are traded, highly competitive, where productivity growth has been high, whereas other areas of country have been much more affected by Brexit,\" he added.\n\n\"The industries there are either struggling to import and export or they are non-traded industries in the first place so they don't tend to grow as fast.\"\n\nNiesr said the UK's \"stuttering\" economic growth had widened the gap between the wealthier and poorer parts of the country.\n\nIt forecast the amount of money made by the UK economy - its gross domestic product (GDP) - is not forecast to return to 2019 levels until the second half of next year.\n\nIt predicted that inflation, the rate at which prices rise, will remain continually above the Bank of England's 2% target until early 2025, meaning the cost of living will also continue to rise. Inflation is currently 7.9% annually.\n\nThe Bank, which is tasked with keeping inflation under control, said last week it expected to meet its own target of 2% by early 2025.\n\nIn its efforts to bring down inflation, it has put up interest rates 14 times in a row. It hopes that by increasing borrowing costs, people will spend less money, prices for goods will not rise as fast and the inflation rate will come down.\n\nHowever, higher rates are also driving up the cost of loans and mortgages, putting further pressure on households.\n\nLast week, the Bank signalled it would keep interest rates higher for longer to get inflation under control. But some economists warn raising rates too aggressively could push the UK into recession, which is defined typically as when the economy shrinks for two three-month periods - or quarters - in a row.\n\nNiesr said it expected the UK to avoid going into a recession this year, but said there was a \"60% risk\" of one by the end of 2024.\n\nThe Bank of England, by contrast, does not expect the UK to enter a recession, but has forecast that growth will be limited and unemployment will rise over the next few years.\n\nProf Millard said the answer to the UK's economic woes was \"public investment\".\n\n\"The government needs to think beyond next few years by investing in public infrastructure, education, healthcare, in the green transition. The result will eventually be higher growth, but it takes a while, at least a couple of parliaments,\" he added.\n\nIn response to the report, the Treasury said the UK economy had \"proven resilient in the face of global challenges, heading off predictions of a recession this year unlike some of our neighbours in Europe\".\n\nIt said the Bank of England's forecast for falling inflation would \"create the right conditions for growth\".\n\n\"That's alongside record investment in infrastructure and major reforms to bring more than 100,000 people into the workforce while driving further business investment,\" it added.", "This is the moment a cat stole the limelight from a BBC reporter during a live broadcast from Manchester.\n\nAs Dave Guest was reporting for BBC Breakfast on people being encouraged to transform alleyways into \"ginnel gardens\", the feline ran out of nowhere and jumped onto the bench he was sitting on.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nKosovare Asllani's stunning second-half strike sealed victory for Sweden as they beat Australia to finish third at the Women's World Cup.\n\nShe rifled in a shot from the edge of the area to add to Fridolina Rolfo's first-half penalty as Sweden won the bronze medal match for the second World Cup in succession.\n\nDespite the defeat, this represents co-hosts Australia's best ever World Cup finish but the Matildas were unable to end on a high.\n\nRolfo's penalty gave Peter Gerhardsson's side the lead after a video assistant referee (VAR) check confirmed that Claire Hunt had clipped Stina Blackstenius in the box after 26 minutes.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Blackstenius played a superb square ball to Asllani, who stroked in a first-time shot to double their lead.\n\n\"It was an incredibly important match and the final 10 minutes were really tough,\" said Sweden coach Peter Gerhardsson.\n\n\"So when that final whistle went and we had won, there was a great sense of relief and it was a wonderful feeling.\n\n\"It's great to win a match of this magnitude - there's been a lot of attention paid to this tournament back in Sweden.\"\n\nThe Matildas' achievement in finishing fourth cannot be understated in a country where football is not the number one sport.\n\nTheir 3-1 semi-final defeat by England was the most watched TV event in Australian history with 11.15 million viewers tuning in.\n\nBut they seemed deflated on Saturday and put in a tired performance, with even their talisman Sam Kerr struggling to make an impact on the game - in fact, she had the fewest touches of any player on the pitch in the first half.\n\nTheir best chances fell to Hayley Raso and Clare Polkinghorne, but they were both denied by Sweden goalkeeper Zecira Musovic.\n\n\"We wanted to have some hardware to take home, it wasn't to be,\" said captain Kerr.\n\n\"We've proved to the world - and also within Australia - that we are a footballing nation.\"\n\nAustralia, who had only ever reached the quarter-finals once previously, in 2015, were the first hosts to reach the semi-finals since United States in 2003.\n\nTheir efforts in this tournament have certainly captured the hearts of the fans in green and gold and the hope will be that that leaves a lasting legacy.\n\n\"We have a massive amount of work to do now to capitalise on this,\" said Australia's coach Tony Gustavsson.\n\n\"Now there needs to be long-term investment to really make sure we really benefit from this crossroads moment in women's football in this country.\"\n\nSweden have plenty of experience of playing in the third-fourth place match, having reached the semi-finals on five occasions but only making the final once - in 2003, when they were beaten by Germany.\n\nAnd they dominated the game to win bronze for a fourth time.\n\nThey were already on on top before Rolfo beat the dive of Australia keeper Mackenzie Arnold with a well-placed penalty into the bottom left corner to give them the lead.\n\nAnd Asllani's super strike secured victory in a game of a few clear cut chances.\n\nIt has been another fine tournament for the Scandinavians who topped their group with maximum points before knocking out defending champions the United States in the last 16.\n\nAn impressive victory over Japan followed, but their failure to successfully negotiate a semi-final once again after their dramatic exit at the hands of Spain, will be their lasting memory of this tournament.\n• None Attempt missed. Caitlin Foord (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Lina Hurtig (Sweden) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Alex Chidiac (Australia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Emily van Egmond (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Kyra Cooney-Cross (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Elin Rubensson (Sweden) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Alex Chidiac (Australia) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Dr Stephen Brearey, lead consultant on the neonatal unit, raised concerns about her in October 2015\n\nHospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against Lucy Letby and tried to silence doctors, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit where she worked has told the BBC.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.\n\nThe unit's lead consultant Dr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015.\n\nNo action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nLetby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others in a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire.\n\nThe first five murders all happened between June and October 2015 and - despite months of warnings - the final two were in June 2016.\n\nBBC Panorama and BBC News have been investigating how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long.\n\nWe spoke to the lead consultant in the unit - who first raised concerns about Letby - and also examined hospital documents. The investigation reveals a catalogue of failures and raises serious questions about how the hospital responded to the deaths.\n\nDr Brearey says he demanded Letby be taken off duty in June 2016, after the final two murders. Hospital management initially refused.\n\nBefore June 2015, there were about two or three baby deaths a year on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. But in the summer of 2015, something unusual was happening.\n\nIn June alone, three babies died within the space of two weeks. The deaths were unexpected, so Dr Stephen Brearey, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit, called a meeting with the unit manager, Eirian Powell, and the hospital's director of nursing Alison Kelly.\n\n\"We tried to be as thorough as possible,\" Dr Brearey says. A staffing analysis revealed Lucy Letby had been on duty for all three deaths. \"I think I can remember saying, 'Oh no, it can't be Lucy. Not nice Lucy,'\" he says.\n\nThe three deaths seemed to have \"nothing in common\". Nobody, including Dr Brearey, suspected foul play.\n\nAfter the first three deaths in summer 2015, Lucy Letby was identified as a common factor but no-one yet suspected foul play\n\nBut by October 2015, things had changed. Two more babies had died and Letby had been on shift for both of them.\n\nBy this point, Dr Brearey had become concerned Letby might be harming babies. He again contacted unit manager Eirian Powell, who didn't seem to share his concerns.\n\nIn an email, from October 2015, she described the association between Letby and the unexpected baby deaths as \"unfortunate\". \"Each cause of death was different,\" she said, and the association with Letby was just a coincidence.\n\nSenior managers didn't appear to be worried. In the same month - October 2015 - Dr Brearey says his concerns about Letby were relayed to director of nursing Alison Kelly. But he heard nothing back.\n\nDr Brearey's fellow consultants were also worried about Letby. And it wasn't just the unexpected deaths. Other babies were suffering non-fatal collapses, meaning they needed emergency resuscitation or help with breathing, with no apparent clinical explanation. Letby was always on duty.\n\nIn February 2016, another consultant, Dr Ravi Jayaram, says he saw Letby standing and watching when a baby - known as Baby K - seemed to have stopped breathing.\n\nDr Brearey contacted Alison Kelly and the hospital's medical director Ian Harvey to request an urgent meeting. In early March, he also wrote to Eirian Powell: \"We still need to talk about Lucy\".\n\nThree months went by, and another two babies almost died, before - in May that year - Dr Brearey got the meeting with senior managers he had been asking for. \"There could be no doubt about my concerns at that meeting,\" he says.\n\nBut others at the meeting appeared to be in denial. Dr Brearey said Mr Harvey and Ms Kelly listened passively as he explained his concerns about Letby. But she was allowed to continue working.\n\nBy early June, yet another baby had collapsed. Then, towards the end of the month, two of three premature triplets died unexpectedly within 24 hours of each other. Letby was on shift for both deaths.\n\nAfter the death of the second triplet, Dr Brearey attended a meeting for traumatised staff.\n\nHe says while others seemed to be \"crumbling before your eyes almost\", Letby brushed off his suggestion that she must be tired or upset. \"No, I'm back on shift tomorrow,\" she told him. \"She was quite happy and confident to come into work,\" he says.\n\nFor Dr Brearey and his fellow consultants, the deaths of the two triplets were a tipping point. That evening, Dr Brearey says he called duty executive Karen Rees and demanded Letby be taken off duty. She refused.\n\nDr Brearey says he challenged her about whether she was making this decision against the wishes of seven consultant paediatricians - and asked if she would take responsibility for anything that might happen to other babies the next day. He says Ms Rees replied \"yes\".\n\nThe following day, another baby - known as Baby Q - almost died, again while Letby was on duty. The nurse still worked another three shifts before she was finally removed from the neonatal unit - more than a year after the first incident.\n\nThe suspicious deaths and collapses then stopped.\n\nInstead, she was moved to the hospital's risk and patient safety office. Here she is believed to have had access to sensitive documents relating to the hospital's neonatal unit. She also had access to some of the senior managers whose job it was to investigate her.\n\nOn 29 June 2016, one of the consultants sent an email under the subject line: \"Should we refer ourselves to external investigation?\"\n\n\"I believe we need help from outside agencies,\" he wrote. \"And the only agency who can investigate all of us, I believe, is the police.\"\n\nBut hospital managers thought otherwise. \"Action is being taken,\" wrote medical director Ian Harvey in his reply. \"All emails cease forthwith.\"\n\nTwo days later, the consultants attended a meeting with senior management. They say the head of corporate affairs and legal services, Stephen Cross, warned that calling the police would be a catastrophe for the hospital and would turn the neonatal unit into a crime scene.\n\nRather than go to the police, Mr Harvey invited the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Heath (RCPCH) to review the level of service on the neonatal unit.\n\nIn early September 2016, a team from the Royal College visited the hospital and met the paediatric consultants.\n\nThe RCPCH completed its report in November 2016. Its recommendations included: \"A thorough external independent review of each unexpected neonatal death.\"\n\nIn October 2016, Ian Harvey also contacted Dr Jane Hawdon, a premature baby specialist in London, and asked her to review the case notes of babies who had died on the neonatal unit.\n\nThe result was a highly caveated report. According to Dr Hawdon, her report was \"intended to inform discussion and learning, and would not necessarily be upheld in a coroner's court or court of law\".\n\nIt was not the thorough review the consultants had wanted - or the thorough external independent review that the RCPCH had recommended. But even the limited case-note report by Dr Hawdon recommended that four of the baby deaths be forensically investigated.\n\nRather than calling police, Ian Harvey asked the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to review the neonatal unit\n\nIn early January 2017, the hospital board met and Mr Harvey presented the findings of the two reviews. Both had recommended further investigation of some of the baby deaths - and yet that message did not reach board members.\n\nRecords of the meeting show Mr Harvey saying the reviews concluded the problems with the neonatal unit were down to issues with leadership and timely intervention.\n\nA few weeks later, in late January 2017, the seven consultants on the neonatal unit were summoned to a meeting with senior managers, including Mr Harvey and the hospital's CEO Tony Chambers.\n\nDr Brearey says the CEO told them he had spent a lot of time with Letby and her father and had apologised to them, saying Letby had done nothing wrong. Mr Chambers denies saying Letby had done nothing wrong. He said he was paraphrasing her father.\n\nAccording to the doctor's account, the CEO also insisted the consultants apologise to Letby and warned them that a line had been drawn and there would be \"consequences\" if they crossed it.\n\nDr Brearey says he felt managers were trying to \"engineer some sort of narrative\" that would mean they did not have to go to the police. \"If you want to call that a cover-up then, that's a cover-up,\" he says now.\n\nManagers also ordered two of the consultants to attend mediation sessions with Letby, in March 2017. One of the doctors did sit down with the nurse to discuss her grievance, but Dr Brearey did not.\n\nYet, the consultants didn't back down. Two months after the apology, the hospital asked the police to investigate. It was the consultants who had pushed them into it.\n\nDr Brearey and his colleagues finally sat down with Cheshire Police a couple of weeks later. \"They were astonished,\" he says.\n\nThe next day, Cheshire Police launched a criminal investigation into the suspicious baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital. It was named Operation Hummingbird.\n\nMr Chambers told the Panorama his comments to consultants had been taken out of context and that prompt action had been taken after he was first told of serious concerns in June 2016 - including reviews of deaths.\n\nLetby had not yet been arrested and was still working at the hospital's risk and patient safety office. But Operation Hummingbird was in full swing and Dr Brearey was helping the police with their investigation.\n\nLate one evening, he was going through some historic medical records when he discovered a blood test from 2015 for one of the babies on his unit. It recorded dangerous levels of insulin in the baby's bloodstream.\n\nThe significance of the test result had been missed at the time.\n\nThe body produces insulin naturally, but when it does, it also produces a substance called C-Peptide. The problem with the insulin reading that Dr Brearey was looking at was that the C-Peptide measurement was almost zero. It was evidence the insulin had not been produced naturally by the baby's body and had instead been administered.\n\n\"It made me feel sick,\" Dr Brearey recalls. \"It was quite clear that this baby had been poisoned by insulin.\"\n\nDr Susan Gilby, who became medical director after Letby's arrest, says files revealed serious issues with the hospital's response\n\nA few months later, Letby was finally arrested and suspended by the hospital. But three years had passed since Dr Brearey had first sounded the alarm.\n\nWhen a new medical director and deputy chief executive, Dr Susan Gilby, began work the month after Letby's arrest, she was shocked at what she found.\n\nShe says her predecessor, Mr Harvey, had warned her she would need to pursue action with the General Medical Council, the doctor's regulator, against the neonatal unit's consultants - those who had raised the alarm. Mr Harvey denies this.\n\nHowever, inside a box of files left in his office, Dr Gilby found evidence the problems lay elsewhere. Marked with the word \"neonates\", the files revealed how a meeting of the executive team in 2015 had agreed to have the first three deaths examined by an external organisation. That never happened.\n\nThe management team had also failed to report the deaths appropriately. It meant the wider NHS system could not spot the high fatality rates. The board of the hospital trust was also unaware of the deaths until July 2016.\n\nDr Gilby says the trust's refusal to call police appeared to be heavily influenced by how it would look. \"Protecting their reputation was a big factor in how people responded to the concerns raised,\" she says.\n\nLater in 2018, after Tony Chambers resigned, Dr Gilby was appointed chief executive and she stayed in post until 2022. She is now suing the trust for unfair dismissal.\n\nThe rate of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit has now fallen\n\nDr Brearey, says hospital managers had been \"secretive\" and \"judgemental\" throughout the period leading up to the nurse's arrest.\n\n\"There was no credibility given to our opinions. And from January 2017, it was intimidating, and bullying to a certain extent,\" he tells BBC News. \"It just all struck me as the opposite of a hospital you'd expect to be working in, where there's a safe culture and people feel confident in speaking out.\"\n\nLetby would ultimately be charged with seven murders and 15 attempted murders between June 2015 and June 2016. She was found guilty of all seven murders and seven attempted murders.\n\nShe was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder. The jury also failed to reach a verdict on a further six counts of attempted murder, including all charges related to Baby K and Baby Q.\n\nIn a statement, Tony Chambers, the former CEO, said: \"All my thoughts are with the children at the heart of this case and their families and loved ones at this incredibly difficult time. I am truly sorry for what all the families have gone through.\n\n\"The crimes that have been committed are appalling and I am deeply saddened by what has come to light. As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff. I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\"\n\nHe added: \"I will co-operate fully and openly with any post-trial inquiry.\"\n\nIan Harvey said in a statement: \"At this time, my thoughts are with the babies whose treatment has been the focus of the trial and with their parents and relatives who have been through something unimaginable and I am sorry for all their suffering.\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff. I wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children. I believe there should be an inquiry that looks at all events leading up to this trial and I will help it in whatever way I can.\"\n\nThe Countess of Chester Hospital is now under new management and the neonatal unit no longer looks after such sick babies.\n\nThe current medical director at the hospital, Dr Nigel Scawn, said the whole trust was \"deeply saddened and appalled\" by Letby's crimes.\n\nHe said \"significant changes\" had been made at the hospital since Letby worked there and he wanted to \"provide reassurance to every patient who accesses our services that they can have confidence in the care that they will receive\".\n\nSince Letby left the hospital's neonatal unit, there has been only one death in seven years.\n\nWatch the full investigation, Panorama - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed - on BBC iPlayer", "Letby killed the babies at a Chester hospital in 2015 and 2016\n\nThe government has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind serial killer Lucy Letby's \"horrific\" baby murders.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would look at how clinicians' concerns were handled, as a BBC investigation found hospital bosses ignored doctors' warnings about Letby.\n\nLetby was found guilty of murdering seven babies at a hospital in Chester.\n\nShe was also found guilty of attempting to murder another six babies.\n\nOn two counts of attempted murder, she was found not guilty. The jury could not reach verdicts on six counts of attempted murder.\n\nDetectives are reviewing the care of all babies admitted to hospital while Letby was working as a neonatal nurse. The review includes her work placements at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015, although police say this did not involve any deaths.\n\nDetective superintendent Paul Hughes said: \"We would be foolish if we were to think we have gathered all cases that Lucy Letby could have touched in one go.\n\n\"So we are committed to doing an overarching investigation looking at every single baby's admission into neonatal unit for the entire footprint that Lucy Letby has been employed.\"\n\nCheshire Police stressed that only cases highlighted as medically concerning would be further investigated.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health said the independent inquiry aimed to provide answers to the parents of babies she murdered or attempted to murder, and make sure lessons are learnt.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"I am determined their voices are heard, and they are involved in shaping the scope of the inquiry should they wish to do so.\n\n\"It will help us identify where and how patient safety standards failed to be met and ensure mothers and their partners rightly have faith in our healthcare system.\"\n\nThe inquiry will not have the power to summon evidence or witnesses, as it is not a statutory inquiry, such as the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.\n\nHealth Minister Helen Whately said this meant it could be conducted \"at pace\", adding that there were \"definitely\" questions to be answered around doctors repeatedly raising concerns about Letby.\n\nBut City of Chester MP Samantha Dixon has written to the health secretary asking why the government has skipped a statutory inquiry.\n\nAnd former Crown Prosecution Service chief in north-west England Nazir Afzal, who prosecuted nurse Victorino Chua found guilty of murdering patients in Stockport in 2015, described the decision as \"hugely disappointing\".\n\n\"You have to compel people... I really don't think a non-traditional inquiry has the powers to hold people to account, which is important here,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. \"It's not just a fact-finding [mission] which is what I think this inquiry will do, people need to be held to account for their failures.\"\n\nLord Bichard, who chaired the inquiry into the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by Ian Huntley, said he was surprised the government did not take advantage of the powers of a statutory inquiry.\n\n\"Too many inquiries take too long to make a conclusion and make too many recommendations and don't follow them up,\" he added. \"It's really, really important we start making better use of inquiries in this country and that we follow up their conclusions.\"\n\nIn a statement following the verdict, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said it was \"extremely sorry\" the crimes happened in its hospital and it has since made \"significant changes\" to their services.\n\nMeanwhile, former chief executive of the hospital Tony Chambers and former medical director Ian Harvey, who were in charge at the time Letby was working at Countess of Chester Hospital, have said they will co-operate fully with the inquiry into the case.\n\nA lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked told the BBC hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015. No action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.\n\nLetby, 33, was not in the dock when the final verdicts were given at Manchester Crown Court on Friday. She will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues raised here, there are details of organisations that may be able to offer support on the BBC Action Line.", "The parents of twin brothers who were among Lucy Letby's 13 victims have told the BBC the nurse is a \"hateful human being\" who has taken \"everything\" from them.\n\nLetby murdered one of their baby boys, and tried to kill the other twin the following day.\n\nThe nurse was found guilty of murdering a total of seven babies who were being looked after on a neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nShe was also found guilty of attempting to murder another six babies, with the jury undecided on the attempted murder of a further four. She was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, need help after reading this story, details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nPanorama - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed - will be on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 20:00 BST (UK only) on Friday 18 August.", "Ukraine has long been pushing its allies to provide advanced fighter jets to defends its skies from Russian attacks\n\nThe US has approved the transfer to Ukraine of American-made F-16 fighter jets from Denmark and the Netherlands when Ukrainian pilots are fully trained to operate them.\n\n\"This way, Ukraine can take full advantage of its new capabilities,\" a US state department spokesman said.\n\nUkraine praised the decision it had been pushing hard for since last year.\n\nBut it is expected to be months before Kyiv will be able to use F-16s to try to counter Russia's air superiority.\n\nThe Dutch are thought to have about 42 operational F-16s which are scheduled to be taken out of service and replaced by more advanced war planes.\n\nDenmark is also planning an upgrade of its fleet of some 30 F-16s.\n\nThe US and its allies had earlier ruled out providing F-16s to Ukraine, fearing that this would lead to further escalation with a nuclear-armed Russia.\n\nRussia - which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 - has so far made no public comment on the issue.\n\nBoth Denmark and the Netherlands had been given \"formal assurances\" for the transfer of their multi-role F-16 war planes, the US state department spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that this would happen \"as soon as the first set of pilots complete their training\".\n\nDutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra welcomed the US decision, saying that \"this marks a major milestone for Ukraine to defend its people and its country\".\n\n\"Now we will further discuss the subject with our European partners,\" he wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\n\"The government has said several times that a donation is a natural next step after training. We are discussing it with close allies,\" he told Denmark's Ritzau news agency.\n\nIn Ukraine, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov described the US decision as \"great news\".\n\n\"Our military has proven it is filled with fast learners. We will soon prove that Ukraine's victory is inevitable. Thank you to all our partners and friends in the United States, the Netherlands and Denmark. Onward to Victory!\" he wrote on X.\n\nAn 11-member coalition of Ukraine's allies in the West is due to start training Ukrainian pilots later this month and they are expected to be ready next year.\n\nEarlier this week, Ukraine's Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat admitted that Kyiv would not be able to operate F-16s this coming autumn and winter.\n\nThe F-16 Fighting Falcon is widely considered one of the world's most reliable fighter jets.\n\nIt can be armed with precision-guided missiles and bombs and is able to fly at 1,500mph (2,400km/h), according to the US Air Force.\n\nThe F-16's targeting capabilities would allow Ukraine to attack Russian forces in all weather conditions and at night with greater accuracy.\n\nUkraine is believed to have dozens of combat aircraft - mostly MiGs - all dating from the Soviet era, and the country is currently badly outgunned by Russia in the air.\n\nKyiv needs modern war planes to help protect its skies from regular deadly Russian missile and drone attacks, and also to support its counter-offensive in southern and eastern Ukraine that has so far yielded limited results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at Ukraine's growing use of sea drones", "The nurse was found guilty of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe former chairman of the NHS trust where serial killer Lucy Letby worked believes the board was \"misled\" by hospital executives.\n\nThe nurse was convicted on Friday of murdering seven babies and trying to murder another six at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nSir Duncan Nichol, who was the board's chair, said it was told there was \"no criminal activity pointing to any one individual\" despite concerns.\n\nAn inquiry has been ordered.\n\nLetby targeted the babies between June 2015 and June 2016, when they were dying or suddenly collapsing at five times the average annual rate at the hospital's neonatal unit.\n\nHowever the board was not alerted to the problems until July 2016, by which time 13 babies had died.\n\nAt a meeting, the board then agreed to ask for the deaths to be externally investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police arrested Lucy Letby at her home in 2018\n\nThe trust initially turned to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, who conducted a review of the unit but told the hospital executives they should conduct a separate \"thorough external independent review of each unexpected neonatal death\".\n\nIan Harvey, who was then medical director at the hospital, contacted London-based neonatologist Dr Jane Hawdon.\n\nThe doctor, who specialises in the care of newborns, did a brief review of each baby's medical notes.\n\nHowever she told the trust she did not have the time to conduct the thorough investigation the Royal College had recommended.\n\nIt is understood Dr Hawdon did not speak directly to the board but sent her report and it was up to executives to brief the board on its findings.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Sir Duncan said: \"I believe that the board was misled in December 2016 when it received a report on the outcome of the external, independent case reviews.\n\n\"We were told explicitly that there was no criminal activity pointing to any one individual, when in truth the investigating neonatologist had stated that she had not had the time to complete the necessary in-depth case reviews.\"\n\nIn response to Sir Duncan's statement, the hospital's then chief executive Tony Chambers - who went on to lead three other NHS trusts on an interim basis after leaving Chester in 2018 - said that \"what was shared with the board was honest and open and represented our best understanding of the outcome of the reviews at the time\".\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nIn a BBC interview, Dr Susan Gilby - another former chief executive at the hospital - said she also had concerns the board may have been misled.\n\nWhen she joined the trust shortly after Letby's arrest in 2018, she examined internal information about the nurse's actions.\n\n\"The documents that I have seen from the neonatologist [Dr Hawdon] and the briefing and the papers that were presented to the board are diametrically opposed.\n\n\"It's hard to understand - unless there is something that I haven't seen - how the board were led to believe that a comprehensive review had taken place.\"\n\nMr Harvey, who was medical director at the hospital trust until 2018, said: \"The statements I gave to the board were true to the best of my knowledge.\"\n\nThree years ago, Sir Duncan, who stepped down in 2019, and Dr Gilby commissioned an external review by the health consultancy Facere Melius into how the hospital trust had handled the allegations.\n\nIt has not been published.\n\nBoth have welcomed the public inquiry into the events at the trust and said they would cooperate.\n\nPaediatric consultants who raised concerns about Letby's conduct have recently told the BBC of being bullied, ignored and forced to send her a letter of apology.\n\nLetby was charged in November 2020 with murder and attempted murder\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Anna Hannan took this picture of a fallen tree in Upper Ballinderry, County Antrim\n\nStorm Betty has brought wind and rain across Northern Ireland with flooding and fallen trees on some roads.\n\nPolice advised drivers to be cautious on the roads as high winds and rain would make conditions difficult.\n\nMet Office wind and rain warnings for Northern Ireland were in place on Friday and ended on Saturday morning.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) urged the public to \"heed any road closure signage\".\n\n\"Motorists should continue to proceed carefully and at lower speeds, bearing in mind the impact of this weather on stopping distances and braking,\" a police spokeswoman said.\n\nIn south Belfast, a number of roads and surrounding areas were flooded overnight:\n\nThe M1 Motorway had been closed to traffic at Lisburn due to a fallen tree but has since reopened.\n\nFallen trees caused problems for walkers in Drumbeg, County Down\n\nTranslink and NI Railways said that due to \"exceptional weather\" there were delays and cancellations across the network.\n\nKatesbridge in County Down had more than half a month's worth of rain in under 12 hours overnight.\n\nThe weather station there recorded 45.4mm since 19:00 BST on Friday until 06:00 on Saturday.\n\nThe River Roe has flooded due to the large rainfall from Storm Betty\n\nThe average rainfall for the entire month of August there is 84mm.\n\nSevere gusts of wind of 90km/h (56mph) were recorded at Ballypatrick in County Antrim, while Orlock Head in County Down saw gusts of 85km/h (53mph).\n\nThe strongest gusts were recorded in the Republic with Johnstown Castle in Wexford having 96km/h (60mph) winds overnight.\n\nWidows' Row in Newcastle with high tides following Storm Betty\n\nConditions were forecast to improve through Saturday with sunny spells and some scattered blustery showers.\n\nAdvice and help for those affected by flooding or those who have seen a fallen tree or blocked road can be found on NI Direct's website.\n\nPrevious waterlogging at the Oval stadium in east Belfast\n\nIrish Premiership game between Glentoran and Crusaders was postponed on Saturday after heavy rain affected the pitch conditions.\n\nBut despite the weather, other Irish premiership games continued as planned.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, Storm Betty left hundreds of homes without electricity across the country.\n\nThere has also been extensive flooding and fallen trees on roads.\n\nRTÉ reported that a taxi driver escaped injury in Templeogue in south Dublin when a tree crashed on to his car as he was driving.\n\nAll Met Éireann weather alerts for the country have been lifted.\n\nMembers of the Irish Coast Guard inspect a boat that broke free from its berth and crashed into the harbour in County Waterford\n\nIn County Waterford a boat, which had been berthed, crashed into the harbour in Dungarvan\n\nMembers of the Irish Coast Guard and the Royal National Lifeboat Association (RNLI) assisted.", "The incident happened in the historic city of Berat\n\nIn a unique act of diplomacy, Italy's government has settled the restaurant bill of four Italian tourists in Albania who left without paying.\n\nThe dine and dash in the city of Berat made headlines in both countries.\n\nThe chatter prompted Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama to raise it with his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, while she was visiting the country.\n\nShe responded by telling her ambassador to \"go and pay the bill for these idiots,\" he told La Stampa newspaper.\n\nItaly's embassy in Albania confirmed in a statement that it had paid the bill, reportedly around €80 (£68), on behalf of its citizens.\n\n\"The Italians respect the rules and pay off their debts and we hope that episodes of this kind will not happen again,\" it said.\n\nItaly's agriculture minister and Ms Meloni's brother-in-law, Francesco Lollobrigida, was also on the trip to Albania and told the Reuters news agency that paying the bill was a matter of pride.\n\n\"A few dishonest individuals cannot embarrass a nation of decent people,\" he said.\n\nIt is unclear when the incident happened but security video of the group walking out of the restaurant and wandering into the night has gone viral on social media.\n\nThe restaurant owner told Albania's Report TV that it was the first time customers had left his establishment without paying and said the four Italians had even complimented the food.\n• None Italians run from the bill in Pamplona", "Cheshire police has released video of the moment Lucy Letby was arrested at her home and taken away in a police car.\n\nThe nurse has been found guilty of seven murders and the attempted murder of another six babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nShe was was acquitted of two attempted murder charges and the jury was undecided on the attempted murder of a further four babies.", "Wade Robson, pictured with Jackson in the 1990s, claims the singer sexually abused him\n\nTwo men who allege they were sexually abused as children by Michael Jackson can revive a lawsuit against his companies, judges at a US court ruled.\n\nWade Robson and James Safechuck, both in their 40s, claim Jackson abused them for years while they were boys.\n\nThey can now pursue previously blocked lawsuits against the singer's companies. They say these companies had a responsibility to protect them.\n\nLawyers for Jackson, who died in 2009, maintain his innocence.\n\nMr Robson and Mr Safechuck claim they were abused by Jackson in the late 1980s and early 1990s while staying at his Neverland ranch.\n\nThe accusations featured in the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland, which Jackson's family described as a \"public lynching\".\n\nIn 2020, a Los Angeles judge ruled Mr Safechuck could not sue Jackson's businesses, saying the companies didn't have a duty of care to him.\n\nA year later, the same judge ruled against Mr Robson on similar grounds.\n\nBut on Friday, an appeals court in California disagreed, ruling that \"a corporation that facilitates the sexual abuse of children by one of its employees is not excused from an affirmative duty to protect those children merely because it is solely owned by the perpetrator of the abuse\".\n\n\"It would be perverse to find no duty based on the corporate defendant having only one shareholder,\" the court judgement said. \"And so we reverse the judgments entered for the corporations.\"\n\nVince Finaldi, a lawyer for Mr Safechuck and Mr Robson, said that the court had overturned previous \"incorrect rulings in these cases, which were against California law and would have set a dangerous precedent that endangered children\".\n\nJonathan Steinsapir, a lawyer for Jackson's estate, said he was \"fully confident\" Jackson was innocent, saying the allegations were \"contrary to all credible evidence and independent corroboration\".", "Having survived a player revolt less than 12 months ago, Spain boss Jorge Vilda is one match away from guiding his team to glory at the Women's World Cup.\n\nSpain face England on Sunday having reached their first final despite a backdrop of unrest and disharmony, and though it seemed unthinkable a few months ago, Vilda could end up with his hands on the trophy.\n\nOn 22 September, two months after a 2-1 quarter-final defeat by eventual winners England at Euro 2022, the Spanish football federation (RFEF) released a statement revealing that 15 players had submitted identical emails saying they would not play for Vilda unless \"significant\" concerns over their \"emotional state\" and \"health\" were addressed.\n\n\"Las 15\", as the players became known, denied claims they had asked for Vilda to be sacked, but tension followed amid reports of concern over training methods and inadequate game preparation.\n\nAt the time, Vilda said: \"I wouldn't wish what I'm going through on anyone. I'm with those players who want to be part of this national team.\"\n\nVilda has always maintained the support of RFEF president Luis Rubiales and it was the rebel players, rather than the coach, who were axed from the squad.\n\nThe players involved have avoided talking publicly about the situation but discussions did happen behind the scenes in a bid to find a resolution before the World Cup.\n\nOnly three of the 15 who were frozen out of the set-up - forward Mariona Caldentey, midfielder Aitana Bonmati and defender Ona Batlle - were picked for the tournament in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nGoalkeeper Sandra Panos, defender Mapi Leon, midfielder Patri Guijarro and forward Claudia Pina, who all helped Barcelona win the Champions League in June, were among those not recalled. Manchester City defenders Leila Ouahabi and Laia Aleixandri also missed out, as did Manchester United forward Lucia Garcia.\n• None Spain reach final as boss Vilda says family have 'suffered'\n\n'I don't know how much Vilda is doing'\n\nThe issues surrounding the players and Vilda have never been far from the surface despite Spain's impressive progress.\n\nVilda, along with his coaching staff, has been noticeably absent from the immediate on-pitch celebrations with his players following their wins in the knockout stages.\n\nAfter his side's semi-final win over Sweden, Vilda said: \"The support of [RFEF president] Luis Rubiales and everyone at the federation means so much and will always stay with me, as well as that of my family because they have suffered this year.\"\n\nThe 42-year-old became head coach in 2015, but until this summer his team had failed to progress beyond the quarter-finals of a major tournament, while a Barcelona side comprising mainly Spanish players has sparkled in club football.\n\nFormer Spain captain Veronica Boquete, who retired from international football in 2017, believes the dispute has caused some Spanish fans to turn against the team.\n\nSpeaking to the World Football at the Women's World Cup podcast, Boquete said: \"In Spain people have half of their hearts wanting Spain to go all the way and beat everyone and half of their hearts saying 'if we lose, it's OK because we don't believe some people there deserve to be world champions'.\n\n\"The players on the field have been fantastic and everyone would be happy for them, [but] not that happy for the rest.\n\n\"It's not easy to be in an environment that's not a happy place. The players should be really proud of what they are doing. You have to give credit to everyone, but a little bit more to the players.\"\n\nSpain started their World Cup with 3-0 and 5-0 wins against Costa Rica and Zambia respectively, before a 4-0 thrashing by Japan in the group stage gave more ammunition to 42-year-old Vilda's critics.\n\nHowever, a 5-1 victory over Switzerland followed as Spain won a knockout match at a World Cup for the first time, before they defeated 2019 runners-up Netherlands 2-1 in the quarter-final and a Sweden side ranked third in the world by the same score in the semi-final.\n\n\"I don't know how much Jorge Vilda is doing,\" says Boquete. \"In the game against Japan, everyone was criticising tactical decisions and player choices. The game was really bad.\n\n\"Now they are winning, we don't know who chooses everyone on the field or if he has an impact on the performances of the players.\"\n\nSpain did not qualify for the first six Women's World Cups, went out in the group stages in 2015, and only made it to the last 16 four years later.\n\nFormer Barcelona manager Lluis Cortes feels Vilda should receive more praise for what his team have managed to achieve during this summer's tournament.\n\n\"I think he deserves all the credit,\" Cortes told BBC World Service.\n\n\"It's true that Jorge has been criticised by journalists and analysts for his match plan or how he lines up the team, but if we focus only on the tournament, Jorge's doing well.\n\n\"He's been brave because he's making good decisions in terms of line-ups, substitutions. After the defeat against Japan, he changed four or five players, also the goalkeeper - a brave move.\n\n\"In the last match against Sweden, the key of that victory was to put Salma [Paralluelo] as a nine [centre-forward].\n\n\"She was attacking the back of the defence all the time, it created more space between the lines, then Jenni [Hermoso] and Aitana had more time to play between the lines. It was a clever move.\"\n\nCortes feels the coaching staff and players have put their personal differences behind them for the good of their country.\n\nHe added: \"It's true the team were divided, but they were so professional because they hit the reset button before the World Cup started, and were able to play as a team.\n\n\"You don't need to be the best friend of your team-mate, you have to be the best team-mate and play as a team. You don't need to go party with her, you need to play at your best level with her.\n\n\"If they are in the final it means they respect and believe the coach.\n\n\"The players understood this is the only way to go altogether to the same direction. They are trusting and believing Jorge, at least during this tournament.\"\n\nSpanish radio reporter Sara Gutierrez says Spain's progress to the final is a blow to those who wanted to see Vilda lose his job.\n\nShe told World Football at the Women's World Cup podcast: \"If people wanted Jorge Vilda out, he needed to be at home right now, not in a final.\n\n\"For the decisions he has made during the tournament, with the changes that he has made, now we are not able to say that Jorge Vilda shouldn't be the coach of this team. Right now, Vilda is doing really well in the tournament.\"\n\nHowever, she says she feels conflicted ahead of the final because of the absence of some \"great\" players who should be part of the World Cup.\n\n\"It's great that Spain are in the final, but the problems are still there. You fight against yourself - the one that wants Spain to win the final game and the one that is like 'there are some players at home watching the game through the TV [who deserve to be playing]' - it's complicated.\"\n\nBut she is delighted that a generation of young girls in Spain now have role models to look up to.\n\n\"I think of them and I'm so happy that this team could be in the final,\" she adds.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "An earthquake with a 6.1 magnitude has interrupted a live TV broadcast in Bogota, Colombia.\n\nThe tremor was followed by a series of aftershocks, estimated at 5.6 and 4.8 magnitudes.", "The blocking feature will be removed for users of X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk has announced, claiming the feature \"makes no sense\".\n\nThe X boss said users will still be able to block people from directly messaging them, however.\n\nBut many people on social media said it will make it hard for people to remove abusive posts from their timeline.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of changes Mr Musk has made since taking over the site in a $44bn deal last year.\n\nCurrently, when users \"block\" an account, it stops that account's posts from appearing in the blocker's timeline, and vice versa.\n\nAn account that is blocked can no longer send messages to the blocker, nor can it view their posts.\n\nFormer Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, seemed to agree with Mr Musk's decision, posting: \"100%. Mute only\".\n\nBut there are concerns that muting an account would not be sufficient protection from cases of harassment, abuse or stalking.\n\nThe mute function currently only stops notifications about an account's posts. An account that is muted can still view the muter's posts and reply to them.\n\nOne user called Mr Musk's decision a \"huge mistake\", saying there are \"toxic people\" on the platform whom users simply did not want to interact with in any way.\n\nRemoving a blocking feature could also potentially violate the terms and conditions of stores like Apple's App Store and Google Play.\n\nBoth stores have conditions stating that social media apps should allow users facilities to filter harassment or bullying.\n\nIt could mean X is no longer downloadable from those stores.\n\nIf the policy goes ahead, it is not clear if all those accounts which are blocked will automatically become unblocked.\n\nUsers do however have the option to make their account private, hiding their tweets from the public and only allowing accepted followers to view their posts.\n\nElon Musk, the richest man in the world, made a series of changes when he took over the social media site, including sacking the company's top executive team and introducing a charge for the site's \"blue tick\" - or verification - feature.\n\nElon Musk is a prolific poster on X, and he's well known for not always being serious or following through on the many ideas he throws out to his 153 million followers.\n\nX itself rarely responds to journalist queries so it's difficult to verify anything he states on behalf of the firm. But, as its owner, he's by default a significant, if unreliable, source.\n\nThe block button is an established tool for those who feel attacked, bullied or simply want to shut out an account with whom they have a strong disagreement (and X is full of those).\n\nReport an account and one of the first bits of advice you get is to either block or mute it while it is investigated. That's not unique to X.\n\nMuting an account means you don't see it - but it still sees you. And being forced to remain visible to someone you are trying to avoid or feel afraid of seems like an unusual move.\n\nMusk has been clear that he wants his \"digital town square\" to be a platform where all voices are heard, but he's running the risk of bumping up against both app store terms and conditions and social media regulations around protecting users from online harms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Twins' parents: \"They passed him to us and he died\"\n\nThe parents of twin brothers who were among Lucy Letby's 13 victims have told the BBC the nurse is a \"hateful human being\" who has taken \"everything\" from them. Letby murdered one of their baby boys, and tried to kill the other twin the following day.\n\nLetby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies, and trying to kill six others, at the Countess of Chester Hospital. There were six more attempted murder charges. She was found not guilty of two and the jury was undecided on the remaining four.\n\nTo protect the identities of the babies and their parents, the twins are referred to as Baby E and Baby F.\n\n\"We were actually told we would never have our own children,\" the babies' mother says, speaking to BBC Panorama. She found out she was having twins on Valentine's Day, in 2015, after several failed IVF attempts.\n\nIt had not been the plan to have the babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where Letby worked. It wasn't their nearest hospital, but when the time came that was where there was space.\n\nThe twins were born prematurely, in the summer of 2015, and despite them needing specialist care in the neonatal unit, their father remembers the joy he felt as a new dad.\n\n\"There was just a sheer elation and happiness that I'd never felt before, or since,\" he says now.\n\nWarning: This article contains details some readers may find upsetting\n\nAfter the birth, the babies' mother would come down from the maternity ward where she was recovering from a Caesarean section to drop off breast milk.\n\nHer babies, who lay side-by-side in incubators, were doing well and the family was waiting to be transferred to a hospital closer to home. But as she approached their room one evening, she could hear intense crying that sounded like screaming.\n\n\"I've never heard anything like it since,\" the mother says. \"I was like, 'What's the matter with him?'\"\n\n\"It was a sound that should not come from a tiny baby,\" she said while giving evidence at Letby's trial, in November.\n\nWalking into the room she discovered it was one of her babies - Baby E - making the noise. He had blood around his mouth. Rushing to comfort him, she gently put her hand on his tummy to give him a reassuring sign that she was there.\n\nShe'd been taught this in hospital - and normally it worked. But the baby continued screaming and she could feel her panic rising.\n\nLetby was the only other person in the room. The child's mother remembers she wasn't near her baby and didn't look at him while she was in there.\n\n\"You know when it feels like somebody wants to look busy, but they're not actually doing anything?\" she says now.\n\nShe asked Letby what was wrong with her son. The nurse told her the baby's feeding tube must have been rubbing the back of his throat. She said she had already called a registrar, who would be there soon.\n\nLetby, an experienced nurse who the mother trusted, told her not to worry, to go back to her ward and that she'd be contacted if there was a problem. \"She has this really calm demeanour about her,\" the mother told the BBC. \"She's very softly spoken.\"\n\nThe parents had struck up a rapport with Letby - they were all on first name terms. They'd shared their story with the neonatal staff; their journey to starting a family, and the obstacles they'd faced. Letby had told them about her life. She was happy being single, she told them, and was hoping to buy a house.\n\nWhen the baby's condition deteriorated later on, his mother rushed back to the unit, where she watched through the glass as medics crowded around his incubator, attempting to resuscitate her son.\n\nShe remembers Letby was there but didn't make eye contact with them.\n\nBy the time the baby's father arrived, a priest had been called, and the parents were taken to be with their child. \"We were told to talk to him, and hold his hand,\" says the mother, \"and then he was christened.\"\n\nEventually, the consultant told them there was nothing more that could be done. \"She said: 'It's no good. We want him to die in your arms rather than being worked on',\" she says through tears.\n\n\"And they passed him to us, and he died.\"\n\nThe parents remember Letby looking visibly upset. The nurse then took control of the situation.\n\n\"She bathed him and then she dressed him in a little woollen gown and gave him back to us,\" says the mother, \"and we held him for a little bit longer.\"\n\nDoctors decided the cause of Baby E's death was a bowel condition, and that his premature birth was a factor. The death wasn't initially considered suspicious, so no post-mortem examination was carried out.\n\nIn court, the mother said she had been \"totally surprised\" when Letby presented her and her husband with a memory box containing a lock of the baby's hair and his hand and footprints. Letby had also taken photos of him, without their knowledge, and presented those to the parents too.\n\nThe mother said the nurse had given both twins a cuddly toy and later showed her a photo of her surviving baby, Baby F, holding his twin brother's teddy.\n\n\"She said: 'He rolled over and hugged his bear - I thought it was so amazing I took a picture for you,'\" the mother remembers Letby saying.\n\nAt the time, this anecdote was comforting to the parents. But soon they realised new born babies can't roll over - their neck and arm muscles aren't strong enough - and it became one of many disturbing things they now view very differently.\n\nDuring the trial, medical experts concluded that Baby E had not died as a result of his premature birth or a bowel condition, as previously thought.\n\nHis cause of death was internal bleeding and an injection of air into his bloodstream.\n\nHe was the fourth of seven babies murdered by Lucy Letby between June 2015 and June 2016. She attempted to murder another six infants - including Baby E's twin brother, Baby F, who suddenly deteriorated and became critically ill within 24-hours of his sibling's death.\n\nHaving just lost one child, the parents did not want to leave the side of their surviving baby. They were told his heart rate had become dangerously high.\n\n\"I said to my husband: 'Please, not again, we - we can't do this again, this can't be happening.'\" She remained by his cot all night.\n\nMedics managed to save Baby F and the parents were told their son had an infection. It was only two years later that they learned that his intravenous feedbag had been poisoned with insulin.\n\nThey say their child, who is now seven years old, was badly harmed by Letby and has been left with severe learning difficulties and \"a lot of complex needs\". \"There's a consequence,\" his mother says, \"and he's living with it.\"\n\nLetby has \"taken everything from us - absolutely everything,\" she says. \"I think she's a hateful human being.\"\n\nIn 2018, when Letby was first arrested, Baby E and F's parents found it difficult to believe that she was the suspect. \"Never in a million years did I think it would be someone that we felt we had a connection with,\" says the mother now.\n\n\"She had everything going for her, and then starts killing babies. What happened?\" she asks. \"It's something that we'll never know.\"\n\nIn court, the couple discovered the nurse had repeatedly searched their names on Facebook - including on Christmas Day.\n\nLetby maintained she was simply checking how Baby F was doing - the baby whose heart she'd deliberately sent soaring with dangerous amounts of insulin, and whose twin brother she had killed just 24 hours before.\n\nThe babies' mother now believes Letby should spend the rest of her life behind bars. \"What she's done has changed the course of our life forever.\"\n\nWatch Panorama's full investigation - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed - on BBC iPlayer\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues raised here, there are details of organisations that may be able to offer support on the BBC Action Line", "Gusts of 57mph were recorded at Mumbles Head, Swansea, on Saturday\n\nStorm Betty has brought heavy downpours and high winds to much of the country as the UK's unpredictable August weather continues.\n\nIt is the second time since 2015 the UK has seen two named storms in August.\n\nWindspeeds topping 60mph were recorded in Wales, and parts of Northern Ireland had more than their average rainfall for the month in a single night.\n\nWhile conditions are expected to improve for most, this week's outlook is mixed, according to BBC Weather.\n\nBetty is the second named storm to hit the UK this month, following Storm Antoni.\n\nIt is only the second time that two August storms have been significant enough to name since the system was adopted in 2015. The other year was August 2020 with Storm Ellen and Storm Francis.\n\nAreas around the Irish Sea saw the strongest winds, with gusts between 50-60mph being recorded late on Friday and early on Saturday morning.\n\nThe strongest gusts (66mph) were recorded on high ground at Capel Curig in north-west Wales, while Aberdaron in the same region and Pembrey Sands in south Wales also saw speeds around the 60mph mark.\n\nCornwall also saw strong gusts, with speeds of around 55mph being recorded in some places,\n\nNorthern Ireland saw the worst of the rain, with many areas experiencing downpours of 25-35mm in a matter of hours.\n\nKatesbridge, a small hamlet in County Down, was the wettest place in the UK, with 45mm of rain in 12 hours - which is over half the August average in just one night.\n\nThere has been travel disruption in Scotland, with some localised road flooding and rail cancellations.\n\nCars negotiated a flooded section of the A921 between Inverkeithing and Aberdour, as Scotland experienced heavy rain last December\n\nWidows' Row in Newcastle with high tides following Storm Betty\n\nGeorge Goodfellow, senior meteorologist at BBC Weather, said Storm Betty is now moving away so conditions are improving.\n\nThe forecaster added: \"The next few days will see low pressure close to the north of the UK, so whilst it isn't going to be as wet and windy as [Friday] night, we do still expect showers and perhaps some longer spells of rain across the north of the UK.\n\n\"There could also be some spells of very breezy, locally windy weather across Scotland and perhaps Northern Ireland and parts of northern England, but again we're not expecting winds as strong as last night.\n\n\"The south should remain relatively dry through the rest of the weekend and first half of next week.\n\n\"Temperatures are currently a little above average and are expected to remain so for the next few days too, although the next few nights should be a little cooler and fresher.\"\n\nStorm Betty also brought some dramatic weather to Ireland, especially in coastal areas.\n\nIn Dungarvan, County Waterford, a boat broke free from its berth was thrown onto the harbour by powerful waves.\n\nAre you personally affected by Storm Betty? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The man is a crew member for Viking Cruises\n\nA man is being treated in hospital after falling from a cruise ship at a port in the Highlands.\n\nThe Viking Mars crew member, understood to be in his 40s, was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the incident at the Port of Cromarty Firth in Invergordon.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said two ambulances, a helicopter and trauma team were sent to the scene at 11:00.\n\nViking Cruises said no other people were involved in the incident.\n\nThe man's condition in hospital is not known.\n\nA Viking spokesperson said: \"Our hearts, thoughts and prayers are with our crew member and his family.\n\n\"We are focused on ensuring that all involved have the support they need at this time.\n\n\"Our operations team is working with local officials to determine how this occurred.\"\n\nPolice Scotland they received reports of the man having fallen from the ship at Saltburn Pier.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Emergency services attended and the man was taken by air ambulance to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"The Health and Safety Executive has been made aware.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: At the scene of missile strike on Ukrainian theatre\n\nSeven people, including a six-year-old girl, were killed when a Russian missile struck a theatre in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday morning, officials have said.\n\nFifteen children were among 144 people wounded, the police said. At least 25 people were in hospital.\n\nAmong the victims were people who had been celebrating an Orthodox Christian holiday at church.\n\nA main square and a university building were also damaged in the attack.\n\nThe UN called it \"heinous\", while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed a firm response by Ukrainian soldiers to a \"terrorist attack\".\n\nChernihiv is located about 50km (31 miles) south of Ukraine's border with Belarus. It was besieged by Russian troops in the first few months of President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion launched in February 2022.\n\nThe city's imposing theatre was hit directly. Tiles were blown off the roofs of neighbouring buildings with one catching fire 100 metres away.\n\nThe theatre was hosting a gathering of drone manufacturers, the acting mayor of Chernihiv told the BBC.\n\n\"I understand that their aim was a military event taking place in the building of the drama theatre and that it was their target,\" Oleksandr Lomako said.\n\n\"But it is clear that the Russians launching those missiles and those giving them orders in the middle of the day to the civilian city realised that the victims will be primarily civilians.\n\n\"There is no other way to interpret it than a war crime against civilians, yet another Russian war crime,\" he added.\n\nUkrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko later said all those inside the theatre had managed to reach shelter in time.\n\nHe said that \"most of the victims were in their vehicles or crossing the road at the time of the rocket strike, as well as returning from a church\".\n\nThe city centre of Chernihiv is a popular area for people to stroll around, especially on the weekend, locals told the BBC.\n\nAnna Zahreba, the manager of a Crimean Tatar restaurant just across the street from the theatre, said her staff were getting ready for a busy day when the missile hit.\n\n\"I ran outside to see what was going on,\" she said. \"There were two 12-year-old girls here and a lot of blood. One had her leg badly wounded. Another girl was screaming.\n\n\"We applied a tourniquet and waited for an ambulance. It was taking a long time to get here, but some man stopped his car and we took a girl to a hospital.\"\n\nAnna says staff rushed to help injured people with medical kit and blankets.\n\n\"There are always many people walking around here, with children and baby strollers. Many restaurants and cafes in the area,\" she tells us.\n\n\"We did not expect a day like this.\"\n\nIn his video address late on Saturday, President Zelensky said the child killed in the Russian strike was a girl named Sofia.\n\nEarlier, he said that Russia had turned an \"ordinary Saturday\" into \"a day of pain and loss\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UN said it was \"extremely disturbed\" by the attack.\n\n\"It is heinous to attack the main square of a large city, in the morning, while people are out walking, some going to the church to celebrate a religious day for many Ukrainians,\" Denise Brown, the current head of the UN in Ukraine, said in a statement.\n\n\"Attacks directed against civilians or civilian objects are strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law,\" she said. \"It must stop.\"\n\nThree days of mourning have been announced in the city.\n\nMoscow is yet to comment.\n\nElsewhere, Russia has claimed that a Ukrainian drone hit a military airfield in the northwest Novgorod region, causing a fire that was quickly put out.\n\nOne plane was damaged but no casualties have been reported, it added.\n\nUkraine has not commented on the alleged drone attack.\n\nMeanwhile, Kyiv's air force said the Ukrainian military had shot down 15 out of 17 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Moscow in an overnight strike.", "A 50-year-old man has been charged with possessing documents or records likely to be useful to terrorists following a major police data breach 11 days ago.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) mistakenly released details on 10,000 of its employees in response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request.\n\nThe man was also charged with having articles for use in terrorism and is due in court in Coleraine on Monday.\n\nThe FoI details were published online after being released by the PSNI.\n\nThey were taken down from a website at the PSNI's direction a short time later.\n\nPolice have confirmed the list is in the hands of dissident republicans, amongst others.\n\nIt was one of three separate PSNI data breach incidents being examined by police.\n\nOn 6 July, in an unrelated incident, a police-issue laptop and radio, as well as a document containing the names of more than 200 staff, were stolen from a private vehicle in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.\n\nIn another incident, on Thursday 17 August, a PSNI laptop and a police officer's notebook fell from the roof of a moving car on the M2 in Belfast.\n\nThe incident happened on the M2 motorway on Thursday\n\nIt happened on the Foreshore stretch of the motorway in the north of the city.\n\nThe PSNI confirmed that this notebook contained details of 42 officers and staff and sections of the book still have not been found.\n\nThey said the laptop that fell off the vehicle on the M2 was recovered and \"immediately deactivated\".\n\nOn Friday, a police spokesperson said the PSNI would be contacting the Information Commissioner about the M2 incident.\n\nThey added that Stormont's Department of Justice and the Northern Ireland Policing Board, which holds the PSNI to account, had already been informed about the breach.", "Oleksandr Lomako, acting mayor of Chernihiv, has told the BBC that Russia’s attack on this town today is a “terrorist attack” and “a war crime against civilians”.\n\n“You can see it’s the centre of the city. There were many people, it was midday,\" he said. \"Today is a religious holiday and people were at the service.\n\n“There is no other way to interpret it than a war crime against civilians, yet another Russian war crime.”\n\nMr Lomako, who has announced three days of mourning here in the wake of the attack, addressed reports about Russia targeting a drone exhibition in the city.\n\n“I understand that their aim was a military event taking place in the building of the drama theatre and that it was their target,” he said.\n\n“But it is clear that the Russians launching those missiles and those giving them orders in the middle of the day to the civilian city realised that the victims will be primarily civilians.”", "Simon Parker gave up his career as an engineer to live alone on a remote island\n\nAn old saying goes: \"No man is an island\", but in the case of Simon Parker, you might just disagree.\n\nAfter the death of a close friend, the ex-Royal Air Force aircraft engineer needed a change.\n\nLittle did he know it would lead to him being a warden of Flat Holm, an island off the Welsh coast, and, inadvertently, the landlord of its only pub.\n\n\"It is an offer I couldn't pass up,\" he said.\n\nFour miles off the coast of Cardiff, in the middle of the Bristol Channel, Flat Holm Island has no mains power or water and is exposed to the worst of the weather.\n\nAs a warden, the 38-year-old works to help preserve the island but also lends his hand to being a handyman, barman and occasional tour guide.\n\nHe spends his days birdwatching and preparing the island for the different seasons.\n\nThe former Red Arrows avionics engineer said the opportunity came at a good time.\n\nSimon says the island has helped him through difficult times\n\nIt was the death of his friend that pushed Simon to make a change.\n\n\"I had bad couple of years. I went through a rough patch where I did struggle and I lost myself.\n\n\"I was searching for somewhere that felt like home when, really, it wasn't a place as such, loss was inside and I needed to find that again.\"\n\nHe added that the change had been \"rewarding and so beautiful\".\n\nSince the Dark Ages, Flat Holm has been a retreat for monks and has also acted as a sanctuary for Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, silver miners, smugglers and cholera victims.\n\nFortified in Victorian times and again in World War Two, it is famous for its role in the invention of radio, as well as being home to unique lizards, flowers and birds.\n\nIt is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest due to its gull colony, which makes up 20% of the Welsh population.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A group of wardens describe what it's like living all year round on a tiny island\n\nFor Simon, who has lived on the island since March, it has become a way of life: \"I'm no longer a filthy mainlander, I am a filthy islander.\n\n\"Not many people get to say they live somewhere as cool as this. I'm kind of on my own so there is some apprehension there but I just love challenges.\"\n\nWhile Simon is sometimes joined by tourists and volunteers helping with preservation and gull ringing, it is usually just him.\n\nHe said the view from his farm house, was \"pretty good if you like gulls\" and the pints at the Gull and Leek, Wales' most southerly pub,\"taste better than on the mainland\".\n\nFlat Holm is just four miles away from Cardiff, but can \"feel like a million\" says Simon\n\nAfter six months, Simon has learnt a lot about the island and its wildlife and, perhaps more importantly, something about himself too.\n\n\"Being able to walk out my front door and be met with all this noise from the birds gives me boost.\n\n\"I know for my own personal wellbeing I need time in nature.\n\n\"I've always loved being in remote places, although I'm only four miles from Cardiff, sometimes it can seem like a million.\"\n\nHe said the island was \"all or nothing\" and urged others to make the jump as well.\n\n\"Life is short so I put out to anyone thinking of doing something like this - just to do it,\" he said.\n\n\"Feed your inner child and you might end up a place like this.\"\n\nA big part of Simon's role is preservation, using the land and the rainwater to keep the island going.\n\n\"On the mainland we just take everything for granted. If you need food you just go to the shop. If you need water, you just turn on a tap.\n\n\"Living on an island the sustainability of all this is quite tricky. For me, Flat Holm is kind of like microcosm for how I look at the world.\n\n\"We have to move away from this idea that we have an infinite number of resources, it is just not sustainable.\n\n\"We can do it, its not impossible and there solutions are all there, if there is a will to change.\"", "England have to \"play the game of our lives\" if they are to win the Women's World Cup, says captain Millie Bright.\n\nThe European champions face Spain in Sunday's final at Stadium Australia, with the game kicking off at 11:00 BST and being shown live on BBC One.\n\nBoth teams are in their first Women's World Cup final, with England chasing a second major trophy in 13 months having won Euro 2022 on home soil last summer.\n\n\"It has been players' dreams for years,\" said Chelsea defender Bright.\n\n\"We have got a game plan that we have to go out and execute. Everyone knows how big this is. We know how passionate our nation is back home and how much they want us to win.\n\n\"But for us, there is a process. We need to play the game of our lives. It's important our process remains the same. Mentality-wise everyone is super excited to get out there and put a show on.\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None How England became good at women's football\n\nBright, who was named captain for the tournament following injury to Arsenal's Leah Williamson, said it will be an \"honour\" to become the first woman to lead England out in a World Cup final.\n\n\"It's massive but it's massive for the team. It's 'we' before 'me.' It's a huge privilege and honour. It will be the biggest moment in our careers. Nothing is individual,\" said Bright.\n\n\"It's a dream come true to be in the World Cup final. Leading the girls out is a special feeling.\"\n\nAsked what her younger self would have thought at the prospect, the 29-year-old added: \"She would have probably said you were being silly, and it was never going to happen, but I guess dreams come true.\n\n\"We are finally getting a shot at the trophy, like we always wanted.\"\n\n'It's so much more than just playing football'\n\nEngland's success on a global stage has led to increased support, growing viewing figures and record attendances in the past year.\n\nManager Sarina Wiegman said it is \"incredible what happens\" when they do well at major tournaments.\n\n\"We have felt support here but also from the other side of the world in the UK. That is something that you dream of,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"We just hope we play our best game ever and that everyone who is watching in the stadium and in the UK also, can support us and enjoy it.\n\n\"It's really exciting and of course we are really eager to win it. This shows how football unites. It brings people together. When you go so far in the tournament people get excited. It's very special. It's so much more than just playing football.\"\n\nBright also reflected on how far the game has come and how the Lionesses have bounced back from a ban which started in 1921 and lasted almost 50 years where women were prevented from playing football in England.\n\n\"It shows our [mental] strength. We never want that to happen again. We have been very open about that and we wouldn't let that happen again,\" said Bright.\n\n\"To know we're in a World Cup final is incredible. We don't want to stop here and we're always pushing for more.\"\n\n'It was not our space'\n\nSpain centre-back Irene Paredes said \"it was not our space\" in football for many years but they have the opportunity to showcase themselves in the World Cup final.\n\n\"Spain has always been a football loving country but it was not our space, or at least that's how they made us feel,\" added Paredes.\n\n\"We want to play football and [those who came before us] pushed so they invested more in women's football.\n\n\"We have the opportunity to play in a final of a World Cup. It is the time to enjoy it and do what we've been doing up to now which is to play football.\"\n\nManager Jorge Vilda, who dismissed questions regarding unrest within the Spain camp following a dispute among players and the nation's football federation, is expecting a \"tactical match\" against England.\n\n\"It's a final. We will fight with everything. I think it will be the match that everyone is waiting for,\" he added.", "Lucy Letby has been convicted of killing babies on the neonatal unit where she worked\n\nFamilies of some of the babies attacked by Lucy Letby have said the inquiry into the case should have powers to compel witnesses to come forward.\n\nAn independent inquiry was ordered on Friday after the nurse's conviction for the crimes at a hospital in Chester.\n\nBut lawyers for two of the families said this inquiry does not go far enough and needs to be statutory to have \"real teeth\".\n\nThe government said the inquiry aimed to ensure lessons were learned.\n\nLetby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015-16, following a 10-month trial.\n\nShe was found not guilty on two attempted murders and the jury could not reach verdicts on six others. She will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nSeparately an inquiry will now look into the circumstances surrounding the events leading up to the murders and attempted murders of the babies by the neonatal nurse.\n\nThe announcement of the non-statutory inquiry has divided opinion on how effective it will be in examining the case.\n\nSlater and Gordon, the law firm representing two of the families, said a non-statutory inquiry \"is not good enough\" and lessons had to be learned by the hospital, NHS and wider medical profession.\n\n\"As a non-statutory inquiry, it does not have the power to compel witnesses to provide evidence or production of documents and must rely on the goodwill of those involved to share their testimony,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nLabour's City of Chester MP Samantha Dixon told the BBC a judge should lead the inquiry, also highlighting how that as it stood the inquiry would rely on \"the goodwill of witnesses to attend\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Twins' parents: \"They passed him to us and he died\"\n\nIn contrast Conservative MP, Dr Caroline Johnson, said she agreed with the current approach.\n\nDr Johnson, a consultant paediatrician and MP who sits on the health select committee, said lessons needed to be learned quickly and the government could decide to order a statutory inquiry at a later date if extra powers were needed.\n\n\"I appreciate that people can't be compelled in quite the same way, I would hope that people would still nevertheless come forward,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup, who has led non-statutory reviews for other maternity units, said non-compliance had not been a problem in his experience and people were \"ready and willing to cooperate\".\n\nThe patient safety investigator told the BBC he had identified common features between the Letby case and the reviews he had conducted - including managers accused of \"protecting reputations\" above listening to staff concerns.\n\nAfter the verdict, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said it was \"extremely sorry\" the crimes happened in its hospital and it had since made \"significant changes\" to their services.\n\nFormer chief executive of the hospital Tony Chambers and former medical director Ian Harvey, who were in charge at the time Letby was working at the hospital, have said they will co-operate fully with the inquiry.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues raised here, there are details of organisations that may be able to offer support on the BBC Action Line.\n• None Warnings ignored as Letby killed more babies", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane scored and set up a goal on his Bundesliga debut as champions Bayern Munich recorded a thumping win at Werder Bremen.\n\nHe had earlier assisted the first of Leroy Sane's two goals with a deft clip over the top inside four minutes.\n\nMathys Tel rounded off a comfortable victory for Thomas Tuchel's side late on.\n\n\"I was a little bit nervous [and] excited to play the game of course,\" Kane told broadcaster DAZN after the match.\n\n\"We started well with a goal in the first few minutes. For sure there were a few butterflies, but as always when I get on the pitch, instinct takes over.\"\n\nIt was a fine evening for Bayern and the club's record signing Kane, who arrived in Bavaria to great fanfare but had a disappointing start with a 3-0 defeat to RB Leipzig in the German Super Cup.\n\nBilled as the man to finally fill Robert Lewandowski's boots over a year on from the prolific Poland striker's switch to Barcelona, Kane expertly laid on the first goal for Sane.\n\nHis quick thinking sent the former Manchester City winger racing clear to roll a low effort into the bottom left corner.\n\nA much-improved Bremen threatened after the break, but Kane dispatched the visitors' second goal of the night, collecting Alphonso Davies' precise pass before picking his spot and placing a low shot into the bottom left corner.\n\nWith Kane struggling with cramp, Bayern made several changes.\n\nSubstitute Thomas Muller teed up Sane's second goal before Kane's replacement, French teenager Tel, drove in a late fourth.\n\nBayern have won the previous 11 Bundesliga titles, but their points total of 71 last term, when they only just pipped a faltering Borussia Dortmund, was their lowest since 2010-11 when they finished third.\n\nHowever, they have sought to remedy that close call with several new signings, including South Korea defender Kim Min-jae from Napoli.\n\nKane's arrival has undoubtedly caught the imagination the most and provides the greatest cause for optimism they will be able to retain their domestic dominance while challenging again for the Champions League.\n\nPrior to kick-off Tuchel had claimed the \"Kane effect\" would increase his team's \"chances of winning massively\" and it is easy to understand why.\n\nWhile England's all-time top scorer was not at his sharpest, he still provided Bayern with a valuable focal point up front and interchanged superbly with the likes of Sane, Kingsley Coman and Jamal Musiala.\n\nAnd despite being unable to convert several earlier opportunities to score, in trademark fashion he continued to drop deep, find spaces between defenders and finished unerringly when presented with the ball by Davies.\n• None Goal! SV Werder Bremen 0, FC Bayern München 4. Mathys Tel (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Alphonso Davies.\n• None Attempt missed. Romano Schmid (SV Werder Bremen) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Dawid Kownacki.\n• None Goal! SV Werder Bremen 0, FC Bayern München 3. Leroy Sané (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Thomas Müller.\n• None Attempt blocked. Matthijs de Ligt (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mathys Tel (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Noussair Mazraoui (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Thomas Müller.\n• None Substitution, FC Bayern München. Mathys Tel replaces Harry Kane because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Lucy Letby, 33, targeted babies when she was working as a neonatal nurse\n\nNurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies on a neonatal unit, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.\n\nThe 33-year-old has also been convicted of trying to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nLetby deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin.\n\nShe refused to appear in the dock for the latest verdicts.\n\nThey have been delivered by the jury over several hearings but they were not reportable until jurors were discharged.\n\nLetby broke down in tears as the first set of guilty verdicts were read out by the jury's foreman on 8 August after 76 hours of deliberations.\n\nShe cried with her head bowed as the second set were returned on 11 August.\n\nHer mother sobbed loudly and was heard to say \"this can't be right - you can't be serious\" while the families of the babies cried and gasped.\n\nLetby, originally from Hereford, was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nThe jury was unable to reach verdicts on six further attempted murder charges.\n\nNicholas Johnson KC, prosecuting, asked the court for 28 days to consider whether a retrial would be sought for these remaining six counts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nDuring the trial, which started in October 2022, the prosecution labelled Letby as a \"calculating and devious\" opportunist who \"gaslighted\" colleagues to cover her \"murderous assaults\".\n\nShe was convicted following a lengthy investigation by Cheshire Police into the alarming and unexplained rise in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies at the hospital.\n\nBefore June 2015, there were fewer than three baby deaths per year on the neonatal unit.\n\nHer defence team argued the deaths and collapses were the result of \"serial failures in care\" in the unit and she was the victim of a \"system that wanted to apportion blame when it failed\".\n\nThe trial lasted for more than 10 months and it is believed to be the longest murder trial in the UK.\n\nLetby was charged in November 2020 with murder and attempted murder\n\nOne of the babies' family members left the courtroom when the jury foreman said it was not possible to return verdicts on the remaining six counts, while a couple of jurors appeared upset.\n\nAs the judge discharged the jury, he told the panel of four men and seven women that it had \"been a most distressing and upsetting case\" and they were excused from serving on juries in the future.\n\nLetby will be sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.\n\nShe has indicated - via her legal team - that she does not want to attend her sentencing hearing or follow proceedings via a videolink from prison.\n\nThe reasons for her non-attendance have not yet been disclosed by the judge.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the Lord Chancellor had been clear that he wanted victims to see justice delivered and for all those found guilty to hear society's condemnation at their sentencing hearing.\n\n\"Defendants can already be ordered by a judge to attend court with those who fail facing up to two years in prison,\" the spokesman added.\n\nLegislation to force convicted criminals to appear in court for their sentencing is currently being examined.\n\nThe jury was shown a note, found at her home, which read: \"I am evil I did this\"\n\nThe parents of twin brothers who were among Letby's 13 victims have told the BBC the nurse was a \"hateful human being\" who had taken \"everything\" from them.\n\nLetby murdered one of their baby boys, and tried to kill the other twin the following day.\n\nThey said their child, who is now seven years old, was badly harmed by Letby and has been left with severe learning difficulties and \"a lot of complex needs\".\n\n\"There's a consequence and he's living with it,\" his mother said.\n\nJanet Moore, Cheshire Police's family liaison officer, speaking on behalf of the babies' families, said it had been a \"long, torturous and emotional journey\".\n\n\"We are heartbroken, devastated, angry and feel numb,\" she said.\n\n\"We may never truly know why this has happened.\"\n\nSenior Crown Prosecutor Pascale Jones said the nurse \"did her utmost to conceal her crimes, by varying the ways in which she repeatedly harmed babies in her care\".\n\nShe said Letby \"sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby's existing vulnerability\".\n\n\"She perverted her learning and weaponised her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.\"\n\nDetectives are continuing to review the care of some 4,000 babies admitted to hospital while Letby was working as a neonatal nurse.\n\nThe period covers her spell at the Countess of Chester Hospital from January 2012 to the end of June 2016, and includes two work placements at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015.\n\nCheshire Police emphasised that only those cases highlighted as medically concerning would be investigated further.\n\nThey added that the review at Liverpool Women's Hospital did not involve any deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe lead consultant at the neonatal unit where Letby worked has told the BBC that hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against the nurse and tried to silence doctors.\n\nDr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015 but he said no action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nBBC Panorama and BBC News have been investigating how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long.\n\nDr Ravi Jayaram, a consultant paediatrician at the hospital, wrote on social media that the truth of what happened would \"shock you to the core\".\n\n\"There are bad people in all walks of life and many of them are very good at hiding in plain sight,\" he said.\n\n\"There are also people in highly paid positions of responsibility in healthcare whose job it is to ensure patient safety.\"\n\nHe said he felt relief that the \"often-maligned criminal justice system\" had \"properly worked\" this time.\n\nBut he said there were \"things that need to come out about why it took several months from concerns being raised to the top brass before any action was taken to protect babies\".\n\nHe added: \"And why from that time it then took almost a year for those highly-paid senior managers to allow the police to be involved.\"\n\nThe government has since ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind Letby's killing spree following her conviction.\n\nThe Department of Health said the inquiry would investigate the wider circumstances around what happened at the hospital, including the handling of concerns and governance, and would also look at what actions were taken by regulators and the wider NHS.\n\nPrior to the government's announcement, Dr Nigel Scawn, executive medical director from the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said he was \"deeply saddened and appalled\" at Letby's crimes.\n\nHe said the trust was committed to learning lessons and would support its staff who had been \"devastated\" by what happened.\n\n\"We are grateful for the cooperation of our staff, especially those who have maintained the utmost professionalism whilst giving evidence in the trial, sometimes on multiple occasions,\" he added.\n\nIan Harvey, a former medical director at the hospital, said he would help the inquiry \"in whatever way I can\".\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff.\n\nI wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children,\" he said.\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nTony Chambers, former chief executive of the hospital, said he was \"truly sorry\" for what the families had gone through and he would \"co-operate fully and openly\" with any post-trial inquiry.\n\n\"As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff,\" said Mr Chambers, who served six years in his post before he resigned in September 2018.\n\n\"I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\n\n\"The trial, and the lengthy police investigation, have shown the complex nature of the issues raised.\n\n\"There are always lessons to be learnt and the best place for this to be achieved would be through an independent inquiry.\"\n\nOperation Hummingbird was launched in 2017 by Cheshire Police and Letby was first arrested at her home in Chester in July 2018.\n\nDetectives gathered 32,000 pages of evidence, sifting through reams of medical records, and interviewed 2,000 people, with 250 identified as potential witnesses.\n\nDet Supt Paul Hughes, who was the senior investigating officer (SIO) in the case said it had \"been an investigation like no other - in scope, complexity and magnitude\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Nicola Evans, who was the deputy SIO, described the case as \"truly crushing\", adding there were \"no winners\".\n\n\"The compassion and strength shown by the parents - and wider family members - has been overwhelming,\" she said.\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israeli soldiers stepped up security at a nearby checkpoint after the deaths\n\nAn Israeli father and son have been killed in a suspected Palestinian shooting attack in the occupied West Bank.\n\nIt happened near the village of Hawara - which has been the scene of previous deadly attacks on Israelis and rampages by Jewish settlers in retribution.\n\nThe shooting took place at a carwash.\n\nThe gunman is said to have approached on foot and opened fire with a handgun.\n\nThe Israeli ambulance service said the two men aged 28 and 60 were pronounced dead at the scene. Both are said to have been civilians from Ashdod in southern Israel.\n\nIsraeli media reported that they had come to the West Bank to fix their car and spent several hours in Hawara.\n\nThey say that the attacker spoke to them briefly - maybe to check if they were Jewish Israelis - before shooting them at point blank range.\n\nThe weapon was apparently found in a nearby field, and the suspect is still thought to be in the area.\n\nThe Israeli military has set up blockades nearby and is hunting for the gunman. It is also said to be on alert for reprisal attacks.\n\nThe Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad praised the deadly shooting.\n\nHawara has long been a flashpoint in the West Bank. It is located on a main road south of Nablus, which is mostly used by Palestinians and Israeli settlers.\n\nIn the past, Israelis would sometimes shop there and come for services, which are often cheaper in Palestinian areas of the West Bank. But that has become uncommon after a recent surge in violence.\n\nThis year, the village has seen several shooting attacks in which Israeli settlers and soldiers have been targeted - including the killing of two brothers in February.\n\nThat triggered a deadly rampage by a large crowd of settlers in one of the worst such acts in years. There have also been other instances of settler violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sara Sharif suffered extensive injuries over an extended period of time, police said\n\nPolice in Pakistan say they are continuing to search for the father of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead in a house in Surrey.\n\nSara Sharif's body was found at her family home in Woking, in the early hours of 10 August.\n\nSurrey Police have confirmed they want to speak to Urfan Sharif, along with his partner and brother.\n\nBBC News has been told two police teams in Jhelum, north Punjab in Pakistan, are looking for Mr Sharif.\n\nMr Nasir Mehmood Bajwa, in Jhelum, told the BBC that after police find Mr Sharif they are likely to take him into custody after receiving the go-ahead from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Islamabad.\n\nPakistan's foreign ministry and the FIA have not confirmed or shared any verbal or written orders on this case.\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nMr Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik all left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August, a day before Sara's body was discovered.\n\nSurrey Police have said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan shortly after landing in Islamabad with his partner, his brother and five children, aged between one and 13.\n\nThe call led officers to the house in Woking where they found the body of Sara who had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\", likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nFloral tributes were laid at the scene where Sara Sharif was found\n\nBBC News spoke to a Woking travel agent who said he was contacted by Mr Sharif at about 22:00 BST on Tuesday 8 August, saying he wanted to book tickets to Pakistan as soon as possible.\n\nHe confirmed that eight one-way tickets - for Mr Sharif, his brother, his wife and five children - were used on a flight on 9 August that landed in Islamabad at about 05:30 local time, on Thursday 10 August.\n\nWhen police discovered Sara's body at the house in Woking no-one else was there, detectives confirmed.\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman, from Surrey Police and Sussex Police Major Crime Team, said: \"While the post-mortem has not provided us with an established cause of death at this time, the fact that we now know that Sara had suffered multiple and extensive injuries over a sustained and extended period has significantly changed the nature of our investigation, and we have widened the timescale of the focus of our inquiry.\"\n\nPolice are working with the Crown Prosecution Service, Interpol, the National Crime Agency and the Foreign Office to carry out their investigation and in liaising with Pakistani authorities.\n\nThere is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Pakistan.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britney Spears has spoken for the first time since her husband Sam Asghari announced their split, saying she \"couldn't take the pain anymore\".\n\nMr Asghari, 29, cited \"irreconcilable differences\" in a divorce petition filed in Los Angeles on Wednesday.\n\nHe asks that spousal support and payment of legal fees be paid by Ms Spears, the documents state.\n\nMs Spears, 41, said she was \"a little shocked\" that her six-year relationship with Mr Asghari had come to an end.\n\nDiscussing their breakup in an Instagram post, the singer wrote: \"I'm not here to explain why because it's honestly nobody's business.\"\n\n\"I've been playing it strong for way too long and my Instagram may seem perfect but it's far from reality and I think we all know that,\" she added.\n\n\"I would love to show my emotions and tears on how I really feel but for some reason I've always had to hide my weaknesses.\"\n\nMs Spears said she would be \"as strong as I can\" and she was \"actually doing pretty damn good\".\n\nMr Asghari, an Iranian-American actor, model and fitness trainer, met Ms Spears while she was shooting the video for her song Slumber Party in 2016.\n\nHe was a vocal supporter of her efforts to end her father Jamie's conservatorship; a fight she won just months before their marriage.\n\nThe couple got engaged in September 2021 and were married in a small ceremony last June.\n\nRumours of their marital struggles were reported in US tabloids this year. The two had recently been seen without their wedding rings in public.\n\nIn his own post on Instagram, Mr Asghari said: \"After 6 years of love and commitment to each other my wife and I have decided to end our journey together.\n\n\"We will hold onto the love and respect we have for each other and I wish her the best always.\"\n\nHe added: \"Asking for privacy seems rediculous [sic] so I will just ask for everyone including media to be kind and thoughtful.\"", "England have not only made sporting history here in Australia. In what is potentially the most significant moment English women's sport has ever enjoyed, they have the opportunity to leave a legacy for years to come.\n\nWhatever happens in Sunday's momentous showpiece against opponents Spain in Sydney, the Lionesses will become the first senior England football team to play in a World Cup final since 1966, and the only one ever to do so on foreign soil.\n\nThat in itself is a stunning achievement at this most memorable of tournaments. But the impact of this side extends way beyond the record books.\n\nThis is a team which continues to attract new fans, confound the sceptics, shift perceptions, and inspire millions with its blend of talent, spirit and humility.\n\nWhen set against the cruel injuries that ruled out key players such as captain Leah Williamson, Euro 2022 Player of the Tournament Beth Mead and playmaker Fran Kirby, their slow start to the World Cup, and the disruption caused by the suspension of top scorer Lauren James, England's campaign seems even more remarkable.\n\nLast year, their march to European glory was fuelled by home advantage. This time they have been thousands of miles away, and in the semi-final found themselves in the most intimidating of atmospheres imaginable, taking on inspired co-hosts Australia, buoyed by the will of an entire nation in their national stadium.\n\nBut as ever with this team, despite such adversity, England found a way to prevail.\n\nAnd here at the biggest and most competitive World Cup to date, if they can add the sport's greatest prize to their European crown it will establish them as not only one of Britain's greatest teams in any sport, but as the dominant force in the international women's game - an astounding feat given the much smaller player pool compared with rivals like the United States.\n• None The mastermind behind the Lionesses' success\n\nEngland's success owes most to a golden generation of players. The way they have won graciously, consoling opponents, has reinforced the sense that these are role models the country can truly be proud of.\n\nIt underlines the already glittering reputation of their coach Sarina Wiegman, who has taken the side to the next level after arriving in 2021 following the disappointment of semi-final exits at the previous two World Cups.\n\nAnd it is the latest evidence of the impact of investment in the women's game over the past decade; the FA's establishment of St George's Park as a centre of excellence for national teams in 2012, their talent identification programmes that discovered and then developed these stars, and the professionalisation of the Women's Super League (WSL) in 2018.\n\nFor many, the final will feel like the completion of a long journey the sport in England has been on since the FA's 49-year ban on women playing on league grounds was lifted in 1970.\n\nThe Lionesses have already achieved much for the game, and for women's rights more widely. Their Euros triumph on home soil last year provided a huge boost to the sport in terms of participation and profile, with the number of registered players and WSL attendances and viewing figures both leaping as a result. The team successfully campaigned for girls in England to get equal access to school sport, with the government subsequently committing £600 million in funding.\n\nAnd yet, for all the progress that England reaching the final represents, for many, there is still a long way to go. Through their advocacy, the Lionesses have highlighted elements of that themselves: before the tournament began, Mary Earps said it was \"hurtful\" that fans could not buy a replica of her goalkeeper shirt.\n\nIn a separate controversy, it emerged that the players were disappointed by the FA's stance on performance-related bonuses - a dispute yet to be resolved - and part of a wider frustration concerning the governing body's commercial strategy. In a statement, the squad said their fight was driven by \"a strong sense of responsibility to grow the game\".\n\nThe Lionesses have unwittingly sparked discussions in other ways too. While the FA have tried to play it down, there is now a debate over the absence of its president Prince William and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Sunday's final.\n\nThere is also scrutiny over the fact Wiegman is paid around a tenth of the salary men's team boss Gareth Southgate enjoys. The FA have said she would be considered for his job in the future, provoking conversations over the lack of female representation off the pitch in the sport.\n\nOf the 32 nations involved at this World Cup, only 12 had a woman as head coach. While the prize money on offer here in Australia and New Zealand has quadrupled since the last tournament, it is still only a quarter of that on offer for players at the men's World Cup. The way Fifa president Gianni Infantino said women must \"pick the right battles\" to \"convince us men what we have to do\", seeming to suggest they were responsible for action over equality, has also caused controversy.\n\nDomestically, the review of women's football by former England international Karen Carney recently highlighted how women and girls remain significantly less active than men and boys, with gender stereotypes and facilities still holding girls back from participating. Carney made clear the need for minimum standards in the professional game, calling for much more investment, the urgent tackling of a lack of diversity, a new dedicated broadcast slot, and the professionalisation of the second tier Championship, among a raft of recommendations.\n\nAs London 2012 and other landmark British sporting moments have proved, inspiration can only do so much. Opportunities and investment are the other essential ingredients for legacy to be lasting and real.\n\nTwenty years ago, in the very same stadium in which the Lionesses will walk out on Sunday, England's men's rugby union team memorably beat the hosts to win their only World Cup. It was one of English sport's most cherished moments, enjoyed by many millions back home, turning the players involved into legends. But it did not change sport and society in a way that victory for the Lionesses could.\n\nMany will now be hoping that if England can become world champions, generating greater audiences, new players, more respect and fresh sponsors, the momentum needed to tackle the outstanding issues still facing the game will only accelerate. And that this team can become even more transformative, and bring about even more positive change for future generations of Lionesses, than it already has.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "Residents of Seal Beach, California, filling up sand bags to help fortify their homes on Saturday\n\nHurricane Hilary has weakened as it heads towards Mexico's Pacific coast and California but could still cause \"life-threatening\" flooding, US meteorologists warn.\n\nWith winds of 85 mph (140 km/h), it has been downgraded to a Category 1 storm.\n\nHeavy rain lashed parts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and the south-western US overnight.\n\nOne man died after being swept away while crossing a stream in Baja California, an official said.\n\nThe man had been travelling in a car with his three children and a woman. The others all survived, local media reported.\n\nHilary is expected to weaken further to a tropical storm before it reaches southern California. Even still, it would be the first tropical storm to hit the US state in more than 80 years.\n\nIn its latest update at 06:00 GMT on Sunday, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Hilary was roughly 90 miles (145km) south of Baja California's westernmost point of Punta Eugenia.\n\nIts centre will \"move close to the west-central coast of the Baja California peninsula\" on Sunday morning and will then move across southern California on Sunday afternoon, the NHC said.\n\n\"Hilary appears to be weakening quickly,\" John Cangialosi, a senior hurricane specialist at the NHC, told the Associated Press news agency on Saturday.\n\n\"The eye is filling and the cloud tops in the eyewall and rainbands have been warming during the past several hours,\" he added.\n\nHilary was earlier a powerful Category 4 storm with winds up to 130mph.\n\nRainfall could reach 10in (25cm) in some areas of southern California and southern Nevada, the NHC said it Sunday morning's update. \"Dangerous to catastrophic flooding is expected.\"\n\nHeavy rain and winds hit Cabo San Lucas in Baja California, Mexico, on Saturday\n\nIn San Diego, the National Weather Service (NWS) earlier issued a warning for the \"high potential\" of flash flooding. Nearly 26 million people in the south-western US were under flood watch.\n\nOn Friday, US President Joe Biden said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) had \"pre-positioned personnel and supplies in the region\".\n\n\"I urge everyone in the path of the storm to take precautions and listen to the guidance from state and local officials,\" he said.\n\nParts of Mexico are under a tropical storm watch and its government has placed 18,000 soldiers on standby to assist in rescue efforts.\n\nAs the storm approached, Major League Baseball rescheduled three games in southern California, while SpaceX delayed the launch of a rocket from its base on the central California coast until at least Monday.\n\nThe National Park Service also closed Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve, both in California, to prevent visitors from being stranded in the event of flooding.\n\nLocal officials in cities across the region, including in Arizona, have offered sandbags to residents seeking to safeguard their properties against potential floodwaters.\n\nHurricanes and tropical storms are reasonably common in Mexico. But the last time a tropical storm made landfall in southern California was in Long Beach in 1939.\n\nExperts say the abnormal weather events plaguing the US - and several areas across the globe - are being influenced by human-caused climate change.\n\nIn the wake July 2023 - the hottest month on record according to Nasa - the deadliest wildfire in modern US history spread across Hawaii on 8 August, killing at least 111 people.\n\nThe damage was escalated by hurricane winds passing through the area.", "BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness (left) and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lucy Frazer (right) are on the sanctions list\n\nRussia has banned 54 British nationals and people working for UK organisations from entering the country in retaliation for UK sanctions on its citizens, its foreign ministry says.\n\nA number of journalists from the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian are also on the list.\n\nThe BBC said it would \"continue to report independently and fairly\".\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said the move was in response to \"the aggressive implementation by London of a hostile anti-Russian course\".\n\nMs Frazer was sanctioned for \"actively lobbying for the international sports isolation of Russia\", while Minister of State for Defence Annabel Goldie was described as being \"responsible for the supply of weapons to Ukraine\".\n\nIn March the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting children from Ukraine, which Moscow denies.\n\nMr Khan told the BBC at the time: \"Children can't be treated as the spoils of war, they can't be deported.\"\n\nThe BBC journalists include chief executive Deborah Turness, presenter and analysis editor Ros Atkins and disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said it would continue to expand its \"stop list\".\n\nRussia has already barred a number of British journalists and defence figures as well as hundreds of elected British MPs.\n\nIn June last year, the BBC's Clive Myrie and Orla Guerin were among journalists who have reported from Ukraine to be banned. BBC director general Tim Davie was also on the list.\n\nThe UK is among Western countries to have sanctioned Russia in response to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nThese include a ban on the import of goods from Russia such as diamonds, oil and gas.\n\nEarlier this month, the British government announced what it described as the \"largest ever UK action\" targeting Russia's access to foreign military supplies..\n\nMore than 1,000 Russian businesses and individuals have been sanctioned by the US, EU, UK and other countries.", "A model of the face of Bonnie Prince Charlie had been created using hundreds of images taken from death masks.\n\nA team at the University of Dundee's Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification used the masks to recreate the Scottish prince's looks.\n\nAfter his death in 1788, a cast of the prince's face was taken, which was common for notable figures at the time.\n\nThis was painstakingly photographed and mapped along with software allowing the experts to \"de-age\" the prince to the year 1745, the time of the Jacobite rising.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 15,000 households have been ordered to evacuate in Canada's British Columbia, as firefighters battle raging wildfires that have set homes ablaze.\n\nOfficials said a \"significant\" number of buildings caught fire in West Kelowna, a city of 36,000 people, and more than 2,400 homes were evacuated.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared for the entire province, where hundreds of separate fires are burning.\n\nHundreds of miles north, a huge fire edges towards the city of Yellowknife.\n\nAn official deadline to evacuate the city - the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories - lapsed on Friday. A local official said later that day that nearly all residents had left, either by car or plane.\n\nAbout 19,000 of the city's 20,000 inhabitants had evacuated, the territories' environment and communities minister Shane Thompson told reporters.\n\n\"Some are choosing to shelter in place. If you are still in Yellowknife and you are not essential to the emergency response, please evacuate,\" Mr Thompson said.\n\nHe warned that the highways and airport could be impacted by the wildfires.\n\nIn British Columbia, evacuation orders grew from covering 4,000 homes on Friday afternoon to about 15,000 in the space of an hour. Another 20,000 homes are under alert.\n\nPremier of the province, David Eby, said that evening that the situation had \"evolved rapidly\" and officials were braced for \"an extremely challenging situation in the days ahead\".\n\n\"This year, we're facing the worst #BCWildfire season ever,\" Mr Eby wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. \"Given these fast-moving conditions, we are declaring a provincial state of emergency.\"\n\nThe premier said this would ensure \"that we're in a position to rapidly access any tools we need to support communities\".\n\nHe said that more and more people were being evacuated, warning that \"emergency orders could include travel restrictions to specific areas if people do not respect our calls to avoid non-essential travel\".\n\nOne Kelowna resident told the BBC the fires came over the mountainside like an \"ominous cloud of destruction\"\n\nCanada is having its worst wildfire season on record, with at least 1,000 fires burning across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).\n\nExperts say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nExtreme and long-lasting heat draws more and more moisture out of the ground - which can provide fuel for fires that can spread at an incredible speed, particularly if winds are strong.\n\nEarlier, West Kelowna fire chief Jason Brolund described the wildfire as \"devastating\".\n\n\"We fought hard last night to protect our community. We fought 100 years worth of fires all in one night,\" he added.\n\nLocal officials have already reported \"significant structural loss\" in the area, including in Trader's Cove, just north of West Kelowna.\n\nNo deaths have been reported so far.\n\nJuliana Loewen lives in Kelowna - a larger twin city of West Kelowna on the eastern shore of Okanagan Lake. She told the BBC how locals had watched a plume of smoke coming over the mountainside like an \"ominous cloud of destruction\" and how some on the Trader's Cove side jumped into the lake as the fire spread and exit routes were blocked.\n\nHer brother and grandmother fled to her house after \"the fire jumped very quickly from one tree to an entire area, threatening an entire residential community\".\n\nLocal residents are used to the fires because of a \"California-style climate\" in the area - but the heat, dryness and wind seen in recent days had created the \"perfect conditions for a firestorm\", Ms Loewen added.\n\nThe airspace around Kelowna International Airport has now been closed to everything other than aerial firefighters.\n\nAre you personally affected by the wildfires in Canada? If it is safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Organisers said about 1000 people took part in the annual Mela parade\n\nDespite the grey skies, Belfast was awash with colour on Saturday as the annual Mela event kicked off with a parade through the city centre.\n\nIt has been running for 17 years, and the carnival parade for two years.\n\nAbout 1000 people representing more than 20 different groups took part in their traditional clothes.\n\nFounder and Chief Executive of ArtsEkta and The Belfast Mela Nisha Tandon said it was important to celebrate Northern Ireland's cultural diversity.\n\nShe is also hopeful to break last year's record of 60,000 people attending all events featured across the Mela.\n\nA combination of world music, dance, food and art, the Mela is well known for attracting people of all backgrounds and ages.\n\nGroups brought colour and music to Belfast's Cathedral Quarter on Saturday\n\nThe nine-day event is a celebration of global cultures which sees tens of thousands of visitors come together.\n\nThe festival finale next weekend will see Botanic Gardens transformed into a magical global garden filled with the sights, sounds and aromas of nations right around the world.", "Guide and photographer Joshua Pedley caught the thresher shark on camera in Cardigan Bay\n\nAn estimated 5m (16ft) thresher shark surprised sightseers when it leapt out of the water in front of them.\n\nIt happened while they were on a one hour trip to look for dolphins off New Quay, Ceredigion.\n\nGuide and photographer Joshua Pedley said it was a shock when the \"huge animal jumped up out of the water\".\n\nA thresher sighting is considered uncommon in Cardigan Bay, with another sighting last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I quickly put my camera up and zoomed in to where it leapt from and leapt again another two times.\"\n\nThresher sharks get their name from their thresher-like tails, which can be as long as their total body length.\n\nThey are active predators who use their tails as weapons to stun their prey.\n\nThey are often found along the continental shelves of North America and Asia.", "Anyone over the age of 53 today lived at a time when women were banned from playing football in England.\n\nIt's a fact that, given the context of this history-making weekend, is almost laughable.\n\n\"The game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged,\" read a statement from the Football Association in 1921, announcing the ban that would stand for almost 50 years.\n\nAnother half century on, the story tells of a remarkably different time. Already European champions, England's Lionesses stand on the cusp of global glory with a Women's World Cup final against Spain coming up on Sunday.\n\nSo how did we get here?\n\nIt perhaps feels strange to start in 1966, the year England won the men's World Cup, but a young Patricia Gregory was watching that match on television.\n\nCaught up in the excitement of that, and Tottenham's FA Cup win the following year, the 19-year-old wondered why women couldn't play the game too.\n\nShe put a notice in her local paper to ask for players and was inundated with replies, but the council said she could not legally rent a pitch for matches against other women's football teams.\n\nUndaunted, Gregory eventually managed to get a pitch and ended up running both it and a women's football league, as well as founding the Women's FA as the game's governing body in 1969 - the year before the FA rescinded its ban on women.\n\nHope and change in the 90s\n\nIt was in 1972 that the first official England women's side played an international match - beating Scotland 3-2 - but another 26 years passed until a full-time head coach was put in post. Enter Hope Powell.\n\nThe 1990s brought many firsts for women's football. In England, it saw the first Centres of Excellence, the first national league, and the women's game being brought under the control of the FA. On a global scale, the 90s brought the first official Fifa Women's World Cup.\n\nBut when Powell took charge of England in 1998, it would mark the start of a 15-year reign in which she led England to two World Cups and four European Championships, and cemented her place as a pioneer of women's football in the country, playing a substantial part in the successes we see today.\n\nThe Women's Euros came to England for the first time in 2005, held in Blackburn, Blackpool, Manchester, Preston and Warrington with Germany lifting the trophy at Ewood Park.\n\nIt was a tournament that offered a glimpse in to the future. Fans wearing replica shirts with players' names on the back flocked to games, an average attendance of 23,160 accompanied by more than two million people tuning in to England's games on the BBC. Yes, interest diminished after Powell's side failed to get out of their group, but it was a start.\n\nBut after the tournament, then Uefa president Lennart Johansson provoked an angry reaction when he said sponsors of women's football could cash in by promoting the players' physical attributes. \"Companies could make use of a sweaty, lovely looking girl playing on the ground, with the rainy weather,\" he said.\n\nFour years later, another step in the right direction. Seventeen players, including the likes of Casey Stoney, Steph Houghton, Jill Scott and Rachel Yankey, were awarded central contracts by the FA, receiving salaries of £16,000 each.\n\nThose contracts, lasting four years, took the pressure off those players needing employment outside of football - though they could still work for up to 24 hours per week - and required them to be available for all training camps, matches and tournaments, as well as personal appearances.\n\nAt the time, Powell said: \"We hope this will allow our girls time to concentrate on helping England qualify for major tournaments on a consistent basis and competing at the very top level against the best teams in the world.\"\n\nThe start of the Women's Super League\n\nThe year 2011 saw the launch of the Women's Super League, featuring eight predominantly semi-professional sides who received licenses from the FA after meeting a strict criteria.\n\nThe clubs were given £70,000 from the FA for each of the first two seasons - to be spent on infrastructure - and signed up to a salary cap, meaning no more than four players in each side could be paid more than £20,000 in a bid to ensure star players were spread fairly across teams.\n\nThe opening fixture, held at Tooting & Mitcham's Imperial Fields in south London, saw Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0 in front of some 2,500 paying fans, though a bobbly pitch caused issues for both sides.\n\nPoor pitch standards - where have we heard that before?\n\nWembley Stadium. The Home of Football. Well, men's football - until 2014 that is, when England women played their first headline international match at the new Wembley.\n\nEngland women had played there before, in 1989, but that was as a curtain-raiser ahead of a men's match against Chile.\n\nMark Sampson's side lost 3-0 against Germany, watched by a then-England record crowd of 45,619. That number should have been higher, given all 55,000 tickets were sold, but almost 10,000 fans did not turn up with transport problems in London and the weather to blame.\n\nIn 2019, their next appearance at the national stadium which also ended in defeat by the Germans, 77,768 were in the crowd, but that number had grown to 87,192 by 2022, when England exacted their revenge on Germany in the Euros final.\n\nMore on that later.\n\nSampson was England head coach from 2013 until his sacking in 2017, leading the Lionesses to third place at the 2015 Women's World Cup.\n\nBut a lengthy, messy dispute resulted in two of his England players, Eniola Aluko and Drew Spence, eventually receiving an apology from the FA for Sampson's racially discriminatory remarks, after an independent barrister ruled he made unacceptable \"ill-judged attempts at humour\" on two occasions.\n\nSampson was actually dismissed over safeguarding issues after evidence emerged of \"inappropriate and unacceptable\" behaviour with female players in a previous role. He later brought an unfair dismissal case against the FA, which was settled \"confidentially\" in 2019.\n\nAt the time, the FA was criticised for its handling of the Sampson case and, at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee session hearing in 2017, questions were raised about the management culture around the England team and the FA's duty of care towards its women's team.\n\nThe summer of 2018 saw huge change for the WSL, transitioning to full-time professional status with a restructured one-tier, 11-team league.\n\nThe FA brought in new licence criteria for clubs, meaning all teams had to re-apply for their places, with a requirement to offer a minimum of 16 contact hours per week for players and an academy.\n\nIn 2022, BBC analysis suggested the average WSL player now earns £47,000 a year, and after the Lionesses' Euros success, WSL attendances increased by 267%, helped by big games being held at the country's biggest stadia, including Old Trafford, Emirates Stadium, Anfield and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\nFormer Manchester United player Phil Neville was appointed in January 2018, despite no previous experience in the women's game. He won the SheBelieves Cup in 2019 and England came fourth in that year's World Cup in France.\n\nBut a dip in results followed, with seven defeats in his last 11 games amid some fixture disruption due to the Covid pandemic, left Neville's record and England progress being questioned - especially against the best sides.\n\nWhen he left for Inter Miami in January 2021, six months before his contract was due to end, Baroness Sue Campbell, the FA's director of women's football, praised his \"significant contribution\" to raising the \"profile\" and \"championing\" the women's game.\n\nBut when the FA announced Sarina Wiegman would succeed Neville as England's head coach in September 2021, they knew they were bringing in a \"proven winner\".\n\nHaving led the Netherlands to the European title in 2017, and the World Cup final two years later, she had the track record of \"building a winning team\".\n\nAnd so it has proved. In her 38 games in charge, England have lost just once. Of her 30 wins, the biggest to date came little more than 12 months ago, when the Lionesses created history by winning Euro 2022, a first major title that catapulted many of the players to household name status.\n\nVictory on Sunday, in a maiden World Cup final for the Lionesses, would be even bigger.\n\nAnd so to that final.\n\nOn Sunday, the Lionesses have a golden opportunity to become the first senior England side to win the World Cup since 1966, a year in which women like them were prohibited from playing the sport.\n\nMaybe, just maybe, football is suitable for females after all.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn official deadline to evacuate Yellowknife as a wildfire looms on its outskirts has lapsed, as residents scramble to leave by air and road.\n\nAbout 22,000 people - or roughly half the population in Canada's Northwest Territories - are now displaced in the country's worst fire season on record.\n\nA separate blaze in the west, that threatens Kelowna, British Columbia, has grown one hundredfold in 24 hours.\n\nOfficials have warned the fires \"are very active and very unpredictable\".\n\n\"The stress of leaving your home not knowing if it will be there when you return is now a reality faced by thousands,\" Harjit Sajjan, Canada's minister of emergency preparedness, said at a news conference on Friday.\n\nHe said the federal government did not yet know the full extent of the damage wrought in what has been an \"incredibly challenging week for Canadians\".\n\nThe McDougall Creek Wildfire in Kelowna, in the western province of British Columbia, poses a particularly concerning threat to lives and properties after it grew significantly overnight.\n\nThe BC Wildfire Service said the fire, which had been mapped at 1,100 hectares early on Thursday evening, was now estimated at 6,800 hectares.\n\nOne Kelowna resident told the BBC the fires came over the mountainside like an 'ominous cloud of destruction'\n\n\"The winds were very concerning and we didn't know where things are going,\" Mr Sarjjan told reporters.\n\nLocal BC officials declared a state of emergency on Friday morning. More than 2,500 properties have since been evacuated, with thousands more on alert to leave on short notice.\n\nThe fast-moving fire is bearing down on a city with a population of about 150,000 people, and officials are already reporting \"significant structural loss\", including in Trader's Cove in the Okanagan Valley.\n\n\"We fought hard last night to protect our community,\" West Kelowna fire chief Jason Brolund said at a news conference.\n\nHe said the actions taken to rescue members of the public and save homes in the area had been akin to \"a hundred years of firefighting all at once in one night\".\n\nNo deaths have yet been reported, but Mr Brolund said the fire remains \"dynamic\" and \"as significant today as it was last night\", a preview of what may come in the days ahead.\n\nJuliana Loewen, a Kelowna resident who is not currently under evacuation orders, is huddling with more than a dozen other people at her home on Okanagan Lake as they await updates.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe told the BBC how locals had watched a plume of smoke coming over the mountainside like an \"ominous cloud of destruction\" and how some on the Trader's Cove side jumped into the lake as the fire spread and exit routes were blocked.\n\nHer brother and grandmother evacuated and came to her house after \"the fire jumped very quickly from one tree to an entire area, threatening an entire residential community\".\n\nRoads are jammed up, businesses have shut down and neighbours are on their lawns tossing valuables into their vehicles. \"It's very apocalyptic,\" she said.\n\nResidents are used to the fires because of Kelowna's \"California-style climate\" but the heat, dryness and wind seen in recent days had created the \"perfect conditions for a firestorm\", Ms Loewen added.\n\nThe airspace around Kelowna International Airport has now been closed to everything other than aerial firefighters.\n\nSome 2,000km (1,240 miles) north-east, winds blowing in the Northwest Territories on Friday and Saturday could push the blaze outside Yellowknife closer towards the city and one of its highways, the Ingraham Trail.\n\nSuccessful firefighting efforts have made meaningful progress in holding back the fire over the last two days, and it remains about 15km (9 miles) north-west of the city's municipal boundary.\n\nAir tankers are flying missions day and night in an effort to further slow the fire.\n\nThe Canadian government has said enough pilots will be made available to man the evacuation flights leaving the city.\n\nAmid accusations that some airlines are inflating prices for evacuation flights, officials have warned there will be zero tolerance on price gouging.\n\nSome essential workers have yet to evacuate the city. Among them is Dr Lori Regenstreif, usually based out of Ontario but who has been working in the Northwest Territories over the last week.\n\nShe said it has been surreal watching the territory's capital city go from being a hub for wildfire evacuees from other parts of the Northwest Territories earlier this week to being under its own state of emergency.\n\n\"Yellowknife is the go-to. Now Yellowknife is vulnerable,\" said Dr Regenstreif. \"It's like their mothership has gone down.\"\n\nThe streets have been left deserted, and restaurants and businesses have shuttered their doors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the treacherous journeys out of wildfire-hit Canada\n\nPatients continue to be airlifted out of hospitals as of Friday. Some of the wards are so empty, according to the doctor, that staff have been sleeping in them overnight as they wait their turn to leave.\n\nThose who remain in the city are mostly firefighters, police officers, doctors and nurses. One pharmacy in town remains open, Dr Regenstreif said, as its owner refuses to close it.\n\nShe has also noticed a handful of others who remain in the city. \"I can't really speculate on why,\" she said, adding: \"If my home were up here, I probably wouldn't want to go either.\"\n\nAs the weekend nears, the smoke in the air has cleared up, but there is a sense of unease as the wildfire continues to burn nearby.\n\n\"There's this calm before the storm,\" said Dr Regenstreif. \"It is a bit nerve-wracking that you know something's going to come, but you don't see any of it now.\"\n\nNearly 1,100 active fires are burning across the country.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason.\n\nScientists say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.", "One of the victims faced an eight-year wait for justice (photograph used for illustration only)\n\nRochdale is \"synonymous\" with grooming - that was what one of the defence lawyers told a jury that has just convicted five people of committing 22 sexual offences against two girls as young as 12.\n\nThey were worried the Greater Manchester town had become so linked with the serial sexual exploitation of young girls that they felt they had to warn jurors to \"rid yourselves of preconceptions\".\n\nThat warning came more than a decade after the conviction of the notorious Rochdale grooming ring in 2012 - a story the whole country became acquainted with five years later in the BBC series Three Girls.\n\nIt showed how the gang, comprising men of mostly Pakistani and Afghan heritage, plied girls as young as 13 with alcohol and drugs and passed them around for sex.\n\nThis latest trial has revealed there was another grooming gang operating in Rochdale, also made up of mostly south Asian men.\n\nThe conviction of five men has come 20 years after the gang committed their sickening crimes and eight years after one of the victims was interviewed by police about her full ordeal.\n\nFor legal reasons the victims, now women in their 30s, are known as Girl A and Girl B.\n\nWarning: This article contains details some readers may find upsetting\n\nWhistleblower Maggie Oliver quit Greater Manchester Police after saying abuse victims were being let down\n\nThe prosecutions came \"better late than never\", according to Maggie Oliver, one of the women who blew the whistle on grooming in the Greater Manchester town.\n\nThe former detective resigned from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) after she tried to get the force to take evidence of grooming gangs in Rochdale more seriously.\n\nShe said that, at the time, \"hundreds of victims\" were turned away by the force while the perpetrators were \"allowed to continue and abuse other children\".\n\nTwo of those victims, we now know, were the girls whose evidence was heard in this latest trial.\n\nDisturbingly, Girl A said that, for many years, she did not even realise she had been a victim, telling the court: \"I thought these men were my friends.\"\n\nIt was only in 2014, when she read a book which told the story of one of the women featured in Three Girls, that she realised the truth.\n\nShe turned to her sister and told her: \"This happened to me.\"\n\nThe following year, as a young mother, she went to a parenting course in Rochdale where she prepared a written presentation that shocked the course leaders so much that they called the police.\n\nIn her presentation, she wrote: \"I was abused daily for six years.\n\n\"I was 12 when they began to abuse me, feeding me alcohol and drugs, abuse me and pass me on to their friends.\n\n\"I had no choice but to do what they say or I would be beaten and raped.\n\n\"They did as they pleased, they made videos of me to use as blackmail.\n\n\"If I told anyone they would share the videos. They sent the video around Rochdale anyway and I was branded a slag for it.\"\n\nThe trial was held over three months at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court\n\nLater that year, she agreed to be interviewed by police.\n\nShe told them how her life between 2002 and 2006 had been dominated by the sickening abuse, which took place mostly in a flat above a shop on the edge of Rochdale.\n\nIt also happened in parks and beauty spots, a field next to a primary school and on some of the moors above the town.\n\nShe described to the jury how her ordeal began.\n\nShe said she had been walking along Drake Street in the town centre when a Honda Civic pulled up and the man inside sweet-talked her into swapping numbers.\n\nThey met for sex and she thought this older man had feelings for her until he started asking her, and then telling her, to have sex with his friends.\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nShe told the trial: \"He used me like a piece of meat. I thought I was in a relationship before he passed me on to his friends.\"\n\nIn police interviews she spoke of \"being on demand\" for her abusers every day, sometimes having multiple men on hold when they rang her at the same time.\n\nShe knew what would happen if she refused their sexual demands.\n\nOn one occasion she described being told to stay in a bedroom \"like a prisoner\" for hours while the group \"took it in turns\" to force her into sexual acts.\n\nShe said she worried she would \"get a black eye\" if she refused.\n\nThe court was also told she was urinated on by a group of men for refusing to perform oral sex on someone she had been \"offered out\" to.\n\nHer humiliation was also compounded by being filmed.\n\nShe described how she was shown a video of what some of her abusers had done to her when she had blacked out following a \"drinking contest\" in which, as a 14-year-old, she had had to drink as much neat vodka as possible.\n\nThe court was told the video showed her being sexually assaulted with a brandy bottle, while the group could be heard \"laughing\".\n\nThe bottle, the court was told, had been kept in the bathroom of the flat where it happened \"like some sort of trophy\". The video was then \"widely circulated\" around Rochdale.\n\nTo further secure her compliance, they even threatened to send the footage to her mother.\n\nThe defendants claimed they thought the girls were over 16 or 18 because they wore make-up or smoked cannabis.\n\nThe women pointed out that they were often wearing their school uniforms when the abuse occurred, often having been picked up by a gang member from their school.\n\nThe trial also heard how Girl A had already suffered sexual abuse as a child. Two men had already been convicted in a separate trial of raping her.\n\nThis was used by one of the defence teams to imply that the trauma of that initial abuse had caused her to misremember what had happened in this case.\n\nThis was flatly denied by Girl A.\n\nJurors in this latest trial also heard Girl A say she had been the victim not only of the eight in the dock, but of a total of 50 men.\n\nShe had told friends \"what happened was so much worse than Three Girls, trust me\".\n\nThis claim was used by one of the defence teams to imply tat she was out to maximise a compensation claim - something that was also denied by Girl A.\n\nBBC drama Three Girls was based on the first Rochdale abuse scandal\n\nThe wheels of justice moved very slowly for Girl A, with eight years passing between her first going to police and the trial getting under way.\n\nShe told the trial there had been times when \"I'd had enough and didn't want to carry on\".\n\n\"If I'd known it would have been eight years I wouldn't even have started,\" she said. \"I wouldn't have bothered because all this has messed with my mental health.\"\n\nBut \"there's no point in starting something and stopping\", she went on.\n\nMs Oliver said the eight-year gap was \"barbaric\" and \"inhumane\".\n\n\"This young woman has had her life on hold for eight years,\" she said.\n\nAnother similarity with previous grooming cases was inaction by the authorities who were meant to keep vulnerable children safe.\n\nGirl A said GMP and Rochdale Borough Council's social services had turned her away \"like I was a naughty child\".\n\nGMP declined to comment on that specific point, but following Thursday's convictions Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Jackson praised the victims who \"demonstrated such bravery in testifying against these offenders on their journey to justice\".\n\nRochdale Borough Council has been invited to comment but has not yet responded.\n\nOn Thursday, director of children's services Sharon Hubber said: \"These were sickening crimes committed against two vulnerable young girls, whose strength and determination was instrumental in bringing this case forward.\"\n\nAs for Girl A's life now, the trauma and stigma she suffered since the age of 12 shows no sign of letting up.\n\n\"I can't even really go into Rochdale anymore,\" she told the trial. \"It's like my life's been ruined.\n\n\"To this day people still talk about what happens in my childhood but they still don't see the grooming side of it.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campers didn't get much sleep at Newgale, Pembrokeshire, due to the weather, says site owner\n\nThe second named storm in a month has caused \"mayhem\" for holidaymakers, a campsite owner has said.\n\nAbout a dozen tents were damaged and a car windscreen smashed by flying debris at Newgale Campsite in Pembrokeshire.\n\nA tree has also fallen on the rail line at Porthmadog, Gwynedd, while restrictions have been imposed on a road bridge.\n\nA Met Office wind warning for parts of west and north-west Wales was in place until noon due to Storm Betty.\n\nBBC Wales weather forecaster Derek Brockway said 66mph wind gusts were recorded near Capel Curig in Eryri, also known as Snowdonia, while gusts of 57mph (91km/h) were recorded on the coast at Mumbles Head, Swansea.\n\nGusts of 57mph were recorded at Mumbles Head, Swansea, on Saturday\n\nMike Harris, owner of Newgale Campsite, said neither staff nor campers had \"much sleep\" overnight due to the weather.\n\n\"The combination of rain and wind caused mayhem last night,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"About 12 tents were written off or damaged [and] one windscreen was smashed from flying debris.\"\n\nAbout a dozen tents were flattened at Newgale, says the campsite owner\n\nHe said weather conditions this summer had been the worst in the six years he has run the site, adding: \"It makes me feel sorry for those who've been waiting for their family holiday.\"\n\nTravel analysts Inrix said a fallen tree on the rail line was affecting Transport for Wales trains between Pwllheli, Gwynedd, and Machynlleth, Powys.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place for bikes, motorcycles and caravans on the A55 Britannia Bridge, linking Anglesey to the mainland.\n\nThe weather warning covered Anglesey, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire until noon.\n\nBetty is the second storm named in August, following Storm Antoni which occurred earlier this month.\n• None Storm Betty to bring very strong winds to Wales", "Lucy Letby has been convicted of killing babies on the neonatal unit where she worked\n\nEarly one morning in July 2018, Lucy Letby was led away from her home in handcuffs after being arrested for the first time.\n\nThe neonatal nurse, 28 at the time, was to be questioned about truly unthinkable crimes that, upon conviction, would make her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.\n\nHer arrest followed a painstaking investigation by Cheshire Police that, at its height, involved nearly 70 officers and civilian staff.\n\nThe sole focus of Operation Hummingbird was to investigate the alarming and unexplained rise in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies in the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit.\n\nWithin hours, news of Letby's arrest was making headlines around the world.\n\nShe was initially released on police bail but was subsequently arrested twice more and then ultimately charged in November 2020.\n\nSince October, the now 33-year-old has been on trial at Manchester Crown Court, accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nShe steadfastly denied all of the 22 charges against her but was found guilty of seven counts of murder and seven of attempted murder, involving six babies.\n\nLetby was acquitted on two counts of attempted murder while jurors were unable to reach verdicts on six further attempted murder charges.\n\nThe jury of seven women and four men had deliberated for more than 110 hours after hearing nine months of harrowing evidence.\n\nBut what have we learned about the woman who murdered and attempted to kill babies she was trusted to care for?\n\nLucy Letby wiped away tears as she gave evidence for the first time during her trial\n\nLetby was born on 4 January 1990 and grew up in Hereford with her mother and father, John and Susan, who since October have watched their daughter's trial unfold from the public gallery.\n\nShe attended a local school and sixth-form college, selecting subjects she believed would help her achieve her goals and aspirations.\n\n\"I have always wanted to work with children,\" she told the jury, adding she had chosen A-levels \"which would best support that career\".\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nLetby, who was the first person in her family to go to university, studied nursing for three years at the University of Chester.\n\nDuring her studies, she completed numerous work placements. The majority were based at the Countess of Chester Hospital, either on the children's ward or the neonatal unit.\n\nShe qualified as a Band 5 nurse in September 2011 and went on to start working full-time at the hospital from January 2012 before qualifying to work with intensive care babies in the spring of 2015.\n\nLetby told the court her workload from that time was \"predominately\" spent looking after the sickest babies on the unit.\n\nShe also revealed how she mentored five or six student nurses and estimated that she had cared for hundreds of new-born babies during 2015 and 2016.\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nIn September 2016, Letby was officially informed in a letter from the Royal College of Nursing that she was under investigation over the deaths of babies.\n\nEarlier that year, she had been removed from clinical duties and given a clerical role in the risk and patient safety office by hospital management.\n\nAt the time, she believed this was to check staff were competent to do their jobs and hoped to return to the job she loved.\n\nBut six years later Letby - who had no previous convictions, reprimands or cautions recorded against her - found herself sitting in the dock behind a glass screen as the prosecution labelled her a \"calculating and devious\" opportunist who \"gaslighted\" colleagues to cover her \"murderous assaults\".\n\nLetby spent 14 days in the witness box giving evidence during her trial\n\nHer defence team argued the deaths and collapses were due to \"serial failures in care\" in the unit and she was the victim of a \"system that wanted to apportion blame when it failed\".\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a glimpse into Letby's life outside of work, with her once-private WhatsApp and social media messages read to the court.\n\n\"I had quite an active social life,\" she told the jury.\n\n\"I used to regularly attend salsa class, go out with friends, go on holidays with friends. Gym.\"\n\nShe started to cry as pictures of her home - where she was first arrested - were shown to the jury.\n\nHer home in Chester was searched following her first arrest\n\nLetby lived in staff accommodation at Ash House before moving to a flat in Chester for about six months.\n\nShe moved back into Ash House in June 2015 before moving into the house she bought on Westbourne Road, Chester, in April 2016.\n\nA photo of a noticeboard in the kitchen was covered in pictures and letters and featured a poster, drawn by her godson, which read: \"No.1 Godmother awarded to Lucy Letby\".\n\nOn her bed, she had Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore cuddly toys while a drawer in the living room contained various documents and medical notes for her two cats, named Tigger and Smudge.\n\nLetby has been remanded in custody since November 2020 and has spent time in four different prisons.\n\nHer trial has gripped readers from around the world, many unable to fathom how a neonatal nurse could carry out such heinous acts.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucy Letby has been convicted of killing babies on the neonatal unit where she worked\n\nIt was the spring of 2017 when an alarming letter arrived at Cheshire Police's headquarters, addressed to the chief constable.\n\nIt was from the chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital, which had seen an unexplained surge in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies in its neonatal unit.\n\nDoctors were baffled - the deaths defied explanation and fears were mounting that something sinister could be at play.\n\nThe events that followed culminated in one of Britain's darkest criminal trials and the conviction of Lucy Letby, the country's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.\n\n\"The overwhelming weight of evidence leads us to know she is a killer and, using her words, she is evil,\" said senior investigating officer Det Supt Paul Hughes.\n\nShortly after the letter arrived, Det Supt Hughes met three senior medics at the hospital to discuss their mounting concerns.\n\n\"What they explained to me were two words - unexplained and unexpected,\" he said.\n\n\"It was those two words the doctors had been trying to work out.\"\n\nDet Supt Hughes was at the helm of Operation Hummingbird\n\nOperation Hummingbird was launched and Letby was first arrested at her home in Chester in July 2018.\n\nAt its height, the investigation involved nearly 70 officers and civilian staff, with detectives gathering some 32,000 pages of evidence and sifting through reams of medical records and data.\n\nAhead of Letby's trial in October, about 2,000 people were spoken to and nearly 250 people were identified as potential witnesses.\n\nTime and again, the evidence all led to the softly spoken young nurse from Hereford who was often found working overtime as she made early strides in her career.\n\n\"Nice Lucy\", as one doctor called her.\n\nLetby was interviewed for about 30 hours over the course of her three arrests in 2018, 2019 and 2020.\n\nWhile Det Supt Hughes found her to be \"co-operative\", he recalled how she failed to show any overt signs of either empathy or sympathy. Her answers were often clinical.\n\n\"She's a difficult one to work out because she is emotionless,\" he said. \"She doesn't respond [in a way] I would have expected.\n\n\"For example, we didn't see any sadness or any passion or anything more like an innocent person banging on the table demanding that we should go and find the proper killer.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Evans said Letby's normality gave her a cover to commit the crimes\n\nThis was the same for Det Ch Insp Nicola Evans, who found Letby to be \"nothing out of the ordinary\", describing her as \"calm and quiet\".\n\n\"Lucy Letby, for me, is 'beige' in that she was a normal woman in her 20s with a normal life,\" she said.\n\n\"She had a social life, a circle of friends, a family, and she was embarking on her career. She used that normality to form trust and then abused that trust.\n\n\"There was clearly something very deceptive about that. That normality gave her a cover to commit the crimes she did.\"\n\nAs the net closed around Letby, one thing remained unclear - why would a nurse who had dedicated her career to caring for the sickest of babies now want to kill them?\n\n\"I don't think we know why Lucy Letby did this and we may never know why and that's really difficult,\" said Det Ch Insp Evans.\n\n\"I can't imagine how a parent must feel accepting that.\"\n\nPascale Jones described Letby's time on the witness box as \"extremely cold and unemotional\"\n\nIn the autumn of 2017, Pascale Jones from the Crown Prosecution Service first became involved in the case.\n\nShe believes Letby was able to get away with her appalling crimes by varying the subtle ways in which she harmed babies in her care.\n\n\"If she'd stuck to one modus operandi, she would have probably been found out sooner,\" she said.\n\n\"But because she diversified the ways in which she was attacking babies she was preying on their vulnerabilities.\n\n\"And she was always ready to rationalise [and say] 'look, this can be explained'.\"\n\nThis is a distressing case so if you, or someone you know, need help after reading about it, the details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nWhile Letby's precise motives have never been explained, that was not necessarily a problem for prosecutors.\n\n\"What we've got to prove is the criminal intent and the ways in which she was inflicting this damage was clearly lethal,\" Mrs Jones said.\n\n\"She was turning innocuous substances into lethal weapons.\"\n\nAlmost four years later, Mrs Jones said she now believed Letby was \"all about control\".\n\n\"I've rarely come across a personality who is as self-centred as she was. All about herself.\n\n\"The power she was granting herself of life and death over the babies at her mercy.\n\nLetby was was convicted on Friday of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others.\n\nJurors spent more than 110 hours weighing up nine months of often harrowing evidence.\n\nWhile she awaits her sentencing hearing on Monday, Operation Hummingbird remains active with the force recently recruiting more detectives to join the team.\n\n\"I'm sure the public would expect us to look at the entire footprint of Lucy Letby's career,\" said Det Supt Hughes.\n\nThis includes admissions on to the neonatal unit at the Liverpool Women's Hospital while Letby was on placement there.\n\nThe families of babies who are a part of this investigation have been informed.\n\n\"From 2012 through to 2016, there were more than 4,000 admissions of babies into the neonatal units of both hospitals for us to work through,\" said Det Supt Hughes.\n\n\"This does not mean we are investigating all 4,000.\n\n\"It just means that we are committed to a thorough review of every admission from a medical perspective, to ensure that nothing is missed throughout the entirety of her employment as a nurse.\n\n\"Only those cases highlighted as concerning medically will be investigated further.\n\n\"We want to be confident that when we get to the end of Operation Hummingbird and say we have identified every offence if there are more.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None What did Lucy Letby do to babies in her care?", "The Bibby Stockholm barge was evacuated last week after the discovery of legionella bacteria in the on-board water system\n\nThe government's Bibby Stockholm barge for asylum seekers has appeared as a hoax listing on a travel website.\n\nThe barge, in Portland Port, Dorset, was advertised on Booking.com a week after it was evacuated following the discovery of Legionella bacteria on board the craft.\n\nThe man behind the listing, which has since been removed from the site, told the BBC he had done it \"as a joke\".\n\nBooking.com has been contacted for a comment.\n\nLast week, 39 asylum seekers were taken off the barge after Legionella bacteria was found in its water system.\n\nThe barge, moored in Portland Port, was advertised on Booking.com before later being removed\n\nThe hoax listing on the website described the Bibby Stockholm as having a garden and offering views of Dorset's Jurassic coast.\n\nIt also said towels and bed linen were included on board the craft, as well as a continental, American or vegetarian breakfast \"every morning at the property\".\n\nIt added that residents had access to a sauna and swimming pool.\n\nA BBC journalist was able to book a double room on the barge for Monday night for a total of £93.78, though that payment has yet to be processed.\n\nThe Home Office confirmed it had not made the vessel available for public bookings.\n\nThe man who made the listing on Booking.com, who did not give his name, told the BBC it was \"definitely a joke\" and he \"did not think they would take it seriously\".\n\nThe floating hotel, intended to hold 500 men, remains empty while further tests are carried out on its water system.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Known as the Gypsy King, heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury retired from boxing last year\n\nCritics have praised Tyson Fury's new docu-series for shining a light on his mental health issues.\n\nWhile most reviews agreed Netflix's At Home With The Furys was lightweight overall, many highlighted its depiction of the boxer's day-to-day struggles.\n\nIn a four-star review, the Evening Standard said: \"There are too many silly moments to count, but there are also unexpectedly profound ones.\"\n\nThe Times said it was \"multi-layered, flipping between light and dark\".\n\nThe nine-episode reality series, released earlier this week, follows the heavyweight world champion as he retires from boxing and embraces family life.\n\nFilmed primarily in Fury's flashy family home in Morecambe, it's an often-revealing look at the sportsman, his wife Paris and their six children.\n\nFury was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder in 2017, and has struggled with depression, anxiety, alcohol addiction and cocaine abuse.\n\nThe show follows Fury, his wife Paris (pictured) and their six children\n\nThe Independent's Rachel McGrath awarded the series three stars, writing: \"Netflix don't seem to have realised that the lead star being bored isn't the best starting point for a series about family life.\n\n\"And yet, as At Home With The Furys unfolds, I found myself unexpectedly empathising with Fury. But the show has a long way to go before reaching the dramatic heights of its reality TV predecessors.\"\n\nShe continued: \"His existence is one of wild juxtapositions. Fury likes taking the kids camping near his house. When he travels on a budget airline, he's mobbed by fans within seconds of stepping off a plane. But Netflix's focus is on the banal; between Selling Sunset-style shots of Morecambe, the boxer picks up dog poo, works out with dad John, and unwraps socks on his birthday.\n\n\"Bubbling below every scene are Fury's mental health struggles... His issues were at their peak when he had suicidal thoughts during his first retirement in 2015, and the show documents the underlying fear that this could happen again.\"\n\nFury's brother Tommy and his influencer partner Molly-Mae Hague, who he met on Love Island, also make appearances in the show.\n\nLove Island stars Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury, Tyson's brother, also appear in the series\n\nThere was less enthusiasm for the series from the Guardian's Jack Seale, who described it as \"sappingly dull\" in a two-star review.\n\n\"Like a middling journeyman boxer, the series suffers on account of its sluggish reaction time,\" he suggested. \"Two of the later episodes focus on Tyson's attempt to lure Anthony Joshua into an all-British title fight, in a rehash of what was a major boxing story when it happened.\n\n\"The long time lag and the known outcome - a deal will never be struck - make those scenes stale, but they come after the halfway point in the season, by which point At Home With the Furys is starting to run out of material.\"\n\nBut Carol Midgley of the Times praised the docu-series, writing: \"One of the reasons it works is because it is multi-layered, flipping between light and dark, with no one taking themselves too seriously.\n\n\"But at the same time there is a serious point: Tyson's mental health.\"\n\nIn her four-star review Midgley suggested the show occasionally \"feels scripted\", noting the Furys know that \"the cameras are on them and perhaps act up for them\".\n\nThe show follows Tyson as he adapts to family life at home following his retirement from boxing\n\n\"Apparently there were points when he wanted to cancel the documentary. But ultimately they are an extraordinary family who have managed to remain ordinary. Fury has a net worth of £51 million and they're still drinking Echo Falls. I like them for that.\"\n\nGenerally, the Furys \"come across as a likeable couple\", according to the Telegraph's Anita Singh.\n\n\"There are flashes of something deeper when Paris talks about her husband's mental health,\" she wrote in her three-star review.\n\n\"The series doesn't shy away from his mood swings and sometimes erratic behaviour - Paris refers to him as 'a giant 6 foot 9 child' - but the show prefers to keep things light.\n\n\"Occasionally, scenarios feel manufactured. Fury proposes to his wife in a restaurant in the South of France but they're already married, and you suspect this is simply a ruse to give the programme-makers something to film.\"\n\nElsewhere, the series was described as \"nine episodes of absolute gold\" by the Evening Standard's Vicky Jessop.\n\n\"That is mostly because every member of said family is absolutely bonkers,\" she said in her four-star review.\n\n\"The six kids (three of whom are named Prince) swear like absolute troupers, long-suffering wife Paris is left to keep everything on the road and there's more gilt on the family casa than the Sistine Chapel.\"\n\nAt Home With the Furys was released on Netflix earlier this week\n\nShe said some of the footage is \"both howl-inducingly funny and wincingly awkward\".\n\n\"The show intersperses the action with straight-to-camera pieces where the family open up about the effect Tyson's mental health has had on them, and on him.\n\n\"This isn't the Kardashians, but it's arguably more compelling: Fame with the varnish stripped off, rough and unfiltered. It's the perfect type of trash: Give it to me straight. I love it.\"\n\nFury, 35, is also known as the Gypsy King and was born in Manchester to an Irish Traveller family.\n\nLast year, the boxer called on the government to introduce stronger punishments for knife crime after his cousin was killed in a stabbing.\n\nAhead of the 2022 World Cup, Fury released his debut single, a cover of Neil Diamond's classic Sweet Caroline, to raise money for men's mental health charity Talk Club.\n\nWriting about his Netflix series, Emily Watkins of iNews concluded: \"In ancient Rome, Tyson might have been a gladiator; in 6th-century Britain, someone like Beowulf.\n\n\"In 2023, whether he's helping his kids on the monkey bars or training to knock out a nemesis, Tyson is as complex as he is charismatic - just the way we've always liked our heroes.\"", "Cheshire police has released a clip from nurse Lucy Letby's first police interview which took place on 3 July 2018.\n\nThe nurse has been found guilty of seven murders and the attempted murder of another six babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nShe was was acquitted of two attempted murder charges and the jury was undecided on the attempted murder of a further four babies.", "At 10 months, the Lucy Letby trial is thought to be Britain’s longest ever murder case.\n\nIts length, and the complexity of the evidence have made it heavy going for all involved.\n\nMost especially, of course, for the parents of the babies.\n\nSome came to court to give harrowing accounts of their experiences, and many sat through hours of upsetting testimony from witnesses.\n\nAll remained dignified throughout, and the atmosphere in the courtroom was intense as the verdicts started to come in over the course of several hearings. Some couples held hands, others clutched babies’ toys.\n\nIt was striking that Letby’s seat in the dock remained empty at the end, and her parents - who’ve been present throughout - were also absent then.\n\nThe judge praised the jurors for their service, and acknowledged that the gruelling process has been difficult for them.\n\nThey deliberated for more than 100 hours before confirming that they were unable to deliver any more verdicts.\n\nIt was clear that some of them were emotional at the end too. They will be offered support, if they want it, to help them come to terms with the experience of sitting on this jury.", "Residents gather outside a military base demanding help after fleeing Carrefour Feuilles\n\nThousands of Haitians have fled their homes in Port-au-Prince amid soaring gang violence that has killed more than 2,400 people so far this year.\n\nThe UN said 5,000 fled the Carrefour-Feuilles district of the capital this week after gang members took control.\n\nLocal aid groups have stopped vital services as government attempts to quell the violence fell flat.\n\nThe UN Security Council will decide soon whether to send a multinational force to help restore order.\n\nIn Carrefour-Feuilles and surrounding areas where there has been months of gang warfare, a stream of residents were seen carrying suitcases or leaving with belongings strapped to their cars.\n\nVideo recorded by Reuters news agency showed women weeping beside the body of a man who gang members had killed.\n\nReuters said that many of those who managed to escape had gathered at a local military base demanding help against the gangs.\n\nDecades of instability, disasters and economic woes have left Haiti one of the poorest and most-violent countries in the world.\n\nGang violence has soared since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, which led to much of the country's territory falling out of government control.\n\nTurf wars have since driven a surge in refugees, severe food shortages, murders, kidnappings and sexual violence.\n\nUN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said on Friday that at least 2,439 Haitians had been killed, 902 injured and 951 kidnapped this year.\n\n\"Reports from Haiti this week have underscored the extreme brutality of the violence being inflicted on the population,\" she said.\n\nShe added that vigilante groups set up to counter the gangs had led to 350 people being lynched since April. Of those, 310 were alleged gang members and one was a police officer.\n\nAccording to provisional figures released by one local rights group, 30 people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in attacks in the capital on Thursday.\n\nThe US embassy, which has already been evacuated of non-essential staff, closed down on Thursday due to sustained gunfire in the area.\n\nHaiti's government said it would deploy \"all its forces\" to restore order to Carrefour-Feuilles. However, its poorly equipped police have struggled against heavily armed gangs.\n\nThe International Red Cross said that \"in a matter of days, violence escalated dramatically\", particularly in areas where it worked with local groups.\n\nRoadblocks installed by warring gangs were stopping residents from getting help, it added.\n\nAnn Lee, co-founder of US-based crisis response group CORE, which is still operating in the capital, said that many international groups had left due to increasing intimidation and violence against staff.\n\n\"We have a staff member who lost her daughter because she was having a seizure and couldn't get to the hospital,\" she said. \"We have an employee whose brother was beheaded.\"\n\nMs Lee said there was not a single member of CORE's 100-strong Haiti team who did not know a victim of the violence.\n\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in a report on Tuesday that a \"robust use of force\" by a multinational deployment was needed to restore order and disarm the gangs.\n\nKenya has expressed willingness to lead such a force. The council is due to consider the matter in the coming weeks.", "I've spent ten months in the presence of Lucy Letby, and I still don't understand her. I'm not sure what you'd expect Britain's most prolific child killer to look like. But I'm pretty sure it's not this.\n\nPhotos on social media chart Letby's old life - nights out with friends, dressed up and goofing about for the camera. She doesn't look like that now - her dyed blonde hair has returned to its natural brown.\n\nBehind the glass screen of the dock she cut a feeble figure, flanked by prison officers and clutching a pink scarf like a comforter. A severe expression replaced the smiles from her photos.\n\nThe families of the murdered babies filled the public gallery. Across the aisle, most of the seats were empty. But the nurse's mother and father, Susan and John, showed up, day after day. They were sometimes joined by one of their daughter's friends - the only one to come.\n\nMy berth on the press bench was no more than five metres away from Letby's seat. Every so often I'd look across at the nurse, to try to catch a glimpse of character. As bereaved parents recounted the horrors of watching their children die, the nurse maintained a neutral expression. No matter how emotionally charged the evidence was, she sat passively.\n\nVery rarely, as she was brought in and out, she'd look up and catch my eye, but just as quickly, she'd look away again. I tried to look into her soul. I drew a blank. I started to question whether we'd ever see the real Lucy Letby.\n\nThe trial began in October and as the court broke up for the holidays, I wondered what sort of Christmas she was having, behind bars in prison in Yorkshire.\n\nIt wasn't until February that I first saw a hint of emotion from Letby. It wasn't prompted by an upsetting piece of evidence, or harrowing testimony. It was the voice of a doctor that caused the nurse to break.\n\nShe couldn't see him - he was hidden behind screens to protect his identity - but she could hear him speak, and his voice seemed to trigger feelings we hadn't seen before.\n\nLater, Letby admitted she had \"loved him like a friend\". We were shown flirty texts between the two, which suggested that although the doctor was married, it might have been more than that. The prosecution painted him as her boyfriend.\n\nI found it interesting that while the nurse remained composed throughout months of evidence relating to the terrible suffering of tiny babies, her first sign of emotion seemed to be borne out of pangs of longing for this doctor.\n\nThere were only a handful of other occasions when tears came to the surface. During evidence about being taken off nursing duty, when excerpts of her post-arrest interviews were read out, and when it was mentioned she'd had suicidal thoughts.\n\nMuch later, when lead prosecutor Nick Johnson KC got to his feet to start cross-examining Letby, his first question was one I'd been wondering too.\n\n\"Is there any reason that you cry when you talk about yourself,\" he asked, \"but you don't cry when talking about these dead and seriously injured children?\"\n\n\"I have cried when talking about some of those babies,\" Letby replied.\n\nThe first buds of spring arrived, and the trial trundled on.\n\nThe dense evidence was hard going. Blood gas records. Fluid balance charts. Clinical notes. The glossary of medical terms handed to the media at the start of the trial had become redundant. By now we were all fluent in the terminology of neonatal medicine.\n\nThe prosecution's case was carefully built on data and documentation, but it wasn't evidence that gave any clue about Letby's character. As the case progressed without any insight into her possible motives, the nurse's personality remained the elephant in the room.\n\nOccasionally, something would cast a shard of light on Letby's life. The jury saw photos of her house taken by police after her arrest. Art covered in clichéd quotes hung on the walls. A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes. Sparkles Wherever You Go. Shine Bright Like A Diamond.\n\nThere were teddy bears on the bed. Artificial flowers. A fluffy pink dressing gown hanging on the back of her bedroom door. Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit. A Mrs Doubtfire DVD.\n\nTwo books sat by Letby's bedside. In Shock, a doctor's memoir about being dangerously ill after a miscarriage, and Never Greener, a novel about a young woman who had an affair with a married man.\n\nIn the autumn, the case had opened with a flourish when the prosecution produced a green post-it note discovered by police after Letby's arrest. Covered in a desperate scrawl, it included phrases like, I AM EVIL I DID THIS, I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough, I don't deserve to live, I am an awful person.\n\nThe prosecution held it up as a confession. The defence argued it was an anguished cri de coeur written by the wrongly accused.\n\nEither way, it was the most significant insight we had into Letby's state of mind. I wrote to the judge to ask for permission to make it public. He agreed.\n\nSeveral months on, the trial returned to the note. It turned out it wasn't the only scribbled memo police had found - Letby had covered all sorts of pieces of paper with her ramblings. Tightly packed lines of handwriting laid bare her mindset as she was taken off duty as a nurse and the net closed in.\n\nPlease help me, I can't do this any more, Hate my life, I want someone to help me but they can't were all scrawled alongside the names of friends, colleagues and the married doctor, whose name was embellished with love heart doodles.\n\nThe names of her cats, Tigger and Smudge, appeared frequently.\n\nOne of the notes was found inside Letby's 2016 diary, a journal with a cartoon bear on its cover and the tagline, \"Have a lovely year!\"\n\nWe were shown a week in which she'd noted a reminder to pay her council tax, and diarised a night out at a Mexican restaurant and a salsa class. This was the same week she murdered two brothers. The baby boys were triplets.\n\nI tried to get my head around the possibility of this double life.\n\nWhatsApp and Facebook messages Letby had sent to friends and colleagues were shown to the court every so often, but it was hard to build up a picture of the nurse's character through individual texts.\n\nI spent time compiling them and started to spot some interesting themes. Quite often she'd text other nurses to tell them about her involvement with babies who had collapsed - it looked like she was fishing for sympathy.\n\nCertain messages hinted at a possible God complex.\n\nOther texts sent a chill down my spine - including one written the night before she returned to work after a holiday.\n\nAnd one she sent about two brothers.\n\nIt was particularly fascinating to read Letby's texts as she began to realise she was under suspicion.\n\nWe were deep into the prosecution case, and I still couldn't marry up Letby's apparent normality with the enormity of the allegations she was facing - but the case against her was beginning to stack up.\n\nDawn didn't feature in the trial, but she and Letby go way back - they grew up together and are still in touch.\n\nDawn was immediately warm and likeable. We went for a drive and she pointed out the cathedral green where she and Letby used to hang out, and their favourite restaurants.\n\n\"That's where we used to spend lunch times, away from all the popular kids,\" Dawn told me as we drove past the geography block of their old school.\n\nShe laughed. \"No, we were the nerdy ones that concentrated on our studies, and didn't mess around in the lessons.\"\n\nThe friends had moved on to sixth form college together, and while most of their circle had no firm career plans, Dawn told me Letby was clear about her path.\n\n\"It was always her aspiration - her dream - to become a nurse and to help babies,\" Dawn said. \"She told me she'd had quite a difficult birth herself and was quite poorly, and I think that's affected a lot of her life.\n\n\"She feels that's what she was called to do - to help children who might have been born in similar circumstances.\"\n\nUnwavering in her loyalty and belief that her friend was incapable of murder, was it possible that Letby had pulled the wool over her eyes?\n\nDawn let out a long sigh, before answering.\n\n\"The only way I'd ever believe that she's guilty is if she tells me she's guilty,\" she said.\n\nI was struck by Dawn's certainty, but my own mind was far less settled. Like Dawn, I needed to hear directly from the nurse herself.\n\nProfessor David Wilson, a criminologist with an interest in healthcare serial killers, told me Letby was facing a \"crucial decision\" about whether to give evidence at the trial - or not.\n\n\"I've seen people do it and they unravel within the first five minutes,\" he said. \"They might be clever, they might actually hold their own, but their entire attitude in the witness box can really prejudice what the jury thinks about them.\"\n\nProfessor Wilson said the outcome of the entire case might hinge on whether or not Letby decided to take the stand herself - which she finally did, at the start of May.\n\nI came into court one morning, and Letby was sitting just in front of me, staring straight ahead. She looked tense and kept her hands clasped below the counter.\n\nShe was asked to stand, gave her name, and swore to tell the truth. I was gripped.\n\nThe nurse's defence barrister, Ben Myers KC, got to his feet. He started gently, with questions about Letby's childhood and school days - benign stuff, but I hung on every word - after seven months it was captivating just to hear her speak.\n\nLetby came across as well-spoken and unflustered, thoughtful and co-operative.\n\nI started to detect certain phrases she had on repeat. Asked about the Facebook searches she made for the babies' parents she replied: \"That was a normal pattern of behaviour for me.\"\n\nAnd asked about taking nursing documents home with her, and storing them? \"That was a normal pattern of behaviour for me,\" she said. It sounded rehearsed.\n\nAfter five days of relatively tame questioning from her own barrister, the prosecutor, Nick Johnson KC, bore down on Letby. The easy ride was over.\n\nWhat followed was the court at its most compelling. At first, Letby coped well. She clearly felt equal to her interrogator, and her knowledge of neonatal medicine was obvious - sometimes it veered on cocky.\n\nShe disagreed with established nursing guidelines, senior doctors, and medical experts. There were even moments when she tried to outsmart Johnson. Those never ended well.\n\nThe prosecutor picked holes in her testimony, pointing out the differences between what she'd told the police after her arrest, and what she was saying in court. He found examples of her disagreeing with herself - highlighting evidence she had previously agreed and was now disputing.\n\n\"You're lying aren't you, Lucy Letby?\" he'd ask her. \"You enjoyed what was going on didn't you, Lucy Letby?\"\n\n\"No,\" she'd answer, meekly. It was clear he was getting to her.\n\nThe defendant's delivery started to change. She became staccato and monosyllabic. Her voice level dropped to a whisper, and even though I was just a few metres away, it was becoming harder and harder to hear her.\n\nAnd then, for the first time, Letby asked to stop.\n\nNick Johnson had been asking her about each baby in the order they appeared on the charge sheet. We were only four babies in - I remember wondering how on earth she was going to manage to get through the remaining 13.\n\nThe jury was asked to leave the room, and we were told Letby's welfare officer had visited her. The court finished early for the day and the prosecution team walked out looking jubilant.\n\nThey had her on the ropes.\n\nIn total, Letby spent 14 days in the witness box and faced nearly 60 hours of questioning - but did I feel any clearer about her true self? No.\n\nShe returned to the glass walled dock for the rest of the trial. June turned to July. The lawyers closed their cases, and the judge summed up the evidence.\n\nNow the nurse's future was in the jury's hands. They had nine months of evidence, and 22 charges to work through. Was Letby evil personified, or a victim herself? How they felt about her would determine the rest of her life.\n\nThe smiling nurse with the sing-song name who went to salsa classes is now Britain's most prolific child murderer. Can anyone make sense of that? I know I can't.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, need help after reading this story, details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.", "Millie Gribble was described by her family as \"funny, clever and energetic\"\n\nA six-year-old girl who died after being hit by a van was a \"priceless gift\" who wanted to be a police officer, her family has said.\n\nMillie Gribble died two days after she and two teenagers were struck in Garstang Road, Barton on Tuesday.\n\nA 59-year-old man, from Nateby, has been released under investigation after he was held on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nMillie's family said she was \"funny, clever, energetic and full of life\".\n\n\"In her short six years of life, she brought so much joy to all our hearts and so many smiles to our faces.\n\n\"Millie never failed to make us laugh and smile with her mischievous antics and adorable sense of humour.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information about the crash\n\nThey said the six-year-old loved pets, music and sports, adding she \"talked about having her own family one day\".\n\n\"Millie wanted to be a police officer when she grew up so she could help and support those people who needed it.\"\n\nA 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy are being treated in hospital for their injuries from the crash, which occurred at about 13:15 BST on Tuesday.\n\nLancashire Police are appealing for anyone with information or footage to contact them.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nLucas Paqueta is being investigated by the Football Association for potential betting rule breaches, sources have confirmed to the BBC.\n\nThe West Ham midfielder, 25, has been linked with a move to Manchester City.\n\nOn Friday, Paqueta was omitted from Brazil's squad for their upcoming World Cup qualifiers \"for him to sort out his problems\".\n\nSky Sports reported Paqueta as saying he had not placed any bets himself and was shocked by the reports.\n\nThe investigation, which is also said to involve world governing body Fifa, is believed to centre around bets placed in Brazil on yellow cards awarded against Paqueta.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Brazil's interim coach Fernando Diniz said Paqueta had been left out of his squad for qualifiers against Bolivia and Peru next month.\n\n\"Paqueta was on the list, he's a player I like a lot. It's a time for him to resolve these issues,\" Diniz told reporters.\n\n\"People need time to sort these issues out. He's a player I love, I have the best impressions of him.\"\n\nBBC Sport has approached the FA and West Ham for comment.\n\nPaqueta joined the Hammers from Lyon for £36.5m last summer and was instrumental in the club winning the Europa Conference League.\n\nHe made 28 Premier League appearances last season, scoring four goals and assisting three.\n\nCity boss Pep Guardiola said in a news conference on Friday that Paqueta \"is a West Ham player\" and would not comment on a potential transfer.\n\nIn May, Brentford forward Ivan Toney was suspended from football for eight months for 232 breaches of the FA's betting rules.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of West Ham United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Hammers - go straight to all the best content", "Michel Roux Jr said the Mayfair restaurant will close in January\n\nChef Michel Roux Jr is closing his two Michelin-starred restaurant Le Gavroche after 56 years.\n\nRoux Jr, who has appeared on multiple TV cooking shows, said he made the decision to spend \"more time with his family\".\n\nLe Gavroche, in Mayfair, central London, was opened in 1967 by French restaurateur brothers Albert and Michel Roux Sr.\n\nAt the time it was the only French restaurant of its kind in London.\n\nIn an Instagram post on Friday, Roux Jr said that the restaurant would be closing in January 2024.\n\nHe said he had \"very mixed emotions\" about the decision to close, but that the restaurant's name would \"live on\".\n\n\"This decision has not been made lightly. Le Gavroche means so much, not just to myself and the Roux family, but to the wider Gavroche team and you, our guests, who have become our family over so many years,\" Roux Jr wrote.\n\n\"I have always felt that should Le Gavroche ever close, it must be on a high.\n\n\"Le Gavroche continues to be fully booked, week in, week out, but I have known for a while that I must make time for a better work/life balance, so I can spend more time with my family and on my other business ventures.\"\n\nRoux Jr, son of Albert Roux, has run the restaurant since 1991, earning two Michelin stars — one of the most prestigious accolades in the restaurant business.\n\nChefs Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White \"earned their stripes\" at Le Gavroche, the restaurant's website said.\n\nRoux Jr added that from November, a series of \"celebratory dinners\" would be held until the restaurant's closure.\n\nRoux Jr has starred on the judging panel of MasterChef: The Professionals and was a guest chef on MasterChef Australia. He has also presented two series of Michel Roux's French Country Cooking.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Raymond Starr is taking part in Prostate Cancer UK's Boys Need Bins campaign\n\nProstate cancer patients have described the \"horrendous\" experience of urinary incontinence, which some men undergo as a result of surgery.\n\nRaymond Starr, 68, described being \"like a running tap\" and feeling \"agitated and embarrassed\".\n\nCharity Prostate Cancer UK wants legislation to ensure sanitary bins are available in all male toilets.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had already introduced legislation to improve toilet facilities.\n\nMr Starr, a retired public servant from Abergele, Conwy county, was diagnosed in 2017 after a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test offered to over-55s identified abnormal levels.\n\nHe opted for a radical prostatectomy, after which patients are fitted with a catheter which is later removed, commonly followed by urinary incontinence.\n\n\"You're aware of it, but I don't think you really take on board what's likely to happen,\" said Mr Starr.\n\n\"I was literally like a running tap. It was horrendous.\"\n\nProstate Cancer UK said early stages of the disease often had no symptoms, so the side effects of treatments had the biggest effect on people's quality of life.\n\nThe charity said one in eight men got prostate cancer in their lifetime - one in four for black men - and stressed the importance of knowing the risks.\n\nThe incontinence was so bad that Mr Starr said he \"couldn't see a way out\".\n\n\"I thought, 'if I'm going to be like this for the rest of my life, I wish I'd never gone ahead with this'.\n\n\"I got quite agitated about it, I felt embarrassed. Every time I'd get up from a chair there would be leakage. If I tried to go upstairs to the toilet, by the time I got to the top I was wet through.\"\n\nNigel Rowland from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, had a similar experience last year, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and opted for surgery in September.\n\nThe 65-year-old tow boat captain said: \"I was aware that incontinence could well be a side effect, as well as erectile dysfunction, but I thought 'I want it out and that's it, I don't want to be playing around'.\"\n\nMr Rowland said the incontinence was \"sort of OK\" at home, but problematic when he was ready to get out again.\n\n\"Whenever we went out for a walk, or even when I went with my mates for a drink, I had to take a backpack with me.\n\n\"Basically you put the soaking wet nappy into the plastic bag. At the start it might even be two. You'd have to walk around and find a bin somewhere, or take it home with you.\"\n\nMr Rowland recalled one occasion when he visited a National Trust site with his family and ended up rushing to the toilet while his daughter's partner went to retrieve his bag from the car.\n\n\"By the time I got to the toilets, it was so wet it was pouring down the inside of my shorts. I felt so embarrassed, uncomfortable,\" he said.\n\n\"To put it bluntly, I'd drastically wet myself and it's not a nice feeling.\"\n\nNigel Rowland says carrying a \"soaking wet nappy\" around is \"embarrassing\"\n\nProstate Cancer UK's Boys Need Bins campaign hopes to prompt legislation to mandate sanitary disposal bins in all men's toilets.\n\nMr Rowland continued: \"It's psychological as well, you don't want to be walking around with what's just happened inside your bag.\"\n\nMr Starr added that the \"unpleasantness of it all\" put him off leaving his home and the NHS-supplied pads were \"quite a big, bulky thing\".\n\n\"Where do you dispose of that? It's impossible. It takes a toll on mental health and it limits the freedom of actually moving from home.\"\n\nMr Rowland added: \"I made a bit of a joke about it with my friends, because that's the way I dealt with it, eventually.\n\n\"I tried to relate it to cars doing so many miles per gallon, so when I was out with my mates it was how many pints per pad.\"\n\nBoth men have had successful outcomes from their surgeries and no longer suffer from regular incontinence, but hope that speaking out will raise awareness about the need for bins.\n\nMr Starr added: \"It's up to the Senedd to be one of the leaders on this. I hope Wales could be the first to roll it out.\"\n\nNick Ridgman of Prostate Cancer UK said there were hundreds of thousands of men with urinary incontinence and it was \"deeply unfair\" that many men felt anxious about leaving the house.\n\nHe added: \"It's frustrating, it creates worry and it doesn't allow those men or their families to go about their day with dignity.\"\n\nProstate Cancer UK has worked with Phs group to create a suitable sanitary bin for men's toilets\n\nThe awareness raising efforts of charities have recently seen a prostate cancer storyline introduced for Shane Richie's EastEnders character Alfie Moon.\n\nIn May, male incontinence was debated in the Senedd, with Labour's Carolyn Thomas admitting that she had been \"naïve\" to the issue before a \"chance meeting\" with a prostate cancer patient on a train who explained his wife often had to put his used pads in her handbag until they found a bin.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"In Wales, local authorities are legally required to produce local toilet strategies and, in doing so, they should take every opportunity to talk to the public and representative groups about the challenges they face in accessing local toilet facilities, listening to their concerns and delivering potential solutions.\n\n\"We have issued guidance to local authorities and this highlights that accessible toilets are more important for those with conditions such as incontinence, urgency and prostate problems.\"", "Can the UK's economy get back in the groove?\n\nTurning points in the economy can be a little messy.\n\nJust over two decades ago, the then Bank of England deputy governor Mervyn King said new economic figures had the air of John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever: \"Old-fashioned disco dancing - sharp movements in unpredictable directions creating much excitement accompanied by a good deal of noise.\"\n\nIt is again an apt description of the British economy.\n\nThis week should have been a reliable staging post on a path of disinflation, and a sign that three years of inflationary crises and shocks were now washing out of the economy. The household energy shock that forced inflation above 11% went into reverse, bringing inflation below 7% in July.\n\nBut the figures had a significant sting in the tail.\n\nMeasures of underlying inflation, such as core inflation, which strips out the direct impact of energy and food, remained stuck at June's rate. Services inflation actually went back up, to a joint 31-year high.\n\nIt is these measures of more enduring forms of inflation that the experts setting interest rates are most focused on, not the predictable fall in the headline rate, as the household energy cap gradually lowers gas and electricity bills. And this came on top of some punchy rises in wages (in cash terms).\n\nSo, by the end of this week, yet again, the financial markets were arching their eyebrows at UK government borrowing.\n\nTen-year gilt yields, a measure of the cost of decade-long loans to the government, shot up to their highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nTwo-year yields, which underpin fixed mortgage rates, were also back up, having come down after similar market jitters in June.\n\nThe markets are again starting to assume the UK is more inflation-prone than it was and than other similar countries, and that higher interest rates will also linger for longer. Indeed a further rate rise next month now looks very likely, with more to follow.\n\nThose disco-dancing figures can be seen across the economy too. On the High Street, Wilko is in administration, whereas at the same time Marks & Spencer has said it is making more profits than expected.\n\nTravel firms, some hotels and restaurants are booming as a certain section of the population spend heavily on leisure. In contrast, construction firms - even those working on prestigious Premier League football stadiums - are facing administration because of spiralling costs.\n\nHarjit Singh (right) revises all prices at his store on a weekly basis\n\nIn some supermarkets such as H & Jodie's Nisa Local in Walsall, the owners tell me they are planning to subsidise hot water bottles for customers who still cannot afford their energy bills.\n\nThe £1 chocolate bars. that became £1.25 bars in spring, have now increased to £1.35, proprietor Harjit Singh shows me. Those moves, and the fact they are not returning to the £1 price point, are entirely consistent with the rate of inflation slowing to 7%.\n\nHarjit revises all prices on a weekly basis. On average, they are still going up. Milk prices may be falling, he says, but food price inflation overall is still set to remain in double digits for the rest of this year, meaning the cost of living crisis is far from over.\n\nIn the central banking cliche, the job of the Bank of England governor is to remove the punch bowl before the party gets out of hand. But there is no boom or party right now across the economy.\n\nThere do seem to be pockets of froth that could justify higher interest rates. But interest rate rises are a blunt tool, affecting a different section of the economy - those with large mortgage borrowing and indebted companies.\n\nIt could create a perception of unfairness, that those enjoying pockets of frothy inflationary spending are forcing higher rates on everyone else. Others might say that excessive low interest rates have until recently subsidised massive borrowing at the expense of prudent savers.\n\nThe rising cost of borrowing is worrying PP Control & Automation\n\nWhat could be happening is that rates are being forced higher to help temper economic demand, to keep it in line with a fall in the supply potential of the economy.\n\nFewer workers in certain sectors, more trade barriers with Europe, and a fall in investment mean the UK can produce less.\n\nThe nation's productivity has been hit by the aftermath of the pandemic, an energy shock and post-Brexit policy choices.\n\nThe government has changed policy to try to get sick workers back into the labour force and has lowered trade barriers with some Asian markets, but these will take time to have an effect.\n\nIndeed, other efforts to improve the economy's productivity may well be hit by rising interest rates. At Walsall-based PP Control & Automation, there are boxes with wires controlling everything from airport security, to Formula 1 metal stamping, to cow milking.\n\nIt's exactly where the UK has lagged and could improve growth without igniting inflation. Boss Tony Hague tells me: \"I think UK manufacturing generally is managing inflation as best it can. It's obviously having a big impact on the end user, the consumer, but I think from a manufacturing perspective... the cost of borrowing is quite a concern.\"\n\nRight now, the medicine is more concerning here than the disease.\n\nHouse prices are falling but there are hopes the market will avoid a crash\n\nThe housing market seems to be in a holding pattern. Rises in interest rates are being managed by banks in the form of longer mortgage terms for borrowers. Repossessions and arrears are still surprisingly low.\n\nThere is some stress among mortgaged landlords, and prices have fallen from their peak, but for now Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey will not call it a \"correction\". As he told me earlier this month: \"It's an adjustment but I think we should avoid... preaching crisis. It's not that.\"\n\nFor now, the market reaction does seem to lurch in response to every small turn in the data. The Bank of England has noted the UK now appears especially sensitive, amid perceptions of particularly persistent inflation. As it also noted, there are some \"highly unusual\" features of the UK economy right now.\n\nEven as inflation falls, and real wages begin to rise again, cuts to interest rates seem some way off, and the path to a more normal economic situation remains especially bumpy.", "Sara Sharif suffered extensive injuries over an extended period of time, police said\n\nPolice have named the father, step mother and uncle of a 10-year-old girl found dead in a house in Woking as the three people they want to talk to in connection with their murder inquiry.\n\nA global search is under way for Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28.\n\nThey left the UK for Pakistan on Wednesday 9 August, the day before Sara Sharif's body was discovered.\n\nIt was that call which led officers to the house in Woking where they found Sara's body with \"multiple and extensive injuries\", which were likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nThe 10-year-old has now been formally identified.\n\nA post-mortem examination carried out on Tuesday concluded the cause of death was \"still to be established\" and further tests were needed.\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nPolice previously said they were called to the address in Hammond Road at about 02:50 BST on Thursday 10 August \"following a concern for safety\".\n\nThere was no-one else in the house when the 10-year-old's body was discovered.\n\nUrfan Sharif rang the emergency services in the UK shortly after landing in Islamabad with his partner, his brother and five children.\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman, from Surrey Police and Sussex Police Major Crime Team, said the five children were aged between one and 13.\n\nHe added: \"We are working with the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service), Interpol, the National Crime Agency, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to progress our inquiries with the Pakistan authorities.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene where Sara Sharif was found\n\nBBC News has spoken to a travel agent in Woking who said he was contacted by Sara Sharif's father, Urfan Sharif, at about 22:00 BST on Tuesday 8 August who said he wanted to book tickets to Pakistan as soon as possible.\n\n\"After that I ask him what is the reason, why you booking as soon as possible, so he said my cousin has died so that why we going Pakistan,\" Nadeem Riaz told BBC News.\n\nThe travel agent said Urfan Sharif booked eight one-way tickets for himself, his brother, his wife and five children.\n\nThe flights booked were from the UK on Wednesday 9 August, via Bahrain, and arriving in Islamabad at 05:35 local time on Thursday 10 August.\n\nMr Riaz confirmed the tickets were used.\n\nSurrey County Council leader Tim Oliver said a \"rapid review\" would be carried out to determine whether a local child safeguarding practice review should be held, which would bring together police, social care and education to review the practice of the agencies involved in the case.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n• None More tests to confirm Sara Sharif’s cause of death\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Patron's social media posts offer advice on dealing with explosives and difficult emotions\n\nFrom fundraising to detecting explosives, cats and dogs have been helping Ukrainians deal with the devastating impact of Russia's invasion.\n\nPatron, the mine-sniffing dog, is one of them. He works for Ukraine's state emergency service - but his mine-clearance skills and apparently disarming charisma have also earned him hundreds of thousands of followers online.\n\nHe and a number of other animals - some real, some cartoon - have been offering emotional support and posting practical advice on their social media accounts.\n\nThis ranges from guidance on how to deal with difficult feelings caused by war to tips on what to do when you see an explosive device.\n\nThrough his work, Patron has met numerous dignitaries and celebrities visiting Kyiv, including Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nUkraine's postal service has printed stamps featuring the canine hero, who has also been awarded a medal for \"dedicated service\" by President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nPatron, a Jack Russell terrier, has appeared on postal stamps across Ukraine\n\nPatron's owner and handler, Mykhaylo Ilyev, says his meetings with foreign dignitaries have helped Ukraine's emergencies services secure donations of crucial mine-clearing equipment.\n\nThe Jack Russell terrier has been involved in raising funds for people affected by war, particularly his colleagues injured while clearing mines. He has taken part in charity collections for animals too.\n\n\"Our little friends are going through a rough time after being abandoned or injured. We realise that they also want to live and that they need help,\" Mr Ilyev tells the BBC.\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met Ukraine's hero mine-hunting dog on a trip to Kyiv last year\n\nPatron's account on Instagram offers not just pictures of the charismatic dog, but also hope, inspiration and advice for Ukrainians facing the horrors of war.\n\n\"Hope matters. We hope that this will be over soon. We hope that victory is near. We hope that people won't be killed anymore. Sometimes hope is all we've got,\" reads one of his posts.\n\n\"Don't lose hope, I'm begging you. Now, let me give you a hopeful lick!\"\n\nPatron also features in a cartoon series educating children about the dangers posed by unexploded munitions.\n\nDespite his celebrity status, Patron is still doing his mine-sniffing day job, Mr Ilyev says.\n\nStepan has helped raise thousands to help animals affected by war\n\nStepan the cat hails from Saltivka, a district in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv that has been badly damaged by Russian shelling.\n\nBefore the war, Stepan was just another incredibly cute cat from the internet. But since Russia's full-scale invasion, his Instagram account started offering more than just pictures - it started to comment on the war.\n\nIt has now switched to Ukrainian, too, even though it previously used Russian, which was widely spoken in parts of the east and south. Many people across Ukraine did the same after Russia invaded.\n\n\"We've all changed mentally after seeing what sort of thing this 'Russian world' really is,\" Stepan's owner Anna tells the BBC, referring to a concept promoted by Russia to justify intervention abroad ostensibly in support of Russian speakers.\n\n\"Ukrainian is part of my life and the life of my country and nation,\" she says.\n\nStepan's account, which has 1.3m followers on Instagram, has used its popularity to help animals who have suffered in the war. Last year, he helped raise almost 15,000 euros (£12,900) which was spent on food, medicine and other care for them.\n\nAfter the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine in June, the cat helped collect funds for the evacuation of animals from flooded areas.\n\nHis account was also involved in a collection to repair a library damaged by shelling in Kharkiv.\n\nMany animals needed rescuing from flood areas after the Kakhovka Dam was destroyed two months ago\n\nBut it is not just about the money for Stepan's account.\n\n\"He has been offering support to people, particularly children, so that they can forget the horrors of this war at least for a little while. That's why there is a bit of humour in his posts,\" Anna says.\n\nStepan also tackles the realities of war in his posts, including this one: \"Oh how I want my country to win as soon as possible! So that there is peace for which people on the front line have sacrificed their lives. So that there are no more missiles, so that people and animals stop dying.\"\n\nPeople are more receptive to advice if it looks as though it is coming from a fluffy pet, says Olena Pavlova, who created a cartoon character called Inzhyr the cat.\n\n\"A cat picture travels much further than just words. I've seen it many times,\" she tells me. \"Pictures and memes featuring cats can help deliver a lot of important ideas. They're easier to absorb. Cat pictures help us cope.\"\n\n\"Inzhyr the cat is a natural anti-depressant. I created him to make myself and also my readers feel better. He's positive, cuddly and nice, and he's helping people find hope and light inside themselves,\" Ms Pavlova says.\n\nInzhyr's accounts on social media encourage Ukrainians to read more books and offer advice on issues such as fundraising, burnout and why everyone should be like a cat.\n\n\"Cats waste no effort, but are determined in achieving their goals,\" one of his posts reads.\n\nSound words of advice for anyone, whether at war or not.\n\nInzhyr, the cartoon cat, says: \"Dreams come true if you try\"", "Donald Trump has said he will ask the judge in his alleged election fraud case to step aside on what he called \"very powerful grounds\".\n\nHe claimed that \"there is no way I can get a fair trial\" unless he has a different judge.\n\nHis call came after the prosecution requested a court order that would limit what he can publicly say about the case.\n\nThe judge, Tanya Chutkan, was appointed by former President Barack Obama.\n\nTrump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Sunday morning, describing the case as \"the ridiculous freedom of speech/fair elections case\" and saying that his legal team would immediately be asking for recusal of the judge.\n\nHe gave no details of his grounds for asking her to step down.\n\nJudge Chutkan, appointed in 2014, previously ruled against Mr Trump's efforts to shield evidence from the House January 6 Committee.\n\nThe 61-year-old judge has won a reputation for harsh sentences for those convicted of participation in the riots. According to Associated Press news agency she is one of the toughest punishers.\n\nUnder US federal law, any judge of the United States must disqualify themselves in any proceeding in which their impartiality might reasonably be questioned.\n\nRecusal of the judge was not the only thing Mr Trump said he would request. He also said he wanted a \"venue change\" and for his case to be moved out of Washington.\n\nHe previously said there would be \"no way I can get a fair trial, or even close to a fair trial, in Washington\", which he describes as \"anti-Trump\", and has previously described the Department of Justice as \"highly partisan and very corrupt\".\n\nMr Trump's lawyer, John Lauro, said on Sunday that the former president \"believed in his heart of hearts\" that he had won the 2020 election - and that prosecutors will not be able to prove that Mr Trump did not believe this.\n\nSpeaking to US TV networks, Mr Lauro said Mr Trump was being attacked for exercising his constitutional First Amendment right to free speech.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump wrote in capital letters, \"If you go after me, I am coming after you!\" on Truth Social, just a day after he pleaded not guilty to four charges in the alleged election fraud case.\n\nAnd the same night, the prosecutors said they feared there was a chance Mr Trump might disclose confidential evidence and asked for a protective order to prevent \"the improper dissemination or use of discovery materials, including to the public\".\n\nJudge Chutkan gave Mr Trump's legal team until 17:00 local time on Monday to respond to the submission. Mr Trump's lawyers asked for three more days, but the judge denied their request.\n\nJudge Chutkan is expected to call in attorneys from both sides on 28 August to discuss setting a trial date.\n\nThe charges - which include conspiracy to defraud the US and conspiracy against the rights of citizens - stem from the former president's actions in the wake of the 2020 election.\n\nMr Trump now faces five upcoming trials - three criminal trials which include his alleged mishandling of classified documents, accounting fraud and these election charges; and two civil trials over business practices and alleged defamation of a woman who accused him of rape.", "The Federation of Small Businesses wants the Welsh government to rethink the introduction of a planned tourism tax\n\nThe number of overseas visitors to Wales dropped by a third in three years, new figures show.\n\nInternational Passenger Survey data, released by the Welsh government, shows there were 33% fewer inbound visitors to Wales in 2022 than 2019.\n\nThe amount they spent also dropped by 24%.\n\nBusinesses said that while wet weather could deter holidaymakers, a bigger factor was the cost of living crisis.\n\nSean Taylor, founder and president of Zip World based in Llanrwst, Conwy county, said the six-week school summer holiday was \"absolutely essential\" for the business.\n\nHe added: \"The 49 days of summer holidays, including the Scottish holidays, accounts for about 55% of our turnover during the year - it's that important.\n\n\"We've had 13 consecutive interest rate rises - it's going to hit people in the pocket.\"\n\nMr Taylor said the business, which employs about 850 people across centres in Wales and England, has noted that people are still spending on the daring rides, but are cutting back in cafes and shops.\n\n\"We were forecasting probably a 10% (increase) on last year, [but] at the moment, if we can come in where we were last year, it will be a real result,\" he said.\n\nIt is at the cafes and shops at attractions like Zip World where visitors are said to be cutting back\n\nThe poor weather has meant a reduction in day-trippers, with Mr Taylor saying it has affected people who would usually have travelled from Liverpool, Manchester and Wirral.\n\nIt is a similar story in the middle of the country, according to Roland Rees-Evans, director of Penrhos Park holiday park in Llanrhystyd and chairman of Mid Wales Tourism Cymru.\n\nHe said there was \"no doubt\" he had seen \"a bit of a slow down\" and, while bookings were on a par with last year, \"people are looking for the bargains\".\n\nHe added that the main issue for businesses was rising costs.\n\n\"The cleaning costs, the rates, everything associated with it is actually going up which is obviously squeezing on margins,\" said Mr Rees-Evans.\n\n\"People with mortgages are already struggling and it has its challenges for all of us, not just for the businesses but for everyone in rural Wales and across Wales as a whole.\"\n\nOffice for Nation Statistics data released in May 2023 and published by the Welsh government last week indicated that visitor spend in Wales was estimated to be £391m in 2022, down on the £515m spent in 2019.\n\nBen Francis of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said the organisation has called on the Welsh government to rethink the introduction of the planned tourism tax.\n\n\"We feel now isn't the time for another barrier to be added in circumstances where we're seeing far lower numbers visiting Wales,\" he said.\n\nHe added that FSB was pleased to see the Welsh Affairs Select Committee back calls for both the UK and Welsh government to improve the marketing of Wales as a holiday destination for overseas visitors.\n\n\"We're seeing far lower numbers visiting Wales,\" says Ben Francis from the FSB\n\nThe Welsh government said it was aware of the challenges facing the tourism sector and is working closely with the industry.\n\nIt defended the planned visitor levy, adding that it could \"make a real difference\" by generating revenue.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Our focus is on spreading tourism benefits throughout Wales, encouraging increased spend through the year.\n\n\"The impact of the economic choices taken by the UK government is having a negative impact on Welsh tourism. The Welsh government is using all the levers at its disposal to support people, families, businesses and communities through these difficult times.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Netball\n\nEngland's wait for a first Netball World Cup title continues after Australia defeated the Roses to win the event for a 12th time.\n\nThe Roses were gradually overwhelmed by a dominant Australia, who pulled away to win 61-45.\n\nEngland were appearing in their first World Cup final, following a group-stage win over Australia and a semi-final victory against New Zealand.\n\nHowever, they had to settle for leaving Cape Town with silver.\n\nA dejected England may have missed out on the trophy, but have equalled the nation's best result at the tournament - previously achieved in 1975 after a round-robin event.\n\nHowever, they will be left to rue some of the sloppy play that allowed the Diamonds to strengthen their grasp on the trophy, particularly in the final quarter.\n\n\"We are obviously gutted with a losing margin like that but such is the difference between seasoned finalists and a team in their first final,\" said England head coach Jess Thirlby.\n\n\"Today was always going to be a tough ask, you just can't throw ball like that against Australia in a final.\n\n\"If we do that, we need to find a way to win it back. Unfortunately both of those things eluded us for long periods during the match.\"\n• None Best clips and analysis from Australia's win over England\n\n'Disappointment' for Roses in first final\n\nEngland claimed a thrilling 56-55 win against the Diamonds earlier in the week but repeating that feat against the nation that has featured in every World Cup final was ultimately a step too far.\n\nSome of Australia's aura had been diminished after England claimed Commonwealth gold against them on the Gold Coast in 2018.\n\nBut the Diamonds took revenge to end England's Commonwealth challenge at the semi-final stage in Birmingham last year, with this final the latest twist in a growing rivalry that so often swings Australia's way.\n\n\"We are really grateful for that silver medal and over time I'm sure that it will sink in,\" said Thirlby.\n\n\"The disappointment [we feel] is a measure of the belief we had in ourselves.\"\n\nDespite Australia maintaining their status at the top of world netball, England's presence in the final and Jamaica's bronze-medal victory against New Zealand earlier on Sunday shows the strength of the chasing pack.\n\n\"We had the better of them the other day and they had the better of us today,\" said England shooter Eleanor Cardwell.\n\n\"There's so many positives. This is the first World Cup final for every name on the team sheet and a lot of those Diamonds players have a whole lot of experience.\n\n\"I am super proud of us making history. Last year at the Commonwealth Games we came fourth and were gutted. This year we've got a silver medal.\"\n\nSince winning Commonwealth gold five years ago England have beaten Australia just twice in 11 meetings, but will hope to use this final as a platform to push to greater heights.\n\nEngland mid-courter Imogen Allison, who has often produced the key moment for the Roses at this tournament, said she was \"super proud\" of the team.\n\n\"We have to take this and run with it. If this is the first time in a final, the next time we are getting the gold,\" she added.\n\nEngland took confidence from their victory over the Diamonds on Thursday but Australia were powered by anger from an uncharacteristic defeat.\n\nKeen to reassert themselves as the dominant force in world netball, Australia head coach Stacey Marinkovich used all her trump cards to keep England on the back foot throughout the final.\n\nThe tone was set when the Roses lost the ball on their first centre pass, but they battled to keep the scores level at 13-13 after the first quarter.\n\nThe Diamonds started to build their lead and England struggled to cope with a dynamic attack circle, which was boosted by the arrival of shooters Sophie Garbin and Kiera Austin.\n\nEngland coach Thirlby tried multiple combinations in defence in an attempt to prevent the goal tally from running away, but a four-goal lead quickly became six before the wheels came off in the final quarter.\n\nEven after half-time a comeback seemed unlikely as England seemed to lack the belief that had powered them through the tournament.\n\nAustralia capitalised on wayward passes and sloppy play in key areas as the Roses struggled to win the ball - something they have excelled at in previous matches.\n\nThe Australia players on the court and on the bench sensed victory was close even with several minutes remaining, as a Roses side who seemed overwhelmed by their first foray into a World Cup final looked increasingly out of sorts.\n\nQuestions will be asked over the choice and timing of Thirlby's substitutions but in the end England were over-awed by a side who are, quite simply, so used to winning the big finals.", "The first 50 asylum seekers had originally been expected to move into the barge on Tuesday\n\nAsylum seekers will begin arriving on the UK's first migrant barge \"in the coming days\", the immigration minister has said.\n\nRobert Jenrick said about 50 men would board the Bibby Stockholm, moored at Portland in Dorset, later this week.\n\nThe first tranche of arrivals were due last week but safety issues, including the suggestion the vessel was a \"death trap\", caused a delay.\n\nThe minister said he considered the barge a \"safe facility\".\n\nMr Jenrick told Sky News: \"We hope that the first migrants will go on to the boat in the coming days, I'm not going to give you an exact date - but very soon.\n\n\"For security reasons we prefer not to give the dates on which individuals arrive.\n\n\"You won't have long to wait. This is an important step forwards.\"\n\nPortland councillors and campaign groups had argued against the barge ahead of its arrival in July\n\nHe added that increasing the numbers on the barge to the capacity of 500 was still the plan despite concerns from the Fire Brigades Union that the vessel had originally been designed to house 200 people.\n\nThe barge is seen as a key part of the government's strategy to deter migrants from arriving on UK shores in small boats.\n\nMinisters have said it would help cut the £6m-a-day cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels while their claims are processed.\n\nLabour said it would use barges to house asylum seekers for a \"very short\" period while the cases backlog is tackled.\n\nStephen Kinnock, shadow immigration minister, said barges would continue to be used by a Labour government.\n\nHe said former military bases would also continue to be used for a period of possibly around six months during work to bring down claims delays from a record high.\n\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has previously indicated she would not be able to immediately shut down the sites but declined to be explicit about the policy.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Kinnock told BBC Breakfast: \"The reality is that we've got tens of thousands of people in hotels, we need to get them out of hotels and we need to get them off the barges and out of the military camps too.\n\n\"Because of the complete and utter chaos and shambles of the Tory asylum crisis, we are going to have to continue in a very short-term period to use the infrastructure that is there, including the barges and the hotels.\"\n\nAfter an initial delay while works were carried out in Cornwall, the Bibby Stockholm was met by opposition from some residents when it arrived in Portland on 18 July over fears it could put a strain on local services.\n\nHuman rights groups have also described the decision to house migrants on a barge as \"inhumane\".\n\nThe rooms on the barge were first converted to house asylum seekers in Germany in the 1990s\n\nReporters were invited to look inside the barge last month, with pictures showing a TV room with a big screen and sofas, a multi-faith prayer room and a classroom that can be used for meetings and activities.\n\nThere is a gym and outdoor recreational space in the two courtyards in the centre of the barge.\n\nThe men will also have access to the dockside, within a fenced off area, and they will be provided with 24-hour security and healthcare provision.\n\nThe Home Office has repeatedly insisted the barge meets all safety standards.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWinds and heavy rain are set to ease across the UK as the first Met Office-named storm of the year clears.\n\nStorm Antoni hit several parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland between Friday and Saturday.\n\nSome residents were evacuated due to flooding and events such as Brighton's Pride were also hit.\n\nYellow rain warnings in Northern Ireland and amber wind warnings in Wales and southwest England ended on Saturday.\n\nThe yellow warnings for thunderstorms in south-east England, including Brighton and London, ended at 22:00 BST, along with the yellow wind warnings in western areas including Cardiff and Bath.\n\nThe Met Office said winds would continue to ease overnight into Sunday, with \"a few showers\" persisting near coasts.\n\nStorm Antoni hit late on Friday, with gusts of up to 65mph affecting exposed coastal areas.\n\nThe Met Office issued warnings for affecting areas encompassing Plymouth, Bristol and Bath in England and Swansea, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire in Wales.\n\nIt warned that danger to life from flying debris were possible and \"large waves and beach material being thrown on to sea fronts, coastal roads and properties\".\n\nOn Saturday, Cleveland Police said residents in Loftus and Carlin How, North Yorkshire were evacuated due to flooding. The force warned people not drive to the homes of relatives or make unnecessary journeys.\n\nTrees fell on the road to Veryan on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall on Saturday\n\nMet Office chief meteorologist Steve Willington previously said the storm has the potential to bring \"potentially disruptive\" weather as it moved from west to east.\n\nMr Willington said Northern Ireland would see some of the highest rainfall totals, with 40-60mm falling in some spots.\n\nMeanwhile, Brighton's Pride still went ahead, despite the challenges from the weather and industrial action on the railways.\n\nThis person braved the wind and rain to head down to Brighton seafront\n\nHowever, a Pride festival in Devon was scaled back due to concerns over strong winds.\n\nPlymouth Pride 2023 said a \"rainbow village\" featuring up to 80 traders would be cancelled because of the potential for \"flying gazebos\".\n\nStorm worries have seen the annual Stompin' on the Quomps festival cancelled for the first time in its 30-year history in Christchurch. Around 10,000 people had been expected to attend on Saturday.\n\nWaves crashed against the shore in Portland, Dorset\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor and entertainer Les Dennis is the 15th and final celebrity contestant to be announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe said he was \"thrilled\" to join the show, as his 70th birthday approaches.\n\nHe will join Annabel Croft, Nigel Harman, Bobby Brazier, Jody Cundy, Zara McDermott, Ellie Leach, Nikita Kanda, Adam Thomas and Eddie Kadi on the show.\n\nAngela Rippon, Layton Williams, Angela Scanlon, Amanda Abbington and Krishnan Guru-Murthy will also appear.\n\nDennis, whose career spans more than 50 years, was host of ITV's Family Fortunes for 16 years.\n\nHe has also had roles in ITV's Coronation Street, Extras and Death in Paradise; and has appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera, and in such plays and musicals as Hairspray, Legally Blonde The Musical and 42nd Street.\n\n\"In my career I've always gone for challenges outside my comfort zone and this is the ultimate one!\" he said. \"Can't wait.\"\n\nThis year's series will arrive on screens in the autumn and will be judged by Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse.\n\nHere are the other contestants who have been announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing so far:\n\nFormer tennis player and broadcaster Annabel Croft said she was looking forward to \"swapping tennis balls for glitter balls\" and was \"looking forward to finding some joyfulness in the process\".\n\nCroft became the youngest British player to compete at Wimbledon for 95 years when she was just 15 years old.\n\nShe continues to play a role in the coverage of the tournament and other tennis events, as a presenter, commentator and pundit for the BBC, Sky, Amazon Prime, ITV and Discovery.\n\nCroft has also presented entertainment shows such as Treasure Hunt and Inceptor.\n\nEx-EastEnders star Nigel Harman, known for playing Dennis Rickman on the soap, said he was \"amazed, excited, and terrified\" to be joining the line-up.\n\n\"As an armchair fan of the show, I have watched in awe as people have twirled and gyrated across the screen,\" he said. \"And now it's my turn... gulp!\"\n\nScreen and stage actor and director Harman won awards, including most popular newcomer at the National Television Awards, for his role as the roguish Rickman. He has also appeared on TV in Downton Abbey and in the film Blood Diamond, as well as on London's West End in Guys and Dolls and Shrek the Musical - for which he won an Olivier award.\n\nHarman recently joined the cast of the BBC hospital drama Casualty, as clinical lead Max Cristie.\n\nCurrent EastEnders actor and model Bobby Brazier, son of the late Big Brother star Jade Goody, plays Freddie Slater in the BBC soap.\n\nHe said he was \"excited\" to join the Strictly line-up. \"I can't wait to start training like a professional dancer and adding a few moves to my locker,\" he added.\n\nAway from Walford, Brazier has modelled for the major fashion house Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week.\n\nJody Cundy has represented Great Britain at seven Paralympics, winning eight gold medals in swimming and cycling events.\n\n\"[Strictly is] so far away from what I'm used to, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and pushing myself way out of my comfort zone, especially as I'm always last onto the dance floor,\" he said. \"Can't wait to get stuck in, bring on the glitter and sequins!\"\n\nCundy has also competed in multiple World Championships, winning 23 world titles, the most recent of which added at the recent World Cycling Championships in Glasgow.\n\nIn 2021, he became the first man in Paralympics GB history to win medals at seven different games, and was last year made a CBE for services to cycling.\n\nEllie Leach is best known for her 12 years playing Faye Windass on ITV soap Coronation Street.\n\nShe has been nominated for multiple British Soap Awards and Inside Soap Awards for her role in hard-hitting storylines, which have included being pregnant at 13 and later reconnecting with the child she gave up.\n\n\"It still doesn't feel real that I'm going to be doing Strictly!\" she said.\n\n\"It's always been a dream of mine so I guess dreams really do come true!\" added the actress, who left the soap earlier this year.\n\nNikita Kanda hosts the BBC Asian Network radio station's breakfast show, and also reports regularly on TV on the BBC's The One Show.\n\n\"I don't think it will properly sink in until I step on to the dancefloor,\" she said. \"I can't wait to get glammed up and get out there. Throw the glitter on me!\"\n\nIn her day job, the presenter - recently nominated for presenter of the year at the Asian Media Awards - has interviewed stars including Killing Eve's Sandra Oh, Bridgerton's Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran and Marvel actress Awkwafina.\n\nHer TV work has seen her look into the rise of cashless businesses and government support for female sport.\n\nThomas is best known for playing Adam Barton in ITV soap Emmerdale, winning the TV Choice award for best soap newcomer in 2010.\n\n\"I can't dance to save my life but I'm buzzing to learn and have a good laugh with my pro. Get me on that dance floor... I can't wait!\" he said.\n\nAfter appearing the 2016 edition of ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, Thomas went on to co-host the spin-off-I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp, and recently reprised his role as Donte Charles in BBC One drama Waterloo Road.\n\nIn 2020, the soap star teamed up with his brothers and fellow Mancs on the Mic podcasters Ryan and Scott, for six-part ITV travel series Absolutely India: Mancs in Mumbai, where they traced their family heritage alongside their father.\n\nRip-Off Britain presenter Rippon, 78, will be the series' oldest contestant, after Johnny Ball took part in 2012 aged 74.\n\nRippon said: \"Why didn't they ask me 10 years ago? Having been a fan of Strictly since day one, and as a former presenter of Come Dancing, this will be quite an adventure for me.\"\n\nShe was the first female journalist to permanently present the BBC national television news, and was also one of the presenters of the BBC's original Come Dancing series.\n\nShe hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, presented ITV breakfast show TV-am and famously appeared in a dancing sketch with comedy duo Morecambe and Wise.\n\nGuru-Murthy is the lead anchor for Channel 4 News. He joined the programme in 1998 and is its second-longest-serving presenter after Jon Snow.\n\n\"I'm surprised, delighted and slightly confused to find myself taking part in Strictly on the basis of 'you only live once!\" he said.\n\nThe broadcaster has also fronted Channel 4's Paralympics coverage and was one of the original presenters of the BBC News channel, then called BBC News 24, in 1997.\n\nLast year, Guru-Murthy was briefly suspended after he was heard using an expletive to describe a Conservative minister, something for which he apologised \"unreservedly\".\n\nAbbington is known for starring in TV series including Sherlock and Mr Selfridge, as well as stage plays such as The Son.\n\nThe actress said: \"I'm thrilled to have been asked to do Strictly. I'm actually really shy and self-conscious so this will be a great opportunity for me to overcome those things! Plus I get to learn to dance, which I am incredibly excited about.\"\n\nHowever, some fans have claimed they will boycott the show after Abbington stirred controversy earlier this year with comments about drag performances, questioning whether young children should watch or partake in sexually-charged drag shows.\n\nIn a recent Instagram video, Abbington explained she \"loved drag\" and was not transphobic, adding: \"Personally speaking, I don't think 12-year-olds should be performing in drag shows in overtly sexual ways because they're 12 and they need a childhood.\"\n\nWilliams has performed in London's West End in Billy Elliot, Thriller Live and Everyone's Talking About Jamie. He has also appeared in TV series Bad Education and I Hate Suzie.\n\nThe actor said: \"So excited to learn new skills from the best. Bring on the sequins… ALL the sequins!\"\n\nWilliams most recently provided the voiceover for the BBC Three gay dating show I Kissed A Boy.\n\nThe actor said he would be happy as long as he is paired with a male professional dancer so he can be lifted up during the performances.\n\nAngela Scanlon presents Your Home Made Perfect on BBC Two\n\nIrish TV star Angela Scanlon hosts the BBC Two series Your Home Made Perfect as well as a Saturday night chat show on RTÉ.\n\n\"I'm terrified, I'm excited and I have so many questions. Will they make me tan? How itchy are sequins?! Do they do flesh coloured sports bras? Well - there's only one way to find out, right?!\" she said.\n\nScanlon has appeared on TV shows including The One Show and Robot Wars, and presented a Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio 2.\n\nShe previously worked as a print journalist, writing for magazines including Grazia, Tatler and the Sunday Times Style supplement.\n\nKadi is a stand-up comic who became the first black British comedian to headline London's 02 Arena.\n\nHe announced his participation on BBC Radio 1Xtra's Official UK Afrobeats Chart Show on Sunday, which he presents.\n\n\"I'm so unbelievably proud and honoured that Strictly and the BBC have asked me to join the 2023 team,\" Kadi said.\n\n\"I promise you, I'm going to give it everything I've got. This is going to be a vibe.\"\n\nZara McDermott worked as a government policy advisor before joining ITV reality show Love Island in 2018, and since leaving the villa has presented a series of documentaries.\n\n\"I grew up watching Strictly every year with my nan and she was the biggest fan,\" she said. \"We would dance around the house and I have such fond memories of that time in my life.\n\n\"I even remember the first ever series, and being mesmerised by all the beautiful dresses! I can't wait to throw myself into this experience and start training. It's going to be incredible.\"\n\nSince leaving Love Island, McDermott has presented BBC documentaries including Revenge Porn, Uncovering Rape Culture, Disordered Eating, and Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Italian coastguard recovered the bodies of a one-year-old baby and a woman from the Ivory Coast\n\nThirteen people have drowned after the migrant ships carrying them sank in the Mediterranean Sea at the weekend.\n\nA ship sank off Tunisia's Kerkennah Islands, with 11 bodies recovered on Sunday. A further 44 are still missing, and only two were rescued.\n\nSeparately, two ships sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, leading to the deaths of a woman from Ivory Coast and her one-year-old baby.\n\nMore than 30 are thought to be missing who had been on those two vessels.\n\nThey had reportedly left from the Tunisian port city of Sfax carrying 48 and 42 people respectively. They sank on Saturday, with Italian coastguards rescuing 57 people.\n\nThe migrants in all three of the sinkings are said to be from sub-Saharan African countries. Italian authorities are investigating the incidents.\n\nTunisian officials also said they found the bodies of 10 migrants on a beach near Sfax.\n\nThey were found between Friday and Saturday during a windstorm which may have sunk their boat, the official told the AFP news agency.\n\nTunisian authorities say Sfax, a port city about 80 miles (130km) from Lampedusa, is a popular gateway for migrants seeking a better life in Europe.\n\nThe tragedies follow June's Greek boat disaster which left at least 78 dead and hundreds missing.\n\nState-run Tunisian TV channel Al Arabiya reported that another 34 migrants found stranded on a rocky area near Lampedusa on Sunday had been rescued.\n\nIn recent days, Italian patrol boats and charity groups have rescued another 2,000 people who have arrived on the island.\n\nThe Red Cross has provided some of the migrants with food, water, clothes and emergency thermal blankets.\n\nBut the coastguard said bad weather and the poor quality of the boats continue to hinder the rescue operations.\n\nIn some instances, the engines are stolen from the boats at sea, so that traffickers can reuse them.\n\nPolice chief Emanuele Ricifari urged the traffickers to halt the crossings, saying: \"Rough seas are forecast for the next few days. Let's hope they stop. It's sending them to slaughter with this sea.\"\n\nNGOs say Italy's far-right government has made their task more difficult by passing laws that have the effect of forcing rescue ships to use faraway ports.\n\nCharities have warned that this increases their navigation costs and reduces the amount of time ships can patrol the areas of the Mediterranean where such sinkings are common.\n\nThe Italian interior ministry said migration figures by sea had doubled this year to 92,000, compared with 42,600 recorded in the same period in 2022.\n\nSince March this year, crossing attempts from Sfax to Lampedusa have increased after Tunisian President Kais Saied accused sub-Saharan migrants of trying to change the nature of Tunisian society.\n\nMore than 1,800 people have lost their lives in the central Mediterranean crossing from North Africa to Europe.\n\nThe International Organization for Migration said the actual figures were likely to be much higher.\n\n\"Lots of bodies are being found at sea, suggesting there are many shipwrecks we never hear about,\" said spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo.", "This is the moment a naval drone purportedly heads directly towards a Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait, south of the Crimean Bridge.\n\nUnverified footage shared by a source at Ukraine's security service shows what they say is the drone moving across the Black Sea, as it approaches the Russian vessel.\n\nRussian maritime officials said the Sig tanker's engine room was damaged in an attack, but no-one on board was injured.\n\nA Ukrainian security service source told the BBC the operation was conducted jointly with the Ukrainian navy and that 450kg of TNT explosive had been used.", "One of the UK's most secretive centres of scientific research - Porton Down - is aiming to stop the next pandemic \"in its tracks\".\n\nI have passed through the incredibly tight security at this remote facility to get rare access to its scientists.\n\nThey are based in the shiny new Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre.\n\nTheir work builds on the response to Covid, and aims to save lives and minimise the need for lockdowns when a new disease next emerges.\n\n\"Covid, of course, is not a one-off,\" says Prof Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which runs these laboratories.\n\n\"We say it [Covid] was the biggest public health incident for a century, but I don't think any of us think it'll be a century before the next,\" she adds.\n\nThe combination of climate change, urbanisation and people living closer to animals - the source of many new diseases which transfer to people - means we're facing a \"rising tide of risk\", she says.\n\nDame Jenny Harries is clear Covid was not \"a one-off\" public health incident\n\nPorton Down - located in the tranquil Wiltshire countryside, near Salisbury - is one of the few places in the world equipped to research some of the nastiest viruses and bacteria you could imagine. The freezers here contain the likes of Ebola.\n\nNeighbouring buildings include the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (part of the Ministry of Defence), where it was confirmed the nerve agent Novichok has been used in the Salisbury poisonings.\n\nThe vaccine laboratories - housed in dark green buildings - were hastily constructed as part of the emergency response to Covid.\n\nBut, as the intense demands of the pandemic have waned, the focus has shifted.\n\nThe new vaccine research centre is concentrating on three types of threat:\n\nThe aim is to work with the pharmaceutical industry, scientists and doctors to support all stages of vaccine development.\n\nPorton Down scientists are working on the first vaccine against Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, which is spread by ticks and kills about a third of those infected.\n\nThe disease is found in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and in Asia - and could spread further with climate change.\n\nAt the other end of the process, vaccine effectiveness is evaluated. It was scientists here who spotted that the Omicron variant could bypass some of the protection afforded by Covid vaccines.\n\nAnd they are still monitoring new Covid variants by growing them in the laboratory, exposing them to antibodies taken from blood samples and seeing if new variants are still able to infect.\n\nAntibodies taken from blood samples are being tested at the lab to see if they still offer protection against new Covid variants\n\nMeanwhile machines - unofficially named Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, BB8 and Palpatine - are part of the front line monitoring the threat posed by the world's largest flu outbreak in birds.\n\nThe H5N1 avian flu virus has devastated bird populations, and routine testing of farmworkers has found the first, symptomless, cases in people in the UK.\n\nThe difference is, before the pandemic the teams here were able to test just 100 samples a week - now it is more than 3,000.\n\nThe work here feeds into the \"100 Days Mission\" - a hugely ambitious vision to develop a vaccine against a new threat in 100 days.\n\nHistorically, it has taken a decade to design and test new vaccines. The unique circumstances of the pandemic meant the first Covid vaccines were produced within a year, with the vaccine rollout starting in December 2020.\n\nEstimates suggest Covid vaccines saved more than 14 million lives in just the first 12 months they were used.\n\n\"Imagine if those vaccines had been available just a bit earlier,\" said Prof Isabel Oliver, chief scientific officer for UKHSA.\n\n\"They were available more rapidly than ever before in history, [but] we could have saved many more lives and we could have returned to greater normality much more quickly.\"\n\nThe hope here is the lessons of the Covid pandemic will mean we are better prepared next time.\n\nProf Harries says in the past we have been simply reacting to events, but in the future we need to be on the front foot and \"try and stop\" any pandemic before it even begins.\n\nAnd if a new disease does occur, she adds, we need to \"stop it in its tracks\" in its earliest stage.", "President Zelensky posted a photo purportedly showing Kupiansk's blood transfusion centre on fire after the Russian attack\n\nA Russian \"guided bomb\" has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing two people and injuring four, Ukrainian officials say.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky posted an image of the building on fire as a result of Saturday night's attack around Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region.\n\n\"This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression,\" he said.\n\nRussia has not commented. It has previously denied all allegations of targeting civilians - or war crimes.\n\nThe city of Kupiansk and nearby settlements were seized by Russian troops in the first few days of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022.\n\nThe area was liberated during a Ukrainian counter-offensive last September, but comes under missiles and shelling daily.\n\nIn a post on social media, Mr Zelensky described the perpetrators as \"beasts\".\n\n\"Defeating terrorists is a matter of honour for everyone who values life,\" he added.\n\nMr Zelensky did not give details of the casualties. But local officials later posted the same image adding details about the attack on what they described as a non-residential building.\n\nPresident Zelensky also said that on Saturday Russia separately carried out a missile attack, targeting an aeronautical company run by group Motor Sich in the western Khmelnytskyi region.\n\nOn Sunday, Russia's air defences destroyed a drone as it approached Moscow, the city's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said.\n\nLast week, an office block on a Moscow skyscraper was hit two days in a row by Ukrainian drones, Russian authorities said.\n\nUkraine has not publicly admitted carrying out such attacks.\n\nMoscow has also accused Ukraine on Saturday of hitting a Russian tanker with 11 crew members in the Black Sea - the second such sea drone attack in as many days.\n\nRussian maritime officials said the engine room of the Sig tanker was damaged in the attack in the Kerch Strait. No-one was injured.\n\nThe Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating Crimea - Ukraine's peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014 - and Russia's Taman peninsula.\n\nUkraine has not publicly commented. But a Ukrainian security service source told the BBC a sea drone had been used.\n\nIn another development, the Chonhar road bridge linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea was hit by a Ukrainian missile strike on Sunday, according to Russia's RIA news agency.\n\nThis is the second time Ukrainian missiles have hit the bridge after an earlier attack in June forced it to close for repairs.\n\nMoscow-installed Kherson regional governor Vladimir Saldo wrote on Telegram that another small bridge, connecting the port city of Henichesk and the narrow Arabat Spit on Crimea's north-east coast, had been shelled.\n\nA civilian driver was hurt and a gas pipeline was damaged, leaving 20,000 people without gas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the sea drone hitting the tanker, according to Ukraine security sources", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFive people have been arrested after a protest halted the Men's Elite Road Race at the UCI Cycling World Championships in Scotland.\n\nThe event was paused with just over 190km (118 miles) of the 271km (168 miles) remaining, with the Edinburgh to Glasgow route blocked west of Falkirk.\n\nThe demonstration took place on a narrow stretch of the B818 near the Carron Valley Reservoir.\n\nPolice said five people were arrested after the protesters were removed.\n\nEnvironmental group This Is Rigged claimed responsibility for the demonstration and said four of its activists were involved.\n\nIt was reported that protesters glued themselves to the road.\n\nThe race, which was won by Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel, was paused for about 50 minutes before restarting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by This Is Rigged\n\nThis Is Rigged has recently targeted the Scottish Parliament and Grangemouth oil and gas petrochemical plant.\n\nIn a statement posted on social media, This Is Rigged activist Cat said: \"The fact that Ineos has been allowed to sponsor a team in the race around the Campsie Fells - which were engulfed in wildfires last month - is a disgrace and an insult to the both cycling community and the people of Scotland.\n\n\"We cannot continue with business as usual while our country burns and our futures are ruined. Time is of the essence and we need to act like it.\"\n\nThe group called on the Scottish government to \"stand up to Westminster and oppose all new oil and gas, and implement a fair transition now\".\n\nIt comes after Rishi Sunak announced last week that he would back licences for 100 new oil and gas projects in the North Sea.\n\nElite cyclists were stopped by a demonstration in the Carron Valley area\n\nGraham Simpson, the Scottish Conservatives net zero and transport spokesman said: \"This was a dangerous act of disruption which put both the protesters and athletes in this race at risk.\n\n\"It's utterly nonsensical for a group which claims to stand for environmental protection to target an event promoting active, green travel like cycling - and raises a huge question mark about this publicity-seeking group's true motives.\"\n\nBefore the protest, Welsh cyclist Owain Doull and Ireland's Rory Townsend were part of a nine-strong breakaway that had gone seven minutes clear of the main peloton. The lead group set away ahead of the other riders when the demonstration was cleared.\n\nThe race ended with 10 laps of a Glasgow city centre circuit.\n\nThe race was restarted after protesters were removed and a white powder was laid on the road\n\nVan der Poel won the race despite falling while coming round a bend in the rain-soaked Glasgow city centre.\n\nHe saw off competition from two-time Tour De France winner Tadej Pogacar, as well as Wout van Aert and Mads Pedersen.\n\nRoad cycling commentator Phil Liggett earlier told the BBC's Drivetime programme the event was the \"pinnacle of the world of cycling\".\n\n\"The Tour De France is for the multi-day cyclist and the world championship is for the one-day expert,\" he said. \"They are the two highest rewards in the world of cycling.\"\n\nThe race started at 09.30 near the Scottish Parliament before heading through Edinburgh city centre towards the Queensferry Crossing.\n\nThe cyclists had set off from Edinburgh on the 168 mile route\n\nIt then went through south Fife and across the Clackmannan Bridge into the Falkirk area.\n\nThe cyclists then headed west towards the Carron Valley - where the protest stopped the race - before continuing over Crow Road into East Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe race then descended through Glasgow's west end into the city centre.\n\nRiders completed 10 laps of a 14.3km (8.9 mile) Glasgow City Circuit before finishing in George Square.\n\nA rolling road closure was in operation across the event route, with roads closed for about 30-45 minutes.\n\nRoads around the Glasgow City Circuit were closed completely.\n\nThere was heavy rain in Glasgow city centre during the closing stages of the race\n\nMathieu van der Poel is the new men's road race world champion\n\nAfter the event, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken said: \"It was great to see the streets of Glasgow provide the backdrop for such a stunning sporting occasion.\n\n\"The city turned out in force to watch the men's road race and spectators were rewarded with an incredible display of skill, stamina and bravery.\n\n\"The crowds generated a superb atmosphere to spur the riders on and there was drama right to the end.\n\n\"This an event that will have been viewed all across the world and Glasgow has again shown its passion for sport before a global audience.\"\n\nThe race is part of the UCI Cycling World Championships which sees the world's best cyclists compete across a range of disciplines being brought together for the first time in one \"mega event\".\n\nIt will see action across the country - from mountain biking in the Tweed Valley to elite track cycling in Glasgow's Sir Chris Hoy velodrome.\n\nThere will also be time trials around Stirling and para-cycling road races in Dumfries.\n\nThe Women's Elite Road Race on Sunday 13 August follows a 154km (96 mile) route from Loch Lomond to Glasgow via the Stirling countryside. It ends with six laps of Glasgow city centre.", "A grieving mother and her lawyer have been targeted by an extreme campaign of abuse after suing a conspiracy theory newspaper which falsely claimed her son died from a Covid vaccine.\n\nThe Irish Light repeatedly abused Edel Campbell online and its supporters have threatened her lawyer with \"execution\".\n\nConspiracy theorists worldwide have used dozens of tragic deaths to spread vaccine misinformation.\n\nThis case is thought to be the first where a relative has sued.\n\nThe Irish Light included Ms Campbell's son, Diego Gilsenan, and 41 others in an article last year which suggested the \"untested and dangerous\" Covid vaccine was to blame for the deaths. In fact, the BBC has been told Diego had taken his own life in August 2021, aged 18, and had not been vaccinated.\n\nThe campaign of abuse following her legal case has been \"nothing short of shocking\" and may explain why other relatives have not taken action, Ms Campbell's solicitor, Ciaran Mulholland, told BBC Radio 4's Marianna in Conspiracyland podcast.\n\n\"You can understand why a lot of people were incredibly reluctant to go to a solicitor when they saw the backlash with Edel Campbell,\" he said.\n\nMs Campbell told the BBC that the Irish Light has \"made my life hell\" and said she's now fearful of speaking out.\n\nThe BBC has agreed not to use a photo of Ms Campbell - or her son - for this story to protect her.\n\nIn frequent social media posts over several weeks, the Irish Light and its editor, Gemma O'Doherty, have accused Ms Campbell of \"outrageous lies\", being \"mentally unstable\" and involved in a \"massive fraud\". There are also extreme references to suicide about Ms Campbell.\n\nAccording to Mr Mulholland, people who support the Irish Light have called for him to be executed or shot, as well as anonymously calling his office and threatening other members of staff.\n\nMs Campbell and her solicitor decided to bring a civil case against Ms O'Doherty for harassment with defamation, after the paper published a photo of her son Diego Gilsenan and others on the front page under the headline \"Died Suddenly\".\n\nThis tagline has been widely used across social media by conspiracy theory activists to suggest unexpected deaths of young people are related to the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nIn the article that featured Ms Campbell's son, the Irish Light claims that the establishment is not questioning the \"mysterious deaths\" because \"they know exactly what it is: the untested and dangerous injection they forced into the Irish people\".\n\nCiaran Mulholland, Ms Campbell's lawyer, said the level of abuse she has received may be preventing others from speaking out\n\nDeaths from Covid vaccines are extremely rare. UK figures record 55 deaths where the vaccine was given as the underlying cause, out of more than 50m people who have had at least one dose.\n\nAmong some of the other young people featured by the Irish Light, one died in a swimming pool accident, another from a head injury and a third from meningitis, according to their families.\n\nMs Campbell says the Irish Light did not contact her for comment about Diego before publication. The BBC also understands that the Irish Light did not contact several other family members of young people featured.\n\nMr Mulholland said the aim of the legal case is not \"retribution\" or compensation. \"All Edel Campbell wanted was to protect the integrity of Diego, and her family as a whole,\" he said.\n\nMs Campbell's legal case has been funded through donations and her lawyer's pro-bono work.\n\nHe told the BBC the legal proceedings were launched after various attempts to ask Gemma O'Doherty to remove the images of Diego Gilsenan failed and resulted in an escalation in online abuse.\n\nIn July, the High Court in Dublin granted a restraining order that prohibits the Irish Light editor from contacting Ms Campbell and from using or publishing the image of her son for any purpose without his mother's consent.\n\nAbusive posts about Ms Campbell have continued on social media, including from the Irish Light account on X, formerly known as Twitter, which Gemma O'Doherty has admitted to running.\n\nMs Campbell made reports of harassment to the police - but Mr Mulholland says they are yet to contact or question Gemma O'Doherty about these.\n\nGarda Síochána - the Republic of Ireland's national police service - told the BBC that it \"does not comment on named individuals\" or \"specifics of on-going investigations\". It says it continues to \"actively investigate the alleged harassment of an individual in the North Western Region\" of Ireland.\n\nMs O'Doherty and the Irish Light have not responded to the BBC's request for comment. However, on social media the Irish Light says the BBC will \"do a character assassination\" on Gemma O'Doherty because \"she exposed the vaccine genocide\".\n\nIn its gallery of recent front pages, the Irish Light shows the one featuring Diego as \"censored\" after a restraining order\n\nIn online posts, Ms O'Doherty denies harassing Edel Cambell and continues to suggest her son's death was sinister or mysterious in some way. She has instructed a solicitor to defend the case brought against her.\n\nThe Irish Light is a sister paper of its namesake in the UK, the Light, although they are editorially independent of each other. The BBC previously revealed the UK paper has called for the execution of politicians and doctors. It has links to the British far-right and a German publication connected to a failed coup attempt.\n\nAs well as more innocuous features, the Irish Light has published stories promoting conspiracy theories such as \"Pfizer knew the vaccine would kill\", \"Water fluoridation is lowering Irish IQ\", \"Why manmade climate change is a fraud\" and \"Irish to become a minority in Ireland\".\n\nWhile Ms Campbell is thought to be the first to sue over a false claim about a vaccine death, the case has parallels with other victims of conspiracy theorists.\n\nManchester Arena bomb survivors are suing over claims the attack was faked and parents of Sandy Hook mass shooting victims won a landmark ruling against Infowars host Alex Jones.\n\nListen to the bonus episode of BBC Radio 4's Marianna in Conspiracyland on BBC Sounds.", "Napoli won their first Serie A title for 33 years in May as they drew with Udinese - stock photo from match\n\nOne of Italy's most dangerous fugitives has been caught in Greece after a photo of him cheering on his football team gave away his whereabouts.\n\nVincenzo La Porta, 60, is thought to have close ties to the Camorra organised crime gang in Naples.\n\nHe has been on the run for 11 years - but earlier this year was spotted in a photo of fans celebrating in Greece.\n\nThe Naples Carabinieri police said: \"What betrayed him was his passion for football and for the Napoli.\"\n\nOfficers said the photos were taken after Napoli won its first Italian championship in over three decades earlier this year.\n\n\"With the championship victory, La Porta couldn't resist celebrating,\" police said.\n\nLa Porta has already been convicted in absentia in Italy for criminal association, tax evasion and fraud.\n\nPolice finally arrested him on Friday while he was riding his moped on the Greek island of Corfu and he is now currently in a jail awaiting extradition to Italy.\n\nIf he is extradited to Italy, he is due serve a prison sentence of 14 years and four months.\n\nLa Porta's lawyer told AP news agency: \"He has started a new family in Greece... He has a nine-year-old boy and is working as a cook to get by. He suffers from heart ailments. If he's extradited, he and his family will be ruined.\"\n\nThe authorities were relentless in their pursuit of La Porta, tracking his financial and online movements closely and \"waited for him to make a misstep\".\n\nBack in May, La Porta could not contain his excitement when Napoli won its first Serie A title after 33 years.\n\nThe police spotted him in a photo outside a Corfu restaurant among Napoli fans donning a baseball cap and waving the team's sky blue and white colours.\n\nThe investigators knew they had their man and followed him to Greece.\n\nWith a little help from their Greek colleagues, they arrested him on Friday, the Greek police said.\n\nIn January, this year, an Italian mafia boss who was on the run for decades was arrested after a Google Maps sighting.", "Actor Jamie Foxx has apologised for an Instagram post that was accused of being antisemitic.\n\nFoxx, 55, has deleted the post, which read: \"They killed this dude name Jesus... what do you think they'll do to you???! #fakefriends #fakelove\".\n\nSome social media users said Foxx's post echoed an antisemitic belief that Jewish people were collectively responsible for Jesus Christ's death.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Church officially repudiated the idea in 1965.\n\nOn Saturday, Foxx addressed the criticism in a new Instagram post which said: \"I want to apologise to the Jewish community and everyone who was offended by my post.\n\n\"I now know my choice of words have caused offense and I'm sorry. That was never my intent.\n\n\"To clarify, I was betrayed by a fake friend and that's what I meant with 'they' not anything more,\" the Ray star said in an Instagram post.\n\nJennifer Aniston also faced criticism after she appeared to \"like\" Foxx's original post before it was deleted. The Friends actor then released a statement on Instagram, saying she did not support any form of antisemitism.", "Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has said he is \"not holding his breath\" over a proposed cage fight with rival Elon Musk.\n\nIn a post on the new social media app Threads, Mr Zuckerberg said he had proposed 26 August for the showdown.\n\nFollowing a post on X in which Mr Musk claimed he was training \"throughout the day\", Mr Zuckerberg wrote: \"I'm ready today... but he hasn't confirmed.\"\n\nThe two became direct competitors in July with the launch of Threads.\n\nAsked by a Threads user whether the fight had been mutually agreed upon, Mr Zuckerberg responded that is was more like \"funding secured,\" in an apparent reference to posts made by Mr Musk in 2018 when he said the same about plans to take electric car company Tesla into private hands.\n\nThat deal never happened and led to Mr Musk paying a $20m (£15.7m) fine to the US financial markets watchdog, stepping back from being Tesla's chairman and limits put on what he can tweet about Tesla.\n\nMr Musk cast further doubt about the potential bout, saying that the \"Exact date is still in flux\", as he may need surgery on his neck and upper back.\n\nThe social media moguls have been egging each other on in recent months, with Mr Musk claiming on Sunday that their fight would be broadcast live on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nHe said that any proceeds from a match would go to veterans charities.\n\nWhen asked what the point of the bout was by one X user, Mr Musk responded: \"It's a civilized form of war. Men love war.\"\n\nMr Zuckerberg also shot back at the suggestion that the fight would be streamed on X, posting: \"Shouldn't we use a more reliable platform that can actually raise money for charity?\"\n\nThe stakes are seemingly high after Meta, which also owns Instagram and Facebook, launched Threads in early July, drawing in more than 100 million sign-ups within days.\n\nHowever, Mr Zuckerberg later said the platform had lost more than half of its users by the end of last month.\n\nRival social media platform X has faced criticism on several occasions since Mr Musk took over the firm and made a number of changes, such as forcing users to log in to view posts. He also carried out mass firings at the company.\n\nMr Musk posted a message on the social media platform in June claiming he was \"up for a cage fight\" - a fight which typically involves few rules.\n\nMr Zuckerberg then posted a screenshot Mr Musk's tweet with the caption \"send me location\", while Musk responded with: \"Vegas Octagon.\"\n\nThe Octagon is the competition mat and fenced-in area used for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bouts. The UFC is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.\n\nMr Musk, 52, also wrote: \"I have this great move that I call 'The Walrus', where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing.\"\n\nHe later tweeted videos of walruses, perhaps suggesting his challenge to the Facebook founder may not have been entirely be serious.\n\nMr Zuckerberg is a martial arts enthusiast and said on Sunday: \"I love this sport and will continue competing with people who train no matter what happens here.\"", "Ian still remembers getting Stella, his first guide dog, 40 years ago\n\nIt's been 40 years since I started training with my very first guide dog but the memories are still vivid.\n\nBack then I was a slim 20-year-old student at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford.\n\nI travelled up to Forfar for four weeks at the guide dog training centre, where I stayed with 11 other blind people.\n\nWe were a diverse bunch, strangers brought together by our shared journey of sight loss and desperation to maintain our independence.\n\nI knew this training would change how I navigated the world.\n\nNo more would I have to gingerly manoeuvre my way down the streets with a white cane, desperately hoping to avoid collisions with lampposts, rubbish bins, and cars parked on pavements.\n\nThe accommodation at the centre in August 1983 was far from luxurious but clean and comfortable.\n\nIan, who has worked for the BBC for 23 years, with his latest guide dog Major\n\nThere was an empty dog bed and bowl waiting for my new companion but I wouldn't meet the dog for another four days.\n\nThe Guide Dog Association for the Blind was incredibly secretive back then, resembling something akin to MI5.\n\nWe weren't told anything about the dog's breed, name, or sex at the beginning, and the human trainer played the role of the dog, demonstrating the correct way to guide and give commands.\n\nIt felt a bit like \"Strictly Come Dancing\" without the sparkly tights and harsh judging.\n\nThe trainer would say: \"Ian, put your left foot back and turn. Now, bring both feet back together and pirouette to the right. Slap your right thigh simultaneously and turn, all in one move.\n\n\"Oh, and don't forget to tell me what a good dog I am.\"\n\nWhat a sight it must have been, the trainer and I mincing in unison around the centre's car park with me exclaiming: \"Who's a good boy?\"\n\nWhen the time came to meet my new dog, I'd grown impatient.\n\nThe tension in the room was palpable as we were all called to gather in the large sitting room.\n\nOne by one, trainers read aloud our names and matched them with the dogs' names.\n\nIan's third dog, Tim, was a seven-stone German Shepherd with a personality to match\n\nI sat there, silently praying that they wouldn't give me a dog with a stupid name.\n\nAfter what felt like an eternity, I was told I'd be getting a crossbreed Labrador Retriever bitch called Ursula.\n\nI slumped in my seat, dejected, wondering why they would give a 20-year-old lad from deepest, darkest Lanarkshire a dog with a name like that.\n\nBefore we met our dogs, we were given strict instructions about what to do and what not to do.\n\nWe were told to sit quietly in our chairs and let the dog come to us.\n\nIt was imperative that we remained calm and, under no circumstances, chase the dog frantically around the room.\n\nThere's a story about a far too excitable trainee who ignored this instruction and couldn't find their dog.\n\nThey pressed the call bell for assistance, and when the trainer returned, they found the dog sitting in the sink, hiding from its new blind owner.\n\nMoss, Ian's fifth guide dog, had a natural talent for stealing the limelight\n\nLuckily for me, when Ursula was brought into my room, she bounded in and leaped straight on to my lap.\n\nNot long afterwards, I changed her name to Stella, which I considered a much more acceptable option for a young man.\n\nDay by day, our training expanded from basic house drills, which included walking the dog around the building on a lead, to venturing outside into the wider world and encountering various obstacles.\n\nInitially, the trainer would always be nearby, but as the weeks passed, they would observe from a distance, scrutinising our every move.\n\nWe had cars driven at us to see how the dog and I would react, and obstacles were strategically placed in our path to test our problem-solving skills.\n\nA lot has changed in the four decades since I was trained with my first guide dog.\n\nMajor is my seventh dog and his training required just one week in a local hotel followed by three weeks at home.\n\nWhat's more, I had the chance to meet him before the training began, to see if we were a good match. Spoiler alert, we were.\n\nMatching dogs and owners is important but the way trainers describe dogs is a bit like how estate agents talk about houses.\n\nIt took me a couple of dogs before I fully grasped this code.\n\nWhen an instructor says: \"This dog is a keen worker\", it really means it is likely to pull you down the street at top speed.\n\n\"This dog has great initiative,\" translates to it will go wherever it wants, regardless of how much you protest.\n\nFrom the moody and officious to the joker and the Buddhist, every canine companion I have worked with brought a distinct character to our partnership.\n\nFor example, Stella would sulk and walk slower if we ventured somewhere she didn't fancy.\n\nShe would take revenge by skilfully avoiding puddles, delicately tiptoeing along the edges to keep her paws dry, while I found myself splashing through the deep end.\n\nIndependent by nature, Leo showed little interest in playing with other dogs and preferred the company of humans.\n\nAlthough he carried out his guiding duties, he lacked enthusiasm, doing only what was necessary to keep us both alive.\n\nMy third dog, Tim, was a seven-stone German Shepherd with a personality to match.\n\nTim effortlessly commanded attention during train rides, his mere presence persuading passengers to vacate their seats.\n\nHe would fixate his intense gaze on people until they relented, creating a space for both of us to sit.\n\nWeaver, my fourth dog, tended to go on strike, defiantly throwing himself to the ground and refusing to move.\n\nMoss, my fifth guide dog, had a natural talent for stealing the limelight. He would confidently stare down TV camera lenses like a seasoned professional, becoming a familiar face on numerous television reports.\n\nRenton, my sixth companion, also a large German Shepherd, had a unique approach to guiding. Instead of manoeuvring around people, he would gently lean on pedestrians, encouraging them to step aside and allow us to pass.\n\nIan's current guide dog Major takes his job very seriously\n\nLastly, Major, my seventh and current guide dog, takes his job very seriously.\n\nOut of all the dogs I've had, Major demonstrates an exceptional level of understanding.\n\nIt never ceases to amaze me how much he understands.\n\nOur interactions often feel like one-sided conversations, as I know he absorbs every word I say.\n\nStella lived a long and fulfilling life until she was nearly 16, and every dog I've had since has been not just a good friend but a way of breaking down barriers.\n\nIn two or three years it'll be time for Major to retire and I don't know how long it will take to get another dog.\n\nAt the moment, many people are waiting as long as two years after their previous dog retired, which is far too long to be without a reliable form of mobility.\n\nIt's difficult to pinpoint the exact reason for this, and Covid is often blamed, but many blind people believe the issues began before the pandemic.\n\nSome attribute it to a change in training methods, which has led to a high rejection rate of dogs. A shortage of staff has also been said to be a factor.\n\nThe Guide Dogs Association says its training methods for guide dogs are in line with international standards and prioritise welfare and safety.\n\nThey say the Covid pandemic led to a pause in its breeding programme and also caused a dip in guide dog training success rates due to limited socialisation opportunities for the dogs.\n\nThey say the average wait is currently 15 months and they are taking action to address waiting times.\n\nI hope they are because I know that guide dog training has been a lifeline for blind people for decades and will continue to be, no matter how it evolves.", "Ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for nationwide protests after he was handed a three-year jail sentence over corruption allegations.\n\nMr Khan was found guilty of not declaring money earned from selling gifts he received in office. He denies the charges and says he will appeal.\n\nAfter the verdict, Mr Khan was taken into custody from his home in Lahore.\n\nIn a pre-recorded statement posted after the verdict, he urged supporters to fight against the ruling.\n\n\"I have only one appeal, don't sit at home silently,\" he said in a video address posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. \"I am struggling for you and the country and your children's future,\" he added.\n\nThe former cricketer-turned-politician, 70, was elected in 2018, but was ousted in a no-confidence vote last year after falling out with Pakistan's powerful military.\n\nMr Khan is facing more than 100 cases brought against him since his removal - charges he says are politically motivated.\n\nHowever, the government has adamantly denied that there was any political motivation in Mr Khan's arrest or disqualification. Marriyum Aurangzeb, Pakistan's minister of information and broadcasting, told the BBC: \"You have to be accountable for your deeds in law. This has nothing to do with politics. A person who has been proven guilty by the court has to be arrested.\"\n\nSaturday's verdict centred on charges that Mr Khan incorrectly declared details of presents from foreign dignitaries and proceeds from their alleged sale.\n\nThe gifts - reported to be worth more than 140m Pakistani rupees ($635,000; £500,000) - included Rolex watches, a ring and a pair of cuff links.\n\n\"His dishonesty has been established beyond doubt,\" Judge Humayun Dilawar wrote in his ruling. Outside the courthouse, some pro-government demonstrators chanted \"your show is over Khan\".\n\nJudge Dilawar said police had been instructed to arrest Mr Khan immediately. Within 15 minutes of the verdict, footage began to circulate on social media showing a line of police cars and trucks taking him away.\n\nImran Khan's lawyer, Intazar Hussain Panjutha, told the BBC the trial had been conducted by \"a kangaroo-type court\" in which \"the accused was never given the opportunity to defend himself\".\n\nPolice officers outside Mr Khan's home after he was handed a three-year jail sentence\n\n\"As a consequence of today's conviction, he has been barred to take part in the politics for five years,\" Mr Panjutha said.\n\n\"But if the sentence and the conviction is suspended as we are hoping by the superior courts, he will then be able to come back to politics.\"\n\nMr Khan has been sent to Attock jail, a small facility in Punjab province with historical ties to the military, about 85km (52 miles) from the capital Islamabad. A number of members of Mr Khan's party have previously been held at the compound, local media reported.\n\nFor months he had avoided arrest, with his supporters at times fighting pitched battles with police to keep him out of custody.\n\nIn May, Mr Khan was arrested for not appearing at court as requested. He was then released, with the arrest declared illegal.\n\nWhen he was last arrested on 9 May, there were protests across Pakistan. Thousands of his supporters arrested were alleged to have been involved in the protests.\n\nSince then, Mr Khan and his political party have faced a dramatic crackdown, with many of his senior leadership arrested, before announcing they were leaving the party. Many vocal supporters of Mr Khan - who would previously post regularly about him on social media - now feel nervous to express their opinion or even have quietly deleted their previous comments.\n\nSome of those arrested supporting Mr Khan will face trial in military courts, despite an outcry from many in human rights groups.\n\nIndeed, several hours after Mr Khan's arrest, there had not been the kind of mass political protests seen in May. In Lahore, the BBC Urdu team saw some supporters who had gathered outside his home chanting and waving flags picked up by police. Around Islamabad, there's no evidence of increased security.\n\nWhen questioned by BBC HARDTalk as to whether he had created an atmosphere of hostility to the military resulting in violence, Mr Khan said he and his party had never advocated the use of violence and had a record of peaceful protest.\n\nMr Khan said the army in Pakistan was \"petrified\" of elections which his party would win \"hands down\" and, for that reason, \"they're dismantling a democracy\".\n\nPakistan's army plays a prominent role in politics, sometimes seizing power in military coups and, on other occasions, pulling levers behind the scenes.\n\nMany analysts believe Mr Khan's election win in 2018 happened with the help of the military.\n\nIn opposition, he has been one of its most vocal critics, and analysts say the army's popularity has fallen.\n\nSince being ousted, Mr Khan has been campaigning for early elections, but Saturday's ruling means he will be disqualified from running in the much anticipated poll.\n\nMs Aurangzeb insisted that there was \"no correlation\" between Saturday's ruling and he prospect of elections.\n\n\"Just because there are elections down the road doesn't mean that you can't arrest him,\" she told the BBC. She accused Mr Khan of sidestepping and evading the law.\n\nPakistan's parliament will be dissolved on August 9, leaving a caretaker government to take over in the run up to the elections.\n\nNo election date has been announced, although constitutionally they should take place by early November.\n\nHowever, on Saturday the country's law minister said the new elections would have to take place after the results of a new census were implemented.\n\nAzam Nazeer Tarar told Geo News TV that it could take about four months to produce new constituency boundaries based from the count, potentially delaying the election by several months.", "A storm with hail and heavy rain has hit the southwest German city of Reutlingen.\n\nCity officials have said the hail formed 30cm (12 inches) drifts in some areas and snowploughs were deployed.\n\nAbout 250 firefighters took part in the clean up, in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.", "Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has been attacked in prison while serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offences.\n\nThe Mirror newspaper reports that the disgraced rock star, who is being held in HMP Wakefield, was stabbed.\n\nA Prison Service spokesperson said police were investigating an incident that took place at the prison on Saturday.\n\nThey added: \"We are unable to comment further while the police investigate\".\n\nWatkins was jailed in December 2013 for a string of child sex offences, including the attempted rape of a baby.\n\nWhile not wanting to comment specifically about the attack on Watkins, Prison Officers' Association vice-chair Dave Todd said he was concerned for staff and prisoners over the rising number of incidents they are being exposed to in jails.\n\nWatkins was sentenced to 29 years in prison with a further six years on licence, but he will be eligible for parole after serving two thirds of the prison term.\n\nHis two co-defendants, the mothers of children he abused, were jailed for 14 and 17 years.\n\nDuring sentencing, Mr Justice Royce said the case broke \"new ground\" and \"plunged into new depths of depravity\".\n\nWatkins admitted the attempted rape and sexual assault of a child under 13 but pleaded not guilty to rape.\n\nJudges rejected an appeal by Watkins in 2014 to reduce the length of his jail term.\n\nAs a rock star in his 20s, he sold millions of albums around the world and commanded huge arena crowds.\n\nFormed in 1997, Welsh rock band Lostprophets released five studio albums in total, including a number one album in the UK and two Top 10 singles. They also saw some success in the US, where their second and third albums both reached the Top 40.", "Wrex-Men: Club co-owner Ryan Reynolds and guest Hugh Jackman - who play superheroes in Marvel movies - helped cheer on Wrexham's own on-pitch heroes\n\nHollywood actor Hugh Jackman joined Wrexham fans to watch the club's return to the Football League after 15 years.\n\nThe Wolverine star joined celebrity owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney at Wrexham AFC's first game in football's fourth tier since 2008.\n\nThe return has been a dream come true for long-suffering fans.\n\nHowever, celebrations were short-lived as the club was on the receiving end of a 5-3 defeat to MK Dons.\n\nSpeaking before the match, Sandy Domingos-Shipley, from Toronto in Canada, said: \"I'm continuing the party I had at the last game in Wrexham and ended at 4am.\"\n\nShe added: \"We're here for the first game of the season and I wanted to party with some of the locals again - we've been here a few times last season so hopefully it will be a good win today and we can do some more partying later.\"\n\nWrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds posed for pictures with fans before kick-off\n\nSandy said she had lived in the UK for a few years and liked to \"get some Canadians together and use Wrexham as a meeting place\".\n\nShe said the group started with about 60 people and now has 180, with members from \"around the world\".\n\n\"The community have been very welcoming,\" she said.\n\nWrexham won the National League title last season with 111 points, while Saturday's opponents, MK Dons, were relegated from League One.\n\nFans gathered outside the gates at Wrexham's ground early to try to get a glimpse of any celebrity rivals - and they weren't disappointed with Jackman pausing to wave to them.\n\nHugh Jackman was also at the Wrexham game with Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney\n\nIn February, Jackman told the BBC that many of Wrexham's rival teams offered him co-ownership when Ryan Reynolds bought the Welsh club.\n\nThe two celebrities have had a comedic feud for several years.\n\nSandy Domingos-Shipley (second left) is one of Wrexham's many international fans\n\nMandy and Harry Robinson, from Wrexham, have been coming to the stadium for in excess of 20 years.\n\nMandy said she had seen \"really bad times\" to the point where die-hard fans had to hold bucket collections in town to save the club.\n\n\"It was a bit upsetting but hey, we're here now.\"\n\nLong-time Wrexham fans the Collins family said they hoped to get a glimpse of the club's celebrity owners at Saturday's game\n\nThe Collins family are season ticket holders and have been revelling in Wrexham's success since the take over by Reynolds and McElhenney.\n\n\"I think they've done an astonishing thing in terms of unlocking the potential of the club and the town and it all started with their investment,\" said Dan Collins.\n\nCommunity groups have also been given plenty to shout about too as many have been given free tickets to matches to make the club as accessible as possible.\n\nSam Jones from Dynamic Wrexham, a charity that works with young people with disabilities, said: \"It's absolutely fantastic. I think it's 56 different community groups that they've reached with the ticket scheme, so that's about 5,000 tickets in total.\"\n\nCelebrations were short-lived for Wrexham as the team suffered a 5-3 defeat in their league opener\n\nThe \"Wrex-factor\" has encouraged fans to look back at the city's footballing history.\n\nThe Football Museum for Wales has launched a guided heritage tour to highlight the places in Wrexham where significant sporting moments occurred, including the founding of the FAW in 1876.\n\nIt also looks at the impact women and diverse communities have had on the sport.\n\nFootball coach Anne-Marie Withers, who has taken part in the tour, said: \"I found it all really interesting and it gave me a massive insight into the history of football in Wrexham.\"\n\nDelwyn Derrick, one of the tour guides, said re-joining the Football League was another huge moment for Wrexham fans.\n\n\"I think that's a huge point of pride for everyone who supports the club or just generally from the town to see Wrexham back in the Football League where we have always believed they belong.\"", "Theresa is one of a group of campaigners who have vowed to remain outside the hotel until the plans are dropped\n\nA mist of uncertainty has fallen over a small village in Carmarthenshire, with locals unclear what the future holds as they await the arrival of 240 asylum seekers.\n\nSome have fitted extra security to their homes, with the lack of information fuelling fears on the streets in Furnace.\n\nAll most people know is that the four-star Stradey Park Hotel closed last month with the loss of 100 jobs, following a deal with the Home Office.\n\nMany feel helpless and in the dark, but others say they are determined to make their point.\n\nTheresa, 58, is among those who have set up a camp outside the hotel to try to put a stop to the plans, and said she would stay in place \"for the long run, as long as it takes\".\n\n\"It's the nicest hotel in Carmarthenshire. Everyone comes here. Rugby teams stay here, people going to Ffos Las Racecourse. I did before I lived here,\" she said.\n\nThe camp set up outside the hotel's gates has about 20 people who swap shifts around the clock. The flurry of beeping horns from passing motorists suggests their cause is backed by many in the wider community.\n\nLast week, hotel owner Gryphon Leisure won a High Court injunction to limit the activities of protestors, and in a letter seen by the BBC they threatened to appoint enforcement agents to stop blocking of the entrance.\n\nThe company has refused to address the change of use for Stradey Park, but the Home Office said asylum seekers were costing the taxpayer too much and the plans were necessary because the system was under \"incredible\" strain.\n\nIn the face of this, those against the plans remain resolute.\n\nProtesters have been chatting to PCSOs who have kept a regular presence nearby\n\nTheresa said she arrives at the camp every morning around 9am, and will stay until 11:30 before returning at 4pm for another three hours.\n\n\"I do the early [shift]. These (other protesters) stay awake all night.\"\n\nThose gathered have been angered by media reports linking them to far-right groups. They say they are just concerned locals, and there is no political agenda behind their stance.\n\nThis becomes clear when they start nostalgically reminiscing about what has been lost - the Sunday lunches, so popular it was hard to book a table, afternoon teas, a James Bond night, international rugby sides staying, as well as golf groups.\n\nAlso, the sadness at seeing French and Dutch visitors turn up with their suitcases recently, having not realised it's closed.\n\nIt's not just a hotel, but a focal point of the community, from where everyone has memories.\n\nThat's the simple reason there are about 20 people who, like Theresa, are \"here for the long run\".\n\nThey talk to PCSOs and hand out bread rolls that a resident has delivered, with Theresa adding: \"The donations are amazing, food, water, loads of Welsh cakes.\n\n\"The ladies do a lot of baking. There was pavlova the other day, I missed that one. Also, curry and rice.\"\n\nBarman Geraint Phillips said no advice has been given about the new imminent new arrivals to the village.\n\nThere are many questions - when will the asylum seekers finally arrive? Where will they be from? How will they integrate?\n\nDown the road at Furnace RFC, head barman Geraint Phillips, 58, said he is simply concerned about a move that will add significantly to the local population.\n\n\"We've been in the dark since day one. It's just not knowing who and what are coming here,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no more than 400 people here, and one corner shop.\"\n\nIt is also fuelling rumours and in some cases fear. Susan Davies, 64, has had a bell fitted to her front door for extra security.\n\nShe was a bridesmaid at the hotel, and believe it is \"such a shame it's being used this way\".\n\nLooking at work being carried out to ready the hotel for the arrivals, she said: \"A lot of people are struggling in this area, it's a really poor area. A lot more could be done to help local people [with the money] instead.\"\n\nRachel Peregrine says the lack of information has made her concerned\n\nRachel Peregrine, 33, said while pushing her children on the swings in Parc Howard: \"I don't really know what to think.\n\n\"If it was all men, I wouldn't be too happy. But we have no information.\"\n\nAllan Edwards, 72, and John Bennett, 74, said it's all everyone has been talking about.\n\nAllan Edwards and John Bennett say the plans are all people in the village have been talking about in recent weeks\n\n\"He [the owner] is from London, he doesn't give a monkey's about Llanelli,\" said John.\n\n\"It's a rural community, a way of life, and he's cashing in.\"\n\nAllan questioned whether the Conservative UK government were intentionally placing the asylum seekers in a Labour-voting area for political reasons, and whether the situation could have been avoided if people around the UK had been asked to take them in, like with Ukrainian refugees.\n\nHe also wondered if there will be tensions among asylum seekers who have to share rooms, saying: \"In my school, there were 240 boys, there was fighting, some were tidy, some were not.\n\n\"Here, you are going to have four blokes in one room, one toilet, different religions, backgrounds.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's all about money for the owner.\"\n\nTattiana Alfaia and Simon Elliot, who were walking dog Kobe in Parc Howard, believe many of the issues have been caused by a lack of information given to locals\n\nMany of the issues stem from a lack of explanation and understanding of the dire situations many of the people will be coming from, believes Tattiana Alfaia, 46.\n\n\"I see posters that say 'Wales belongs to the Welsh'. I am from Portugal, how many British people are there?\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same in Spain. It just makes them look silly, it's not a good message.\"\n\nSimon Elliot, 43, said he understands the concerns about people being housed in such close proximity to the community.\n\nBut he said he wondered if there could be more empathy, adding: \"You hear so many stories [about asylum seekers], good and bad. But bad things happen with people who live here too.\"\n\nResidents could have been forgiven for thinking the days of Stradey Park making the headlines ended when the famous old rugby ground was bulldozed in 2010.\n\nIt was less than a mile from the hotel, and where Llanelli beat the 1972 All Blacks.\n\nThe Stradey Arms is just down the road from the hotel and benefitted with trade from guests\n\nMax Boyce wrote a song about pubs running dry on that famous day - the Felinfoel Brewery is just up the road, and there are many watering holes scattered around Furnace.\n\nOne is called the Stradey Arms and licensee Wayne Stephens lamented the loss of custom from golf groups staying at the hotel, as well as raising concerns about a change to his clientele.\n\n\"Are they [the asylum seekers] going to wander out or stay at the hotel?,\" he said.\n\n\"If they are all in the pub, will it put people off? Most probably, yes. We are stuck in the middle, people will be put off coming to drink with us.\"\n\nHowever, he said the issue had brought with it some positivity in bringing everyone together.\n\nPolice have been keeping a presence in the community in recent weeks\n\n\"These days, people don't go out to socialise together, people are on their phones or tablets,\" he said.\n\n\"One positive, people are all out there together, all religions, ages, backgrounds.\"\n\nBut while he said the protestors have been peaceful and respectful, he warned there could be a flashpoint if the hotel owner tries to remove \"people or infrastructure\" from outside.", "Andrew Malkinson says he finally has the chance to prove his innocence\n\nA man who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he says he did not commit has had his convictions referred to the Court of Appeal following new DNA evidence.\n\nAndrew Malkinson, from Grimsby, was convicted in 2004 of strangling and raping a woman in Greater Manchester.\n\nThe now 57-year-old said he \"finally has the chance to prove his innocence\".\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has sent his file to the Court of Appeal after a \"breakthrough\" in evidence and a new potential suspect.\n\nThe victim, who had been walking home alone in the early hours of 19 July 2003 in Little Hulton, Salford, was sexually assaulted after being throttled until she was unconscious.\n\nShe also suffered a broken neck and a fractured cheekbone in the attack.\n\nThere was no DNA or other forensic evidence linking Malkinson to the crime, however, and the prosecution case relied mainly on identification evidence.\n\nFollowing a trial at Manchester Crown Court, he was convicted by majority verdict in February 2004 and jailed for life.\n\nMalkinson was released from prison in December 2020 on licence and has always maintained his innocence, insisting it was a case of mistaken identity.\n\nHe twice had applications to the CCRC rejected.\n\nThe CCRC said new tests on the victim's clothing had revealed a match to another man on the national DNA database.\n\nIn light of new information, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) confirmed last month it had arrested a 48-year-old man from Exeter on suspicion of rape. He has since been released under investigation.\n\nCCRC chairwoman Helen Pitcher said: \"The new results raise concerns about the safety of these serious convictions. It is now for the Court of Appeal to decide whether they should be quashed.\n\n\"New evidence can come to light years after a conviction.\n\n\"In the ever-changing world of forensic science, it is crucial an independent body can undertake these enquiries and send cases of concern back to court.\n\n\"Following Mr Malkinson's application, we used our special powers and expertise to re-examine this case, instructing experts to undertake state-of-the-art DNA testing.\"\n\nThe CCRC also stressed the new DNA evidence did not prove the man on the database had committed any offences.\n\nIn a statement issued by legal charity Appeal, Malkinson said: \"I am innocent. Finally, I have the chance to prove it thanks to the perseverance of my legal team at Appeal.\n\n\"I only have one life and so far 20 years of it has been stolen from me. Yesterday I turned 57 years old. How much longer will it take?\"\n\nThe charity, which submitted new DNA evidence to the CCRC in April 2021, said the new DNA analysis had only been possible because samples had been kept by the government-owned company Forensic Archive Ltd.\n\nIt accused GMP of having destroyed or lost exhibits.\n\nGMP said it would continue to assist the CCRC's review.\n\nWhen his lawyers first confirmed the DNA discovery, Malkinson told The Guardian: \"My life is on hold until I can overturn the conviction. I can't get a decent job. I'm having to scrape by on the scraps of minimum-wage jobs that nobody really wants.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police arrested a man last month on suspicion of rape in light of the new evidence\n\nAppeal said it was a \"huge but long overdue step on the path to justice for Andy\".\n\nDirector Emily Bolton said: \"The battle for justice is not yet over.\n\n\"The Court of Appeal will now form its own view of the fresh evidence and we hope they will agree that Andy's conviction cannot now be regarded as safe.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prosecutors in Donald Trump's upcoming trial have asked for limits on what the ex-president can publicly say about the case, after he shared a threatening message online.\n\nIn a filing late on Friday night, the prosecutors said they feared Mr Trump might disclose confidential evidence.\n\nThey justified the move citing a post by Mr Trump shared on Friday, saying it targeted people involved in the case.\n\nBut Mr Trump's team insisted the post was directed at political opponents.\n\nOn the Truth social network Mr Trump wrote \"IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!\" on Friday afternoon, just a day after he pleaded not guilty to four charges in the alleged election fraud case.\n\nThe charges - which include conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens - stem from the former president's actions in the wake of the 2020 election, including around the 6 January Capitol riot.\n\nIn their filing, the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith said the post raised concerns that Mr Trump could publicly reveal secret material, including grand jury transcripts obtained from prosecutors.\n\nNoting that Mr Trump has a history of attacking judges, attorneys and witnesses against him, Mr Smith's office warned that his behaviour could have \"a harmful chilling effect on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case\".\n\nThe Republican has already hit out against the special counsel, telling a crowd of supporters in Alabama on Friday that Mr Smith was a \"deranged human being\" and \"a bad guy\".\n\nThe filing added that Friday's post \"specifically or by implication\" referred to those involved in the criminal case against him.\n\nIt added the order which they are seeking - known as a protective order - would not be \"overly restrictive\", saying that it did not prevent Mr Trump and his team discussing the case in the media and would allow him to access discovery materials for use in his defence.\n\n\"All the proposed order seeks to prevent is the improper dissemination or use of discovery materials, including to the public,\" the filing said.\n\nJudge Tanya Chutkan gave Mr Trump's legal team until 17:00 local time on Monday to respond to the submission. Mr Trump's lawyers asked for three more days, but the judge denied their request.\n\nIn a statement shortly after the filing, a spokesperson for Mr Trump defended the social media post and insisted that he had been targeting political opponents.\n\n\"The Truth post cited is the definition of political speech,\" the statement said, adding that it was in response to \"dishonest special interest groups\" and political action committees attacking him.\n\nSpeaking later at a campaign rally in South Carolina, Mr Trump said he regards his indictment as a \"great badge of honour\".\n\nHe told the event that he was being indicted \"because they're afraid of all of us\", and wanted to silence him and his supporters - but America would be free again if he returned to the White House.\n\nJudge Chutkan, a noted hardliner on cases against those accused of participation in the Capitol riots, is expected to call in attorneys from both sides on 28 August to discuss setting a trial date.\n\nProsecutors have already said that the case would benefit from a speedy trial.\n\nBut Mr Trump's defence attorney John Lauro has said his team will need more time to prepare. He said the prosecution's timeline was \"somewhat absurd\" given that the investigation itself had taken three years.\n\nMr Trump now faces five upcoming trials - three criminal trials which include the classified documents case, the hush money case, and these election charges; and two civil trials over business practices and alleged defamation of a woman who accused him of rape.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Clintons, the greeting cards retailer, is set to shut around 20% of its shops in an effort to keep the company afloat.\n\nReports suggest that if the firm is not able to strike a deal it faces insolvency.\n\nIt would be the third time in 11 years that Clintons has faced acute financial difficulties - it had to be rescued in 2012 and again in 2019.\n\nClintons has been contacted by the BBC for comment.\n\nThe retailer has appointed restructuring experts FRP Advisory, which has declined to comment.\n\nAccording to The Times, Clintons has 179 shops and wants to close 38 of its outlets. It employs around 1,400 people.\n\nIt is the second High Street company facing financial difficulties. Last week, Wilko warned that it is on the brink of collapse, putting 12,000 jobs at risk.\n\nThe homewares company, which has been trading for 93 years, said that it had filed a \"notice of intention\" (NOI) to appoint administrators.\n\nWilko's chief executive Mark Jackson said that Wilko has been working to secure funding for a turnaround plan and had received \"an indicative offer that would meet all financial criteria\".\n\n\"However, this offer could not be executed in the timelines required, which is why we took the difficult decision this week to file an NOI,\" Mr Jackson added.\n\nAt its height, Clintons had nearly 800 shops and employed 8,000 staff.\n\nHowever, in 2012 it was forced to file for administration and was rescued by American Greetings, a supplier owned by the US-based Weiss family.\n\nAt that point, 350 shops were shut and nearly 3,000 employees lost their jobs.\n\nThe family rescued Clintons from administration again in 2019. More stores were shuttered and job cuts continued.\n\nClintons was founded in 1968 by Don Lewin, the son of an East End chimneysweep.\n\nThe business made Mr Lewin a multi-millionaire, earned him an OBE and inspired his autobiography \"Think of a Card\".\n\nThe same year that Mr Lewis founded Clintons in Epping, Essex, two students Judith Cash and Eddie Pond set up Paperchase, a rival greeting cards and stationery specialist.\n\nHowever, Paperchase filed for administration in 2021 after Covid lockdowns forced many non-essential retailers to close their doors.\n\nTesco eventually bought Paperchase's brand and intellectual property. The chain's 106 shops in the UK and Ireland were not acquired and hundreds of people lost their jobs.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCoverage : Watch on BBC One, listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds and follow on the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nEngland midfielder Keira Walsh could make their Women's World Cup last-16 tie with Nigeria on Monday if she \"recovers well\" from Sunday's training session, manager Sarina Wiegman says.\n\nWalsh, 26, was taken off on a stretcher during the 1-0 win over Denmark on 28 July with a knee injury, which Wiegman confirmed was \"not ligament damage\".\n\nThe Barcelona midfielder trained with the squad at Central Coast Stadium before flying to Brisbane on Sunday.\n\n\"Keira's doing well,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"She started her rehabilitation straight after we knew what was going on. She has been on the pitch training today and now we will wait to see how she recovers.\n\n\"If she does well, then she will be available for [Monday].\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\nThere were initial fears that Walsh had suffered a serious knee injury, but scans then ruled out anterior cruciate ligament damage.\n\n\"Everyone was in shock of course,\" said Wiegman. \"But then really quickly, the day after, we knew things weren't as bad as it looked and that people had thought.\"\n\nEngland have won all three matches at the Women's World Cup and face Nigeria for a place in the quarter-finals in Brisbane at 08:30 BST on Monday.\n\nFor last Tuesday's 6-1 win over China, Manchester United captain Katie Zelem made her first start in midfield and impressed alongside regular Georgia Stanway.\n\n\"Of course we want every player to be fit and available,\" added Wiegman. \"Keira wasn't available for the last match and we know what options we have in that position.\n\n\"Katie [Zelem] did really well against China and now Keira is back ,so that's really nice for the team. We know we have other options too. Keira is exceptional but other players can solve that.\"\n\n'We have two formation options now'\n\nEngland defender Alex Greenwood said Walsh had been \"fine\" in camp during the last week despite having to miss their final group match.\n\n\"We obviously spent a few days apart when we played but she's Keira and was focused on her rehab,\" said Greenwood.\n\n\"She always had a smile on her face and we just supported her as team-mates as best we could.\"\n\nThere was plenty of speculation in the build-up to England's win over China about how they might replace Walsh, a key figure in their Euro 2022-winning side.\n\nWiegman switched formations, opting to play a back three, and included Zelem in midfield. It was hugely successful but the Dutchwoman would not give any clubs as to how England might set up against Nigeria.\n\n\"We have two options now - the way we have played and what we did against China, so we will take that into consideration. You will see tomorrow what we will do,\" said Wiegman.\n\nGreenwood added: \"In both formations, we're able to express ourselves. I think for the game and the challenge that lay ahead [against China], the back three worked. That proved in the game.\n\n\"Whatever formation we play, we're strong in all areas and we'll prepare for anything. But no, sorry, I'm not going to give you the answer.\"\n\nNigeria manager Randy Waldrum said his side had to prepare for both possible formations, which makes his \"job a little more challenging\".\n\n\"As a coach, I expect [Wiegman] to go with a back three as they played so well and I don't know why they would change that,\" said Waldrum.\n\n\"But we have to be prepared for both systems. It makes the job a little challenging as you don't have that much time and I'm sure England would have worked at both systems quite extensively.\"", "Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said new fines targeting employers would help to deter dangerous Channel crossings\n\nFines for businesses and landlords who knowingly support illegal migrants are set to triple under new rules announced by the government.\n\nFirms who are found to have repeatedly employed illegal migrants could face fines of up to £60,000 per breach.\n\nThe Home Office argues \"illegal working and renting are significant pull factors\" for illegal migration.\n\nImmigration Minister Robert Jenrick said the move would help deter perilous channel crossings by small boats.\n\nUnder the new punishments, which come into force at the beginning of 2024, businesses will see the civil penalty for employing illegal migrants rise from £15,000 for the first offence to £45,000.\n\nRepeat offenders will see fines triple from £20,000 to £60,000.\n\nMeanwhile, landlords will have fines hiked from £80 per lodger and £1,000 per occupier for a first breach to up to £5,000 per lodger and £10,000 per occupier.\n\nFurther breaches could result in penalties of to £10,000 per lodger and £20,000 per occupier, up from £500 and £3,000 respectively.\n\n\"Unscrupulous landlords and employers who allow illegal working and renting enable the business model of the evil people smugglers to continue,\" Mr Jenrick said in a statement.\n\n\"There is no excuse for not conducting the appropriate checks and those in breach will now face significantly tougher penalties.\"\n\nIt is unknown how many people reside in the UK illegally. A 2020 study conducted by the Greater London Authority estimated that between 594,000-745,000 undocumented people were living in the country - about 1% of the total population.\n\nSince 2018 some 4,000 civil penalties have been issued to employers for employing undocumented workers, raising more than £74m.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made tackling the number of migrants making the dangerous crossing across the channel one of his government's five main priorities.\n\nBut Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said penalties issued to firms employing workers illegally had actually fallen by two-thirds since 2016, noting that arrests had also fallen.\n\n\"Strengthening penalties must be combined with stronger enforcement action if the government is serious about tackling the problems,\" the Ms Cooper said.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael called the move \"another pointless announcement on the asylum system which will make no meaningful difference\".\n\n\"A bolder fix is required by ministers, yet they are too arrogant to admit it,\" Mr Carmichael added.\n\nMore than 45,000 people entered the UK via Channel crossings last year, up from about 300 in 2018.\n\nLast month, a controversial new bill was approved by Parliament which will see people removed from the UK being blocked from returning or seeking British citizenship in future.\n\nThe home secretary has also been given the duty to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally to Rwanda or a \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe move, which could see up to £6bn spent a year on detention and removal, attracted an unusually strong response from the United Nations.\n\nIn a joint statement, UN human rights chief Volker Turk and the UN refugees head Filippo Grandi said the bill \"will have profound consequences for people in need of international protection\".\n\n\"This new legislation significantly erodes the legal framework that has protected so many, exposing refugees to grave risks in breach of international law,\" Mr Grandi said.\n\nThe Home Office defended the bill and said the government took its international obligations seriously - noting that nothing in the bill required the government to act in a way which was incompatible with international law.\n\nThe UK had the fifth highest number of asylum applications in Europe, behind Germany, France, Spain and Austria in 2022.\n\nWith 217,735 applications, Germany had a quarter of all first-time asylum applications within the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA controversial rule which deducted living costs from compensation paid to wrongly jailed people has been scrapped.\n\nThe government rethink follows the case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit.\n\nHe welcomed the move but said he still faces a two-year wait for his payment.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Malkinson said: \"It's a step in the right direction. But there's much more that needs changing too.\n\n\"You know, you don't want to just put a sticking plaster on something that's mortally wounded.\"\n\nHe has described it as \"sickening, abhorrent, repugnant\" that a percentage of his compensation could have been reduced before Sunday's announcement.\n\nPeople who are wrongly jailed for more than 10 years can be paid up to £1m under a government compensation scheme.\n\nBut since a House of Lords ruling in 2007, that total figure can be reduced to take into account \"savings\" individuals made on things like housing and food while imprisoned.\n\nHowever, the Ministry of Justice said its independent assessors who make the deductions have not done this in the last 10 years.\n\nMPs said individuals whose payments were reduced should now be reimbursed.\n\nMr Malkinson has been calling for the living costs rule to be removed since the Court of Appeal cleared him last month of a 2003 rape in Salford.\n\nHe was convicted by a jury on the basis of a prosecution which relied solely on identification evidence but a new DNA investigation has now linked another suspect to the crime.\n\nMr Malkinson was originally sentenced with a seven-year minimum term but was held for much longer because he refused to admit to a crime he knew he did not commit.\n\nHe was released in 2020 having always maintained his innocence and could now be in line for compensation after his conviction was formally quashed after his latest appeal.\n\nGreater Manchester Police apologised to him last month and admitted their investigation resulted in a \"grave miscarriage of justice\".\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk confirmed the rule would be scrapped, calling it a \"common sense change which will ensure victims do not face paying twice for crimes they did not commit\".\n\nHe said: \"Fairness is a core pillar of our justice system and it is not right that victims of devastating miscarriages of justice can have deductions made for saved living expenses.\"\n\nBut the government has not committed to reimbursing wrongly convicted people who have had the deduction applied to their compensation since the rule was introduced.\n\nMr Malkinson called for an overhaul of the jury and appeals system to give wrongly convicted people more protections, and said he believes \"there should be consequences\" for those who secured his imprisonment.\n\nHe said even with the living costs rule removed, he expects to wait two years for any compensation while the independent board which determines how much he is entitled to makes its decision.\n\nHe continued: \"I'm struggling. I'm living on benefits. I'm jobless, I'm homeless pretty much... I'm pretty much bereft of everything.\"\n\nCalling for the system to be speeded up and requirements to be simplified, he said: \"It's a silly barrier that's been artificially erected... it's inexcusable. It's not justified.\"\n\nA House of Commons library document from 2015 describes compensation as \"the exception rather than the rule\" in miscarriage of justice cases.\n\nEmily Bolton, director of the charity Appeal and Mr Malkinson's solicitor, said some wrongly convicted people are \"denied compensation altogether because of a restrictive test which flies in the face of the presumption of innocence\".\n\nShe added: \"The state robbed [Mr Malkinson] of the best years of his life. Changing this one rule is not an adequate response.\n\n\"We need a complete overhaul of the appeals system, which took two decades to acknowledge this obvious miscarriage of justice.\"\n\nThere have been calls from some MPs for the government to review cases where compensation payments have had living costs deducted, and to reimburse those individuals if necessary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson speaks to Radio 4's Today programme about his first night of freedom\n\nThe chair of the Commons Justice Committee, Conservative MP Sir Bob Neill, told the BBC: \"I'm very glad that the government have listened to what I think was the overwhelming reaction from the public and politicians about this.\"\n\nHe continued: \"There is a bigger piece of work that needs to be done about reforming compensation, both for victims of crime and for victims of miscarriages of justice, because the process is long-winded.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with the PA news agency, Sir Bob said: \"I wonder if the government could consider ex-gratia payments on a case-by-case basis to make up for that if people can demonstrate they fulfil all the criteria.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat justice spokesman Alistair Carmichael echoed that sentiment, calling on the government to review past cases and \"compensate these individuals fully\".", "Flames ripped through the property on Saturday night\n\nA famed 18th Century building once known as \"Britain's wonkiest pub\" has been completely gutted by a fire.\n\nSmoke was reported coming from The Crooked House at Himley, near Dudley, at about 22:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nPictures from scene showed the property, which drastically subsided in the 19th Century, engulfed by flames.\n\nLast month, it was confirmed the owners, Marston's, had sold the popular Black Country landmark to a private buyer for \"an alternative use\".\n\nStaffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said no-one was believed to be inside the building at the time and no injuries had been reported.\n\nAn investigation has been launched by Staffordshire Police and the fire service to determine the cause of the blaze.\n\nSix fire crews tackled the flames overnight and by Sunday morning the fire was largely extinguished.\n\nThe building has been completely gutted\n\nThe Crooked House was a popular attraction in the West Midlands for decades after Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries bought it and converted it into a pub in the 1940s.\n\nVisitors flocked to see the distinctive building and witness the illusion of coins and marbles appearing to roll uphill along the bar.\n\nIt was built in 1765 as a farmhouse but, due to mining in the area during the early 19th Century, one side of the building began to sink.\n\nIn March, Marston's listed it for sale with a guide price of £675,000 but thousands of people signed a petition in the hope of keeping it as a pub.\n\nA petition to save the pub had amassed nearly 4,000 signatures\n\nWatch commander Chris Green, from Tipton fire station, said: \"The crews had to roll out 40 lengths of hose from the Himley Road which was the nearest hydrant.\"\n\nThe area around the fire site remains closed from High Arcal Road to Brick Kiln Lane.\n\nLocal residents have flocked to social media sites to express their \"heartbreak\" at the loss of the \"iconic\" building.\n\nConservative MP for Wolverhampton North East, Jane Stevenson, tweeted: \"Really sad to see - this pub is part of our local history. I hope nobody was hurt and our firefighters are all safe.\n\nShe added: \"Many of us in the Black Country are fiercely proud of our heritage and I hope the Crooked House will be rebuilt as was.\"\n\nA petition to save the pub had amassed nearly 4,000 signatures\n\nAuthor Miranda Dickinson, from Wolverhampton, said: \"This is so sad. The Crooked House was a Black Country landmark, recently controversially sold and now suddenly gutted by fire.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Simone Biles is the most decorated US gymnast of all-tme\n\nFour-time Olympic champion Simone Biles has made a triumphant return to gymnastics after a two-year break. The 26-year-old American thrilled the Chicago crowd with a stunning display to win the US Classic in her first event since the Tokyo Olympics. Biles announced in 2021 she was taking a break to work on her mental health. \"Everyone that was cheering - made posters, all of that in the crowd - it just made my heart melt that they still believe in me,\" Biles said. \"It means the world because after everything that transpired in Tokyo, I worked on myself a lot. \"I still do therapy weekly and it has just been so exciting to come out here and have the confidence I had before. Biles was given a rapturous reception at the Now Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, and won with an all-around score of 59.100 points. \"Everything has fallen into place. I feel really good about where I am now mentally and physically,\" she said. \"I still think there are some things to work on in my routine but, for the first meet back, I would say it went pretty well. I'm very shocked and surprised. I'm very happy now that it is out of the way.\"\n\nBiles earned top scores for three of her four routines\n\nShe began on the uneven bars, where her score of 14.000 points was the third-best overall before claiming the meet's top score on the balance beam with 14.800. Biles drew cheers during and after every tumbling run on the floor exercise, her flips and landings bringing roars that were rewarded with a top score of 14.900 points. She finished on vault, soaring high to notch another leading mark of 15.400. Leanne Wong, 19, finished second, five points off the pace on 54.100, with 17-year-old Joscelyn Roberson third on 54.050. It was Biles' first competition since pulling out of five of her six finals at the delayed Tokyo Games in 2021. She later explained she had been suffering from the 'twisties' - a mental block where gymnasts can lose their sense of space in the air. Biles has yet to indicate whether she will aim to make next year's Olympics in Paris. She has qualified for the US national championships, which start on 24 August, and is hoping to compete for a world title in Antwerp in October. \"I always kind of knew [I'd return] as soon as everything happened in Tokyo,\" she said. \"This time I'm doing it for me. \"I worked a lot on myself and I believe in myself a little bit more. It's just coming back out here and starting those first steps again.\"\n\nBiles was all smiles as she was cheered on by a sellout crowd\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal gave their hopes of beating Manchester City to the Premier League title a psychological boost as they defeated Pep Guardiola's side on penalties to win the Community Shield.\n\nAfter a largely forgettable 70 minutes in the season curtain-raiser, Cole Palmer looked to have won it for City when the substitute curled home a stunning strike.\n\nBut Leandro Trossard equalised in the 101st minute when his shot deflected into the back of the net.\n\nThat took the game to spot-kicks, where substitute Kevin de Bruyne struck the crossbar before Rodri saw his effort saved and then Fabio Vieira converted to secure the silverware for Arsenal.\n• None Guardiola says injury-time 'big brains' never consulted them\n• None Read reaction to the Community Shield here\n• None How did you rate Arsenal's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Manchester City's display? Send us your views here\n\nArsenal led the Premier League for 248 days last season but their challenge fell apart in the closing stages as City overtook them to claim the title as part of a Treble, along with the Champions League and FA Cup.\n\nGunners boss Mikel Arteta admitted in the build-up to this game that the end of last season still hurt, and was clearly desperate to get one over City, who beat his side home and away last season.\n\nArsenal's big summer signings Declan Rice, Kai Havertz and Jurrien Timber were all handed their competitive debuts at Wembley, but it looked like it was going to be a familiar story as Havertz failed to convert two big opportunities in the first half, before Palmer's stunner put City ahead.\n\nBut Arteta's side showed impressive spirit to battle to the end and got their reward when substitute Trossard struck before keeping their cool to come out on top in the shootout.\n\nFew people put great stock in a Community Shield win and history tells us that it does not often lead to a Premier League title win - only once since 2011 has the winning side gone on to secure the league title.\n\nBut that will not concern Arsenal for now as they revel in a positive result after such a disappointing end to last season.\n\nGuardiola said in the build up to this game that Arsenal's transfer business in the summer has moved them to another level, and while neither Rice or Havertz particularly excelled, there is little doubt their arrival has strengthened the core of Arteta's team.\n\nThe Gunners lost 4-1 and 3-1 in the Premier League to City last season but this was a much closer affair with Arsenal having the better chances of a cagey first half, but Havertz was twice denied from close range by Stefan Ortega.\n\nWhile the pressure of a title race is nowhere near the same of a Community Shield match, it will still have been encouraging for Arteta to see his side battle back after going behind, particularly after the manner of their capitulation towards the end of last season.\n\nThis is familiar territory for City. They have now played in the last three Community Shields and lost them all, but City fans will not care if the ultimate outcome is the same as in previous campaigns - winning the Premier League.\n\nAfter winning three major trophies last season, Guardiola did not need to significantly strengthen in the summer, although Mateo Kovacic - one of their two big summer signings along with Josko Gvardiol - started in this game.\n\nHe slotted in well to City's midfield and for large parts of this game they looked to have picked up from where they left off last season, controlling play and dominating possession.\n\nGolden Boot winner Erling Haaland, who scored 52 goals in all competitions last season, had an off day in front of goal but did so when he made his debut in last year's Community Shield loss to Liverpool and both he and City went on to enjoy an exceptional campaign.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1(4), Manchester City 1(1). Fábio Vieira (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Rodri (Manchester City) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1(3), Manchester City 1(1). Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1(2), Manchester City 1(1). Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1(2), Manchester City 1. Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Arsenal 1(1), Manchester City 1. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) hits the bar with a right footed shot.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1(1), Manchester City 1. Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, Manchester City 1. Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bukayo Saka following a corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Kyle Walker (Manchester City).\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Thomas Partey (Arsenal). Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Six months after her rescue, Afraa is healthy and happy\n\nWhen Afraa was found in the rubble of a collapsed building in Syria, her umbilical cord was still attached to her mother, who had died just after giving birth. The video of the baby's rescue from the earthquake in February captivated the world. Since then she has made a remarkable recovery.\n\nToday, Afraa is six months old - a typical happy, healthy baby.\n\nHer aunt and uncle are raising her along with their seven children in the Syrian town of Jindayris, not far from the Turkish border.\n\n\"She's still very young but she reminds me of her dad and her sister Nawara, especially her smile. They passed away in the earthquake too,\" says her uncle, Khalil al-Sawadi, rocking the smiling baby girl in her swing. \"They would often spend time at ours.\"\n\nOn 6 February, a devastating earthquake ripped through south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria, killing more than 44,000 people. Just after the devastating quake hit Jindayris, Afraa's mother went into labour and gave birth under the rubble of her home. She died before rescuers found them. Baby Afraa was the only member of her immediate family to survive - her father, Abu Rudaina, and her four siblings died, along with her mother.\n\n\"We saw that Abu Rudaina's house had collapsed,\" says Khalil. \"My wife started screaming: 'My brother, my brother'.\"\n\nKhalil recalls vividly the moment he pulled Afraa from under the rubble: \"The roof had fallen over them. Someone called me and said they found a woman's body. As soon as I arrived, I started digging, then I heard a voice. It was baby Afraa still attached to her mother. We were determined to save her, we knew she would be the only memory left of her family.\"\n\nA dramatic video of the rescue was shared on social media and went viral. The baby was taken to hospital and was initially given the name Aya, which means miracle in Arabic.\n\nAfraa was treated in hospital after rescuers saved her from under the rubble\n\nThe doctor looking after her said she had bumps and bruises and was barely breathing. Six months on, those injuries are no longer visible.\n\n\"Immediately after the earthquake she had some chest problems because of the dust from the rubble, but now her health is 100%,\" says Khalil.\n\nBut the past six months have been tough. When Afraa was in hospital, thousands of people around the world offered to adopt her, so Khalil and his wife Hala had to prove they really were related before they were allowed to take care of her. \"I felt that they didn't want to hand Afraa to us,\" he says.\n\nHala had to do a DNA test and waited \"almost 10 days\" to hear back.\n\nThere had been so much interest in Afraa's story that Khalil and his family worried as they waited for the DNA results, that someone might try to kidnap her. They spent as much time as they could at the hospital and took extra precautions. \"Both the civil and military police helped us protect her,\" he says. \"There were lots of them. They stayed in the room next to Afraa and watched over her day and night.\"\n\nEventually, the DNA results confirmed Hala was a blood relative - the sister of Afraa's father - and the little girl was discharged from hospital.\n\nAfraa is now living with her aunt, uncle and seven cousins\n\nOne of the first things Khalil and Hala did was to give her a new name: Afraa, after her mother.\n\n\"She is one of my children now,\" says Khalil. \"I can't spend too much time away from her.\n\n\"When she grows up, I will tell her what happened and show her the pictures of her mother, father and her siblings. We buried them the next day in a nearby village called Hajj Iskandar, where the Civil Defence had dug mass graves.\"\n\nHala had been pregnant at the same time as Afraa's mum and three days after Afraa was born, Hala also gave birth to a baby girl. They called her Ataa after another auntie who died in the earthquake.\n\nBut their home in Jindayris was so badly damaged that they couldn't live there any more. \"It has big cracks and is not safe,\" says Khalil. \"I lost my home and my car, it was like going back to square one. I can't even afford to send my kids to school.\"\n\nThey lived in a tent in a camp for two months where life was \"extremely difficult, it was very hot and we had two babies to take care of\".\n\nKhalil has found a new home for his family, but is worried as he cannot stay in the house for long\n\nThe family finally managed to find a house to rent where they now live, but they are afraid they won't be able to stay for long. \"It is very expensive and I don't know if we will be able to keep it much longer as the owner needs it,\" says Khalil.\n\nPeople have offered to help them move to the UAE or the UK but he has turned them down. \"Honestly, I was still worried [if I go abroad] they might take Afraa away from us.\"\n\nHe reminds us that \"there are people living under worse conditions in Jindayris\".\n\nDrone footage shows the extent of the devastation in Jindayris\n\nHis hometown was one of the worst-hit by the earthquake and thousands of other families found themselves in a similar predicament.\n\nAt least 4,500 were killed in north-west Syria, where an estimated 50,000 families were also displaced, according to the UN.\n\nDelivering aid to the four million people living in this rebel-held area of Syria is extremely difficult, where most of the residents have already been displaced by the country's 12-year war.", "A 12-year-old boy has died after being hit by a vehicle on the M62 in West Yorkshire, police said\n\nA 12-year-old boy has died in a hit-and-run crash on a motorway in West Yorkshire.\n\nThe child was struck by a vehicle on the eastbound carriageway of the M62 near Cleckheaton shortly before 22:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said he had been trying to make his way from the central reservation to the hard shoulder when he was fatally injured.\n\nOfficers have appealed for the driver involved to come forward.\n\nJust after 21:30 police received reports of a single-vehicle crash on the slip road to Hartshead Moor Services.\n\nOfficers then received further reports of two people walking along the motorway, shortly before the subsequent crash in which the boy died.\n\nEmergency crews responding to the calls found a man on the hard shoulder and he was taken to hospital for treatment to minor injuries.\n\nA 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing or allowing the death of a child and is currently in custody.\n\nDet Ch Supt Sarah Jones, of West Yorkshire Police, said: \"This is an absolutely tragic incident that has resulted in the death of a young boy.\n\n\"We understand that he was trying to make his way from the central reservation to the hard shoulder when he has been hit by a vehicle.\n\n\"The driver of this vehicle has not stopped at the scene or reported this collision to the police, and I would urge them to come forward now.\n\n\"We are also asking anyone who was driving along the M62 between Hartshead Moor and the M606 last night between 21:30 and 21:50 to please check any dashcam footage you may have of this incident.\"\n\nThe stretch of motorway between junctions 25 and 26 was closed overnight, but has since reopened.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact the force's major collision inquiry team.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Border Patrol agents found seven spider monkeys in a backpack when they detained a man trying to smuggle the animals into the US from Mexico.\n\nAt least six spider monkey species living in Central and South America are considered endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.\n\nThe monkeys were handed over to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson speaks to Radio 4's Today programme about his first night of freedom\n\n\"Even if you fight tooth and nail and gain compensation, you have to pay the Prison Service for so-called 'board and lodging',\" said Andrew Malkinson, after his first night as a free man.\n\nMr Malkinson - who was formally cleared of a rape he did not commit by the Court of Appeal on Wednesday - explained the rules which govern any financial claim he has to make.\n\nThe rules were originally imposed by judges in the case of men wrongly convicted of the murder of paperboy Carl Bridgewater in 1978.\n\n\"It's kind of sick,\" said Mr Malkinson, who served 17 years in prison before eventually being released in 2020.\n\nThe rules date back to a decision made in 2007 by the House of Lords, when it was the UK's highest court.\n\nCousins Vincent and Michael Hickey, two of those convicted of the murder of Carl Bridgewater at a farm near Stourbridge in 1978, were freed by the Court of Appeal.\n\nTheir convictions were found to be fundamentally flawed in 1997, and the then home secretary Jack Straw decided that they and their co-defendant James Robinson were entitled to compensation.\n\nMichael Hickey was awarded £1.02m and Vincent Hickey received £550,000 but, in each case, a 25% deduction was made from the section of their compensation which reflected their loss of earnings while in prison.\n\nThis was because of the living expenses they had not had to fund while in prison.\n\nThe men appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) but the court ruled in favour of the law lords' decision.\n\nMr Malkinson's compensation also depends on whether the justice secretary decides \"a new or newly discovered fact shows beyond reasonable doubt that he did not commit the offence\".\n\nThe maximum payment in cases where someone has been in jail for more than 10 years is £1m.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMichael O'Brien spent 11 years in prison before his conviction for the murder of Cardiff businessman Phillip Saunders in 1987 was overturned, and he is campaigning to change the law.\n\nHe told the BBC's World at One programme: \"I remember my solicitor phoning me up, and she said, 'They're going to charge you bed and board'.\n\n\"What's the logic in this? They don't charge guilty people, they only charge innocent people.\n\n\"It was the final insult, as far as I was concerned, to an innocent man.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said deductions from compensation were sometimes made when there had been \"substantial savings\" made on living costs while a person was in custody.\n\nMortgage or rental costs might be considered.\n\nA ministry source said: \"There's a big difference between bed and board and living costs.\n\n\"There's a big difference between a deduction and being required to pay money back.\"", "The Barbie film has hit the billion-dollar mark just 17 days after it was released, according to distributor Warner Bros.\n\nThe movie will finish the weekend with $1.03bn (£808m) in ticket sales at the global box office, it said in a statement on Sunday.\n\nIt means Greta Gerwig has become the first woman to reach the milestone as a solo director.\n\nWarner Bros described it as a \"watershed moment\".\n\nJeff Goldstein, president of domestic distribution in the US, said: \"No-one but Greta Gerwig could have brought this cross-generational icon and her world to life in such a funny, emotional and entertaining story... literally turning the entire world pink.\"\n\nHe said that long lines in cinemas and repeat viewings \"prove that movies are back\" after the cinema industry suffered due to pandemic lockdowns and competition from streamers.\n\nOther female directors have helmed films that have surpassed the $1bn-mark but working with others. Frozen, the animated blockbuster, and its sequel have generated more than $1.4bn in box office takings and were co-directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck.\n\nMeanwhile, Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson and co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, generated more than $1.1bn in takings.\n\nThe pink-hued film has received praise from critics and inspired scores of selfies at doll boxes installed in cinemas across the UK too.\n\nStarring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken, it has drawn in $459m so far in the US and $572m internationally.\n\nAchieving \"Barbillion\" - as described by Warner Bros - is no mean feat. Just five other films have done so since the pandemic, including The Super Mario Brothers Movie earlier this year, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Top Gun: Maverick, Jurassic World Dominion and the Avatar sequel.\n\nCinema-goers have often paired a viewing of Barbie, which tells a coming-of-age story of the iconic doll, with Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer - a story about the development of the first atomic bomb.\n\nGreta Gerwig previously directed well-acclaimed films such as Little Women and Lady Bird\n\nUK-based cinema chain Vue recently said both films had led to the firm seeing its busiest weekend in four years.\n\nMs Robbie also served as one of the producers on Barbie. According to an interview with Collider, she banked on making a billion dollars in early meetings.\n\n\"I think I told them that it'd make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, okay?!\" she told the publication.\n\nThe film's marketing campaign has been huge, with pink billboards installed in cities around the world while a pink Tardis also appeared at Tower Bridge.\n\nToy-maker Mattel is hoping to repeat the same success with other films.\n\nOther Mattel brands - including Barney, Hot Wheels and Polly Pocket - are set to feature in upcoming Hollywood movies.\n\nIt released a soundtrack album and entered into more than 165 consumer product partnerships for the Barbie film, although it recently reported that its sales fell by 12% for the three months to end of June.", "Pilots at Virgin Atlantic have indicated they would consider going on strike following \"serious concerns\" about fatigue and their wellbeing.\n\nUnion Balpa said that in a recent vote, 96% of Virgin Atlantic pilots supported a ballot on industrial action.\n\nAt issue are scheduling and rostering arrangements that were put in place during Covid which will come to an end in December.\n\nVirgin said it was willing to enter into talks in the coming weeks.\n\nThe airline said the existing pay and lifestyle agreement was \"agreed, developed and supported by Balpa pilot representatives within Virgin Atlantic, and our pilot community\".\n\nA spokesperson for Virgin Atlantic said: \"We continue to honour all agreements and have offered to enter formal pay and lifestyle negotiations with Balpa's pilot union representatives in the coming weeks, well in advance of the agreement expiring in December.\"\n\nAirlines were one of the worst hit industries during the pandemic after international travel came to a standstill to stop the spread of Covid.\n\nVirgin Atlantic employs 835 pilots and it is believed the majority are members of the Balpa pilots' union.\n\nA spokesperson for Balpa said: \"Our members have registered a trade dispute with Virgin Atlantic arising out of serious concerns relating to pilot fatigue and wellbeing around scheduling and rostering arrangements, implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nIt said that 81% of its Virgin Atlantic union members voted in the ballot which its said gave Balpa \"an overwhelming mandate to pursue this dispute\".\n\nThe maximum flying time for a commercial pilot is 900 hours per calendar year, according to the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nIt is understood that the rostered average for Virgin Atlantic pilots is around 750 hours.\n\nVirgin Atlantic is part of Virgin Group, which was founded by Sir Richard Branson.\n\nThe billionaire recently told the BBC that he feared losing his entire business empire, which also include gyms and hotels, during the pandemic. He said the shutdowns cost him £1.5bn personally.\n\nSir Richard had asked the UK government for help in 2020 but was rejected. In the end, Virgin Group injected £200m into the airline and secured other investment to keep the business afloat.\n\nAt the time, it cut 3,500 staff, leaving it with 6,500 employees.\n\nOn Sunday, a spokesperson for Virgin Atlantic said that the airline \"underwent a radical transformation as a result of the impact of Covid-19, which was possible due to the collective effort of our amazing people\".\n\nThey said: \"This was fundamental to our survival and our steadfast commitment to returning to sustainable profitability. We're grateful to them all, including our pilots who play a pivotal role in the success of our operation.\"\n\nBalpa said its members \"feel very strongly\" about pilot fatigue and wellbeing.\n\nThe union said it prefers to address matters through \"negotiation and industrial compromise and will only countenance industrial action as a last resort\".\n\nIt added: \"We remain ready to commence negotiations to find an acceptable way forward and urge Virgin Atlantic to listen to its staff and put forward an acceptable offer that our members could support.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCoverage : Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nReigning champions the USA are out of the Women's World Cup after being stunned by Sweden on penalties on a night of incredible drama in Melbourne.\n\nUSA dominated the 120 minutes but were denied by an inspired goalkeeping performance from Zecira Musovic as the match finished goalless.\n\nThe drama only ratcheted up further in the shootout. Three USA players missed, including their footballing icon Megan Rapinoe on her last appearance on the world stage, before Sweden won in remarkable circumstances.\n\nUSA keeper Alyssa Naeher appeared to have saved Lina Hurtig's effort at the second attempt, having pushed the initial effort up before clawing it out.\n\nBut after checking with the video assistant referee (VAR), referee Stephanie Frappart awarded the goal and sparked wild Sweden celebrations.\n\nUSA manager Vlatko Andonovski was not convinced the ball had crossed the line, despite technology confirming the goal.\n\n\"It's a tough moment,\" he said. \"It's a moment where it's hard to go through, where you hope it didn't cross the line. I see pictures and I still can't see it now, but proves how cruel this game can be.\"\n\nSweden go through to face Japan in the quarter-finals.\n• None Reaction as Sweden beat the USA on penalties\n\nThey were indebted to Musovic, who made 11 saves in a game where the USA looked more like the team which won the World Cup in 2015 and 2019 than the one which snuck through the group stage.\n\nBut they could not score and in the shootout Rapinoe, Sophia Smith and Kelley O'Hara all missed, Rapinoe with what is her final action at a World Cup as she has announced she will retire at the end of the year.\n\nIt condemns the USA to their worst performance at the tournament. They had never previously failed to make it to the semi-finals.\n\nUSA had not turned up to the World Cup party before Sunday. Flat and uninspired as they finished second in Group E while failing to win two first-stage matches for the first time in this competition, they have been subject to fierce criticism back home.\n\nManager Vlatko Andonovski had to make changes - especially as key midfielder Rose Lavelle was suspended for this game - and switched from 4-3-3 to 4-2-3-1 with two holding midfielders.\n\nIt worked a treat in the first half as they dominated play and were only denied the lead by Musovic and the crossbar.\n\nTrinity Rodman twice stung the gloves of Musovic before Lindsey Horan came even closer by rattling the woodwork with a header from a corner.\n\nUSA looked like a proud side stung into action by external criticism and internal knowledge that they have not been good enough so far. A ball recovery time of just six seconds in the first half was evidence of that.\n\nThey continued to make chances after the break, Horan and Alex Morgan denied by superb Musovic saves and Emily Sonnett shooting over from the edge of the area.\n\nBut they needed a goal to make their dominance count and, as they toiled for it, the crowd which had followed them to Melbourne were becoming more nervous as the game rolled on into extra time.\n\nThey continued to be denied by Musovic in the extra period as she saved from Morgan, Lynn Williams and Sophia Smith, with Andonovski sending on Rapinoe shortly before the 100th minute.\n\nThe 38-year-old has long been the team's defining symbol and inspiration - but here she blazed the fourth USA penalty wildly over the bar.\n\nSmith put well wide when the USA would have advanced if she scored, before O'Hara struck the post.\n\nThe dreams of the USA being the first nation to win three successive World Cups is over. Their reign as undisputed queens of the global women's game is also finished.\n\nSweden breezed through Group G with a 100% record. However, the four-time world champions are a big step up from South Africa, Italy and Argentina.\n\nSweden were reliant on Musovic, who spent most of last season as back-up for Women's Super League champions Chelsea - but she proved why she is number one for her country here.\n\nIn the 53th minute Horan's first-time shot following a low cross from the right seemed destined for the bottom corner, only for Musovic to make a brilliant low one-handed stop to her left despite being unsighted by Trinity Rodman stood in front of her.\n\nEven better came in the final seconds of normal time as Morgan headed down from point-blank range, only for Musovic to palm the ball way.\n\n\"I had a really good feeling before the game, there was a good feeling among the squad,\" said the 27-year-old afterwards.\n\n\"During the game you have to have each others' backs, we knew we were facing a really good team. I am extremely proud.\"To be able to perform in that way, it takes a lot of hard work that nobody sees. The reason I am a goalkeeper is to give our team the best chance to win the game. You just do what you do, it feels natural.\"\n\nSweden did get more of a measure of their opponents as the game wore on, but still had to defend deep as waves of USA attacks crashed upon them. They did not have their first shot on target until the 85th minute, Sofia Jakobsson firing straight at Naeher.\n\nUltimately they were reliant on Musovic to get them to penalties - when the greatest drama played out, and the once unbeatable USA were toppled.\n• None Goal! Sweden 0(5), USA 0(4). Lina Hurtig (Sweden) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.Goal awarded following VAR Review.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Sweden 0(4), USA 0(4). Kelley O'Hara (USA) hits the right post with a right footed shot.\n• None Goal! Sweden 0(4), USA 0(4). Magdalena Eriksson (Sweden) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Sweden 0(3), USA 0(4). Alyssa Naeher (USA) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Sweden 0(3), USA 0(3). Hanna Bennison (Sweden) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Sophia Smith (USA) right footed shot is close, but misses to the right. Sophia Smith should be disappointed.\n• None Penalty saved! Rebecka Blomqvist (Sweden) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Megan Rapinoe (USA) right footed shot is too high. Megan Rapinoe should be disappointed.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Nathalie Björn (Sweden) right footed shot is too high. Nathalie Björn should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! Sweden 0(2), USA 0(3). Kristie Mewis (USA) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Sweden 0(2), USA 0(2). Elin Rubensson (Sweden) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Sweden 0(1), USA 0(2). Lindsey Horan (USA) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Sweden 0(1), USA 0(1). Fridolina Rolfö (Sweden) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sweden 0, USA 0(1). Andi Sullivan (USA) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Storms bearing unusually torrential rain and ferocious winds this early in the north Pacific typhoon season have flooded large swathes of East Asia, with China among the countries worst hit.\n\nIn the capital of Beijing alone, the amount of rain over the past week has broken a 140-year-old record.\n\nPeople in Beijing and neighbouring Hebei province fled their homes on inflatable boats and lorries as Doksuri, a former super typhoon, drenched China's north-east.\n\nAt least 10 people have died and 18 are missing, and officials have evacuated millions of people.\n\nPeople stand on a front loader after the rains and floods in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China\n\nThe floods damaged roads and bridges, submerged cars and destroyed construction sites.\n\nDoksuri slammed into China last weekend and drenched the north-east for most of the week. The region had barely recovered from typhoon Talim the week prior.\n\nThen, there's the threat of typhoon Khanun out at sea off China's east coast, which threatens to intensify rains in areas hit by Doksuri.\n\nIn areas where the floods have subsided, residents have started shovelling mud out of their homes. The following three photos were also taken in Beijing.\n\nThe waterlogged scenes also played out in the Philippines, where Khanun, Doksuri and Talim exacerbated seasonal monsoon rains.\n\nWhile storm-weary Filipinos went about with as much of their daily routines as they could, the typhoons highlighted perennial problems of flooding in the capital, Manila, and its suburbs of Bulacan and Pampanga.\n\nA man collects washed up rubbish along the shore of Manila Bay, Philippines\n\nSlow-moving Khanun lashed Okinawa in the middle of the week and threatens to curve back to mainland Japan while intensifying rains in China.\n\nIt cut power to one-third of Okinawa in its wake and shut the airport for a day during peak tourism season.\n\nTyphoon Khanun led to offices and schools being shut for a day in Taiwan.\n\nMost stores are closed in this residential area of Taipei, Taiwan\n\nMeanwhile, India is in the middle of a heavy monsoon season that has waterlogged parts of the country.\n\nIn the first two weeks of July alone, floods and landslides there have killed almost 100 people in the north.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nGareth Davies and George North scored tries, with Leigh Halfpenny kicking 10 points on his 100th Wales appearance.\n\nVictory was the perfect start for new captain Jac Morgan, while Marcus Smith kicked three penalties for England.\n\nHead coach Steve Borthwick will name his final 33-man World Cup squad on Monday, while Wales' Warren Gatland will wait a couple more weeks.\n\nAfter a poor year, Gatland had promised Wales would \"surprise people\" and \"do something special\" at the World Cup.\n\nIt is early days but this performance provided some optimism before the return warm-up fixture at Twickenham next Saturday.\n\nWales' first-half display will be remembered for a dogged defensive effort with centre North proving crucial in denying England two tries and Aaron Wainwright shining at number eight.\n\nBorthwick will be concerned with England's inability to profit on their first-half dominance and the manner in which they allowed a second-half revival from the hosts as the visitors conceded 22 turnovers.\n• None Defeat will be a positive in long term - Borthwick\n• None Gatland pleased with win but 'still lots to work on'\n\nThis was the last chance for England players to shine before Borthwick announces his final selection - and not many will have made an impression.\n\nThe England coach indicated the majority of his squad has been finalised with only \"one or two places\" still to be decided.\n\nBorthwick chose to rest key personnel and gave opportunities to new faces, with flanker Tom Pearson making his debut and uncapped forwards Theo Dan and Tom Willis coming off the bench.\n\nWith Borthwick indicating he will take three scrum-halves and three fly-halves to France, Harlequins half-backs Danny Care and Marcus Smith started in the knowledge they are almost certain to travel, while wing Joe Cokanasiga and centre Joe Marchant were looking to impress.\n\nBorthwick will be concerned at how England failed to convert a couple of chances and spurned two attacking line-outs.\n\nThey might have a settled World Cup squad earlier than most but they will have to develop a distinctive style of play before the tournament starts in France.\n\nFull-back Freddie Steward at least proved imperious again in Cardiff under the high ball just as he had in the Six Nations match in February.\n\nIn contrast to England, Wales have three warm-up matches. Gatland is due to announce his squad after the final game against South Africa, having said this week he only knew one of his squad and places were up for grabs.\n\nA turbulent 12 months had seen Wales lose nine out of 12 games as Gatland returned for a second stint in place of Wayne Pivac.\n\nA fifth-placed finish in the Six Nations was followed by the loss of the experienced Alun Wyn Jones, Justin Tipuric, Rhys Webb and Ken Owens and off-the-field controversy with players threatening to strike over contractual injuries.\n\nGatland has spoken about changing the negative narrative surrounding Welsh rugby and he will hope this win starts that process.\n\nAfter tough training camps in Switzerland and Turkey, there were Test debuts for centre Max Llewellyn and Cardiff props Corey Domachowski and Keiron Assiratti.\n\nThe prop duo struggled in the scrums in the first half with three set-piece penalties conceded between them, but they will have learned from the experience and Gatland believes some of the decisions against them were unjustified.\n\nFlanker Taine Plumtree and former England prop Henry Thomas also impressed as they made their Wales debuts off the replacements bench.\n\nFly-half Sam Costelow made his first start and provided a threat to the English defence typified by almost releasing Louis Rees-Zammit for a first half try. Wing Rees-Zammit was also denied a late try after almost creating a brilliant individual score for himself.\n\nCostelow's clever cross-kick also set up a try for Scarlets scrum-half Davies. Aaron Wainwright gathered possession before feeding Morgan who released Davies to score.\n\nThe fly-half might have proved suspect under the high ball on a couple of occasions, but that will be balanced by his attacking ability that will offer extra options to the experience of Dan Biggar and Gareth Anscombe.\n\nWales honoured legend Clive Rowlands, who died at the age of 85 last Sunday, with a minute's applause at the start of the game. He was the only man to coach, captain and manage Wales and made his debut against England in 1963.\n\nSixty years on, flanker Morgan - who played junior rugby for Rowlands' home village of Cwmtwrch -captained Wales for the first time in what was effectively the first of three World Cup leadership auditions.\n\nWith Jones, Tipuric and Owens unavailable, Gatland is looking for a new leader and planning to appoint a different skipper for each warm-up Test before announcing his final squad and captain.\n\nOthers in the captaincy frame include Biggar, Dewi Lake, Will Rowlands and Adam Beard, but 23-year-old Morgan impressed against England, especially in the second half along with Wainwright, who demonstrated there is a number eight alternative to the currently injured Taulupe Faletau.\n\nHe played a crucial part in Wales' opening try for North and produced a crunching second-half tackle on opposite number Pearson.\n\nIt was not Morgan who led the side out though. That honour fell to full-back Halfpenny who, almost 15 years after his debut, became the ninth man to play 100 internationals for Wales.\n\nHe followed in the footsteps of Alun Wyn Jones, Gethin Jenkins, North, Biggar, Stephen Jones, Gareth Thomas, Martyn Williams and Faletau.\n\nInjuries were always going to create problems and Wales hooker Ryan Elias and lock Dafydd Jenkins will provide Gatland with some concern.\n\nElias was forced off the field after just six minutes with a hamstring injury. He had already missed the Six Nations because of an Achilles problem.\n\nAnother Scarlets hooker, Owens, has already been ruled out of at least the tournament group stages with a back problem leaving Elliot Dee, Lake and Sam Parry as the three remaining hookers in the squad.\n\nJenkins limped off in the second half which forced a major reshuffle with centre Mason Grady slipping into the back row because all forward replacements had been used before North later switched to the flank.\n\nWales were not hampered, though, and Grady almost scored with his first touch before being denied by England captain Ellis Genge in the corner.\n\nThat resourcefulness typified Wales' second-half display and set up their success.", "Last updated on .From the section Netball\n\nCoverage: Watch live coverage on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app from 16:45 BST. Listen to commentary on BBC 5 Sports Extra & BBC Sounds and follow text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nEngland must embrace \"new territory\" when they face 11-time winners Australia in their first World Cup final, says former captain Serena Kersten.\n\nThe Roses beat defending champions New Zealand in the semi-finals and will look to write a new chapter in their history as they go for gold on Sunday.\n\nEngland have won bronze six times, including at the last three World Cups.\n\nBy contrast, there has never been a World Cup final without Australia.\n\nAfter finishing fourth at the Commonwealth Games last year, the Roses have faced questions over their inconsistent form but have responded with a perfect record at the World Cup, as well as going further than any England team before them.\n\nThe final in Cape Town takes place at 17:00 BST on Sunday and will be live on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.\n\n\"Now there is expectation [on England],\" Kersten said on BBC TV.\n\n\"Everyone will expect them to get that gold medal, but that is still new territory.\"\n• None The forgetful one, the joker and the DJ - meet the England Roses\n\n'We've already gone where no Roses team has gone before'\n\nWhen England pipped Australia to Commonwealth Games gold on the Gold Coast five years ago, expectations on the Roses increased.\n\nThey have undergone a period of transition since then under head coach Jess Thirlby, who replaced Tracey Neville after the 2019 World Cup, and it has taken time for them to settle.\n\nThirlby turned her attention to developing the next generation of players, with Kersten, defender Eboni Usoro-Brown and prolific shooter Jo Harten all calling time on their England careers.\n\nBut, while it may have taken time for the strategy to reap rewards, Thirlby has always believed in the team and hopes people are now \"super proud\" of them.\n\n\"We've already gone where no Roses team has gone before,\" Thirlby said.\n\n\"In August 2019 I had a call with most of these girls, congratulated them on 2018 but said that we wanted to do different, and the World Cup still eluded us.\n\n\"We've ticked the box [getting to the final], and I hope that now will let us go out there and play with freedom.\"\n\nEngland won silver at the 1975 World Cup, but that tournament was played as a round robin, meaning they did not play in a final.\n\nThey will now challenge for a first world title, five years after they captured the nation's attention at the Commonwealth Games.\n\n\"People said once certain players retire then England will fall away,\" said former England captain Ama Agbeze.\n\n\"But for Thirlby to manage an injection of new young talent and to make a World Cup final for the first time is just phenomenal.\"\n\nBefore Thursday, England had never beaten Australia at a World Cup. A 56-55 comeback win put that to bed and ensured the Roses topped their pool in stunning style.\n\nIncluding that victory, though, England have beaten the team from down under just twice since their Gold Coast triumph in 2018 - losing seven and drawing one.\n\nThe Roses will take confidence from that performance, but Australia's Diamonds are no stranger to overcoming adversity, having lost their final pool match against Jamaica at the Commonwealth Games last year before going on to win gold.\n\nAfter losing the last World Cup final to New Zealand, Australia have spoken of \"unfinished business\" at this tournament.\n\nEngland know that despite their good form and having knocked out the defending champions, they will need to harness all of their experience and execute the perfect game plan to triumph over Australia again.\n• None How to follow the Netball World Cup on the BBC", "Police officials inspect the carriages at the accident site following the derailment of the train\n\nAt least 30 people have been killed and 100 injured when a train derailed in southern Pakistan, a police spokesman has confirmed.\n\nSeveral carriages of the Hazara Express overturned near Sahara railway station in Nawabshah, about 275km (171 miles) from the largest city Karachi.\n\nWounded passengers were moved to nearby hospitals. Rescue teams are trying to free people from the twisted wreckage.\n\nAccidents on Pakistan's antiquated railway system are not uncommon.\n\nVideos posted on social media showed dozens of people at the site of the accident, with some passengers climbing out of the overturned carriages.\n\nOne passenger who survived told BBC Urdu he had seen many women and children lying on the ground.\n\n\"They were shouting and screaming. I didn't know what to do. I filled my hands with water from this canal nearby and poured it on the faces of those who were unconscious, hoping they would regain consciousness,\" Naseer Ahmed said.\n\nNasser said he survived the accident because he \"fell out of the window when the train derailed\".\n\nAslam, who was on the train with his son, said: \"We were sleeping when suddenly the carriage came down and [it felt like] an apocalypse.\"\n\nRailway Minister Saad Rafiq said initial investigations showed the train was travelling at normal speed and they were trying to establish what led to the derailment. It could be the result of a mechanical fault or sabotage, he added.\n\nAuthorities have dismissed reports the track was flooded.\n\nA railways spokesperson in Karachi said at least eight carriages went off the track.\n\nHe said military and paramilitary troops along with rescue workers were on the scene and helped to rescue passengers trapped inside the train carriages.\n\nThe most seriously injured passengers were transported to distant, better-equipped hospitals in military helicopters.\n\nOfficials said rescue operations were completed in the early evening on Sunday.\n\nParamilitary rangers and volunteers inspect the carriages at the accident site following the derailment\n\nAn emergency has been declared in the main hospitals in Nawabshah and neighbouring districts of Sindh.\n\nTrain services to the interior districts of Sindh have been suspended.\n\nSindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon told BBC News that the government's top priority was \"the rescue work, which we are totally focused on\".\n\nIn 2021, two trains travelling in Sindh province collided, killing at least 40 people and injuring dozens.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2019, 150 people died in such incidents, according to local media reports.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "There have recently been a number of similar naval stand-offs - like this one in June - between the Philippines and China\n\nThe Philippine Coast Guard has accused its Chinese counterpart of firing water cannon at its vessels and blocking them in the disputed South China Sea.\n\nIt said this happened when its ship was escorting boats carrying supplies for Filipino soldiers stationed on one of the contested Spratly Islands.\n\nThe US condemned Beijing's \"dangerous actions\", also blaming Chinese \"maritime militia\" for the incident.\n\nChina has not publicly commented on the reported incident.\n\nBeijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, including the Spratlys, which is also claimed in part by the Philippines.\n\nThere are also competing claims by Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei and Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said the incident happened on Saturday as its vessels were heading to Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands.\n\nIt described China's actions as \"excessive and unlawful\", adding that they also violated international law.\n\nMeanwhile, the US Department of State voiced its support for \"our Philippine allies\".\n\n\"Firing water cannons and employing unsafe blocking manoeuvres, PRC [China's] ships interfered with the Philippines' lawful exercise of high seas freedom of navigation and jeopardised the safety of the Philippine vessels and crew,\" the department said in a statement.\n\nChina ignores an international arbitration court's ruling that its claim to almost the entire South China Sea is ill-founded.\n\nIn April, a BBC team aboard a PCG ship witnessed Chinese harassment at first hand.\n\nThe South China Sea is now one of the world's biggest flashpoints, especially as US-China tensions have soared in recent years.\n\nAccess to these waters is key to defending Taiwan at a time when China's claims over the self-governed island have intensified.\n\nThe waterways also host $5tn (£4tn) of global trade every year, raising concerns that Beijing's increasing footprint could restrict commerce.", "Mr Musk criticised the platform's policies on moderating content prior to his takeover\n\nElon Musk has said X, formerly known as Twitter, will pay the legal bills of anyone who is treated unfairly by their employer for their activity on his social media platform.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Musk told users that financial assistance from his platform would have \"no limits\".\n\nHe asked users to \"let us know\" if they had experienced unfair treatment for posting or liking something.\n\nFormerly known as Twitter, the social media platform was renamed last month.\n\nMr Musk is a self-described \"free speech absolutist\" and has been vocal in his criticisms of the platform's policies on moderating content prior to his takeover.\n\nWhen he announced that he was taking over Twitter in April last year, Mr Musk said \"free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated\".\n\nMore recently, the firm that owns Twitter announced that it was suing an anti-hate organisation whose research criticised the platform.\n\nThe Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) had done research that showed hate and disinformation was \"spreading like wildfire on the platform under Musk's ownership\".\n\nX Corp accused CCDH of \"unlawful acts\" to \"improperly gain access\" to its data.", "Glyn Razzell was found guilty of his wife's murder at a trial in 2003\n\nA man who murdered his wife has refused to reveal where her remains are.\n\nGlyn Razzell, 64, from Somerset, is serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife Linda, who vanished on the way to work in Swindon in 2002.\n\nHe was refused release at a 2022 parole hearing under Helen's Law, which makes it harder for killers to get parole if they do not say where the victim is.\n\nRazzell has now told a new hearing he could not reveal where his wife is as he \"does not know\" she is dead.\n\nRazzell did not appear in person at the public hearing, but was connected via a remote link.\n\nMrs Razzell, a 41-year-old mother-of-four, was living in Highworth, Wiltshire, at the time she disappeared.\n\nMore than 20 years on, she has not been seen since, and her body has never been found.\n\nHer husband's trial heard he and his wife were embroiled in divorce proceedings, and he faced a financial settlement he was not prepared to accept.\n\nWhen questioned by the parole panel about the location of his wife's body, he said: \"I don't know where Linda's remains are - I don't know if she's dead for sure - I'm sorry if that upsets people.\"\n\nLinda Razzell, originally from Carmarthenshire, disappeared in 2002 and her body has never been found\n\nThe panel told Razzell the couple's children had been grieving for many years and want to arrange a burial.\n\n\"You, and you alone are the barrier to completing this,\" he was told.\n\nRazzell replied: \"I do understand the anguish. I understand the way they feel. If there is anything I could do, I really would.\"\n\nWhen questioned by the panel about episodes of arguing at the time of her disappearance, Razzell said: \"She wanted attention from me and I didn't want to give it to her.\"\n\nHe was read testimony of alleged violent behaviour towards his wife, but denied it happened.\n\nWhen questioned over whether he had threatened his wife with violence, or withheld money from her, Razzell said he had not.\n\nMrs Razzell was last seen alive parking her car on Alvescot Road in Swindon in March 2002\n\nAnd when asked if he was angry about the fact he had been made redundant from his job, or jealous about his wife's new partner, Razzell said: \"I was sad, not angry.\"\n\nHe added: \"I went through a period of being depressed when Linda first filed for divorce.\n\n\"I was really suffering badly from insomnia. I was worried about my children and not seeing them every day was by far the worst part of the divorce - not money or her infidelity. \"\n\nHe was asked about Mrs Razzell's blood being found in a car he had borrowed from a friend, which was used for all of Razzell's journeys on the day his wife disappeared.\n\n\"I don't think the blood was in the car,\" Razzell said.\n\n\"I think the blood was placed there to incriminate me - it must have been with Linda's help because it was fresh blood.\"\n\nHe was asked three times by the panel why he killed his wife.\n\n\"I did not kill Linda,\" he replied each time.\n\nWhen challenged further he said: \"My children believe I bludgeoned her to death with a hammer and it's just not true.\n\n\"I believe she disappeared just to get me in trouble and then I expected her to turn up again with lies that I'd locked her in a shed or something.\"\n\nRazzell answered all the questions in a calm, clear voice but his composure broke for the first time when he explained why he had chosen not to hear the victim impact statements from his children read out loud. \"I knew that it would unbalance me,\" he said.\n\n\"I was upset at the source of those comments and where they had come from. \"I carry photos of my children wherever I go and although they are not up to date they are always with me.\"I had read the statement and know the effect they have on me - it's a heavy burden to know that they feel that way about me.\"\n\nThe hearing is taking place at the Royal Courts of Justice in London\n\nThe hearing, the third Razzell has been granted, is taking place at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, with members of the public able to watch.\n\nHis trial in 2003 heard that Mrs Razzell left her home in the village of Highworth, near Swindon, at 08:45 BST on 19 March with her children and boyfriend, Greg Worrall.\n\nShe dropped Mr Worrall off in Highworth and her children at school before being seen parking for work in Alvescot Road, as usual.\n\nShe is believed to have taken her usual route down an alleyway towards the college and her phone was found in a recess of the alleyway the next day during a police search.\n\nHer boyfriend contacted police on the evening of her disappearance after she failed to pick up her children from their after-school club.\n\nRazzell was convicted of her murder and lost an appeal against his conviction in 2005.\n\nThe parole board hearing was told a decision on his possible release will be made in two weeks.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Twelve years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan began releasing some of the contaminated water from the plant into the Pacific Ocean.\n\nDespite widespread opposition, the government and plant operators Tepco went ahead with the plan - carefully vetted by the UN atomic regulator.\n\nJapan used water to cool the plant's reactors when it went into meltdown in 2011 - and this highly radioactive water was then treated and collected in tanks every day. But the site was running out of storage space.\n\nHow was the water made safe?\n\nIt was treated to remove all radioactive elements, except tritium which is very difficult to remove. The water was diluted to reduce radioactivity to 1,500 becquerels per litre, far below the drinking water standard of 10,000 Bq/L.\n\nHow did it go down?\n\nThere were citizen protests in Japan and South Korea, but China's government came out swinging - labelling Japan as \"selfish\" and \"irresponsible\". It also imposed a ban on all seafood from Japan.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nThursday's release was the first of four scheduled between now and the end of March 2024. The entire process will take at least 30 years.", "The administrators of Wilko have said jobs are set to go and stores will close after it failed to find a buyer for the whole business.\n\nHowever, PwC said parts of the group could still be bought.\n\nWilko announced earlier this month that it was going into administration, putting 12,500 jobs and its 400 stores at risk.\n\nPwC was tasked with trying to look for a buyer for all or part of the business.\n\nIn a statement, PwC said: \"While discussions continue with those interested in buying parts of the business, it's clear that the nature of this interest is not focused on the whole group.\n\n\"Sadly, it is therefore likely that there will be redundancies and store closures in the future and it has today been necessary to update employee representatives.\"\n\nPwC said it understood the news would further add to uncertainty felt by workers and said it would be supporting staff.\n\nIt said that in the immediate term, all stores remain open and continue to trade, and that staff would continue to be paid.\n\nIt added there were \"currently no plans to close any stores next week\".\n\nEarlier, the union representing workers at Wilko said the majority of stores were to close \"within weeks\" after a purchase fell through.\n\nThe GMB said that some stores might be bought, but \"significant job losses\" were now expected.\n\nIts national secretary, Andy Prendergast, said the union would seek to ensure its members \"receive every penny\" they are entitled to.\n\n\"We will fight to ensure Wilko bosses are held accountable for the simple reason our members deserve so much better,\" he added.\n\nThe company, which was founded in Leicester in 1930, is well known for its affordable everyday items.\n\nAfter the collapse of Woolworths in 2008, Wilko - which is still family run - stepped up to fill the gaps left on High Streets.\n\nBut it has been struggling with sharp losses and a cash shortage.\n\nSarah Montano, professor of retail marketing at the University of Birmingham's Business School, said the collapse of Wilko was not particularly surprising.\n\nShe told the BBC 5Live's Wake up to Money: \"From the consumer point of view, I think it comes back to this reason: why would you go to Wilko?\n\n\"They haven't kept up with their competitors,\" she added. \"In retail you could start out as unique and as innovative as you could possibly be, but, over time, gradually your competitors are going to do similar things to what you do.\"\n\nMany of Wilko's stores are in High Street locations in traditional town centres, which became an expensive liability as customers shifted to bigger retail parks and out-of-town locations.\n\nThe company has also faced strong competition from rival chains as the high cost of living has pushed shoppers to seek out bargains.\n\nThere has been speculation that some of those rivals, such as B&M, Poundland, The Range and Home Bargains, could be those interested in the firm.", "Ukraine has marked Independence Day with a 'special operation' in Crimea\n\nUkraine has claimed its troops briefly landed overnight in the occupied Crimea peninsula, as the country marks 32 years of its independence.\n\nAll objectives of the \"special operation\" were achieved without any casualties, the defence ministry said.\n\nIt added that during a firefight in Olenivka and Mayak, western Crimea, \"the enemy suffered losses\".\n\nRussia illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, eight years before Moscow launched a full-scale invasion.\n\nThe Kremlin has so far made no public comments on the reported Ukrainian operation.\n\nIn a post on Telegram, the main intelligence department of Ukraine's defence ministry claimed responsibility for Thursday's operation. It said the Ukrainian Navy provided the support.\n\nIt said that \"special units on watercraft landed on the shore\" before engaging in combat with Russian troops stationed in the area.\n\n\"Also, the state flag was flying again in the Ukrainian Crimea,\" the statement added.\n\nThe intelligence department posted a short video purportedly showing Ukrainian soldiers raising the national flag. Gunfire sounds can be heard in the footage.\n\nUkraine's Suspilne television channel reported that the skirmish involved aircraft and navy ships. A Russian Telegram channel had also reported of fighting in that area.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released an Independence Day message on X, formerly known as Twitter, rallying his countrymen to help maintain the country's independence.\n\n\"In this fight, everyone counts. Because the fight is for something that is important to everyone,\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nIndependence Day has gained increased significance among Ukrainians since Russia's full-scale invasion started in February 2022, according to a poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. It is now the country's third most important holiday, behind only Easter and Christmas.\n\nUkraine launched its counter-offensive in June, attempting to expel the Russians from land they had captured in the east and south of the country.\n\nAn analysis by BBC Verify showed the gains in terms of reclaimed land size have been small.\n\nHowever, analysts at the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) say the advances near Robotyne and Urozhaine are \"likely tactically significant because of the structure of Russian defensive lines\". They also note that Russian forces have dedicated significant effort to hold the settlements.\n\nRussia has also accused Ukraine of drone attacks, the most recent of which was on 23 August. It hit a skyscraper under construction in Moscow.\n\nUkraine's claim of landing its troops in Crimea came a day after it emerged that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary group that fought with Russia in the war, was on the passenger list of a private jet that crashed after taking off from Moscow.\n\nMr Prigozhin had led a failed mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin in June.", "Sinn Féin spent over £300,000 more than it received last year, making it the largest overspender of Stormont's main political parties.\n\nLatest figures from the Electoral Commission detail spending for the year ending 31 December.\n\nSinn Féin received £1,186,378 but spent £1,533,335 while the Ulster Unionists overspent by more than £160,000.\n\nIt is not unusual for political parties to record an overspend in years in which election campaigns are run.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Alliance Party overspent by £61,793 and £23,109 respectively.\n\nThe SDLP was the only main party which recorded an income greater than its expenditure last year.\n\nSinn Féin also recorded an overspend back in 2020 but in recent years the party has benefitted from millions of pounds in donations from a deceased donor.\n\nTotalling more than £3m since the first donation in 2019, the money came from Billy Hampton, a former market trader who died in Pembrokshire in Wales in 2018.\n\nHis father Tim Hampton was a wealthy businessman who had significant commercial interests in the village of Fenstanton in Cambridgeshire in England.\n\nWhen Billy Hampton's first donation of £1.5m was made it was understood to be the largest ever known donation to a Northern Ireland political party.\n\nIt has been reported that a further tranche of money, £100,000, was donated to Sinn Féin in July.", "The couple were travelling to a friend's house after celebrating Black Pride when they were attacked\n\nTwo men were taken to hospital after a homophobic attack in south London, the second such incident publicised within the space of a week.\n\nThe couple, in their 30s and 40s, were assaulted on Saturday at about 23:00 BST while waiting for a bus in Brixton, after spending the day at Black Pride.\n\nBoth men were treated in hospital and one needed stitches.\n\nNo arrests have been made and police, who are treating this as a homophobic attack, are appealing for information.\n\nMichael Smith and his boyfriend Nat Asabere were waiting for a bus on Brixton Road when a man they did not know approached them and then assaulted them as a bus approached.\n\nNat was punched in the back of the head, while Michael describes being punched in the face \"three or four times\".\n\nThey both ran on to the bus for safety, which is when they began to realise the extent of Michael's injuries.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Luckily, my flight mode just set in and we just ran on to that bus.\n\n\"That's where I looked down, and I just saw blood all over my T-shirt, and I was thinking 'where's this blood coming from?'. I could taste it in my mouth and I could see it on my hands, and when my tongue went over my lip I could just feel this massive split in my lip.\"\n\nThe attack left Michael needing stitches in his lip\n\nMichael says he has been struggling to process what happened to him, and gets emotional talking about the incident.\n\nHe added: \"I'm having such a rollercoaster of emotions at the moment. When it's online and someone sends me a message, I'm able to articulate how I'm feeling.\n\n\"But when someone asks me how I am in person, a lump gets my throat and that's when I feel like I'm about to break down. It's taken a lot out of me.\"\n\nThe attack happened less than a week after two men were stabbed outside the Two Brewers nightclub, just over a mile away.\n\nPolice are keeping an open mind but say they do not think the two attacks are linked.\n\nMichael says he fears hostility against the LGBTQ+ community is increasing, and is now raising money for the charity Stonewall. He says it is important for him to speak out and raise awareness.\n\nHe said: \"I had to channel all of those emotions and feelings and make it empower me to do something good. That's why I've done a fundraiser and that's why I decided to talk about it. Because I know that if I didn't talk about it, I know it will be eating away at me.\"\n\nNat, who is suffering from headaches after the assault, says it was a great day that turned into an \"horrific experience\" but he wants people to know there is support out there for anyone who has been a victim of abuse.\n\nBoth praised their involvement with the police and doctors and are now being supported by charities.\n\nSexual orientation hate crimes in England and Wales rose by 41% to 26,152, according to Home Office data for the year ending March 2022 - the largest annual percentage increase since records began in 2012.\n\nTransgender identity hate crimes also increased by 56% to 4,355.\n\nPolice say both Michael and Nat are being supported by a dedicated LGBT+ Community Liaison Officer.\n\nAny witnesses or anyone with information about the attack are asked to call 101 and quote reference number 8673/22AUG.", "Suspended precariously in mid-air, drone footage, exclusively obtained by the BBC, shows the passengers of a stranded cable car in Pakistan.\n\nAll of the people inside the cable car, six children and two adults, were saved during a 12 hour rescue operation which included a military helicopter and zip wire experts.\n\nThe owner of the cable car company in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was later arrested by police on multiple charges including negligence and endangering valuable lives.", "Catch up on our live coverage from day one of the 30th Clacton Airshow on the BBC iPlayer or by pressing play on the video above.\n\nOur stream started at 14:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nHighlights include the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight towards the start of the stream, the Merlin Formation featuring a Spitfire and Mustang at about one hour in, and the Red Arrows took to the air about two hours into our broadcast.\n\nThe Twilight Display then started about 19:45 BST on Thursday... scroll to about five hours and 45 minutes in to see the spectacular Firebirds with fireworks and Otto the helicopter.\n\nYou can enjoy day two of the Clacton Airshow with BBC Essex.", "The King will travel to France in September, after a scheduled visit in March was cancelled due to protests against pension reforms.\n\nThe original three-day trip would have been the King's first overseas state visit since succeeding his late mother, Elizabeth II, as sovereign.\n\nBut social unrest prompted by French President Emmanuel Macron's new pension law meant the visit was postponed.\n\nThe Élysée Palace said the King's visit was an \"honour\".\n\n\"It will bear witness to the depth of the historical ties that unite our two countries and our two peoples, and will contribute to honouring French excellence and know-how,\" a statement said.\n\nThe King and his wife, Queen Camilla, had been scheduled to tour Paris and Bordeaux, the first leg of a trip that would also take in Germany.\n\nThe visit in March had been planned to take place shortly after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's participation in a Paris summit.\n\nHowever, Mr Macron's use of executive power to push through his proposed legislation to raise the age of retirement without a vote caused uproar in France with people taking to the streets across the country.\n\nThe largest protests took place in Paris, with police deploying tear gas against tens of thousands of people who occupied the Place de la Concorde. Clashes also took place in other major cities such as Marseille, Nantes, Amiens and Dijon.\n\nThe unrest meant the trip was postponed, with the King and Queen flying straight to Germany instead, where the King made history by becoming the first UK monarch to address the German Bundestag while in session.\n\nThe royal couple also visited a Hamburg church destroyed in the Second World War, and the Kindertransport Memorial, a sculpture which commemorates the 1938 rescue and evacuation of about 10,000 Jewish children to Britain.\n\nThe rescheduled visit to France takes place between 20 and 22 September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEver since he led a mutinous march on Moscow in late June Yevgeny Prigozhin was described by Russia watchers as \"a dead man walking\".\n\nCommenting recently on the mercenary boss's life expectancy the CIA Director William Burns even said: \"If I were Prigozhin I wouldn't fire my food taster\".\n\nIf it is ever proven that the mid-air destruction of a plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin was an act of deliberate, cold-blooded revenge by the Kremlin, this will go down in Russian history as the ultimate \"special military operation\".\n\nPrigozhin, a former convict, chef and hot dog salesman-turned mercenary boss, had a lot of admirers amongst the ranks of his Wagner mercenary army and beyond. Many will have witnessed his warm reception by the public in Rostov-on-Don when he turned up there exactly two months ago in the throes of his aborted one-day rebellion.\n\nBut he also had a lot of enemies in Moscow, most notably in the upper ranks of the Russian military whose leaders he frequently and publicly criticised.\n\nWhat has probably turned out to have been his fatal mistake was crossing President Putin when he launched that march on Moscow on 23 June. Although he did not mention Putin by name at the time, Prigozhin infuriated the Kremlin by very publicly criticising the official reasons given for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He told Russians they had been deceived and that their sons were dying in the Ukraine war due to poor leadership. This was heresy and Putin's video message on that day was sizzling with vitriol. He called Prigozhin's march on Moscow a betrayal and a stab in the back.\n\nAlexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who became a British citizen, was fatally poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006\n\nVladimir Putin does not forgive traitors nor those who challenge him.\n\nThe former Russian intelligence officer-turned defector, Alexander Litvinenko, died a slow and agonising death in a London hospital in 2006 after he was poisoned with radioactive Polonium-210.\n\nA subsequent investigation concluded that this assassins brought the lethal substance with them from Russia and that it could only have been sourced from a Russian government laboratory. Moscow denied any involvement but refused to surrender the two suspects for trial.\n\nThen there was Sergei Skripal, a former Russian KGB officer and again a defector to Britain.\n\nIn 2018 he and his daughter Yulia narrowly escaped death when GRU Russian military intelligence officers allegedly put Novichok nerve agent on the door handle of his house in Salisbury.\n\nA discarded perfume bottle containing the lethal agent was later found by a local Wiltshire resident, Dawn Sturgess, who died after applying it to her wrists.\n\nSergei Skripal survived being poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in 2018\n\nInside Russia there is a long list of people, including both critics and businessmen, who have met with sudden death, in some cases \"falling out of upper floor windows\". President Putin's most vocal opponent, Alexei Navalny, is now languishing in a penal colony on what are said to be politically-motivated fraud charges. He too survived assassination by Novichok nerve agent poisoning after nearly dying onboard a flight across Siberia in 2020.\n\nBut Prigozhin was a very different case, which makes his demise all the more controversial for Russians. Here was a man who was extremely useful to the Kremlin and seen by some Russians as a national hero.\n\nHis Wagner group of mercenaries, founded in 2014, was formed from a hard core of former Russian Speznaz (Special Forces) operatives and other soldiers. It has been highly active in eastern Ukraine where it drove the Ukrainian army out of Bakhmut, acquiring a fearsome reputation not shared by the often decrepit and poorly-led regular Russian army. Wagner bolstered its ranks when Prigozhin personally toured Russian penal colonies to recruit thousands of convicts, including rapists and murderers. These were effectively used as cannon fodder in eastern Ukraine where commanders ordered them to advance into withering fire in repeated attempts to overwhelm the enemy lines.\n\nWagner have also been operating in Syria for years but it is in Africa where they have achieved strategic success for the Kremlin. There they have developed a brutally effective business model that is proving popular with undemocratic regimes. By providing a range of \"security services\", from VIP protection to influencing elections, silencing critics, they have received in return mineral rights and access to gold and other precious metals in several African states. Money flows back to Moscow and everyone gets rich - except the actual populations of those countries.\n\nWagner troops have been accused of numerous human rights abuses including the massacre of civilians in Mali and Central African Republic. Yet they have succeeded in supplanting French and other western forces across a huge swathe of the African continent. Only this week Prigozhin popped up on a Telegram channel in a video presumed to have been filmed at a base in Mali, promising an expansion of Wagner's activities in Africa and \"freedom\" for its people.\n\nDespite all this, there are certainly some back in Moscow, notably in military intelligence, who viewed him as a liability, a loose cannon and a potential future threat to Putin's rule and the system around him.", "Video shared on social media appears to show the moment that a plane crashes in a Russian village.\n\nAccording to Russian authorities, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a plane that crashed in the area.\n\nBBC Verify has been able to confirm the location as being in the Tver region.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of arson over a fire that tore through the Crooked House pub.\n\nOnce known as \"Britain's wonkiest\" inn, it was set alight on 5 August, leaving it gutted.\n\nWithin 48 hours of the blaze, the pub was demolished by diggers, infuriating many in the local community who treasured the landmark building.\n\nA 66-year-old man from Dudley and a 33-year-old man from Milton Keynes are being questioned over the fire.\n\nThe suspects were arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and remain in custody, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nThe pub, known for its sloping walls and floor, was demolished less than two days after the fire\n\nThe force is continuing to appeal for any information that may help the ongoing investigation.\n\nA group of more than 21,000 people has formed on Facebook, with campaigners rallying to preserve the site and calling for the Crooked House to be rebuilt.\n\nProtesters angry at the demolition were also involved in a stand-off with contractors on Wednesday, frustrated at what they described as a lack of communication over work at the site.\n\nIn a statement at the time, police said they recognised \"the strength of local feeling following the loss of a significant cultural landmark\".\n\nThe much-loved 18th Century building, known for its sloping walls and floor due to mining subsidence in the area, was sold by Marston's to ATE Farms Limited in July.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council has said the foundations and bricks from the pub will stay on site as work to remove hazardous waste is carried out.\n\nThe local authority is conducting its own investigation into the demolition.\n\nDudley North MP Marco Longhi told a public meeting last week that he would \"love to see a Crooked House law\" put in place to protect other pubs from the same fate.\n\nThe building was reduced to rubble on 7 August\n\nTeachers Hayley Mason and Gemma Edwards-Smith have been camping outside the site entrance since Monday to try and make sure the bricks are preserved.\n\n\"We want to make sure everything is protected the best way we can - our long-term goal is to have the pub rebuilt,\" said Mrs Edwards-Smith, who celebrated her wedding at the venue in 2017.\n\n\"It's been nice to see how many bricks they have been able to salvage, even in the few days [contractors] have been working and looking forward to the future and how many original bricks will be used for the new build.\n\n\"The owners definitely underestimated the strength of feeling behind it, I hope they are aware of how committed we are.\"\n\nHayley Mason and Gemma Edwards-Smith are among the campaigners fighting to have the pub rebuilt\n\nMs Mason, a history fan who visited the pub with her family as a child, says \"this was my life\".\n\n\"I'm confident that it will be rebuilt, no matter how long it takes. Until I've had that confirmation that that is the intention, I'm not going to move.\n\n\"It's important that we remain a presence here and it's not forgotten.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man's body was found on the Schlatenkees glacier, one of the fastest-melting glaciers in Austria\n\nThe body of a man who is believed to have died more than 20 years ago has been found on a rapidly melting glacier in the Austrian province of Tyrol.\n\nPolice say a mountain guide discovered the body last week 2,900m (9,500ft) up the Schlatenkees glacier in East Tyrol.\n\nA rucksack was found close by containing a bank card and a driving licence. Police used a helicopter to help retrieve the body.\n\nPolice think the man was from Austria and was 37 years old when he died.\n\nDNA tests are being carried out to establish his identity.\n\nPolice spokesman Christian Viehweider told BBC News it would take several weeks before the results of those tests would be known.\n\nThe man, who had ski touring equipment with him, is believed to have had an accident in 2001.\n\nThe Schlatenkees is thought to be one of the country's fastest-melting glaciers. In its report for 2021/2022, the Austrian Alpine Club said it was the glacier with the biggest recorded loss of 89.5m.\n\nLast April the Austrian Alpine Club said the melting of glaciers in Austria was at a record high. It said that it had never recorded such a large shrinkage of glaciers since its history of measuring began in 1891.\n\nThere have been several similar discoveries in rapidly shrinking Alpine glaciers this summer as the melting ice reveals long-held secrets.\n\nIn June a climber found human remains and bones on the same glacier in Tyrol, in the Venediger group of mountains. The remains are believed to have been in the Schlatenkees for decades. DNA testing is under way.\n\n\"It is rather unusual to have two such discoveries on a glacier within such a short time,\" Mr Viehweider said.\n\nHe said that around 45 people, missing in the Austrian Alps since 1964, are still unaccounted for.\n\nIn Switzerland, the body of a German climber - missing since 1986 - was found on a glacier close to the Matterhorn mountain last month. It was discovered by mountaineers crossing the Theodul glacier above Zermatt.\n\nThey noticed a hiking boot and crampons emerging from the ice.\n\nDNA analysis showed the body to be that of a German climber, who disappeared 37 years ago. A huge search and rescue operation at the time failed to find any trace of him.\n\nPolice did not name the climber but said he was aged 38 when he went missing during a hike.\n\nSwitzerland and Austria have been experiencing very hot conditions this summer and there are fears for the future of the Alpine glaciers which are key to Europe's environment.\n\nThe winter snow stored by the glaciers fills European rivers such as the Rhine and the Danube, providing water for crops, or for cooling nuclear power stations.\n\nThis was the Schlatenkees glacier in 2001, the year the man whose body has been found went missing", "Lloyd Odain said the Probation Service ignored his complaints\n\nA probation worker who quit his job after being subjected to monkey chants and other racist abuse at work has won a financial settlement.\n\nLloyd Odain, from London, said nothing was done when he complained to managers at the Probation Service in Reading, Berkshire, in 2019.\n\nHe said he felt \"grossly let down\" when his abuser, a fellow contractor, returned to work in the same office.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has been approached for comment.\n\nMr Odain worked at the Probation Service offices in Reading\n\nMr Odain said no-one challenged the incidents, which included monkey chants while he was talking to colleagues.\n\nHe said the matter was \"swept under the carpet\" by managers when he lodged a grievance.\n\nThe former probation services officer said: \"I felt ignored and isolated as nothing appeared to be done.\n\n\"I then found out that the person who had behaved so appallingly was back working in the building.\n\n\"The thought of dealing with more racism, and having no support, left me with no option but to give up the job I enjoyed and was good at.\"\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which supported his case, said the Probation Service agreed a payout after a preliminary hearing at Reading Employment Tribunal.\n\nThe commission said the service discovered \"it may be liable for the racist behaviour of the contractor towards Mr Odain\".\n\nEHRC chairwoman Kishwer Falkner said: \"Everyone going to work should expect to feel safe from harm and no-one should suffer the shocking racism experienced by Mr Odain.\n\n\"Employers, third-party contractors and workers all benefit if any awful incidents like this are addressed quickly and appropriately by management.\n\n\"It is disappointing that, in this case, HM Prison and Probation Service chose to defend themselves on the basis of legal technicalities rather than to commit positively to protect and support their own staff.\"\n\nThe value of the settlement has not been disclosed.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Michael Parkinson's son has said star broadcaster suffered from \"imposter syndrome\" and \"was wracked with self-doubt\".\n\nMike Parkinson told BBC Radio 4's Last Word that his famous father \"didn't have as much self-confidence as he appeared to have on TV\".\n\nSir Michael died earlier this month at the age of 88.\n\nHe was known for interviews on his self-titled chat show with the likes of Muhammad Ali and Dame Helen Mirren.\n\nParkinson grew up on a council estate near Barnsley and his son told the BBC programme that his father was \"still very class-ridden\" despite his success.\n\n\"There were people in positions of authority, at the BBC, that were questioning his talent, questioning his right to be an interviewer,\" the director said.\n\n\"He was always acutely aware that he was with people that he felt were brighter than him, were more educated than him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"He went to the BBC, and he felt very much... not inferior, [but] he was very insecure.\n\n\"He was a man who was constantly questioning himself and didn't have as much self-confidence as he appeared to have on television.\"\n\nHe added that his confidence grew in the 1990s when his chat show returned to the BBC \"because he'd earned his stripes\".\n\nMike Parkinson also said his father, who was a founding member of the Anti Nazi League, had \"no interest in politics\" and had \"an innate distrust of the establishment\".\n\n\"He never trusted the establishment because he always felt that the establishment treated people like his father [a coal miner] - terribly, and wrongly,\" he said.\n\n\"And he carried that with him all through his life. He always wanted to stand up against what he thought was unfairness.\n\n\"What he was was very socially aware, and he was very political in that sense.\"\n\nMike Parkinson also said that while his dad had been described as \"sexist Parky\" by some over interviews such as one with Dame Helen Mirren - \"and he'd be the first to admit it was not very well handled... he was against sexism\".\n\nSir Michael Parkinson was made a CBE in 2000 ahead of his knighthood in 2008\n\nHis son said that despite his father's anti-establishment stance, he accepted a knighthood from the Queen in 2008 for the sake of his parents as he knew they would be proud.\n\n\"And also, you've got to understand that this says a lad who was born in a pit village, went to a grammar school... worked for the local newspaper and all of a sudden, 67 years later, he's kneeling in front of the Queen, being knighted.\"\n\nTributes from around the world came in following Sir Michael's death from the likes of Sir Michael Caine and Sir David Attenborough.\n\nBut Mike Parkinson said that meant the family's grieving had almost gone on hold.\n\nBecoming emotional, he said: \"The difficulty with having a public figure as a father is that you feel you can't grieve until everyone else has.\n\n\"It's a silly thing to say, but that's the truth - you feel that everyone else must express what they feel about him because he meant so much to them.\n\n\"He meant so much to so many people but, actually, as a family, it's hard because your experience is overshadowed by noise and an outpouring that you feel almost that you have to step back from and allow that to happen, and allow that wave to subside.\n\n\"And then you, as a family, can remember him as a father, as a husband.\"\n\nThe full interview with Mike Parkinson can be heard on BBC Radio 4's Last Word with John Wilson and on BBC Sounds.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed in Russia killing all 10 people on board, Russia's civil aviation authority says.\n\nSocial media linked to the Wagner mercenary group say his private plane was shot down by Russian air defences.\n\nPrigozhin died \"as a result of actions of traitors to Russia\", the Grey Zone Telegram channel posted.\n\nPrigozhin led an aborted mutiny against Russia's armed forces in June.\n\nHowever, some experts in Russia and abroad suggest the revolt was staged, and Prigozhin abandoned his \"justice march\" on Moscow after direct orders from President Vladimir Putin.\n\nWednesday's crash in the Tver region, north-west of the capital Moscow, comes on the same day that senior Russian general Sergei Surovikin was reportedly sacked as air force chief.\n\nGen Surovikin was known to have good relations with Prigozhin and had not been seen in public since the mutiny.\n\nPrigozhin's aircraft - an Embraer-135 (EBM-135BJ) - was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg on Wednesday with seven passengers and three crew, Russia's Rosaviatsia aviation authority said.\n\nSenior Wagner commander Dmitry Utkin - who founded the group in 2014 - was also on the passenger list, it said.\n\nThe plane is reported to have come down near the village of Kuzhenkino, about half-way between Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nOne report said the body of Prigozhin, 62, had been found and identified - this has not been officially confirmed.\n\nAll 10 bodies have been recovered, Russia's state-run news agency Interfax said.\n\nGrey Zone said local residents had heard two bangs before the crash and had seen two vapour trails.\n\nTass news agency said the plane had caught fire on hitting the ground.\n\nThe aircraft had been in the air for less than half-an-hour, it added.\n\nAn investigation has been launched into the crash and emergency services are searching the scene.\n\nAt the same time, Grey Zone reported that a second business jet owned by Prigozhin had landed safely in the Moscow region.\n\nThe mercenary group has about 25,000 fighters.\n\nThe group has been active in Ukraine, Syria and west Africa, and has gained a reputation for brutality.\n\nPrigozhin headed the mutiny on 23-24 June, moving his troops from Ukraine, seizing the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, and threatening to march on Moscow.\n\nThe move came after months of tension with Russian military commanders over the invasion of Ukraine launched by President Putin in 2014.\n\nThe stand-off seemed to have been settled by a deal which allowed Wagner troops to move to Belarus or join the Russian army.\n\nPrigozhin himself agreed to relocate to Belarus - but has apparently been able to move freely, making public appearances in Russia and releasing a video of him purportedly in Africa.\n\nUnverified pictures appear to show the plane on fire\n\nBut several Russia watchers have described him as a \"dead man walking\" since the mutiny.\n\nPresident Putin's initial reaction to his challenge to Russia's defence establishment was vitriolic, calling it a betrayal and a stab in the back in a video message on 24 June.\n\nThe deal did not mean he was safe.\n\n\"Revenge\", commented CIA director William Burns, \"is a dish Putin prefers served cold\" - or words to that effect.\n\nNone of this, of course, is proof that Prigozhin and his entourage were deliberately targeted.\n\nBut given the circumstances any claims that his demise, if confirmed, was an accident will see a lot of eyebrows raised.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said he was \"not surprised\" by news of Prigozhin's possible death.", "Sara Sharif suffered extensive injuries over an extended period of time, police said\n\nRelatives of the father of Sara Sharif, whose death in the UK sparked an international manhunt, cannot be detained in Pakistan by police for questioning on his whereabouts.\n\nThe decision was made at the Lahore high court, Rawalpindi bench.\n\nThe body of Sara, 10, was found at her family home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August, prompting a murder inquiry.\n\nHer father Urfan Sharif, 41, travelled to Pakistan with his partner and one of his brothers before her body was found.\n\nMr Sharif's family said police had illegally detained two of his brothers who live in Pakistan.\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police over Sara's death\n\nAt the Lahore high court, Rawalpindi bench, Jhelum Police officers did not deny they had held the two men for several days but said they had not arrested them.\n\nThey told the court they had been instructed by Interpol to question the family about Mr Sharif's location. Both brothers have been released.\n\nThe court barred the police from detaining them again but officers said they would continue to question them.\n\nWhile Pakistan and the UK do not have a formal extradition treaty, Surrey Police officers are working with the authorities in Pakistan to locate Mr Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28.\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene where Sara Sharif was found\n\nThe force has made a fresh appeal for information two weeks after launching its murder investigation following the discovery of Sara's body alone in the family home at 02:50 BST on 10 August.\n\nDetectives urged \"people in the Woking community and beyond\" who had contact with Sara to come forward.\n\nSurrey Police said previously Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan shortly after landing in Islamabad with Ms Batool, Mr Malik and five children, aged between one and 13.\n\nThat led officers to the house in Woking where they found Sara's body. She had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\" likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nA post-mortem examination failed to establish the exact cause of Sara's death, with more tests being carried out.\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman of Surrey Police also said the force has had \"historic\" contact with her family that \"goes back some years\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC outside the court in Pakistan, Mr Sharif's father and one brother repeated their assertion that they were not in touch with him and did not know where he was.\n\nThey told the police they believe he came to the city of Jhelum, where the family is from, but then left.\n\nJhelum Police said it still does not know where Mr Sharif, his partner Ms Batool and his brother Mr Malik are.", "North Korea's second attempt to put a spy satellite into space has failed\n\nNorth Korea's second attempt to put a spy satellite into space has failed, three months after its first launch crashed into the sea.\n\nThe attempt on Thursday morning failed during the third stage of its flight, state media said.\n\nFor North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a spy satellite is a coveted prize, as it would let him monitor incoming attacks and plot his own more accurately.\n\nPyongyang's space agency has said it will try again in October.\n\nSouth Korea said it detected the launch of the rocket at around 03:50 local time (18:50 GMT), and that it had flown through international airspace over the Yellow Sea between mainland China and the Korean peninsula.\n\nThe launch prompted an emergency warning in Japan's southernmost Okinawa prefecture minutes later, urging residents to take cover indoors. The alert was lifted after about 20 minutes.\n\nCondemning the launch, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said: \"Behaviour like this goes against the UN resolutions and we're already firmly protesting.\"\n\nThe US urged North Korea to refrain from \"further threatening activity\" and called on Pyongyang to engage in serious diplomacy.\n\nBut although Thursday's failure will have been disappointing for Pyongyang, it appears they've made progress.\n\nA news report in state-run KCNA blamed the failure on \"an error in the emergency blasting system during the third-stage flight\", and said the problem was \"not a big issue\".\n\nIt seems the rocket carrying the satellite flew further than during the previous attempt. Officials in Pyongyang had described the botched attempt in May as their \"gravest failure\" while vowing to try again.\n\nAnd Mr Kim will most likely continue, until he succeeds. Already he is forging ahead with his weapons programme, while refusing all offers to talk to the US.\n\nThursday's launch comes days after leaders from the US, Japan and South Korea met at a historic summit in Washington. It also follows the start of annual military exercises between Washington and Seoul.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA group of dolphin spotters had a shock when they witnessed a pod of the animals killing a porpoise for sport off the coast of Wales.\n\nThe tour company, based in New Quay, Ceredigion, said it was \"morbidly amazing\" to witness something so rare.\n\nIt said the \"glamorised\" bottlenose dolphins people think of were actually \"pretty brutal\".\n\nThe firm believes it could be the best documented case of the behaviour, known as porpicide, ever recorded.\n\nThe trip, led by wildlife guides Josh Pedley and Andy Walsh of SeaMôr Dolphin Watching, set out on the company's regular 18:35 session on Monday with nine passengers.\n\nMr Pedley said they had a seen a group of about eight bottlenose dolphins on their usual route, having a typical 10-minute encounter before carrying on.\n\nAs the boat made its way to New Quay headland, the group spotted a porpoise.\n\n\"We thought 'this could get interesting' - half joking initially,\" said Mr Pedley.\n\n\"We've talked about porpicide, and we hear about it, but it was almost spoken about mythically.\"\n\nPorpoise are small, fully aquatic mammals that are classified as toothed whales. There are seven different species, some of which are endangered.\n\nIt is unclear why dolphins attack porpoises but experts say it could be an aggressive response to feeding competition or misdirected sexual aggression.\n\nPorpicide is the name given to the deliberate slaying of a harbour porpoise by bottlenose dolphins.\n\n\"There was just an eruption of white water and it was evident that the dolphins had picked up on the porpoise's presence basically as soon as it entered the bay,\" said Mr Pedley.\n\nHe explained to the boat passengers that dolphins kill porpoise for sport, not food.\n\n\"I said that we were going to see something we've never seen before, and it might not exactly be nice but it is such a rare occurrence that it is worth watching and documenting because you will never see it again,\" he said.\n\n\"I can quite confidently say it is probably the best documentation of this behaviour to ever be recorded.\"\n\nMr Pedley said they had \"unparalleled views\" of the encounter as the porpoise tried to hide under the boat.\n\n\"All the passengers were fantastic, we had the right people on,\" he said.\n\n\"We had a couple on board and one of their first questions was about porpicide, so it was amazing timing really.\"\n\nThe porpoise was dragged under and then left to die\n\nBrett Stones, who owns the tour company, described the situation as \"exciting but sobering all rolled up into one\", adding he had never seen it in more than 27 years of running trips.\n\n\"Everyone was just in shock,\" he said.\n\n\"We see dolphins a lot, and we see porpoise a lot, but we don't see dolphins killing porpoise. It might not be a rare occurrence, but it's a rare occurrence to be witnessed by humans.\"\n\nThe team said reaction on social media had been mixed, with some commenters suggesting they should have tried to save the porpoise.\n\nBut Mr Stones explained that would not be possible, both because it would have been interfering with nature but also because there would have been no safe or practical way to move the \"slippery marine mammal\".\n\n\"It looked so vulnerable lying there, it shocks you to the core. I'm pretty unshakeable and it was almost too much for me to watch,\" he said.\n\n\"You're almost willing it on-board so you can cwtch (hug) it, but you couldn't do that.\"\n\nMr Pedley added: \"I'm not Aquaman - I'm not sure what I was expected to do in that situation.\"\n\nMr Stones said dolphins were intelligent, but with that came \"other traits\", with people being fooled by their \"permanent smile\".\n\n\"They are also a lot bigger in the UK than in Florida. When you see behaviour like that - a porpoise is 1.5m (4.9ft) long, a lot of humans aren't much more than that,\" added Mr Pedley.\n\n\"We have people saying they want to swim with these animals. A lot of that is coming from places like Sea World where its a caged, captured animal, not the real beast.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Yevgeny Prigozhin and the war in Ukraine\n\nWhen Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner troops launched their insurrection two months ago, Vladimir Putin made his feelings more than clear. He called it \"treachery\" and a \"stab in the back\" of Russia. He promised that the perpetrators would be punished.\n\nSo there was incredulity in Russia when they were not. When a deal was cut between Mr Prigozhin and the Kremlin to end the mutiny; when all the charges against the Wagner founder and his fighters were dropped, despite the fact that Russian servicemen had been killed during the murky but brief insurrection.\n\nCommenting on the agreed compromise (ending the mutiny in exchange for immunity from prosecution) one Russian newspaper commented: \"This kind of compromise is normally made with political opponents. Never with criminals and terrorists. Does that mean we should view Mr Prigozhin now as a political figure?\"\n\nSuddenly things look rather different.\n\nExactly two months on, Mr Prigozhin is presumed dead after his private jet crashed and exploded in a field. Wagner commander Dmitry Utkin was on the same jet.\n\nThe Russian elite will shed few tears over Mr Prigozhin's reported demise. That goes for Russia's military leadership, whom Mr Prigozhin had publicly and vocally condemned and whom he demanded be sacked. The Wagner boss claimed that the so-called \"March of Justice\" (his euphemism for the insurrection) had not targeted the Kremlin but had instead been directed at Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov.\n\nIn reality, the Wagner mutiny had been a direct challenge to President Putin's authority and a humiliating 24 hours for the Kremlin. Mr Putin himself pointed out that the Russian state had been financing Wagner. Money had clearly not bought loyalty.\n\nIf this was an act of revenge by those in power, that sends two clear messages to Mr Prigozhin's loyalists and to anyone else in Russia who may have been contemplating armed resistance:\n\nThat means that President Putin could emerge from these dramatic events stronger domestically.\n\nBut what if Mr Prigozhin becomes a martyr? What if those who had pledged loyalty to him - and who are well-trained fighters - call for their own acts of revenge?\n\nWagner supporters turned out in St Petersburg after news of the air crash\n\nIt did not clarify who it believed those traitors were and what Wagner's response would be.\n\nIf this crash was foul play, that will come as little surprise to many in Russia. Ever since the mutiny there has been feverish speculation about Mr Prigozhin's fate, about whether his actions really would be forgiven.\n\nHe must have known that. Yet, in recent weeks, as he jetted around on his private plane he clearly did not view air travel as a danger. Perhaps he believed that he was too powerful, too crucial a figure in today's Russia to be taken out?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows plane crash in in the Tver region\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's Matthew Hudson-Smith claimed a gutsy 400m silver at the World Championships as he finished an agonising 0.09 seconds behind Jamaican champion Antonio Watson.\n\nThe 28-year-old led until the closing stages but could not hold off Watson, who clocked victory in 44.22 secs.\n\nHudson-Smith's preparations were impacted by a foot problem that he said sometimes left him \"unable to walk\".\n\n\"The last two weeks I've been rehabbing every day,\" he said on BBC TV.\n\n\"I've had really bad Achilles tendonitis. Sometimes I can't walk, sometimes I can.\n\n\"I've been saying all year I just have to be perfect for three days.\"\n\nHudson-Smith went out hard in pursuit of his first global title but could not respond as a measured Watson overhauled him in the push to the end in Budapest.\n\nThe Briton had made his gold medal ambitions clear after setting a European record in the semi-finals and initially appeared unsure how to react to his achievement.\n\nCrouching down in a mixture of contemplation and exhaustion after upgrading his 2022 medal, he was able to enjoy the moment after being handed his hard-earned silver.\n\nIt is Great Britain's fifth medal of the championships and comes a day after Josh Kerr's stunning 1500m victory.\n• None 'I threw 16 years in the sport at the final 200m'\n\nHudson-Smith had insisted last year's bronze was only the start for him, believing that breakthrough global medal would allow him to unleash his full potential.\n\nThe unfortunate injury sustained by Steven Gardiner, the heavy favourite in the absence of reigning champion Michael Norman, in the previous round had left the medal fight wide open.\n\nHudson-Smith looked set to take full advantage as he emerged from the bend with a marginal advantage. But he ultimately paid for his earlier exertion, unable to maintain the pace to finish in 44.31.\n\nSilver still represents a remarkable achievement for Hudson-Smith, who put three years of \"absolute hell\" behind him to win world bronze, Commonwealth silver and European gold in a stellar 2022 season.\n\nWhat has made these successes all the more remarkable is what he has overcome to accomplish them.\n\nOverwhelmed with emotion after crossing the line in Eugene, he revealed he had severely struggled with his mental health in 2021 as he struggled with injury, debt and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnd while he may feel the title was there for the taking on Thursday night, this medal, earned despite suffering with Achilles tendonitis this year, represents another notable milestone in his career.\n\nThere was a delay to the start of the men's 200m semi-finals following a bizarre incident in which two buggies transporting the athletes contesting the first race crashed on route to the stadium.\n\nMen's 100m champion Noah Lyles was one of those caught up in the incident.\n\nOne athlete and a volunteer were assessed, with the athlete cleared to participate and the volunteer also unharmed. The World Championships Local Organising Committee said it would investigate the matter.\n\nWhen those races did eventually get under way, Britain's Zharnel Hughes safely progressed, finishing second to last year's bronze medallist and rising star Erriyon Knighton (19.98).\n\nHughes, who with bronze on Sunday became the first British man to make a world 100m podium for 20 years, clocked 20.02 to qualify fifth fastest overall.\n\nReigning champion Lyles, whose semi-final was pushed back to allow the athletes time to recover, won his heat comfortably in 19.76 - the fastest time of the round.\n\nOlympic and world silver medallist Kenny Bednarek also took victory (19.96) ahead of Botswana's 100m runner-up Letsile Tebogo (19.97).\n\nThree days after being disappointed by her eighth place finish in the women's 100m final, Dina Asher-Smith left the track with a smile on her face after securing a place in Friday's 200m medal race.\n\nThe 27-year-old, world champion in the distance in 2019, clocked 22.28 on her return to action to finish behind American Gabrielle Thomas (21.97) - ranked fastest this year.\n\nAsher-Smith will be joined by team-mate Daryll Neita, who produced a personal best of 22.21 to reach her first individual final at a World Championships.\n\nCompatriot Bianca Williams also ran a personal best, clocking 22.45, but was unable to qualify from a star-studded semi-final won by reigning champion Shericka Jackson.\n\nThe Jamaican won in 22.00 and was followed over the line by newly crowned 100m champion Sha'Carri Richardson (22.20).\n\nElsewhere, Ben Pattison ensured there will be British representation in Saturday's men's 800m final, progressing as a non-automatic qualifier in one minute 44.23 seconds, but Daniel Rowden (1:45.38) and Max Burgin (1:47.60) missed out.\n\nAnna Purchase finished 11th in the women's hammer throw final with a best of 70.29m, with Canadian Camryn Rogers (77.22m) taking gold.\n\nOverwhelming favourite Femke Bol clinched her first world title in the women's 400m hurdles final, crossing the line ahead of American Shamier Little in 51.70.\n\nHer triumph came after the 23-year-old had a dramatic fall as she battled for mixed 4x400m relay gold for the Netherlands on Saturday, with the team disqualified after she dropped the baton.\n\nGreece's Olympic long jump champion Miltiadis Tentoglou completed his set of major titles with a final round leap of 8.52m, beating Jamaicans Wayne Pinnock (8.50m) and Tajay Gayle (8.27m).\n\nOn a successful night for Jamaica, Danielle Williams took women's 100m hurdles gold in 12.43, beating Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.44) and Kendra Harrison (12.46).\n\nNigeria's 100m hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan, permitted to compete late on after a suspension for missing three doping tests was lifted, finished sixth.\n\nNorway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen returned to the track following his stunning 1500m final loss to Kerr to safely qualify for the 5,000m final where he will aim to defend his title.", "Nadine Dorries has not spoken in the House of Commons for more than a year\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats has joined calls for Rishi Sunak to \"sack\" Nadine Dorries, calling the Mid Bedfordshire MP a \"dosser\".\n\nSir Ed Davey made the comments on a visit to Ampthill, where he met constituents angry about her absence.\n\nMs Dorries said she would stand down \"with immediate effect\" in June in protest at not receiving a peerage.\n\nShe insisted she was \"working daily with constituents\" and was being targeted by political attacks.\n\n\"Myself and my team of four case workers are working daily with constituents,\" she told the News Agents podcast.\n\n\"I understand that political opponents... are choosing the summer and the news hungry outlets in the summer recess to be noticed. However, we are just getting on with the work.\"\n\n\"Nadine is letting down the people of Mid Bedfordshire,\" Sir Ed said. \"She's totally absent.\"\n\nMs Dorries - whose claim that Mr Sunak removed her peerage nomination has been denied by Downing Street - has said she was delaying her exit while she investigated why she was refused a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nSir Ed Davey, on a visit to Ampthill in Bedfordshire, described Ms Dorries as a \"dosser\"\n\nAlthough the PM does not have the power to make someone stand down as an MP, Sir Ed said Mr Sunak should remove the Conservative whip from Ms Dorries.\n\n\"Rishi Sunak should sack Nadine Dorries today. He should have done it weeks ago,\" he said.\n\n\"Nadine is letting down the people of Mid Bedfordshire. She's totally absent. She said she'd resign and she doesn't. People are pretty angry locally.\"\n\nMr Sunak previously said the former culture secretary's voters \"aren't being properly represented\", but has not moved to expel her, prompting Sir Ed to call him \"weak\".\n\nNadine Dorries, pictured in May, has held the Mid Bedfordshire seat since 2005\n\nMs Dorries, who hosts a weekly chat show on Talk TV, has written a book titled The Plot: The Political Assassination Of Boris Johnson, to be published in September.\n\nShe has not spoken in the House of Commons since June 2022.\n\nMs Dorries secured a 24,000 majority at the 2019 general election in the seat, which the Conservative Party has held since 1931.\n\nShe will not be able to formally resign and trigger a by-election until MPs return from their summer recess.\n\nSir Ed indicated the Lib Dems were ready to work cross-party with any other MPs who want to force Ms Dorries to step down once Parliament returns.\n\nFellow Tory MPs have also voiced their anger at their colleague's failure to follow through on her vow to quit.\n\nThe prime minister and Ms Dorries have been contacted for comment.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook and Instagram. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Phil Trathan: \"Emperors are iconic. I think people can relate to them.\"\n\nAntarctica's Emperor penguins could be in real difficulty come 2100 if the climate warms as expected.\n\nExperts say the birds raise their young on sea-ice and if this platform is greatly curtailed, as the models project, then it's likely to put the animals' numbers into steep decline.\n\nOne forecast is for the population to be halved by the end of the century.\n\nResearchers are calling for the conservation status of Emperors to be upgraded.\n\nAt the moment, they are classified as \"Near Threatened\" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the organisation that keeps the lists of Earth's endangered animals.\n\nA proposal will be submitted shortly to lift Emperors into the more urgent \"Vulnerable\" category.\n\n\"These are very resilient birds; they experience really tough winters and keep coming back year after year to their breeding sites to raise their chicks,\" explained Dr Michelle LaRue, who's co-authored a new report on the penguins' situation in the journal Biological Conservation.\n\n\"Emperors are fighters, but our concern is how long their resilience will continue into the future,\" the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, researcher told BBC News.\n\nThe penguins' breeding success is critically dependent upon so-called \"fast ice\". This is the sea-ice that sticks to the edge of the continent or to icebergs.\n\nIt's low and flat, and an ideal surface on which to lay an egg, incubate it and then raise the subsequent chick in its first year of life.\n\nBut this seasonal ice needs to be long-lived, to stay intact for at least eight or nine months.\n\nIf it forms too late or breaks up too early, the young birds will be forced into the sea before they're ready, before they've lost their down and grown water-proof feathers.\n\nLikewise the adults. They undergo a dramatic moult in the summer months of January and February. They too risk drowning if the fast ice melts away and they don't have the right plumage to resume swimming.\n\nAntarctic sea-ice trends in recent decades have been pretty stable, albeit with some big regional shifts. But the climate models foresee significant losses this century even if global warming can be kept within the Paris Agreement \"guardrail\" of no more than 2C above pre-industrial times.\n\nSuch a temperature rise (and it would be amplified at the poles) would put more northerly Emperor breeding sites out of action, pushing the birds poleward.\n\nThe assessment is that Emperor numbers - currently at 250,000 breeding pairs - could be cut by 50% or more under such a scenario.\n\nEmperor penguins need a reliable and stable platform of sea-ice\n\nDr Phil Trathan, who is the lead author on the new paper, says only sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are likely to alter this future. But he calls for efforts to limit the pressure on the birds in other ways in the meantime.\n\n\"There are a number of different tools that we can use. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) would enable us to regulate fishing and other human activities in the areas that Emperors use, whether close to their breeding sites or to their foraging sites,\" the head of conservation biology at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said.\n\n\"We could also designate the Emperor penguin as an Antarctic Specially Protected Species. That would allow us to bring in an action plan to help manage impacts that might threaten them even outside MPAs.\"\n\nUK and American scientists are currently engaged in a 10-year analysis of Emperor numbers. The project, funded by green campaign group WWF, will provide the updated population baseline that the IUCN can then use in its review of the penguins' status next year.\n\nDr Peter Fretwell is a remote sensing specialist at BAS and has helped pioneer the satellite techniques for counting penguins from space.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Everything we know - all the experts, all the models - tells us that Emperors are going to be in real trouble. We need to pull out all the stops to help them. That's going to be hard because we know the one thing that's really going to save them is stabilisation of the global climate.\"\n\nSome colonies are counted on the ice; others are assessed from space\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Russia's aviation authority says that the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was on a plane that crashed in western Russia.\n\nBBC Analysis editor Ros Atkins takes a look at how Prigozhin went from incarceration in the 1980s to the leader of a recent coup.", "Aled Jones waited to give evidence to a court before the defendant pleaded guilty\n\nA machete-wielding teenager threatened to cut off singer Aled Jones's arm while robbing him of his £17,000 watch on a west London street, a court heard.\n\nThe Welsh star was walking on Chiswick High Road on the afternoon of 7 July when a 16-year-old boy, who cannot be legally identified, attacked him.\n\nThe boy has pleaded guilty to robbery and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nHe was due to stand trial at Wimbledon Youth Court but admitted the charges after the hearing was under way.\n\nThe court was previously told the baritone, 52, was walking with his son when he was approached by a boy dressed wearing a black tracksuit and trainers.\n\nProsecutor Robert Simpson said the defendant \"produced a knife in the form of a machete from his tracksuit bottoms and threatened to cut off his arm and made various other threats in order to obtain the Rolex watch Aled Jones was wearing\".\n\n\"Aled Jones immediately handed it over and the defendant made off.\"\n\nCCTV footage was collected from the area and the teenager was later arrested at his west London home, the court heard.\n\nThe machete was found in his room and the defendant was picked out by the singer's son in an identity parade, the court was told.\n\nMr Jones and his son waited on a video link for almost two hours to give evidence before it was turned on for about a minute for the pair to be told the teenager had pleaded guilty.\n\nThe boy, who appeared alongside his father, spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address and to reply \"guilty\" when each charge was read out.\n\nDistrict Judge Andrew Sweet told him the offending was \"very, very serious\" and adjourned the case for reports to be prepared.\n\nHe was bailed until his next hearing at Ealing Youth Court on 12 September. However, the judge warned the defendant he could not guarantee the case would not be sent to the crown court from there.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nWorld football's governing body has opened disciplinary proceedings against Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales for his behaviour at the Women's World Cup final.\n\nRubiales kissed forward Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain beat England.\n\nHe earlier grabbed his crotch as he celebrated at the final whistle.\n\nAccording to reports in Spain Rubiales is set to announce his resignation on Friday and has already informed colleagues of his decision.\n\n\"Rubiales will resign tomorrow. He had lost the backing of the players, the government, Fifa, and even those local organisations that depend on the federation budget,\" Spanish football expert Guillem Balague wrote on X (formerly Twitter).\n\n\"[The] next step is for everyone in Spain to reflect on what has happened and why.\"\n\nFifa will look at whether his actions constitute violations of article 13 in its disciplinary code, concerning offensive behaviour and fair play.\n\n\"Fifa reiterates its unwavering commitment to respecting the integrity of all individuals and strongly condemns any behaviour to the contrary,\" it said in a statement.\n\nAccording to the disciplinary code, officials are among those that must \"comply with the principles of fair play, loyalty and integrity\".\n\nIt says disciplinary measures can be brought against anyone \"violating the basic rules of decent conduct\", \"insulting a natural or legal person in any way, especially by using offensive gestures, signs or language\" or \"behaving in a way that brings the sport of football and/or Fifa into disrepute\".\n\nRubiales' celebration at the final whistle was in the VIP area of Stadium Australia, while he was standing near Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter.\n\nHe then kissed Hermoso on the lips after she was presented with her winner's medal on the podium.\n\nRubiales apologised for the kiss on Monday, but Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that was \"not enough\" and second deputy prime minister Yolanda Diaz joined those calling for him to resign.\n\nFutpro, a union representing Hermoso, said the incident should not go unpunished, and the 33-year-old said the union would \"defend my interests\" in the matter.\n\nThe Pachuca player, who has earned 101 caps, had initially said on Instagram she \"didn't like\" Rubiales' actions but a statement released later on her behalf defended him.\n\nThe Spanish football federation (RFEF) has called an extraordinary general assembly to be held on Friday \"as a matter of urgency\".\n• None Women playing two games at same time - Rapinoe\n• None Three events that show the gap between men and women's football\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None 'They were regarded as the elite of the criminal world': Get onboard the story of The Great Train Robbery, told by a journalist who reported on it in 1963\n• None How much water should you drink a day? Dr Michael Mosley looks at the importance of hydration", "Drew Smart said the group's drivers go \"above and beyond\" for their passengers\n\nFaced with the \"nightmare\" of losing its local bus service, residents of a Perthshire village decided to take over the route themselves.\n\nThe 55 Glenfarg to Kinross service was axed earlier this year after its operators Earnside Coaches retired.\n\nBut thanks to a group of volunteers and the recruitment of three full-time drivers, the service is back and proving more popular than ever.\n\nIt now runs an hourly daily service six days a week, starting at 07:10.\n\nGlenfarg Community Transport Group said the 55 service now enjoys about 300 passenger journeys per week, an increase of 200 on last year.\n\nThe group also have a number of volunteers who operate the village's community bus\n\nGroup chairman Drew Smart said: \"Behind those 300 journeys every week, there are 300 stories.\n\n\"It's a great bus to be on, the banter, the number of problems we solve or try to solve.\n\n\"It's not about buses, it's really about people.\"\n\nDouglas Fraser (R) said the group had lots of very enthusiastic volunteers\n\nDrew said running the service themselves gives the route a flexibility it did not have in the past.\n\nHe said: \"We've got a few people, because of mobility issues, we don't expect them to come to the bus stop, we'll come into the village and pick them up at the door.\n\n\"When we get into Kinross we'll drop them at the door of where they're going.\n\n\"The drivers are brilliant, they go well above and beyond.\"\n\nPassenger Kareen Macgregor said the new bus service was much-needed\n\nOne of the passengers, Kareen Macgregor, agrees.\n\nShe said: \"I don't drive so it was a nightmare before. We needed the service. It's great, everybody loves it.\"\n\nDavid Keith, one of the full-time drivers, said the passenger numbers have \"blown expectations out of the water.\"\n\nHe said: \"We have our regulars, but we see more and more people coming on who have never used the service before.\n\n\"I love coming into my work and meeting the people, numerous people in the village say it's transformed their lives.\"\n\nDavid Keith is one of three full-time drivers operating the new bus service\n\nThe buses run from 07:10 until about 18:00, with the first service connecting to the Ember bus at Kinross Park and Ride.\n\nFellow driver Geoff Christie said: \"People from the village that work in Edinburgh, Dundee or Perth, they can get to their work by 09:00.\n\n\"We've listened to the villagers and we've put that service on.\n\n\"Kinross is also really bad for taxis, so we're providing another service that get people backward and forward - it's provided a social element to a small village.\"\n\nDriver Geoff Christie said the service provides another social element to the village\n\nFunding for the service comes largely from Perth and Kinross Council, with additional backers including the Smarter Choices Smarter Places charity fund.\n\nDouglas Fraser, treasurer community bus group: \"We also liaised with Glasgow Community Transport who have been a big help to us as well.\n\n\"It is a daunting prospect, but if you've got a group of people who are dedicated and can see the benefit in the long run, it's well worth doing.\"\n\nIn addition to the 55 service, 15 volunteer drivers operate the community bus that takes local people to social events and outings.\n\nDouglas said: \"That's huge, given we only started nine months ago. We've got a lot of enthusiastic people.\"\n\nThe group hope their bus service can be expanded to reach other destinations\n\nDrew Smart said the group now had ambitions to expand its service.\n\nHe said: \"We do a really good service down to Kinross, and we could really benefit in the village from having a similar service to Perth.\n\n\"The Perth service during the day is very limited, we could make life a lot easier for people by extending the service in the opposite direction.\"\n\nA Perth and Kinross Council spokesperson said: \"We are pleased that by supporting Glenfarg Community Transport Group, it has empowered them to operate community-led public transport solutions in their area.\n\n\"The success, to date, of their Service 55 and other public transport offers, has highlighted the vital role that Community Transport fulfils in delivering a sustainable transport alternative to the car.\"", "The shooting happened as patrons gathered for spaghetti night at Cook's Corner bar\n\nFour people have been killed and six others hurt in a shooting incident at a biker bar in southern California.\n\nThe gunman, identified on Thursday as a retired police officer, was among the four who died at Cook's Corner in Orange County.\n\nTwo of the six who were injured are in critical condition, county fire chief Brian Fennessy said.\n\nThere have been more than 400 mass shootings in 2023 alone, according to the Gun Violence Archive.\n\nThe shooting took place at 19:00 local time (02:00 GMT) as the bar was offering an $8 (£6.30) spaghetti night and a rock music show, which were advertised on the bar's Facebook page.\n\nIt is thought the incident may have started as a domestic incident between the gunman and his wife, CBS News reported citing a police source.\n\nOn Thursday, authorities named the suspect as John Snowling, a retired sergeant who worked with the Ventura Police Department in California until 2014.\n\nAt least one weapon was recovered from the scene, police said.\n\nOrange County supervisor Katrina Foley said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that she was \"heartbroken to hear of another senseless mass shooting, this time in our own backyard\".\n\nSenator Dave Min from Orange county said he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\n\"Our district is one of the safest areas in the country, and yet we too are repeatedly afflicted with the scourge of mass shootings,\" he said.\n\nCook's Corner is a popular stop for bikers driving though the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains.\n\nIts patrons include Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor and former California governor, who hosted a reception there in 2006, arriving on a motorcycle.\n\nGun control is a politically charged subject in the US.\n\nWhile polls show that a majority of Americans are in favour of stricter gun laws, many Republicans oppose such a move.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland fans will be able to buy Mary Earps replica goalkeeper shirts after Nike said \"limited quantities\" would go on sale.\n\nThe sportswear brand has faced criticism in recent weeks, with Earps expressing dismay the jerseys would not be made commercially available.\n\nMore than 150,000 people signed a petition asking Nike to sell the tops.\n\nIn a statement, Nike said it had now \"secured limited quantities of goalkeeper jerseys to be sold\".\n\nEarps, who helped England reach Sunday's Women's World Cup final and won the Golden Glove award as the tournament's outstanding goalkeeper, made her criticism known last month.\n\nShe said it was \"hugely disappointing and very hurtful\" that fans would be able to buy outfield player shirts but not an England goalkeeper's kit.\n\nOn Thursday, Nike confirmed its U-turn and acknowledged it failed to respond quickly enough to public demand during the tournament.\n\nIt said: \"We've seen and share the unprecedented passion and interest in women's football this year and remain committed to playing our part by offering the best products and services to athletes and fans. We invested more in this year's World Cup than any other global tournament to date.\n\n\"Nike has secured limited quantities of goalkeeper jerseys for England, US, France, and the Netherlands to be sold through the federation websites over the coming days, and we are also in conversations with our other federation partners.\n\n\"We recognise that during the tournament we didn't serve those fans who wished to show their passion and support to the squad's goalkeepers. We are committed to retailing women's goalkeeping jerseys for major tournaments in the future.\"\n\nThe popular online petition was started on 21 July by 16-year-old football fan Emmy, who said she wanted to be able to \"respect\" the players who have changed the perspective of women's football.\n\nNike had said on Sunday it was \"working towards solutions for future tournaments\".\n\nEarps responded to that statement on Instagram by writing: \"Is this your version of an apology/taking accountability/a powerful statement of intent?\"\n\nEngland were beaten 1-0 by Spain in the final, but Earps saved a penalty, underlining her impressive display across the tournament.\n\nReplicas of Earps' adidas kit with Manchester United, her club in the Women's Super League, sold out last season.\n\nIt was reported that producing new women's goalkeeper kits for the public was not part of Nike's commercial strategy.\n\nA replica of the men's England goalkeeper shirt is not available on the England Store but is available with other outlets.\n• None Three events that show the gap between men and women's football", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak failed to declare his wife's financial interest in a childminding agency correctly, the MPs watchdog has ruled.\n\nDaniel Greenberg, parliamentary commissioner for standards, said this arose out of \"confusion\" about the rules and was \"inadvertent\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Greenberg, Mr Sunak said he accepted the ruling and apologised.\n\nThe inquiry is now closed and the PM will not face further action.\n\nLabour have said Mr Sunak's case is \"further evidence\" the process around declaring interests needs to be overhauled.\n\nA complaint was submitted to Mr Greenberg following Mr Sunak's appearance before MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee in March.\n\nDuring the session, the prime minister was questioned about his policy to provide payments to encourage people who became childminders. The cash would be doubled for those who signed up through six private childcare firms listed on the UK government's website, with the money being used to cover the firms' fees.\n\nMr Sunak's wife Akshata Murty was a shareholder in one of those private firms, Koru Kids but when asked if he had any declarations to make Mr Sunak said \"no, all my disclosures are declared in the normal way\".\n\nFollowing an investigation, Mr Greenberg said he had concluded that Ms Murty's shareholding was a relevant interest that should have been declared to MPs.\n\nThe commissioner said that, even if Mr Sunak had not been aware of the shareholding at the time of his appearance before the committee, he was aware of it when he later wrote a letter to the Committee chairman Sir Bernard Jenkin to clarify things and should, at that stage, have declared it.\n\nMr Sunak had recorded the shareholding under arrangements for ministers to declare their interests. That record is not publicly declared but held by civil servants.\n\nSome of these interests are made public on the list of ministers' interests. The independent adviser on ministers' interests advises on which interests need to be included in this publicly-available list.\n\nMr Sunak said three different independent advisers had told him his wife's shareholdings did not need to be added.\n\nMr Greenberg said he accepted Mr Sunak believed that, by registering the interest, he had complied with his obligations, and so did not declare it in his letter to Sir Bernard Jenkin.\n\nHe added that Mr Sunak \"had confused the concept of registration with the concept of declaration\" and so the \"the failure to declare arose out of this confusion and was accordingly inadvertent on the part of Mr Sunak\".\n\nMr Greenberg said he was concluding his inquiry using what is called the \"rectification procedure\" - a process used to correct minor failures to declare interests.\n\nIt means the commissioner stops short of submitting a full report to MPs on the Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges for them to consider any possible further action.\n\nReplying to Mr Greenberg, Mr Sunak said that during the Liaison Committee hearing he had \"no idea\" of the connection between Koru Kids and his government's childcare policy.\n\n\"It was was only after the hearing that I became aware of the link, as set out in my subsequent letter to Sir Bernard, the Chair of the Liaison Committee.\n\n\"I now understand that my letter to Sir Bernard was not sufficiently expansive regarding declaration (as distinct from registration)... On reflection, I accept your opinion that I should have used the letter to declare the interest explicitly... I apologise for these inadvertent errors and confirm acceptance of your proposal for rectification.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"This is just further evidence that the system needs a full overhaul.\"\n\nLabour have promised to set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission with greater powers to launch investigations and determine where parliamentary rules have been broken, if they are elected.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The number of people in the UK waiting for a decision on their asylum claims has risen to a record high, latest Home Office figures show.\n\nMore than 175,000 people were waiting for a decision on whether they will be granted refugee status at the end of June 2023 - up 44% from last year.\n\nIn December 2022, PM Rishi Sunak set a target of clearing the so-called legacy backlog by the end of this year.\n\nOfficials have cleared on average 2,061 of those cases a month since then.\n\nWith 67,870 of the legacy cases remaining, the Home Office would have to process around 11,311 of them per month if it is to meet its target.\n\nThe legacy backlog refers to the asylum applications lodged before June 2022.\n\nThe number of cases awaiting decision refers to main claimants, while the number of people also includes any family members or other dependents.\n\nThe figures also show in the year ending June 2023:\n\nAn asylum seeker is a person who flees their home country, enters another country and applies for the right to international protection and to stay in that country.\n\nIn the UK, asylum seekers are not allowed to work, and must rely on state support. Housing is provided, but asylum seekers cannot choose where it is.\n\nTwo asylum seekers, both from African countries, spoke to the BBC about their experiences in the asylum system.\n\nRose (not her real name), a single mother who arrived in the UK from Cameroon in August 2019, has been waiting four years for her asylum claim to be processed.\n\nRose has enrolled on a college course in IT and hopes to work in computing, but - like all asylum seekers - cannot be employed until her refugee status is confirmed.\n\n\"I struggle with not knowing what the future holds,\" she said, adding that she suffers with anxiety and depression.\n\nShe and her friend Mohammed are members of the same youth group for asylum seekers set up by the London-based charity Praxis.\n\nThey both arrived in the UK on visitor visas before claiming asylum.\n\nMohammed said he came to the UK because he faced discrimination in Ghana as a bisexual man.\n\n\"I chose to come to Britain because Britain is the most protective country,\" he said.\n\n\"Going to a different European country I might face racism. It will be less in this country,\" he said.\n\nMohamed, a bisexual man from Ghana, said he came to the UK because it protects LGBT people\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"on track\" to clear the legacy backlog, and that the number of withdrawn claims had increased because of \"our efforts to clear the asylum backlog\".\n\n\"[They] occur for a number of reasons including where someone has already left the UK before their claim was considered or they choose to pursue another application for permission to stay,\" a spokesperson said.The number of cases awaiting an initial decision has increased by less than 1% over the three months to June 2023, which the Home Office said indicated a \"slowdown in the rise of the backlog\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the department remained committed to reducing levels of immigration, adding that the system was working to encourage the \"best and the brightest\" to come to the UK.\n\nBut Labour said the latest migration figures showed the government had \"lost control\" of the immigration system.\n\n\"This legacy thing is just ridiculous because they've been in power for 13 years and the backlog has built up,\" shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said.\n\nDr Peter William Walsh, senior researcher at the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said the backlog remained \"stubbornly high\", despite falling numbers of asylum claims and more asylum caseworkers in the Home Office.\n\n\"It's becoming harder to see how the government can meet its pledge to eliminate the so-called 'legacy backlog' of older claims by the end of the year, as the rate of decision-making would have to be more than doubled,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The remains of an English Channel inflatable recovered by the UK Border Force.\n\nThe figures also show some 44,460 people were recorded as having arrived by small boats in the year to June 2023, up 26% from the same period last year.\n\nMore than half of these arrived in the three months from August to October 2022. August last year saw the highest number of arrivals of any month since data was collected.\n\nAlbanian and Afghan nationals accounted for almost half of small boat arrivals in the year to June - 26% and 21% respectively.\n\nThe number of Afghans arriving on small boats has been increasing since summer 2021, when the Taliban took over the country, and make up the most common nationality so far in 2023, the Home Office said.\n\nThere are two resettlement schemes open to Afghan nationals - the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, for citizens who were employed by the British government in Afghanistan and fear reprisals from the Taliban, and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), which prioritises women and children as well as religious and other minorities.\n\nUnder the ACRS, 233 people were resettled in the UK in the year to June, the figures show.\n\nThe International Rescue Committee (IRC) UK said the numbers \"reveal the shocking reality of the government's failure to provide protection for vulnerable Afghans\", adding that there are not enough safe routes for refugees from countries like Afghanistan.\n\n\"The majority of the almost 10,000 Afghans seeking safety in the UK were forced to make dangerous journeys across the channel,\" said Laura Kyrke-Smith, IRC's executive director.\n\nA government spokesperson said \"there are safe and legal routes to come here\", calling the ACRS scheme \"generous\".\n\nA previous version of this article incorrectly stated the number of asylum claims withdrawn last year.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "When the former president surrenders at a Georgia jail on Thursday, it will be unlike any of his previous cases. The BBC's Barbara Plett Usher explains what makes the appearance, and Trump's fourth indictment, so unique.", "Andrew Malkinson fought for 20 years - 17 of them behind bars - to prove his innocence\n\nAn inquiry has been announced into one of the worst miscarriages of justice in modern times.\n\nAndrew Malkinson spent 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit.\n\nHe was declared innocent last month after the Court of Appeal heard allegations of major failures.\n\nThe justice secretary said the inquiry would examine the actions of the Crown Prosecution Service, Greater Manchester Police and the Criminal Cases Review Commission over the past 20 years.\n\nAlex Chalk added that it would be a non-statutory investigation, meaning it could not compel witnesses to give evidence, but it would be led by a senior legal figure and all the agencies involved in the case had promised full cooperation.\n\nThe chair will be appointed in the coming weeks in the hope that a report can be finished and published by the end of the year.\n\nMr Malkinson said he welcomed the independent inquiry \"because I want full answers and accountability from all those who played a role in the injustice I suffered\".\n\nJailed in 2004 for an attack on a woman in Salford, Mr Malkinson served nearly two decades in prison for a crime he always said he did not commit.\n\nIn January, his case was referred to the Court of Appeal after new evidence pointed to another potential suspect.\n\nThe first Mr Malkinson knew of the crime was when he was arrested in his hometown of Grimsby, two weeks after the assault and attempted murder in Salford.\n\nHe had been in the area at the time, working temporarily as a security guard.\n\nMr Malkinson was found guilty following a trial in 2003 and sentenced to life with a minimum term of seven years. However, he served a further 10 years in jail after his tariff expired.\n\nHe had previously applied twice for his case to be reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) but he was turned down, eventually being released from prison in December 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing the inquiry announcement, he said his case showed \"the police cannot be trusted to investigate impartially or act as faithful gatekeepers to the evidence\", adding: \"It also shows that the CCRC, which could have spared me years of life behind bars, is not fit for purpose.\"\n\nExplaining that he \"had to take the police to court twice to force them to hand over evidence\", Mr Malkinson said the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) had so far \"refused to apologise and take accountability\".\n\n\"So naturally I am concerned that witnesses from these agencies may not cooperate and hand over all the evidence,\" he added.\n\nMr Malkinson said he wants to see \"serious, profound changes in our justice system coming out of this\".\n\nOne of his lawyers, Kate Maynard, also welcomed the inquiry into the failings in his case but said \"we regret that it is not a full public inquiry held under the Inquiries Act 2005\".\n\nShe explained: \"Only an inquiry held under statute can compel witnesses and disclosure.\n\n\"Given his experience fighting for justice, Andy has made clear his concerns that without this power, the individuals and institutions involved may seek to obstruct and evade responsibility. The lessons from other non-statutory inquiries suggest that this fear may become a reality.\"\n\nMs Maynard said it was vital that Mr Malkinson be \"given a voice in finalising\" how the inquiry was carried out.\n\nAndy Malkinson's custody picture two weeks after the rape - and the e-fit of the suspect\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said the 57-year-old had \"suffered an atrocious miscarriage of justice\" and deserved \"thorough and honest answers as to how and why it took so long to uncover\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police Chief Constable Stephen Watson said the force's participation would be \"fulsome and reflective of integrity, candour and humility\".\n\nHe said: \"I am very sorry that Mr Malkinson has suffered so grievously over these past many years.\n\n\"I acknowledge and regret the very difficult and prolonged journey that Mr Malkinson has had to undertake to prove his innocence. This appalling miscarriage of justice merits the most detailed scrutiny.\"\n\nMax Hill KC, Director of Public Prosecutions, pledged the full cooperation of Crown Prosecution Service, adding that it was committed to \"supporting the fresh investigation and bringing the right offender to justice\".\n\nCCRC chair, Helen Pitcher OBE, said every organisation involved in Mr Malkinson's case should \"fully embrace\" the review and commit to implementing any recommendations it draws.\n\nShe added that the inquiry would complement an additional review, being led by Chris Henley KC, specifically into the CCRC's handling of Mr Malkinson's applications.\n\n\"We always learn lessons from investigations to help with our future work, and due to the nature of this case it's right that such an exercise is carried out by an independent KC alongside this broader review,\" Ms Pitcher said.", "Louis Theroux delivered the keynote speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival\n\nLouis Theroux has said it's harder to get programmes made about risky subjects because broadcasters like the BBC are now \"playing it safe\".\n\nThe presenter said his documentaries had often been about \"morally fraught\" people whose stories \"made me nervous\".\n\nBut he said broadcasters like the BBC now had \"a temptation to lay low\" and avoid difficult subjects for fear of causing offence.\n\nThere is an \"atmosphere of anxiety\" in the TV industry, he suggested.\n\nTheroux was giving the annual keynote MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival.\n\n\"I want to take the risk of going out speaking to people I profoundly disagree with and making documentaries about them,\" he said.\n\nHe recalled making his name by \"investigating worlds viewed as stigmatised or controversial\", including the porn industry, the far right, Nazis, gangs and sexual predators.\n\n\"Often the stories made me nervous. They felt risky,\" he said.\n\n\"But it was also true that those shows that had real moral complexity to them were the ones that worked best.\n\n\"The less morally fraught episodes - the ones that were safer - haven't aged so well.\"\n\nLouis Theroux with two inmates on his 2011 documentary Miami Mega Jail\n\nThere has been a welcome shift in mindset so broadcasters today are \"more thoughtful about representation\" and aware of \"the need not to wantonly give offence\", he said. \"I am fully signed up to that agenda.\n\n\"But I wonder if there is something else going on as well. That the very laudable aims of not giving offence have created an atmosphere of anxiety that sometimes leads to less confident, less morally complex film-making.\"\n\nHe added: \"As a result, programmes about extremists and sex workers and paedophiles might be harder to get commissioned.\"\n\nFrom his time working for the BBC, he said he could see \"all-too-well the no-win situation it often finds itself in\".\n\nThe corporation, he said, was \"trying to anticipate the latest volleys of criticisms, stampeded by this or that interest group, avoiding offence\".\n\n\"Often the criticisms come from its own former employees, writing for privately owned newspapers whose proprietors would be all too happy to see their competition eliminated.\n\n\"And so there is a temptation to lay low, to play it safe, to avoid the difficult subjects.\n\n\"But in avoiding those pinch points, the unresolved areas of culture where our anxieties and our painful dilemmas lie, we aren't just failing to do our jobs, we are missing our greatest opportunities. For feeling. For figuring things out in a benign and thoughtful way. For expanding our thinking. For creating a union of connected souls.\n\n\"And what after all is the alternative? Playing it safe? Following a formula? That may be a route to success for some. It never worked for me.\"\n\nHe called for television that is \"confrontational, surprising and upsetting\", and urged producers: \"Take risks. Sail close to the wind.\"\n\nIn response, the BBC's chief content officer Charlotte Moore defended the corporation, saying it does take risks and cover controversial topics.\n\n\"We can't shy away from difficult subjects because we think it might offend someone,\" she said.\n\n\"It's [about] how we deal with those subjects responsibly and with integrity, and long may the BBC continue to do so.\"\n\nSpeaking during a follow-up session at the festival, Theroux said the BBC also faced other challenges.\n\n\"I think it's possible that the licence fee is on a kind of managed decline and I think there are vested interests lobbying and actively campaigning for a 'Brexit' from the licence fee,\" he said.\n\nThere is still a role for public service broadcasters in the streaming age, though, he said.\n\n\"These streamers, as much as I love them, they're not doing news. They're not doing local news. They're not doing carefully calibrated civic content [like] local news coverage, documentary making, [and are not] Britain focused.\n\n\"Netflix is amazing, but it's a transnational corporation with a global outlook. It's not telling me much about what's happening in London.\"\n\nHowever, he admitted he took his interview podcast from the BBC to Spotify because \"I chased the money bags\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Candidates reflect on how they did during debate\n\nThe first Republican presidential debate was a rowdy affair that saw the eight candidates leap headlong into heated exchanges.\n\nThere were some who thought it would be boring without Donald Trump - the ultimate showman - but that was decidedly not the case. The former president may have been the life of the party during primary debates back in 2016, but the eight rivals who travelled to Wisconsin proved they could bring some excitement without his help.\n\nSome candidates stood out from the pack, however - and some seemed to languish on the side-lines.\n\nHere's a rundown of the winners and losers.\n\nVivek Ramaswamy: The man who never ran for public office - and didn't even vote for a president from 2004 to 2020 - simply dominated this Republican debate.\n\nWith a broad smile and a quick tongue, he frequently seemed to be the only candidate on the stage who was enjoying himself. That may partly be because this political novice has exceeded expectations, and is essentially playing with house money while he takes centre stage.\n\nHe easily fended off swipes from his fellow candidates, suggesting that Mr Christie was auditioning for a show on left-leaning news channel MSNBC and that Ms Haley was angling for spots on the board of defence contractors with her positions on Ukraine.\n\n\"I'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid for,\" he said during a discussion of climate change - prompting cries of outrage from his rivals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ramaswamy: 'I was clearly the winner of this thing'\n\nTime and time again, Mr Ramaswamy positioned himself as the outsider against a bunch of political establishment insiders. Many of his views - calling on Ukraine to cede territory to Russia, using military force to secure the US-Mexico border, and banning US companies from doing business with China - are well outside the political mainstream even within the Republican Party. But as Mr Trump demonstrated in 2016, even outlandish, impractical policy proposals can be effective in generating attention.\n\nMr Ramaswamy may not have the political fuel to challenge Mr Trump for the nomination, and he may not even want to, but the evening's debate ensures that he's going to continue to be a factor in this race in the months ahead.\n\nMike Pence: The veteran politician, who has served as a congressman, a governor and a vice-president, has a bit of fight left in him.\n\nAlthough his presidential campaign has been sputtering - hated by Trump supporters and distrusted by Trump critics - his debate-stage experience served him well on Wednesday night.\n\nHe went on the attack early, swiping at Mr Ramaswamy's inexperience, saying, \"Now is not the time for on-the-job training\".\n\nHe offered a passionate, religion-based call for nationwide abortion limits. That likely won't play well in next year's general election. But it could help him win over evangelical Republicans, who can tilt the balance in states like Iowa and South Carolina, which play an outsized role in deciding the party nominee.\n\nDuring the second-half of the debate, when discussion of Mr Trump came up, Mr Pence had the last word, saying he put the Constitution first on January 6, 2021 when he refused to throw out the election results at Mr Trump's behest. Several of his rivals even spoke out in his favour.\n\nThe fundamental challenges to Mr Pence's campaign remain, but for at least one night he showed why he was once considered by many conservative Republicans to be presidential material.\n\nNikki Haley: The former US ambassador to the UN has made a habit of surprising those who underestimate her. She has never lost a race for office, even when she was challenging more established Republican candidates for the South Carolina governorship.\n\nOn Wednesday night, she stood out by offering sharp criticism early of both Mr Trump and the Republican Party as a whole.\n\n\"Republicans did this to you too,\" she said when describing the massive US budget deficit. \"They need to stop the spending, stop the borrowing.\"\n\nWhen the topic turned to the former president, she said Mr Trump was the \"most disliked politician in America\" - and warned the Republican Party will suffer because of it in the general election.\n\nShe also showed will for the fight. She scrapped with Mr Ramaswamy on continuing US aid to Ukraine, which she supports. And she clashed with Mr Pence on abortion, calling his demands for a national abortion ban unrealistic and politically damaging.\n\nEven if she can't pull ahead in the pack this time around, her debate performance could position the 51-year-old for future presidential bids in election years not dominated by a former president.\n\nTim Scott and Chris Christie: Mr Christie did exactly what many expected him to. He took swipes at Mr Trump, had some choice lines targeting Mr Ramaswamy, and was generally feisty and combative.\n\nHe was also roundly booed when he was introduced, when he criticised Mr Trump, and when he took big swings at Mr Ramaswamy.\n\nHis choicest line came when he said the political neophyte \"sounds like ChatGPT\" - but that particular twist did nothing to ingratiate him with the crowd.\n\nAs for Tim Scott, his nice-guy attitude meant he frequently stayed above the fray during the most heated debate moments. That won't help him win over many voters, but it could burnish his credentials if he wants to be Mr Trump's vice-presidential pick.\n\nRon DeSantis: At the beginning of the year, the race for the Republican nomination seemed like it would be a two-man contest between Mr DeSantis and Mr Trump. Since then, the Florida governor has sagged in the polls.\n\nIf the rest of the Republican pack hasn't caught up to him yet, it may very well have him after this debate.\n\nIt wasn't a terrible performance - he had his moments, particularly when he spoke about his record of military service and his calls for more aggressive government policies to deal with the opioid epidemic.\n\nHe was on the side-lines for all the key moments of the debate, however. Mr Ramaswamy ran circles around him. Other candidates, like Mr Pence and Ms Haley, elbowed him out of the way on issues like abortion and US aid to Ukraine. He seemed on uneven footing when the topic turned to Mr Trump and his recent indictments.\n\nThis was not the kind of performance needed to close the gap with Mr Trump. The man who was once billed as the future of the Republican Party was simply a non-factor.\n\nAsa Hutchinson and Doug Burgum: Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson was the last candidate to qualify for the Milwaukee debate. North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum paid his way onto the stage with a gimmick - offering enough people $20 gift cards if they donated $1 to his campaign.\n\nBoth candidates desperately needed to show that they deserved to be there, and both were mostly afterthoughts.\n\nMr Hutchinson's criticisms of Mr Trump seemed weak sauce compared to Mr Christie's more pointed attacks. And Mr Burgum's awe-shucks small-state conservatism never really stood out.\n\nThe qualification standards become more rigorous for next month's primary debate in California, and neither candidate did enough on Wednesday night to build the kind of support they will need to make another appearances on the debate stage likely.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Fire crews in west and mid Wales are the first in the UK to trial using sewage water to fight flames\n\nTreated sewage water will be used by firefighters to tackle blazes for the first time as droughts threaten their responses to emergencies.\n\nThe water, treated and cleaned with ultraviolet light, will be used as an alternative to drinking water and other sources by crews in mid and west Wales.\n\nCurrent methods are said to put strain on local resources.\n\nWelsh Water said the prospect of future water shortages meant services should be adapting.\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service is trialling the use of wastewater, after crews encountered \"challenging\" low water supplies in some areas due to droughts last year.\n\nNatural Resources Wales had moved all parts of Wales to drought status by September 2022, during what was the country's driest spring and summer for more than 150 years.\n\nA hosepipe ban was imposed in Pembrokeshire and parts of Carmarthenshire, but reservoir and river levels later recovered by the start of 2023.\n\nCrew member Luke Jenkins says water supplies are becoming less reliable\n\nLuke Jenkins, a crew manager in Milford Haven, said: \"I think what last year taught us is that water supplies are becoming less reliable. With the drought we had last year we found it difficult.\n\n\"You always have in the back of your mind that you have an established network of hydrants. But when that network becomes unreliable it just adds to everything.\"\n\nThe average modern fire engine has a 1,800-litre (395.9 gallons) water capacity, and using large amounts of water can occasionally cause issues like low water pressure for smaller communities.\n\nFires crews found it \"challenging\" responding to blazes during last year's droughts\n\nMid and West Wales Fire's deputy chief fire officer, Iwan Cray, said there was interest to extend the initiative from other fire and rescue services across the UK.\n\n\"It is something innovative, to be honest, that we're moving in this direction,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of interest has come from the southern parts of the UK where there's short supply of water, especially in the summer months.\"\n\nThe water will be treated and disinfected with UV light before being used by the fire service\n\nMark Davies, head of wastewater treatment at Welsh Water, said more services and organisations should be looking at how they use water resources if droughts reoccur over the next few years.\n\n\"Wales is a country that gets plenty of rainwater. We need to make sure that we use that water as efficiently as we can,\" he said.\n\n\"We're looking ahead at the next 25 years to see how we can improve our water supplies.\"", "Football fan Emmy once got to meet her idol Mary Earps and has found the Lionesses' success inspirational\n\nA teenager who campaigned for Nike to sell England women's goalkeeper shirts said it was \"amazing\" the brand had made a U-turn on its position.\n\nA petition started by 16-year-old Mary Earps fan Emmy, from Northamptonshire, garnered more than 152,000 signatures.\n\nEngland goalkeeper Earps, who saved a penalty in the World Cup final, also expressed dismay that her shirt was not sold with the rest of the team kit.\n\nIn a change of heart, Nike said it had \"secured limited quantities\" for sale.\n\nEmmy, 16, told the BBC: \"Obviously there was that hope that it would happen, I didn't believe it would happen so quickly, and it would be a very quick turn-around.\n\n\"But I think we can just be grateful that they have turned around and listened to us.\"\n\nEmmy's petition was launched on 21 July, with the number of signatures doubling since the Lionesses finished runners-up in the World Cup.\n\nBefore the tournament, Lionesses star Earps said she found it \"hurtful\" that fans could only buy outfield players' shirts - and not hers.\n\nEngland were beaten 1-0 by Spain in the World Cup final, but Earps saved a penalty and it was the team's best-ever result at the competition.\n\nEarps' efforts at the tournament earned her the Golden Glove award.\n\nThe petition, which was started by Emmy in July, has doubled in signatures since Sunday's final\n\nEmmy, who also plays football, said: \"Mary's such an inspiring person in my life.\"\n\nShe said an apology form the firm was deserved, given \"the upset that they (Nike) caused, Mary having to go into the tournament, not being able to see her fans in the stands wearing her on their shirts.\n\n\"Obviously they (Nike) said there would be limited stock, so I hope I can actually get my hands on one.\"\n\nMary Earps was named best goalkeeper of the World Cup\n\nThe sportswear firm confirmed its U-turn on Thursday and acknowledged it failed to respond quickly enough to public demand during the tournament.\n\nIt said: \"Nike has secured limited quantities of goalkeeper jerseys for England, US, France, and the Netherlands to be sold through the federation websites over the coming days, and we are also in conversations with our other federation partners.\n\n\"We recognise that during the tournament we didn't serve those fans who wished to show their passion and support to the squad's goalkeepers.\n\n\"We are committed to retailing women's goalkeeping jerseys for major tournaments in the future.\"\n\nRecently, an Oxford-based company designed its own version of the goalkeeper top.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's more than a day after a private jet crashed near Moscow - killing ten people, who reportedly included Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.\n\nInformation is still emerging - but here are the key things we do know.\n\nUS officials are among those who think it's \"likely\" the Wagner leader was on board the crashed plane. But there's still been no explicit confirmation of this, as you'll see from our earlier post analysing the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin. We know that Prigozhin was on the passenger list that was released by Russian air officials soon after the incident.\n\nVarious theories have emerged as to what brought the plane down. It has been reported that a surface-to-air missile may have struck the plane, but the Pentagon has said it has no indication that one was used. A US official has told the BBC’s US partner network CBS that an explosion on board was a more probable cause - and that it was possible a bomb went off.\n\nFingers have been pointed at members of the Russian leadership, thought there is no proof that any of them were involved. Breaking his silence on the incident, Putin called it a “tragedy” and reiterated that an investigation was under way. Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country had nothing to do with the crash.\n\n4. The circumstances of the crash\n\nWe know that the aircraft - an Embraer-135 (EBM-135BJ) - was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg on Wednesday. It had seven passengers and three crew, according to Russia's aviation authority. The plane come down near the village of Kuzhenkino, about halfway between Moscow and St Petersburg. All 10 people on board were killed.", "Technology giant Nvidia says its sales have hit a record after more than doubling as demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) chips soars.\n\nThe company says revenue jumped to above $13.5bn (£10.6bn) for the three months to the end of June.\n\nNvidia also expects sales to soar further in the current quarter and plans to buy back $25bn of its stock.\n\nThe firm's shares rose by more than 6.5% in extended trading in New York, adding to their huge gains this year.\n\nNvidia also said it expects revenue of around $16bn for the three months to the end of September.\n\nThat is much higher than Wall Street expectations and would equate to a rise of around 170%, compared to the same time last year.\n\n\"A new computing era has begun,\" Nvidia's chief executive, Jensen Huang, said in a statement.\n\n\"Companies worldwide are transitioning from general-purpose to accelerated computing and generative AI,\" he added.\n\nThe strong performance was driven by Nvidia's data centre business, which includes AI chips.\n\nRevenue for that unit came in at more $10.3bn, a rise of more than 170% from year ago, as cloud computing service providers and large consumer internet companies snapped up its next-generation processors.\n\nThis year, Nvidia's stock market value has jumped to more than $1 trillion as its shares more than tripled in value.\n\nThat made it the fifth publicly traded US company to join the so-called \"Trillion dollar club\", along with Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon.\n\nSarah Kunst, the managing director of Cleo Capital, which invests in startups, told the BBC's Today programme that she was fascinated by \"the almost mania\" around Nvidia.\n\n\"They've been making chips for a very long time and it's only really been in the last couple of years that the market has sort of caught on to this,\" she said.\n\nNvidia was originally known for making the type of computer chips that process graphics, particularly for computer games.\n\nNow its hardware underpins most AI applications, with one report finding it had cornered 95% of the market for machine learning.\n\nChatGPT - which generates human-like responses to user queries within seconds - was trained using 10,000 of Nvidia's graphics processing units clustered together in a supercomputer belonging to Microsoft.\n\nAI products are expected to dramatically change how we use computers and the role they play in our lives.", "The attack took place outside Clapham's Two Brewers nightclub\n\nTwo men were taken to hospital after being stabbed in a homophobic attack outside a south London nightclub.\n\nThe men, in their 20s and 30s, were attacked outside the Two Brewers in Clapham High Street on Sunday night.\n\nThe Met Police said it was treating the stabbings as homophobic. The men have since been sent home from hospital.\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said there was \"no place for hate in London\", adding that he stood with LGBTQI+ Londoners.\n\nNo arrests have been made in connection to the incident.\n\nDet Insp Gary Castle said he was \"aware of the shock this attack will cause members of the LGBT+ community\", adding \"an urgent investigation is ongoing\".\n\nA drag performer at the club praised staff at the venue for their response.\n\nThe Two Brewers has boosted its security after the attack\n\nMary Mac posted: \"The team at The Two Brewers were incredible in dealing with this and keeping us inside the venue safe.\n\n\"It's shocking and disgusting that in 2023 this is becoming frighteningly more frequent.\"\n\nA Two Brewers spokesperson said the venue was \"fully supporting\" the police with their investigation \"regarding this unprovoked attack\", adding, \"our thoughts are with the victims and their families\".\n\n\"We would like to reassure the LGBTQIA+ community that the safety and security of our guests remains our number one priority,\" they said.\n\n\"Our CCTV has been handed over to the police and enhanced security measures have now been put in place.\"\n\nCampaign group Stonewall called on the government to set out a plan to deal with hate crime in the wake of the stabbings.\n\nThe organisation said there had been no government hate crime strategy in place for the past three years.\n\nIn a series of entries on Twitter, now known as X, the LGBT+ charity said: \"We are appalled to hear that two men have been stabbed in an apparent homophobic attack outside a LGBTQ+ venue in Clapham.\n\n\"It is unacceptable for LGBTQ+ people to live in fear. We call on the UK Govt to set out its plan to deal with rising hate crime.\"\n\nThe attack took place outside the Two Brewers in Clapham\n\nIn London, Metropolitan Police figures show a slight decrease in homophobic hate crimes - 3,792 such crimes were recorded in the year to July 2023, compared to 4,131 a year earlier.\n\nHome Office figures for the year ending March 2022 show that sexual orientation hate crimes in England and Wales increased by 41% to 26,152, representing the largest percentage annual increase in these offences since current records began in the year ending March 2012.\n\nTransgender identity hate crimes also rose significantly, by 56% to 4,355, the data shows.\n\nThe Home Office said the overall rise could be due to better recording by police, as well as fewer cases having been recorded under Covid restrictions in 2020/21.\n\nHowever, significant increases of more than 40 and 50% would indicate an upward trend.\n\nA government spokesperson said of the Clapham incident: \"These reports are deeply concerning and our thoughts are with the victims and their families.\n\n\"It's right that we give the police space to investigate this incident and it would be inappropriate to comment further while an investigation is ongoing.\"\n\nSadiq Khan said the incident was \"abhorrent\" and his thoughts were with the victims of this \"appalling attack\".\n\n\"I have always been clear that there is no place for hate in London. I stand with LGBTQI+ Londoners and will do all I can to end hate crime in the capital,\" he added.\n\nMr Khan said his team and the Met Police would invite the LGBTQ+ venues forum and its members to attend an urgent meeting later this week.\n\nFlorence Eshalomi, Labour MP for Vauxhall, said: \"Having spoken to people in the area this afternoon, I know how alarming this shocking attack has been to the LGBTQ+ community in Clapham.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the victims, who I hope will be supported to make a full recovery.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The down feathers on emperor chicks are not waterproof. They must fledge before the ice breaks up\n\nA catastrophic die-off of emperor penguin chicks has been observed in the Antarctic, with up to 10,000 young birds estimated to have been killed.\n\nThe sea-ice underneath the chicks melted and broke apart before they could develop the waterproof feathers needed to swim in the ocean.\n\nThe birds most likely drowned or froze to death.\n\nThe event, in late 2022, occurred in the west of the continent in an area fronting on to the Bellingshausen Sea.\n\nIt was recorded by satellites.\n\nDr Peter Fretwell, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), said the wipeout was a harbinger of things to come.\n\nLost ice: Smyley Island would normally expect to produce 3,000 or so chicks\n\nMore than 90% of emperor penguin colonies are predicted to be all but extinct by the end of the century, as the continent's seasonal sea-ice withers in an ever-warming world.\n\n\"Emperors depend on sea-ice for their breeding cycle; it's the stable platform they use to bring up their young. But if that ice is not as extensive as it should be or breaks up faster, these birds are in trouble,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"There is hope: we can cut our carbon emissions that are causing the warming. But if we don't we will drive these iconic, beautiful birds to the verge of extinction.\"\n\nA combination of winds and warm water reduced ice cover in the Bellingshausen\n\nDr Fretwell and colleagues report the die-off in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.\n\nThe scientists tracked five colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea sector - at Rothschild Island, Verdi Inlet, Smyley Island, Bryan Peninsula and Pfrogner Point.\n\nUsing the EU's Sentinel-2 satellites, they were able to observe the penguins' activity from the excrement, or guano, they left on the white sea-ice.\n\nThis brown staining is visible even from space.\n\nAdult birds jump out on to the sea-ice around March as the Southern Hemisphere winter approaches. They court, copulate, lay eggs, brood those eggs, and then feed their nestlings through the following months until it's time for the young to make their own way in the world.\n\nA sea-ice platform needs to be present for eight to nine months for breeding success\n\nThis normally occurs around December/January time, when the new birds head out into the ocean.\n\nBut the research team watched as sea-ice under emperor rookeries fragmented in November, before thousands of chicks had had time to fledge the slick feathers needed for swimming.\n\nFour of the colonies suffered total breeding failure as a result. Only the most northerly site, at Rothschild Island, had some success.\n\nAntarctic summer sea-ice has been on a sharp downturn since 2016, with the total area of frozen water around the continent diminishing to new record lows.\n\nThe two absolute lowest years have occurred in the past two summer seasons, in 2021/22 and in 2022/23, when the Bellingshausen was almost completely devoid of ice cover.\n\nWhat is more, the slowness of floes to form in recent months means the colonies will probably not be producing chicks for at least another year.\n\nWinter maximum sea-ice extent, normally reached in September, will track far below where it would normally be.\n\nScientists believe the emperor will see its range greatly restricted as the century progresses\n\nDr Fretwell and colleagues said the emperors were feeling the impacts of this shift in conditions. Between 2018 and 2022, roughly a third of the more than 60 known emperor penguin colonies were affected in some way by diminished sea-ice extent - whether that's ice forming later in the season or breaking up earlier.\n\nAt the other end of the planet, in the Arctic, the sea-ice has been in a decades-long, steady decline. The Antarctic in contrast seemed more robust. Up until 2016, it was becoming slightly more extensive year on year.\n\nBAS colleague Dr Caroline Holmes is an expert on Antarctic sea-ice. She links the causes for the current decline to anomalously warm ocean water around the continent and a particular pattern of winds, which in the case of the Bellingshausen, has pushed ice back towards the coast, making it difficult to spread.\n\nSea-ice extent is currently far, far below where it should be\n\nThese were remarkable times, she said.\n\n\"What we're seeing right now is so far outside what we've observed previously. We expected change but I don't think we expected so much change so rapidly,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Studies in the Arctic have suggested that if we could reverse climate warming somehow, the sea-ice in the polar north would recover. Whether that might also apply in the Antarctic, we don't know. But there's every reason to think that if it got cold enough, the sea-ice would reform.\"\n\nCurrently, emperors are classified as \"Near Threatened\" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the organisation that keeps the lists of Earth's most endangered animals.\n\nA proposal has been made to lift emperors into the more urgent \"Vulnerable\" category because of the danger posed by climate warming to their way of life.", "A man has been interviewed by the Metropolitan Police following alleged thefts at the British Museum.\n\nThe London institution announced last week that it had sacked a member of staff after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nA Met Police spokesman told BBC News: \"A man has been interviewed by investigating officers.\n\n\"No arrests have been made. We have worked closely with the British Museum and will continue to do so.\"\n\nThe British Museum would not comment on the man being questioned.\n\nThe PA news agency said the items, which include gold jewellery, gems of semi-precious stones and glass, were taken before 2023 and over a \"significant\" period of time.\n\nEmails seen by BBC News appear to show the museum was alerted by an antiquities dealer to items being sold on eBay in 2021.\n\nDirector Hartwig Fischer said earlier this week the museum had taken concerns two years ago about a small number of items \"seriously\".\n\nThe German art historian, who the museum announced in July would step down from his role next year, added: \"The investigation concluded that those items were all accounted for.\"\n\nHowever, he added: \"We now have reason to believe that the individual who raised concerns had many more items in his possession, and it's frustrating that that was not revealed to us as it would have aided our investigations.\"\n\nMr Fischer said a \"full audit\" was launched in 2022, which \"revealed a bigger problem\", after which they alerted the police and a disciplinary process was launched. This \"resulted in a member of staff being dismissed,\" Mr Fischer said.\n\nIn response, the art dealer, Ittai Gradel, said: \"The claim that I withheld information from the British Museum is an outright lie.\n\n\"I was explicit in my communication with the British Museum that I was entirely at their disposal for any further information or assistance they would require. They never contacted me.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Yevgeny Prigozhin and the war in Ukraine\n\nFrom the moment Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny in Russia collapsed two months ago there was always a sense that a man who had lived so close to the edge for so long had overplayed his hand.\n\nAssuming he was on board his own private jet when it went down en route from Moscow to St Petersburg, this was a shocking and violent end to a very turbulent life.\n\nFor so many years Vladimir Putin was able to call on Prigozhin's services.\n\nBut the botched revolt involving thousands of Wagner mercenaries went beyond the pale. President Putin condemned the rebellion as \"treason\" and it was soon very clear that Prigozhin's prolific role in Russia was over.\n\nThis was a man whose first years of adulthood were spent in a St Petersburg jail, but he thrived in the 1990s with catering businesses that brought him wealth and patronage from Mr Putin himself.\n\nIt was Prigozhin's mercenary ventures in Africa, Syria and Ukraine that made him a military figure but the dynamic changed when Russia unleashed war in Ukraine and the president's one-time chef found power as well as wealth.\n\nUnconfirmed reports suggest his Embraer Legacy plane was hit by two bursts of fire from military air defences.\n\nIf it was brought down deliberately, few will be surprised because Prigozhin had no shortage of enemies. Dmitry Utkin, who was Prigozhin's first Wagner commander, was also on the passenger list.\n\nPrigozhin, 62, appeared to have escaped punishment for his short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin.\n\nUnder a deal to end the revolt many of his rebel mercenaries were allowed to go to a camp in Belarus while the Wagner boss himself was able to travel within Russia, showing up in St Petersburg in casual clothes during a Russian summit of African leaders in late July.\n\nHis witty but venomous video rants against the failings of the Russian defence establishment came to an end and state-run TV broadcast footage of raids on his luxurious home outside St Petersburg.\n\nA caption posted on a video this week suggested Prigozhin was in an African country\n\nBut Prigozhin was never going to slink off quietly to a bolthole in Belarus and it was only this week that his first video address since the botched mutiny surfaced.\n\nThe desert background indicated it had been shot in Africa and, clad in combat gear, Prigozhin declared that the temperature was 50C and his Wagner group was recruiting to make Russia \"even greater on all continents, and Africa even more free\".\n\nPrigozhin appeared to be reverting to the mercenary roots he put down several years ago when he set up the Wagner private military company, which helped prop up Russian allies in the Central African Republic and Syria, and challenged French influence in Mali.\n\nAlthough he denied it for years, Prigozhin also founded a so-called troll-factory of pro-Kremlin bloggers in a non-descript office in St Petersburg. His Internet Research Agency was blamed by the US for using information warfare to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nPrigozhin admitted this year to coming up with the whole idea: \"It was created to protect the Russian information space from the West's boorish and aggressive anti-Russian propaganda.\"\n\nHe had spent almost a decade in the final years of the Soviet era in jail for robbery and fraud. But as the new Russia shrugged off its Soviet past, Prigozhin went into catering, first as a hotdog-seller and then moving on to more sophisticated dining, opening some of St Petersburg's more chic restaurants.\n\nMr Putin, then the city's deputy mayor, took notice. \"Vladimir Putin saw how I built a business out of a kiosk,\" he said years later.\n\nAfter he became president, Mr Putin entertained global leaders such as France's Jacques Chirac in Prigozhin's restaurants. The up-and-coming caterer earned the sobriquet \"Putin's chef\".\n\nIf Prigozhin's mercenary business was later to give him military clout and money, his catering business would supply him with a constant stream of wealth right up to this year.\n\nPresident Putin revealed shortly after the botched Wagner revolt that Prigozhin's private army had been fully funded with $1bn from the state over 12 months, while a further $1bn went to Prigozhin's Concord catering firm for feeding the military.\n\nBut that was just over one year, and reports suggest he had received more than $18bn in government contracts since 2014.\n\nKremlin propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov said big money had made Prigozhin go \"off the rails\" but it was his men's battlefield exploits that had gained him a sense of impunity.\n\n\"He thought he could challenge the defence ministry, the state itself and the president personally.\"\n\nThat all came to a head as Russia's military campaign in Ukraine faltered last year and Prigozhin's Wagner fighters spearheaded a bloody campaign to seize the eastern city of Bakhmut.\n\nLast September Prigozhin toured prisons around Russia offering inmates the chance to commute their sentences in exchange for service with Wagner.\n\nThousands died in the fight for Bakhmut, many of them inexperienced, badly armed former prisoners.\n\nAs the battle reached a climax, Prigozhin appeared in social media videos demanding ammunition, standing among bodies of dead mercenaries.\n\nHe reserved his loathing for President Putin's loyal defence minister Sergei Shoigu and the armed forces chief Valery Gerasimov.\n\n\"Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the... ammunition?... They came here as volunteers and die for you to fatten yourselves in your mahogany offices.\"\n\nPrigozhin steered clear of directly criticising the president, always blaming his commanders instead.\n\nBut when the military chiefs announced plans to bring the Wagner forces and other \"voluntary detachments\" under the main command structure, Prigozhin appeared to snap.\n\nAs he prepared to launch his \"march for justice\", he called into question the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and accused the defence minister of responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Russian soldiers.\n\nThe Kremlin denounced as \"hysteria\" suggestions that Prigozhin's revolt had dented Vladimir Putin's hold on power.\n\nAt the very least it was the beginning of the end of Prigozhin's extraordinary and long-lived Russian influence over the Putin leadership.", "SpaceX has been developing a line of Starship prototypes at its facility in South Texas\n\nThe US Department of Justice (DOJ) has said it is suing Elon Musk's SpaceX, alleging the rocket firm discriminates against refugees and asylum seekers in its hiring practices.\n\nThe DoJ says SpaceX falsely claimed that it was not allowed to hire non-US citizens.\n\nThe investigation into SpaceX by the DoJ was prompted after allegations of discrimination from a foreign worker.\n\nThe BBC has contacted SpaceX for comment.\n\nThe DoJ alleged that SpaceX \"routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status\" from September 2018 to May 2022.\n\nAn asylee is a person who has been granted asylum. They are authorised to work in the US, may apply for a social security card, may request permission to travel overseas, and can apply to bring family members to the country.\n\nElon Musk's company said it was only allowed to hire citizens and green card holders because of \"export control laws,\" the DOJ said.\n\nHowever, the DoJ also said that this was not correct and that these laws do not mandate such restrictions.\n\nThe jobs from which refugee and asylee applicants were allegedly excluded from were wide ranging - from rocket engineering to dish-washing and cooking.\n\nThe DoJ has asked SpaceX to look at providing backpay for those who were wrongly denied work because of this alleged discrimination.\n\nThis lawsuit is not the first time one of Mr Musk's companies has been accused of discriminatory behaviour.\n\nA group of former employees of the social media website formerly known as Twitter, now X, filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging that Mr Musk engaged in gender, age and racial discrimination.", "The Labour Party significantly outspent the Conservatives last year, financial accounts released by the Electoral Commission show.\n\nLabour's spending totalled £44.45m, with the party's income up 3.5% on 2021, despite lower membership numbers.\n\nMeanwhile, the Conservatives' spending was £33.06m, with income down 3.3%, and money from donors to the party falling by £2.4m.\n\nThe Commission is an independent body which oversees elections and regulates political finance across the UK. It has published the accounts of parties with income or spending above £250,000, which numbered 18 in 2022.\n\nLabour recorded a £2.7m surplus, raising £47.2m, even as it lost nearly 25,000 more members, the Commission's figures show. In 2021, Sir Keir Starmer's party recorded a £5.2m deficit.\n\nA report from party general secretary David Evans said \"difficult decisions\" on reducing costs had contributed to returning Labour to surplus, while membership income \"exceeded targets\" thanks to new members and \"an improved rate of retention\".\n\nStaff costs fell by around £6m as a number of people were made redundant.\n\nBy the end of 2022, Labour had 407,445 members, down from 432,213 in 2021, and nearly 125,000 down on its recent peak in 2019 when it was led by Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nA spokesman for left-wing group Momentum described it as \"saddening and worrying\" that Labour's membership had declined for a third year in a row.\n\nHe accused Sir Keir of turning Labour back \"towards corporate donors and interests, rejecting member and union demands for popular, urgent policies like public ownership, while undermining their rights by stitching up parliamentary selections for loyalists\".\n\nA party spokeswoman responded that Labour's finances had \"gone from strength to strength\" under Sir Keir's leadership.\n\n\"The Labour Party is a changed party that is serious about getting into government and building a better Britain,\" she added.\n\nThe Conservatives lost £2.3m in 2022 during what the party's annual accounts described as a \"turbulent year\". Boris Johnson resigned as prime minister in July, to be succeeded by Liz Truss, who herself stepped down in October.\n\nThe party raised £30.7m in income, but saw money from donors falling compared with 2021. A report from the party treasurer blamed this partly on \"donor pledges moving into 2023\".\n\nThe Tories do not publish membership figures, but after last year's leadership election, they said 172,000 people had been eligible to vote.\n\nTheir income from membership fees fell slightly from £1.99m to £1.97m.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats recorded a £754,000 deficit, including a £186,000 loss caused by having to cancel the party's annual conference following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nBut they did see a slight increase in membership from 94,706 to 97,493.\n\nThe SNP saw its membership fall from 103,884 in 2021 to 82,598 at the end of 2022 and its income fell from £4.51m to £4.25m.\n\nThe Green Party of England and Wales raised £3.15m and spent £3.23m.\n\nPlaid Cymru had income of £970,000 and expenditure of £942,000.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein outspent the Democratic Unionists with expenditure of £1.53m and income of £1.19m. The DUP spent £488,000 and raised £426,000, less than the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland's £522,000.\n\nReform UK, led by Richard Tice and formerly the Brexit Party, spent £949,000, 37% more than the £692,000 it brought in.\n\nLouise Edwards, director of regulation and digital transformation at the Commission, said: \"We are committed to making sure political funding is transparent.\n\n\"Larger parties spend and receive considerable sums of money so it's important that information on their finances is accessible to the public. Publishing their accounts allows voters to see how parties are funded and choose to spend their money.\"", "Ashley Dale worked as an environmental health officer for Knowsley Council\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was shot dead in the back garden of her home.\n\nAshley Dale, 28, was found with a gunshot wound in Old Swan, Liverpool, on 21 August last year.\n\nMerseyside Police said Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, had been extradited from Spain on a trade and co-operation agreement.\n\nHe has also been charged with conspiracy to murder Lee Harrison and possession of a prohibited weapon with intent to endanger life.\n\nMr Fitzgibbon, from St Helens, is also facing an allegation of conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon, namely a Skorpion sub machine gun, and associated ammunition.\n\nHe is due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nMs Dale was found in the back garden of her home on Leinster Road in Old Swan last August\n\nSean Zeisz, 27, Niall Barry, 26, James Witham, 41, and Joseph Peers, 28, who were previously charged with Ms Dale's murder, are due to stand trial on 2 October.\n\nMr Fitzgibbon was arrested by the Spanish National Police and extradited from Spain, with the support of the National Crime Agency's National Extradition Unit, on Thursday afternoon.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protesters in Seoul were arrested as they attempted to enter the Japanese embassy\n\nJapan has begun its controversial discharge of treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking protests in the region and retaliation from Beijing.\n\nChina is the biggest buyer of seafood from Japan, and on Thursday it said it would block all such imports.\n\nJapan says the water is safe, and many scientists agree. The UN's nuclear watchdog has also approved the plan.\n\nBut critics say more studies need to be done and the release should be halted.\n\nMore than a million tonnes of water stored at the nuclear plant will be discharged over the next 30 years.\n\nChina, which has been the most vocal of opponents since the plan was announced two years ago, called the water discharge an \"extremely selfish and irresponsible act\" and said Japan was \"passing an open wound onto the future generations of humanity\".\n\nShortly afterwards, China's customs office announced that an existing ban on seafood imports from Fukushima and some prefectures would be immediately extended to cover the whole of Japan to \"protect the health of Chinese consumers\".\n\nThe move is calculated to inflict economic damage, and Japan has admitted that businesses will take a \"significant\" hit. Mainland China and Hong Kong together import more than $1.1bn (£866m) of seafood from Japan every year - making up nearly half of Japan's seafood exports.\n\nBut analysts say that the reactions from China in particular, are as much motivated by politics as they are by genuine concerns.\n\nTokyo's relationship to Beijing has deteriorated in recent years as it draws closer to the US and also shows support to Taiwan, a self-ruled island claimed by China.\n\n\"This incident is more of a symptom than a cause of worsening Sino-Japanese relations,\" said Chinese foreign policy expert Neil Thomas with the Asia Society Policy Institute.\n\n\"Beijing may have made less of a fuss about the water release if its relationship with Tokyo was in a better place.\"\n\nIn return, Japan is likely to \"reject this criticism, but they are unlikely to do anything provocative,\" said James DJ Brown, a professor specialising in Japanese foreign policy at Temple University's Japan campus.\n\n\"While Japan's government is deeply concerned by what it sees as the aggressive actions of the Chinese Communist Party, they understand that it is in their interests to maintain stable relations with their larger neighbour.\"\n\nBut it may not need to wait for long. Some observers believe that China may not stick with the ban.\n\n\"China's growing economic difficulties could mean that any ban is relatively brief and narrow, so as to limit the negative impact on Chinese importers and business sentiment,\" said Mr Thomas.\n\nThe water began discharging into the Pacific Ocean at Fukushima on Thursday via an underground tunnel\n\nSouth Korea also has a longstanding ban on some Japanese seafood. But on Thursday its government had a more muted reaction.\n\nPrime Minister Han Duck-soo said \"what is important now is whether Japan, as it promised to the international community, strictly follows the scientific standards and transparently provides information\".\n\nSeoul and Tokyo have drawn closer despite deep historical grievances, united in their allyship to the US while facing down threats from North Korea and China.\n\nHowever, most South Koreans are opposed to the water's release, and on Thursday protesters in Seoul attempted to storm the Japanese embassy. Angry demonstrations were also held in Hong Kong and Tokyo.\n\nMeanwhile Mark Brown, chair of the Pacific Islands Forum which had previously castigated the plan, said they now believe the plan \"meets international safety standards\".\n\nSince a tsunami destroyed the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011, power plant company Tepco has been pumping in water to cool down the reactors' fuel rods. This means every day the plant produces contaminated water, which is treated and stored in massive tanks.\n\nEven after treatment, the water contains unacceptably high levels of radioactive substances tritium and carbon-14 which are difficult to remove. Japan's solution is to dilute it with seawater before releasing it into the ocean.\n\nMore than 1,000 tanks have been filled, and Japan says this is not a sustainable long-term solution. It has argued that after treatment and dilution the water is safe to release.\n\nMany scientists have backed the plan, saying it is sound. The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has also said the plan complies with international standards and would have a \"negligible\" impact on the environment.\n\nAuthorities have promised to continuously monitor levels of radiation in the ocean and to maintain a high level of transparency.\n\nBut there are some who are still sceptical given Tepco's track record - the company has in the past been blamed for a lack of transparency over the disaster, which it has apologised for.\n\nAnd while disposing treated water in the ocean is common practice for nuclear plants, critics have pointed out that the amount being released from Fukushima is on an unprecedented, far vaster scale.\n\nSome scientists say more studies should be done on how it would affect the ocean bed and marine life. Environmental activist group Greenpeace has also called for the water to stay in the tanks until better processing technology is invented.\n\nThe plan has particularly angered coastal communities and fishermen in Japan. They fear it would harm their livelihoods as some worried consumers avoid seafood from the area, which has never fully recovered economically since the 2011 disaster.\n\nThe wider Japanese public also remains deeply divided on the issue, with only half supporting the water's discharge according to the latest polls.\n\n\"I think there should have been many other methods... instead of releasing it into the ocean,\" Tokyo protester Keiko Kisei told Reuters on Thursday.\n\n\"However, they chose to discharge the water and cause trouble to the world. It's absolutely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his \"sincere condolences\" to the family of those killed in a plane crash on Wednesday.\n\nIt's reported that on board was Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group.\n\nAuthorities say all 10 people on the plane were killed when it crashed near Moscow.", "Eight candidates have made their case to be the Republican presidential candidate for 2024.\n\nIt was not a calm and civil debate, there were fiery clashes across multiple topics.\n\nOver the coming days, we're likely to see the candidates tout their own performances in the debate, and continue to spar on the key issues including the economy, crime, immigration and the border.\n\nWe're also likely to hear more from the party's front-runner - Donald Trump - who was not in attendance.\n\nInstead, he appeared in an interview with Tucker Carlson on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nTrump's shadow loomed over the debate, but perhaps not as large as many thought it would.\n\nYou can read more analysis on the winners and losers of the debate here.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "18-year-old Arion Kurtaj was a key member of the notorious Lapsus cyber crime gang\n\nA court has found an 18-year-old from Oxford was a part of an international cyber-crime gang responsible for a hacking spree against major tech firms.\n\nArion Kurtaj was a key member of the Lapsus$ group which hacked the likes of Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games.\n\nA court heard Kurtaj leaked clips of the unreleased Grand Theft Auto 6 game while on bail in a Travelodge hotel.\n\nThe audacious attacks by Lapsus$ in 2021 and 2022 shocked the cyber security world.\n\nKurtaj is autistic and psychiatrists deemed him not fit to stand trial so he did not appear in court to give evidence.\n\nThe jury were asked to determine whether or not he did the acts alleged - not if he did it with criminal intent.\n\nAnother 17-year-old who is also autistic was convicted for his involvement in the activities of the Lapsus$ gang but cannot be named because of his age.\n\nThe group from the UK, and allegedly Brazil, was described in court as \"digital bandits\".\n\nThe gang - thought to mostly be teenagers - used con-man like tricks as well as computer hacking to gain access to multinational corporations such as Microsoft, the technology giant and digital banking group Revolut.\n\nDuring their spree the hackers regularly celebrated their crimes publicly and taunted victims on the social network app Telegram in English and Portuguese.\n\nThe trial was held in Southwark Crown Court in London for seven weeks.\n\nJurors heard that the unnamed teenager started hacking with Kurtaj in July 2021 having met online.\n\nKurtaj aided by Lapsus$ associates, hacked the servers and data files of telecoms company BT and EE, the mobile operator, before demanding a $4m (£3.1m) ransom on 1 August 2021.\n\nThe hackers sent out threatening text messages to 26,000 EE customers\n\nNo ransom was paid but the court heard that the 17-year-old and Kurtaj used stolen SIM details from five victims to steal a total of nearly £100,000 from their cryptocurrency accounts which were secured by their compromised mobile phone SIM identities.\n\nBoth defendants were initially arrested on 22nd January 2022, then released under investigation.\n\nThat did not deter the duo who continued hacking with Lapsus$ and successfully breached Nvidia, a Silicon Valley tech giant that makes chips for artificial intelligence chatbots, in February 2022.\n\nThey stole and leaked sensitive and valuable data and demanded a ransom payment to stop them releasing more.\n\nThe jury were shown Telegram group chats of the gang instructing someone they'd hired to call the Nvidia staff help desk pretending to be an employee in an attempt to get log in details for the firm.\n\nIn other hacks the gang spammed employee phones late at night with access approval requests until staff said yes.\n\nKurtaj and the youth were both re-arrested on March 31st 2022.\n\nShortly before his arrest, Kurtaj was \"doxxed\" by rival hackers who posted his and his families contact details online along with pictures and videos of the keen fisherman from social media.\n\nKurtaj was moved into a Travelodge hotel in Bicester for his safety and given strict bail conditions including a ban from going on the internet.\n\nProsecutors say he was \"caught red handed\" when City of London Police searched his hotel room.\n\nIn a \"flagrant disregard for his bail conditions\", jurors were told that police found an Amazon Fire Stick in his hotel TV allowing him to connect to cloud computing services with a newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse.\n\nThe court heard he had helped attack Revolut, Uber and Rockstar Games.\n\nHis final hack against the game-maker was described as his \"most audacious\" as Kurtaj posted a message on the company Slack messaging service to all employees, stating: \"I am not a Rockstar employee, I am an attacker.\"\n\nHe declared that he had downloaded all data for Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar's hugely popular video game series, adding that \"if Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram within 24 hours I will start releasing the source code\".\n\nMeanwhile, 90 video clips of unfinished gameplay for the highly-anticipated new game were also published on a fan forum under the username TeaPotUberHacker.\n\nKurtaj was re-arrested and detained until his trial.\n\nProsecution lead barrister Kevin Barry said that Kurtaj and his co-conspirators repeatedly showed a \"juvenile desire to stick two fingers up to those they are attacking\".\n\nOnce inside a company's computer network, the hackers often left offensive messages on Slack and Microsoft Teams as they attempted to blackmail staff.\n\nThe gang's actions were often erratic with motives apparently swinging from notoriety, financial gain or amusement.\n\nTheir hacking spree prompted a major review by US cyber authorities earlier this month which warned that cyber defences needed to be improved to counter the rising threat of teenage hackers.\n\nThe report said Lapsus$ \"made clear just how easy it was for its members (juveniles, in some instances) to infiltrate well-defended organisations\".\n\nIt is thought that members of the gang are still at large.\n\nIn October, Brazilian police arrested an individual this is alleged to have hacked various Brazilian and Portuguese companies and public bodies with Lapsus$.\n\nIt is not clear how much money Lapsus$ has made from its cyber crimes. No companies publicly admitted paying the hackers and the 17-year-old refused to give police access to his cryptocurrency hardware wallet.\n\nBoth teenagers will be sentenced at a later date by Her Honour Judge Lees.\n\nKurtaj is remanded in custody and the 17-year-old defendant continues to have bail.", "A comic whose slow-motion impression of a footballer celebrating has been watched by millions online has said the reaction has been \"overwhelming\".\n\nKarl Porter's routine has been widely shared online, with his Instagram post receiving more than 3.3 million views.\n\nIt has also garnered thousands of comments, including one from the Premier League asking who inspired it.\n\nThe 30-year-old said it was based on what he saw during his time as a binman at Manchester City's Etihad stadium.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Robyn Fryar was walking home when she was knocked down by a 20-year-old drink-driver\n\nDrivers who kill pedestrians, cyclists or motorcyclists on Scotland's roads are likely to receive tougher sentences under new guidance for judges.\n\nThe guidelines would see taking the life of a vulnerable road user as an \"aggravating factor\" when sentencing.\n\nA tougher penalty might also be imposed if the death resulted from aggressive driving, such as tailgating.\n\nThe new Scottish Sentencing Council guidance is subject to approval by the High Court.\n\nHowever, it could come into force towards the end of the year or early next year.\n\nIt will be the first guideline of its kind in Scotland covering a specific offence.\n\nThe sentencing council said it aimed to bring greater consistency and assist public understanding of how highly complex and sensitive cases were dealt with by the courts.\n\nThe changes have been welcomed as a step forward by the father of a 15-year-old girl killed in a hit-and-run in 2019.\n\nIain Fryar's daughter Robyn was walking home when she was knocked down by a 20-year-old drink-driver in Paisley.\n\nShaun Gatti was speeding on the wrong side of the road when he struck the teenager and drove off.\n\nPolice traced Gatti at his home later that day and found his badly damaged car covered by a tarpaulin.\n\nGatti admitted causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed for five years and three months.\n\nProsecutors challenged the sentence on the grounds that it was unduly lenient but the jail term was upheld by the appeal court.\n\nUnder the new guideline, the fact that Robyn was a pedestrian could have resulted in a longer sentence and Gatti's inexperience as a driver would not have been taken into account.\n\nMr Fryar, who now lives in Banchory in Aberdeenshire, said: \"He's out already. He only served two-and-a-half years.\n\n\"If they don't toughen up the sentences, it's not going to stop. Ten or 15 years would be a far more of a deterrent.\n\n\"I wouldn't want any other family to go through what we've gone through.\"\n\nThe guideline sets out a range of sentences going up to 12 years.\n\nAs well as dangerous driving, it also covers causing death by careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs and and causing death by driving while unlicensed, uninsured or disqualified.\n\nThe guideline is not mandatory and judges can choose to go outside the suggested range of sentences.\n\nBut they must take the guidelines into account and give reasons if they do not follow them.\n\nThe maximum sentence for death by dangerous driving is life.\n\nFlowers left at the scene of Robyn's death\n\nProsecutors can also choose to treat the most serious offences involving death by driving as culpable homicide or murder.\n\nWhen passing sentence, judges have to determine the seriousness of the offence by deciding how much the driver was to blame.\n\nA number of changes have been made to a draft version of the guideline following a public consultation.\n\nDriving inexperience has been removed as a mitigating factor for all offences apart from causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving, meaning it can't be put forward as a reason for a more lenient sentence.\n\nCausing a death by dangerous driving while knowingly suffering from a medical or physical condition or failing to follow medical advice or take prescribed medication will result in a sentence in the middle of the range.\n\nRobyn Fryar was 15 when she was knocked down and killed\n\nThe chair of the sentencing council is Scotland's second most senior judge, the Lord Justice Clerk Lady Dorrian.\n\nShe explained that the guideline is intended to help judges and provide clarity for bereaved families.\n\n\"The guideline has been strengthened in a number of areas such as the inclusion of aggressive driving in the highest level of seriousness for death by dangerous driving offences,\" she said.\n\n\"A number of factors have also been added to the list of aggravations, while sentencing ranges have been increased for certain offences.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Rudy Giuliani, who served as Donald Trump's personal lawyer, in a police booking mugshot released by Fulton County Sheriff's Office\n\nRudy Giuliani, who was Donald Trump's personal lawyer, has surrendered at a jail in Atlanta, Georgia on charges of helping Mr Trump try to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.\n\nMr Giuliani, who was released on a $150,000 (£118,000) bond, faces 13 charges including racketeering.\n\nThe former New York mayor is one of 19 people, including Mr Trump, indicted in the election interference case.\n\nMr Trump has said he will attend jail to be booked on Thursday afternoon.\n\nWhile yet to enter a plea, he denies wrongdoing and has said the charges are politically motivated.\n\nLeaving the Fulton County jail, Mr Giuliani told reporters he was \"honoured\" to be involved in the case.\n\n\"This case is a fight for our way of life,\" he said. \"This indictment is a travesty.\"\n\nMr Giuliani and Mr Trump face the most charges among all those accused.\n\nBefore Mr Giuliani, seven of Mr Trump's other co-defendants had arrived in Atlanta to be processed, including lawyer John Eastman, Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall, and Sidney Powell - another lawyer who allegedly took a central role in efforts to undermine the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.\n\nFormer Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer, Cathy Latham, Ray Smith III and Kenneth Chesebro have also been booked at the jail.\n\nProsecutors in Fulton County have set a deadline of noon local time on Friday for each of the defendants to surrender. They will then appear in court to hear the charges against them at a later date.\n\nThose who were booked on Wednesday had mugshots taken and posted to the Fulton County website within hours. Mr Trump is also expected to get his mugshot taken.\n\n(L-R, top): Former Trump Lawyers Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis had mugshots taken at Fulton County Jail. (L-R, bottom): Fellow co-defendants Kenneth Chesebro, Cathy Latham and Ray Smith\n\nLike Mr Giuliani, the former president faces 13 charges including racketeering and election meddling. Mr Trump is yet to enter a plea, but he denies wrongdoing and has said the charges are politically motivated.\n\nIn a post on Wednesday to his social media site, Truth Social, Mr Trump said he would \"proudly be arrested\" on Thursday afternoon.\n\n\"Nobody has ever fought for election integrity like President Donald J. Trump,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump has already been granted a $200,000 bond and issued with other release conditions, such as being barred from using social media to directly or indirectly threaten alleged co-conspirators or potential witnesses.\n\nThe former president, who Forbes estimates to have a personal wealth of $2.5bn, has drawn criticism for not paying the legal fees of his co-defendants.\n\nOne of them, ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that \"this has became a bigger principle than just one man. So why isn't MAGA, Inc funding everyone's defence?\"\n\nAnother former Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen, now a fierce critic of his former boss, told CNN on Tuesday that Mr Trump was not paying Mr Giuliani's fees. The BBC has contacted Mr Giuliani's lawyer for comment.\n\nFormer White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, another co-defendant, filed court papers asking a judge for an immediate ruling on a bid to move his case from Fulton County to a federal court, or - alternatively - to issue an order shielding him from arrest in Georgia.\n\nThe filing came after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis denied a request to delay Mr Meadows' arrest. An email from Ms Willis included in the filing said Mr Meadows \"is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction\".\n\nA similar request was made by former justice department official Jeffrey Clark. Lawyers for both men have argued that their alleged actions should be handled by the federal court system, as they were federal officials at their time of their alleged involvement in the case.\n\nThe Georgia case is the latest in a series of criminal indictments filed against Mr Trump.\n\nHe faces 78 charges across three other criminal cases, including an investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Patrick Robinson has been a member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 2015\n\nA UN judge says the UK is likely to owe more than £18tn in reparations for its historic role in transatlantic slavery.\n\nA report co-authored by the judge, Patrick Robinson, says the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries.\n\nBut Mr Robinson said the sum was an \"underestimation\" of the damage caused by the slave trade.\n\nHe said he was amazed some countries responsible for slavery think they can \"bury their heads in the sand\".\n\n\"Once a state has committed a wrongful act, it's obliged to pay reparations,\" said Mr Robinson, who presided over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president.\n\nMr Robinson spoke to the BBC ahead of his keynote speech at an event to mark Unesco's Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition at London's City Hall on Wednesday.\n\nHe's been a member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 2015 and has been researching reparations as part of his honorary presidency of the American Society of International Law.\n\nHe brought together a group of economists, lawyers and historians to produce the Brattle Group Report on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery.\n\nThe report, which was released in June, is seen as one of the most comprehensive attempts yet to put figures on the harms caused by slavery, and calculate the reparations due by each country.\n\nIn total, the reparations to be paid by 31 former slaveholding states - including Spain, the United States and France - amount to $107.8tn (£87.1tn), the report calculates.\n\nThe valuation is based on an assessment of five harms caused by slavery and the wealth accumulated by countries involved in the trade. The report sets out decades-long payment plans but says it is up to governments to negotiate what sums are paid and how.\n\nIn his speech at the London mayor's office, Mr Robinson said reparations were \"necessary for the completion of emancipation\".\n\nHe said the \"high figures\" in the Brattle Report \"constitute a clear, unvarnished statement of the grossness\" of slavery.\n\nIn his own speech, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the transatlantic slave trade \"remains the most degrading and prolonged act of human exploitation ever committed\".\n\n\"There should be no doubt or denial of the scale of Britain's involvement in this depraved experiment,\" Mr Khan said.\n\nThe Brattle Report has generated interest within the reparations movement, but the governments implicated are highly unlikely to accept its recommendations.\n\nCaribbean countries have sought slavery reparations from these governments for years with limited success.\n\nEarlier this year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dismissed calls for the UK government to apologise and pay reparations for its role in slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBritish authorities and the monarchy were participants in the trade, which saw millions of Africans enslaved and forced to work, especially on plantations in the Caribbean, between the 16th and 19th centuries.\n\nBritain also had a key role in ending the trade through Parliament's passage of a law to abolish slavery in 1833.\n\nThe British government has never formally apologised for slavery or offered to pay reparations.\n\nWhen asked if he thought Mr Sunak would take the Brattle Report seriously, Mr Robinson said: \"I certainly hope he will.\"\n\nMr Robinson said he hoped Mr Sunak would change his opinion on reparations and urged him to read the Brattle Report.\n\nBut he added: \"For me, it goes beyond what the government and the political parties want.\n\n\"Of course they should set the tone. But I would like to see the people of the United Kingdom involved in this exercise as a whole.\"\n\nWhen asked if the £18.8tn figure could be too little, Mr Robinson said: \"You need to bear in mind that these high figures, as high as they appear to be, reflect an underestimation of the reality of the damage caused by transatlantic chattel slavery. That's a comment that cannot be ignored.\"\n\nHe said the sums in the report \"accurately reflect the enormity of the damage cause by slavery\".\n\nHe said: \"It amazes me that countries could think, in this day and age, when the consequences of that practice are clear for everyone to see, that they can bury their heads in the sand, and it doesn't concern them. It's as though they are in a kind of la la land.\"\n\nAs to how reparations could be achieved, Mr Robinson said that was up the governments to decide.\n\n\"I believe a diplomatic solution recommends itself,\" he said. \"I don't rule out a court approach as well.\"\n\nThe legal status of reparations demands by states is highly contested.\n\nRepresentatives of Caribbean states have previously stated their intention to bring the issue to the ICJ, but no action has been taken.\n\nReparations are broadly recognised as compensation given for something that was deemed wrong or unfair, and can take the many forms.\n\nIn recent years, Caribbean leaders, activists and the descendants of slave owners have been putting Western government under increasing pressure to engage with the reparations movement.\n\nSome of the descendants of slave owners - such as former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan, and the family of 19th Century Prime Minister William Gladstone - have attempted to make amends.\n\nIn response to the BBC's request for comment, the UK government pointed to comments made by Foreign Minister David Rutley in Parliament earlier this year.\n\nHe said: \"We acknowledge the role of British authorities in enabling the slave trade for many years before being the first global force to drive the end of the slave trade in the British empire.\"\n\nHe said the government believes \"the most effective way for the UK to respond to the cruelty of the past is to ensure that current and future generations do not forget what happened, that we address racism, and that we continue to work together to tackle today's challenges\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Anticipation is rising outside the jail house, where the atmosphere can only be described as anything but normal.\n\nPolice and law enforcement officers have blocked off each end of the half mile street.\n\nThe public have not been allowed in at all and those of us inside the security zone are locked down.\n\nNo one can enter.\n\nYou can leave but then no one can cross back until the former president leaves.\n\nAnother half mile up the road, protesters and counter protesters line both sides of the busy road.\n\nPlenty have turned out to support Donald Trump - maybe a few dozen, but they are making their presence known.\n\nMany are convinced that Trump is innocent of all charges but no one has been able to explain why they have reached that conclusion.\n\nWe met Lee and Nadine from the self-styled Fani Willis fan club.\n\nFani Willis is the lead prosecutor who’s pursuing Trump and 18 co-defendants. Nadine said she believes the prosecutor is being targeted because she is a black woman.\n\nLee said he just wants to be part of history.", "Paddington Bear is to appear on 10 special stamps released by the Royal Mail to mark his 65th anniversary.\n\nSix of the stamps feature images from animator Ivor Wood's comic strip cartoons first published in the London Evening News in the 1970s.\n\nThe other four stamps capture moments from the BBC television series that Wood designed and directed from 1976.\n\nThe Peruvian bear first appeared in 1958 in Michael Bond's book A Bear Called Paddington.\n\nIt is the first time he has been dedicated his own stamp set.\n\nPaddington previously featured on stamps in 2014 to celebrate 60 years of children's television, alongside Peppa Pig, Bob the Builder and Shaun the Sheep.\n\nHe was also included in a stamp set released by Royal Mail in 1994.\n\nIn the story, Paddington was adopted by the Brown family in London and named after the railway station where he arrived.\n\nHe has gone on to star in movies in recent years, with Ben Whishaw voicing the character.\n\nThe film version of the bear also appeared with the late Queen Elizabeth II in a sketch marking her Platinum Jubilee in 2022. Paddington will be seen alongside the profile of King Charles on the new stamps.\n\nDavid Gold, director of external affairs and policy at Royal Mail, said he hoped the stamps will \"brighten up the day of anyone receiving mail with a touch of Paddington's charm\".\n\nThe stamps will go on general sale on 5 September.\n\nIvor Wood's designs from the BBC television series of Paddington appear on the stamps\n\nIvor Wood's original drawings from the strip cartoons of Paddington also feature\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump turned himself in as expected on Thursday in Georgia to be charged with an election plot. That process - and the coming arraignment - may follow a script unlike his previous three arrests this year.\n\nDuring bookings in New York, Florida and Washington DC - where the former president has pleaded not guilty - he got special treatment.\n\nHere's why this time will be different.\n\nThe former president has until now been spared a booking photo and having to interact with other criminal defendants.\n\nBut Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat has said the department's \"normal practices\" will be followed when processing Mr Trump. These practices typically include a medical screening, fingerprinting and a warrants check.\n\nA number of his alleged co-conspirators have already been booked into the Fulton County Jail, which is notorious for hazardous conditions that some inmates endure for months.\n\nMr Trump was also subjected to his first mugshot on Thursday, as the county's normal steps include photographing all its defendants.\n\n\"The Fulton County Jail, amongst jails, is a very disturbingly dysfunctional place,\" said Rachel Kaufman, an attorney in Atlanta.\n\nMr Trump and his 18 co-defendants \"are going to witness some level of that dysfunction\" when processed, she said.\n\nStill, the former president wasn't kept in a holding cell overnight like many other defendants - he was in and out in about 20 minutes.\n\n\"He's not going to feel the full force of what an average person experiences in the Fulton County Jail when they've been charged with several felonies,\" said Ms Kaufman.\n\n\"And what they experience is their life being put at risk.\"\n\nMr Trump's arraignment in Georgia - where he is expected to plead not guilty - could be the first time the public actually sees him in court.\n\nTo date, video cameras have not been allowed during Mr Trump's arraignments in New York, Washington DC and Miami.\n\nThat's because New York state and federal courtrooms do not usually allow video and microphone recordings.\n\nBut the state of Georgia does.\n\nIt's up to the judge to decide whether cameras are allowed, said Ms Kaufman, adding that the judge assigned to Mr Trump's arraignment, Scott McAfee, has often allowed them in the past.\n\n\"He's a full transparency judge,\" she said. \"My guess is that whatever happens in front of him is going to be televised.\"\n\nThat could mean cameras in the courtroom for Mr Trump's potential trial, too.\n\nIt would not be the first time that one of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' high-profile cases took place on screen.\n\nIn 2014 and 2015, an eight-month long trial involving a controversial Atlanta Public School cheating scandal was broadcast on television and radio, capturing the attention of locals.\n\nMr Trump waves ahead of his arraignment at the Manhattan Criminal Court\n\nMr Trump floated the idea of pardoning himself before leaving the White House in 2021, and some have suggested he might attempt to do so in the criminal cases against him if elected president in 2024.\n\nBut experts say that would be much harder for the top Republican candidate to pull off in the state of Georgia.\n\nFor one, presidents can only issue pardons for federal crimes, and Mr Trump is facing state charges in Georgia.\n\nMr Trump would not be able to appeal to Georgia's governor for a pardon either, because unlike many other states, the governor there is not allowed to issue them.\n\nInstead, Georgia's State Board of Pardons and Paroles is responsible for issuing pardons, which it only does five years after a convicted person has completed his or her sentence.\n\nMr Trump is facing up to 20 years in prison in Georgia if convicted of the most severe charge of racketeering.", "Tens of thousands more 16-year-olds than last year will need to resit their English and maths GCSE exams.\n\nMore than 167,000 students in England received grade 3 or lower on their maths paper, about 21,000 more than in 2022, while 38,000 more, 172,000, failed English language - the highest number in a decade.\n\nHead teachers' unions have said this will put more pressure on colleges.\n\nIt comes as the overall number of GCSE passes have fallen for a second year.\n\nOne parent, who wishes to remain anonymous, has told BBC News her son performed really well in English, music, art, media and photography, achieving As and Bs, but is devastated as he failed his maths exam despite working incredibly hard and receiving extra tutoring.\n\nHer son, who is autistic and has dyslexia, is a talented musician and film-maker and had planned to take A-levels in film studies and photography and a BTec in music production - but one of these will clash with his maths-resit classes, so he is now having to take different subjects.\n\n\"All he can see is the fail - it's torture,\" she said. \"And now he has to spend hours working on a subject he doesn't like and is rubbish at.\"\n\nIn England, students need maths and English GCSEs at grade 4 or above to qualify for further study - although, they can study for resits alongside their new subject choices.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak wants all pupils in England to study some form of maths until the age of 18 but an education committee earlier this year heard the plan would be challenging to implement.\n\nThe Association of Colleges has estimated the extra GCSE resits could mean \"additional costs of around £500,000 per week across colleges in England, around £16 million per year\".\n\nSenior policy manager Eddie Playfair said grading changes around the Covid pandemic had had a \"yo-yo effect\" on the numbers of resits, making planning a huge challenge. And colleges needed additional resources to pay for extra teachers and classes.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb told BBC One's Breakfast programme the compulsory-resit policy was \"terribly important\" but did not say whether more money would be available.\n\nJulie McCulloch, of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the extra resits would \"put more pressure on sixth forms and colleges\" and mean \"many students are forced into a series of demoralising retakes where the majority will again fall below the benchmark\".\n\nThe development of new English and maths qualifications was \"badly needed\", she added.\n\nLast year, only 20% of those retaking their maths GCSEs passed.\n\nThe NAHT school leaders' union also said the current policy needed \"urgent change\".\n\nThere were more students taking GCSEs this year, but the proportion marked as fails has also risen since 2022.\n\nOverall, GCSE passes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have fallen - with 68.2% of all entries marked at grades 4/C and above.\n\nThe drop has been steepest in England, where grades were due to be brought back in line with 2019 in this year's results.\n\nIn Wales and Northern Ireland, grades were always meant to be a bit higher this year.\n\nMore than 225,000 Level 2 BTec results were given out on Thursday, and more than 120,000 students received Cambridge National results.\n\nLast year was the first time students sat exams since the start of the pandemic. Ofqual called it a \"transition year\", with grades set to reflect a midway point between 2019 and 2021. About 73.2% of GCSEs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were marked at grades 4/C and above.\n\nNow, in the second stage of the plan, grades are more similar to those in 2019, when 67.3% of GCSEs were marked as passes.\n\nNick Gibb has previously said bringing them back down would ensure results carried \"weight and credibility\" with employers, universities and colleges, so they know what the different grades mean.\n\nHe also said the difference in grades between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils was a \"major concern\" for the government.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nIn England, the gap between the regions with the lowest and highest proportion of GCSE passes grew, and state schools had a steeper fall in passes than private schools.\n\nLabour's shadow schools minister Stephen Morgan said the results showed that \"the government's levelling up agenda has failed\".\n\nMost of this year's GCSE students were in Year 8 when the pandemic hit. They also faced disruption from teacher strikes this year, although unions said they tried to minimise the impact on exam year groups.\n\nOfqual says there was \"protection built into the grading process\" so that students should have achieved the grades they would have done if the pandemic had not happened - even if they did not perform as well in their exams.\n\nSome Covid measures also remained in place for this year's exams. GCSE papers in the same subject were spaced apart more than they were before the pandemic, allowing for rest and revision.\n\nStudents had formulae and equation sheets in some subjects, and were not tested on unfamiliar vocabulary in modern foreign language exams.\n\nBut, unlike in the rest of the UK, GCSE students in England were not given advance information about the topics on which they would be tested.\n\nStudents in England have to do some form of study or training until they are 18 - such as A-levels,T-levels, BTecs or apprenticeships.\n\nLast week, the overall percentage of top A-level grades fell close to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nA total of 3,448 people received T-level results - although 5,210 students started them in 2021.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working to \"improve retention\".\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople here were shocked this summer after drones attacked the centre of Moscow on several occasions, causing explosions and damage to buildings.\n\nThen, the Russian rouble took an unexpected tumble - briefly tipping the dollar rate to over 100 roubles.\n\nAdd to that, a failed mission to the Moon: Russia's 'Luna-25' lander was lost in space, destroyed as it collided with the lunar surface last week.\n\nBut today, as the news broke that Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane had fallen out of the sky, crashing in a fireball in Russia's Tver Region, most people were far from shocked. In fact, most Russians were probably surprised it hadn't happened sooner.\n\nSpeculation had been swirling for weeks in Russia about exactly what fate awaited Yevgeny Prigozhin. Exactly two months ago, the Wagner boss launched his brief mutiny.\n\nHis mercenaries seized a major Russian city and even marched on Moscow. After the rebellion was called off, many thought Prigozhin's days were numbered. After all, the mutiny was a significant humiliation for the Kremlin, and President Putin isn't the kind of man to forgive and forget.\n\nAbout an hour after the crash, the Russian Federal Aviation Agency Rosaviatsiya released a statement confirming that Yevgeny Prigozhin's name was on the passenger manifest.\n\nThat is unusually quick for Rosaviatsiya: the agency is usually much slower to respond to such incidents. That raised eyebrows here.\n\nRussian state TV is keeping reporting of the incident to a minimum, quoting government officials with no comment. In its main evening news bulletin, Kremlin-controlled Channel One dedicated just 30 seconds to the story.\n\nIt is a well-known fact in Russia that state TV channels often wait until they receive official instructions regarding the tone of reporting.\n\nAs for the Wagner group itself, Telegram channels linked to the mercenaries have claimed that Prigozhin \"was killed….by traitors of Russia\". At the Wagner HQ in the city of St Petersburg, a makeshift shrine has appeared. Images on Russian media show people bringing flowers and candles to the Wagner Centre.\n\nAttention is now turning to what happened on board the flight. According to Russian media, investigators are looking into a number of possible causes, including \"external actions\".\n\nCommenting on the incident, political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya said that the cause of the plane crash is not important - more significant is the message it sends to any other potential mutineers: \"Everyone will see this as an act of retaliation and retribution…From Putin's perspective, as well as many among the security and military officials, Prigozhin's death should serve as a lesson.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "London Zoo has more than 14,000 animals in their care\n\nAnimals at London Zoo are being checked and measured as part of its annual weigh-in day.\n\nMeerkats, penguins, and tigers were just some of the animals that jumped onto the scales. Recording their vital statistics helps zookeepers monitor animals' health and wellbeing.\n\nData is then added to the Zoological Information Management System.\n\nIt is shared with zoos around the world and helps zookeepers compare information on threatened species.\n\nMaking a debut this year was Western lowland gorilla Kiburi - who arrived as part of a global breeding programme for the endangered species last November\n\nZookeepers take vital statistics of every animal at the zoo, from the tallest giraffe to the tiniest tadpole\n\nA Sumatran tiger, successfully bred as part of a conservation programme at London Zoo\n\nWith different personalities to take into account, zookeepers use clever tactics to entice the animals to stand up to be measured\n\nA meerkat being measured for weight at London Zoo\n\nHumboldt penguins gathered around the scales waiting to be weighed\n\nHead of Zoological Operations, Angela Ryan said: \"Having this data helps to ensure that every animal we care for is healthy, eating well, and growing at the rate they should - a key indicator of health and wellbeing.\n\n\"By sharing information with other zoos and conservationists around the world, we can all use this knowledge to better care for the species we're striving to protect.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None How do they weigh London Zoo's animals?", "Sandwich chain Subway is set to be bought by a private equity firm, ending six decades of family ownership.\n\nThe company announced it had agreed a deal with US-based firm Roark Capital, which has brands Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin' on its books.\n\nThe chain did not reveal the terms of the sale, but Reuters reported it has been valued at more than $9bn (£7.1bn).\n\nSubway has grown rapidly in recent years but has faced soaring costs and increased competition.\n\nIt hailed its takeover as a \"major milestone\" and said it reflected \"substantial value of our brand\".\n\nThe sale will make Roark Capital one of the largest restaurant operators in the world. It already controls US restaurant giant Inspire Brands, which owns chains including Jimmy John's, Arby's, Baskin-Robbins and Buffalo Wild Wings.\n\n\"This transaction reflects Subway's long-term growth potential, and the substantial value of our brand and our franchisees around the world,\" said John Chidsey, chief executive of Subway.\n\nDunkin' is one of the many brands already under Roark's ownership\n\nSubway was founded in 1965 as Pete's Super Submarines in Bridgeport, Connecticut, by 17-year-old Fred DeLuca and family friend Peter Buck.\n\nIt went through several name changes before finally being renamed Subway in 1972.\n\nWithin two years they had opened 16 sandwich shops in their home state and then started to franchise the brand. It now has nearly 37,000 outlets in more than 100 countries.\n\nSubway restaurants are owned and operated by franchisees, including thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners.\n\nThe company noted Roark's \"deep expertise in restaurant and franchise business models\" and said it had a \"bright future\" with the private equity firm.\n\nLike many companies, it has faced rising costs of everything from energy to food ingredients.\n\nBut in July the company said its global sales had increased 9.8% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2022.", "A neighbour has told the BBC Sara Sharif was being home schooled at the time of her death\n\nA 10-year-old girl was seen in school with cuts and bruises to her face months before she was found dead at her home, a neighbour has said.\n\nThe woman learned about the injuries to Sara Sharif from her own daughter, who was one of the girl's classmates.\n\nSara's father, his brother and his partner flew to Pakistan before Sara was found in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.\n\nThe former neighbour, who asked only to be identified as Jessica, told the BBC Sara had been a happy and confident child who always skipped to school.\n\nBut after Sara was found dead, Jessica's daughter told her mother that in April Sara had gone to St Mary's primary school in Byfleet with clearly visible injuries.\n\n\"Just before the Easter holidays she was in school and had cuts and bruises on her face and her neck,\" Jessica said.\n\n\"My daughter had asked what had happened and she said she'd fallen off a bike and then kind of walked away.\n\n\"The next day the teacher announced she had left school and she was being home-schooled.\"\n\nShe said it was about that time that the Sharif family moved to Woking, about a 20-minute drive away.\n\nJessica said she never saw Sara at the school again and neighbours in Woking also said they did not see the child go to school.\n\nTributes have been left at the family home in Woking\n\nEarlier, another neighbour said Sara had been removed from school and was being educated at home.\n\nThe woman, who did not want to be named, told the BBC that Sara's father's partner, Beinash Batool, had told her the girl was being home schooled after being bullied for wearing a hijab.\n\n\"I suggested to Beinash that Sara needed to be with children her own age,\" said the neighbour. \"She replied that she was making friends at the mosque and in her swimming lessons.\n\n\"Another time I remarked to Beinash that it must be difficult to home school Sara, especially as she had the baby to look after. She said it was very easy as she used BBC Bitesize.\"\n\nThe neighbour said Sara seemed a \"reserved and quiet\" child.\n\n\"She often carried the baby in her arms, and sometimes I saw her playing with him. I never saw her smile or laugh.\"\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nSurrey Police officers are working with the authorities in Pakistan to locate Ms Batool, Sara's father Urfan Sharif and his brother Faisal Malik.\n\nSurrey County Council and police have confirmed the authorities had contact with the family, with the police describing their interaction as \"limited\" and \"historic\".\n\nA post-mortem examination failed to establish the exact cause of Sara's death, with more tests being carried out.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVladimir Putin has broken his silence over Yevgeny Prigozhin's reported death - some 24 hours after the Wagner chief's private jet crashed.\n\nRussia's president said the head of the mercenary group was a \"talented person\" who \"made serious mistakes in life\".\n\nMr Putin also sent condolences to the families of all 10 people said to be on board the plane that went down north-west of Moscow on Wednesday evening.\n\nHowever, he stopped short of explicitly confirming Prigozhin's death.\n\nFrom the moment the plane came down, there has been frenzied speculation about what caused the deadly crash and whether Prigozhin was indeed on board, as stated on the passenger list.\n\nAt a briefing on Thursday, a Pentagon spokesperson said the US believed the Wagner chief was likely killed in the crash.\n\nVillagers near the crash site in the Tver region say they heard a loud bang before seeing a plane falling out of the sky.\n\nOne of the theories being investigated is whether a bomb was smuggled on board, reports in Russian media suggest.\n\nA US official told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that the most likely cause appeared to be an explosion aboard the aircraft.\n\nWhat caused the explosion was not known, although a bomb was one possibility, the official added.\n\nAnother theory, raised by a Prigozhin-linked Telegram channel, suggested that the jet had been shot down by Russian anti-aircraft forces. This has not been confirmed, and on Thursday the Pentagon said there was no information to indicate this.\n\nGround staff in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport - where the plane took off heading for St Petersburg - are being questioned, and CCTV footage is being checked.\n\nPrigozhin - the leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group - was once known as a Putin loyalist.\n\nBut after leading a short-lived mutiny in Russia in June, many observers described him as a \"dead man walking\".\n\nThe Kremlin stayed conspicuously silent after the crash. The following morning, President Putin even addressed the Brics summit in South Africa via video-link - but made no mention of the crash that much of the world was talking about.\n\nOn Thursday evening, however, that changed.\n\n\"I would like to above all express words of the most sincere condolences to the families of all those who have died,\" he said in a televised meeting at his Kremlin residence.\n\nInitial data, he continued, suggested that \"Wagner employees\" were on board.\n\n\"These are people who have made a significant contribution to our common cause of fighting the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine,\" Mr Putin said, repeating the Kremlin's false narrative that Ukraine is aligned with Nazism.\n\nHe used this accusation to justify his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nTurning to Prigozhin himself, Mr Putin said he had known him since the early 90s, and described him as a \"man with a complicated life\".\n\nThe Russian leader also had praise for Prigozhin and his fighters, in particular for their actions in Ukraine.\n\n\"He made serious mistakes in life. But he achieved results both for himself, and for the common good when I asked for it - like in the last few months.\"\n\nDespite speaking about Prigozhin in the past tense and offering his sympathy to the families of the victims, Mr Putin did not confirm the Wagner chief's death.\n\nWhen Prigozhin and his armed men - including many convicts - launched their insurrection two months ago, Mr Putin described their actions as \"treachery\" and a \"stab in the back of Russia\".\n\nHe vowed to punish the perpetrators, who called off their march on Moscow only about 200km (125 miles) from the capital.\n\nHowever a deal was later reached that saw Wagner fighters given a choice - either join the Russian army or move to neighbouring Belarus, and you will face no punishment.\n\nThe rollback surprised both ordinary Russians and experts, who were puzzled that the Wagner boss was apparently being allowed to travel freely across Russia and, it seemed, internationally.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry has not commented.\n\nRussian forensic experts are now reported to have started the victims' identification, but Mr Putin said DNA tests would take time.\n\nAccording to Russia's civil aviation authority, Wagner co-founder Dmitry Utkin and the man who looked after Wagner's finances, Valeriy Chekalov were also on the plane.\n\nAll seven passengers and three crew members on board the plane are believed to have died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sir John was invited to take part in the King's Coronation Service earlier this year\n\nSir John Eliot Gardiner, one of the world's most prominent conductors, has pulled out of the BBC Proms after being accused of assaulting a singer.\n\nHe allegedly punched William Thomas, a bass, because he left the podium in the wrong direction at a concert in France.\n\nIn a statement, Sir John said he \"deeply regretted\" losing his \"temper\".\n\nHe added that he understood \"how much this has affected all the participants involved in this major project, which has been so dear to my heart\".\n\n\"I make no excuses for my behaviour and have apologised personally to Will Thomas, for whom I have the greatest respect. I do so again, and to the other artists, for the distress that this has caused.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Thomas had earlier confirmed the incident to the BBC, saying: \"All musicians deserve the right to practise their art in an environment free from abuse or physical harm.\"\n\nSir John, 80, withdrew from his performance at the Festival Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André, south eastern France, on Wednesday night.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said Sir John had also \"decided to withdraw from the performance of [Berlioz's] The Trojans at this year's BBC Proms.\"\n\nSir John's assistant, Dinis Sousa, will take his place for that concert, and all remaining performances of The Trojans on the Monteverdi Choir's European tour.\n\nA spokesperson for the Monteverdi Orchestra said: \"We continue to look into the events that occurred on Tuesday evening.\n\n\"Our values of respect and inclusivity are fundamental to us as a company and we take seriously the welfare of all our performers and employees.\"\n\nNews of the alleged altercation first emerged on music website Slipped Disc, which said it had received multiple reports of an incident that took place backstage in France on Tuesday night.\n\nA representative for Sir John told the website that the conductor had been suffering from extreme heat.\n\nMr Thomas did not appear to be seriously injured, and took to the stage on Wednesday evening in France.\n\nBruno Messina, the festival's artistic director of the Festival Berlioz, said in a statement that he was \"devastated by the incident\", but felt it was important that Wednesday's show took place.\n\nThe BBC had previously said it was investigating the matter.\n\n\"We take allegations about inappropriate behaviour seriously and are currently establishing the facts about the incident,\" said Proms organisers in a statement.\n\nSir John, from Fontmell Magna, Dorset, is a leading figure in the period-instrument movement, who is famous for his interpretations of Baroque music, specialising in composers such as Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.\n\nHe established prestigious ensembles including the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, and has conducted many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.\n\nMany of his recordings are considered classics - including his complete Beethoven Symphonies, and a live recording of Bach's St John's Passion - and his 2013 book Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, was well received by critics.\n\nEarlier this year, Sir John featured at King Charles's Coronation, where he led the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in a pre-service concert at Westminster Abbey.\n\nConcluding his statement on Thursday, Sir John said: \"I know that physical violence is never acceptable and that musicians should always feel safe.\n\n\"I ask for your patience and understanding as I take time to reflect on my actions.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's Josh Kerr stunned Norway's Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to take 1500m gold at the World Championships in Budapest.\n\nKerr, Olympic bronze medallist in Tokyo, timed his surge for gold to perfection inside the final 200m.\n\nThe 25-year-old clocked a season's best three minutes 29.38 seconds to make his first podium at a World Championships.\n\nIt comes one year after Ingebrigtsen suffered defeat by Briton Jake Wightman in similar circumstances in Eugene.\n\nKerr let out an almighty roar as he crossed the line, celebrating with the crowd and embracing his parents in the stands with a crown on his head and a gold medal proudly hanging from his neck.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming,\" the Scot said.\n\n\"It's quite an overwhelming experience but I'm so proud of myself and of my team and my family that got me here.\n\n\"I didn't feel like I ran the best race. I just threw my whole 16 years of this sport in that last 200m and didn't give up until the end.\"\n\nIngebrigtsen, meanwhile, appeared crestfallen as history repeated itself.\n\nThe 22-year-old led from the front for much of the race before once again being denied by a gutsy finish from a British athlete, Kerr breaking his rival in the final 50m.\n\nIngebrigtsen held on for silver in 3:29.65 ahead of compatriot Narve Gilje Nordas (3:29.68), while Britain's Neil Gourley finished ninth in 3:31.10.\n\nKerr earned GB a fourth medal of the championships, and second gold, following in the footsteps of Katarina Johnson-Thompson's heptathlon triumph.\n\nKerr emulates Wightman to stand on top of the world\n\nEvidently full of confidence coming in to the championships, Kerr had stated his belief that Ingebrigtsen - unbeaten this season and boasting the fastest time of 2023 - was \"very beatable\".\n\nAnd, as 2022 champion Wightman watched on, the Scot emulated his Edinburgh Athletics Club team-mate in spectacular fashion.\n\nIngebrigtsen had been determined to upgrade last year's silver and took control on the second lap - but once again was powerless to respond as Kerr moved level and then refused to fade away.\n\nThe reigning world 5,000m champion came into the championships unbeaten, running the fourth-fastest 1500m of all time in July, and was a heavy favourite for gold.\n\nKerr had run his two fastest times since Tokyo earlier this season, but Ingebrigtsen was in unrelenting form as he built towards correcting his 2022 loss.\n\nWhile his talent is undeniable, Norway's versatile star will rightly be concerned about the manner in which world gold was once again ripped from his grasp, with another Briton adding his name to the list of contenders at Paris 2024.\n\nKerr demonstrated his ability to produce elite level performances on the global stage when he won his Olympic bronze in 2021, becoming the first British man to win a medal over 1500m at a Games since 1988.\n\nBattling illness when he finished fifth at last year's Worlds, he backed up that breakthrough medal here with a superbly managed run.\n\nMen's 400m hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm reclaimed his title with a dominant victory after his 2022 hopes were hindered by injury.\n\nWarholm, who finished seventh last season after struggling with a hamstring injury in the run up to the meeting, had shown signs of a return to his devastating best in 2023 by producing two of the five fastest performances of all time.\n\nThe Norwegian clocked 46.89 seconds to clinch his fourth global title ahead of Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands (47.34) and American Rai Benjamin (47.56).\n\nIn the women's 400m final, Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic took gold in 48.76 ahead of Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek and Barbadian Sada Williams.\n\nBritain's Molly Caudery also shone in a thrilling women's pole vault final which saw Australian Nina Kennedy and American Katie Moon share gold.\n\nKennedy and Moon agreed to share the title after both athletes cleared 4.90m but neither could make 4.95m after three attempts.\n\nA delighted Caudery, 23, produced a personal best with a clearance over 4.75m to finish fifth on her first appearance at a global championships.\n\nTeam-mate Anna Purchase qualified for the hammer throw final in 11th with a 71.31m best attempt but Charlotte Payne (69.57m) did not.\n\nGB's Cindy Sember was unable to reach the women's 100m hurdles final with a sixth-placed semi-final finish in 12.97 secs, while Megan Keith and Amy Eloise-Markovc failed to qualify from the women's 5,000m heats, which were pushed back from the morning session because of extreme heat with temperatures well above 30C.\n\nMarkovc finished 11th in 15:13.66 in her heat - during which Sifan Hassan and 1500m gold medallist Faith Kipyegon engaged in an unnecessary sprint finish - while Keith was 14th in 15:21.94 in her race.\n\nAimee Pratt missed out on the women's 3,000m steeplechase medal race, finishing seventh in her heat in 9:26.37", "Lucy Letby was handed a whole life order and will never be released from jail\n\nParents of babies attacked by nurse Lucy Letby received a \"total fob off\" from a hospital boss when they pleaded for answers, their lawyer has said.\n\nOne family said said they received \"no proper explanation or clarification\" about the collapses of their twins - one of whom was killed.\n\nFormer Countess of Chester Hospital medical director Ian Harvey has been accused of a \"shameful\" failures.\n\nMr Harvey has apologised for not communicating more fully at the time.\n\nHe added: \"Having read the heart-rending victim impact statements, I know how desperate the parents are for answers and I will help them as best I can at the public inquiry.\"\n\nLetby, 33, was ordered to spend the rest of her life in jail on Monday.\n\nHer murder of seven babies and attempts to kill a further six between June 2015 and June 2016 made her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern British history.\n\nIan Harvey was medical director at the hospital where Letby carried out her attacks\n\nRichard Scorer, from law firm Slater and Gordon, which is representing two of the families affected, criticised Mr Harvey for not responding more fully to the troubled parents' queries.\n\nHe was medical director at the time Letby carried out her killings but retired in August 2018, a month after she was first arrested.\n\nMr Scorer said: \"Our clients received a series of anodyne letters from Harvey containing no proper explanation or clarification.\n\n\"The letters invited them to contact Harvey for more explanation and they tried to contact him repeatedly, but despite many attempts to get through to him they never received a return call.\n\n\"Our clients have described his response as a 'total fob off'.\n\n\"It seems that Harvey had little interest in passing any meaningful information to the parents, responding properly to any of their concerns, or complying with any duty of candour to them.\"\n\nLawyer Richard Scorer said his clients were ignored\n\nHe added: \"In our view this failure to address parental concerns was shameful and another matter which needs to be investigated by a statutory inquiry with the power to compel witnesses and the production of documents.\"\n\nIn a statement issued to the BBC, Mr Harvey said: \"I'm sorry they felt fobbed off. I wanted to give detailed and accurate answers, but this was difficult while the reviews and investigations were taking place.\n\n\"Once the police were involved, we were advised by them not to say or do anything that might jeopardise their investigation.\n\n\"I was told all communication had to go through the police and not come from the hospital. I apologise for not communicating that clearly enough at the time.\"\n\nAccording to reports, Mr Harvey was referred to the General Medical Council (GMC) in 2018 following allegations he \"misled the public in media statements\", encouraged \"an atmosphere of secrecy and fear\" and failed to act \"appropriately or in a timely manner\" when consultants raised concerns.\n\nAnthony Omo, director of fitness to practise and general counsel at the GMC, said: \"In 2018 we received a complaint about Ian Harvey which we promoted for a full investigation.\n\n\"During our investigation, we liaised with the police, obtained an independent expert report and a witness statement, and thoroughly examined all relevant information.\n\n\"At the conclusion of our investigation, our senior decision makers considered all of the evidence and decided that the case did not reach the threshold for referral to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service for a hearing.\"\n\nMr Scorer said his clients were now \"very keen\" to see a statutory inquiry set up to \"compel people like Harvey to come and give evidence and compel the production of documents\".\n\nHe said: \"Some of this has been looked at in the criminal trial, but the criminal trial focuses on the particular offences that were committed, we now have to move on to looking at the surrounding circumstances and the way in which management dealt with this.\n\n\"That's why we need the inquiry, but it has to be an effective inquiry. It has to have teeth, it has to be able to compel people to come and give evidence on oath.\n\n\"It has to be able to force the hospital to disclose all the relevant documents all those things are needed to make the inquiry effective.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Shaimaa Khalil visits the treatment plant to see how it works\n\nIn a white coat and gloves, Ai Kimura is cutting up a fish sample at the Tarachine lab, about an hour's drive from the now-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan's eastern coast.\n\nFour times a year, Ms Kimura and her team of volunteers collect samples of fish from the waters around the plant. They have been doing this since the lab was founded in 2011, just months after a devastating tsunami flooded the reactors, causing a radiation leak.\n\nExcept Ms Kimura is not a scientist - and neither are any of the women who run the non-profit lab, whose name Tarachine is derived from the term for \"mother\" in old Japanese. Shaken after the tsunami, Ms Kimura says locals started the lab to find out what was safe to feed their children because it was hard to come by information on the risks of radiation. So they asked technical experts to train them on how to test for radioactive substances and log the readings, raised funds and began educating themselves.\n\nIt was the decision of a shattered community that never thought an accident at the nuclear power plant was possible. Now, 12 years on, they again find themselves struggling to trust the Japanese government as it insists it's safe to release treated radioactive water from the plant into the Pacific Ocean.\n\nEarlier this month, Japan received the green light to start pumping more than a million tonnes - about the same volume as 500 Olympic-size pools - of the treated water that has been used to cool the melted reactors. It has accumulated in more than a 1,000 tanks and now, as they reach capacity, it needs to go somewhere.\n\nJapan's nuclear regulator has given Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco), which runs the plant, the go-ahead. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said the watchdog's two-year review found that the plan complies with international standards and the treated water will have \"a negligible radiological impact on people and the environment\". Neighbouring South Korea too delivered a similar assessment, despite sticking to a ban on some Japanese food imports. China and Hong Kong have announced similar bans.\n\nBut the people who live in and around Fukushima are not convinced.\n\nVolunteers from Tarachine collect samples from the sea around the Fukushima plant\n\n\"We still don't know the extent to which the contaminated water has been treated. That's why we oppose the release,\" Ms Kimura says, adding that many local families are worried about the discharge of the treated water.\n\nTepco has been filtering the water to remove more than 60 radioactive substances, but the water will not be entirely radiation-free. It will have tritium and carbon-14, radioactive isotopes of hydrogen and carbon respectively that cannot be easily removed from water. But experts say they are not a danger unless consumed in large quantities because they emit very low levels of radiation. That's also why before the filtered water is released it will go through another phase of treatment where it's diluted with seawater to reduce the remaining substances' concentrations.\n\nJapan's government has said that by the end of the filtration and testing process, the treated water will be no different than the water released by nuclear plants around the world.\n\nBut the facts are up against fear in Fukushima, where the reminders of the \"invisible enemy\" - as many here call radiation - are constant.\n\nAfter the disaster the government declared a 30km (22 miles) exclusion area around the plant, evacuating more than 150,000 people. Although a lot has changed, whole neighbourhoods are still empty and greenery covers the roofs and windows of long-abandoned homes. Signs on storefronts have faded away but metal barriers and yellow tape warning people to keep out remain on the narrow, deserted streets.\n\nEven the Tarachine lab is proof of how much the community fears the \"invisible enemy\", despite assurances to the contrary.\n\nAi Kimura tests samples for radiation at the Tarachine lab\n\nIn the main lab, one volunteer is chopping cabbage before taking it to be measured for gamma radiation, and another is treating water before the sample is tested. In the hallway there are bags of soil and dust from vacuum cleaners that have been used in homes nearby. At the back of the room, food samples are dried before they're tested for radiation. On the walls, there are charts and maps of the nuclear plant and the sea around it, with markings in various colours to show the degree of radiation and how far it has travelled.\n\nThe women collect samples but they also test material sent to them by local people. \"Some families brought us acorns [to test],\" Ms Kimura said. \"In Japan we make spinning tops from acorns with toothpicks. The government wouldn't think to check that. We were asked by some mothers to measure the radiation levels at their local park.\"\n\nThe lab measures all sorts of samples for radioactive substances such as strontium-90, tritium and caesium-134 and 137, tracking their levels over the years.\n\n\"We upload all our findings on our website so anybody can find it,\" Ms Kimura says. \"We have been able to confirm that radioactive substances have decreased gradually in the food we measure. If they release the water, it's ultimately undoing the power of nature that brought it to this level.\"\n\nShe sees the contentious plan as a big step backwards. She says there are still \"lingering emotional wounds\" from the 2011 disaster and this decision is reopening them.\n\nThe plan - in the works for two years now - is a necessary step in the lengthy and costly clean-up, experts say. For the plant to be decommissioned, the radioactive debris inside the melted reactors must be removed. And to do that, they must first discharge the water that has been used to cool the reactors since a tsunami crippled the plant in 2011.\n\nThe treated radioactive water is being stored in more than 1,000 tanks\n\nIn March, Tepco's boss Akira Ono told the Associated Press that they're only now beginning to fully comprehend the damage inside the reactors. The most pressing task, he said, was to safely start releasing the water to clear the area around the plant. They also need to make room for more water because the melted debris needs to be cooled throughout.\n\n\"The real problem is not the actual physical effect of the radiation. It's our fear of it,\" says molecular pathology expert Gerry Thomas, who worked with Japanese scientists on radiation research and advised the IAEA as well.\n\nShe says the science was lost among warring nuclear activists soon after the disaster, and to reassure a shocked and terrified population, the government went to great lengths to show they were taking all the necessary precautions.\n\n\"The politicians are trying to prove they're cautious and, you know, they're looking after everybody. But actually, the message that people receive is, well, this stuff must be really, really dangerous.\"\n\nAnd now the fear - and the lack of trust - is proving hard to shake off.\n\nWorse, it's also affecting livelihoods. Fishermen say that discharging the treated water will tarnish the reputation of their catch, driving prices and already struggling businesses down. They say the industry here never recovered fully since the disaster and is still dependent on government subsidies.\n\nInside the nuclear plant, Tepco official Kazuo Yamanaka points to two fish tanks - one where flatfish swim in regular sea water, and another where they are in water with the same radiation levels as that which will be pumped into the ocean. He says the fish are closely monitored - while there is a rise in tritium levels inside them at first, it plateaus and then the fish flush it out of their system once they're back in standard sea water.\n\n\"I am a radiation expert, so I know that tritium has very little effect on the human body and living organisms,\" he said. \"We are all concerned about the same thing - radiation - and that is why we are so anxious. I hope that these data and images will help to reassure people a little.\n\nToru Takahashi, whose family has been fishing for three generations, is far from reassured: \"We're against it. We're already seeing the negative effects. We've seen contractors who say they won't buy Fukushima products.\"\n\nToru Takahashi (left) says the the fear has already hurt business\n\nFor him, this is personal. Giving up the family business is not an option, he says, as he supervises port staff who unload buckets of fish to wash and make ready for auction and then the market.\n\nHe says it's a fraction of the business they had before the 2011 disaster: \"We are still at 300 million yen [a year], including all the small boats. Before, we made around 700 million yen [£3.9m; $5.1m].\"\n\nHe fears it might get worse once the water is released, given the import bans already announced by China and South Korea.\n\nWhen asked if sound science is enough to overcome these concerns, Mr Yamanaka admitted that \"we cannot control the reputation, no matter how nicely we dress it up\", adding that \"we believe our efforts will one day settle these arguments\".\n\n\"I know we've lost the trust of the people - it'll take time to get it back.\"", "Dmitry Utkin is one of the figures most associated with the Wagner Group\n\nNine other people were on the plane alongside Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin when it crashed, according to flight details released by the Russian aviation authorities.\n\nThey include Dmitry Utkin, who is believed to have given the mercenary group its name.\n\nRussia also says Valery Chekalov, who is believed to have been crucial to the group's finances, was on board.\n\nThree crew members were on the flight alongside the Wagner members.\n\nHere's what we know about them.\n\nThe history of the Wagner Group is murky but follow the trail back far enough and Dmitry Utkin's name will inevitably crop up.\n\nThe 53-year-old veteran of Russia's two wars in Chechnya in 1994-2000 is believed to have been involved in the private army since its early days in 2014.\n\nThe group itself is named after his call sign Wagner. It is seemingly a reference to composer Richard Wagner, who was Adolf Hitler's favourite composer.\n\nIn recent years, Utkin is reported to have been Prigozhin's right-hand man, responsible for overall command and combat training.\n\nThere are few photographs of Utkin but one of those in circulation is a selfie which reveals neo-Nazi tattoos on his body.\n\nAccording to Utkin's online CV, which appears to be from around 2013 and was unearthed by the investigative website Bellingcat, he served in the GRU - Russia's military intelligence division - from 1988 to 2008. It says his involvement in combat operations led to government awards, and lists weapons skills among his professional qualities.\n\nUtkin became a gun for hire after leaving military intelligence and gained influence in Wagner when the group fought on the side of pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014.\n\nHe is also thought to have been involved in the group's operations in Syria and Africa. A BBC investigation in 2021 linked him to documents which exposed Wagner's involvement in the Libyan civil war.\n\nA picture thought to be taken in 2016 shows Utkin alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Kremlin reception, at a time when the Russian government was denying links to Wagner.\n\nMr Putin has since said the Russian government funded the group to the tune of billions of dollars.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChekalov is believed to be a close Prigozhin associate with business links to the Wagner leader stretching back to the 2000s.\n\nThe 47-year-old appears to have been involved in running Prigozhin's non-military business interests, which Western governments say are used to finance the mercenary group.\n\nChekalov was linked with Evro Polis, a company associated with Prigozhin, which signed contracts for the production of gas and oil in Syria in 2017.\n\nAccording to the US Treasury, the company was contracted by President Bashar al-Assad's government \"to protect Syrian oil fields in exchange for a 25% share in oil and gas production from the fields\".\n\nThe finances raised from the deal were used to pay Wagner fighters and procure arms, the US Treasury said.\n\nChekalov is also believed to have been in charge of Wagner's business projects across Africa.\n\nHe had been targeted by US and Ukrainian sanctions over his links with Prigozhin, and Evro Polis has also been sanctioned by a number of governments, including the UK.\n\nThe other four men listed as passengers all appear to be Wagner fighters.\n\nUnlike Utkin and Chekalov, they do not appear on international sanctions lists and so have not been deemed to be senior figures by Western governments.\n\nGiven that we know Prigozhin was surrounded by close protection - and even more so after his rift with Vladimir Putin deepened - they may have been travelling as bodyguards.\n\nThe names of three of the men appear in a database of alleged Wagner fighters which has been compiled by pro-Ukrainian activists: Yevgeny Makaryan, Sergei Propustin and Alexander Totmin.\n\nAnother man identified by the Russian authorities as Nikolai Matuseyev does not appear in the database.\n\nOne Russian Telegram channel says it could have been Nikolai Matusevich, a member of Wagner's assault unit.\n\nThe remaining three people identified as being among the dead by Russian authorities are the pilot Alexei Levshin, co-pilot Rustam Karimov and Kristina Raspopova, a flight attendant and the only woman on board.\n\nVery little confirmed information is available on the trio and it is unclear if they were directly employed by Prigozhin, by a company he owned, or by another firm entirely.\n\nPrigozhin is known to have regularly travelled by private jet, and the aircraft involved in the crash, a Brazilian-made Embraer Legacy 600, is known to have been used by him previously.\n\nThe plane was put under US sanctions in 2019 - when it was listed under a different registration - because of its links to Prigozhin via a company, Reuters reported.\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified details about the flight crew but reports citing interviews with their relatives are circulating in Russian online media.\n\nRaspopova, 39, is said to have spoken to her family and posted photographs on social media shortly before the flight took off.\n\nKarimov, 29, had only worked for the company for three months, according to a Russian media interview with his father, and reportedly celebrated his fourth wedding anniversary earlier this month.\n\nLevshin, 51, was married with two children and had worked in aviation his entire adult life, Russian outlets reported quoting his family.", "The annual Perseid meteor shower has lit up skies across the world to the delight of those hoping to catch a glimpse of a shooting star.\n\nThe phenomenon brings up to 100 meteors an hour, as the Earth slams into the debris left behind from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle.\n\nAs the debris hits the Earth's atmosphere it burns up, resulting in the bright flashes known as shooting stars, which can be seen with the naked eye.\n\nThe natural display happens at a similar time in July and August each year, and this year peaked between Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHeavy cloud over much of the UK meant many stargazers were disappointed, although some sightings were possible over Yorkshire, north-east England and parts of southern Scotland.\n\nLooking ahead to the chances of spotting a shooting star over the coming days, BBC weather forecaster Billy Payne said many should be able to get a glimpse despite less than perfect conditions.\n\n\"Tonight, we'll see cloud and rain spreading across much of England and Wales, so viewing opportunities will be limited,\" he said.\n\n\"East Anglia and the south-east and the far north of England may see some breaks for a time before cloud increases later.\n\n\"Scotland and Northern Ireland will have a few clear spells overnight but even here there will be some areas of cloud around.\n\n\"Tomorrow night should offer better conditions as cloud and rain gives way to clearer skies for many.\n\n\"Rain may drag its heels across northern England though, while the far north and west are likely to see areas of cloud come and go, particularly towards coasts and hills.\"\n\nA meteor was spotted in front of the Sphinx Door at the ancient city of Hattusa, in Turkey\n\nTwo meteors streaked across the night sky above Leeberg hill in Grossmugl, Austria\n\nThe meteors - which can be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a pea - hit the Earth's atmosphere at speeds of 134,000 mph (215,000 km/h). The blazing debris does not pose any danger to us on Earth.\n\nIt is considered one of the best astronomical events because it produces bright meteors and is one of the most active.\n\nThis beautiful shot catches a shooting star and the lighthouse of the island of Lastovo in Croatia\n\nSky watchers on the same island in Croatia brought out a telescope hoping to catch sight of a meteor\n\nThis year, Nasa's All Sky Fireball Network, which observes meteors using a network of cameras, detected the first Perseid meteor on 26 July.\n\nA meteor streaks in the night sky during annual Perseid meteor shower at Shebenik National Park, in Fushe Stude, Albania.\n\nIt is called a \"Perseid\" meteor shower because the meteors appear to originate from the constellation of Perseus - named after a figure from Greek mythology.\n\nThe Milky Way can be seen behind a Perseid meteor in this photo taken in Cantabria in Spain\n\nA meteor can be seen during the annual Perseid meteor shower in Ronda, Spain\n\nCallum White said he spent Saturday night in the Wye Valley for the Perseid meteor shower.\n\n\"I spent three hours looking out over the River Wye and although the cloud rolled in and out throughout, I saw quite a few meteors and the camera captured even more - they have all been combined to produce this photo.\"\n\nCallum White spent three hours looking over the River Wye - \"I saw quite a few meteors and the camera captured even more\"", "Two hundred officers and staff of the Police Service of Northern Ireland were not informed of the theft of personal data from a superintendent's car for a month, police have admitted.\n\nPolice said news of the security breach in Newtownabbey was relayed to affected individuals on 4 August.\n\nA document containing the names of officers and staff was taken along with a police-issue laptop on 6 July.\n\nThe police said the nature of the missing data had to be confirmed.\n\nThe senior officer remains in his post while the subject of an investigation into the loss of the items from a car parked outside a retail complex.\n\nThis data breach is one of two such leaks affecting data about the employees of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nOn Tuesday, the PSNI mistakenly shared details of about 10,000 employees. The chief constable has apologised.\n\nThe PSNI's data risk management unit was first informed of the theft incident on 27 July.\n\nHowever, in response to questions from BBC News NI, it has emerged that individuals were not advised of the data leak, which could have compromised their security, until 4 August.\n\nBBC News NI understands that what happened during the intervening weeks is being urgently reviewed.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne and Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd spoke at a press conference earlier this week\n\nThe document contained the full names and work locations of more than 200 officers and support staff. It did not reveal any home addresses.\n\nThe laptop is password protected and its contents are believed to have been remotely erased by the PSNI. However, the police have not said on what date this was done.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd confirmed the police were investigating the circumstances of the theft.\n\n\"Our Information Security Unit were informed on 27th July,\" he said.\n\n\"As there was a delay, our Information Security Unit had to conduct their own enquiries to be clear on what accurate information could be conveyed to the Information Commissioners Office who were then informed on the 31st July.\n\n\"The precise nature of the missing data had to be confirmed before we could inform our officers and staff on the 4th August.\n\n\"We have worked with our Data Protection Officer and sought legal advice and guidance to ensure the information we provided to our employees was accurate.\"\n\nThe Superintendent Association of Northern Ireland (SANI) confirmed that one of its members was involved, adding that it was giving them \"every possible support in this difficult situation\".\n\nThe information released in the first data breach was accidentally included in a response to a freedom of information (FoI) request.\n\nIt included the surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence.\n\nIt appeared on the internet for a few hours but was later taken down.\n\nMike Nesbitt, from the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and a member of the Policing Board, said the PSNI had multiple opportunities to stop the publication of that information.\n\n\"It was my understanding from the police that no one individual or indeed single department was responsible for the leak,\" he said.\n\nHe added that there were \"multiple opportunities for a number of individuals to spot that the spreadsheet had a facility on it where with one click you could get behind what was on your computer screen and access all the source data, the names, the ranks, the positions\".", "Hlib Stryzhko (left) stars in an advert for ReSex, a charity helping Ukrainian veterans with their sex lives\n\nAt a modern office in central Kyiv, a 26-year-old Ukrainian veteran is proudly playing a video on his phone that shows him passionately kissing a young woman in a kitchen.\n\nIt is an advert for ReSex: a charity that tries to help former soldiers with their sex lives, after suffering physical and mental trauma.\n\nIn March last year, invading Russian forces launched a brutal siege of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, pounding much of it to ruins. Hlib Stryzhko - then a marine - was one of the city's defenders.\n\nA Russian blast knocked him from the third floor of a building to the ground. He was then crushed under rubble.\n\nHlib's pelvis, jaw and nose were broken, and as well as being badly concussed, he says the heat of the explosion melted his tactical goggles onto his face. He was then captured by Russian forces and taken as a prisoner of war.\n\nThe following month, Hlib was released and sent back to Ukrainian territory as part of a prisoner exchange. But he says he received little medical care during his time in captivity.\n\nHlib Stryzhko suffered a broken pelvis and jaw in March 2022 while serving as a marine in Mariupol\n\nIt was while Hlib worked on his recovery that ReSex approached him.\n\n\"After my pelvis injury I had problems that took some time to heal. And [the issue of sex] wasn't talked much about, so I wouldn't want that to happen to other people like me,\" he says.\n\n\"That was a motivation to take part in the project.\"\n\nIvona Kostyna is one of the founders of Veteran Hub, the group which runs the ReSex project.\n\nShe says they first had the idea for the project back in 2018, after reading about the issue for US soldiers.\n\nThere's sex in the hospital, sex at home, sex before procedures, sex after. There's a lot of good sex going on\n\nAfter securing funding with the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, they spoke to Ukrainian soldiers and experts, to ensure they were tailoring their help specifically to the men and women who need it.\n\nThey faced some confusion from the public - and veterans - when they first asked for responses to questions online. \"People are dying, you're thinking about sex!\" Ivona says.\n\nThey also had to confront some of their own preconceptions - like the false assumption that injured veterans would all be struggling with their sex lives.\n\n\"There's sex in the hospital, sex at home, sex before procedures, sex after. There's a lot of good sex going on,\" Ivona says. \"We were like, wow, OK, how can we be helpful here?\".\n\nBut overall, she says, the response has been overwhelmingly positive.\n\nReSex have printed booklets - titled \"Do Love\" - for women and for men\n\nThe charity has printed some 6,000 booklets and sent them out to medical centres, veterans and their families all around Ukraine, and made them available online.\n\nReSex has also launched a social media campaign with videos, graphics and a helpline. The charity covers everything from masturbation to sex toys and even basic biology.\n\n\"We try to cover it all,\" Ivona says, adding that there's also a section of the booklet specifically for young injured veterans who may be virgins.\n\n\"So sex after their wound would be their first sex ever, which is quite different from what they might have imagined.\"\n\nKateryna Skorokhod, ReSex's project manager, says they published separate guides for women and men to ensure respective partners have specific advice tailored to their experiences and their bodies.\n\nShe stresses, though, that the focus of the project is more on the emotional side than the physical.\n\n\"It's about how you can accept yourself, how you can love yourself, and how you can build a relationship with yourself and your partner after these injuries - with sex and with intimacy in relationships.\"\n\nReSex project manager Kateryna Skorokhod says they want wounded veterans to learn to love themselves\n\nRelying on veterans answering their questionnaire means there are gaps in their research, she says, adding that they've struggled to get any responses from the LGBTQ community.\n\nBut they've also learnt a great deal about Ukraine's veterans. Specifically, they realised that traumatic brain injuries are often going undiagnosed and under treated in the country - something she says affects \"the libido and the whole sexual performance very much\".\n\nThe language used to discuss sex is important too, Ivona says.\n\n\"It's definitely not a dramatic language. It's definitely not about 'overcoming obstacles' - that's probably good for sport, but it turns out sex is not on the same scale.\"\n\nShe says it's important to make sure veterans know they don't have to have sex unless they want to, and that sex may be difficult or painful at first.\n\nEvery partner I had was important to me, in gaining my confidence back. I’m very grateful for that\n\nHlib certainly speaks positively about the project that he's joined. When asked if he's had a girlfriend since his injuries, he laughs.\n\n\"After I came back from captivity and the hospital, I had a girlfriend, and then another when I was doing the project questionnaire. And now I have a partner,\" he says. \"I might have missed one.\"\n\nBut he said he was thankful for every person he had dated in the past year.\n\n\"Every partner I had was important to me, in gaining my confidence back. I'm very grateful for that.\"", "Lynette \"Pinky\" Iverson has been a fixture in the Hawaiian town of Lahaina for years. Locals know her for her extravagantly self-decorated pickup truck and her chihuahua named Tiny.\n\nThat truck became a lifeline for many as she loaded \"at least a dozen\" people onto the back of it and fled town on Tuesday as the wildfires spread.\n\n\"I got to my truck and it was already engulfed in flames around the tires,\" she told BBC News from the War Memorial Stadium emergency shelter, recalling how her ordeal began.\n\n\"I tried to save people, but for some, I wasn't able to,\" she adds.\n\nIt is the deadliest natural disaster in Hawaii's history.\n\nThe fire arrived as she was spraying her building with water, in the hopes of preventing falling embers from igniting it. But despite her efforts, she was helpless as she witnessed her own home beginning to catch fire.\n\n\"One lady didn't want to come out. Another man was screaming help,\" she said of the hectic scene.\n\n\"By that time we were engulfed in the black, black smoke,\" she said.\n\nShe was only able to grab her car keys and Tiny before fleeing.\n\nMaui has six shelters now in operation\n\nAs we spoke, I noticed something crawling around in the bedding only inches away from her dog. Without knowing what it was, I use my notebook to fling it into the ground, where she squashed it with her purple cowboy boot.\n\nIt was a centipede, which is venomous, she and other evacuees in the shelter told me. Tiny could have died if stung, she added.\n\nMs Iverson was rattled by the ordeal and frustrated about the cleanliness of the donated sheets at the shelter.\n\nWithout her phone, she says she's hopeful that her brother in Nevada will see that she spoke to the BBC and finally learn that she is safe.\n\nMs Iverson lived in her locally famous truck for six years before finally being accepted into a housing community in Lahaina for the disabled or elderly.\n\nNow in her 70s, she's hopeful that she'll be able to find a place to live once again.\n\nSteve Strode, a former commercial diver who has lived in Lahaina for 10 years, says he is haunted by the neighbours he was forced to leave behind as he ran for his life.\n\nSpeaking from his bed in the same shelter, he says there was one disabled man in his apartment complex who needed assistance from multiple people in order to be able to flee.\n\nBut there was no time to gather a group to help, he says. \"I had to go around him,\" he recalls.\n\nHe and his neighbour survived by using their bicycles to reach temporary safety at the Safeway. The men, both in their 60s, had to cycle through flames that at times were as tall as 10ft (3 meters) high\n\nWildfires on Hawaii's Maui island, where the historic town of Lahaina is located, and Big Island began on Tuesday night. Hurricane winds and dry weather helped fuel the flames, causing rapid spread.\n\nThousands have been left homeless by the disaster and Maui has six shelters now in operation.", "The structure has been built in a workshop over several days\n\nA huge building made entirely from cardboard boxes has popped up in Newcastle city centre.\n\nThe structure, which towers above trees and street lights and is 45ft (14m) tall, has been built outside the Civic Centre.\n\nIt is an art installation and is part of the Novum Summer Festival, which is making its debut in the city.\n\nHundreds of volunteers, including children, have helped to make more than 1,500 parts over several days.\n\nDesigned by French visual artist Olivier Grossetête, the towering building was erected without any machinery on Friday.\n\nHowever, it will not last long as it is designed to be toppled by hand on Sunday, when the festival ends.\n\nOlivier Grossetête designed the structure which is being displayed until Sunday\n\n\"When the people are together, it's possible to make beautiful things,\" said Mr Grossetête.\n\n\"The finality is not this [the structure], but what is happening around this. It is beautiful to see it [being torn down) too.\"\n\nThe life-size structure has been designed to mimic a four-storey hall, although Mr Grossetête is known for basing other cardboard structures on real-life buildings.\n\nIn recent years he has recreated landmarks including Donnington Castle, while he has been commissioned to recreate a currently unknown Ipswich venue later this year.\n\nVolunteers spent a number of hours piecing the boxes together with brown tape in relatively dry weather, earlier.\n\nIt has been constructed out of cardboard boxes\n\nJim Mawdsley, principal advisor, culture and events at Newcastle City Council, said he hoped the creation would kick-start the arrival of similar pieces of art at future festivals.\n\n\"As we move forwards, we're going to make it bigger, have different art forms doing big, impressive pieces of dance and music.\n\n\"We just want it to become synonymous with Newcastle... this is just the beginning, Novum means new and this is just the beginning\".\n\nOnce the structure is destroyed, it is expected the boxes will be recycled.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Western Isles MP said the SNP are 'not being serious about independence'\n\nMP Angus MacNeil has been expelled from the SNP after he was suspended from its Westminster group last month.\n\nThe Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles) MP had been suspended after reportedly clashing with party chief whip Brendan O'Hara.\n\nThe SNP conduct committee met on Thursday after he refused to rejoin the group at the end of his suspension.\n\nThe party confirmed that Mr MacNeil was expelled after a breach of their code of conduct.\n\nMr MacNeil said he would stand as an independent candidate at the next general election.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland News, Mr MacNeil reiterated that he had not left the SNP and that he had been expelled in an \"ad hoc\" manner by a committee on Thursday night.\n\nHe said the party had \"lost its way quite badly\" and criticised a number of policies championed by the Scottish Greens, including gender reform and Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs).\n\nHowever he said the SNP's main problem was \"not personalities\", adding: \"The real problem the SNP have got is not being serious about independence and believably serious about independence.\n\n\"Jobs at Holyrood are far more important than creating an election that might give the people the chance to get away from… anything that's associated with the difficulties in Westminster.\n\n\"It's in the SNP's gift to do something about it and it's chosen not to take that opportunity and that's what I find very frustrating.\"\n\nDuring an event at the Edinburgh Fringe, First Minister Humza Yousaf told broadcaster Iain Dale that Mr MacNeil's expulsion was the correct move.\n\nHe said: \"The party did not leave him. He left the party. He wrote a statement to say he left the party.\n\n\"Regardless of length of service as a politician, you were elected on party ticket and you can't pick and choose when you are in or out of party. We should all be held to same standard.\n\n\"Joanna Cherry demonstrates how we can have differences and remain within party.\"\n\nAngus MacNeil was one of the SNP's longest-serving MPs, having first been elected in 2005, but has been a vocal critic of the party leadership in recent years, particularly over its independence strategy.\n\nHe was involved in a row with chief whip Mr O'Hara in July over missing votes in the House of Commons.\n\nIt was alleged he had threatened Mr O'Hara during a confrontation - an allegation Mr MacNeil denies - and he had the whip removed for a week.\n\nFollowing the falling-out, he announced he would sit as an independent MP until at least October.\n\nHis membership of the party was suspended as he refused to immediately rejoin the SNP group.\n\nHe then released a statement attacking the SNP leadership's approach to independence, accusing it of a lack of urgency. \"I will only seek the SNP whip again if it is clear that the SNP are pursuing independence,\" he wrote.The SNP's code of conduct requires members who resign from a party group - at any level of government - to also resign as a member of the parliament they were elected to.\n\nA party spokesperson said: \"Following his decision to resign from the SNP Westminster Parliamentary Group, and therefore no longer sit as an SNP MP, the unanimous decision of the SNP's Member Conduct Committee is that a breach of the code of conduct has occurred and Angus MacNeil MP has been expelled from the Party.\n\n\"Mr MacNeil was given the opportunity to rejoin the group, and subsequently chose not to attend the hearing.\"\n\nScottish Conservative deputy leader Meghan Gallacher said Mr MacNeil's expulsion was evidence of \"civil war engulfing\" the SNP and questioned the first minister's ability to manage party conflicts.\n\nShe said: \"Humza Yousaf cuts a weak, inconsistent figure - a leader in name only, being buffeted by events rather than shaping them.\"\n\nThis saga brings to an end Angus MacNeil's 18-year SNP representation of the Western Isles at Westminster.\n\nA colourful character and well-liked across the political divide, he's not made any secret of his frustrations about the party's independence strategy. Things have now come to a head.\n\nMr MacNeil will stand as an independent candidate at the next general election, after a year languishing on the green benches as an independent.\n\nThis will cause another headache in the constituency for the SNP - possibly splitting the pro-independence vote against a Labour candidate that is said to be liked and respected locally. He is Torcuil Crichton, the Daily Record's former Westminster editor.\n\nMore fundamentally for SNP leader Humza Yousaf, this expulsion further tears open divides in the party that had been almost masked under the Sturgeon leadership.\n\nThe SNP already faces a by-election following the recall of Rutherglen MP, Margaret Ferrier\n\nFurthermore, Mr Yousaf could face internal dissent at SNP conference in October. We've already heard this week rumblings against the SNP's deal with the Greens.\n\nAngus MacNeil is said to have been an SNP member for almost 30 years. For the first time in a generation, he will not be able to attend the conference now he's been expelled from the party.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nErling Haaland was back in the old routine with a devastating display of finishing as Manchester City opened the defence of their Premier League title with a comfortable victory at Burnley.\n\nThe goalscoring phenomenon, who hit 52 goals as City won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League last season, took only 185 seconds to open his account for the new campaign, striking a blow from which the newly promoted Clarets never recovered.\n\nHaaland pounced in the area when Rodri headed down Kevin de Bruyne's cross, then curled in a magnificent left-foot strike into the top corner beyond Burnley keeper James Trafford after 36 minutes to effectively end the contest.\n\nBurnley, roared on by a passionate home crowd, never gave up but City's control grew more emphatic as the game went on, Rodri turning home the third with 15 minutes left after the home defence failed to clear a free-kick.\n\nIt all ended very comfortably for City, their night only marred by another injury for De Bruyne, who limped off after only 23 minutes to be replaced by summer signing Mateo Kovacic.\n\nBurnley had Anass Zaroury sent off in injury time, after a the video assistant referee review, for a dangerous lunge on Kyle Walker.\n• None How did you rate Burnley's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Manchester City's display? Send us your views here\n\nMan City have just too much\n\nManchester City showed inevitable signs of rust even though they started their campaign with a win - as was proved by the animated behaviour of perfectionist manager Pep Guardiola.\n\nIf goal machine Haaland was expecting a congratulatory arm around the shoulder from his manager as he walked off at half-time, he received a rude awakening when he received an intense lecture from Guardiola, who demanded a cameraman move out of range as he spoke to the striker.\n\nHe clearly wanted even more from Haaland, who showed his lethal economy by scoring twice from only six touches in the first half.\n\nIt sounds ludicrous to suggest Haaland was often on the periphery of the action but such is his brilliance in front of goal that he still makes the decisive contribution and built the platform for what turned into a routine victory for the champions.\n\nKovacic slipped smoothly into the action as replacement for De Bruyne but the Belgian's recurring injury problems will be a real source of concern for Guardiola and City. He spent the summer recovering from the serious hamstring injury that forced him out of the Champions League final win over Inter Milan after only 36 minutes and looked crestfallen as he walked off here.\n\nCity will hope the injury to such a key player, who had already created the opening goal for Haaland, is not serious - as the rest of their opening Premier League night played out satisfactorily.\n\nBurnley can take heart despite defeat\n\nBurnley were presented with the toughest possible start to life back in the Premier League as manager Vincent Kompany tried to plot the downfall of the Treble winners and the club where he became an iconic figure as the inspirational captain during their glory years.\n\nThe result was locked in after City went ahead early but Burnley showed real spirit and character, even creating anxious moments for Guardiola's side as Lyle Foster and Zeki Amdouni threatened.\n\nIn the end, they were undone by some loose defending but more specifically by the predatory instincts and natural goalscoring prowess of Haaland - and they will not be the last to suffer that fate this season.\n\nBurnley stuck to Kompany's passing methods, which made them such impressive winners of the Championship last season, while Trafford, the goalkeeping hero of England's European Under-21 Championship triumph in July, made an impressive debut against his former club.\n\nKompany's players got an early taste of what will be required this season but this was the most exacting examination of all and, even though they lost, there will still be plenty to encourage them.\n\nSome booing was heard when the players took the knee before kick-off and Burnley removed a fan from Turf Moor after City defender Rico Lewis was struck with an object.\n• None Attempt saved. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Julián Álvarez with a cross.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. James McAtee replaces Kyle Walker because of an injury.\n• None Kyle Walker (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Julián Álvarez following a set piece situation.\n• None Mateo Kovacic (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt saved. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Phil Foden. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJoe Biden's son Hunter will now be investigated by a special counsel with additional powers, the US attorney general has announced.\n\nMerrick Garland has elevated the status of David Weiss, the federal prosecutor who has already filed criminal charges in the case.\n\nA plea deal on tax and gun charges against the president's son collapsed earlier this month.\n\nRepublicans are pushing for an inquiry into Hunter Biden's business dealings.\n\nIn a surprise announcement at the Department of Justice on Friday, Mr Garland explained that he was making the move after a request by Mr Weiss earlier this week.\n\nThe new designation will provide the prosecutor with extra resources to pursue the investigation and to potentially bring further charges beyond the state of Delaware.\n\nMr Garland said the special counsel would produce a report when his work was done, and that the justice department would make as much of it public as was possible.\n\n\"The appointment of Mr Weiss reinforces for the American people the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters,\" Mr Garland said at a news conference.\n\nHunter Biden's lawyer, Chris Clark, responded in a statement: \"We are confident when all of these manoeuvrings are at an end my client will have resolution and will be moving on with his life successfully.\"\n\nMr Clark pointed out that the investigation has already gone on for five years.\n\nMr Weiss was appointed by former President Donald Trump to become the US attorney in Delaware in 2018. Not long after, in 2019, he opened an investigation into allegations of criminal conduct by Hunter Biden.\n\nHunter Biden has since been charged with two misdemeanour tax offenses for allegedly not paying income taxes in 2017 and 2018, years in which he earned in excess of $1.5m (£1.1m), according to the US Attorney's Office in Delaware.\n\nHe faces an additional felony charge for allegedly possessing a firearm while addicted to and using illegal drugs.\n\nHunter Biden had previously reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to the tax charges and admit the gun offence to spare himself prison time.\n\nHowever, US District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika squashed the deal due to \"non standard terms\" and the \"unusual\" nature of the proposed resolution for the gun charge.\n\nSince then, Hunter Biden and prosecutors have engaged in further plea negotiations but remain at an impasse. In a court filing on Friday, Mr Weiss's team said they now expect the case to go to trial - and could potentially file new, more serious charges in Washington DC or California.\n\nRepublicans want to see the younger Mr Biden further criminally charged, along with the president. They allege that Mr Biden has profited from his son's business dealings in Ukraine and China.\n\nHouse of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that the Republican-controlled chamber will continue to investigate the president and his son regardless of the special counsel announcement.\n\nHe echoed concern expressed by other Republicans that Mr Weiss's inquiry has been insufficiently aggressive.\n\nOther Republicans have wondered whether the attempt to move the trial out of Delaware, where it had been overseen by Trump-appointed Ms Noreika, was an attempt to find a legal venue more friendly to the Bidens.\n\nThe White House called the allegations \"insane conspiracy theories\" and rejected the assertion that Mr Biden has participated in his son's business affairs.\n\nMr Weiss has conducted a years-long investigation into the matter. So far, he has not found any evidence that Hunter Biden's business dealings have benefited from his father's presidential status.\n\nThe special counsel announcement - and the possibility of new charges leading to a jury trial - all but assures that the investigation into Hunter Biden will stretch on well into the 2024 presidential election season, if not past election day itself. It will continue to be a distraction for White House officials who had until recently hoped that the issue was approaching a resolution.\n\nBut Friday's announcement may also diffuse some of the conservative claims that there are two standards of justice in the US - one for Republicans and one for the Bidens.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Hunter Biden is important to Republicans", "Stephen Chitty used his free bus pass to travel 1,650 miles by bus\n\nA 70-year-old grandfather has completed a 40-day challenge to travel the length and breadth of England entirely by public buses for charity.\n\nStephen Chitty from Watford, Hertfordshire, went on 117 buses for more than 1,650 miles (2,655km).\n\nHis trip started and finished in his home town and went to places such as Hayle in Cornwall, Liverpool, Ambleside in Cumbria, Newcastle and Norwich.\n\n\"I was amazed by the kindness and generosity of people I met,\" he said.\n\nMr Chitty has raised more than £1,900 for faith-based charity Mercy Ships.\n\nIt uses hospital ships to deliver free healthcare services, including surgery and medical training, to low-income countries.\n\nThe retired teacher was able to visit major UK landmarks such as Land's End\n\nHe said: \"Travelling on your own for 40 days can be quite lonely but it was a true bonus to meet so many lovely people and go to so many places I have not been before.\"\n\nMr Chitty left Watford on 26 June and used his free bus pass to head to Kent along the south coast to the South West of England before heading up through the Midlands to the North of England.\n\nHe then travelled down the east coast, into Essex and back to Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I really appreciate all those who have been sponsoring me and giving me a bed for the night and also for all the support I received, including all those who prayed for me on my journey,\" he said.\n\nStephen Chitty said people offered him rooms for the night and had an AirBnB let him stay for free in Dover\n\nHis daughter Lizzie Chitty, a nurse who works at Nottingham University Hospital, has volunteered for the charity.\n\nShe said he \"wanted to do something special to mark his 70th birthday with each of his three children\" after visiting her on a hospital ship and wanted to support the charity.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. 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Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The artefacts date back thousands of years and are worth millions of euros\n\nThe United States has returned more than 250 ancient artefacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.\n\nThe art unit of Italy's police force found the items had been looted and sold to US museums and private collectors in the 1990s.\n\nAmong the precious artefacts are pots, paintings and sculptures - some up to 3,000 years old.\n\nSeveral of the mosaics are worth tens of millions of euros.\n\nThe oldest item dates back to the Villanovan age (1000 - 750BC), while other artefacts were from the Etruscan civilisation (800 - 200BC), Magna Graecia (750 - 400BC) and Imperial Rome (27BC - 476AD).\n\nMost artefacts had been stolen in the 1990s, then sold through a series of dealers with one selection apparently being offered to the Menil Collection, a museum in Houston, Texas.\n\nThe Italian Ministry of Culture said the artefacts were on display in the Menil Collection, but a spokesperson for the museum denied this and said they had never been a part of the collection.\n\nThe spokesperson said the museum had been offered the artefacts as a gift, but instead referred the donor to Italy's culture ministry.\n\nThe ministry said the owner of the collection \"spontaneously\" returned the items after police found that they had come from illegal excavations of archaeological sites.\n\nSeparately, the ministry said that 145 of the returned artefacts had come from a bankruptcy procedure against an English antiques dealer, Robin Symes, who amassed thousands of pieces as part of a network of illegal traders.\n\nItaly has long sought to track down antiques and artefacts that have been stolen and sold to private collectors and museums.\n\nIn September 2022, New York returned $19m (£16m) worth of stolen art to Italy, including a marble head of the goddess Athena dated 200BC, worth an estimated $3m alone.", "Oprah was handing out supplies at the War Memorial Stadium on Thursday\n\nA long line of at least 100 cars stretched towards Maui's War Memorial Stadium on Thursday, even as the shelter began reaching capacity.\n\nScores of evacuees have arrived here and set up camp after wildfires tore through the Hawaiian island, destroying entire neighbourhoods and leaving many residents with nowhere to stay.\n\nVolunteers have been trying to create a comfortable atmosphere despite the heat, offering local treats like shaved ice. But conditions are still challenging.\n\nPeople have to bring their own bedding to the shelter, so many are sleeping on bare cots and air mattresses. And after seeing what people were in need of, part-time Maui resident and talk show host Oprah Winfrey, brought pillows and other goods.\n\nTom Leonard has lived in Lahaina for 44 years. He told the BBC he has been staying at the shelter for the past two days after losing all of his possessions. He has no idea where he will go next.\n\nTom Leonard has lived in Maui for decades, but has lost all of his possessions\n\nMore concerning than the loss of possessions, are the loved ones that people have yet to hear back from. There is even a sense of guilt for some people here.\n\nHundreds are said to be missing. At least 55 people have died and that number is expected to rise.\n\nGetting in contact with loved ones has been made even more challenging by the fact mobile service on the island has been unreliable.\n\nPeople are doing what they can at the shelter, writing down the names of their loved ones along with their contact information and sticking notes on increasingly crowded whiteboards.\n\nMaui resident Ellie Erickson created a Google spreadsheet to crowdsource efforts to find people. Although she only shared it on Wednesday morning, thousands of names have already been added to the list. Some are marked in green as \"found\" and other names are marked in red as \"not located\".\n\nWith the names of the dead not yet confirmed, people have only rumours to go on to know whether their neighbours and friends are still alive.\n\nChelsey Vierra's great-grandmother, Louise Abihai, lives at the Hale Mahaolu senior living facility. She told the Associated Press that she did not know if she was OK.\n\n\"She doesn't have a phone. She's 97 years old,\" Ms Vierra said. \"She can walk. She is strong.\"\n\n\"If you never made contact with your family before sunset last night, you're still trying to figure out where they are,\" Leomana Turalde, 36, told USA Today. He has several aunties who live near Lahaina's popular Front Street which bore some of the heaviest.\n\nOne of them went missing on Wednesday morning.\n\nAt the shelter, Les Munn, 42, recalled packing his belongings as the hurricane winds began coming to shore. His building then caught fire around him. \"Everything went black\", he said, as the smoke began pouring in.\n\n\"I ran up, knocking on some of my neighbours doors. And some of them wouldn't come out,\" he said, sounding perplexed by their decision.\n\nEventually he ran outside, spotted a blue light from a police car through the dense black smoke, and ran and dove into the back of the vehicle. \"And that's how I survived,\" he said from his shelter cot.\n\nHe added that he had not seen any of his neighbours in the shelter and was concerned for their safety.\n\n\"I don't know their fate,\" he said. \"I don't know if they survived.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four factors that made Maui wildfires so deadly", "Roman Friday, one of the stowaways, in São Paulo. \"I wanted a brighter future,\" he said (Victor Moriyama/BBC)\n\nFour Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on the rudder of a tanker. They had no idea they were bound for Brazil, and a two-week ocean voyage that would nearly kill them.\n\nA little after midnight on 27 June, Roman Ebimene Friday gathered up the food he had been collecting for a few months and set out in the dark for the large commercial port in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. Earlier that day, Friday had spotted a 620-foot (190m) tanker docked at the port and decided that it would be the ship to deliver him to Europe.\n\nFriday was aiming for the tanker's rudder - the only accessible point on its massive hull for a person who isn't supposed to be aboard. There was no way to bridge the gap from the dock to the rudder, other than convince a fisherman to ferry him across. \"He was a holy man, that fisherman,\" Friday recalled. \"He did not ask for money. He could see that I wanted to leave.\"\n\nThe fisherman sidled up to the rudder and Friday, 35, pulled himself up, hauling his food bag behind him on a rope. As he steadied himself he saw, to his surprise, three faces in the dark. He was the last of four men with the same idea. \"I was scared, at first,\" Friday said. \"But they were black Africans, my brothers.\"\n\nFearful of being caught, the four men perched silently on the rudder for the next 15 hours. At 5pm, they felt the ship's giant engines shudder to life. Over the din, they shouted a few words. They were all aiming for Europe. They expected to be shipmates for as long as a week.\n\nThe tanker, called the Ken Wave, pushed out from the port and headed to sea - the beginning of a perilous two-week ocean voyage that would bring the stowaways close to death.\n\nRoman Friday accepts water, perched on the rudder that took him and three other men to Brazil\n\nAs Lagos receded behind them, the men tried and failed to find comfortable positions on the rudder, which moved constantly as it steered the ship. There was precious little space to stand, and the only place to lie was in one of two small nets strung precariously over the water, by previous stowaways, Friday assumed.\n\nIt can be hard to understand, from the outside, what drives a person to risk their life on a rudder or a rickety boat across the Mediterranean. But the decision comes easy when you have already lost hope, Friday said.\n\n\"In Nigeria there are no jobs, no money and no way for me to feed my younger brothers and my mother,\" he said. \"I am the first born son and my father died 20 years ago, so I should take care of my family, but I cannot.\"\n\nInstead he had spent three years living on and off the street in Lagos, trying to find work. Each day in Nigeria was a gauntlet of \"crime and sin,\" he said. \"People fighting, killing each other, terrorists attacking, kidnappers. I want a brighter future than that.\"\n\nFriday, left, and Thankgod Yeye, right. \"We became brothers on the way,\" Friday said (Victor Moriyama/BBC)\n\nPerched next to Friday on the rudder of the tanker was Thankgod Opemipo Matthew Yeye, a Pentecostal minister, businessman and father of two whose peanut and palm oil farm had washed away in the devastating floods that hit Nigeria last year. There had been no fallback or insurance to cover the loss.\n\n\"My business was destroyed and my family became homeless. And that was the genesis of my decision to leave,\" he said.\n\nYeye's decision became final after the recent presidential election, which was marred by anomalies and allegations of vote rigging. \"The election had been our hope,\" he said. \"But we know Nigeria well, we know the system is corrupt.\" So, without telling his family, he left his sister's home at night and set out for the port, where he knew the Ken Wave was waiting to depart.\n\nNigeria has seen an exodus of people like Yeye and Friday in recent years, via regular and irregular routes, driven by recessions and record unemployment levels. Many travel across the Sahara and the Mediterranean, where at least 1,200 Nigerians have died already this year, according to the UN.\n\nRoman Friday sitting atop the rudder that carried him across the Atlantic\n\nSome choose to stow away. Last year, three men climbed on a rudder in a similar fashion to Friday and Yeye, and their journey took them 2,500 miles to the Canary islands, an entry point to Spain. Friday and Yeye believed they were following a similar route.\n\nWith their two companions, William and Zeze, they passed the first few days on the ship in a mixture of boredom, discomfort, and fear, talking only a little, praying often and trying to stay awake, as the Ken Wave pushed into the vast stretch of the south Atlantic for the 3,500 mile journey to Brazil.\n\nIn some ways, ship stowaways are safer than those who cross parts of the Sahara on foot or the Mediterranean on rickety wooden boats. But as day five passed, Friday and Yeye began to reckon with the specific dangers of their situation.\n\nThey were already weak from rationing their food and tired from lack of sleep. They tied a rope around their waists when they needed to pee off the side of the rudder. When the water was rough, waves lashed them. \"We were all scared of the big waves,\" Yeye said. \"I had never seen the ocean before but I used to watch documentaries about storms and I had seen big ships rocked from side to side by waves.\" Sleep was virtually impossible. \"You try not to even close your eyes,\" Friday said. \"The rudder turns 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you have to constantly be alert.\"\n\nThe nets came loose and had to be inexpertly refastened. They lay in them again but Friday thought only of being awoken by the sudden feeling of falling and the hit of cold below. \"If the net breaks, you go straight into the water and you are gone,\" he said. And you really were gone. There's no chance of rescue at sea when no-one knows you're lost.\n\nDay passed into night and into day again. The men grew weaker and stopped talking entirely. Friday kept track of the time on his wristwatch. He tried to remember the day. The nets came loose again and were refastened. The food was rationed in smaller parcels, the water in smaller sips. Their mouths began to dry out. Their stomachs ached. They tried to remain vigilant and tried not to fall in.\n\nDay 10 brought the moment the four had been quietly dreading. Some time in the morning, they ate the last of their food and drank the last of their water. All four were already painfully hungry from spacing out the meagre rations they had. \"This was the hardest moment of all,\" Yeye said. \"My mouth was dry and completely cracked. For the first time in my life I really understood the meaning of water.\"\n\nThere were a few lighter moments. Yeye told his brothers he was praying for rain and they laughed at him. What are you going to do with rain? they cried. How will you collect it? Rain was only dangerous for them, they chided. The laughter subsided. Hour by hour, they became more thirsty. Time seemed to move more slowly.\n\nThe next day, Friday managed to attach a torn cellophane biscuit wrapper to a length of rope and lower it into the ocean, he said, and collect small mouthfuls of salty water for them to drink. They licked toothpaste.\n\nOn day 12, sick from salty ocean water, one of the other men began to vomit from the side of the rudder block. \"He was looking straight down into the water and vomiting,\" Friday said. \"He had no strength to hold himself. He was about to fall. I was the only person who had strength left and I had to grab hold of him.\"\n\nRoman Friday in his new home in São Paulo (Victor Moriyama/BBC)\n\nThe men were entering the phase of hunger and thirst that brings you close to death. In an effort to distract himself, Friday began to sit on the edge of the rudder alone, one leg hanging either side, scanning the ocean in vain for anything to interrupt the long unbroken line of the horizon.\n\nWhat the ocean gave him, on the 13th day of the voyage, was a whale.\n\n\"The first time in my life I have seen such a thing!\" he said, laughing at the memory. \"If I told anyone at home I had seen a whale they will say I am lying. But I sat on the rudder and I saw a whale. And I forgot I was hungry and thirsty. I watched the whale and it was like watching creation. A holy moment.\"\n\nAs the first light appeared on the horizon on day 14 of the voyage, Friday was back on the edge of the rudder, staring into the distance, when he felt the ship's mighty engines begin to slow. Then, in the dim light, in the distance, he saw what looked like land. Then buildings. Then a boat.\n\nThe Ken Wave was stopping off the coast to take on a fresh crew, and the resupply boat spotted the men. \"Do you know where you are?\" came a shout. Friday tried to shout back that he had no idea, but his throat was too dry. The boat left, then two hours later, in the clearer light, a police dinghy appeared. An officer stretched out a bottle of water to Friday. \"You are in Brazil,\" he said.\n\nSafely back on dry land, the migrants used borrowed phones to call their families. Friday and Yeye's two fellow migrants, William and Zeze, decided to take up an offer of returning directly to Nigeria. Friday and Yeye decided to make Brazil their home. \"We are joyful to be here,\" Yeye said. \"It is a new beginning.\"\n\nThey will likely face challenges. Migrants have automatic rights to healthcare and other benefits in Brazil, but African migrants often face racism and struggle to find well-paid work. Friday and Yeye have been taken in by a shelter in São Paulo and are being assisted by a Catholic mission, Missao Paz, with Portuguese lessons and other support. Yeye wants to start a new business and bring his wife and children over.\n\nFriday is focused on the more immediate future. \"I am in a new place, I am trying to adapt, I am trying to learn the language,\" he said. The first journey he had ever made out of Nigeria had nearly killed him, but as the days passed after his rescue, he felt the hopelessness that had dogged him back home begin to ebb, he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nHeavyweight Anthony Joshua spectacularly knocked out Robert Helenius with one punch in round seven, after boxing tentatively in the first half of the fight at London's O2 Arena.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton - who was jeered by fans during the bout - landed nothing of note until a huge right to the jaw ended Helenius' night.\n\nThe win - Joshua's first stoppage victory in two-and-a-half years - sets up a blockbuster fight with American Deontay Wilder in January.\n\n\"It's a fickle sport, you've got to be real about this industry and not get caught up. I've done my job tonight,\" Joshua told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nWhen asked in the ring about the potential fight with Wilder, Joshua joked: \"My back's gone, is there a doctor in here? I want to carry this heavyweight division to the top.\"\n\nAfter the knockout, an emotionally charged and smiling Joshua climbed out of the ring, high-fived fans and shared a beer with Irish mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor.\n\nHelenius needed oxygen after the heavy knockdown, but recovered and left the ring unassisted after congratulating Joshua.\n• None 'A highlight reel KO but not the ruthless Joshua many expected'\n\nJoshua extends his record to 26 wins - with 23 stoppages - and three defeats.\n\nFinland's Helenius - who took the bout on a week's notice after Briton Dillian Whyte failed a voluntary drug test - loses his fifth pro fight in 36 outings.\n\nJoshua struggled to find any rhythm but the manner of the finish may just be the confidence-boosting win he so desperately needed, and a gentle reminder to other heavyweights he is not yet done.\n\nHelenius made his way to the ring in a packed out arena at the late time of 23:10 BST. Fans were offered a full refund when Whyte was withdrawn from the card, but such is the draw of Joshua there were no empty blue seats once the main event started.\n\nThe Briton confidently strode to the ring to a medley of a violinist playing the title song from the film 'The Godfather' and then the more upbeat 'Insomnia' by Faithless.\n\nThe 2012 Olympic gold medallist - fighting at the O2 Arena for the ninth time - kept his eyes firmly locked on Helenius during the introductions, who mockingly clapping back.\n\nHelenius took the middle of the ring and swung a wild left in the first few seconds. The 'Nordic Nightmare' looked unfazed by the hostile atmosphere but neither man landed anything of note in a cagey opener.\n\nJoshua was moving freely, looking to set traps but throwing single shots and not imposing himself on the stand-in fighter.\n\nFans started to become restless as early as the third. Boos echoed around the arena. The crowd wanted to see combinations, not this tentative approach.\n\nJoshua had not knocked out an opponent in the first half of a fight since beating Eric Molina in 2016, a staggering statistic for someone once considered one of the heaviest hitters in boxing.\n\nThe Watford-born fighter landed a solid left in the fourth which sent Helenius backpedalling, but there was no sustained attack to follow.\n\nHelenius grew in confidence, landing jabs to mark Joshua under the eye in the fifth. There were more jeers from a bored crowd at the halfway stage.\n\n\"It's hard to find the right hand,\" Joshua told trainer Derrick James. The American replied: \"Keep trying.\"\n\nJoshua adhered to the instructions. Those fans who left their seats missed what promoter Eddie Hearn described as the \"knockout of the year\".\n\nA double feint followed by a right sent the Finn to the canvas, with referee Victor Loughlin halting the contest.\n\nRepresentatives from Saudi Arabia were in attendance, keen to conclude negotiations for a Joshua-Wilder mega-fight in the Middle East early next year.\n\nAll Joshua had to do was avoid a potential banana skin in Helenius. Fortunately for him and Wilder, there was no slip-up.\n\n\"We hope it's imminent,\" Hearn said. \"That's why he wanted the Dillian Whyte fight, it's hard for him to get up to fights like this.\n\n\"If he hits Wilder on the chin then it's over. This is about Anthony Joshua now, it's not about pleasing others. He's given everything to British boxing.\"\n\nJoshua-Wilder is a fight which has been mooted several times before, notably when the two heavyweights collectively held all four world titles.\n\nBoxing politics starved it from happening then, but it appears the money offered for a Middle East showdown will be too good for either fighter - or their promoters - to turn down.\n\nThe winner will be propelled back towards world-title contention, the loser consoled by a career-high purse.\n\nAlabama's Wilder is one of the most ferocious punchers in heavyweight history. 'The Bronze Bomber' stopped Helenius in under three minutes in October, and Joshua was under pressure to deliver an equally devastating, statement win.\n\nDespite the sensational finish, there are still plenty of question marks surrounding Joshua's performance. The same cautious approach may not be wise against Wilder.\n\n\"I just want to see AJ fight someone of the calibre of Robert Helenius and treat him like Wilder,\" former world champion David Haye said on BBC 5 live.\n\n\"He can't just stand there and jab, it doesn't work against Wilder. He will run through him.\"", "Example said there were multiple issues with the planning of the event\n\nGwên Gwen Festival has been cancelled hours before it was due to start, with organisers saying weather problems had delayed the site build.\n\nThe event in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, was to run from Friday to Sunday.\n\nOrganisers said they were devastated after spending nine months preparing the show.\n\nEarlier on Friday, headliner Example pulled out of his Sunday slot alleging contract breaches and full fees not being paid.\n\nExample's Instagram story post raised also concerns about the lack of communication with organisers.\n\nHe added: \"The promoter of this event has breached a number of points in the contract.\n\n\"We have had zero communication regarding the stage, technical and backstage setup.\n\n\"Something we cannot just turn up to unprepared and essentially would be going into the show blind.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the festival for comment regarding Example's post.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe festival line-up was also to include Dub FX and Aleighcia Scott.\n\nThe statement from organisers said over the past week they had been working \"under extremely challenging circumstances with weather making the site build difficult and as a result of these challenges and the associated added extra costs, we have made the very difficult decision to cancel the event\".\n\nThey added: \"This is not a decision we have taken lightly and sincerely apologise for the disappointment this will cause.\n\n\"We want to thank all the ticket holders, volunteers, artists, traders, contractors, security and everyone who has helped under extremely difficult circumstances and gone above and beyond to make this work.\"\n\nThey added that all refunds were being processed and a further statement would be released on Monday.", "Ukrainian conscription officials accused of taking bribes and smuggling people out of the country have been sacked in an anti-corruption purge.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky confirmed that more than 30 people face criminal charges, with all regional officials in charge of military conscription removed.\n\nHe said bribery at a time of war is \"high treason\".\n\nIt comes amid efforts to bolster the armed forces, as Ukraine's counter-offensive operation continues.\n\nA statement from the president's office said corruption allegations \"pose a threat to Ukraine's national security and undermine confidence in state institutions\".\n\nReplacement officials will be chosen from candidates who have battlefield experience and have been vetted by the intelligence service, it continued.\n\nOfficials taking cash and cryptocurrency bribes or helping people eligible to be called up to fight to leave Ukraine are among the charges, said Mr Zelensky, in a video posted on social media.\n\nUkraine's general mobilisation rules mean all men over the age of 18 capable of fighting are eligible to be conscripted, and most adult men under the age of 60 are prohibited from leaving the country.\n\n\"We are dismissing all regional military commissars,\" he said.\n\n\"This system should be run by people who know exactly what war is and why cynicism and bribery at a time of war is high treason.\"\n\nHe said the conscription system \"is not working decently\", adding: \"The way they treat warriors, the way they treat their duties, it's just immoral.\"\n\nThe corruption came to light after an inspection of local army offices.\n\nMr Zelensky said 112 criminal proceedings against 33 suspects have been launched against regional officials, and that abuses had been found across the country.\n\nNeither Ukraine or Russia reveal how many of their soldiers have been killed since the February 2022 invasion, but both have sought recruits widely as attritional fighting continues.\n\nThe anti-corruption drive is the latest to be launched by the Zelensky government.\n\nCorruption in public services has been a long-running problem in Ukraine and tackling it is one of the tests the country would have to pass to join Western institutions like the European Union.\n\nAccording to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, Ukraine ranks 116th out of 180 countries, but efforts in recent years have seen its position improve significantly.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCo-hosts Australia reached the Women's World Cup semi-finals for the first time as they beat France in an incredible penalty shoot-out at Brisbane Stadium.\n\nFollowing a goalless 120 minutes, the Matildas triumphed 7-6 in a shootout which defied belief with its dramatic twists.\n\nCortnee Vine scored the winning spot-kick for Australia, after Vicki Becho had struck the post for France.\n\nAustralia keeper Mackenzie Arnold made a total of four saves in the shoot-out - including twice from Kenza Dali, having moved off the line for the first stop, leading to a retake.\n\nArnold herself had the opportunity to score the winning penalty as the fifth taker for Australia, after saving from Eve Perisset, but struck the post as nearly 50,000 Australians inside the stadium went through every emotion imaginable.\n\nBut it is the hosts who march on, reaching their first ever Women's World Cup semi-final.\n\nAustralia will play England at Stadium Australia in Sydney on 16 August at 11.00 BST.\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n• None World Football at the Women's World Cup: Matildas mania sweeps across Australia\n\nAustralia were roared on by a capacity crowd who created a lively atmosphere at Brisbane Stadium, but having fallen at the quarter-final stage in three previous World Cups, initially they looked more cowed by the pressure than invigorated by it.\n\nBut they grew into the game and should have led four minutes before the interval.\n\nFrance keeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin - who looked a bag of nerves all evening - failed to command a loose ball in the box, allowing Van Egmond to nip in and square to Mary Fowler, who seemed certain to tuck the chance away.\n\nPeyraud-Magnin was only bailed out by covering defender Elisa de Almeida, whose last-gasp sliding block was one of the finest pieces of defending seen at this World Cup so far.\n\nThose nerves from Peyraud-Magnin extended into the second half, as she miscued a clearance straight to Fowler shortly after the break and was again helped out by a defender blocking the resulting shot.\n\nAustralia manager Tony Gustavsson had said he would only start Sam Kerr if she was definitely fit to play the full match, and duly kept back the Matildas talisman to make an impact in the latter stages.\n\nOn 55 minutes, he pulled the Kerr lever, activating an ear-splitting roar from the home fans. The 29-year-old Chelsea striker was immediately into the action, driving forwards to set up a move which resulted in Raso testing Peyraud-Magnin from range.\n\nAustralia, newly fired up, applied heavy pressure to the French goal but could not find a breakthrough in regulation time, making this the first in 31 Women's World Cup matches featuring Australia to be goalless after 90 minutes.\n\nIt was also goalless after 120 minutes - leading to a shoot-out which will go down in football history and Australian folklore.\n\nThey are the first hosts to reach the Women's World Cup semi-finals since USA in 2003 - and could be the first since the Americans in 1999 to triumph on home soil.\n\nFrance had their own home World Cup spoiled in the quarter-finals four years ago as they lost to eventual champions the USA, and they revelled in the role of party poopers in the opening minutes.\n\nKadi Diani was furious when she shot wide after eight minutes, convinced she was held back and fouled by Australia defender Alanna Kennedy. She had a point.\n\nTheir best first-half chance fell to defender Maelle Lakrar, brought into the starting XI in place of Chelsea's Perisset.\n\nEugenie le Sommer dragged a shot across goal and Lakrar somehow squirted the ball over the top from three yards.\n\nLakrar was also denied by Arnold, her snap shot on the turn following an uncleared corner well palmed away by the West Ham stopper.\n\nThey failed to press home their advantage while they had it, allowing Australia to gain the ascendancy - especially following the introduction of Kerr.\n\nThere were shouts for a penalty with 10 minutes remaining as Lakrar grabbed a handful of Caitlin Foord's shirt, only for referee Maria Carvajal to wave them away.\n\nAs nerves grew for both teams the play became scrappier, with France thinking they had an extra-time winner when Alanna Kennedy headed into her own net from a corner, only for it to be disallowed as Renard had fouled an opponent.\n\nFrance had the clearest extra-time opportunities, Arnold making a great diving save from Becho's drive before Steph Catley hacked another effort off the line.\n\nUltimately penalties were required - with France manager Herve Renard dramatically sending on sub keeper Solene Durand in place of Peyraud-Magnin for the spot-kicks.\n\nDurand did her job, saving from both Catley and Clare Hunt - the latter with a phenomenal one-handed stop when a goal would have sent Australia through.\n\nBut subsequently Becko missed, Vine scored and France fell short, exiting at the last eight for the second successive World Cup.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(7), France 0(6). Cortnee Vine (Australia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Australia 0(6), France 0(6). Vicki Bècho (France) hits the left post with a right footed shot.\n• None Penalty saved! Clare Hunt (Australia) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty saved! Kenza Dali (France) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(6), France 0(6). Ellie Carpenter (Australia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(5), France 0(6). Maëlle Lakrar (France) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(5), France 0(5). Tameka Yallop (Australia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(4), France 0(5). Sakina Karchaoui (France) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(4), France 0(4). Katrina Gorry (Australia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(3), France 0(4). Grace Geyoro (France) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Australia 0(3), France 0(3). Mackenzie Arnold (Australia) hits the right post with a right footed shot.\n• None Penalty saved! Ève Périsset (France) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(3), France 0(3). Mary Fowler (Australia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(2), France 0(3). Eugénie Le Sommer (France) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(2), France 0(2). Sam Kerr (Australia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Australia 0(1), France 0(2). Wendie Renard (France) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The gambling industry is targeting adverts at players of Fantasy Premier League, an online football game that is open to children, the BBC has found.\n\nWe found gambling ads and promotions on some of the biggest FPL-related podcasts, sites and social media feeds.\n\nOne major podcast, The FPL Wire, has removed gambling ads on its content as a result of our findings.\n\nIt was featuring adverts for Fairplay Exchange, a company that lets people place personal bets against each other.\n\nIn a statement made after this article was first published, the podcast said it had not and would not be accepting any compensation for its association with Fairplay Exchange.\n\nFPL General, a content creator who appears in the photo below that was taken from the podcast, says he was making a guest appearance on the show and had no control over the advertising.\n\nIn FPL, players pick a team of footballers and earn points based on their real-world performances. They compete in a global leader board and can play against friends and family in private leagues.\n\nAnyone over 13 can play FPL - if you're under 13, you need a parent or guardian's permission.\n\nThe game is run by the Premier League but has a huge community of independent content creators who earn a living sharing tips and tools online. The Premier League does not run these sites or podcasts.\n\nBetting firms have been found to sponsor websites associated with the online game\n\nOne of these independent websites, Fantasy Football Scout, has carried promotional articles for Bet 365 this month, encouraging readers to sign up to a fantasy football-themed game with a prize pool of £500,000. The website and Bet 365 did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nThere is no data on the exact number of children who play FPL. Professor Luke Wilkins at La Trobe University, who has researched fantasy sports extensively, estimates that 45% of the adults signed up are under 30.\n\nAn MP who chairs a group on gambling said the industry was trying to \"infiltrate\" sites used by children.\n\nCarolyn Harris MP, who chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group for Gambling Related Harm, described our findings as \"deeply concerning\".\n\nGuidelines from the Advertising Standards Authority require gambling ads to \"not appeal strongly to under-18s\" especially by \"being associated with youth culture\".\n\nLast year the ASA ruled that a Ladbrokes ad breached its code because it featured Premier League footballers, Philippe Coutinho, Jesse Lingard and Kalidou Koulibaly who would be well known to children.\n\nA spokesperson for FPL said: \"Fantasy Premier League is made free for all users to ensure that any fan has the ability to take part.\n\n\"When we become aware of an infringement of this principle, or any other aspect of our terms and conditions, we will take appropriate action.\n\n\"These terms and conditions prohibit mini-leagues being created for commercial purposes and we reserve the right to delete the mini-league and suspend or delete the registration of any player who is the administrator of, or a participant in, the mini-league without liability.\"\n\nFantasy Football Fix is a major independent FPL website with over 400,000 users. It says it provide users with tips and data, including using artificial intelligence to optimise fantasy teams.\n\nThe site now has a no-gambling-ads policy but has struck deals with betting companies in the past, and explained to the BBC how one of them worked.\n\nIts business model relies on users paying for premium content on the best strategies for winning on FPL. A betting company offered users free access to Fantasy Football Fix premium content if they also opened a betting account with them and deposited £5.\n\nFor each new customer referred to the betting company, it paid Fantasy Football Fix £90.\n\nTom Fleming, from the charity Gambling with Lives, says the BBC's findings are \"shocking, but not surprising\".\n\nHe believes the gambling industry sees the FPL community as \"fertile ground\" for the \"next generation of customers and addicts\".\n\nPlucky is another new site that allows players to set wagers using their official Fantasy Premier League team.\n\nPlucky is another site that allows players to set wagers\n\nA few weeks ago it was being promoted on social media by some of the biggest names in the FPL world, who often appear on the Premier League's official FPL show.\n\nBut Plucky has told us that its product is now being assessed by the Premier League for compliance and that its partners have suspended advertising.\n\nIt says its product was designed to be compatible, and operate within, the Premier League's published terms and conditions.\n\nCompanies such as Fan Team and Draft Kings are running their own monetised fantasy games that allow enthusiasts to gamble, in a similar format, on a daily basis.\n\nTheir adverts have also been commonplace across Fantasy Football Scout's platforms.\n\n\"Daily fantasy sports\", as they're known, have become hugely popular in the US.\n\nMatt Zarb-Cousin, director of Clean Up Gambling believes \"some gambling operators and affiliates have sought to replicate that here by using it to bridge football fans into actual betting\".\n\nThe relationship between fantasy sports, like FPL, and gambling is complex.\n\nAcademic research in the US suggests playing free fantasy sports makes someone more likely to gamble.\n\nMeanwhile a survey undertaken in Ireland found 25% of Fantasy Football participants met the criteria for internet addiction.\n\nHowever, we've also spoken to several people who say they use Fantasy Premier League as a coping mechanism to manage an existing gambling addiction.\n\nJamie, not his real name, has rarely bet since 2018 and thinks \"FPL is a big part of filling that void\".\n\nWhen a content creator offered a free entry to Fan Team, he went to sign up. Thankfully it was covered by the self-exclusion scheme GamStop, so he wasn't able to.\n\nScout Gaming Group, which runs FanTeam, says the site is licensed under the Gambling Commission. \"Fanteam therefore is operating under the UK regulations and do not offer our products to minors or to people who have blocked themselves through Gamstop,\" it says.\n\n\"If we believe that anyone who we work with is not complying with the rules and regulations of UKGC we will directly inform them about it and if it is not rectified we will, as soon as possible, close the relationship with any such party and aggressively pursue the removal of any offending content.\"\n\nRob also uses GamStop, which stops him seeing betting ads online, but he says: \"I can't avoid seeing things on Twitter involving gambling.\n\n\"Personally, I think the big accounts involving FPL and gambling should take a look at themselves.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Betting and Gambling Council (BGC), which represents gambling firms, said its members \"take a zero-tolerance approach to betting by children\".\n\n\"Our members enforce strict age verification on all their products to prevent underage gaming while the BGC funds the £10m Young People's Gambling Harm Prevention Programme,\" it said.\n\n\"Betting advertising and sponsorship must comply with strict guidelines and safer gambling messaging is regularly and prominently displayed.\n\n\"The regulated betting and gaming industry is determined to promote safer gaming, unlike the unsafe and growing online black market, which has none of the safeguards strictly employed by BGC members,\" it added.", "Six people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank in the Channel, off the French coast.\n\nThe French coast guard said the vessel got into difficulty in the sea near Calais in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nFifty-nine people - many of them Afghans - were rescued by French and British coastguards, officials said. But the search for two people who may still be missing has been called off.\n\nSome people were seen being brought off a lifeboat in Dover on stretchers.\n\nThe extent of injuries remain unclear and the exact numbers of those rescued changed during the day as more information was released.\n\nThe six people who died were Afghan men thought to be in their 30s, the AFP news agency reported Philippe Sabatier, deputy public prosecutor for the French coastal city of Boulogne, as saying.\n\nHe said those rescued included some children and were mostly from Afghanistan, although there were some Sudanese.\n\nThe French coastal authority Premar said a passing ship first raised the alarm at around 04:20 local time that an overloaded boat was in difficulty off the coast of Sangatte.\n\nWhen the French lifeboat arrived, they found people in the sea, with some screaming for help.\n\nThe Dover lifeboat, which was already in the Channel dealing with another boat carrying migrants, joined the rescue operation at 05:50.\n\nOne of the volunteer rescuers told the Reuters news agency migrants were using shoes to bail water out of the sinking boat.\n\nAnne Thorel said there had been \"too many\" people on board.\n\nAnother French rescuer, Jean-Pierre Finot, said: \"Some were suffering from sea sickness and the boats are quite simply overloaded... [and] can no longer move forward\".\n\nRescue crews say this is the seventh time this week that they have had to pull people from the water, raising concerns that the smugglers organising the crossings may be using a defective batch of boats.\n\nIn its latest update, French officials said interviews with survivors suggest 65 or 66 people were on the boat. Often boats are so overloaded it is difficult to tell how many people are on them.\n\nPremar said 23 people were taken to Dover by UK rescue crews and a French boat took 36 to Calais.\n\nTwo French boats were still searching for the two people who could still be missing, it added.\n\nA French Navy aircraft and a helicopter had been deployed to help the search.\n\nThe MP for Calais, Pierre-Henri Dumont, said authorities are interviewing the migrants who are able to speak and not too unwell, to establish what happened and where they are from.\n\nAlthough the incident happened in French territory, with these types of operations, British and French rescue teams work together to rescue as many people as possible.\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, thanked the rescuers for their efforts but urged the UK government to work on creating an \"orderly and humane asylum system\".\n\nThe English Channel is one of the most dangerous and busiest shipping lanes in the world, with 600 tankers and 200 ferries passing through it every day.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the deaths were \"devastating and our thoughts are with the victims' families and friends at this time\".\n\nThey added: \"This incident is sadly another reminder of the extreme dangers of crossing the Channel in small boats and how vital it is that we break the people smugglers' business model and stop the boats.\"\n\nPeople were seen being brought ashore on stretchers at Dover, for medical treatment\n\nDover MP, Natalie Elphicke, said the incident highlighted the need for joint patrols on the French coast.\n\n\"These overcrowded and unseaworthy death traps should obviously be stopped by the French authorities from leaving the French coast in the first place,\" she said.\n\nOn X, formerly known as Twitter, shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said it was an \"appalling, deeply shocking tragedy\".\n\nAnother small boat also got into difficulty on Saturday but all on board were rescued, the UK Coastguard said.\n\nMeanwhile, people from other migrant boats that had made successful crossings could be seen being brought ashore at Dover during the day.\n\nIn the last two days more than 1,000 people made the journey across the Channel to the UK, government figures show. More than 100,000 migrants have crossed in small boats since 2018.\n\nAt least 27 migrants died after a dinghy sank while heading to the UK from France in November 2021, the highest recorded number of deaths from a single incident.\n\nFour people died at sea while trying to cross in December 2022.\n\nThe incident comes after the UK government faces pressure over fears of a Legionella outbreak on its new migrant barge, Bibby Stockholm, moored in Portland Port, Dorset. The first migrants to board the vessel had to be removed after bacteria was found in the water system.\n\nToday's tragedy is a reminder of one thing that unites all parties when it comes to immigration policy at the moment - nobody wants people making the very dangerous route across the channel in small boats.\n\nBut people still are, and in great numbers.\n\nThe government is insisting it wants to push on with its plans to house some asylum seekers on barges like the Bibby Stockholm - and with its plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, which is still subject to legal challenge.\n\nTwo of its flagship policies are currently stalled. But the bigger overarching question for ministers, yet to be established, is will they work?\n\nAnd will, as ministers suggest, reducing the \"pull factors\" be enough to stop people from making this dangerous journey when some are already not deterred by the very real risk of harm?", "A well-known Norwegian mountaineer has denied accusations that her team climbed over an injured guide during a bid to break a world record.\n\nThe porter, named as Mohammed Hassan, had fallen off a ledge on Pakistan's K2 - the world's second-highest mountain.\n\nVideo on social media appears to show a group walking by Mr Hassan, who reportedly died a few hours later.\n\nBut Kristin Harila told the BBC she and her team tried everything to help him in dangerous conditions.\n\n\"It's a tragic accident... here is a father and son and a husband who lost his life that day on K2. I think that's very, very sad that it ended this way,\" she said.\n\nThe Norwegian was heading for K2's summit to secure a world record and become the fastest climber to scale all peaks above 8,000m (26,000ft).\n\nDuring the ascent on 27 July, Mr Hassan reportedly fell from an extremely narrow path known as a bottleneck.\n\nTwo climbers from Austria, Philip Flämig and Wilhelm Steindl, have posted pictures appearing to show people climbing over him. It is unclear what point of the incident the images purport to show.\n\nThe pair were also on the mountain that day, but had cancelled their ascent because of dangerous weather conditions and an avalanche. They had been filming for a documentary about Mr Steindl's attempt to reach the summit.\n\nAs their camera display was small, they say they only saw the details of what their drone captured the next day.\n\n\"We saw a guy alive, lying in the traverse in the bottleneck. And people were stepping over him on the way to the summit. And there was no rescue mission.,\" Mr Steindl told the BBC.\n\n\"I was really shocked. And I was really sad. I started to cry about the situation that people just passed him and there was no rescue mission\n\nMr Hassan was being treated by one person \"while everyone else\" moved towards the summit in a \"heated, competitive summit rush\", Mr Flämig told Austria's Der Standard newspaper.\n\nMs Harila, however, has denied the accusations that Mr Hassan was left to die.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's The World Tonight programme, Ms Harila said members of her team tried to help Mr Hassan but it was \"not possible\" to get him back down the narrow route, which was crowded with other climbers.\n\nShe said Mr Hassan was \"not part of our team\" and she had not seen him fall, but that he had not been left alone once the larger group realised he was hurt.\n\nKristin Harila set a record to become the fastest climber to scale all peaks above 8,000m (26,000ft)\n\nMs Harila suggested there were questions to answer for the company that employed Mr Hassan - who was part of a \"fixing\" team sent ahead of the climbing group to secure ropes - because he appeared not to have an oxygen supply or suitable cold weather clothing.\n\nShe added: \"We were trying to save him, we did everything we could for many hours... it's a very, very narrow path.\n\n\"How are you going to climb and traverse and carry [a person]? It's not possible.\"\n\nIn an earlier Instagram post describing what happened, the Norwegian climber said she had been walking when she saw the other team Mr Hassan was part of a few metres ahead before the \"tragic accident\" happened.\n\nShe said no-one was to blame for his death, adding that she had decided to make the statement to stop the spread of \"misinformation and hatred\".\n\nMs Harila said she did not see exactly what took place, but the next thing she knew, Mr Hassan \"was hanging upside down\" on a rope between two ice anchors, with his harness \"all the way down around his knees. In addition, he was not wearing a down suit and his stomach was exposed to snow\".\n\nHer team tried for an hour-and-a-half to fasten a rope to the guide and give him oxygen and hot water, she recounted, until \"an avalanche went off around the corner\".\n\nHaving established her team were safe, she said she understood more help was coming and decided to move forward to avoid overcrowding on the bottleneck. Her cameraman stayed behind to help until he himself ran low on oxygen.\n\n\"It was only when we came back down that we saw Hassan had passed and we were ourselves in no shape to carry his body down.\"\n\nShe did not say if anyone was with the injured porter when her cameraman left, or when they passed his body upon their descent.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, stands at 8,611m (28,251ft) and is regarded as one of the most challenging and dangerous mountains to climb.\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been goading each other about the showdown since June\n\nA planned cage fight between tech leaders Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg could now take place in Italy, and have an ancient Rome theme.\n\nIn the story's latest twist, Italy's culture minister on Friday said that he had spoken to Mr Musk about hosting the showdown as a charity event.\n\nThe billionaire CEOs of Tesla and Meta (formerly Facebook) have been goading each other into the fight since June.\n\nIf it goes ahead, millions are expected to be donated to children's hospitals.\n\nHowever, Mr Zuckerberg has said no date has been agreed so far.\n\nDetailing his vision on social media platform X (previously known as Twitter), Mr Musk said he had spoken to both Italy's prime minister and its culture minister.\n\n\"They have agreed on an epic location,\" he wrote. \"Everything in camera frame will be ancient Rome, so nothing modern at all.\"\n\nHowever the capital Rome, and its iconic Colosseum - where legendary Gladiator fights were held in ancient times - have been ruled out.\n\nItaly's Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said in a statement that the \"great charity\" event would resonate with the country's historical significance while also preserving its cultural heritage.\n\n\"I had a long and friendly conversation with Elon Musk, we talked about our shared passion for ancient Roman history,\" Mr Sangiuliano said in a statement.\n\n\"We are thinking about how to organise a great charity and historical evocation event, respecting, and fully protecting the setting... It will not take place in Rome.\"\n\nMr Sangiuliano also said that a \"substantial amount, many millions of euros\" is expected to be donated to two Italian children's hospitals as a result of hosting the cage match.\n\nWriting on Threads, the platform seen as a direct competitor to X, which he launched last month, Mark Zuckerberg said he has \"been ready to fight since the day Elon challenged me\", and if a date was ever agreed, \"you'll hear it from me\".\n\n\"Until then, please assume anything he says has not been agreed on.\"\n\nSeeming to take a dig at the floated plans, Mr Zuckerberg said that when he competes, he wants \"to do it in a way that puts a spotlight on the elite athletes at the top of the game\".\n\n\"You do that by working with professional (organisations) like the UFC or ONE [mixed martial arts organisations] to pull this off well and create a great card,\" he said.\n\nElon Musk, 52, and Mark Zuckerberg, 39 are two of the world's most high-profile technology billionaires.\n\nThe bizarre idea to fight each other started in June, when Mr Musk tweeted that he was \"up for a cage fight\" with Mr Zuckerberg.\n\nThe Meta CEO, who already has mixed martial arts (MMA) training and has recently won jiu-jitsu tournaments, simply responded with \"send me location\".", "Constable Ronan Kerr was the last PSNI officer to be killed in Omagh in 2011\n\n\"I can't trust anyone here.\"\n\n\"We were looking over our shoulder, but now even more so.\"\n\n\"This has done half the job for the people who want to target officers.\"\n\nThese are some of the remarks from serving and recently retired members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) who spoke to the BBC this week.\n\nThey were articulating the fearful fallout from the unforeseen data breach - in which the names of all 10,000 PSNI staff were published on a website.\n\nThe words of the interviewees were spoken on TV and radio by BBC producers.\n\nThe media is used to taking steps to protect the identities of police officers in this part of the UK - in recognition of the security threat.\n\nPSNI staff themselves are accustomed to checking under their cars every day - in case a bomb has been put there - and they vary their route to work.\n\nPolice everywhere face dangers in the course of doing their job.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, the risk is at a different level - because of the presence of paramilitary organisations who actively aim to take the lives of people in the security forces.\n\nThe potential implications for the safety of PSNI members is of course the most serious issue in the data leak - but there are other important, possible consequences too.\n\nPolicing in Northern Ireland is tied up with the politics of the peace process.\n\nDuring the conflict known as the Troubles, 302 officers were killed over three decades.\n\nMost were murdered by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) - the main paramilitary group which wanted to take Northern Ireland out of the UK by force.\n\nNorthern Ireland had been policed since its foundation in 1922 by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the vast majority of members being Protestants - a marker they were from the community which supported the union with Britain.\n\nThe Good Friday Agreement, which largely ended the violence in 1998, promised reforms to policing.\n\nA commission led by the former Conservative Party chair, Lord Patten, recommended big changes and, in 2001, the PSNI was created - designed to be an organisation which could gain the confidence of Irish nationalists, as well as unionists.\n\nThis involved a policy of '50:50 recruitment', in an effort to substantially increase the number of Catholics - who tended to be from the nationalist community.\n\nIn 2007, the political party linked to the IRA - Sinn Féin - endorsed the PSNI before it went into a power-sharing devolved government.\n\nBut that decision was not accepted by a minority of republicans - referred to as \"dissidents\".\n\nThe splinter groups from the IRA continued to target the police.\n\nPeadar Heffron was captain of the PSNI's Gaelic football team\n\nDissident republicans also wanted to discourage people from the nationalist community from joining the PSNI - to try to disrupt a key aspect of peacebuilding.\n\nIt was acknowledged by nationalist politicians and others that Catholic officers were particularly vulnerable.\n\nIn 2010, Constable Peadar Heffron suffered life-changing injuries and Constable Ronan Kerr was killed in separate bomb attacks.\n\nThey were both keen players of Gaelic football - a sport which is hugely popular within the nationalist community.\n\nIts governing body once banned members of the security forces in Northern Ireland from playing - such was the severity of community divisions.\n\nThe lifting of that ban - and the establishment of a PSNI Gaelic football team, which Constable Heffron captained - was seen as a symbol of progress.\n\nAfter the data leak, the group which represents Catholics in the PSNI has said one officer has decided not to turn out for their Gaelic games club this week because they have kept their job a secret, and they are now worried their occupation may be known.\n\nIt is not uncommon for officers of all backgrounds to decide not to tell people - even family and friends - what they do for a living.\n\nBefore the data leak, recruitment figures were showing the PSNI had challenges attracting applications from people from the nationalist community.\n\nThey now make up about a third of officer ranks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The roots of Northern Ireland’s Troubles lie deep in Irish history\n\nCensus figures last year indicated 45% of the population of Northern Ireland had a Catholic background.\n\nPoliticians and independent members of the Policing Board - an oversight body set up during the policing reforms - have also highlighted concerns about how the data breach could affect undercover officers.\n\nFor such officers, secrecy is all the more important.\n\nPSNI intelligence specialists have links with the security service MI5.\n\nDissident republicans have claimed they have access to the data breach list\n\nThat is one of the reasons why PSNI commanders are discussing the course of action after this week's events with security chiefs and the government in London.\n\nBudgets may come under more pressure, if compensation claims move forward or PSNI staff need to be given extra support with their personal security.\n\nPolice are assessing a claim by dissident republicans that they have the leaked information.\n\nFor the PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne, and his leadership team, this is the most unexpected of crises, with still unpredictable repercussions.", "Two Ukrainian missiles have targeted a bridge linking Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula, Moscow says.\n\nVideos on social media show plumes of smoke rising near Kerch bridge. Russia's defence ministry said S-200 missiles had been used and shot down causing no damage.\n\nUkraine has not commented on the alleged attack.\n\nThere have been at least two other attacks targeting the bridge in the past few months.\n\nThe Kerch bridge was opened in 2018 and enables road and rail travel between Russia and Crimea - Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nIt is an important resupply route for Russian forces occupying parts of southern Ukraine.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said that Ukraine had targeted the structure on Saturday at around 13:00 (10:00 GMT).\n\nIt identified the missiles used as S-200s - guided, Cold War-era surface-to-air weapons originally designed to destroy enemy aircraft that have apparently been adapted for ground-attack use.\n\nThe country's foreign ministry meanwhile said that \"such barbaric actions... will not go unanswered\".\n\nCrimea's Russia-appointed governor Sergei Aksyonov later said that a third rocket had been shot down over the Kerch Strait.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Russia said it had shot down 20 Ukrainian drones near the peninsula.\n\nAn adviser to Mr Aksyonov said that traffic was halted and the smoke was an intentional \"screen\" generated by the military.\n\nWhile Kyiv has not confirmed the attack, nor the weapons used, it would be the latest in a number of Ukrainian attempts to damage the bridge.\n\nLast month, the Ukrainian website Euromaidan Press claimed that converted S-200 missiles had been used to attack the bridge as well as two military targets in Russia's Rostov and Bryansk Oblasts.\n\nAlso last month, two people died and another was injured when the bridge was struck by explosions.\n\nKyiv did not officially confirm it carried out the attack, but a source in its security service told BBC Russian it was behind it and that water-based drones had been used.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said afterwards that the bridge was a legitimate military target that supplied Russia's war effort \"with ammunition on a daily basis\".\n\n\"Understandably, this is a target for us. And a target that is bringing war, not peace, has to be neutralised,\" he added.\n\nAn explosion on the bridge in October still remains a mystery.\n\nFootage from the time showed a huge fireball erupting as a number of cars and lorries made their way across the bridge.\n\nThe bridge was partially closed and only fully reopened in February.\n\nKyiv has repeatedly said it plans to retake Crimea and all territories seized by Russia since it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nAn apparent increase in military operations around the bridge comes as Kyiv presses its summer offensive against Russian forces in the Ukraine's east.\n\nMr Zelensky has conceded that advances have been \"slower than desired\" as his Western-equipped forces face Russia's well-prepared defensive lines.\n\nMoscow has also blamed Ukraine for a series of drone attacks on Moscow, including strikes on the Kremlin and a tower block housing government ministries.\n\nWhile not officially confirming they were Ukrainian operations, Mr Zelensky said that \"gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia ... this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Russia continues to attack civilian targets in Ukraine, including deadly missile strikes that destroyed a blood transfusion centre in Kharkiv and a residential area in Zaporizhzhia in the last week.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCoverage : Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds and follow on the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nEngland have a plan to take on Colombia in Saturday's Women's World Cup quarter-final without top scorer Lauren James, says manager Sarina Wiegman.\n\nJames, 21, was sent off in the last-16 penalty shootout victory over Nigeria and is now suspended for two games.\n\nShe scored three and assisted three goals in four matches but Wiegman says England \"know how they want to fill that position\".\n\n\"Of course, she is still part of the squad,\" Wiegman told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"[James] gets support from everyone. In a split second, she made a mistake and that cost her two games, and she regretted it straight away.\n\n\"It's [towards] the end of the game, she is fatigued, she is inexperienced and sometimes things like that happen and that is part of life. The punishment is there, two games.\n\n\"Now she needs support from us and to learn from it. She is still part of our team, she just can't play [on Saturday].\"\n• None 'The best is yet to come from England', says Mary Earps\n• None Bethany England 'not just happy' to be at World Cup\n\nEngland are favourites to win the Women's World Cup following shock early exits for the USA, Germany, Canada and Brazil.\n\nThe Lionesses are also ranked 21 places higher than Colombia, but after surviving a scare against Nigeria in their last match, Wiegman expects a tough encounter at Stadium Australia in Sydney (11:30 BST kick-off).\n\n\"Of course, there is pressure,\" she said. \"There are two teams who are very good. We want to play our best game and they do, too. That's how we approach it.\"\n\nEngland goalkeeper Mary Earps, who has kept three clean sheets so far, added: \"We can take a lot of pride in the work that we've done so far but there's still a long way we'd like to go.\n\n\"Some of our defensive work has been fantastic and long may it continue.\"\n\n'I hope we don't have that much stress'\n\nColombia, who are in their first Women's World Cup quarter-final, have proven themselves against European opposition by upsetting Germany to win 2-1 in the group stages.\n\nTeenager Linda Caicedo has been a standout performer, while the Colombian fans have travelled in big numbers to support the team in Australia.\n\n\"Colombia have done very well. It's a strong team, very together, physically strong,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"They have powerful players and want to get the ball to their attacking players because they are unpredictable and good.\"\n\nEarps said she was \"relishing\" playing in front of a potentially hostile crowd and is embracing a physical test from Colombia, whose pre-tournament friendly with the Republic of Ireland was abandoned after 20 minutes because of fears of injury.\n\n\"I think in general, every World Cup game, you absolutely relish playing in,\" said Earps.\n\n\"This level is full of heat and pressure and all those emotions that come with it, and I think that's exciting as a player.\"\n• None Why Colombia fans are out in force in Australia\n\nHowever, Wiegman hopes England will make lighter work of Colombia this time around, having played 120 minutes on Tuesday - getting through the whole of extra time with only 10 players after James' red card.\n\nThe European champions have underwhelmed in three of their four matches at the tournament, a 6-1 win over China the highlight following middling 1-0 wins over Haiti and Denmark in the group stages.\n\n\"I hope we don't have that much stress. In this tournament we've seen no game is easy. It's so competitive,\" added Wiegman.\n\n\"It's the beauty of the game and its growth. I hope we can decide it before [extra time] but we definitely think it'll be a very competitive game. We hope it'll go our way.\"\n\n'We need to be chess players'\n\nColombia boss Nelson Abadia said the fact they are the last nation representing the Americas at the Women's World Cup is motivation to beat England in Sydney.\n\nBack-to-back world champions the USA were stunned in the last 16, while Olympic gold medallists Canada failed to get out of their group.\n\n\"To be representing the whole of the Americas is important,\" said Abadia. \"To have all this positive energy not only from Colombia but from the whole continent is beneficial.\"\n\nAbadia also plans to treat Saturday's showdown like a game of chess and hopes to outsmart Wiegman.\n\n\"We need to be chess players and analyse,\" said Abadia. \"We have analysed England and what our best chances are going to be.\n\n\"We know all the history that England brings in football, it's important. But for me, it's 11 against 11 and the optimism is the same we have for every match.\n\n\"There are several variables in any match - technical, tactical and physical. What's important is the strength in the team's character and that is going to be vital for what we need to do.\"\n• None Why Colombia fans are out in force in Australia\n\nPeople are starting to doubt England, but this is the game where I think they will come out and play some beautiful football and get into a groove.\n\nEven so, it is going to be very close and there are so many personal battles all over the pitch which will help decide it.\n\nColombia are a quality team and they will definitely create some chances. They switch play very effectively with diagonal balls and are very dangerous with headers.\n\nBut Mary Earps has kept three clean sheets and has only been beaten from the penalty spot - during the group-stage win over China and the shootout victory over Nigeria in the last round - and she is not going to concede here either.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEighty people have now been confirmed to have been killed by wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, officials say.\n\nThere are fears the numbers will rise further, as hundreds are still uncontactable.\n\nFirefighters have been trying to contain fires in several areas, including the historic town of Lahaina which has been utterly devastated.\n\nHawaii's attorney general has announced a \"comprehensive review\" into how the authorities responded to the wildfires.\n\nIt comes as questions mount over whether officials warned residents fast enough.\n\nState officials reopened Lahaina to people with proof of residency on Friday for the first time since flames swept rapidly through early this week, razing much of the coastal town which has a rich history and attracts some two million tourists a year.\n\nOn the Honoapiilani Highway - one of the only available routes into Lahaina - cars sat bumper-to-bumper, with families looking tired and worried alongside trucks piled high with supplies, water, fuel, nappies and toilet paper.\n\nBut within hours after opening, the road was shut to everyone but emergency services.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four factors that made Maui wildfires so deadly\n\nAuthorities told the BBC that police had been called in to address a \"situation\" but would not elaborate.\n\nEvacuated Lahaina residents later said they believed their homes had been struck by looting, though this was not confirmed by police.\n\nStill, for hours after the closure, families sat in a mile-long line.\n\nEarlier, Governor Josh Green had warned residents would be greeted by \"destruction like they've not ever seen in their lives\".\n\nAnd for many of Lahaina's evacuees, that waiting devastation is still too much to see.\n\nIn Paukukalo, a coastal neighbourhood east of Lahaina, 23 stranded members of the Tacderan family gathered with relatives to take stock of the loss.\n\nBryan Aguiran said he's not ready to return home\n\nOne of them, 26-year-old Bryan Aguiran, remained in Lahaina through the worst of the fire, fighting the blaze with large buckets of water and miraculously saving his family home.\n\nBut he does not want to go back.\n\n\"Every time I close my eyes I see Armageddon,\" he said, adding he has not been able to sleep.\n\n\"Lahaina will never be the same,\" he said.\n\nHe, like many other Maui residents, said he feared how much further the death toll would climb.\n\nThese fears were intensified on Friday evening when residents of Kaanapali - north of Lahaina - were ordered to evacuate as a fire flared up in the area where a fuelling station had been set up. It was brought under control some two hours later, Maui officials said.\n\nWest Maui, where Lahaina and Kaanapali are located, is still without power and water. Search crews are still in the area looking for wildfire victims.\n\nThat includes in the water. The Coast Guard said it had pulled 17 people alive from the water near the town's harbour so far. All were reported to be in a stable condition.\n\nBut Gabe Lucy, who owns a tour operator on Maui, told the BBC that he was hearing horrific accounts.\n\n\"People were jumping in the water and I think for a lot of them the fire wrapped around so quick that the only way to escape was go down to the water's edge,\" said Mr Lucy, whose boats were called in to help.\n\nHe added that they were \"picking up four-year-olds and putting them on surfboards and pulling them out\" and that he had heard reports of \"bodies on the rocks\".\n\nAuthorities have warned it will take many years to repair the damage caused by wildfires on the island of Maui. More than 1,000 buildings have been destroyed in Lahaina alone.\n\nThe extensive damage is an added stress for Maui's locals, many of whom rely on the service jobs supplied by the tourism industry.\n\nGovernor Josh Green warned Hawaiians on Friday what they found in Lahaina would be difficult.\n\n\"Lahaina is a devastated zone. They will see destruction like they've not ever seen in their lives,\" said the governor, who visited the town on Thursday. \"Be very safe, be very careful.\"\n\nThere are six shelters in operation on Maui for those displaced, and officials said they were drafting a plan to house them in hotels and tourist rental properties.\n\nIn recent days, donations have been rolling in.\n\nThe island is home to many wealthy people, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. He and his partner Lauren Sanchez have pledged $100m (£79m) to help the fire victims.\n\nWildfires on Hawaii's Maui island and Big Island began on Tuesday night. The cause is still not known but once lit, hurricane winds and dry weather helped fuel the flames.\n\nHow have you been affected by the fires in Maui? Please share your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane made his Bayern Munich debut as they lost 3-0 to RB Leipzig in the German Super Cup.\n\nOnly hours after completing his £86m move from Tottenham on Saturday, the striker came on as 64th-minute substitute to a huge cheer at the Allianz Arena.\n\nHe had only three touches and made little impact.\n\nDani Olmo scored a hat-trick for Leipzig to deny 30-year-old Kane the first trophy of his career.\n\nOlmo's first goal was into the bottom corner after a cross was not cleared. His second was brilliant, spinning Matthijs de Ligt before slotting through Sven Ulreich's legs.\n\nThe Spain forward got his hat-trick with a penalty after Kane's introduction.\n• None Where does Kane rank among Premier League forwards?\n\nBayern manager Thomas Tuchel said: \"It is a big problem because it feels as if we had done nothing in the past four weeks.\n\n\"I cannot explain it. It was just not enough in every department. I have no idea why. There is no relation between our form and attitude going into the game and our performance on the pitch.\n\n\"It is the worst thing because there is such a big discrepancy.\"\n\nKane will have better days in Germany once he gets to know his new team. It was a slight surprise he was involved, having only become a Bayern player on the morning of the game.\n\nHe has scored 354 goals in his career and is the record scorer for Tottenham with 280, and England with 58.\n\nLeipzig's performance was especially impressive considering they lost three of their leading players to the Premier League this summer.\n\nCroatia defender Josko Gvardiol joined Manchester City for £77m, Hungary midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai went to Liverpool for £60m and France striker Christopher Nkunku moved to Chelsea for £52m.\n\nThe German Super Cup is the equivalent of the Community Shield in England, with Bayern the Bundesliga champions and Leipzig the German Cup winners.", "Sacha Baron Cohen is planning to revive Ali G, the infamous spoof wannabe gangster who became a comedy star 25 years ago, for a new stand-up tour.\n\nAli G became a hit thanks to his prank interviews with unsuspecting experts on his TV show in the early 2000s.\n\nHe then starred in his own film, and has made occasional appearances in recent years.\n\nVariety reported that Baron Cohen has been working on a stand-up tour in which Ali G will feature.\n\nBBC News has confirmed the report, but there are no further details of the tour.\n\nIn 2021, Baron Cohen brought back Ali G for a sketch at the MTV Movie & TV Awards, and for a one-off routine at a Sydney comedy club.\n\n\"I just wanted to get on stage and muck around and see what Ali G would be like with a crowd,\" the comedian told GQ afterwards. \"It was really good fun.\"\n\nIn the early days, Ali G got laughs by duping an array of interviewees into going along with his persona, while also lampooning white people from the suburbs who posed as the urban youth.\n\nBut the act was criticised by some, who saw it as adopting and ridiculing black street culture.\n\nBaron Cohen, now 51, also found success by playing similar pranks as his Kazakh reporter Borat, and played flamboyant Austrian fashionista Bruno.", "The running-mate of a murdered Ecuadorian politician is to contest the presidential election in his place.\n\nFernando Villavicencio was shot three times in the head after a campaign rally in Quito. Police say all suspects are Colombian.\n\nHis Construye party said it would put Andrea Gonzalez forward as its presidential candidate.\n\nThe party added that it was in the process of choosing a vice-presidential candidate for the August 20 election.\n\nMs Gonzalez, 36, whose career has mainly focused on environmental issues, is due to take part in Sunday's presidential debate in the capital.\n\nThe party said on social media that she would \"guarantee the legacy\" of Mr Villavicencio \"and millions of Ecuadorians will accompany her in this purpose\".\n\nThe candidate for the vice-presidency would come from \"the most trusted of those who have shared the struggles of comrade Fernando Villavicencio\", the party added.\n\nMr Villavicencio, 59, a former journalist and member of the country's national assembly, was shot three times in the head as he left a public event in the capital on Wednesday.\n\nOne attacker was killed in an exchange of fire with police while several others escaped.\n\nHis death has shocked a nation that has largely escaped the decades of drug-gang violence, cartel wars and corruption that has blighted many of its neighbours. Crime has however shot up in recent years, fuelled by the growth of Colombian and Mexican drug cartels.\n\nMr Villavicencio's campaign focused on corruption and gangs, and was one of only a few candidates to allege links between organised crime and government officials in Ecuador.\n\nOn Saturday, his widow, Veronica Sarauz, told a news conference that she held the state responsible for her husband's death.\n\n\"The state still has to give many answers about everything that happened, his personal guards did not do their job,\" she said.\n\n\"I do not want to think that they sold my husband to be murdered in this infamous way.\"\n\nMs Sarauz also expressed her displeasure that Ms Gonzalez had been named as her husband's replacement to contest the presidential election.\n\nAccording to Interior Minister Juan Zapata, six Colombians have been arrested, who were members of organised criminal groups.\n\nEcuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has called on the FBI to help investigate Mr Villavicencio's death.\n\nMeanwhile, three men considered highly dangerous by Ecuador's authorities have been moved from a jail in the port city of Guayaquil where they were inmates in a maximum security prison.\n\nThey included Jose Adolfo Macias, known as \"Fito\", the leader of one of Ecuador's main organised crime groups from whom Mr Villavicencio said he had received death threats.\n\nMr Villavicencio, who was married and had five children, was one of eight candidates in the first round of the election - although he was not the frontrunner and was polling around the middle of the pack.\n\nPatricia Villavicencio, his sister, said \"this crime can't go unpunished... We are hurting, with a broken soul, there is no justice, there is no protection\".", "More heat pumps in homes and community energy projects are part of the Welsh government's target to meet 100% of its electricity needs from renewables in 12 years' time.\n\nThe latest estimates show renewables cover 56% of our energy consumption but Climate Change Minister Julie James called the new target \"ambitious but credible\", even with energy demand set to soar with the move towards electric cars and away from gas boilers.\n\nIt is considerable scaling up of ambition, as the previous target was to reach 70% by 2030.\n\nThe consultation includes plans to increase the capacity of renewable energy but also to reduce the demand for it.\n\nBut there is no room for complacency, according to the leading think tank the Institute for Welsh Affairs (IWA).\n\nAuriol Miller from the IWA said \"there's nothing automatic\" about hitting these targets, and the government must focus on \"finding new and alternative sources of energy\", as well as reducing consumption through retrofitting homes.\n\nSpeaking in the Senedd, the minister announced a consultation on the new targets, which \"propose a pathway for us to meet the equivalent of 100% of our annual electricity consumption for renewable electricity by 2035, and to continue to keep pace with consumption thereafter\".\n\nThe plans include a target for at least 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of energy capacity to come from smaller-scale community-owned projects.\n\nAnd, subject to strengthened support from the UK government and reductions in cost, the minister wants 5.5GW of energy to be provided by heat pumps in the same time-frame.\n\nJulie James has announced a consultation on the target\n\nThe latest estimates, published in 2020, show Wales already meets 56% of it electricity needs from renewable sources like wind, sun and water, but to reach 100% in just over a decade many barriers will need to be overcome.\n\nEnergy infrastructure, like the grid and connecting the energy generated by windfarms in the sea to that grid, are some of the huge challenges.\n\nAs part of Tuesday's announcement, the minister said the Welsh government will provide £1m of funding to explore the potential of offshore wind in the Celtic Sea.\n\nThe money will be match-funded by Associated British Ports (ABP) which says it will be used to \"kick-start the development of a major green energy hub at Port Talbot\".\n\nAndrew Harston from ABP said the £2m \"is key to the construction of transformational infrastructure, which will enable the manufacturing, integration and assembly of floating offshore wind components at Port Talbot\".\n\nJulie James conceded that the Welsh government's investment of £1m was a drop in the ocean, considering the level of funding needed to deliver floating wind offshore in south west Wales.\n\nBut she said the investment signals to the industry Welsh ministers' commitment, and added \"this is not the end of our support\".\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government has acknowledged that a \"step-change is needed\" to boost grid capacity in Wales.\n\nA group of MPs has published a report looking at the problems with the grid here and, in a response published on Tuesday, the UK government said it will continue to work on \"strategic planning, regulatory approval, planning consents and streamlining connections across Great Britain, including Wales\".\n\nPlanning procedures must be improved, according to industry representatives.\n\nManon Kynaston, deputy director of RenewableUK Cymru, a trade body that represents the industry, welcomed the revised target and agreed that it is ambitious but achievable.\n\nHowever, she said there is a great deal of work to be done to not only reach the targets but to keep those benefits in Wales.\n\nManon Kynaston welcomes the announcement but warns that there is a long way to go\n\n\"To be able to reach those targets we need a system that is diverse and flexible, that includes fixed off shore wind from the coast of north Wales but also the significant opportunity we have of floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea.\n\n\"We need to unlock some key barriers, mainly consenting and licensing, and also working closely with the UK government to ensure we have investment in our ports and infrastructure,\" she said.\n\n\"We really need anticipatory investment to make sure the grid is fit for purpose to take advantage of the opportunities.\"\n\nCentral to the Welsh government's vision is ensuring the benefits stay in local communities as much as possible, and the profits do not leave Wales to big multinational companies.\n\nYnni Ogwen is one example of a community project the minister would like to see more of.\n\nIt is a hydroelectric project on the Afon Ogwen near Bethesda in Gwynedd, which generates electricity and ploughs the profits back into the community.\n\nRecently the scheme gave £20,000 back to help ease the cost of living crisis in the area.\n\nMeleri Davies, a founder member of Ynni Ogwen, said it is great that there are new targets but the Welsh government \"must ensure the projects are community based\".\n\n\"We need more projects like this simply because of the economic, social and environmental impact of this scheme,\" she said.\n\nBut Ms Davies said she would like the government to go further and ensure the energy they produce can be used locally.\n\n\"At the moment the energy we produce here is exported to the grid who pay us for it.\n\n\"If we could use that energy to power homes locally at a reduced tariff that would be tremendous.\n\n\"That's the kind of aspiration we'd like the Welsh government to move towards.\"\n\nMs Davies also said that more funding is needed to make it easier for projects like Ynni Ogwen to get off the ground.\n\n\"We need funding, last year there were only four community owned projects developed.\n\n\"You need a lot of investment, a grant subsidy or support, to enable this kind of project to happen.\"\n\nWith consumption of electricity expected to rise in coming years, as we move towards electric vehicles and away from gas boilers, the pace of the rollout of renewable energy will need to increase if we are to have a chance of reaching the 100% target.\n\nPart of that ambition is to encourage more of us to install heat pumps, but that is \"not happening quick enough\", according to Auriol Miller.\n\nShe said it is important not to put too much responsibility on individuals.\n\nShe said: \"Welsh government [and the UK government] needs to be thinking about the investment for that to happen and then the deployment of that as well.\"\n\n\"So retrofitting homes is great, but it's not happening quick enough at the moment.\"\n\nIt seems the urgency to act is not lost on the industry, which says it is poised to take advantage of the opportunities available but that it is up to the governments to do more to ensure projects move quicker.\n\n\"We are in a climate emergency, the time to move is now,\" said Manon Kynaston.\n\nAnd time is of the essence according to Auriol Miller.\n\n\"We know from the global climate change challenge that we've got ten years really to make a difference in terms of safeguarding the future of our planet.\n\n\"That goes for us here in Wales too.\"", "Sam Bankman-Fried arrives in court in New York on 11 August 2023\n\nSam Bankman-Fried, who was arrested on fraud charges last year after the collapse of his cryptocurrency firm, must await trial behind bars, a US judge has ordered.\n\nThe 31-year-old was handcuffed in court and led away, while his mother watched in tears after the decision.\n\nJudge Lewis Kaplan had agreed with prosecutors who had accused Mr Bankman-Fried of trying to influence witnesses expected to testify against him.\n\nHe had denied the claims.\n\nSpeaking in court on Friday, Judge Kaplan said: \"There is probable cause to believe that the defendant has attempted to tamper with witnesses at least twice.\"\n\nThe hearing on whether to revoke Mr Bankman-Fried's bail came ahead of trial, which is scheduled for October.\n\nThe 31-year-old was arrested in December after being accused of misusing money from investors and customers of his bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to pay for property, political donations and plug losses at his hedge fund, Alameda Research.\n\nThe former billionaire denied the claims and was released to his parents' home in Palo Alto, California on a $250m (£197m) bond.\n\nHe was forced to hand over his belongings from his pockets and remove his shoelaces, jacket and tie before the US Marshals Service took him away on Friday, according to Reuters.\n\nHis father was also in court and placed his hand over his heart as his son was led away in handcuffs.\n\nThe court had already moved to tighten restrictions faced by Mr Bankman-Fried earlier this year, citing his efforts to contact people involved in the case and his use of a virtual private network.\n\nThe latest request from prosecutors was sparked by a July article in the New York Times, which quoted confessional writings by Caroline Ellison, Mr Bankman-Fried's sometime girlfriend and the former chief executive of Alameda.\n\nIn the article, Ms Ellison, who pleaded guilty to fraud last year and is expected to testify against Mr Bankman-Fried, was quoted reflecting on their break-up and how she felt \"overwhelmed\" at work.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Bankman-Fried had shared the documents to try to make his case in the media that Ms Ellison was a \"jilted lover\" who had worked alone.\n\nThey also argued that it would have a chilling effect on other potential witnesses because it could make them fear \"personal humiliation and efforts to discredit their reputation\" beyond what would be permitted in court. They said he had participated in roughly 1,000 phone calls with members of the press in recent months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sam Bankman-Fried denies claims he knew FTX customer money was used for risky financial bets\n\nHis attorneys said he had shared documents that were already known to the reporter and had a right to speak to the media. They also said sending Mr Bankman-Fried to jail would hinder trial preparations.\n\nEarlier this month, Judge Kaplan barred Mr Bankman-Fried from speaking about the case.\n\nMedia groups, including the New York Times and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, had asked the judge to loosen the restrictions, citing free speech considerations.\n\nThe move to jail marks a further fall from grace for Mr Bankman-Fried, an MIT graduate and son of Stanford professors, whose work in crypto transformed him into a billionaire.\n\nKnown for his curly head of hair, he became a high-profile spokesman for the industry, courting celebrities and politicians and appearing on magazine covers to promote digital currencies.\n\nHis firm collapsed abruptly last year after facing a run on deposits. Mr Bankman-Fried has acknowledged sloppy record keeping but denied intentional wrongdoing.", "When do England play Colombia in Women’s World Cup, kick-off time and how to follow it? Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland are hoping to reach their third successive World Cup semi-final Coverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website & app. England's Women's World Cup quarter-final against Colombia on Saturday 12 August (11:30 BST) will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds. As well as live commentary, highlights will be available to UK users on the BBC Sport website and app throughout the day and at 19:00 BST on BBC Three. The BBC will also show both World Cup semi-finals, while the final will be live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The match is being broadcast live on ITV in the UK. Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "Dramatic footage shows the final moments as Lahaina resident Bosco Bae Jr fled his home. He said the conditions were like \"hellfire\". Speaking to the BBC, he said he is waiting to return and hopes to rebuild.", "Roman Friday, one of the stowaways, in São Paulo. \"I wanted a brighter future,\" he said (Victor Moriyama/BBC)\n\nFour Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on the rudder of a tanker. They had no idea they were bound for Brazil, and a two-week ocean voyage that would nearly kill them.\n\nA little after midnight on 27 June, Roman Ebimene Friday gathered up the food he had been collecting for a few months and set out in the dark for the large commercial port in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. Earlier that day, Friday had spotted a 620-foot (190m) tanker docked at the port and decided that it would be the ship to deliver him to Europe.\n\nFriday was aiming for the tanker's rudder - the only accessible point on its massive hull for a person who isn't supposed to be aboard. There was no way to bridge the gap from the dock to the rudder, other than convince a fisherman to ferry him across. \"He was a holy man, that fisherman,\" Friday recalled. \"He did not ask for money. He could see that I wanted to leave.\"\n\nThe fisherman sidled up to the rudder and Friday, 35, pulled himself up, hauling his food bag behind him on a rope. As he steadied himself he saw, to his surprise, three faces in the dark. He was the last of four men with the same idea. \"I was scared, at first,\" Friday said. \"But they were black Africans, my brothers.\"\n\nFearful of being caught, the four men perched silently on the rudder for the next 15 hours. At 5pm, they felt the ship's giant engines shudder to life. Over the din, they shouted a few words. They were all aiming for Europe. They expected to be shipmates for as long as a week.\n\nThe tanker, called the Ken Wave, pushed out from the port and headed to sea - the beginning of a perilous two-week ocean voyage that would bring the stowaways close to death.\n\nRoman Friday accepts water, perched on the rudder that took him and three other men to Brazil\n\nAs Lagos receded behind them, the men tried and failed to find comfortable positions on the rudder, which moved constantly as it steered the ship. There was precious little space to stand, and the only place to lie was in one of two small nets strung precariously over the water, by previous stowaways, Friday assumed.\n\nIt can be hard to understand, from the outside, what drives a person to risk their life on a rudder or a rickety boat across the Mediterranean. But the decision comes easy when you have already lost hope, Friday said.\n\n\"In Nigeria there are no jobs, no money and no way for me to feed my younger brothers and my mother,\" he said. \"I am the first born son and my father died 20 years ago, so I should take care of my family, but I cannot.\"\n\nInstead he had spent three years living on and off the street in Lagos, trying to find work. Each day in Nigeria was a gauntlet of \"crime and sin,\" he said. \"People fighting, killing each other, terrorists attacking, kidnappers. I want a brighter future than that.\"\n\nFriday, left, and Thankgod Yeye, right. \"We became brothers on the way,\" Friday said (Victor Moriyama/BBC)\n\nPerched next to Friday on the rudder of the tanker was Thankgod Opemipo Matthew Yeye, a Pentecostal minister, businessman and father of two whose peanut and palm oil farm had washed away in the devastating floods that hit Nigeria last year. There had been no fallback or insurance to cover the loss.\n\n\"My business was destroyed and my family became homeless. And that was the genesis of my decision to leave,\" he said.\n\nYeye's decision became final after the recent presidential election, which was marred by anomalies and allegations of vote rigging. \"The election had been our hope,\" he said. \"But we know Nigeria well, we know the system is corrupt.\" So, without telling his family, he left his sister's home at night and set out for the port, where he knew the Ken Wave was waiting to depart.\n\nNigeria has seen an exodus of people like Yeye and Friday in recent years, via regular and irregular routes, driven by recessions and record unemployment levels. Many travel across the Sahara and the Mediterranean, where at least 1,200 Nigerians have died already this year, according to the UN.\n\nRoman Friday sitting atop the rudder that carried him across the Atlantic\n\nSome choose to stow away. Last year, three men climbed on a rudder in a similar fashion to Friday and Yeye, and their journey took them 2,500 miles to the Canary islands, an entry point to Spain. Friday and Yeye believed they were following a similar route.\n\nWith their two companions, William and Zeze, they passed the first few days on the ship in a mixture of boredom, discomfort, and fear, talking only a little, praying often and trying to stay awake, as the Ken Wave pushed into the vast stretch of the south Atlantic for the 3,500 mile journey to Brazil.\n\nIn some ways, ship stowaways are safer than those who cross parts of the Sahara on foot or the Mediterranean on rickety wooden boats. But as day five passed, Friday and Yeye began to reckon with the specific dangers of their situation.\n\nThey were already weak from rationing their food and tired from lack of sleep. They tied a rope around their waists when they needed to pee off the side of the rudder. When the water was rough, waves lashed them. \"We were all scared of the big waves,\" Yeye said. \"I had never seen the ocean before but I used to watch documentaries about storms and I had seen big ships rocked from side to side by waves.\" Sleep was virtually impossible. \"You try not to even close your eyes,\" Friday said. \"The rudder turns 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you have to constantly be alert.\"\n\nThe nets came loose and had to be inexpertly refastened. They lay in them again but Friday thought only of being awoken by the sudden feeling of falling and the hit of cold below. \"If the net breaks, you go straight into the water and you are gone,\" he said. And you really were gone. There's no chance of rescue at sea when no-one knows you're lost.\n\nDay passed into night and into day again. The men grew weaker and stopped talking entirely. Friday kept track of the time on his wristwatch. He tried to remember the day. The nets came loose again and were refastened. The food was rationed in smaller parcels, the water in smaller sips. Their mouths began to dry out. Their stomachs ached. They tried to remain vigilant and tried not to fall in.\n\nDay 10 brought the moment the four had been quietly dreading. Some time in the morning, they ate the last of their food and drank the last of their water. All four were already painfully hungry from spacing out the meagre rations they had. \"This was the hardest moment of all,\" Yeye said. \"My mouth was dry and completely cracked. For the first time in my life I really understood the meaning of water.\"\n\nThere were a few lighter moments. Yeye told his brothers he was praying for rain and they laughed at him. What are you going to do with rain? they cried. How will you collect it? Rain was only dangerous for them, they chided. The laughter subsided. Hour by hour, they became more thirsty. Time seemed to move more slowly.\n\nThe next day, Friday managed to attach a torn cellophane biscuit wrapper to a length of rope and lower it into the ocean, he said, and collect small mouthfuls of salty water for them to drink. They licked toothpaste.\n\nOn day 12, sick from salty ocean water, one of the other men began to vomit from the side of the rudder block. \"He was looking straight down into the water and vomiting,\" Friday said. \"He had no strength to hold himself. He was about to fall. I was the only person who had strength left and I had to grab hold of him.\"\n\nRoman Friday in his new home in São Paulo (Victor Moriyama/BBC)\n\nThe men were entering the phase of hunger and thirst that brings you close to death. In an effort to distract himself, Friday began to sit on the edge of the rudder alone, one leg hanging either side, scanning the ocean in vain for anything to interrupt the long unbroken line of the horizon.\n\nWhat the ocean gave him, on the 13th day of the voyage, was a whale.\n\n\"The first time in my life I have seen such a thing!\" he said, laughing at the memory. \"If I told anyone at home I had seen a whale they will say I am lying. But I sat on the rudder and I saw a whale. And I forgot I was hungry and thirsty. I watched the whale and it was like watching creation. A holy moment.\"\n\nAs the first light appeared on the horizon on day 14 of the voyage, Friday was back on the edge of the rudder, staring into the distance, when he felt the ship's mighty engines begin to slow. Then, in the dim light, in the distance, he saw what looked like land. Then buildings. Then a boat.\n\nThe Ken Wave was stopping off the coast to take on a fresh crew, and the resupply boat spotted the men. \"Do you know where you are?\" came a shout. Friday tried to shout back that he had no idea, but his throat was too dry. The boat left, then two hours later, in the clearer light, a police dinghy appeared. An officer stretched out a bottle of water to Friday. \"You are in Brazil,\" he said.\n\nSafely back on dry land, the migrants used borrowed phones to call their families. Friday and Yeye's two fellow migrants, William and Zeze, decided to take up an offer of returning directly to Nigeria. Friday and Yeye decided to make Brazil their home. \"We are joyful to be here,\" Yeye said. \"It is a new beginning.\"\n\nThey will likely face challenges. Migrants have automatic rights to healthcare and other benefits in Brazil, but African migrants often face racism and struggle to find well-paid work. Friday and Yeye have been taken in by a shelter in São Paulo and are being assisted by a Catholic mission, Missao Paz, with Portuguese lessons and other support. Yeye wants to start a new business and bring his wife and children over.\n\nFriday is focused on the more immediate future. \"I am in a new place, I am trying to adapt, I am trying to learn the language,\" he said. The first journey he had ever made out of Nigeria had nearly killed him, but as the days passed after his rescue, he felt the hopelessness that had dogged him back home begin to ebb, he said.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane has joined German champions Bayern Munich on a four-year deal, ending his record-breaking career at Tottenham.\n\nThe striker signs for an initial 100m euros (£86.4m) plus add-ons and could make his debut in Saturday's German Super Cup game against RB Leipzig.\n\nKane, 30, leaves Premier League Spurs as their all-time top scorer with 280 goals in 435 appearances.\n\nIn a social media post he said he \"felt this was the time to leave\" Spurs.\n\nKane trained with his new team-mates on Saturday morning as Bayern prepared for their home game at the Allianz Arena against the German Cup champions RB Leipzig at 19:45 BST.\n\n\"So obviously I got straight into the Super Cup and hopefully I play some part in that,\" Kane said.\n• None Where does Kane rank among Premier League forwards?\n• None How should Tottenham replace Kane? Are there forwards they need to target to fill the void? Have your say here\n\nKane was linked with a move to Manchester City in 2021, and his future had been uncertain this summer because he only had one year left on his contract at Spurs.\n\nHe was also linked with Manchester United and Real Madrid earlier this summer, before Bayern made their move. After having several bids rejected, a deal was agreed on Thursday, with Kane flying to Munich on Friday to finalise matters.\n\nSpurs chairman Daniel Levy said the club had \"reluctantly agreed to his transfer\".\n\n\"We sought over a long period of time to engage Harry and his representatives in several forms of contract extension, both short and long term,\" Levy said.\n\n\"Harry was clear, however, that he wanted a fresh challenge and would not be signing a new contract this summer.\"\n\nKane has won the Premier League Golden Boot three times - in 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2020-21 - and with 213 goals from 320 games in the English top flight, needed just 48 more to break Alan Shearer's Premier League scoring record.\n\nKane, who is England's all-time leading scorer with 58 international goals and was the top scorer at the 2018 World Cup, has never won a major trophy with club or country.\n\n\"I'm very happy to be a part of FC Bayern now. Bayern is one of the biggest clubs in the world, and I've always said that I want to compete and prove myself at the highest level during my career,\" said Kane, who will wear the number nine shirt at Bayern and has signed until 2027.\n\n\"This club is defined by its winning mentality - it feels very good to be here.\"\n\nBayern Munich claimed their 33rd Bundesliga title last season - and 11th in a row - and have won the Champions League six times and German Cup on 20 occasions.\n\nBayern chief executive Jan-Christian Dreesen said their pursuit had been \"a long process\" but that Kane was their \"absolute dream player right from the start\".\n\n\"He is a perfect fit for us and the club's DNA in terms of both football and character,\" he added.\n\n\"World-class centre forwards have always been an important factor when FC Bayern has celebrated its greatest triumphs, and we're convinced that Harry Kane will continue this success story\n\n\"Our fans can look forward to one of the best goal scorers of our time.\"\n\nClub president Herbert Hainer said the transfer required \"tenacity, bite and perseverance\", adding: \"Kane will not only strengthen FC Bayern, but also be a real asset to the entire Bundesliga.\"\n\nKane joined Spurs' academy in 2004, signing his first professional contract in 2010 and making his senior debut in 2011.\n\nLoan spells away from the club followed before he returned to establish himself as Spurs' main striker in the 2014-15 season, scoring 31 goals in all competitions and winning the PFA Young Player of the Year Award.\n\nHe passed Jimmy Greaves as Spurs' all-time top scorer in February 2023 with his 267th club goal in a 1-0 win over Manchester City and finished last season with 30 Premier League goals as Spurs ended a difficult season in eighth place.\n\nKane posted a video on social media saying: \"Obviously, a lot of emotions going through me right now and sad to be leaving the club I've spent 20 years of my life at, from an 11-year-old boy, to a 30-year-old man.\n\n\"There have been so many great moments and special memories; memories I will cherish forever.\"\n\nHe added: \"I felt this was the time to leave. I didn't want to go into the season with a lot of unresolved talk.\"I think it's important for the new manager and the players to concentrate on trying to get Tottenham back to around the top of the table and fighting for trophies.\n\n\"It's not a goodbye because you never know how things will pan out in the future.\"\n\nLevy said Kane was a \"model professional\" and \"an inspiration for young players who dream of following in his footsteps\".\n\n\"We have seen a product of our academy system become one of the best players to ever pull on a Spurs shirt and become one of world football's elite strikers,\" added Levy.\n\n\"It has been a truly remarkable journey.\n\n\"I should like to thank Harry for everything he's done for us, all the memories, all the records - we wish him and his family all the best for the future.\n\n\"It goes without saying, he's always welcome back. He's a much loved and valued member of the Spurs family, forever in our history.\"\n\nSpurs face Brentford in their first match of the season on Sunday and manager Ange Postecoglou said the club would \"move forward without Harry\".\n\nKane's strike partner at Spurs, Son Heung-min, paid tribute to his departing colleague in a post on Instagram.\n\nSon, who alongside Kane holds the Premier League record for goal combinations between two players, wrote: \"Leader, brother, legend.\n\n\"Since day one it has been a joy to play by your side. So many memories, amazing games and incredible goals together.\n\n\"Harry, thank you for everything you have given to me, to our club, and to our fans. Wish you nothing but the best in your new chapter. Good luck brother.\"\n• None Follow your Premier League club and get news sent direct to you\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The Scottish Greens say grouse shooting is a \"cruel and outdated hobby\"\n\nThe annual grouse shooting season is getting under way with land owners and climate campaigners divided over proposals for a licensing scheme.\n\nThe Scottish government said it wants to minimise the impact of grouse moors through new legislation at Holyrood.\n\nBut land owners said the Glorious 12th, one of the busiest days of the shooting season, is at risk from the \"excessive\" regulations being considered by MSPs.\n\nThe government introduced the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill earlier this year.\n\nIt is currently being considered by committees at stage one of its journey through parliament. The legislation seeks to implement recommendations for increased grouse moor management and trap regulation as set out in the Werritty review in December 2019\n\nIf passed by MSPs, a licence would be required to kill red grouse and inspectors would be given increased powers to investigate suspected wildlife crime.\n\nIt would also introduce stricter rules on muirburn, the practice of using fire as a land management tool.\n\nCritics say grouse moors are bad for Scotland's landscapes\n\nAs shooters gathered for the official opening of the season on Saturday, Scottish Land and Estates (SLE) called for the government to amend its bill.\n\nIt said the game and country sports sector was worth more than £350m to the economy and supported 11,000 jobs.\n\nRoss Ewing, SLE's director of moorland, said: \"Sustainable grouse moor management provides a huge boost to the economy, bringing visitors to rural areas from August to December and providing revenue which underpins rural jobs year-round.\"\n\nHe described the Scottish government scheme as \"excessively disproportionate\" because he said it would allow NatureScot to suspend a licence when an investigation started \"without being satisfied that any relevant offence has been committed\".\n\nMr Ewing argued that grouse moors provide environmental benefits through carbon capture, peatland restoration and wildfire prevention.\n\nHe added: \"Sustainable grouse moor management provides remarkable conservation benefits, particularly for ground-nesting birds, birds of prey, rare moorland plants and pollinators.\n\n\"The uplands are home to specialist species that benefit enormously from land management for red grouse.\"\n\nHowever, climate campaigners Extinction Rebellion said they would hold a protest on the \"inglorious 12th\" at Dundee Airport, which is near several large hunting estates.\n\nThe group said grouse moor management had \"huge environmental costs\", including the burning of heather and the culling of other species.\n\nThe Scottish Greens said the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill was a key pillar of the Bute House Agreement, the party's power-sharing deal with the SNP at Holyrood.\n\nAriane Burgess, the party's rural affairs spokeswoman, described the Glorious 12th as \"a festival of violence\" and a \"cruel and outdated hobby\".\n\nShe said the new government measures were necessary following incidents of illegal persecution of birds of prey, such as golden eagles, in grouse moor areas.\n\n\"The intensive burning and degradation of our landscapes to try and improve the habitat for red grouse, so that there are more of them to be shot, is unnecessary and damages the local environment and our climate,\" Ms Burgess added.\n\n\"Our world renowned landscapes and nature are for all of us. They must serve local communities, rather than the interests of the small number of wealthy people who pursue these niche and elitist blood sports.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it had carefully considered the implications of its proposals.\n\nEnvironment Minister Gillian Martin said: \"The provisions in the bill provide for a practical, proportionate and targeted licensing regime which will support those carrying out activities appropriately and in line with the law, and will have consequences for those that don't.\"", "An emerald damselfly - Lestes sponsa, taken at Lambhill stables, Glasgow\n\nNestled in an unassuming Glasgow Park lies a treasure trove of vibrant colours, intricate details, and tiny creatures waiting to be discovered.\n\nIt was during the confinement of the Covid lockdown that David Hamilton found himself captivated by this hidden world.\n\nNow he runs a popular Instagram page \"WeeMadBeasties\" showcasing macro photography - extreme close-up photos - of all the creepy-crawlies found within Ruchill Park and across Scotland.\n\nBefore the restrictions of lockdown, the 43-year-old, from Glasgow's West End, had been a landscape photographer, but the limitations of lockdown led him down a different path.\n\n\"I'd seen an article on someone converting their existing equipment to shoot macro stuff on the cheap,\" he said.\n\n\"I said, you know what, why don't I give this a try? There's a park across the road.\n\n\"Once I actually started seeing the sort of colours and the vibrancy of the insects, that was me hooked.\"\n\nThis photograph of a hoverfly in the centre of a flower is David's favourite image taken in Ruchill Park\n\nA tiny 1-2mm red spider mite getting very close to an aphid in Ruchill Park\n\nMacro photography typically involves close-up photographs of small subjects, such as bugs and flowers.\n\nDavid says the people who see his photos are always shocked by what he has found in Scotland.\n\nHe has also impressed other macro photographers around the world with his pictures.\n\n\"I didn't realise until I went away and met some of the guys from abroad that what I was producing was was of interest to them,\" he said.\n\n\"There's insects that we have here that they don't. They've got spiders that are the size of your hand, whereas we've got tiny different species that they won't see.\n\n\"I've had people reach out from various countries in the world saying they'd like to come over to Ruchill Park.\"\n\nHe is best known for his pictures of ladybirds\n\nThe detail is intricate on this image of halyzia sedecimguttata, an orange ladybird\n\nDespite his success, David says Scotland can be a hard place for insect macro photography, because of the limited number of insects and the country's climate.\n\nThe nation's few insect photographers only have a short window to consistently capture good pictures.\n\n\"It didn't used to bother me doing it here until I went to Malaysia,\" he said.\n\n\"I stepped off the plane straight to the hotel, walked outside and looked through the first bush that I came across.\n\n\"I couldn't even walk away there was that many things on it. I was like, these guys have it easy!\"\n\nThis six spotted tiger beetle, from the USA, was David's top bucket list insect - shot in Huntley Meadows\n\nDavid took this picture of a giraffe weevil while in Malaysia\n\nDespite the challenges, David says he has probably photographed and documented more than 1,000 different species from Scotland - although he admits they are not always the most co-operative photography subjects.\n\n\"It's super difficult. You need to approach them practically at a snail's pace.\n\n\"They're a very difficult partner to try and work with - they're not going to listen to you,\" he said.\n\nA damselfly, having a good stare-off down the lens\n\nAs the hobby requires you to get up close to the various different creepy-crawlies, it does come with certain risks.\n\n\"I was over in France, predominantly to take pictures of one tiny species called a ruby-tailed wasp. They're super small and I had found them and then got too close and got stung,\" he said.\n\n\"I had to run away. I ended up just going to the pub after that because I couldn't move my hand.\"\n\nPeople are often shocked at the variety of species in Scotland. This ladybird pupae was captured on film at Ruchill Park\n\nDavid has now started to look further afield to find insects to photograph.\n\nHe feels he has mostly covered what Scotland has to offer and has plans to visit Australia next year.\n\nBut there is one bug in the Highlands that has so far eluded him.\n\n\"A bumblebee hoverfly is very hard to find. It's super rare and and it's the only place in the whole of the UK that you get that one. I'd love to find it.\"", "Jonny Owen and Vicky McClure tied the knot in Nottingham on Friday\n\nActor Vicky McClure and her film producer partner Jonny Owen have announced they are married - live on radio on their wedding day.\n\nThe star of the BBC's Line of Duty and her Welsh husband tied the knot in her home city of Nottingham on Friday.\n\nFresh from the ceremony, they appeared on a late night BBC Radio Wales show hosted by Katie Owen, Jonny's daughter.\n\nShe revealed on her show: \"If anyone's listening, this is my dad and Vicky McClure and they've just got married\".\n\n\"We're married,\" the bride replied on the programme.\n\n\"We've had the most amazing special day. We're gutted that you've had to go back but we're so proud of you for what you're doing.\n\nIn a photo shared on social media, the couple were seen dancing in front of the Our Dementia Choir, a group of singers with dementia McClure founded in 2019.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vicky McClure MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"You're missing lots of dancing, Katie, but we can do that again. We love you and miss you.\"\n\nKatie Owen completed a 160-mile journey to Cardiff for her radio show.\n\nKatie Owen, pictured with her dad, had to change out of her dress for the wedding in the train toilets as she headed to Cardiff for her BBC show\n\n\"I left after the ceremony, got the train to Central Square and changed out of my wedding dress in the train toilets,\" she said.\n\n\"It was beautiful, lots of Welsh flags. I left the after-party as everyone was arriving which was hard but worth it when I got to the studio.\n\n\"(It) was lush being the first exclusive announcement too on BBC Radio Wales.\"\n\nThe day of her father's wedding, Katie was back in the radio studio\n\nTributes on social media came from McClure's fellow This Is England actress Jo Hartley who said: \"It was so amazing to be there and share it with your family and friends - love you both.\"\n\nFormer Lioness and I'm A Celebrity winner Jill Scott added \"yous look amazing congrats\", while singer Sophie Ellis Bextor wrote \"that's so lovely! Congratulations xx\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Radio Wales This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMcClure is best known for her roles as Det Insp Kate Fleming in the BBC police series Line of Duty, and as Lol Jenkins in the film This Is England and its sequel mini-series on Channel 4.\n\nOwen, from Merthyr Tydfil, is a film producer, director and actor.\n\nHe appeared in Channel 4's Shameless, won a Welsh Bafta in 2007 for the documentary The Aberfan Disaster, and directed Don't Take Me Home, the story of the Wales football team at Euro 2016.", "The scene on Hammond Road in Woking remained taped off on Friday\n\nThree people detectives want to speak to over the death of a 10-year-old girl in Woking are believed to have left the UK, police have said.\n\nThe girl's body was found after police officers were called to an address in Hammond Road, Woking, at about 02:50 BST on Thursday following a safety concern.\n\nDet Ch Insp Debbie White said it was \"a devastating incident\".\n\nThe three people are believed to have left the UK on Wednesday.\n\nDet Ch Insp White said: \"We have identified three people we would like to speak to in connection with our investigation and from our enquiries, we believe that they left the country on Wednesday, 9 August. We are working with our partners, including international authorities, to locate them.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the force said no-one else had been injured, and no arrests had been made. A post-mortem examination will be carried out on Tuesday.\n\nHouse-to-house inquiries were being conducted on Friday, and police said they will maintain a presence at the scene over the coming week.\n\nInsp Sandra Carlier, borough commander for Woking, said: \"I know that the community are shocked and saddened by yesterday's events, and we stand with them in their grief.\"\n\nA neighbour who lives directly opposite the house said a family with six children had lived at the property for less than six months.\n\n\"They were normal children, friendly. They seemed like a decent family,\" he said.\n\nFlowers have been laid at the scene in tribute to the 10-year-old girl\n\nOn Thursday, Det Ch Insp White said: \"Our officers are working hard to build a picture of what happened.\n\n\"We have no reason to believe there is any risk to the public.\"\n\nThere was a significant police presence near the address in Hammond Road, which would remain closed over the coming days, she added.\n\nThe deceased girl's family have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.\n\nAnother neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, described the area as a \"pretty normal\" neighbourhood, adding: \"There is no real activity going on.\"\n\nAnother local added: \"The area is very peaceful. It is busy during term time with children walking to and from. But it's a lovely, vibrant place normally.\"\n\nA spokesperson for St Mary's Horsell in Woking said the church would be open so the community could attend for \"prayer, reflection or comfort\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with our whole community, but especially those who will be so deeply affected by this tragedy,\" they said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "From right to left: Lisa Schmidt, Erin Grayson and Brooke Ferguson Image caption: From right to left: Lisa Schmidt, Erin Grayson and Brooke Ferguson\n\nI was speaking to a family of tourists from Portland, Oregon, who were visiting Maui.\n\nStaying at the Westin Ka'anapali – a little way outside the badly-damaged town of Lahaina – grandmother Lisa Schmidt, mother Erin Grayson and daughter Brooke Ferguson were forced to flee from the fires.\n\nSchmidt says she was most emotional when she discovered that the townspeople were not warned of the fires, that it “just took people by surprise that were in downtown Lahaina”.\n\n“It just breaks my heart that people just lost everything. Everything. And with no warning. The warning system didn’t work, that’s just horrible.”\n\nThey drove through Lahaina on their way to the shelter, and saw its devastation first hand.\n\n“It looked like a bomb went off there,” says Ferguson.\n\nThey saw cars that were burned up, and “houses burned to the ground”. Only random, “sporadic” buildings were still left standing, they say.", "Beyond Meat is one of the UK's most well-known brands, supplying McDonald's (pictured) and KFC\n\nWhen it comes to fake meat Tom Crawford-Clarke has \"eaten everything available over the years\". But he has fallen out of love with it now.\n\n\"We generally favoured Quorn products, Linda McCartney things, Beyond Burgers, Moving Mountains. I always thought they were relatively tasty,\" he said.\n\nFake meat is plant-based protein made to resemble burgers or sausages and often marketed as a healthier alternative to the real thing.\n\nBut dentist Tom said there was \"always something\" in the back of his mind about what was in them.\n\n\"You don't know what they are, you trust they've been investigated but when a burger oozes this red liquid which is meant to be blood, you wonder what it is,\" he said.\n\nThe 36-year-old from London is referring to the beetroot juice used in Beyond Burgers to mimic blood.\n\nBut Beyond Meat's quest for perfection has left shoppers cold. Despite counting actor Leonardo Di Caprio as one of its investors and being one of the UK's most prominent brands, supplying McDonald's and KFC, it has seen a 30% fall in sales.\n\nIndeed a new global survey of 1,000 consumers for vegan firm Strong Roots found that despite 61% of consumers increasing their plant-based intake, 40% are reducing or cutting out fake meat from their diets.\n\nAlmost half (47%) said taste was behind the decision, followed by 36% who cited artificial additives and another 36% who stated it was the processed nature of the products which changed their habits.\n\nThe drop in demand, partly down to squeezed household budgets, has come at a difficult time for the meat substitute industry.\n\nIn June, Meatless Farm went under, making its 50-strong workforce redundant, although the business was bought out of administration in August and its products are back on sale.\n\nIn May sausage maker Heck shelved production on the majority of its vegan ranges. Consumers, co-founder Jamie Keeble said, still wanted \"something that reminds them of meat\".\n\nBeyond Meat's sales may have dropped but This says its plant-based sales are still strong\n\nThe term \"plant-based\" was coined in the 1980s but did not seriously surface on the world stage until 2015, according to the market intelligence agency Mintel.\n\nBy that time fake meat products were hitting supermarkets shelves, joining Linda McCartney's ranges which had dominated the sector from the early 1990s. The market exploded - in 2019 almost a quarter of all new UK food products were labelled vegan and nearly two-thirds of Britons put meat substitutes in their shopping baskets.\n\nThe projections were for a stellar future - market and consumer data provider Statista suggested the meat-substitute market in the UK would grow annually by 17.5% over the next five years.\n\nBut perhaps as an indicator of what was to come, Beyond Meat suffered a slump in sales last year, blaming obstacles with consumers around taste, perceptions of health benefits and price.\n\nThe company that ended its first day trading up more than 160% after its New York stock market debut in 2019, saw its shares fall by almost 12% on Monday after it reported a plunge in sales of almost a third.\n\nCertainly the market has cooled - the major UK supermarkets have culled the number of meat-free ranges by 10.9% during the six months to April and research company Kantar said there had been a 7% fall in volume sales over the year until July. But not all fake meat firms are failing.\n\nAndy Shovel is the co-founder and co-CEO of THIS. The self-described \"plant-based sausage salesman\" presides over a company projected to turnover £20m this year, up from £13m last year. Stocked in most of the leading supermarkets it is ranked third for meat-free sales in the UK, behind Quorn and Richmond.\n\n\"We're really bucking the trend in terms of plant-based companies,\" he told the BBC. Compared with Beyond Meat, This products are cheaper - two of their burgers cost £3.50 in Tesco, whereas two Beyond Meat Burgers will set you back £4.30. In a cost-of-living crisis that is a significant difference.\n\n\"Consumers are more aware of the environmental and ethical impact of meat production now,\" Mr Shovel said from his Hammersmith base, where the company employs 60 people. \"You can't put that back in its box.\"\n\nWhat the industry was witnessing was a \"kink in the graph rather than a catastrophic failure in the market\" he said, comparing it to the craft beer sector when an over proliferation of brands went into consolidation. \"I'd say that's where we're at,\" he added.\n\nFood and drink analyst Hamish Renton, from HRA Global, said in the early days there had been too many marketing dollars chasing not a lot of sales. \"Sales were always quite modest, they were fast growing but the expectations of shoppers were very high because of the hype.\"\n\nThen came taste. \"A burger is complicated,\" Mr Renton said. \"It's quite tender but crispy, it's hard to replicate that and the first go at it was not so good. Normally you'd take two to three years to deliver a product and these were being done in months. It was a bit of a bunfight.\"\n\nMany of the products were triumphs: \"Getting a product to bleed, hats off. But just because we can, doesn't mean we should,\" he added.\n\nThe Vegan Society said fake meat products fall into the ultra processed food category which can be a good source of protein often lower in saturated fat.\n\nBut the society's nutritionist Andrea Rymer said although they can be a healthier option, consumers \"must be mindful of nutritional variations between products\".\n\n\"Added ingredients such as palm oil, coconut oil and salt will reduce its nutritional quality, increasing saturated fat and salt content,\" she said.\n\nMr Renton agreed nutrition was a big factor in putting people off fake meat. \"Some serious chemistry needs to go on here - fillers, stabilisers, colourings. But the overall trend in food is for it to be clean. People don't want preservatives or things that alter the pH in what they eat.\"\n\nDentist Tom Crawford Clarke summarises the argument for many who have stopped eating meat: \"For me, being vegetarian - it's about living from a sustainable point of view. Animal welfare is huge. When I shop I'm not trying to find a replacement for meat, I'm trying to find a different way of eating.\"\n• None BBC Radio 4 - All Consuming - Just how healthy are plant-based meat alternatives-", "Police officers in Northern Ireland often keep their occupation secret due to fear of attack\n\nA police officer has said he is moving his family out of Northern Ireland after two data breaches revealed the identities of officers and staff.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) accidentally shared details of 10,000 employees this week. It also confirmed an earlier breach from July.\n\nThe officer, who is a Catholic, said deciding to go had been \"devastating\".\n\nMeanwhile, a civilian PSNI worker said it brought back the trauma police staff had experienced during the Troubles.\n\nBoth interviewees spoke to the BBC about the effect the data breaches are having on their personal lives, but neither is named for security reasons.\n\nThe PSNI officer said he had to calculate the family upset that would be caused by uprooting his children from their home against the safety risks of staying in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"My wife feels she is no longer comfortable in Northern Ireland,\" he told BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"It's just not a place, going forward, that I have confidence or trust in any more - it's been absolutely disastrous.\"\n\nIn the biggest data breach, information appeared online for three hours on Tuesday, leading to the PSNI updating security advice to its officers and staff.\n\nThe surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence, were included.\n\nInformation about the second data breach, involving the theft of a spreadsheet with the names of 200 officers and staff, emerged on Wednesday.\n\nThe PSNI said documents, along with a police-issue laptop and radio, were believed to have been stolen from a private vehicle in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, on 6 July.\n\nThe police have since confirmed they have wiped both of those devices remotely and are confident that information they contained would not be accessible by a third party.\n\nAlmost 2,000 officers are considering taking legal action in the wake of the breaches, according to the Police Federation, a union which represents rank-and-file officers.\n\nMore than 1,200 staff have raised concerns about the security breaches with the PSNI.\n\nDuring the 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles, more than 300 police officers from all backgrounds were murdered.\n\nThe civilian PSNI worker spoke to the BBC anonymously\n\nThey face an ongoing threat from dissident republican paramilitaries - the latest attempt to murder a PSNI officer took place in February when Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was shot several times.\n\nCatholic officers have often been targeted by dissidents, who want to discourage people from Catholic backgrounds from joining the police.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne cut his holiday short to deal with the crisis and he has apologised for the data breaches.\n\nThe civilian PSNI employee, who is a member of the Nipsa union, said she had been \"going through a gauntlet of emotions\" since being made aware of the data breaches.\n\nThe woman also worked for the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) for many years before it was replaced by the PSNI in 2001.\n\n\"I've spent a very long career with a threat over my head - police staff are under the same threat as police officers,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been involved in a few security incidents that could have had severe consequences and I think that, for me personally, the anxiousness and the nervousness of what this data breach is or could do has brought it all back.\"\n\nShe added it had brought back recollections of the Troubles in the 1980s including \"security threats, bombings... colleagues who've been murdered\" and anxiety associated with those experiences.\n\nThe woman said the breach was \"highly traumatic\" for younger staff who had not experienced working during the Troubles.\n\n\"It's probably something that our newer colleagues into the organisation have never dealt with and therefore I think maybe that tension for them is maybe a bit higher than those of us who have worked here longer,\" she said.\n\nSupt Gerry Murray, chair of the Catholic Police Guild, has met the chief constable over the breaches\n\nThe Catholic Police Guild, which represents some Catholic PSNI members, said the PSNI must take account of the \"particular sensitivities\" of Catholic members.\n\nIts chairman, Supt Gerry Murray, met the chief constable on Friday.\n\nMr Byrne, who also met representatives from the PSNI's other staff associations, said afterwards he had reassured the guild that he was committed to supporting everyone affected.\n\nEarlier Supt Murray said he had received a call from a young Catholic officer concerned about the data breaches who asked him if he should take his gun to Mass on Sunday.\n\nAsked on BBC NI's Newsline programme if he thought the officer should bring his gun to Mass, Supt Murray responded: \"I think, if he feels insecure with regard to going to his place of worship and he feels it necessary - yes.\"\n\n\"It's about the protection of the officer. It's about his wellbeing.\"\n\nDissident republicans have claimed they have obtained the data mistakenly shared, but the PSNI said it had not been able to verify this.\n\nAn ex-officer whose husband is still in the force told the BBC the breach was a \"monumental cock up\" which has \"floored\" her family.\n\nThe woman left the police due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from incidents experienced in the course of her job.\n\nShe said she could not sleep after news broke about the data breaches, and that her medication had been increased.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne said he had spoken to officers and staff and realised some were anxious, frustrated and angry\n\n\"I served for many, many years in some volatile areas and took my personal safety very seriously. Even to this day I still check under my car,\" she said.\n\n\"We were always looking over our shoulder but now even more so. I didn't sleep on Tuesday night. I really wasn't very good at all.\n\n\"I had to go back to my doctor - they prescribed me more diazepam.\n\n\"It's just the impact - all of a sudden I feel like I'm back in the job again and that really isn't good for me.\"\n\nAnother serving officer told the BBC's Today programme he felt let down by the PSNI, exposed and vulnerable.\n\nThe officer, who is originally from England, said that with access to his surname, \"it wouldn't take much to track myself or my wife and children down\".\n\n\"If it gets into the hands of [dissident republicans], then that's where the most damage will be caused,\" he said.\n\nThe officer said he also suffered with PTSD and since news of the data breaches his symptoms, including sleepless nights, paranoia and anxiety, had worsened.\n\nNipsa representative Tracey Godfrey said members were seeking reassurance from her.\n\n\"I am able to give that because processes have been put in place but it's the long-term effect that we are having to look at,\" she said.\n\nYou can hear the interview with the officer in full on Evening Extra on BBC Sounds.", "Video footage captured by a drone shows the destruction caused by wildfires that swept through the historic town of Lahaina, on the Hawaiian island of Maui.\n\nDozens of people on the island have died in the wildfires, with scores of buildings and vehicles also being destroyed.\n\nThe coastal town attracts some two million tourists a year.", "The barge is part of the government's plan to deter Channel crossings by migrants\n\nThe evacuation of the government's Bibby Stockholm barge amid fears of Legionella being found was the result of \"startling incompetence\", a senior Conservative has said.\n\nAll 39 migrants were removed after traces of Legionella bacteria were found in the on-board water system.\n\nThe bacteria can cause Legionnaires disease - a type of pneumonia.\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary David Davis said he believes the bacteria should have been identified sooner.\n\nThe MP told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme: \"It's really, really hard to understand how, at all layers, this could not be caught early.\n\n\"The primary thing that's been revealed has been the startling incompetence of the Home Office itself.\n\nDavid Davis MP says the barge is not a solution to the problem of migrant Channel crossings\n\n\"Rather famously many years ago, John Reid, when he took over as Home Secretary, talked about it being not fit for purpose, and I'm afraid you're seeing that here.\"\n\nThe barge, in Dorset, is part of the government's plan to deter Channel crossings by migrants.\n\nThe Home Office said the migrants were taken off the vessel on Friday as a precaution.\n\nMr Davis, who served as Shadow Home Secretary, added: \"Even working properly, the Bibby barge would only take effectively one day's arrivals.\n\n\"So it's not a solution to the problem and all of this is going to go on until the Home Office manages to process these arrivals more quickly.\"\n\nOne resident told the BBC the migrants had been transferred to a hotel and said a few of those who had been on board had sore throats, adding that he had also been having breathing problems.\n\nMost people who contract Legionnaires disease make a full recovery but it can be deadly, with some 10% of cases proving fatal.\n\nPeople with underlying health conditions, the over 50s and smokers are at risk of serious illness.\n\nA Home Office source told the BBC on Friday that results showing \"low levels\" of Legionella in the water system on the Bibby Stockholm were received by a contractor on Monday.\n\nIt is understood the local council informed the Home Office on Wednesday evening but, at this stage, the results being discussed were still \"low levels\".\n\nOn Thursday further results \"changed the picture\".\n\nThere was a discussion with the UK Health Security Agency which advised that the six newly-arrived asylum seekers should be taken off the vessel.\n\nFurther testing has been done by Dorset Council's environmental health team and it is expected that migrants will be moved back only if and when the water supply is completely clear of contamination.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLuton's first match back in the top flight for 31 years ended in heavy defeat as Joao Pedro and Simon Adingra marked their debuts with a goal each in a comfortable Brighton win.\n\nSolly March headed in after 35 minutes before Pedro, signed for a club-record fee around £30m from Watford, scored a second-half penalty following a foul by Luton captain Tom Lockyer.\n\nThe Hatters pulled a goal back with nine minutes remaining when last season's top scorer Carlton Morris converted another penalty - awarded for handball against Lewis Dunk - but 21-year-old Ivorian Adingra sealed the Seagulls' win by slotting home after a bad mistake from Luton's Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu.\n\nEighteen-year-old Ireland international Evan Ferguson then tapped in Pervis Estupinan's cross in stoppage time to cap an impressive start to the campaign for the home side.\n\nThe Hatters had acquitted themselves well in their first Premier League outing - their last match in the top flight came in 1992 before Premier League rebrand - but Brighton were worthy winners.\n\nPedro, 21, should have opened the scoring after five minutes but scuffed a gilt-edged chance wide from eight yards.\n\nThe Seagulls, who left midfielder Moises Caicedo out of their squad amid interest from Chelsea and Liverpool, also hit the post three times.\n\n\"I think we played well,\" manager Roberto de Zerbi said.\n\n\"We are not at our best yet because there are new players and we need to give them time to understand our ideas, but I am happy.\"\n• None Live coverage of all of Saturday's Premier League games\n• None How did you rate Brighton's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Luton's display? Send us your views here\n\nBrighton's summer has been dominated by outgoings, with midfielder Alexis Mac Allister having left for Liverpool, goalkeeper Robert Sanchez departed to Chelsea, and Ecuador international Caicedo seemingly also on his way to either Anfield or Stamford Bridge.\n\nAlthough this may only be one win, and against newly-promoted opposition, the start made by De Zerbi's side suggested that they can cope with significant losses again, as they have done in recent seasons.\n\nBrighton have built their success since earning promotion in 2017 on superb recruitment, allowing them to seamlessly replace those they sell, and the contributions made by Pedro and Adingra indicated the club may have struck gold again.\n\nPedro made a wasteful start but threatened regularly in the second half before deservedly getting his goal when he scored a soft penalty that was awarded to him after Lockyer put his arm across the Brazilian in the box.\n\nWinger Adingra was signed in the summer of 2022 and after an impressive loan spell at Belgian club Union Saint-Gilloise, also part-owned by Brighton chairman Tony Bloom, caught the eye in pre-season and was lively after replacing March in the 74th minute here.\n\nDespite the outgoings, Brighton still have a dependable core, only added to by the arrival of the experienced and versatile James Milner who made a solid debut at right-back.\n\nMarch, who came through the academy and has now played 276 times for the Seagulls, was a threat throughout while Ferguson's goal gives him the perfect start as he attempts to build on a debut season that included finding the net six times.\n\nTougher tests will come but this was an impressive start.\n\nLuton have taken a measured approach since securing their top flight status.\n\nSix new signings were handed debuts on the south coast - goalkeeper Thomas Kaminski, wing-backs Ryan Giles and Issa Kabore, midfielder Tahith Chong, centre-back Mads Andersen and striker Jacob Brown - but their summer spending has totalled just £17m.\n\nThere were reasons to be positive for the Hatters. Their direct approach meant Brighton were threatened by crosses into the box and centre-forward Morris had forced a good save from Jason Steele before his spot-kick goal.\n\nBut, though it may be cliché to say it, at Premier League level their mistakes will likely be punished.\n\nAmari'i Bell was caught under the ball when March headed in Kaoru Mitoma's cross and Mpanzu gifted Adingra his goal when trying to play out from his own box.\n\nMidfielder Mpanzu has been with Luton since their time outside the Football League, which came as recently as 2014, and in playing at Amex Stadium he became the first player to feature for the same club in each of England's top five leagues.\n\nThe Luton players were still warmly applauded by their vociferous travelling support at the final whistle.\n\n\"I don't want anyone to be happy about losing football matches - we're certainly not,\" manager Rob Edwards said.\n\n\"[But} I was pleased with stuff I saw today. I know we're going to get better, but we've got to get better quickly.\n\n\"I thought we were right in the game at 1-0 and at 2-1 but we shot ourselves in the foot.\"\n• None Go straight to the best Luton content\n• None Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 4, Luton Town 1. Evan Ferguson (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pervis Estupiñán.\n• None Attempt missed. Carlton Morris (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Cauley Woodrow following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Jacob Brown (Luton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Cauley Woodrow with a headed pass.\n• None Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.\n• None Offside, Luton Town. Tom Lockyer tries a through ball, but Jacob Brown is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Pascal Groß (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pervis Estupiñán.\n• None Attempt saved. João Pedro (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Evan Ferguson (Brighton and Hove Albion) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Pervis Estupiñán.\n• None Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 3, Luton Town 1. Simon Adingra (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "More rail strikes over pay and conditions will take place on Saturday 26 August and Saturday 2 September, the RMT union has announced.\n\nAbout 20,000 members working for 14 train operating companies are expected to take part.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said that its members would \"continue fighting\".\n\nBut the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said the union was \"once again targeting customers\" on the railways.\n\nThe government called the move \"disappointing\" and said the RMT leadership was \"cynically targeting\" travellers.\n\nThe announcement means rail passengers can expect disruption on the last Bank Holiday weekend of the summer in August.\n\nIt marks the latest step in a long-running dispute which has caused months of upheaval on the railways for passengers.\n\nProgress in the RMT's dispute with the 14 train operating companies has effectively been at a standstill since April, after it rejected the latest proposals from the RDG.\n\nMr Lynch said the mood among RMT members \"remains solid and determined\" in the national dispute, which is over pay, job security and working conditions.\n\nThe union said it had been left with \"little choice but to take further action\", insisting it had seen no improved offer from the RDG, which represents train operating companies.\n\nPlans to close hundreds of ticket offices in England have also angered its members, the union has said.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the RDG, said: \"With further strike action, the RMT are once again targeting customers looking to enjoy various sporting events, festivals and the end of the summer holidays, disrupting their plans and forcing more cars onto the road.\"\n\nThe RDG said it had made three offers to the union, including job security guarantees. The headline pay rise would be a backdated pay rise of 5% for last year, followed by 4% this year. But some workers could see pay rise by as much as 13% over the two years, the RDG claims.\n\nThe group said the RMT had blocked potential deals \"without a convincing explanation\".\n\nIt added that it remained \"open to talks\" and continues to urge the union to put the offer to members in a vote.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"The RMT leadership's decision to call more strikes and cynically target the travelling public over the Bank Holiday weekend is disappointing.\"The government has facilitated fair and reasonable pay offers. However, union bosses are opting to prolong this dispute by blocking their members from having a vote on these offers - we continue to urge that members are given their say, and disruption is brought to an end\", they added.", "England captain Owen Farrell could miss their World Cup opener against Argentina after being sent off in their warm-up win over Wales at Twickenham.\n\nFarrell became the first England player to have a yellow card upgraded to a red by the new 'Bunker' review system, after a high tackle on Taine Basham.\n\nTomos Williams scored after a penalty try to hand Wales the lead with three England players in the sin bin.\n\nMaro Itoje's try cut the deficit and George Ford kicked the winning penalty.\n\nFarrell kicked three penalties in a scrappy Test match in which neither side was close to their best as England looked to avenge last week's defeat by Wales in Cardiff.\n\nWales reduced England's lead to a couple of points with a penalty try as Freddie Steward tackled Josh Adams in the air before the game sparked into life with Farrell's red card.\n\nThe newly introduced 'Bunker' review system for foul play, which is being used during the Summer Nations Series, was called into action as on-field referee Nika Amashukeli could not decide if Farrell's tackle on Basham warranted a straight red card.\n\nHe was initially shown a yellow card and took his place in a chair on the touchline before later being shown a red card and sent down the tunnel into the bowels of England's headquarters.\n\nWales cut loose with Steward, Farrell and 50th cap winner Ellis Genge all off the field as Tomos Williams scored a simple run-in to threaten a first Welsh win at Twickenham since the 2015 World Cup.\n\nUrged on by a vocal home support, England quickly responded and Itoje was the beneficiary at the back of the rolling maul to end England's two hours and 34 minute wait for a try since Jamie George's consolation against Ireland in Dublin at the end of the Six Nations.\n\nFord kicked the winning penalty a few moments later as England ended their run of three defeats in a row, but any pleasure the home side take from the win will be offset by the prospect of a likely ban for their experienced skipper.\n\nThis was not a vintage England performance as they continued their preparations for this year's showpiece in France but the victory was important to boost morale.\n\nSteve Borthwick's men returned to Twickenham for the first time since their humbling by France in the Six Nations and struggled for attacking cohesion early on as they made 11 changes to the side beaten in Cardiff last weekend.\n\nFarrell's boot handed them the advantage but Ollie Lawrence's powerful run, as he cut back inside and shrugged off Tom Rogers with an outstretched palm, was a rare moment of incision.\n\nEngland lacked discipline - with Henry Arundell also sent to the bin in the first-half - but showed resilience to recover from a losing situation to wrestle back momentum and clinch victory.\n\nMore important than warm-up results and performances, however, is the ability to come through a pre-tournament schedule unscathed and Borthwick will be concerned at the potential loss of half-back pairing Farrell and Jack van Poortvliet.\n\nThe scrum-half had to be supported as he hobbled off the pitch before later emerging on the sidelines in crutches, while Farrell's fate now lies in the hands of a disciplinary panel, who will determine the length of any ban and whether there were any mitigating factors.\n\nGatland will be concerned at defeat from winning position\n\nFor Wales, it was a completely different side at Twickenham from the one which overcame England last week with centre Joe Roberts handed a first cap.\n\nThe Scarlets back impressed in setting-up Tomos Williams' second-half try, while experienced full-back Liam Williams demonstrated his Test talents once again in his first game in five months.\n\nIt should also have been a chance for new captain Dewi Lake to showcase his leaderships skills but the hooker was forced off after 26 minutes after injuring his knee at a ruck.\n\nLake's injury adds to Wales' concerns at hooker after Ryan Elias was forced off the field with a hamstring injury during the win in Cardiff.\n\nLake, playing his first international for 13 months after missing the 2022 autumn internationals and 2023 Six Nations through injury, was replaced by fellow Ospreys hooker Sam Parry.\n\nElliot Dee is the other hooker in Wales' extended training squad with Ken Owens out of at least the World Cup group stages with a back injury.\n\nLike their hosts, Wales failed to play with a freedom until veteran fly-half Dan Biggar came on to steer the ship. It was his pin-point cross-field kick that found 50th cap winner Adams, who was illegally brought down by Steward for the penalty try.\n\nGatland will be concerned that Wales conceded Itoje's try while having a three-player advantage as they let their 17-9 lead slip, and will want his charges to quickly respond in their next warm-up match against world champions South Africa back in Cardiff next Saturday.", "Tom Brady was spotted at The Roost pub near St Andrew's Stadium on Saturday\n\nNFL star Tom Brady has been spotted introducing himself to Birmingham City supporters at a local pub.\n\nThe seven-time Super Bowl winner was serenaded by fans at The Roost pub outside St Andrew's Stadium in Birmingham on Saturday.\n\nThe 46-year-old recently became a minority owner and chairman of the club's advisory board.\n\nBlues fans said his appearance at the pub, ahead of a home game against Leeds United, had \"made everyone's day.\"\n\nThe retired quarterback won the Super Bowl seven times and played in the NFL for 23 seasons\n\n\"Tom Brady is here and he's perfect,\" tweeted Kelsea Ravenhill.\n\nShe said the retired quarterback had entered the pub alongside his bodyguards before he had introduced himself to fans.\n\n\"The place is rocking, completely changed the atmosphere, he is just a sports legend,\" she added.\n\n\"It's made everyone's day, was a pleasure to meet him and I just hope we can get the three points for him later now.\"\n\nBirmingham City went on to beat Leeds 1-0.\n\nThe 46-year-old was also spotted signing autographs for fans\n\nBrady tweeted on Saturday morning: \"Any plans before kick off guys? See you at St. Andrew's\", before he also made an appearance at the stadium, where he was pictured signing autographs.\n\nThe former American football player retired in February after 23 seasons in the NFL, before entering a partnership with Knighthead Capital Management LLC.\n\nA subsidiary of the group, Shelby Companies Limited completed its takeover of Birmingham City, the Championship's longest-serving club, in July this year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Daniel Moore had £230,000 frozen by Amazon, and said business is still suffering after the money was released\n\nAmazon has started releasing some sellers' funds back to them after many UK and EU sellers complained of money being held unexpectedly.\n\nThe change in policy comes after the BBC reported Amazon's actions led some businesses being close to collapse.\n\nAmazon told some sellers it will now delay the temporary holds on money until January 2024.\n\nBut one ink seller, Daniel Moore, who had £230,000 frozen, said Amazon were only \"delaying our anguish\".\n\nAmazon wrote in an email to one seller in the early hours of Saturday: \"We understand that the transition to this policy on 3 August has caused a one-time cash-flow issue for your business. To support you in preparing for the policy change, we have extended your policy transition until 31 January 2024\".\n\nAmazon's initial policy update sent in May stated it would temporarily hold seller funds to cover customer refund demands. It said sellers would be able to withdraw their money only from the delivery date plus a further seven days.\n\nThe policy was implemented on 3 August across the UK and EU for sellers registered before August 2016.\n\nBut Amazon's email about the change was not seen by many EU and UK sellers, and in many cases was automatically sent to their junk folder.\n\nThe change comes at a time businesses are struggling with the soaring costs of living and increases in energy bills, materials and operating costs.\n\nAndy Pycock, 53, from Buckinghamshire, sells home, garden and leisure products on Amazon and had £25,000 frozen on 3 August.\n\nHe had taken out a loan with Amazon Lending to cover the period of withdrawals being frozen - and paid fees to have the loan restructured.\n\nAndy Pycock, 53, said he will likely reduce his selling activity on Amazon after its \"inconsistency\"\n\nBut hours later on early Saturday morning, he was told of Amazon's policy change, meaning his takings were available again.\n\nHe said his business had suffered a slowdown as he was unable to afford to restock and fulfil orders during the period his money was frozen.\n\nAndy, who has been selling on Amazon since 2016, said the lack of notification and last-minute changes from Amazon have made him question his future involvement with the firm.\n\nHe said Amazon's explanations as to why it will be holding money from established sellers like him sounded like \"corporate gobbledegook\".\n\n\"This doesn't make any sense,\" Andy told the BBC. \"Amazon is toxic as equally as it is brilliant - but we also feel they're our greatest enemy right now\".\n\nHe says he \"dreads\" looking at his Amazon Seller account due to its various changes and \"confusing\" implementation of policy.\n\nAmazon said the policy was introduced to align all sellers worldwide on to the same structure.\n\nHowever, some UK and EU sellers have been told it will be implemented in September, whilst others are now being told it will be implemented in January next year.\n\nOne seller on Amazon's Seller Forums called the situation \"shambolic\".\n\nDaniel Moore said that amount of his takings which Amazon had frozen was \"disproportionately high versus the potential refunds processed by customer returns or non-delivery\".\n\nHaving hundreds of thousands of pounds of his takings frozen meant he was unable to pay his VAT bill on time, or order new stock.\n\nHe says he received notification on Saturday saying all of his takings had now been released, but that the pause in income led to issues along his whole supply chain that could take up to two further weeks to resolve.\n\nHe said the delay in the implementation of Amazon's temporary hold policy was \"initially good news\", but that \"it simply kicks the can down the road to a month where corporation tax and personal tax is due. January is a very difficult month\".\n\nDaniel said the policy \"is still unfair\" and that established sellers like his firm Ink Jungle posed \"no risk\" to Amazon, and should not have \"suffer a delay in payment\" - especially as he is used to withdrawing money every day.\n\n\"If items are being delivered tracked or by FBA what is the risk? It makes no sense to hold onto the funds for so long after delivery\", Daniel added.\n\nFBA, Fulfilled by Amazon, is where sellers keep their stock in Amazon's warehouse, and Amazon delivers the goods to buyers once sold.\n\nAmazon's change in policy implementation for affected sellers comes after small business minister Kevin Hollinrake had demanded the tech giant explain how it will \"mitigate\" the effects of the policy on many sellers, in a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nSeller Marios Katz was unable to pay bills, restock, or fulfil orders whilst his money was frozen. He sells CDs and vinyl. Marios says he has now had £5,000 released from his frozen funds.\n\nHe was \"happy\" that he could now resume withdrawing amounts daily for the day-to-day running of his business.\n\n\"But I cannot celebrate, as I cannot trust Amazon.\n\n\"I'm still scared about the policy taking effect in January\", he said.\n\nAmazon said the vast majority of its sellers were not affected by the temporary hold implemented on 3 August.\n\nIt is not yet clear if companies will receive compensation for any losses incurred during the period that their withdrawals were frozen.\n\nAmazon said many sellers now have access to funds. A spokesperson said: \"We are listening to sellers' concerns and are in contact with those who have experienced a one-time cash flow disruption\".\n\nThe issues are similar to those faced by Etsy sellers after that marketplace began withholding 75% of sellers' funds for around 45 days. Hundreds of sellers complained it was undermining their businesses. Etsy reduced the amount it was holding after a BBC report in to the problem.", "Hawaiian officials are braced for a significant rise in the death toll from the fast-spreading wildfires, which caused devastation on the island of Maui and destroyed most of the historic town of Lahaina.\n\nHawaii Governor Josh Green said the fires were the \"largest natural disaster in Hawaii state history\" and that 80% of the beach-front town had \"gone\" - satellite images gave an immediate sense of the scale of the damage.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nHundreds of people remain missing almost a week after the disaster, and search teams have only covered a tiny percentage of the area affected.\n\nThe fires are now reported to be under control, but efforts to fully extinguish them continue on some parts of the island.\n\nHundreds of people who fled their homes in Lahaina have been taking cover in an emergency shelter. About 2,700 homes are reported to have been destroyed.\n\nIncredibly strong winds from Hurricane Dora, which passed south of Hawaii on Tuesday 8 August fanned the flames and prevented aircraft from flying over the town during the fire - but once they had passed, pilots were shocked by what they saw.\n\n\"It's horrifying. I've flown here 52 years and I've never seen anything come close to that,\" helicopter pilot Richard Olsten told the Associated Press news agency. \"We had tears in our eyes.\"\n\nThe flames destroyed most of the buildings in front of the port, including the old courthouse.\n\nAnger has grown among the community with many people telling the BBC they were not forewarned about the fires. It is currently unclear if early warning systems were used, or if they malfunctioned.\n\nThe town's lighthouse has survived but most of the surrounding buildings were destroyed, including the oldest hotel in Hawaii - the 122-year-old Pioneer Inn.\n\nThe centre of Lahaina dated back to the 1700s and was on the US National Register of Historic Places - it was once Hawaii's capital.\n\nThe town was home to about 12,000 people - the initial assessments say about 86% of the damaged buildings were residential.\n\nAlice Lee, chair of the Maui County Council, told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme how the fire razed the \"beautiful\" Front Street, the town's main strip.\n\n\"The fire traversed almost the entire street, so all the shops and little restaurants that people visited on their trips to Maui, most of them are burnt down to the ground,\" Lee said, adding: \"So many businesses will have to struggle to recover,\" she said.\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama - who was born in Hawaii - is among those who has expressed his sorrow at the impact of the blaze. He posted on the X social network (formerly known as Twitter): \"It's tough to see some of the images coming out of Hawaii — a place that's so special to so many of us.\"\n\n\"Michelle and I are thinking of everyone who has lost a loved one, or whose life has been turned upside down.\"\n\nThe fires also destroyed many natural features on the island - there are fears for Lahaina's banyan tree, the oldest in Hawaii, and one of the oldest in the US.\n\nThe 60ft-tall (18m) fig tree was planted in 1873, on the place where Hawaiian King Kamehameha's first palace stood, but it was burnt after fires ravaged the area on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to the town's website, if its roots remain healthy it will likely grow back. But at this stage, they say the tree \"looks burned\".\n\nMost of the damage was done on Tuesday as the flames engulfed the town.\n\nThe blaze ripped through the town so quickly that some people jumped into the harbour to escape the flames and smoke.\n\nThe flames were fanned by gusts of wind of up to 65mph (100km/h) that hit the islands last week as Hurricane Dora passed about 700 miles (1,100km) south of Hawaii.\n\nDrought or abnormally dry conditions across large parts of Hawaii - including the entire island of Maui - also played a role.\n\nAbout 14% of the state is suffering from severe or moderate drought, according to the US Drought Monitor, while 80% of Hawaii is classed as abnormally dry.\n\nWildfires were once uncommon in Hawaii, ignited largely through volcanic eruptions or lightning strikes. But in recent decades, human activity has made them more common and extreme.\n\nClimate change is increasing the risk of wildfire globally as it drives up temperatures and makes heatwaves longer and more intense.\n\n\"We have never experienced a wildfire that affected a city like this before,\" Governor Josh Green said, adding that the challenges of climate change were putting unprecedented strain on Hawaii.\n\nHow are you affected by the wildfires? If it is safe to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland set up a Women's World Cup semi-final with co-hosts Australia as they came from behind against a dangerous Colombia side.\n\nThe European champions, favourites to go all the way in Australia, have not played their best football in the tournament but this was a much more rounded display in front of a hostile crowd in Sydney.\n\nLargely composed in defence and hard-working in attack, the Lionesses were rewarded with two slices of luck which they capitalised on, after goalkeeper Mary Earps had been beaten by a quick-thinking lob in the first half.\n\nLauren Hemp poked in the equaliser, just seven minutes after Leicy Santos had caught out Earps, when Colombia goalkeeper Catalina Perez spilled a routine gather in the six-yard area under pressure from Alessia Russo.\n\nArsenal striker Russo, who had only scored once in four World Cup matches prior to Saturday's quarter-final, worked tirelessly out of possession, earning her opportunity when she pounced on a kind deflection to drill in England's second.\n\nEarps was called into action later, tipping Lorena Durango Bedoya's effort over the bar, while England were put under further pressure by Colombia's talented attacking line-up, which included Real Madrid's teenage sensation Linda Caicedo.\n\nThe Lionesses, who had to deal with a crowd of 75,784 who were largely backing Colombia, face co-hosts Australia next on 16 August at 11:00 BST, live on BBC.\n\nIt will be the Lionesses' third straight World Cup semi-final after defeats by the USA in 2019 and Japan in 2015.\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n• None World Football at the Women's World Cup: Matildas mania sweeps across Australia\n\nEngland have had to battle their way through the competition, needing 1-0 wins to creep past Haiti and Denmark in the group stages, before a penalty shootout victory over Nigeria in the last 16.\n\nThey were without suspended top-scorer Lauren James, who is serving a two-match ban following her red card against Nigeria, but England did enough in front of goal to seal victory in a tough encounter.\n\nColombia, ranked 21 places lower than England, had already proven their worth in Australia, seeing off Euro 2022 finalists Germany in the group stages and progressing in style.\n\nTheir attacking line-up caused England problems and they pushed desperately late on for an equaliser, testing the Lionesses' back five.\n\nHowever, spearheaded by the centre-back trio of Millie Bright, Alex Greenwood and Jess Carter, England held their own against the physicality and tenacity of the Colombians.\n\nStadium Australia was filled with yellow shirts in the stands - Colombia fans were on their feet waving scarves around their heads following any advance over the halfway line and they whistled loudly when England were in possession.\n\nThis was by no means an easy victory but the resilience and grit that England have been forced to demonstrate so far in the tournament once again helped them over the line, deservedly so, on Saturday.\n\nHeading into the quarter-finals, England's Earps said \"there was more to come from them\", having not shown their best aside from an impressive 6-1 thrashing of China.\n\nSo when the full-time whistle went in Sydney, several players fell to the floor in exhaustion and Sarina Wiegman gave a rousing team-talk afterwards - they had been in a gruelling battle.\n\nStrong individual performances helped them. Russo barely put a foot wrong beside a wasted header in the first half and was rewarded for her endeavour when the ball bounced kindly for her to score.\n\n\"I always try to work as hard as I can on the pitch,\" said Russo. \"There is often sometimes a bit of luck in football.\n\n\"I was glad I took [the chance] when it came. I was in the right position and I was fortunate it went in the back of the net.\"\n\nHemp ran at defenders with pace and purpose and Lucy Bronze dealt with the tricky feet of Caicedo for the majority of the match.\n\nEngland's immense defence, which is starting to look more comfortable with a back three having now started three matches in a row with that formation, were well-organised and blocked shots when they needed to.\n\n\"These are big games and it has some physicality too - for them and for us. That's part of the game and we dealt with it really well,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"They got through it really well and got the win over the line. That was what we were trying to do and fortunately we did that.\"\n\nEarps once again made a crucial save to make up for her slight error in conceding England's first goal from open play in the tournament.\n\nAll-in-all, it was a positive performance to match a result which ensures England are just two matches away from glory.\n\nThey will have to navigate another hostile crowd in Sydney in their semi-final but they were rarely fazed by it on this showing.\n• None Attempt missed. Linda Caicedo (Colombia) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Leicy Santos.\n• None Attempt missed. Mayra Ramírez (Colombia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Leicy Santos.\n• None Attempt missed. Manuela Vanegas (Colombia) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Lucy Bronze (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ivonne Chacón (Colombia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Leicy Santos (Colombia) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Catalina Usme.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Daniela Árias (Colombia).\n• None Attempt blocked. Ivonne Chacón (Colombia) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ivonne Chacón (Colombia) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Linda Caicedo. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Steve credits taking photographs of abandoned buildings with his improved mental health\n\nFive years ago Steve Liddiard's mental health had deteriorated to the point where he was suicidal and felt \"bricked up\" inside his own mind.\n\nWhen his GP advised him to take up walking he decided to take a camera - unbeknown to him, that was to be the start of his recovery.\n\n\"Photography saved me from myself,\" said Steve, 36.\n\nThe father-of-two from Swansea began experiencing anxiety in his early 20s but it came to a head in his early 30s.\n\nSteve says his family have been a huge support through his recovery\n\n\"[I was] balancing trying to be a good father, trying to progress career wise, worrying about money and bills and then I had some serious family issues which pushed me over the top and I felt as if there was no way to overcome everything,\" said Steve, who lives in Swansea.\n\n\"You are your own worst enemy, doubting thoughts, feeling short of breath and the constant worrying.\"\n\nSteve became depressed, struggled to leave the house, became distant from family and friends and put on a front at work.\n\n\"Inside I was crumbling away,\" he said.\n\nAt his lowest point he attempted to take his own life.\n\nSteve won Historical Photographer of the Year 2021 for this image of Whiteford Lighthouse\n\n\"It's hard and embarrassing even now to admit that,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel selfish that my actions could have had a major impact on others, children growing up without a dad, a partner to support them alone, but in that moment it's almost like you are in thick fog and tunnel vision takes over, you feel it's the only way to stop the thoughts.\n\n\"At that time, I thought this was the only way out.\"\n\n\"Seeing the reaction from my family, I needed some help,\" he said.\n\nHis mother and his partner of 14 years encouraged him to take action.\n\nSteve won Historical Photographer Of the Year again in 2022 with this image of a long lost Welsh woollen mill\n\n\"Maybe if they didn't I wouldn't still be here today,\" admitted Steve.\n\nHe went to see his GP, where he was given medication and advice on ways to cope.\n\n\"One of the therapies I was advised to try was going for walks alone, whether it be a beach, mountains, just an escape and clear my mind,\" he said.\n\nFor his first walk he visited Whiteford Sands, a vast expanse of beach on the Gower Peninsula.\n\nHe walked out to the lighthouse.\n\n\"The lighthouse is worn, battered and bruised but still standing tall - I felt a connection to how I was feeling at that time,\" said Steve.\n\n\"I took some photos on my camera phone, shared them online and had positive feedback.\"\n\nFrom then on, whenever he was out walking he would take photos.\n\nSteve took this photo of an old church organ in a long-forgotten tin Sunday school in Ceredigion\n\n\"Photography I find is almost like meditation, you are focusing on your subject, adjusting for light, clarity, framing, you zone out completely, it was the perfect remedy for me,\" said Steve.\n\nSince his first shot of the old lighthouse, Steve has found a passion for photographing abandoned and dilapidated mansions, forgotten chapels and industrial buildings that have been left behind to modern technology.\n\n\"Anything that has a history behind it,\" he said.\n\nSteve captured these former quarrymen's cottages on Anglesey at night\n\n\"I find it fascinating to see these places. I feel it's important to document them before they crumble away.\"\n\nSteve's photography remains a hobby - he works in the IT department at Swansea's Morriston Hospital.\n\nIn 2021 he was named Historical Photographer of the Year for an image of his favourite Whiteford Lighthouse.\n\nThe following year he won the same award again, this time for his photograph of a disused Welsh woollen mill, with \"the vibrant colours of the wool still sitting on the spindles, with nature growing all around\".\n\nThese days, Steve says he is \"really good\".\n\n\"Things in life of course stress us all out but I have ways of coping now,\" he said.\n\nHe said his partner Briony had noticed a huge difference in him.\n\nThis dramatic shot was captured inside an underground slate mine\n\nSteve goes out to take photos early in the morning or late at night so he can spend as much time as possible with her and their two children, aged nine and 10.\n\n\"I would love in the future to see one of my photos hanging up in their own homes,\" he said.\n\nHe urged anyone struggling with their mental health to speak to someone.\n\n\"Whether it's friends and family first. No issue is too big, everyone struggles it's just some struggle more than others. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength to speak out,\" he said.\n\nSteve lives in Swansea with his partner and their two children\n\nSteve said he was inspired by a quote by Bryce Evans, another photographer who says picking up a camera saved his life.\n\n\"If you find yourself stuck in the darkness, the first thing to do is find and start capturing the light.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this story you can find details of where you can get support at BBC Action Line.", "A large crowd calling for France to leave Niger gathered near the capital on Friday\n\nRussia has warned that military intervention in Niger would lead to a \"protracted confrontation\" after regional bloc Ecowas said it would assemble a standby force.\n\nSuch an intervention would destabilise the Sahel region as a whole, the Russian foreign ministry said.\n\nRussia does not formally back the coup.\n\nBut the US, which backs efforts to restore deposed leader Mohamed Bazoum, says its Wagner mercenary group is taking advantage of the instability.\n\nOn Friday coup supporters, some waving Russian flags, protested at a French military base near the capital NIamey, some chanting \"down with France, down with Ecowas\".\n\nBoth France and the US operate military bases in Niger and they have been used to launch operations against jihadist groups in the wider region.\n\nMilitary officials from Ecowas countries are reportedly set to meet on Saturday to draft plans for a military intervention.\n\nThe bloc has said it remains open to finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis, but Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu said on Thursday that \"No option is taken off the table, including the use of force as a last resort\".\n\nThe US has not explicitly backed military action but has called on the junta to step aside and allow the restoration of the country's democratic constitution.\n\nThe Niger junta has not responded to the latest statements from Ecowas leaders.\n\nMeanwhile fears are growing for the health and safety of Mr Bazoum, who has been held captive since the military seized power on 26 July.\n\nHe and his family had been \"deprived of food, electricity and medical care for several days\", EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.\n\nUN rights commissioner Volker Turk said he had received credible reports that the conditions of detention \"could amount to inhuman and degrading treatment\".\n\nRights group Human Rights Watch said Mr Bazoum had told them this week that he and his family were being treated in an \"inhuman and cruel\" way.\n\n\"My son is sick, has a serious heart condition, and needs to see a doctor,\" HRW quoted Mr Bazoum as telling them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNinety-six people are known to have died in wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, with officials warning that figure is likely to rise.\n\nHawaii Governor Josh Green said more than 2,700 buildings had been destroyed in the historic town of Lahaina.\n\nHundreds of people are still missing and search teams have only covered 3% of the affected area.\n\n\"None of us really understand the size of this yet,\" a visibly emotional Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said.\n\nThe local authorities are focusing their efforts on combing through what is left of the coastal area of the island, as work continues to identify victims.\n\nThe fires that started on Tuesday would \"certainly be the worst natural disaster that Hawaii ever faced\", Mr Green warned, adding that the death toll would likely rise \"significantly\".\n\nMeanwhile, it remains unclear if early warning systems were used or if they malfunctioned, with many people telling the BBC they were not forewarned about the fires.\n\nThe state's attorney general is conducting a \"comprehensive review\" into how the authorities responded.\n\nRepresentative Jill Tokuda of Hawaii's 2nd congressional district told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme on Sunday that \"serious questions\" needed to be addressed.\n\n\"There's every justification for everyone to feel angry in this particular situation, and we all want answers,\" Ms Tokuda said.\n\nShe also described her visit to Lahaina over the weekend as \"heart-breaking\", saying that \"so many of our families and friends lost everything\".\n\nThe fires were fuelled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane.\n\nMr Green said gusts from that storm reached speeds of as high as 81mph (130km/h), fanning the flames to travel at one mile per minute and giving people little time to escape.\n\nWhile the fires are now largely under control, efforts to fully extinguish them are continuing in parts of the island.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Greenberg, a senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told the BBC that extra support was being sent included urban search and rescue, and fire suppression teams.\n\n\"The absolute number one priority is survivor safety,\" he said.\n\nMr Greenberg added that while close to 1,000 people were yet to be contacted, some of these may be safe but out of reach for a number of reasons.\n\nIn the emergency shelter at Maui's War Memorial Complex, hundreds of evacuees continued to gather over the weekend, receiving food, toiletries and medical aid from a still-growing number of volunteers.\n\nLarge whiteboards noted the most pressing needs - batteries, water, and generators - and an all-caps note that no more clothing was needed.\n\nKeapo Bissen, a member of the War Memorial shelter team, said the list of the missing was fluctuating hour to hour as more people reported absent loved ones, and others were found.\n\n\"We've had a lot of great reunions happen in this parking lot,\" she said. \"That's really been the bright side in all of this.\"\n\nAfter flying over Maui, helicopter pilot Richard Olsten told the BBC that even most of the boats in the harbour were burnt and had sunk.\n\n\"The historic buildings, the church, the missionary building and so forth - all gone.\n\n\"The main tourist area where all the shops and restaurants are, the historic Front Street - everything burnt to the ground,\" he said.\n\nFelicia Johnson (right) is among the locals who have been coordinating efforts to help victims of the wildfires\n\nFelicia Johnson, who owns a printing business in the city of Kahului, Maui, is organising a massive grassroots response to the disaster.\n\nHer family is from the Lahaina area. She has amassed hundreds of pounds of donated supplies to bring in, but has been unable to shuttle them through the government checkpoint.\n\nShe said that pleading with authorities to let her enter with her donated goods was the hardest part for her emotionally - not the devastation she witnessed while dropping off supplies.\"That's the part that I'm so wrecked on, is I got to keep begging you to come in to feed people,\" Ms Johnson said.\n\nShe added that many of the docks in the area are too badly damaged or destroyed to bring in supplies by boat. Some people that have made the journey have swum the supplies to the shore.\n\nSome of the young men helping her load supplies blame government mismanagement and bureaucracy.\n\n\"Too many chiefs, not enough warriors,\" said Bradah Young, 25.\n\n\"Everybody is in charge but nobody is moving,\" said another man.\n\nAs they departed in hope of being allowed through the checkpoint, one man threw up a shaka, a traditional hand greeting in Hawaii.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Libby Pearson from Kent says Amazon withholding money means she cannot restock or continue selling\n\nThe government has demanded answers from Amazon after its recent policy change led to hundreds of sellers unable to access their money.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, small business minister Kevin Hollinrake asks the tech giant to explain how it will \"mitigate\" the impact on sellers.\n\nOne seller, Daniel Moore, who sells ink cartridges, says he has £263,000 locked and cannot pay his VAT bill.\n\nAmazon said the policy change had affected a small number of sellers.\n\nThe letter from Mr Hollinrake was sent after the BBC spoke to several businesses who say the recent policy change leaves them unable to restock or pay staff and bills.\n\nAmazon's recently amended policy is to hold back some money from sellers in case buyers demand a refund.\n\nThat leads to sellers not having access to their takings for around two weeks, although Amazon says the policy will only hold money from seven days from the delivery date.\n\nThis was implemented on 3 August across the UK and EU for sellers registered before August 2016. Amazon said some sellers should soon be able to access some of their funds.\n\nBut its email about the policy change was not seen by many EU and UK sellers, and in many cases was automatically sent to their junk folder.\n\nThe BBC has seen several complaints on Amazon's online seller forums saying the email was \"not clear\" that the withdrawals from their account that they are used to making on a daily basis would be blocked.\n\nSellers have complained that the temporary withholding of their funds is bringing their businesses close to collapse.\n\nMr Hollinrake took this issue up in his letter to John Boumphrey, the country manager for Amazon UK, as he wrote: \"Given these complaints, I would be grateful if you could explain how Amazon intends to help mitigate the impact on its sellers of this change, as this is a challenging time for many small businesses who are already struggling with cashflow issues.\"\n\nMarios Katz sells CDs and vinyl on Amazon and said he doubted that Mr Boumphrey would respond to the minister's letter. He told the BBC he was \"shaken and panicked\" by not having access to his takings.\n\nHe is concerned he will not be able to feed his family, as he is used to withdrawing money from his account as soon as he has earned it.\n\n\"They [Amazon] are a billionaire company - maybe they don't care, or maybe they don't know what is really happening,\" Mr Katzadded.\n\nMr Hollinrake wrote in his letter to Mr Boumphrey: \"I am sure you will share my desire to ensure the livelihood of small businesses is not being jeopardised by Amazon's approach.\"\n\nDaniel Moore, 48, has a business called Ink Jungle that sells ink cartridges and the reserve amount is increasing by £40,000 a day, he said.\n\n\"The value they will be holding from us is disproportionately high versus the potential refunds processed by customer returns or non-delivery,\" says Mr Moore.\n\nHe called Amazon's approach to its policy \"dreadful\", but called Mr Hollinrake's letter \"a help\" - although Daniel added he was \"not expecting miracles\".\n\nA Cheltenham business that has been selling pet products for more than 10 years on Amazon told the BBC the company was holding £16,000 of its takings.\n\nThe business owner, who asked to remain anonymous, said of Mr Hollinrake's intervention: \"I certainly welcome that news and I wait in anticipation to see what Amazon's response to this will be.\n\n\"Things were already tough enough with the cost-of-living crisis which not only affects costs at home but also in the workplace, with a host of price rises ranging from electricity to postage.\"\n\nOnline retail expert Martyn James said Amazon's policy shift shows the need for consumer law to \"evolve and be updated\" to prevent \"dramatic impacts on people's lives with little to no consultation\".\n\n\"The fact remains that we have strong laws in the UK that cover the rights of both buyers and sellers of goods and services - but only if you buy or sell goods directly\", said Mr James.\n\nHe called for a single regulator for the entire retail industry, as well as a free ombudsman service that people can turn to if things go wrong.\n\nLibby Pearson, 42, from Kent says many sellers did not know what was happening when their money was locked. She sells nutritional supplements and has been on Amazon since 2009.\n\nShe says Amazon has locked £700 of her money - and that every day more is being added to that amount, as sales continue.\n\nShe was used to withdrawing amounts daily from her Amazon account for the day-to-day running of the business, but says that is now totally disrupted.\n\n\"There was no clarity on which order is being held or when it will be released? I had to to ring HMRC saying I can't pay my VAT bill on time,\" Libby said.\n\nAn Amazon spokesperson said the policy change affected a \"small number of sellers\".\n\n\"We are listening to sellers' concerns and are in contact with those who have experienced a one-time cash flow disruption\", the spokesperson added.\n\nThe issues are similar to those faced by Etsy sellers after that marketplace began withholding 75% of sellers' funds for around 45 days. Hundreds of sellers complained it was undermining their businesses.\n\nFollowing a BBC report into the problem, Etsy reduced the amount it was withholding.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Inside the housing barge after first asylum seekers board\n\nSome of the first group of men to board the Bibby Stockholm have described their first days on the barge.\n\nOne asylum seeker told the BBC it was like a prison and felt there was not enough room to accommodate up to 500 people onboard, as the government plans.\n\nAnother person on board praised the food and called the barge \"quite a nice place\" with small but \"clean and tidy rooms\".\n\nThe Home Office says the barge will provide better value for the taxpayer as pressure on the asylum system from small boats arrivals continues to grow.\n\nMoored in Portland Port, Dorset, it is the first barge secured under the government's plans to reduce the cost of asylum accommodation.\n\nMonday saw the first 15 asylum seekers board the Bibby Stockholm after a series of delays over safety concerns. It will house men aged 18 to 65 while they await the outcome of their asylum applications.\n\nAn Afghan asylum seeker, whom the BBC is not identifying, said: \"The sound of locks and security checks gives me the feeling of entering Alcatraz prison.\n\n\"My roommate panicked in the middle of the night and felt like he was drowning. There are people among us who have been given heavy drugs for depression by the doctor here.\"\n\nHe said he had been given a small room, and the dining hall had capacity for fewer than 150 people.\n\n\"Like a prison, it [the barge] has entrance and exit gates, and at some specific hours, we have to take a bus, and after driving a long distance, we go to a place where we can walk. We feel very bad,\" the man added.\n\nThere is 24/7 security in place on board the Bibby Stockholm and asylum seekers are issued with ID swipe cards and have to pass through airport-style security scans to get on and off.\n\nAsylum seekers are expected to take a shuttle bus to the port exit for security reasons. There is no curfew, but if they aren't back there will be a \"welfare call\".\n\nThe Home Office has said it would support their welfare by providing basic healthcare, organised activities and recreation.\n\nThe first group of men arrived on Monday. The Care4Calais charity said it was providing legal support to a further 20 asylum seekers who refused to move to Portland and are challenging the decision.\n\nOn Tuesday, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffiths, said that moving to the barge was \"not a choice\" and if people choose not to comply \"they will be taken outside of the asylum support system\".\n\n\"Many of us entered Britain nine to 11 months ago, by airplane. Some of us applied for asylum at the airport. We did not come by boat,\" the Afghan man said.\n\n\"It has been two weeks since we received a letter in which they threatened that if we do not agree to go, our aid and NHS will be cut off.\n\n\"There are people among us who take medicine. We accepted. We waited for two weeks and didn't even have time to bring clean clothes.\"\n\nTwo other asylum seekers on board the barge said the \"food is good\" and described the rooms as \"small, but nice, clean and tidy\".\n\nThe men, aged 19 and 25, said they had arrived in the UK earlier this year by plane, not on a small boat crossing the Channel.\n\nThey said they faced religious persecution in their home country, which the BBC is not identifying to protect their anonymity.\n\nThey also described a gym and a TV lounge on board.\n\n\"The food is good, much better than the hotel,\" the 25-year-old told BBC News.\n\nThe 19-year-old added there is an IT centre inside but they can only use it at allocated times.\n\n\"We have indoor games. We have a football ground, small basketball hoops and some board games - it's quite a nice place.\"\n\nHowever he said he was not happy on board because he had been removed from a religious community where he had previously been housed.\n\n\"I don't say I am happy. But it's okay because I have to be here. I was happy when I was with my people, with my community,\" he said.\n\n\"Our main purpose is to practice our religion.\"\n\nHe added he had requested not to be moved from his hotel on the south coast to the barge, but his request was refused.\n\n\"They said that you have to go to the barge. It's basically on a no-choice basis, so you have to come here.\"\n\nThe 19-year-old said he hoped to complete his studies in the UK and become a software developer. The 25-year-old said he wanted to work in international relations.\n\nThe government says it is spending £6m per day housing more than 50,000 migrants in hotels.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"This marks a further step forward in the government's work to bring forward alternative accommodation options as part of its pledge to reduce the use of expensive hotels and move to a more orderly, sustainable system which is more manageable for local communities.\"\n\n\"This is a tried-and-tested approach that mirrors that taken by our European neighbours, the Scottish government and offers better value for the British taxpayer,\" they added.\n\nThe Home Office says that by the autumn, they aim to house about 3,000 asylum seekers in places that aren't hotels - such as the barge, and former military sites Wethersfield, in Essex, and Scampton, in Lincolnshire.", "Faheem Younis was jailed at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday for a minimum of 24 years\n\nA drug lord has been jailed for life for the \"senseless\" murder of a Nottingham father following a disagreement over a £20 deal.\n\nFaheem Younis stabbed father-of-five Darren Davis through the heart in Graham Street, Radford, on 10 August last year.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the victim, 46, had remonstrated the day after a drug deal about \"being ripped off\".\n\nYounis will serve 24 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole.\n\nDarren Davis was described as the \"best friend\" of his fiancé in court, police said\n\nPolice said the 42-year-old lured the victim to the address before attacking him with a knife.\n\nMr Davis, from New Lenton, managed to flee down an alleyway into Ruskin Street but collapsed in Radford Boulevard where paramedics found him.\n\nThe force said CCTV footage showed Younis cycling past him as he lay dying in the street - on the bicycle he had stolen from the victim.\n\nYounis, of Graham Street, Radford, was found guilty of murder on 27 July following a trial and sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday - one year on from the murder.\n\nHis associate Laney Aikens, 40, of Denman Street Central, Radford, was found guilty of assisting an offender after CCTV captured him disposing of the murder weapon in a nearby drain, according to police.\n\nHe has been jailed for two and a half years.\n\nLaney Aikens will serve half of his sentence before being released on licence\n\nPolice said a pool of blood was found on Younis's driveway, which he had attempted to wash away.\n\nA pair of shorts with Mr Davis's blood on them was also found at Aikens's home and two knives with DNA evidence were recovered near the murder scene.\n\nPolice said the trial heard Younis confessed to killing Mr Davis during a conversation with a fellow inmate at HMP Nottingham, where he was remanded after being charged with murder.\n\nMr Davis was described as \"the best thing that had ever happened to me\" by his \"broken mother\" in Nottingham Crown Court, the force added.\n\nMr Davis was attacked in the Radford Boulevard area\n\nTwo other defendants - Ryan Aziz, 35, of Ilkeston Road, Radford, and Levalle Likutu, 19, of Forster Street, Radford - were found not guilty of murder.\n\nDet Insp Melanie Crutchley, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: \"This was a terrible tragedy in that Darren Davis was a loving family man who lost his life over a senseless drugs dispute.\n\n\"While I know Darren's family are heartbroken by their loss, I hope today's sentences brings some comfort to them.\n\n\"By refusing to accept responsibility for their role in this senseless murder, both defendants inflicted further suffering to Darren's family.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mohamed Bazoum is reported to have lost a \"worrying\" amount of weight\n\nNiger's president is in \"good spirits\" despite being held in \"difficult\" conditions by the junta that deposed him, his doctor has said after a visit.\n\nMohamed Bazoum, his son and wife have been held in the basement of his palace in Niamey since the coup on 26 July.\n\n\"Living conditions remain difficult, with the electricity still cut off,\" the doctor was reported as saying by French public radio station RFI.\n\nThe visit was approved amid growing international demands for his release.\n\nRFI said it was the first outside contact the president had had since he was overthrown.\n\nMr Bazoum, 63, is reported to have lost a \"worrying\" amount of weight, while his 20-year-old son, who has a chronic medical condition, was also reportedly denied care.\n\n\"The doctor was able to talk to the Head of State, as well as his wife and son,\" RFI reported. \"All are well, he said. The doctor was also able to bring them food and medicines.\"\n\n\"Following the visit, President Bazoum's family said they were relieved,\" the radio station added.\n\nThe decision by the junta, led by General Abdourahmane Tchiani, to bring in the family's doctor appears to be in response to widespread condemnation of the president's detention since the coup.\n\nUN human rights chief Volker Turk described the conditions of the detention as inhumane, degrading and in violation of international human rights law.\n\nHis daughter Zazia, 34, who was on holiday in France during the coup, told the Guardian this week that her father, mother and brother had no clean water or electricity and were living on rice and pasta.\n\nFresh food was rotting in the fridge because there was no power, she said.\n\n\"The situation of my family is very difficult currently,\" she told the newspaper. \"They say they will keep fighting, but it's hard to see our family in this situation and they can't go out.\"\n\nThe Niger military overthrew the democratically elected president in a coup on 26 July.\n\nIt mirrored similar military takeovers in neighbouring Burkina Faso and Mali, amid an Islamist insurgency and a growing Russian influence in the wider Sahel region through its mercenary group Wagner.\n\nDespite his captivity, Mr Bazoum was able to publish an article in The Washington Post stating that he was a hostage and that the coup would have \"devastating consequences for our country, our region and the entire world\".\n\nMore than a week has passed since US President Joe Biden called for Mr Bazoum to be \"immediately released\", and for the \"preservation of Niger's hard-earned democracy\".\n\nThat followed the expiration of a deadline by Ecowas, a power bloc of West African states, for the coup leaders to stand down.\n\nIts threats of military intervention were not followed through, and the junta continues to ignore demands for the president's freedom.\n\nEcowas said on Saturday that it hoped to send a committee to Niger to meet coup leaders.", "A controversial rule which deducted living costs from compensation paid to wrongly imprisoned people has been scrapped.\n\nThe government announced the change on Sunday after the case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit, prompted calls for it to be overhauled.", "Private Travis King dashed across the border to North Korea last month\n\nNorth Korea has said US soldier Travis King crossed into its territory last month because of \"inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination\" in the army.\n\nThe 23-year-old private dashed across the border from South Korea on 18 July while on a guided tour.\n\nPrivate King admitted to crossing illegally and wanted refuge in the North, state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nIt is the first time Pyongyang has acknowledged detaining the soldier. The claims have not been verified.\n\nThey appeared in a statement which has so far only been published by the government-controlled KCNA. It did not provide further details about Private King's health or whether the country would accept him as a refugee.\n\nConcerns have been growing for the welfare of the US soldier, who has not been heard from or seen since his crossing.\n\nThe US is trying to negotiate Private King's release with the help of the UN Command, which runs the border area, and has a direct phoneline to the North Korean army.\n\nResponding to the North Korean report on Wednesday, a Pentagon official said the US could not verify the claims and its priority was to have Private King brought home safely \"through all available channels\".\n\nNorth Korea has given no information on how it plans to treat Private King but said the soldier admitted he had \"illegally\" entered the country.\n\nThe fact that North Korea's statement emphasised Private King's illegal entry suggests that it is not thinking of having him stay even if he wants to, said Christopher Green, a senior consultant at the think-tank International Crisis Group.\n\n\"That is not surprising. He would lose all his political value to them if that were the case,\" said Mr Green, but added that North Korea is in no rush to negotiate Travis King's return to the US just yet.\n\n\"They have very publicly thrown in their lot with Beijing and Moscow, as high-level delegation visits from both countries to Pyongyang in recent weeks show. It is a mistake to think that North Korea is or needs to be in a hurry to deal with the Travis King mess,\" he said.\n\nThe statement on KCNA did not say if he would face prosecution or punishment, and there was no mention of his current whereabouts or condition.\n\n\"During the investigation, Travis King confessed that he had decided to come over to the DPRK [North Korea] as he harboured ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the US Army,\" KCNA reported.\n\n\"He also expressed his willingness to seek refuge in the DPRK or a third country, saying that he was disillusioned at the unequal American society.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What's next for captured US soldier in North Korea?\n\nPrivate King is a reconnaissance specialist who has been in the army since January 2021 and was in South Korea as part of his rotation.\n\nBefore crossing the border, he served two months in detention in South Korea for assault charges and was released on 10 July.\n\nHe was supposed to fly back to the US to face disciplinary proceedings but managed to leave the airport and join a tour of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), which separates North and South Korea.\n\nThe DMZ, one of the most heavily fortified areas in the world, is filled with landmines, surrounded by electric and barbed wire fencing, and monitored by surveillance cameras. Armed guards are supposed to be on alert 24 hours a day although witnesses say there were no North Korean soldiers present when Private King ran over.\n\nHis family have previously told US media that he had relayed experiencing racism in the army. They also said his mental health appeared to have declined after he spent time in a South Korean jail.\n\n\"It feels like I'm in a big nightmare,\" said his mother Claudine Gates, adding the family was desperate for answers.\n\nNorth Korea is one of the few countries still under nominally communist rule and has long been a highly secretive and isolated society.\n\nIts government, led by Kim Jong-un, also stands accused of systematic human rights abuse.\n\nAnalysts say the detainment of Travis King has played into North Korea's anti-US messaging, at a time when relations between the two countries are their worst in years.\n\nPyongyang will most likely have relished the opportunity to highlight racism and other shortcomings in American society, especially given the international criticism it receives for human rights abuses.\n\nThe UN Security Council is due to hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss the human rights situation in North Korea for the first time since 2017.\n\nAhead of its comments on Travis King, North Korean media had put out a statement on the UN meeting, which will be led by the US.\n\n\"Not content with fostering racial discrimination and gun-related crimes, the US has imposed unethical human rights standards on other countries\", it read.", "Harrison Ford's legendary Indiana Jones character may fear snakes, but the actor now has a real reptile named after him.\n\nA new found species of snake in Peru has been named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi to honour the actor's environmental advocacy.\n\nFord, who is the vice chair of non-profit group Conservation International, called it \"humbling\".\n\nThe actor also has an ant and a spider named after him.\n\n\"These scientists keep naming critters after me, but it's always the ones that terrify children,\" Ford told Conservation International. \"I don't understand. I spend my free time cross-stitching. I sing lullabies to my basil plants, so they won't fear the night.\"\n\nUnlike his character, Indiana Jones, Ford has repeatedly said he actually liked snakes and \"found a quick kinship with this one\".\n\n\"The snake's got eyes you can drown in, and he spends most of the day sunning himself by a pool of dirty water — we probably would've been friends in the early '60s,\" he said. \"It's a reminder that there's still so much to learn about our wild world - and that humans are one small part of an impossibly vast biosphere,\"\n\nThe discovery, a joint collaboration between researchers from Peru and the United States, was made in Peru's Otishi National Park.\n\nThe Tachymenoides harrisonfordi was discovered in Peru's Andes Mountains\n\nThe Tachymenoides harrisonfordi is a slender snake, measuring a modest 16in (40.6cm) when fully grown. It is not harmful to humans.\n\n\"For a biologist, describing a new species and making it public with its new name is one of the most vital activities during the biodiversity crisis,\" said Edgar Lehr, the lead scientist on the project. \"Only organisms that are known can be protected.\"\n\nHe hopes the discovery will draw attention to the extinction crisis facing species around the world.\n\nReptiles are particularly prone to extinction, with more than a fifth of all reptiles currently under threat, a study co-authored by Conservation International researchers found.\n\nIt was in 1993 that a new species was first named after Ford - the Calponia harrisonfordi, which is a California spider. Years later, an ant was dubbed after the actor - named Pheidole harrisonfordi.", "The Joseph Schulte has been trapped at Odesa since February 2022\n\nA merchant ship has left the Ukrainian port of Odesa, despite concerns Russia could target vessels in the Black Sea.\n\nThe Hong Kong-flagged Joseph Schulte had been trapped in the port since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nKyiv has announced a \"humanitarian corridor\" in the Black Sea after a deal collapsed last month which had allowed it to export grain.\n\nBut Moscow has not said whether it will respect the corridor.\n\nThe ship left as Kyiv said Russian air strikes damaged grain storage facilities in Reni, a river port on the Danube river, about 260km (160 miles) south west of Odesa.\n\nUkrainian officials released photos showing destroyed storage facilities and piles of scattered grain and sunflowers in Reni, on Ukraine's border with Moldova and Romania.\n\nAn industry source told Reuters the port was continuing operations.\n\nRussia has not commented on the latest attack.\n\nLast month Russia pulled out of a deal guaranteeing safe passage for exports across the Black Sea, and said any ship heading for Ukrainian ports could be considered a military target.\n\nEarlier this week it fired warning shots at a ship travelling towards Ukraine.\n\nUkraine is a major grain and oilseeds exporter, and the blockade has contributed to rising food prices globally.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDespite the threats, Ukraine last week announced a humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea to allow ships to leave its ports, promising full transparency to make clear they were serving no military purpose.\n\n\"A first vessel used the temporary corridor for merchant ships to/from the ports of Great Odesa,\" Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Facebook.\n\nBernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, which jointly owns the Joseph Schulte with a Chinese bank, confirmed the ship was travelling to Istanbul, Turkey, Reuters reports.\n\nIt was carrying more than 30,000 tonnes of cargo, including food, in 2,114 containers, Mr Kubrakov said, adding that the corridor would mainly be used to evacuate ships trapped in Black Sea ports since Russia's full-scale invasion began.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukrainian officials announced the capture of Urozhaine, a small hamlet in the eastern Donetsk region, from Russian forces.\n\n\"Urozhaine liberated - our defenders are entrenched at the outskirts,\" Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on Telegram.\n\nIn recent months, Ukrainian forces have been conducting a huge counter-offensive, largely in the east and south east, aimed at retaking territory from occupying Russian forces.\n\nDespite receiving billions of dollars of Western military equipment, it has seen only modest advances.\n\nEarlier this week Ukraine said it had recaptured 3 sq km (1.2 sq miles) of territory around war-ravaged Bakhmut, also in Donetsk region, although it is facing \"powerful resistance\" in the south.\n\nIntense fighting in the country's east has led to many residents being evacuated.\n\nAs she prepared to leave the frontline town of Kupiansk, in Kharkiv Region, Vira Vunesku, 53, said she was ill and needed to evacuate her grandson.\n\n\"My condition is serious - I was in a hospital in Kharkiv, came back home for a bit, and now I have to leave again,\" she told AFP news agency.\n\nSeparately, Russia said its air defence systems downed three drones overnight near Moscow, the latest in a series of attacks that have targeted Russian cities.\n\nUkrainian officials released photos of what it said was a Russian air strike on grain storage facilities in Reni, on the Danube river", "Andy Malkinson was wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in Greater Manchester in 2004\n\nDocuments in the case of Andy Malkinson show the DNA of another man was identified three years after he was wrongly jailed for rape.\n\nMr Malkinson was found guilty in 2004 of raping a woman in Greater Manchester and only had his conviction quashed last month at the Court of Appeal.\n\nQuestions have now been raised over why Mr Malkinson was not granted an appeal as long ago as 2009.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission failed to follow leads, he said.\n\nMr Malkinson went to prison protesting his innocence. At his trial there had been no DNA or other forensic evidence to link him to the victim, or the scene of the savage attack.\n\nLast month, the Court of Appeal quashed the 57-year-old's conviction after the Crown Prosecution Service accepted that DNA obtained long ago from the victim's clothing - but never fully and repeatedly tested for matches - pointed to another man.\n\nCase documents seen by BBC News show that all the key agencies involved in Andy Malkinson's case knew by 2009 of this exonerating DNA.\n\nMr Malkinson's team argue the DNA evidence would have been more than enough to quash his conviction, even if the real suspect could not be identified.\n\nIn 2007, forensic scientists had run a nationwide operation to review biological samples from \"cold case\" unsolved crimes in the hope that technical advances in DNA profiling could identify more suspects.\n\nIn Andy Malkinson's case, the scientists tested for new DNA from the victim's clothing - and the results triggered new questions.\n\nDocuments now disclosed to Mr Malkinson show that in December 2009, the scientists told Crown Prosecution Service lawyers and Greater Manchester Police detectives they were sure they had identified DNA from an unknown man's saliva.\n\nBetween 2007 and 2009 the scientists carried out two searches on the National DNA Database for a match to known suspects. Those searches did not yield a match to any man - a result that also further underlined the sample could not have come from Mr Malkinson.\n\nThe team told the CPS and GMP that the DNA had been recovered from the victim's vest, close to where she had suffered a very serious bite wound.\n\nDNA from an unknown man's saliva was found on the victim's vest top.\n\nA senior CPS lawyer wrote in his notes: \"If it is assumed that the saliva came from the offender, then it does not derive from Malkinson.\n\n\"This is surprising because the area of the clothing that the saliva was recovered from was crime-specific.\"\n\nDespite recognition in the meeting that the DNA evidence appeared to point to another man having attacked the woman, the Crown Prosecution Service advised against any more work on the case, unless and until Mr Malkinson was granted permission for a fresh appeal.\n\nMr Malkinson had already begun that process by asking the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to reinvestigate and send his conviction back to the Court of Appeal.\n\nHis then lawyers were told about the new DNA work - and urged the CCRC to undertake a \"full and comprehensive review of the forensic evidence\".\n\nBut the agency's case log shows its investigators then concluded there was \"nothing to be gained\" by having any of the DNA retested.\n\nThe file, disclosed to Mr Malkinson, notes: \"Would [testing] be a good use of public funds? I do not think on the basis of the material available that it would be a reasonable course of action.\"\n\nA CCRC investigator later wrote that there was \"no DNA material to speak of\" and further testing \"would be extremely costly\".\n\nThe file goes on to question whether the location where the new DNA profile had been found was significant at all.\n\n\"There is no certainty that the vest top DNA sample is crime specific,\" wrote a CCRC investigator.\n\nGreater Manchester Police later destroyed the victim's clothes - and the 2007 DNA profile lay buried in a scientific archive until Mr Malkinson's new legal team tracked it down and commissioned their own testing in 2019.\n\nThat work ultimately led to the identification of a different man whose profile had, in the meantime, been added to the National DNA Database.\n\nSince Mr Malkinson won his freedom, more than 100,000 people have signed his petition for an independent review of how the CCRC handled the case.\n\n\"If the CCRC had investigated properly, it would have spared me years in prison for a crime I did not commit,\" said Mr Malkinson.\n\n\"I feel an apology is the least I am owed, but it seems like the very body set up to address the system's fallibility is labouring under the delusion that it is itself infallible. How many more people has it failed?\"\n\nLord Edward Garnier, Conservative peer and former solicitor general, expressed his \"jaw-dropping shock\" over the handling of Mr Malkinson's case.\n\n\"The more one learns about this case, which is coming out in dribs and drabs, the more one is shocked about how Mr Malkinson was let down by the justice system, essentially let down by the state,\" Lord Garnier told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe called for a public inquiry reaching conclusions within six months, and said all documents related to the case should be publicly disclosed.\n\n\"It's particularly distressing to hear that on grounds of cost, they [the CCRC] decided this was not worth pursuing. Well, here we are now in 2023, well over a decade since they were first involved in this matter, and the costs now are enormous.\n\n\"Not only have we had the cost to Mr Malkinson in every sense of the word, but we are going to see him paid justly huge amounts of compensation. I'd be very surprised now if somebody didn't say he should be given exemplary damages, not just compensatory damages, because of the oppressive and arbitrary behaviour of agents of the state,\" he said.\n\nExemplary damages are assessed to punish the defendant for the wrongful act and \"overcompensate\" the victim.\n\nSenior Conservative and former justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland backed Lord Garnier's call for a public inquiry.\n\n\"I agree with Lord Garnier. Clearly this latest revelation is startling to say the least\", he told BBC Radio 4's World at One. \"That's why I think we need to get to the bottom of this.\"\n\nJames Burley, the investigator at APPEAL, the miscarriages of justice charity that took on Mr Malkinson's case, said the CCRC's decision-making had been \"deeply flawed\".\n\n\"If the CCRC had applied common sense, it would have granted Andy a new appeal in 2009,\" said Mr Burley.\n\n\"Instead, the CCRC said this evidence wasn't enough and then failed to carry out DNA enquiries which might not only have further supported Andy's innocence but identified the new suspect years sooner.\"\n\nIn a statement to the Guardian newspaper, the CCRC said: \"We note the observations that have been made in relation to Mr Malkinson's case and are considering the court of appeal judgment. As we have said before, it is plainly wrong that a man spent 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.\" The organisation has not responded to BBC News' request for an interview.\n\nIn a statement, Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Jackson of Greater Manchester Police said that, when the force became aware of the new DNA material, it complied with all directions given to it by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.\n\n\"This was an appalling miscarriage of justice and I am sorry to Mr Malkinson for all that he has suffered, and for any part GMP has had in the difficult journey of proving his innocence,\" she said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is reviewing how Greater Manchester Police dealt with Mr Malkinson's complaints about his case. Last month the Court of Appeal ruled that two people who police relied upon as alleged witnesses, placing the innocent man at the scene of the crime, were in fact petty criminals. The judges said the jury should have been made aware of their dishonesty.\n\nA spokesman for the CPS said it shared the \"deep regret\" that Mr Malkinson had been wrongly convicted - but denied the 2007 DNA evidence had been ignored.\n\n\"It was disclosed [in 2009] to the defence team representing Mr Malkinson for their consideration,\" he said.\n\n\"In addition, searches of the DNA databases were conducted to identify any other possible suspects. At that time there were no matches and therefore no further investigation could be carried out.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "If you feel like you're not getting paid enough, you're probably not alone.\n\nWhile average wages have been increasing, they're still not keeping up with the pace of price rises, which means many people are finding it harder to get by.\n\nRecent months have seen waves of strikes, with tens of thousands of workers walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions.\n\nMany of these strikes have taken place in the public sector, where workers often do not have the power to negotiate individually.\n\nAnd whether you work in the public or private sector, even if you do have a conversation with your manager there's no guarantee that it will result in a pay rise.\n\nHowever, there are ways to give yourself the best chance of success.\n\nWe spoke to recruiters, a manager and a workplace psychologist to get five tips on how to best negotiate for more money.\n\nJill Cotton, a career trends experts at jobs site Glassdoor, says scheduling a talk in advance will allow you and your boss time to prepare, and means you're more likely to have a productive conversation.\n\n\"Don't spring this on your line manager,\" Ms Cotton says. \"Be upfront and say that you want to book in a conversation that is specifically about pay.\"\n\nRowsonara Begum, who helps her brother run Saffron Indian takeaway in Salisbury, says it also needs to be the right time for the business.\n\nThe takeaway has five members of staff and occasionally takes on additional workers during busy periods.\n\nRowsonara Begum says workers seeking a pay rise should ask at a good time\n\nShe says if workers pick a time when the business is doing well, they will have the best chance of successfully negotiating more money.\n\nIf you're asking for a pay rise, you should have lots of evidence of why you deserve one.\n\n\"Know what you've achieved either from a work setting or what you've done to develop yourself, maybe to support your team, support your line managers. List all the pros of what you've done,\" says Shan Saba, a director at Glasgow-based recruitment firm Brightwork.\n\nThis evidence also helps your manager rationalise why you should be paid more, according to Stephanie Davies, a workplace psychologist.\n\n\"The brain needs a 'why' - why should I pay you this amount?\" she says.\n\nHowever, it's not just about bringing a list of all the things you've done. You should also be clear about what you want to do next, says Mr Saba.\n\n\"If you have aspirations of moving up through your organisation, have a plan of what you're looking to do over the coming year.\"\n\nWhen asking your boss for more money, it helps if you're confident and know your worth.\n\nThat's something Ms Begum has noticed, from her experience of having these talks with staff.\n\n\"Here in Salisbury, it's quite difficult to get the staff we need,\" she says.\n\n\"It's also become harder to recruit from overseas. So workers have negotiating power because they know there's a shortage.\"\n\nOften people don't feel confident because there is a \"stigma\" around talking about pay, says Glassdoor's Jill Cotton, but it's \"an important part of work\".\n\nWomen and people from minority backgrounds can often find it particularly hard to ask for more more, adds psychologist Stephanie Davies.\n\nHer advice to them is to ask for a mentor or role model, who can help guide them through those conversations.\n\nMost experts agree it's best to have an exact figure in mind before embarking on a conversation about pay.\n\nDo your research, advises James Reed, chair of recruitment firm Reed.\n\n\"You can go online and look at job adverts and see what other comparable jobs are being recruited for and what the salaries are,\" he says.\n\nMs Cotton warns the figure should be realistic.\n\n\"We would all love to be paid millions of pounds every single year. But we are being paid to fulfil a role with the skillset we have,\" she says.\n\nIf the above steps don't result in a pay rise, try not to be disheartened.\n\n\"Sometimes these conversations can take a while, even months, but it's important to keep the communication open,\" says Ms Begum.\n\nPay is also not the be-all and end-all, says Mr Reed.\n\n\"It's not just necessarily about money. You might be able to get more holiday or more flexibility around working hours,\" he says, adding you could also negotiate extra training and development.\n\nAnd if you don't feel you're getting what you want from your employer, remember, there are other opportunities out there.\n\n\"You can always look elsewhere, that's the really big lesson,\" says Ms Davies.", "The hotel owner has secured a temporary High Court injunction against protesters which limits their activities\n\nFive protesters have been arrested at a hotel set to house asylum seekers.\n\nPolice appealed for \"calm and co-operation\" amid \"escalation\" in demonstrations at Stradey Park Hotel, in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.\n\nDyfed-Powys officers said they were particularly concerned about people in balaclavas and they have been given the power to demand they are removed.\n\nIt comes after one man was arrested for allegedly damaging a hotel contractor's car on Monday.\n\nPolice said five further arrests were made on Wednesday in connection with further incidents.\n\nThe hotel owner took protesters to court last month over hindering access to the site.\n\nGryphon Leisure Ltd secured a temporary High Court injunction against protesters which limited their activities.\n\nProtests began when the plans to house up to 241 asylum seekers were announced in June, and disrupted preparations to move the new residents in by 10 July.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said a Section 60AA order, under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, had been put in place. This means police can ask anyone to take off something they believe is being used to hide their identity.\n\n\"We will always seek to facilitate peaceful protest, while balancing it with the rights of others, keeping the public safe and preventing crime and disorder,\" a force spokesperson said.\n\nDemonstrators have blocked entrances of the hotel to try to hinder efforts to prepare for the arrival of asylum seekers\n\nProtesters have previously said worry around the intended use of the hotel stemmed from a lack of information being provided to locals.\n\nFurnace Action Committee previously responded to the threat of legal action by asking people to support an online \"fighting fund\".\n\nThe group hoped to raise at least £10,000 online to fund legal action to \"defend the cause.\"\n\nIt claimed Gryphon Leisure had \"picked on innocent locals to take to court\".", "Det Ch Insp Jivan Saivb asked if members of the public recognised the man's clothes and mask\n\nNew images have been released of a man suspected of carrying out a homophobic attack on two men outside a south London nightclub.\n\nThe two victims, in their 20s and 30s, were attacked with a knife outside the Two Brewers, in Clapham High Street, at about 22:15 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe force has said it is treating the incident as homophobic.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has released an image of a man on a number 50 bus in Thornton Heath at 20:30 BST that night.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jivan Saib, who is leading the investigation, called on the public to think about whether they could name or identify the man pictured.\n\n\"I would urge people to look at these images - do you know this man? Do you recognise the clothes he is wearing?\" he said.\n\n\"If you can help identify him then please get in touch.\"\n\nThe images, which are the latest to be released following a previous appeal on Tuesday, show the man wearing a black and grey hooded coat with a red zip and a black facemask, as well as red and black gloves.\n\nThe man was wearing a black and grey hooded coat with a red zip and a black facemask, as well as distinctive red and black gloves\n\nThe incident happened as the two victims were standing outside the nightclub, when they were approached by a man who attacked them with a knife before running away.\n\nNo arrests have been made so far, and police inquiries are ongoing. The men have since been sent home from hospital.\n\nIt comes as the Met Police have increased safety measures in the area following the attack, with nightclub staff being escorted to their cars by police in Clapham and Vaxuhall.\n\nPC Hayley Jones, the Met's LGBT+ community liaison officer for Lambeth and Southwark, said a minibus of six officers and a sergeant were also patrolling the area every day this week and officers would be speaking to revellers outside venues to reassure them.\n\nThe attack took place outside Clapham's Two Brewers nightclub\n\nIn nearby Clapham Junction, the Clapham Grand nightclub, which holds its own drag and LGBTQIA+ events, said it was stepping up security including enhanced bag searches and increased staffing.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, it also said it would be liaising with police on a daily basis ahead of events, adding a communications network across all venues in the area would also be set up to share information and issues.\n\nDr Mahamed Hashi, Lambeth Council's cabinet member for safer communities, condemned \"those who perpetrate violence in our borough, those who carry knives and those who carry out hate crimes against our communities\".\n\nHe said: \"This is a really distressing incident and our thoughts are with the two men who are now recovering from the attack, and their friends and family who will be deeply affected by this violence.\n\n\"There is absolutely no tolerance for hatred of this kind in our borough and we will work with the police to ensure that action is taken swiftly to deal with this terrible incident and prevent incidents of this kind in the future.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Healthy peatlands are important for carbon storage, says Peter Harper\n\nThe water temperature in Lough Neagh is rising \"alarmingly fast\" researchers have said.\n\nThe temperature in the largest freshwater body of water in the UK and Ireland is 1C higher than in 1995.\n\nA report also said more than twice as much carbon was stored in ground around the lough as previously thought.\n\nThe Lough Neagh Partnership (LNP) commissioned the study as it took up a lease on land on the south-west shoreline, with a view to restoring it.\n\nMany peatlands around the lough have been milled over the years for compost and fuel.\n\nThe Climate Change Impact and Carbon Storage Study took core samples round the entire shoreline of the lough to assess the carbon stored there.\n\nIn some cases, those samples went 9m down below grass fields.\n\nThe report revealed a total of more than 14 million tonnes of carbon stored in the catchment area.\n\n\"Previously our best estimate of carbon stored in the Lough Neagh catchment area was about 6.6 million tonnes,\" said report author Jim McAdam.\n\n\"We got that from the surface soil maps that were done in the 1990s. In this study, we looked at the actual depth of the carbon itself, and we've come out with our calculation of carbon.\"\n\n\"It's more than 14 million tonnes of carbon, over twice what our original estimate was.\n\n\"That's really important, because nowadays the whole talk is how do we keep that carbon in the ground? That carbon and that habitat has the potential to sequester more carbon.\n\n\"So the more we have the better and, therefore, the more we know about it, the more we've measured, the better we can manage the whole site.\"\n\nThat whole site includes lands at Derrytresk and Derryloughan, which were gifted to the Royal School Dungannon in 1608, at about the time of the Plantation of Ulster.\n\nThe Education Authority granted a lease on the land to the LNP in December 2022.\n\nGerry Darby says the local community have been supportive of their conservation goals\n\nThe site has been affected by unregulated peat extraction.\n\nThe partnership will now manage the site with a focus on conservation, restoring the peatlands and enhancing the natural habitat.\n\nThe partnership's manager Gerry Darby said: \"There has to be a balance between legal - and I emphasise legal - peat extraction, between that and protecting important species [like the curlew] as well.\n\n\"We're just trying to find that balance and the community, I think, are very supportive in trying to find that balance as well.\"\n\nMid Ulster Council said it was investigating seven potential breaches of planning in peat extraction.\n\nIt is also considering a planning application for extraction.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a ban on extraction in Special Areas of Conservation was introduced in 2011.\n\nA ban on the use of turf as fuel was also brought in by the Irish government in October 2022.\n\nFarmer Michael Meharg said passing bills will not be enough to invoke change\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a peatlands strategy has been consulted on but cannot proceed without sign-off from a Stormont minister.\n\nIt is expected to include a ban on peat sales from 2025.\n\nThat, farmer Michael Meharg said, will need incentives.\n\nHe said: \"There are government policies on peatland, there are government policies on farming with nature and being environmentally conscious and friendly.\n\n\"So passing bills when there's some sort of economic gain to be with it, it's very difficult to ask people to do something just for the sake of it.\"\n\nThe carbon found in the ground is more than double what Jim McAdam and the Lough Neagh Partnership thought\n\nThe partnership's shoreline environment officer, Peter Harper, is aware of the tradition of peat in the area.\n\nHowever, he is also aware of what healthy peatlands mean for the environment.\n\n\"These are very important carbon stores. Now, traditionally, they have been extracted for compost and there's a commercial industry around that and that's fine,\" he said.\n\n\"But I don't think that can continue indefinitely because collectively, all these actions do have an impact on climate change.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dramatic helicopter rescue for three hikers trapped by wildfire in Canada\n\nThousands of people fleeing a wildfire on the outskirts of Yellowknife, one of the largest cities in Canada's north, have crowded into the local airport and the road out of town.\n\nHundreds have also lined up for emergency military evacuation flights.\n\nLocal officials have given the 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories, a deadline of noon Friday (18:00 GMT) to leave.\n\nAs of Thursday, the fire was within 16km (10 miles) of the city.\n\nThe Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency late on Tuesday as it battles nearly 240 wildfires.\n\n\"Very tough days ahead - with two days of northwest to west-northwest winds on Friday and Saturday, which would push fire towards Yellowknife,\" the territorial fire service said in a statement on Facebook.\n\nThere have been reports of long lines at petrol stations in the city and on the road out of town.\n\nResident Bill Braden told Global News he was carrying extra petrol with him after a family member told him the line at one gas station stretched a kilometre in length.\n\nPolice advised drivers to slow down as they reach Fort Providence, about 300km southwest of Yellowknife by road, as a long queue for gas was affecting traffic.\n\nFor those not staying with friends or family in other communities, the closest centre for evacuees is 1,100km south of Yellowknife.\n\nMilitary evacuation flights are scheduled throughout the afternoon and evening on Thursday, with five flights to Calgary, in the neighbouring province of Alberta.\n\nThe federal transport minister has also assured evacuees that the country's largest airline, Air Canada, is capping the cost of flights out of Yellowknife.\n\nAir Canada has added two extra flights out of the city.\n\nShane Thompson, environment minister for the Northwest Territories, told reporters on Wednesday that the fires had \"taken another turn for the worse\" and represented a \"real threat\" to Yellowknife, the region's capital.\n\n\"I want to stress that the city is not in immediate danger,\" he said. \"[But] you put yourself and others at risk if you choose to stay.\"\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau held an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the wildfire situation in the northern territory.\n\nSome residents of Yellowknife had already begun leaving earlier on Wednesday after parts of the city were put on evacuation alert, meaning they could be asked to leave at a moment's notice.\n\n\"Watching the flights sell out and the prices go up I just kind of got to a point where we should leave,\" Ashley Maclellan, who fled south to Edmonton with her baby, told the CBC.\n\nAnother fire is threatening the community of Hay River.\n\nOne evacuee told the CBC her car began melting as she and her family drove through embers while fleeing that town over the weekend.\n\nCars on Highway 3 out of Yellowknife were bumper to bumper on Wednesday as people scrambled to evacuate\n\nHay River Mayor Kandis Jameson pleaded with anyone remaining in the town to leave immediately.\n\nThe fire moved 30km in a few hours because of strong winds earlier this week, closing the only two highways out of the town. Then it stalled about 10km away from the town.\n\nResident Lisa Mundy described how her bumper had begun to melt, her windscreen had cracked and her car had filled with smoke as she and her husband left the town with their two children on Sunday.\n\n\"You couldn't see anything - we were driving through embers,\" she said.\n\nAbout 46,000 people live in the Northwest Territories, and Canada's military has been co-ordinating the largest airlift evacuation effort in the region's history.\n\nThe communities of Fort Smith, K'atl'odeeche First Nation, Hay River, Enterprise, and Jean Marie River are all also under evacuation orders.\n\nKakisa, a community of about 40 people some 130km from Hay River, received an evacuation order on Thursday.\n\nKofi Yeboah, a social worker in Fort Good Hope, about 800km northwest of Yellowknife, said his community has had some smoky skies from the fires in the territory.\n\n\"We are all praying we get as much rain as we can,\" he told the BBC.\n\nCanada is having its worst wildfire season on record, with nearly 1,100 active fires burning across the country as of Wednesday.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason.\n\nScientists say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nAre you personally affected by the wildfires in Canada? If it is safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Like many Ukrainians trying to leave Russian-occupied areas, Andriy was forced to go through a process called filtration\n\nUkrainians who want to leave cities under Russian occupation cannot do so without undergoing a terrifying process known as filtration. Phones are searched, social media accounts scoured. Anything deemed incriminating can lead to beatings, civilians say, and many are forcefully sent to Russia.\n\nAndriy watched anxiously as Russian soldiers connected his mobile to their computer, trying to restore some files. Andriy, a 28-year-old marketing officer, was attempting to leave Mariupol. He had deleted everything he thought a Russian soldier could use against him, such as text messages discussing Russia's invasion of Ukraine or photos of the devastation in his city caused by weeks of relentless shelling.\n\nBut the internet in Mariupol, a once bustling port in southern Ukraine, had been cut off as part of the siege imposed by Russia, and Andriy had not been able to take down some of his posts on social media. He remembered the first days of the war, when he had shared some anti-Russian messages and speeches from the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe soldiers, Andriy said, already had their focus on him. On that day in early May, when he first joined the queues for filtration in Bezimenne, a small village to the east of Mariupol, one of the Russians noticed his beard. The soldier, Andriy said, instantly assumed it was a sign that he was a fighter with the Azov regiment, a former militia in the city which once had links with the far right.\n\n\"Is it you and your brigade killing our guys?,\" Andriy was asked. He replied he had never served in the army, he started working directly after graduating, but \"they didn't want to hear it\".\n\nAs the soldiers went through his phone, they turned to his political views, and asked his opinion of Zelensky. Andriy, cautiously, said Zelensky was \"okay\", and one of the soldiers wanted to know what he meant by that. Andriy told him Zelensky was just another president, not very different from those who had come before, and that in fact, he was not very interested in politics. \"Well,\" the soldier replied, \"you should just say you aren't interested in politics.\"\n\nThey kept Andriy's phone and told him to wait outside. He met his grandmother, mother and aunt, who had arrived with him and had already been given a document that allowed them to leave. A few minutes later, Andriy said, he was ordered to go to a tent where members of Russia's security service, the FSB, were carrying out further checks.\n\nFive officers were sitting behind a desk, three wearing balaclavas. They showed Andriy a video he had shared on Instagram of a speech Zelensky had given, from 1 March. With it was a caption written by Andriy: \"A president we can be proud of. Go home with your warship!\" One of the officers took the lead. \"You told us you're neutral to politics, but you support the Nazi government,\" Andriy recalled being told. \"He hit me in the throat. He basically started the beating.\"\n\nAndriy said the soldiers found out he had shared speeches of President Zelensky after connecting his phone to their computer\n\nLike Andriy, Dmytro had his phone confiscated at a checkpoint as he tried to leave Mariupol in late March. Dmytro, a 34-year-old history teacher, said the soldiers came across the word \"ruscist\", a play on \"Russia\" and \"fascist\", in a message to a friend. The soldiers, Dmytro told me, slapped and kicked him, and \"everything [happened] because I used that word.\"\n\nDmytro said he was taken, with four other people, to a police station in the village of Nikolsky, also a filtration point. \"The highest-ranking officer punched me four times in the face,\" he said. \"It seemed to be part of the procedure\".\n\nHis interrogators said teachers like him were spreading pro-Ukrainian propaganda. They also asked what he thought about \"the events of 2014\", the year that Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula and started supporting pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk. He replied that the conflict was known as the Russo-Ukrainian war. \"They said Russia was not involved, and asked me whether I agreed that it was, in fact, a Ukrainian civil war.\"\n\nThe officers checked his phone again, and this time found a photo of a book which had the letter H in its title. \"We got you!\" the soldiers told Dmytro. Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, claims his war in Ukraine is an effort to \"de-Nazify\" the country, and the soldiers, Dmytro said, believed he was reading books about Hitler.\n\nThe next morning, Dmytro was transferred with two women to a prison in Starobesheve, a separatist-controlled village in Donetsk. He counted 24 people in the four-bunk cell. After four days and another detailed interrogation, he was finally released, and eventually reached Ukrainian-held territory. Weeks later, he still does not know what happened to his cell mates.\n\nBack inside the tent in Bezimenne, Andriy noticed two other people with their hands tied behind them, who had been left in a corner while the officers paid attention to him. \"They started to beat me way harder,\" Andriy told me, \"everywhere\". At one point, after a blow to the stomach, he felt as if he was about to faint. He managed to sit on a chair.\n\n\"I wondered what would be better,\" he said, \"to lose consciousness and fall down or tolerate the pain further.\"\n\nAt least, Andriy thought, he had not been taken somewhere else, away from his family. Ukrainian officials say thousands of people are believed to have been sent to detention centres and camps set up in Russian-controlled areas during filtration. In almost all cases, their relatives do not know where they are being held, or why. \"I [was] very angry about everything,\" Andriy said, \"but, at the same time, I know it could've been much worse.\"\n\nHis mother tried to get into the tent, but was stopped by the officers. \"She was very nervous. She later said they had told her that my 're-education' had started,\" Andriy said, \"and that she shouldn't be worried.\" His ordeal, he told me, continued for two and a half hours. He was even forced to make a video saying \"Glory to the Russian army!\", a mockery of \"Slava Ukraini!\", the Ukrainian slogan.\n\nThe final question, Andriy said, was whether he had \"understood his mistakes\", and \"I obviously answered yes\". As he was being released, officers brought in another man, who had previously served in Ukraine's military and had several tattoos. \"They immediately pushed him to the ground and started to beat him,\" Andriy said. \"They didn't even talk to him.\"\n\n\"I even try to justify the process somehow. Try to convince myself there's some logic,\" Andriy said about filtration\n\nUkrainian authorities say Russian forces and Russian-backed separatists have carried out filtration in occupied territories as an attempt to establish residents' possible links with the military, law enforcement and even local government, as the invading forces try to restore services and infrastructure.\n\nMen of fighting age are particularly targeted, checked for bruises that could suggest recent use of weapons, such as on the fingers and shoulders. Strip searches are common, witnesses say, including for women. Oleksandra Matviychuk, the head of the Center for Civil Liberties, a Kyiv-based human rights group, said the process, even when not violent, was \"inhuman\". \"There's no military need for this... They're trying to occupy the country with a tool I call 'immense pain of civilian people'. You ask: 'Why so much cruelty? For what?'\"\n\nMaksym, a 48-year-old steelworker, said he was forced to strip naked while officers in Bezimenne checked even the seams of his clothes. He was asked whether he was from the Azov regiment or was a Nazi sympathiser - he denied being either - and why he wanted to leave Mariupol. \"I said, 'Actually, it's you who are on Ukrainian soil.'\" One of the officers, who he said were all Russian, reacted by hitting Maksym with the gun butt in his chest. He fell.\n\n\"I leaned my head on the ground, holding my ribs. I couldn't get up,\" he said. \"It was very painful to breathe.\"\n\nHe was taken to what he described as a \"cage\", where others were being held. He noticed that one man, a weightlifter, had a tattoo of Poseidon, the Greek god, with a trident. The soldiers, Maksym said, thought it was the Ukrainian coat of arms. \"He explained it to them but they didn't understand.\" Those detained in the \"cage\" were given no water or food, and had to urinate in a corner in front of everyone, Maksym told me. At one point, exhausted, he tried to sleep on the ground. An officer came in and kicked him in the back, forcing him to stand.\n\nPeople would be taken to be interrogated and, when they returned, \"you saw the person had been beaten,\" Maksym said. He witnessed a woman in her 40s lying in pain, apparently after being hit in the stomach. A man, who seemed to be around 50, had a bleeding lip and red bruises on his neck. Maksym believed he had been strangled. No-one in the \"cage\" asked or said anything to each other. They were afraid that FSB officers could be disguised as prisoners.\n\nAfter about four or five hours, Maksym was released and allowed to leave Mariupol. Days later, he reached safety in Ukrainian-controlled territory, and went to a hospital to treat the persistent pain in his chest. The diagnosis: four broken ribs.\n\nYuriy Belousov, who leads the Department of War at the Ukrainian general prosecutor's office, said his team had received allegations of torture and even killings during filtration. \"[It seems to be] a Russian policy which was designed in advance, and pretty well prepared,\" he told me. \"It's definitely not just a single case or [something] done by a local military guy.\"\n\nHe acknowledged it was difficult to verify the cases, or estimate the scale of the violence. The Ukrainian authorities are unable to carry out investigations in occupied territories and most victims remain reluctant to share their stories, concerned that relatives in Mariupol could be targeted if their identity is exposed.\n\nVadym, 43, who used to work at a state-owned company in Mariupol, said he was tortured in Bezimenne in March. Separatist soldiers had questioned his wife after finding out she had \"liked\" the Ukrainian army page on Facebook, and restoring a receipt on her phone of a donation she had made to them. \"I tried to stand up for her,\" he said, \"but was knocked down.\" He got up, but was beaten once more. A pattern, he said, that happened again and again.\n\nWhen Russian soldiers realised where he worked, they took Vadym to a different building. There, Vadym said, separatist soldiers asked him \"stupid things\" and started to beat him. \"They used electricity. I almost died. I fell and choked on my dental fillings, which had come out from my teeth,\" Vadym said. He vomited and fainted. \"They were furious. When I recovered consciousness, they told me to clean everything up and continued to give me electric shocks.\"\n\nThe torture, Vadym said, only stopped after Russian officers intervened. They carried out another round of questioning before finally freeing him. As Vadym left the building, he saw a young woman, who had been identified during the process as a court clerk, being carried out.\n\n\"A plastic bag was put on her head, and her hands were tied,\" Vadym said. \"Her mother was on her knees, begging for her daughter not to be taken away.\"\n\nVadym's release came with a condition: he would have to go to Russia. About 1.2 million people in Ukraine, including thousands of Mariupol residents, have been sent to Russia against their will since the invasion began in February, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia denies it is carrying out a mass deportation, which would constitute a war crime under international humanitarian law, and says it is simply helping those who want to go. Ukraine rejects this claim.\n\nSome of those sent to Russia have managed to escape to other countries and even return to Ukraine. How many, remains unclear. Vadym, with the help of his friends, moved to another European country - he did not want to reveal the exact location. He had lost some of his vision, he told me, and doctors said this was a result of head injuries from the beating. \"I feel better now, but rehabilitation will take a long time.\" I asked him what he thought about filtration. \"They separate families. People are being disappeared,\" he said. \"It's pure terror.\"\n\nRussia's defence ministry did not respond to several requests for comment on the allegations. The Russian government has previously denied it is carrying out war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nAndriy said his mother was told by a Russian soldier that he was going through \"re-education\"\n\nAndriy and his family have now settled in Germany, after also having been forced to go to Russia. Looking back, he believes the occupying forces seemed to be using filtration to show their \"absolute power\". Soldiers, he said, acted as if it was a \"type of entertainment\", something to \"satisfy their own ego\".\n\nI told him about another Ukrainian I had met, a 60-year-old retired engineer called Viktoriia. A soldier found out she had added a Ukrainian flag to her profile photo on Facebook, she said, and the message \"Ukraine above all.\"\n\nHe pointed his gun at her, she told me, and threatened: \"I'll put you in the basement until you rot!\" He then kicked her. Viktoriia struggled to understand why he had acted like that. \"What did I do? What right did they have?\"\n\nAndriy said he could not explain such behaviour. \"I even try to justify the process somehow. Try to convince myself there's some logic.\"\n\nBut, he said, \"there's no logic\".\n\nSome names have been changed to protect identities", "England women's football team are 90 minutes away from immortality - but the government has all but ruled out an extra bank holiday if they win.\n\nFans are eagerly awaiting the final on Sunday after the Lionesses beat Australia 3-1 to secure their place.\n\nIf they beat Spain in Sydney on Sunday, they will become the first England team to win a World Cup since 1966.\n\nBut there are \"no plans\" for an extra day off if the Lionesses secure a famous victory, the government says.\n\nSupporters across the country are already making plans for the final, which kicks off at 11:00 BST and will be shown live on the BBC.\n\nTickets for three London fan zones sold out in just eight minutes when they went on sale shortly after England's semi-final win against co-hosts Australia - nicknamed the Matildas - in Sydney.\n\nWhether or not they win on Sunday, Sarina Wiegman's trailblazing Lionesses have already made history by becoming the first English women's football side to reach a World Cup final.\n\nThe King led tributes to the team on Wednesday, who are on the cusp of winning their second major trophy in just over a year after Euro 2022.\n\n\"While your victory may have cost the magnificent Matildas their chance for the greatest prize in the game, both teams have been an inspiration on and off the pitch - and for that, both nations are united in pride, admiration and respect,\" said the King, who is the head of state of both the UK and Australia.\n\nThe Welsh Guards Band could be heard playing Sweet Caroline - one of England's unofficial footballing anthem - during Wednesday's Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace after the match.\n\nDespite popular support for an extra bank holiday whenever an England side looks to be on the brink of a major tournament win, there has never been one held to mark a sporting occasion.\n\nThe government resisted appeals for an extra day off in the run-up to the Lionesses' Euros win in 2022, and a petition calling for a bank holiday in the event the men's team won Euro 2020 also failed to get support.\n\nAsked if there could be a change of heart this time around, a government spokesperson said: \"We congratulate the Lionesses on their fantastic achievement in getting to the Women's World Cup final.\n\n\"The current pattern of public and bank holidays is well established and there are no plans to change this.\"\n\nIn a later statement issued after this story was published, a government spokesperson added: \"Winning the World Cup would be a massive moment for the country and make no mistake we'll find the right way to celebrate.\n\n\"As Sarina Wiegman herself has said, the first thing to do is focus on the final and the whole country will be rooting for the Lionesses this weekend\".\n\nDespite a morning kick-off, fan zones were packed for England's semi-final on Wednesday.\n\nLondon fan zones sold out within minutes of the semi-final victory.\n\nBut the government is understood not to be considering a bank holiday as part of any post-tournament celebrations.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called the semi-final victory \"phenomenal\" and backed calls for an extra bank holiday.\n\nWriting writing on social media, he said: \"It's almost 60 years since England won the World Cup.\n\n\"I'm never complacent about anything… but there should be a celebratory bank holiday if the Lionesses bring it home.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Ed Davey also backed the call, describing the England team an \"inspiration\" and saying a final win would \"absolutely\" deserve to be marked with a bank holiday.\n\nGurinder Chadha - who directed women's football classic Bend It Like Beckham - echoed calls for a bank holiday, telling Channel 4 News \"it deserves some kind of marking, it deserves some kind of national holiday\".\n\nThe match looks set to be played without the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak or the Prince of Wales - who is chair of the Football Association - in the stadium, with neither expected to make the journey to Australia.\n\nAfter Wednesday's match, Mr Sunak congratulated the team, tweeting: \"What a performance Lionesses. Just one more game to go... Bring on Sunday.\"\n\nWilliam tweeted: \"What a phenomenal performance from the Lionesses - on to the final!\".\n\nThe Right Reverend Libby Lane, Bishop of Derby and the Church of England's lead bishop for sport, told BBC Newscast that she would understand if people wanted to change their Sunday church plans to watch the final.\n\nShe said: \"We know that lots of people will want to watch it live or to go to church and then catch up later on - and so to avoid the score while they're at worship. Either way, I'm sure it's going to be a wonderful occasion.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFans at Boxpark in Wembley on Wednesday morning\n\nWhile there would likely be support from the public for an extra bank holiday, the government is wary of the costs associated with them.\n\nEstimates of the impact on the economy vary widely, but in 2010 a House of Commons library report put the bill for an extra bank holiday at £2.9bn, and both the Bank of England and Office of Budget Responsibility say it negatively impacts growth.\n\nExtra bank holidays have been held for various royal events, while one was moved in 2020 to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nEngland and Wales have eight bank holidays a year, while Scotland has nine and Northern Ireland 10. There was an extra bank holiday in 2023 for the King's Coronation.\n\nOther countries do sometimes declare bank holidays for sporting wins - with Argentina enjoying a special day off last year after winning the men's World Cup. Panama even declared a national holiday in 2017 just for qualifying for the World Cup for the first time, while Saudi Arabia held one for beating Argentina in last year's group stages.\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had called for a bank holiday there if his team won the cup.", "The bonfire was lit on Tuesday night.\n\nThe placing of poppy wreaths on a bonfire is being investigated by police as a potential hate crime.\n\nHundreds of people gathered on waste ground in Creggan in Londonderry when the bonfire was lit on Tuesday night.\n\nIt featured several poppy wreaths, a number of flags - including a King Charles Coronation flag and UVF flag - and a Traditional Unionist Voice election poster.\n\nPolice described the material placed on the bonfire as a \"provocative display\".\n\nHundreds of people gathered to watch the Creggan bonfire on Tuesday night\n\nBonfires on 15 August are traditional in some nationalist parts of Northern Ireland.\n\nIn previous years a bonfire in the Bogside area attracted condemnation for the burning of flags and posters.\n\nThat bonfire did not go ahead this year.\n\nA smaller bonfire was held in Galliagh where there had been disturbances last week.\n\nIt followed the removal of pallets from the bonfire site.\n\nPolice said material placed on that bonfire was also being investigated and was being treated as a sectarian hate incident.", "Bridgend town councillor Darren Brown has appeared at Newport Crown Court charged wtih attempted murder and wounding with intent\n\nA town councillor has appeared in court charged with attempted murder and wounding with intent.\n\nDarren Brown, 34, of Tairfelin in Wildmill, Bridgend, attended Newport Crown Court via video from HMP Cardiff.\n\nA woman was taken to hospital in a stable condition on 10 July after police were called to a serious assault at a home in the area.\n\nHe was ordered to appear in court in person for arraignment on 21 September and was remanded into custody.\n\nHis trial, if needed, is provisionally set for 2 January 2024 and is expected to last for five days.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City added the Uefa Super Cup to the Treble they claimed last season with victory over Sevilla on penalties in Athens.\n\nPep Guardiola's Champions League winners lost the Community Shield to Arsenal in a shootout, but saw their fortunes transformed when Sevilla's Nemanja Gudelj hit the bar after nine successful penalties.\n\nCity had to come from behind in an entertaining encounter to force penalties after a towering header from Youssef En-Nesyri put the Europa League holders ahead on 25 minutes.\n\nSevilla goalkeeper Bono and his Manchester City counterpart Ederson both excelled with fine saves before man-of-the-match Cole Palmer rose at the far post in the 63rd minute to level with a looping header from Rodri's cross.\n\nIt set up the tense finale that resulted in another piece of silverware being added to Guardiola's vast collection.\n• None What did you make of Man City's performance? Have your say here\n\nThe talented Palmer has already made an impact this season with a spectacular goal in the Community Shield against Arsenal.\n\nThe 21-year-old's performance here in Athens not only made a case for further first-team action but also drew praise from a predecessor.\n\nRiyad Mahrez, now with Al-Ahli in Saudi Arabia, tweeted appreciation of Palmer's performance when he was substituted - and the youngster could be pleased with his work in stifling conditions.\n\nHe had already tested Bono and shown nice touches in the first half before guiding in the header for City's equaliser.\n\nPalmer's languid left-footed style on City's right flank posed a real threat, with several inviting deliveries not getting the reward they deserved.\n\nHe was deservedly announced as the game's best performer on a night when City had to cope with fierce humidity and heat which were physically taxing for both sides.\n\nGuardiola was able to give expensive summer signing Josko Gvardiol his first start in defence and when it came to penalties City were flawless.\n\nErling Haaland, Julian Alvarez, Mateo Kovacic, Jack Grealish and Kyle Walker were successful, before Sevilla blinked first to start the celebrations for the English side that also won the Premier League and FA Cup last season.\n\nWhile no-one could seriously make a case for the Uefa Super Cup being anywhere near the top of City's list of priorities, Guardiola made it clear how desperately he wanted to win the trophy - and his joy when the shootout was over was a clear illustration of that.\n\nAfter previous triumphs with Barcelona and Bayern Munich, he became the first coach to win the competition with three different clubs.\n\nCity finally climbed the mountain after seasons of disappointment in the Champions League with their June success against Inter Milan and wanted victory here as further affirmation of their new standing among Europe's elite.\n\nThey had to fight for it, though, and were not at their best against their Spanish opponents, who will regret missed opportunities in the second half before Palmer struck.\n\nBut the suffering was worthwhile for City as they were rewarded with another major prize.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Manchester City 1(5), Sevilla 1(4). Nemanja Gudelj (Sevilla) hits the bar with a right footed shot.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(5), Sevilla 1(4). Kyle Walker (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(4), Sevilla 1(4). Gonzalo Montiel (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(4), Sevilla 1(3). Jack Grealish (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(3), Sevilla 1(3). Ivan Rakitic (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(3), Sevilla 1(2). Mateo Kovacic (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(2), Sevilla 1(2). Rafa Mir (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(2), Sevilla 1(1). Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(1), Sevilla 1(1). Lucas Ocampos (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1(1), Sevilla 1. Erling Haaland (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Will the faithfuls unmask the traitors? 24 Aussies take on the ultimate game of trust and treachery", "Councils are frequently failing to use their powers to tackle anti-social behaviour, a watchdog has found.\n\nThe Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman cited cases including a victim being told a neighbour's 13-hour long party did not warrant action.\n\nThe watchdog said it upheld three-quarters of the cases it had investigated in the past year and found fault in how the council had acted.\n\nCouncils said they took a \"balanced and proportionate\" approach to complaints.\n\nA report published by the ombudsman on Wednesday highlighted issues including long delays responding to complaints, referring people to the police instead of taking action and failing to liaise properly with other agencies.\n\nIt said out of the 63 cases it had investigated in the last year - ranging from low-level issues such as dog-fouling and inconsiderate parking to more serious harassment and intimidation - 51 were upheld.\n\nIn one case a resident complained to the council about a neighbour's party with loud music which lasted more than 13 hours.\n\nDespite another party a few weeks later, he was told by the council that its policy would only consider taking action if he recorded six incidents within 25 days.\n\nThe ombudsman said the council's policy was too inflexible and recommended it was reviewed.\n\nAnother case saw a man complain to his council about his neighbour placing bagged dog faeces outside his window in a bin until collection day, shouting abuse and throwing tennis balls at him.\n\nThe council decided it was not anti-social behaviour but a private dispute over rights of access to a courtyard area behind their properties and that he should report the incidents to the police.\n\nThe ombudsman said the council was at fault and should apologise.\n\nJohn, not his real name, told the BBC he had been experiencing escalating problems with his neighbours since last November, which he had repeatedly reported to his council in south-east London.\n\nHe said it started with relatively minor issues like smoking, drug-taking and loud music in the building, but had grown in severity to him and his wife witnessing violence and racist abuse.\n\nOn one occasion he said he was personally threatened by the neighbours for reporting them.\n\nDespite providing evidence including footage, John said he felt like the issues had not been taken seriously enough by the council and he was frustrated by how slow they had been to take action.\n\n\"When things have been really extreme, it's felt the same way they would if I said they were playing music,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been the most stressful thing I've ever had to deal with.\"\n\nAfter giving written warnings to the tenants, John said he was told the council had applied for a court order to repossess the property but he was then told this had not happened yet.\n\nJohn said he also felt the council had tried to pass him on to the police, but they had said there was not enough evidence to convict.\n\nHe said he and his wife now felt so uncomfortable in their own home they stayed with family at weekends when they could.\n\n\"It started off feeling on edge quite a lot of the time... to now being intimidated by coming back to our property.\"\n\nCouncils have a range of powers to tackle anti-social behaviour, including community protection notices for issues like noise and litter. Failure to comply with a notice to stop the behaviour is a criminal offence.\n\nThey can also apply to the courts for an injunction to stop individuals engaging in certain behaviour - and if they fail to do so the council can apply to issue a warrant for their arrest.\n\nHowever, the ombudsman found councils were either not using these powers or did not fully understand them.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils, said anti-social behaviour could have \"a devastating impact\" and councils were committed to working with partners and communities to protect residents from offenders.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Councils will always take a balanced and proportionate approach to using the tools at their disposal to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour [ASB] and so it is vital all agencies - including the government - ensure all measures in the ASB Plan launched earlier this year are adequately resourced.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to crack down on anti-social behaviour, setting out an action plan earlier this year.\n\nIt included increasing the use of hotspot policing, forcing people who vandalise public spaces to repair the damage they cause and extending powers to disperse groups to councils.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Councils should use all available powers to tackle anti-social behaviour, and through our action plan the government is providing dedicated funding to support Police and Crime Commissioners, working with councils and others, to target enforcement in the areas where anti-social behaviour is most prevalent in their communities.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Killers played Glastonbury in 2019 (pictured), and Brandon Flowers joined Sir Elton John on stage as a special guest at this year's festival\n\nThe Killers have apologised after frontman Brandon Flowers invited a Russian fan on stage during a concert in Georgia to play drums on a song.\n\nHe told the crowd to treat the Russian fan as their \"brother\", drawing boos and walk-outs from parts of the arena.\n\nGeorgia, which gained independence in 1991, has a long history of tension with its neighbour.\n\nRussia invaded Georgia in 2008 and still occupies part of the former Soviet state.\n\nTensions have been exacerbated after a number of Russians emigrated to Georgia following Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.\n\nIn a statement posted on social media after the concert, the Killers said: \"Good people of Georgia, it was never our intention to offend anyone!\n\n\"We have a longstanding tradition of inviting people to play drums and it seemed from the stage that the initial response from the crowd indicated that they were okay with tonight's audience participation member coming onstage with us.\n\n\"We recognise that a comment, meant to suggest that all of the Killers' audience and fans are 'brothers and sisters,' could be misconstrued.\n\n\"We did not mean to upset anyone and we apologise. We stand with you and hope to return soon.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Killers This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Killers\n\nThe backlash from sections of the crowd occurred after Flowers - as is now tradition at their gigs - invited a fan up on stage to play drums with them on their track Reasons Unknown, towards the end of Tuesday's concert at the Black Sea Arena, close to the city of Batumi.\n\n\"We don't know the etiquette of this land but this guy's a Russian. You OK with a Russian coming up here?\" Flowers was heard asking the audience.\n\nFan footage recorded at the concert shows the crowd responded to his question with a mixture of boos and cheers.\n\nThe singer later addressed the issue, asking fans: \"You can't recognise if someone's your brother? He's not your brother?\n\n\"We all separate on the borders of our countries? Am I not your brother, being from America?\"\n\nGeorgian public opinion on the ongoing war is overwhelmingly pro-Ukrainian.\n\nFlowers urged fans to celebrate \"that we're here together\", before adding that he didn't want the event to \"turn ugly\". \"And I see you as my brothers and my sisters.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grace played drums with The Killers hours after finishing her final AS-level exam\n\nThe Killers, a Las Vegas rock band known for indie anthems such as Mr Brightside, will headline Reading and Leeds Festivals later this month.\n\nTheir frontman made a surprise appearance as a guest of Sir Elton John as he played his final ever UK gig closing out Glastonbury Festival last month.\n\nGeorgia gained independence in 1991, just before the Soviet Union dissolved.\n\nSpeaking about \"brotherhood\" with Russia is a huge red flag in a small South Caucasus republic. This is mainly due to the memories of the Russian-Georgian war in 2008, as Russia has occupied 20% of Georgia's territory since.\n\n\"They [The Killers] came to Georgia without even realising what's going on and whom they are going to sing for,\" Ramaz Samkharadze tells the BBC. He owns a Radio Station Tbilisi FM, which has removed all of The Killers' songs from the air as \"a gesture of support\" to anyone offended.\n\nResident of Tbilisi, Mariam Chargazia, who attended the gig, says she was angry at Flowers' remarks, as the band should have considered the anxiety most of Georgia's population is currently facing.\n\n\"This would have been OK in some other country, perhaps, but you are not supposed to come to Georgia saying that Georgians and Russians are brothers and sisters,\" she says.\n\nThe fears of new aggression, omnipresent in Georgian society since 2008, were exacerbated by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Especially after thousands of Russians fled to Georgia, escaping military draft.\n\nThe majority of Georgians perceives this influx as a threat. According to a poll conducted in February by US organisation National Democratic Institute, 69% of the population fear that it might have a negative impact on the country.\n\nDespite increasing calls, the ruling Georgian Dream party refused to introduce a visa regime for Russian citizens. Nevertheless, Russian opposition figures, journalists and civil activists are often denied entry to Georgia.\n\nAccording to various public polls, over 80% of Georgians support joining the EU. In March 2022, Georgia applied for EU membership, together with Moldova and Ukraine, but unlike them, it didn't receive the EU candidate status.\n\nAfter the start of the full-scale invasion, Georgian Dream also refused to impose economic sanctions against Russia, saying this would devastate Georgia's economy. Meanwhile, its leaders made numerous controversial statements accusing Ukraine, the EU and the US of \"trying to drag Georgia into the war\" with Russia.\n\nEarlier this year, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, praised Georgian Dream for \"the courage to say that it will be guided by its own interests\".\n\nInterestingly, it was the Georgian Dream who invited The Killers to Georgia. On 22 November, Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced that he would spend 70 million GEL (around $26m / £21m) in two years \"to bring international stars to the country\" to boost its international appeal.\n\n\"The government is spending our money wrong. While their rating is decreasing, they try to buy themselves popularity,\" Ramaz says.", "The owners of a Black Country pub which was gutted by fire and then demolished two days later experienced another huge fire on land they owned.\n\nThe Crooked House, near Dudley, had recently been sold to new owners, who have now been ordered by the Health and Safety Executive to secure the site.\n\nThe safety watchdog said it was also now liaising with authorities.\n\nThe cause of a previous blaze at Finmere landfill, Buckinghamshire, in August 2018 was never established.\n\nAdam Taylor is director of AT Contracting and Plant Hire Ltd, which, according to Land Registry documents, owns the Finmere site.\n\nHis wife, Carly, controls the company ATE Farms Limited, which bought the \"wonky\" Black Country landmark in July.\n\nAdam and Carly Taylor have links to The Crooked House and Finmere landfill site\n\nMrs Taylor also currently controls AT Contracting and Plant Hire Ltd, which the BBC understands rented a digger a week before flames engulfed The Crooked House on 5 August.\n\nTwo days later the 18th Century building on Himley Road was flattened, leading to widespread protests.\n\nMr and Mrs Taylor have not replied to the BBC's requests for an interview.\n\nFire crews worked through the night to extinguish the blaze at Finmere landfill site, Buckinghamshire, five years ago\n\nFour hundred tonnes of waste caught fire at Finmere landfill on 4 August 2018.\n\nFirefighters from Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire worked through the night to extinguish it.\n\nThe landfill facility at Finmere is accessed from the A421 Banbury Road\n\nAlmost exactly five years later, firefighters worked overnight to save the historic Himley pub, which began to subside in the 19th Century.\n\nStaffordshire Police confirmed last Wednesday the blaze was being treated as arson.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council said it was conducting an investigation into the \"demolition of the entire building, without appropriate permissions\".\n\nThe force previously said its investigation would be robust.\n\nProtests against The Crooked House's destruction weeks after it was sold by previous owner Marston's have seen signs and other tributes placed among the rubble.\n\nA petition to rebuild it has amassed more than 18,500 signatures.\n\nFences were put up at the site on Tuesday.\n\nThe HSE said it had issued an Improvement Notice requiring the site owner to secure the area.\n\nA nearby notice states two adjacent footpaths have been closed to the public by the local authority, including one leading to the pub's car park, due to concerns over the instability of the ground.\n\nFencing has been placed around the site for safety reasons, according to workers\n\nDudley North MP Marco Longhi said a public meeting at Himley Hall on Wednesday at 18:00 BST would be a chance for concerned residents to \"vent their anger\" and voice ideas for the building's future.\n\nHe met with South Staffordshire Council on Tuesday and added, while he could not go into the details of what was discussed, was \"much more reassured about where we are going with all of this\".\n\nCampaigners met Mr Longhi after the meeting and one of them, Ian Sandall, told BBC Radio WM he felt \"very buoyant and very confident\" afterwards.\n\n\"Everything seemed very positive. What I can say is we are all singing off the same hymn sheet,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The team rushed to the aid of the injured, using the laces from their boots as makeshift tourniquets\n\nThe players of a women's rugby team have been praised for rushing to the aid of the victims of a car crash near their training pitch.\n\nTrowbridge Rugby Club Women were finishing training on the evening of 9 August when they heard a \"mighty crash\" nearby and then cries for help.\n\nThey rushed to help four people injured when their vehicle ended up on its side.\n\nTrowbridge police said: \"What happened next has undoubtedly saved lives.\"\n\nThe incident happened at about 20:40 BST on the byway heading to Whaddon Lane near the rugby club.\n\nThe team's chair Emma Santer says the players' bond has \"blossomed\"\n\n\"We all just ran to the bushes,\" said the club's chair, Emma Santer.\n\n\"Half of us jumped over a barbed wire fence. The other half crawled through the bushes which were full of stinging nettles.\"\n\nThey discovered a single vehicle on its side, with four people who had suffered a variety of injuries.\n\nTwo women had managed to get out of the car but two men - the driver and front passenger - were still inside.\n\n\"We opened the boot and helped one get out of the car. There was lots of blood,\" said Ms Santer.\n\nMs Santer, who works as an emergency department nurse, said her initial response was to try and create a triage system.\n\n\"Two people got to each end of the lane, so they could stop traffic coming down.\n\n\"We had one person on the phone to 999 and three rugby players helping each patient.\"\n\nThe women made makeshift tourniquets from their rugby boot laces and players' bibs and shirts to try and stem the bleeding.\n\nOther players helped to support the heads of two of the casualties to help prevent spinal injuries and to provide reassurance, said Ms Santer.\n\nThey also used foot mats, bits of carpet and a duvet to support the casualties so they were not on the cold ground.\n\nMs Santer says she is \"proud\" of the players for their actions\n\nOnce the emergency services arrived, the players assisted paramedics by holding IV poles, cutting away clothing and lifting the casualties on to stretchers.\n\nTrowbridge Police said: \"Without their assistance this could have very easily been a fatal.\n\n\"It was a fantastic effort by this rugby team in assisting.\"\n\n\"I'm proud of my team, I think they did really good,\" said Ms Santer, who joined the women's team in 2020.\n\n\"No-one even second guessed, they all just went to help.\n\n\"We're quite a new team, we had quite a few new players recently and it just shows how you naturally form into a team and over the few weeks and how that bond has blossomed.\n\n\"We always keep a calm head and communicate with each other.\"\n\nA team de-brief was held the following day to make sure team members felt supported.\n\n\"There were some bad injuries. We had a team de-brief with pizza and mental health support was offered,\" said Ms Santer.\n\nShe added that she had been informed by the police that the driver and three passengers were recovering well.\n\nWiltshire Police said the driver, a man in his 30s, suffered an arm injury which was serious but not thought to be life-changing.\n\nThree other people in the vehicle suffered reportedly minor injuries.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drug users who take medicines not prescribed to them have been warned they are \"playing Russian roulette\".\n\nIt comes after a court in Londonderry was told there were three drug-related deaths and five cardiac arrests in the north west at the weekend.\n\nThe Public Health Agency said it was aware of deaths where it was suspected pregabalin and a mixture of drugs were taken.\n\nHe said the drugs were often bought online.\n\n\"The drugs we are talking about are manufactured on a production line somewhere,\" Mr Kyle, manager of the HURT centre in Derry, told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme.\n\n\"There is not any quality control, no one knows what's in them.\n\n\"To be honest it is Russian roulette for those people who are using them. Who knows what is in them?\"\n\nHe said very few of HURT's service users took one substance on its own.\n\n\"There is poly-drug use and alcohol use, that really multiplies the risk factor,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, police in Derry said a batch of extra-strength pregabalin tablets were missing after the three drug-related deaths.\n\nNews of the three deaths first emerged during a court hearing of a 36-year-old woman charged with a number of drug offences on Tuesday.\n\nA police officer told Londonderry Magistrates' Court that pregabalin tablets found as part of the investigation were \"four times stronger\" than normal.\n\nPregabalin is normally used to treat epilepsy and anxiety, according to the NHS.\n\nIt was upgraded to a class C drug in Northern Ireland in 2019, which made it illegal to have the drugs without a prescription or supply or sell them to others.\n\nIn a statement, the PHA warned people against taking any substance that has not been prescribed by a medical professional.\n\nGary Rutherford is a founder of drug abuse charity Arc Fitness in Londonderry\n\nGary Rutherford, founder of drug abuse charity Arc Fitness in Derry, told BBC Radio Ulster more potent drugs are being sourced online.\n\n\"If you are using pregabalin amidst other medications, such as codeine-based medications, opiates or benzodiazepines, if you are using these or have bought them recently I would be extremely cautious on how you use them, if you use them at all,\" he said.\n\n\"Drug deaths are increasing year on year, so it's not going away.\n\n\"We need to get better at providing solutions and give help, support and provide better education around these drugs.\"\n\nOne man who turned his life around after being addicted to drugs has said there is always hope.\n\nHenry Roddy now works with Mr Rutherford at Arc Fitness and helps provide support to people addicted to drugs.\n\nHenry Roddy is a recovering drug addict and now helps provide support to those struggling with substance abuse\n\n\"When I got sober I realised how close I was to jail and even death,\" Mr Roddy said.\n\n\"It's a scary time to look back on and sometimes I take a shiver when I remember how I used to think about things and how I used to justify things.\"", "Long queues formed at cash machines across the Republic of Ireland, after technical faults led to customers being able to withdraw large sums while having little or no funds in their accounts.\n\nThe glitch, which affected some Bank of Ireland ATMs, lasted for several hours on Tuesday, and it now appears to have been resolved.\n\nIrish police said they were aware of an unusual volume of activity around some cash points, and deployed officers outside banks.\n\nSome customers were allowed to transfer up to €1,000 (£850) from their accounts, the Irish Times reported.\n\nThe bank has apologised for the outage, but also warned customers that any money withdrawn over normal limits would be \"applied to their accounts.\"", "An alternative venue has been found for the Edinburgh stand up show cancelled for having Father Ted writer Graham Linehan on its bill.\n\nLeith Arches said it pulled the gig because his views on transgender issues did not \"align with our overall values\".\n\nMr Linehan has threatened legal action if the venue refuses to reverse its decision and apologise.\n\nGig organisers Comedy Unleashed did not reveal the name of the new venue.\n\nTicket holders will be emailed the location of the show tomorrow afternoon.\n\nCo-founder Andy Shaw told BBC News they received several offers after appealing for alternative venues which \"believe in artistic freedom\".\n\n\"We have found what we think is a really appropriate venue which will become obvious on Thursday night why we think it is particularly appropriate,\" he added.\n\nMr Linehan was one of five stand-ups due to appear at Leith Arches on Thursday night under the banner \"edgy comedy is back\".\n\nHis appearance was initially kept under wraps with organisers only describing him as a \"surprise famous cancelled comedian\" on the bill.\n\nBut the venue called off the entire show within hours of his identity being confirmed on Tuesday, saying they had not been made aware of the line-up in advance.\n\n\"We have made the decision to cancel this show as we are an inclusive venue and this does not align with our overall values,\" they said in a post on Instagram.\n\n\"We work very closely with the LGBT+ community, it is a considerable part of our revenue, we believe hosting this one off show would have a negative effect on future bookings,\" they later added.\n\nGraham Linehan, pictured at a Let Women Speak rally in Belfast earlier this year\n\nMr Linehan told TalkTV on Wednesday he was considering legal action against the venue.\n\n\"I actually suggest that the Leith Arches reverse its course because they have said enough online for an easy win in the courts,\" he added.\n\n\"So if they apologise and put the gig on, I'll say no more about it but otherwise I'm going to be looking at legal action.\"\n\nMr Linehan is often at the centre of heated rows over trans issues and women's rights on social media, with opponents accusing him of transphobia.\n\nIn a BBC Newsnight interview in 2020 he compared the medical treatment of transgender teenagers with puberty blockers with Nazi human experimentation.\n\nFollowing the cancellation of his Edinburgh show, he told TalkTV: \"The most important view I have is that it is a crime against humanity to tell children they may have been born in the wrong body.\n\n\"I feel that the views that I and JK Rowling and [author] Helen Joyce have expressed on this matter have been completely vindicated because Mermaids is now under statutory investigation and the Tavistock is closed\".\n\n\"The other views I have is that [transgender comedian] Eddie Izzard can dress how he likes but if he goes into a woman's toilet with my daughter I will pull him out by his ankles,\" Mr Linehan added.\n\nThe Charity Commission is investigating governance and management issues at youth support charity Mermaids, and the Tavistock NHS gender clinic for children in England and Wales is due to be replaced by two regional hubs after the service was heavily criticised in an independent review.\n\nJoanna Cherry appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last week\n\nEarlier this year another Edinburgh venue, The Stand, cancelled a scheduled Fringe festival appearance by SNP MP Joanna Cherry after staff said they were not comfortable with her views on transgender issues.\n\nBut the comedy club later reinstated it and apologised, admitting the cancellation was \"unfair and constituted unlawful discrimination against Ms Cherry\".\n\nThe In Conversation With... Joanna Cherry event took place last week.\n\nMs Cherry, who is also a lawyer, later posted that the Linehan case \"looks like a pretty clear case of belief discrimination\" and hit out at \"more petulant cancellation\".\n\nHowever, NUS Scotland president Ellie Gomersall, who has campaigned for a change to gender laws, backed Leith Arches.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"This is about the comedy club's right to decide who it is they are platforming, who it is they are promoting, who it is they are allowing their space to be used by.\n\n\"I have to say that Graham Linehan and the way he expresses his views are pretty deplorable and it's right that any comedy club would reject someone who expresses those sorts of views in the way Linehan does.\"\n\nMr Linehan co-created the Channel 4 comedy Father Ted and later wrote Black Books and The IT Crowd.\n\nAn episode of The IT Crowd from 2008 called The Speech has been criticised over its transgender plot line.\n\nIn 2020 Channel 4 removed it from their streaming service saying that \"in light of current audience expectations, we concluded it did not meet our standards for remaining available... and it was not possible to make adequate changes\".\n\nMr Linehan was later involved in a number of acrimonious social media disputes with trans activists, and in 2020 was permanently suspended from Twitter which claimed he had breached rules on \"hateful content\".\n\nIn an emotional BBC interview last year, the Dublin-born writer told Nolan Live he had been unfairly targeted over his views, losing him work and contributing to the break-up of his marriage.", "A number of the museum's items are \"missing, stolen or damaged\", it said\n\nThe British Museum in London has sacked a member of staff and police are investigating after treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\".\n\nItems including gold, jewellery and gems of semi-precious stones were among those missing from the museum, one of the UK's largest tourist attractions.\n\nThe majority of the items were kept in a storeroom, the museum said.\n\nBritish Museum director Hartwig Fischer said the museum would \"throw our efforts into the recovery of objects\".\n\nHe added: \"This is a highly unusual incident. I know I speak for all colleagues when I say that we take the safeguarding of all the items in our care extremely seriously.\n\n\"We have already tightened our security arrangements and we are working alongside outside experts to complete a definitive account of what is missing, damaged and stolen.\"\n\nLegal action would be taken against the staff member who was fired, the museum added.\n\nThe Economic Crime Command of the Metropolitan Police is investigating but no arrests have been made.\n\nThe British Museum has also started an independent review of security.\n\nNone of the items had recently been on display\n\nNone of the items, which dated from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD, had recently been on display and were kept primarily for academic and research purposes, the museum said.\n\nThe PA news agency said it understood the items were taken before 2023 and over a \"significant\" period of time.\n\nGeorge Osborne, chair of the British Museum, said: \"The trustees of the British Museum were extremely concerned when we learnt earlier this year that items of the collection had been stolen.\"\n\nHe added: \"We called in the police, imposed emergency measures to increase security, set up an independent review into what happened and lessons to learn, and used all the disciplinary powers available to us to deal with the individual we believe to be responsible.\"\n\nMr Fischer added the organisation had \"brought an end to this\", and was \"determined to put things right\".\n\nThe museum's independent review will be led by former trustee Sir Nigel Boardman and Chief Constable Lucy D'Orsi, of British Transport Police.\n\nThey will provide recommendations regarding future security arrangements and start \"a vigorous programme to recover the missing items\", according to the museum.\n\nSir Nigel said: \"It will be a painstaking job, involving internal and external experts, but this is an absolute priority, however long it takes, and we are grateful for the help we have already received.\"\n\nThe Bloomsbury-based attraction sees more than six million people visit it each year.\n\nIts collection spans six continents and two million years of history, including the Parthenon sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles - the fate of which is the subject of much discussion.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The woman's ex-boyfriend shared intimate photos of her online, as well as with her friends and family, without her consent\n\nA Texas jury has awarded a woman $1.2bn (£944m) after ruling that she was the victim of revenge porn.\n\nThe woman, who was named only by the initials DL in court documents, filed a harassment lawsuit against her former boyfriend in 2022.\n\nThe suit alleged that he posted intimate pictures of her online to \"publicly shame\" her after a break-up.\n\nHer lawyers in the case said the settlement is a win for victims of \"image-based sexual abuse\".\n\n\"While a judgment in this case is unlikely to be recovered, the compensatory verdict gives DL back her good name,\" said Bradford Gilde, the lead trial lawyer, in a statement.\n\nThe lawyers had originally asked the jury for $100m in damages.\n\n\"We hope the staggering amount of this verdict sends a message of deterrence and prevents others from engaging in this despicable activity,\" Mr Gilde added.\n\nAccording to court documents, the woman and her former boyfriend began dating in 2016.\n\nThe woman had shared intimate photos of herself with the defendant during the relationship. After a break-up in 2021, he is accused of having posted the photos on social media platforms and adult websites without her consent.\n\nHe allegedly sent links of the photos to her friends and family through a publicly accessible Dropbox folder.\n\nHe was also accused of having access to her phone, social media accounts and email, as well as to the camera system at her mother's home, which he used to spy on her.\n\nAt one point, the defendant allegedly sent the woman a message: \"You will spend the rest of your life trying and failing to wipe yourself off the internet. Everyone you ever meet will hear the story and go looking. Happy Hunting.\"\n\nLawyers for the woman claim her former boyfriend posted the pictures \"to inflict a combination of psychological abuse, domestic violence and sexual abuse\".\n\nHe did not show up in court and did have an attorney to represent him, according to US media reports.\n\nHe was ordered to pay the woman $200m for past and future mental anguish, as well as $1bn in exemplary damages.\n\nHigh settlements have been reached in US revenge porn cases in the past. In 2018, a California woman was awarded $6.8m after her former partner shared explicit photographs of her on porn sites.\n\nDL told a Texas broadcaster that after receiving little assistance from local police she turned to a civil attorney.\n\nIn 2016, around 10 million Americans reported being victims of non-consensual - or revenge - porn. Many of them are women aged 18 to 29, according to a study at the time by the Data & Society Research Institute.\n\nAll US states, with the exception of Massachusetts and South Carolina, have anti-revenge porn laws in place.", "The Met Police say it is \"vital\" that the man in the image is identified\n\nInvestigators are seeking to identify a man after two men were stabbed in a homophobic attack outside a south London nightclub.\n\nThe men, in their 20s and 30s, were attacked outside the Two Brewers in Clapham High Street on Sunday night.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has released an image of a man taken from outside the venue at the time of the attack.\n\nThe force said it is treating the stabbings as homophobic.\n\nThe Met said the incident happened at about 22:15 BST as the two men stood outside the nightclub.\n\nThe were approached by a man who attacked them with a knife before running away.\n\nNo arrests have been made so far, and police inquiries are ongoing.\n\nThe men have since been sent home from hospital.\n\nThe attack took place outside the Two Brewers in Clapham\n\nDet Ch Insp Jivan Saib from the Met's Central South Command Unit, who is leading the investigation, said: \"I am asking the public to look at this image and see if they recognise this individual - it is vital that we identify and locate him as soon as possible.\"\n\nPC Hayley Jones, the Met's LGBT+ Community Liaison Officer for Lambeth and Southwark said: \"We understand some people from the LGBT+ community may not have the confidence to speak to police.\n\n\"You can contact me directly for advice and support, or to assist this investigation.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the scene, the chief executive of the charity LGBT Hero, Ian Howley, said the attack was \"something that makes you think twice about your own actions; about the way that you talk, the way that you dress, the way that you are as a person\".\n\n\"You kind of see yourself as a beacon for hate and people want to... physically and verbally abuse you for being who you are as a person. And I find that really shocking,\" he said.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan posted on X yesterday saying there was \"no place for hate in London\", adding he stood with LGBTQI+ Londoners.\n\nFlorence Eshalomi, Labour MP for Vauxhall, whose constituency area includes the street, said: \"Having spoken to people in the area this afternoon, I know how alarming this shocking attack has been to the LGBTQ+ community in Clapham.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the victims, who I hope will be supported to make a full recovery.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'This acrid smoke really sticks in your throat'\n\nThe first names of people killed by wildfires in Maui have been released by officials, one week after at least 111 people died on the Hawaiian island.\n\nRobert Dyckman, 74, and Buddy Jantoc, 79, were the first to be named.\n\nOn Wednesday night local time in Hawaii, County Maui officials confirmed Melva Benjamin, 71, Virginia Dofa, 90 and Alfredo Galinato, 79, were also killed in the fires.\n\nMore than 1,000 people are estimated still to be missing.\n\nThe fire, which destroyed the historic town of Lahaina within hours, has been followed by a slow and gruelling search for victims.\n\nMr Jantoc's body was discovered at his home in an old people's home in Lahaina, the New York Times reported.\n\nRelatives told the newspaper he was known by family as \"Mr Aloha\" and regaled them with tales of his heyday as a bass guitarist playing alongside Carlos Santana and George Benson.\n\n\"I'm hoping he was asleep,\" his daughter-in-law said. \"I hope to God he did not suffer.\"\n\nTwenty sniffer dogs trained to detect bodies have led teams on a block-by-block search of the wreckage, a 5sq mile (13sq km) area now filled with twisted metal and other debris.\n\nAnother 20 canine teams are expected to join the search, said Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) Administrator Deanne Criswell on Wednesday.\n\n\"This is a really hard disaster. And this is a really difficult search operation,\" she told reporters in Washington DC. \"This is also going to be a very long and hard recovery.\"\n\nPreviously on Tuesday evening, Governor Josh Green said 27% of the disaster site had been searched. In a televised address he warned the number of dead could climb significantly and even double over the next 10 days.\n\nOfficials must then complete the difficult work of identifying the dead, a process complicated by the severity of the victims' burns and one that requires forensic experts and DNA samples from family members.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I just want to put my stepfather's body to rest.'\n\nThirty specialists from federal mortuary teams are already in Maui and will soon be joined by more from the US defence department.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Hawaii on Monday, the White House said in a statement.\n\nMr Biden was asked by a reporter over the weekend about the rising death toll in Hawaii and responded: \"No comment.\" The president's apparent delay in visiting Maui, as well as that remark, has angered many locals, who told the BBC they see his absence as a slap in the face.\n\n\"Hey Mr President, how about Hawaii?\" said Chaymen Enomoto. \"'No comment'? That is a big screw you.\"\n\nMr Biden said on Tuesday that he had not yet visited because of concerns it would divert resources and attention from the humanitarian response. Jill Biden will accompany him to Hawaii, he said.\n\n\"I don't want to get in the way. I've been to too many disaster areas,\" he said. \"I want to be sure we don't disrupt ongoing recovery efforts.\"\n\nIt will probably be a long wait until the full scale of the destruction is understood. The Maui Emergency Management Agency has estimated it will cost $5.52bn (£4.3bn) to rebuild.\n\n\"We have officials who don't even want to go back to the site, that's how devastating [it is],\" said Maui resident Koa Gomes.\n\nMany people told the BBC they were frustrated by the scale and speed of the recovery efforts.\n\nOne resident, Les Munn, said he had so far received $500 (£392) from Fema - less than the price of a night in most hotel rooms on the island.\n\nFor now, he is still sleeping in a shelter.\n\nFema said Wednesday it had sent millions of litres of water and food to the island, and given $2.3m in assistance to families.\n\nBut in Lahaina, once Hawaii's royal capital, many people are relying on relief supplies co-ordinated by other Maui locals. Ice, water, clothing and other supplies are being delivered by grassroots groups.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the Honoapiilani Highway, the primary route into Lahaina, opened to non-residents for the first time since last week's fires. For days, the road was closed even to residents who sat in long queues for hours hoping to get in.\n\nThe road will be open to everyone during the day, with late-night access limited to West Maui residents, employees and first responders. Still, officials have asked that people travel to this part of the island only if necessary to live, work, or volunteer.\n\nThe vast majority of Lahaina's wreckage is yet to be searched", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa.\n\nThirty-eight people, including children, were rescued, with footage showing them being helped ashore, some on stretchers, on the island of Sal.\n\nAlmost all those on board the boat, which was at sea for over a month, are thought to have been from Senegal.\n\nCape Verde officials have called for global action on migration to help prevent further loss of life.\n\nThe vessel was first spotted on Monday, police told the AFP news agency. Initial reports suggested that the boat had sunk but it was later clarified that it had been found drifting.\n\nThe wooden pirogue style boat was seen almost 320km (200 miles) off Sal, a part of Cape Verde, by a Spanish fishing boat, which then alerted authorities, police said.\n\nThe survivors include four children aged between 12 and 16, a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.\n\nThe boat left the Senegalese fishing village of Fass Boye on 10 July with 101 people on board, Senegal's foreign ministry said on Tuesday, citing survivors.\n\nModa Samb, an elected official in the village, told AFP news agency nearly all those on the boat had grown up in the community and that some local families were still waiting to hear whether their relatives were among the survivors.\n\nThe ministry said it was liaising with authorities in Cape Verde to arrange the repatriation of Senegalese nationals.\n\nThe passengers' other countries of origin reportedly include Sierra Leone and, in one case, Guinea-Bissau.\n\nPeople in the small fishing community of Fass Boye are in shock - and there is a lot of anger too.\n\nUniversity student Moussa Diop, who lives here, told me he had three male cousins and a teenage nephew on the boat that left in secret last month. His sister had no idea her son was on the boat - and had been in a desperate state since his disappearance last month.\n\nThe first the family heard about their doomed voyage was when one of the cousins sent Mr Diop a WhatsApp video from Sal on Wednesday to tell them that three of them had made it and were in hospital - but one of the young cousins had died.\n\nA screengrab from a video sent to a relative in Fass Boye of young men at a hospital in Sal\n\nMr Diop says sorrow for lost relatives and relief about those who have survived has boiled over into frustration. After news of the tragedy spread on Wednesday, people in the town began damaging cars and boats and they also set fire to the house of the mayor.\n\nYoung people blame a lack of opportunities and want the authorities to do more to help them.\n\nJose Moreira, a health official on Sal, said the survivors were improving and were being looked after, with a focus on rehydration and tests for conditions like malaria.\n\nHealth Minister Filomena Goncalves said: \"We know that migration issues are global issues, which require international co-operation, a lot of discussion and global strategy.\n\n\"We all - all the nations - have to sit down at the table and see what we can do so that we don't lose any more lives at sea, above all.\"\n\nAnger has boiled over in Fass Boye about the deaths\n\nIOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli said safe pathways for migration were \"sorely lacking\" and that their absence gave \"room to smugglers and traffickers to put people on these deadly journeys\".\n\nThe survivors may have ended up in Cape Verde, but it was almost certainly not their intended destination.\n\nThe archipelago sits around 600km off the coast of West Africa and on the migration route to the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory seen by many as a route to the EU. According to the IOM, it is one of the most dangerous journeys any migrant can make.\n\n\"This devastating loss of life demonstrates the continued failure of the Europe's hostile approach to refugee protection,\" Natasha Tsangarides, Associate Director of Advocacy at Freedom from Torture, said.\n\nAs ever with irregular migration, exact figures are hard to come by, but between 2020 and 2023 at least 67,000 people arrived in the Canary Islands.\n\nOver that same period, just over 2,500 lost their lives. The IOM point out that figure covers the deaths that have been registered. Given the irregular and secretive nature of the route, the true figure could be far higher.\n\nSo, what is driving people to leave their homes and risk such a dangerous journey? In many cases, poverty is thought to be a key factor. Europe is seen by many as a route to a better life for the person migrating, as well as remittances to support the families they leave behind.\n\nThere are, however, other factors at play as well. Much of West Africa is increasingly unstable, with coups and Islamist insurgencies making an already difficult situation worse.\n\nIn Senegal, opposition politicians have been imprisoned, with claims of violent crackdowns by the authorities. President Macky Sall recently announced he would not seek a third term in office, but tensions remain high.\n\nAre you or your family affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Regulated train fares in England will again rise below the rate of inflation next year, the government has said.\n\nThe move is meant to help people with the soaring cost of living and follows a similar intervention in 2023.\n\nAny rises will once more be delayed until March 2024, rather than kicking in in January as was normal pre-Covid.\n\nHowever, one campaign group said fares should be frozen \"in recognition of the burden high fares place on rail passengers\".\n\nRegulated fares cover about 45% of fares, including season tickets on most commuter journeys, some off-peak return tickets on long-distance journeys and anytime tickets around major cities.\n\nBefore the pandemic, they were increased in January each year, based on the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation from the previous July. The normal formula is RPI plus 1%.\n\nRPI in July was 9%, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday.\n\nIt is not known what next year's increase will be, but this year the government increased national rail fares by 5.9%, which was well below July 2022's RPI figure of 12.3%.\n\nThat increase was still the largest since 2012, according to regulator the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nAt the time Labour called the rise a \"sick joke for millions reliant on crumbling services\".\n\nThe government's latest intervention comes as UK inflation - the rate at which prices rise - remains high although is starting to ease.\n\nMillions are still struggling with higher prices for food and services at time when interest rates are also rising to tackle the problem, making it more expensive to borrow money.\n\nA Department for Transport (DfT) spokesman said the government would \"continue to protect passengers from cost of living pressures\".\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of watchdog Transport Focus, which represents passengers, said: \"Nobody likes their fare going up, but after a year where many journeys have been blighted by disruption due to industrial action and patchy performance, passengers will be relieved to hear that fares will be capped below the Retail Prices Index and any increases will be delayed until March next year.\"\n\nBut Paul Tuohy, boss of pressure group Campaign for Better Transport, said the government should \"freeze rail fares - as they have done with fuel duty - until the long-promised ticketing reform takes place\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey also called for an immediate rail fare freeze, adding: \"We need real action to tackle the cost of living crisis.\"\n\nThe DfT promised in 2021 to simplify the entire ticketing system, reducing the vast number of fares available which can make it difficult for travellers to decide which is best for them.\n\nReforms so far have included a trial of \"single leg pricing\" and the introduction of flexi-season tickets. But the pressure group says overhauling the ticketing system has yet to take place.\n\nSince last summer rail passengers have faced disruption due to a wave of strikes, with further industrial action planned on Saturday 26 August and Saturday 2 September.\n\nWorkers are demanding pay rises that reflect the soaring cost of living, while also trying to stop job cuts and changes to working conditions.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments have not announced their policies regarding rail fare rises next year.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland reached the Women's World Cup final for the first time as they spoiled co-hosts Australia's party on a historic evening in Sydney.\n\nSilencing a sell-out crowd at Stadium Australia with their 3-1 victory, the Lionesses became the first England football team since 1966 to reach a senior final on the world stage.\n\nIt caps a sensational two years under manager Sarina Wiegman as England, crowned European champions for the first time last year on home soil, showed their superiority and know-how to see off an Australia side spurred on by a nation who have been inspired by the Matildas' success.\n\nElla Toone gave England the lead in the first half with a superb first-time strike which sailed into the top corner.\n\nThe Lionesses controlled proceedings until the second half when Australia threw everything at them and star striker Sam Kerr - starting her first match of the tournament - struck a 25-yard stunner over goalkeeper Mary Earps' head to make it 1-1.\n\nBut England, as they so often do, found a way back into the game when Lauren Hemp pounced on a defensive error to restore their lead, before Alessia Russo made sure of victory late on to set up a final with Spain on Sunday.\n• None Reaction and analysis as England reach first final\n• None World Cup final to be shown live on BBC\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nBuild-up to this semi-final has dominated every aspect of Australian life this week as cities across the country became absorbed in 'Matildas Mania'.\n\nFans were queueing outside fan parks in Sydney five hours before kick-off, train stations were decorated in yellow and green balloons, shops sold out of merchandise, and newspapers had the players' faces plastered over their front and back pages.\n\nAll focus was on the co-hosts' attempts to create history, but England quietly went about their business and arrived in Sydney ready to compete in their third successive Women's World Cup semi-final.\n\nTheir experience of handling big occasions was evident from the first minute as they disrupted Australia's rhythm and made every attempt to frustrate the crowd, taking their time over throw-ins and breaking down dangerous counter-attacks.\n\nIt worked for large parts, but when Australia fought their way back into the game through Kerr, England had to find another way - and they did.\n\nBacks against the wall, England's defence, who have been magnificent throughout the tournament, stepped up to make blocks, tackles and head away relentless balls into the box.\n\n\"My thought was 'we're not going to give this away now',\" said Wiegman, reflecting on Australia's equaliser. \"You are never sure. But it was later in the game so we got through.\"\n\nHemp and Russo's flourishing partnership up front ultimately decided the game when they combined late on - Manchester City winger Hemp with a superb no-look pass to set-up Russo.\n\n\"That was just an incredible pass,\" added Wiegman. \"The finish was really good too. I'm really happy with the performance and the players themselves are happy too.\"\n\nEngland's celebrations at full-time were initially subdued. They have created history but this is a team of winners and they have not finished yet.\n\nFrom the first minute they showed they were not afraid to play with physicality, going in hard in 50-50 challenges and doing all it took to bring down Kerr and prevent her getting a run at England's defence.\n\nKeira Walsh set the tone with a crunching tackle on Kerr within two minutes and Alex Greenwood later came sliding in on the Chelsea striker, earning herself a yellow card, to prevent a dangerous break.\n\nWith each tackle came a ripple of boos from the home fans, while Earps was in no rush to get things going again on goal-kicks.\n\nIt was England who controlled things early on - although both teams created a few chances - as they had 70% of the ball in the opening 15 minutes.\n\nTheir control did not really waver as the first half wore on and the crowd became increasingly frustrated, whistling as England enjoyed prolonged periods of possession and passed through Australia's press.\n\nBy the time the break arrived with England leading, the deafening roar which had greeted the players on their entrance had turned to polite applause as the Australians were still processing Toone's superb strike.\n\nThe second half was a different story, however. Kerr's sensational equaliser was followed by a dangerous strike from Cortnee Vine which called Earps into action.\n\nKerr headed another two chances over the bar, while Russo and Lucy Bronze came close at the other end for England.\n\nHowever, it was the Lionesses who were more ruthless, keeping their composure in the big moments and delivering when it mattered.\n\n\"Knowing Sam, she will think that goal means nothing. She is a winner,\" said Australia manager Tony Gustavsson.\n\n\"I know she's upset that she missed those two chances at the end. We need to support her. She did everything she could tonight.\n\n\"The fact she played 90 minutes is unbelievable. It is a world-class goal and shows what Sam Kerr is about. We promised to leave every single thing out there and every player did.\"\n\nEngland will go into the final full of confidence having overcome every hurdle so far in the tournament.\n\nBut this has also been a World Cup to remember for the Matildas, who hope to change the perception of women's football in this country forever.\n\nIt will be hard to ignore their impact and they were given a warm applause on a lap of honour at full-time.\n• None Goal! Australia 1, England 3. Alessia Russo (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lauren Hemp with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Sam Kerr (Australia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mary Fowler (Australia) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cortnee Vine.\n• None Attempt saved. Cortnee Vine (Australia) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sam Kerr.\n• None Attempt missed. Sam Kerr (Australia) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Mary Fowler with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Millie Bright (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Greenwood with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alessia Russo (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ella Toone. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Fans hold their breath during the Australia v France penalty shootout on Saturday\n\nA month ago, the 24-year-old hadn't ever sat through a match - of any kind - or even heard of the Matildas. Now, she lives and breathes football.\n\n\"I'm one of the Matildas many new followers on Instagram, I've been deep diving on YouTube, I made myself learn the offside rule… I've [even] been dreaming about their penalty shots.\"\n\n\"I'm like: 'What is wrong with me'… that's the kind of level of obsession.\"\n\nIt's a familiar story unfolding across the country. From rural pubs to city stadiums, Matildas fever has well and truly taken hold.\n\nGetting a seat at Wednesday's semi-final against England has felt like finding a Willy Wonka golden ticket, with many arguing it's tougher than than securing admission to a Taylor Swift concert.\n\nIt's hard to walk anywhere in Sydney without seeing homages to the team - massive posters are plastered on skyscrapers, billboards scream players' names, and fans are decked out in green and gold.\n\nSaturday's game against France was Australia's largest television sporting event in at least a decade, with an estimated average viewership of 4.17 million. Post-match highlights saturated social media.\n\nMany hope the Matildas' meteoric rise and World Cup mania will be a turning point for women's football in Australia.\n\nIt was not long ago that the team was still playing to empty stadiums.\n\nIn 2014 one of the best women's sides, Brazil, flew to Brisbane to face the Matildas in two friendlies.\n\nThe first match sold fewer than 2,600 seats, forcing Australia's Football Federation to close the stadium for the second meet, as it was too costly to run an empty venue.\n\nThe Matildas played to an empty stadium during their 2014 friendly with Brazil\n\nIn the early years, players reportedly handed out fliers to attract people to their games, and phoned television stations to ask them to broadcast their matches. During the 2003 World Cup in the US, not a single journalist turned up to the Matildas' airport press conference.\n\nBut since then, the team has fought for recognition, airtime, and equality. Their efforts have paid off.\n\nThroughout this tournament every Matildas match has been effectively sold out - with millions more fans flocking to viewing sites across the country, tuning in online or at their local watering hole.\n\nThe team's kit is flying off the shelves leaving suppliers like Nike struggling to keep up, and there's even talk of a national holiday if they lift the World Cup trophy.\n\n\"For decades they told us nobody cared. We didn't believe them. Now they believe us,\" the team's media manager Ann Odong posted on Saturday, following their dramatic quarterfinal penalty shootout with France.\n\nThe Matildas' success on-field is part of the story. They're history makers.\n\nAustralia has always been sports obsessed, but when it comes to football, no national squad has ever made it this far on the World Cup stage.\n\nThe best performances from the men's team - the Socceroos - were round of 16 finishes in 2006 and 2022. And until now, the Matildas have consistently bowed out around the quarterfinal mark.\n\nBut their grit in the face of adversity is what captures hearts and minds, says football journalist Samantha Lewis.\n\n\"The Matildas' motto is 'never say die', and that spirit of fight and perseverance is not only seen in the way they play on the field, but also in all of the things they've achieved off of it, such as collective bargaining agreements and equal pay,\" she told the BBC.\n\nFor a nation that's always loved an underdog story, the attitude is very on brand.\n\n\"That's the reason why they resonate so strongly with the country: they reflect how we want to see ourselves,\" Ms Lewis says.\n\nThe fact that it is England - one of Australia's greatest sporting rivals - that stands between the squad and a World Cup final, has created a fever pitch of nervous anticipation.\n\nAnd Ms Wilson is counting down the minutes until the semi-final against the Lionesses.\n\n\"I'm incredibly stressed and also very excited. It's intense.\"\n\nRegardless of the outcome on Wednesday, Football Australia says the Matildas have sparked a movement.\n\n\"The interest we're seeing around our game right now is phenomenal,\" the association's head of women's football Sarah Walsh says.\n\n\"I think this is going to be the World Cup where we move beyond saying 'no-one's watching' to 'hey, who's paying?'\"\n\nA former forward who played for the Matildas from 2004-2012, Ms Walsh aims to leverage the tournament's success to take the game to new heights here.\n\nThat means \"driving structural change\" to close the opportunity gaps that persist for women and girls, she says.\n\nThe Matildas want their tournament to leave a legacy\n\nBut Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson believes his team has already broken cultural barriers.\n\n\"This team can create history in so many ways, not just by winning,\" he told a recent press conference.\n\n\"[It's] the way that they can inspire the next generation, how they can unite a nation or [how] they can leave a legacy that is much bigger than 90 minutes of football. I think that is also why I believe in them so much.\"\n\nMs Wilson is a testament to that. As someone who felt sidelined from sports as a kid, she feels included in that world for the first time.\n\n\"Watching these women on screen I'm like: 'Oh my God, I want to be that strong. I want to be able to run that fast.'\"\n\nBut above all, she's feeling proud.\n\n\"I literally went out [on Sunday] and bought myself a newspaper, just so I could have [the Matildas] photo on the front… crazy.\"", "Sadiq Khan has urged Kent and Surrey County Councils to allow ULEZ expansion signs\n\nLondon's mayor has urged three councils to \"put their politics aside\" and allow signs warning drivers of Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) boundaries.\n\nSadiq Khan said Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire County Councils were \"refusing to even allow TfL to install Ulez signage\".\n\nSurrey and Kent councils have refused signage whilst there was no mitigation to minimise impact on their residents.\n\nThe mayor has previously clashed with local authorities over the expansion.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the mayor said refusal to erect signage meant councils may be responsible for drivers not being \"fully aware\" of the boundaries of the zone.\n\nThey added county highways authorities have \"statutory obligations\" and the councils have refused the TfL offer to fund the cost of the signs.\n\nA Transport for London spokesperson said they have identified three locations where they believe the lack of advance warning signs \"increases the risk of unsafe manoeuvres\" and they raised this with the three councils numerous times.\n\nThe locations are on the Stanwell Moor Road approach to the roundabout with the Southern Perimeter Road of Heathrow Airport in Surrey, Hewitts roundabout in Kent and the A411 approach to Stirling Corner roundabout in Hertfordshire.\n\nThey said they believed signage was \"of benefit\" to residents of the home counties and urged the councils to work with them \"constructively\".\n\nSadiq Khan has urged the councils to do the \"right and responsible thing\" by putting up signage\n\nBoth councils confirmed they would not put up signage without any mitigation to minimise the impact of the expansion on residents of Kent and Surrey.\n\nA spokesperson for Surrey County Council said the extended scrappage scheme would have \"no impact on those outside of London\".\n\nThey said it meant Surrey residents would have to pay the Ulez charge and the costs to scrap their own car as the scrappage scheme only applies to people living inside London.\n\nThey urged Mr Khan and TfL to do \"what is right\" and extend the scheme outside of London, provide exemption for key workers and better bus routes between the counties.\n\nA spokesperson for Kent County Council said the aim of improving air quality must go \"hand-in-hand with appropriate mitigations, including better availability of public transport.\"\n\nThey added plans for tolls at the Blackwall Tunnel were \"another indication [Mr Khan] has no consideration for the impact it could have on Kent residents and businesses to be further financially penalised\".\n\nHertfordshire County Council said the ULEZ expansion to Hertfordshire's borders would \"price some of the lowest paid in our county off the roads\".\n\n\"No amount of signage will change the fact that our residents and businesses face a £12.50 penalty for travelling into the capital,\" they added.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak speaks to staff at Topps Tiles in Leicestershire Image caption: Rishi Sunak speaks to staff at Topps Tiles in Leicestershire\n\nHalving inflation is the “number one priority,” says Rishi Sunak. The plan to bring down inflation is “working“ says the prime minister but “we’re not there yet”.\n\n“Inflation is not some abstract economic concept… it’s very real,” Sunak tells Topps Tiles staff during his visit to Leicestershire.\n\nHe says there are “three quick things” he can do to make it happen.\n\nSunak says he will be “responsible” with spending, taxes and borrowing, even if it makes his life “tricky in the short term”.\n\nSecondly, Sunak says the UK needs to increase its “supply of things”, like energy production “here at home”.\n\nThe PM says he is reforming the welfare system to support people entering the workforce, which will help businesses struggling to recruit staff.\n\nSunak’s third commitment is to help people “get through” the period of high inflation“, like we did with energy bills”.\n\n“We’re doing lots of other things” to help, says Sunak, citing cuts to fuel duty, caps to bus fares outside London, and support payments for people on Universal credit and pensioners.\n\nEarlier, Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said UK inflation \"remains high and higher than many other major economies\" and said people were worse off \"after 13 years of economic chaos and incompetence\".", "A firm which was contracted to moderate Facebook posts in East Africa has said with hindsight it should not have taken on the job.\n\nFormer Kenya-based employees of Sama - an outsourcing company - have said they were traumatised by exposure to graphic posts.\n\nSome are now taking legal cases against the firm through the Kenyan courts.\n\nChief executive Wendy Gonzalez said Sama would no longer take work involving moderating harmful content.\n\nSome former employees have described being traumatised after viewing videos of beheadings, suicide and other graphic material at the moderation hub, which the firm ran from 2019.\n\nFormer moderator Daniel Motaung previously told the BBC the first graphic video he saw was \"a live video of someone being beheaded\".\n\nMr Motaung is suing Sama and Facebook's owner Meta. Meta says it requires all companies it works with to provide round-the-clock support. Sama says certified wellness counsellors were always on hand.\n\nMs Gonzalez told the BBC that the work - which never represented more than 4% of the firm's business - was a contract she would not take again. Sama announced it would end it in January.\n\n\"You ask the question: 'Do I regret it?' Well, I would probably put it this way. If I knew what I know now, which included all of the opportunity, energy it would take away from the core business I would have not entered [the agreement].\"\n\nShe said there were \"lessons learned\" and the firm now had a policy not to take on work that included moderating harmful content. The company would also not do artificial intelligence (AI) work \"that supports weapons of mass destruction or police surveillance\".\n\nWendy Gonzalez said \"lessons\" had been learned\n\nCiting continuing litigation, Ms Gonzalez declined to answer if she believed the claims of employees who said they had been harmed by viewing graphic material. Asked if she believed moderation work could be harmful in general, she said it was \"a new area that absolutely needs study and resources\".\n\nSama is an unusual outsourcing firm. From the beginning its avowed mission was to lift people out of poverty by providing digital skills and an income doing outsourced computing tasks for technology firms.\n\nIn 2018 the BBC visited the firm, watching employees from low-income parts of Nairobi earn $9 (£7) a day on \"data annotation\" - labelling objects in videos of driving, such as pedestrians and street lights, which would then be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Employees interviewed said the income had helped them escape poverty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2018 the BBC visited Sama in Nairobi\n\nThe company still works mainly on similar computer vision AI projects, that do not expose workers to harmful content, she says.\n\n\"I'm super proud of the fact that we've moved over 65,000 people out of poverty,\" Ms Gonzales said.\n\nIt's important, she believes, that African people are involved in the digital economy and the development of AI systems.\n\nThroughout the interview Ms Gonzalez reiterated that the decision to take the work was motivated by two considerations: that moderation was important, necessary work undertaken to prevent social media users from harm. And that it was important that African content was moderated by African teams.\n\n\"You cannot expect somebody from Sydney, India, or the Philippines to be able to effectively moderate local languages in Kenya or in South Africa or beyond,\" she said.\n\nShe also revealed that she had done the moderation work herself.\n\nModerators' pay at Sama began at around 90,000 Kenyan shillings ($630) per month, a good wage by Kenyan standards comparable to nurses, firemen and bank officers, Ms Gonzalez said.\n\nAsked if she would do the work for that amount of money she said \"I did do the moderation but that's not my job in the company\".\n\nSama also took on work with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.\n\nOne employee, Richard Mathenge, whose job was to read through huge volumes of text the chatbot was learning from and flag anything harmful, spoke to the BBC's Panorama programme. He said he was exposed to disturbing content.\n\nSama said it cancelled the work when staff in Kenya raised concerns about requests relating to image-based material which was not in the contract. Ms Gonzalez said \"we wrapped up this work immediately\".\n\nOpenAI said it has its own \"ethical and wellness standards\" for our data annotators and \"recognises this is challenging work for our researchers and annotation workers in Kenya and around the world\".\n\nBut Ms Gonzalez regards this type of AI work as another form of moderation, work that the company will not be doing again.\n\n\"We focus on non-harmful computer vision applications, like driver safety, and drones, and fruit detection and crop disease detection and things of that nature,\" she said.\n\n\"Africa needs a seat at the table when it comes to the development of AI. We don't want to continue to reinforce biases. We need to have people from all places in the world who are helping build this global technology.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Emergency services were called to a fire at the Crooked House pub on 5 August\n\nAn MP has told a public meeting he will pursue a law granting better protection for heritage venues in the name of a pub which was demolished after a fire.\n\nAbout 100 people attended the meeting after the 18th Century Crooked House, near Dudley, was destroyed less than two days after the fire.\n\nMarco Longhi, Conservative MP for Dudley North, said he would love to see a Crooked House law protect other venues from the same fate.\n\nThe fire is being treated as arson.\n\nMarco Longhi, MP for Dudley North speaking at the public meeting in Himley near Dudley, about The Crooked House pub, more than a week after its burnt-out shell was demolished\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council has said it was looking at possible enforcement action against those responsible.\n\nSpeaking at Himley Hall, Mr Longhi urged patience and asked residents to avoid speculating about the circumstances of the fire on social media.\n\nOrganisers of The Crooked House campaign group, Ian Sandall, Jackie Marsh, Paul Turner, Jacqueline Arriola and Tony Chen, were among about 100 who attended the meeting\n\nHe said the building, which sank due to subsidence caused by mining works in the area, would \"rise from the ashes\", but it would be a \"marathon, not a sprint\".\n\n\"I don't believe our current legislative framework is strong enough,\" he said. \"I would love to see, in future, a Crooked House law.\n\n\"It is important we make a change in the law. Our historic pubs and buildings are not protected adequately.\"\n\nThe MP expressed disgust that people had removed bricks and debris from the site to \"make a quick buck2\n\nThe MP pledged to bring the matter to Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, as soon as parliament reconvened in September.\n\nThe pub, known for its sloping walls and floor, was bought from Marston's by ATE Farms Limited in July.\n\nOn Tuesday, the BBC revealed its owners had experienced a huge fire on other land they owned.\n\nPaul and Dawn Craig say the pub was a \"landmark\" and part of their heritage\n\nMembers of the public voiced concerns about a smell from the stream that runs alongside the pub and rubbish being dumped at the site.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, residents reiterated their support for the venue to be rebuilt.Dawn and Paul Craig said the landmark should be reconstructed in the same spot, but better lighting would be needed on the approach to avoid people using the driveway as a \"tip\".\n\nJohn Hutchinson managed The Crooked House for several years\n\nJohn Hutchinson, who ran the pub as a relief manager in the 80s and 90s called for the new owners to explain what had happened. \"Where are they, why haven't they come on camera and faced the public?\" he asked.Others expressed disappointment South Staffordshire Council did not attend the meeting.\n\nFencing has now been erected around the ruins, after the Health and Safety executive ordered the owners to make the site safe.\n\nMr Longhi said the behaviour of people who had been removing bricks and other debris from the rubble was \"disgusting\" and said he was happy the fencing was up.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Conservative MP Sir Gavin Williamson has also voiced his support for restoration of the site.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The family of England's Ella Toone and other regulars at a pub which bears a mural of her have gone wild for the star's goal in the Lionesses' semi-final victory at the World Cup.\n\nThe Manchester United midfielder's Euro 2022 heroics saw her image painted on the side of The Union Arms in her home town of Tyldesley in Wigan.\n\nHer family and other fans crowded into the pub for the semi-final against Australia and were not disappointed, as Toone's stunning opener put England on the road to victory.\n\nLandlady Sharon Mattin said those assembled knew \"Ella would do it\".\n\n\"We knew it was going to be her game,\" she added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Justin was killed two days after his 14th birthday\n\nAn 18-year-old who murdered a schoolboy at a Glasgow railway station has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years\n\nJustin McLaughlin, 14, died in October 2021 after being stabbed in the heart by Daniel Haig, who was 16 at the time, at High Street Station.\n\nHe was taken to hospital after the attack but never recovered.\n\nHaig had admitted delivering the fatal blow but had denied murder. He was found guilty after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nHaig was jailed for life and will have to serve at least 16 years before he can apply for parole.\n\nThe judge, Lord Clark, said the murder had \"a devastating effect\" on the victim's family.\n\n\"They are left with dreadful loss you have caused for the rest of their lives,\" he told Haig.\n\n\"Justin McLaughlin was only 14, a child, and he was getting back on his feet when you stabbed him. He was in a defenceless position.\"\n\nThe judge added it was \"deeply disturbing\" to see gang activity still happening in Glasgow.\n\nCCTV footage showed Haig with a knife at the railway station\n\nThe court heard Haig had become involved in a scuffle with Justin and a group of his friends at the railway station on 16 October 2021.\n\nThe teenager pulled a knife out of his bag and was seen on CCTV chasing the group.\n\nJustin tripped and fell before Haig caught up and stabbed him.\n\nHaig told the trial that he had a knife in his rucksack for \"protection\" after claiming to have been attacked the day before.\n\nHe also said he had not intended to kill the 14-year-old.\n\nDefence counsel John Scullion KC said that his client \"bitterly regrets his actions and the tragic consequences for the deceased and his family\".\n\nHaig was found guilty of murder after a trial\n\nThe court had previously heard that Justin, from Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, had begged for his mother after being attacked.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded that he died from a stab wound to the heart.\n\nJustin's family said their lives would never be the same after his murder.\n\n\"He was the character of the family, his younger brothers miss him so much. He was their best friend as well as their brother,\" they said.\n\n\"He'll be forever our big handsome boy with a smile that lit up the room.\"\n\nProsecutor Moira Orr, head of homicide and major crime for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, said knives were blighting communities and destroying young lives.\n\n\"This case is tragic evidence of the destruction wreaked when young people carry bladed weapons,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alec Baldwin's movie resumed filming this year, after having become a crime scene due to the 2021 tragedy\n\nA new report into the fatal shooting on the set of the movie Rust appears to cast doubt over star and producer Alec Baldwin's accounts of events.\n\nMr Baldwin denies pulling the trigger of the prop gun which went off, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.\n\nWeapons experts have now said the trigger would have \"had to be pulled\".\n\nThe actor's representatives told the PA news agency they had no comment to make on the latest development in the ongoing case.\n\nCharges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor were dropped in April, but prosecutors said it did not \"absolve Mr Baldwin of criminal culpability\".\n\nThey said charges against him could be refiled over the October 2021 shooting, which occurred on the set of the western movie.\n\nA new report, written by weapons experts Lucien Haag and Mike Haag, was given to prosecutors in New Mexico on Tuesday.\n\nAccording to the documents, prosecutors previously stated that they had information that there had been an alleged modification of the gun used by Mr Baldwin on the Rust set.\n\nLawyers for the movie's armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who was also charged with involuntary manslaughter, said the Haags' report \"does not indicate any modification to the gun\" and \"specifies that the trigger had to be pulled\".\n\n\"Although Alec Baldwin repeatedly denies pulling the trigger, given the tests, findings and observations reported here, the trigger had to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to release the fully cocked or retracted hammer of the evidence revolver,\" said an excerpt of the weapons report included in the court documents.\n\n\"If the hammer had not been fully retracted to the rear, and were to slip from the handler's thumb without the trigger depressed, the half cock or quarter cock notches in the hammer should have prevented the firing pin from reaching any cartridge in the firing chamber.\"\n\nIt continued: \"If these features were somehow bypassed, a conspicuously off-centre firing pin impression would result.\"\n\nLast week, Ms Gutierrez-Reed pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and evidence tampering charges, related to the shooting.\n\nHer plea came ahead of a jury trial scheduled for 6 December looking into the death of Ms Hutchins at the age of 42.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether or not the findings of the new report will result in charges against Alec Baldwin being refiled.", "Artem Seredniak says he was beaten and electrocuted at the facility in Taganrog\n\nFormer Ukrainian captives say they were subjected to torture, including frequent beatings and electric shocks, while in custody at a detention facility in south-western Russia, in what would be serious violations of international humanitarian law.\n\nIn interviews with the BBC, a dozen ex-detainees released in prisoner exchanges alleged physical and psychological abuse by Russian officers and guards at the Pre-Trial Detention Facility Number Two, in the city of Taganrog.\n\nThe testimonies, gathered during a weeks-long investigation, describe a consistent pattern of extreme violence and ill-treatment at the facility, one of the locations where Ukrainian prisoners of war have been held in Russia.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify the claims, but details of the accounts were shared with human rights groups and, when possible, corroborated by other detainees.\n\nThe Russian government has not allowed any outside bodies, including the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to visit the facility which before the war was used exclusively to hold Russian prisoners.\n\nRussia's defence ministry did not respond to several requests to comment on the allegations. It has previously denied torturing or mistreating captives.\n\nThe prisoner swaps between Ukraine and Russia are a rare diplomatic achievement in the war and more than 2,500 Ukrainians have been released since the start of the conflict. Up to 10,000 captives are believed to remain in Russian custody, according to human rights groups.\n\nDmytro Lubinets, Ukraine's human rights ombudsman and one of the officials involved in exchange negotiations with Moscow, said nine in every 10 former detainees claimed they had been tortured while in Russian captivity. \"This is the biggest challenge for me now: how to protect our people on the Russian side,\" Lubinets said. \"Nobody knows how we can do it.\"\n\nLast September, Artem Seredniak, a senior lieutenant, had already been in Russian captivity for four months when he and about 50 other Ukrainians were transferred to Pre-Trial Detention Facility Number Two. They travelled in the back of a truck for hours, without knowing where they were going, blindfolded and tied to each other by their arms, like a \"human centipede\", Seredniak told me.\n\nOn their arrival in Taganrog, he recalled, an officer greeted them: \"Hello boys. Do you know where you are? You'll rot here until the end of your lives.\" The captives remained silent. They were escorted inside the building, Seredniak said, had their fingerprints taken and clothes removed, were shaven and forced to shower.\n\nAt every step, guards at the facility, who carried black batons and metal bars, beat them in the legs, arms, or \"anywhere they wanted\", Seredniak said. \"It's what they call 'reception'.\"\n\nBefore his capture, Seredniak, who is 27, headed a sniper platoon at the Azov Regiment, the main military force in Mariupol. This, he said, made him a key target for the prison staff. Seredniak said he was separated from the others and, dressed only in his underwear, brought to a room to be interrogated for the first time. He was then pushed to the floor, he said, with his head facing down.\n\nThe guards asked him about his role in the army and the tasks he had carried out. With an electric stun weapon, they gave him shocks, Seredniak said, in his back, groin and neck.\n\n\"That's how they worked on everybody,\" he said. \"They hammered you like a nail.\"\n\nIn May last year, as Mariupol was under a Russian siege, the Ukrainian authorities ordered hundreds of soldiers holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to surrender. Seredniak was among the last to be evacuated. He was first taken to a facility in Olenivka, a village in Donetsk, and, months later, sent to the prison in Taganrog, in the Russian border region of Rostov, about 120km (74 miles) east of Mariupol.\n\nThere, he told me, the captives were inspected twice a day, and anything appeared to be a motive for guards to abuse them. \"They might not have liked how you left the cell, or you weren't quick to get out, or your arms were too low or your head was too high.\"\n\nIn one of those checks, Seredniak was asked whether he had a girlfriend. He said he did, and recalled a guard telling him: \"Give us her Instagram. We'll take a picture of you and send it to her.\" He lied, not wanting to expose her, and said she did not have an account. He was then beaten, he said, and brought to a room in the prison's basement, where he met a twenty-something Ukrainian fighter. Seredniak told me the man was curled, holding his hands, apparently in pain, and said officers had inserted needles under his fingernails.\n\nAs the days progressed, Seredniak noticed that the prison guards were particularly brutal with those who belonged to the Azov Regiment, the former militia in Mariupol that once had links to the far right. Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has said, among other things, that his war is an effort to \"de-Nazify\" Ukraine - a country led by a Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky - and Russian authorities often cite the unit to justify the invasion.\n\nSeredniak said that, in his interrogations, he was accused of looting Mariupol and of personally telling his forces to kill civilians in the city, the site of one of the most deadly battles in the war so far. Seredniak, who speaks fast with a loud, determined voice, denied the claims, but it did not seem to matter. \"Until you said what they were interested in, and in the way they wanted to hear,\" he told me, \"they wouldn't stop beating you.\"\n\nOnce, Seredniak said, an officer used a wooden chair to hit him, and \"he beat me so much that it broke in parts\". On another day, he said, he was asked whether he could sing the \"Azov anthem\". He did not know of any Azov anthem, and assumed the guards meant the Prayer of the Ukrainian Nationalist, a 20th-Century oath usually read aloud by soldiers before being sent into combat. Seredniak reluctantly recited it, conscious of how the guards could react.\n\nThey punched him several times, he said. He fell, hitting his head against a wall, causing a cut near his eyebrow. He lay on the floor, while the beatings continued, he said, all over his body.\n\n\"When I finally got up,\" Seredniak recalled, \"they told me: 'We hope we beat that out of you'.\"\n\nSome of the prison staff seemed to have been heavily influenced by President Putin's \"de-Nazification\" narrative. For the detainees, this was apparent in how the guards demonstrated a particular interest in anything that could, in their view, be interpreted as being pro-Nazi. The captives were not allowed to have any personal items, so their tattoos inevitably drew the officers' attention. This reminded me of similar allegations I heard while investigating Russia's filtration camps in occupied areas of Ukraine last year.\n\nSerhii Rotchuk, a 34-year-old senior sergeant at the regiment, also left Azovstal in the final convoys, and was taken to Taganrog a week after Seredniak. He said the guards, at first, \"looked for swastikas or things like that\". But, in reality, he said, \"if you had any tattoo, you were seen as a bad guy\". Rotchuk, who is a doctor, has tattoos on both legs, arms and chest. Weeks ago, when we met in Kyiv, he lifted his T-shirt to show me a raven that covered part of his chest and the symbol of an infantry platoon on his left bicep; he also had an emblem of the Jedi Order from Star Wars on his left thigh.\n\nSerhii Rotchuk says he was singled out because of his tattoos\n\n\"Did these tattoos cause you any trouble?\" I asked him. \"Many times,\" Rotchuk replied. \"They would say: 'What's this? Oh, I'll beat you for that'.\" Seredniak, who has no tattoos, said some fighters who had tattooed nationalist symbols, like the Ukrainian flag or the gold trident, were frequently targeted. \"They hated us for being Ukrainian,\" he told me.\n\nIn March, a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said Russia had \"failed to ensure the humane treatment\" of prisoners, with \"strong patterns of violations\".\n\nKris Janowski, a spokesman for the office, said there was a \"long list of bad things that have been done\" to the detainees at the facility in Taganrog. The fact that a prison was being used to hold captives was, in itself, a breach of international humanitarian law, he said, as they should be kept in specially designated places. Ukraine also faced some accusations of mistreatment of detainees, according to the March report; but, overall, they were \"treated in better fashion\".\n\nRotchuk said the captives \"lived in permanent stress\" in Taganrog. He recalled meeting a man, also a doctor, who had falsely admitted to removing the testicles of a Russian prisoner, desperate to put an end to the violence. \"He said: 'OK, just leave me alone, I will sign the confession.' The officers then intimidated the other medics, saying: 'Ah, you helped him.'\"\n\nGuards gave Rotchuk electric shocks, he said, but he resisted. Rotchuk told me he was sent to solitary confinement for two months as punishment. The beatings happened almost every day; sometimes, several times a day, he said.\n\nRotchuk remembered one officer who appeared to take pleasure in kicking him in the chest, which left him with a persistent pain. He complained, but was given no help. \"I had to tell myself: 'Dude, stay strong, you can't control the situation, so you need to accept it,'\" Rotchuk recalled.\n\nNot everyone had the same resilience, though. Seredniak said a fellow Azov fighter, in his late 20s, broke a small mirror that hung above his cell's sink, and used a shard to slice his throat. The man was rescued by other captives, who stopped the bleeding with their hands. Days later, Seredniak said, the prison staff removed the mirrors from all cells.\n\nRussian doctors, Seredniak said, would occasionally visit the detainees, but \"didn't necessarily help\" them. He described the food portions they were given as limited; sometimes, he said, they were \"so small, that if I ate 300-400 calories a day, I was lucky\".\n\nSeredniak, who is 1.86m (6ft1in) tall, said his weight dropped to about 60kg (9st 6lb) while he was there, from his usual 80kg. \"Every time I got up,\" he said, \"I felt dizzy. My eyes darkened, I couldn't make any fast movements.\" He believed this was deliberate: weakened, the captives would not put up any resistance.\n\nAccording to Iryna Stohnii, female captives were dragged by the hair during twice-daily inspections\n\nIryna Stohnii, a 36-year-old senior combat medic at the 56th Brigade, described the detainees as \"constantly malnourished\". \"They didn't feed us,\" she said. \"They didn't even let us go outside... We could only see the sky through bars in the windows.\" Stohnii said the guards, in their twice-a-day inspections, forced her and other women to move in a stress position, with arms behind their backs and head to knees, and that some \"dragged us by the hair\". Other female captives told me women would be ordered to strip naked in front of male staff who, sometimes, made disparaging comments about their bodies.\n\nOne day, Stohnii said, a guard accused her of torturing pro-Russian soldiers in captivity and twisted her arms with so much force that \"he almost broke them\". A couple of times in our interview she cried. \"Only devils live and work\" at Taganrog, she said. After her release, Stohnii underwent surgery to remove adhesions - bands of scar tissue between organs that can be caused by trauma - which had developed in her kidney and bladder. \"Apart from rape,\" Stohnii told me, \"they did everything with us\".\n\nDenys Haiduk says his captors accused him of castrating Russian prisoners\n\nDenys Haiduk, a military surgeon, said guards forced him and the other captives to run with their heads down while under blows during their \"reception\", with detainees being hit even after they were on the ground, unable to stand up. Haiduk, who is 29, had helped the wounded at Azovstal and, in his interrogation, he was accused of amputating and castrating Russians in captivity, he told me. He denied it, saying that only Ukrainian fighters had been brought to him.\n\nAs he recalled what had happened, I could sense the anger in his voice. Haiduk was pushed to the floor, and given electric shocks with a stun weapon until, he said, the battery ran out. Other captives said guards also used a military phone to give them shocks by connecting its wires to their bodies. \"You're convulsing,\" Haiduk said. \"If you lift your head up, they start beating you. And that circle never ends.\"\n\nTaganrog is also used as a transfer point and, to his surprise, Haiduk was only held there for two days, before his release in a prisoner exchange. As he left, the officers tried to force him to sign a document, declaring that any injury to his body had been accidental. Haiduk refused. He said guards beat and kicked him, and he heard a crack.\n\nHaiduk struggled to breathe, he recalled, and fell into the mattress he was holding. Later, after returning to Ukraine, he was diagnosed with three broken ribs as well as a cardiac contusion - a bruise to the heart muscle caused by trauma.\n\nI asked him why he believed the guards were treating the Ukrainian detainees that way. \"Because they can,\" he said. \"You're a captive, and they abuse you.\" When I asked Seredniak the same question, he gave me a more practical answer: \"They beat you to get some information. And then say: 'It's to make sure you don't go back and fight after the swap.'\"\n\nLubinets, the Ukrainian ombudsman, said Russian authorities had created a \"system of torture\" for Ukrainian captives, typically in detention centres, in Russia and in occupied areas of Ukraine. Ukraine has opened up its facilities to experts; Russia, however, has restricted visits to only some locations. Janowski, from the OHCHR, said Moscow had repeatedly rejected the UN's requests for access without giving \"any legitimate reasons\". With most places closed to outside observers, Lubinets said, \"Russian soldiers can do anything with Ukrainian prisoners\".\n\nDuring his \"reception\", Artem Dyblenko, a 40-year-old sergeant major at the 36th Marine Brigade, overheard the guards talking about playing football with the captives. He was intrigued. \"What I didn't know was that we would be the ball,\" Dyblenko said. Blindfolded, he was ordered to run, he said, and fell. \"There were constant kicks. You did feel like a football.\"\n\nDyblenko told me that, in September, one of his cellmates suffered a heart attack, which he attributed to the constant physical abuse. No-one came to treat him, according to Dyblenko, and the man died, aged 53. Three weeks later, Dyblenko was included in a swap and, in Ukraine, reported the case to the authorities. The body, he said, was returned at the end of last year. \"[His son] was given pictures of it,\" Dyblenko said, \"it was horrifying\". Ukraine acknowledged that bodies were exchanged in December, without giving details of the victims' identities, or how and where they had died. The man's son said he was waiting for the result of a DNA test and did not want to comment.\n\nThe Media Initiative for Human Rights, a Ukrainian organisation, recorded allegations of at least three deaths at the Taganrog prison, apparently because of torture and lack of food and health care. Mariia Klymyk, one of the group's investigators, said this was \"one the worst places for Ukrainian detainees in Russia\".\n\nShe heard accounts of men being taken to interrogation and asked whether they had any children. \"If someone says they don't, they are beaten in the genitals,\" Klymyk said, \"while the guard says: 'For prevention of procreation.'\" And some Ukrainian soldiers had been put on trial, she said, with the apparent false confessions they had given in custody used as evidence against them.\n\nAfter almost 12 months in captivity, seven of them in Taganrog, Seredniak was released in a prisoner swap on 6 May, alongside 44 other Ukrainian fighters. He said the date would be celebrated as if it were his second birthday. The same exchange included Serhii Rotchuk, the doctor, who later discovered he had a fracture in his sternum - the breastbone - a condition associated with significant chest trauma, which he blamed on the abuse he had suffered.\n\nSeredniak pictured at the time of his release\n\nI visited Seredniak four weeks after his return, at a flat in a residential compound on Kyiv's left bank, between his physical and mental rehabilitation sessions. Doctors had diagnosed him with a broken rib and cysts in the liver and kidney which, they said, were probably caused by the beatings. Seredniak had already regained some of the weight he had lost but still suffered lower back pain and, sometimes, struggled to walk.\n\nOn my phone, he watched for the first time a video of his swap, which had been published by the Ukrainian government. The captives were filmed shouting \"Slava Ukraini!\", or \"Glory to Ukraine\", and being welcomed by a cheering crowd. Pointing at a smiling man, Seredniak said: \"This is me!\" I could not recognise him. \"I was pale, skinny, with no access to sunlight,\" he told me. \"We were like bats, living in half-light.\"\n\nAdditional reporting by Daria Sipigina and Lee Durant. Photos by Lee Durant\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Donald Trump's campaign stops are just one part of his increasingly hectic schedule\n\nDonald Trump, seeking a return to the White House in 2024, already had a crammed political calendar. Now, with multiple legal dramas set to unfold, it is approaching the point of pure chaos.\n\nA federal judge has scheduled the trial for his alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election for 4 March, the day before Super Tuesday, the biggest voting day in the Republican race.\n\nThat trial - in Washington DC - would pull Mr Trump off the campaign trail for a pivotal stretch of his campaign, when he could be securing himself as the Republican standard-bearer or engaged in an extended struggle with one or more remaining rivals.\n\nMr Trump's lawyers have already vigorously complained about proposed trial schedules conflicting with the presidential campaign, which the former president and his supporters have branded \"election interference\" by his enemies.\n\nMr Trump has vowed to appeal the trial date ruling. In a post on his social media site, he derided the judge as \"biased\" and \"Trump hating\" and said the timing was \"just what our corrupt government wanted\".\n\nMr Trump's legal team had initially proposed an April 2026 date for the federal trial - a timeline the judge said was unacceptable.\n\nWhile the first presidential nomination contest, in Iowa, isn't until January, the Republican presidential race has already begun in earnest. The party has started holding monthly debates for qualifying candidates. The first took place in Wisconsin in August - and Mr Trump stayed away, saying an appearance was not necessary given his large polling lead over his rivals.\n\nThe schedule, however, provided an early indication of how his legal concerns could factor into his political calculations. The former president appeared in an Atlanta jail the day after the debate, where he was formally booked on charges of interfering in the Georgia 2020 election.\n\nWhile much of Mr Trump's legal - and political - drama will take place in 2024, there's already one trial scheduled for later this year. On 2 October, New York state's civil fraud lawsuit against Mr Trump and his business empire is scheduled to go to trial. Mr Trump is not required to appear in court, but it still could be a distraction - and it comes just five days after the second scheduled Republican primary debate.\n\nWhen the calendar flips to 2024, things start to really heat up. The Iowa caucuses - the first Republican presidential selection contest - are scheduled for 15 January, the same day a defamation trial against Mr Trump begins. It is the second case brought by writer E Jean Carroll, who has already won a $5m (£3.9m) judgement from the former president after a jury found he sexually assaulted and defamed her.\n\nMr Trump's New York hush-money case is scheduled for trial in late March, a few weeks after the federal 6 January trial is currently on tap to begin in Washington, DC. The federal case involving mishandling classified documents is set for May. That will be after many of the key Republican primaries have taken place. But preparation for those cases, including pre-trial hearings and depositions, will begin well beforehand.\n\nThen there is the Georgia indictment, which is yet to be scheduled.\n\nGeorgia District Attorney Fani Willis has said she wants her sprawling racketeering case against Mr Trump and 18 co-defendants to reach trial within six months, but that timeline is also ambitious, given that one defendant is requesting the proceedings be moved to federal court and a second is calling for an earlier trial.\n\nAll the presiding judges in these cases will take into consideration Mr Trump's legal concerns, as well as the campaign timeline, and attempt to work out a schedule that best accommodates all the competing interests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the second half of 2024, those interests include a Republican national convention that is slated for mid-July, and the traditional series of presidential debates that take place in early autumn. At some point the possibility of a trial in the shadow of November's presidential election - or even after it - becomes a real possibility.\n\nThe trials - and any pre-trial hearings, depositions and other various legal proceedings - will take up weeks if not months of Mr Trump's time. He will have to schedule his campaigning, including his beloved mass public rallies, around them. He could have judges issuing orders to limit what he can publicly say - and sanctioning him if he does not comply.\n\nThen there's the massive financial drain that supporting multiple teams of lawyers to contest the criminal charges against Mr Trump and his associates presents. A Trump-affiliated political committee has already spent more than $40m on legal fees just in the first half of 2023, with the first criminal trial still months away.\n\nThose numbers will only go up - and they will continue to limit the amount of money the former president can direct to the nuts and bolts of his campaign, such as grass-roots organising, television and online advertisements, and staff and infrastructure investments.\n\nIt is a daunting burden for any candidate - even one who has shown Mr Trump's remarkable political durability.", "Three people known to 10-year-old Sara Sharif booked one-way tickets to Pakistan, and flew the day before her body was found, BBC News understands.\n\nSara's body was found at her home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to a travel agent in the town who said he was contacted by someone known to Sara, wanting tickets for three adults and five children.\n\nPolice want to speak to three people known to Sara - who they have not named - and who left the UK on 9 August.\n\nSurrey Police launched a murder investigation after Sara's body was found alone in the family home 02:50 BST.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the travel agent in Woking identified the person making the booking on the evening of 8 August to travel the following day, whom he said had used his services before.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to police in Pakistan who have said that no formal approach has been made by the British authorities over the case.\n\nPakistan and the UK do not have a formal extradition treaty.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun newspaper Sara's mother spoke about her grief and disbelief that her daughter was dead.\n\nOlga Sharif was divorced from Sara's father, who had custody of the child.\n\nA post-mortem examination was due to be carried out yesterday (Tuesday) on the 10-year-old but a cause of death has not been formally confirmed.", "A comedy show featuring Father Ted writer Graham Linehan in Edinburgh has been cancelled due to complaints.\n\nLeith Arches said it had pulled the gig because it did not support the comedian, and his views do \"not align with our overall values\".\n\nThe writer has been an outspoken critic of transgender self-identification.\n\nMr Linehan urged the venue to reconsider its decision and suggested the cancellation might be unlawful.\n\nThe organisers of the gig said they were looking for an alternative venue.\n\nLeith Arches said it had been unaware Mr Linehan would be taking part in the show which was organised by a third party.\n\nIn a social media post it thanked members of the public for their complaints about his scheduled appearance this Thursday.\n\nIt wrote: \"We do not support this comedian or his views and he will not be allowed to perform at our venue and is cancelled from Thursday's comedy show with immediate effect.\"\n\nMr Linehan responded on X, formerly Twitter, by challenging the venue to explain which of his views it found offensive.\n\nHe posted: \"It sure sounds like discrimination on the grounds of my legally protected beliefs.\"\n\nGraham Linehan, pictured at a Let Women Speak rally in Belfast earlier this year\n\nEarlier this year another Edinburgh venue, The Stand, cancelled a scheduled Fringe festival appearance by SNP MP Joanna Cherry after staff said they were not comfortable with her views on transgender issues.\n\nBut the comedy club later reinstated it and apologised, admitting the cancellation was \"unfair and constituted unlawful discrimination against Ms Cherry\".\n\nThe In Conversation With... Joanna Cherry event took place last week.\n\nMs Cherry, who is also a lawyer, later posted that the Linehan case \"looks like a pretty clear case of belief discrimination\" and hit out at \"more petulant cancellation\".\n\nThe booking website for the show had promised an evening of \"edgy comedy\" featuring four named comedians and a \"surprise famous cancelled comedian\".\n\nIt was organised by Comedy Unleashed, set up by GB News host Andrew Doyle and comic writer Andy Shaw, which says it supports comedians who \"leave their self censorship button at the door\".\n\nMr Shaw told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"We're very much against this cancel culture because we think it's killing the arts and it's treating the audience like children who need mollycoddling.\n\n\"Andrew Doyle and I set Comedy Unleashed up because we're sick of this. We want the extroverts, we want all the crazy stuff, we want people to be free and treat the audience like they're adults.\"\n\nHe added: \"If there's any venue out there who wants an audience of 150 people - we're sold out - we will bring our audience and our pre-packaged act to your venue.\"\n\nMr Linehan co-created the Channel 4 comedy Father Ted and later wrote Black Books and The IT Crowd.\n\nAn episode of The IT Crowd from 2008 has been criticised over its transgender plot line.\n\nIn 2020 Channel 4 removed it from their streaming service saying that \"in light of current audience expectations, we concluded it did not meet our standards for remaining available... and it was not possible to make adequate changes\".\n\nMr Linehan was later involved in a number of acrimonious social media disputes with trans activists, and in 2020 was permanently suspended from Twitter which claimed he had breached rules on \"hateful content\". His account was reinstated after Elon Musk took over the social media platform.\n\nIn an emotional BBC interview last year, the Dublin-born writer told Nolan Live he had been unfairly targeted over his views, losing him work and contributing to the break-up of his marriage.", "Bradley Cooper plays Leonard Bernstein, with Carey Mulligan as his wife Felicia\n\nThe family of Leonard Bernstein have defended actor Bradley Cooper in a row over his biopic of the late composer.\n\nThe first trailer for Maestro, which Cooper both directs and stars in, was released earlier this week.\n\nIt attracted some criticism over the size of Cooper's nose, which some social media users said played up to offensive Jewish stereotypes.\n\nBut Bernstein's family said they were \"perfectly fine\" with Cooper using make-up to \"amplify\" his appearance.\n\nThere has also been criticism that a Jewish actor was not cast to play the West Side Story composer.\n\n\"It breaks our hearts to see any misrepresentations or misunderstandings of [Cooper's] efforts,\" wrote Jamie, Alexander and Nina Bernstein in a statement posted online.\n\n\"It happens to be true that Leonard Bernstein had a nice, big nose. Bradley chose to use make-up to amplify his resemblance, and we're perfectly fine with that. We're also certain that our dad would have been fine with it as well.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Netflix This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThey continued: \"Any strident complaints around this issue strike us above all as disingenuous attempts to bring a successful person down a notch - a practice we observed all too often perpetrated on our own father.\n\n\"At all times during the making of this film, we could feel the profound respect and yes, the love that Bradley brought to his portrait of Leonard Bernstein and his wife, our mother Felicia. We feel so fortunate to have had this experience with Bradley, and we can't wait for the world to see his creation.\"\n\nBernstein's family added that Cooper had \"included the three of us along every step of his amazing journey as he made his film about our father\".\n\n\"We were touched to the core to witness the depth of his commitment, his loving embrace of our father's music, and the sheer open-hearted joy he brought to his exploration.\"\n\nWhen the first images of Cooper were seen last year, the Hollywood Reporter's film critic Daniel Feinberg said Cooper's appearance could be \"problematic\", suggesting the movie featured \"ethnic cosplay\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, English actress Tracy-Ann Oberman, who is Jewish, compared Cooper apparently using a prosthetic nose to the use of blackface make-up.\n\n\"If Bradley Cooper can't do it through the power [of] acting alone then don't cast him - get a Jewish actor,\" she wrote.\n\nLeonard Bernstein, pictured in 1974, composed songs such as America and I Feel Pretty for the musical West Side Story\n\nBinyomin Gilbert, a spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism, said it was \"astonishing that nobody thought twice about sticking a big nose on a non-Jewish actor playing a Jew\".\n\n\"The filmmakers here need to show that they understand why this is a problem,\" he said. \"A failure to do so would indicate that there is a double standard when it comes to the portrayal of Jews on screen.\"\n\nMaestro is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month, before being released on Netflix in December.\n\nIt is said to examine the relationship between Bernstein, who died in 1990, and his wife, the actress and activist Felicia Montealegre.\n\nBernstein is best known for composing the songs for West Side Story, including America and I Feel Pretty. He also co-wrote Broadway musicals On the Town, Wonderful Town and Candide.\n\nIn his distinguished career, which also saw him become one of the most well-respected orchestral conductors of the late 20th Century, he won Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards for his work.\n\nAnother film scheduled for release in the coming months, Golda, has attracted similar controversy.\n\nDame Helen Mirren will play former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film, which will be released in US cinemas at the end of this month.\n\nLast year, actress Maureen Lipman told the Jewish Chronicle she \"disagreed\" with Dame Helen's casting \"because the Jewishness of the character is so integral\".", "Scotland's junior doctors have voted to accept a pay offer from the Scottish government.\n\nThe deal will include a 12.4% pay increase for 2023/24.\n\nThis is in addition to a wage rise of 4.5% for 2022/23 with ministers also promising talks on future pay increases.\n\nJunior doctors had been planning to take strike action before the latest pay offer was made by Scottish ministers.\n\nThe deal will cost the Scottish government £61.3m and will be met from existing budgets.\n\nAs part of the agreement, further talks to \"make credible progress\" towards full pay restoration to 2008 levels are planned.\n\nThese will see the rate of inflation used as the guarantee as the floor for each round of negotiations in the next three years.\n\nScottish ministers have also committed to agreeing a new pay review mechanism with junior doctors.\n\nThe result of the consultative vote of BMA Scotland members saw 81.64% vote in favour of the offer with a turnout of 71.24%.\n\nIn England, junior doctors have taken part in five rounds of industrial action this year as a result of an ongoing pay dispute.\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"This is the single biggest investment in junior doctor pay since devolution, and maintains our commitment to make Scotland the best place in the UK for junior doctors to work and train.\n\n\"Due to the meaningful engagement we have had with trade unions, we have avoided any industrial action in Scotland - the only part of the UK to avoid NHS strikes.\"\n\nJunior doctors in England have been on strike on a number of occasions this year\n\nJunior doctors had been due to strike between 12 and 15 July after previously rejecting a 14.5% pay rise over two years.\n\nThe new offer saw this action postponed.\n\nThe union had previously called for a rise of 23.5% - the amount they say junior doctors have seen their pay fall in real terms since 2008.\n\nJunior doctors are fully-qualified medics who are not speciality staff doctors, consultants or GPs. They make up 44% of the doctors in the NHS in Scotland.\n\nDr Chris Smith, chairman of the BMA's Scottish Junior Doctor Committee, said the agreement was a \"serious, welcome commitment to ensuring that pay for junior doctors in Scotland is restored to a fair level\".\n\nHe added: \"While we accept that this year's 12.4% uplift makes only a small amount of real terms progress towards fully reversing the 28.5% pay cut we have received since 2008, it represents a start.\n\n\"Earlier this year junior doctors in Scotland said enough is enough - they were clear that they will no longer stand aside and accept any more sub-inflationary pay awards year after year.\"", "Jordan Peterson is a Canadian psychology professor who developed a following on YouTube\n\nTwo critics who reviewed a book by Jordan Peterson have said their articles were quoted on its cover in a misleading way.\n\nQuotes from reviews published in the Times and the New Statesman were used on the cover of the paperback edition of Peterson's Beyond Order.\n\nThe book cover quoted a line from the Times saying the book was \"a philosophy of the meaning of life\".\n\nBut it didn't mention that the review described that philosophy as \"bonkers\".\n\nPeterson and his publishers Penguin have not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe Canadian psychology professor has gained a loyal following partly due to his opinions on so-called \"culture war\" issues such as white privilege, gender-neutral pronouns and gender roles.\n\nBut the 61-year-old is a controversial figure who is derided by others for his views.\n\nBeyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life, which was published in paperback last May, quoted Johanna Thomas-Corr's review in the New Statesman on its cover.\n\nShe said the quote that was selected to market the book was a \"gross misrepresentation\" of her 2,500-word review.\n\nThomas-Corr, who is also literary editor of the Sunday Times, posted on X (formerly Twitter): \"I don't have it in me to write some causally witty thing about how horrifying this is.\" She added that her quote \"should be removed\".\n\nThomas-Corr's review appeared in the New Statesman, a left-leaning current affairs magazine, in March 2021, when the original hardback edition of the book was published.\n\nHer article referred to what she called the \"inadvertent comedy\" of the book, and said Peterson spent several pages \"ranting\".\n\nHer lengthy review also said: \"His unwillingness to address detail or confront counter-arguments feels cowardly.\n\n\"He repeatedly identifies masculinity with order and femininity with chaos and makes it clear which side he feels we should favour.\"\n\nBut Thomas-Corr's review did feature some praise, and it was these passages that were quoted on the paperback's cover.\n\nOne line quoted Thomas-Corr saying it was \"genuinely enlightening and often poignant\".\n\nAnother said: \"Here is a father figure who takes his audience seriously. And here is a grander narrative about truth, being, order and chaos that stretches back to the dawn of human consciousness.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Jordan Peterson speaking to the BBC in 2019\n\nElsewhere, the book jacket featured a line from James Marriott's review in the Times, which said: \"A philosophy of the meaning of life... the most lucid and touching prose Peterson has ever written.\"\n\nHowever, Marriot has also also suggested his review had been quoted selectively to \"disguise\" the fact it was largely negative.\n\nIn a since-deleted post, Marriott jokingly praised the \"incredible work from Jordan Peterson's publisher\", adding: \"My review of this mad book was probably the most negative thing I have ever written.\"\n\nThe full-length review described Peterson's prose as \"repetitious, unvariegated, rhythmless, opaque and possessed of a suffocating sense of its own importance\".\n\nOnly in a paragraph praising one particular chapter did Marriott say the text was the best prose Peterson had written.\n\nMarriott's full review otherwise said the book \"nails together shower thoughts, random prejudices and genuine insights into a decidedly rickety structure\", and repeatedly used the word \"bonkers\" to describe Peterson's philosophy.\n\nAt the time of writing, Marriott's review still features on Penguin's online page for the book.\n\nBeyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life was a follow-up to Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.\n\nAnother review by Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph said Peterson's book featured \"hokey wisdom combined with good advice\".\n\nThe book jacket cut out the word \"hokey\" so the quote read only: \"Wisdom combined with good advice.\"\n\nHowever, Moore gave a positive review to the book overall, awarding it four stars.\n\nAlthough it is normal for publishers to use techniques to increase sales, the complaints could raise questions in the publishing industry about selective quoting.\n\nThe matter does not fall under the remit of the Advertising Standards Authority because the quotes feature on a book jacket rather than in an advertisement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson says there were \"mass failings\" by police\n\nPolice kept evidence from jurors in a case which led to an innocent man spending 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, judges have ruled.\n\nAndrew Malkinson was cleared last month after new DNA evidence linking another suspect to the crime emerged.\n\nCourt of Appeal judges have now also called the original conviction \"unsafe\" because Greater Manchester Police did not disclose images during his trial.\n\nMr Malkinson had always maintained his innocence and was released in 2020.\n\nHe was jailed in 2004 for an attack on a woman in Salford and the prosecution case against him was based only on identification evidence.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the force was \"truly sorry for this most appalling miscarriage of justice\".\n\nFollowing the Court of Appeal ruling, Mr Malkinson said he felt \"vindicated by the court's finding that [GMP] unlawfully withheld evidence\" and \"caused his wrongful conviction nightmare\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"They had control of the evidence, they chose not to disclose these vital pieces of evidence.\n\n\"The impact has been catastrophic on me, of course, to even have had to face trial for this.\n\n\"That could have been stopped, or at least reduced the amount of time I've had to spend behind bars which I can't even elaborate what it's like to be in prison at all for something you've not done, let alone aeons of time.\"\n\nIn July, Mr Malkinson's convictions for two counts of rape and one of choking or strangling with intent to commit rape were overturned by Lord Justice Holroyde.\n\nThe judge, sitting with Mr Justice Goose and Sir Robin Spencer, said last month that Mr Malkinson's legal team had \"raised a number of substantial and important points\" in other parts of his appeal that would be decided in writing.\n\nIn a ruling earlier, the three judges said Mr Malkinson's conviction was also unsafe because of failures to disclose evidence.\n\nThe police evidence included photographs of the victim's hands which showed the fingernail of the rape victim's left middle finger was noticeably shorter than her other fingernails, which corroborated her evidence that she scratched her attacker's face.\n\nIn his judgement, Lord Justice Holroyde said the failure to disclose the photographs had \"prevented the appellant from putting his case forward in its best light and strengthened the prosecution case against him\".\n\nMr Malkinson's defence team was therefore unable to highlight to the jury that he had no such scratch injury to his face.\n\nLord Justice Holroyde said: \"If the photographs had been disclosed, the jury's verdicts may have been different\".\n\nIn his judgement, it was also noted that two eyewitnesses who identified Mr Malkinson had convictions for dishonesty offences.\n\nLord Justice Holroyde said if the previous convictions had been disclosed during the trial it \"would have been capable of casting doubt on their general honesty and capable of affecting the jury's view as to whether they were civic-minded persons doing their best to assist.\"\n\nHe added: \"In our judgement, the challenge to the character and credibility of those two identifying witnesses would have been capable of affecting the jury's overall view as to whether they could be sure that the appellant was correctly identified.\"\n\nMr Malkinson said: \"The evidence needed to overturn my conviction has been sitting in police files for the past two decades.\n\n\"Yet the [Criminal Cases Review Commission] did not bother to look and it fell to the small charity Appeal to bring it to light.\"\n\nHe said that cost him \"extra years behind bars for a crime I did not commit\".\n\nHe told the BBC it had caused him \"immense pain\" and \"oceans of suffering\".\n\nGMP's Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Jackson said the force accepted the Court of Appeal's judgement and added: \"I speak on behalf of the whole force when I say that we are truly sorry for this most appalling miscarriage of justice.\n\nShe said she had \"extended an invitation to meet with Mr Malkinson and say sorry to him personally for the time he wrongly spent in prison and for all that he endured as a consequence\".\n\nMs Jackson said she could not comment further because the force was being investigated by the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, in relation to the case and due to a live criminal investigation.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Hannah Ingram-Moore was the interim CEO of the Captain Tom Foundation when the event was held\n\nThe daughter of Capt Sir Tom Moore was paid thousands of pounds via her family company for appearances in connection with her late father's charity.\n\nIn 2021 and 2022, Hannah Ingram-Moore helped judge awards ceremonies which heavily featured the Captain Tom Foundation charity.\n\nPromotional clips suggested she was there to represent the charity.\n\nHowever her fee was paid not to the Foundation but to her family company. She is yet to respond to the claims.\n\nThe awards ceremony was the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards, which included the name of the charity and the charity's logo on its awards plaques. At the time Ms Ingram-Moore was the charity's interim chief executive on an annual salary of £85,000.\n\nThe name of the charity appeared on awards plaques\n\nHowever her appearance fee was paid not to the Captain Tom Foundation but to Maytrix Group, a company owned by Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin.\n\nFor more than a year, the Charity Commission has been investigating potential conflicts of interest between the charity and the Ingram-Moores' businesses after concerns mounted about potential mismanagement and misconduct.\n\nReplying to a BBC email about this matter, Hannah Ingram-Moore said via email: \"You are awful. It's a total lie.\"\n\nSix minutes later she added: \"Apologies. That reply was for a scammer who has been creating havoc\".\n\nMs Ingram-Moore has not responded to a series of questions from BBC Newsnight about the thousand of pounds that her company received.\n\nBBC Newsnight understands Ms Ingram-Moore did not seek approval from the charity's board before entering into the commercial arrangement with Virgin Media O2, and an internal investigation into it was launched last November.\n\nA spokesperson for the charity trustees said: \"The Captain Tom Foundation is aware of the commercial arrangements made by Hannah Ingram-Moore with Virgin Media O2 in respect of the 'Virgin Media Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards'.\n\n\"This matter is subject of an ongoing internal investigation. The Charity Commission has been notified of the Foundation's review of this matter and the Foundation will share its findings once the investigation has concluded.\"\n\nMs Ingram-Moore is no longer running the charity, but her husband Colin remains a trustee. Both of them are directors of the companies Maytrix Group and Club Nook.\n\nA Charity Commission spokesperson said: \"Our inquiry into the Captain Tom Foundation remains ongoing. Its scope includes examining whether the trustees have adequately managed conflicts of interest, including with private companies connected to the Ingram-Moore family.\"\n\nA Virgin Media spokesperson said: \"When payment was made, we were not aware of any concerns about Maytrix or the Captain Tom Foundation that have since come to light after our campaign and relationship with Captain Tom finished.\"\n\nCapt Tom attracted international attention during the first coronavirus lockdown, by walking 100 laps of his garden ahead of his 100th birthday, to support the NHS.\n\nHaving raised around £38m for NHS Charities Together, he died in early 2021 with Covid-19, less than six months after being knighted.\n\nCapt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk, which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nFamily members then established the Foundation, but its financial activities have since come under scrutiny, with the Charity Commission announcing a review in February 2022.\n\nConcerns have been raised about whether some of the funds were going to separate companies run by the family, the salary paid to Ms Ingram-Moore and how much money was spent on management costs.\n\nSeparately earlier this month, the family defended plans to build an unauthorised spa that they have been told to demolish. An appeal hearing is due to be held on 17 October.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC One, listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds and follow on the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nEngland supporters will be outnumbered in Sydney when the Lionesses take on co-hosts Australia in their Women's World Cup semi-final on Wednesday.\n\nIt will be a feeling one England super fan is very familiar with.\n\nKate Grant, originally from Surrey, lives in the New South Wales capital and has been backing Sarina Wiegman's side all tournament.\n\nThe problem? The rest of her family are diehard Australia supporters.\n\n\"I do sometimes feel outnumbered, this is the first time really where it has been a dogfight between England and Australia,\" Kate Grant told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Aside from the Ashes and the netball it's never really been a massive issue in this family until this Wednesday.\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\nKate, along with her husband Steve and son Ed, have tickets for Wednesday's clash at Stadium Australia in Sydney.\n\nAnd the Englishwoman has been unable to convince Australian-born Steve and Ed into backing the European champions.\n\n\"Anyone who has grown up in Australia knows the team you want to beat is England,\" added Steve.\n\n\"There's always a difference, luckily they don't play together too often. We'll see who wins but I'm pretty sure I know who will.\"\n\nAnother football fan whose family is divided by England-Australia loyalties is Chris Calverley - originally from Southampton in England, he moved to Australia permanently in 2005 after meeting his now wife, Katrina, on a backpacking trip Down Under.\n\nThey have two sons - Blake, 12, and Alex, eight. Blake has followed in his England-supporting dad's footsteps, while Alex backs Australia in all sports - just like his mum.\n\n\"It's pretty much for all sports the house is split,\" say Chris, who lives with his family in the Sydney suburb of Pagewood.\n\n\"This match is huge for us. We go along on Wednesday night, and there will be two of us supporting England and two of us supporting Australia.\n\n\"The divided loyalties are at such a point that my wife went out yesterday and bought Alex an Australia top but she didn't buy Blake an England top because that's my responsibility. It's getting tense - in a friendly way.\"\n\nChris has previously been to a football match featuring both teams with his wife once before - when the Socceroos beat England 3-1 at Upton Park in 2003.\n\n\"We didn't talk for about three days,\" he jokes. \"So I've probably got the most to lose in this, I could be in a bad way come 10pm on Wednesday night.\"\n\nAnd if England lose, will he be supporting Australia in the final? \"100%,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd be there at the final and I'd wear the green and gold. I'd be very happy for my wife and my youngest son. Although it might take me a couple of days to get over [an England defeat].\"\n\n'I never expected to have to pick a side'\n\nThe situation is less clear cut for Australia-born Beth Pankhurst, 26, who comes from a family which have dual British-Australian citizenship.\n\nHer mother's side of the family are originally from Kent, in south-east England, but they moved to Australia.\n\n\"We grew up here, but we've always had a soft spot for the Lionesses,\" she said. \"Mainly because domestic football in Australia, and particularly women's football, hasn't necessarily had the funding or the expertise or the advertisement that the Women's Super League [in England] has had.\n\n\"So my cousin and I are mad Chelsea women's fans. It's helped more that as time has gone on, the WSL [Women's Super League] particularly has a lot of Matildas players. They don't play in our A League here, they play overseas, a lot of the time alongside the Lionesses.\"\n\nHer usual support for both teams has encountered a problem now the teams are set to meet on the biggest stage.\n\n\"An occasional friendly between Australia and England is fine, but I don't think we ever expected to be quite in this situation where we had to pick between which side to support.\"\n\nSo far Beth has gone to England's two World Cup matches in Sydney, as well as travelling around the country for all of Australia's games.\n\nBut she admits that when she originally bought tickets for Sunday's final, she never expected the Matildas to be in contention to get there, let alone at the expense of England.\n\n\"Now we're in this position we've very much conflicted,\" she added.\n\nBeth currently has England-supporting family visiting from London, so a group of 20 of them will be going to the semi-final.\n\nSome family members have said they will be painting their faces 50/50 \"so they win either way\".\n\nBeth, who jokes that it will be cold enough to wear her England shirt under her Australia jersey, is going to be rooting for the Matildas.\n\n\"It will be a rough divide of 10 of us going for the Matildas and 10 of us going for the Lionesses,\" she said.\n\nSo could she call it a win-win situation for her?\n\n\"Exactly, either way we will be cheering in the car - either because Australia have won and we've never got to this point before or cheering because the Lionesses are well and truly bringing it home,\" she added.\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Will the faithfuls unmask the traitors? 24 Aussies take on the ultimate game of trust and treachery", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nLauren Hemp was your player of the match as England beat co-hosts Australia to reach their first World Cup final.\n\nManchester City forward Hemp was once again the top choice for BBC Sport readers after you also named her player of the match in England's quarter-final win over Colombia.\n\nHemp secured a rating of 8.31 after scoring the goal to restore England's lead once Sam Kerr's wonder strike had cancelled out Ella Toone's sweetly struck opener.\n\nShe then set up Alessia Russo with a stunning pass for the Lionesses' third which sealed their spot in Sunday's final.\n• None Relive England's semi-final win over Australia at the Women's World Cup\n\nGoal scorers Russo and Toone were also highly rated, earning scores of 7.54 and 7.34 respectively, while defender Lucy Bronze also stood out with a rating of 7.43.\n\nChelsea forward Kerr, who scored but also missed two good chances, was rated highest for Australia with a score of 5.73.\n\nCheck out each player's rating, chosen by you, below.", "A week ago, her Construye party's presidential candidate in the Ecuadorean election this Sunday, Fernando Villavicencio, was shot three times in the head after a campaign rally in the capital, Quito.\n\nMs González, 36, will remain the party's candidate for vice-president, as the running mate of Christian Zurita. He is a journalist who has investigated corruption - as Fernando Villavicencio had.\n\n\"To me it's incredibly personal and hard to not be able to say goodbye to my friend. I'm wearing a bulletproof vest 24 hours [a day],\" she said.\n\nMr Villavicencio, 59, a journalist and member of Ecuador's national assembly, was shot as he left a campaign rally in the capital last Wednesday - 11 days before the presidential election.\n\nOne attacker was killed in an exchange of fire with police, while several others escaped.\n\nHis death shocked a nation that has largely escaped the decades of drug-gang violence, cartel wars and corruption that has blighted many of its neighbours. Crime has, however, shot up in recent years, fuelled by the growth of Colombian and Mexican drug cartels.\n\nMr Villavicencio's campaign focused on corruption and gangs, and he was one of only a few candidates to allege links between organised crime and government officials in Ecuador.\n\n\"We are at the brink of becoming a narco state,\" Ms González said.\n\n\"We are totally sure that this is a political assassination, more than the gangs and the organised crime. There's a political feeling in this, there's a political intention in this,\" she added.\n\n\"Three days before the debate and Fernando clearly said he had very delicate information that was going to change the way these elections were turning. That information never got to light.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fernando Villavicencio was shot as he left a rally in Quito\n\nMs González, whose career has mainly focused on environmental issues, said that these levels of violence had become normalised in Ecuadorean politics.\n\nInitially her party wanted her to succeed Mr Villavicencio as presidential candidate, but later party officials decided to keep her as running mate and chose Christian Zurita as the replacement. They feared she could have been disqualified, as she was already registered as vice-presidential candidate.\n\nAs the ballot papers had already been printed, Fernando Villavicencio's name will remain on the ballot.\n\nViolence has not ceased since the attack on the candidate. Pedro Briones, a local leader of the left-wing Citizen Revolution Party in Esmeraldas, was shot dead by gunmen on a motorcycle at his home on Monday.\n\n\"Any one of us is exposed to this level of violence,\" Ms González said.\n\n\"Taking your child to school is already a high risk. Every time you stop at a traffic light you are exposed to getting shot or having a bomb next to your car.\n\n\"The level of violence that Ecuador is experiencing has never been seen before.\"\n\nBut she says this will not stop her attempts to achieve what her mentor had dreamed of.\n\n\"I feel a lot of weight on my shoulders,\" she said.", "It started as a night full of optimism in Sydney as thousands flooded into Stadium Australia desperate to see their team create history - but England had other ideas.\n\nEngland arrived this time, not with hope, but with expectation, despite experiencing heartache in previous back-to-back Women's World Cup semi-finals.\n\nMemories of defeats by Japan in 2015 and the USA in 2019 were cast aside - any doubts the Lionesses would not succeed this time disappeared as they played with swagger and composure, producing arguably their greatest-ever performance in the 3-1 win over the Matildas.\n\nAs the higher-ranked side and the European champions, England would in theory have underwhelmed if they had lost. But in practice, the task was much tougher - they had to overcome serious injuries and adapt throughout the tournament before meeting fierce Australian opposition.\n\nIn the end, the performance they produced was a culmination of two years' worth of sensational growth under manager Sarina Wiegman, whose status as the world's best is unquestionable.\n\nHaving led England to Euro 2022 glory last summer on home soil, the Dutchwoman will now coach in a fourth successive major tournament final. Before joining England, she led the Netherlands to the Euro 2017 title and runners-up spot at the 2019 World Cup.\n\nThe squad have evolved under her leadership from being near-misses and contenders to relentless winners and tournament favourites.\n• None 'This is just the beginning for disappointed Australia'\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None Get to know the England Women's World Cup squad\n\n'Matildas Mania' had taken over Australia during their World Cup run, with their success dominating the front and back pages of every national newspaper. The momentum they had built en route to the semi-finals made for a carnival atmosphere in Sydney on Wednesday.\n\nStreets were painted in green and yellow, supporters queued for hours to get into fan parks across the city and there were barely any shops left selling merchandise, with most stock sold out.\n\nThe match was sold out too; 75,784 fans piled into the stadium, most of them booing the England players as they emerged for the warm-ups, and then belting out their national anthem with pride.\n\nBut England were not fazed by any of it. They have lived in the bubble of their base camp out in Terrigal, an hour from Sydney, for the duration of the tournament and they arrived for the semi-final apparently oblivious to the hostility of the home crowd.\n\nA crunching tackle from Keira Walsh on Australia's superstar Sam Kerr within two minutes set the tone. The next 15 minutes was a masterclass in killing momentum.\n\nWhatever feverish excitement had built throughout the week, England dampened quickly as they controlled possession, broke up play and frustrated the home crowd by taking their time over set-pieces.\n\nA few half-chances came Australia's way - Kerr raced through on goal and was offside when goalkeeper Mary Earps blocked her strike - but England brushed them off instantly.\n\nAt the other end, Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo's flourishing partnership up front caused havoc for Australia as they linked up instinctively, creating chances and terrifying the hosts' defence.\n\nIt was not a surprise when the Lionesses took the lead through Ella Toone, someone synonymous with the big stage; she is the first England player to score in a major tournament quarter-final, semi-final and final.\n\nThe deafening roars that had greeted the Matildas on their entrance at Stadium Australia were quietened by half-time but England did not become complacent. They had been here before, they knew the score.\n\nThe fierce pressure promised by Australia arrived in the second half. Kerr burst into life, pouncing on England's lost possession and scoring a sublime long-range goal to make it 1-1.\n\nIn past semi-finals, this may have been the moment England's players began to doubt themselves. But this is a squad built on resilience and lifted with unwavering belief.\n\nAnother goal would come - they knew it would - and when the moment arrived, Hemp did not hesitate.\n\n\"I just want to be fearless, I want to show what I can do on the biggest stage,\" she said afterwards, having earlier stated England's intentions to go all the way in the tournament.\n\nBy the time Hemp linked up with Russo to add England's third, Australia's balloon had burst.\n\nMeanwhile, England were creating more history, having come through a test that required steeliness and experience, yet the scenes of celebration at full-time were short-lived.\n\nThe Lionesses allowed themselves just a few minutes of dancing and applause, greeted by another rendition of Sweet Caroline by the travelling support, before heading down the tunnel. Job done.\n\nWhile England gathered momentum during their successful Euro 2022 campaign, feeding off the memorable scenes of celebration after each victory in front of a home crowd, they have done the opposite here in Australia, having to navigate each match as if they were making their way across a board game of snakes and ladders, picking themselves up if they had an unexpected fall and finding a different route.\n\nIt has felt less like a party and more like a mission.\n\nIf this England team can reach the final without their captain Leah Williamson, the Euro 2022 top goalscorer Beth Mead, playmaker Fran Kirby - all out through injury - while also dealing with an injury scare to instrumental midfielder Keira Walsh and a two-match suspension for Lauren James during the competition, there is no reason why they cannot go all the way.\n\nAnd while Australia absorbs the pain of defeat and the missed opportunity of a lifetime, England supporters are now believing that this team could be champions again.", "Three suspected spies for Russia in the UK have been arrested and charged in a major national security investigation, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe defendants, all Bulgarian nationals, were held in February and have been remanded in custody since.\n\nThey are charged with possessing identity documents with \"improper intention\", and are alleged to have had these knowing they were fake.\n\nIt is alleged they were working for the Russian security services.\n\nThe documents include passports, identity cards and other documents for the UK, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, and the Czech Republic.\n\nThe trio were among five people arrested in February on suspicion of an offence under the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThey were held by counter-terrorism detectives from the Metropolitan Police, which has national policing responsibility for espionage, and are due to answer police bail in September.\n\nThree of them were charged later in February with an offence under the Identity Documents Act.\n\nThey remain in custody and are due to appear at the Old Bailey at a later date.\n\nThe trio have lived in the UK for years, working in a variety of jobs, and living in a series of suburban properties.\n\nMr Roussev has history of business dealings in Russia.\n\nHe moved to the UK in 2009 and spent three years working in a technical role in financial services.\n\nHis online LinkedIn profile states he later owned a business involved in signals intelligence, which involves the interception of communications or electronic signals.\n\nMr Roussev, whose most recent address is a seaside guesthouse in Great Yarmouth, also states he once acted as an adviser to the Bulgarian ministry of energy.\n\nIn Harrow, former neighbours described Mr Dzhambazov and Ms Ivanova as a couple.\n\nMr Dzhambazov is described as a driver for hospitals, and Ms Ivanova describes herself on her online LinkedIn profile as a laboratory assistant for a private health business.\n\nThe pair, who moved to the UK around a decade ago, ran a community organisation providing services to Bulgarian people, including familiarising them with the \"culture and norms of British society\".\n\nAccording to Bulgarian state documents online, they also worked for electoral commissions in London which facilitate voting in Bulgarian elections by citizens living abroad.\n\nMr Dzhambazov and Ms Ivanova are described by former neighbours as a couple.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, neighbours at two houses previously occupied by the couple said they brought round pies and cakes as gifts.\n\nAt their most recent Harrow home, neighbours said detectives spent a significant amount of time searching it, with a visible police presence for over a week.\n\nThe three defendants are due to go on trial at the Old Bailey in London in January. They have yet to enter pleas to the charges.\n\nCounter-terrorism police have spoken publicly about the increasing amount of time spent on suspected state threats and espionage, especially relating to Russia.\n\nTheir concern follows notorious incidents from recent years involving Russian intelligence operations in the UK.\n\nIn 2018, Russian operatives attempted to murder former double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Wiltshire, using the deadly nerve agent Novichok. The pair, as well as responding detective Nick Bailey, were treated in hospital and could have died.\n\nLater that year, local woman Dawn Sturgess - who was unconnected to the Skripals - died after being exposed to the nerve agent, which had been left in Wiltshire in a perfume bottle.\n\nIn 2006, former Russian-intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko was killed in London after being poisoned by assassins working for the Russian state.\n\nIf you have information about this story that you would like to share with BBC News, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Aircraft is being deployed to tackle the flames on the island of Tenerife\n\nA major wildfire on the Spanish island of Tenerife has led to the evacuation of five villages.\n\nThe fire has spread some 8 sq km (800 hectares) since it started in a nature reserve on the north-east coast of the island late on Tuesday evening.\n\nLocal authorities have cut off access to the forest around the Mount Teide volcano, Spain's highest peak, and say secondary fires have now broken out.\n\nHelicopters spraying water have been seen flying over the area.\n\nThe main blaze is spreading through woodland and ravines in the Candelaria and Arafo areas, making it difficult for firefighters to tackle.\n\nRosa Davila, president of the Tenerife Council, said aircraft were necessary because it was a steep area.\n\n\"The blaze has a huge potential, we have asked for additional means,\" she said on local radio.\n\nThe villages of Arrate, Chivisaya, Media Montaña, Ajafoña and Las Lagunetas were evacuated on Wednesday morning.\n\nPedro Martinez, head of Tenerife's emergency services, said multiple secondary fires had also broken out.\n\nPhotos show large flames engulfing parts of the forest, and thick plumes of smoke billowing into the sky.\n\nAs of Wednesday evening, there was no apparent disruption to arrivals or departures at Tenerife's South and North airports.\n\nIt comes after the Canary Islands were hit by a heatwave that has left many areas bone dry, increasing the risk of wildfires.\n\nLast month, thousands of residents on the nearby island of La Palma - which also forms part of the Canary Islands archipelago off the coast of northern Africa - were told to evacuate due to a wildfire amid a period of intense heat.\n\nWildfires have raged in many parts of the world this summer, including in southern Europe, northern Africa, Canada, and Hawaii.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nAre you in the affected region? If it's safe to do so, please share your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Calls are growing for a public inquiry into the case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit.\n\nDNA implicating another suspect in the crime was found just three years into his jail term, BBC News has learned.\n\nFormer Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) director Lord Ken Macdonald described the case as a \"whole system failure\".\n\nEx-Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland said \"all agencies involved in this have some explaining to do\".\n\nMr Buckland told BBC Radio 4's World At One programme that he was \"deeply concerned and rather shocked\" at revelations about the existence of DNA evidence in the case.\n\nCalling for an inquiry, he said: \"Clearly, this latest revelation is startling to say the least. Shocking, which is why I think we need to get to the bottom of this - not just for the sake of this case and Mr Malkinson but for any other cases that either might be out there or might be to come.\"\n\nMr Malkinson, 57, was found guilty in 2004 of raping a woman in Greater Manchester but always maintained his innocence.\n\nHe was eventually released in 2020 but remained on licence as a registered sex offender until his conviction was finally quashed last month at the Court of Appeal.\n\nIn July, judges said DNA evidence pointing to another man's involvement in the attack cleared Mr Malkinson's name after his long legal battle.\n\nBut case documents seen by BBC News show that all the key agencies involved in the case knew of this exonerating DNA by 2009, which first emerged two years prior.\n\nThe CPS has insisted this was not \"ignored\" and was handed to Mr Malkinson's defence team.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has already apologised for its handling of the investigation, admitting that Mr Malkinson was the victim of a \"grave miscarriage of justice\".\n\nNow senior legal figures say a formal inquiry is needed to establish where the fault lies for Mr Malkinson's wrongful conviction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson speaks to Radio 4's Today programme about his first night of freedom\n\nLord Garnier, who was solicitor general from May 2010 to September 2012, expressed \"jaw-dropping shock\" over failures in the case.\n\nHe told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme: \"It seems to me that what we need now is complete and utter disclosure, public disclosure, of every document that relates to this case, save those which if disclosed would impede the prosecution of a new suspect.\n\n\"And there should be a public inquiry which should reach conclusions about what went wrong, who knew what and when, within a sixth-month period.\"\n\nLord Ken Macdonald, who was director of public prosecutions between 2003 and 2008, told the BBC: \"It's a perfect storm of injustice - everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.\n\n\"This is a whole system failure which is why we need a public inquiry.\"\n\nBarrister Michael Mansfield described the case as a \"catastrophe\" and pointed to other issues with the case beyond the DNA evidence, including the credibility of the witnesses who detectives relied on and the rules around identification parades.\n\nHe said the \"whole of this case indicates a very basic malaise and rottenness at the system\".\n\nMr Mansfield said he supports calls for an inquiry, adding: \"However I don't want one that lasts six years. This has got to happen quickly, a rapid response to this - because there are other people sitting in jail.\"\n\nA CPS spokesperson said: \"It is clear Mr Malkinson was wrongly convicted of this crime and we share the deep regret that this happened.\n\n\"Evidence of a new DNA profile found on the victim's clothing in 2007 was not ignored. It was disclosed to the defence team representing Mr Malkinson for their consideration.\n\n\"In addition, searches of the DNA databases were conducted to identify any other possible suspects. At that time there were no matches and therefore no further investigation could be carried out.\"", "\"Halving inflation this year\" is one of the prime minister's top five priorities.\n\nIt's currently stuck at 8.7%.\n\nWhen Rishi Sunak is asked how he'll meet his goal, he points to raising interest rates.\n\nSomething the Bank of England, not the government, controls.\n\nThe truth is there are some short-term levers government could pull.\n\nThe problem is they - as well as interest rates - all involve unpalatable political choices.\n\nThe Bank of England and government's argument for hiking interest rates - which some economists dispute - is that it makes borrowing more expensive.\n\nThat means people and businesses have less disposable income, less ability and incentive to spend, which pushes down the demand for goods and services.\n\nIf there's less demand for something, or more of it, the price usually goes down.\n\nThe downside of raising interest rates is it inflicts financial pain on anyone with loans, mortgages or credit card debt.\n\nIt means government debt, which is paid off by our taxes, also becomes a lot more expensive.\n\nRaising interest rates also doesn't impact everybody equally - and so the impact on inflation is staggered.\n\nONS data shows more households own their home outright (37%) than with a mortgage or loan (26%).\n\nSo that 37% won't have less cash to spend.\n\nAny of the 26% who are on a fixed rate mortgage that isn't up for renewal won't be hit just yet either.\n\nThe rest of the population privately rent, or are in social rent, so could well end up spending less due to rising rents.\n\nAnother question around rising interest rates is what it means for Rishi Sunak's second priority: growing the economy?\n\nThe strategy to get inflation down relies on stopping people from spending as much.\n\nWhat does that mean for businesses? If people spend less in businesses, what does that mean for jobs? If people end up out of work, what does that mean for the government's welfare bill? And, therefore, for that third priority of the prime minister's: reducing national debt.\n\nThe increased cost of borrowing from high interest rates can also disincentivise investment in business, which can also lead to lower economic growth.\n\nThe tricky balancing act between inflation and recession is getting worse.\n\nSo what is in the government's power?\n\nOne quick lever the government can pull is taxes.\n\nRaising taxes is another way to stop groups of people from spending more.\n\nBut that's an unpalatable political choice too.\n\nMr Sunak has previously made it clear, and pledged in the past, that he wants to cut - not raise - taxes before the next election.\n\nSome Tory MPs have been repeatedly calling for tax cuts.\n\nWhile we do hear ministers talk about making \"efficiencies\", departments talking about making cuts is - again - an unpalatable narrative ahead of an election.\n\nMr Sunak has said, for now, that he wants to make sure government is \"responsible\" with borrowing.\n\nAnother quick lever would be price controls - the government setting limits on price increases.\n\nMr Sunak says ministers are \"looking at\" supermarkets to make sure they are behaving responsibly, for example.\n\nBut Number 10 have been clear they are not introducing price caps and any such schemes would be at retailers' discretion.\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England has suggested workers shouldn't ask for excessive pay rises.\n\nThe government has also been very reluctant to hike public sector wages, especially if funded by more borrowing.\n\nBoth argue giving people more money in their pockets could fuel inflation: if people's wages keep up with rising prices, they can buy the same things, so demand (and prices) remain similar.\n\nIn blunter terms - their strategy of reducing inflation by reducing demand means people need to be able to afford less.\n\nThis argument has led to strikes in multiple sectors, with unions arguing this is unfair for workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sunak makes five pledges on the NHS, economy and migrants\n\nThis is also a tricky balancing act here for the economy.\n\nIf people can afford less: what does that mean for growing the economy? And jobs?\n\nPotentially putting people out of work has a government price tag too.\n\nSo what about pushing supply up, rather than demand down, to lower prices?\n\nSupply-side reforms are, in simple terms, decisions that could make industries more productive to increase the supply of goods and services - and grow the economy too.\n\nFree-market examples include things like cutting business taxes, regulation, red tape, or even certain worker protections or welfare benefits. Or increasing migration for certain sectors.\n\nState-intervention examples could be building more houses, investing in infrastructure, or investing in homegrown energy supplies like nuclear power or renewables.\n\nClearly, any of these involve political choices too.\n\nBut they also take time to come into effect.\n\nThe government - and Labour - have ruled out direct support to help people with mortgages, saying this would fuel inflation - and instead point to existing benefits for the most vulnerable.\n\nMinisters are continuing to point to interest rates as the solution, though most are reluctant to admit that involves a lot of pain for it to work.\n\nIt's important to remember when the government says it can't do something that what they're usually referring to is a choice.\n\nEach choice comes with its own shade of political thorniness, and potentially means trading the prime minister's priorities off against each other.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nLionesses boss Sarina Wiegman says leading England to a first Women's World Cup final is a \"fairytale\".\n\nAfter England's 3-1 win over Australia in the semi-final, Wiegman is the first coach to take two countries to the final of the tournament, having led the Netherlands to the 2019 showpiece.\n\n\"We achieved the final, it's unbelievable,\" said Wiegman.\n\nShe also achieved back-to-back wins at the Women's Euros with the Netherlands in 2017 and England in 2022.\n\n\"It feels like we won it [the whole tournament], we didn't win it, but we won this game,\" added Wiegman, 53.\n\nShe has now reached four major tournament finals in a row, with her two triumphs at the European Championships separated by a 2-0 defeat for her native Netherlands by the United States in the 2019 World Cup final.\n\n\"The chance that, as a coach or as players, to make it to finals is really special - we made it to four already,\" added Wiegman after England's semi-final success.\n\n\"I never take anything for granted but it's like I'm living a fairytale or something.\n• None Reaction and analysis as England reach first final\n• None World Cup final to be shown live on BBC\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\n\"We made the first final in 2017 [with the Netherlands] and thought this is really special, it might not ever happen again. Then you make the second, the third and the fourth and still think this might never happen again because there is so much competition.\"\n\nEngland will play in a first football World Cup final since the men's side won the 1966 tournament.\n\n\"I can hardly describe how proud I am of the team,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"This team has adapted all the time. Before the tournament, during the tournament then this game again - how we came through and found a way to win again is so incredible.\"\n\n'Out of superlatives to describe Wiegman'\n\nBefore Wiegman took charge in September 2021, the Lionesses had made it to two consecutive semi-finals under Mark Sampson and Phil Neville.\n\nBut they lost on both occasions - defeated 2-1 in 2015 by Japan, before losing to the United States by the same scoreline in 2019.\n\nSince Wiegman's arrival, England have gone on to win 30 of their 38 games, picking up two Arnold Clark Cup titles, the Euros trophy and the first Women's Finalissima.\n\nA 30-game unbeaten run came to an end at the hands of Australia in April - their only defeat under the Dutchwoman to date.\n\nAfter England's victory over Australia this time around, captain Millie Bright said: \"The mentality of this group is something I have never seen before. That comes through Sarina and the belief she gives us.\"\n\nFormer England international Izzy Christiansen said the semi-final win was \"another masterclass\" from the England manager.\n\n\"I'm out of superlatives to describe Sarina Wiegman,\" said Christiansen.\n\n\"To come in and change the culture, instil a winning mentality, to create a brand of football that is pragmatic, interesting and lets the talent flourish.\n\n\"We saw in the starting XI tonight that she had all of her best players on the pitch - some managers struggle to find ways to get the best out of their best players.\"\n\nAfter Chelsea's Sam Kerr cancelled out Ella Toone's opener for England, it was Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo who stole the show for England with the decisive goals.\n\nHemp showed great determination in chasing down Australia defender Ellie Carpenter to grab the second, while Russo completed the scoreline with a calm finish for her seventh goal in 12 appearances at major tournaments.\n\n\"I came to this competition with so much belief. I just want to be fearless, I want to show what I can do on the biggest stage,\" said Hemp.\n\n\"I feel really fearless at the moment. I feel like I'm playing some of my best football but obviously there's still more to show.\n\nSpeaking about her partnership with Russo, Hemp added: \"I feel like my connection with 'Less is so strong.\n\n\"We work off each other really well and I think we complement each other's strengths. We're both so different as players that we just work so well together.\n\n\"Throughout the tournament we have built such a great connection on and off the ball. She's a great person to be my strike partner.\"\n\nRusso said: \"I love playing with Hempo. First of all we have such a nice relationship off the pitch. I think we know how to get the best out of each other and she's brilliant.\"\n\nArsenal manager Jonas Eidevall, who will have Russo in the Gunners ranks for the forthcoming WSL season after her move from Manchester United, said the England pair are the \"two hardest-working forward players\" he has seen at this year's World Cup.\n\n\"I think when you see her and Lauren Hemp play together, they are not only good with the ball and with their movement, they are so hard working,\" said Swede Eidevall.\n\n\"Together they never give up. They hunt down every ball down to the last inch and it paid off two games in a row.\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "This view of Salford includes landmarks like the Manchester Ship Canal and Salford Docks. Bottom-right are Old Trafford football and cricket grounds and White City stadium\n\nA collection of photographs taken during World War Two have been opened to the public for the first time.\n\nThe aerial images were taken by the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) Photographic Reconnaissance units while stationed at bases across England in 1943 and 1944.\n\nThe 3,600 photographs offer a birds-eye view of the country as it changed during the war.\n\nThis includes bomb damage to towns and cities as well as Old Trafford football stadium in Greater Manchester.\n\nA photograph captures the damage to Old Trafford football ground\n\nDamage to the main stand of the football ground can be seen in the photo, after it was hit in a bombing raid in March 1941.\n\nThe home of Manchester United was not used again for football until 1949.\n\nThey also captured ancient monuments surrounded by anti-tank defences in West Sussex, such as Cissbury Ring Iron Age hillfort in Worthing where ditches and concrete cubes can be seen laid out to impede an enemy advance.\n\nThere is also a low-level photograph showing part of a US Army camp in Wiltshire which shows firing ranges in the foreground while troops play a game of baseball in a recreation field in the top left of the image.\n\nA shot of a US Army camp on the outskirts of Devizes, taken on 30 April 1944\n\nThe collection has been made available to the public for the first time in an online, searchable map on the Historic England Archive.\n\nThis image of Newbury Racecourse, which was was used as a marshalling yard, shows rows of containers of military equipment\n\nOne photograph captures Eighth Air Force B-17 bombers flying over The Brecks area of Norfolk\n\nRAF Grafton Underwood (USAAF Station 106), Northamptonshire, 22 April 1944. The USAAF's first heavy bomber mission of the Second World War was flown from here on 17 August 1942\n\nThe shadows of USAAF bomber aircraft in flight dot the fields at RAF Watton (USAAF Station 376), Norfolk, 27 May 1944\n\nDetail showing the extended runways and dispersal areas of RAF Bradwell Bay, Essex, on 25 January 1944. The dark lines along the runway may indicate where FIDO (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation) pipelines were ignited.\n\nTaken by the port side oblique camera, this photo captures the flight of RAF PR Mosquito PR Mk IX, MM247 over Brill in Buckinghamshire on 24 December 1943. The following April, MM247 was lost whilst on a PR mission over the Peenemünde Army Research Centre on the Baltic coast of Germany\n\nDuncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said the collection recorded \"changes taking place in England\" as well as \"capturing fascinating incidental detail, like American troops playing baseball\".\n\n\"Our collection of USAAF wartime photographs were taken in England by the pilots and aircraft of squadrons that provided intelligence for the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany,\" he said.\n\n\"This came at a cost, with many pilots killed in the line of duty.\n\n\"We are making these images available to the public for the first time online, giving people access to this remarkable collection of historic photographs.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artem Seredniak says he was beaten and electrocuted at the facility in Taganrog\n\nFormer Ukrainian captives say they were subjected to torture, including frequent beatings and electric shocks, while in custody at a detention facility in south-western Russia, in what would be serious violations of international humanitarian law.\n\nIn interviews with the BBC, a dozen ex-detainees released in prisoner exchanges alleged physical and psychological abuse by Russian officers and guards at the Pre-Trial Detention Facility Number Two, in the city of Taganrog.\n\nThe testimonies, gathered during a weeks-long investigation, describe a consistent pattern of extreme violence and ill-treatment at the facility, one of the locations where Ukrainian prisoners of war have been held in Russia.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify the claims, but details of the accounts were shared with human rights groups and, when possible, corroborated by other detainees.\n\nThe Russian government has not allowed any outside bodies, including the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to visit the facility which before the war was used exclusively to hold Russian prisoners.\n\nRussia's defence ministry did not respond to several requests to comment on the allegations. It has previously denied torturing or mistreating captives.\n\nThe prisoner swaps between Ukraine and Russia are a rare diplomatic achievement in the war and more than 2,500 Ukrainians have been released since the start of the conflict. Up to 10,000 captives are believed to remain in Russian custody, according to human rights groups.\n\nDmytro Lubinets, Ukraine's human rights ombudsman and one of the officials involved in exchange negotiations with Moscow, said nine in every 10 former detainees claimed they had been tortured while in Russian captivity. \"This is the biggest challenge for me now: how to protect our people on the Russian side,\" Lubinets said. \"Nobody knows how we can do it.\"\n\nLast September, Artem Seredniak, a senior lieutenant, had already been in Russian captivity for four months when he and about 50 other Ukrainians were transferred to Pre-Trial Detention Facility Number Two. They travelled in the back of a truck for hours, without knowing where they were going, blindfolded and tied to each other by their arms, like a \"human centipede\", Seredniak told me.\n\nOn their arrival in Taganrog, he recalled, an officer greeted them: \"Hello boys. Do you know where you are? You'll rot here until the end of your lives.\" The captives remained silent. They were escorted inside the building, Seredniak said, had their fingerprints taken and clothes removed, were shaven and forced to shower.\n\nAt every step, guards at the facility, who carried black batons and metal bars, beat them in the legs, arms, or \"anywhere they wanted\", Seredniak said. \"It's what they call 'reception'.\"\n\nBefore his capture, Seredniak, who is 27, headed a sniper platoon at the Azov Regiment, the main military force in Mariupol. This, he said, made him a key target for the prison staff. Seredniak said he was separated from the others and, dressed only in his underwear, brought to a room to be interrogated for the first time. He was then pushed to the floor, he said, with his head facing down.\n\nThe guards asked him about his role in the army and the tasks he had carried out. With an electric stun weapon, they gave him shocks, Seredniak said, in his back, groin and neck.\n\n\"That's how they worked on everybody,\" he said. \"They hammered you like a nail.\"\n\nIn May last year, as Mariupol was under a Russian siege, the Ukrainian authorities ordered hundreds of soldiers holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to surrender. Seredniak was among the last to be evacuated. He was first taken to a facility in Olenivka, a village in Donetsk, and, months later, sent to the prison in Taganrog, in the Russian border region of Rostov, about 120km (74 miles) east of Mariupol.\n\nThere, he told me, the captives were inspected twice a day, and anything appeared to be a motive for guards to abuse them. \"They might not have liked how you left the cell, or you weren't quick to get out, or your arms were too low or your head was too high.\"\n\nIn one of those checks, Seredniak was asked whether he had a girlfriend. He said he did, and recalled a guard telling him: \"Give us her Instagram. We'll take a picture of you and send it to her.\" He lied, not wanting to expose her, and said she did not have an account. He was then beaten, he said, and brought to a room in the prison's basement, where he met a twenty-something Ukrainian fighter. Seredniak told me the man was curled, holding his hands, apparently in pain, and said officers had inserted needles under his fingernails.\n\nAs the days progressed, Seredniak noticed that the prison guards were particularly brutal with those who belonged to the Azov Regiment, the former militia in Mariupol that once had links to the far right. Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has said, among other things, that his war is an effort to \"de-Nazify\" Ukraine - a country led by a Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky - and Russian authorities often cite the unit to justify the invasion.\n\nSeredniak said that, in his interrogations, he was accused of looting Mariupol and of personally telling his forces to kill civilians in the city, the site of one of the most deadly battles in the war so far. Seredniak, who speaks fast with a loud, determined voice, denied the claims, but it did not seem to matter. \"Until you said what they were interested in, and in the way they wanted to hear,\" he told me, \"they wouldn't stop beating you.\"\n\nOnce, Seredniak said, an officer used a wooden chair to hit him, and \"he beat me so much that it broke in parts\". On another day, he said, he was asked whether he could sing the \"Azov anthem\". He did not know of any Azov anthem, and assumed the guards meant the Prayer of the Ukrainian Nationalist, a 20th-Century oath usually read aloud by soldiers before being sent into combat. Seredniak reluctantly recited it, conscious of how the guards could react.\n\nThey punched him several times, he said. He fell, hitting his head against a wall, causing a cut near his eyebrow. He lay on the floor, while the beatings continued, he said, all over his body.\n\n\"When I finally got up,\" Seredniak recalled, \"they told me: 'We hope we beat that out of you'.\"\n\nSome of the prison staff seemed to have been heavily influenced by President Putin's \"de-Nazification\" narrative. For the detainees, this was apparent in how the guards demonstrated a particular interest in anything that could, in their view, be interpreted as being pro-Nazi. The captives were not allowed to have any personal items, so their tattoos inevitably drew the officers' attention. This reminded me of similar allegations I heard while investigating Russia's filtration camps in occupied areas of Ukraine last year.\n\nSerhii Rotchuk, a 34-year-old senior sergeant at the regiment, also left Azovstal in the final convoys, and was taken to Taganrog a week after Seredniak. He said the guards, at first, \"looked for swastikas or things like that\". But, in reality, he said, \"if you had any tattoo, you were seen as a bad guy\". Rotchuk, who is a doctor, has tattoos on both legs, arms and chest. Weeks ago, when we met in Kyiv, he lifted his T-shirt to show me a raven that covered part of his chest and the symbol of an infantry platoon on his left bicep; he also had an emblem of the Jedi Order from Star Wars on his left thigh.\n\nSerhii Rotchuk says he was singled out because of his tattoos\n\n\"Did these tattoos cause you any trouble?\" I asked him. \"Many times,\" Rotchuk replied. \"They would say: 'What's this? Oh, I'll beat you for that'.\" Seredniak, who has no tattoos, said some fighters who had tattooed nationalist symbols, like the Ukrainian flag or the gold trident, were frequently targeted. \"They hated us for being Ukrainian,\" he told me.\n\nIn March, a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said Russia had \"failed to ensure the humane treatment\" of prisoners, with \"strong patterns of violations\".\n\nKris Janowski, a spokesman for the office, said there was a \"long list of bad things that have been done\" to the detainees at the facility in Taganrog. The fact that a prison was being used to hold captives was, in itself, a breach of international humanitarian law, he said, as they should be kept in specially designated places. Ukraine also faced some accusations of mistreatment of detainees, according to the March report; but, overall, they were \"treated in better fashion\".\n\nRotchuk said the captives \"lived in permanent stress\" in Taganrog. He recalled meeting a man, also a doctor, who had falsely admitted to removing the testicles of a Russian prisoner, desperate to put an end to the violence. \"He said: 'OK, just leave me alone, I will sign the confession.' The officers then intimidated the other medics, saying: 'Ah, you helped him.'\"\n\nGuards gave Rotchuk electric shocks, he said, but he resisted. Rotchuk told me he was sent to solitary confinement for two months as punishment. The beatings happened almost every day; sometimes, several times a day, he said.\n\nRotchuk remembered one officer who appeared to take pleasure in kicking him in the chest, which left him with a persistent pain. He complained, but was given no help. \"I had to tell myself: 'Dude, stay strong, you can't control the situation, so you need to accept it,'\" Rotchuk recalled.\n\nNot everyone had the same resilience, though. Seredniak said a fellow Azov fighter, in his late 20s, broke a small mirror that hung above his cell's sink, and used a shard to slice his throat. The man was rescued by other captives, who stopped the bleeding with their hands. Days later, Seredniak said, the prison staff removed the mirrors from all cells.\n\nRussian doctors, Seredniak said, would occasionally visit the detainees, but \"didn't necessarily help\" them. He described the food portions they were given as limited; sometimes, he said, they were \"so small, that if I ate 300-400 calories a day, I was lucky\".\n\nSeredniak, who is 1.86m (6ft1in) tall, said his weight dropped to about 60kg (9st 6lb) while he was there, from his usual 80kg. \"Every time I got up,\" he said, \"I felt dizzy. My eyes darkened, I couldn't make any fast movements.\" He believed this was deliberate: weakened, the captives would not put up any resistance.\n\nAccording to Iryna Stohnii, female captives were dragged by the hair during twice-daily inspections\n\nIryna Stohnii, a 36-year-old senior combat medic at the 56th Brigade, described the detainees as \"constantly malnourished\". \"They didn't feed us,\" she said. \"They didn't even let us go outside... We could only see the sky through bars in the windows.\" Stohnii said the guards, in their twice-a-day inspections, forced her and other women to move in a stress position, with arms behind their backs and head to knees, and that some \"dragged us by the hair\". Other female captives told me women would be ordered to strip naked in front of male staff who, sometimes, made disparaging comments about their bodies.\n\nOne day, Stohnii said, a guard accused her of torturing pro-Russian soldiers in captivity and twisted her arms with so much force that \"he almost broke them\". A couple of times in our interview she cried. \"Only devils live and work\" at Taganrog, she said. After her release, Stohnii underwent surgery to remove adhesions - bands of scar tissue between organs that can be caused by trauma - which had developed in her kidney and bladder. \"Apart from rape,\" Stohnii told me, \"they did everything with us\".\n\nDenys Haiduk says his captors accused him of castrating Russian prisoners\n\nDenys Haiduk, a military surgeon, said guards forced him and the other captives to run with their heads down while under blows during their \"reception\", with detainees being hit even after they were on the ground, unable to stand up. Haiduk, who is 29, had helped the wounded at Azovstal and, in his interrogation, he was accused of amputating and castrating Russians in captivity, he told me. He denied it, saying that only Ukrainian fighters had been brought to him.\n\nAs he recalled what had happened, I could sense the anger in his voice. Haiduk was pushed to the floor, and given electric shocks with a stun weapon until, he said, the battery ran out. Other captives said guards also used a military phone to give them shocks by connecting its wires to their bodies. \"You're convulsing,\" Haiduk said. \"If you lift your head up, they start beating you. And that circle never ends.\"\n\nTaganrog is also used as a transfer point and, to his surprise, Haiduk was only held there for two days, before his release in a prisoner exchange. As he left, the officers tried to force him to sign a document, declaring that any injury to his body had been accidental. Haiduk refused. He said guards beat and kicked him, and he heard a crack.\n\nHaiduk struggled to breathe, he recalled, and fell into the mattress he was holding. Later, after returning to Ukraine, he was diagnosed with three broken ribs as well as a cardiac contusion - a bruise to the heart muscle caused by trauma.\n\nI asked him why he believed the guards were treating the Ukrainian detainees that way. \"Because they can,\" he said. \"You're a captive, and they abuse you.\" When I asked Seredniak the same question, he gave me a more practical answer: \"They beat you to get some information. And then say: 'It's to make sure you don't go back and fight after the swap.'\"\n\nLubinets, the Ukrainian ombudsman, said Russian authorities had created a \"system of torture\" for Ukrainian captives, typically in detention centres, in Russia and in occupied areas of Ukraine. Ukraine has opened up its facilities to experts; Russia, however, has restricted visits to only some locations. Janowski, from the OHCHR, said Moscow had repeatedly rejected the UN's requests for access without giving \"any legitimate reasons\". With most places closed to outside observers, Lubinets said, \"Russian soldiers can do anything with Ukrainian prisoners\".\n\nDuring his \"reception\", Artem Dyblenko, a 40-year-old sergeant major at the 36th Marine Brigade, overheard the guards talking about playing football with the captives. He was intrigued. \"What I didn't know was that we would be the ball,\" Dyblenko said. Blindfolded, he was ordered to run, he said, and fell. \"There were constant kicks. You did feel like a football.\"\n\nDyblenko told me that, in September, one of his cellmates suffered a heart attack, which he attributed to the constant physical abuse. No-one came to treat him, according to Dyblenko, and the man died, aged 53. Three weeks later, Dyblenko was included in a swap and, in Ukraine, reported the case to the authorities. The body, he said, was returned at the end of last year. \"[His son] was given pictures of it,\" Dyblenko said, \"it was horrifying\". Ukraine acknowledged that bodies were exchanged in December, without giving details of the victims' identities, or how and where they had died. The man's son said he was waiting for the result of a DNA test and did not want to comment.\n\nThe Media Initiative for Human Rights, a Ukrainian organisation, recorded allegations of at least three deaths at the Taganrog prison, apparently because of torture and lack of food and health care. Mariia Klymyk, one of the group's investigators, said this was \"one the worst places for Ukrainian detainees in Russia\".\n\nShe heard accounts of men being taken to interrogation and asked whether they had any children. \"If someone says they don't, they are beaten in the genitals,\" Klymyk said, \"while the guard says: 'For prevention of procreation.'\" And some Ukrainian soldiers had been put on trial, she said, with the apparent false confessions they had given in custody used as evidence against them.\n\nAfter almost 12 months in captivity, seven of them in Taganrog, Seredniak was released in a prisoner swap on 6 May, alongside 44 other Ukrainian fighters. He said the date would be celebrated as if it were his second birthday. The same exchange included Serhii Rotchuk, the doctor, who later discovered he had a fracture in his sternum - the breastbone - a condition associated with significant chest trauma, which he blamed on the abuse he had suffered.\n\nSeredniak pictured at the time of his release\n\nI visited Seredniak four weeks after his return, at a flat in a residential compound on Kyiv's left bank, between his physical and mental rehabilitation sessions. Doctors had diagnosed him with a broken rib and cysts in the liver and kidney which, they said, were probably caused by the beatings. Seredniak had already regained some of the weight he had lost but still suffered lower back pain and, sometimes, struggled to walk.\n\nOn my phone, he watched for the first time a video of his swap, which had been published by the Ukrainian government. The captives were filmed shouting \"Slava Ukraini!\", or \"Glory to Ukraine\", and being welcomed by a cheering crowd. Pointing at a smiling man, Seredniak said: \"This is me!\" I could not recognise him. \"I was pale, skinny, with no access to sunlight,\" he told me. \"We were like bats, living in half-light.\"\n\nAdditional reporting by Daria Sipigina and Lee Durant. Photos by Lee Durant\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nLionesses boss Sarina Wiegman says leading England to a first Women's World Cup final is a \"fairytale\".\n\nAfter England's 3-1 win over Australia in the semi-final, Wiegman is the first coach to take two countries to the final of the tournament, having led the Netherlands to the 2019 showpiece.\n\n\"We achieved the final, it's unbelievable,\" said Wiegman.\n\nShe also achieved back-to-back wins at the Women's Euros with the Netherlands in 2017 and England in 2022.\n\n\"It feels like we won it [the whole tournament], we didn't win it, but we won this game,\" added Wiegman, 53.\n\nShe has now reached four major tournament finals in a row, with her two triumphs at the European Championships separated by a 2-0 defeat for her native Netherlands by the United States in the 2019 World Cup final.\n\n\"The chance that, as a coach or as players, to make it to finals is really special - we made it to four already,\" added Wiegman after England's semi-final success.\n\n\"I never take anything for granted but it's like I'm living a fairytale or something.\n• None Reaction and analysis as England reach first final\n• None World Cup final to be shown live on BBC\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\n\"We made the first final in 2017 [with the Netherlands] and thought this is really special, it might not ever happen again. Then you make the second, the third and the fourth and still think this might never happen again because there is so much competition.\"\n\nEngland will play in a first football World Cup final since the men's side won the 1966 tournament.\n\n\"I can hardly describe how proud I am of the team,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"This team has adapted all the time. Before the tournament, during the tournament then this game again - how we came through and found a way to win again is so incredible.\"\n\n'Out of superlatives to describe Wiegman'\n\nBefore Wiegman took charge in September 2021, the Lionesses had made it to two consecutive semi-finals under Mark Sampson and Phil Neville.\n\nBut they lost on both occasions - defeated 2-1 in 2015 by Japan, before losing to the United States by the same scoreline in 2019.\n\nSince Wiegman's arrival, England have gone on to win 30 of their 38 games, picking up two Arnold Clark Cup titles, the Euros trophy and the first Women's Finalissima.\n\nA 30-game unbeaten run came to an end at the hands of Australia in April - their only defeat under the Dutchwoman to date.\n\nAfter England's victory over Australia this time around, captain Millie Bright said: \"The mentality of this group is something I have never seen before. That comes through Sarina and the belief she gives us.\"\n\nFormer England international Izzy Christiansen said the semi-final win was \"another masterclass\" from the England manager.\n\n\"I'm out of superlatives to describe Sarina Wiegman,\" said Christiansen.\n\n\"To come in and change the culture, instil a winning mentality, to create a brand of football that is pragmatic, interesting and lets the talent flourish.\n\n\"We saw in the starting XI tonight that she had all of her best players on the pitch - some managers struggle to find ways to get the best out of their best players.\"\n\nAfter Chelsea's Sam Kerr cancelled out Ella Toone's opener for England, it was Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo who stole the show for England with the decisive goals.\n\nHemp showed great determination in chasing down Australia defender Ellie Carpenter to grab the second, while Russo completed the scoreline with a calm finish for her seventh goal in 12 appearances at major tournaments.\n\n\"I came to this competition with so much belief. I just want to be fearless, I want to show what I can do on the biggest stage,\" said Hemp.\n\n\"I feel really fearless at the moment. I feel like I'm playing some of my best football but obviously there's still more to show.\n\nSpeaking about her partnership with Russo, Hemp added: \"I feel like my connection with 'Less is so strong.\n\n\"We work off each other really well and I think we complement each other's strengths. We're both so different as players that we just work so well together.\n\n\"Throughout the tournament we have built such a great connection on and off the ball. She's a great person to be my strike partner.\"\n\nRusso said: \"I love playing with Hempo. First of all we have such a nice relationship off the pitch. I think we know how to get the best out of each other and she's brilliant.\"\n\nArsenal manager Jonas Eidevall, who will have Russo in the Gunners ranks for the forthcoming WSL season after her move from Manchester United, said the England pair are the \"two hardest-working forward players\" he has seen at this year's World Cup.\n\n\"I think when you see her and Lauren Hemp play together, they are not only good with the ball and with their movement, they are so hard working,\" said Swede Eidevall.\n\n\"Together they never give up. They hunt down every ball down to the last inch and it paid off two games in a row.\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'This acrid smoke really sticks in your throat'\n\nUS President Joe Biden says he will travel to Hawaii \"as soon as he can\" amid criticism of his response to the island's deadly wildfires.\n\nSpeaking in Milwaukee on Tuesday, Mr Biden said he wanted to ensure that the people in the state had \"everything they need\".\n\nThe death toll from the fires is now 101 with some 1,300 people missing.\n\nHawaii residents have complained about the pace of the federal government's response to the disaster.\n\nWhile at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, over the weekend, Mr Biden was asked by a reporter about the rising death toll in Hawaii, and responded: \"No comment.\"\n\nThe president said on Tuesday he had not yet visited because of concerns that doing so would divert resources and attention from the humanitarian response. Jill Biden will accompany him to Hawaii, he said.\n\n\"I don't want to get in the way. I've been to too many disaster areas,\" Mr Biden said. \"I want to be sure we don't disrupt ongoing recovery efforts.\"\n\nOver 500 federal emergency personnel have so far been dispatched to help with relief efforts, including 150 search and rescue specialists.\n\nAdditional personnel are being sent to Maui to help those already on the ground, Mr Biden added.\n\nHe said that \"all available federal assets\" in the region would be used for recovery efforts, including the US military and Coast Guard.\n\n\"It's painstaking work. It takes time and it's nerve wracking,\" the president said.\n\nThe US Small Business Administration has also begun offering low-interest disaster loans to help local residents rebuild.\n\nThe Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has approved one-time payments of $700 (£550) per household to help with immediate needs in the wake of the disaster.\n\n\"Every asset they need will be there for them,\" said Mr Biden. \"And we'll be there in Maui as long as it takes.\"\n\nIn a video update on Tuesday, Governor Josh Green said he and Mr Biden were speaking \"often\" and would work out a time for the president to visit once \"the heart-breaking work is done on the ground finding those we've lost\".\n\nOfficials in Hawaii have said they expect the death toll to rise in the coming days as more bodies are recovered from the worst hit parts of Maui. Only 25% of the affected area has so far been searched for human remains.\n\nApproximately 80% of Lahaina - a town of about 12,000 residents - was destroyed in the blaze.\n\nOn the ground in Maui, many residents told the BBC they have been frustrated at the scale and the speed of the recovery efforts.\n\nOne resident, Les Munn, said he had so far received $500 from Fema - less than the price of a night in most hotel rooms on the island.\n\nFor now, he is still sleeping on a cot in a shelter.\n\nAnother local, Felicia Johnson, said that \"everybody wants the glory but nobody wants to put their feet on the ground\".\n\nOn a street above the fire line in Lahaina, one woman said she feared she would starve to death in the days after the fire.\n\nBut now people are dropping bags of ice, water, clothing, batteries and small solar chargers at her neighbour's home, one of several grassroots relief supplies hubs co-ordinated by locals in the area.\n\nAhead of a second trip into the worst-hit area, Amory Mowrey spent $1,700 to load his and his friend's SUVs with toilet paper, cases of water, packs of batteries and sacks of rice.\n\n\"We're just trying to get supplies as fast as possible into the affected areas so people get what they need,\" he said. \"There's a lack of response, it felt like, from large organisations.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: ''Thank God that he gave us tears' Maui resident\n\nOthers expressed frustration that locally sourced supplies were being turned away by government officials, or that road closures had prevented people from entering Lahaina to help.\n\n\"The government's getting in the way of people helping,\" said Liz Germansky, who lost her home in the fire.\n\n\"I don't think the government could have done less,\" she told the BBC while sitting in a traffic jam on the island.\n\n\"The way things are unfolding right now is typical of what we all experienced on Tuesday... it's no wonder that this got so out of hand.\"", "Rishi Sunak has said it is difficult for people to understand the scale of government support with energy bills, as he defended his record on tackling the cost of living.\n\nThe prime minister said halving inflation was a top priority and his plan to ease rising prices was working.\n\nIt comes as the latest figures showed inflation slowed last month due to lower energy costs.\n\nBut food, restaurants and hotel costs are still rising.\n\nThe inflation rate, which measures price changes over time, fell to 6.8% in the year to July, down from 7.9% in June. This means prices are rising less quickly.\n\nInflation is much lower than it was at its peak of 11.1% in October, but it still remains high compared to historical rates and much higher than the Bank of England's 2% target.\n\nSpeaking at a business event in Enderby, Leicestershire, Mr Sunak said that unlike furlough, where the government subsidised wages of employees hit by the Covid pandemic, \"no one quite understands the scale of what we've done\" with energy bill support.\n\n\"A typical family will have had about half their energy bills paid for by the government over past several months - that's worth £1,500 to a typical family,\" he said.\n\n\"Now you wouldn't have quite seen that because you would have still just got your energy bill, it would have been very high and you'd have been, 'Oh my gosh, what's going on', but what you wouldn't have realised, maybe, is that before that even happened, £1,500 had been lopped off, and the government had covered it.\"\n\nUnder the Energy Price Guarantee, the government limited energy bills for a typical household to £2,500 a year, alongside a £400 winter discount.\n\nHowever, the guarantee ended in July.\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson said: \"Rishi Sunak might want to patronise people by telling them they don't understand what's going on, but most families know that it was the Conservatives that crashed the economy and left them worse off, with higher bills and higher prices in the shops.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats described Mr Sunak's comments as \"woefully out of touch\".\n\nThe party's Cabinet Office spokeswoman Christine Jardine said: \"Does he expect the public to give the Conservative Party a pat on the back for crashing the economy and adding hundreds of pounds a month to people's mortgages?\n\n\"He just does not get it.\"\n\nMr Sunak said the government was trying to deal with inflation by being responsible with spending and borrowing, \"producing more stuff\" and \"increasing the supply of things\", and helping \"people get through this tricky period\".\n\nThe prime minister claimed his plan to halve inflation by the end of this year was working.\n\nHowever, speaking to journalists at the same event, he said he was \"not complacent\" and knew \"things are tough right now\".\n\nThe prime minister added that the government was also helping people by cutting fuel duty, capping bus fares outside London, and giving support payments to pensioners and people on Universal Credit.", "Top A-level results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have fallen for a second year running - with 27.2% of all grades marked at A* or A.\n\nThat is almost back to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nIt follows a spike in top grades in 2020 and 2021, when exams were cancelled because of Covid.\n\nThe drop is steeper in England, where grades were due to be brought back in line with 2019 in this year's results.\n\nIn Wales and Northern Ireland, grades were always meant to be a bit higher this year.\n\nOverall, there are 73,008 fewer top grades compared with 2022, but 31,834 more than in 2019.\n\nThe pass rate for exams in Scotland fell last week - but was still higher than before the pandemic.\n\nThe fall in top grades will mean disappointment for some students, but it has got nothing to do with students' individual performance.\n\nIt is part of a plan to bring grades back down in line with pre-pandemic levels, after sharp rises in 2020 and 2021 when exams were cancelled and results were based on teachers' assessments.\n\nThe Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) said 79% of 18-year-olds applying to university got a place at their first choice - which is lower than last year, but higher than before the pandemic.\n\nAnother 9% did not get into their firm or insurance choice of university and are in clearing, Ucas's online system that advertises courses with vacancies.\n\nUcas has previously warned that spaces on some courses at top universities would \"go quite quickly\" in clearing, with the number of 18-year-olds in the population growing and international applications to undergraduate courses up slightly on last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A-Level results: What to do if you missed your grades\n\nAS-level results are also being released which, in Wales and Northern Ireland, count towards students' final A-level results next summer.\n\nAnd 3,448 students in England are receiving vocational T-level qualifications in England. The pass rate was 90.5%, and 69.2% of students achieved a merit or above.\n\nLara, 18, is planning to move out of her family home in London and head to university in the next few weeks.\n\nShe was disappointed when she did not get the grades she wanted in her English literature, maths and computer science A-levels - but has since found a place through clearing.\n\n\"Luckily my parents and my teacher were on hand to offer me support and we got on the phone to clearing immediately,\" she said.\n\n\"Everyone should be proud of what they have achieved and remember, if you don't get the grades you want there are still so many options available to you.\"\n\nLara is a registered young carer for her younger sister, and says moving to university does \"bring up some anxieties\".\n\n\"I'll still be available to phone and pop down to visit, but there is that anxiety that I will be leaving and I'm not sure how either of us will react to that situation,\" she said.\n\nWith the support of her parents and family and the Carers Trust charity, Lara says she is ready to take the next step and would encourage other young carers to reach out and get some help.\n\n\"Hollie, my sister, would like to turn my room into a Lego room when I leave,\" she says. \"She is very excited.\"\n\nThere was a steeper drop in the proportion of A-levels marked at A* and A in England than elsewhere:\n\nExams were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid. Pupils' grades were based on teachers' predictions instead, leading to a spike in top results.\n\nEngland's exams watchdog, Ofqual, set out a two-year plan to bring A-level and GCSE results back down to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nLast year was the first time students sat exams since the start of the pandemic. Ofqual called it a \"transition year\", with grades set to reflect a midway point between 2019 and 2021. About 36.4% of A-levels in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were marked at A* and A.\n\nNow, in the second stage of the plan, grades in England are more similar to those in 2019, when 25.4% of A-levels were given the top grades.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb said bringing them back down would ensure results carried \"weight and credibility\" with employers, universities and colleges, so they know what the different grades mean.\n\nHowever, this year's A-level students also suffered from disruption because of Covid.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said students getting A-level and other Level 3 results had faced \"unprecedented circumstances\".\n\nMost of them were in Year 10 when the pandemic hit and their GCSEs were cancelled, so this is the first time they have sat formal exams.\n\nThe impact on pupils was not equal, and MPs have warned it could take a decade for the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others to narrow to what it was before Covid.\n\nThese students have also faced disruption from teacher strikes this year, although unions said they tried to minimise the impact on exam year groups.\n\nThe Covid disruption means things are not quite back to normal.\n\nOfqual says there was \"protection built into the grading process\" so that students should achieve the grades they would have done if the pandemic had not happened - even if they did not perform as well in their exams.\n\nSome Covid measures also remained in place for this year's exams. A-levels were spaced apart more than they were before the pandemic, allowing for rest and revision.\n\nBut, unlike in the rest of the UK, A-level students in England were not given advance information about the topics on which they would be tested.\n\nThe Higher Education Policy Institute said this week that \"England has probably got it wrong\" by trying to get back to normal \"too quickly\".\n\nJo Saxton, the head of Ofqual, told the BBC that students in England would not be disadvantaged because universities had been pre-warned that different nations were taking different approaches.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders has said the government must make employers aware that different year groups have been graded differently.\n\nWhat questions do you have about results day? Whether you have queries about A-levels, GCSEs, Highers or vocational courses, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nKosovare Asllani's stunning second-half strike sealed victory for Sweden as they beat Australia to finish third at the Women's World Cup.\n\nShe rifled in a shot from the edge of the area to add to Fridolina Rolfo's first-half penalty as Sweden won the bronze medal match for the second World Cup in succession.\n\nDespite the defeat, this represents co-hosts Australia's best ever World Cup finish but the Matildas were unable to end on a high.\n\nRolfo's penalty gave Peter Gerhardsson's side the lead after a video assistant referee (VAR) check confirmed that Claire Hunt had clipped Stina Blackstenius in the box after 26 minutes.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Blackstenius played a superb square ball to Asllani, who stroked in a first-time shot to double their lead.\n\n\"It was an incredibly important match and the final 10 minutes were really tough,\" said Sweden coach Peter Gerhardsson.\n\n\"So when that final whistle went and we had won, there was a great sense of relief and it was a wonderful feeling.\n\n\"It's great to win a match of this magnitude - there's been a lot of attention paid to this tournament back in Sweden.\"\n\nThe Matildas' achievement in finishing fourth cannot be understated in a country where football is not the number one sport.\n\nTheir 3-1 semi-final defeat by England was the most watched TV event in Australian history with 11.15 million viewers tuning in.\n\nBut they seemed deflated on Saturday and put in a tired performance, with even their talisman Sam Kerr struggling to make an impact on the game - in fact, she had the fewest touches of any player on the pitch in the first half.\n\nTheir best chances fell to Hayley Raso and Clare Polkinghorne, but they were both denied by Sweden goalkeeper Zecira Musovic.\n\n\"We wanted to have some hardware to take home, it wasn't to be,\" said captain Kerr.\n\n\"We've proved to the world - and also within Australia - that we are a footballing nation.\"\n\nAustralia, who had only ever reached the quarter-finals once previously, in 2015, were the first hosts to reach the semi-finals since United States in 2003.\n\nTheir efforts in this tournament have certainly captured the hearts of the fans in green and gold and the hope will be that that leaves a lasting legacy.\n\n\"We have a massive amount of work to do now to capitalise on this,\" said Australia's coach Tony Gustavsson.\n\n\"Now there needs to be long-term investment to really make sure we really benefit from this crossroads moment in women's football in this country.\"\n\nSweden have plenty of experience of playing in the third-fourth place match, having reached the semi-finals on five occasions but only making the final once - in 2003, when they were beaten by Germany.\n\nAnd they dominated the game to win bronze for a fourth time.\n\nThey were already on on top before Rolfo beat the dive of Australia keeper Mackenzie Arnold with a well-placed penalty into the bottom left corner to give them the lead.\n\nAnd Asllani's super strike secured victory in a game of a few clear cut chances.\n\nIt has been another fine tournament for the Scandinavians who topped their group with maximum points before knocking out defending champions the United States in the last 16.\n\nAn impressive victory over Japan followed, but their failure to successfully negotiate a semi-final once again after their dramatic exit at the hands of Spain, will be their lasting memory of this tournament.\n• None Attempt missed. Caitlin Foord (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Lina Hurtig (Sweden) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Alex Chidiac (Australia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Emily van Egmond (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Kyra Cooney-Cross (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Elin Rubensson (Sweden) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Alex Chidiac (Australia) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Dr Stephen Brearey, lead consultant on the neonatal unit, raised concerns about her in October 2015\n\nHospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against Lucy Letby and tried to silence doctors, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit where she worked has told the BBC.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.\n\nThe unit's lead consultant Dr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015.\n\nNo action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.\n\nLetby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others in a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire.\n\nThe first five murders all happened between June and October 2015 and - despite months of warnings - the final two were in June 2016.\n\nBBC Panorama and BBC News have been investigating how Letby was able to murder and harm so many babies for so long.\n\nWe spoke to the lead consultant in the unit - who first raised concerns about Letby - and also examined hospital documents. The investigation reveals a catalogue of failures and raises serious questions about how the hospital responded to the deaths.\n\nDr Brearey says he demanded Letby be taken off duty in June 2016, after the final two murders. Hospital management initially refused.\n\nBefore June 2015, there were about two or three baby deaths a year on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. But in the summer of 2015, something unusual was happening.\n\nIn June alone, three babies died within the space of two weeks. The deaths were unexpected, so Dr Stephen Brearey, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit, called a meeting with the unit manager, Eirian Powell, and the hospital's director of nursing Alison Kelly.\n\n\"We tried to be as thorough as possible,\" Dr Brearey says. A staffing analysis revealed Lucy Letby had been on duty for all three deaths. \"I think I can remember saying, 'Oh no, it can't be Lucy. Not nice Lucy,'\" he says.\n\nThe three deaths seemed to have \"nothing in common\". Nobody, including Dr Brearey, suspected foul play.\n\nAfter the first three deaths in summer 2015, Lucy Letby was identified as a common factor but no-one yet suspected foul play\n\nBut by October 2015, things had changed. Two more babies had died and Letby had been on shift for both of them.\n\nBy this point, Dr Brearey had become concerned Letby might be harming babies. He again contacted unit manager Eirian Powell, who didn't seem to share his concerns.\n\nIn an email, from October 2015, she described the association between Letby and the unexpected baby deaths as \"unfortunate\". \"Each cause of death was different,\" she said, and the association with Letby was just a coincidence.\n\nSenior managers didn't appear to be worried. In the same month - October 2015 - Dr Brearey says his concerns about Letby were relayed to director of nursing Alison Kelly. But he heard nothing back.\n\nDr Brearey's fellow consultants were also worried about Letby. And it wasn't just the unexpected deaths. Other babies were suffering non-fatal collapses, meaning they needed emergency resuscitation or help with breathing, with no apparent clinical explanation. Letby was always on duty.\n\nIn February 2016, another consultant, Dr Ravi Jayaram, says he saw Letby standing and watching when a baby - known as Baby K - seemed to have stopped breathing.\n\nDr Brearey contacted Alison Kelly and the hospital's medical director Ian Harvey to request an urgent meeting. In early March, he also wrote to Eirian Powell: \"We still need to talk about Lucy\".\n\nThree months went by, and another two babies almost died, before - in May that year - Dr Brearey got the meeting with senior managers he had been asking for. \"There could be no doubt about my concerns at that meeting,\" he says.\n\nBut others at the meeting appeared to be in denial. Dr Brearey said Mr Harvey and Ms Kelly listened passively as he explained his concerns about Letby. But she was allowed to continue working.\n\nBy early June, yet another baby had collapsed. Then, towards the end of the month, two of three premature triplets died unexpectedly within 24 hours of each other. Letby was on shift for both deaths.\n\nAfter the death of the second triplet, Dr Brearey attended a meeting for traumatised staff.\n\nHe says while others seemed to be \"crumbling before your eyes almost\", Letby brushed off his suggestion that she must be tired or upset. \"No, I'm back on shift tomorrow,\" she told him. \"She was quite happy and confident to come into work,\" he says.\n\nFor Dr Brearey and his fellow consultants, the deaths of the two triplets were a tipping point. That evening, Dr Brearey says he called duty executive Karen Rees and demanded Letby be taken off duty. She refused.\n\nDr Brearey says he challenged her about whether she was making this decision against the wishes of seven consultant paediatricians - and asked if she would take responsibility for anything that might happen to other babies the next day. He says Ms Rees replied \"yes\".\n\nThe following day, another baby - known as Baby Q - almost died, again while Letby was on duty. The nurse still worked another three shifts before she was finally removed from the neonatal unit - more than a year after the first incident.\n\nThe suspicious deaths and collapses then stopped.\n\nInstead, she was moved to the hospital's risk and patient safety office. Here she is believed to have had access to sensitive documents relating to the hospital's neonatal unit. She also had access to some of the senior managers whose job it was to investigate her.\n\nOn 29 June 2016, one of the consultants sent an email under the subject line: \"Should we refer ourselves to external investigation?\"\n\n\"I believe we need help from outside agencies,\" he wrote. \"And the only agency who can investigate all of us, I believe, is the police.\"\n\nBut hospital managers thought otherwise. \"Action is being taken,\" wrote medical director Ian Harvey in his reply. \"All emails cease forthwith.\"\n\nTwo days later, the consultants attended a meeting with senior management. They say the head of corporate affairs and legal services, Stephen Cross, warned that calling the police would be a catastrophe for the hospital and would turn the neonatal unit into a crime scene.\n\nRather than go to the police, Mr Harvey invited the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Heath (RCPCH) to review the level of service on the neonatal unit.\n\nIn early September 2016, a team from the Royal College visited the hospital and met the paediatric consultants.\n\nThe RCPCH completed its report in November 2016. Its recommendations included: \"A thorough external independent review of each unexpected neonatal death.\"\n\nIn October 2016, Ian Harvey also contacted Dr Jane Hawdon, a premature baby specialist in London, and asked her to review the case notes of babies who had died on the neonatal unit.\n\nThe result was a highly caveated report. According to Dr Hawdon, her report was \"intended to inform discussion and learning, and would not necessarily be upheld in a coroner's court or court of law\".\n\nIt was not the thorough review the consultants had wanted - or the thorough external independent review that the RCPCH had recommended. But even the limited case-note report by Dr Hawdon recommended that four of the baby deaths be forensically investigated.\n\nRather than calling police, Ian Harvey asked the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to review the neonatal unit\n\nIn early January 2017, the hospital board met and Mr Harvey presented the findings of the two reviews. Both had recommended further investigation of some of the baby deaths - and yet that message did not reach board members.\n\nRecords of the meeting show Mr Harvey saying the reviews concluded the problems with the neonatal unit were down to issues with leadership and timely intervention.\n\nA few weeks later, in late January 2017, the seven consultants on the neonatal unit were summoned to a meeting with senior managers, including Mr Harvey and the hospital's CEO Tony Chambers.\n\nDr Brearey says the CEO told them he had spent a lot of time with Letby and her father and had apologised to them, saying Letby had done nothing wrong. Mr Chambers denies saying Letby had done nothing wrong. He said he was paraphrasing her father.\n\nAccording to the doctor's account, the CEO also insisted the consultants apologise to Letby and warned them that a line had been drawn and there would be \"consequences\" if they crossed it.\n\nDr Brearey says he felt managers were trying to \"engineer some sort of narrative\" that would mean they did not have to go to the police. \"If you want to call that a cover-up then, that's a cover-up,\" he says now.\n\nManagers also ordered two of the consultants to attend mediation sessions with Letby, in March 2017. One of the doctors did sit down with the nurse to discuss her grievance, but Dr Brearey did not.\n\nYet, the consultants didn't back down. Two months after the apology, the hospital asked the police to investigate. It was the consultants who had pushed them into it.\n\nDr Brearey and his colleagues finally sat down with Cheshire Police a couple of weeks later. \"They were astonished,\" he says.\n\nThe next day, Cheshire Police launched a criminal investigation into the suspicious baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital. It was named Operation Hummingbird.\n\nMr Chambers told the Panorama his comments to consultants had been taken out of context and that prompt action had been taken after he was first told of serious concerns in June 2016 - including reviews of deaths.\n\nLetby had not yet been arrested and was still working at the hospital's risk and patient safety office. But Operation Hummingbird was in full swing and Dr Brearey was helping the police with their investigation.\n\nLate one evening, he was going through some historic medical records when he discovered a blood test from 2015 for one of the babies on his unit. It recorded dangerous levels of insulin in the baby's bloodstream.\n\nThe significance of the test result had been missed at the time.\n\nThe body produces insulin naturally, but when it does, it also produces a substance called C-Peptide. The problem with the insulin reading that Dr Brearey was looking at was that the C-Peptide measurement was almost zero. It was evidence the insulin had not been produced naturally by the baby's body and had instead been administered.\n\n\"It made me feel sick,\" Dr Brearey recalls. \"It was quite clear that this baby had been poisoned by insulin.\"\n\nDr Susan Gilby, who became medical director after Letby's arrest, says files revealed serious issues with the hospital's response\n\nA few months later, Letby was finally arrested and suspended by the hospital. But three years had passed since Dr Brearey had first sounded the alarm.\n\nWhen a new medical director and deputy chief executive, Dr Susan Gilby, began work the month after Letby's arrest, she was shocked at what she found.\n\nShe says her predecessor, Mr Harvey, had warned her she would need to pursue action with the General Medical Council, the doctor's regulator, against the neonatal unit's consultants - those who had raised the alarm. Mr Harvey denies this.\n\nHowever, inside a box of files left in his office, Dr Gilby found evidence the problems lay elsewhere. Marked with the word \"neonates\", the files revealed how a meeting of the executive team in 2015 had agreed to have the first three deaths examined by an external organisation. That never happened.\n\nThe management team had also failed to report the deaths appropriately. It meant the wider NHS system could not spot the high fatality rates. The board of the hospital trust was also unaware of the deaths until July 2016.\n\nDr Gilby says the trust's refusal to call police appeared to be heavily influenced by how it would look. \"Protecting their reputation was a big factor in how people responded to the concerns raised,\" she says.\n\nLater in 2018, after Tony Chambers resigned, Dr Gilby was appointed chief executive and she stayed in post until 2022. She is now suing the trust for unfair dismissal.\n\nThe rate of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit has now fallen\n\nDr Brearey, says hospital managers had been \"secretive\" and \"judgemental\" throughout the period leading up to the nurse's arrest.\n\n\"There was no credibility given to our opinions. And from January 2017, it was intimidating, and bullying to a certain extent,\" he tells BBC News. \"It just all struck me as the opposite of a hospital you'd expect to be working in, where there's a safe culture and people feel confident in speaking out.\"\n\nLetby would ultimately be charged with seven murders and 15 attempted murders between June 2015 and June 2016. She was found guilty of all seven murders and seven attempted murders.\n\nShe was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder. The jury also failed to reach a verdict on a further six counts of attempted murder, including all charges related to Baby K and Baby Q.\n\nIn a statement, Tony Chambers, the former CEO, said: \"All my thoughts are with the children at the heart of this case and their families and loved ones at this incredibly difficult time. I am truly sorry for what all the families have gone through.\n\n\"The crimes that have been committed are appalling and I am deeply saddened by what has come to light. As chief executive, my focus was on the safety of the baby unit and the wellbeing of patients and staff. I was open and inclusive as I responded to information and guidance.\"\n\nHe added: \"I will co-operate fully and openly with any post-trial inquiry.\"\n\nIan Harvey said in a statement: \"At this time, my thoughts are with the babies whose treatment has been the focus of the trial and with their parents and relatives who have been through something unimaginable and I am sorry for all their suffering.\n\n\"As medical director, I was determined to keep the baby unit safe and support our staff. I wanted the reviews and investigations carried out, so that we could tell the parents what had happened to their children. I believe there should be an inquiry that looks at all events leading up to this trial and I will help it in whatever way I can.\"\n\nThe Countess of Chester Hospital is now under new management and the neonatal unit no longer looks after such sick babies.\n\nThe current medical director at the hospital, Dr Nigel Scawn, said the whole trust was \"deeply saddened and appalled\" by Letby's crimes.\n\nHe said \"significant changes\" had been made at the hospital since Letby worked there and he wanted to \"provide reassurance to every patient who accesses our services that they can have confidence in the care that they will receive\".\n\nSince Letby left the hospital's neonatal unit, there has been only one death in seven years.\n\nWatch the full investigation, Panorama - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed - on BBC iPlayer", "\"Girl power!\" exclaimed one woman as the final whistle blew and the fan zone erupted into screams and tears of joy.\n\nThere were so many children and young people in the crowd, their faces painted in the red and yellow of the Spanish flag.\n\nThis, presumably, was a moment many will remember for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"We are especially happy to have had this experience with our baby daughter,\" one man said as he held his little girl who was wearing her very own Spain shirt.\n\n\"They play as well as the men and they have to make the same effort. I think we have to give them more support and more sponsorship by the big companies.\"\n\nAfter all, he said, \"they give us the same joy\".\n\nSpain's victory is all the more remarkable for two reasons.\n\nFirst, the national side has been plagued by reports of a difficult relationship between some of the players and the coach, Jorge Vilda, a months-long feud that overshadowed preparations for the tournament.\n\nIt was notable that every time Mr Vilda appeared in shot, there were audible boos and jeering from the watching fans.\n\nAnd second, the Spanish team does not enjoy the same level of support as the men's side.\n\nThis may be a football-mad country, but it was striking that there were few, if any, signs of support for the women in the bars, shops and restaurants that surround the fan zone.\n\nThat, many felt here, might now change significantly in the wake of such a victory.\n\n\"It's a beginning,\" said one young man. \"It's very important for me because my sister plays football.\"\n\nThe Reds do enjoy the support of Spain's Queen Letizia, who was in Australia to watch the match with her football-playing daughter Sofia.\n\nThere is much excitement in the Spanish media, after the Queen joined the players on the pitch, jumping together in celebration. And acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted that the team had \"made history\".\n\nOne woman said: \"I thought it was going to be England, actually.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like to share your home with 70 cats and kittens?\n\nCan you imagine living with more than 70 cats?\n\nThat is the reality for Karen Smy and her daughter Lauren Sheldrick from mid Wales, who run a small-scale rescue and are \"passionate\" about the animals.\n\nThey say having so many cats helps their mental health and is an all-consuming way of life.\n\nBut demand for cats to be rehomed has become \"overwhelming\" and the sheer number of cats can be \"a living hell\" which many people do not understand.\n\nThere are cats in every room of the house in Nantmel, Powys, including the bathroom and kitchen.\n\n\"We've always been a multi-cat family,\" said Karen, who has previously worked as a nursery practitioner.\n\n\"I think there's about 60 that are rescues, and then if you add Lauren's eight and you add my 10, you've got to be looking at over 70 cats at the minute.\"\n\nLauren, a trained art and design teacher who now works in the charity sector, said: \"I have been through a lot of experiences with friends and family, where people have let me down and I haven't been in very nice situations and that's what's pushed me to cats. These guys never really let me down.\n\n\"I kind of use it on dating sites as a deterrent and, if someone isn't going to stick around [after] finding out that I live with this many cats, then they're not worth my time.\"\n\nLauren (left) and Karen live with more than 70 cats in their home\n\nKaren added: \"We're passionate about cats, more than we can explain.\n\n\"I think you've got to be a special kind of person to not just love animals, but make animals your world. And a lot of people don't get that.\"\n\nThe much-adored animals all have names and unique personalities, and Karen and Lauren can quickly identify each and every one.\n\n\"We've had them escape, we've had them hide in drawers, we've had them dive off balconies. They'll constantly steal food, if they can find it. They love the laser pen, that's hilarious,\" said Karen.\n\nKaren and Lauren say they're always chasing around after cats who love to chase mice and steal food\n\n\"We'll sit there and watch telly and you'll see them come in with a random mouse that's found its way in here and then you have to chase them around.\"\n\nKaren's Cat Community began in 2017, as there was a lot of demand in the area for homes for cats.\n\nIt started with people in the community asking Karen for advice on cat care, but soon spiralled \"out of control\" with the boundaries set by her being pushed by people \"eager to get rid\" of their cats.\n\nKaren and Lauren spend about £135 per day on food and litter, plus extra for the specialist food some cats need.\n\nOn top of that, neutering costs £45 for each male cat and £78 for each female, and all of the cats need double vaccinations for £63 each. The pair say they have about £3,713 left to fork out for these planned medical costs for the cats they currently have.\n\nThere are cats in every room of the family home in Powys\n\nKaren, 56, said the main issue was owners failing to neuter their cats which leads to unexpected kittens, as well as people taking on pets during the pandemic that they can no longer cope with.\n\n\"[People] took them in lockdown and then, let's face it, we came straight out of lockdown and we went into a recession. So then everyone went, this isn't such a good idea, this animal is costing me money,\" she said.\n\nKaren said that vet fees have increased and the cost of cat food has \"nearly doubled\" since before the pandemic.\n\n\"Who doesn't want a mini cat? But the trouble is with mini cats, they grow. Kittens grow. And they're seen as a low maintenance animal, but they're not, they're quite complex creatures.\n\n\"What I find shocking is that Britain is supposed to be a nation of animal lovers, but the situation is getting worse.\"\n\nKaren said there was a \"misconception\" about cats.\n\n\"They're not considered as sentient beings and they are. They've got very good memories so they remember the abuse, they remember the neglect,\" she said.\n\nLauren and Karen regularly go to bed in the early hours of the morning, only to wake up just a few hours later to begin their daily feeding and cleaning routine.\n\n\"It's not enjoyable anymore, it's got to the stage where it's hard work and sometimes it's a living hell,\" Karen said.\n\nLauren, 26, added: \"We make sure they all have breakfast and then sometimes we'll do a bit of paperwork but then we'll go round and do the cleaning.\n\n\"If you do that nice and early then you can keep up on it for the rest of the day, but what tends to happen is that, by the time we've finished all the cleaning for the morning, it is two o'clock in the afternoon, so then you go round and do everything again.\"\n\nThe cats keep Lauren and Karen occupied from morning till night\n\nDespite the difficult times, both Karen and Lauren say that looking after cats brings them joy.\n\n\"My mum has always been my best friend,\" added Lauren. \"Now we're both here, as adult women, and this is what we've chosen to do with our lives, and this is what makes us happy.\n\n\"The positives definitely outweigh the negatives.\"\n\nThe pair hope to have found forever homes for all of their rescued cats by October, so that they can take a break over the winter, before returning as a registered charity in 2024.\n\nAlthough raising money can be \"like pulling teeth\", Karen says platforms like TikTok have helped them find fellow cat-lovers willing to help.\n\n\"People on TikTok are absolutely brilliant. We've had compassion, empathy. We've met beautiful people on TikTok who have gone to the ends of the earth,\" she said.\n\n\"Someone has got to have a voice for them. That's what keeps us going. If we didn't take them, where would they go?\n\n\"I just absolutely adore them, and we'll just keep fighting until I'm six-foot under probably.\"", "US actor Ron Cephas Jones has died at the age of 66.\n\nA veteran stage actor, he was best known for the series This Is Us - his role as a long-lost father who finds redemption earned him two Emmy Awards.\n\nJones had a \"long-standing pulmonary issue\", his manager told US outlets. He had a double lung transplant in 2020, according to media reports.\n\nHis \"kindness and heart were felt by anyone who had the good fortune of knowing him\", his manager said.\n\nJones's love for the stage \"was present throughout his entire career, including his recent Tony-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning performance for his role in Clyde's on Broadway\", the statement added.\n\nAcademy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer, who played alongside Jones in the series Truth Be Told, was among the co-stars remembering the late actor.\n\nShe wrote on Instagram that she was \"heartbroken\" by the news.\n\n\"Ron was an incredibly talented actor and, most importantly, a wonderfully kind human being,\" Spencer said. \"Every day on set with Ron was a good day.\"\n\nIn This Is Us, Jones played William \"Shakespeare\" Hill, a father who abandoned his child at birth before connecting with his son's adoptive family in later life.\n\nSterling K Brown, who plays Hill's son, Randall Pearson, paid tribute to Jones on Instagram: \"Life imitated art today, and one of the most wonderful people the world has ever seen is no longer with us.\"\n\nNew Jersey-born Jones, a jazz aficionado, once worked as a California bus driver before returning to New York in the mid-1980s where he pursued his acting career.\n\nSpeaking about his celebrated role with content platform Build Series, Jones said: \"I knew William, I grew up with men like him. A large part of him is inside me already, so it was more about reaching inside and remembering the men I grew up with like him.\"\n\nJones won the Emmy for best guest actor in a drama series for the role in 2018 and 2020.\n\nUS actress Mandy Moore, who played Rebecca Pearson on the show, said getting to know and work with him was the \"greatest gift\".\n\n\"He was pure magic as a human and an artist... I will treasure all of the moments forever,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nThe show's creator Dan Fogelman described Jones as \"the best of the best - on screen, on stage, and in real life\".\n\n\"A massive loss... The coolest,\" he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. \"The easiest hang and laugh. And my God: what an actor.\"\n\nJones spent most of his career in the theatre before and after This is Us. He worked with Oscar-winning director Sir Sam Mendes on productions of As You Like It and The Tempest.\n\nSir Sam told the PA news agency he was \"beyond sad\" at the news of his death.\n\n\"An absolutely wonderful actor, and the gentlest, wisest, most soulful man,\" he said.", "The screens - which are generally used to advertise products or politicians - were switched off on Sunday morning\n\nIraqi officials have ordered all electronic advertising screens to be shut down in Baghdad after a hacker used one to show a pornographic film.\n\nIt happened at a major road junction in the Iraqi capital. Videos have been shared widely on social media.\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the incident, police say.\n\nA statement said the suspect was a technician who had financial issues with the company that runs the advertising screens.\n\nHe was said to have acted in retaliation.\n\nThe hacker \"showed a pornographic film for several minutes before we cut the power cable\" on Saturday, a security source who requested anonymity told the AFP news agency.\n\nThese \"immoral scenes\" prompted the authorities to \"turn off all advertising screens in Baghdad\" while they review security measures, the same official explained.\n\nScreens in the capital - which are generally used to advertise products or politicians - were switched off on Sunday morning.", "The Welsh Guards have played a musical tribute to the Lionesses at the Wellington Barracks in London.", "The man is a crew member for Viking Cruises\n\nA man has died after falling from a cruise ship at a port in the Highlands.\n\nThe Viking Mars crew member, understood to be in his 40s, was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the incident at the Port of Cromarty Firth in Invergordon.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 11:00 on Friday and two ambulances, a helicopter and trauma team were sent to the scene.\n\nBut on Sunday Viking Mars confirmed the crew member, who has not been named, had died from his injuries.\n\nA company statement said: \"It is with great sadness that we confirm a crew member passed away following an incident in Scotland on 18 August.\n\n\"We shared our deepest sympathies with the crew member's family and are working to ensure they have the support they need during this difficult time.\n\n\"Viking's focus remains on the safety and wellbeing of our crew and guests.\n\n\"Our operations team is working with local authorities to determine how this occurred.\"\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed on Friday that they had received reports of the man having fallen from the ship at Saltburn Pier.\n\nOn Sunday a force spokesperson said: \"Emergency services attended and the man was taken by helimed to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he died a few hours later. \"A report has been sent to the procurator fiscal.\"\n\nOfficers previously said the Health and Safety Executive had been made aware of the incident.\n• None Man in hospital after fall from cruise ship at port", "The nurse was found guilty of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe former chairman of the NHS trust where serial killer Lucy Letby worked believes the board was \"misled\" by hospital executives.\n\nThe nurse was convicted on Friday of murdering seven babies and trying to murder another six at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nSir Duncan Nichol, who was the board's chair, said it was told there was \"no criminal activity pointing to any one individual\" despite concerns.\n\nAn inquiry has been ordered.\n\nLetby targeted the babies between June 2015 and June 2016, when they were dying or suddenly collapsing at five times the average annual rate at the hospital's neonatal unit.\n\nHowever the board was not alerted to the problems until July 2016, by which time 13 babies had died.\n\nAt a meeting, the board then agreed to ask for the deaths to be externally investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police arrested Lucy Letby at her home in 2018\n\nThe trust initially turned to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, who conducted a review of the unit but told the hospital executives they should conduct a separate \"thorough external independent review of each unexpected neonatal death\".\n\nIan Harvey, who was then medical director at the hospital, contacted London-based neonatologist Dr Jane Hawdon.\n\nThe doctor, who specialises in the care of newborns, did a brief review of each baby's medical notes.\n\nHowever she told the trust she did not have the time to conduct the thorough investigation the Royal College had recommended.\n\nIt is understood Dr Hawdon did not speak directly to the board but sent her report and it was up to executives to brief the board on its findings.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Sir Duncan said: \"I believe that the board was misled in December 2016 when it received a report on the outcome of the external, independent case reviews.\n\n\"We were told explicitly that there was no criminal activity pointing to any one individual, when in truth the investigating neonatologist had stated that she had not had the time to complete the necessary in-depth case reviews.\"\n\nIn response to Sir Duncan's statement, the hospital's then chief executive Tony Chambers - who went on to lead three other NHS trusts on an interim basis after leaving Chester in 2018 - said that \"what was shared with the board was honest and open and represented our best understanding of the outcome of the reviews at the time\".\n\nInside the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nIn a BBC interview, Dr Susan Gilby - another former chief executive at the hospital - said she also had concerns the board may have been misled.\n\nWhen she joined the trust shortly after Letby's arrest in 2018, she examined internal information about the nurse's actions.\n\n\"The documents that I have seen from the neonatologist [Dr Hawdon] and the briefing and the papers that were presented to the board are diametrically opposed.\n\n\"It's hard to understand - unless there is something that I haven't seen - how the board were led to believe that a comprehensive review had taken place.\"\n\nMr Harvey, who was medical director at the hospital trust until 2018, said: \"The statements I gave to the board were true to the best of my knowledge.\"\n\nThree years ago, Sir Duncan, who stepped down in 2019, and Dr Gilby commissioned an external review by the health consultancy Facere Melius into how the hospital trust had handled the allegations.\n\nIt has not been published.\n\nBoth have welcomed the public inquiry into the events at the trust and said they would cooperate.\n\nPaediatric consultants who raised concerns about Letby's conduct have recently told the BBC of being bullied, ignored and forced to send her a letter of apology.\n\nLetby was charged in November 2020 with murder and attempted murder\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC One, listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds and follow on the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nSarina Wiegman's list of achievements is as long as it is impressive.\n\nWhen England take to the pitch at Sydney's Stadium Australia on Sunday for their Women's World Cup final against Spain, it will be the Dutch coach's fourth major tournament final in a row.\n\nSince becoming an international football manager in 2017, the 53-year-old has masterminded back-to-back wins at the Women's Euros, first with the Netherlands in 2017 and then with England in 2022.\n\nThose two triumphs were separated by a defeat for her native country in the 2019 World Cup final against serial winners the United States.\n\nHere, BBC Sport speaks to some of the players and coaches she has worked with over the years to get an insight into the woman attempting to make history again by leading the Lionesses to their first world title.\n• None Wiegman has 'no plans to leave' England job\n\nIt was on the streets of the Hague that Wiegman first discovered football, playing alongside her twin brother at a time when there were no girls-only teams. She was called up by the Netherlands for the first time in 1986, aged 16, and later moved to the US for a year to study and play football at the University of North Carolina (UNC).\n\nWiegman's university team, the North Carolina Tar Heels, weren't any ordinary side, with future World Cup winners Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly also in the ranks.\n\nLilly, who would go on to become the most-capped player in the history of the sport with 354 appearances for the United States, has fond memories of sharing her freshman year with the Dutchwoman.\n\n\"I can picture her smile - there were always some laughs going on,\" she says. \"She was nice, friendly, and a very crafty midfielder, so I loved having her on my team. She worked hard.\n\n\"As a player she had this little feistiness, competitiveness about her, that I think now as a coach you wouldn't see from her as much, because you have to be on an even keel. But as a player, I can see her game face, and it was tense when she played. I loved that.\"\n\nWiegman has spoken of being anxious as she embarked on that first trip to the US, saying she was completely out of her comfort zone, but her nerves weren't apparent to those looking on.\n\n\"I don't think it was a daunting experience for her,\" says Anson Dorrance, who ran the women's soccer programme at UNC before he became the USA's national coach.\n\n\"She was already a Dutch international, travelling all the time. She didn't appear in the least to be self-conscious or paranoid or afraid. She appeared wonderfully well-adjusted.\n\n\"We embraced her immediately. All we could see was an immediate adjustment to the American culture. The Dutch would be called the Americans of Europe - a swashbuckling nation, very frank and direct. She fitted right in.\"\n\nWiegman combined her playing career with teaching PE, then started football coaching when she retired as a player. When the Women's Eredivisie was created in 2007 she landed her first full-time job as a coach at ADO Den Haag, having initially turned it down when it was only offered on a semi-professional basis.\n\nFormer Netherlands international Leonne Stentler was one of the players Wiegman took to ADO Den Haag in her first season there.\n\n\"The way she welcomed me and the way she talked about how she wanted to do it was warm but really ambitious,\" says Stentler.\n\nShe recalls an unusual rule from Wiegman's early days that prevented anybody in the team being allowed to take a drink of water by themselves - it had to be done together.\n\n\"At first she was a hard coach with a lot of rules, but during the first year she made so many changes and worked on herself,\" she says.\n\n\"I know she reads a lot of management books so that was what she was doing and we experienced all the exercises she read about. We really felt the development of ourselves, but also the development of her.\"\n\nInitially, a lively pre-match dressing room, with music blaring, would leave the new manager perplexed.\n\n\"Sometimes I looked at her and she couldn't understand why people were dancing and laughing - she was like: 'You should be concentrating and focusing on the game… this is going to be a disaster',\" says Stentler.\n\n\"She had to learn that that was the preparation for some specific characters.\"\n\nWiegman spent seven years at the club, but Stentler says those first few months were the biggest learning period for the future England coach.\n\n\"She let us find out what rules worked for us but she would make sure the frames were really clear,\" she said. \"Inside those frames, we were totally free.\"\n\nAfter seven years at Den Haag, Wiegman became assistant coach of the Netherlands national team. To continue her development as a coach, she became one of a handful of Dutchwomen to earn the Uefa Pro Licence - the highest coaching course in the professional game.\n\nAs part of the requirements of her Pro Licence course, Wiegman needed to carry out an internship. She wrote to Sparta Rotterdam head coach Alex Pastoor, asking if she could coach at his club - a men's team in the Dutch second tier.\n\nPastoor says Wiegman, the first female coach on his team, came across as very \"serious\" about her work.\n\n\"She had the experience of playing herself,\" he says. \"The tactical things, we all discussed together. She took part in it and saw the same things we saw.\n\n\"As a coach, you need to have a certain leadership and authority, and this was something she had when she was leading parts of the training.\"\n\nWhen the season finished, Pastoor asked Wiegman to return as assistant to the under-23 team, making her the first female coach in Dutch professional men's football. That was cut short, however, when the national team required more of her time.\n\nBut Pastoor has no doubt she would have flourished whichever route she chose.\n\n\"I honestly think if she would coach at a professional men's football team in Holland, she would succeed,\" he says.\n\nWiegman twice stepped up as interim head coach of the Netherlands before taking the job permanently in January 2017. She won the Euros seven months later, and led the team to the World Cup final in 2019. She took over as England manager in September 2021.\n\nWiegman took over a Dutch squad low in morale and, because of her association with the previous regime, she had to win over the players and her new staff. That included vastly experienced coach Foppe de Haan, who was brought in to assist Wiegman.\n\n\"In the beginning we had to find our place,\" says De Haan. \"We made an agreement about what was my part of the job, and what was her part of the job.\"\n\nYet despite De Haan being older and more experienced, he says Wiegman was very comfortable in the leadership role.\n\n\"She knows what she wants, but she was also open and keen to hear other people's ideas.\"\n\nTrying to get her to switch off during that first tournament was more difficult, though.\n\n\"She's a workaholic,\" says De Haan. \"Every day, every moment she is working, working, working. I told her: 'You have to take the rest. You have to relax sometimes.' I tried to delegate to the others.\"\n\nThere were stressful moments during that first tournament but De Haan says one of Wiegman's strengths is \"she is always calm, she never panics\".\n\nDutch international Vivianne Miedema was part of her Euro-winning team, and she describes Wiegman as playing a big role in her career, having joined the set-up when she was 18 when Wiegman was the assistant.\n\n\"Not many coaches out there are open to discussions, but she was always open to having a footballing discussion with someone,\" she says. \"I really enjoyed that because it made me a better player.\"\n\nMiedema says they were fortunate not to experience losing very often under Wiegman's leadership but she does remember a bad performance they put in against Spain after winning the Euros.\n\n\"At half-time she came in and said 'guys this isn't good enough but also I wasn't good enough before the game'.\n\n\"So she was very open and honest. We fixed it up together as a team and the coaching staff.\"\n\nWhen Wiegman became England manager, she took over a squad short on confidence and in a state of transition.\n\nBut she knew exactly how to bring the players together.\n\nLionesses goalkeeper Hannah Hampton recalls the new head coach turning one room at the team's training base into a \"massive firepit with beanbags, hot chocolate, the lot\".\n\nIn that homely environment, the players were encouraged to share their stories and create bonds with their team-mates.\n\n\"I think from then it changed everyone's attitude and the atmosphere changed... you definitely felt closer to one another and we definitely all looked out for each other.\n\n\"We are just a massive family.\"\n\nCalm, clear and direct are words that crop up regularly when people are asked to describe Wiegman.\n\nStriker Beth England calls her a \"very good people person\" but adds: \"She tells us when things aren't right; and she's not shy to be savage and brutal when she needs to be.\"\n\nAfter plotting England's victory at Euro 2022, many of the players commented afterwards how the coach had made their roles clear from the start - whether that was as a starter, a super-sub, or a squad player, they knew where they stood.\n\n\"She's honest and up front and as a player I respect that,\" says striker Alessia Russo. \"It's nice to have an honest conversation.\n\n\"She is a winner. She sets the standards so high in training and she leads with real class. It's great for us because it's so competitive and everyone is so focused on one goal but away from the pitch she let's us relax which is so important. She makes camp a really fun place to be.\"\n\nBaroness Sue Campbell, the director of women's football at the Football Association, said they knew they were getting a great coach when they appointed her but didn't realise they were getting such a \"unique person\".\n\n\"She's built a collective - not just among the players, but the team around the players - which is very, very special. I've not seen anything like it in all my time in sport.\n\n\"She is a quite remarkable leader and a very special person.\"\n\nWiegman was born in the Hague, in 1969, and is married to Marten Glotzbach, a youth football coach, with whom she has two daughters.\n\n\"Sarina is just a genuinely lovely person that shows a lot of empathy towards you. She wants to know you on a human level, not just as a player. She has conversations with you about your family.\"\n\nThose were the words of England's record goalscorer Ellen White, and have been echoed by many of those who have worked with her.\n\nDorrance, Wiegman's university coach, says one of his most striking memories of his former pupil came a few years after she had left the US, when he had been invited to give a talk to a group of Dutch coaches in the Netherlands.\n\nHe says he presented his philosophy - which was to use data to show how skilful a player was - but his audience quickly let him know they did not agree with the concept.\n\n\"All I can remember from that experience is poor Sarina basically absorbing the blows with me, and I could see the consternation on her face,\" he says.\n\n\"To some extent she was embarrassed about the way I was treated. I've never forgotten that. I still have a wonderful picture of her compassionate face looking up at me, just hoping that her colleagues would give me a break.\"\n\nFor Stentler, that human side sets Wiegman apart from other coaches she worked with during her career.\n\n\"She really feels what players need - and makes sure you feel warm and welcome and open to say anything to her. If I was in a really bad situation, I could tell her without any consequences. And that feeling of openness is not very common in coaches.\n\n\"I definitely had moments where I was not happy with Sarina but when I look back at my career she was the best coach, the best human, in my career.\"\n\nA version of this feature was first published in July 2022.", "The parents of twin brothers who were among Lucy Letby's 13 victims have told the BBC the nurse is a \"hateful human being\" who has taken \"everything\" from them.\n\nLetby murdered one of their baby boys, and tried to kill the other twin the following day.\n\nThe nurse was found guilty of murdering a total of seven babies who were being looked after on a neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nShe was also found guilty of attempting to murder another six babies, with the jury undecided on the attempted murder of a further four. She was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, need help after reading this story, details of organisations offering assistance can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nPanorama - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed - will be on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 20:00 BST (UK only) on Friday 18 August.", "Luisa Gonzalez is promising a return of generous social programmes in the impoverished country\n\nLeft-winger Luisa Gonzalez is leading in Ecuador's presidential election overshadowed by the assassination of one of the candidates.\n\nWith nearly 80% of the votes counted, electoral officials say she has 33%, while her closest rival Daniel Noboa, a businessman, is on 24%.\n\nThe top two candidates will now go into a run-off on 15 October.\n\nThe poll was combined with a referendum, in which voters chose to end oil drilling in the Amazon.\n\nThe decision, supported by nearly 60% of those who voted, means the state-owned oil company will have to stop its operations in a block of Yasuní National Park, one of the world's largest biodiversity hotspots.\n\nThe area is home to hundreds of species of birds, amphibians and reptiles as well as indigenous people like the Tagaeri and Taromenani - who live in self-isolation.\n\nThe outcome is a significant blow to outgoing President Guillermo Lasso, who argued revenues from oil drilling were crucial for Ecuador's economy.\n\nThe Waorani tribe is one of those opposed to oil drilling in the Yasuni reserve\n\nSome 100,000 police and soldiers were deployed to protect Sunday's first round of voting.\n\nThe snap election was called after Mr Lasso - a conservative former banker - dissolved parliament to avoid impeachment.\n\nSunday's voting was peaceful, much to the relief of Ecuadoreans fearful of the political violence that has taken hold of the country.\n\nHowever, there were several shooting incidents in the run-up to the vote.\n\nThe new president will take office on 26 October and will serve only 18 months - the remainder of Mr Lasso's term.\n\nMs Gonzalez, a 45-year-old protégé of leftist ex-President Rafael Correa, was seen as the firm favourite of the eight politicians vying for the presidency.\n\nBut the assassination of candidate Fernando Villavicencio on 9 August in the capital, Quito, made the election difficult to predict.\n\nMs Gonzalez's promises of a return of generous social programmes appeal to Ecuadoreans hit hard by an economic crisis.\n\nDaniel Noboa (centre) is seen by many voters as a pro-business candidate\n\nMr Correa still looms large in the country: he cut poverty while in power, but was then mired in corruption scandals and is now in exile in Belgium.\n\nThose who want an end to his influence in Ecuador will back pro-business candidate Daniel Noboa, aged 35.\n\nThe only thing that unites Ecuadoreans is their need for peace and security. Everyone is hoping for a peaceful campaign ahead of the run-off.\n\nMr Villavicencio, 59, was an outspoken journalist who had uncovered corruption and denounced links between organised crime and officials.\n\nSix men have been arrested in connection with his assassination, all of them Colombian citizens.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fernando Villavicencio was shot as he left a rally in Quito\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEven in glorious triumph, sounds of disapproval rang out in Jorge Vilda's direction.\n\nAs his players celebrated winning the World Cup for the first time after defeating England 1-0, boos rang out in the crowd when the jubilant Spain boss was pictured on the big screen being congratulated by Spain's Queen Letizia at Stadium Australia.\n\nMoments earlier, Vilda had looked up to the sky, raised his hands and screamed with joy when the referee ended the match to confirm Spain as world champions.\n\nControversy has followed Vilda at every turn of this tournament and even in victory there was no escape.\n\nThis will go down as one of the most remarkable triumphs in Women's World Cup history, with Spain entering the tournament amid a backdrop of unrest and a number of players unhappy with Vilda, who had survived a player revolt to keep his job.\n\nThe Spanish football federation (RFEF) released a statement revealing that 15 players had submitted identical emails saying they would not play for Vilda unless \"significant\" concerns over their \"emotional state\" and \"health\" were addressed.\n\n\"Las 15\", as the players became known, denied claims they had asked for 42-year-old Vilda to be sacked, but tension followed amid reports of concern over training methods and inadequate game preparation.\n\nYet in Australia and New Zealand, his players put aside their differences to conquer the world in an impressive style at just their third World Cup, prompting Spain's official Twitter account to post: 'VILDA IN '.\n\n\"The girls are eternal now and they have a star on their chest forever,\" said Vilda. \"It's been very easy [to manage the group].\n\n\"We are a family, we are world champions with a family of players.\"\n• None 'They are still heroes' - reaction as England beaten by Spain in World Cup final\n\nSpain were made to wait before they could finally celebrate. After 13 minutes of stoppage time were signalled at the end of 90 minutes, it was not until the 105th minute that the referee brought the final to an end.\n\nSome of Spain's players were in disbelief as the magnitude of their achievement started to sink in. Others were in tears.\n\nSpain came into the tournament missing some of their best talent due to the player revolt, including several members from Barcelona's triumphant Champions League campaign like Mapi Leon, Patri Guijarro and Sandra Panos.\n\nThree of the 15 selected were recalled after having been frozen out of the national set-up after a protest, including midfielder Aitana Bonmati and defender Ona Batlle, who both started all seven games in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nWhen they lost 4-0 to Japan in their final group game, they looked a long way from being world beaters.\n\n\"No-one should lose hope,\" said Vilda after that defeat in Wellington on 31 July.\n\n\"We have not seen the best Spanish team yet. This defeat hurts, the players are angry and I am convinced they will be better.\"\n\nAfter his side's World Cup victory, Vilda described the Japan defeat as a \"turning point\", adding: \"It made us react, the team changed and the players increased their contributions. Mentally they were much stronger.\n\n\"I believe these reasons helped us reach the final and won the final.\"\n\nIndeed, Spain bounced back from that setback to defeat Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden to make the final.\n\nAgainst European champions England, La Roja produced a tactical masterclass. Even after captain Olga Carmona's winner, they enjoyed more possession and attempts on target.\n\n\"For me, it's credit to those players,\" former England striker Ellen White told BBC One. \"To win a World Cup is just absolutely phenomenal.\n\n\"It takes a lot of guts, mentality, desire, hard work, togetherness. The way this Spanish team played today was just unbelievable.\n\n\"The way they moved the ball was just ridiculous.\"\n\nSeventeen of the 23-player squad were appearing at their first World Cup including keeper Cata Coll and 19-year-old forward Salma Paralluelo.\n\nDespite the controversy that followed him around, Vilda was not afraid to make bold decisions.\n\nAfter the defeat by Japan, he gave a senior debut to Coll, while Paralluelo came off the bench to score in back-to-back games as Spain performed admirably throughout the knockout stages before deservedly overcoming England.\n\nSpain's players performed on the pitch despite all of the noise off it.\n\nBefore the semi-final win over Sweden, long-serving forward Jenni Hermoso spoke emotionally of the progress made in the women's game since she made her senior international debut in 2012 when she used to play in front of crowds of a few hundred.\n\nOn Sunday, she celebrated winning the World Cup in front of 75,000 in Sydney.\n\nSpain now have women's world titles at senior, under-17 and under-20 levels.\n\n\"This Spanish side, this nation, what they have achieved in women's football over the last two years is phenomenal,\" added White.\n\nVilda, who has been in charge since 2015, was asked afterwards whether he would pursue other job opportunities after masterminding Spain's World Cup success.\n\nHis contract with the national team is due to expire in 2024.\n\n\"Right now we are going to celebrate,\" said Vilda. \"We are going back to Spain to see our loved ones and we will see.\"\n\n\"We have suffered a lot over the past 12 months. This has made us a stronger team,\" she said.\"We had the feeling we were going to do it; this is unstoppable.\"\n\nThe Spanish FA revealed that Carmona sadly found out after the match that her father had died.", "The Luna-25 craft blasted off from far-east Russia on August 11\n\nRussia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.\n\nIt was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.\n\nThe craft was due to be the first ever to land on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering problems as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.\n\nIt was set to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.\n\nRoscosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said on Sunday morning that it had lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after 14:57pm (11:57 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nPreliminary findings showed that the 800kg lander had \"ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon\", it said in a statement.\n\nIt said a special commission would look into why the mission failed.\n\nThe loss of Luna-25 is a blow to Roscosmos. Russia's civilian space programme has been in decline for several years, as state funding is increasingly directed towards the military.\n\nRussia was racing to the Moon's south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land there in the coming days and send a rover to explore the rocks and craters, gathering data and images to send back to Earth.\n\nParts of the Moon's south pole remain permanently in shadow, which makes finding water a possibility.\n\nA spokesperson for the Indian space agency Isro described the Luna-25 crash as \"unfortunate\".\n\n\"Every space mission is very risky and highly technical. It's unfortunate that Luna-25 has crashed,\" they told the BBC.\n\nRoscosmos had acknowledged that the Luna-25 mission was risky and could fail. The craft launched from Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region of Russia on 11 August, and then successfully entered the moon's orbit on Wednesday of this week.\n\nIt was expected to make history by making a soft landing on Monday or Tuesday, just days before the Indian touchdown.\n\nNo country has ever landed on the Moon's south pole before, although the US, Soviet Union and China have landed softly on the Moon's surface.\n\nLuna-25 was Russia's first Moon mission since 1976, when it was part of the Soviet Union. That mission, Luna-24, landed successfully.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Russia launches first space mission to Moon in 47 years\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Wade Robson, pictured with Jackson in the 1990s, claims the singer sexually abused him\n\nTwo men who allege they were sexually abused as children by Michael Jackson can revive a lawsuit against his companies, judges at a US court ruled.\n\nWade Robson and James Safechuck, both in their 40s, claim Jackson abused them for years while they were boys.\n\nThey can now pursue previously blocked lawsuits against the singer's companies. They say these companies had a responsibility to protect them.\n\nLawyers for Jackson, who died in 2009, maintain his innocence.\n\nMr Robson and Mr Safechuck claim they were abused by Jackson in the late 1980s and early 1990s while staying at his Neverland ranch.\n\nThe accusations featured in the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland, which Jackson's family described as a \"public lynching\".\n\nIn 2020, a Los Angeles judge ruled Mr Safechuck could not sue Jackson's businesses, saying the companies didn't have a duty of care to him.\n\nA year later, the same judge ruled against Mr Robson on similar grounds.\n\nBut on Friday, an appeals court in California disagreed, ruling that \"a corporation that facilitates the sexual abuse of children by one of its employees is not excused from an affirmative duty to protect those children merely because it is solely owned by the perpetrator of the abuse\".\n\n\"It would be perverse to find no duty based on the corporate defendant having only one shareholder,\" the court judgement said. \"And so we reverse the judgments entered for the corporations.\"\n\nVince Finaldi, a lawyer for Mr Safechuck and Mr Robson, said that the court had overturned previous \"incorrect rulings in these cases, which were against California law and would have set a dangerous precedent that endangered children\".\n\nJonathan Steinsapir, a lawyer for Jackson's estate, said he was \"fully confident\" Jackson was innocent, saying the allegations were \"contrary to all credible evidence and independent corroboration\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLike many in Canada's Northwest Territories, Poul Osted has been relying on social media to keep in touch with loved ones as they scramble to evacuate from nearby wildfires.\n\nBut Mr Osted said he has been left frustrated by his inability to share news articles on Facebook during the active emergency situation, due to Meta's ban on news content for Canadian users.\n\n\"Instead we have to screenshot parts of a news story and post that as a picture,\" Mr Osted told the BBC.\n\n\"Oftentimes this means you don't get the whole story, or have to go searching the web for verification.\"\n\nA Canadian government minister has demanded that Meta - the company that owns Facebook and Instagram - \"reverse its decision\" as what it was doing was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"Due to this ban, people do not have access to information that is absolutely crucial,\" Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez told a briefing on Friday.\n\nPoul Osted, who lives in the small hamlet of Fort Resolution, said the ban had affected his family members who were forced to flee Hay River, which is threatened by a wildfire is burning nearby.\n\n\"The state of the highway system is one example,\" he told the BBC via Facebook messenger.\n\nSeveral people were inquiring on the platform whether it was safe to drive out of town but couldn't share that information on the social network.\n\nMeta began blocking access to news for its Canadian users on 1 August, not long after Canada's parliament passed an online news bill that will require platforms like Google and Meta to negotiate deals with news publishers for content.\n\nIt has called the law \"fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work\".\n\nIn response to questions from the BBC, a Meta spokesperson declined to comment on the ban and its impact on evacuees. On Thursday, the company added a safety check-in feature on the platform.\n\nAs Meta rolls out the ban as part of its campaign against the legislation, a growing number of Canadian users have found themselves unable to view news shared by media organisations on its platforms.\n\nThey are also unable to view articles shared by friends, instead seeing a message that reads: \"This content isn't available in Canada.\"\n\nThis has raised concern about people's access to information, especially during the wildfire evacuations.\n\n\"The timing could not have been worse for this,\" said Shawna Bruce, an instructor at the disaster and emergency management program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.\n\nAbout 77% of Canadians use Facebook, she said, and one in four of them rely on the platform as their primary source of news.\n\n\"I am wondering if we have a bit of an information void there because of this decision,\" Ms Bruce said.\n\nCanada's Minister of Heritage, Pascale St-Onge, called Meta's decision to continue to block news for Canadians \"irresponsible and unreasonable\".\n\nShe too called on the tech giant to resume talks over the law and to restore access to news.\n\nResidents in Yellowknife, the territory's largest city with 20,000 people, have been ordered by officials to leave by Friday afternoon over fears a wildfire burning about 16 km (10 miles) could reach the city limits by the weekend.\n\nOther towns in the Northwest Territories, including Hay River and Fort Smith, are also under evacuation orders.\n\nMany evacuees have been using Facebook groups like NWT Wildfires Safety Check to mark themselves safe from the fires and to ask about updates.\n\nOfficials have also relied on Facebook to share evacuation information and updates on the fires directly to their official pages and websites.\n\n\"Some of them have really stepped up in the absence of not being able to use Facebook in a way they could before,\" Ms Bruce said.\n\nMeta's restriction on news has forced other jurisdictions in Canada to rethink how they disseminate essential information.\n\nPolice in Manitoba, for example, told the Canadian Press earlier this summer that it will rely on direct posts through social media accounts to get news out to the public.\n\nNearly 240 wildfires are active across the Northwest Territories as of Thursday, part of what has been Canada's worst forest fire season on record.\n\nMore than 1,000 wildfires are burning across Canada, including in British Columbia and Quebec.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason.\n\nScientists say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.", "Lucy Letby will be sentenced on Monday for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others\n\nA judge should lead the inquiry into the circumstances behind Lucy Letby's attacks on babies, the health select committee chairman has told the BBC.\n\nAs it stands, the inquiry looking at the crimes will not have the power to compel witnesses to give evidence.\n\nConservative MP Steve Brine said some \"may not be so willing\" to cooperate.\n\nMeanwhile, the prosecution's lead medical expert in the case has said hospital executives who failed to act should be investigated by police.\n\nLetby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016, following a 10-month trial.\n\nThe nurse was found not guilty of two attempted murders and the jury could not reach verdicts on six others. She will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nThe aim of the separate non-statutory inquiry is to ensure lessons are learned, the government has said.\n\nBut concerns have been raised by some over how effective it will be in examining the case.\n\nSome have called for a statutory inquiry with legal powers to compel witnesses to give evidence. Statutory inquiries are often led by a minister-appointed judge.\n\nNon-statutory inquiries can be converted into statutory inquiries if they have been shown to cause public concern.\n\n\"I think a judge-led statutory inquiry is in order here,\" Mr Brine told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme.\n\n\"What I want to see... is not a process that drags on for years, an inquiry that can disappear down a rabbit hole.\"\n\nHe added that a \"proper judge-led\" inquiry was the only way to ensure public confidence.\n\nJane Tomkinson, acting chief executive officer at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said the trust welcomed the announcement of the independent inquiry and would be supporting the ongoing investigation by Cheshire Police.\n\n\"Due to ongoing legal considerations, it would not be appropriate for the Trust to make any further comment at this time,\" she said.\n\nCheshire Constabulary has been approached for comment.\n\nMr Brine is the latest to question the powers available to the inquiry in its current form.\n\nSlater and Gordon, the law firm representing two of the families of babies attacked by Letby, said a non-statutory inquiry \"is not good enough\" and lessons had to be learned by the hospital, NHS and wider medical profession.\n\nLabour's City of Chester MP Samantha Dixon told the BBC that as it stood the inquiry would have to rely on \"the goodwill of witnesses to attend\".\n\nBut Dr Caroline Johnson, Conservative MP and consultant paediatrician, said lessons needed to be learned quickly and the government could decide to order a statutory inquiry at a later date if extra powers were needed.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup, who has led non-statutory reviews for other maternity units, said non-compliance had not been a problem in his experience and people were \"ready and willing to cooperate\".\n\nThe patient safety investigator told the BBC he had identified common features between the Letby case and the reviews he had conducted - including managers accused of \"protecting reputations\" above listening to staff concerns.\n\nAfter the verdict, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said it was \"extremely sorry\" the crimes happened in its hospital and it had since made \"significant changes\" to their services.\n\nFormer chief executive of the hospital Tony Chambers and former medical director Ian Harvey, who were in charge at the time Letby was working at the hospital, have said they will co-operate fully with the inquiry.\n\nMr Chambers has also told The Observer newspaper that he took \"prompt action\" including to move Letby off the neonatal unit when concerns were first escalated to him in June 2016.\n\nDr Nigel Scawn, medical director at the Countess of Chester Hospital, said on Friday: \"Since Lucy Letby worked at our hospital, we have made significant changes to our services and I want to provide reassurance to every patient that may access our services that they can have confidence in the care that they will receive.\"\n\nRetired consultant paediatrician Dr Dewi Evans, who gave expert evidence during the trial, said he believed the case demanded a criminal investigation into corporate manslaughter, in comments first made to the Observer.\n\nHe told the BBC he intended to write to Cheshire Police to ask it to investigate bosses for not acting on the concerns of doctors.\n\n\"I intend to write...[to say I] believe we need to investigate the senior executives in this hospital for what in my opinion is gross dereliction of duty and repeated failures to engage effectively with experienced senior medical professionals,\" he said.\n\n\"The NHS is a corporate organisation with a chief executive - they have a duty of care to patients and staff. They failed patients and staff, and hospital management should be accountable to a disciplinary body in the same way doctors are.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues raised here, there are details of organisations that may be able to offer support on the BBC Action Line.", "Hollywood star Kate Winslet surprised festival-goers on the final day of Camp Bestival in the West Midlands.\n\nThe British actress treated crowds in the CBeebies Bedtime Story tent to an intimate reading of children's classic Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey on Sunday.\n\nAlso on day three of the festival, DJ Sara Cox judged a wildlife-themed fancy dress competition.\n\nThe event took place at Weston Park on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border.\n\nA roller disco, yoga sessions, a craft village and wild swimming were among the activities to enjoy.\n\nThe star surprised the crowds in the CBeebies Bedtime Story tent\n\nThe actress read an extract of children's classic Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey\n\nChildren and their families dressed up as an array of animals for the competition\n\nCamp Bestival took place at Weston Park for the second year\n\nFestival-goers dressed up for the wildlife themed competition\n\nThis Morning star Josie Gibson then judged the Beard and Moustache competition\n\nThe presenter was also on hand to judge the Pimp My Ride contest\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An earthquake with a 6.1 magnitude has interrupted a live TV broadcast in Bogota, Colombia.\n\nThe tremor was followed by a series of aftershocks, estimated at 5.6 and 4.8 magnitudes.", "A US shop owner was shot dead after a dispute over a Pride flag displayed outside her business, police say.\n\nLaura Ann Carleton, 66, was found with a bullet wound at her Mag Pi shop in Cedar Glen, California, on Friday.\n\nA suspect - who fled the scene on foot - was killed by police when found nearby, allegedly still armed.\n\nMs Carleton was described as a \"wonderful friend\" by Hollywood director Paul Feig, who posted an image of them together.\n\nThe suspect made \"disparaging remarks\" about the rainbow flag before shooting the victim, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nOfficers then located the suspect, armed with a handgun, the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department said.\n\nAt this point, \"a lethal force encounter occurred and the suspect was pronounced deceased\".\n\nOfficials on Monday identified the suspect as Travis Ikeguchi, 27.\n\nFeig - known for films such as Bridesmaids as well as the Freaks and Geeks TV series - said his friend had been shot after confronting the suspect for ripping down the flag.\n\nIn an Instagram post, he said he was \"devastated\" for Ms Carleton's family and the LGBTQ+ community, \"for whom Lauri was such a true ally\".\n\n\"This intolerance has to end,\" he wrote. \"Anyone using hateful language against the LGBTQ+ community has to realise their words matter, that their words can inspire violence against innocent loving people.\"\n\nLocal group Lake Arrowhead LGBT said the incident marked a \"very sad day\" for the area and that Ms Carleton, a \"friend and supporter\", would be \"truly missed\".\n\nShe was \"murdered defending her LGBTQ+ Pride flags in front of her store\", the group wrote in its own Instagram post.\n\n\"Lauri did not identify as LGBTQ+, but spent her time helping & advocating for everyone in the community.\"", "Follow coverage of the Fifa Women's World Cup across BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds & the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "The family of 19th Century prime minister William Gladstone will travel to the Caribbean to apologise for the part an ancestor played in the slave trade.\n\nWilliam was the son of John Gladstone, who was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.\n\nA joint statement by descendants said they believed his actions amounted to \"a crime against humanity\".\n\nThey said they hoped to \"make a better future\".\n\nCharlie Gladstone, whose family's ancestral home is Hawarden estate in north Wales, is due to travel to Guyana, South America, with five other family members to make an apology for John's ownership of Africans, according to The Observer, which first reported the story.\n\nThey will travel from 24 to 28 August, which coincides with the 200th anniversary of the 1823 rebellion in Demerara, a British colony that later became part of Guyana.\n\nIt started on one of Gladstone's plantations - some historians argue its violent suppression had a role in bringing an end to slavery.\n\nThe statement, by two generations of descendants, said John Gladstone \"held the people of Guyana in slavery and was highly instrumental in bringing indentured labour to Guyana too\".\n\n\"We believe that his actions amounted to a crime against humanity and wish to apologise to the people of Guyana. We know that we can't change the past, but we believe that we can make a better future.\"\n\nThe Gladstone family plan to make their official apology at the opening of the University of Guyana's International Institute for Migration and Diaspora Studies, which it said it hopes to help fund with a grant of £100,000.\n\n\"For us this isn't just about money though. It is about acknowledging that the slavery still has a massive impact on many people's health and wider socio-economic status across the world,\" the statement said.\n\nRob Gladstone, Charlie's brother, called on the UK government to begin \"reparative justice\" by apologising for slavery within the British Empire.\n\nThe Atlantic slave trade saw millions of Africans enslaved and forced to work, especially on plantations in the Caribbean and Americas, for centuries from about 1500.\n\nThe British government and the monarchy were prominent participants in the trade, alongside other European nations.\n\nBritain also had a key role in ending the trade through Parliament's passage of a law to abolish slavery in 1833.\n\nRishi Sunak has refused to apologise for the UK's role in slavery.\n\nAsked at Prime Minister's Questions in April by Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy whether he would offer a \"full and meaningful apology\", Mr Sunak said he would not, and that it was important to \"have a society that is inclusive and tolerant from people from all backgrounds\".\n\n\"Trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward and is not something we will focus our energies on,\" he said.\n\nJohn Gladstone was a Scottish merchant who made a fortune as a Demerara sugar-planter and had hundreds of enslaved people working in plantations in the decade before emancipation.\n\nAfter slavery was abolished in 1833, John received the largest compensation payment made by the Slave Compensation Commission - about £93,000, the modern equivalent of about £10m.\n\nIn 2020, there was a campaign to remove a memorial to William Gladstone from the grounds of Gladstone's Library in Hawarden\n\nIn 1831, William Gladstone, who was Liberal prime minister on four occasions in the 19th Century, used his first Commons speech to argue in favour of compensation for slave owners.\n\nBut by 1850, his family said he was a \"changed man\", with the former leader describing slavery as \"by far the foulest crime that taints the history of mankind\".\n\nCharlie Gladstone told The Observer: \"John Gladstone committed crimes against humanity. That is absolutely clear.\n\n\"The best that we can do is try to make the world a better place and one of the first things is to make that apology for him.\n\n\"He was a vile man. He was greedy and domineering. We have no excuses for him.\"", "Gusts of 57mph were recorded at Mumbles Head, Swansea, on Saturday\n\nStorm Betty has brought heavy downpours and high winds to much of the country as the UK's unpredictable August weather continues.\n\nIt is the second time since 2015 the UK has seen two named storms in August.\n\nWindspeeds topping 60mph were recorded in Wales, and parts of Northern Ireland had more than their average rainfall for the month in a single night.\n\nWhile conditions are expected to improve for most, this week's outlook is mixed, according to BBC Weather.\n\nBetty is the second named storm to hit the UK this month, following Storm Antoni.\n\nIt is only the second time that two August storms have been significant enough to name since the system was adopted in 2015. The other year was August 2020 with Storm Ellen and Storm Francis.\n\nAreas around the Irish Sea saw the strongest winds, with gusts between 50-60mph being recorded late on Friday and early on Saturday morning.\n\nThe strongest gusts (66mph) were recorded on high ground at Capel Curig in north-west Wales, while Aberdaron in the same region and Pembrey Sands in south Wales also saw speeds around the 60mph mark.\n\nCornwall also saw strong gusts, with speeds of around 55mph being recorded in some places,\n\nNorthern Ireland saw the worst of the rain, with many areas experiencing downpours of 25-35mm in a matter of hours.\n\nKatesbridge, a small hamlet in County Down, was the wettest place in the UK, with 45mm of rain in 12 hours - which is over half the August average in just one night.\n\nThere has been travel disruption in Scotland, with some localised road flooding and rail cancellations.\n\nCars negotiated a flooded section of the A921 between Inverkeithing and Aberdour, as Scotland experienced heavy rain last December\n\nWidows' Row in Newcastle with high tides following Storm Betty\n\nGeorge Goodfellow, senior meteorologist at BBC Weather, said Storm Betty is now moving away so conditions are improving.\n\nThe forecaster added: \"The next few days will see low pressure close to the north of the UK, so whilst it isn't going to be as wet and windy as [Friday] night, we do still expect showers and perhaps some longer spells of rain across the north of the UK.\n\n\"There could also be some spells of very breezy, locally windy weather across Scotland and perhaps Northern Ireland and parts of northern England, but again we're not expecting winds as strong as last night.\n\n\"The south should remain relatively dry through the rest of the weekend and first half of next week.\n\n\"Temperatures are currently a little above average and are expected to remain so for the next few days too, although the next few nights should be a little cooler and fresher.\"\n\nStorm Betty also brought some dramatic weather to Ireland, especially in coastal areas.\n\nIn Dungarvan, County Waterford, a boat broke free from its berth was thrown onto the harbour by powerful waves.\n\nAre you personally affected by Storm Betty? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The couple's bodies were discovered on Thursday after local residents shared concerns about their welfare\n\nAn elderly couple who were found dead at a house outside Newry, County Down, three days ago are believed to have died some time ago, police have said.\n\nThey have been named locally as husband and wife Jim and Mary McLaughlin.\n\nTheir remains were discovered at their home on Greenan Road, between Burren village and Newry city, on Thursday.\n\nPost-mortem examinations have taken place and police said that the deaths are not currently being treated as suspicious, but inquiries are ongoing.\n\nIt is understood the couple had not been seen in the area for some time.\n\nA police cordon was erected outside the house after the discovery\n\nPolice cordoned off the house while forensics investigators examined the scene on Friday.\n\nNewry, Mourne and Down Councillor Declan McAteer told BBC News NI on Friday that he believed the couple had no close relatives living nearby.\n\nHe said the couple did not have much contact with the local community, but their neighbours were very shocked and saddened by the discovery of their bodies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: At the scene of missile strike on Ukrainian theatre\n\nSeven people, including a six-year-old girl, were killed when a Russian missile struck a theatre in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday morning, officials have said.\n\nFifteen children were among 144 people wounded, the police said. At least 25 people were in hospital.\n\nAmong the victims were people who had been celebrating an Orthodox Christian holiday at church.\n\nA main square and a university building were also damaged in the attack.\n\nThe UN called it \"heinous\", while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed a firm response by Ukrainian soldiers to a \"terrorist attack\".\n\nChernihiv is located about 50km (31 miles) south of Ukraine's border with Belarus. It was besieged by Russian troops in the first few months of President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion launched in February 2022.\n\nThe city's imposing theatre was hit directly. Tiles were blown off the roofs of neighbouring buildings with one catching fire 100 metres away.\n\nThe theatre was hosting a gathering of drone manufacturers, the acting mayor of Chernihiv told the BBC.\n\n\"I understand that their aim was a military event taking place in the building of the drama theatre and that it was their target,\" Oleksandr Lomako said.\n\n\"But it is clear that the Russians launching those missiles and those giving them orders in the middle of the day to the civilian city realised that the victims will be primarily civilians.\n\n\"There is no other way to interpret it than a war crime against civilians, yet another Russian war crime,\" he added.\n\nUkrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko later said all those inside the theatre had managed to reach shelter in time.\n\nHe said that \"most of the victims were in their vehicles or crossing the road at the time of the rocket strike, as well as returning from a church\".\n\nThe city centre of Chernihiv is a popular area for people to stroll around, especially on the weekend, locals told the BBC.\n\nAnna Zahreba, the manager of a Crimean Tatar restaurant just across the street from the theatre, said her staff were getting ready for a busy day when the missile hit.\n\n\"I ran outside to see what was going on,\" she said. \"There were two 12-year-old girls here and a lot of blood. One had her leg badly wounded. Another girl was screaming.\n\n\"We applied a tourniquet and waited for an ambulance. It was taking a long time to get here, but some man stopped his car and we took a girl to a hospital.\"\n\nAnna says staff rushed to help injured people with medical kit and blankets.\n\n\"There are always many people walking around here, with children and baby strollers. Many restaurants and cafes in the area,\" she tells us.\n\n\"We did not expect a day like this.\"\n\nIn his video address late on Saturday, President Zelensky said the child killed in the Russian strike was a girl named Sofia.\n\nEarlier, he said that Russia had turned an \"ordinary Saturday\" into \"a day of pain and loss\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UN said it was \"extremely disturbed\" by the attack.\n\n\"It is heinous to attack the main square of a large city, in the morning, while people are out walking, some going to the church to celebrate a religious day for many Ukrainians,\" Denise Brown, the current head of the UN in Ukraine, said in a statement.\n\n\"Attacks directed against civilians or civilian objects are strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law,\" she said. \"It must stop.\"\n\nThree days of mourning have been announced in the city.\n\nMoscow is yet to comment.\n\nElsewhere, Russia has claimed that a Ukrainian drone hit a military airfield in the northwest Novgorod region, causing a fire that was quickly put out.\n\nOne plane was damaged but no casualties have been reported, it added.\n\nUkraine has not commented on the alleged drone attack.\n\nMeanwhile, Kyiv's air force said the Ukrainian military had shot down 15 out of 17 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Moscow in an overnight strike.", "A 50-year-old man has been charged with possessing documents or records likely to be useful to terrorists following a major police data breach 11 days ago.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) mistakenly released details on 10,000 of its employees in response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request.\n\nThe man was also charged with having articles for use in terrorism and is due in court in Coleraine on Monday.\n\nThe FoI details were published online after being released by the PSNI.\n\nThey were taken down from a website at the PSNI's direction a short time later.\n\nPolice have confirmed the list is in the hands of dissident republicans, amongst others.\n\nIt was one of three separate PSNI data breach incidents being examined by police.\n\nOn 6 July, in an unrelated incident, a police-issue laptop and radio, as well as a document containing the names of more than 200 staff, were stolen from a private vehicle in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.\n\nIn another incident, on Thursday 17 August, a PSNI laptop and a police officer's notebook fell from the roof of a moving car on the M2 in Belfast.\n\nThe incident happened on the M2 motorway on Thursday\n\nIt happened on the Foreshore stretch of the motorway in the north of the city.\n\nThe PSNI confirmed that this notebook contained details of 42 officers and staff and sections of the book still have not been found.\n\nThey said the laptop that fell off the vehicle on the M2 was recovered and \"immediately deactivated\".\n\nOn Friday, a police spokesperson said the PSNI would be contacting the Information Commissioner about the M2 incident.\n\nThey added that Stormont's Department of Justice and the Northern Ireland Policing Board, which holds the PSNI to account, had already been informed about the breach.", "Sara Sharif suffered extensive injuries over an extended period of time, police said\n\nA 10-year-old girl who was found dead in Surrey was known to the authorities, the county council has confirmed.\n\nSara Sharif's body was found at her family home in Woking early on 10 August, prompting a murder inquiry.\n\nSurrey Police confirmed they wanted to speak to Sara's father Urfan Sharif, and his partner and brother who flew to Pakistan the day before she was found.\n\nSurrey County Council said it would \"work tirelessly\" to gain a \"full understanding\" of the situation.\n\nCouncil leader Tim Oliver said previously the National Child Safeguarding Panel had been notified and a multi-agency review was under way.\n\n\"This Rapid Review will determine whether a Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review is to be undertaken by the Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership,\" Mr Oliver said.\n\nHe explained: \"A Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review is a statutory process, bringing together partners including the police, health, social care and education to review practice of all agencies involved, organisational structures and learning.\"\n\nBBC News has been told two police teams in Jhelum, north Punjab in Pakistan, are looking for Mr Sharif.\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nDistrict police officer Nasir Mehmood Bajwa, in Jhelum, told the BBC that after police find Mr Sharif they are likely to take him into custody after receiving the go-ahead from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Islamabad.\n\nPakistan's foreign ministry and the FIA have not confirmed or shared any verbal or written orders on this case.\n\nMr Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik all left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August, a day before Sara's body was discovered.\n\nSurrey Police have said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan shortly after landing in Islamabad with his partner, his brother and five children, aged between one and 13.\n\nThe call led officers to the house in Woking where they found the body of Sara who had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\", likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nThere is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Pakistan.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy Winehouse was one of the most famous and successful gradates of the Brit School in south London before her death aged 27\n\nPlans to base a northern version of London's renowned Brit School in Bradford have been given the go-ahead by the government.\n\nThe new Brit School North will be free to attend for 500 pupils aged 16 to 19.\n\nIt will offer courses in dance, music and theatre.\n\nThe original Brit School in Croydon, south London, opened its doors in 1991 and has helped launch the careers of stars including Adele, Amy Winehouse, Tom Holland and Jessie J.\n\nThe concept is backed by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), and graduates at the London school have collectively sold more than 250 million albums and won 15 Brit awards over the past three decades.\n\nAnnouncing that the BPI's plans had been approved, the government said the school will be supported by large music industry firms like Sony Music Entertainment UK, Universal Music UK and Warner Music UK.\n\nNo start date is being given at this stage, but when the BPI submitted the plans in February, it said it hoped the school could be opened in 2026.\n\nBradford, which has a population of 546,000 according to the 2022 census, has one of the most diverse populations in the UK and the BPI said earlier this year that it had an equally vibrant cultural scene.\n\nMusic stars to have emerged from the city in the past two decades include former Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh, solo star Gareth Gates, former One Direction star Zayn Malik and Bad Boy Chiller Crew, who were nominated for best group at this year's Brit Awards.\n\nBad Boy Chiller Crew are nominated for Group of the Year at this year's Brit Awards\n\nOther big names from Bradford include Zayn Malik, Kiki Dee and Justin Sullivan of New Model Army\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said the move will mean more young people in the north of England could reach their potential, adding that the government is broadening opportunities so more of our children can \"access this springboard to success\".\n\nJo Twist, who took over as chief executive of the BPI in July, said she was \"delighted\" with the government's decision and added: The UK is a world-leader in music and across the creative industries and if we want this to continue, we must invest in talent and the highly transferable skills needed for a competitive economy.\n\n\"This school will not only focus on producing our next generation of performers, but crucially train young people with the important technical qualities needed for our industries to thrive and provide them with opportunities that they otherwise might not be able to access.\"", "Lucy Letby has been convicted of killing babies on the neonatal unit where she worked\n\nFamilies of some of the babies attacked by Lucy Letby have said the inquiry into the case should have powers to compel witnesses to come forward.\n\nAn independent inquiry was ordered on Friday after the nurse's conviction for the crimes at a hospital in Chester.\n\nBut lawyers for two of the families said this inquiry does not go far enough and needs to be statutory to have \"real teeth\".\n\nThe government said the inquiry aimed to ensure lessons were learned.\n\nLetby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015-16, following a 10-month trial.\n\nShe was found not guilty on two attempted murders and the jury could not reach verdicts on six others. She will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nSeparately an inquiry will now look into the circumstances surrounding the events leading up to the murders and attempted murders of the babies by the neonatal nurse.\n\nThe announcement of the non-statutory inquiry has divided opinion on how effective it will be in examining the case.\n\nSlater and Gordon, the law firm representing two of the families, said a non-statutory inquiry \"is not good enough\" and lessons had to be learned by the hospital, NHS and wider medical profession.\n\n\"As a non-statutory inquiry, it does not have the power to compel witnesses to provide evidence or production of documents and must rely on the goodwill of those involved to share their testimony,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nLabour's City of Chester MP Samantha Dixon told the BBC a judge should lead the inquiry, also highlighting how that as it stood the inquiry would rely on \"the goodwill of witnesses to attend\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Twins' parents: \"They passed him to us and he died\"\n\nIn contrast Conservative MP, Dr Caroline Johnson, said she agreed with the current approach.\n\nDr Johnson, a consultant paediatrician and MP who sits on the health select committee, said lessons needed to be learned quickly and the government could decide to order a statutory inquiry at a later date if extra powers were needed.\n\n\"I appreciate that people can't be compelled in quite the same way, I would hope that people would still nevertheless come forward,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup, who has led non-statutory reviews for other maternity units, said non-compliance had not been a problem in his experience and people were \"ready and willing to cooperate\".\n\nThe patient safety investigator told the BBC he had identified common features between the Letby case and the reviews he had conducted - including managers accused of \"protecting reputations\" above listening to staff concerns.\n\nAfter the verdict, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said it was \"extremely sorry\" the crimes happened in its hospital and it had since made \"significant changes\" to their services.\n\nFormer chief executive of the hospital Tony Chambers and former medical director Ian Harvey, who were in charge at the time Letby was working at the hospital, have said they will co-operate fully with the inquiry.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues raised here, there are details of organisations that may be able to offer support on the BBC Action Line.\n• None Warnings ignored as Letby killed more babies", "England fans in London showed their disappointment after the Lionesses were defeated by Spain 1-0, while Spain fans in Madrid erupted into cheers of joy.", "Otto Sonnenholzner is an economist who served as vice-president between 2018 and 2020\n\nA candidate in Sunday's presidential election in violence-hit Ecuador has called for an investigation after shooting erupted near a restaurant where he was having breakfast.\n\nOtto Sonnenholzner, a conservative politician, was with his family and supporters when shots rang out.\n\nHe is not believed to have been the target. But the campaign has been marred by a surge in gang attacks.\n\nCandidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated in the capital last week.\n\nThe incident involving Mr Sonnenholzner, 40, occurred on Saturday in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city.\n\nA video posted on social media shows the former-vice president talking to supporters in the restaurant before shots are heard, sowing panic. Local journalists said there was robbery in the vicinity.\n\nAfterwards, Mr Sonnenholzner tweeted: \"Thank God we are all fine but we demand an investigation into what happened... We can't go on like this.\"\n\nWhile no other presidential candidate has been directly targeted since Mr Villavicencio's murder in Quito, shootouts like this serve to demonstrate just how dangerous Ecuador has become.\n\nThey are, sadly, part of everyday life, especially in cities like Guayaquil which has been overrun by drug-traffickers.\n\nEarlier this week, a similar thing happened during the campaign event of fellow candidate Daniel Noboa. And a local politician was shot dead in northern Esmeraldas province.\n\nCandidates are eager to highlight these dangers ahead of the vote.\n\nThe shooting of Fernando Villavicencio upended campaigning, with candidates now very much focusing on peace and security - because that is what every Ecuadorean wants to be reassured about.\n\nBulletproof vests are also making more of an appearance on the campaign trail - and many candidates dialled down their closing campaign events, with many Ecuadoreans exercising a huge amount of caution ahead of the elections.\n\nThere is real fear of more violence to come as people get ready to vote.\n\nMr Villavicencio was an outspoken journalist who had uncovered corruption and denounced links between organised crime and officials.\n\nSix men have been arrested in connection with his assassination, all of them Colombian citizens.\n\nIn another development on Saturday, the mayor of the coastal town of La Libertad said he had been the target of an assassination attempt.\n\nMayor Francisco Tamariz said gunmen had fired 30 shots at his vehicle on Friday night, but he escaped unharmed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fernando Villavicencio was shot as he left a rally in Quito", "England players slumped to the ground at the final whistle as World Champions Spain celebrated\n\nThe Prince of Wales assured the Lionesses they have \"done yourselves and this nation proud\" as support flooded in for the defeated side.\n\nRoyals, ex-players and politicians heaped praise on the England team after they were narrowly beaten 1-0 by Spain in the Women's World Cup final.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said \"it wasn't to be, but you've already secured your legacy as game-changers\".\n\nThe King told the Lionesses \"let none of you feel defeated\".\n\nEngland lost by one goal to Spain after a tense ninety minutes and going close by hitting the bar, pushing the eventual champions right up until the final whistle.\n\nSupporters across the country have expressed their pride over a team which lifted the European Championships trophy last year, and had already made history by becoming the first England women's national team to reach a World Cup final.\n\nWilliam, who received criticism from some for not attending the final in person, shared a message of support shortly after the final whistle.\n\nThe royal - who is president of the Football Association - said: \"Although it's the result none of us wanted, Lionesses you have done yourselves and this nation proud.\n\n\"Your spirit and drive have inspired so many people and paved the way for generations to come.\n\n\"Thank you for the footballing memories. Congratulations to Spain.\"\n\nCharles, who was attending church near Balmoral with the Queen during the match, also sent his thoughts and commiserations to the team.\n\n\"While I know how sore it must be, let none of you feel defeated, for to have reached the final at all is an immense tribute to your skill, determination and team spirit in the finest sporting tradition,\" he said.\n\nIt was heartbreak for fans watching the final across the country\n\nJeannie Allott, a member of the original Lionesses team of 1972, heaped praise on England goalkeeper Mary Earps, who frustrated the Spaniards with a stunning second-half penalty save.\n\nSpeaking at Boxpark Wembley after the match, she said: \"I wish she was my sister. I love her. An absolutely brilliant keeper. She will go far.\"\n\nShe added: \"If I'm really honest, I think Spain were that little bit better, but not always the best team wins of course.\n\n\"We did have three or four chances not taken, shame. Otherwise it could have been a different match, but Spain were a really good team.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Lucy Frazer, who was sent to Sydney to represent the government, said: \"They inspired millions across the country with glorious performances, moments of magic and relentless determination and desire.\n\n\"An incredible journey has come to an end but it will never be forgotten.\"\n\nMr Sunak said \"we are all incredibly proud of you\" after the match, which he watched in a pub in his Richmond constituency.\n\n\"You left absolutely nothing out there Lionesses,\" he added. \"It wasn't to be, but you've already secured your legacy as game changers.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the defeat was \"heartbreaking\" but was \"just the beginning\" for a side which includes several young players likely to play for England for many years.\n\nHe added: \"So proud of the England team who inspired the whole country.\"\n\nMatch of the Day host and former England striker Gary Lineker said: \"Gutted for the Lionesses who gave their all, but congratulations to Spain on winning the World Cup.\n\n\"They were the better team and thoroughly deserved their victory.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "World Cup final: Spain v England - how you rated the players Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland goalkeeper Mary Earps was named your player of the match after saving a penalty in the Lionesses' 1-0 Women's World Cup final defeat by Spain. We asked you to rate the players out of 10 and Earps led by the way by a mile with an average score of 7.55. No other player from either side got more than 6.27.", "Sara Sharif suffered extensive injuries over an extended period of time, police said\n\nPolice in Pakistan say they are continuing to search for the father of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead in a house in Surrey.\n\nSara Sharif's body was found at her family home in Woking, in the early hours of 10 August.\n\nSurrey Police have confirmed they want to speak to Urfan Sharif, along with his partner and brother.\n\nBBC News has been told two police teams in Jhelum, north Punjab in Pakistan, are looking for Mr Sharif.\n\nMr Nasir Mehmood Bajwa, in Jhelum, told the BBC that after police find Mr Sharif they are likely to take him into custody after receiving the go-ahead from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Islamabad.\n\nPakistan's foreign ministry and the FIA have not confirmed or shared any verbal or written orders on this case.\n\nUrfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool are sought by police\n\nMr Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik all left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August, a day before Sara's body was discovered.\n\nSurrey Police have said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan shortly after landing in Islamabad with his partner, his brother and five children, aged between one and 13.\n\nThe call led officers to the house in Woking where they found the body of Sara who had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\", likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nFloral tributes were laid at the scene where Sara Sharif was found\n\nBBC News spoke to a Woking travel agent who said he was contacted by Mr Sharif at about 22:00 BST on Tuesday 8 August, saying he wanted to book tickets to Pakistan as soon as possible.\n\nHe confirmed that eight one-way tickets - for Mr Sharif, his brother, his wife and five children - were used on a flight on 9 August that landed in Islamabad at about 05:30 local time, on Thursday 10 August.\n\nWhen police discovered Sara's body at the house in Woking no-one else was there, detectives confirmed.\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman, from Surrey Police and Sussex Police Major Crime Team, said: \"While the post-mortem has not provided us with an established cause of death at this time, the fact that we now know that Sara had suffered multiple and extensive injuries over a sustained and extended period has significantly changed the nature of our investigation, and we have widened the timescale of the focus of our inquiry.\"\n\nPolice are working with the Crown Prosecution Service, Interpol, the National Crime Agency and the Foreign Office to carry out their investigation and in liaising with Pakistani authorities.\n\nThere is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Pakistan.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England have not only made sporting history here in Australia. In what is potentially the most significant moment English women's sport has ever enjoyed, they have the opportunity to leave a legacy for years to come.\n\nWhatever happens in Sunday's momentous showpiece against opponents Spain in Sydney, the Lionesses will become the first senior England football team to play in a World Cup final since 1966, and the only one ever to do so on foreign soil.\n\nThat in itself is a stunning achievement at this most memorable of tournaments. But the impact of this side extends way beyond the record books.\n\nThis is a team which continues to attract new fans, confound the sceptics, shift perceptions, and inspire millions with its blend of talent, spirit and humility.\n\nWhen set against the cruel injuries that ruled out key players such as captain Leah Williamson, Euro 2022 Player of the Tournament Beth Mead and playmaker Fran Kirby, their slow start to the World Cup, and the disruption caused by the suspension of top scorer Lauren James, England's campaign seems even more remarkable.\n\nLast year, their march to European glory was fuelled by home advantage. This time they have been thousands of miles away, and in the semi-final found themselves in the most intimidating of atmospheres imaginable, taking on inspired co-hosts Australia, buoyed by the will of an entire nation in their national stadium.\n\nBut as ever with this team, despite such adversity, England found a way to prevail.\n\nAnd here at the biggest and most competitive World Cup to date, if they can add the sport's greatest prize to their European crown it will establish them as not only one of Britain's greatest teams in any sport, but as the dominant force in the international women's game - an astounding feat given the much smaller player pool compared with rivals like the United States.\n• None The mastermind behind the Lionesses' success\n\nEngland's success owes most to a golden generation of players. The way they have won graciously, consoling opponents, has reinforced the sense that these are role models the country can truly be proud of.\n\nIt underlines the already glittering reputation of their coach Sarina Wiegman, who has taken the side to the next level after arriving in 2021 following the disappointment of semi-final exits at the previous two World Cups.\n\nAnd it is the latest evidence of the impact of investment in the women's game over the past decade; the FA's establishment of St George's Park as a centre of excellence for national teams in 2012, their talent identification programmes that discovered and then developed these stars, and the professionalisation of the Women's Super League (WSL) in 2018.\n\nFor many, the final will feel like the completion of a long journey the sport in England has been on since the FA's 49-year ban on women playing on league grounds was lifted in 1970.\n\nThe Lionesses have already achieved much for the game, and for women's rights more widely. Their Euros triumph on home soil last year provided a huge boost to the sport in terms of participation and profile, with the number of registered players and WSL attendances and viewing figures both leaping as a result. The team successfully campaigned for girls in England to get equal access to school sport, with the government subsequently committing £600 million in funding.\n\nAnd yet, for all the progress that England reaching the final represents, for many, there is still a long way to go. Through their advocacy, the Lionesses have highlighted elements of that themselves: before the tournament began, Mary Earps said it was \"hurtful\" that fans could not buy a replica of her goalkeeper shirt.\n\nIn a separate controversy, it emerged that the players were disappointed by the FA's stance on performance-related bonuses - a dispute yet to be resolved - and part of a wider frustration concerning the governing body's commercial strategy. In a statement, the squad said their fight was driven by \"a strong sense of responsibility to grow the game\".\n\nThe Lionesses have unwittingly sparked discussions in other ways too. While the FA have tried to play it down, there is now a debate over the absence of its president Prince William and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Sunday's final.\n\nThere is also scrutiny over the fact Wiegman is paid around a tenth of the salary men's team boss Gareth Southgate enjoys. The FA have said she would be considered for his job in the future, provoking conversations over the lack of female representation off the pitch in the sport.\n\nOf the 32 nations involved at this World Cup, only 12 had a woman as head coach. While the prize money on offer here in Australia and New Zealand has quadrupled since the last tournament, it is still only a quarter of that on offer for players at the men's World Cup. The way Fifa president Gianni Infantino said women must \"pick the right battles\" to \"convince us men what we have to do\", seeming to suggest they were responsible for action over equality, has also caused controversy.\n\nDomestically, the review of women's football by former England international Karen Carney recently highlighted how women and girls remain significantly less active than men and boys, with gender stereotypes and facilities still holding girls back from participating. Carney made clear the need for minimum standards in the professional game, calling for much more investment, the urgent tackling of a lack of diversity, a new dedicated broadcast slot, and the professionalisation of the second tier Championship, among a raft of recommendations.\n\nAs London 2012 and other landmark British sporting moments have proved, inspiration can only do so much. Opportunities and investment are the other essential ingredients for legacy to be lasting and real.\n\nTwenty years ago, in the very same stadium in which the Lionesses will walk out on Sunday, England's men's rugby union team memorably beat the hosts to win their only World Cup. It was one of English sport's most cherished moments, enjoyed by many millions back home, turning the players involved into legends. But it did not change sport and society in a way that victory for the Lionesses could.\n\nMany will now be hoping that if England can become world champions, generating greater audiences, new players, more respect and fresh sponsors, the momentum needed to tackle the outstanding issues still facing the game will only accelerate. And that this team can become even more transformative, and bring about even more positive change for future generations of Lionesses, than it already has.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A fire resulting from an alleged drone strike on a railway station in Kursk, Russia\n\nRussia says that a Ukrainian drone has struck a railway station in the Kursk region, injuring five people.\n\nAnother drone is said to have landed in the Rostov region - which shares a border with Ukraine, like Kursk - but no injuries were reported.\n\nRussia also said it stopped a drone that was heading for Moscow, which then crashed in an unpopulated area.\n\nAllegations of drone strikes inside Russia have become increasingly common in recent months.\n\nAlthough Ukraine hasn't claimed responsibility for specific drone strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said that attacks on Russian territory are an \"inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process\".\n\nFootage verified by the BBC shows smashed windows and a fire burning at the railway station in Kursk, which is about 150 km (93 miles) from the Ukrainian border.\n\nFive people were injured by glass fragments, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reported. The roof, exterior, and platform of the station were damaged.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said it \"strongly condemns\" the drone attack in Kursk.\n\n\"Ukrainian nationalists literally dealt a blow to our common history,\" ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.\n\nIn its own statement, Russia's defence ministry said it had \"thwarted\" an \"attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by drone on infrastructure in Moscow\" around 04:00 local time (01:00 GMT).\n\nThe Moscow-bound drone was destroyed by \"electronic warfare\" before losing control and crashing in an unpopulated area, the ministry added.\n\nRussia's aviation agency Rosaviatsia said flights to the Domodedovo and Vnukovo international airports were \"temporarily limited\" as a result.\n\nIt comes after seven people, including a six-year-old girl, were killed when a Russian missile struck a theatre in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday.\n\nFifteen children were among 148 people wounded, officials said.\n\nPresident Zelensky vowed to \"respond to Russia for this terrorist attack - a tangible answer\".\n\nFive people were injured at the Kursk railway station\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "About 30,000 households have been ordered to evacuate in Canada's British Columbia province, where nearly 400 wildfires are raging.\n\nTwo huge fires in the Shuswap region merged overnight, destroying blocks of houses and other buildings.\n\nTo the south, travel to the waterside city of Kelowna has been restricted, and smoke from nearby fires hangs over Lake Okanagan.\n\nFires have charred homes in West Kelowna, a nearby city of 36,000.\n\nThe travel restriction around Kelowna is designed to ensure enough accommodation for evacuees and emergency workers. It also applies to the towns of Kamloops, Oliver, Penticton and Vernon and Osoyoos.\n\nHundreds of miles north, a huge fire continues to edge towards the city of Yellowknife.\n\nAn official deadline to evacuate the city - the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories - lapsed on Friday. A local official said later that day that nearly all residents had left, either by car or plane.\n\nAbout 19,000 of the city's 20,000 inhabitants had evacuated. Authorities said 39 patients were moved out of a hospital to alternative facilities on Friday evening, making them the last people to be evacuated from the city.\n\nEnvironment and communities minister Shane Thompson said some people had chosen \"to shelter in place\", but urged locals to leave.\n\nIn British Columbia, evacuation orders grew from covering 15,000 homes on Friday to at least 30,000 by Saturday evening. Another 36,000 homes are under evacuation alert.\n\nThe province's emergency management minister said officials \"cannot stress strongly enough how critical it is to follow evacuation orders\".\n\nBowinn Ma added: \"They are a matter of life and death not only for the people in those properties, but also for the first responders who will often go back to try to implore people to leave.\"\n\nPremier of the province, David Eby, put the total number of people ordered to leave at 35,000, with 30,000 told to be prepared to evacuate.\n\nOne Kelowna resident told the BBC the fires came over the mountainside like an \"ominous cloud of destruction\"\n\nSmoke from wildfires is hanging over Lake Okanagan, on which Kelowna sits\n\nCanada is having its worst wildfire season on record, with at least 1,000 fires burning across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).\n\nExperts say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nExtreme and long-lasting heat draws more and more moisture out of the ground - which can provide fuel for fires that can spread at an incredible speed, particularly if winds are strong.\n\nAlthough no deaths have been reported in the latest fires, at least four firefighters have lost their lives during this record-breaking season.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nAre you personally affected by the wildfires in Canada? If it is safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nThe Women's World Cup final between England and Spain on Sunday will be shown live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.\n\nTelevision coverage of the match, which kicks off at 11:00 BST, will begin at 09:45.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds will have radio commentary as both sides aim to win their first World Cup.\n\nThe BBC Sport website and app will provide live text commentary.\n\nThe final, a first for England's women's or men's teams since 1966, takes place at Stadium Australia in Sydney.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\nThe match will also be shown live on ITV, which will broadcast the third-place play-off between co-hosts Australia and three-time bronze medallists Sweden on Saturday at 09:00 BST.\n\nEuropean champions England beat co-hosts Australia 3-1 in Wednesday's semi-final thanks to goals from Ella Toone, Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo.\n\nEngland are fourth in the Fifa rankings, two places above Spain, who beat Sweden in a dramatic semi on Tuesday.\n\nHave you changed your plans in order to watch the World Cup final on Sunday? Do you have tickets to see the game at Stadium Australia? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n• None Or fill out the form below\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Residents of Seal Beach, California, filling up sand bags to help fortify their homes on Saturday\n\nHurricane Hilary has weakened as it heads towards Mexico's Pacific coast and California but could still cause \"life-threatening\" flooding, US meteorologists warn.\n\nWith winds of 85 mph (140 km/h), it has been downgraded to a Category 1 storm.\n\nHeavy rain lashed parts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and the south-western US overnight.\n\nOne man died after being swept away while crossing a stream in Baja California, an official said.\n\nThe man had been travelling in a car with his three children and a woman. The others all survived, local media reported.\n\nHilary is expected to weaken further to a tropical storm before it reaches southern California. Even still, it would be the first tropical storm to hit the US state in more than 80 years.\n\nIn its latest update at 06:00 GMT on Sunday, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Hilary was roughly 90 miles (145km) south of Baja California's westernmost point of Punta Eugenia.\n\nIts centre will \"move close to the west-central coast of the Baja California peninsula\" on Sunday morning and will then move across southern California on Sunday afternoon, the NHC said.\n\n\"Hilary appears to be weakening quickly,\" John Cangialosi, a senior hurricane specialist at the NHC, told the Associated Press news agency on Saturday.\n\n\"The eye is filling and the cloud tops in the eyewall and rainbands have been warming during the past several hours,\" he added.\n\nHilary was earlier a powerful Category 4 storm with winds up to 130mph.\n\nRainfall could reach 10in (25cm) in some areas of southern California and southern Nevada, the NHC said it Sunday morning's update. \"Dangerous to catastrophic flooding is expected.\"\n\nHeavy rain and winds hit Cabo San Lucas in Baja California, Mexico, on Saturday\n\nIn San Diego, the National Weather Service (NWS) earlier issued a warning for the \"high potential\" of flash flooding. Nearly 26 million people in the south-western US were under flood watch.\n\nOn Friday, US President Joe Biden said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) had \"pre-positioned personnel and supplies in the region\".\n\n\"I urge everyone in the path of the storm to take precautions and listen to the guidance from state and local officials,\" he said.\n\nParts of Mexico are under a tropical storm watch and its government has placed 18,000 soldiers on standby to assist in rescue efforts.\n\nAs the storm approached, Major League Baseball rescheduled three games in southern California, while SpaceX delayed the launch of a rocket from its base on the central California coast until at least Monday.\n\nThe National Park Service also closed Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve, both in California, to prevent visitors from being stranded in the event of flooding.\n\nLocal officials in cities across the region, including in Arizona, have offered sandbags to residents seeking to safeguard their properties against potential floodwaters.\n\nHurricanes and tropical storms are reasonably common in Mexico. But the last time a tropical storm made landfall in southern California was in Long Beach in 1939.\n\nExperts say the abnormal weather events plaguing the US - and several areas across the globe - are being influenced by human-caused climate change.\n\nIn the wake July 2023 - the hottest month on record according to Nasa - the deadliest wildfire in modern US history spread across Hawaii on 8 August, killing at least 111 people.\n\nThe damage was escalated by hurricane winds passing through the area.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app from 09:45; commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live with build-up from 10:00; live text & highlights on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nEuropean champions England have the opportunity to create history for the second time in just over a year when they take on Spain in the Women's World Cup final in Sydney on Sunday.\n\nThe Lionesses will look to claim the title for the first time, as well as become the first England team since 1966 to win a senior final on the world stage.\n\nStanding in their way is a Spain side also playing in their maiden final, with some 75,000 fans expected at Stadium Australia (11:00 BST kick-off).\n\nMillions more will watch the match live on BBC One, with build-up from Australia starting at 09:45.\n\nThe winners will become the fifth different nation to be crowned world champions in the ninth edition of the tournament.\n\nThe United States (four times), Germany (two times), Norway and Japan are the only other winners.\n\n\"Everyone's talking about 1966, so let's be at our best on Sunday and try and be successful,\" said England manager Sarina Wiegman.\n\n\"Making a final is special but with this team and the challenges we had, how we find a way all the time to solve problems has been amazing - [it's] very special being in a final but now we want to win it too.\"\n\nThe Lionesses, who will be wearing their blue kit, are going for world glory 13 months after defeating Germany at Wembley to win the European Championship for the first time.\n• None Sarina Wiegman: The mastermind behind the Lionesses' success\n\nWhile England's path to the Euro 2022 crown was fairly serene, their journey to the World Cup final has been anything but.\n\nThey lost three stars of that triumph to knee injuries prior to this tournament - Leah Williamson, Beth Mead and Fran Kirby - while they have also been tested in Australia, losing key players Keira Walsh and Lauren James to injury and suspension respectively and coming through a penalty shootout against Nigeria.\n\nBut Wiegman's side have been calm under pressure and they have been behind for just seven minutes - against Colombia in the quarter-finals.\n\nMeanwhile, Walsh only missed one game after her injury was not as bad as first feared and James is available for the final after serving her two-match ban for stamping on Nigeria's Michelle Alozie.\n\nWiegman will have to decide whether to stick with the line-up which performed so impressively in the 3-1 semi-final win over Australia, or bring back James, who was England's best player at the tournament before her red card.\n\nCaptain Millie Bright, who was given the armband for the World Cup after the injury to Williamson, said: \"It's a dream come true to be in the World Cup final. Leading the girls out is a special feeling.\n\n\"We have got a game plan that we have to go out and execute. Everyone knows how big this is. We know how passionate our nation is back home and how much they want us to win.\"\n• None 'Wiegman is raising the hopes of all women'\n• None Listen: Where it all started - the first Lionesses\n\nAgainst a backdrop of unrest, disharmony, and a 4-0 defeat by Japan in the group stage, it is remarkable that Spain, who are ranked sixth in the world - two places below England - have managed to reach the final.\n\nReports of a rift between boss Jorge Vilda and his players have followed La Roja all the way in this tournament.\n\nLa Roja, appearing in just their third World Cup, have impressed since that heavy defeat by Japan, knocking out Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden.\n\nCentre-back Irene Paredes said: \"Spain has always been a football loving country but it was not our space, or at least that's how they made us feel.\n\n\"We want to play football and [those who came before us] pushed so they invested more in women's football. We have the opportunity to play in a final of a World Cup. It is the time to enjoy it.\"\n\nThe majority of their squad is made up of players from Champions League winners Barcelona, including 2021 and 2022 Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas.\n\nHowever it is 19-year-old forward Salma Paralluelo who has stolen the headlines, following up her winning goal in the quarter-final against the Netherlands by scoring against Sweden in the semi-finals, both times after coming on a substitute.\n• None Alexia Putellas wins award for best female footballer in 2022\n• None Listen: 'We always believed' Spain would reach World Cup final\n\nWhile England boss Wiegman has rightly won widespread plaudits for uniting her squad and taking them to the next level, Spain head coach Vilda has been surrounded by controversy since a player revolt last September.\n\nThe Dutchwoman has reached a fourth major tournament final in a row, having won back-to-back Euros with the Netherlands and England, either side of a World Cup final defeat with her native country at the 2019 World Cup.\n\nThe only defeat of Wiegman's 38-game reign with the Lionesses so far came in a friendly against Australia at Brentford in April - and she has won 18 out of 19 matches at major tournaments as a manager.\n\nVilda, meanwhile, has been involved in a feud with 15 of his players amid reports of concern over training methods and inadequate game preparation.\n\nA stand-off ensued and only three of those players were included in his World Cup squad, meaning some world-class talent such as Champions League winners Patri Guijarro, Mapi Leon and Claudia Pina were left at home.\n\nEngland and Spain have never faced each other at a World Cup, while the Lionesses have only lost two of their past 13 games in all competitions against La Roja (winning seven and drawing the other four).\n\nTheir most recent meeting came in the quarter-finals at Euro 2022, when England needed a late equaliser from Ella Toone and an extra-time winner from Georgia Stanway to squeeze into the semi-finals.\n\n\"It was a game that we know we were on top, but the result is what counts,\" said Vilda. \"[Sunday] will be a tactical match and it's a final that we're going to fight with everything.\"\n\nThe final, which is a 75,784 sell-out, kicks-off at 20:00 local time in Australia, which is nine hours ahead of England.\n\nLa Roja will be cheered on in Sydney by royalty, with Spain's Queen Letizia attending the final.\n\nFootball Association President Prince William has wished the England women's national team good luck and said he is \"sorry\" for not attending the game in person in a video message.\n\nFootball fan zones in London have already sold out in anticipation of the Lionesses' match.\n\nIf England do win, the government has said there are \"no plans\" for an extra bank holiday.\n\nI have backed England from the start and I'm not going to change my mind now.\n\nSpain have got quality players and will have lots of possession but England also have world-class players. And they have the big-game experience, having beaten Spain on their way to winning Euro 2022.\n\nThe teams are at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to togetherness. The problems within the Spanish system and the debate over coach Vilda's methods are well documented, while England are closely knit and are enjoying themselves.\n\nI think this, together with Wiegman, are the extra percentage points that will get England over the line.\n\nAnd I'm confident it could be a similar scoreline to England's win in the semi-final. I think they will start with the same XI as they did in the semi-final but will bring James and Chloe Kelly off the bench, to play their part too in the final.\n• None Wiegman has 'no plans to leave' England job\n• None Listen: Jill Scott speaks to some of the Lionesses who have made it to the World Cup final", "Lucy Letby was convicted following a two-year investigation by Cheshire Police\n\nNurse Lucy Letby is due to be sentenced later after being found guilty of murdering seven babies, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.\n\nThe 33-year-old was also convicted of trying to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nThe trial lasted for more than 10 months and is believed to be the longest murder trial in the UK.\n\nShe has indicated she will not be in court for the hearing.\n\nHer legal team said she also does not want to follow proceedings via a videolink from prison, the reasons for her non-attendance at Manchester Crown Court have not been disclosed.\n\nIf Letby does fail to show up to the hearing, she will not hear the families' victim impact statements - where people have a chance to tell the court about how a crime has affected them and those around them.\n\nShe will also not hear the judge, Mr Justice James Goss, give his sentencing remarks where he will explain the reasons for the length of the prison sentence handed down to her.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nLetby - who deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin between June 2015 and June 2016 - refused to appear in the dock as the latest verdicts were read out on Friday.\n\nThey had been delivered over several hearings, but could not be reported until all the verdicts were returned.\n\nLetby, originally of Hereford, broke down in tears as the first guilty verdicts were read out by the jury's foreman on 8 August after 76 hours of deliberations.\n\nShe cried with her head bowed as the second set of guilty verdicts were returned on 11 August.\n\nThe refusal to attend court last week has led to renewed calls for a new law to compel convicted criminals to attend court for sentencing hearings.\n\nLetby's expected absence from the dock is the latest in a series of high-profile trials where convicted murderers have refused to turn up, including the killers of Zara Aleena in London and nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.\n\nFormer prison governor Prof Ian Acheson told the BBC judges should have the power to compel criminals into the courtroom \"to be sentenced in front of the people they have harmed\".\n\nEarlier this year, the government said it was committed to introducing legislation to ensure criminals are made to appear in the dock for sentencing.\n\nFormer justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland backed the government's announcement, saying defendants should face tougher consequences if they refuse to appear in the dock, such as receiving longer sentences.\n\nFacilitating \"better ways in which defendants really have nowhere to hide\" when it comes to listening or seeing the court \"even if they're in the cell\" is another option for the government to explore, Sir Robert added.\n\n\"We use television, video links all the time when it comes to defendants who might be on a live link from the prison, for a procedural hearing or even a sentence hearing,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe said this would avoid \"disruptive behaviour\" that would \"cause upset to the victims and the wider public\".\n\nFamilies of victims said they will \"forever be grateful\" to jurors who had to sit through 145 days of \"gruelling\" evidence.\n\nThe defendant was found not guilty of two attempted murder charges and the jury was undecided on further attempted murder charges relating to four babies.\n\nNicholas Johnson KC, prosecuting, asked the court for 28 days to consider whether a retrial would be sought for the remaining six counts of attempted murder.\n\nDuring the trial, which started in October, the prosecution labelled Letby as a \"calculating and devious\" opportunist who \"gaslighted\" colleagues to cover her \"murderous assaults\".\n\nShe was convicted following a two-year investigation by Cheshire Police into the alarming and unexplained rise in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies at the hospital.\n\nThe government has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances behind the baby murders.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Waitrose and John Lewis are offering free hot drinks to on-duty police officers in a bid to deter shoplifters.\n\nJohn Lewis Partnership, which owns both brands, has written to the Police Federation to say officers can make the most of the offer - as long as they bring a reusable cup.\n\nIts head of security said that even just having a police car parked outside might deter would-be thieves.\n\nIt comes as other shops have reported soaring levels of retail crime.\n\nIn Waitrose, police officers and community support officers will be able to get drinks from the in-store coffee machines.\n\nThe supermarket used to have a generous offer of free teas and coffees for all shoppers who had a loyalty card.\n\nThat scheme was tweaked in 2017, so customers now have to make a purchase in-store before they can claim a free drink from its self-service machines using a reusable cup. It was also paused during the pandemic.\n\nIn John Lewis, police officers will be able to use staff cafeterias for breaks and buy discounted food there too.\n\nNicki Juniper, head of security for the John Lewis Partnership, said: \"Retail crime is a national problem and requires a national solution.\n\n\"Just having a police car parked outside can make people think twice about shoplifting from our branches, or becoming aggressive towards our partners [staff].\"\n\nThe group said its chair Dame Sharon White had also written to Home Secretary Suella Braverman calling for tougher action against repeat and violent offenders.\n\nWith a rise in incidents on the shop floor, it has also had to increase spending on the number of guards and staff it employs who are trained to stop and detain shoplifters.\n\nIt has also trialled what it called \"love bombing\" in some of its stores - being extra attentive to customers, including asking if help is needed at self-checkouts, to act as a potential deterrent.\n\nThe convenience store chain Co-op has also called for action after crime in its outlets hit record levels, increasing by more than a third over a year.\n\nThere were about 1,000 cases of crime, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour in its shops each day in the six months to June, the chain said.\n\nIt even suggested that some communities could eventually become \"no-go\" areas, with retail crime driven by \"repeat and prolific offenders and, organised criminal gangs\".\n\nAccording to figures from retail trade body the British Retail Consortium, retail thefts across the sector in England and Wales rose by 26% in 2022.\n\nIts crime survey suggested that nearly 850 incidents were taking place every day, with staff facing physical assault and being threatened with weapons on some occasions.\n\nData, analysed by the BBC, shows shoplifting offences have returned to pre-pandemic levels as the cost of living rises.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium previously told the BBC that these high level of theft cost retailers almost £1bn in the 2021 financial year, \"money that would be better used to reduce prices and invest in a better customer experience.\"", "From reaching the quarter-finals in 1995 to securing a spot in this year's final, we look back at the Lionesses' World Cup journey.\n\nFollow coverage of the Fifa Women's World Cup across BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds & the BBC Sport website & app.", "The burnt-out shell of an old Ferrari racing car has sold at auction in the US for nearly $2m (£1.5m).\n\nIt caught fire during a race in the 1960s and was not touched for decades.\n\nIt was driven by Franco Cortese, Ferrari's first racing driver. Analysts say the new buyer may want to restore it so it can race again.\n\nThe 1954 car is a 500 Mondial Spider Series I - one of 13 ever made, with a body produced by designer Pinin Farina.\n\nIn 1954, Cortese drove the Mondial to a 14th overall finish at the Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile (1,600km) race through Italy.\n\nOver the years, the Mondial crashed numerous times and suffered fire damage.\n\nIn 1978, it was bought by a US collector who preserved it in its damaged condition.\n\nIn 2004 the car was discovered - alongside 19 other Ferraris - when a hurricane blew the roof off a barn where they were kept in Florida.\n\nAuctioneer RM Sotheby's says the vehicle will require \"a comprehensive restoration to return the car to the condition of its glory days\", but the process promises to be \"very rewarding\".", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland's wait to win a first Women's World Cup title goes on after Spain deservedly triumphed in the final in Sydney.\n\nThe Lionesses, looking to become the first England senior side since the men's team in 1966 to win the World Cup, suffered heartbreak after being outplayed by a Spanish side full of flair and creativity.\n\nEngland's players fell to their knees in tears at the final whistle as Spain celebrated inside their penalty area after dealing with a final corner kick in the 14th minute of nerve-wracking stoppage time.\n\nSpain captain Olga Carmona slotted the winner past goalkeeper Mary Earps in the first half, capitalising after England's Lucy Bronze lost possession in midfield.\n\nEngland manager Sarina Wiegman, who has now lost two successive World Cup finals, introduced Lauren James and Chloe Kelly at half-time but Spain maintained control despite the Lionesses' best efforts.\n\nEarps, who won the Golden Glove award as best goalkeeper at the tournament, made several stunning saves, none better than from the penalty spot to deny Jenni Hermoso in the second half.\n\nThe Manchester United stopper moved early to her left and caught Hermoso's effort, the penalty having being awarded for handball against midfielder Keira Walsh following a lengthy video assistant referee review.\n\nBut it was one step too far for the European champions, who lost just their second match in two years under Wiegman.\n\n\"I'm just deflated,\" said England defender Lucy Bronze. \"Obviously we went into the World Cup wanting to win it and we were so close, but in the end we couldn't quite get it over the line.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have achieved but I think everybody that knows me, knows that I only like gold medals.\"\n\nSpain are crowned champions for the first time despite going into the tournament under a cloud of controversy following a dispute between players and the Spanish football federation.\n\nBoth teams came into the final full of confidence, having improved on their performances throughout the tournament.\n\nEngland, who played in front of a sold-out Wembley crowd last summer to win the Euros final, started brightly, testing Spain's defence with balls over the top and in behind.\n\nManchester City forward Lauren Hemp was direct and aggressive, and had England's best chance but her curling effort from 15 yards hit the crossbar.\n\nHowever Spain, packed with Barcelona stars who won their second Women's Champions League title this season, imposed their quality and worked out how to deal with England's high press.\n\nThey dominated large chunks of the game, exposing the spaces left by England's attacking full-backs and took their chance when Bronze cut inside from the right and gave the ball away when she was stopped by a wall of red in the centre circle.\n\nSpain intelligently switched play to their left and Carmona ran on to a simple pass from Mariona Caldentey before stroking the ball low past a diving Earps.\n\nSpain had several chances to extend their lead - Earps blocked shots from Ona Batlle, Caldentey and Alba Redondo in each half - while Salma Paralluelo's first-time strike brushed the post on the stroke of half-time.\n\nIt was a deserved victory for Spain but it will feel like a missed opportunity for the Lionesses, who have found a way to win so often under Wiegman but could not find the answers in the biggest game in their history.\n\nPrior to this year's competition, Spain had only ever won one Women's World Cup match.\n\nThey had suffered defeat at the hands of England in the Euro 2022 quarter-finals but unlike that evening in Brighton when the Lionesses came from behind to win 2-1, Spain stuck to their task and saw out victory.\n\nThe streets of Sydney, which had been draped in green and gold for most of the competition, were transformed on Sunday to represent Spain and England's colours.\n\nEngland fans came dressed in costumes, banging drums and chanting on the city's trains en route to the stadium and though they dominated numbers in the crowd, it was Spain's supporters celebrating at full-time.\n\nBronze, 31, was in tears lying on the pitch at full-time and had to watch on as many of her Barcelona team-mates danced for the cameras while they prepared the stage for the trophy celebration.\n\nShe has won almost everything in the game but still cannot get her hands on the most desired trophy of them all.\n\n\"The goal is always to win tournaments with this team. We have shown that we can do that,\" added Bronze.\n\n\"We have made a final. There is no reason why the team can't go and create more legacies and more winning legacies.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Spain's achievement is a remarkable one given manager Jorge Vilda survived a player revolt less than 12 months ago. That unrest in the set-up meant they were missing Sandra Panos, Mapi Leon, Patri Guijarro and Claudia Pina, who all helped Barcelona win the Champions League in June.\n\nTheir victory could transform women's football in Spain, which has been thrust into the limelight in recent years following Barcelona's domestic success.\n• None Attempt blocked. Millie Bright (England) header from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salma Paralluelo (Spain) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Teresa Abelleira.\n• None Attempt blocked. Aitana Bonmatí (Spain) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Teresa Abelleira. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Callum Jackson: \"With such generous sunshine during the first weeks of British summer time, my friend and I ventured along the Green Chain Walk. As we strolled through the expansive Oxleas Wood, we reached Shooters Hill, where we found ourselves rubbing our eyes after happening upon this incongruous, unusually tall pedestrian crossing button. There is an equestrian centre nearby and the horses utilise this unique crossing designed to accommodate those at horse-rider height. These crossings are aptly named Pegasus crossings.\"", "Anyone over the age of 53 today lived at a time when women were banned from playing football in England.\n\nIt's a fact that, given the context of this history-making weekend, is almost laughable.\n\n\"The game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged,\" read a statement from the Football Association in 1921, announcing the ban that would stand for almost 50 years.\n\nAnother half century on, the story tells of a remarkably different time. Already European champions, England's Lionesses stand on the cusp of global glory with a Women's World Cup final against Spain coming up on Sunday.\n\nSo how did we get here?\n\nIt perhaps feels strange to start in 1966, the year England won the men's World Cup, but a young Patricia Gregory was watching that match on television.\n\nCaught up in the excitement of that, and Tottenham's FA Cup win the following year, the 19-year-old wondered why women couldn't play the game too.\n\nShe put a notice in her local paper to ask for players and was inundated with replies, but the council said she could not legally rent a pitch for matches against other women's football teams.\n\nUndaunted, Gregory eventually managed to get a pitch and ended up running both it and a women's football league, as well as founding the Women's FA as the game's governing body in 1969 - the year before the FA rescinded its ban on women.\n\nHope and change in the 90s\n\nIt was in 1972 that the first official England women's side played an international match - beating Scotland 3-2 - but another 26 years passed until a full-time head coach was put in post. Enter Hope Powell.\n\nThe 1990s brought many firsts for women's football. In England, it saw the first Centres of Excellence, the first national league, and the women's game being brought under the control of the FA. On a global scale, the 90s brought the first official Fifa Women's World Cup.\n\nBut when Powell took charge of England in 1998, it would mark the start of a 15-year reign in which she led England to two World Cups and four European Championships, and cemented her place as a pioneer of women's football in the country, playing a substantial part in the successes we see today.\n\nThe Women's Euros came to England for the first time in 2005, held in Blackburn, Blackpool, Manchester, Preston and Warrington with Germany lifting the trophy at Ewood Park.\n\nIt was a tournament that offered a glimpse in to the future. Fans wearing replica shirts with players' names on the back flocked to games, an average attendance of 23,160 accompanied by more than two million people tuning in to England's games on the BBC. Yes, interest diminished after Powell's side failed to get out of their group, but it was a start.\n\nBut after the tournament, then Uefa president Lennart Johansson provoked an angry reaction when he said sponsors of women's football could cash in by promoting the players' physical attributes. \"Companies could make use of a sweaty, lovely looking girl playing on the ground, with the rainy weather,\" he said.\n\nFour years later, another step in the right direction. Seventeen players, including the likes of Casey Stoney, Steph Houghton, Jill Scott and Rachel Yankey, were awarded central contracts by the FA, receiving salaries of £16,000 each.\n\nThose contracts, lasting four years, took the pressure off those players needing employment outside of football - though they could still work for up to 24 hours per week - and required them to be available for all training camps, matches and tournaments, as well as personal appearances.\n\nAt the time, Powell said: \"We hope this will allow our girls time to concentrate on helping England qualify for major tournaments on a consistent basis and competing at the very top level against the best teams in the world.\"\n\nThe start of the Women's Super League\n\nThe year 2011 saw the launch of the Women's Super League, featuring eight predominantly semi-professional sides who received licenses from the FA after meeting a strict criteria.\n\nThe clubs were given £70,000 from the FA for each of the first two seasons - to be spent on infrastructure - and signed up to a salary cap, meaning no more than four players in each side could be paid more than £20,000 in a bid to ensure star players were spread fairly across teams.\n\nThe opening fixture, held at Tooting & Mitcham's Imperial Fields in south London, saw Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0 in front of some 2,500 paying fans, though a bobbly pitch caused issues for both sides.\n\nPoor pitch standards - where have we heard that before?\n\nWembley Stadium. The Home of Football. Well, men's football - until 2014 that is, when England women played their first headline international match at the new Wembley.\n\nEngland women had played there before, in 1989, but that was as a curtain-raiser ahead of a men's match against Chile.\n\nMark Sampson's side lost 3-0 against Germany, watched by a then-England record crowd of 45,619. That number should have been higher, given all 55,000 tickets were sold, but almost 10,000 fans did not turn up with transport problems in London and the weather to blame.\n\nIn 2019, their next appearance at the national stadium which also ended in defeat by the Germans, 77,768 were in the crowd, but that number had grown to 87,192 by 2022, when England exacted their revenge on Germany in the Euros final.\n\nMore on that later.\n\nSampson was England head coach from 2013 until his sacking in 2017, leading the Lionesses to third place at the 2015 Women's World Cup.\n\nBut a lengthy, messy dispute resulted in two of his England players, Eniola Aluko and Drew Spence, eventually receiving an apology from the FA for Sampson's racially discriminatory remarks, after an independent barrister ruled he made unacceptable \"ill-judged attempts at humour\" on two occasions.\n\nSampson was actually dismissed over safeguarding issues after evidence emerged of \"inappropriate and unacceptable\" behaviour with female players in a previous role. He later brought an unfair dismissal case against the FA, which was settled \"confidentially\" in 2019.\n\nAt the time, the FA was criticised for its handling of the Sampson case and, at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee session hearing in 2017, questions were raised about the management culture around the England team and the FA's duty of care towards its women's team.\n\nThe summer of 2018 saw huge change for the WSL, transitioning to full-time professional status with a restructured one-tier, 11-team league.\n\nThe FA brought in new licence criteria for clubs, meaning all teams had to re-apply for their places, with a requirement to offer a minimum of 16 contact hours per week for players and an academy.\n\nIn 2022, BBC analysis suggested the average WSL player now earns £47,000 a year, and after the Lionesses' Euros success, WSL attendances increased by 267%, helped by big games being held at the country's biggest stadia, including Old Trafford, Emirates Stadium, Anfield and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\nFormer Manchester United player Phil Neville was appointed in January 2018, despite no previous experience in the women's game. He won the SheBelieves Cup in 2019 and England came fourth in that year's World Cup in France.\n\nBut a dip in results followed, with seven defeats in his last 11 games amid some fixture disruption due to the Covid pandemic, left Neville's record and England progress being questioned - especially against the best sides.\n\nWhen he left for Inter Miami in January 2021, six months before his contract was due to end, Baroness Sue Campbell, the FA's director of women's football, praised his \"significant contribution\" to raising the \"profile\" and \"championing\" the women's game.\n\nBut when the FA announced Sarina Wiegman would succeed Neville as England's head coach in September 2021, they knew they were bringing in a \"proven winner\".\n\nHaving led the Netherlands to the European title in 2017, and the World Cup final two years later, she had the track record of \"building a winning team\".\n\nAnd so it has proved. In her 38 games in charge, England have lost just once. Of her 30 wins, the biggest to date came little more than 12 months ago, when the Lionesses created history by winning Euro 2022, a first major title that catapulted many of the players to household name status.\n\nVictory on Sunday, in a maiden World Cup final for the Lionesses, would be even bigger.\n\nAnd so to that final.\n\nOn Sunday, the Lionesses have a golden opportunity to become the first senior England side to win the World Cup since 1966, a year in which women like them were prohibited from playing the sport.\n\nMaybe, just maybe, football is suitable for females after all.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "In the end, it came down to that word that has haunted England fans for decades: hurt.\n\nBut after the Lionesses' heartbreaking defeat to Spain in Sunday's final, it was impossible to find a single person gathered in the fan zone to watch the match who thought this was the end of the line for a side the country has fallen head over heels in love with.\n\nAt Croydon Boxpark in London, hundreds of supporters began the morning hopeful as they crammed into the stiflingly hot fan venue.\n\nIn scenes repeated across the country, the faithful had arrived early, waving flags, many wearing shirts with names of their heroes on the back, and hoping for a historic win.\n\nThe final whistle might have brought the curtain down on this particular World Cup dream - but this team's place in fans' hearts has been cemented.\n\nDani and Georgia Beazley were the first in line when the doors opened, queuing from 07:30 BST to secure a front row seat.\n\n\"We're gutted, but they've done the country proud,\" said Dani. \"And I think this defeat will only make people love them more.\"\n\nCoach Sarina Wiegman has built a winning team and mentality - and a generation of fans who have got used to winning.\n\nBefore kick-off, Holly Cornford, 30, said: \"I started watching women's football seriously during the [2022] Euros and just thought it was incredible. Before that it felt like you had to jump through hoops to watch it.\n\n\"I don't think there's any chance it will go backwards from here\", she said. \"It's only going up.\"\n\nHer friend Phoebe Shavelar, who's 25, said: \"This England team just make me feel positive about women's sport in general.\n\n\"For a little boy, that dream was always there for them. That's changing for little girls now.\"\n\nDani and Georgia were first in line at Croydon Boxpark\n\nAmong those watching was 10-year-old Isla Burton, from Horley, West Sussex.\n\nHer dad Luke described them as a \"football family\" as he played for AFC Wimbledon, his sons compete at youth level and now Isla plays at Brighton's centre of emerging talent.\n\n\"The standard of women's football is amazing and for my daughter to be able to see that, it gives her drive and belief,\" Luke said.\n\n\"She was brought up on football but even five or 10 years ago I didn't know if she'd be able to have a career in it.\n\n\"But now there's just such a buzz around the sport.\"\n\nMum Sarah agreed, saying she hoped to see her daughter \"up on that screen one day\".\n\nSimilar events were held elsewhere across the country.\n\nIn Birmingham, the Witton Arms, next to Aston Villa's Villa Park, reopened after a refurbishment with a big screen and brand new fan zone.\n\nAston Villa fan Rhiannon Williams said: \"It's good seeing how people have started watching it and [they] proved that they can play football.\n\n\"Hopefully Villa Park can be sold out at a women's game.\"\n\nThe crowd in Croydon watched as England started to try and break down a stubborn Spain side and there were groans when England went close early on (so close that five people sharing a bench ended up flat on their backs) and the nerves were palpable.\n\nBut across London, at a fan zone in Victoria Park in the east of the city, England supporters were stunned into silence as Olga Camona scored the opening goal on 29 minutes. A single Spain fan celebrated.\n\nBack in Croydon there was still belief at half-time but the game slipped away from England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the second half, a penalty save from Mary Earps sent the crowd into raptures and pints were thrown in the air.\n\nAt a screening in North Walsham, Norfolk - the home town of England forward Lauren Hemp - there was hope England could still find an equaliser.\n\n\"We will keep working hard and cheering them on,\" said Nicola Wicks.\n\nBut in the end, there were tears.\n\nIn Croydon, a despondent Holly Sohail was consoled by friends after the final whistle.\n\n\"I woke up at 2am and was convinced we could win\", she said dabbing at her eyes with her England shirt.\n\n\"But we'll come back. We will win this tournament in four years' time.\"\n\nLaura, Emma and Helen Davies had no doubt the Lionesses will keep growing\n\nNicola Byrne said: \"We're devastated but they were amazing. We couldn't be any prouder. Will they be back? 100%.\"\n\nMum Helen Davies and daughters Emma and Laura, had arrived early, with their replica kits on.\n\nAnd off the pitch, Emma said, this team's influence is beyond doubt.\n\n\"Girls are now seeing football as a career which never could before. Even some older players like Lucy Bronze - she wouldn't have dreamt of this as a child.\"\n\nOne of them who might go to bed tonight dreaming of playing on the big stage is Lilly Rush.\n\nThe three-year-old had one of the best seats in the house under the big screen alongside dad James Rush and mum Lisa Campbell.\n\nParents James and Lisa hope England inspire Lilly to believe she can pursue a career in sport\n\n\"She plays football on a Saturday and loves it,\" Lisa said.\n\n\"This final will show her that playing sport is something can do when she grows up.\n\n\"Even just before the Euros in 2022 it was hard to imagine.\n\n\"Let's face it, everyone wants a team to believe in.\"\n\nWorld Cup winners or not, England has one.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland's Mary Earps has been named the best goalkeeper at the 2023 Women's World Cup and claimed the Golden Glove award. The Manchester United player saved a penalty from Spain's Jenni Hermoso in the final, which England lost 1-0. Earps, 30, played in all of England's seven matches, conceding four goals. Spain midfielder Aitana Bonmati was named player of the tournament with 19-year-old Spain winger Salma Paralluelo taking the young player award. Japan's Hinata Miyazawa won the Golden Boot for scoring the most goals, with a total of five. She scored two in a 5-0 win against Zambia, two in the 4-0 victory over eventual champions Spain and one in the 3-1 success against Norway in the last 16.\n• None Earps rated best player of the World Cup final Speaking after the final, Earps said her own performance was not much of a consolation for missing out on the World Cup. \"The team result is the most important thing really and we couldn't get that,\" Earps told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"I just try to go out and do my job for the team, leave everything on the pitch. \"In a couple of weeks, when the emotion has settled down, we will probably be able to look back and feel proud - it is no small feat to get to a World Cup final. \"But we are very competitive people, we came here to win the game and get a gold medal, not a silver one. \"At the same time you need to try and be as present as possible. These moments don't come around very often. I will probably look back on this as up there as one of my career highlights but right now it just doesn't feel like it.\" Former England striker Ellen White felt Earps was a worthy winner of the award. \"Mary Earps winning the Golden Glove award is so well deserved,\" said White on BBC One. \"What she has done for this England side, she is the Fifa Best goalkeeper and she has shown it on the world stage. \"She has been phenomenal, she has kept England in games, she gave them an extra boost with her penalty save. \"What she has done and what she has gone through for the last three or four years, her development as a goalkeeper, her mentality has been absolutely phenomenal. It's credit to her and her character.\" Before the tournament, Earps criticised England kit manufacturer Nike for not selling replica women's goalkeeper shirts. \"On a personal level, it is hugely hurtful,\" Earps said in July. \"There has been an incredible rise in goalkeeping participation. \"I can't really sugar-coat this in any way, so I am not going to try. It is hugely disappointing and very hurtful.\"\n• None What's the cost of our obsession with houseplants?\n• None 'It's very easy to plummet to your death': Will Jon Ronson convince Shaun to visit the Pacific Coast Highway?", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nThe Women's World Cup is almost over and has provided many memorable moments on the pitch.\n\nGreat goals have been scored, heroes have been made and on Sunday England or Spain will be crowned champions.\n\nBut away from the football there have been other memorable - and amusing - moments you may have missed.\n\nFortunately, BBC Sport has collated some of the best...\n\nLord of the Rings fan goes viral\n\nThere's always one, isn't there?\n\nAustralia's run to the semi-finals brought many joyous scenes as the country celebrated the Matildas' historic progress.\n\nIt was clear that even non-football fans were getting wrapped up in the moment, and one of the most memorable scenes after Australia's thrilling quarter-final win against France was from inside a plane where everyone was gripped by the penalty shootout.\n\nWell, almost everyone.\n\nWith dozens of screens showing those tense final moments, one person was blissfully unware of the surrounding drama as they watched Lord of the Rings.\n\nIt is a great film, but perhaps the biggest surprise is that it is 2023 and there exists someone who hadn't seen it yet.\n\nThat moment when you're watching the wrong game...\n\nWhile people on the ground and in the air were gripped by that tense shootout, for one person Australia's progress to the semi-finals felt less intense.\n\nThat's because, while former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce was watching Australia beat France, the hotel he was at inadvertently put on a replay of a friendly between the two sides from July.\n\nAustralia won that game 1-0, so nowhere near as nerve-wracking as penalties.\n\n\"I know it was an incredible penalty shootout which we never saw. We went and had dinner because we thought they'd won 1-0,\" Joyce said.\n\nAustralian journalist injured in the line of duty\n\nIt isn't every day you see your team reach the World Cup semi-finals, so it's understandable if celebrations get pretty wild.\n\nHowever, reporter Isobel Cootes celebrated Australia's victory over France so much she dislocated her shoulder.\n\nShe was back to work the following day, albeit with her shoulder in a sling.\n\nIt wasn't to be for Australia as they were beaten by England in the semi-finals, but perhaps it was a good thing for Isobel that there wasn't another chance for a wild celebration...\n\nIt has become a World Cup tradition - after the partying and celebrations of a Japan win die down, their players and fans stay behind long after the final whistle to make sure they leave everything spotless.\n\nThe Japanese once again drew global praise as supporters were seen picking up litter in the stands following the 5-0 victory over Zambia in the group stage.\n\nThe players did their bit too as they tidied up the dressing room and left messages of thanks to stadium staff before they left.\n\nThere are about 10,000 miles between Colombia and Australia, but that didn't stop the South Americans being one of the best-supported teams at the World Cup.\n\nThe loud, colourful Colombians were one of the outstanding features at the tournament and their ear-splitting, goose bump-raising renditions of the national anthem had to be heard to be believed.\n\nMuch of the backing came from expatriate communities of Colombians in Australia.\n\n\"There is a trend in Colombia to go and work in Australia, to travel, to study English - many Colombians are doing that. So there are a lot all over Australia,\" Valentina Pena, sports broadcaster for W Radio Colombia, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The thing is, we are not only so many - we are really loud. We are Latino people.\"\n\nWe get it. An international tournament goes on for a long time and, behind all the tension and excitement of games, and once most of the touristy bits are done, there are long spells with very little for players to do.\n\nMaybe it's not so bad if you are based in a bustling city like Sydney or Wellington, but for those situated in smaller places with not quite as much to do, it is understandable things may eventually get a bit dull.\n\nThat's what happened in the case of Spain, who left their training base in the Palmerston North in New Zealand early because of boredom.\n\nTeam officials stressed that the players and staff did enjoy their time there, praising the people, their hotel and the facilities, but the lack of things to do, particularly in the evenings, ultimately took its toll.\n\nOn the eve of Sweden's World Cup semi-final against Spain, coach Peter Gerhardsson will have had a lot on his mind.\n\nThat's the excuse he should have used when he finished his pre-match news conference by standing up and walking straight into a broom cupboard.\n\nGerhardsson looked a little perplexed when he opened the door to see shelves and household cleaning products, but was promptly redirected to the actual exit by a geographically sound cameraman.\n\nIf doing it in a room full of people is nerve-wracking enough, imagine doing it in front of thousands inside a stadium?\n\nThat's what officials at this World Cup have had to do, with decisions made by the video assistant referee (VAR) now being communicated to the fans.\n\nIt is the first time that this has been done at a senior international tournament, with the responsibility for making the announcement falling to the on-pitch referee.\n\nIt has had a couple of teething problems, namely in Spain's group game against Zambia when Jennifer Hermoso initially had a goal ruled out for offside.\n\nAfter a lengthy VAR check, referee Oh-Hyeon Jeong initially stood by the decision, announcing \"no goal\", but then swiftly backtracked: \"No, wait... no offside. Goal!\"\n\nThis World Cup has been talked about everywhere from pubs to the corridors of power.\n\nBefore Australia's quarter-final against France, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, tagging French President Emmanuel Macron, wrote on social media: \"How about a bet Emmanuel Macron? If the Matildas win tonight, you'll support Australia in the semi-finals. If France win, I'll support France. Deal?\"\n\nMacron took up the bet and followed through on the deal after France lost, throwing his support behind Australia for their semi-final with England.\n\n\"Nothing personal against our English friends, but a bet is a bet,\" Macron posted.", "TV presenter Phil Spencer has paid tribute to his \"amazing parents\" after they died together when their car toppled into a river.\n\nAnne and David Spencer died following the accident on their farm in Kent.\n\nMr Spencer, best known for presenting Location, Location, Location, said his parents \"would have held hands under the water and quietly slipped away\".\n\nHis brother had pulled them out of the river but they never regained consciousness, Mr Spencer said.\n\nIn a statement posted on Instagram, Mr Spencer, 53, said the accident on Friday had been \"what God planned\" for his parents, who had been married for six decades and raised four children.\n\n\"As a family we are all trying to hold on to the fact mum and dad went together and that neither will ever have to mourn the loss of the other one,\" he said.\n\nMr Spencer said that while both his parents had been on \"good form\" before they died, his mother's Parkinson's disease and his father's dementia had been \"worsening\".\n\nDescribing the accident, which happened in Littlebourne, Mr Spencer said they had been on their way to lunch when their car \"very slowly\" toppled over a bridge, before falling upside down into the river.\n\nTheir carer had also been in the car, but she managed to climb out of the back window and raise the alarm, Mr Spencer said.\n\n\"As many farmers do, my brother had a penknife and so was able to cut the seat belts,\" he went on, adding: \"He pulled them out of the river but they never regained consciousness.\"\n\nMr Spencer said the family was \"desperately sad and shocked beyond all belief\" but knowing his parents had died \"together on the farm they so loved\" would be \"a comfort in the future\".\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said they were called to the scene just after 12:00 on 18 August, where they stayed for 90 minutes.\n\nThree fire engines and a water safety unit attended, and crews assisted South East Coast Ambulance Service and made the scene safe, they said in a statement.\n\nKirstie Allsopp, Mr Spencer's co-host on Location, Location, Location, said she was sending him \"so much love\".\n\n\"The only blessing is they died together, so will never have to mourn the loss of each other,\" she said.\n\nSharing a recent photograph of the couple on Instagram, Ms Allsopp said she was \"desperately sad\" and asked fans to \"keep them in your thoughts and prayers\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"They were farmers, animal lovers and devoted parents to Robert, Caryn, Helen and Philip and adored their eight grandchildren,\" Ms Allsopp wrote.\n\n\"I suspect many of you may want to join me in sending so much love to Phil and all his family.\"\n\nMr Spencer and Ms Allsopp have presented Location, Location, Location together for more than 20 years, appearing in 39 series of the Channel 4 property programme as well as spin-off shows including Relocation, Relocation.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nKatarina Johnson-Thompson claimed a stunning heptathlon gold at the World Championships in Budapest to complete a remarkable turnaround in her career. The Briton, now a two-time world champion, feared injury may end her career just months after her 2019 win. But Johnson-Thompson, whose Achilles rupture four years ago marked the start of a difficult period, has rediscovered her spark and this gold is her reward. She defended a narrow lead over Anna Hall in a captivating final 800m event. Johnson-Thompson held off Hall by running a personal best of two minutes 05.63 seconds to finish within 1.54 secs of the American favourite and take overall victory by 20 points. The Briton had reached the decisive two-lap race with an advantage of 26 points over Olympic and world silver medallist Anouk Vetter. However, it was 22-year-old Hall - 43 points behind in third - who provided the significantly greater threat with a personal best more than four seconds quicker than that of Johnson-Thompson. The 30-year-old's lead over Hall after six events represented an advantage of about two-and-a-half seconds, setting up a dramatic conclusion to an enthralling competition. And so it proved. Hall led from the front but could not break away from Johnson-Thompson, who measured her effort to perfection before collapsing to the ground in a mixture of exhaustion and celebration. Johnson-Thompson's triumph was followed by another British medal when Zharnel Hughes claimed bronze in the men's 100m to bring the team's total to three after two days. Since winning her first global title in Doha Johnson-Thompson has endured her fair share of heartbreak. Recovering from that career-threatening Achilles rupture - on the take-off leg which is crucial to her jumping capabilities - in just eight months to make the Tokyo Olympics, she was dealt another crushing blow. A calf tear sustained during the 200m left her writhing on the track in pain, the cruellest end to her bid for a first Olympic medal and led to a year of indifference and underperformance in 2022. But, just as she did that day when she refused medical assistance to cross the finish line, she has picked herself up and carried on. It was her experience at last year's World Championships, where she felt a spectator as she finished a disappointing eighth, that proved the catalyst for change. Gold at a home Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 12 months ago reignited her desire to fight for titles and she hinted at a return to her former self in finishing runner-up to Hall in Gotzis in May. Now this unexpected triumph marks a significant personal moment for Johnson-Thompson who, when her achievement has had time to sink in, will look towards next summer's Paris Olympics with ambition and belief. In the absence of world champion Nafissatou Thiam it was Hall who began the two-day competition as the clear favourite. But, despite amassing the fifth-best points total in history when she beat Johnson-Thompson in Gotzis, the American had predicted a medal \"dogfight\" in Budapest - and that is exactly what materialised. Hall led overnight but Johnson-Thompson ensured she would begin the second day firmly in contention with a competition-leading time of 23.48 secs in the 200m moving her in to second after four events. The Briton was unrelenting as she maintained her podium push on Sunday, overtaking Hall with an unmatched 6.54m in the long jump before producing a superb javelin personal best of 46.14m to extend her overall lead. With a marginal advantage to lean on, it meant the 800m would decide the world champion. That Johnson-Thompson responded to the pressure with another personal best spoke volumes about her physically and mentally.\n• None What's the cost of our obsession with houseplants?\n• None 'It's very easy to plummet to your death': Will Jon Ronson convince Shaun to visit the Pacific Coast Highway?", "England are \"absolutely heartbroken\" after losing the Women's World Cup final, says captain Millie Bright.\n\nSpain captain Olga Carmona's first-half goal was enough to give Jorge Vilda's side a 1-0 victory as they claimed their first title on the world stage.\n\nThe Lionesses were looking to become the first England senior side since the men's team in 1966 to win the World Cup.\n\n\"This is really hard to take. We gave it everything,\" Bright said.\n\n\"We had chances, we hit the bar, but we just didn't have the final edge and they got theirs in back of the net.\n\n\"We're absolutely heartbroken. We gave everything. Unfortunately we just weren't there.\"\n\nEngland boss Sarina Wiegman has now lost two Women's World Cup finals in a row after she led her native Netherlands to a 2-0 defeat by the United States in 2019.\n\n\"Of course it feels really bad now, very disappointing,\" Wiegman said.\n\n\"You go into the final and you want to give everything and then you lose it.\n\n\"That happens in sports but what we have done, how we have shown ourselves, who we are, how we want to play as a team, overcoming so many challenges - I think we can be so proud of ourselves, although it doesn't feel like it at the moment.\"\n\nWiegman, who suffered just her second defeat in 39 games as England manager, said she hopes to get a \"new moment with the team I work with because it's very special to play finals.\n\n\"We will start in September in the Nations League to try to qualify for the Olympics. You want to improve all the time,\" she added.\n\n\"This team and this group of players are so eager to be successful. We want to grab every moment to be better. We hope we come back and play good games again to win.\"\n\nDespite the defeat, midfielder Georgia Stanway said England can be proud to wear a \"special\" silver medal, but added that she hopes it will be gold in four years.\n\n\"It's gutting, it's devastating, but that's football,\" Stanway said.\n\n\"It's hard to watch another team celebrate when it's your goal and your dream. When the dust settles, we'll be really proud of this.\n\n\"We've faced a lot in this tournament, before the tournament, people probably didn't have us written to be in this situation, so to reach a World Cup final is an achievement alone.\n\n\"We hope we've inspired many many people. We're the Lionesses, so we won't stop what we're doing, we'll continue to break barriers, we'll continue to push on.\"\n\nEngland defender Jess Carter, who started six of England's seven matches in Australia, added: \"As much as we're disappointed we've achieved something huge here. I'm massively proud of that.\n\n\"It's going to be a difficult ride home but we have to reflect on that and take the time to recover, regroup and get ready to go again.\"\n\nFA chief Mark Bullingham said: \"[It] didn't go our way, but to reach our first World Cup Final since 1966, and our first away from home is a huge achievement.\n\n\"Everyone is hurting, but we are so proud of the Lionesses, Sarina and the whole support team. We thank them all for everything they have delivered in these special few weeks.\"\n\n'It hurts but this is a proud moment'\n\nFormer England defender Alex Scott said on BBC One that it was a \"bittersweet moment\" to watch England lose in the World Cup final.\n\n\"These Lionesses continue to inspire everybody to want to play, to want to be involved, to want to have a voice,\" Scott said.\n\n\"It hurts but this is a proud moment. To see an England team even make a World Cup final.\n\n\"To have everyone at home tuning in, seeing them. They should be so proud of themselves. Yes it hurts but the amount of work and sacrifice that has gone on to get to this moment. This is what we need to remember right now.\"\n\nEx-Lionesses midfielder Fara Williams said England's run in the tournament will help to \"put respect on women's football\".\n\n\"They will go back to the UK in a couple of days and they are heroes, getting to the World Cup final, the first time for an England team since 1966,\" Williams added.\n\n\"Little boys will allow little girls to play football together in the playground, that's the difference this will make.\"\n\nEllen White, who retired from football after winning the Euros with England last summer, said: \"This England side can be so proud of what they have done for this tournament, what they've done for women's football, what they've done for our sport back home as well, inspiring a generation and inspiring and empowering women as well.\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "Hin Nie was a lieutenant colonel and pastor who fought Communist forces in the Vietnam War\n\nPastor Y Hin Nie, 75, preaches the gospel from the comfort of his church in the US state of North Carolina. But as a young man he survived nearly two decades in the jungle, giving sermons to his comrades fighting Vietnamese troops long after the war had ended - his AK-47 never far from his side.\n\nOn the run and cut off from the world, Hin Nie and his unit of insurgents foraged for food and hunted for tiger skins to pay the Khmer Rouge. His \"forgotten army\" did not give up arms until 1992, after Hin Nie negotiated their freedom.\n\nThe first time Y Hin Nie nearly died was on the night of 30 January 1968, when the Vietcong, fighting for the Communist North in Vietnam, launched a massive attack, firing barrages of rockets on US-held areas under the cover of Tet - or New Year - celebrations.\n\nHin Nie, who grew up in Vietnam, was living with American Christian missionaries in Buon Ma Thuot, the largest city in Vietnam's Central Highlands. His own mother and father had left him with the missionaries when he was eight because they were poor and wanted him to have a better life, he says.\n\nHis adopted \"godmother\", Carolyn Griswold, was sleeping when the rockets hit. Separate reports from missionaries say Communist troops also detonated explosives inside the home.\n\nCarolyn's father, Leon, died immediately. Hin Nie - who happened to be staying at a friend's that night - rushed home and helped to dig Carolyn out of the rubble. She died soon after.\n\n\"My godmother died with suffering,\" he says. \"God saved my life.\"\n\nMany other missionaries were killed and captured while Hin Nie hid in a bunker.\n\nDespite his losses he picked himself up and carried on, throwing himself into Bible school and working at a church.\n\nHe did not join the war until a decisive battle in March 1975, when the US-backed South's troops were destroyed and forced to retreat from Buon Ma Thuot.\n\nAs bombs rained down, Hin Nie and 32 bible school students escaped, walking for miles.\n\nThis was when Hin Nie was approached by fighters of the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (Fulro), an armed insurgent movement that advocated autonomy for ethnic minorities called Montagnards. These highland people have long faced persecution in Vietnam for reasons including their Christian faith.\n\nThey hoped Hin Nie's close links with American missionaries and his spoken English could help reconnect them with US troops, who had recruited tens of thousands of highlanders as frontline fighters before withdrawing from the war in 1973.\n\nUS special forces recruited Montagnards during the Vietnam War\n\nHin Nie said he felt drawn to join the fighters, who were devout Christians like him. \"I had no choice, it touched my heart.\"\n\nOn 10 March 1975, he fled into the jungle with them.\n\nFor the first four years, they stayed within Vietnam, constantly on the run, hiding from the army.\n\n\"Shoot and run, shoot and run. We didn't have strong weapons,\" Hin Nie says, adding that he wasn't involved in direct combat himself, but carried an AK-47 for self-defence and hunting.\n\nBy 1979, Vietnamese troops were expanding their operations searching for Fulro, so the group fled into Cambodia, to Vietnam's west.\n\n\"We couldn't stay, so we crossed the border - it was too dangerous,\" he says.\n\nBut leaving Vietnam brought new perils. Guerrillas of Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge controlled pockets on Cambodia's eastern border.\n\nRemnants of the regime - responsible for an estimated 1.7 million deaths during four years of terror in Cambodia - had fled there after being overthrown by Vietnam-backed forces.\n\nFulro needed permission from the Khmer Rouge to stay so Hin Nie met their local commanders in the jungles of Mondulkiri province.\n\n\"I said, 'We have the same enemy' - it was the only thing we agreed on. If the communists come from Vietnam to this side, then we could tell them,\" he says.\n\nThe Khmer Rouge allowed Hin Nie and his battalion to stay. But they demanded monthly \"taxes\" by way of large amounts of tiger and python skin, and deer horn.\n\nHin Nie says his unit caught tigers in traps. While the fear of tigers was real - tigers killed three people in the camp - the fear of the Khmer Rouge was even greater.\n\n\"They were very angry, they counted everything,\" he recalls. \"Many times they threatened us: 'If you don't pay tax you have to go back.'\"\n\nFulro would still carry out patrols and there were occasional skirmishes with Vietnamese forces as the unit moved from one jungle clearing to another, never settling for longer than a month.\n\nHin Nie remembers a \"wild life\" - the Fulro fighters roamed like animals, eating whatever they could find, including leaves from trees, he says.\n\n\"We walked and walked and walked… we'd shoot elephants, anything we could see.\"\n\nAround this time he married his wife H Biuh, who was part of the group. They had three children in the jungle, but one died.\n\nReligion was a constant in the camp.\n\nThe first thing Hin Nie would do when they arrived at a new spot was erect a cross. He would then hold sermons for the soldiers, women and children.\n\nChristmas was never missed. One celebration stands out for him.\n\nIn 1982, they were singing carols one night, which some local Khmer Rouge heard from a distance. A handful of them walked over.\n\n\"A general asked if they could join us because the songs were very beautiful, and they stayed with us in the camp,\" Hin Nie recalls. \"We sang and I preached in two languages - Khmer and Bunong.\"\n\nVietnamese communists also heard the singing and approached, he says, but Fulro and the Khmer Rouge chased them away.\n\nAlong with being the Fulro pastor, Hin Nie was also its chief liaison officer. This meant dealing with local Khmer Rouge, but also tuning in to shortwave radio each morning, including the BBC, Voice of America and Vietnamese radio, to try to follow what was happening in a world that had forgotten them - and which, with the Cold War over, had changed beyond recognition.\n\nBy 1991, Cambodian forces under then-Prime Minister Hun Sen - who only handed over the reins to his son earlier this month after 38 years in power - had become a new threat for Hin Nie to negotiate.\n\nBut apart from a few local Khmer Rouge and Cambodian soldiers, hardly anyone was aware the Fulro fighters were still in the jungle. Their former comrades had no idea if they were still alive, far less where they were - and neither did the international community.\n\nSo it was a great surprise when, in 1992, Hin Nie started negotiations with UN officials. They had arrived in the wake of the genocide to administer the Cambodian national election as part of a peacekeeping mission.\n\nGrainy footage shows Hin Nie, centre right, showing officials around the Fulro camp\n\nHin Nie says he met a local UN official and wrote on a piece of paper in French: \"We are Fulro - waiting for freedom and waiting for your help.\"\n\nTwo months later, a group of UN officials came to meet Hin Nie. \"They kept interrogating me for one week to make sure why I lived in the jungle,\" he says. They wanted to know if he was Khmer Rouge. He told them he wasn't.\n\nAnother UN meeting followed, where Hin Nie requested more weapons \"to fight the communists\" but was told that was not possible.\n\n\"You only have 400 [fighters] - there are millions of soldiers in Vietnam. We don't want you to die,\" was the response, he says.\n\nThen in August 1992, American journalist Nate Thayer visited the camp and the story of the last Fulro fighters became known to the outside world.\n\nThayer reported in the Phnom Penh Post that the group were still waiting for instructions from their leader who, unknown to them, had been executed by the Khmer Rouge 17 years earlier.\n\n\"Please, can you help us find our president, Y Bham Enuol?\" Fulro Commander-in-Chief Y Peng Ayun asked. \"We have been waiting for contact and orders from our president since 1975. Do you know where he is?\"\n\nSome of the group wept when they were told he had died. News of the Fulro president's death had never reached Hin Nie on his shortwave radio set.\n\nHe and his comrades had heard the war was over but there was still an unrealistic hope the US might get back in contact and provide support. Although they were trapped on the border, the Fulro fighters were loath to give up the struggle for their homeland and become refugees.\n\nHin Nie was asked how he felt towards the US. \"I am not angry, but very sad that the Americans forgot us. The Americans are like our elder brother, so it is very sad when your brother forgets you,\" he told Thayer.\n\nUpon learning that their leader was gone, the Fulro fighters agreed to put down their weapons and sought asylum in the US.\n\nThe group bypassed normal refugee channels and were on planes within months. Thayer, who Fulro veterans credited with telling their story to the world, joined them every step of the way (he died in January - Hin Nie presided over the memorial and veterans attended).\n\nLanding in the US back in November 1992, Hin Nie was greeted by a banner welcoming the \"forgotten army\". He and H Biuh moved to Greensboro with their surviving children, who remain in the US.\n\nSoon Hin Nie started speaking out against the persecution of his people, testifying to the US Congress. Because of his preaching, he remains a target in Vietnamese state media to this day.\n\nThe Vietnamese government claims Fulro still exists, and accuses exiled former members like Hin Nie of trying to wage insurrection in Vietnam. In 2021, the VOV news agency said he was behind a \"reactionary organisation disguised as a religious sect based in the Central Highlands, which aimed to incite local people to sabotage the united Vietnamese state\".\n\nHin Nie says this is nonsense.\n\nHin Nie at his church in Greensboro - a lifetime away from his years in the jungle\n\nUnder Communist rule, the Montagnards still face widespread intimidation, arbitrary detention and ill-treatment in Vietnam.\n\nVietnam's government did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nAt Hin Nie's United Montagnard Christian Church in Greensboro there are hundreds in the congregation. He preaches to them in English, Vietnamese and Rade, and sometimes sings songs in other languages of the Central Highlands.\n\n\"They still put propaganda against me but Fulro has died. Everyone has died,\" he says.\n\n\"The Vietnamese try to shut the mouths of people in Vietnam - but I am here.\"", "Two people were pulled to safety after getting into difficulty at Clacton on Saturday\n\nA police officer rescued two people after they got into difficulty in the sea at a busy beach.\n\nOfficers were patrolling Marine Parade West in Clacton-on-Sea at about 14:00 BST on Saturday when a child got into difficulty in the water.\n\nA member of the public had gone into the sea to try to help, but was also struggling.\n\nAn Essex Police officer managed to pull both back to shore where they were checked and were said to be fine.\n\nCh Insp Ella Latham, district commander for Tendring, said: \"I'm really proud of the actions of this officer who went into the water to help the child and the member of the public without a second thought.\n\n\"I'm pleased to say that both are fine.\n\n\"This incident highlights the lengths our officers go to, to help people and keep them safe.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People have been preparing for stormy weather in Palm Springs, California\n\nTropical Storm Hilary hit the US state of California on Sunday night, bringing fierce winds and flooding to the Pacific coast.\n\nNow headed north to Nevada, the storm passed over Southern California, with record rainfall and flash flooding predicted in the Death Valley National Park.\n\nIt moved across the border from Mexico, where the Baja California peninsula saw winds of 70 mph (119km/h).\n\nA number of houses are now submerged in the town of Santa Rosalia, Mexico, while some residents in California have been forced to evacuate.\n\nSchools have also had to close for Monday, including Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the country.\n\nThe last time a tropical storm made landfall in Southern California was in Long Beach in 1939.\n\nHilary is set to weaken as it moves north, but forecasters warn it could still bring dangerous and catastrophic flooding to the state.\n\n\"Areas that normally do not experience flash flooding will flood,\" the National Weather Service said. \"Lives and property are in great danger through Monday.\"\n\nExperts say recent abnormal weather events that have plagued the US - and several areas across the globe - have been influenced by human-caused climate change.\n\nIn Mexico, 18,000 soldiers have been put on standby to assist in rescue efforts\n\nThe storm made landfall in the northern part of Mexico's Baja California peninsula at 11:00 local time (18:00 GMT) on Sunday, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.\n\nIn Mexico, 18,000 soldiers were placed on standby earlier to assist in rescue efforts.\n\nThe man who died in the state of Baja California Sur was in a car with his wife and children, local officials said - his family survived.\n\nIn Santa Rosalia, on the state's eastern coast, dramatic videos have emerged showing powerful torrents of muddy water cascading down the main street.\n\nAcross California, residents have been putting out sandbags, including in Long Beach and Palm Springs. About 57,000 people in the state are without power, according to poweroutage.us.\n\nEugenie Adler, a resident of Long Beach, told Reuters: \"Flooding where people lose some property is one thing, but flooding where people die is another. And I'm afraid people might die.\"\n\n\"But Los Angeles has deep experience responding to crises whether it be wildfire or earthquakes,\" she said. \"The city is prepared.\"\n\nNearly 26 million people in the south-western US are under flood watch.\n\nHilary was downgraded to a Category 1 storm after weakening on Saturday, but officials kept up their warnings.\n\nTropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 240 miles (390 km) from its centre, according to the NHC.\n\nNancy Ward, director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, said Hilary could be one of the worst storms to hit the state in more than a decade.\n\n\"Make no mistake,\" she told a news conference on Saturday. \"This is a very, very dangerous and significant storm.\"\n\nUp to 10 in (25cm) of rain is expected in parts of Mexico, California and Nevada, according to the NHC. On Sunday, rain began to fall in Southern California deserts.\n\nAs the storm approached, Major League Baseball rescheduled three games in southern California, while SpaceX postponed the launch of a rocket from its base on the central California coast until at least Monday.\n\nThe National Park Service also closed Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve, both in California, to prevent visitors from being stranded in the event of flooding.\n\nIn the wake of the hottest month on record, July 2023, according to Nasa, the deadliest wildfire in modern US history spread across Hawaii on 8 August, killing at least 111 people.\n\nThe damage was escalated by hurricane winds passing through the area.\n\nAnd in Canada, hundreds of wildfires are raging in the province of British Columbia, scorching homes and forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate.\n\nHow have you been affected by the storms? If it's safe for you to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC One, listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds and follow on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nEngland take on Spain in the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup final on Sunday at 11:00 BST.\n\nIt is the first time either country has reached the final - so what tests did they face along the way?\n\nBBC Sport takes a look at some of the key moments for both teams as they progressed through the tournament.\n\nEngland began their campaign with a hard-fought 1-0 win against Haiti and scored early on in the second match against Denmark.\n\nBut their concern was then focused on defensive midfielder Keira Walsh, who suffered a knee injury in the first half and was carried off on a stretcher.\n\nThere were fears she had suffered anterior cruciate ligament damage - but luckily, the injury was not as bad as it first looked. She missed the third group game against China, but has started England's other five matches to date.\n\nJames superb as England hit China for six\n\nLauren James was England's matchwinner against Denmark and was in unstoppable form against China.\n\nShe scored two excellent goals, created three assists and was unlucky to be denied another goal by a controversial video assistant referee decision.\n\nJames helped England secure a 6-1 victory as they cruised through as group winners with nine points from three matches.\n\nJames was the star against China but had a moment to forget in the last 16 when she was sent off for standing on the back of Nigeria's Michelle Alozie, who was lying face down on the grass.\n\nEngland had to battle throughout extra time a player short and stayed in the game to force a penalty shootout.\n\nGeorgia Stanway, who scored a retaken penalty in the 1-0 win over Haiti, went first and shot wide, only for Nigeria's Desire Oparanozie to also miss. Beth England scored and Alozie fired over the bar to give the Lionesses the advantage.\n\nRachel Daly and Alex Greenwood converted their efforts before Chloe Kelly, who netted the winner in last summer's Euro 2022 final, kept her cool to take England into the quarter-finals.\n\nEngland also had to fight hard in their quarter-final with Colombia.\n\nLeicy Santos put the South Americans ahead, lobbing goalkeeper Mary Earps, just before half-time, but England grabbed an equaliser through Lauren Hemp in the sixth minute of first-half injury time.\n\nAlessia Russo put the Lionesses ahead after 63 minutes and although Colombia had chances to take the game to extra time, Earps and the England defence denied them to advance into the final four.\n\nRusso seals final spot with late goal to see off co-hosts\n\nWith Spain already through to the final, England took on co-hosts Australia for the right to join them.\n\nElla Toone fired a superb strike into the top corner to put Sarina Wiegman's side ahead, only for Chelsea striker and Australia captain Sam Kerr to equalise with a stunning goal of her own.\n\nHemp capitalised on a defensive error to restore England's lead, then set up Russo, who added a third to secure a first World Cup final spot and end Australia's hopes of winning the tournament.\n\nSpain put off-field problems behind them in great start\n\nSpain's build-up to the tournament had been dominated by a player revolt, with a number of players wanting head coach Jorge Vilda to be sacked.\n\nBut Vilda stayed on, and his side made a superb start, beating Costa Rica 3-0 and Zambia 5-0.\n\nDespite dominating possession, Spain were thrashed 4-0 by Japan in their final Group C match.\n\nThe 2011 world champions scored three times in the first half, two from Hinata Miyazawa and one from Riko Ueki before substitute Mina Tanaka added a late fourth to leave already-qualified Spain in second place in the group.\n\nBut Spain returned to form in style as they gained a 5-1 victory over Switzerland to secure their first knockout-stage win at a World Cup.\n\nAitana Bonmati scored twice and made two further goals, with Alba Redondo, Laia Codina (who had earlier scored a bizarre own goal from 40 yards out) and Jennifer Hermoso also on the scoresheet to ensure a place in the last eight.\n\nThe Netherlands, runners-up four years ago, were Spain's quarter-final opponents with Vilda's team scoring an 80th-minute penalty from Mariona Caldentey.\n\nStefanie van der Gragt grabbed a 91st-minute equaliser for the Dutch to force extra time, but 19-year-old Salma Paralluelo became her country's youngest scorer at a Women's World Cup with her winner in the 111th minute.\n\nSweden, a side third in the world rankings, were Spain's opponents in the semi-final and it was another thrilling finish, with all three goals scored inside the last 10 minutes.\n\nParalluelo opened the scoring, Rebecka Blomqvist equalised but just 93 seconds later captain Olga Carmona scored an 89th-minute winner to spark wild scenes of jubilation among the Spanish supporters.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup", "Fire crews are working to protect Yellowknife from a fire burning near the northern town's outskirts\n\nThis has been - by some distance - the worst wildfire season in Canada's history.\n\nThis week, thousands of people in the western and northern parts of the country have been forced to flee their homes.\n\nOthers have been told to be ready to leave at a moment's notice.\n\nThere are over 1,000 active wildfires nationwide and two-thirds of those are classed as out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center.\n\nIn terms of acres burned, the 2023 season far outstrips all previous years.\n\nThe fires are currently burning in provinces in both the east and the west, including in the Northwest Territories and the province of British Columbia.\n\nThis summer the fires caught the world's attention when the smoke caused the air quality to plummet in many major US and Canadian cities, including New York City, Washington DC and Toronto.\n\nAnother way of showing how bad 2023 has been for fires in Canada is to show the speed in which they spread over the summer months, compared with recent years.\n\nThe focus in the last few days has been on the Northwest Territories where one of the largest evacuation operations in Canada's history has been taking place.\n\nLong queues of vehicles could be seen snaking down a highway out of the city of Yellowknife.\n\nThe flights out of the city are also full, the final chance to leave ahead of a Friday deadline set by authorities to get the 22,000-strong community out of danger.\n\nThe fires were nine miles (15km) away from the city late on Thursday and could reach the outskirts of Yellowknife over the weekend.\n\nHay River further south was also the scene of people fleeing. One couple told CBC News parts of their car melted in the heat.\n\nThe other wildfire hotspot is Kelowna in British Columbia where thousands are fleeing the encroaching McDougall Creek wildfire, which exploded in size on Thursday.\n\nThere has been \"structural loss\" in West Kelowna and almost 5,000 properties in the area had been told to evacuate.\n\nFlights have been grounded at Kelowna International Airport in order to prioritise aerial firefighters.\n\nOne resident there, Alastair Richards, took this photo from his garden in the early hours of Friday.", "Raymond Starr is taking part in Prostate Cancer UK's Boys Need Bins campaign\n\nProstate cancer patients have described the \"horrendous\" experience of urinary incontinence, which some men undergo as a result of surgery.\n\nRaymond Starr, 68, described being \"like a running tap\" and feeling \"agitated and embarrassed\".\n\nCharity Prostate Cancer UK wants legislation to ensure sanitary bins are available in all male toilets.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had already introduced legislation to improve toilet facilities.\n\nMr Starr, a retired public servant from Abergele, Conwy county, was diagnosed in 2017 after a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test offered to over-55s identified abnormal levels.\n\nHe opted for a radical prostatectomy, after which patients are fitted with a catheter which is later removed, commonly followed by urinary incontinence.\n\n\"You're aware of it, but I don't think you really take on board what's likely to happen,\" said Mr Starr.\n\n\"I was literally like a running tap. It was horrendous.\"\n\nProstate Cancer UK said early stages of the disease often had no symptoms, so the side effects of treatments had the biggest effect on people's quality of life.\n\nThe charity said one in eight men got prostate cancer in their lifetime - one in four for black men - and stressed the importance of knowing the risks.\n\nThe incontinence was so bad that Mr Starr said he \"couldn't see a way out\".\n\n\"I thought, 'if I'm going to be like this for the rest of my life, I wish I'd never gone ahead with this'.\n\n\"I got quite agitated about it, I felt embarrassed. Every time I'd get up from a chair there would be leakage. If I tried to go upstairs to the toilet, by the time I got to the top I was wet through.\"\n\nNigel Rowland from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, had a similar experience last year, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and opted for surgery in September.\n\nThe 65-year-old tow boat captain said: \"I was aware that incontinence could well be a side effect, as well as erectile dysfunction, but I thought 'I want it out and that's it, I don't want to be playing around'.\"\n\nMr Rowland said the incontinence was \"sort of OK\" at home, but problematic when he was ready to get out again.\n\n\"Whenever we went out for a walk, or even when I went with my mates for a drink, I had to take a backpack with me.\n\n\"Basically you put the soaking wet nappy into the plastic bag. At the start it might even be two. You'd have to walk around and find a bin somewhere, or take it home with you.\"\n\nMr Rowland recalled one occasion when he visited a National Trust site with his family and ended up rushing to the toilet while his daughter's partner went to retrieve his bag from the car.\n\n\"By the time I got to the toilets, it was so wet it was pouring down the inside of my shorts. I felt so embarrassed, uncomfortable,\" he said.\n\n\"To put it bluntly, I'd drastically wet myself and it's not a nice feeling.\"\n\nNigel Rowland says carrying a \"soaking wet nappy\" around is \"embarrassing\"\n\nProstate Cancer UK's Boys Need Bins campaign hopes to prompt legislation to mandate sanitary disposal bins in all men's toilets.\n\nMr Rowland continued: \"It's psychological as well, you don't want to be walking around with what's just happened inside your bag.\"\n\nMr Starr added that the \"unpleasantness of it all\" put him off leaving his home and the NHS-supplied pads were \"quite a big, bulky thing\".\n\n\"Where do you dispose of that? It's impossible. It takes a toll on mental health and it limits the freedom of actually moving from home.\"\n\nMr Rowland added: \"I made a bit of a joke about it with my friends, because that's the way I dealt with it, eventually.\n\n\"I tried to relate it to cars doing so many miles per gallon, so when I was out with my mates it was how many pints per pad.\"\n\nBoth men have had successful outcomes from their surgeries and no longer suffer from regular incontinence, but hope that speaking out will raise awareness about the need for bins.\n\nMr Starr added: \"It's up to the Senedd to be one of the leaders on this. I hope Wales could be the first to roll it out.\"\n\nNick Ridgman of Prostate Cancer UK said there were hundreds of thousands of men with urinary incontinence and it was \"deeply unfair\" that many men felt anxious about leaving the house.\n\nHe added: \"It's frustrating, it creates worry and it doesn't allow those men or their families to go about their day with dignity.\"\n\nProstate Cancer UK has worked with Phs group to create a suitable sanitary bin for men's toilets\n\nThe awareness raising efforts of charities have recently seen a prostate cancer storyline introduced for Shane Richie's EastEnders character Alfie Moon.\n\nIn May, male incontinence was debated in the Senedd, with Labour's Carolyn Thomas admitting that she had been \"naïve\" to the issue before a \"chance meeting\" with a prostate cancer patient on a train who explained his wife often had to put his used pads in her handbag until they found a bin.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"In Wales, local authorities are legally required to produce local toilet strategies and, in doing so, they should take every opportunity to talk to the public and representative groups about the challenges they face in accessing local toilet facilities, listening to their concerns and delivering potential solutions.\n\n\"We have issued guidance to local authorities and this highlights that accessible toilets are more important for those with conditions such as incontinence, urgency and prostate problems.\"", "The junta head said that Niger did not want a war but would defend itself\n\nNiger's coup leader has promised to return the West African nation to civilian rule within three years.\n\nGen Abdourahamane Tchiani made the announcement after meeting mediators from the West African regional bloc Ecowas in the capital, Niamey.\n\nEcowas has threatened military action to reverse last month's overthrow of President Mohamed Bazoum if talks fail.\n\nThe junta head said that Niger did not want a war but would defend itself against any foreign intervention.\n\n\"If an attack were to be undertaken against us, it will not be the walk in the park some people seem to think,\" he warned in his televised address on Saturday evening.\n\nGen Tchiani also reiterated criticism of what he called the \"illegal and inhumane\" sanctions imposed by Ecowas on the landlocked country.\n\nThis has included cutting electricity, resulting in blackouts in Niamey and other major cities, as well as blocking crucial imports.\n\nLorry drivers have been stuck for weeks waiting to bring in supplies, forcing up food prices.\n\n\"Sanctions are not conceived with the aim of finding a solution but to bring us to our knees and humiliate us,\" Gen Tchiani said.\n\nThousands of men came to a stadium in Niamey on Saturday to register for a volunteer force in case of invasion - although overcrowding prevented the registration process starting, the Reuters news agency reports.\n\nEcowas rejected the three-year timeframe after talks on Sunday.\n\n\"Ecowas is not accepting any prolonged transition again in the region. They just have to get ready to hand over in the shortest possible time,\" Abdel-Fatau Musah, the bloc's commissioner for political affairs, peace and security, told the BBC.\n\nHe said the \"military aspect is very much on\".\n\nHe added: \"The earlier they give power back to civilians and concentrate on their primary responsibility that is defending the territorial integrity of Niger, the better for them.\"\n\nCrowds near General Seyni Kountche Stadium in Niamey on Saturday\n\nRegional efforts to reverse the coup have been backed by the US and France, which both have military bases in Niger. These bases are part of efforts to tackle jihadist groups in the wider Sahel region.\n\nThe junta leader, who headed the presidential guard before seizing power on 26 July, said military intervention could worsen the Islamist insurgencies linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.\n\n\"They seem ignorant to the fact that it is in large part thanks to the professionalism and valour of the defence and security forces of Niger that Niger has remained a barrier preventing terrorist hordes from destabilising the whole region,\" he said.\n\nThe coup mirrors similar recent takeovers in neighbouring Burkina Faso and Mali.\n\nAnd the influence of Russia in the wider Sahel region is also growing through its mercenary group Wagner.\n\nGen Tchiani did not give details about the handover of power, but said the principles for the transition would be decided within 30 days at a \"dialogue\" hosted by the coup leaders.\n\nTheir delegation was led by former Nigerian military leader Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar and also included Nigeria's most senior Muslim leader, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa'adu Abubakar III.\n\nHe wields huge influence in Niger, part of which used to be in the Sokoto Caliphate, a powerful kingdom before colonial rule.\n\nSaturday's meeting was the first between leaders of the junta and Ecowas.", "Watch highlights as England suffer heartbreak in a 1-0 defeat by Spain in the 2023 Women's World Cup final in Sydney.\n\nFollow coverage of the Fifa Women's World Cup across BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds & the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "When the full-time whistle went in Sydney and the Lionesses fell to the floor, many in tears, it felt like their best opportunity to win a Women's World Cup had passed them by.\n\nOptimism had swept through England beforehand - they were European champions and had only lost once in 38 games under manager Sarina Wiegman, widely considered the best female coach in the world.\n\nThey had seen off serious injuries and a two-match suspension for Lauren James to make it to the final, overcoming obstacles, grinding out results and finding ways to win when they weren't at their best.\n\nThey just needed to do it once more.\n• None 'They are still heroes' - reaction to England's defeat\n\nBut England's luck had run out, Wiegman's genius had been tested to the limits and they simply came up against a much better team on the day.\n\nSpain's talent was unquestionable even before they had kicked a ball. Their starting XI contained seven players who won Barcelona's second Women's Champions League crown in June.\n\nThey had Ballon d'Or holder Alexia Putellas on the bench having not quite returned to full fitness. But a dispute involving 15 players and the Spanish football federation meant some stars were missing in Australia.\n\nAs a result, England went into the final knowing it would be a tough match but full of confidence - they had seen off Spain in the quarter-finals en route to winning Euro 2022 after all.\n\nDefending champions the United States had been knocked out in the last 16 of the tournament, European giants Germany did not even make it through the group stages and Sweden had seen off Japan, who had impressed early on. This was surely the year England were going to go all the way?\n\nThey arrived again in Sydney where they had seen off Colombia and co-hosts Australia in the previous eight days. Wiegman even named the same starting XI and this time they had the majority of support in the 75,000 crowd.\n\nChants of \"En-ger-land\" and \"It's Coming Home\" could be heard within five minutes of kick-off after Lauren Hemp had bounced back up after a crunching tackle from Irene Parades and forced an early save from goalkeeper Cata Coll.\n\nHemp smashed an effort off the crossbar - things seemed to be going well.\n\nThen Spain turned up. They had survived England's intense start and quickly worked out where the spaces were in behind their press.\n\nOne-touch passing, neat flicks, a few nutmegs and intelligent movement saw Spain cause England so many problems that by half-time, with the Lionesses' trailing 1-0, it felt like a bit of a let-off.\n\nThis was Wiegman's moment to shine and she acted swiftly. On came James and Chloe Kelly for Alessia Russo and Rachel Daly as she switched formations from a defensive back three to the trusted 4-3-3 that has delivered so much success in her two-year tenure.\n\nIt was an improvement and England started to create opportunities. They were less vulnerable when their full-backs attacked but a handball from midfielder Kiera Walsh in the box gave Spain another opportunity.\n\nEngland had come from a goal down in Euro 2022 against Spain so when the ever-dependable goalkeeper Mary Earps superbly saved Jenni Hermoso's penalty, it felt like that could be the catalyst for a momentum shift.\n\nWiegman said afterwards she had been \"convinced\" England would score but something was missing this time, Spain looked comfortable and the Lionesses were rapidly running out of ideas.\n\nA final corner delivery - 14 minutes into stoppage time - was held by Spain goalkeeper Coll and the referee's full-time whistle followed. England defender Lucy Bronze immediately fell to the floor with her face buried in the grass of the six-yard area.\n\nBronze, who gave the ball away in the build-up to the goal, was the most desperate of all the English players to win. She has a trophy cabinet bursting with individual and club honours but this was the one she wanted the most - the biggest prize in football, the one that would cement her place in history... the World Cup.\n\nAt 31 years old she may never get a chance to win it again and she was a heartbroken figure as she walked past the trophy to collect a runners-up medal, before watching many of her Barcelona team-mates celebrate lifting it in front of her moments later.\n\nIt was an image that will live long in the memory.\n\nHowever, despite the result, the success of this particular Lionesses group will have a lasting impact on women's football in England.\n\nThey have broken records, created history, challenged societal views on women's sport, asked for more support from the UK government and inspired a nation.\n\nThey were the team that were supposed to go all the way and complete the fairytale. They were supposed to be the names joining those revered from the 1966 men's team - the only English footballers to have won a senior World Cup.\n\nThe ingredients were there - it was a golden generation of female players in England, they had the world's best manager and the odds were on their side.\n\nBut for all the joyous moments they have given supporters, this will always feel like a missed opportunity for a group of players who had given everything.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nSpain captain Olga Carmona, who scored her country's winner in the Women's World Cup final, was told after the game that her father had died.\n\nCarmona, 23, scored the only goal as Spain beat England to claim the trophy.\n\nThe Real Madrid left-back's father had been fighting a long illness and died on Friday, Reuters reported.\n\n\"I know you have been watching me tonight and that you are proud of me. Rest in peace dad,\" Carmona wrote on social media.\n\nCarmona included a picture of her kissing her winners' medal along with the message.\n\nShe added: \"And without knowing it, I had my star before the game started. I know that you have given me the strength to achieve something unique.\"\n\nA gold star is added to the shirt of the winners of a World Cup, above the national team crest, every time they win the trophy.\n\nIn a later statement on Monday she added: \"I have no words to thank [you for] all your love. Yesterday was the best and the worst day of my life.\"\n\n\"The RFEF deeply regrets to announce the death of Olga Carmona's father,\" the Spanish Football Association (RFEF) wrote on social media.\n\n\"The footballer learned the sad news after the World Cup final.\n\n\"We send our most sincere embrace to Olga and her family in a moment of deep sorrow. We love you, Olga, you are Spanish soccer history.\"\n\nCarmona started five of Spain's seven games at the World Cup.\n\nSpanish media outlet Relevo said her family and friends decided not to tell her so she could focus on the final, with her mother and brothers arriving in Australia on Saturday to support her.\n\nHer club Real Madrid also expressed \"condolences and affection for Olga, her relatives and all her loved ones\".\n• None Watch the chilling crime thriller, Wolf, from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock\n• None Behind the scenes in London's most expensive hotel: It costs up to £27k a night and no request is too big", "Damage could be seen on the skyscraper's facade\n\nA skyscraper in Russia's capital Moscow has been attacked by a drone for the second time in two days, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said.\n\nSeveral drones were shot down overnight on Monday, he said, but \"one flew into the same tower at the Moskva City complex\" that was targeted on Sunday.\n\nKyiv did not comment on responsibility but warned Russia that the conflict could soon move to its territory.\n\nIt did not address separate Russian claims that three Ukrainian sea drones were destroyed while trying to attack Russian naval ships in the Black Sea, though did dismiss as \"fictitious\" further claims that Russian civilian ships had also been targeted.\n\nNo one was injured in the skyscraper attack. Moscow mayor said the IQ-Quarter Tower 1 building's \"glazing was destroyed over 150 sq m\".\n\nThe building houses teams from Russia's ministry of economic development, the digital ministry, and the ministry of industry and trade. Staff at the former have been told to work from home, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nTwo more Ukrainian drones were shot down by anti-aircraft systems elsewhere in the Moscow region, Russia's defence ministry said, claiming to have thwarted a Ukrainian \"terrorist attack\".\n\nMoscow has repeatedly accused Ukraine of carrying out drone strikes on its territory in recent months, including one on the Kremlin - President Vladimir Putin's official residence in the capital - back in May.\n\nAlthough Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for specific incidents, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said attacks on Russian territory are an \"inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process\".\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday, Ukrainian presidential official Mykhailo Podolyak said the conflict would soon move to the territory of the \"authors of the war\" and bring \"more unidentified drones, more collapse, more civil conflicts, more war\".\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Russia's defence ministry said in a statement that, during the night, Ukraine had made an \"unsuccessful attempt to attack the Sergei Kotov and Vasiliy Bykov patrol ships of the Black Sea fleet with three unmanned sea boats\".\n\nIt said the two ships had been controlling shipping 340 km (211 miles) southwest of the Crimean peninsula and would continue to do so.\n\nLater, in a briefing, the ministry also said three Ukrainian semi-submersible unmanned boats had been destroyed while trying to carry out a \"terrorist attack\" on Russian civilian transport ships heading towards the Bosphorus Strait.\n\nIn response, Mr Podolyak told Reuters: \"Undoubtedly, such statements by Russian officials are fictitious and do not contain even a shred of truth.\n\n\"Ukraine has not attacked, is not attacking and will not attack civilian vessels, nor any other civilian objects.\"\n\nHe did not respond to the claim that Ukraine had used sea drones to target the Russian navy.\n\nRussia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nRussia's emergencies services were working at the scene on Tuesday", "Meghan and Prince Harry called people getting funding for online safety projects\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan are helping to fund online safety projects for young people, personally phoning some of the recipients.\n\nThis was their first public appearance together since an award ceremony and chaotic car chase in New York in May.\n\nThey were shown side by side, billed in a video as \"Harry and Meghan\" without any reference to their royal titles.\n\nThe couple's Archewell Foundation is one of 14 groups and charities giving a combined $2m (£1.56m) in funding.\n\nAfter a swirl of rumours and speculation about the couple's future, Prince Harry and Meghan's video shows them together contacting some of the 26 projects getting funding from the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund.\n\nThe aim is to back \"more equitable and more inclusive technology\" and to find ways to make online life less toxic for young people.\n\nMeghan, who has spoken about the pressure of facing hostile comments online, praised the \"enormous impact\" that could be made by tackling the harmful aspects of social media and online misinformation.\n\nThe amount donated by Archewell has not been specified, but Trisha Prabhu said that her cyberbullying project, ReThink Citizens, had received $50,000 (£39,000) from the fund.\n\n\"This is exactly why we do what we do,\" Prince Harry said to her about supporting her efforts to stop online bullying.\n\nMs Prabhu described getting a call from Prince Harry and Meghan as an \"incredible moment\", admiring them for the way they \"challenge the status quo\".\n\nBut much of the attention will be on the California-based couple themselves.\n\nThis announcement marks a return to public appearances and with it the media spotlight, with a visible statement of togetherness. It's a carefully-staged garden scene, likely to be seen as sending a message about the couple's future.\n\nThe last time they were at a public event together was at an awards ceremony in May, which ended up in media claims and counter-claims about a paparazzi car chase through the streets of Manhattan.\n\nIt was followed by Prince Harry's appearance in the witness box for his court case in London over hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers.\n\nWhile much of the rest of the Royal Family will be making their annual August migration to Scotland, Prince Harry now has a series of public events lined up.\n\nNext week he's taking part in a sports summit in Japan, then a polo match in Singapore to raise funds for his Sentebale charity for vulnerable children in Botswana and Lesotho.\n\nThe polo match has previously raised £11m ($14m) for his charity, with Prince Harry saying that this year's fundraising will support children with Aids, helping them to \"eliminate the stigma\".\n\nIn September the Invictus Games, founded by Prince Harry for wounded or injured military personnel, will be held in Germany.\n\nHis team in the US say it is still undecided whether Prince Harry will attend another London newspaper court case in person in the new year.", "Noah Donohoe with his mum Fiona - the teenager was found dead in a north Belfast storm drain in June 2020\n\nA 44-year-old man has been handed a two-year probation order for the online harassment of schoolboy Noah Donohoe's mother.\n\nWilliam Logue posted a number of sectarian and racist comments aimed at Fiona Donohoe on Twitter in 2021.\n\nFourteen-year-old Noah was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in 2020.\n\nA judge described Logue as a \"vulture\" who had behaved in a \"despicable manner\".\n\nLogue, from Northwood Parade in Belfast, has been banned from using social media for five years and ordered to pay £500 in compensation to Ms Donohoe.\n\nPolice arrested him in December 2021 after he was linked to comments made on the Justice for Noah Twitter account.\n\nHe initially denied harassing Ms Donohoe but pleaded guilty to the charge before court proceedings reached trial.\n\nDefence counsel Richard McConkey said there was nothing he could say to excuse his client's \"inexcusable\" behaviour, but said Logue had heightened mental health issues at the time.\n\nDistrict Judge Chris Holmes said Logue had \"hounded\" the family and indicated his initial reaction was to jail Logue for as long as possible.\n\n\"This is unfortunately something which we see a lot of these days, vultures landing on people's grief,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he decided against a prison sentence, which would have led to Logue being released after three months without supervision.\n\nHe accepted the defendant's mental health problems had contributed to him posting the material, which he described as \"disgusting\".\n\nThe judge said Logue must fully participate in any required programme of work or alcohol and drugs counselling.\n\nHe explained to Ms Donohoe, who was in court along with supporters, that the sentence was aimed at ensuring Logue remains under supervision.\n\n\"I'm hoping that will prevent any form of behaviour like this happening to anybody else,\" he said.", "Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif sparked an outcry with his misogynist comments\n\nWhen Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif stood up in parliament last week and labelled female opposition leaders in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party as \"trash and leftovers\" of its chairman Imran Khan, he probably wasn't expecting the strength of the backlash that was to follow.\n\nAfter all, Pakistani writers, cricketers, celebrities and judges have all made similarly sexist remarks. As Sharmila Faruqi, a member of the provincial assembly, told local media: \"Men have a licence to get away with sexism.\"\n\nIt was also not the first time Mr Asif had expressed such sentiments in parliament. In an earlier joint session, the 73-year-old called former federal minister Sheerin Mazari, a \"tractor trolley\" - a crude reference to her weight.\n\nIt was far from the first time that such language had been used in the legislature. Mr Asif's Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and the PTI have frequently made sexist and misogynist remarks about female parliamentarians in opposing parties.\n\nThis time, however, the outcry against Mr Asif was loud and across the board.\n\nParliamentarians from the PTI and other parties rounded on him on social media, while many media outlets also lambasted him for his comments. Dawn, the largest English-language newspaper in the country, put out a scathing editorial declaring \"Khawaja Asif, our indefensible defence minister, needs schooling on gender equality\".\n\nMr Asif eventually took to Twitter to claim that his comments were \"taken out of context\" and that \"calling someone 'trash' and 'leftover' is not gender-specific\". But he did not apologise.\n\nNevertheless, sociologist Nida Kirmani believes this was a sign of change.\n\n\"Some years ago, there would not have been such an outcry, and he would not be required to give any kind of response or explanation,\" she says. \"The recent response to Khawaja Asif's sexist comments are the culmination of a long and sustained struggle by women's rights activists.\"\n\nShe says social media has been an obvious gamechanger, offering women the space to speak up.\n\nAnd that is also visible in conversations far removed from the national spotlight. Recently, a clip from the popular ongoing drama Baby Baji, which showed a husband slapping his wife, went viral, with some men praising the scene for \"finally putting the woman in her place\".\n\nBut women were quick to push back.\n\nAmina Rehman was among them, commenting: \"I saw a lot of abusive husbands in my circle celebrate it along with their abused wives. The misconstrued idea of a woman being the root of all evil is perpetuated so much that when the slap finally happens, people rejoice.\"\n\nDemonstrators gather for the annual Women's Day march in Karachi earlier this year\n\nMany Pakistani women believe popular entertainment has had a role to play in this, often turning to regressive portrayals of women. Video blogger Sabahat Zakariya laments that dramas on TV or streaming platforms have embraced sexism more over time - she recalls TV shows in the 1980s that were far more progressive, showing women who had both careers and families.\n\nSome shows have tried to break that mould - such as Churails, a fictional, subversive tale of women detectives. But it proved too bold for Pakistan's censors, who banned it after a backlash.\n\n\"Pakistani society has not accepted a woman as an individual, a human or to give her the right to live the way she deserves,\" says actor and activist Adeel Afzal.\n\n\"And every crude thing that we hear or read or watch is built around that thinking. As a result, when a woman complains about being mistreated or abused or harassed, we fight and go against her and the culprit runs away.\"\n\nBut sometimes the outcry is strong enough to force a conversation.\n\nBack in April, Nabil Gobol of the Pakistan People's Party sparked a controversy with his comments in a podcast. Referring to political compromises, he said \"There is a saying in English, that when rape is inevitable you may as well enjoy it.\"\n\nMany took to Twitter and Facebook to voice their unhappiness, tagging Mr Gobol's party leader and demanding that action be taken. The party eventually asked him to apologise. And he did.\n\n\"With sustained critique, politicians and people would stop themselves before saying anything offensive against women,\" Ms Kirmani says. \"Hopefully this day will come eventually.\"", "An Italian flight carrying evacuees from Niger, including American nationals, landed in Rome on Wednesday\n\nThe United States has ordered the partial evacuation of its embassy in Niger following last week's coup.\n\nHundreds of foreign nationals have already been evacuated from the country, and on Sunday the French embassy was attacked by protesters.\n\nCoup leader Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani has warned against \"any interference in the internal affairs\" of the country.\n\nProtests in support of the coup are expected to take place on Thursday to mark Niger's independence day.\n\nThat is despite an official ban on demonstrations.\n\nFrance, the former colonial power in Niger, has asked the military junta which has taken control of the country to guarantee the security of their embassy.\n\nCrowds attacked the French diplomatic mission on Sunday, prompting the country to organise evacuation flights.\n\nMore than 1,000 French citizens and other Europeans have now been flown out, according to France's Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu.\n\nOne resident in the capital, Niamey, told the BBC's Outside Source programme that everything had been quiet there so far.\n\n\"People are doing their duty like they do it every day,\" said Sidien.\n\nHe added that there was a military presence around some embassies and ministry offices, as well as the president's palace.\n\nSadissou, who is in Niger's second city, Maradi, said it was a similar situation there but that the calm was deceptive.\n\n\"The situation has changed and so people are very anxious. They're anxious about the future, about what's going to happen.\"\n\nNiger is a significant uranium producer and lies on a key migration route to North Africa and the Mediterranean.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to the ousted President, Mohamed Bazoum, on Wednesday, the state department says, adding that the US is committed to the restoration of Niger's democratically elected government.\n\nSpokesperson Matthew Miller said that, despite the partial evacuation, the country's embassy in capital Niamey would remain open.\n\n\"We remain committed to the people of Niger and our relationship with the people of Niger and we remain diplomatically engaged at the highest levels,\" he said.\n\nThe US is a major donor of humanitarian and security aid to Niger, and has previously warned that the coup could lead to the suspension of all co-operation.\n\nThe British embassy in Niger's capital, Niamey, has also announced that it will also reduce staff numbers due to the security situation.\n\nFrance and the EU have already suspended financial and development aid.\n\nThe Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), a trade bloc of 15 West African countries, has imposed sanctions which include a halt on all commercial transactions with Niger and a freeze on the country's assets in the regional central bank.\n\nNiger's electricity company also says that neighbouring Nigeria has cut electricity supplies, leading to widespread power cuts, although this has not been confirmed by Nigeria.\n\nIn a televised address on Wednesday, Gen Tchiani said the new regime rejected \"these sanctions as a whole and refuses to give in to any threat, wherever it comes from\".\n\nHe labelled the sanctions \"cynical and iniquitous\" and said they were intended to \"humiliate\" Niger's security forces and make the country \"ungovernable\".\n\nMilitary chiefs from Ecowas met in Nigeria on Wednesday to discuss a possible military intervention, though they said such action would be a \"last resort\".\n\nGen Tchiani, a former chief of the presidential guard to Mr Bazoum, seized power on 26 July, saying he wanted to avert \"the gradual and inevitable demise\" of Niger.\n\nThe coup has prompted major demonstrations against France, which remains a major partner, and in favour of Russia, whose influence in west and central Africa has grown in recent years.\n\nOn Sunday, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the French embassy in Niamey, some chanting \"Long live Russia\", \"Long live Putin\", and \"Down with France\".\n\nThey also set fire to the walls of the embassy compound.\n\nOn Wednesday, 262 people arrived in Paris on evacuation flights organised by the French government. A flight organised by Italy also landed in Rome with 87 people on board.\n\nIn his address, Gen Tchiani said French people in Niger had never been subjected \"to the least threat\".\n\nNiger, where both France and the US maintain military bases, has been a key Western ally in the fight against jihadist extremism in the Sahel.\n\nAfter military leaders in neighbouring Mali chose to partner with the Russian Wagner mercenary group in 2021, France moved the centre of its regional counter-terror operations to Niger.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Niger coup: More trouble for the Sahel region?", "A mother accused of murdering her 10-month-old son has told a jury his father is the only person who could have caused him fatal injuries.\n\nGemma Barton and her partner Craig Crouch are accused of killing baby Jacob Crouch who died at home in Linton, Derbyshire, in December 2020.\n\nThe pair deny murder and are standing trial at Derby Crown Court.\n\nMs Barton, 33, told the jury, on Wednesday, she did not harm Jacob, who died with at least 39 rib fractures.\n\nWarning: Contains details some readers may find distressing\n\nShe was asked by her barrister who could have killed Jacob and she replied: \"It was not me so that leaves Craig.\"\n\nThe jury previously heard Jacob had been the victim of \"a vicious assault\" in which he was \"kicked or stamped on with such severe force that it fractured a rib and caused a tear in his stomach and bowel\".\n\nHe later contracted peritonitis - an infection of the lining of the abdominal organs - and died \"in his cot, alone\" at the family home in Foxley Chase, Linton, near Swadlincote, jurors heard.\n\nProsecutors said he had endured a \"culture of cruelty\" in the six months before he died.\n\nHowever Ms Barton said she did not inflict the injuries that killed him, nor did she see them inflicted by anyone else.\n\nThe court heard Ms Barton and Mr Crouch gave police no explanation of how Jacob suffered his injuries\n\nMs Barton said she \"panicked\" when Mr Crouch told her Jacob was dead at about 07:00 GMT on 30 December 2020.\n\nShe said: \"I felt like my whole world had just ended.\n\n\"I was shocked. I could not believe that my little boy had gone.\n\n\"He was my bundle of joy. I used to call him my little shadow. Wherever I was, that is where Jacob was.\"\n\nMs Barton denied ever harming her son and said she \"can't remember seeing\" any of the 19 visible bruises on Jacob's body at the time of his death.\n\nThe court had heard that in June 2020, Mr Crouch - who was listed on Jacob's birth certificate as his father - told Ms Barton that she needed to be \"more regimental\" with the child.\n\nIn a police interview, she said she went along with his style of parenting because it was \"Craig's way or no way\" and she feared he would end their relationship.\n\nMr Crouch, 39, had said on Tuesday in his evidence that \"there was nothing out of the ordinary\" in the days and hours prior to Jacob's death, and that bruising - including those on his face and thighs - had \"nothing to do with me\".\n\nMs Barton, of Ray Street, Heanor, Derbyshire, and Mr Crouch, of Donisthorpe Lane, Moira, Swadlincote, deny murder, causing or allowing the death of a child, causing a child to suffer serious physical harm and three counts of child cruelty.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Images of the overnight drone attack were released but officials did not specify which port was hit\n\nA Russian drone strike has hit Ukrainian port facilities at Izmail on the River Danube, a short distance from Nato member state Romania.\n\nA grain warehouse and an elevator for loading grain were damaged.\n\nAlmost 40,000 tonnes of grain destined to African countries, China and Israel were damaged, Ukraine said.\n\nRussia began targeting Ukraine's ports after abandoning a UN deal that enabled the safe grain export between both countries across the Black Sea.\n\n\"These are the very ports that have become the foundation of global food security today,\" Ukrainian minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on his Twitter.\n\nVideo, filmed from the Romanian side of the Danube roughly 3km (1.9 miles) away, showed an extensive fire raging in the port area of Izmail early on Wednesday.\n\nRomanian President Klaus Iohannis condemned Russia's continued attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure \"in the proximity of Romania\" as unacceptable.\n\nOdesa regional leader Oleh Kiper said emergency services were working on the site of the latest Russian attack and there were no reports of any casualties.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said that \"unfortunately there has been damage\" - and the regional chief posted several images on social media indicating that several structures had been hit.\n\nUkraine's defence ministry said an elevator had been damaged. Officials said the Izmail district prosecutor had launched an investigation into a cargo terminal, a warehouse and an elevator that were all damaged, without detailing exactly where in the Odesa region.\n\nUkraine is one of the world's major exporters of wheat and corn.\n\nAccording to data from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, in 2021 Somalia relied on Ukraine and Russia for 90% of its wheat.\n\nMore than 50 million people across Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan are in need of food aid because of successive years of failed rains.\n\nAccording to the UN, under the grain deal Ukraine shipped 625,000 tonnes of food as humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.\n\nFrance's foreign ministry accused Russia of \"deliberately putting global food security at risk\" following the damage to grain exports at the Ukrainian port.\n\nLast week, Russian drones also attacked grain warehouses in Reni, further up the River Danube and also next to Romanian territory.\n\nPresident Iohannis said on Wednesday that the attacks so close to Romania were war crimes that further affected Ukraine's \"capacity to transfer their food products towards those in need in the world\".\n\nRussia had earlier attacked the big Black Sea ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk, where authorities said 60,000 tonnes of grain were destroyed.\n\nUkrainian officials posted images of the damage to buildings at the port in Izmail\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin has been accused by the West of \"weaponising\" food. But in a phone-call with Turkey's president on Wednesday, he stressed that he would not return to the UN deal until Russia's own exports of grain and fertiliser were guaranteed.\n\nMoscow is frustrated with its own struggles to export and wants sanctions relaxed.\n\nWhen it pulled out of the grain deal on 17 July, Russia threatened to target any vessels heading towards Ukraine's Black Sea ports, where the bulk of Ukraine's shipments had been moving - essentially imposing a naval blockade.\n\nNow that Ukraine is unable to use its main Black Sea ports to export, the Danube is seen as the next best option. Moscow hopes the sight of burning warehouses and silos might make it look less appealing.\n\nEven with the river route, it is feared Ukraine's grain exports will drop by a further half. It is also logistically more expensive.\n\nThe not-so-subtle message Russia is trying to convey by continually hitting Ukrainian ports is: you need us to export grain.\n\nAt the heart of these negotiations are Ukraine's wounded economy, as well as the millions of people who could be at risk of starvation if Ukrainian grain does not make it to them.\n\nShips have continued to sail across the Black Sea to Ukraine's ports on the Danube. Grain can also reach the Danube by road or rail via Moldova as well as Ukraine.\n\nOnce it gets to the Danube, much of the grain is transported by river to the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta, from where it can be safely exported south.\n\nAlthough Ukraine's seaports' register still listed Izmail as open on Wednesday, sources told Reuters news agency that operations there had been suspended.\n\nGrain is also exported over land via Poland.\n\nUkraine has been looking into other possible routes with the help of European Union \"solidarity lanes\". This week, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he had agreed with Croatia on the possibility of using its ports on the Danube and Adriatic Sea.\n\nMoving Ukrainian grain across EU countries has become a difficult domestic issue for several states because of its impact on local markets. Poland and Romania are among EU members that have temporarily banned the sale of Ukrainian wheat and maize on domestic markets, while allowing transit elsewhere.\n\nWheat prices spiked on world markets immediately after the Russian withdrawal from the grain deal.\n\nThere are now also concerns about global food security, especially for impoverished African and Asian nations.\n\nOvernight, Russia also launched more than 10 drones against Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, local officials say.\n\nAll the projectiles were destroyed by anti-aircraft systems, but several non-residential buildings were damaged by falling debris, the officials say.\n\nRussia has so far not publicly commented on the reported attacks.", "Donald Trump has been criminally indicted four times, and will have a series of trials to attend in 2024 as he runs again for the White House.\n\nHis candidacy now also faces a challenge from the Colorado Supreme Court, which has ruled Mr Trump cannot run for president because he engaged in an insurrection with his actions in the days leading to the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021.\n\nHere's a guide to the five cases and what they could mean for the former president and current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.\n\nThe Colorado Supreme Court declared Mr Trump ineligible for the presidency under the US Constitution's insurrection clause - Section 3 of the 14th Amendment - which disqualifies anyone who engages in insurrection from holding office.\n\nVoting 4-3, the state's top court found Mr Trump had incited an insurrection in his role in the 6 January 2021 storming of the Capitol by his supporters. Mr Trump has repeatedly denied responsibility for the riot.\n\nThe bombshell ruling directs the Colorado secretary of state to exclude Mr Trump from the state's Republican primary on 5 March, where registered party members vote on their preferred candidate for president. But it could also affect the general election in Colorado next November.\n\nIt does not stop Mr Trump running in other states.\n\nSimilar lawsuits to to remove the Republican from the ballot in Minnesota, New Hampshire and Michigan have failed.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nDuring a one-week trial in Colorado in November, the former president's lawyers argued Mr Trump should not be disqualified because he did not bear responsibility for the riot.\n\nFollowing the Colorado Supreme Court's decision Mr Trump's campaign said immediately it would appeal the decision to the US Supreme Court, where it's likely a similar argument would be made.\n\nHis legal spokeswoman Alina Habba said the ruling \"attacks the very heart of this nation's democracy.\"\n\n\"It will not stand, and we trust that the Supreme Court will reverse this unconstitutional order,\" she said.\n\nThe Colorado Supreme Court put its ruling on hold until at least 4 January. If Mr Trump appeals, that pause will continue until the country's top court weighs in.\n\nIf the Supreme Court does take up the case, which experts say is likely, it could be forced to decide Mr Trump's eligibility beyond Colorado to all 50 states.\n\nThat court has a 6-3 conservative majority with three justices appointed by the former president himself.\n\nWhat are the charges in Georgia 2020 election investigation?\n\nThis is the most recent indictment, the one that saw the first ever mugshot of a former US president after Donald Trump turned himself in at the Fulton County Jail on 24 August. The charges for Mr Trump - listed now as inmate no. P01135809 on Fulton County Jail records - were unsealed last month.\n\nMr Trump and 18 others are named in a 41-count indictment for alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.\n\nThe investigation was sparked in part by a leaked phone call in which the former president asked Georgia's top election official to \"find 11,780 votes\".\n\nMr Trump was hit with 13 criminal counts including an alleged violation of Georgia's Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (Rico).\n\nHis other charges include solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, conspiring to commit impersonating a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery, conspiring to commit false statements, and writing and conspiring to file false documents.\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nThe racketeering charge, which is mostly used in organised crime cases, carries a maximum 20-year jail sentence.\n\nGeorgia prosecutor Fani Willis would need to prove that there was a pattern of corruption from Mr Trump and his allies aimed at overturning the election result in order to bring a conviction.\n\nAs for making false statements, that carries a penalty of between one to five years in prison or a fine.\n\nAnd a person convicted of first-degree criminal solicitation to commit election fraud will face between one to three years in jail.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing in the case and has entered a plea of not guilty.\n\nHe has defended the phone call in question as \"perfect\" and accused Ms Willis of launching a politically motivated inquiry.\n\nThere is no confirmed date for the trial yet.\n\nWhat are the charges in 2020 election investigation?\n\nDonald Trump has been criminally charged in a separate federal investigation into efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nThe 45-page indictment contains four counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.\n\nThey stem from the former president's actions in the wake of the 2020 election, including around the 6 January Capitol riot, which occurred while Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden's victory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nBut there are logistical, security and political questions around whether Mr Trump would serve time even if charged and convicted.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump was formally charged in court in Washington DC on 3 August. A tentative trial date is scheduled for 4 March 2024.\n\nHe argues that the charges are an attempt to prevent him from winning the 2024 presidential election. Before leaving Washington after his arraignment hearing, he told journalists the case \"is a persecution of a political opponent\".\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied responsibility for the riot on 6 January 2021.\n\nHis legal team is also likely to argue that the former president is not directly responsible for the violence that unfolded that day because he told supporters to march \"peacefully\" on the Capitol and is protected by First Amendment free speech rights.\n\nWhat are the charges in classified documents case?\n\nMr Trump is facing 40 criminal charges over his alleged mishandling of classified material after he left the White House.\n\nThousands of documents were seized in an FBI search at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago last year, including about 100 that were marked as classified.\n\nThe charges are related to both his handling of the documents and his alleged efforts to obstruct the FBI's attempts to retrieve them.\n\nThe majority of the counts, are for the wilful retention of national defence information, which falls under the Espionage Act.\n\nThere are then eight individual counts which include conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record and making false statements.\n\nWill Donald Trump go to jail?\n\nThese charges could - in theory - lead to substantial prison time if Mr Trump is convicted.\n\nBut the logistics, security and politics of jailing a former president mean a conventional prison sentence is seen as unlikely by many experts.\n\nLooking at the letter of the law, the counts under the Espionage Act, for example, each carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.\n\nOther counts, related to conspiracy and withholding or concealing documents, each carry maximum sentences of 20 years.\n\nCounts relating to a scheme to conceal, and false statements and representations carry sentences of five years each.\n\nBut while there is no doubt the charges are serious, many questions remain unanswered about the potential penalties should he be convicted.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and the trial is set to begin on 20 May 2024.\n\nThe former president has offered shifting defences for the material found at his property, mostly arguing that he declassified it. No evidence has been provided that this was possible or is true.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump supporters outside court: 'They're afraid of him'\n\nHis lawyers may argue in court that Mr Trump was unfairly targeted and that other politicians, namely Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence and current President Joe Biden, were never charged for their handling of classified documents.\n\nBut experts say the former president's case is different in a number of ways. For one, other politicians were willing to return whatever documents they had, while prosecutors allege Mr Trump resisted.\n\nWhat are the charges in New York hush money case?\n\nMr Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.\n\nThe charges stem from a hush-money payment made before the 2016 election to the adult film star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an adulterous affair with Mr Trump.\n\nWhile such a payment is not illegal, spending money to help a presidential campaign but not disclosing it violates federal campaign finance law.\n\nWhat are the potential penalties?\n\nEach of the charges carries a maximum of four years in prison, although a judge could sentence Mr Trump to probation if he is convicted.\n\nLegal experts have told BBC News they think it is unlikely Mr Trump will be jailed if convicted in this case and a fine is the more likely outcome.\n\nWhat will his defence be?\n\nMr Trump has pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial in the case on 25 March 2024.\n\nHe denies ever having sexual relations with Ms Daniels and says the payment was made to protect his family from false allegations, not to sway the election.\n\nDo you have any questions relating to Donald Trump's legal cases?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Kevin Collinson (left) said he would go on walks with his father John Collinson before the medication incident\n\nAn 88-year-old man with dementia was given 10 times his usual dosage of medication twice a day just weeks before he died, his family has claimed.\n\nJohn Collinson's family said he was left \"comatose\" after being overdosed for a week at a care home in Kinmel Bay, Conwy, where he developed bedsores.\n\nHe died in hospital weeks later in August 2022.\n\nKinmel Lodge Dementia Home said it could not comment ahead of an inquest.\n\nIt added: \"The management and staff of Kinmel Lodge have been deeply saddened to learn of the death of our former resident, Mr Collinson, who sadly died some six weeks after being moved from Kinmel Lodge care home to an alternative residence.\"\n\nThe date for the inquest, which will determine the cause of death, is yet to be fixed.\n\nMr Collinson's family said he had been dancing at the late Queen's jubilee celebrations at the care home just weeks before he was \"bedridden\" in July 2022.\n\nMr Collinson, a grandfather of 10 and great-grandfather of 12, had often walked with son Kevin along the seafront.\n\nBut upon a visit to the care home Kevin Collinson noticed his father was unresponsive and \"incapacitated\".\n\nHe said he told staff he believed the drugs were to blame but was repeatedly told this was not the case.\n\nKevin said a week later he received an email from someone at the care home who said his father had been overdosed \"with an anti-psychotic drug\".\n\nKevin's sister Rhian Collinson said: \"In the time dad had been bedridden, he had developed the most awful bedsore. Dad's heel was the size of a boiled egg.\n\n\"Subsequently the bedsore was actually what finished my dad off. For the next eight weeks he couldn't walk, it was septic.\"\n\nA bedsore develops when blood supply to the skin is cut off for more than two to three hours. If left untreated it can lead to blood poisoning.\n\nMr Collinson developed a bedsore on his heel the size of a \"hard boiled egg\"\n\nKevin said he had been \"a raving fan of Kinmel Lodge, especially through the lockdown\" but \"then standards properly slipped\" and they \"started to lose a lot of staff\".\n\nOn one visit the siblings got their father out of bed and into a chair, which they say was not a pressure-sensitive mattress as it should have been if a patient was bedbound.\n\nHe said he did not want to leave his father still in the chair and stayed until a member of staff came to put his father to bed. That did not happen until just before midnight, Kevin said.\n\nMr Collinson had been left for \"eight to 10 hours\" in the chair, his son said, and it took staff \"four hours\" to get him into bed.\n\nKevin said there were two members of staff at the time - one upstairs and one downstairs.\n\nMr Collinson's children Kevin, Rhian and Kathy say they have been excluded from council communications surrounding his death\n\nKevin offered to help but he said the staff member refused as Kevin was not hoist trained, and the other member of staff was busy.\n\nKevin said he did not blame the individual staff members because \"when you're under intense pressure, we can make mistakes\" and believes the responsibility was with the owners of the business.\n\nThe family moved Mr Collinson to Llys Elian in Colwyn Bay and Rhian said they were \"grateful\" for their help.\n\nBut his health deteriorated and he was moved to a hospital, where he died on 30 August, 2022.\n\nThe family have been in contact with Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW), Conwy council, North Wales Police and Denbighshire Coroner's Court.\n\n\"Fundamentally, so far every one of those parties has been a bit of a joke,\" said Kevin.\n\n\"There are so many cracks in this system. The bit that grinds is the fact that nobody seems to care about connecting the relevant bodies, and ensuring it doesn't happen again.\"\n\nKevin says his dad was \"much loved\" by their family\n\nThe family claim they were excluded from discussions about the case with Conwy council for almost seven months after Rick's death.\n\nIn a call to the family on 24 March this year, a council representative said none of the four key people involved in managing the case had seen a photo of Rick's bedsore.\n\nThey said the council was first notified about the overdose on 18 July 2022.\n\n\"In theory, under the Wales safeguarding procedures, they [Kinmel Lodge] have a duty of care to report immediately so we should have been told within the first 24 hours of them finding out,\" the representative said in the call.\n\nBut Kevin said this meant the council should have been notified on 7 July, as this was when he received an email from a staff member at the home saying there had been a \"medication error\" issued to his father.\n\nJohn Collinson was under the care of Kinmel Lodge for two years\n\nKinmel Lodge said in a statement: \"Any public comment or speculation could be deemed prejudicial to these proceedings [the inquest] and it would be wrong of us, or anyone else, to make any conjectures on this until such time as the inquest is concluded.\n\n\"We continue to be committed to providing the very best care to all our residents at Kinmel Lodge and would be happy to talk to any resident or family member who has any concerns about any public comments.\"\n\nCIW said Kinmel Lodge was subject to its \"enforcement process therefore it would not be appropriate for us to comment further at this time\".\n\nIt added that local authorities were \"responsible for safeguarding investigations where a person may have suffered harm\" but it would \"always take action where we find evidence that a provider has not complied with the regulations for providing a care home service\".\n\nDenbighshire Coroner's Court, North Wales Police and Conwy council all declined to comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dagmar Turner played the violin while surgeons removed a brain tumour at King's College Hospital\n\nA woman who played the violin during her brain surgery has been reunited with the surgeon who removed her tumour.\n\nDagmar Turner's operation in London in January 2020 was planned so that her ability to play the violin would not be impaired as a result of the surgery.\n\nThe 57-year-old has since returned to playing music in the Isle of Wight.\n\nShe said she was \"eternally grateful\" to consultant neurosurgeon Prof Keyoumars Ashkan.\n\nThe former management consultant re-watched the operation at the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London with Prof Ashkan, of King's College Hospital.\n\n\"When I saw him, I just had to smile, he always makes me laugh,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been eternally grateful to him for what he did with my tumour in my head, because it wasn't supposed to be there.\"\n\nDagmar Turner returned to orchestra rehearsals within weeks of her brain surgery\n\nMs Turner returned to the Isle Of Wight Symphony Orchestra soon after the surgery.\n\nShe played the violin as her tumour was removed to help ensure parts of the brain that control delicate hand movement and coordination were not harmed during the operation.\n\nShe later suffered side effects including fatigue, which still has an impact on her.\n\nProf Ashkan explained that when \"everything is working\" after brain tumour surgery there can be \"euphoria\" for patients, but long-term issues can include fatigue.\n\n\"Obviously, Dagmar gets monitored regularly and so far, so good, we keep our fingers crossed that things remain well for her,\" he said.\n\n\"And she continues to play amazing, wonderful violin.\"\n\nMs Turner was first diagnosed with a slow-growing glioma in 2013 and had a seizure while playing.\n\nShe had radiotherapy to treat the tumour, but underwent surgery after it became more aggressive in 2019.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Patient plays violin during her brain surgery. Video, 00:01:01Patient plays violin during her brain surgery", "Jake Paul has found success in the boxing world, with some lucrative fights against former UFC stars\n\nYouTuber Jake Paul has claimed he was physically abused by his dad growing up.\n\nThe 26-year-old social media star-turned boxer made the allegations in a Netflix documentary about his life.\n\nHe says his father Greg \"would slap\" him when he was younger.\n\nGreg Paul also takes part in the show where he denies the claims - saying he had \"never laid a hand\" on his sons but admitted to throwing them \"on a couch couple times\".\n\nJake's older brother Logan goes on to describe their father as \"a menace\" in the documentary.\n\nThe YouTuber, who is now a WWE wrestler, says Jake is \"still traumatised to this day about how my dad treated him\".\n\n\"And they still don't get along like they should,\" he says.\n\n\"Jake may throw around the word abusive, I prefer not quite legal.\"\n\nDefending himself in the documentary, Greg describes his actions as something \"dads are supposed to do\".\n\nJake says he doesn't \"resent\" his father Greg for slapping him when he was younger\n\nDespite those allegations, both Jake - who has more than 20 million YouTube subscribers - and Logan credit their father for the success they've found online.\n\n\"He was so hard and so tough on us that my brother and I's imaginations really started to flare up,\" Jake says.\n\n\"So one day we get a camera, and we just start filming our lives.\"\n\nThe documentary - Untold: Jake Paul the Problem Child - also covered different areas of his life, so here are three other things we learnt about the social media star:\n\nWhile the brothers are now seen passionately supporting each other, there was a time Jake and Logan weren't on the best of terms.\n\nJake says it became \"a competitive race\" when they first became popular, with both of them making content dissing each other.\n\n\"We were more focused on business and making money and growing our brands.\"\n\nLogan also says \"there was a point where we hated each other… legitimately, not for clout, not for clicks\".\n\nJake gives an example of when the competition led to Logan doing \"some conniving things\", like mentioning his ex-girlfriend in one video.\n\n\"Logan definitely crossed the line, but I get it from his point of view.\"\n\nLogan (left) says he \"didn't care at the time how bad I was hurting my little brother\"\n\nBut it was moments of adversity that brought them together again.\n\nJake Paul faced an allegation of sexual assault in 2021, which he denied, while back in 2018 Logan faced criticism for filming a dead body in a Japanese forest.\n\n\"In those moments of peril, Jake and I realised we will always be there for each other no matter what,\" Logan says.\n\nJake has become a commercially successful boxer in his own right, with a 6-1 record as a professional.\n\nHe lost his last fight against former Love Islander Tommy Fury but is facing UFC star Nate Diaz in his next match this weekend.\n\nIn the documentary he says he took up the sport because of a need to find happiness again.\n\n\"Boxing reinvigorated something inside of me. It made me feel alive again, like I had something to work for.\"\n\nHe says he felt he was \"not only not making progress, but I was hurting myself\" on YouTube.\n\n\"For the longest time I didn't like myself. I wasn't happy.\n\n\"And so when I got into something [where] I could slowly make progress, it brought back happiness in my life.\"\n\nJake's fights have led to big box office revenues and interest, with Mike Tyson crediting the brothers for increasing interest in boxing.\n\nBut while he's very serious about the sport, he says he still loves the glitz, glamour and attention.\n\n\"Boxing is the showbusiness, but first and foremost it's a show,\" he says.\n\nJake says after being the villain on YouTube, it's easier to play that role in boxing when promoting fights.\n\n\"In the world of YouTube, when I was a villain, my videos would get demonetised.\n\n\"Sponsors didn't really wanna mess with me because I was controversial and polarising.\n\n\"In the world of boxing, being the villain is the best thing.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Some other European countries have already started evacuation flights from Niger\n\nThe first group of British nationals to be evacuated from Niger have arrived safely in Paris.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said 14 Britons were on Wednesday's French flight.\n\nThe Foreign Office said a \"very small number of British nationals\" remained in the country.\n\nViolence has broken out in the west African country following last week's military coup.\n\nNations including France and Italy have organised flights for their own citizens, which have also transported some individuals from other countries.\n\nThe UK has not yet arranged its own flights.\n\nThe UK government had previously advised British nationals to register their whereabouts and stay indoors.\n\nThere were believed to be fewer than 100 British nationals in Niger.\n\nThe first to be evacuated were those who had requested to leave Niger and were able to make their way to the airport in time for this flight.\n\nA statement from the Foreign Office said: \"The UK's ambassador and a core team remain in Niger to support the very small number of British nationals who are still there. We are grateful to the French for their help in this evacuation.\"\n\nMr Dowden said: \"Our advice continues to be if you're there and need assistance getting out, get in touch with the embassy, we still have staff on the ground and we will work to provide that assistance.\"\n\nThe government has announced it is temporarily reducing the number of staff at its embassy in Niger's capital, Niamey. The US has also ordered all non-emergency staff at its embassy to leave.\n\nGerman citizens in Niger - who are also thought to number fewer than 100 - have been urged to leave the country on board planes organised by France, while the Spanish government said it was evacuating around 70 of its citizens.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly, who was in Nigeria as part of a three-country tour of Africa, said on Wednesday: \"The UK government's priority remains the safety of British nationals and helping them get out of the country to safety.\"\n\nThe coup has prompted demonstrations against France, the former colonial power in Niger, with the French embassy coming under attack.\n\nEarly on Wednesday 262 people arrived in Paris from Niger, while Italy also organised a flight, which arrived in Rome with 87 evacuees.\n\nThe plane was carrying 36 Italians, 21 Americans and one Briton, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nNiger, which is rich in uranium, has been a key Western ally in the fight against jihadist extremism in the Sahel region. Both France and the US have military bases there.\n\nPresident Mohamed Bazoum, Niger's first democratically elected leader since the country's independence in 1960, was detained by his presidential guards last week.\n\nThe west African regional bloc Ecowas has said it will use force unless the president is released and reinstated within a week.\n\nBut military groups in neighbouring Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea, also former French colonies, warned any forcible intervention would be seen as a declaration of war.\n\nThere are concerns Niger's new leadership could now move away from its Western allies and closer to Russia, like Burkina Faso and Mali, which have both pivoted towards Moscow since their own military coups.\n\nThe evacuation flight comes three months after airlifts were organised out of Sudan following fighting between warring factions there.\n\nA negotiated, short-term ceasefire allowed UK evacuation flights to take off from an airstrip near Khartoum, while the fragile ceasefire held and some 2,341 people were airlifted to safety on 28 UK flights.\n\nAre you a UK citizen? Have you evacuated Niger or plan to in the future? If it is safe to do so please get in touch. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A baby who was murdered by his stepfather was \"born into a culture of cruelty,\" police have said.\n\nJacob Crouch suffered at least 39 rib fractures, and died from a \"vicious assault\" at the hands of Craig Crouch.\n\nThe 10-month-old died \"in his cot, alone\" on 30 December 2020 at home near Swadlincote, Derbyshire, having suffered a \"living hell\".\n\nCrouch was found guilty of murder following a seven-week trial.\n\nJacob's mother Gemma Barton has been cleared of murder but she was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nSpeaking on the steps of Derby Crown Court, Det Insp Paul Bullock of Derbyshire Police said: \"Jacob Crouch was born into a culture of cruelty where both of the people who he should have been able to trust above any other allowed him to be subjected to assault after assault.\"", "Lizzo, pictured at this year's Met Gala, is best known for hits such as Truth Hurts, About Damn Time, Juice, Good As Hell and 2 Be Loved\n\nPop star Lizzo is being sued by three of her former dancers over claims including sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.\n\nThe legal action includes accusations of sexual, religious and racial harassment, discrimination, assault and false imprisonment.\n\nThe singer is also accused of fat-shaming and pressuring a dancer to touch a performer's breasts.\n\nLizzo and others who are accused have been approached for comment.\n\nThe singer has not yet responded publicly to the allegations made in the case, which remain to be tested in court.\n\nArianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez are the former dancers bringing the case against the singer, her dance captain and her production company Big Grrrl Big Touring (BGBT).\n\nThe legal action, filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday, includes allegations the dancers were pressured into attending sex shows and interacting with the dancers between 2021 and 2023.\n\nAmong the claims against Lizzo - whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson - are that she \"pressured Ms Davis to touch the breasts\" of a performer in a nightclub in Amsterdam, and Ms Davis - after resisting - eventually acquiesced \"fearing it may harm her future on the team\" if she didn't do so.\n\nLizzo - who is known for celebrating her body and self-love - is also accused, along with dance choreographer Tanisha Scott, of fat-shaming Ms Davis on tour.\n\nMs Davis alleges the two questioned whether she was \"struggling with something as she seemed less committed to her role on the dance cast\", the case details.\n\n\"In professional dance, a dancer's weight gain is often seen as that dancer getting lazy or worse off as a performer. Lizzo's and Ms. Scott's questions about Ms. Davis's commitment to the tour were thinly veiled concerns about Ms Davis's weight gain,\" the documents allege.\n\nThough never explicitly stated, the questions \"gave Ms Davis the impression that she needed to explain her weight gain and disclose intimate personal details about her life in order to keep her job\", the legal documents say.\n\nLizzo performed at the Glastonbury music festival earlier this summer\n\nThe case also alleges that staff working for BGBT scolded dancers for \"unacceptable and disrespectful\" behaviour while working on the tour, without specifying what that behaviour was.\n\nThe dancers allege that \"only the dance cast - comprised of full-figured women of colour - were ever spoken to in this manner, giving [the dancers] the impression that these comments were charged with racial and fat-phobic animus\".\n\nAdditionally, it alleges the dance team's captain, Shirlene Quigley, pushed her Christian beliefs on performers and derided those who engaged in premarital sex.\n\nShe is also accused of openly discussing one of the former dancers' virginity, and posting about it on social media.\n\nAccusations including racial discrimination are also levelled at BGBT's management team.\n\nIt alleges black members of the dance troupe were \"treated differently\" from other members of the team.\n\nThey were accused of being \"lazy, unprofessional, and having bad attitudes\" - the case claimed these are tropes often used \"to disparage and discourage\" black women and that other dancers were not treated like this.\n\nBoth Quigley and Scott have been contacted for comment by the BBC.\n\nThe plaintiffs also allege Lizzo and the production company team did not pay them fairly while on parts of Lizzo's European tour.\n\nThey say they were offered only 25% of their weekly pay as a retainer during their time not performing on the tour. They also claim that Lizzo and the company preferred them not to take on other jobs during these breaks.\n\nTwo of the three dancers involved in the legal action, Ms Davis and Ms Williams, met Lizzo in March 2021 while preparing to compete on the reality TV show Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, the legal action says.\n\nThe third, Ms Rodriguez, was hired later in May 2021 to perform in Lizzo's Rumours music video. She then remained part of the dance troupe, it adds.\n\nMs Davis and Ms Williams were fired from the dance team, while Ms Rodriguez later resigned over the alleged treatment of her fellow colleagues.\n\nLizzo is best known for hits such as Truth Hurts, About Damn Time, Juice, Good As Hell and 2 Be Loved.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Du Beke permanently took over as a Strictly judge from Bruno Tonioli in 2021\n\nStrictly Come Dancing judge Anton Du Beke has revealed he was stabbed by his father as a child.\n\nThe 57-year-old said his father stabbed him in the leg and stomach during a Boxing Day altercation at the family home in Kent.\n\nDu Beke told Kate Garraway's Life Stories he spent three days in hospital as a result of the attack.\n\nHe said his father Antal had \"taken a turn\" against Du Beke as alcoholism gripped him.\n\nRecalling the incident, Du Beke said: \"I got stabbed in the leg and in the stomach because of a fight on Boxing Day and it was an idiotic situation.\n\n\"I remember walking out of the house to walk up to the hospital holding my leg and a police car drove past and I waved them down and I said 'he's in there with a knife'.\n\n\"Anyway, they carted him off and I ended up in hospital for three or four days. My only concern was getting back into the studio and dancing and the embarrassment of it.\"\n\nThe TV judge, who was previously a professional dancer on the BBC One show, said the revelations will likely come as a shock to his friends and family as it is the first time he has spoken about the childhood incident.\n\nDu Beke lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife Hannah Summers and their two children.\n\nDu Beke, pictured being interviewed on Radio 2 in 2022, said he spent three days in hospital following the attack\n\nBorn to a Spanish mother and Hungarian father, Du Beke lived on a council estate in Sevenoaks, and discovered a passion for dancing after picking his sister up from the local studio.\n\nHe explained his mother encouraged his new hobby, but the relationship with his father, who was battling issues with alcohol, became strained.\n\nDu Beke said: \"The alcoholism and the violence... [it was] towards me, because I was a boy, a young man I suppose.\n\n\"You've got an alcoholic father and a situation where if you're in the house, [he's] drinking then you end up with the fights and stuff.\n\n\"You'd move room to get away from all of it and then he follows you in and the next thing you know the violence starts and then it came to a head one evening, I ended up in hospital for three days.\"\n\nDu Beke said he was sure his family and friends did not know about the attack because he never saw any gain from speaking about his ordeal, telling Garraway: \"I'm a forward looker... I don't like to look back, I like to look forward.\"\n\nHe said he told people he had \"pulled a hamstring\" when asked about his leg injury because he was embarrassed.\n\n\"I can't really believe I'm talking to you about this. I should've glossed over this,\" Du Beke commented to Garraway. \"Even the thought of that [the attack] being a thing sort of annoys me as well.\"\n\nBefore becoming a Strictly judge, his celebrity dance partners included former MP Ann Widdecombe\n\nGarraway explained Du Beke's father was cleared in court of wounding his son and when he died, Du Beke did not attend his funeral.\n\n\"Everything was about moving forwards, I felt sorry for my mum, this was her husband, she's working two jobs and he chose to drink and be violent, it's just life and you carry on,\" he said.\n\nAt the time, the aspiring dancer changed his name \"from Tony Beke, who grew up on a council estate\" to \"Anton Du Beke, The Show Man\".\n\nHe said: \"I wanted a new start and a new beginning and I wanted to leave what went before, behind, and then move on with the rest of my life, I just wanted to be me.\"\n\nDu Beke added his motivation to achieve success was not because of his father.\n\n\"I hate woe is me,\" he said. \"I never sought any sense of confirmation or encouragement from him and I never did anything I did because of him. My motivation to do what I did was not because of that.\"\n\nDu Beke was the longest-serving professional dancer on Strictly until he took over from departing judge Bruno Tonioli permanently in 2021.\n\nHis celebrity partners over the years have included former home secretary Jacqui Smith, soap star Emma Barton and politician Ann Widdecombe.\n\nTV presenter Garraway took over from Piers Morgan as the host of ITV's Life Stories series this year.\n\nFor information and support about any issues raised in this story contact the BBC Action Line.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nThe 'ole' chants had kicked in before 40 minutes had been played and the same fans were rocking out to Van Halen at half-time. England had arrived at the Women's World Cup. The party atmosphere evolved throughout England's scintillating 6-1 victory over China, confirming their place in the last 16 as group winners. The Lionesses swept aside China with slick, unpredictable and entertaining football in one of the best performances in the tournament so far. It was a display that sent a statement to England's rivals in Australia. The European champions mean business and have finally shown their quality. When half-time arrived, England were in cruise control at 3-0 up - a goal and two assists already in the bag for Chelsea sensation Lauren James.\n• None How to watch England v Nigeria on the BBC\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup England were one of the pre-tournament favourites but injuries to key players Leah Williamson, Beth Mead and Fran Kirby had dominated the build-up to the World Cup. Sarina Wiegman's side then opened Group D with an unconvincing 1-0 win against Haiti, ranked 49 places lower than them, before they had to rely on a James stunner to help them over the line in a 1-0 victory against Denmark. England had six points in the bag and sat top of the group, but the performances had created more questions than provided answers. Struggling for fluidity, their goalscoring touch also seemed to have deserted them, with just one goal from open play in their past four matches - while none of England's strikers had got off the mark. To add to the concern, instrumental midfielder Keira Walsh picked up a knee injury - so by the time the Lionesses were lining up to face China in their final group match, English pessimism had started to creep in. Lauren James (left) and Rachel Daly (right) both scored against China Tension was hardly reduced when Wiegman named her starting XI for Tuesday's match in Adelaide and few could state confidently what the formation was. It was rogue, unpredictable and risky by a manager who had named the same team throughout Euro 2022 and has rarely switched from a favoured 4-2-1-3 formation. This was an uncharacteristic experiment in the middle of the game's biggest tournament. Instead of her favoured flat back four, England set up with a back three - and it worked almost instantly. China, perhaps as unprepared as everyone else, could not work out how to track England's runners and they attacked relentlessly, creating chances in abundance. Alessia Russo, who looked incredibly sharp, opened the scoring within four minutes. James then sprang into life, linking up well with Lauren Hemp, while defender Millie Bright - who had looked rusty in the first two games on her return from injury - won the ball back on numerous occasions in the midfield area as England added to their tally. Rachel Daly and Lucy Bronze barely left the China half from their wing-back positions and the attacking verve did not relent after the break when substitutes Chloe Kelly, Bethany England and Laura Coombs entered the stage. \"It is like we've finally arrived,\" former England midfielder Karen Carney told ITV. \"This is why Sarina Wiegman is paid the big bucks.\" While it was undoubtedly a victory built on a flowing team performance, 21-year-old James' display stole the show once again. Her talent left even the opposition in awe, as she departed the field to a standing ovation by some members of the Chinese media as well as the majority of the 13,000 supporters in Adelaide. With two goals and three assists to her name, she became only the third player on record - they began in 2011 - to be directly involved in five goals in a Women's World Cup game. Her display alone will have struck fear into England's opponents, while it will surely not have gone unnoticed that the Lionesses are starting to click by building the connections Wiegman vowed they would. England may be without several star players - and only six of the Euro 2022 winning side are available - but this performance was reminiscent of what they produced last summer. Even the celebrations were familiar, as England fans belted out 'Sweet Caroline' at full time, while Wiegman gave a debrief in a huddle on the pitch. England face Nigeria next in the last 16, live on BBC One on Monday, and, just as they did at Euro 2022, they will hope they are starting to build momentum to take them deep into the tournament.\n• None The face you know, the story you don't: The life and legacy of Marilyn Monroe from a modern perspective", "Ashleigh House care home has been closed after it was put into special measures\n\nA care home has been closed after inspectors discovered it was dirty and understaffed, with a manager admitting people's lives were at risk.\n\nTwo inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) arrived unannounced at Ashleigh House in Nottingham in May.\n\nThey found several problems at the home, which cared for 18 people with autism and learning disabilities, and placed it in special measures.\n\nIt has now been closed by the provider that ran it, W Scott.\n\nThe CQC inspectors found mattresses soaked with urine in bedrooms, unclean communal toilets with urine and faeces stains, as well as an unclean laundry area and kitchenette.\n\nIn its report, the CQC added there was no housekeeper, with the home unable to maintain cleaning on some days due to understaffing.\n\nFire officials visited the home on the day of the CQC's inspection. It was found the home had \"insufficient fire detection equipment\" and no clear plan to evacuate during a fire.\n\nNottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service then served an immediate prohibition notice, which restricted everyone in the three-storey building to the \"ground and basement area only\".\n\nThe CQC's report added the home was not managing medicines safely, and the only person trained to give emergency medication to a resident who suffered seizures lived 40 minutes away.\n\nOne resident had 124 tablets unaccounted for, while another had \"a discrepancy\" of 28 tablets.\n\nRadiators were not covered properly, the CQC said, and wardrobes were not fixed to walls.\n\nThe care home in Devon Drive should also have had 3.5 to four staff, but inspectors found only two staff were allocated for day and night shifts.\n\nAnd the registered manager, who would make sure the home was up to standard, was no longer working at the home.\n\nThe report said: \"The culture of the home was negative, the manager told us the home was not safe and people needed to leave, meaning there was no drive for improvement or quality of the service.\n\n\"The provider failed to demonstrate any understanding regarding the severity of the concerns, only telling us, 'we are in a bad place', and stating the significant environmental factors and fire risks 'would all be sorted by tonight'.\n\n\"They gave us no assurances the provider was able to make the required improvement.\"\n\nRebecca Bauers, the CQC's director for people with a learning disability and autistic people, said: \"We found signs of a closed culture where people felt they couldn't raise concerns due to management changes which resulted in no consistency or clear guidelines for staff to follow.\n\n\"It was clear the manager acknowledged the seriousness of our concerns, telling us that they knew people's lives were being put at risk by the provider, W Scott, and that they would prefer people to be moved out of the home to keep them safe.\n\n\"What we found at this inspection was completely unacceptable.\"\n\nW Scott has been contacted for comment.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Motorists have been asked to avoid the Hyndford Street and Ballyquinn Road areas\n\nA pipe bomb exploded in a residential area of east Belfast on Tuesday night, police have confirmed.\n\nResidents were evacuated from their homes in the area of Hyndford Street off the Beersbridge Road.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have said that officers discovered what they described as a \"crude pipe bomb-type device\" next to a household bin.\n\nMinor damage was caused to the bin and there were no reports of injuries.\n\nThe PSNI said they were contacted after a loud bang was heard at around 20:20 BST.\n\nInspector Greg Dawson described the incident as \"a reckless act carried out in a residential area with no consideration given as to who this device could have injured or killed\".\n\nMeanwhile, in Dungiven, County Londonderry, a security alert on Ballyquinn Road has now ended.\n\nThe alert at a business park in the area was first reported on Tuesday night.\n\nSinn Féin Councillor Dermott Nicholl told BBC News NI that the search has concluded and nothing untoward was found.", "Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated that Greece is \"absolutely safe\" for tourists\n\nThe Greek prime minister has pledged to give tourists who had to escape the recent wildfires on the island of Rhodes a free one-week holiday there.\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said people could take up the offer in the spring or autumn of 2024.\n\nBut he did not give details of how the free week could be claimed, or how the scheme would work.\n\nMore than 20,000 people were evacuated when wildfires broke out in July.\n\nThousands of UK holidaymakers were flown home to the UK.\n\nMr Mitsotakis said: \"Not a single human life was lost in Rhodes, and no injuries were reported... We understand that guests have been inconvenienced, but I am happy to tell you that Rhodes is more welcoming than ever. The island is back to normal.\"\n\nHe also referenced the hospitality and \"support\" offered by Rhodes residents to stranded holidaymakers, and encouraged people to consider the island as a last-minute holiday destination to give something back to the island.\n\nHe pointed out that Greece was prepared for incidents such as wildfires and repeatedly stated that Greece was \"absolutely safe\".\n\nMr Mitsotakis acknowledged that, while wildfires have always affected the Mediterranean, their intensity had increased \"as a consequence of climate change\".\n\nIn July, Rhodes battled wildfires fanned by strong winds amid a prolonged and intense heatwave. Many British tourists had to cut short their holidays and return home on repatriation flights.\n\nIn one instance, an EasyJet pilot flying British tourists to Rhodes even urged passengers to get off the plane before take-off as he said it was a \"bad idea\".\n\nInstead of formally advising holidaymakers not to travel to the affected Greek islands, the UK Foreign Office said people should check with their hotel and travel operator before travelling, and explained how to sign up for emergency alerts.\n\nSome Greeks took to social media to share their frustration at Mr Mitsotakis' initiative. \"Greeks may not get to go on vacation, but they will pay for foreigners' vacations,\" said one user of X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\n\"Not a single day of paid hotel for the locals, Greeks and immigrants, who lost their homes all over Greece and slept in the ruins,\" said another.\n\nA third said that \"the wretchedness of compensating tourists while not funding the protection of dwindling flora and fauna goes beyond all limits\".\n\nThere is growing frustration at the Greek government's perceived inaction in the wake of last week's devastating wildfires.\n\nOn Tuesday night, hundreds of Rhodes residents gathered in front of the island's town hall to demand compensation for livestock breeders and farmers, safeguarding for workers, businesses and homeowners who lost their jobs and properties, and the immediate reforestation of the areas that burned down.\n\nA spokesman for opposition party Syriza criticised the PM's offer to pay for evacuated tourists to come back to Rhodes, saying that \"Mr Mitsotakis thinks that he will heal the blow suffered by the image of Greek tourism by promising a week's free holiday\".\n\n\"A serious plan is needed for prevention and treatment. A plan that the government demonstrably does not have,\" he said.\n\nA recent European Commission report on the impact of climate change on European tourism states that global warming will translate into decreased demand for southern Europe.\n\nTourism generally accounts for more than 20% of Greece's GDP, while Rhodes is one of the world's top 100 tourist destinations.", "Researchers led by a team at Lund University found computer-aided detection could spot cancer at a \"similar rate\" to two radiologists.\n\nBut they said more research was needed to fully determine whether it could be used in screening programmes.\n\nExperts in the UK agreed AI offered huge promise in breast cancer screening.\n\nThis is not the first study to look at the use of AI to diagnose breast cancer in mammograms - X-rays of the breast.\n\nPrevious research, including some carried out in the UK, has looked retrospectively, where the technology assesses scans which have already been looked at by doctors.\n\nBut this research study saw AI-supported screening put head-to-head with standard care.\n\nThe trial, published in Lancet Oncology, involved more than 80,000 women from Sweden with an average age of 54.\n\nHalf of the scans were assessed by two radiologists, known as standard care, while the other half were assessed by the AI-supported screening tool followed by interpretation by one or two radiologists.\n\nIn total, 244 women from AI-supported screening were found to have cancer, compared with 203 women recalled from standard screening.\n\nAnd the use of AI did not generate more \"false positives\" - where a scan is incorrectly diagnosed as abnormal.\n\nThe false-positive rate was 1.5% in both the AI group and the group assessed by radiologists.\n\nLead author Dr Kristina Lang said AI has the potential to be deployed in breast cancer screening, helping to address the shortages of radiologists seen across the world.\n\nBut she said more research was needed in this area to fully understand its potential and cost-effectiveness.\n\n\"The greatest potential of AI right now is that it could allow radiologists to be less burdened by the excessive amount of reading.\n\n\"While our AI-supported screening system requires at least one radiologist in charge of detection, it could potentially do away with the need for double reading of the majority of mammograms, easing the pressure on workloads and enabling radiologists to focus on more advanced diagnostics while shortening waiting times for patients.\"\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said: \"This research is very encouraging, and plans are under way to assess the best ways of implementing this technology into the NHS Breast Screening Programme.\"\n\nDr Katharine Halliday, president of the Royal College of Radiologists, added: \"AI holds huge promise and could save clinicians time by maximising our efficiency, supporting our decision-making and helping identify and prioritise the most urgent cases.\n\n\"There is a great deal of research interest in how AI could support reporting for mammograms because they are complex, requiring significant oversight and interpretation by clinical radiologists. The UK's shortfall in radiologists, at 29%, makes this challenging.\n\n\"While real-life clinical radiologists are essential and irreplaceable, a clinical radiologist with the data, insight and accuracy of AI will increasingly be a formidable force in patient care.\"", "Medical clinics are using fake Google reviews to boost their profiles online, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nConsumer groups say fake reviews are a \"significant and persistent problem\" and have called on internet firms to do more to remove them and fine companies.\n\nWhich? has warned it could be a serious issue if someone chooses a treatment clinic based on reading a fake review.\n\nThe government said it was toughening the law to protect consumers, while Google said it removed fake reviews.\n\nFake reviews can be bought online and have been known to appear on Amazon, Trustpilot and the App Store.\n\nOne of the companies the BBC's investigation examined was the Ipswich Spine Clinic run by Dr Amit Patel.\n\nThe chiropractic clinic had a 4.9 star rating on Google reviews.\n\nReviews left on Google for firms highly recommended them to customers\n\nBut our investigation found a number of people who had given this clinic five stars on Google, had also reviewed 16 of the same business in the US, Australia, Austria and Canada, for products as diverse as property conveyancing, car repairs, and hookah pipes.\n\nOne of the fake customers wrote: \"Dr Amit was brilliant…he assessed my injury quickly and came up with a treatment plan, I felt that I was in safe hands and highly recommend this place\".\n\nWe also found that five people who had rated Ipswich Spine Clinic highly, posted negative comments on one of their local competitors.\n\nWhen we contacted the clinic, Dr Amit Patel told us he had outsourced his marketing to a company in India, and hadn't been aware of the reviews posted on Google.\n\nHe said since being contacted by the BBC he had asked for reviews which were not genuine to be taken down.\n\nOur investigation also looked at Smiles Better dentistry business in Manchester.\n\nEmma Vardy visited one of the firms in Manchester\n\nOne reviewer Rose Bellamy wrote \"I'm so happy with my new smile. Super fast service and everyone was so helpful and kind\".\n\nBut in the same month, Rose Bellamy had also appeared to review a removal company in Australia, a restaurant in Sweden, an immigration company in Canada, and a spa in the US.\n\nA number of its reviewers who had posted five star ratings on Google had also reviewed the same pattern of businesses around the world.\n\nSmiles Better had replied to some of its fake Google reviews, writing thank you messages.\n\nThe dental firm did not provide a response when it was contacted several times by the BBC.\n\nHarry Kind from Which? said \"I think it's bad enough if you buy a pair of dodgy Bluetooth headphones off a fake review, but if you try and get a medical treatment done and it turns out that the review you chose the establishment on was fake, that could have really serious repercussions.\n\nSelling them, buying them, and hosting them on your platforms should be illegal, they should be facing a fine there needs to be some deterrent from just buying a load of fake reviews because for now it's easy to do.\"\n\nWhich? are among consumer groups arguing for measures to protect citizens from fake online reviews\n\nA Department of Business and Trade spokesperson said that the government's digital markets, completion and consumers bill will provide new powers to address this.\n\n\"We're strengthening the law against fake reviews to protect consumers who spend an estimated £23 billion a year on items based off online reviews.\n\n\"We will publish a consultation later this year on our proposals so we are ready to implement these after the Bill receives Royal Assent, including giving the [Competition and Markets Authority] the power to fine these rogue traders.\"\n\nGoogle said it does remove fake reviews and suspend fake accounts.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our policies clearly state reviews must be based on real experiences, and when we find policy violations, we take swift action ranging from content removal to account suspension and even litigation.\"", "The Bibby Stockholm is currently moored at Portland Port\n\nA controversial barge that will house hundreds of asylum seekers is not a \"death trap\", a government minister has said after fresh safety checks delayed its first arrivals.\n\nCabinet minister Grant Shapps told reporters there was no reason why the barge \"wouldn't be absolutely safe\".\n\nThe comments come after firefighters raised concerns over exits and possible overcrowding on the Bibby Stockholm.\n\nAsylum seekers are now unlikely to move to the vessel until next week.\n\nThe barge is a key part of the government's strategy to deter migrants from arriving on Britain's shores in small boats, and ministers say it will help cut the £6m-a-day cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels while claims are processed.\n\nPortland councillors and campaign groups had argued against the barge ahead of its arrival in July\n\n\"It certainly won't be a death trap,\" Mr Shapps said.\n\n\"This actual ship was previously used by Germany to house migrants, there's no reason why it wouldn't be absolutely safe.\n\n\"Ships are used to transport people all the time and there's no inherent reason why that would be the case. That's actually why these final safety checks are being carried out.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak also defended the barge plan and rejected a suggestion it had been a \"shambles\".\n\n\"This is an example of me doing something different that hasn't been tried before to help solve a serious problem,\" he told LBC.\n\nFinal preparations for the arrivals are continuing, with food being delivered earlier\n\nFood deliveries were seen being taken on to the vessel earlier, suggesting final preparations for the arrivals are still going ahead.\n\nSome 50 migrants were expected to arrive on board the vessel - moored at Dorset's Portland Port - on Tuesday, however the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said it was writing to the government after its members raised serious concerns about potential overcrowding and access to fire exits.\n\nBen Selby, the FBU's assistant general secretary, told the Guardian: \"As the only professional voice, firefighters believe the Bibby Stockholm to be a potential death trap.\"\n\nSpeaking on Sky News, Mr Selby added that the union's main concern was the plans to house 500 people on a barge designed to accommodate about 200.\n\n\"That then raises significant fire safety concerns for us, and also concerns that, if a fire was to break out on the Bibby, could firefighters make the adequate rescues and access where necessary,\" he said.\n\n\"By increasing that occupancy, then we would expect certain measures and assessments to be made to ensure that those that were being accommodated there were safe, and that firefighters - if and when they were needed to make access to the Bibby - they were also safe, or as safe as they could be in doing so when attempting to rescue people.\"\n\nGovernment sources have suggested the FBU's complaints are politically motivated.\n\nA Home Office source said late representation from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to check working practices for port staff was the reason for the latest delay - and not fire safety concerns.\n\nThe HSE said it had raised concerns about hi-vis clothing and separating pedestrians from vehicles, but saw no reason for its recommendations to cause the hold-up.\n\nTransport minister Richard Holden said on Tuesday he could not put a timeframe on when the asylum seekers would start arriving.\n\nThe 222-bedroom, three-storey vessel will house about 500 migrants\n\nGroups supporting the asylum seekers, some of whom are staying at hotels in Bournemouth while they wait to be moved, have called on the government to scrap the barge plan altogether.\n\nEnver Solomon, chief Executive of the Refugee Council, said there was no link between making the asylum system \"harder\" and \"stopping people wanting to come here\".\n\n\"The reason the government is having to use this barge - and it is absolutely the wrong plan in the wrong place - is because it has grossly mismanaged the asylum system,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"There is a backlog of 150,000 cases and if there wasn't that backlog the government wouldn't have to use ships.\"\n\nTony Smith, former director general of UK Border Force, told the BBC: \"The bigger problem for me is the lack of returns or removals.\n\n\"We are not really returning very many people at all so they know that if they run into a smuggler on the beaches in France they know they are going to be told 'give us 5,000 euros' and you know once you are across, Bob's your uncle - you are home and dry.\n\n\"So really we do need to get removals going.\"\n\nThe rooms on the barge were first converted to house asylum seekers in Germany in the 1990s\n\nReporters were invited to look inside the barge last month, with pictures showing a TV room with a big screen and sofas, a multi-faith prayer room and a classroom that can be used for meetings and activities.\n\nThere is a gym and outdoor recreational space in the two courtyards in the centre of the barge.\n\nThe men will also have access to the dockside, within a fenced off area, and they will be provided with 24-hour security and healthcare provision.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said on Wednesday evening the Bibby Stockholm would \"adhere to all relevant health and safety standards\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to work closely with Dorset and Portland councils, as well as the local NHS and police services, to manage any impact in Portland, including providing substantial funding to local services, to address the local community's concerns.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie together - in Cuba, Mexico and with Joe Biden\n\nCanada's PM Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie are separating after 18 years, following \"meaningful and difficult conversations\".\n\nThe couple said they would remain \"a close family with deep love and respect\" in an Instagram post.\n\nThey were married in Montreal in 2005 and have three children together.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Trudeau's office said that while the couple had signed separation agreement they will still make public appearances.\n\n\"They have worked to ensure that all legal and ethical steps with regards to their decision to separate have been taken, and will continue to do so moving forward,\" the statement said, adding they would be on holiday as a family next week.\n\nSophie Grégoire Trudeau will no longer take part in official duties, nor will the government help in arranging her own appearances, Canadian media reports.\n\nThe couple have asked for privacy for the \"well-being\" of their children, Xavier, 15, Ella-Grace 14, and Hadrien, nine.\n\n\"We remain a close family with deep love and respect for each other and for everything we have built and will continue to build,\" Mr Trudeau, 51, and Ms Grégoire Trudeau, 48, said.\n\nThey have been seen together publicly less frequently in recent years, though they attended the coronation of King Charles III together in May and hosted US President Joe Biden in Canada in March.\n\nWhen Mr Trudeau first became prime minister in 2015, the couple appeared in a high-profile Vogue spread where she told the magazine that at the end of dinner after their first date he said, \"I'm 31 years old, and I've been waiting for you for 31 years\".\n\nJustin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire got married in Montreal in 2005\n\nThe couple have asked for privacy for the \"wellbeing\" of their three children, seen here in 2016\n\nIn a wedding anniversary post on Instagram in May 2022, Ms Grégoire Trudeau wrote about the challenges of long-term relationships, saying \"we have navigated through sunny days, heavy storms, and everything in between\".\n\nMr Trudeau has also spoken about the challenges in their marriage, writing in his 2014 autobiography: \"Our marriage isn't perfect, and we have had difficult ups and downs, yet Sophie remains my best friend, my partner, my love. We are honest with each other, even when it hurts.\"\n\nThe two began dating in 2003, when Ms Grégoire Trudeau was working as a TV personality. She is also known for her charity work around mental health and eating disorders.\n\nCoincidentally, Ms Grégoire Trudeau had been at school with Mr Trudeau's younger brother, Michel.\n\nMr Trudeau is the second Canadian prime minister to announce separation while in office. The first was his father, the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and mother Margaret Trudeau, who announced their split in 1977 after six years together. They later divorced.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Smith charges Trump with conspiracy to defraud US\n\nHe is currently overseeing two separate criminal investigations into a former American president, but Jack Smith is no stranger to bringing high-stakes cases.\n\nOver the past two decades, Mr Smith, 54, has pursued public officials in the US and abroad - with a mixed record of success.\n\nThe veteran prosecutor has cut a low profile since his appointment as special counsel in the two investigations of Donald Trump by the US Department of Justice.\n\nIn announcing his selection last November, Attorney General Merrick Garland called him \"the right choice to complete these matters in an even-handed and urgent manner\".\n\nMr Trump meanwhile has characterised Mr Smith as a \"deranged\" man at the forefront of a \"political witch hunt\" against him.\n\nThe special counsel has indicted Mr Trump over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He has also indicted the ex-president on 40 felony counts over his alleged mishandling of classified documents.\n\nAt Mr Trump's arraignment hearing in Washington DC on Thursday, Mr Smith sat in the court's front row about 20ft away from the former president. The two seemed to exchange glances.\n\nMuch like the man he is now investigating, John Luman Smith is a New York native.\n\nA Harvard Law School graduate, he began his prosecutorial career in 1994 as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan district attorney's office.\n\nOver the next decade, he climbed up the ranks of the US attorney's office in Brooklyn, where he pursued violent gangs, white-collar fraudsters and public corruption cases.\n\nHe once spent a weekend sleeping in the hallway of an apartment building so he could convince a woman to take the witness stand in a domestic violence case, the Associated Press (AP) reported.\n\nDuring that time, Mr Smith was also among those who investigated the infamous assault of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima with a broomstick by New York police.\n\nHis work on the team led in part to his recommendation as special counsel in the Trump cases, according to the New York Times.\n\nTrump's role in the events leading up to the Capitol riot is being investigated\n\nIn 2008, Mr Smith went overseas to The Hague in the Netherlands where he oversaw war crimes investigations as a junior investigator for the International Criminal Court.\n\nHe returned to the justice department two years later as chief of the department's public integrity unit, which prosecutes federal crimes such as public bribery and election fraud.\n\nIn a 2010 AP interview, he described the career transition as leaving \"the dream job for a better one\".\n\nBut when he took over, the unit was recovering from a prosecutorial debacle that had seen a banner criminal conviction tossed out by a judge.\n\nMr Smith's stint began with the closure of some long-running investigations into members of Congress without charges, but he pressed ahead with other efforts.\n\nUnder his tenure, prosecutors brought a public corruption case against former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a Republican, in a case unanimously overturned by the US Supreme Court in 2016.\n\nThe unit also prosecuted former Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, but a jury acquitted Mr Edwards on one count and was deadlocked on others, and he was never tried again.\n\nMr Trump has seized on these examples to argue Mr Smith has \"destroyed a lot of lives\", while also skewering him over his involvement in a tax scandal over the alleged targeting of conservative groups.\n\n\"What he's done is just horrible,\" the ex-president told Breitbart. \"The abuse of power - it is prosecutorial misconduct.\"\n\nMr Smith has also had many notable victories, including sending former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to prison on corruption charges.\n\nHe also convicted ex-Arizona congressman Rick Renzi, a Republican, of corruption. Mr Renzi later received a presidential pardon from Mr Trump.\n\nIn 2015, Mr Smith accepted a post with the federal prosecutor's office in Nashville, Tennessee, so he could be closer to family.\n\nHe left in 2017 for a private health care company after being passed over for a permanent appointment under the Trump administration.\n\nBy 2018, he was back at The Hague where he took up a post as the court's chief prosecutor of war crime allegations in the 1990s Kosovo conflict.\n\nWhen Mr Garland offered Mr Smith the job of special counsel in Washington, his team was preparing for the trial of Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaci, the Times reported.\n\nThough eager to return to the justice department, Mr Smith was at the time recovering from surgery to his left leg after a bicycle accident and did not return to the US until January 2021.\n\nIt is at least the second major injury he has suffered while cycling.\n\nIn the 2000s, he fractured his pelvis after being struck by a truck, an incident which he claimed in an interview has led to multiple physical therapy visits.\n\nAs avid a runner as he is a cyclist, Mr Smith has completed more than 100 triathlons since 2002, even representing Team USA in World Triathlon.\n\nHis friend and former colleague, New York attorney Moe Fodeman, described Mr Smith to CNN last year as a \"literally insane\" triathlete and \"one of the best trial lawyers I have ever seen\".\n\nOther former co-workers have spoken of Mr Smith's fearless and proactive manner, and many say that Mr Trump's efforts to malign him will come up empty.\n\n\"If I were the sort of person who could be cowed -— 'I know we should bring this case, I know the person did it, but we could lose, and that will look bad' - I would find another line of work,\" Mr Smith said in a 2010 interview with the Times.\n\n\"I can't imagine how someone who does what I do or has worked with me could think that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Violations of those laws put our country at risk'", "The January 6th attack on the capitol was \"fuelled by lies\", said special counsel Jack Smith at his brief news conference. Donald Trump's lies.\n\nThroughout the 45 detailed pages of this indictment that theme of dishonesty is repeated again and again. It talks about \"prolific lies about election fraud\" and says \"these claims were false and the defendant knew that they were false\".\n\nThis will clearly be a key theme when this trial gets to court. Whether it leads to a conviction is unclear - some legal experts have said this is not the strongest case.\n\nBut these charges are, in my view, the most serious and potentially the most consequential that Donald Trump has yet faced. Not least because they relate to things that happened whilst he was still president.\n\nThe case in New York, which was brought in March, is about allegations that he committed business fraud to conceal hush money to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, before he was president. The federal case relating to the classified documents Mr Trump kept at his Mar a Lago residence details events that happened after he left office.\n\nBut these latest charges - that he conspired to attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election - revolve around things that happened when Donald Trump still inhabited the White House. He is alleged to have repeatedly lied to the American people whilst he was their president.\n\nThere is also a real-world impact laid out in this indictment which we have not seen in the other cases. Everyone saw the violence that engulfed the US Capitol on January 2021 and although Mr Smith stopped short of charging Mr Trump with inciting that mob, the prosecutor was clear in his statement to reporters where he sees the link.\n\nSome US commentators have introduced another reason why they think these charges are the most serious. They see in Mr Trump's alleged conduct a threat to the ideals that underpin the bedrock of the country.\n\nNot since the nation's founding has any president \"voted out of office been accused of plotting to hold onto power in an elaborate scheme of deception and intimidation that would lead to violence in the halls of Congress,\" writes Peter Baker in the New York Times.\n\nHe goes on: \"As serious as hush money and classified documents may be, this third indictment in four months gets to the heart of the matter, the issue that will define the future of American democracy.\"\n\nMr Smith also made a similar point in the indictment, that Mr Trump created \"an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and eroded public faith in the administration of the election\".\n\nBut will any of this matter to voters?\n\nAll over America I have met countless numbers of Trump supporters who appear to sincerely believe that Donald Trump really did get more votes than Joe Biden and was cheated out of office.\n\nThat is one of the tenets of faith that solidifies his bedrock of support.\n\nHow will these people react when they hear detailed evidence that Donald Trump knew there was no evidence of electoral fraud? That he was told again and again, by his trusted inner circle, that he had lost the election?\n\nCan their faith withstand the weight of the evidence the prosecution will bring to court?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump charged with conspiracy to defraud US\n\nJack Smith says he is pressing for a speedy trial. So it could well be taking place right in the middle of the next presidential election. And Mr Trump is still the clear frontrunner to become the Republican party's presidential candidate.\n\nSo voters - and not just Trump's base but moderate Republicans, independents and crucial swing voters - will hear detailed allegation of Mr Trump's \"dishonesty, fraud and deceit\" whilst being asked to vote him back into office.\n\nIt is such a cliché to describe events involving Donald Trump as \"unprecedented\".\n\nBut what other word is there is to describe the prospect of a US presidential candidate running a re-election campaign at the same time as being prosecuted for attempting to subvert the results of the last election?\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Officer Harry Dunn is still traumatised by the attack on the Capitol\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.\n\nHe is accused of four counts including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.\n\nThe indictment caps an inquiry into events which led up to the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol - when supporters of Mr Trump stormed Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nMr Trump, who is again running for president, denies wrongdoing.\n\nHere are the key moments from 6 January 2021.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud ahead of his rally in Washington DC.\n\nMembers of the Proud Boy movement, a right-wing militia, are seen heading towards the Capitol. Speaking to Newsnight's US correspondent David Grossman, one member of the group says: \"We're taking our country back.\"\n\nOne of the group has a radio. \"It was clear he was communicating - getting messages, sending messages to somebody,\" our correspondent said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What the Proud Boys were doing before Trump's speech that day\n\nPresident Trump begins his speech to supporters in Washington. Some 15 minutes into it, he starts urging them to converge on the Capitol.\n\n\"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nAs the president speaks, a crowd outside the Capitol is swelling. They begin marching towards the police barrier and get past officers. The police, outnumbered, try to contain them.\n\nTrump supporters wield flags and weapons. One man stands on a makeshift gallows, complete with a noose. The crowd chants: \"Fight for Trump.\"\n\nSome have argued in court that they went to the riot because Donald Trump told them to\n\nMinutes later, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi commences the certification process.\n\nMr Trump ends his speech with the words: \"We fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.\"\n\n\"They're throwing metal poles at us,\" he says. \"Multiple law-enforcement injuries,\" he adds in a panicked voice.\n\nProtesters surge past Capitol police protecting the west steps, the side facing the White House.\n\nMinutes later, an officer declares there is a riot at the Capitol. \"We're going to give riot warnings,\" he says. \"We're going to try to get compliance but this is now effectively a riot.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch dramatic new footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot\n\nMeanwhile Vice President Mike Pence is continuing to preside over the session.\n\nSecret Service quickly and suddenly evacuate Mr Pence from the Senate floor.\n\nThe protesters break through the windows. They push inside, hopping through the broken glass. They then kick open the doors to let others in. Some wear hoods and helmets, some hold cameras or Confederate flags.\n\nAn immediate recess of the Senate is called.\n\nA minute later, Officer Eugene Goodman runs to respond to the initial breach. He warns Senator Mitt Romney that the mob is approaching. Mr Romney turns and runs through a capitol hallway to safety.\n\nThe mob, a floor below them, has already begun to search for the Senate chamber.\n\nOfficer Goodman makes his way down to the first floor where he encounters the mob.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a rioter during the attack\n\nHe lures the armed rioters away from the upper chamber. Many of these individuals have been calling for Mr Pence to be hanged.\n\nBy that point, the rioters are \"within 100ft\" (30m) of Mr Pence and a foot away from one of the doors to the chamber. Many senators are still inside.\n\nAt the same time, Ms Pelosi is rushed from the house floor. She is evacuated entirely from the Capitol complex to a secure off-site location.\n\nHer staff barricade themselves into a conference room, hiding under a table.\n\nStaff members of the House leader speak softly, frantically, to each other. Just outside, rioters are spreading out across the building, searching for Ms Pelosi herself.\n\nThe rioters chant: \"Where are you Nancy?\" In an audio clip, we hear one staff member whisper: \"They're pounding on doors trying to find her.\"\n\nOne man breaks open the outer door to the office where the staff are hiding, but not the inner door. Another tries as well, but eventually moves on.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Pence is evacuated to a secure location.\n\nRioters start to spread through the buildings. Others break in from outside through various doors around the building.\n\nThey open the east side door of the rotunda to let more people in, flooding through the doors and overwhelming the officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nThe House floor debate is suspended to update members. House members are told to reach for tear gas masks and be prepared to use them.\n\nThe House is called back into session in the hope of continuing the count.\n\nBut minutes later the House is abruptly recessed. Members are told to get down under their chairs if necessary.\n\n\"Folks have entered the rotunda and are coming this way,\" lawmakers are told.\n\nDemocratic Congressman Eric Swalwell sends a text to his wife: \"I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me\".\n\nThe mob outside the chamber grows larger and they get within feet of the house door.\n\nPresident Trump called Senator Mike Lee, according to the Utah Republican who has provided the trial lawyers with a copy of a log from his mobile phone.\n\nAccording to his office, he received a call from the White House switchboard number - and the call lasted four minutes. Mr Lee has said that apparently the call was meant for Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville, and that he handed his phone to his colleague.\n\nMr Tuberville told reporters that he informed Mr Trump that Mr Pence had been evacuated from the Senate floor. \"I said: Mr President, they've taken the vice-president out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go.\"\n\nHouse impeachment managers say it is further evidence that the president knew how much danger his vice-president was in.\n\nAshli Babbit is seen turning the corner towards the House lobby doors as members are leaving.\n\nHouse Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern is spotted by the mob as he leaves the House floor.\n\nIn a hallway outside the House chamber, a group attempts to force its way through a set of locked doors. The glass window panes on the doors are shattered. A rioter uses a baton to smash through as the crowd around him chants \"break it down, break it down\".\n\nFootage shows the hands of an officer on the other side, holding a gun and pointing it toward the mob. We hear a shot and see Babbitt fall to the ground.\n\nPeople still inside the gallery of the chamber are trapped. They tell each other to take off their congressional pins.\n\nIn the meantime, a number of rioters reach the inside of the Senate gallery.\n\n\"Is this the Senate?\" one demands to know. \"Where are they?\" another asks, apparently referring to the evacuated senators.\n\nVideo footage shows some rioters rifling through papers and materials left behind by lawmakers. \"There's got to be something we can use against these scumbags,\" one says.\n\nTrump tweets asking for people to \"remain peaceful\".\n\nMeanwhile the mob are still at the Capitol.\n\nFootage shows a sprawling mob, a sea of people on the Capitol grounds. A Confederate flag waves in the foreground.\n\nTrump releases a video in which he tells the mob to go home.\n\nFifteen minutes after police confirm Ashli Babbitt has died, Trump tweets again.\n\nHe refers to those at the Capitol as \"great patriots\".", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland's Lauren James did \"special things\" in their impressive 6-1 victory over China in the Women's World Cup, says boss Sarina Wiegman.\n\nThe 21-year-old produced one of the individual performances of the tournament, scoring twice and assisting three times as England booked their place in the last 16 as group winners.\n\n\"She feels good, you can tell - she did special things today,\" said Wiegman.\n\nEngland will play Nigeria in their next match, live on BBC One, on 7 August.\n\nJames, starting her second match in Australia, set up Alessia Russo for England's opener within four minutes and later slipped the ball through to Lauren Hemp to make it 2-0.\n\nThe Chelsea forward then struck a first-time finish into the left corner from the edge of the box before another stunning effort was ruled out by the video assistant referee (VAR) for offside in the build-up.\n\nJames then volleyed in Jess Carter's cross for her second goal and grabbed a third assist when she played in Chloe Kelly, who took advantage of a goalkeeper error.\n\n\"Unfortunately that one goal was cancelled,\" added Wiegman. \"But [James] flows over the pitch.\n\n\"I could tell [she was enjoying herself] but you could tell that from the whole team. Of course she was one of them. The whole team was enjoying every goal except the one from China!\"\n\nJames said it was \"what dreams are made of\" and hopes to now continue her impressive form, having also scored the winner in the 1-0 victory over Denmark.\n\n\"Everyone is buzzing,\" she added. \"We are looking forward to the next round. I felt free, whether I'm on the wing or in the middle, I'm happy to be playing and contributing to goals.\n\n\"I think [I'm] just playing with freedom, just enjoying my football and tonight showed that.\"\n\nOn her disallowed goal, James added: \"I was disappointed in the moment obviously but that's football for you.\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\n'She just wanted to give me a yellow card for fun'\n\nEngland defender Lucy Bronze was involved in the build-up to James' disallowed goal - where she fired superbly into the far corner from outside the box and would have completed an impressive hat-trick.\n\nHowever, the VAR ruling was controversial as the ball appeared to bounce off a Chinese defender despite Bronze being in an offside position and clearly not attempting to play the ball.\n\n\"I'm sad for LJ [James] because I don't know why it's been called offside,\" said Bronze. \"If Hemp scored the cross, I wouldn't have been offside.\n\n\"The [defender] deliberately played it. I said that at the time, I said that to the referee, 'I don't know why you've given me offside'.\"\n\nBronze was later shown a yellow card for handball after China were awarded a penalty, which Shuang Wang put away to prevent goalkeeper Mary Earps from keeping a third clean sheet.\n\nShe did not shake the hand of referee, Australian Casey Reibelt, after the match either.\n\n\"As a team it's something we've been through before,\" added Bronze. \"I had more go against me than anyone else. It wasn't a fun game in that respect.\n\n\"I knew it hit my hand but it wasn't deliberate. Unless I cut my arm off I don't know how I get my arm out the way. We sit down with referees every tournament to discuss the rules.\n\n\"I guess she just wanted to give me a yellow card for fun. Playing for England you tend to know that sometimes decisions don't go your way and luckily enough for us we finished the game off ourselves.\n\n\"I think LJ's [James'] goal should have stood, she should have had a hat-trick and it would have been a huge moment for her in her first World Cup to score a hat-trick for England.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA strange, dangerous game of targeting and ramming into small sailing and fishing boats is spreading through a population of orcas off Spain's coast.\n\nScientists say at least 20 Iberian orcas have now learned the behaviour by copying their elders.\n\nIt is believed that one or two orcas started interacting with and damaging small sailing vessels in 2020.\n\nScientists told the BBC the animals appear to be \"playing\" with the boats rather than acting aggressively.\n\n\"It's only a game. It isn't revenge [against boats], it isn't climate change, it's just a game and that's it,\" said Dr Renaud de Stephanis, a scientist based on the south coast of Spain.\n\nIberian orcas hunt for tuna in the same locations as fishing boats\n\nDr de Stephanis is president of Conservation, Information and Research on Cetaceans (CIRCE), a marine conservation organisation. He said the orcas, also known as killer whales, appeared to be playing a \"game\" focused on the boats' rudders - part of the moveable steering apparatus that sits in the water.\n\nHe and his colleagues have now pinned satellite tracking tags to the fins of two of the fewer than 60 animals in this population, which is critically endangered.\n\nThe Spanish government is using maps of their movements to help inform sailors about how to avoid these marine mammals, which hunt for tuna along the coast of Portugal and Spain, and through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar.\n\nFrench sailor Lou Lombardi had his own encounter with the orcas near Gibraltar in July. He and the rest of the crew watched as five of the animals nudged and spun his boat around for 80 minutes - hitting the rudder until it split apart.\n\nAn orca plays with a floating piece of debris after breaking a sailing vessel's rudder\n\nTalking to us in the shipyard in Barbate in Spain, as he and his colleagues prepared to put their repaired boat back into the water, he said the encounter appeared playful rather than aggressive.\n\n\"There's foam inside the rudder that went into the water, he explained, \"and the orcas were pushing it around with it on their noses - like a toy.\n\n\"I had the feeling they were training each other,\" he told us. \"There were two calves, and the adult would do it, then watch while the calf did it - like they were transmitting something.\"\n\nOrcas, like this pod in the Pacific, are known to engage in play\n\nOrcas are known to be highly social mammals. Other subspecies of killer whale have been recorded playing with floating seaweed, toying with fishing gear and one population in the Pacific even went through an apparent phase of carrying dead salmon around on their heads.\n\nUsing boat rudders as playthings is novel behaviour and it is currently confined to this small, endangered Iberian population, but the young animals do appear to be copying adult orcas.\n\nBy examining footage and images, captured by sailors, scientists have identified some of the animals involved.\n\nMonica Gonzalez is a marine biologist with the organisation Orca Iberica, which is logging and mapping the orca encounters reported by sailing vessels. She explained: \"The adults are very targeted - they're focused on the rudder - just the rudder.\n\nTourists pay for close encounters with these orcas\n\n\"But the juveniles seem to approach, move away, explore the whole boat - it's a very different kind of behaviour.\"\n\nThese large, intelligent and now troublesome marine mammals are causing confusion and division in both the sailing and the scientific community along this stretch of the Atlantic coast.\n\nSome scientists have suggested that one female orca started \"attacking\" boats as revenge, because she had been injured by a vessel.\n\nThere are ongoing discussions on social media among sailors, with a few proposing methods of defending their boats, including carrying firecrackers to throw into the water if the orcas approach.\n\nDr de Stephanis, who has studied the marine mammals since 1996, hopes his tagging and tracking work with help show sailors \"killer whale hotspots\" to avoid.\n\nThe animals appear to target smaller sailing vessels\n\n\"They tend to stay in the same place for 2-3 hours, because they're looking for tuna,\" he explained. \"So the official advice from the Spanish government is not to stop if you see orcas - move away from the area as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThat, however, is in direct contradiction to last year's advice and current recommendations from the Portuguese government which is that if orcas approach, stop your boat.\n\nThe idea behind that, explained Monica Gonzalez, was to be as boring as possible. \"Keep the rudder still, don't throw anything, don't shout,\" she said. The orcas should simply get bored and move on.\n\nDr Luke Rendell, a marine mammal expert from St Andrews University, is not optimistic that sailors will simply be able to navigate around defined hotspots of orca activity.\n\n\"It's a risk that it's going to escalate and that sailors will take matters into their own hands,\" he said.\n\n\"Ultimately, if we want the behaviour to stop, we have to take the boats out of that environment. That's a radical step for us as a species - to say we're going to restrain our behaviour for the sake of another.\"\n\nThere are fewer than 60 orcas in this population\n\nDr Rendell thinks, in the future, there might be economic, rather that scientific reasons, for some boats to avoid the waters - and perhaps avoid sailing during the season - in which most of these encounters happen.\n\n\"Insurance companies might be looking at this,\" he said.\" It might require an extra premium to navigate those waters, which could reduce the density of vessels there. That might be the most favourable outcome for the orcas.\"\n\nMeanwhile, as sailors and the fishing industry try to work out how to avoid the animals, tourists on the coast of Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar pay to go on whale-watching trips to catch a glimpse of them.\n\nNuria Riera, an artist who lives in Tarifa on the southern Spanish coast, and who volunteers with the conservation and whale-watching organisation Firmm, says the language that has been used to describe the orcas' behaviour is simply unfair.\n\n\"Scientists don't even know why they are doing this,\" she said. \"And yet I'm reading reports about orcas attacking - it's such aggressive language.\n\n\"We have to remember that the sea is their home - we're the intruders,\" she said.\n\nIberian orcas hunt in one of the world's busiest waterways - the Strait of Gibraltar\n\nHear more insight about the Iberian orcas and their strange behaviour on BBC Inside Science on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Top YouTuber Jimmy \"MrBeast\" Donaldson is suing the company behind his fast food chain, and says fans called the food \"revolting\".\n\nDonaldson, the biggest YouTuber in the world with 172 million subscribers, opened MrBeast Burger in 2020.\n\nHe claims Virtual Dining Concepts - the company behind the burger - is hurting his brand and reputation by serving a subpar product.\n\nHe is asking a judge to give him the right to terminate the arrangement.\n\nDonaldson is known for his philanthropy, as well as videos featuring huge prizes and cash giveaways.\n\nThe legal action, filed in New York on Monday, accuses Virtual Dining Concepts of not ensuring the quality of the burgers, claiming they were at times \"inedible\".\n\n\"As a result, MrBeast Burger has been regarded as a misleading, poor reflection of the MrBeast brand,\" the lawsuit claims, going on to say it \"has caused material, irreparable harm to the MrBeast brand and MrBeast's reputation\".\n\nIt also claims Donaldson \"has not received a dime\" from the partnership.\n\nThe BBC has approached Virtual Dining Concepts for comment.\n\nDonaldson has previously apologised to fans on Twitter who were disappointed by their food, and said he \"can't get out of\" his deal with the company.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrBeast Burger delivers from more than 1,000 so-called \"ghost kitchens\" worldwide.\n\nAlso known as dark kitchens or virtual restaurants, these are food delivery services which operate out of the kitchens of other businesses.\n\nFor example, in early 2022 fans in London could have a MrBeast Burger delivered to them from Shoreditch, in the east of the city, where it was made in the kitchen of a different burger joint - Dirty Bones.\n\nIt drew national media attention in September 2022, when Donaldson filled a shopping centre in the US with thousands of fans for the opening of his first bricks-and-mortar burger restaurant.\n\nFans queued for hours for a burger, and a chance to meet him at the location, in New Jersey.\n\nDonaldson has the second-largest YouTube channel in the world, and is the most-subscribed individual creator on the platform.\n\nThe only channel bigger than his belongs to Indian record label T-Series, which features thousands of Hindi-language music videos.\n\nIn 2021, he launched a separate philanthropy-themed YouTube channel, which itself has more than 10 million subscribers, and he has a licensed charity that functions as a food bank to feed communities across the US.", "MP Margaret Ferrier has been unseated after a recall petition\n\nAn MP who was suspended for breaking Covid lockdown rules has lost her seat after a vote by constituents.\n\nA by-election will now take place after 11,896 people in Rutherglen and Hamilton West signed a petition to remove Margaret Ferrier from office.\n\nShe had sat as an independent MP after being kicked out of the SNP in 2020.\n\nFerrier travelled to London and spoke in the Commons while awaiting the result of a Covid test, then got a train home after testing positive.\n\nThe petition to remove her was signed by almost 15% of the 81,124 eligible constituents, passing the 10% threshold which triggers a by-election.\n\nMs Ferrier confirmed on Tuesday that she would not seek re-election.\n\nIn a statement the MP said: \"I respect the outcome of the petition.\n\n\"It has been the privilege of my life to serve as the Member of Parliament for Rutherglen & Hamilton West. I have always put my job and my constituents first, and I am disappointed that this will now come to an end.\n\n\"I decided some time ago that I would not stand in the upcoming by-election. This has been a difficult and taxing process that has now come to its conclusion and I do not wish to prolong it further.\"\n\nCampaigning in the seat has really already begun, with the SNP and Labour having selected candidates for an expected by-election months ago.\n\nNo date has yet been set for the vote, but the earliest it could happen is 5 October.\n\nFerrier had taken a Covid test on Saturday 26 September 2020 after noticing what she described as a \"tickly throat\".\n\nWhile awaiting her results, she went to church on the Sunday and gave a reading to the congregation. She later spent more than two hours in a bar in Prestwick, Ayrshire.\n\nThe next day, Monday 28 September, she travelled to London by train - which had 183 passengers on board - and spoke in the Commons before finding out a short time later that she had tested positive for the virus.\n\nFerrier decided to get a train back to Glasgow the following day, fearing she would have to self-isolate in a London hotel room for two weeks.\n\nShe was arrested and charged with culpable and reckless conduct in January 2021 and pleaded guilty last August. A month later she was ordered to carry out 270 hours of community service.\n\nLabour and the SNP have both been campaigning in Rutherglen and Hamilton West for months already. But now the vacancy is official, expect things to kick up a gear.\n\nThis is a race which could have UK-wide ramifications, as a measure of Labour's prospects under Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nIf he is to enter Downing Street, he needs to win this sort of seat - under 10% majority, sited in a former heartland - and a result here would build crucial momentum.\n\nIt is also a test of how flexible his party can be. Its UK-wide messaging is chiefly aimed at winning contests against the Conservatives in England, but the SNP is hoping to outflank it on the left in Scotland.\n\nIt is also an early test of Humza Yousaf's leadership of the SNP.\n\nHe ran for the job as the Nicola Sturgeon continuity candidate, before ripping up key parts of her policy agenda. Can he replicate her record of electoral success?\n\nThe SNP is already putting independence front and centre of its campaign, and it will be interesting to see if the constitution continues to dominate as a political topic even as Labour endeavour to talk about just about anything else.\n\nThe Commons' standards committee recommended in March that Ferrier should be suspended, a decision which was upheld by an independent expert panel after she lodged an appeal.\n\nMPs then voted to suspend Ferrier from the Commons for 30 days, a decision which automatically triggered the recall motion.\n\nThe recall petition, which was the first to be held in Scotland, ran from 20 June to 31 July.\n\nThe seat became vacant at the moment the petition officer, who oversaw the count, informed the Speaker of the House of Commons of the result.\n\nThe date for the by-election will be set when parliament resumes in September.\n\nMargaret Ferrier sat as an independent MP after losing the SNP whip\n\nRecent polling has suggested that the SNP's lead over Labour in Scotland has narrowed in the wake of Nicola Sturgeon standing down as first minister and the ongoing police investigation into the SNP's finances.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf, the SNP leader, has previously admitted that the circumstances in Rutherglen and Hamilton West are \"challenging\" for his party - but that it has \"solid support\".\n\nAfter the result of the recall petition was announced, he said: \"At every stage of this campaign, the SNP will promote the interests and needs of all the people of Rutherglen and Hamilton West.\n\n\"By contrast, Labour in Scotland is a mere branch office, doing the bidding of their bosses at Westminster.\"\n\nBut Scottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie said people in the constituency had \"made their voices heard and demanded change\".\n\nShe added: \"For far too long the area has been failed - let down by two incompetent governments and left voiceless in parliament by their rule-breaking MP.\"\n\nMs Baillie said a by-election should be held at the earliest opportunity so that \"Rutherglen and Hamilton West can get the representation it deserves as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' deputy leader, Meghan Gallacher, said constituents had delivered \"a very clear verdict\" on Margaret Ferrier's \"reckless and selfish actions at the height of the pandemic\".\n\nShe said the SNP was \"engulfed in chaos\" and that Scottish Labour was \"too weak to stand up to them on an overwhelming number of issues\".\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat MSP Willie Rennie said people in the area deserved fresh representation and were \"fed up of being neglected by the nationalists\".\n\nThe Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), the body which regulates MPs' pay and pensions, confirmed to the BBC that Ferrier is not eligible for any payoff for leaving parliament.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Ron DeSantis was once seen as a Trump successor but he now polls 37 points behind the former president Image caption: Ron DeSantis was once seen as a Trump successor but he now polls 37 points behind the former president\n\nPaul Dodd asks why the Republican Party has not put up a strong alternative for the 2024 presidential nomination, with all the money it has in hand.\n\nRepublican voters are looking for a fighter in 2024 and many continue to see Donald Trump as a proven commodity in that regard.\n\nLet's also not forget that Trump used his time in office to help elevate to power those who supported him and to help push out those who opposed him. Republicans in both chambers of the US Congress, and in key positions within the Republican National Committee, which oversees the nominating process, are significantly 'Trumpier' now than when he first came to Washington.\n\nIn the mid-term elections last November, several Trump-backed candidates were rejected by voters, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was resoundingly re-elected to a second term in his post. Many in the party used those results to argue the 44-year-old could take the baton as the next conservative warrior.\n\nBut Trump's mounting legal troubles have proven an effective rallying cry for a voting base that believes he has been unfairly persecuted. Or as Trump puts it: \"They're coming after you - and I'm just standing in their way.\"\n\nAt the same time DeSantis has badly stumbled on the campaign trail, leading both potential voters and donors to reconsider supporting him. And like most of the other candidates in the 2024 race, he has largely defended Trump after each indictment rather than risk angering Trump supporters who may be looking for an alternative.\n\nAnti-Trump candidates like Chris Christie have gained little traction, either.", "Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen described the downgrade as \"arbitrary\"\n\nThe US government's credit rating has been downgraded following concerns over the state of the country's finances and its debt burden.\n\nFitch, one of three major independent agencies that assess creditworthiness, cut the rating from the top level of AAA to a notch lower at AA+.\n\nFitch said it had noted a \"steady deterioration\" in governance over the last 20 years.\n\nIt was based on \"outdated data\" from the period 2018 to 2020, she said.\n\nInvestors use credit ratings as a benchmark for judging how risky it is to lend money to a government. The US is usually considered a highly secure investment because of the size and relative stability of the economy.\n\nHowever, this year saw another round of political brinkmanship over government borrowing.\n\nIn June the government succeeded in lifting the debt ceiling to $31.4 trillion (£24.6 trillion) but only after a drawn-out political battle, which threatened to push the country into defaulting on its debts.\n\nWhen Congress returns from its summer recess, lawmakers will have to work to reach an agreement on next year's budget before the end of September to prevent a government shutdown.\n\n\"The rating downgrade of the United States reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of governance\" relative to peers, said Fitch in a statement.\n\n\"In Fitch's view, there has been a steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years, including on fiscal and debt matters, notwithstanding the June bipartisan agreement to suspend the debt limit until January 2025,\" the rating agency said.\n\nMs Yellen said she \"strongly\" disagreed with Fitch's decision.\n\n\"Treasury securities remain the world's preeminent safe and liquid asset, and... the American economy is fundamentally strong,\" she said in a statement.\n\nThe timing and rationale behind the downgrade has taken many economists by surprise.\n\nFormer US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Fitch's decision is \"bizarre and inept,\" particularly as the US economy \"looks stronger than expected,\" he said in a post on Twitter, now known as X.\n\nMohamed El-Erian, the chief economic adviser at financial services giant Allianz, said the Fitch announcement was \"a strange move\".\n\n\"This announcement is more likely to be dismissed than have a lasting disruptive impact on the US economy and markets,\" he posted on the Threads social media platform.\n\nFitch also said it expects the US to slip into a mild recession later this year.\n\nHowever, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said \"the biggest economic news over the past year has been America's remarkable success at getting inflation down without a recession\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlec Phillips, the chief US political economist at Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs said: \"The downgrade mainly reflects governance and medium-term fiscal challenges, but does not reflect new fiscal information.\"\n\nThe move \"should have little direct impact on financial markets as it is unlikely there are major holders of Treasury securities who would be forced to sell based on the ratings change,\" he added.\n\nOthers questioning the timing of the Fitch announcement included Jason Furman, who was an economic adviser to former US president Barack Obama. He called it \"completely absurd.\"\n• None A simple guide to the US debt ceiling", "Police raids targeting drug gangs in three Brazilian states have left at least 45 people dead.\n\nIn the latest operation in Rio de Janeiro, police said they returned fire in a shoot-out in the Complexo da Penha area, killing at least 10.\n\nEarlier, 16 people died in clashes during a five-day police raid in São Paulo state, dubbed Operation Shield.\n\nAnd in the north-eastern state of Bahia, officials say 19 suspects have been killed since Friday.\n\nFifty-eight people were arrested during the operation in São Paulo state, which began after a special forces police officer was killed on Thursday in the coastal town of Guarujá.\n\nPolice seized 385kg of narcotics, as well as guns, according to local media.\n\nThe operation in Guarujá was criticised by Brazil's Justice Minister Flavio Dino, who said the police's reaction was not proportional to the crime committed.\n\nDuring an interview on Tuesday, São Paulo state governor Tarcisio de Freitas said two police officers were among those killed during clashes.\n\nAmnesty International said the Guarujá police raid showed \"clear signs of seeking vengeance for the death of a police officer\".\n\nIn Rio de Janeiro, a drug trafficking kingpin and a trafficker were among the 10 people killed on Wednesday, according to local media reports.\n\nFour others were injured, including a police officer.\n\nAccording to the city's military police, the operation in Complexo da Penha, a group of favelas in the north of the city, was launched after intelligence information suggested that a meeting of drug traffic ringleaders would be taking place in the area.\n\nEyewitnesses told local media they heard several gunshots and clashes between heavily armed gang members and the police.\n\nTalíria Petrone, a member of the Rio state legislature, condemned the operation. She said there was \"no explanation for the state to continue turning life in favelas into a hell like this\".\n\nSchools around Complexo da Penha did not open on Wednesday, forcing about 3,220 pupils to stay at home.\n\nHouse visits organised by the national health service were also suspended because of security concerns.\n\nInstituto Fogo Cruzado, an organisation that looks into armed violence data in Brazil, described the raids as \"mass killings\".\n\nIn a statement published after the police raid in Rio, the institute said there had been 33 such incidents in the city since the start of the year - with a total of 125 people dead.\n\nInstituto Marielle Franco - an NGO named after campaigning politician Marielle Franco who was murdered in 2018 - also publicly criticised the latest events.\n\n\"The slaughter repeats itself,\" it said in a statement.\n\nBefore her death, Ms Franco was an outspoken councillor who had been critical of the police's often deadly raids in densely populated shanty towns, or favelas, and denounced paramilitary groups run by retired and off-duty police known as milícias.\n\nPolice violence is not new here - every week there are shootouts, leaving people dead.\n\nRio de Janeiro though is one of Brazil's most violent states - operations to tackle drug crime in areas such as favelas often lead to fatalities and accusations that the authorities are poorly-trained and trigger-happy.\n\nWhile the focus is usually on Rio, the fact that this past week has seen a series of operations across the country brings into sharp focus the issue of police violence across Brazil.\n\nIn the north-eastern state of Bahia, clashes between police and gang members between Friday and Monday revolved around three cities - Salvador, Itatim and Camaçari.\n\nThe deaths included seven people killed in Camaçari on Friday and another eight people killed during clashes in Itatim on Sunday.\n\nIn Salvador, clashes between police and armed suspects killed four others and led to school closures in the area on Tuesday.\n\nGuns, phones and drugs were seized during the three operations.\n\nIt is a complicated picture in a country with a high level of gun violence where fears about security are also growing. But there are increasing calls to look into human rights abuses committed by the police.\n\nThere have been some initiatives to improve the situation. Since 2020, São Paulo's military police have worn cameras on their uniforms - and in the first two years of the programme, the number of people killed by police fell by 61%.\n\nIt is an initiative that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is reportedly keen to implement on a federal level.", "Robert Bowers shot and killed 11 people at Pittsburgh synagogue and injured several more\n\nA US judge has sentenced the attacker who killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018 to death by execution.\n\nA 12-member jury agreed unanimously for the death sentence to be imposed. Prosecutors had asked the jury to vote for the death penalty.\n\nThe same jury found the man guilty of all 63 charges stemming from the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue.\n\nIt was the worst antisemitic attack in American history.\n\nThe jury's decision was delivered to US District Court Judge Robert Colville on Wednesday. Mr Colville formally imposed the sentence at a hearing on Thursday.\n\nHe did so after hearing emotional testimonies from survivors and family members.\n\nThe jury in the case deliberated for 10 hours over two days. A decision was reached on the second day of deliberations.\n\nRobert Bowers killed 11 worshippers in the attack, ranging in age from 54 to 97. Seven others were injured, including five police officers who rushed to the scene.\n\nThree congregations - Dor Hadash, New Light and the Tree of Life - shared the synagogue.\n\nReporters inside the courtroom said Bowers had no reaction as the death sentence verdict was read.\n\nMost families of those killed in the attack have said they support the death penalty for Bowers, although some, including the Dor Hadash congregation, have stated their opposition.\n\nAt a news conference on Wednesday, many families and survivors said they were relieved at the verdict.\n\nRabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life Congregation, a survivor of the attack, said the jury's decision provides some closure to the community.\n\n\"Today we've received an immense embrace from the halls of justice around all of us, to say our government does not condone antisemitism in the most violent form that we have witnessed,\" Rabbi Myers said.\n\nAudrey Glickman, another survivor, said the verdict is \"a step in the right direction\".\n\n\"Had we not had this trial, the deeds of this criminal would have been glossed over in the annals of history,\" she said.\n\nFamily of Rose Mallinger, one of the victims, said: \"Returning a sentence of death is not a decision that comes easy, but we must hold accountable those who wish to commit such terrible acts of antisemitism, hate, and violence.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Dor Hadash congregation thanked prosecutors and those who participated in the trial.\n\nProsecutors had argued during the trial that the death sentence was necessary because the 50-year-old truck driver continues to espouse a hatred for Jews and has demonstrated no remorse for his actions.\n\n\"This is a case that calls for the most severe punishment under the law - the death penalty,\" US Attorney Eric Olshan said.\n\nBowers' defence argued that he suffers from mental health issues that causes him to hold delusional beliefs about Jewish people.\n\nIn Wednesday's verdict, the jury unanimously said the defence failed to prove the gunman suffered from a mental disorder or committed the crimes \"under mental or emotional disturbance\".\n\nThey also ruled that all five aggravating factors in the case were proven, which included Bowers' killing of the worshippers inside the synagogue as well as the permanent impact left on the survivors.\n\nFederal prosecutors rarely pursue the death penalty. Between 1988 and 2021, only 79 defendants in such cases were sentenced to death, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nThe jury's ruling marks the first federal death sentence under Joe Biden's presidency.\n\nIt is the second federal death penalty prosecution during Mr Biden's administration, after a jury failed to unanimously vote to execute a man inspired by ISIS who attacked a New York City bike path in 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rabbi Doris Dyen: 'I'm broken and I can't pray' (from 2018)", "Commander John Holmes (left) helped to rescue 28 calves that had fallen into a slurry tank\n\nA firefighter whose retirement party was put on hold as he helped rescue 28 calves from a slurry tank has said it was \"no bother at all\".\n\nColleagues of Commander John Holmes were planning to toast his retirement from Newcastle fire station in County Down, after 42 years of service.\n\nBut at about 17:30 BST on Monday officers received a call to 28 calves trapped in a slurry tank near Cullyhanna, County Armagh.\n\nIt meant he missed the barbecue organised at Newcastle Fire Station, where he was due to receive a certificate.\n\n\"I didn't hesitate to go to the incident - it was no bother at all,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I love animals and I wanted to help them - we have helped rescue hundreds of animals over the years.\n\n\"I was on call and was not to be finished until midnight that night.\n\n\"I went down into the slurry tank with two others to get the final 10 calves.\n\n\"We were wearing the right overalls and breathing apparatus - the fumes would have killed you otherwise. My colleagues were shocked to see me.\"\n\nRescuing the calves was not the final task for Commander Holmes.\n\n\"I got another call at 20 past 11 that night in Newcastle,\" he said.\n\n\"A faulty smoke alarm went off - I still had to turn out just in case - and I left my shift at half past midnight.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said Commander Holmes' rescue mission in Cullyhanna was \"testament to his 42 years of dedicated service\".\n\n\"John took charge of the animal rescue team, playing a central hands-on role in the safe and successful rescue of every one of the 28 calves,\" said NIFRS, on social media.\n\nCommander Holmes hailed the camaraderie forged over four decades as a firefighter and recalled being honoured for saving a man's life, in tandem with his brother, following a chip pan fire.\n\n\"In 1988, I received a chief fire officer's commendation for live rescue - both myself and my brother Derek saved a man's life without having breathing apparatus,\" Commander Holmes added.\n\n\"The man was lying over a coffee table after a chip pan fire, he had gone to sleep.\n\n\"He is still alive today.\"\n\nCommander Holmes added: \"I love the job, it is about helping people in the local community.\n\n\"You give up a lot to do the job, it is an inner pride.\"\n\nCommander Holmes and his colleagues will instead celebrate next week\n\nThe retirement presentation for Commander Holmes has now been rescheduled.\n\n\"I am looking forward to spending more time with my wife, she was part of it too,\" he said.\n\n\"Next Monday, we will have the leaving barbecue again - providing there are no fire calls.\"", "Dua Lipa is one of the biggest names in pop music\n\nSinger Dua Lipa is facing a multi-million dollar copyright claim over the use of a recording in her hit single Levitating.\n\nThe legal action was filed by musician Bosko Kante, who claims the star used a recording made with his talk box in remixes of the song without permission.\n\nThe talk box is a wearable device that makes vocal vibrations sound like musical instruments.\n\nDua Lipa and her label Warner Music Group have not responded to the claims.\n\nLevitating is one of Dua Lipa's most popular tracks from her 2020 album Future Nostalgia.\n\nThe legal action, which was filed in Los Angeles on Monday, claims Bosko is entitled to more than $20m (£15.6m).\n\nIt says British-Albanian star Dua Lipa had permission to use the talk box on the original recording but not on any remixes, Reuters reported.\n\nIt alleges the 27-year-old reused the work without permission on further releases, including The Blessed Madonna remix, which featured Madonna and Missy Elliott, another remix featuring DaBaby and a performance by Dua Lipa at the American Music Awards.\n\nBosko is yet to comment publicly on his claim, however Billboard reports his lawyers say he has made \"numerous attempts\" to resolve the matter, which they call a \"blatant infringement\" of his copyright.\n\nLawyers maintain Bosko has taken legal action because the singer and her label had shown \"unwillingness to co-operate or accept responsibility\".\n\nIt is not the first time Dua Lipa, who is currently in the charts with her song Dance the Night Away, has faced copyright claims over Levitating.\n\nAccording to Reuters, a court complaint from reggae group Artikal Sound System was dismissed in June - and a separate claim, by songwriters Sandy Linzer and L. Russell Brown, continues.\n\nIn 2021, she was also sued over claims she put a paparazzi photo of herself on Instagram without permission.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 BST weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The stepfather of a 10-month-old baby who endured a \"culture of cruelty\" has been found guilty of his murder.\n\nJacob Crouch suffered at least 39 rib fractures, and died from a \"vicious assault\" at the hands of Craig Crouch, Derby Crown Court heard.\n\nJacob died \"in his cot, alone\" on 30 December 2020 at home near Swadlincote, Derbyshire, having suffered a \"living hell\".\n\nHis mother Gemma Barton has been cleared of murder.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump charged with conspiracy to defraud US\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.\n\nHe is accused of four counts including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.\n\nThe indictment caps an inquiry into events surrounding the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol.\n\nMr Trump, 77, who is again running for president, denies wrongdoing. On social media he called the case \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe Republican politician has already been charged in two other cases: with mishandling classified files and falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to a porn star.\n\nThe election investigation has focused on Mr Trump's actions in the two-month period between his loss to Joe Biden and the riot in Washington DC, where his supporters stormed Congress as lawmakers certified the Democrat's victory.\n\nThe man leading the inquiry, special counsel Jack Smith, did not charge the former president with inciting the mob that day but he told reporters: \"The attack on our nation's capital on January 6 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.\n\n\"As described in the indictment it was fuelled by lies.\"\n\nMr Smith wrapped up his brief statement by pledging to seek \"a speedy trial\", while emphasising that the former president \"must be assumed innocent until proven guilty\".\n\nMr Trump is due to appear in court on Thursday in Washington DC.\n\nThe 45-page indictment lists six unnamed co-conspirators: four lawyers, a justice department official and a political consultant.\n\nThe court document accuses Mr Trump of a \"conspiracy to impair, obstruct, and defeat the federal government function through dishonesty, fraud and deceit\".\n\nRioters clash with police at the front doors of the Capitol on 6 January 2021\n\nAddressing Mr Trump's allegations of voter fraud in 2020, prosecutors say: \"These claims were false and the defendant knew that they were false.\"\n\nThey also say Mr Trump tried and failed to convince Vice-President Mike Pence to attempt to block Mr Biden's certification as president on January 6, 2021.\n\n\"As violence ensued, the Defendant and co-conspirators exploited the disruption by redoubling efforts to levy false claims of election fraud and convince members of Congress to further delay the certification based on those claims.\"\n\nThe indictment also lists the numerous US officials and senior Trump campaign workers who, it says, informed the outgoing president that he had lost and that there was no evidence of voter fraud.\n\nEach of the four charges against Mr Trump are punishable by prison time.\n\nObstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to obstruct, both carry up to 20 years, while conspiracy to defraud the government is punishable by up to five.\n\nThe fourth charge - conspiracy against rights - carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Trump allies have claimed the charge is punishable by the death penalty, but that is only the case if the crime involves murder, rape or kidnapping. The indictment does not allege Mr Trump's actions led to the deaths that occurred during or after the Capitol riot.\n\nMr Trump, who now faces 78 criminal counts overall in three different cases, is currently the frontrunner in the Republican Party's contest to pick its next presidential candidate.\n\nWhoever wins will challenge the Democratic nominee, expected to be President Biden, in November 2024.\n\nThese latest charges mean Mr Trump will have three criminal trials to attend in the next 12 to 18 months, complicating his second run for the White House.\n\nThe BBC's North America editor Sarah Smith said these are the most serious charges he has faced so far.\n\nBut the Trump campaign said in a statement that Tuesday's indictment amounted to election interference.\n\n\"The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes,\" said the campaign.\n\nIt added: \"These un-American witch hunts will fail.\"\n\nHis 2024 Republican rivals were quick to respond. While Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the charges showed the \"weaponisation of the federal government\", Mr Pence said anyone who put themselves over the Constitution should never be president.\n\nDemocratic leaders in Congress gave a joint statement which said: \"This indictment is the most serious and most consequential thus far and will stand as a stark reminder to generations of Americans that no one, including a president of the United States, is above the law.\"\n\nDozens of top Trump administration officials and advisers were interviewed as part of the investigation, including Mr Pence and former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch dramatic footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot\n\nProsecutors in the state of Georgia are also investigating the former president on similar grounds, focusing on whether he illegally pressured officials there to discard Mr Biden's poll victory.\n\nA decision by prosecutors in Atlanta on whether to indict Mr Trump is expected this month.\n\nRepublicans in other states are being investigated for allegedly helping Mr Trump's push to stop Mr Biden from taking office.\n\nState prosecutors in Michigan charged a former Republican attorney general candidate and another Trump supporter with tampering with voting machines in an effort to prove that Mr Trump had lost due to widespread voter fraud.\n\nThe riot at Congress led to Mr Trump's second impeachment in the House of Representatives - making him the first US president ever to be impeached twice.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Weather warnings are in place across England and Wales on Wednesday as the UK's wet and windy weather continues.\n\nA yellow alert for storms stretching from London to Manchester, covering much of the Midlands and Wales, will last from 09:00 to 19:00 BST.\n\nAnother yellow warning is in place throughout the day for strong wind due to hit the south coast of England.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed last month was one of the wettest Julys on record, according to provisional data.\n\nIt said the UK had its sixth rainiest July since data started being collected, and its wettest since 2009, with 140.1mm of rainfall, more than two thirds higher than the average for this time of year.\n\nNorthern Ireland has had its wettest July on record, the Met Office data shows. The region saw more than double its average rainfall (185.4mm).\n\nAnd Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside also saw their wettest July since records began, all seeing long periods of rain.\n\nRain, wind and cool temperatures have dominated the forecast in recent weeks - in stark contrast to the dangerous heatwave sweeping much of Europe.\n\nMeteorologists say the wet and cool weather is due to the position of the jet stream, a core of strong winds sitting about five to seven miles above the Earth's surface, and which dictate much of the UK's weather.\n\nThe jet stream marks the boundary of cold air to the north in the polar regions and hot air to the south, a contrast which produces pressure differences.\n\nLast year, the jet stream was positioned further north, so the UK saw warm and dry weather created by the high-pressure system sitting over the country.\n\nBut this month, the jet stream has been stuck to the south of the UK, meaning its low-pressure system has been bringing cold and wet weather.\n\nThe weather has forced some summer festivals and events to cancel in recent weeks, including the Tiree Music Festival, a folk event held on the island of Tiree off Scotland's west coast.\n\nAround 600 members of staff, volunteers and ticket holders were already on the remote island when powerful winds meant it had to be cancelled at the last minute.\n\nCo-founder Daniel Gillespie told BBC News: \"We thought we might be able to be able to continue but once the winds strengthened and forecasts got worse, we had to start to evacuate.\n\n\"The festival takes a year of planning and then it all goes down the drain in a matter of days, but we had a good plan in place.\n\n\"We also had families on the island turning up to the site in their cars and taking campers home to crash on their couches.\"\n\nHe said he was confident the event will be back next year, but said cancellations have knock-on impacts for performers and businesses and called predictions of more extreme summer weather in the future \"concerning\" for people who organise outdoor events.\n\nA number of local events have been forced to cancel, including the Penarth Summer Festival in south Wales, which attracts visitors from around the UK for its downhill homemade go-kart race.\n\nNick McDonald from Penarth Town Council said the 60-year-old festival is a boost for local businesses and \"is meant to signal the start of the summer holidays\" - but instead was cancelled because of a weather warning for high winds.\n\nThe wet weather has also hit domestic holidaymakers. Stephen Felce from Hertfordshire said he cancelled his 10-day trip to Cornwall after seeing heavy rain predicted throughout.\n\nThe 79-year-old told the BBC he decided to stay at home because heavy rain was forecast \"on all but two days of 10, and I just thought you can put up with so much, but that's a bit too much.\"\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, said pubs haven't had the \"boost\" of sunny weather this month.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"We hope people will support their local or visit a new pub on their holidays whatever the weather, but we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for more sun before summer's over.\"\n\nA woman shelters under an umbrella during a heavy downpour of rain in Belfast\n\nSome scientists think that higher temperatures due to climate change in the Arctic - which has warmed more than four times faster than the global average - are causing the jet stream to slow, increasing the likelihood of high pressure and hot weather remaining in place.\n\nGlobal warming means hot temperatures and wetter periods will become more typical for the UK.\n\nHotter air is able to hold more moisture - and it falls back to ground in heavy downpours.\n\nA recent study from the UK Met Office and University of Bristol, published in March, found that the intensity of downpours can increase by up to 15% for every degree of global warming.\n\nGlobal temperatures are expected to climb by 2.4C by the end of the century based on projected emissions levels.\n\nWhile the rainfall has eased some of the pressure on natural water sources after last year's droughts and a dry May and June this year, Steve Turner from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology told the BBC that a wet July won't totally replenish rivers and lakes.\n\nHe said: \"This unsettled weather in the short term will have eased the pressure on the environment, but there are some areas still seeing ecological stress following the very dry summer last year.\n\n\"Because the summer last year was so severe, although we have had some rain, it just takes a longer time to replenish that and get back to normal.\"\n\nHe added that intense rainfall can increase the risk of river pollution.\n\n\"After our dry June and now having some more intense rainfall there will have been some run off from the land and potentially some water quality issues but we don't yet have data to confirm this,\" he said.\n\nIreland has seen its wettest July on record, according to provisional data gathered by the Irish Meteorological Service, with more than four times the amount of rain falling this month than in July 2022.", "A man accused of murdering his 10-month-old son said he \"didn't see anything\" that could have caused broken ribs or a fatal injury.\n\nCraig Crouch and partner Gemma Barton are on trial over the death of Jacob Crouch, who died at home in Linton, Derbyshire, in December 2020.\n\nDerby Crown Court previously heard the baby had suffered at least 39 rib fractures and endured a \"culture of cruelty\" before he died.\n\nThe court has been told Jacob died from a \"vicious assault\", which saw him \"kicked or stamped on with such severe force that it fractured a rib and caused a tear in his stomach and bowel\".\n\nJacob later contracted peritonitis - an infection of the lining of the abdominal organs - and died \"in his cot, alone\", jurors heard.\n\nMr Crouch, 39, denied lying to police when he said Jacob seemed normal in the days before he found his cold and lifeless body on the morning of 30 December.\n\nUnder cross-examination from prosecutor Mary Prior KC, he said he \"physically couldn't work out\" where blood stains found on a Moses basket sheet in May 2020 had come from.\n\nDuring the final day of his evidence to the court on Tuesday, he was shown footage of him \"dunking\" Jacob in a paddling pool, which he denied was a bid to stop him crying.\n\n\"If I was doing wrong or mistreating him, I wouldn't be recording it,\" he said.\n\nInvited to comment on an image sent to him by Ms Barton in August 2020, showing a \"nasty bruise\" to Jacob's right ear, Mr Crouch said he was told it was the result of him \"face-planting\" on the floor.\n\nAsked who squeezed Jacob so hard his ribs were broken more than once, he said he now wished \"I had noticed something\".\n\n\"It wasn't me and in front of me I didn't see anything,\" he said.\n\n\"He never gave us any reason to think that he was in pain.\"\n\nThe court heard Ms Barton and Mr Crouch gave police no explanation of how Jacob suffered his injuries\n\nMr Crouch denied Jacob \"screamed like he had never screamed before\" and cried for most of the night after being injured, saying he did not remember any crying.\n\nDenying working with Ms Barton to hurt her son and cover up what they had done, he said he \"would have pushed harder\" for information from her \"if I could go back\".\n\n\"I stayed with Gemma because the very deepest part of my heart was telling me she couldn't have done anything to that boy,\" he said.\n\n\"That boy was a very happy boy in my eyes.\"\n\nMs Barton, of Ray Street, Heanor, Derbyshire, and Mr Crouch, of Donisthorpe Lane, Moira, Swadlincote, both deny murder, causing or allowing the death of a child, causing a child to suffer serious physical harm, and three counts of child cruelty.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This tribute to Mr Sibley was posted to Beyonce's website\n\nBeyoncé has paid tribute to O'Shae Sibley, a professional dancer who was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn, New York while dancing to her music.\n\nMr Sibley, 28, was voguing while he and friends filled up at a petrol station when men approached and told them to stop, friends reported.\n\nThe men began using slurs and Mr Sibley, a gay man, confronted them, according to video of the altercation.\n\nNo arrests have yet been made, but police said on Tuesday that they were seeking a teenage boy in connection with the killing. The New York Police department has also said it is investigating Mr Sibley's death as a possible hate crime.\n\nMr Sibley's friends told US media that while some of their group filled up their car at a Mobil petrol station in Brooklyn on Saturday, the professional dancer and choreographer played Beyoncé's latest album, Renaissance, and danced to the music. Renaissance, is considered a celebration of black and queer dance culture, featuring artists like Big Freedia, Syd and Honey Dijon.\n\nAfter a group of men approached Mr Sibley and his friends, surveillance video appears to show the two groups in a heated argument.\n\nThe confrontation escalated, and one man stabbed Mr Sibley, police said.\n\nOtis Pena, one of Mr Sibley's friends, pressed on his wound to stop the bleeding before Mr Sibley was taken to Maimonides Medical Center, the New York Times reported, where he was pronounced dead.\n\n\"They murdered him because he's gay, because he stood up for his friends,\" Mr Pena said in a Facebook video. \"They killed my brother right in front of me,\" he wrote in another post.\n\nMr Sibley's death has rocked the LGBTQ+ community in New York, where friends said he had moved to continue his dance career, and beyond.\n\nPhiladelphia dance organisation Philadanco, which said Mr Sibley had been involved with them since he was a teenager, released a statement calling his death \"absolutely heartbreaking\".\n\n\"We believe no one deserves to be targeted for simply being themselves and living in their truth,\" the statement said.\n\nMr Sibley was also recognised by New York's leaders, including Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul, who wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that \"discrimination, hate, and violence\" have no place in our state.", "Rishi Sunak has insisted he cares about reaching net zero but that the 2050 target needs to be achieved in \"a proportionate and pragmatic way\".\n\nThe prime minister has faced criticism from environmental groups and some of his own MPs that he is not committed to tackling climate change.\n\nMr Sunak told LBC he wanted to leave the environment in \"a better state than we found it in\" for his two daughters.\n\nBut he added that the UK would still need fossil fuels in the future.\n\nAsked if he was confident he could win over his environmentally conscious daughters, Mr Sunak said they were not \"eco-zealots\" and like most people, were \"open to sensible, practical arguments\".\n\nHe has previously described his daughters as \"passionate environmentalists\", who have often asked him what he is doing about climate change.\n\nMr Sunak is facing pressure from some Conservative MPs to review the government's green policies, after the party's surprise win in the Uxbridge by-election, when it capitalised on anger over London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone (Ulez).\n\nHowever, he has said the government is committed to reaching net zero by 2050 - which means no longer adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are increasing global temperatures.\n\nOther leading climate campaigners in the Conservative Party have criticised Mr Sunak's commitment to environmental issues.\n\nLord Goldsmith recently resigned from the government, accusing the prime minister of \"apathy\" over climate change.\n\nThe prime minister has also attracted criticism for the number of domestic flights he has taken to travel for government business across the UK.\n\nEarlier this week he defended flying to Scotland, to announce support for a carbon capture project, as \"an efficient use of time for the person running the country\".\n\n\"If your approach to climate change is to say that no one should go on holiday, no one should go on a plane, I think you are completely and utterly wrong,\" he told BBC's Good Morning Scotland.\n\nIn his interview with LBC he also revealed he was taking his family on a summer holiday to California this week, including a visit to Disneyland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister is due to head on a family holiday this Thursday\n\nMr Sunak has announced the government is granting 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences, as well as supporting a carbon capture project in the north east of Scotland.\n\nThe decision was criticised by environmental campaigners, who said it would \"send a wrecking ball through the UK's climate commitments\".\n\nConservative MP Chris Skidmore said the move was \"the wrong decision at precisely the wrong time\" and \"on the wrong side of history\".\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak said: \"I 100% believe that what I'm doing is right,\" adding that even after meeting the 2050 target the UK would still need fossil fuels.\n\nHe argued it was \"sensible\" to use \"the energy we have here at home\", as this would be better for jobs and avoid the environmental cost of shipping energy from abroad, as well as reducing the UK's reliance on other countries.\n\nMeanwhile, Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps is meeting oil and gas bosses in Downing Street to talk about the government's decision to invest in home-grown energy sources, including renewables and North Sea oil and gas.\n\nMr Sunak is also facing pressure over measures to move towards electric cars.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kemi Badenoch is understood to have raised concerns about rules due to come into effect next year that require car manufacturers to sell a certain proportion of electric models.\n\nFrom January, 22% of vehicles sold have to be zero emission, or car makers could be hit with fines.\n\nSome manufacturers have been calling for a softening of the rules, and as first reported by the Politico website, Ms Badenoch has passed on their concerns to her cabinet colleagues.\n\nBut Labour said the sector was \"crying out for certainty\" and Ms Badenoch's reported comments were a \"threat to investment\".\n\nMinisters have insisted the government remains committed to banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, despite calls from some Tory MPs for a delay.", "A full Moon when the Moon is closest to the Earth appears larger and brighter than usual\n\nWhile most years have 12 full Moons, 2023 will have 13 of these lunar events.\n\nThere are two supermoons in August - the full Sturgeon Moon which rises on the evening of 1 August and the full Blue Moon on 30 August.\n\nThe final supermoon in 2023 will rise on 29 September - the Harvest Moon.\n\nThe names are mostly English interpretations of Native American names; some are also Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, medieval English, or neo-pagan.\n\nThe names can have a spiritual meaning, such as the Sturgeon Moon, which is said to embody the final days of summer and signals the beginning of harvest season.\n\nSome people believe the different phases of the Moon impact the behaviours of both people and animals - with some pet owners saying their dogs behave differently when there is a full Moon.\n\nOf course, we need cloud-free skies to be able to see these celestial events - especially when the nights are still quite short.\n\nTechnically, the Sturgeon Moon rises on 1 August, but it will still look full for the following couple of nights.\n\nWeather conditions will not be good for viewing on Tuesday night but should be better on Wednesday night into Thursday.\n\nOn Monday, Joe McNeill got lucky with this photograph taken during cloud gaps when the Sturgeon Moon was almost full cloud over Newry, County Down\n\nOf course, we can always look ahead to the once-in-a-blue supermoon at the end of August, this year's extra full Blue Moon. This only occurs now and then (hence the name) and can have a blueish colour.\n\nThe final supermoon of 2023 will occur on 29 September. This will be the Harvest Moon which only occurs once every four years.\n\nThe other three years it comes in October and is then called Hunter's Moon as, traditionally, people in the Northern Hemisphere spent October preparing for the coming winter by hunting, slaughtering, and preserving meats, giving it its Anglo-Saxon name.\n\nWeather watchers may recall the Buck Moon in July - it is named after the new antlers that emerge from a buck's forehead around that time of the year, as male deer or bucks shed their antlers and grow new ones every year.\n\nGerard McCreesh captured the Buck Moon in Warrenpoint and Stephen Henderson spotted the Wolf Moon above Belfast's Titanic Museum\n\nBefore that there was the Strawberry Moon in June which is thought to mark the beginning of a fruitful season, helping different cultures to celebrate the ripening of berries and the bountiful harvesting season ahead.\n\nIt is thought that January's full moon came to be known as the Wolf Moon because wolves were more likely to be heard howling at this time, maybe because they were hungry.\n\nAs the Moon orbits the Earth in an elliptical shape rather than in a circle, its distance to us varies over time.\n\nA supermoon is a phenomenon that occurs when a full Moon takes place at the same time as the perigee - when the Moon is closest to the Earth.\n\nA full Moon during perigee will appear 14% larger and 30% brighter than a full Moon during apogee - this is when the Moon is furthest away from Earth, an event known as a micromoon.\n\nA supermoon is also about 7% larger and 15% brighter than the average full moon.\n\n\"The full Moon occurs at a very specific moment in time - down to the second - when the Moon is directly opposite the Sun in the sky,\" explains Dr Darren Baskill, an astronomer and astrophotographer based at the University of Sussex.\n\n\"But to our eyes, the Moon will look full, or almost full, for two or three days either side of the exact moment that the full Moon occurs.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister's visit comes as alcohol duties rise by 10.1%\n\nRishi Sunak has been heckled during a visit to the Great British Beer Festival in central London.\n\nAs the PM pulled a pint to promote his changes to alcohol tax, publican Rudi Keyser shouted: \"Prime minister, oh the irony that you're raising alcohol duty on the day that you're pulling a pint.\"\n\nMr Keyser later told the BBC: \"I wasn't expecting to see the prime minister but when I saw him he really riled me up.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Sunak defended the new system as \"inherently more sensible\".\n\nSpeaking to reporters he said he was \"radically simplifying\" the system to ensure that the less alcohol in a drink, the lower the tax imposed.\n\nUnder the changes, duty will rise overall, particularly on wine and spirits, but fall on lower-alcohol drinks and most sparkling wine.\n\nTaxes on draught pints will not change, an additional measure that will reduce it to a lower rate than the tax on supermarket beer.\n\nMr Sunak said his changes would be beneficial to \"thousands of businesses across the country\".\n\nHowever, during a tour of the Great British Beer Festival, Mr Keyser - a brewer turned publican - expressed his anger at the changes.\n\nAfter heckling the prime minister, he told the Press Association that the \"draught relief\" was \"smoke and mirrors\" adding: \"It's robbing Peter to pay Paul. So across the board, it's all going up.\n\n\"I can tell you from my side now in the trade, the consumer is going to see an increase and he has the audacity to come and pull a pint for PR.\"\n\nThe prime minister received another, less-hostile, heckle when a member of the crowd shouted out: \"Prime minister, it's not Coca-Cola.\"\n\nMr Sunak, who is teetotal, has previously expressed a passion for the fizzy drink.\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association welcomed some of Mr Sunak's changes saying it would help \"incentivise the production of lower strength products\".\n\nHowever, it expressed concern that the 10.1% duty increase would have a \"huge impact\" and urged the government to guarantee there would be no further rises.\n\nThe Scotch Whisky Association described the rise as \"a hammer blow for distillers and consumers\".", "The employee survey found that two to three days per week working from home was the norm for more than half of respondents\n\nJust over 17% of the Northern Ireland workforce is engaged in some form of remote working, new analysis by Ulster University economists suggests.\n\nThat compares to 41% at the peak of the pandemic in April 2020 and under 10% before the pandemic in 2019.\n\nThe rate of remote working in Northern Ireland is well below the UK average of 31% and the lowest of any UK region.\n\nThe analysis draws on official data as well as an employee survey and interviews with NI employers.\n\nThe online survey of 865 employees, 87% of whom worked at least one day a week away from their workplace, was conducted in early 2023.\n\nThe consultation with business owners or senior HR managers covered 14 private sector firms, five public sector organisations and three focus groups with other businesses.\n\nAll were organisations that adopted remote working in the pandemic and have managed this since.\n\nThe researchers said the consultation with employers suggests that \"current working patterns are probably here to stay, that they are working well for staff and there is no evidence of a 'secret longing' to return staff to the office\".\n\nHowever, the consultees said concerns remain around certain aspects of work, including collaboration, team culture and the impact on younger people and new recruits as they try to integrate into the workplace and build networks.\n\nThis in turn has raised issues around the need for support and development for line managers to develop new approaches in a hybrid environment, with many feeling they have been \"left to figure it out themselves\".\n\nThe employers also suggested the impact on productivity remains an open question.\n\nMeasurement remains a difficult issue and consultees were not sure whether more hours worked meant more output or better quality.\n\nThe employee survey found that two to three days per week working from home was the norm for a majority (55%) of respondents.\n\nThere was a high levels of satisfaction (80%) among those where a hybrid or remote working policy is in place - particularly if there is certainty around the arrangements.\n\nIssues typically fell into two categories: equity - where the policy is not being implemented consistently by all line managers across the organisation - and communication.\n\nThe survey respondents were overwhelmingly of the view that their productivity was higher when working remotely, a similar outcome to most self-reported surveys in the UK, Canada, US and elsewhere.\n\nEconomist at Ulster University Economic Policy Centre Ana Desmond, said: \"Where remote working is possible, it appears from this research the best way to strike a balance between management and employees at present is a hybrid environment where workplace days are coordinated bringing teams together to facilitate innovation and creativity, alongside fostering corporate culture, whilst at-home days allows specific tasks to be completed with more focus and attention.\"\n\n\"Businesses may need to adapt management and mentoring practices to ensure employees feel visible, integrated, and appropriately trained for the job within the workplace.\"\n\nShe added that those with management responsibilities \"may now be responsible for creating a sense of place within the workspace alongside coordinating employees\".", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nLauren James produced a sensational individual performance as England entertained to sweep aside China and book their place in the last 16 of the Women's World Cup as group winners.\n\nIt was a display worthy of their status as European champions and James once again lit the stage alight in Adelaide with two sensational goals and three assists.\n\nThe 13,497 in attendance were treated to a masterclass from Chelsea's James, who announced her arrival at the World Cup with the match-winner against Denmark on Friday.\n\nShe helped England get off to the perfect start when she teed up Alessia Russo for the opener, and later slipped the ball through to Lauren Hemp to coolly place it into the bottom corner.\n\nIt was largely one-way traffic as England dominated and overwhelmed, James striking it first time into the corner from the edge of the box to make it 3-0 before another stunning finish was ruled out by video assistant referee (VAR) for offside in the build-up.\n\nChina knew they were heading out of the tournament unless they responded, so they came out with more aggression in the second half, unnerving England slightly when Shuang Wang scored from the penalty spot after VAR picked up a handball by defender Lucy Bronze.\n\nBut James was not done yet - she volleyed Jess Carter's deep cross past helpless goalkeeper Yu Zhu for England's fourth before substitute Chloe Kelly and striker Rachel Daly joined the party.\n\nEngland, who had quietly gone about their business in the group stages, will have raised eyebrows with this performance before their last-16 match against Nigeria on Monday, which will be shown live on BBC One at 08:30 BST.\n\nChina are out of the competition after Denmark beat Haiti to finish in second place in Group D.\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nManager Sarina Wiegman kept everyone guessing when she named her starting XI, with England fans anxiously waiting to see how they would set up without injured midfielder Keira Walsh.\n\nWiegman's response was to unleash England's attacking talent on a China side who struggled to match them in physicality, intensity and sharpness.\n\nJames oozed magic and unpredictability, Hemp used her pace to test China's defence and captain Millie Bright was ferocious in her tackling, winning the ball back on countless occasions.\n\nAfter nudging past Haiti and Denmark with fairly underwhelming 1-0 wins, England were keen to impose themselves from the start. Although China had chances in the second half, they were always second best.\n\nGoalkeeper Mary Earps will be disappointed not to keep a clean sheet, but she made two smart saves to deny Chen Qiaozhu.\n\nWhile England are yet to meet a side ranked inside the world's top 10 at the tournament, this will help quieten doubts that they might struggle without the instrumental Walsh.\n\n\"We're really growing into the tournament now,\" said captain Bright. \"We got a lot of criticism in the first two games but we were not concerned at all.\n\n\"It's unbelievable to be in the same team as [the youngsters]. It feels ridiculous and I'm quite proud. Players feeling like they can express themselves on the pitch is what we want.\"\n• None How to watch England v Nigeria on the BBC\n• None Harder stars as Denmark beat Haiti to reach last 16\n\nThe name on everyone's lips following England's win over Denmark was 'Lauren James', and those leaving Adelaide on Tuesday evening will struggle to forget her performance against China any time soon.\n\nShe punished China for the space they allowed her on the edge of the box in the first half and could have had a hat-trick were it not for the intervention of VAR.\n\nGreeted on the touchline by a grinning Wiegman, James was substituted with time to spare in the second half and went off to a standing ovation from large sections of the stadium.\n\n\"She's special - a very special player for us and for women's football in general,\" said Kelly. \"She's a special talent and the future is bright.\"\n\nShe became only the third player on record (since 2011) to be directly involved in five goals in a Women's World Cup game.\n\nWith competition for attacking places in England's starting XI extremely high, James has proven she is far too good to leave out of the side and is quickly becoming a star at this tournament at the age of 21.\n• None Attempt missed. Laura Coombs (England) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Chloe Kelly.\n• None Attempt missed. Shen Mengyu (China PR) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Yao Wei.\n• None Attempt missed. Laura Coombs (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Greenwood.\n• None Attempt saved. Chen Qiaozhu (China PR) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! China PR 1, England 6. Rachel Daly (England) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner. Assisted by Laura Coombs.\n• None Attempt missed. Laura Coombs (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bethany England.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The supermoon rose behind the dome of the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta, Malta\n\nStargazers across the world were treated to a bigger and brighter full Moon than usual on Tuesday night.\n\nThis month's full Moon, dubbed the Sturgeon Moon, lit up the night's sky as it rose above the horizon shortly after sunset.\n\nIt's the first of two supermoons this month - the next full moon on 30 August will be called a Blue Moon as it the second full moon to appear in one calendar month.\n\nIn the meantime, here are some of the best photos of Tuesday's supermoon from around the world:\n\nTuesday's Sturgeon Moon, named after the increase in sturgeon fish in North American lakes at this time of year, glows over buildings in Pristina, Kosovo\n\nAnd here it is pictured in Nicosia, Cyprus, lighting up the night's sky as it rises behind the Liberty Monument\n\nThe supermoon was also spotted behind an air traffic control tower at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv in Israel\n\nIt is seen here perfectly aligned with a TV tower in Huai'an City, Jiangsu province, China\n\nA bright, fiery supermoon appears over the Galata Tower in Istanbul, Turkey\n\nIt shone brightly as the night sky grew darker over the Grand Camlica Mosque in Istanbul\n\nAnd it was seen shining here over the Cuatro Torres business area in Madrid, Spain", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nSouth Africa are into the last 16 after claiming their first Women's World Cup win with a thrilling 3-2 victory over Italy in Wellington.\n\nThembi Kgatlana's stoppage-time winner came after Italy fought back to level with an Arianna Caruso header.\n\nThe late drama completed an emotional fortnight for the South African goalscorer.\n\n\"Over the last two weeks, I've lost three family members. I could have gone home but I chose to stay with my girls,\" Kgatlana said.\n\n\"Because that's how much it means.\"\n\nThe Racing Louisville forward, who suffered an Achilles injury in 2022 that kept her sidelined for 10 months, added: \"I came back from a very, brutal injury to be here, to play for the country, to represent every single girl that wanted to be here, to make history with the girls for South Africa.\"\n\nSouth Africa will play Group E winners the Netherlands on Sunday.\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n• None World Football podcast at the World Cup: Jamaica and South Africa make history\n\nAfter earning a first World Cup point in their 2-2 draw with Argentina, the Banyana Banyana have shown significant progress from their debut appearance at the tournament in 2019, when they lost all three group matches.\n\nThere were scenes of jubilation for the South Africa players when the final whistle confirmed they had made history for their nation.\n\n\"They fought like warriors,\" manager Desiree Ellis said.\n\n\"They fought like the heroines that we know that they are. They fought to be historically remembered and they've made history not just getting our first win, but going to the round of 16 and that is freaking amazing.\n\n\"This victory is for everyone back home, people that got up in the early hours of the morning to support us - that is for them.\"\n\nKnowing a win would guarantee their place in the knockout rounds, Italy got off to the perfect start when they were awarded a penalty as Karabo Dhlamini caught the heels of teenager Chiara Beccari and Caruso calmly converted to put her side in command of their World Cup future.\n\nHowever, South Africa were gifted a leveller as Benedetta Orsi, playing her first World Cup match, was left red-faced when she hit a no-look back pass to a surprised Francesca Durante and it rolled into her own net.\n\nEllis' side burst into the lead when Kgatlana slipped a clever ball through the Italy defence to put Hildah Magaia through on goal and she lifted it over Durante.\n\nVAR seemed like it may have come to South Africa's rescue when Caruso equalised from a corner, but after a lengthy delay the goal was given.\n\nA draw would have been enough to take Italy into the knockout rounds, but their hearts were broken when Magaia stepped through the defence and squared to Kgatlana, who made no mistake in finding the back of the net.\n• None Attempt blocked. Benedetta Glionna (Italy) with an attempt from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Valentina Giacinti with a headed pass.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Substitution, South Africa. Sibulele Holweni replaces Karabo Dhlamini because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Karabo Dhlamini (South Africa).\n• None Attempt saved. Elena Linari (Italy) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lisa Boattin.\n• None Substitution, South Africa. Wendy Shongwe replaces Hildah Magaia because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Hildah Magaia (South Africa).\n• None Attempt missed. Valentina Giacinti (Italy) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Cristiana Girelli.\n• None Goal! South Africa 3, Italy 2. Thembi Kgatlana (South Africa) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Hildah Magaia. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ms Budgen has only recently returned home from hospital\n\nA woman who was in seemingly good health has described how a hard-to-detect case of sepsis resulted in her having both legs amputated.\n\nBeth Budgen, from Newbury in Berkshire, thought she just had a cold when she woke up feeling ill on Christmas Eve.\n\nBut she started developing agonising pain the next day, vomited blue liquid and was rushed to A&E in Basingstoke.\n\nThe 46-year-old spent seven months in hospital but is now back at home trying to adapt to her new way of life.\n\nMs Budgen appeared to have nothing more than a common cold when she first became ill\n\nWarning: This story contains a graphic image that some readers may find upsetting.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live she wanted to share her shocking story to raise awareness so others could spot the symptoms earlier.\n\nA few hours after arriving at hospital, doctors told her family to \"prepare for the worst\" as she was put into an induced coma for six weeks.\n\n\"It think it all kind of happened pretty quickly from there... by Boxing Day I had a complete organ failure,\" she said.\n\nMs Budgen was not responding to life support and medics soon established that - as well as flu and pneumonia - she had contracted the strep A bacterial infection that ultimately led to sepsis.\n\nWhen she came out of the coma her feet were black and doctors told her she had to have both legs amputated.\n\n\"I can't honestly tell you how that felt,\" she said.\n\n\"I think I was just so utterly shocked by it.\"\n\nShe underwent surgery at Southampton General Hospital, where she also had parts of her hands removed.\n\n\"It's surreal. At first everything is bandaged... you can see everything is shorter but you can't really see what they look like,\" she said.\n\nMs Budgen uses prosthetics and is trying to adapt to her new way of moving around\n\nIt was only when the bandages were taken off that reality sunk in.\n\nBut Ms Budgen said she considered herself lucky and has \"always been an optimistic person\".\n\nReturning home after the amputation, however, has presented her with difficult challenges.\n\n\"First night I was here on my own in my own house I made the mistake of leaving my medication downstairs, so having made the 30-minute trip getting upstairs I realised I didn't have my medication - and that was my first meltdown,\" she said.\n\n\"I am pretty determined to wear my [prosthetic] legs as much as I can. It's just exhausting.\"\n\n\"If this happened to me it can happen to anyone that you love,\" Ms Budgen said.\n\n\"People really need to be aware of the signs of sepsis and educate themselves.\"\n\nMs Budgen's family has launched a campaign to help her raise money for everything else she will need, from various adaptions to her home to a bespoke pair of legs.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Craig Crouch and Gemma Barton referred to Jacob as \"the devil\" in one text message\n\nThe stepfather of a 10-month-old baby who endured a \"culture of cruelty\" has been found guilty of his murder.\n\nJacob Crouch suffered at least 39 rib fractures, and died from a \"vicious assault\" at the hands of Craig Crouch, Derby Crown Court heard.\n\nJacob died \"in his cot, alone\" on 30 December 2020 at home near Swadlincote, Derbyshire, having suffered a \"living hell\".\n\nHis mother Gemma Barton has been cleared of murder.\n\nHowever, she was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nThe pair will be sentenced at the same court on Friday.\n\nCraig Crouch was convicted of murder while co-accused Gemma Barton was acquitted of murder but found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors said Jacob's injuries had been caused by him being kicked or stamped on.\n\nThey said neither parent gave him the care he \"needed or deserved\" or sought medical attention for him.\n\nThe seven-week trial had heard Barton, 33, met Crouch, 39, while four months pregnant with Jacob and they became \"very close, very quickly\", calling Jacob \"our little boy\" after only a month.\n\nJacob was born healthy on 17 February 2020, with Crouch named as his father on the birth certificate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut prosecutor Mary Prior KC said he was assaulted \"causing bruising on a regular basis for at least six months\" from the age of just four months, and was referred to as \"the devil\" in one text message.\n\nThe jury heard Jacob had suffered \"repeated physical abuse\" in the days before he died in Linton.\n\nForklift truck operator Crouch, of Donisthorpe Lane, Moira, near Swadlincote, was also convicted of three counts of child cruelty.\n\nHe had given evidence to say Jacob's injuries had nothing to do with him.\n\nBarton, of Ray Street, Heanor, Derbyshire, was also cleared of an alternative charge of manslaughter, and two counts of child cruelty, but was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child and a third count of child cruelty.\n\nShe had also denied harming Jacob and, when asked by prosecutors who had caused his injuries, said: \"It was not me, so that leaves Craig.\"\n\nBoth Crouch and Barton were asked how Jacob was injured by police and suggested he may have hurt himself.\n\nHowever, experts told the court was \"not remotely\" possible that the injuries could have been self-inflicted.\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Michael Biggs gave evidence to say he would expect to see injuries such as Jacob's in car crash victims or those who had suffered a multi-storey fall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter the verdict, Det Insp Paul Bullock, of the East Midlands Special Operations Regional Policing Unit, said: \"Jacob Crouch was born into a culture of cruelty where both of the people he should have been able to trust above any other allowed him to be subjected to assault after assault.\n\n\"Heartbreakingly, for much of Jacob's short life he would have been in significant pain as a result of the serious and repeated assaults.\"\n\n\"It is clear from the evidence found on Gemma Barton and Craig Crouch's phones, through text messages, videos and audio recordings, that they were equally responsible for the culture of cruelty inflicted on baby Jacob.\n\n\"As a father I cannot comprehend what happened behind closed doors and my thought remain with Jacob's wider family who have been left devastated by his death.\n\n\"I hope today's verdict brings with it a degree of closure for them and begins the process of them being able to grieve for Jacob and remember the happier times with a much-loved child.\"\n\nFollowing the case, a spokesperson for the Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (DDSCP) said: \"We extend our sympathies to all those affected by the tragic death of Jacob.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said agencies had supported police in reviewing the circumstances of Jacob's death and that policy and training changes had already been made to create new \"Keeping Babies Safe\" guidance.\n\nThe DDSCP said there were no plans to publish the findings of the review.\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"The DDSCP is required to share the review report with the National Safeguarding Review Panel who agreed with the decision of the partnership not to initiate a local child safeguarding practice review into this case.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 10-month-old baby was regularly attacked by his mother and father before they murdered him, a trial has heard.\n\nGemma Barton and Craig Crouch are accused of killing their son Jacob who died at home in Linton, near Swadlincote, Derbyshire, in December 2020.\n\nA trial at Derby Crown Court heard Jacob suffered at least 39 rib fractures in four separate assaults.\n\nMary Prior KC, prosecuting, said Jacob endured a \"culture of cruelty\" and died from a \"vicious assault\" which saw him \"kicked or stamped on with such severe force that it fractured a rib and caused a tear in his stomach and bowel\".\n\nThe court heard Jacob later contracted peritonitis - an infection of the lining of the abdominal organs - and died \"in his cot, alone\" on 30 December 2020.\n\nMs Prior said: \"Our case is that these two parents created an environment in which they encouraged and applauded each other in their control and punishments of this little baby.\n\n\"Neither of them, in this very small house where no-one could be alone, could have committed these offences without the knowledge and assistance of the other.\n\n\"Neither sought medical help for Jacob at any stage for the pain and suffering caused when his bones were broken or in the few days that followed.\"\n\nShe added: \"Neither got Jacob out of what must have been a life with episodes of significant pain and suffering.\n\n\"Jacob was not given the care that as a baby he needed and deserved.\"\n\nThe court heard Ms Barton and Mr Crouch gave police no explanation of how Jacob suffered his injuries\n\nMs Prior told jurors Jacob had visible bruises on his face and chest when he died and there was evidence of \"severe and significant blunt force trauma\" to his abdomen.\n\nThe court heard Ms Barton, 32, met Mr Crouch, 39, while four months pregnant with Jacob and became \"very close, very quickly\" with Mr Crouch, calling Jacob \"our little boy\" after only a month.\n\nJacob was born healthy on 17 February 2020, with Mr Crouch named as his father on the birth certificate, but Ms Prior said that he was \"assaulted causing bruising on a regular basis for at least six months\" from the age of just four months, and was referred to as \"the devil\" in one text message.\n\nJurors were told Mr Crouch texted Ms Barton, in June 2020, asking whether she had \"put back what Jacob threw back down him\" - referring to vomit - with Barton confirming she had.\n\nIn September Mr Crouch said in texts that Jacob was \"pushing us to our limits\".\n\nThe court heard Mr Crouch sent Ms Barton texts urging her to \"smack his hand\" if he cried, adding: \"You need to be harder on him with this and not let this take over us. This will only get worse if not addressed now.\"\n\nMs Prior said messages showed when Ms Barton told Mr Crouch she was bathing Jacob, he replied \"three foot deep, just hot water and some bleach xxxx\".\n\nMr Crouch later told police that had been \"banter\".\n\nThe court was told when the couple were arrested they claimed they were unaware of any non-accidental injury and have never given an explanation as to how the injuries occurred.\n\nMs Prior said: \"Despite the regimental discipline and the unreasonable behavioural expectations being placed on this little boy by Barton and Crouch, Crouch suggested in interview that Jacob was the beneficiary of their love and care.\n\n\"The prosecution say that the bruises on Jacob's body, the broken ribs and the manner of his death fly in the face of such an assessment.\"\n\nThe court heard Ms Barton told police Mr Crouch would call her names such as \"fat\" and that he controlled her finances, but despite being bailed with conditions not to contact each other they were soon living together because Ms Barton was Mr Crouch's \"rock\", and he was her \"everything\".\n\n\"What mattered to them was their love affair and their love story,\" Ms Prior said.\n\nBarton, of Ray Street, Heanor, Derbyshire, and Crouch, of Donisthorpe Lane, Moira, Swadlincote, both deny murder, causing or allowing the death of a child, causing a child to suffer serious physical harm and three counts of child cruelty.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andriana, pictured at a rehabilitation centre in Ukraine, where she is training to return to the front line\n\nUkrainian women have been signing up in growing numbers to serve as combat troops against Russia. The BBC spoke to three of the 5,000 female front-line soldiers who are fighting both the enemy, and sexist attitudes within their own ranks.\n\nA slim, blue-eyed, brunette woman is working out in a gym. This might be unremarkable were it not for the fact that, according to the Russian media, she is dead.\n\nAndriana Arekhta is a special unit sergeant in the Ukrainian armed forces, preparing to return to the front line.\n\nThe BBC found Andriana in a rehabilitation centre in Ukraine - in a location we cannot name for her safety - after she was injured by a landmine in the Kherson region in December.\n\nNumerous text and video reports in Russian celebrate her \"death\" in graphic detail.\n\n\"They published that I am without legs and without hands, and that I was killed by them,\" says Andriana. \"They are professionals in propaganda.\"\n\nThe reports include lurid descriptions of her - such as \"executioner\" and \"eliminated Nazi\".\n\nAccusing her of cruelty and sadism without any proof, they appeared shortly after the Ukrainian army had liberated Kherson.\n\n\"It's funny to me. I am alive and I will protect my country,\" she says.\n\nEighteen months on from Russia's invasion, there are 60,000 women serving in the nation's armed forces. More than 42,000 are in military positions - including 5,000 female soldiers on the front line, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine told us.\n\nIt added that no woman could be conscripted under Ukrainian law against her will.\n\nBut there are particular combat roles which some believe are better performed by women.\n\n\"I came to my commander and I asked him, 'what can I do the best?' He said: 'You will be a sniper,'\" recalls Evgeniya Emerald - who carried out the role on the front line until recently.\n\nEvgeniya Emerald, pictured with her three-month-old baby, ran a jewellery business before the war\n\nShe says female snipers have been romanticised since World War Two, adding there is a very practical reason for this reputation.\n\n\"If a man hesitates whether to make a shot or not, a woman will never.\n\n\"Maybe that's why women are the ones giving birth, not men,\" she adds, cradling her three-month old daughter.\n\nThe 31 year old, who had military training after Russia invaded Crimea but only joined the army in 2022, was the owner of a jewellery business before the full-scale war.\n\nShe has used her entrepreneurial experience to build a strong social media following, to help raise the profile of Ukrainian female soldiers.\n\nLike Andriana, Evgeniya has been widely referred to as \"a punisher\" and \"Nazi\" by Russian media, with hundreds of reports discussing her front line role as a female sniper, and her private life.\n\nWorking as a sniper is particularly brutal - says Evgeniya - both physically and mentally.\n\n\"Because you can see what is going on. You can see hitting a target. This is a personal hell for everyone who sees that in a [sniper's] scope.\"\n\nEvgeniya, and the other front-line women we have spoken to, cannot reveal the number of targets they have hit. But Evgeniya remembers the heightened emotion she felt when she realised she was probably going to have to kill someone.\n\n\"For 30 seconds I was shaking - my whole body - and I couldn't stop it. That realisation that now you'll do something that will be a point of no return.\n\n\"But we didn't come to them with a war. They came to us.\"\n\nEvgeniya Emerald says working as a sniper is a particularly brutal form of warfare\n\nThe percentage of women in the Ukrainian military has been growing since the first Russian invasion in 2014, reaching over 15% in 2020.\n\nBut while many female troops are serving in combat roles against Russia, they say there is another battle within their own ranks - against sexist attitudes.\n\nEvgeniya says she faced this before she established her authority and confidence as a front-line sniper.\n\n\"When I had just joined the special forces, one of the fighters came to me and said: 'Girl, what are you doing here? Go and cook borshch [Ukrainian traditional soup].' I felt so offended at that moment I thought, 'are you kidding me? I can be in the kitchen, but I can also knock you out'!\"\n\nAnother Evgeniya, Evgeniya Velyka from the Arm Women Now charity - which provides help to the Ukrainian female soldiers - agrees: \"In society [there] exists a strong opinion that girls go to the army to find a husband.\"\n\nShe says women have also told her about cases of physical abuse.\n\n\"We can't imagine the scale of the problem because not every female soldier wants to talk about this,\" she says.\n\nUkraine's deputy defence minister, Hanna Malyar, told the BBC those were just a \"few cases\" in contrast to the \"hundreds of thousands\" mobilised.\n\nIn 2021, the Ukrainian military released pictures of female soldiers practising for a parade in heels - sparking outrage\n\nWomen in the Ukrainian army do not have gender-appropriate uniforms. They are issued with ill-fitting male fatigues, including male underwear, and outsized shoes and bulletproof vests.\n\nEven the deputy defence minister, Hanna Malyar, says her field uniform is designed for a man - which she has had to alter as she has \"a small height\". She adds the ceremonial uniform includes shoes with heels.\n\nIf women in the army want to wear female fatigues, they must currently either buy their own generic kit online, or rely on charities or crowdfunding.\n\nThis is why Andriana co-founded a charity called Veteranka [Ukrainian Women Veteran's Movement], which campaigns for equal rights for female military personnel, and for reforming Ukrainian army legislation to bring it in line with Nato legislation.\n\nBut Ms Malyar says the government has made progress. A uniform for women has been developed, tested and will enter mass production in the near future - although she could not specify when.\n\nSniper Evgenya Emerald says that despite such issues, \"war doesn't have a gender\".\n\n\"A war doesn't care whether you are a man or a woman. When a missile hits a house, it doesn't care if there are women, men, children - everyone dies.\n\n\"And it's the same on the front line - if you can be effective and you're a woman, why wouldn't you defend your country, your people?\"\n\nIryna says a sniper's role in war has been romanticised\n\nIn the eastern Donbas region, sniper Iryna is involved in the counter-offensive right now. We secure a brief connection with her during a moment of peace on the battlefield.\n\nShe could be held up as an example of the reforms so many combat women have been working hard for - she is acting-up as a female commander of an all-male unit.\n\n\"A sniper's image is romanticised… and is beautiful due to the movies. In reality, it's hard work.\"\n\nShe describes how snipers lie still on the ground for up to six hours to fire a shot, followed by a rapid change in position.\n\n\"It's like playing with death,\" she adds.\n\nThe thousands of women serving have left behind careers, as well as their families.\n\nAndriana left her job as the UN consultant on gender equality, under the Ukrainian Ministry of Veterans' Affairs, to join the Ukrainian military when Russia invaded last year.\n\n\"They took the best years of my life,\" the 35-year-old says. Thinking back to a time before the war, she adds: \"I could travel and be happy, build a career and have a dream.\"\n\nThe mother of a primary school-aged boy, Andriana tearfully tells me she has not held her son for more than seven months. As she shows me pictures of him on her phone, a smile appears on her face, replacing her tears.\n\nShe is driven by the desire to secure him a peaceful future in his native country - not having to risk his life by fighting like his parents.\n\nAndriana first joined the armed forces when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014\n\nUnlike Evgeniya Emerald, who joined up after Russia's full invasion last year, Andriana has previous military experience.\n\nIn 2014 when Russia first attacked Ukraine, annexing Crimea and invading Donbas, she left her job as a brand manager and joined one of the first volunteer battalions - along with thousands of other Ukrainians. At the time, the military was smaller than it is now and was struggling.\n\nAidar battalion, where Andriana was serving, was accused by the Kremlin and Amnesty International of human rights violations - but the Ukrainian army told the BBC no substantive evidence to support such claims had been provided.\n\nAmnesty also urged Ukrainian authorities to bring the volunteer battalions under effective lines of command and control, which they did.\n\nDespite Andriana never being linked to any acts of misconduct, and her leaving Aidar eight years ago, Russian media continually accused her of \"sadism\", providing no evidence.\n\nIn Ukraine, she has been awarded medals for her service - one \"for courage\", another for being a \"people's hero\"\n\nAndriana, who told the BBC she is no longer part of Aidar, said she felt obliged to re-join the army on the front line in 2022, as she already had much-needed combat experience.\n\nAndriana working out in preparation to return to the front line\n\nWhile Ukraine's Ministry of Defence said it could not provide the number of combat casualties - due to sensitivities of such information during wartime - the BBC has obtained data suggesting 93 Ukrainian servicewomen have been killed in action since the recent Russian invasion.\n\nThe data, from charity Arm Women Now, says more than 500 have been injured.\n\nAndriana's phone book has turned into a list of the dead.\n\n\"I lost more than 100 friends. I don't even know how many phone numbers I need to delete.\"\n\nBut the price already paid was too high to give up, she said - as she turns to finish her rehabilitation training in the gym.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The robbers grabbed luxury items from the store's display cases\n\nTwo men in suits and a woman in a dress have robbed a prestige jeweller's in the fashionable heart of Paris making off with goods worth millions of euros, reports say.\n\nThe trio, carrying a handgun equipped with a silencer, targeted the Piaget store at lunchtime in the chic Rue de la Paix, a stone's throw from the Opera in the city's second district.\n\nStaff were forced to the ground, a police source told Le Parisien website.\n\nThe robbers then fled on foot.\n\nProsecutors believe luxury jewels worth €10m-€15m (£8.5m-£13m) were taken as the trio plundered the shop displays. No-one was reported hurt.\n\nFrance's special BRB police unit targeting armed robbery and burglaries has taken over the inquiry, one of several high-profile investigations into organised gangs and hostage-taking in Paris.\n\nOnly three months ago, another smart-fronted jewellery store was targeted 100m (330ft) down the street. The Bulgari shop on Place Vendôme was attacked on a Saturday afternoon, again in broad daylight, by three armed robbers who sped away on two motorbikes.\n\nBoth Rue de la Paix and Place Vendôme are renowned for their luxury jewellers' shops. But unlike the Bulgari raid, the gang that robbed the Piaget store were smartly dressed.\n\nFrench reports speak of two men in grey suits and a woman wearing a green dress and black trousers.\n\nSandrine Marcot of France's jewellery and watches union told French TV the number of raids was worrying: \"Even though it's true the level has dramatically fallen over the years, since the end of Covid in the past couple of years, the number of robberies and burglaries has been growing.\"\n\nLess than two weeks ago, Italy and Paris St-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and his partner were tied up in their Paris flat as their attackers made off with jewellery, watches and other luxury goods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I remember sitting on the floor and screaming'\n\nAn extreme hormonal condition has left some women battling emotional distress because of a lack of help, campaigners say.\n\nPremenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), which is linked to periods, is thought to affect more than one in 20 women.\n\nSufferers want medical students to get compulsory education on a problem one called an \"evil monster\" inside her.\n\nThe Welsh government said it recognised there was insufficient recognition of PMDD and its devastating consequences.\n\nBella Humphries said she was more than happy to tell people that \"my period sometimes makes me want to take my life\", adding: \"It's secrecy and silence that will kill people, not the disease or the disorder.\"\n\nRhondda MS Buffy Williams said she was unable to do anything for three weeks a month and described her experience as \"soul-destroying\", with her symptoms so severe she had a hysterectomy at 34.\n\nPMDD causes a range of mental and physical symptoms in the two weeks leading up to a period, including anger, depressed mood and anxiety - which lift completely during menstruation.\n\nAccording to the International Association for Premenstrual Disorders, 34% of people who have been diagnosed with the condition have attempted suicide.\n\n\"You're on a seven-day bender where you're making the worst possible decisions of your life, you're sort of setting your life on fire on purpose,\" is how Bella described it.\n\nBella Humphries has been using laughs to spread awareness of the condition by describing the impact it had on her\n\nThe 29-year-old from Conwy has turned the devastating impact it had on her life into a radio comedy.\n\nShe joked she decided not to drive into a tree because it would harm the reputation of female drivers - but the suicidal feelings behind her gags were a monthly occurrence.\n\nFor Ms Humphries, she knew something was wrong the moment she started having periods - and said from then, her symptoms got worse.\n\n\"I was not getting out of bed, I couldn't get through basically any conversations without crying,\" she said.\n\n\"There was a lot of screaming and just feeling like my world was over and it didn't really matter what anybody said to me, they couldn't understand how it felt inside of me.\"\n\nAccording to the Royal College of Nursing, PMDD affects 5% to 8% of menstruating people, yet Ms Humphries admitted she had never heard of it until she was diagnosed privately.\n\nCampaigner Becci Smart, 36, wants to make it compulsory for medical students in Wales to learn about PMDD.\n\nHer symptoms started at 14, yet it took her 18 years to get a diagnosis.\n\n\"Nobody told me that feeling suicidal before your period isn't normal,\" she said.\n\nLabour politician Buffy Williams has called for more research into how women can be helped\n\nShe described it as an \"evil monster\" inside her wanting to break out every month, saying the \"black cloud\" took its toll on family relations.\n\nIf a petition she has launched gets 10,000 signatures, it will be debated in the Senedd.\n\nMs Williams, a Labour member of the Senedd, said: \"It was almost like every single movement, every single part of my life revolved around my period.\n\n\"You'd be back and fore the doctor, making appointments all the time, going to see the nurse, and the answer was always the same, it's just what women go through.\"\n\nHer case was so severe, she had to have a hysterectomy - surgery to remove her womb.\n\n\"I was totally petrified, but I felt like I had no alternative\" she said.\n\n\"Surgical intervention shouldn't be the answer, we need far more research into PMDD.\"\n\nAfter Ms Williams spoke about her experiences in a Senedd debate, Health Minister Eluned Morgan made commitments to improve care in Wales and make more information available on the NHS website.\n\nThere is a lack of understanding and knowledge of PMDD, especially in the UK, according to Dr Lynsay Matthews.\n\nAn expert on the condition, based at the University of the West of Scotland, she described the problems as \"complex\".\n\n\"What we hear is that [health professionals] themselves are frustrated with the lack of information, the lack of training, the lack of referral routes for them,\" she said.\n\nDr Matthews said teams of experts in mental health, gynaecology and primary care could work together to improve the situation - but research had to happen first.\n\nNHS guidance recommends anyone who suspects they have PMDD keep a diary tracking their symptoms and takes it to their GP.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We recognise that there is insufficient recognition of PMDD and the devastating impact it can have.\n\n\"We are working with the NHS Executive to explore expanding online menstrual health information and guidance, inclusive of PMDD.\"", "Last updated on .From the section The Hundred\n\nPresenter Chris Hughes has been told by the BBC a comment he made to Australian all-rounder Maitlan Brown during The Hundred was \"not appropriate\".\n\nHughes interviewed Brown, 26, pitchside during BBC Two's coverage of Southern Braves' win over Trent Rockets.\n\nAfter Brown said she had been to see the Barbie movie with her Braves team-mates, Hughes replied: \"You're a little Barbie yourself with your blue eyes.\"\n\nHughes, who first found fame on Love Island, added: \"She's blushing now.\"\n\nThe comments were criticised on social media.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the BBC said: \"We have spoken to Chris and explained that his comment was not appropriate.\"\n\nBrown has played for the Australia A team and has received call-ups to the full Australia squad.\n\nIn addition to presenting coverage of The Hundred, Hughes has also worked on ITV's horse racing programmes.\n• None The face you know, the story you don't: The life and legacy of Marilyn Monroe from a modern perspective", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nJamaica manager Lorne Donaldson said his team had \"never had this much fun\" after reaching the Women's World Cup last 16 for the first time, leaving Brazil devastated.\n\nThey battled out a cagey encounter in Melbourne and Jamaica put in a stubborn defensive display to ensure their impressive tournament still has another chapter.\n\nThe Reggae Girlz, ranked 43rd in the world, have kept three clean sheets in the group stages of their second World Cup, having conceded 12 goals in three defeats in 2019's competition.\n\n\"We were not expected to be in the World Cup in 2019,\" said Donaldson. \"The programme was fairly new and we said, 'Oh, we're in!'. It was like being deer in headlights.\n\n\"We were very young and happy to be there. This time around we said, 'Hey, we're not just going to show up. We're going to get out of the group.' Our mentality was that nothing is impossible.\"\n\nBrazil, who recalled striker Marta to the starting XI, could not find the goal they needed and failed to progress for the first time in 28 years.\n\nMarta, 37, is the all-time leading scorer in men's or women's World Cups with 17 goals but will not feature again on this stage, with her sixth tournament coming to an end having made three group-stage appearances.\n\nAfter this goalless stalemate, Jamaica could face Colombia or Germany in the last 16, while France go through as Group F winners following their victory over Panama in the other match.\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nJamaica defy the odds as Marta bows out\n\nJamaica put themselves in a strong position when they held group favourites France to a goalless draw and followed it with a crucial 1-0 win over Panama without star striker Khadija Shaw, who was suspended after being sent off in their opening match.\n\nManchester City's Shaw returned to the side in Melbourne on Wednesday, adding much-needed threat for Jamaica on the counter-attack.\n\nFormer Arsenal centre-back Rafaelle Souza largely kept Shaw at bay, though the Jamaican's presence alone caused problems and she almost scored with 10 minutes remaining, firing over the bar on the break.\n\nThat was Jamaica's only real chance as Brazil built pressure and searched endlessly for the goal they needed to take them through to the knockout stage.\n\nMarta, who went off to huge cheers after 80 minutes, had a few glimpses at goal, while Debinha, Luana and Tamires all drew saves from Jamaica goalkeeper Becky Spencer.\n\nBut Brazil were predictable and lacklustre, struggling to break down Jamaica's well-organised defence and offering very little in a desperate fight to stay in Australia.\n\nThey almost found a golden touch in the third minute of second-half stoppage time when Andressa pounced on a scramble in the box, but Spencer was again equal to it and Brazil's substitutes fell to their knees in despair in the dugout.\n\nIt is a disappointing early exit for the South American champions who took their European counterparts England to a penalty shootout in the Women's Finalissima at Wembley in April and had high hopes coming into the World Cup.\n\n\"There's a lot of feelings of course,\" said Brazil manager Pia Sundhage. \"In the locker room there's many sad players and coaches.\n\n\"At the end of the day I'm responsible for the result. Of course I'm not alone, but the way we have worked and have prepared is something I need to look back on and see if we could have done things differently.\n\n\"We put in a lot of work, but at the end of the day it's Jamaica [who progress]. It's not a big distance between failure and success.\"\n\n'We hope they are taking notice'\n\nJamaica have proven they are more than a match for some of the world's higher-ranked nations and there was an outpouring of emotion at full-time as the magnitude of their achievements became clear.\n\nCaptain Shaw fell to her knees and began crying, while players draped Jamaica flags across their shoulders and began dancing in the middle of a huddle on the pitch.\n\nJamaica's journey to Australia and New Zealand was marred by a battle with their own federation and the squad wrote an open letter calling for \"immediate and systematic change\".\n\nGoalkeeper Spencer said the team are \"showing what can be done\" and hopes their success will put further pressure on their federation to react.\n\n\"Obviously we fight a battle constantly. We put it to bed in the tournament because we have a point to prove,\" said Spencer.\n\n\"The better we do, the more pressure it creates. We hope they are taking notice and they should be now. We've had loads of outpouring of support for us. They are saying keep fighting.\n\n\"We're appreciative of all the support we have got from other teams and players. We need to keep spreading the word so we can get better.\"\n\nJamaica's success on the pitch comes four days before their country celebrates Independence Day and Donaldson said fans back home \"love a reason to celebrate\".\n\n\"I hope they have a national holiday back in Jamaica for our performance today,\" said Spencer, joking. \"I just hope everyone back home has enjoyed this.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Debinha (Brazil) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bia Zaneratto (Brazil) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Solai Washington (Jamaica) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Drew Spence.\n• None Attempt saved. Andressa Alves (Brazil) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Substitution, Jamaica. Solai Washington replaces Jody Brown because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Jody Brown (Jamaica).\n• None Attempt missed. Geyse Ferreira (Brazil) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bia Zaneratto.\n• None Attempt missed. Khadija Shaw (Jamaica) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Atlanta Primus following a fast break.\n• None Offside, Brazil. Adriana tries a through ball, but Debinha is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Zendaya (pictured here with Cloud last year) is the star of Euphoria\n\nZendaya has said that \"words are not enough to describe the infinite beauty\" of her Euphoria co-star Angus Cloud, following his death aged 25.\n\nThe actress, who stars as recovering addict Ruby \"Rue\" Bennett in the HBO series, shared a black and white image of Cloud on Instagram, celebrating his \"boundless light, love and joy\".\n\nRappers Drake - an executive producer on it - and Kid Cudi also paid homage.\n\nCloud died on Monday at his family home in Oakland, California, a publicist confirmed. \"It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today,\" said the Cloud family.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by zendaya This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPosting on Instagram, Zendaya wrote: \"I'm so grateful I got the chance to know him in this life, to call him a brother, to see his warm kind eyes and bright smile, or hear his infectious cackle of a laugh (I'm smiling now just thinking of it).\n\n\"I know people use this expression often when talking about folks they love...'they could light up any room they entered' but boy let me tell you, he was the best at it. I'd like to remember him that way.\n\n\"For all of the boundless light, love and joy he always managed to give us. I'll cherish every moment.\"\n\nDrake shared an image of Cloud simply captioned \"Good Soul\", while Kid Cudi posted on X (formerly known as Twitter): \"This hurts man. One of the realest dudes in this business.\"\n\nCloud attended his father's funeral in Ireland last week and, according to his family, \"intensely struggled with this loss\".\n\nThere was some comfort in knowing he was now \"reunited with his dad, who was his best friend\", they said in a statement.\n\n\"Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence,\" it said.\n\n\"We hope the world remembers him for his humour, laughter and love for everyone.\"\n\nHis cause of death has not been given.\n\nCloud's career took off after he was cast as Fez, a high school drug dealer in Euphoria\n\nThe actor was one of the breakout stars of Euphoria, appearing in both series alongside Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney.\n\nSweeney, who played Cassie Howard, also paid tribute on Tuesday, calling Cloud as \"an open soul, with the kindest heart\" who \"filled every room with laughter\".\n\n\"You will be missed more than you know, but I'm so blessed to have known you in this lifetime, and I'm sure everyone who has ever met you feels the same,\" she wrote in an emotional tribute online.\n\nIn a statement, HBO said: \"We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud. He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and Euphoria family.\"\n\nEuphoria creator Sam Levinson said: \"There was no one quite like Angus. He was too special, too talented and way too young to leave us so soon.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by sydney_sweeney This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSydney Martin, the model who was rumoured to be in an on-off relationship with Cloud, shared broken heart emojis on Instagram after his death was announced.\n\nCloud's co-star Javon \"Wanna\" Walton, known in the show as Cloud's adoptive brother, Ashtray, wrote on Instagram: \"Rest easy brother.\"\n\nAlexa Demie, who plays Maddy Perez in the drama, posted a simple broken heart emoji on a black background, while Colman Domingo, who plays Ali Muhammad, wrote on his Instagram story: \"Couldn't be more real, original and sweet. Loved this kid. Always smiles. I hope this sensitive soul is at rest. check on loved ones. Check on them.\"\n\nCalifornia congresswoman Barbara Lee lamented the loss of \"Oakland's own\", in a post on X.\n\n\"His immense talent touched the lives of countless people. His work & legacy will forever live on and make Oakland proud,\" she wrote.\n\nActress Kerry Washington also posted on the platform: \"You will be deeply missed. Rest in power.\"\n\nActor Danny Ramirez also paid tribute on his Instagram story.\n\nThe Oakland Roots sports club said they were \"heartbroken\" by the news.\n\n\"Rest easy fam. He was a day one supporter and an Oakland legend. You will be missed.\"\n\nCloud had minor acting credits in two films, North Hollywood and The Line. He had also appeared in music videos for artists including Becky G, Karol G and Juice WRLD.\n\nBut his career really took off after he won the part of Fez, a high school drug dealer in Euphoria.\n\nAfter first airing in June 2019, Euphoria quickly became a hit, and by 2022 - two seasons in - was the most tweeted-about TV show of the decade in the US.\n\nThe main character, played by Zendaya, is a 17-year-old who struggles with drug abuse.", "Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, at the opening of a MrBeast Burger restaurant in New Jersey\n\nYouTuber Jimmy \"MrBeast\" Donaldson has been accused of \"bullying tactics\" after he took legal action against the firm behind his namesake burger chain.\n\nDonaldson claims the deal has damaged his reputation, but Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC) said his \"notoriety\" had grown \"in part\" due to the partnership.\n\nMrBeast Burger was opened in 2020 to much fanfare, but Donaldson is now asking a judge to end the arrangement.\n\nVDC claim his case is \"meritless\" and \"riddled with false statements\".\n\nVirtual Dining Concepts, the company behind the fast food chain, said it would be vindicated in court.\n\n\"We had hoped Mr. Donaldson would act honourably,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Instead, having elevated greed over his word and the truth, he will face the consequences in court when VDC files its claims against him.\"\n\n\"When VDC refused to accede to his bullying tactics to give up more of the company to him, he filed this ill-advised and meritless lawsuit seeking to undermine the MrBeast Burger brand and terminate his existing contractual obligations without cause,\" the company alleges.\n\nDonaldson, the biggest YouTuber in the world - with 172 million subscribers - is known for his philanthropy, including videos featuring huge prizes and cash giveaways.\n\nHe is also known for his stunts, such as recreating elements of Netflix hit Squid Game, playing hide-and-seek in an 80,000-seater stadium, and being buried underground.\n\nHe has a licensed charity that functions as a food bank to feed communities across the US.\n\nOn Monday, Donaldson filed legal action in New York accusing VDC of not ensuring the quality of the burgers at MrBeast Burger, claiming they were, at times, \"inedible\" according to consumers.\n\n\"As a result, MrBeast Burger has been regarded as a misleading, poor reflection of the MrBeast brand,\" the legal action claims. It goes on to say Donaldson \"has not received a dime\" from the joint enterprise.\n\nBut VDC has hit back at Donaldson's complaint, describing it as \"riddled with false statements and inaccuracies\".\n\n\"VDC consistently strives to improve quality and customer satisfaction, and any negative customer reviews reflect the experience and opinion of a very small minority of MrBeast Burger customers,\" it said.\n\nThe company accused Donaldson of having \"recently attempted to negotiate a new deal to serve his own monetary interests\".\n\nIt said it had hired legal firm Greenberg Traurig to represent VDC and \"looks forward to being vindicated in court\".\n\n\"We extend our sincere appreciation to our customers, market partners, vendors and employees for all of their past, present and future support,\" it said.\n\n\"VDC will continue to help the restaurant industry as we work to promptly resolve this unfortunate dispute.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached Donaldson for comment.", "Ben with the 10cm-long (4in) tooth he found at Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex\n\nA 13-year-old boy has found a shark tooth belonging to a giant prehistoric creature on the Essex coast.\n\nBen discovered the 10cm-long (4in) tooth at Walton-on-the-Naze during a summer holiday weekend break.\n\nThe teenager's dad, Jason, said his son was \"over the moon\" with the find, which wildlife experts called \"rare\".\n\nHowever, The Natural History Museum said it could have been purchased in a shop and lost on the beach by someone else.\n\nJason and his son were on a weekend break from their home in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire especially to go searching for fossils.\n\nThey arrived on Friday evening and by Sunday morning had already clocked up 16 miles (26km) of walking along the coast.\n\nEssex Wildlife Trust said the tooth found by Ben was a megalodon\n\nThey were up at the crack of dawn on Sunday and were down at the beach first thing when Ben found the giant tooth under rocks at about 07:00 BST.\n\nJason, 50, said: \"We could just see the edge of it, sticking out, and Ben knew straightaway it was something and pulled it out of the sand.\"\n\nThe pair took their find to Essex Wildlife Trust's Discovery Centre at Walton-on-the-Naze where they confirmed it was a megalodon tooth.\n\nJason said he and his son go to Walton-on-the-Naze to go fossil hunting once a year and also to the Jurassic Coast, a 95-mile (153km) long stretch of coastline in southern England.\n\nHe said Ben wants to be a palaeontologist when he is older and the giant tooth was a \"great addition\" to his collection.\n\nEssex Wildlife Trust said the tooth would be from 20 million years old to 3.6 million.\n\nIt said several had been found at The Naze but more commonly they were fragments of the teeth.\n\nThe Natural History Museum, which was sent images of the tooth for identification, said: \"Normally the teeth have been reworked from other deposits and rolled around which means they lose the sharp triangular shape with the serrated sides.\n\n\"This tooth shows little corrosion and its crown is near pristine and it looks like it may have been restored.\n\n\"To us this looks very similar to fossils found in Java which are regularly sold in UK fossil shops. We believe it may have been lost on the beach.\"\n\nMegalodon was a giant and dwarfed all other sea creatures\n\nThe cartilaginous fish (whose skeleton is made of cartilage rather than bone) was a carnivore and had no known predators\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook and Instagram. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actress Catherine Tyldesley has called the whole affair 'bizarre'\n\nA baker who refused to cater a TV star's 40th birthday in exchange for publicity said she was defending small businesses.\n\nThree Little Birds Bakery claimed a PR firm asked if it would make two cakes, plus cupcakes, for ex-Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley for free.\n\nAfter screengrabs were shared online, the exchange went viral with NVRLND PR claiming it was \"misconstrued\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted the PR firm for comment.\n\nThe initial email to Rebecca Severs, owner of Keighley's Three Little Birds Bakery, asked her to make the cakes with \"social media exposure\" and mentions in OK! magazine as payment instead of cash.\n\nMs Severs replied, pointing out that her mortgage and staff wages could not be paid in \"Instagram likes\" so she would be \"declining the generous offer\".\n\nRebecca Severs says requests for free goods are quite common\n\nAfter posting the exchange \"for a bit of fun\", it went viral and the baker believed this was because being asked for freebies \"touched a nerve\" with small businesses across the world.\n\nShe told BBC Radio Leeds: \"A lot of industries like mine are not valued enough for the skill and time that goes into our products.\n\n\"It's not just the time it takes to make a cake, it's the 20-odd years of experience and skill you've spent to get to that point.\n\n\"It's a real challenge to price your own worth when it's your own thing, it's really personal.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Three Little Birds Bakery This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. End of facebook post by Three Little Birds Bakery\n\nShe added: \"Customers pay for knowledge and skill.\"\n\nLeeds-based NVRLND PR, who Rebecca claimed has since threatened her with legal action, denied asking for free cakes and said it would never expect a collaborating business to be \"out of pocket\".\n\nFounder Victoria Eames said: \"NVRLND contacted Three Little Birds Bakery to offer them the opportunity to collaborate with one of our clients to cater for a party.\n\n\"As part of the collaboration, our client would cover all of Three Little Birds Bakery's expenses and costs in exchange for social media content and local and national exposure for their business.\"\n\nMs Tyldesley has claimed she had \"no idea\" the emails were sent and called the situation \"bizarre\".\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an Instagram clip posted on Wednesday, the mother-of-two said that NVRLAND were an \"amazing company\" and had been \"completely misrepresented in this matter\".\n\n\"Don't really know what to say.\n\n\"I mean I hope the cake lady got the exposure she was craving\", she added.\n\nMs Tydelsey's husband, photographer Tom Pitfield, 36, also denied any knowledge of the emails.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Thousands of women in Africa will die in pregnancy and childbirth as a result of cuts to the UK's overseas aid budget, ministers have been warned.\n\nAccording to an internal assessment by civil servants, almost 200,000 more women will also face unsafe abortions.\n\nTheir report reveals the impact of cuts this year to the overseas aid budget.\n\nThe Foreign Office says its budget for low-income countries has been cut in the short-term to hit a savings target, but will then nearly double.\n\nThe internal document says a 76% cut in aid for Afghanistan will leave some of the world's most vulnerable women and girls without critical services.\n\nAnd half a million women and children in Yemen will not receive healthcare.\n\nThe document outlines cuts to the department's Overseas Development Assistance budget worth more than £900m for this year.\n\nThe conclusions come in an assessment made by Foreign Office civil servants earlier this year, to inform ministers before they decided what to cut.\n\nAndrew Mitchell, the development minister, gave it to the International Development Committee as part of his efforts to make UK aid spending more transparent - as it used to be before the Department for International Development was merged with the more secretive Foreign Office.\n\nPrevious governments have rarely published such detailed calculations about the impact of their spending reductions.\n\nMany of these reductions were imposed on the Foreign Office after the Treasury allowed the Home Office to spend about a quarter of the aid budget housing refugees in Britain.\n\nThis is allowed under international rules for the first year of a refugee's stay in the UK.\n\nBut the arrival of so many refugees and asylum seekers in small boats over the Channel has sent the costs of hotel bills soaring.\n\nAnd that has meant less can be spent on the government's priorities overseas.\n\nThe assessment said that as a result of 76% cuts in aid to Afghanistan, the Foreign Office \"will not be able to support critical services for women and girls… reducing funding will potentially leave some of the most vulnerable women and girls in the world without critical services\".\n\nAcross Africa, it said that reductions to the Women's Integrated Sexual Health Programme would reduce protection for women with \"the number of unsafe abortions averted from nearly 300,000 to approximately 115,000; number of maternal deaths averted will drop from 2,531 to just over 1,000\".\n\nIn Yemen, it said that half a million women and children in Yemen will not receive healthcare and \"fewer preventable deaths will be avoided\". \"It may cause lasting damage to health systems in Yemen, if other donors are unable to fund,\" it said.\n\nIn Somalia, the Foreign Office will have to \"delay this year, and potentially stop altogether\" a programme to counter female genital mutilation.\n\nAnd in South Sudan, cuts the humanitarian budget will mean \"27,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition will go untreated, of which 12% (3,000) could die\".\n\nThe report suggests cuts in aid to Afghanistan would strip women and girls of critical services\n\nTo try to soften the blow of these cuts, the Foreign Office has used \"in-year underspends and other resources\" to find a little more money to spend on aid this year, including a further £41m for Afghanistan, £32m for Yemen, £30m for Syria and £30m for Somalia.\n\nAnd in his letter to the Development Committee, Mr Mitchell emphasised that aid spending would increase next year, with almost double being allocated to Africa.\n\nBut Labour's Sarah Champion, chair of the International Development Committee, said the impact of the cuts was \"absolutely horrific\".\n\nThe MP told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that while a Labour government would not immediately restore the foreign aid budget \"because it knows what it would be inheriting\", it would prioritise fighting poverty and helping the most marginalised people.\n\n\"The UK has been an incredible leading light [in foreign aid]. It's given us enormous reach, enormous credibility, and so to continue to throw that away as has been happening is not something we're planning on doing,\" she said.\n\nAsked whether attention should focus on the cost of living crisis and demands on government spending in the UK, she said she understood that but \"we're talking 7p in £10 that would be going on this\".\n\n\"We can either treat causes at source whether that be the reason they are fleeing their homes... or we can wait till it gets bigger and bigger and ends up on our shores. And for me that small investment is definitely worth it,\" she added.\n\nIan Mitchell, senior policy fellow and co-director of Europe at the Center for Global Development, said: \"The abrupt nature of the budget reduction imposed by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt last year meant that [the Foreign Office was] unable to protect the poorest or most vulnerable groups; or even stated government priorities like girls' education or climate.\"\n\nGideon Rabinowitz, policy and advocacy director at Bond, a network for international development organisations, said the report \"illustrates the devastating impact of continued cuts to the UK aid budget and the urgency of restoring spending so we can meet our international obligations\".\n\nA spokesperson from the Foreign Office said UK aid spending would rise to £8.3bn next year, with a focus on dealing with humanitarian crises, protecting women and girls and supporting vulnerable people, \"while delivering value for money for taxpayers\".\n\n\"While the budget for low-income countries has had to be reduced in the short term to achieve our savings target - it is due to nearly double for these countries the year after, including in Africa where aid will rise from £646m to £1.364bn.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of Nicholas Rossi, the US fugitive who ‘faked his own death’ (Video by Morgan Spence, Graham Fraser and David MacNicol)\n\nAn American fugitive who faked his own death can be extradited from Scotland to his homeland, a sheriff has ruled.\n\nNicholas Rossi, who claims to be Arthur Knight and a victim of mistaken identity, is wanted in Utah to face rape charges.\n\nSheriff Norman McFadyen said Rossi was \"as dishonest and deceitful as he is evasive and manipulative\".\n\nThe final decision on his extradition now rests with Scottish ministers.\n\nRossi, 35, was being treated for Covid-19 when he was arrested at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow on 13 December 2021.\n\nBBC Scotland News later established he was a registered sex offender in the US and spoke to his ex-wife Kathryn Heckendorn, who said she was physically and psychologically abused during their seven-month marriage.\n\nOn Wednesday he appeared before Edinburgh Sheriff Court via videolink to learn the outcome of the extradition case.\n\nEarlier in the morning the fugitive sat slumped in his wheelchair before the camera in Edinburgh's Saughton Prison with his face hidden.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheriff Norman McFadyen said Nicholas Rossi was \"as dishonest and deceitful as he is evasive and manipulative\".\n\nBut as Mungo Bovey KC was asking for his client to be excused, Rossi raised his head and shouted at the sheriff, calling him a \"disgrace to justice\".\n\nAt that point the clerk cut the video connection.\n\nWhen the court reconvened Sheriff McFadyen said Rossi's character had \"undoubtedly complicated and extended what is ultimately a straightforward case\".\n\nHe also highlighted unreliable testimony from the fugitive, ranging from the length of time he had been in a wheelchair to his claim that he couldn't lift his hands above his head.\n\nRossi, pictured during a previous hearing, claims to be Arthur Knight and a victim of mistaken identity\n\nThe sheriff concluded that there was no legal barrier to extradition.\n\nHe added: \"It follows that I must send the case of the requested person Nicholas Rossi to the Scottish ministers for their decision whether he is to be extradited.\"\n\nLast November Sheriff McFadyen ruled that he was Nicholas Rossi and not Arthur Knight, as he had repeatedly claimed, with the bizarre story making headlines on both sides of the Atlantic.\n\nAuthorities in the US have said Rossi was known by several aliases, including Nicholas Alahverdian.\n\nHe was involved in local politics in the state of Rhode Island and was a critic of the state's child welfare system.\n\nRossi was supported in court by his wife Miranda Knight\n\nIn December 2019 he told media in his home state that he had late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma and had weeks to live.\n\nSeveral news outlets in Rhode Island reported that he had died in February 2020.\n\nA memorial posted online described him as a \"warrior that fought on the front lines for two decades\" for children's rights and said his ashes had been scattered at sea.\n\nBut less than two years later Rossi, who was the subject of an Interpol wanted notice, turned up on a hospital ward in Glasgow during the pandemic.\n\nIn March last year, as he awaited his extradition hearing, the fugitive was interviewed by BBC Scotland reporter Steven Godden in Glasgow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man who claims to be Arthur Knight denies he is Nicholas Rossi\n\nRossi, who was in a wheelchair and wearing an oxygen mask, maintained he was not Nicholas Rossi - and claimed to have never even been to America.\n\nBut in 2008 he was found guilty of sexual imposition and public indecency while a student at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.\n\nRossi also introduced his wife, Miranda Knight, during the interview and claimed the couple got married in Bristol in 2020.\n\nHe brought a pile of documents to BBC Scotland's Pacific Quay headquarters but said he had no birth certificate as he was adopted in Ireland before moving to London in his teens.\n\nBut last November a court in Edinburgh ruled that he was Rossi after hearing that his fingerprints and distinctive tattoos matched those of the fugitive.\n\nHe appeared in court in a wheelchair every day during the three-day identification hearing, and his accent changed several times while he was giving evidence.\n\nStaff at a Glasgow hospital recognised Rossi by the distinctive tattoos on his arms\n\nDespite the ruling Rossi maintained he was the victim of mistaken identity - and said he had been tattooed while he was lying unconscious in hospital in an attempt to frame him.\n\nHe returned to the city's Sheriff Court in June of this year for his extradition hearing.\n\nMr Bovey urged the court to refuse extradition of his client or adjourn proceedings to allow fuller investigation of Rossi's mental health.\n\nBut three medical witnesses said Rossi showed no signs of acute mental illness and a GP at Saughton also cast doubt on the state of his health in general.\n\nDr Barbara Mundweil told the court there was \"no reason\" for Rossi to be using an electric wheelchair and that his legs were \"strong and athletic\".\n\nShe also said she saw a video appearing to be of Rossi kicking open a door and kicking a prison officer in the face, despite using a manual wheelchair in prison.\n\nSheriff McFadyen had been due to deliver his ruling last month but the hearing was delayed after Rossi tested positive for Covid.\n\nMeanwhile, in a separate development, it emerged last year that Rossi was wanted by Essex Police for questioning over a rape allegation in the UK.\n\nWatch Now on BBC iPlayer: Unmasking A Fugitive - The story of Nicholas Rossi, the US fugitive who came to the UK with a new identity", "Thousands of soldiers in El Salvador have surrounded a rural region larger than New York City to flush out gang members who are allegedly hiding there.\n\nThe military deployment in Cabañas was ordered by President Nayib Bukele as part of his ongoing war on gangs.\n\nMore than 70,000 suspected gang members have been arrested since a state of emergency was declared in March 2022.\n\nThousands of people with no discernible link to gang activity have also been swept up in the dragnet of arrests.\n\nLorries loaded with soldiers were seen on the streets of the regional towns of Tejutepeque and Ilobaso on Tuesday, AFP news agency reports.\n\n\"Since this morning, 7,000 soldiers and 1,000 police officers have established a security fence,\" Mr Bukele posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nThe president said that his government's security strategies had succeeded in dismantling the gangs in the country's large urban centres and forced them into hiding in rural areas.\n\nThis latest operation was aimed at \"completely surrounding them\" and \"extracting them from their hideaways\", he added.\n\nThe president stressed that the siege would not be lifted until \"all the criminals\" were apprehended. At the same time, he assured Salvadoreans that \"honest people, visitors and tourists have nothing to fear\" but did not clarify how the security forces would distinguish between the two groups.\n\nCabañas is an agricultural region which covers an area of just over 1,000 sq km (390 sq miles) and is home to more than 160,000 people.\n\nIt is not clear whether residents will be able to leave the area while the military siege is under way and how they would be able to \"go about their normal activities\" as the president said they would.\n\nIt is not the first time the security forces have sealed off a whole area. In December, troops surrounded the city of Soyapango as part of a gang crackdown.\n\nRights groups have been highly critical of the mass arrests carried out under the state of emergency, saying they have led to thousands of people being arbitrarily detained.\n\nThere are also concerns about a recent move by the country's lawmakers to allow mass trials.", "Racegoers shelter from the rain as they arrive at Goodwood Festival in Westhampnett, West Sussex\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds have hit parts of the UK, as August's spell of unseasonal weather showed no sign of easing.\n\nThe Met Office issued a severe yellow weather warning for wind covering parts of southern England on Wednesday.\n\nForecasters also warned of thunderstorms in central and south-east England and Wales.\n\nThe bad weather in the UK was due to an area of low pressure bringing wind and rain, meteorologists said.\n\nGusts were forecast to reach around 60mph in the most exposed parts of the southern England coast. Some locations were expected to face 40mm of rain within a few hours.\n\nSome other exposed coastal locations, such as Berry Head in Devon, and Portland, Dorset, saw gusts of up to 50mph, the Met Office said.\n\nLast summer, the UK saw record-breaking temperatures of more than 40C - but last month was one of the wettest Julys on record, according to provisional data.\n\nThe Met Office said the UK had its sixth rainiest July since data started being collected, and its wettest since 2009.\n\nThe wet weather has been bad news for holidaymakers enjoying the school holidays.\n\nLisa Vickery, owner of MacDonald's Farm in Porthcothan, told BBC Radio Cornwall \"quite a few\" campers had left due to heavy rain, or cancelled at the last minute.\n\n\"I think everyone wakes up praying that today's going to be a dry day, but we've never seen weather like this in the four years we've been here,\" she said.\n\n\"Whether that will mean next year they might rethink coming down here for their summer holiday and go abroad, we could see next year this has an impact.\"\n\nIn West Sussex, people on Worthing's beachfront told the BBC that the weather was \"dreadful\".\n\nClair McKinney-Williams said the rain was so strong that it was coming into her cafe, forcing her to close early.\n\nElsewhere, Farmers told the BBC that they were worried about how the weather would impact their crops.\n\nRobin Milton, a farmer in north Devon, said that oats which were a \"nice, level, even crop\" a fortnight ago are now spoiled and rotting from the rain.\n\n\"We're seeing a climate now that's showing extremes, rather than a more seasonal pattern that we became used to.\"\n\nDavid Chugg of the National Farmers Union told the BBC that this season could be a \"write-off\" with crops deteriorating so quickly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the latest weather forecast for where you are\n\nMeanwhile on the Isle of Wight, Cowes Week - the world's largest sailing regatta - cancelled all races on Wednesday due to the high winds forecast.\n\nIn Redcar, North Yorkshire, horse racing has been abandoned due to the weather. Hastings Pier has been closed due to winds.\n\nBBC Weather meteorologist Darren Bett said it should become drier in England and Wales at night time, with the strong, gusty winds starting to change direction and the rain moving away,\n\nThe French Meteorological Department has given the storm a name - Patricia - because of the impact it is likely to have in the Brest peninsula and in Brittany, BBC Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood explained.\n\n\"We had a supermoon last night, high tides and strong winds whipping up waves for France. We're likely to see some issues with coastal flooding,\" she said.\n\nAs for Thursday, Met Office chief meteorologist Dan Suri said the low pressure should pull away eastwards from the UK during Wednesday evening and night, making for a calmer Thursday - although heavy showers could persist.\n\nPeople hold umbrellas while in a punt in Cambridge\n\nTraffic slowed in the heavy rain on the M62 near Brighouse in West Yorkshire", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Emma Raducanu has returned to the practice court for the first time since undergoing wrist and ankle surgery in May.\n\nThe 20-year-old posted a video of herself hitting with compatriot Kyle Edmund at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton on Wednesday.\n\n\"August 2nd, the fun part. First time back on court,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nFormer world number 10 Raducanu has been hampered by injuries since her stunning US Open title win in 2021.\n\nRaducanu has not gone beyond the second round of any Grand Slam since becoming the first British woman in 44 years to win a major singles title.\n\nShe had played just 10 matches in 2023, winning five, losing four and retiring from one, before having surgery on both wrists and left ankle.\n\nRaducanu missed the French Open and Wimbledon and is unlikely to be fit for the US Open, which begins on 28 August.\n\nShe is also without a coach, having split with Sebastian Sachs in June.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn anti-vaccine protester who accused former Health Secretary Matt Hancock of murdering people during the pandemic has been found guilty of harassment.\n\nGeza Tarjanyi, 62, of Leyland in Lancashire, shoulder-barged and \"shouted ridiculous conspiracy theories\" at the MP, a court heard.\n\nThe judge said Tarjanyi \"deliberately intimidated and harassed\" the MP.\n\nTarjanyi was ordered not to approach or contact Mr Hancock for three years.\n\nThe former DJ and children's entertainer was also given an eight-week prison sentence suspended for two years, and must complete 200 hours of unpaid work and pay costs of £930 plus a surcharge of £128.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"relieved at the verdict\".\n\nIn a victim impact statement read to the court, he said: \"I felt directly targeted.\n\n\"I feel less comfortable using public transport now.\n\n\"My security is under review.\"\n\nThe incidents took place near Parliament in London on 19 January and on a tube train on 24 January.\n\nMr Hancock previously told Westminster Magistrates' Court he felt \"intimidated\" when Tarjanyi followed him through Westminster Underground station and on to a tube train.\n\nHe said he feared being pushed down an escalator and tried to get Transport for London staff to intervene but Tarjanyi began harassing \"anybody who was going to come to my aid\".\n\nHe told the court Tarjanyi then got onto a tube train with him and accused him of murdering \"millions of people\".\n\nTarjanyi's mobile phone footage of the second incident, played to the court, showed him calling Mr Hancock a \"murderous scumbag\" and saying lockdown amounted to the harassment of the country due to his \"lies and deceit\".\n\nMr Hancock said he feared Tarjanyi was willing to commit a crime, alleging the defendant had told him he \"wanted to go to court\".\n\nGeza Tarjanyi was found to have harassed Matt Hancock on two occasions\n\nDuring the other incident, Mr Hancock, along with a member of his staff, passed an anti-vaccine protest near Parliament, when Tarjanyi filmed him, asked why he had \"killed so many people\" and shoulder-barged him during a five-minute interaction.\n\nTarjanyi denied the charge of harassment without violence and described the claims as \"laughable\".\n\nHe repeatedly denied following Mr Hancock and told the court he was \"interviewing him\".\n\nSenior district judge Paul Goldspring said Tarjanyi \"wanted a day in court to question Mr Hancock\".\n\nResponding to the verdict, Mr Hancock said: \"We in the UK pride ourselves as a global symbol of democracy, built around respectful debate to build a more inclusive and harmonious society. Violence against anyone for their political beliefs is unacceptable.\"I would like to thank the CPS, Transport for London and the British Transport Police who have been fantastic throughout.\"\n\nThe MP for West Suffolk currently sits as an independent and announced last year he would not seek re-election.\n\nHe was suspended as a Conservative MP last year after signing up for the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, which saw him trade Westminster for the Australian jungle.\n\nThe 44-year-old became a household name in spring 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when he was a key figure overseeing lockdown restrictions and the subsequent vaccine rollout.\n\nHe was forced to resign from his job the following year, after images emerged showing him kissing one of his advisers, who later became his partner.", "Mattel is trying to stir up interest in a new version of the classic Uno game\n\nToymaker Mattel is hunting for someone to help promote its new Uno game - and wild-card applicants are most definitely welcome.\n\nThe company is asking enthusiasts of the card game to apply on TikTok for a chance at the part-time post of \"Chief Uno Player\".\n\nThe gig will be based in New York for four weeks starting in September.\n\nResponsibilities include playing the new game, Uno Quatro, for four hours a day, four days a week.\n\nApplicants must be US residents and aged 18 or over to be selected for the job, which pays $4,444.44 (£3,500) a week.\n\nThe company declined to say how many people had responded since the job offer was posted on Tuesday.\n\nA TikTok video announcing the role had received about 9,000 likes - and hundreds of replies - many of them from accounts expressing interest. The deadline to apply is 10 August.\n\n\"We're constantly looking to create new ways for fans to engage with Uno - and with the nationwide search for the first-ever Chief Uno Player, we're bringing in-person gameplay to fans in a way they've never experienced before,\" Mattel's global head of games, Ray Adler, said announcing the post.\n\nThe person selected for the job is expected to help create and star in social media posts, give interviews and challenge strangers to play the new version of the classic game, which relies on tiles instead of cards.\n\nThe company also warns that candidates must be able to \"sit for long periods, lift and carry 50 lbs, and set up playing tables & tents on location\".\n\nThe stunt comes after Mattel won plaudits for its success in stirring up excitement about the Barbie movie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.\n\nBut the toymaker is also in need of hits. It recently reported sales in the April-June period of about $1bn (£786m), down 12% compared with the prior year.\n\nProfits in the quarter also slumped to $27m, compared with $68m in the previous year.", "An Italian police dog named ‘Elio’ has thwarted a cash smuggling attempt by sniffing out over €1,075,600 (£925,000) stashed in two suitcases while on patrol at a bus station near Florence.\n\nAuthorities said the owner of the bags was a Chinese national residing in Italy, and a formal investigation has been launched.", "Small differences in sleeping habits between work and rest days could lead to unhealthy changes to the bacteria in our guts, a study suggests.\n\nThis may be partly a result of people with \"social jetlag\" having slightly poorer diets, the UK researchers found.\n\nHeavily-disrupted sleep, particularly shift work, is known to have a negative impact on health.\n\nKeeping bed times and wake times consistent and eating a balanced diet may help reduce our risk of disease.\n\nThe study of nearly 1,000 adults by Kings College London scientists found that even a 90-minute difference in the midpoint of your night's sleep over the course of a normal week could influence the types of bacteria found in the human gut.\n\nHaving a wide range of different species of bacteria in your digestive system is really important. Some are better than others, but getting the right mix is key to preventing a number of diseases.\n\n\"[Social jetlag] can encourage microbiota species which have unfavourable associations with your health,\" said Kate Bermingham, study author and senior nutrition scientist at health science company Zoe.\n\nGoing to sleep and waking up at very different times during the week, compared to the weekend, is known as having social jetlag.\n\nIt is thought to affect more than 40% of the UK population, the study says, and is most common in teenagers and young adults, then tapers off as we age.\n\nParticipants in this study, in the European Journal of Nutrition, had their sleep and blood analysed, stool samples collected and recorded everything they ate in a food questionnaire.\n\nThose who had social jetlag (16%) were more likely to eat a diet laden with potatoes, including crisps and chips, plus sugary drinks, and less fruit and nuts.\n\nPrevious research showed people with social jetlag ate less fibre than those with more consistent sleeping times. Other studies found social jetlag was linked to weight gain, illness and mental fatigue.\n\n\"Poor quality sleep impacts choices - and people crave higher carb or sugary foods,\" says Dr Bermingham.\n\nAn unhealthy diet can then affect levels of specific bacteria in the gut.\n\nThe researchers found that three out of the six microbiota species which were more plentiful in the guts of the social jetlag group are linked to poor diet quality, obesity and higher levels of inflammation and stroke risk.\n\nThe relationship between sleep, diet and gut bacteria is complicated and there is still a lot more to find out, the research team says.\n\nIn the meantime, their advice to keep things consistent, if you can, over the course of a week.\n\n\"Maintaining regular sleep patterns, so when we go to bed and when we wake each day, is an easily adjustable lifestyle behaviour we can all do, that may impact your health via your gut microbiome for the better,\" says Dr Sarah Berry, from King's College 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